6teen Season #1

✰ EPISODE #1: TAKE THIS JOB AND SQUEEZE IT – It’s the summer they’ve been waiting for! No more begging for allowance – Jonesy, Nikki, Jude, Jen and Wyatt are all applying for part time jobs. Jen is totally prepared for her interview at The Penalty Box and sails through, but the others do horribly including Caitlin, the most spoiled girl in school who is forced to get a job after maxing out Daddy’s credit cards. It is a normal day at the bustling Mall when Caitlin and Tricia walk in. They discuss plans for the day and decide to meet up for manicures after lunch. After this, they split up to peruse the Mall for great clothes and great deals. Meanwhile, in another part of the Mall, Jonesy and Nikki walk past Nice Cinnabuns, where Jonesy sticks his finger in several buns and eats the icing. Jonesy is proud of himself today, as he plans to get a job at the Mall. Nikki is not as thrilled as Jonesy about working, but she too is upbeat about her chances, as is Wyatt. Despite this, Jen is actually the most pleased, as not only does she expect to get a job at The Penalty Box, but the acquisition of such will allow her to quit her horrible job at The Big Squeeze. Unfortunately for Jen, she still has to work at the lemonade stand today and her job isn’t made any easier when Caitlin comes by and orders a drink not on the menu. When Jen tells Caitlin that she can only have the items on the menu, Caitlin readily orders a lemonade and then tries to pay with a credit card. When Jen won’t accept her card, Caitlin hands over a $50 bill and then asks for directions to Nice Cinnabuns. Spying on opportunity for a prank, Nikki gives Caitlin correct directions and includes in them a suggestion that Caitlin ask for one with a hole in it. Caitlin happily accepts the advice and heads off to continue shopping, but as soon as she leaves Jen and Nikki begin talking to each other about how envious they are of her, as they figure she’ll never have to work a day in her life. Their analysis of Caitlin is not far off, as Caitlin heads to the Khaki Barn to continue shopping without worrying about money – until her credit card is declined at the cash register due to Caitlin going over her credit limit. Caitlin is shocked to learn that credit cards have limits and is even more surprised when a call to her father doesn’t set things right, as instead of her father raising the credit limit he instead decides that enough is enough and that Caitlin has to get a job to pay him back for her credit card bill. This shocks Caitlin and she is only made more unhappy when Kirsten cuts Caitlin’s now-worthless credit card in half. Meanwhile, back at the Big Squeeze, Jen begins to worry about her friends, as they don’t seem to be prepared for their interviews. None of her friends are worried, though, as there are plenty of places at the Mall where they can work, even if the competition for all of the cool stores will be tough. The group is completely unfazed by the thought of interviewing-except for Jude, who recognizes that he might choke. To help him with this, he asks Jen for advice and Jen suggests that Jude act polite and honest in order to land a job. The five friends and Caitlin then head off to their interviews. There, most of them find themselves in deep trouble. While Jen aces every question Coach Halder throws her way, every one of her friends flounders to come up with answers and Caitlin finds herself being distracted by the prospects of employee discounts and uniforms. When their interviews finally end, everyone but Jen finds themselves back in the food court with the knowledge that none of them got jobs.

