Polly Sparks

Polly Spark is Professor Spark's third-grade daughter & Botley's main purpose is the unenviable task of keeping her under control.

In JumpStart 3rd Grade, Polly serves as the game's antagonist & is portrayed as being a spoiled brat, regularly calling Botley names such as "Snotley," "Potley" & "Dotley." The game also makes her out to be rather fiendish considering that many of her changes to the timeline would almost certainly result in many people being hurt or killed, though it is unlikely she is entirely aware of the damage she can cause, (for example, one of her changes would supposedly cause people to believe that radium isn't dangerous & therefore continue to use it in luminous paints) as well as give her a degree of personal power verging on world domination.

In JumpStart Typing, Polly is considerably nicer & agrees to help Botley rescue Coach Qwerty from the Trophy Room, though only when she is faced with the possibility of her father finding out that she had locked him in there to begin with. At the end of JumpStart Typing, she apologizes to Coach Qwerty for her actions & he forgives her. One consistency, however, between her seemingly antithetical portrayals in 3rd Grade & Typing is that in both games her bad deeds arise out of wounded pride resulting from the fact that she apparently considers herself intellectually superior to others.

Interestingly, it is not until JumpStart Typing that she & Botley actually appear together, since, in JumpStart 3rd Grade, she remains in her father's secret chamber, apparently the Mountain's control room, for the entire game & communicates with Botley & the user only through a series of video monitors. Also in 3rd Grade, she appears to have a small robotic lackey, who looks somewhat like a floating shark. This robot delivers Botley & the user new TransQuizzer disks, can occasionally be seen attempting to sabotage the Mountain's generator with a banana & appears with Polly in her father's secret chamber at the beginning & end of the game.

Polly has blonde hair set in pigtails & she wears large goggles, what appears to be a lab coat worn as a dress, bright green socks & red sneakers. Most of the time, her eyebrows float above her head in a cartoonish fashion, though they tend to come down onto the tops of her glasses when she's in a particularly diabolical mood, making her look rather sinister.

List of Games

 * JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain (1996)
 * JumpStart Typing (1997)
 * JumpStart Power Prep