Finally, things are returning back to normal in Sheltered Shrubs... or are they?
Macie just got cut from band--along with a bunch of other people--because the school board deemed stain-resistant uniforms for the football team to be more important than developing skills in music. What does a football team need with stain-resistant uniforms anyway? They'll probably spend time trying to get them stained just to see if they work. Because teenagers, man.
Ginger gets more upset about this than you'd think, mostly because she's bashing the new uniforms out of spite of Darren and his new cheerleader girlfriend. Dodie, naturally, is ecstatic about the uniforms, so everyone gives her the stink-eye until she changes her mind. So, Ginger announces that they're all going to fight this new stain-resistance and take back the arts. Vive la bande!
The next scene cuts to Courtney--hey, we haven't seen her in a while! How are you doing, girl? Courtney is trying to balance slathering on her ridiculously expensive makeup while trying to get good reception on her new $2,000 state-of-the-art Toshubi cell phone. Why is that even something Courtney has to announce for us? We know she has the most expensive phone on the market. Maybe even on the black market.
Macie just got cut from band--along with a bunch of other people--because the school board deemed stain-resistant uniforms for the football team to be more important than developing skills in music. What does a football team need with stain-resistant uniforms anyway? They'll probably spend time trying to get them stained just to see if they work. Because teenagers, man.
Ginger gets more upset about this than you'd think, mostly because she's bashing the new uniforms out of spite of Darren and his new cheerleader girlfriend. Dodie, naturally, is ecstatic about the uniforms, so everyone gives her the stink-eye until she changes her mind. So, Ginger announces that they're all going to fight this new stain-resistance and take back the arts. Vive la bande!
The next scene cuts to Courtney--hey, we haven't seen her in a while! How are you doing, girl? Courtney is trying to balance slathering on her ridiculously expensive makeup while trying to get good reception on her new $2,000 state-of-the-art Toshubi cell phone. Why is that even something Courtney has to announce for us? We know she has the most expensive phone on the market. Maybe even on the black market.
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| The only reason why Courtney's phone looks like an iStone is because this show is supposedly still supposed to be taking place in the early 2000s. At least, I think that's why. |
The girls who just walked in are being too loud for Courtney to hear, so she tells them to button their yaps. Understandably, the girls get confused and offended. They listen in as Courtney tells her mama that the girls are hideous with their awful nose jobs (come now, that's not nice!), so they rip the phone from Courtney's hand and throw it into a toilet. Another one of Courtney's phones starts ringing, so the girls toss that one, too. What is this, three phones of Courtney's that got destroyed in this series? They tell Courtney to stay out of the bathroom, otherwise they'll dunk her into a toilet too, and then they stuff her into a garbage can.
I am appalled at all three of them. Courtney had no reason to insult the girls, just like the girls had no excuse to toss her phones and stuff Courtney into the garbage can just because they're upperclassmen. That's just straight-up bullying. Where are all of Courtney's "friends" she had in junior high, and why aren't they surrounding her in a protective bubble? Oh, right. They never really were friends in the first place. Sad.
In the junior high school, Carl hallucinates the class snake begging him to release him from his tank. Carl tells the snake that he doesn't do those kinds of things anymore because he's in junior high now. I swear, if this was a more adult-oriented show, Carl would be a recovering meth addict spiraling towards relapse.
Still, it's interesting to see Carl struggling to maintain "good" behavior, itching to return to his former, scheming self. What needs to be explained further is why Carl decided to ditch his scheming in the first place. It can't just be because he's in junior high. I'm wondering if this has something to do with Doctor Dave being part of his life now, and the addition of a new father figure gives Carl no excuse to act out for attention anymore. That's my guess. There really should have been an episode on that--I bet it would have won an Emmy.
Carl tells Hoodsey all about his hallucinations and its side effects, right down to his chronic diarrhea. Hoodsey reminds Carl that they made a pact and that they should stick to it, even though Carl desperately misses the taste of badness.
