The Town of Odyssey

Since the relaunch we have had a Jones and Parker mystery in quite a few of the albums. It almost seems like a requirement for an album to have one of those episodes. I'm kinda curious what everyone thinks of them. For those with kids in the target age range, do they like the mysteries? What about us older listeners? Do you cringe at the thought of a new J&P episode?

Some of them have been better than others. As an older listener, in general they are not my favourite ones and I don't love them, but most of them are decent to listen to once.

I cringe at the thought, namely because of the corny pumping-up they usually employ and because these guys ain't DJ Sobol, but the younger audience is prolly good.

Personally, I'd rather be hit by a very slow bus than listen to a Jones and Parker mysteries episode. However, I'm an old fart and my Odyssey listening has been spotty at best since album 53. I asked my sister, who's in the show's target age-range and she told me point blank: "I hate Emily Jones."

So basically, don't ask my family about Jones/Parker mysteries.

To be honest Emily is a cringe-worthy, immature, self-righteous, controlling type that usually only results from the psychological circumstances of being the youngest person in your family. It's just, disgusting. And for me, she actually drags down Buck's likeability because so much of his personality relies on her cringeworthy infatuation with him, like some kind of Junior Johnson-Miss Winston-type thing!