YMMV / The Mad Scientists' Club

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mayor Pain Alonzo Scragg, Clueless Deputy Billy Dahr, and helpful, surprisingly strong junkyard owner Zeke Boniface are probably as well-remembered as the main kids.
• Never Live It Down: While few readers completley dislike Professor Stratavarious in The Big Chunk of Ice (although he is more tolerable in The Big Kerplop!), he gets some backlash for stealing a lot of the spotlight from the Mad Scientists' Club and for taking away from the series' beloved scientific realism by being too much of a joke character with a questionable grasp of scientific principals.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Daphne Muldoon being the cousin of one club member, the girlfriend of another, and the sister of their hated rival Harmon had the potential to try to play peacemaker, get some My Sister Is Off-Limits treatment from Freddy or Harmon, or have Harmon spy on her to get information about the club, but mostly she spends the series as a female friend of the group and an occasional researcher.