Ginger spies on Darren and Simone sniffing each other's hair, because she has nothing better to do than kill her opinion of Darren even further. Once Simone walks away, Ginger rips Darren a new asshole about the stain resistant uniforms, but Darren's holier-than-thou attitude about football causes Ginger to dismiss the whole conversation and walk away.
Courtney gets hauled away in a helicopter ambulance--because being shoved into a trash can is totally worthy of emergency medical treatment in ICU. Courtney, I love you, but you are seriously spoiled.
Ginger continues her soapbox speech about how her dedication to taking back the music program is totally not about getting back at Darren and Simone. Honestly, shut up, Ginger. We all know you wouldn't give two shits about the music program if it was Darren sniffing your hair by the lockers. It's over between you two. Accept it.
A forklift comes by the parking lot to drop off a new, fancy port-a-potty for Courtney, and plops it down in vice principal Grundig's parking spot right as he drives up to it to begin his long, miserable day. He tells Courtney to get that box out of his spot, but Courtney says no, unless he eliminates bathroom bullying. How is he supposed to do that? Install cameras in there? Well, Courtney does have a news crew nearby who'll have a field day if the vice principal doesn't give into her demands (which I have to admit, is reasonable in an unorthodox way).
Grundig doesn't give a shit, so he angrily assigns Courtney detention, and the news crew goes into action (after nudging from Courtney) reporting on the negligence of school authority handling bullying. Maybe once you're rich, you can hire the Channel 1 News to take care of your bullying situation, too.
I truly feel bad for Courtney. The least Grundig could do is apologize for Courtney being bullied (even though Courtney was the one who instigated the cattiness). Alas, he and his giant bald spot do not care.
Ginger goes to the principal to fight against the cutting of the music program. There, the football coach also demonstrates how stain resistant the uniforms are by smearing ketchup on both of them, rising them in water, and showing off how one's perfectly clean, and the other is soiled. Thank you, Billy Mays.
The idiot principal considers this to be a compelling argument, because what's a kid show without brain dead adults? But then he tells Ginger if she can get 400 signatures from the student body going against the new uniforms, he'll take her case to the superintendent. Despite that being some progress, this whole plot still doesn't make much sense.
1) Who decided the football team needed these magic uniforms in the first place? They might not get stained, but the boys will still need to wash them after every game--hopefully they will.
2) Why is band being cut, but not another program? As in, who came to the conclusion that band would be the right choice to cut to make room in the budget for these uniforms?
None of these are explained, which makes this plot so ridiculous and unrealistic that it's actually giving me a headache.
Oh, here's another conflict--according to Macie, there are only 432 students in the entire school. So, to get 400 signatures, Ginger will have to get practically everyone besides the football team's signatures. That's outrageous. Not to mention, how tiny is Sheltered Shrubs to have a high school of only 432 students? It's not like it actually is a tiny town--we've seen far shots of it. It's quite sizable. Then again, this is probably just my perception of a tiny school. My high school had 3,200 students, with roughly 800+ students in my graduating class. But that's probably because I don't live in Sheltered Shrubs.
Dodie struggles with the life-changing dilemma of whether or not to write her name down on the petition. Because it's fucking Dodie and her fucking obsession with pep, that's why! I seriously cannot deal with this shit anymore.
Not only that, but Darren's incoherent speech about not letting "a few bad apples" spoil the football team's chance to "stain" the school get in the way, and everyone around him, including Macie, agree. With 376 signatures left to go, Ginger isn't giving up. I admire her persistence, but her desperation to stick it to Darren is seriously annoying. And not the kind of annoyance I feel with Dodie. It's the kind of annoyance I feel with the writing of the episode.
Carl is seriously on the cusp of cracking from the lack of pranking. While he is trying so hard, I must say this is kind of sad to watch.
Hoodsey reminds Carl that he made a promise not to cause chaos in their junior high school, but Carl discovers a loophole--technically, he never said he couldn't do bad things in other peoples' schools. And so, Carl is going to do something awful at the high school.
