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Unfabulous

From left to right: Malese Jow as Geena, Emma Roberts as Addie, Jordan Calloway as Zach.
Genre Children's sitcom
Creator(s) Sue Rose
Starring Emma Roberts
Malese Jow
Jordan Calloway
Tadhg Kelly
Molly Hagan
Markus Flanagan
Country of origin Flag of United States United States
No. of episodes 26 episodes (as of 2006),
one Made-for-TV movie
Production
Running time 30 min.
(with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel Nickelodeon
Original run September 12, 2004 – present
Links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Unfabulous is an American children's television series on Nickelodeon about an "unfabulous" Junior high school student, played by Emma Roberts. The show, which debuted in fall 2004, is one of the most-watched programs in the United States among children between the age of 9 and 14[1] and was created by Sue Rose, who previously created the animated television series Pepper Ann and Angela Anaconda.

It has been claimed that the upcoming third season will be the series' final season,[2] although Roberts indicated in an MSN Live Celebrity Chat in November 2005 that there would be at least four seasons.[3]

The show's theme song is performed by Jill Sobule, who also writes the songs for the series.

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[edit] Overview

Unfabulous' main character is 13-year-old seventh grader Addie Singer (Emma Roberts), who writes songs about her life in junior high school. The plotlines often revolve around tensions and race relations between the students at school. Her best friends are Geena Fabiano (Malese Jow), who is into fashion and designs her own clothes, and the environmentally-committed school basketball player Zach (Jordan Calloway). They all attend Rocky Road Middle School in an unspecified East Coast city. Addie's older brother Ben (Tadhg Kelly) works at Juice, a smoothie bar where Addie and her friends often hang out after school.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details about Addie's love interests follow.

Throughout the first season, Addie obsesses about her crush on Jake Behari[4] (Raja Fenske), who already has a girlfriend. For the majority of the second season, however, Addie is dating Randy Klein (Evan Palmer). They break up towards the end of the season and Addie realizes that she still likes Jake. The made-for-TV movie Unfabulous: The Perfect Moment focused on Addie and Jake getting together and although Jake will be gone for the rest of the summer in Canada.

Spoilers end here.

All episodes from the first and the second season (including The Perfect Moment) have been available for download in the iTunes Store in the U.S. since fall 2006.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Main cast

Unfabulous' main cast in the first season.
Unfabulous' main cast in the first season.

[edit] Recurring cast

[edit] Episodes

It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article entitled List of Unfabulous episodes. (Discuss)
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Season 1: 2004–2005

# Title Original airdate Production code
1 "The Party" September 12, 2004 101
To become popular Addie decides to host a party at the beginning of the seventh grade as Randy, who usually hosts the party, gets a sprained ankle. 
2 "The Secret" September 19, 2004 102
As she finds out Geena and Zach haven't always been telling her the truth, Addie comes up with a rule, forbidding the three friends to lie to each other. 
3 "The Picture" September 26, 2004 103
It's picture day and Addie feels insecure when Maris and Cranberry tell her that her hair is flat. Her attempts to change her hair style go awry. But when her mom tells her that everybody has something they feel insecure about, she went back to school to have her picture taken. 
4 "The Book Club" October 10, 2004 104
Addie's mother wats her to spent time with her at a mother daughter book club, but Addie wants to hangout with her friends, so she tries to escape the book club by sneaking out the doggie door. But as she is squeezing through, her skirt gets snagged and falls off, leaving Addie shocked in her turqouise 'Tuesday' underwear. She then thinks about honesty and returns home. 
5 "The Pal" October 17, 2004 105
Addie is not sure if Jake Behari has a crush on her or if she is just a friend to him and follows a teen magazine's advices to get him to like her. 
6 "The Pink Guitar" October 24, 2004 107
Addie joins a girl group, but her other band members are more interested in learning their choreography than rehearsing their songs. She then quits after the band's performance at Juice. 
7 "The Rep" November 7, 2004 106
Addie becomes "popular" in a school assignment where the students are put into cliques and not allowed to talk to members of other groups. She ends up with Maris, her arch enemy. 
8 "The 66th Day" January 2, 2005 108
Addie tries to get her CD of 65 songs about her crush on Jake Behari, which Zach borrowed by mistake, back before anybody gets to hear it. Her crush, Jake is about to put it in his CD player when suddenly Addie comes and smashes it with her feet. 
9 "The List Of Kissed" January 9, 2005 109
Addie wants to get on a list of girls who have been kissed, which is posted in the girls' bathroom, and tries to get her first kiss from Eli Pataki. 
10 "The 'B' Word" January 16, 2005 110
Geena gets mad about Addie when Addie talks bad about Geena's new boyfriend Chad, and accuses Addie of being jealous. 
11 "The Little Sister" January 30, 2005 111
Addie wants to achieve something in school her older brother has not done before, so she is no longer referred to as "Ben Singer's little sister". 
12 "The Partner" February 13, 2005 112
Addie wants Zach to be her partner for the annual science fair, but Zach teams up with someone else, as Addie is "cursed" when it comes to science. At the end, Addie and Zach apologize to each other. 
13 "The Bar Mitzvah" March 6, 2005 113
Randy invites Addie to his Bar Mitzvah, but Addie does not want to go because she got braces and does not want to be seen in public. 

