Guide to: Double Dating & The Last Day

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The Guide to: Double Dating and The Last Day was the 20th episode of the second season of Nickelodeon's Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, the 33rd episode overall, and the second season finale. It premiered in the United States on June 3, 2006, though it first aired on Canada's Family Channel.

This episode provides the key moment in the series' history to date, and is just the second episode in which the main storyline carries over from one short to the next, the first one being season one's "Guide to: Crushes & Dances."

In the episode, Ned and Moze double date to a school gathering with Suzie Crabgrass and Jock Goldman, respectively. By the end of the night, two of the four end up sharing an unexpected kiss.

1 Summary
- 1.1 Guide to: Double Dating
- 1.2 Guide to: The Last Day
2 Trivia
3 See also

[edit] Summary

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[edit] Guide to: Double Dating

It's the second-to-last day of the school year at James K. Polk Middle School, and Ned is desperate to ask Suzie to "Around the World Night," which begins in just a few hours. To ease the tension of asking her out himself, Ned gets Moze to tag along, telling Suzie that he and Moze are double dating at the event, and asks if she would like to be his date. Suzie agrees, but then there is the little matter of finding a date for Moze. Soon, Jock Goldman, a high school-bound 8th grader who had broken Moze's heart earlier in the season when he pretended to like her in order to get back at an ex-girlfriend, asks Moze to be his date for "Around the World Night," saying that he was truly sorry for hurting Moze and that he really did have an interest in her. Ned, Cookie, Moze, and Gordy, the school janitor, subject Jock to a lie detector test, which he passes, so Moze agrees to go with him. Meanwhile, Cookie asks Vanessa who says no, but later says yes, but after Lisa Zemo gets him to go on a "no-obligation" date. Ned and Moze refuse to help him with his problem.

That night, Moze and Ned wait for Suzie and Jock outside the school's main entrance. The two show up, and it's immediately apparent that Moze and Suzie are wearing the same outfit and have the same hairstyle. The four venture into "The China Room" to eat, and are at first having a good conversation, until Ned gets a bad stomach ache, and runs to the bathroom, where he has diarrhea.

Meanwhile, Cookie runs back and forth between dates, but gets caught in "The Brazil Room," which serves as the event's dance hall. Cookie attempts to dance with both Lisa and Vanessa at the same time while keeping them separated, but soon gets caught by Vanessa. Vanessa leaves and Lisa walks to another part of the room. Eventually, Lisa forgives Cookie.

Ned soon joins his group in "The Brazil Room," where Suzie tries to kiss him, but he has to go to the bathroom again. Moze calls in help from Nurse Hunsucker, who shows up in her pajamas and has rollers in her hair. She brings liquid pork in a large glass for Ned to drink. He begins to feel positive effects right away, and leaps back into "The Brazil Room" for his kiss, only to plant a big kiss on Moze by mistake. Jock sees this, and leaves, telling Moze that she deserved it. The short ends with Ned running back to the bathroom.

[edit] Guide to: The Last Day

The short begins with a group of students celebrating the last day by dancing and singing in the halls in a parody of the last scene from the 1978 film, Grease, where the gang there sings "We Go Together." Meanwhile, Ned is still feeling the effects of the kiss from the night before, and, upon first sight, runs away from both Moze and Suzie.

Ned and Moze soon begin wondering how to tell Suzie about the kiss. At first, Ned plans to say that it was not he at "Around the World Night," but rather, his evil twin brother, Tad, from Iceland, even dressing up in dark clothing and wearing a monocle. Moze tells him the plan is ridiculous, and they then opt not to tell Suzie at all.

Meanwhile, Gordy is more determined than ever to catch the weasel that has been hounding him all year. He soon discovers one of Cookie's science projects, a tunnelbot, which got him an "A." Gordy breaks the controller, though, causing the now-uncontrollable bot to run down the hallway, sending students running for safety. The bot eventually invades Vice Principal Crubbs' office, causing him to sit on top of his desk in fear. The bot steals Crubbs' hard hat with a red strobe light on top. Cookie vows to catch his bot and get the hat back.

Moze and Ned's dilemma continues to tear away at them. They soon seek advice from two trusted adults, Ned from Gordy, and Moze from her woodshop teacher, Mr. Chopsaw. They tell the two the same thing: that Suzie hearing about the kiss from someone else and not Ned and Moze would have dire consequences. Ned and Moze then confront Suzie together to confess, but she tells them that Jock had already told her about the kiss. Suzie tells the two that she was testing whether or not Ned and Moze could confess so that she could trust them, and that they passed. Suzie finally calls Ned her boyfriend, telling him that she would call him that night.

Gordy soon catches the weasel by trapping it in a net hanging on the ceiling, baiting it with weasel nuggets, and wearing a chipmunk costume. Gordy is joyous at first, until the tunnelbot shows up. Not wanting the defenseless weasel to get hurt, Gordy lets the weasel out of the net, telling it to "run free." Gordy lays down in the bot's path. The bot tears part of Gordy's costume, but breaks down, ending the terror, and allowing Crubbs to get his prized hat back. Soon, the final bell rings, and everyone, teachers included, run out the doors. Ned and Moze sit in the back of the bus, laughing off the kiss, saying they felt nothing, but while smiling at each other, they both quickly and impulsively kiss each other for 3 seconds. Realizing what they just did, they pass it off as a test to make sure that they didn't feel anything. A happy Cookie sits in-between the two, and happily notes that they are now 8th graders. Ned and Moze, though, can only look at each other with anxiety, each realizing that their lifelong friendship was about to endure its longest summer ever.

[edit] Trivia

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In the "Guide to: Failing & Tutors," the third-to-last episode of the second season, the Lunch Lady looks into a plate of corn, and predicts that Ned will kiss his true love at a dance. This may in fact mean that Moze is Ned's true love.
It is revealed that Ned gets "the runs" every time he eats spicy food.
Ned and Moze kiss twice in this episode, at the dance in the Double Dating short, and on the bus at the end of The Last Day
Lisa Zemo uses her normal voice when she said, "It's okay."
Moze says to Cookie to dance Merengue in the Brazil room, yet merengue has nothing to do with the Brazilian culture. Also, the decoration on the Brazil Room seems more Caribbean then Brazilian. This isn't the only time that "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" writers make a mistake about brazilian culture. In an episode of the 3rd season, Famen, a "Brazilian" kid, speaks spanish about his family, when Brazil's official language is portuguese. Merengue is Dominican. Moze should have said, "Macarena", or Bossa Nova or Samba.
In real life, Devon Werkeiser (Ned) and Lindsey Shaw (Moze) are dating.
Poop is mentioned 2 times in "Double Dating". Once is when they are giving Jock a lie detector test and Gordy asks Jock if he ever pooped himself (he did.) And the second is the rest of the episode.
There was a musical number in "Last Day". It was similar to the song "We Go Together" from Grease.
While Ned, Suzie, Jock, and Moze are eating, they are having a conversation where Jock says, "So then, I walked out of school wearing nothing but a pink elephant." This is a referance to the ending of a previous episode "Upperclassmen".