"Popular" Summer DVD Review - "Problems"

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"Problems"

Season 2 episode 21 (final)

Karen - TwoCents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

Final episode of the season and we left off with Jane in labor in the kitchen. Josh and Lily married and struggling. Brooke and Sam both liking Harrison.

The show opens where it left of previously.... Jane is in labor and Brooke and Sam help her deliver the baby. It's a girl!!

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"Popular" Summer DVD Review - "You Don't Tug on Superman's Cape"

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"You Don't Tug on Superman's Cape..."

Season 2 episode 20

Karen - TwoCents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

Ok, so we know that Sam rejected Harrison when he said he was in love with her. (which I can't understand how) Then on spring break Harrison and Brooke end up sleeping together (both are distraught over their love life). Then when quarantined, Sam and Harrison kiss. Then Brooke makes Harrison tell Sam what happened on spring break. Sam is angry and doesn't want to speak to Harrison again!

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"Popular" Summer DVD Review - "The Brain Game"

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"The Brain Game"

Season 2 episode 18

Karen - TwoCents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

Well, everyone is studying for the S.A.T.'s and as usual....Josh is clueless. Mary Cherry (did you ever wonder why we always call her by first and last name?) is getting a team together to be on the show "Big Head Challenge". Carmen decides to take salsa lessons rather than study for the S.A.T.s.

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"Popular" Summer DVD Review - "The Shocking Possession of Harrison John"

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"The Shocking Possession of Harrison John"

Season 2 eps. 12

Karen - TwoCents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

Well, I loved this episode! Harrison is back!, and he is a changed man! This episode had 3 storylines going on. 1) Harrison is not himself since he came back from the hospital. 2) Sugar is feeling left out , since Josh and Lily are a couple. 3) Nicole, who gets a astrological reading gift cert. from Brooke, gets some info from mom that bothers her.

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"Popular" Summer DVD Review - "Consequences of Falling"

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"Consequences of Falling"

Season 2 Episode 10

Karen - TwoCents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

It is Christmas time and the girls gather together and are sad because Harrison is still in the hospital and needs a bone marrow transplant. The next scene shows Harrison and Clarence (another cancer patient) in their hospital room describing their best Christmas ever. Harrison describes getting a baseball glove and playing catch with his dad. Clarence describes getting his mom a diamond (fake) ring. Then Clarence dies and the rest of the show is done just like the movie "It's a Wonderful Life"

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"Popular" Summer DVD Review - "Ur-ine Trouble"

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"Ur-ine Trouble"

Season 2 episode 7

Karen- TwoCents reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

Well, let me first give you an idea of what's happening up to this point. Carmen left home and is now living with Ms. Glass. Josh and Lily are dating and tried experimenting with cough syrup. When the school announced they would be random drug testing, Josh asked Harrison for a urine sample because he knew the syrup would show up . Harrison gave his urine, but the results came back positive.

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"Popular" Summer DVD Review - "Truth of Consequences"

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"Truth or Consequences"

Season 1 episode #6

Karen - Twocents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

This episode starts with Brooke and Sam covered with food in the cafeteria. They talk about how much they hate each other and then explain how the food fight started.

Monday: Sam is talking to her mom about the relationship Jane has with Mike.
Brooke talks to her dad about Jane and promise there will be no more secrets about the relationship.
Poppy, Nicole and Mary Cherry plan on cheating on the bio-midterm by stealing the test. Sam overhears them talking.

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"Popular" Summer DVD Review - "Hard on the Outside..."

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"Hard on the outside, Soft in the middle"

Season 1 Episode 19

Karen - Twocents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

Lily takes being an activist to the extreme. It all starts with wanting to save a lobster at a restaurant. When she goes back to purchase it and send it back to Maine....Mary Cherry is eating it!

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"Popular" DVD Review - "What Makes Sammy Run"

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"What Makes Sammy Run"

DVD Season 1

Karen - TwoCents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

So it's almost time for Brooke and Sam's parents to get married, but Sam has run off in search for Brooke's mother. She is looking for Kelly Foster, a photographer in the Bay area of northern California. She finds her, but Kelly denies she was ever married to Mike McQueen but later.......well, we'll see.

Back at school, Brooke is worried about where Sam could be. Nicole thinks Sam will show up and tells Brooke to just go ahead with the bridal shower plans.

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"Popular" DVD Review - "Booty Camp"

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Booty Camp - Episode 15

DVD Season 1

Karen - TwoCents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

This episode dealt with the whole sexual harassment issue on both the girls and the boys point of view. In my opinion, this episode covered the issue so well, that I feel that it can be shown today and even 10 years from now, and people can learn from it and hopefully take away a very heartfelt message. I actually feel that high schools should show it in the classrooms.

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"Popular" DVD Review - "Caged"

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"Caged" - Episode 14

DVD Season 1

Karen - TwoCents Reviewer
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

This episode covered something rarely seen on TV. It was all about how, when women are together a lot, their menstrual cycles happen at the same time. Of course it was exaggerated and over-the-top as Popular always did things, but very funny.

This episode starts out with the girl in class and having to write down their deepest, darkest, most shameful secret. Then they threw them in the classroom trash, as a symbol to let the secret go. But, of course, sneaky Nicole (popular cheerleader) took them out of the trash and kept them.

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Popular - Summer DVD Bookclub

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Summer Review Intro

Karen - TwoCents Review
karen@thetwocentscorp.com

This summer I will be writing on the show "Popular". " Popular" ran in 1999-2001 and was drama/comedy(more comedy) about high school. I didn't watch this show when it was on the air, but just found out about it last year and just loved it. It is a quirky comedy about the popular kids and the not-so-popular kids and how they interact. The main storyline revolves around Brooke McQueen (Leslie Bibb) the popular cheerleader who has self-esteem issues and Sam McPhearson (Carly Pope) the outsider who is jealous of Brooke and takes it upon herself to make the cheerleader's life more difficult.

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