The next morning, Ginger tries (and fails) to buy everyone's signatures through adorable musical note cookies by greeting everyone who passes by name, but they ignore her because Ginger has become a real spaz lately. Darren makes an announcement over the loudspeakers that anyone who hasn't signed Ginger's silly petition is welcome to free low-fat smoothies in the cafeteria with him and the pep squad. Damn, Darren. You're a special kind of dick, aren't you?
Naturally, Dodie runs off to grab a smoothie, as her pep squad career is hanging by the hairs on her swollen little head. Ginger really should have just told her to shove the smoothie up her ass instead of trying to convince her otherwise. I know I'd be stupid to believe Ginger had any brain cells left at this point in the series, but it's fun to imagine how this series would have went down my way.
Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey sneak down the halls for some tomfoolery.
I am appalled at all three of them. Courtney had no reason to insult the girls, just like the girls had no excuse to toss her phones and stuff Courtney into the garbage can just because they're upperclassmen. That's just straight-up bullying. Where are all of Courtney's "friends" she had in junior high, and why aren't they surrounding her in a protective bubble? Oh, right. They never really were friends in the first place. Sad.
In the junior high school, Carl hallucinates the class snake begging him to release him from his tank. Carl tells the snake that he doesn't do those kinds of things anymore because he's in junior high now. I swear, if this was a more adult-oriented show, Carl would be a recovering meth addict spiraling towards relapse.
Still, it's interesting to see Carl struggling to maintain "good" behavior, itching to return to his former, scheming self. What needs to be explained further is why Carl decided to ditch his scheming in the first place. It can't just be because he's in junior high. I'm wondering if this has something to do with Doctor Dave being part of his life now, and the addition of a new father figure gives Carl no excuse to act out for attention anymore. That's my guess. There really should have been an episode on that--I bet it would have won an Emmy.
Carl tells Hoodsey all about his hallucinations and its side effects, right down to his chronic diarrhea. Hoodsey reminds Carl that they made a pact and that they should stick to it, even though Carl desperately misses the taste of badness.
Ginger spies on Darren and Simone sniffing each other's hair, because she has nothing better to do than kill her opinion of Darren even further. Once Simone walks away, Ginger rips Darren a new asshole about the stain resistant uniforms, but Darren's holier-than-thou attitude about football causes Ginger to dismiss the whole conversation and walk away.
Courtney gets hauled away in a helicopter ambulance--because being shoved into a trash can is totally worthy of emergency medical treatment in ICU. Courtney, I love you, but you are seriously spoiled.
Ginger continues her soapbox speech about how her dedication to taking back the music program is totally not about getting back at Darren and Simone. Honestly, shut up, Ginger. We all know you wouldn't give two shits about the music program if it was Darren sniffing your hair by the lockers. It's over between you two. Accept it.
A forklift comes by the parking lot to drop off a new, fancy port-a-potty for Courtney, and plops it down in vice principal Grundig's parking spot right as he drives up to it to begin his long, miserable day. He tells Courtney to get that box out of his spot, but Courtney says no, unless he eliminates bathroom bullying. How is he supposed to do that? Install cameras in there? Well, Courtney does have a news crew nearby who'll have a field day if the vice principal doesn't give into her demands (which I have to admit, is reasonable in an unorthodox way).
Grundig doesn't give a shit, so he angrily assigns Courtney detention, and the news crew goes into action (after nudging from Courtney) reporting on the negligence of school authority handling bullying. Maybe once you're rich, you can hire the Channel 1 News to take care of your bullying situation, too.
Ginger goes to the principal to fight against the cutting of the music program. There, the football coach also demonstrates how stain resistant the uniforms are by smearing ketchup on both of them, rising them in water, and showing off how one's perfectly clean, and the other is soiled. Thank you, Billy Mays.
The idiot principal considers this to be a compelling argument, because what's a kid show without brain dead adults? But then he tells Ginger if she can get 400 signatures from the student body going against the new uniforms, he'll take her case to the superintendent. Despite that being some progress, this whole plot still doesn't make much sense.
