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The Great Lemonade Stand Wars


Fhaolan

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The Great Lemonade Stand Wars (G1.5 TV episode, August 7the 1992, 11 minutes)

 

Summary: The girls need to buy a new teapot, and decide to try to raise the money by setting up a lemonade stand. The boys want to turn it into a competition instead.

 

Stick Forever Glue? They could deal with brand-naming Coke, but not Krazy Glue?

 

Two hundred jangles for a tea set at a porcelain store. Is this a full set with cups and saucers, or just the teapot + creamer and sugar bowl? Both are considered 'sets', and sets with as many as 8 cups (one for each of the girls + a spare) with a teapot big enough for that number of cups (48-oz) would be unusual and expensive here. If so, then given inflation since '92, a jangle may actually be worth more than an American dollar at the time. As much as 1 jangle = 3 American dollars. That's right, a tea set like that would normally cost about 300 dollars in '92 money, which is about 500 dollars now.

 

What's that posted on the back of the door? It looks like what they put in hotel rooms, with escape routes and check-out times.

 

Curious.

 

Stereotypical behavior from boys. This is one of the things that turns me off of this series. Just because it's a girls show doesn't mean it has to be adversarial with the boys all the time. Where are the girl antagonists?

 

Back when I was a kid (which was fifteen-twenty years before this episode broadcast, mind you), you had to be more wary of the girl bullies. Since they were already outside the cultural norm, they had a lot less holding them back. Boy fights usually ended with a bloody nose or something. Girl fights *usually* ended with an ambulance.

 

In any case, they raised enough money with the change in plans. But now they definitely need 8 cups. Given that each customer could only pay a reasonable amount, likely tea sets are more reasonable in price than in real life, and 1 jangle = 1 American dollar.

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