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  • i don't fucking get that stupid word game. it had "BEAUTIF" and alex says "if we add a 'U' we win." how the fuck does that make sense. "BEAUTIFU" and then Mad Mouse could put a goddamn "X"

  • I still don t get why that dumb bitch Julia styles kept defending max mouse like if she was the hacker

  • Some hacker! She's using the "hen pecking" method of typing. AND looking at the keys. FAIL!

  • lol saying hi to hector before he comes in the door

  • I am laughing at how HONEST the Janice chick was. Like you are a hacker terroizing the school for goodness sake when did integrity and values come in this situation. They asked her to tell how she did it and she actually did like a fool so I guess she isnt that smart lol! Then when they revealed they knew it was her, she keeps answering their questions, telling on her self smh! I would have got off the computer!

  • I guess it's another good example of the age-old saying: "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

  • It outs me as someone wondering if they are the original character to appear on a tv show as such.. and I still asked afterwards if that was even correct because I was second guessing myself. But ookkaaay. You win the internet arguement. woo woooo. Go you.

  • As a person that speaks Portuguese, while technically it could be interpreted as "I'm going to get you", it's pushing it. Whoever did this is pretty lulzy and clearly not a native speaker. Which makes me wonder...Google Translate existed in 1992?

  • Boo to the ending! I was hoping to see some cops billy club Janice while being hauled off to jail!

  • Janice Hall aka Max Mouse = the original internet "troll".

    So weird. Was that slang around even at this time?

    It seems like a really weird coincidence.

  • @ConceptGalaxy Bullshit. If you knew anything about computers you'd know there were bulletin boards and trolls back in the 80s, way before this show was produced. I suppose you think Max Mouse is the first hacker, too.

  • @encycl07pedia ugh. You think watching this stuff you'd realize how you come off trying to talk down to someone just because you know more about one particular subject. No. I don't know alot about computers which was why I was asking if troll was even slang back then. Why do people feel the need to be rude over simple questions? I didn't start using computers till around 2000 and didn't hear people use the term "troll" till about 5 years ago either. Way 2b a pretentious and predictable hipster.

  • @ConceptGalaxy If anyone here is a hipster, it's you, art freak.

    Pro tip: If you aren't sure of the origin of a word, don't call someone the "original" one. Otherwise, it outs you as a moron.

  • never seen a hacker chicken peck the way she does....

  • how did a middle-schooler set up such a hueg botnet

  • The spelling game is dumb lol. All they have to do is put a Z or X every time.

  • Jamal's victory dance at 3:05. LOL!

  • fact: you can only catch hackers with the help of the spirit world.

  • I wish Ghost Writer was real it be cool to chat wit him online and write to him on paper

  • Bully: I'm gonna f'n beat your little punk retarded ass Hector!

    Hector: Please take your hands off my clothes.

    **Bully immediately lets Hector go and quickly leaves the playground without saying another word.**

    Uh, ok. Very realistic.

  • In the real world, Hector would've sustained either a beating or worse. Best case would be Hector eating a few fists then ensuring that him being bullied would come at a high cost to the bully in the future.

  • @rlouie05 If I was Hector, I would've use the N work on this punk. I'm no racist, but when you act like a punk you just lost your "slur immunity".

  • wtf!?!?! wat was jamal doing to lennis conputer when they bate max mouse?

  • Why the Fuck is Janice so calm... She bout to go to Prison for some years. This aint no joke Crime.

  • @davinomyster perhaps maybe she's under the impression that since she's a kid the judge will go lenient on her or perhaps her mother and father can hire a powerful lawyer.

  • This was my favorit TV show when I was a kid. And I loved this episode the most. I love computers. Was the computer wizz kid in Kindergarden.

  • The actor who portrayed Hector was on the real world.

  • @CMHism yep he sure was. he is homosexual too, not that i care just stating.

  • LOL!!! - when GW is in cyberspace, the word in portuguese, "IM GOING TO HIT YOU!" --- hahahahha....

  • Kevin Schinick isn't in the credits! I knew it was him in the first part of the episode.

  • To bad Max Mouse wasn't Calvin. This was always my favorite epsiode!

  • AHHHH the terrible typing skills of everyone in the show is driving me crazy!!!

  • I remember after all these years that Jamal scolded someone for touching him while he was trying to type. I even remember that the word eventually was beautiful. This was probably my favorite arc.

  • @DizzyedUpGirl I remember the music playing over the end credits after 15+ years.

    Yup, still awesome...