When Jen shows up, she is initially happy about her good luck, but soon finds herself shaken by the knowledge that she may be working alone at the Mall again this year. None of her friends are pleased, either and when they hear Caitlin crying at another table, Nikki takes the opportunity to mock Caitlin for what she guesses is losing out on a sale. Caitlin doesn’t take well to this, however and sadly responds that she couldn’t get a job either. Nikki has no sympathy though and just makes a crack about professional shoppers before she and her other jobless friends had out to apply for other jobs in the Mall. Jen still needs to find somebody to take her job though and she offers it to her friends. None of them accept, as they aren’t desperate enough and once they leave Jen finds her interest piqued by Caitlin’s conundrum. Because of this, she heads over to find out what happened with Caitlin and while she gleans no tangible information, Jen does learn that Caitlin’s interviews went so badly that Caitlin is afraid she may never be able to shop in some of the stores she went to. Eventually, though, Jen gets back to work on finding somebody to take her place. When looking over the applicants, she realizes that none of them fit right and when she looks back at a crying Caitlin she decides to offer the job to the newly-impoverished rich girl. While Caitlin is initially loathe to accept due to the uniform consisting of a lemon hat and apron, she decides to accept when Jen points out the desperate straits Caitlin is in and Jen begins training Caitlin. When the group arrives back at the Big Squeeze, they find Jen hard at work and Caitlin goofing off, as Caitlin doesn’t seem to understand the concept of working. Thankfully, all of them found jobs, with Jude being made the manager of Stick It after taking Jonesy’s advice to lie, Wyatt being hired at Spin This to work the Country music section, Jonesy being hired at the Soda Hop and then fired ten minutes later when he hit on the boss’ daughter and Nikki taking a position that she is unwilling to discuss in front of her friends. Soon, though, the entire mood of the table changes when Caitlin notices a friend across the food court and waves to her. When Tricia comes over, she listens to Caitlin’s tale about having gotten a job and then tells Caitlin that they shouldn’t hang out anymore. Caitlin is shocked by her ex-friend’s betrayal of her, but Jude cheers her up by remarking that she has other friends, implicitly stating that he and the rest of the group are now Caitlin’s friends. He and Jonesy then head out for tacos at Wonder Taco and when they come back they find Jen and Caitlin cleaning up during a slow period at the store. While cleaning, though, Caitlin’s phone rings and she reaches to take the call. However, Jen reminds Caitlin that she’s not supposed to take calls at work, so Caitlin tries to follow Jen’s instructions by answering the phone and telling her friend to call back. Unfortunately, while reaching for the phone Caitlin clumsily knocks it into the blender and then accidentally turns the blender on, destroying her phone.

This latest act of incompetence is the last straw for Jen, who is sick of putting up with Caitlin’s inability to do the simplest job. Jen begins to yell at Caitlin for her lack of responsibility, but Coach Halder hears her while walking through the food court and comes over to reprimand Jen and fire her from The Penalty Box. Caitlin refuses to let Halder do so, however, as she points out that everything Jen said was justified as she’s been messing up all day and Jen was nothing but patient. Finally, Caitlin finishes her speech by telling the Coach that he’d be lucky to have an employee like Jen. Upon hearing this declaration from someone that Jen was just viciously berating, Coach Halder rethinks his decision and decides to let Jen work at his store. As soon as he leaves, Jen’s friends congratulate Caitlin on standing up for Jen and she happily accepts their praise. The group at this moment decides to truly welcome Caitlin in and she becomes part of the group. After the fuss dies down, Nikki stands up, as she has to start training that day. Her friends again ask her where she’s working, but she refuses to tell them, so as soon as she leaves they surreptitiously follow Nikki to her workplace. There, they find out that Nikki the non-conformist has been forced to take a job at that bastion of conformity known as The Khaki Barn and all of them laugh at Nikki’s bad luck.  

✰ EPISODE #2: THE BIG SICKIE – Work pressures are getting to the gang and everyone is dying for a day off. After scoring a job at the Mall’s indoor amusement park, Jonesy comes up with a way to get rid of all their blues – he can get them all in for free! 😊 They start planning their excuses so they can get a day off and hang out at the amusement park all day long. One problem: Work-a-holic Jen (the one who needs a day off more than anyone) doesn’t want to risk losing her job. So, the rest of the gang put their plans in

motion to break Jen out of The Penalty Box. Nikki and Caitlin become friends and Jen manages getting caught with only probation – Jonesy ends up getting fired. The group is sick of work, so they decide to take a day off and spend it at Jonesy’s new workplace, the amusement park. Jen isn’t board with this idea, however, so the group decides to get her to go with them matter what it takes.

For Caitlin, Wyatt, Nikki and Jen, work is verging on being unbearable. Caitlin has to deal with Stanley shooting her and demanding customers all the time. Nikki has to deal with the Clones and the conformity of The Khaki Barn. Wyatt has to deal with Spin This having a sale on Country music and Jen’s boss Coach Halder is acting more overbearing as usual. Because of this, when Jonesy suggests that his friends take a day off and head to the amusement park since he can sneak them in through a side entrance, everyone is on board with his idea-except for Jen, who has just gotten off of probation at The Penalty Box and doesn’t want to end up fired. Her friends are put out at hearing this, as they know that a day off won’t be the same without all of them, but Jen refuses to be swayed by their arguments and heads off to work despite Jude giving a speech about the importance of the sick day.

