The following is a list of episodes for the MTV comedy series Awkward. The series stars Ashley Rickards as Jenna Hamilton, a social outcast who, following an accident that rumors misconstrue as a suicide attempt, starts being noticed by all the students at her school.
As of September, 27, 2011, 12 original episodes of Awkward. have aired over 11 weeks. The final two episodes were aired back-to-back on September 27.
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| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD release dates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | |||
| 1 | 12 | July 19, 2011 | September 27, 2011 | November 14, 2011[1] | N/A | N/A | |
| 2 | 12 | Summer 2012 | Fall 2012 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| № | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Millicent Shelton | Lauren Iungerich | July 19, 2011 | 1.72[2] |
| In the series premiere of “Awkward.”, Jenna Hamilton finds out that getting the boy of her dreams isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When a mysterious letter leads to a misunderstanding of epic proportions, Jenna realizes that her new stigma might be her ticket to social visibility. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Knocker Nightmare" | Ryan Shiraki | Lauren Iungerich | July 26, 2011 | 1.43[3] |
| Mean girl Sadie and Lissa snap a nude photo of Jenna in the girls' locker room and send it to the entire school, eliciting some surprising reactions. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Way We Weren't" | Ryan Shiraki | Erin Ehrlich | August 2, 2011 | 1.62[4] |
| When Jenna thinks Matty is taking their relationship public at an 'in crowd' party, she's heartbroken when he ditches her for another girl. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Scarlet Eye" | David Katzenberg | Meredith Philpott | August 9, 2011 | 1.94[5] |
| Tamara becomes happily involved in her first sex scandal after contracting pink eye while making out in a hot tub. Also: Jenna tries to define her relationship with Matty. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Jenna Lives" | David Katzenberg | Kelly Fullerton | August 16, 2011 | 1.88[6] |
| Jenna gets a strange stalker, and worries that her reputation is keeping Matty from seeing her as girlfriend material. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Queen Bee-atches" | Lauren Iungerich | Lauren Iungerich & Nate Federman | August 23, 2011 | 2.36[7] |
| Jenna is forced to mingle with the mean girls at an elite charity event for her mom. Later, things get even more awkward when she runs into Matty and Jake. Jake keeps bringing up their kiss and Matty also finds out about it. Jenna and Tamara sneaks into Sadie's room and find her diary/food journal, Jenna using it to her advantage blackmails Sadie into accepting her mom into the club, but later Jenna's mom over hears the other moms talking trash behind her back, discretely ruins a vase, and quickly leaves with Jenna. The episode ends with Jake asking Jenna if they can talk, and Jenna agreeing. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Over My Dead Body" | Ryan Shiraki | Cassie Pappas | August 30, 2011 | 1.99[8] |
| A mock DUI event is held at the school, and Jenna gets cast as the victim. Meanwhile, Jake and Matty vie for her attention. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Adventures of Aunt Ally and the Lil' Bitch" | David Katzenberg | Lauren Iungerich & Andrew C. Veeder | September 6, 2011 | 2.08[9] |
| Jenna throws a wild bash to try to impress Matty, with help from her mom and her mom's best friend, Ally. The next day, a hungover Jenna struggles to reconstruct the events of the night, which ended with a kiss with Ricky (Tamara's crush who she talks about throughout the whole season). After Tamara throws out her and Jenna's best friend picture, and their friendship, it is revealed that Tamara is the one who wrote the "A Friend" letter from the first episode. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "My Super Bittersweet Sixteen" | David Katzenberg | Erin Ehrlich | September 13, 2011 | 2.28[10] |
| It's Jenna's 16th birthday and more to come Valerie surprises her with a birthday rap in the school cafeteria. The rest of the day doesn't go very well but at the end of the day at 7.32pm (the minute Jenna turns 16) Matty knocks on her door to reveal that he wants to be more than friends and the episode ends with them kissing. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "No Doubt" | Patrick Norris | Kelly Fullerton & Cassie Pappas & Meredith Philpott | September 20, 2011 | 2.11[11] |
| It's a normal day at school, until Jenna notices a fight between Jake and Lissa because Jake told Lissa he kissed Jenna. This causes a weird conversation between Jake, Lissa and Valerie about how he can make up to Lissa. Elsewhere, Jenna tries to reconnect with Tamara via help from Ming. Jenna is forgiven, but Tamara confesses she didn't write the letter and just said it because she was hurt. Moreover, Tamara voices her theory that Matty wrote the letter. This causes Jenna to rethink her "relationship" with Matty while complications arise when Matty wants to take Jenna out for dinner in a secluded area. It turns out to be Matty's family's restaurant and Jenna's concerns are resolved when Matty's uncle comments about how Matty has never taken a girl there before. When they get back to Jenna's home, Tamara and Ming bust their date with games and confessions but are soon won over by Matty's true words. Before leaving Matty and Jenna alone, Tamara whispers that she doesn't think that Matty wrote the letter anymore. In the meantime, Lissa and Sadie team up to make Jake break up his friendship with Jenna but he ends up apologizing to Jenna for the earlier fight, and breaks up with Lissa. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "I Am Jenna Hamilton" | Patrick Norris | Erin Ehrlich & Lauren Iungerich | September 27, 2011 | 2.24[12] |
| Matty and Jenna have barbecue with Jenna's parents, and they discuss the upcoming formal dance. Matty doesn't actually ask Jenna to the dance, but does ask her what color dress she will be wearing. Later, while still not asking her to the dance, he asks her if she is a limo girl or not. Jenna sees several boys going to great lengths to make a "big ask," by dressing up as apes, popping out of coffins, etc. Jake asks Jenna to the dance by giving her a mix cd, which has "Will you go to the dance with me?" printed on it. She tells him that she can't go with him because she already has a date. Matty and Jake talk about the Formal, and Jake tells Matty about being turned down by Jenna. Matty almost tells Jake about going with Jenna, but chickens out, and later asks Jenna if it would be okay if they skip the Formal (because he doesn't want to hurt Jake, but he doesn't tell Jenna that). Meanwhile, Sadie manages to steal Jenna's file, with the letter in it. Jenna is surprised to be nominated for Sophomore Princess, but then discovers that the ballot has her letter printed on the back of it. Jenna decides that she deserves more than Matty has offered, and tells him that she won't go out with him that night, to the Formal, or anywhere. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Fateful" | Lauren Iungerich | Lauren Iungerich | September 27, 2011 | 2.24[12] |
| Jenna agrees to go to the Formal with Jake. She convinces him to take Tamara as well, since they're just going as friends, and Ming tags along as well. Matty decides that he won't give up on Jenna and goes to her house, only to find that Jenna has already left for the Formal. Jake and Jenna have a good time at the Formal, and Jenna decides that maybe Jake is the one for her, but then Matty shows up. Without either of them letting Jake know what has happened, they talk about whether they should be together. Jenna takes Jake's hand and realizes that that's what she wants, and tells Matty that she's very sorry, but she thinks it is too late. When Jake and Jenna get home, she asks him if he wants to come inside since her parents aren't home. He does, but she asks him if it's okay if they wait, and he says of course. She tells him that holding hands means a lot to her, since he's the first person other than her parents to hold her hand in public. They manage to set off the alarm, and Jake goes home. Jenna, looking for the alarm code, goes into the junk drawer and finds a note pad that has the same paper the letter was written on, and realizes her mother is the one who wrote the letter. | ||||||
As of August 15, 2011 the series has been renewed for a 12-episode second season, which will premiere in 2012.[13]