1) Who decided the football team needed these magic uniforms in the first place? They might not get stained, but the boys will still need to wash them after every game--hopefully they will.
2) Why is band being cut, but not another program? As in, who came to the conclusion that band would be the right choice to cut to make room in the budget for these uniforms?
None of these are explained, which makes this plot so ridiculous and unrealistic that it's actually giving me a headache.
Oh, here's another conflict--according to Macie, there are only 432 students in the entire school. So, to get 400 signatures, Ginger will have to get practically everyone besides the football team's signatures. That's outrageous. Not to mention, how tiny is Sheltered Shrubs to have a high school of only 432 students? It's not like it actually is a tiny town--we've seen far shots of it. It's quite sizable. Then again, this is probably just my perception of a tiny school. My high school had 3,200 students, with roughly 800+ students in my graduating class. But that's probably because I don't live in Sheltered Shrubs.
Dodie struggles with the life-changing dilemma of whether or not to write her name down on the petition. Because it's fucking Dodie and her fucking obsession with pep, that's why! I seriously cannot deal with this shit anymore.
Not only that, but Darren's incoherent speech about not letting "a few bad apples" spoil the football team's chance to "stain" the school get in the way, and everyone around him, including Macie, agree. With 376 signatures left to go, Ginger isn't giving up. I admire her persistence, but her desperation to stick it to Darren is seriously annoying. And not the kind of annoyance I feel with Dodie. It's the kind of annoyance I feel with the writing of the episode.
Carl is seriously on the cusp of cracking from the lack of pranking. While he is trying so hard, I must say this is kind of sad to watch.
Hoodsey reminds Carl that he made a promise not to cause chaos in their junior high school, but Carl discovers a loophole--technically, he never said he couldn't do bad things in other peoples' schools. And so, Carl is going to do something awful at the high school.
The next morning, Ginger tries (and fails) to buy everyone's signatures through adorable musical note cookies by greeting everyone who passes by name, but they ignore her because Ginger has become a real spaz lately. Darren makes an announcement over the loudspeakers that anyone who hasn't signed Ginger's silly petition is welcome to free low-fat smoothies in the cafeteria with him and the pep squad. Damn, Darren. You're a special kind of dick, aren't you?
Naturally, Dodie runs off to grab a smoothie, as her pep squad career is hanging by the hairs on her swollen little head. Ginger really should have just told her to shove the smoothie up her ass instead of trying to convince her otherwise. I know I'd be stupid to believe Ginger had any brain cells left at this point in the series, but it's fun to imagine how this series would have went down my way.
Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey sneak down the halls for some tomfoolery.
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| What is up with Hoodsey's mouth? |
They go outside and spot Courtney's port-a-potty, thinking it belongs to Grundig, and immediately start forming a plan.
If this is not sad, nerdy, and pathetic, well--I guess Dodie is always a good alternative:
Ginger notices Orion has been drinking one of Darren's smoothies, and chastises him for it. Ginger angrily stares Darren down as he poses with girls for pictures and continues acting like an arrogant ass just to spite Ginger. Honestly, I don't see why Darren broke up with her--their personalities fit perfectly.
Macie then decides to give up protesting, as the psychological pull of popularity is too strong for even her to fight against. And then Ginger drops to her knees in defeat. She actually does, too--what a drama queen.
It's so obvious Ginger's whole protest is about her getting back at Darren that even Lois has it figured out. Ginger straight-up refuses to admit it, so she kicks Lois out of her room when she tries to suggest ways of making up with him. Please. The day Ginger admits she was wrong is the day Dodie gives up on trying to be popular.
