Advanced Criminal Justice, Class #7, Period 1, 01.31.06

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: For the record, I've always pictured Tick's classroom being on one of the upper floors of the school. Just sayin'. Class Info Post.]

The Tick... was not in the room.

For two minutes after the class had filed in, there was still no Tick.

And then, suddenly, the call of "SPOOOOOOOON!" came from the window as Tick climbed in with a flourish. "Hello, class!" he said from the window. "Please remember, there is a quiz on Thursday. Today, though, we're dealing with Karma. Not talking about it. We're facing it head on by doing things a little different today."

"You see, I've noticed something recently. Stretching all the way back to last semester, a lot of people from my class have been attacked after school hours. Many of these attacks - perhaps even most of these attacks - have happened on the day of my class. I apologize for not taking care of this sooner. It is my responsibility to adjust the class so that Karma hits it in a happy way."

"So with a quiz on Thursday, I declare today to be a throwaway class day to break some tension. Let's see if we can give Karma a push toward Happy!"

"What I want you to focus on today is the unusual. What is the most unusual thing you've heard in the name of Justice? It can be wacky! It can be silly! And if you want to start off your answer by giving your battle cry, then egads, do so in the name of FUN!"

"I'll start. There was this one time when I was fighting El Seed - a walking, talking, evil Spanish sunflower. He had captured a plant called the 400-Year Bloom. If it didn't bloom in just the right way, it would have destroyed The City. I saved the day by singing opera."

"Ooh! Or there's The Deadly Bulb. He was driven to evil because he was teased as a kid for having a pig for a leg. He went with a lightbulb theme to distract people from the pig. It didn't work, but his pig leg eventually saved his life, leading him to give up a life of crime."

"Or! Ooh! There's the time I teamed up with Leonardo DaVinci, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington Carver, Johann Guttenberg, Thomas Edison, and the inventor of the wheel in order to save History! That was pretty darned unique!"

"So. What about you? Have you seen any wacky morsels of Justice recently?"

"No homework this week due to the quiz. Extra credit will be on the quiz. Good luck!"

[OOC: Just pipe up and say something. Comment on Tick's stories, mention something you've seen or heard, work in the freaking Looney Tunes if you want. Tick just wants happy people today. He'll recite stories to them all day if need be. No OCD threads in the name of Karma!]

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[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto did not have a battle cry, okay she did but she doubted Professor Tick would appreicate it, so she had to come up with something fast. "WHOREMODDING! Um...I once heard of someone 'locking' people up in the common room in the name of Justice, before going on a search of the dorms for evil-doers. "

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

The Tick was forced to assume that this was some weird bit of Greek slang or something, because otherwise "whoremodding" made no sense. What could it even mean?

"Did this happen here? Huh. I figured I would have heard about that. That was probably before I made it my goal to listen carefully to the radio every day..."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

It was morning, Angel was tired, and therefore the first thing he said was about the one detail that stuck out to him.

"Why was he called the Deadly Bulb if he had a pig for a leg?"

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"He was going against expectations and tried to ignore the pig. Therefore, he picked up a light bulb theme and made an attempt to hide the pig-leg behind a cape at all times." The Tick sounded as if this made all the sense in the world to him.

[fates_jaye]

"CHUNG CHUNG!" Jaye says. Because it's better than DOINK DOINK.

[janet_fraiser]

"You and Marty are going to get in another noise war, aren't you?" asked Janet.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty, who is sick as a dog doesn't even notice the battle cry.

Instead he just coughs. A wet hacking cough.

If any spittle happens to hit Jaye, it's truly by accident.

Really.

[janet_fraiser]

"This class is possibly the wackiest morsel of Justice I've ever seen," said Janet. "Not counting Poochinski. But that's only a TV show."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"This class is extremely serious and deals with delicate subject manner, Janet," Tick said. It may have been in a deadpan voice. The Tick deadpanning... Take THAT, Karma.

[can_be_more]

Aeryn's just going to sit back here, thanks. Because zomg, not the day for happy.

[janet_fraiser]

"You okay?" asked Janet quietly.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angel doesn't say anything to Aeryn when she enters. Then again Angel's never said good morning to anyone in ACJ who isn't Callisto or the Tick, so this is actually not out of the norm.

To look at Angel, you wouldn't think anything was wrong either.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron just raises an eyebrow.

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

The Tick wasn't going to push.

He did, however, give a quick pleading look that begged Aeryn to play along, just for a few moments, please, for the sake of the class and her fellow students lest Karma crush them all with a meteorite tonight.

It was a very expressive quick look.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker sent Aeryn a paper airplane too, when Professor the Tick wasn't looking.

Progress on developments: Caritas okay, Marty okay, Janet tbd later.

You okay?

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron winced a bit at the mention of people getting hurt.

"How did you get all those famous people together, sir? Because they don't exactly live in the same time period."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"A villain who called himself The Mother of Invention did it, actually. He felt that all of the great inventions had already been invented already, so he created a time travel device that let him pull some of the greatest inventors from history from their times so he could create a world where he invented everything."

