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This wonderful exchange was in the book

Book Jeremy is canonically ripped.

Jeremy Heere: Criminal Mastermind

Petition to get book Jeremy to not kill his computer dad and to stop pursuing the judgemental girl who clearly doesn't deserve or like him

Book squip: Jeremy, spend $40 on Eminem merchandise; my quantum processors predict that he is going to die in a hockey accident and you can use it to win pity points. Reserve the $100 because I can see that Rich is going to demand payment in the future.

Also book squip: Maybe if you act like a rabid dog, Christine will think you’re cute!

I think the book did a better job with that “be yourself” message

I’m not even sure if that was the message that was supposed to be sent, but it was much more prevalent within the book.

So here’s the gist of it: Jeremy had two main goals: being more popular and getting with Christine.

First, being more popular. It’s pretty clear that Jeremy needed the squip to be more popular in both the book and the musical. In both, he’s a pretty unpopular kid at the bottom of the food chain. In both, the squip helps him to get more popular and be with the cool kids. However, in the book, a lot of the actions the squip makes Jeremy do makes him end up in even more trouble, whereas in the musical, even after all of the things the squip makes him do, things turn out more or less fine. In the book, things ended up worse for Jeremy when he changed himself, whereas in the musical, things ended up better.

Second, getting Christine. I think the difference here is more drastic. In the musical, Jeremy and Christine’s relationship after he got the squip, while it did not improve that much, was certainly not worse. And at the end, Jeremy ended up getting with her, which probably would not have happened were it not for the squip. But in the book, Jeremy had all of his best interactions with Christine when he wasn’t under the squip’s influence. Even though I doubt that he would ever actually get together with Christine, they at least seemed as though they were going to be friends. But then Jeremy started following the squip’s instructions, which messed things up more. Even the squip said that Jeremy didn’t need it to be with Christine. Eventually, Jeremy’s acting out of character got Christine to hate him.

So, in essence, in the book, Jeremy’s not being himself caused him to end up in a much worse situation, whereas in the musical, it ended up overall improving his life.

Friendly reminder that the squip has Jeremy sharpie muscles on himself in the book

The most unbelievable thing about the book is that Jeremy actually does push ups when the squip tells him to, without complaint and reasonably well

Reasons book squip is better:

Tells jokes

Is encouraging

Doesn't abuse Jeremy

Stargazing

Knows its faults

Actually wants the best for Jeremy

Hacking Mark Jackson's Gameboy

Emotional support

Reasons musical squip is better:

Actually does their job

Conspiracy theory

Book squip knew that Christine wasn’t good enough for Jeremy so it purposefully messed with him so that he wouldn’t get with her

"I'm a child of divorce"

- Jeremy Heere: son of divorce lawyers

"I have a cute butt!"

- Jeremy Heere

Christine's interactions with Jeremy in the book give off such an "I don't want to talk to you but I don't want to seem rude so I'll keep talking" vibe

Be More Chill book sequel where Jeremy gets Squip 4.0 and it’s heckin OP and fixes everything and he gets to be happy

Book AU where Jeremy's parents are antivax, and after Aunt Linda pokes him with her tetanus pole, he just straight up dies

I have pieced together the canon description of book Jeremy