And then, the day of the next football game, something happens. The day when my entire opinion of the show takes a sharp nosedive into the pits of Nickelodeon Hell. Left turn at post SpongeBob movie episodes, take the exit into shitty live-action teen dramedies, last stop at this:
Thank you for all the laughs and tears, Ms. Kapnek. But I'm afraid your show has officially overstayed its welcome with this monstrosity. A show I once took seriously as a breath of fresh air for realistic situations, original drama, and depth beyond the typical toon farce--all abandoned--and now our once-loved Ginger looks like the biggest jackass to have been spared from American television. This show was supposed to be above groan-worthy moments. This show was supposed to have a likable and relatable main character. Alas, that is no more. And if I hadn't already watched "Ten Chairs" and "The Wedding Frame," I'd be skeptical about even finishing this blog because it would seem hypocritical of me to be shitting on a show that, at the beginning, I praised for everything mentioned above.
End rant.
Carl and Hoodsey prepare to do something terrible to Courtney's port-a-potty, and they're talking really loudly that it makes me wonder why Courtney can't hear them. Sure, she has the hairdryer running, but even then, she has to be able to hear voices. The boys start rolling the box across the parking lot and towards the football field, all while Courtney is being jostled around in there and getting toilet water all in her hair. Ew.
Ginger prepares to humiliate herself. Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey accidentally let the port-a-potty roll down the hill and directly onto the field. I swear, this accidental bullying against Courtney couldn't have gone more perfectly.
The port-a-potty rolls right in Darren's path. He tackles it to the ground, thinking it's another player. My God, how strong did Darren get to be able to tackle a damn port-a-potty to the ground like that?! Ginger then comes out near one of the end zones and attempts to disrupt the game by doing her pathetic cheers, but she's ignored on account of everyone is staring at this mysterious pink box that just rolled onto the field. Courtney climbs out--soaked, beaten, and missing a shoe--to the entire school pointing and laughing at her. And taking pictures to post to the Lucky High Facebook page. Oh, that's just pig awful! Poor Courtney!
She really doesn't deserve all this abuse. Yeah, she said some mean things to the girls in the bathroom, but that doesn't mean she deserves this. Courtney runs away, with many new nicknames and many more years of bullying and harassment on her back for this. If I were her, I'd change schools. Immediately.
Darren sees Ginger in the distance in her big ass ear costume (where would one find an ear costume, anyway?) with her little sign, and they both exchange a look of shame before Ginger sheds the costume and walks off. Sometime later, Ginger sees someone hauling away the stain-resistant jerseys, as the football team complained of them being "too uncomfortable" and "itchy." Ginger then looks over at Darren, and I guess he was the one who told his teammates to give up the jerseys so Ginger would stop parading around like an imbecile. So, what, is Darren supposed to be the "good guy" after all?
You know, this episode would have ended better if Ginger didn't get what she wanted. Because that would be realistic. Ah, what does this show know about realism anymore?
Lessons Learned From This Episode: if you cry, protest, and complain hard enough, you too can get your way; the key to getting over your addiction is to relapse once more in a big way; every episode, I noticed, has to end on some positive note, because that's how life is.
If this is not sad, nerdy, and pathetic, well--I guess Dodie is always a good alternative:
Ginger notices Orion has been drinking one of Darren's smoothies, and chastises him for it. Ginger angrily stares Darren down as he poses with girls for pictures and continues acting like an arrogant ass just to spite Ginger. Honestly, I don't see why Darren broke up with her--their personalities fit perfectly.
Macie then decides to give up protesting, as the psychological pull of popularity is too strong for even her to fight against. And then Ginger drops to her knees in defeat. She actually does, too--what a drama queen.
It's so obvious Ginger's whole protest is about her getting back at Darren that even Lois has it figured out. Ginger straight-up refuses to admit it, so she kicks Lois out of her room when she tries to suggest ways of making up with him. Please. The day Ginger admits she was wrong is the day Dodie gives up on trying to be popular.
