List of Summer Heights High episodes

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The following is a list of episodes of the ABC television series, Summer Heights High. The series has aired 8 episodes after finishing its run on October 25, 2007.

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#	Airdate	Audience (millions)	Ja'mie King	Mr G	Jonah Takalua
1	5 September 2007	1.22[1]	Ja'mie arrives at Summer Heights High for an orientation day ahead of her first day of the student exchange program. She is taken for a tour around the school property by the Principal, Ms Margaret Murray, and the reciprocal swap student, Chantelle. She describes herself as someone who is good-looking and a great ambassador for her private school. At the school assembly, Ja'mie introduces herself to the students and tells her life story, clearly bragging about her rich and lavish lifestyle from "one of the most expensive private girls' schools in the state". She tells the students that she feels sorry for them, thinking that they are all povo bogans and "really dumb".	Mr G is first seen as a supporting staff member in the upcoming school drama performance Anything Goes. In a later scene, he continues to brag about his life story in the field of performing arts. Mr G then describes his typical drama class, where he incorporates a unique teaching style. Mr G also teaches dance to the special education students. Mr G summarises his role at the school as to teach drama and dance to change lives, inspire students, and to encourage the students to dare to dream. Along with his loyal sidekick, Science Teacher, Mr Rodney Parsons, Mr G criticizes and is frustrated by his superior, the Head of Drama and Director of Anything Goes, Mrs Meredith Cotton, as well as complaining about the lack of funding and support given by the school's Principal.	Jonah first appears in the office of the Student Welfare officer, Mr Doug Peterson, after a bullying incident at the train station. Mr Peterson later on describes Jonah's family, his school history, his erratic and aggressive behaviour, and his attention deficit disorder. In his English class, Jonah is disruptive and rude to others in the class, including the English Teacher, Ms Sarah Wheatley, however he thinks that he gets into trouble because the teachers are racist. Jonah tells of his life ambition to be a professional breakdancer when he is older, and that he is only stupid because he chooses not to be smart.
2	12 September 2007	1.38[2]	At Ja'mie's first day at Summer Heights High, she is paired with fellow student, Ashley, whom Ja'mie describes as "the fugliest girl I have ever met in my life". Ja'mie is taken to classes and shown around the school by Ashley, and tries to fit in with Ashley and her friends during lunch. After uncomfortable silences caused by the lack of similarities while trying to get to know each other, Ja'mie asks Ashley who the "hot" and "popular" girls of Year 11 are, and promptly asks to be introduced to them. This introduction sees Ja'mie fitting in well with this group of girls and abandons Ashley as her chaperon, however later Ja'mie has an emotional breakdown while remembering the school and friends she left behind while having to deal with the dramatic changes thanks to the exchange program.	The Head of Drama, Mrs Meredith Cotton, has had to go to New Zealand due to her mother suddenly falling very ill, and therefore Mr G has been promoted to Acting Head of Drama, renaming his title as The Director of Performing Arts. Thrilled with the temporary promotion, he makes a few changes such as clearing-out Ms Cotton's desk and moving himself in, and walking around the school to pass on the news to students of his new role. He also gets support staff to do work for him, complains about noise from the gym, and requests teachers "under the umbrella of Performing Arts" to fill-in classes and duties he is too busy for; fellow teaching staff complain to the Principal about his now selfish and bossy demeanor. He also unveils plans for the new Gregson Performing Arts Centre, a 10,000-seat theatre complex that will require the demolition of demountable classrooms used by the special education students. Then, Mr G cancels the school production Anything Goes with plans to write his own "better show".	Jonah and his friends participate in an ethnic acceptance program created by the school's Social Officer, Mr Doug Peterson, called "Polynesian Pathways", and enrolls Jonah into 'a contract' to get Jonah to improve his behaviour and academic levels. With his best friend, Leon, Jonah is also enrolled at Gumnut Cottage for remedial reading lessons five periods a week with Ms Jan Palmer. Jonah is reading at an eight-year-old level, however gets angry at having to read children's books and continues his disruptive behaviour as seen in other classes.
3	19 September 2007	1.28[3]	Ja'mie decides that it would be a good idea if she dates a younger guy. She therefore targets a Year 7 student, Sebastian - to the shock of her Year 11 friends. However Ja'mie is shocked to discover messages from Sebastian to another girl Year 7 student on his mobile phone but over-exaggerates the meaning of the texts because they only talk about "saving each other a seat in English". The relationship ends with an emotional confrontation at the school gate.	After learning of the death of a Year 11 student, Annabelle Dickson, due to a drug overdose, Mr G uses the event as his inspiration for the school's new production.	On the day of the junior school dance, Jonah wears pants stained with semen to the school. He is counselled by the school nurse, and ordered to change clothes before the event into clothes which are rather embarrassing for him. During the dance, he becomes involved in a fight with Kieran, a talented Year 7 breakdancer, and is subsequently removed from the event and sent home.
4	26 September 2007	1.24[4]	Ja'mie accidentally IMs her Summer Heights High friends a picture depicting them as "Public School Skanks" and "Bogans" calling one of them a "Housing Commission Whore", calling Bec a "try hard Asian" and Jess a "Clearasil before-shot". The Summer Heights High girls fall out with Ja'mie, who calls the picture a "joke" upon confrontation. After a mediation session,(where Ja'mie tells Bec about good deals on one way trips to China) the girls make up again.	Mr G begins the audition process for "Annabelle Dickson: The Musical". He starts by assessing whether they can handle the stress before going into the major auditions and choosing his final cast members.	Jonah learns anger management skills with his teacher and begins drawing pictures in "Gumnut Cottage". During English he is informed that he will need to do his group presentation The Outsiders the next day and he fails to persuade his teacher to let him do it on Tupac Shakur instead. Jonah then shows his remedial English teacher a drawing of his father touching his genitals leading to a meeting between himself, his father, the counsellor and his remedial English teacher where Jonah reveals that he made it up to get out of his English assignment.
