The privileged life of the pipsqueak son of a small-town cop

[slipjig3]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the ending of every Encyclopedia Brown mystery ever written.

"If you weren't there, Bugs, how did you know it was a blue bicycle?"
Caught red-handed, Bugs Meany returned Jimmy's bicycle.

Yup, that's about it. As rafaela pointed out, in the real world, it would go more like: "Caught red-handed, Bugs Meany beat the living crap out of Encyclopedia Brown, then shook him down for his lunch money."

Then there's the matter of fees: fifty cents a day, plus expenses. To the best of my knowledge, there never were any expenses, so I can only imagine him dipping into cheap hookers and Percocet in the back of his garage.

Comments

[yendi]

Untrue! The first mystery in every book was alway a "real" case that Leroy's dad brought home, and he'd solve it without direct interrogation. And there was always one case where a kid other than Bugs was the bad guy (like the one set at the county fair, where he figured out that the magician had hidden the money in the pool table because no real magician had short sleeves).

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

...because no real magician had short sleeves.

I think that is officially the most bogus explanation they ever tried to push. And that's saying something.

[botia.livejournal.com]

You forgot, "..and then sued Mr. Brown for slander and emotional distress."

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*snerk* The 80's variant.

[magnifelyn.livejournal.com]

i used to love Encyclopedia Brown. Those stories were bright spots in an otherwise dismal elementary school reading selection. ;-)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*grin* Well, that, and A Wrinkle in Time.