And then, the day of the next football game, something happens. The day when my entire opinion of the show takes a sharp nosedive into the pits of Nickelodeon Hell. Left turn at post SpongeBob movie episodes, take the exit into shitty live-action teen dramedies, last stop at this:
Thank you for all the laughs and tears, Ms. Kapnek. But I'm afraid your show has officially overstayed its welcome with this monstrosity. A show I once took seriously as a breath of fresh air for realistic situations, original drama, and depth beyond the typical toon farce--all abandoned--and now our once-loved Ginger looks like the biggest jackass to have been spared from American television. This show was supposed to be above groan-worthy moments. This show was supposed to have a likable and relatable main character. Alas, that is no more. And if I hadn't already watched "Ten Chairs" and "The Wedding Frame," I'd be skeptical about even finishing this blog because it would seem hypocritical of me to be shitting on a show that, at the beginning, I praised for everything mentioned above.
End rant.
Carl and Hoodsey prepare to do something terrible to Courtney's port-a-potty, and they're talking really loudly that it makes me wonder why Courtney can't hear them. Sure, she has the hairdryer running, but even then, she has to be able to hear voices. The boys start rolling the box across the parking lot and towards the football field, all while Courtney is being jostled around in there and getting toilet water all in her hair. Ew.
Ginger prepares to humiliate herself. Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey accidentally let the port-a-potty roll down the hill and directly onto the field. I swear, this accidental bullying against Courtney couldn't have gone more perfectly.
The port-a-potty rolls right in Darren's path. He tackles it to the ground, thinking it's another player. My God, how strong did Darren get to be able to tackle a damn port-a-potty to the ground like that?! Ginger then comes out near one of the end zones and attempts to disrupt the game by doing her pathetic cheers, but she's ignored on account of everyone is staring at this mysterious pink box that just rolled onto the field. Courtney climbs out--soaked, beaten, and missing a shoe--to the entire school pointing and laughing at her. And taking pictures to post to the Lucky High Facebook page. Oh, that's just pig awful! Poor Courtney!
She really doesn't deserve all this abuse. Yeah, she said some mean things to the girls in the bathroom, but that doesn't mean she deserves this. Courtney runs away, with many new nicknames and many more years of bullying and harassment on her back for this. If I were her, I'd change schools. Immediately.
Darren sees Ginger in the distance in her big ass ear costume (where would one find an ear costume, anyway?) with her little sign, and they both exchange a look of shame before Ginger sheds the costume and walks off. Sometime later, Ginger sees someone hauling away the stain-resistant jerseys, as the football team complained of them being "too uncomfortable" and "itchy." Ginger then looks over at Darren, and I guess he was the one who told his teammates to give up the jerseys so Ginger would stop parading around like an imbecile. So, what, is Darren supposed to be the "good guy" after all?
You know, this episode would have ended better if Ginger didn't get what she wanted. Because that would be realistic. Ah, what does this show know about realism anymore?
Lessons Learned From This Episode: if you cry, protest, and complain hard enough, you too can get your way; the key to getting over your addiction is to relapse once more in a big way; every episode, I noticed, has to end on some positive note, because that's how life is.
So, now I officially know that "As Told by Ginger" is NOT your #1 favorite Nicktoon, Deebiedoobie. But you still feel sorry for its underrated status, right? Listen to me, Michelle. I'm serious now. Your hatred for major duds like this one should NOT overshadow your love for episodes that positively define the show, including your precious "A Lesson in Tightropes". As much as I can't stand stuff like "Wicked Game", or the trio's sort-of-friendship in general, that doesn't decay my positive overall opinions on the show. I try to stay away from those crappy episodes, and just spend time watching favorites like "Hello Stranger". So, when you're done reviewing "Ginger", what you need to do is move on from bad memories like "Battle of the Bands", stay away from them, and whenever you feel like rewatching the show, just stick to your favorites. If you do that, you wouldn't hate "ATBG" as much as you hate "Zoey 101". :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, you really think that "Ginger" overstayed its welcome? I mean, it lasted about the same amount of episodes as "Avatar", and "SpongeBob" during its best before the movie. "The Fairly OddParents" on the other hand... Have you heard about yet ANOTHER new character coming soon?
I'll be back with my comments on this episode you've just reviewed.