The rest of the group is still in and proceeds to call off work in various ways. Nikki gets out of work by telling the Clones that a “friend who visits once a month is in town”, while Wyatt escapes work by pretending to have a Country music induced migraine. Jude, meanwhile, sets up a mannequin of himself at Stick It to avoid detection, while Caitlin makes a sign claiming she needed an emergency pedicure in order to get away from work. After calling in sick, the group of work-ditchers meets back at the Big Squeeze, but soon realizes that they’re missing somebody: Jen. Jen is still refusing to take a day off from The Penalty Box, so the group decides that they’ll have to make Jen take time off from work. Nikki devises a plan to do so and the group sets off to put it into action. This plan involves Jude and Wyatt as paramedics and a phone call to The Penalty Box. Nikki’s call to The Penalty Box involves her delivering a fake story about Jen’s Aunt Barrel having suffered a horrible injury and wanting Jen to see her at the hospital. Although Coach Halder doesn’t completely buy this story, he does call Jen over to the phone for a family emergency. When Jen comes to the phone, Nikki reveals the truth, but Jen refuses to leave work and hangs up. This prompts Nikki to move to Plan B.

This plan involves Jude and Wyatt pretending to be paramedics. When they’re late to show up, however, Caitlin goes in and stalls, along the way adding to the realism of the plan by pretending to be another one of Jen’s relatives. Coach Halder is convinced by this performance and he lets paramedics John Gage (Wyatt) and Dude I’m Totally A Paramedic (Jude) drag Jen out of The Penalty Box on a stretcher against her will.

As soon as the group leaves, however, Coach Halder gets a call from Jonesy. In the call, Jonesy claims to be Jen’s father and tells Coach Halder that Jen needs to come home in order to clean up the detritus from a food fight. Upon hearing this, Coach Halder puts two and two together and realizes that he’s been fooled. Coach Halder plays along with Jonesy’s plan and agrees to send her home, but as soon as he hangs up, Coach Halder leaves the store in order to hunt down his insubordinate employee.

While Jen isn’t happy with how her friends lied to her boss, she realizes that she now has no way to go back to the store without causing Coach Halder to question her, so she goes along with her friends plans and soon starts having fun. Eventually, Jen gives in completely and accepts that maybe she did indeed need to take a day off from work, as Coach Halder never takes time off and he’s crazy. Unfortunately for her, as she utters these sentiments Coach Halder comes up behind her, having located his missing employee and when she notices him, he promptly dresses her down for missing work and puts her back on probation. 

✰ EPISODE #3: THE SLOW AND EVEN-TEMPERED – Jen’s going for her Driver’s License and Jude, the only ion with a valid permit to drive, is giving her some tips. At first, she’s timid, she’s worse than an old lady driver… but after training at the virtual driving game in the arcade, Jen’s a lean, mean, driving machine. After Wyatt loses his lucky jacket, he’s convinced he’s doomed to a life of bad luck. Caitlin has to set out to prove to him that luck has nothing to do with your successes in life… or does it? Ask Jonesy, who just got fired again. Jen has a driving test coming up, but she finds herself unable to deal with the stress brought on not just by the test but by her memories of being involved in a crash. Meanwhile, Wyatt tries to prepare for an audition without the help of his lucky jacket and Jonesy takes a job as a Mall Cop.

Jen’s driving test is coming up. Unfortunately for her, she can’t help but keep remembering the incident that caused her to have a job at the Big Squeeze the previous year: She left the parking brake off in a school bus and it slid backwards into an equipment shed, causing damage to both the bus and the shed. As a result, her nerves are frayed and despite studying her Driver’s manual intensely she can’t get up the self confidence that she needs to know that she’ll pass. When she visits Stick It, though, Jude guesses her problem and then offers to teach her. Although Jen is initially skeptical, when she learns that Jude has a Driver’s License she takes him up on his offer. Jud then tells Jen the conditions of him teaching her: She needs to accept everything he does and follow his instructions to the letter. When Jen accepts these conditions, Jude asks to see her Driver’s manual. After flipping through it, Jude tosses it in the trash and then informs Jen that she has to get off the book, so saying, he leads her to the arcade. There, he sets Jen up in a driving video game and has her go drive. Jen does so but does horribly at the game by obeying all the rules of the road except the one about wanting to go faster than a one-legged woman with a walker.