5	3 October 2007	1.16[5]	Ja'mie asks Mr Cameron for a year 11 formal who refuses because it will be disruptive. Ja'mie and her friends decide to go on a protest by starving themselves but it is not successful. Ja'mie then thinks she can fake her way into getting the formal approved if she pretends to be cutting her wrists. Her persuasion causes Mr Cameron to reconsider and allows them to explain why there should be a formal during the school assembly. Ja'mie finally gets her formal.	Mr G and his cast are rehearsing for "Annabelle Dickson: The Musical". But the principal, Ms Murray thinks that he's been excluding some of the special-ed kids from the musical. Mr G doesn't like the idea and is intrigued when Rodney explains a story about a school that had a mother find human faeces in one of the special-ed rooms therefore making the health department kicking the special ed kids out. Mr G tries this but fails as the school cleaner steam cleans the room in the morning.	Jonah is up to his insulting antics once more. After misbehaving again, Mr Peterson, the school Guidance Officer, issues him and his gang a group of Year 7 boys who are struggling socially. If they succeed in helping the Year 7 boys adjust, they get to perform their breakdancing demo on assembly. However, Jonah and his friends end up bullying them. Mr Peterson finds out, and gives them a second chance at the school swimming carnival. However, Jonah decides to have some "fun" and sends a picture of his backside to all the teacher's mobile phones. Subsequently, Jonah is kicked out of the pool.
6	10 October 2007	1.19[6]	Ja'mie and the girls begin plans for the Year 11 formal. Due to their extravagant plans, however, tickets cost $450 and no one in the school will buy them. When one of the girls decides to bring a disabled hot guy to the formal, Ja'mie decides to get even better 'cred' by inviting Tamsin Walker, a lesbian. Ja'mie asks Tamsin to the formal, insisting that she too is lesbian. When Ja'mie's friends find out, she assures them that she is just doing it for the cred.	Mr G's musical begins to fall apart just 10 days before opening night. First, Annabelle Dickson's parents refuse to have the musical focusing on their daughter. Instead, Mr G renames it "Mr G: The Musical" and tells his own story, with later reference to a girl who doesn't take his advice, and dies of an overdose in a similar manner to Annabelle. However, his plans continue to fall apart when the school can't afford his arena seating; the basketball hoops in the gymnasium continue to remain even after Mr G requested their removal; his leading actor quits, and is replaced by Toby - the child with Downs Syndrome; and then Mr G's dog, Celine, is hit and killed by a car.	Jonah gets in a fight with his breakdancing nemesis Kieran and is subsequently banned from the amphitheatre where the Polynesian kids traditionally hang out. In retaliation, they vandalise the Year 7 lockers, and Jonah is subsequently suspended for 3 days.
7	17 October 2007	1.31[7]	When the costs for the ridiculously expensive Year 11 formal continue to rise, and the DJ demands full payment of $5000, Ja'mie and the girls decide to do a themed dress day, and have all students pay five dollars. However, to make the day more acceptable, she lies and tells the students that the money is going towards AIDS in Africa. When Mr Cameron finds out, Ja'mie is forced to give the money to charity and - against her will - concede to his condition that the formal can only go ahead if it is held in the school staffroom.	With one week until the musical opens, Mr G is informed that Mrs Cotton is returning, and she will be taking over as Head Drama teacher again. Upset over this, and further angered by the principal's refusal to spend school money on arena seating, Mr G resigns in a huff. However, as he starts to spend his days driving around outside the school, he is eventually offered his job back. The only thing that gets him back into school is when he learns that Mrs Cotton will be directing the show: he agrees to return to direct, but not to teach.	Jonah is put on probation after his three day suspension. He is not allowed to be caught break dancing by any of the teachers. If he is, it is most likely that he will be expelled. After Kieran and the Year 7 students write racist comments on their lockers, Jonah continues acting up. During English class, he continues to cause trouble, and an angry Ms Wheatley sends him to the principal's office, and he is threatened with possible expulsion.
8	24 October 2007	1.51[8]	On the day of the formal, Ja'mie learns with hours before the formal that Tamsin, her lesbian date has dumped her after finding out that Ja'mie is not really a lesbian. Instead, Ja'mie makes a last minute decision to ask out her ex-boyfriend Sebastian from year seven. After enjoying the formal, she leaves Summer Heights High on the last day of term but not before getting back together with Sebastian and saying goodbye to everyone before ditching her friends at the school gate and beginning to settle back into her old life with her old friends from Hillford Girls Grammar.	"Mr G: An Arena Spectacular" is premiered, with some alterations including Toby's voice being dubbed over by Mr G as well as Mr G announcing his return to teaching. It is revealed that Celine, Mr G's dog, didn't die in the car accident, but she suffers from a paralysed back. It is then revealed that Mr G put human faeces in the special education classroom once again, only this time it was found by education officials and the special ed students were removed from the school with the exception of Toby, who was placed into an integration program within the school. The special ed classroom is made into the Gregson Pefrorming Arts Centre and a time capsule is made and buried beside the classroom which is to be opened in 100 years time.	Jonah is sent to a meeting with the principal in which he finds out that he will be expelled from Summer Heights High and will be sent back to Tonga by his father. Due to his faithfulness to his remedial English teacher, he makes one last appearance at the school for Gumnut Cottage's story telling day. Followed by some well wishes from members of staff, footage of his graffiti attacks all over the school is shown, in which he has scrawled his "dicktation" tag all over doors, teachers cars and the school roof.

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