This episode for Ginger is Peggy Olson's "A Day's Work", the only thing being is that "Mad Men" is more self-aware of the jackassery and pretty much ends with her getting a stupid girl for a secretary (long story). Obviously Peggy is still bitter over her ex at the end and she doesn't get what she wants; she gets back to form in "Runaways" and is letting go of her anger (and gets over said ex). Okay enough Mad Men comparisons then.
ReplyDeletePoor Courtney : (
How would you stack the high school episodes up against "Daria"? (Lucky and Lawndale share the same colors, at least for cheerleaders)
Daria has more high school content than As Told by Ginger, so there's not too much to compare, but I'll give this a shot:
DeleteStaff and Teachers:
Vice Principal Grundig is a bully--pouncing on Ginger in "Detention" like he's got a vendetta against her (for no reason!) and ignoring Courtney's cries for help when she requested he cut down on bullying. This seems like a guy who, over the years, has grown to hate children but doesn't want to leave his cushy job because he knows he can't do anything else. Principal Li in Daria is a megalomaniac who will do anything for money, status, and keeping the integrity of "Lawnnnndale High" at its height, even at the expense of the students (remember the soda episode?).
Evil New Zorski has a stick up her butt--probably also only stays in her job because there's nothing else for her to do, and being a bitch to students gives her a taste of power she can't get anywhere else. Mr. DiMartino is the teacher we all want, yet would be terrified to have. Not afraid to tell it like it is, but fear the day he snaps. Also, he's more reasonable, despite being unstable.
Students:
Both portray the jocks and cheerleaders as the head honchos of the school. Brittany and Kevin were basically idolized by everyone except Jane and Daria, naturally because they're smart enough to realize they're nothing but shiny, hollow trophies. The jocks in As Told by Ginger are basically the same, idolized by everyone except Ginger. Except at least Simone seems like a real person, and not a caricature of a bimbo with a winning smile. The other cheerleaders are basically cardboard cutouts.
School Structure:
Like all teen shows, Lucky and Lawndale have a hierarchy, and it's never more true than in these shows--jocks and cheerleaders at the top (Darren, Simone; Kevin, Brittany), followed by the rich kids (Courtney--though she might not be on top here; Jodie), the rest of the kids in the middle, and at the very bottom are the social outcasts, goths, geeks, nerds, and freaks (Dodie, Macie; Daria, Jane, Upchuck).
That's about as much as I can come up with on short notice.
Damn girl you sure deliver : )
DeletePlain and simple, this episode should have never existed! It's now likely to replace "Wicked Game" as the worst episode of "Ginger" in my opinion, even though it didn't exactly upset me to that extent of the latter. But, there's no denying that this has more things wrong with it than "Wicked Game". From my supposed favorite main character acting like an annoying Soapbox Sadie (as well as a vexed ex-girlfriend), to Dodie STILL only caring about herself and pep, to Darren having an ego the size of Big Bird, to Carl's dumb subplot, to worst of all, COURTNEY'S UNFAIR ABUSE!! That last thing is what I hate the most about this episode! Maybe if Courtney's subplot ended on a positive note, I might hate it less. But as we know, it doesn't. Didn't I tell you that it's worse than what happened to her in "The Right Stuff" or "Butterflies Are Free"?
ReplyDeleteJustified or not, Emily Kapnek should have never let our poor rich girl become a punching bag like Squidward in the later episodes of "SpongeBob", where, unlike in many earlier episodes (in which he's an arrogant SOB), there would be little to no reason for his abuse! Why couldn't Klasky Csupo let this crap happen to our "beloved" bigmouth, Dodie, especially after what she did in last episode? And why wasn't Ginger the laughing stock of Lucky High in that beyond ridiculous ear costume, instead of poor Gripling?
Burn this "Battle" with fire!!
Read you next week, Deebiedoobie. And remember the advice I gave you in yesterday's comment. You can't entirely hate this show just because SOME of the episodes are terrible. No show is 100% perfect, you know.
"In the junior high school, Carl hallucinates the class snake begging him to release him from his tank." Harry Potter =)
ReplyDeleteIf only he had unleashed it on Blake. >=D
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