Jude is not happy with Jen’s performance and when Jen protests that she was just trying to be safe, Jude reveals the real reason they’re there: Driving is inherently unsafe, so practicing unsafe driving in a simulator will make Jen a better driver overall because she’ll be better prepared to drive in unsafe conditions. The logic of this makes sense to Jen and soon she starts playing the game in the manner it’s intended to be played. Eventually, Jen gets a high score on the game, proving her mastery to Jude.

At this point, Jonesy arrives and uses his authority as a Mall Cop to clear the arcade. After he does this, he plops down and takes Jen’s place on the game, pushing her out. However, while he’s concentrating Jude asks him some questions about his keys and when Jonesy confirms that he has keys to a car on display in the Mall, Jude asks for the keys and receives them from his distracted friend. With keys in hand, Jude leads Jen to the car, where he has her take the wheel and get ready to drive. When Jen shifts into gear and stamps on the accelerator, however, the car goes backwards as Jen had shifted into Reverse. The car flies off its pedestal and into the fountain, only avoiding Wyatt because Wyatt happened to drop his portable CD player into the fountain and had bent down to get it.

Jude and Jen get out of the car and Jude hands the keys back to Jonesy. Jen, however, has learned her lesson: No driving with Jude. When she meets with her friends at Grind Me, Jen has gotten her Driver’s manual back and is hard at work studying it. Jude doesn’t come out a loser, however, as he entered a raffle where the grand prize was the (now-drowned) car and wins second prize a scooter. Ron doesn’t like to see Jude tooling around the Mall, though and soon he confiscates the scooter from Jude on the grounds that Jude was speeding-a surprisingly appropriate charge given Jude’s teaching methods.

SUBPLOT ONE: WYATT’S JACKET – When Wyatt, walks up to the Big Squeeze, he is clad in an ugly old brown aviator’s jacket. Naturally, his friends make fun of him for his choice of outerwear and Caitlin offers to take Wyatt shopping for a nicer jacket. Wyatt declines this offer, though, as he likes his jacket and believes that it will bring him luck-which he desperately needs, as he has an audition that night. Caitlin disapproves of Wyatt’s unstylish choice however, and when Wyatt accidentally leaves his jacket behind, she can’t help but take it so that she can hide it and prove that Wyatt doesn’t need it. When Wyatt comes back in search of his jacket, she misleads Wyatt by stating that she hasn’t seen it and after he leaves, she takes it out to reassure herself that she’s doing the right thing. She does this just as Nikki arrives, though and when Nikki questions her, Caitlin reveals her reasoning for taking the jacket. While Nikki does not think that Caitlin’s theft was a good idea, she accepts it, as she wants to see how things will play out.

Wyatt, meanwhile, suffers through a string of bad luck. First, he is assigned to run two departments at Spin This, as Serena has just fired one of his coworkers. This leaves him with no time to rehearse and Wyatt starts to create a vicious spiral of worry for himself where he can’t concentrate without his jacket. This convinces Caitlin after some contemplation, to give Wyatt his jacket back, but when she goes Spin This to give it to him, she finds that Wyatt never came back to work. Caitlin and Nikki begin to search for him and find Wyatt tossing coins into the fountain. As Caitlin watches Wyatt drops his Discman in the fountain. When he bends down to pick it up, however, a car piloted by Jen and Jude sails backwards over his head into the fountain. Caitlin runs up to Wyatt just after the eave hits him and while Wyatt is initially angry about all that’s happened – a broken CD player, soaking wet and twenty minutes until he plays – until Caitlin points out how lucky he was to have avoided getting hit by the car. This helps convince Wyatt that he doesn’t need his jacket, but he takes the returned jacket anyway and then happily goes off to his audition.

