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* Leslie Clark: [[The Smart Guy|The Smart Girl]] given to [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. Owen's [[Foil]]. They seem to be in the early stages of [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]], but, of course, we'll [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|never find out if it goes anywhere]].

* LapTrap: [[Robot Buddy]], [[Deadpan Snarker]] and [[Cowardly Lion]]. Has the form of a floating laptop.

* Socrates: [[Team Pet]], who only appears with any prominence in the fourth grade game. Amazingly, both an example of [[Remember the New Guy]] and [[Brother Chuck]].

* Socrates: [[Team Pet]], who only appears with any prominence in the fourth grade game. Amazingly, both an example of [[Remember the New Guy?]] and [[Brother Chuck]].

The games are aimed at kids aged 8 to 12, with specific games for third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders (having been a follow-up to ''[[Reader Rabbit]]'', another Learning Company series, which is aimed at kids aged up to 7). In addition, there are four other games devoted to mathematics, language arts, logic and miscellaneous subjects.

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* [[Beneath the Earth]]: 6th grade's setting, occupied by what amount to non-alien [[Plant Aliens]]. Visitors beware--it's also a [[Fisher Kingdom]] of the "physical modification" type, slow-acting but thought to be permanent.

* [[Big Eater]]: Owen.

* [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti]]: Thought to be the villain who stole [[Shamgri La]]'s treasures in Math.

* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: Thought to be the villain who stole [[Shamgri La]]'s treasures in Math.

* [[Broken Bridge]]: All the time on a small scale. See also [[Closed Circle]].

** Lampshaded in ''5th grade'':

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'''Owen:''' ...peanuts?<br />

'''All:''' '''''OWEN!''''' }}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In ''Search & Solve Adventures'', a villain forces [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] to work as her slaves, keeping them in line by [[Denied Food As Punishment|denying them new batteries]].

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In ''Search & Solve Adventures'', a villain forces [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] to work as her slaves, keeping them in line by [[Denied Food as Punishment|denying them new batteries]].

** In Reading, the kids are told to {{spoiler|throw a magical amulet into a volcano, [[Lord of the Rings|for only then could it be destroyed.]]}}

** LapTrap is a shiny yellow piece of technology whose trademark characteristic is constant worry. [[Star Wars|C-3PO]], anyone?

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* [[Give Me Your Inventory Item]]

* [[God's Hands Are Tied]]: Of all the series to parody this . . . grade 4 introduces Egyptian gods towards the end, who provide the main characters with magical boons to help them [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|defeat Set]]. Said gods would fight him themselves, but the passage leading to him is marked with a sign: "You must be under this height to defeat the forces of Chaos." (And the height is forty feet, no less!)

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Sir Alistair Loveless III? Voiced by none other than [[Super Mario Bros|Charles Martinet]].

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Sir Alistair Loveless III? Voiced by none other than [[Super Mario Bros.|Charles Martinet]].

** You can also hear the [[Naruto|Third hokage]] in the game.

* [[Hijacked By Jesus]]: The 4th grade setting, though not as badly as in some other series. It helps that Set was fairly evil even in the old myths.

* [[Hijacked by Jesus]]: The 4th grade setting, though not as badly as in some other series. It helps that Set was fairly evil even in the old myths.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: you can carry anything in "the backpack" -- including bridge planks in the 6th grade game.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: During the spelling catwalks challenge:

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* [[Real After All]]: In the first game.

* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Joni.

* [[The Reveal]]: Every main game except 4th grade. [[Oddball in ~~The~~ Series|Noticing a trend]]?

* [[The Reveal]]: Every main game except 4th grade. [[Oddball in the Series|Noticing a trend]]?

* [[Riddle of the Sphinx]]: 4th grade--can't have an Egyptian setting without one of these! Somewhat subverted in that the Sphinx talks like [[The Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]], and knows you'll outwit him [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|because he's read the game script]].

* [[Totally Radical]]: Nearly all of Owen's dialogue.

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*** But once you know where the letters are, you can just hit them, even if the numbers don't match up.

* [[Unobtainium]]: Cryptiles in grade 5.

* [[Unwinnable By Design]]: Yeah, the games can crash on some computers and make it unwinnable...however, the mentioned [[Trial and Error Gameplay]] mini-games can be made unwinnable. If the jams in the vending machine puzzle are clustered to one area and your guesses are all on the other side...you run out of guesses and can't win that game. In the gates challenge, you can easily run out of guesses considering you know ''how'' many letters are in the right or wrong places...but you don't know ''which ones they are''.

* [[Unwinnable by Design]]: Yeah, the games can crash on some computers and make it unwinnable...however, the mentioned [[Trial and Error Gameplay]] mini-games can be made unwinnable. If the jams in the vending machine puzzle are clustered to one area and your guesses are all on the other side...you run out of guesses and can't win that game. In the gates challenge, you can easily run out of guesses considering you know ''how'' many letters are in the right or wrong places...but you don't know ''which ones they are''.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Malicia in ''Reading'' {{spoiler|tricked Joni and Owen into assembling the Amulet of Life for her, then when she tried to grab the completed amulet from them, got the wrong one, but she fortunately already had Leslie and Santiago imprisoned in her mountain so naturally, Joni and Owen would walk right on up and bring the amulet to her anyways to rescue their friends.}}

** The [[Big Bad]] of ''Mystery Mansion Arcade'' also has this, where {{spoiler|the mysterious villain, none other than ''Carmen Sandiego'' who has organized it all traps the villains after they fail, and the kids even ask, "Wait, did she want to catch us, or ''them''?}}