[edit] Season 2: 2005–2006

# Title Original airdate Production code
14 "The Rhinoceros In The Middle of The Room" September 10, 2005 201
Addie has trouble dealing with her relationship with Randy Klein, her braces and death of her great-aunt. Hey, it has got to be terrable if all of this was worse than when she forgot her pants when she went to school! 
15 "The Balancing Act" September 18, 2005 202
Addie ignores her friends to spend more time with her boyfriend. 
16 "The Job" September 25, 2005 203
Addie tries to pay back money she's borrowed through a babysitting job. 
17 "The Eye Randy" October 9, 2005 204
Addie's jealousy over other girls looking at her boyfriend, Randy, drives them apart. 
18 "The Road Trip" October 16, 2005 205
Addie and her brother spend a weekend without their parents, resulting in a house party. 
19 "The Charity Case" October 23, 2005 206
Addie and Geena team up to help with a charity chase, but compete with Maris and Cranberry for a trip for whoever gets the most money out of the chase. 
20 "The Dark Side" October 29, 2005 208
On a Halloween party Addie has to kiss someone dressed up as Darth Vader when playing spin the bottle, and later finds out that there are 3 people wearing a Darth Vader costume and tries to find out whom she kissed. 
21 "The Information" November 6, 2005 207
The girls find out they haven't been invited to 'Man Golf'. Addie turns to spying as her last resort. 
22 "The Grey Area" January 15, 2006 209
Addie has to decide whether to pick Maris or Geena's design for the new cheerleader uniforms. Ben finds out something about Jen. 
23 "The Perfect Couple" January 22, 2006 210
Addie starts doubting that Randy is the right choice for her because Randy doesn't know much about her, and vice-versa. Meanwhile, Zach has girl trouble with an 8th grader that won't go out with him because he is a 7th grader. 
24 "The Set Up" January 29, 2006 212
Geena and Zach create a fake secret crush for Addie to try to keep her mind off breaking up with Randy. 
25 "The Drama" February 26, 2006 211
Addie directs the school play while Geena plays the main role. During a rehearsal, she finds out that she was jealous of Geena because she likes Jake again. 
26 "The Last Day of 7th Grade" April 16, 2006 213
Addie has one chance to tell Jake that she likes him, but she doesn't take it. They exchange yearbooks, after being pummeled by an eighth grade tradition. She learns that he was the Darth Vader who kissed her. He left for Canada for the summer not knowing that Addie liked him back. 

[edit] Made-for-TV movie

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Unfabulous:The Perfect Moment is an hour long TV Movie event that debuted on Nicklelodeon October 7, 2006. It was originally a two part season finale.

In this TV Movie, Addie Singer (Emma Roberts) has been thinking about Jake Bahari (Raja Fenske) since the last day of seventh grade. She has been trying to call him and with the bad reception, Jake thought Addie said she hated him. She also tried putting a message in the newspaper but instead of her name, it said Eddie. Later, Addie finds out Jake and Patti are back together and they are going to Jake's cousin's wedding together, the wedding being in Chinatown. Addie plans to go to tell Jake that she likes him, but she needs a ride. She asks Ben, but he is too busy watching his ex-girlfriend and co-worker Jen and her new boyfriend. She then leaves many fliers for the Peking Acrobats (who will be performing in Chinatown) and Jen's boyfriend asks Jen if she wants to go see them. Ben decides to follow them to Chinatown and gives Geena, Zack and Addie a ride to Chinatown. Addie's parents leave for their anniversary night. Right after the parents leave, Addie, Genna, Zack, and Ben head out to Chinatown. They take their mom's car, but Ben can't drive stick shift so the car breaks down but starts back up again. They finally get there, and Ben heads out to find Jen. Addie, Genna, and Zack head to the wedding. However, Zack goes to save a lobster from being eaten. When Addie and Genna get to the wedding, they see Jake and Patti and Genna sees a cute boy. At the same time, Ben gets Jen's new boyfriend and some Chinese acrobats arrested. Zack sees Addie's mom and dad at the restaurant where he is saving the lobster, which he names Dolores. Addie and Genna get kicked out of the wedding but get right back in. Ben wants to get a tattoo to show Jen how 'mature' he is, but is arrested for being underage. Addie bails him out with money from Zack racing Dolores against a turtle. While in jail, Ben realizes Jen's boyfriend isn't so bad and asks Addie to bail him out too. She quickly returns to the wedding, but realizes the wedding is over. Because of a prophecy from a fortune-teller, she followed the sound of bells, coming from Jake's cellphone, which was in a garbage dump. She finds the cellphone and when she climbs out, Jake is standing right next to the dump. They talk for a little while and Addie explains that she still likes him. Jake tells Addie that he likes her also and that he and Patti aren't actually back together, but that her family was invited to the wedding and he was trying to avoid her. Jake has to leave, but first he and Addie kiss, after which Addie says "Perfect." She quickly returns home, but when her parents return, they notice Dolores, whom Zack had put on the table so she could 'stretch her legs'. Addie and Ben are punished by having to work in their dad's store, but she is too happy to let it bring her down.

