Mary-Kate and Ashley

The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Christmas Caper

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First of all, thank you to those of you who voted for this episode. I would gladly review all eleven of these episodes, except that I’m pretty sure I would only be writing for myself. However, if I am wrong PLEASE let me know in the comments/fulfill my hopes and dreams. While I am sad that “Lizzie McGuire ft. Aaron Carter” did not make the cut this year, thanks for throwing me a bone with this one. Anyway, for those of you who were moved by the Christmas spirit to vote MK&A, this is for you:51vn9vjad3l

Apparently, The Olsen & Olsen Mystery Agency doesn’t close for holidays because they’re willing and ready to work on Christmas Eve. Fans of Elizabeth Olsen are in for a treat with this one, as she appears (credited as Lizzie Olsen) in a montage about “Christmas mysteries.” (i.e. The origins of “nog” in eggnog, the culprit who took a bite out of the gingerbread man, and the ever looming mystery of what causes Christmas lights to get tangled all the time.) Cue the first song: “Too Much To Do,” which is basically the Olsen’s version of The Waitresses’s “Christmas Wrapping.”

And then they get a call to solve a mystery from a company called Extremely Long Flights Airlines (or E.L.F Airlines). They’ve lost “The Spirit of Christmas,” which is an airplane, so the twins head to 1225 North Pole Drive on their bikes. (P.S. their bikes’ handlebars are sporting some very nice Christmas wreaths).

So basically, The Twins hardcore judge them for losing their only airplane. It’s not like they’re running a big operation here. But the Twins are willing to help solve the mystery. They don’t want anyone to be sad on Christmas. Also, this mystery involves a computer (oooooh).

So the Twins pull out some gigantic laptops and start making notes on why the “really big computer suddenly stopped working.” This includes looking “for creatures in the computer’s hardware.” This last thing does the trick, as Mary-Kate finds a gigantic snake. Then the computer starts working again and they girls see Santa in the plane. (Guess, he decided to modernize his operations back in 1995 and upgraded from the sleigh setup.)

When the “Really Big Computer” stops working again, the twins figure the computer has been hacked. It wouldn’t have been to hard of a job since E.L.F. Airlines has set their password to “ho-ho-ho.”

Soon enough, there is another break in the case. The E.L.F. crew prints out their naughty/nice list and discover that there is only one kid on the nice list this year: Ebenezer Scrooge. Ashely figures it’s a code name, so she plugs it into a “program”on her clunky laptop and discovers that Ebenezer Scrooge is really Roger E. Bencoseeze.

f202162d4f765f7d08caa2e0d9c96349The twins and the E.L.F. crew head to Roger E. Bencoseeze’s house to confront him. He lives in a mansion with a butler and everything. This dude turns out to be a real Scrooge. He pretty much just hates Christmas. This leads the twins to sing another insufferably pitchy song to teach this kid about the spirit of Christmas. But the song messes this kid’s icy cold heart. He fixes the E.L.F. computer and wishes them all a Merry Christmas.

Very Special Christmas Lesson: If you’re going to hack the naughty or nice list, maybe leave a few names on the nice list other than your own, just to throw off suspicious.

Double, Double Toil and Trouble

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Double, Double Toil and Trouble is a movie about two little girls who have to undo an evil spell on Halloween night. It involves a moonstone and Cloris Leachman.

Other than that, there are two very important things you should know about this movie:

  1. It’s the Olsen Twins finest work.
  2. It gives me the heebie-jebbies.

I know it’s just a kids movie but here is a list of things that still creep me out in this movie:

  1. All of the kids in the pumpkin carving contest except for Charles Pfeffer. Charles Pfeffer looks like he’s suspicious of this crap. The other kids look like they’re up to something shady. See for yourself 38 seconds into the movie’s trailer
  2. The Olsen Twins accidentally almost killing a clown because they’re witches and they don’t know it. (See also: the clip above)
  3. Scary Cloris Leachman dressed in black. Thank God for Cloris Leachman dressed in white or we would never make it through this movie
  4. The sallowness of this gravedigger’s skin. Didn’t your parents teach you not to talk to strangers, Mary-Kate & Ashley???
  5. These creepy wigs.
  6. Good Cloris Leachman being trapped in a mirror by her OWN sister! I get it. It’s hard to be a twin, but that’s some seriously evil stuff.
  7. The length of Cloris Leachman’s hair.
  8. The fact that these parents leave their seven year-old children unattended long enough for them to switch costumes with total strangers. And then they wander around with children who are not their children for several hours.
  9. The fact that they all just abandon a man with a pumpkin stuck on his head! If you see a stranger with his head stuck in a large squash, you stop and you offer assistance.
  10. This mascara hair die and that she theoretically dies her entire crown of freakishly long hair with that tiny little mascara wand. Also, she is a witch, so why is she even manually dying her hair??
  11. The creepy pig-tailed mouse-creatures the twins turn into when they attend the witches gathering.
  12. The inept cop that doesn’t take the twins’s parents seriously. “They’ve only been gone a couple of hours.” THEY’RE SEVEN!
  13. But ultimately it’s okay that it’s a terrifying movie because it’s also really sweet: