When Harriet the Spy came out I remember that every girl in my grade (I think it would be second) wanted to be a spy and ate tomato sandwiches everyday at lunch (personally I still like tomato sandwiches). Does anyone else remember anything like this?
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My mum said that when this movie came out i wanted to be a spy and i used to put my head round the door everytime someone went in a room and i would right things down on a little piece of paper!! Hahaha!! I remember i done something similar the first time i seen Charlies Angels...As soon as the credits started rolling i jumped up and started doing really strange karate moves and jumping around punching the air!! Haha!
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i played that game too for awhile but i was with the ghostwriter team.
shareAnyone know what exactly was in the sandwiches? I remember eating one as a kid, but I can't remember what was in them.
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They're really good! I've eaten them since I saw this movie.I wanted to be just like Harriet too. It also made me follow all of the actors' careers. And most of them are still doing. Michelle Trachtenberg, of course, is grown up and totally in the spotlight, since almost everything she does is a hit. Gregory Smith, also (this was when he had that classic bowl cut). I was so happy to see him in his starring roles in The Climb, Small Soldiers, and Everwood. And it was awful to watch him get shot and killed in The Patriot. I also see "The Boy in the Purple Socks" in a bunch of stuff. He did great in this part, especially in his monologue. He's such a great character in the movie. Oh, and Laura Peters, she had a little role in Mean Girls, but it was very good. She was the girl who wore the "ugliest skirt" Regina had ever seen, and yelled out "Oh, crap. My hair." when the sprinklers hit the girls. Sorry to write so much. Tomato sandwiches bring back good memories of this movie. They're even better with toasted bread.
shareI remember my temporary Composition book carrying days when I was 11. Me and a friend of mine loved this movie. Especially my friend. I stayed at my house and wrote mostly things about people I knew. She actually went out and tried to spy on people. She learned exactly how boring our lil town is lol.
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Actually I started eating Bratwurst when the movie came out. I remember Golly saying she hated it, and it gave me a crazy taste for them.
I've always wanted to say this..........for shizzle!
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According to the book Golly hated bratwurst she worked for a german family or something and that was all they ate. Plus I remember when they played that game i could have sworn she said "What would you eat for a million dollars" and even before Golly made the bratwurst Harriet asked "I thought you hated bratwurst". She didn't like it.
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This is how I interpreted that scene:
Golly does hate bratwurst because Harriet asked, "What wouldn't you eat for a million dollars?" meaning what do you hate so much that even for a million dollars you wouldn't eat.
Golly makes it for his date because HE likes it and Harriet picks up on this. She sees that Golly is acting different around the suspicious 'veggie thief' and it rubs her the wrong way.
This movie came out when I was in 5th grade and I loved it. I've probably seen it over 100 times haha
actually she hated it but was only eating it because of that guy coming over...
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Omigod! "Ghostwriter" -- the best thing ever! At least one of 'em. My brother, sister, and I would wake up just to watch this on PBS at 11 on Saturday mornings when I was about 7 and they 11 and 8. Good times, indeed. I know this should go under "Ghostwriter" comments, but you guys brought it up! I wanted to say, also, that I loved "Harriet the Spy." I still watch it occasionally to this day. I had a shortlived urge to be a spy. One deterrent was that I didn't have the superior quality friends to back me up as Harriet did; I would have been one pitiful, lonely spy. Besides, I thought it would be silly (stupid as hell) if I tried, so I didn't (haha, and you people have, and how's that going by the way?). But, it was cool for Harriet -- Michelle Trachtenberg did a marvelous job! I didn't have the desire to eat tomoatoe sandwiches, either. Sorry, you guys are so impressinonable - and sentimental! *NOTE: I personally like tomotoes but do not have an obsession with them. And I enjoyed them, though not the tomatoe and mayo sandwich variation, before Harriet [the Spy] came out*. Harriet's friends, Sport and Janie were so great, too. Gregory Smith who played Sport is outstanding and is currently in "Everwood" (as if there's someone who doesn't know~ ha!) -- and I most certainly do not miss an episode! So, everyone out there go rent or buy Harriet the Spy, and watch Everwood on Thursdays on the WB at 9:00 EST. Lastly: We should all orchestrate a rally for a Harriet the Spy sequel -- who's with me?! YEAH!!!
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Just tomato and mayo. ;)
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hahaha right there with you. I made my mom make me one and I spit it out and brushed my teeth. hahaha. I didn't like tomatoes again until last year *when I was 17* hahaha. maybe it was like a symbol of how unusual she was. ALL she would eat were tomato sandwiches, I did that too, I would only eat one thing for like a year and for one year it was pb and j and then the next year it was coffee yogurt. SLURP
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I was 7 when the movie came out and I remember I wanted to be a spy and I had a notebook and stuff. I never ate the tomato sandwiches though, because I don't like tomatoes.
shareI was about 7 when this movie came out, and I remember being obsessed with it. I remember buying a composition notebook like the one in the movie and writing stuff down about people in it. I also brought tomato sandwiches in my lunch for a while, but I don't think I ever really liked them.
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shareGood movie but YUCK, tomato and mayo??!! Excuse me while I go throw up!!
shareagreed, i tried it and god it was gross! but, i do remember numbering the pages of all my composition books the same way she did at the top right corner of each page
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I did the same things! After seeing the movie when I was about 8, my brother and I used to take our notebooks and pencils and "spy tools" (Fisher Price pocket knives and such) and try to spy on our parents. They could see us (we didn't have the best hiding places) and played along, so we had fun. I would also spy on my camp counselers while at camp! Hah. And actually, keeping my spy notebook was actually what started me on journal writing.
Don't think I ever tried tomato sandwiches, though...but it doesn't sound like it can be all that bad!