SUBPLOT #2: MALL COP JONESY – Once again, Jonesy needs a new job, so Jen suggests that he take the job Ron has posted for an assistant. Although Jonesy is reluctant to do so, he does need the money and soon he applies. There, Ron runs him through several tests and when Jonesy passes, Ron gives him the uniform; Jonesy initially protests against the costume, but Ron puts his foot down and soon Jonesy is dressed as a member of Mall Security. As a member of Mall Security, Jonesy soon realizes that there are perks to the job, such as the attention of Yummy Mummy and his ability to extort freebies from businesses. Once he realizes this, Jonesy begins living the high life. Unfortunately for him, his generosity towards Jude proves to be his undoing, as after the car crashes Ron kicks him off of the force and takes his uniform, leaving Jonesy jobless and naked.

✰ EPISODE #4: A LIME TO PARTY – Jonesy opens a new juice stand “The Party Lime” and it threatens to put “The Big Squeeze” out of business. Caitlin’s been slacking big time… she hasn’t ordered lemons in ages, she ignores customers and her lemonade just plain sucks. When Jonesy scores a job running a giant lime juice stand situated right across The Big Squeeze, Caitlin thinks it’s great… until his lime threatens to put her lemon out of business. Jonesy christens it “The Party Lime” and puts tons of elbow grease and “Lime-style” into the grand opening and soon everyone’s hanging out at his juice stand including Caitlin. When her boss sees how the profits are, he threatens to move the Lemon to a Strip Mall unless things change – fast. Will Jonesy take one for the team and deliberately get fired? Meanwhile, Wyatt has scored backstage passes to the Mighty Weasels Concert and Jude and Nikki are clamoring over one another to get Wyatt to choose them. Wyatt begins to enjoy the power…

In this episode, lime-themed drink store opens up right across from The Big Squeeze and Jonesy is hired to operate it and keep the party going. Everything is going great until Big Steve arrives and states that the Party Lime is taking away too much business; if business doesn’t pick up at The Big Squeeze, he’s going to have to move it to a Strip Mall. Meanwhile, Wyatt procures an extra backstage pass for a big concert for Nikki and Jude’s favorite band, so they compete to get the extra pass.

Nikki, Wyatt and Jonesy are all walking through the Mall to Grind Me when they come across a cutout of the band “Mighty Weasels”. At the sight of the standee, Jude skates up and bows down in front of it, which prompts Jonesy to ask Nikki if she’s bought tickets yet – to which Nikki reveals that she slept outside the Mall in order to procure tickets. Soon, the group gets to Grind Me, where Jonesy hits on Charmaine until he’s abruptly brought down by Wyatt revealing that Jonesy doesn’t have a job. Wyatt ends up short of money for his coffee, however, and has to be helped out by Serena. Meanwhile, at The Big Squeeze, Caitlin is complaining to Jen about not being able to afford any of the new fall lines. However, Jen is more concerned with the fact that Caitlin is very incompetent at her job, to such an extent that she has trouble turning on the blender. To make matters worse, when Jen tries to reason with her about operating the store properly, the lemon snaps shut on Caitlin, shutting her in.

When she finally manages to get the lemon to open up again, she sees a brand-new sight: A giant lime. This lime then pops open, revealing Jonesy as the guy running it. He heads over to Caitlin and invites her to party with him, an invitation which she eagerly accepts and hands over a lemonade to commemorate. However, when Jonesy takes a sip, he swiftly rejects the lemonade and instead uses it to christen The Party Lime. Soon, the two are working together to get the lime up and running, when Caitlin receives a call from Nikki, who’s wondering what’s going on. Caitlin fills her in on Jonsey’s new job and then notices that Jude is getting a coffee, which Nikki fins suspicious. As a result, Nikki hangs up and goes to investigate while Jonesy and Caitlin put the finishing touches on the lime.

When the line starts doing business, it is instantly popular with everyone, while The Big Squeeze is selling nothing at all. Eventually Caitlin decides it would be a better idea to close up shop and she goes off to join the party. Big Steve shows up at the joint and upon seeing the shutdown lemon, giant party and shrinking sales, announces that there’s only room for one giant fruit in the Mall and if they don’t start selling more, they’ll be moving to the East End Strip Mall. This news sends Caitlin into a tizzy and she heads over to Jen for advice. The best advice that Jen can give is to do the best job she can, but Caitlin doesn’t think that this will be enough to overcome Jonesy’s party, so she needs party ideas. Jen suggests Christmas in July and Caitlin agrees to do it, which leads to her getting some Christmas decorations from The Khaki Barn in order to set up a Christmas party to compete with Jonesy.