"It made no sense, really, but villains are wacky like that. I got to fight Mongols, ninjas, and knights with some of the greatest minds mankind has ever known, though, so it was fun! Vince is a really keen guy, you know. And then I stopped a bomb from blowing up the Rennaissance!"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker's not in a wacky mood, but she's trying. "Actually? I would have to say Dean Bristow's Christmas detention pageant is probably my wackiest example ever." She made a face. "I miss Dean Bristow."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"That is a wonderful example, Parker!" Tick looked around the room and noted that Rory, Angel, Callisto, Bridge, Anakin, and Jaye were all in the pageant.

And that the pageant was on a Thursday.

[actingltcrumpet.livejournal.com]

Last night still fresh in his mind, Archie offered dryly, "The School Beautification Committee is the most, er, 'wacky morsel of Justice' I've seen in quite some time, I think."

He neglected to mention that it also seemed like it could be a lot of fun.

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"Justice? Huh. I was under the impression that the Beautification Committee was voluntary." Tick shrugged. "At least it was last semester. Different administrations do things in different ways, I suppose."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge bounces.

"The Dean of Students is an 'interdimensional being'," Bridge says, making airquotes around those last two words, "which is actually just code for giant floating head. And he used to mentor a team of superheroes, before he was replaced by a lady who only spoke in the form of questions."

[janet_fraiser]

"She was a contestant on Jeopardy?" asked Janet. That was probably a running joke in the fandom, wasn't it?

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty's battle cry unfortunately sounds like a series of wet hacking coughs and a couple of sneezes.

"Weirdest thing I've ever heard done in the name of Justice? Well in this one weird town called Mayberry, the town drunk has the keys to the jail cell so he can let himself in and out."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"I've heard about that place. I understand the sheriff eventually left town and became a fairly prestigious lawyer."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam was kind of at a loss, but she tried her best. "Er, in order to find out who was behind the plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth a ruler of a small island country, Frank Drebin a police officer knocked out an opera singer, stole his clothes, and sang the national anthem in front of an entire stadium full of people, forgetting most of the words."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"You're making that up." Parker blinked. "Right?"

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Vala frowned, trying to think "whacky" in a context that wasn't 'Professor The Tick' related. "Well, I'm not sure if you'd necessarily call it "for JUSTICE", but the school's admin's always struck me as a bit whacky. I mean, first we have the scary gun-loving principal... then we have the scary spoon-ninja princpal... and then we have the scary black glasses principal...," she falters.

"Well, the new principal's definitely whacky!... and I hear the vice principal's fond of bathrobes... and Dean head-in-a-tube is pretty weird right? And some of their punishments over the last year have been, um, whacky?"

She's trying, she really is. She's just got nothing....

"Oh and I have a note (http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_clinic/63112.html?thread=2931080#t2931080) for last week, Professor. Sorry I wasn't in class. I was in the clinic and all."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"The principal is essentially the ultimate figure of Justice in the school, so this works! I haven't met our new Principal yet, but his announcements have been very amusing!"

Tick smiled. "And thank you for the note, Vala. I'm glad to see you up and about again!"

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica tries not to think about the attack she suffered last Tuesday, because she's certain Professor Tick doesn't know anything about it.

"The whackiest example of justice I can think of is this old TV show about an old lady who is a writer and solves crimes everywhere she goes. It's uncanny how she always happens to be in the right place at the right time. And, of course, the crimes she solves in real life end up in her novels. It could almost make someone think that she was actually committing the crimes."

She hopes that is whacky enough, because she hasn't got much else to work with and her mun is pretty braindead today, sorry.

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"One would think that it was just a TV show," Tick said.

He left it at that. It seemed slightly wackier that way.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I watched Shep pee on a snow shark this weekend," Anakin offered. "I'm not sure if it was for Justice or he's just really strange, but I thought I'd mention it."

He looked down at his desk as he thought if any of his and Obi-Wan's missions could be considered unusual. "There was a planet where part of the opening negotiation ceremony included asking and answering the question 'if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?'" Anakin began. He winced. "Apparently my choice of a Naboo aspen was some kind of insult to their elders. I still don't know how. I had to apologize by performing a ritual dance that looked a lot like that line dance the snowmonsters were performing this weekend." He shrugged. "Which appeased them enough that they agreed not to separate from the Republic."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

The fact that Tick didn't know who this Shep person was didn't make him any more comfortable. So he skipped that part.

"You have certainly had some interesting adventures, Anakin," Tick said, smiling.

[fh_jackass]

"Die, [maternal expletive], die!" Logan offered for a battle cry. (Yes, he said 'maternal expletive'. It's the Tick's class. You don't say the other option within the Tick's hearing.) "Wacky justice?" He pondered. "Oh, my roommate wronged me, so he had to sing a song dedicated to me on the radio. Does that count?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory rolled her eyes.

"Can't we all just let that whole thing die?" she asked with a good-natured sigh.