  • Oh My Lord, A Green Phone (falls down laughing)

  • This episode taught me the word "beau." :)

  • @Shoujonekoninja My niece has a dog name Beau. :)

  • What a juxtaposition. Janice, the computer hacker, is in a room of stuffed animals and a purple troll on her computer. Not to mention, pigtails. Guilt amongst innocence. Actually, a term for people who try to start fights over the internet is troll. What a subliminal message. In the 1990's a troll was a toy or a creature that lived under a bridge in children's stories, and Janice is having her own flame war, as expected from a troll.

  • The story was good, but what actual proof did they have? She confessed to them, but how could they prove they tracked her phone number and got a confession?

  • I always loved Lenni's crazy green phone.

  • Seems like on almost every tv show. The first three digits of the phone number always begins with 555. This was always my favorite episode!

  • @santafe37s Yup, that's because there are no phone numbers that begin with 555. Keeps writers from inadvertently writing a real person's phone number into a show or movie.

  • omg- thanks for putting this on!

    i remember never watching the last episode when i was a kid!

    Thanks!!! ;-D

  • At least janice was honest. She kept her part of the deal. she lost and she told how she did it.

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  • I like those shoez George has on but that was the worst bully scene I ever seen.

  • Worst bully scene ever! LOL!!! So lame!

  • LOL @ peanut shrimp!

  • Janice was hot. I'd bang her even back then.

  • @Mackaeddie Hot Damn!

  • I like how you have to type out your username when chatting.

  • janice was just looking for attention, but all she needed was a friend. these asshole kids just turned her into the feds...

  • "please take your hands off my clothes" Bully: "you win this round Hector!!" *walks away angrily* LOL WAT

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  • i went to high school with max mouse.

  • So what evidence exactly did Jamal give the lieutenant? That a ghost went inside their computer and tracked down her number?

  • @dan917x he printed out the chat where janice explained how she set the alarms and when they said er name and she ad mitted it was her

  • haha she was typing without using her hands. lol

  • Janice is a cunt

  • What the fuck kind of hacker pecks a keyboard?

  • @EdwR1 thank you. i was thinking the same thing!

  • Max Mouse! one of my favorite Ghost Writer episodes! man, this show was great! they sure dont make kids shows like this anymore.

  • @4:37: one of the most shocking moments in the show!!

  • How did Ghostwriter know it was a She? "She cut off!" ;-]

  • @darkneutral There were 3 suspects: 2 females and 1 male. Once they found out Calvin wasn't Max Mouse. That only left the 2 females.

  • Imagine how funny it would be if Janice replied with "I did it for the lulz."

  • @VidGamer123

    "Why did you hack our computers like that?"

    "I did it for teh lulz."

    "What?"

    "I did it for teh lulz."

    "What does that even MEAN?"

    "Ask 4Chan."

    "WHAT?"

  • @SleakAndSavuraCreato

    Janice is TV's very first Internet Troll. :D

  • i like how sudden death was one word

  • But how can they prove it to the cops? What evidence will they have against her exactly? Only way I can think of is if they find the school's number in her computer, since they can't prove it the other way around.

    But she probably won't hide it

  • Wish we could have seen her get nailed.

    I'd like to see how she'd react when she see's them at school.

  • I saw this back when it aired some 15-16 years ago. Now after all these years, I finally found out who Max Mouse was, lol.  A shame that they don't show what happened to Janice afterward though.

  • Now see...they don't show what actually happens to Janice after they call the cops. But I'm pretty sure, since she knew she was going to get arrested, she would have either ran away or committed suicide.

  • @AnalyticalMenace What a shame, she's kinda cute. (When she first appeared in Part1 I thought it was Erika Flores from "Dr. Quinn.")

  • This was my favorite episode from the series. Still, I can't believe how horrible the puns and jokes were. Even for kids it was bad. Plus, that punk girl Erica and the bully's attitudes were so cheesy. Still, for it's time it was funny and cool.

  • This was my FAVORITE episode as well. The puns WERE horrible. It was cool seeing Julia Stiles in there though.

  • I dunno. I kinda thought Erica was elite!

  • The B story with Hector and the bully seemed a little tacked on. Still this has always been one of my favorite episodes. I love how the technology and terminology is so dated now. hehe

  • Everyone that doesn't get the ghost game is fucking stupid. While you're putting letters down, you have to be spelling out an actual word, because otherwise the game would last forever. Stay off the computer for a couple days and go read a book.

  • hey peanut shrimp? lol i would've laughed at his face..lookin like a broke down Lil Fame from M.O.P. lol...man this was a pretty tense episode

  • man i remember this was one tense episode back then!