I used to spy all the time when I was little after I saw this movie. I had a fisher price tool belt that I put binoculars, and those rubber gloves, and an old plane ticket, and just stray odds and ends in, and OF COURSE, the spy notebook. I used to spy out our windows on our neighbors.
Well, our one neighbor worked in a stripclub, the mother was an alcoholic, and the little son was psychotic, so it made for an interesting "spy time."
PS- On the tomato sandwiches, mmmm. I still eat them, they are so good!
LOL. Us kids...The 90's... I remember I SOOO wanted to be a spy after I saw this movie when I was 8 or 9. I even started a journal and printed PRIVATE on it, and everytime, before I entered a room in my house where the door was closed, I'd get a CD and use the back to check under the space between the door and the floor to see who was in there and I was so excited when it worked. 'Course I grew out of that. I don't know what it is, but lately I've just been thinking about this movie so much. The last time I saw it, I was 8 or 9, but I have such fond memories of it. I've just been... itching to see it again! But I don't know where to get it.
shareI thought the scene where Harriet made her tomato sandwich was gross! She dumped a huge blob of tomato on heavily mayonaised bread and thought it was good. Yuck! I never tried a tomato sandwich because it looked so disgusting.
shareI personally couldn't stand tomato sandwiches but my younger sister still eats them to this day! We both loved this movie SO MUCH when we were younger! When it came out, I actually MADE myself a spy notebook out of very thick cardboard and paper. I attatched an elaborate lock (from one of those small diary locks and cellotape :p) and added an additional smaller notebook on to the front cover for "important phone numbers". Then came the decorating (ohhh boy!). This movie really caught my imagination. And, as you can probably tell, I was a VERY imaginative child lol
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I was into Harriet the Spy waaay before the movie came out (I must have read that book fifty times!) and I remember the tomato sandwiches, carrying around my composition book (along with the Ghostwriter pen around my neck), and even drinking chocolate egg creams, even though I thought they were so gross! I wanted so badly to be Harriet! Or Lenny from Ghostwriter... it's hilarious to see that I wasn't alone! :)
shareI was 5 when this movie came out and I remember after I saw it, my sister (who was 11 at the time) went around acting like a spy for about a month and started calling our nanny "Golly."
sharei watched that movie so many time. and i was a spy. i spied on my neighbors and had a notebook and a trenchcoat. lol good times.
shareThis movie came out when i was in middle school and by that time i remember wanting to be a spy as well, however i'm a guy lol so the guy type of spy. Either ways i did remember trying to write stuff about other people and stuff like that it was fun. even though her experience ahas not been experienced by me since i never really had a notbook that had bad th ings about poeple, i still felt like it was such a great movie (still is) and loved how she had to work hard to win her friends back it was a great story i'm so glad movies like this get made they are fulled of creativity GOOD JOB!
shareI used to eat these growing up cause its the #1 poor person sandwich.
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i used to eat them all the time lmao
and i wanted to be a spy soooo bad
muahahaha it was awesome =D
I'm allergic to tomatoes.... :(
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When i was little and watched it,I begged my mom to make me a Tomato sandwitch,when she did,I was sicked by it,I took one bite and hated it..
shareI remember getting a notebook that looked just like hers, and my next door neighbor and I pretended to be spys...NEVER did the tomato sandwich though.
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OMG WHAT! All of you guys are seriously crazy! Tomato and Mayo sandwiches are seriously good! If you use the right bread of course. I've been eating them forever! Me and my family love them. Cucumber sandwices are good as well. Try them guys! Seriously they're really good.
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yeah haha
i use to take notebooks and write...AND I AM A SPY
I would also eat tomato and mayo sandwiches
AND I HATE TOMATOES
I also did the foot drawing thing or at least tried it never worked
My friends and I still when we share drinks say what we wanna do and take huge swigs
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haha all these comments..remind me so much of myself at 8. i wrote 'i am a spy' on notebooks too. and did that thing where harriet wrote one letter on the top corner of each page so if you flip it really fast you can read the sentence... god, i even tried to copy the way her hand was poised as she reached down to pick up the scrunched up note from the classroom floor. and then i tried to start a school newsletter...
the one thing im glad i wasnt influenced by? the whole blood-brothers thing.
ew.
oh- and i was so desperate to be lenny from ghostwriter too. if for nothing else, than for the cool loft/musician dad.
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My neice started eating tomato and mayo sandwiches because of that movie, and still does. She's recently got my son (who was only a year old at the time the movie actually came out) hooked on them too. I HATE TOMATOES!!! lol Now I have to buy the nasty things just for him....stupid neice!
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I used to want to be like Harriet the Spy. I felt so bad for her when she was fighting with her friends, with the whole paint thing. I was in Kindergarten and I made a promise to myself that I'd never be mean like that.
I would hide under the desks during Stations and would pretend to spy on people. I got in trouble for that though... and my "notebook" was banned from school, haha. I still remember my friend was all upset because she thought I was spying on her, but I was really just drawing a picture of a sponge that was also under my table. Haha!
I even wrote letters in the upper right hand corner of all the pages like she did. And I would spy on my family. And I even had a spy kit!! Man I watched that movie like a million times.
Sigh. Those were the good days.
I also LOVED the sink in their bathroom!!!
I was soooo jealous.
Man I need to watch that movie again!!
I LOVE this movie sooo much! I wanted to be a spy so bad after seeing this. My mom told me that I used to walk around with a notepad and binoculars and I would write down everything that I saw. By far one of the greatest child movies ever!!!
shareI was six or seven when it came out and I remember running around with a notebook and binoculars. never saw anything interesting of course, but i wrote it all down, much to the annoyance of my family. god, i haven't seen this in years!
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