[edit] Trivia about movie
  • This is the first time we hear them talking about a flashback.
  • This was originally supposed to be a two part episode.
  • There were references to all three Back to the Future movies and The Muppets Take Manhattan. Notably, one character corrects another character's assertion that 'Indians' played a role in Back to the Future 2, stating that Back to the Future 3 was the movie which featured these people.
  • This is the second time 'The Muppets Take Manhattan' was mentioned. The first time was in the episode "The Rep".

[edit] Season 3: 2007

New episodes are to start airing April 2007 http://www.emmaroberts.net


This article or section is a list of upcoming television episodes of an already-running TV series.
It may contain non-definitive information based on commercials, a website or interviews. The information may change as the date of broadcast approaches.
# Title Original airdate Production code
27 "The Toot" April 8 2007 301
28 "The Song" TBA 302
29 "The New Best Friend" TBA 303
30 "The Auction" TBA 304
31 "The Two Timer" TBA 305
32 "The 'L' Bomb" TBA 306
33 "The Birthday" TBA 307
34 "The Project" TBA 308
35 "The Quest" TBA 309
36 "The Test" TBA 310
37 "The Talent Show" TBA 311
38 "The Best Trip Ever: Part 1" TBA 312
38 "The Best Trip Ever: Part 2" TBA 313

[edit] Merchandise

Along with the start of the second season in September 2005, Nickelodeon also began selling different types of Unfabulous-related merchandise, beginning with the album Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts (see Soundtrack below). In November 2005 the album was followed by two books tying into the show, Keepin' It Real (ISBN 0-439-79666-0) and Split Ends (ISBN 0-439-80179-6), both written by Robin Wasserman, and the first items in a line of clothes based on Addie's wardrobe on the show. [6] Two more books were released in February 2006, Starstruck (ISBN 0-439-83157-1) and Jinxed! (ISBN 0-439-83158-X).

Before the launch of the third season, a video game based on the show was released for the Game Boy Advance by THQ on September 25, 2006.[7]

As of 2006, only one episode of Unfabulous, season one's "The Little Sister", was released on DVD — on TEENick Picks 1, released in April 2006, together with episodes of Drake & Josh, Zoey 101, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, and Romeo!.

[edit] Soundtrack

Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts album cover
Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts album cover
Main article: Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts

On September 27, 2005, shortly after the premiere of the show's second season, Columbia Records and Nick Records released the album Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts, which serves as both the show's soundtrack and as Emma Roberts' debut album.

The album includes several original songs (among them "Dummy" and "I Wanna Be", both of which were also released as music videos, "I Have Arrived", and "This Is Me", which was co-written by Roberts), as well as some of Addie's songs from the first season (however in newly recorded versions), including "Punch Rocker" and "New Shoes" (both from the episode "The Party"), "94 Weeks (Metal Mouth Freak)" (from "The Bar Mitzvah") and "Mexican Wrestler" (which had previously appeared on Jill Sobule's 2000 album Pink Pearl and in the Unfabulous episode "The 66th Day").

It was also one of the albums originally released by Columbia Records with the controversial Extended Copy Protection digital rights management scheme.[8]

The album peaked at #46 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers.[9]

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ For teens & tweens, 'Chris' is still cool. Media Life Magazine. Retrieved on November 10, 2005.
  2. ^ Unfabulous Season 3 Announced. Retrieved on June 4, 2006.
  3. ^ MSN Live chat transcript. Retrieved on June 4, 2006.
  4. ^ a b The character's last name is spelled both Behari and Bahari by Nickelodeon.
  5. ^ a b Added to the main cast at the beginning of the second season.
  6. ^ TV fans can now dress the part. USA Today. Retrieved on October 31, 2005.
  7. ^ Unfabulous for Game Boy Advance. GameSpot. Retrieved on September 20, 2006.
  8. ^ http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html. URL accessed on November 24, 2005.
  9. ^ Emma Roberts: Artist Chart History. Billboard. Retrieved on October 31, 2005.

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