  • lmao @ 7:35- those are some big ass sneaks Alex!!

    But I love Alex!

  • they really didn't have any hard evidence to prove Janice was Max Mouse. they can't tell the cops, "Yeah, our friend Ghostwriter tracked her down through the computer." They'll need something before they can go charging in with a warrant. That's a mistake on the writers. If she has said in the chat room "I am Janice Hall." then they would of had something.

  • janice admitted to it though. and they had the number to her modum. the police probably could have done some sort of check to see if the hacking came from her computer. just a hunch.

  • plus they can also print out her confession.

  • Gabby is really smart! I just learned about the word beau from TMZ hahaha nice one Gab.

  • WTF, I wanted to see the police fuck up Janice!

    >_>

    And that game still doesn't make sense.

  • She is a little girl. She would probably had to serve some time in Juvenile hall but I don't think the police would f- her up. At least I hope they wouldn't. If they would they would be in trouble themselves. I hope you are kidding. Yes she did some bad things on the computer but it isn't like she brought a gun to school. And I wonder if it was Calvin if you would have the same response. Honestly I feel really bad for Janice all she wanted was attention. :(

  • If she had any brains, she would have realized they way she was going about trying to get attention was wrong, and that if she got caught, she'd be in serious trouble.

  • If she was an adult she sure should but again she is a kid. Kid's do stupid things all the time they don't think because their minds aren't developed enough yet. It is up to parents to teach their children right from wrong. There are very few adults in the world that don't look back on their childhood and wish they hadn't done something that they now know is wrong. HIndsight is 20/20 as they say.

  • R. Kelly would've gave her some attention.......

    okay, going to hell now lol.

  • I kind of feel bad for her too, but she'd have to pay the price for what she had done anyway. It was serious. Especially the part where a kid nearly died in a fire.

  • I agree but some of the comments were way to harsh for a little kid. I just hope the people that made comments never get on a jury in real life. ROFL

  • Yeah that might be dangerous.

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  • Okay apparently I didn't leave out the word people in my 1st comment. But when I looked at it looked like I did. Okay it is official Max Mouse is in charge of the comment system. ROFL

  • You can challenge the other player to come up with a word if they put a weird or random letter. If they couldn't come up with a word that started with "beautifuj," they'd lose. But if there turned out to be some obscure word that does start that way, the other person would lose.

  • hector doesn't contribute anything to the team. he better shape up

  • Jamal's victory dance at 3:05 is hilarious!

  • Poor Ghostwriter...

    "Why is it taking him so long to surf through the whole internet?!?!" Granted it wasn't as big back then, but still... ;)

  • does any1 know who make the music in the background during the credits?

  • This was such a great episode.

    I loved watching this when I got home from school.

  • @KingOystar me too, it comes on before carmen sandiego.

  • what episode is after this one please tell me thanks

  • It's called "Can't Stop The Music"

  • Do u got the Gang episode by any Chance With the Thunderheads??

  • wow, Janice Hall was REALLY smart to have all those lines, i felt bad for her though, all of that for attention.

  • "LJ Bad"..because back then, bad meant good, I guess :)

  • nah, back then "bad" meant "cool"

  • @pcmarriotthk Bad still means good today lol...

  • when they win check out Jamals dance, lol

  • So funny!!!!

  • why going to the highschool of science. He could be a stripper...

  • I love it when Gaby hugs the computer once Ghostwriter and team beat Max Mouse. Once everybody got hugged, Gaby really gave one big hug to Ghost Writer. What can I say? Gaby was so adorable!

  • the kid who played hector is gay in real life he was on the real world few seasons ago

  • I wish they went into detail of what happened to Janice.

  • GW went to Tokya, Lisbao, Hollywood, busy guy.

    -- man that phone of lenni's. totally 90s

  • I kind of feel bad for Janice.

  • They shoulda showed when Janice got busted for all the trouble she caused. Ms. Kelly probably would have suspended or more than likely expelled her and she woulda got charged by the police.

  • i love this episode Ghostwriter is one of the best shows a kid could watch in the early 90's

  • You said it, sigh...those where the days, only I watched it in the 90's on The N/Noggin...kids really learned a lot from this show...this episode alone teaches how to handle bullies and what happens to hackers, not to mention what they can do to your computer...which is why you should NEVER trust ANYONE online. Hacker or not, I've heard of a lot of things happening online...like a girl killing herself out of depression because of what someone posing as a boy said to her. ALWAYS BE CAREFUL!!!