Unfortunately, nobody wants to celebrate Christmas in July, not even her friends, all of whom (with the exception of Jen) sneak off to Jonesy’s party as soon as they can. At that point, Jonesy comes over to invite Jen and Caitlin to party but is instantly brought down by the news that The Big Squeeze might be moving. He quickly figures out a solution: He’ll crank the party up so far that it’ll get the giant lime kicked out of the Mall, while Caitlin will work on figuring out how to make decent drinks. Caitlin agrees to this plan, while Jonesy goes off to make the party wilder and crazier and hopefully gets fired as a result. Caitlin dusts off the recipe book that’s kept under the counter and finds out that she was forgetting to add sugar to the Lemonade. When she adds sugar, the Lemonade begins to taste good again. Meanwhile, the party just keeps getting more and more raucous. Eventually, Jonesy abandons the lime completely in order to let the partygoers rampage even more freely. This leads to them rocking it back and forth and eventually the line starts rolling through the Food Court. It rolls straight at Jonesy and stops on top of him.

When Jonesy regains consciousness and looks up, he’s at the feet of a middle-aged lady, who announces that he is fired and that, furthermore, the lime will be removed from the Mall. This means that the party people are out of drinks – until Caitlin announces that she has plenty of drinks on tap. She starts selling immense amounts of Lemonade and this convinces Big Steve that The Big Squeeze can stay in the Mall.

After the people have cleared the Food Court and business has died down, the gang can be found at their usual spots around the table. Jonesy is proud of having gotten fired this time, as he intended to and along the way he saved Caitlin’s job. This causes Nikki to compliment him, which leads to Wyatt pointing out that he is disappointed in how Jude and Nikki behaved after fighting for the backstage passes and that, as a result, he won’t be giving a pass to either one of them. However, his argument is immediately undercut when Serena comes by and reveals that Wyatt is instead taking her to the concert. This leads to Jude and Nikki chasing Wyatt into the foundation, but their anger is immediately diminished when Serena shows up again and calls him “baby” impressing both Jude and Nikki an causing them to accept that he may have made the right choice.

SUBPLOT #1: MIGHTY WEASELS BACKSTAGE PASSES – Jude is at Spin This, listening to the new Mighty Weasels album, when Nikki walks up and banters with him about the Weasels. Wyatt then walks up to his friends and reveals good news: He’s managed to procure two backstage passes to the Mighty Weasels concert. Both of his friends are impressed but realize swiftly that only one will be able to go, so Wyatt is going to have to choose between them. Later that day, Nikki is at work when she calls Caitlin and learns that Jude is getting coffee. When she hears this, she realizes that since Jude doesn’t drink coffee, something else must be going on and comes to the conclusion that Jude must be sucking up to Wyatt. A little bit of surveillance confirms his suspicions and she decides that she has to compete with Jude for the pass by sucking up just as hard. Soon, she can be found in Spin This, doing Wyatt’s work for him, while Jude gets Wyatt the high score on a video game at the Mall’s Arcade.

When Lunch time rolls around, Nikki plans to surprise her friend with a Lunch from Super Terrific Happy Sushi. However, when she arrives, she finds that Jude has already gotten Wyatt Lunch: A giant spread of food, courtesy of Stick It. However, when he has to leave to get Mustard, Nikki sees her chance and tells Wyatt that she’s going to talk him up to Serena. She then goes and does so and when Jude comes back, it seems like Nikki won the competition. However, each gets a chance to make a final statement and Jude takes this opportunity to point out that Nikki makes fun of the way that Wyatt dances. In retaliation, Nikki claims that Jude likes Serena, which he vociferously does. It’s at this moment when Jonesy steps in and invites them all down to the party, which is getting out of control and the three head down to see it.

After the lime has been banished from the Mall, the gang gathers around the table and Wyatt claims that due to how Jude and Nikki behaved, neither one of them will be getting the backstage passes. However, his claim is swiftly proven false when Serena comes by and mentions that he’s glad that he shared his backstage passes with her. This causes Nikki and Jude to chase him angrily, but when Serena takes care of the passes and calls him “baby” their anger dims significantly and they congratulate him on his success with Serena.