  • They cut out a lot of stuff from this episode. like when Gaby puts the paper with the words rise and shine. and GW shines up like the sun.

  • When I first watched this episode, I was almost a hundred percent sure Max Mouse was either Erica or Calvin. The writings from Max Mouse in the chat room sounded a lot like their ways of speaking.

    In most of the GW episodes, it seemed like the real perpetrator was never the most obvious suspect. In this episode, when they revealed that it was Janice, I was like "Holy crap!"

  • Back in "To catch a Creep" it WAS the most obvious suspect, calvin. (Who was spreading the smear posters all over the place) but it was creative to see how they weaved Alex's penpal in TX to the whole thing. Nice writing!

  • oh man! i havent seen that one yet

  • Well, Adrian, let this be a good lesson on solving riddles. When it comes to riddles, the most obvious answer is RARELY ever the right one. The answer is usually the one NOBODY ever suspects.

  • Man! its always those quiet ones that are crazy..early hackers emo's on the 90's

  • can anyone tell me why this show went off the air i want to know how to get this on dvd the whole first season please someone hit me up with this information

  • By the end of its third season, Ghostwriter ranked in the top five of all children's shows on American television. The program was cancelled after the third season, not because of a lack of popularity, but because of a lack of funding -Wiki

  • how did you know that was the reason why they got off the air please get back to me

  • Some people on the IMDB message board have said that the program they used to create Ghostwriter was too expensive. Unfortunately, I don't have any more concrete sources to confirm that.

  • LOL. No wonder someone rated you thumbs down. LMBO.  You need to watch s'more Ghostwriter--STAT!

  • I dont care thats their business who did that

  • They should bring Ghostwriter back.

  • They had a "new ghostwriter" team sometime in the 00's , but that too was cancelled, lack of interest.

  • hey i saw your comment and i dont know if you have this show on vhs but i have 2 episodes of it on vhs that are legally made by ctw and are very high quality if your interested let me know?

  • where the hell was rob during all this?

  • Rob Baker left to move to australia just the episode before at the end of lost in brooklyn saga.

  • I would have told George "Some punk ass........well u know"

  • These episodes predate chatspeak. That is obvious in the interaction amongst everyone on the bulletin board.

  • But also this show was trying to teach people how to communicate, and chatspeak ISN'T a great way to communicate :p And on a lot of bulletin boards, people do type out their words!

  • What?!?... That was it? The end?

    I wanted to see her get hauled away in handcuffs like OJ Simpson!

    Sigh.

  • So did I, especially after all the hell she caused!

  • Great show!

    my older bros and sis's watched this when they were small and passed it on 2 me!

  • Yeah I have 6 and 8 y/o nephews I think would love this show... like I did when I was that age.

  • Ghostwriter is one badass motherfucker. You mess with him and you are fucked

  • omg, those were the most intense 3 minutes of my life!!!!, i think i almost shit myself!!!!

  • "Hey guys, let's exchange high fives again!"

  • and george grew up to sell crack on the streets the end

  • Jamal should've used "S" to spell beast.:)

  • But the whole idea of the game "Ghost" is to make a word without having to make a short one accidentally.

  • this must have been PBS. I watched it on both PBS and Noggin and Noggin cut out a lot of scenes.

  • "Who is it?"

    "Hector"

    (half assed)"Hi"

    "Hey Hector"

    Real excited to see him huh?

  • Hectors no Rob. =]

  • Lolol, and he hadn't even got inside yet!

  • Haha! Pwned! What a loser.

  • Mm~ got owned courtesy of Ghostwriter! Haha =o)

  • That dance was GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I wanted to see everyone talking about it at school or see her being taken away. haha

  • i know. i wanted to see that too. they should have put that in the episode. if we saw janice get caught by ms. kelly and the police, janice would prolly explain herself and get so angry at people for not noticing her and prolly explain that that's why she had to find a way to make people suffer for not noticing her.

  • My thoughts exactly!

  • yea, lets watch the degradation of a little girl, wooo go youtube users

  • However, Janice found out the hard way that revenge gains you nothing in the end. When a person leads a lifestyle of retaliation, the only person he ends up destroying is HIMSELF.

  • Oh jamal i never want to see that dance again!

  • yeah, jamal's dance was blinding!

  • hector is cool, but why did rob leave?

  • Rob's family had to move to Australia for dad's work

  • OMG!!! So retro!! So cool!!!

  • ehrm...why would Max Mouse admit that they got her right?