SEASON 1 EPISODES

Season 1 began on Tuesday, October 24, along with Pelswick. After that, the show moved to its regular time slot, Wednesday nights at 8:00. On January 14, 2001, the show moved to Sunday nights as 7:30, most likely to get ready for the TeeNICK block.

Note that there were 20 episodes created for the first season, if you count "Summer of Camp Caprice" as three episodes, but only 16 were shown prior to the following October. "Season" as used here refers to when an episode was made.

"Closing Tag" is the line used over the Nickelodeon logo at the end of the full closing credits (they don't use the tag with the different split-screen credits); unless otherwise noted, the "normal" closing theme is used.

Episode numbers refer to the production order, which is also the order they air outside of the USA. (In the USA, the order in which the episodes first aired is listed if different from the production order - after that, Nickelodeon tends to repeat the episodes in no particular sequence.)

Pilot - The Party

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Episode 1 - Ginger The Juvey

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Sylvia Keulen
Storyboards by: Michael Daedalus Kenny, Darin McGowan, Pablo Solis
Closing tag: (Hoodsey) "It's Hoodsey, Blake - with an 'H'"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Winston, Miranda's father

Additional Voices:

Linda (hall monitor - credited as "Hall Monitor") - Olivia Hack
Walker (kid wanting a curly hairdo) - Alex Dent
Vince (boy who gives Darren a wedgie - credited as "Jock") - Warren Sroka
Other police officer - (uncredited)

When Courtney invites Ginger to her "surprise" party, Miranda talks Ginger into getting a present that's not as much original as it is illegal; Blake plots to steal Carl's prized possession - a petrified detached eye.

Carl's doghouse doesn't say "Monster" on it, like it usually does. (In "Summer of Camp Caprice", it is revealed that Carl really did have a dog named Monster at one time.)
The boys' bathroom in Carl's school says "Courtney Is a Babe!".
How does Courtney know the hall monitor on a first name basis? Hall monitors aren't usually the kind of people you associate with popular kids.
Blake has Carl's picture on his bedroom dresser.
When Courtney bumps into Ginger in the school hallway, Courtney pretty much makes it clear that she knows all about her "surprise" party, so why didn't Ginger later just ask Courtney what sort of present to bring?
At the end, Dodie says "the entire middle school is talking" about the arrest - but the school they attend is called a "junior high school" (although they are really the same thing - "the school between elementary school and high school").
At the end, Ginger writes in her diary, "And since Carl's pictures proved it was Miranda who tipped off the police, Officer Killgallen had to lighten up on my sentence". Three small problems with that: one, photographs can prove Miranda was on the phone, but not who she was calling; two, so what if Miranda tipped her father off - how did they know she didn't happen to overhear Ginger discussing the plan with somebody; and three, since when does a police officer decide a criminal's sentence (even in juvenile court)?

Episode 2 - Carl And Maude

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Cathy Malkasian
Storyboards by: Robert Goodin, Jason Park, Sean Pendegrass
Additional Storyboards: Pablo Solis, Alan Zegler
Closing tag: (Hoodsey) "If you ask me I think the whole thing's a little juvenile"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Maude

Additional Voices:

Receptionist - Tress MacNeille
Man #1 (I assume it's the man playing chess) - Kenny Blank
Mrs. Gumfrey - Laraine Newman
Courtney's hold message - Adrienne Frantz
Singer on Courtney's hold message - Shawana Kemp

Ginger, Dodie, and Macie have to serve community service at a retirement home, where Carl forms a bond with an elderly prankster whom he invites to dinner - the same night Courtney invited herself.

If you ask me, this is one of very few roles done by Carol Kane which doesn't sound like Simka on Taxi (which sounds a lot like her real voice).
There's a "senior ball" at the home (something you normally associate with high school Seniors), and the movie that night is "On Silver Pond".
NOT AGAIN: "Is Grandma...napping?" The word is dead. Nickelodeon - the network where you can show people dropping dead, as long as you don't mention it by name.
Did you know...Adrienne Frantz (the "Your call is important to Courtney" voice...by the way, she's also the singer Emica on Rugrats: All Growed Up) won a 2001 daytime Emmy award for "Younger Actress in a Drama Series" as Amber in The Bold and the Beautiful?

Episode 3 - Stealing First

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Carol Millican
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Karen Ciraulo, Monika Tomova
Additional Storyboards: Gabi Payn, Joseph Scott
Closing tag: (Macie) "Uh, she's Potie, I'm Stacy"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Ian, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Joann, Mipsy, Terrence

Additional Voices:

Rebecca (girl who says "hi" to Jean-Pierre at the ski lift) - Jeannie Elias
Bus driver - Kenny Blank
Jean-Pierre - Laraine Newman
Cool kid (kid who got the snowball down his back?) - Kyle Brent Gibson
Chairlift operator - Eric Jungmann

On a ski trip, Courtney bets Miranda that she can get an exchange student to get to first base with (i.e. kiss on the lips) Ginger; Carl sneaks along in an attempt to break the record for being stuck on a ski lift the longest.

Keythe Farley becomes the "regular" voice director beginning with this episode. (Emily Kapnek and Charlie Adler were the voice directors for "Ginger the Juvey" and "Carl And Maude", respectively.)
Adam Wylie received a credit as Ian Richton (he put the snowball down the "cool kid's" back), but he didn't appear to have any lines; considering the cut from Ian to the girls in the next scene was abrupt, it may have been cut for time without changing the credits.
It appears that Ginger has a different homeroom/first period from Dodie and Macie in this episode; in later episodes, they all have the same homeroom.
Jean-Pierre says Ginger has "a certain...I don't know how you say"; actually, he knows how we say it better than we do, as it's "a certain je ne sais quoi" (French for "I don't know what").
"Superman had his faulty heel, no?" That's two references in one - Achilles had the vunerable heel (that's where the term "Achilles Heel" (something's one vunerable spot) comes from); Superman's problem was kryptonite.
It never occurred to Carl that he would have to share his record with his sister, as well as everybody else on the lift.
Originally, Miranda claims that she can get Jean-Pierre to go to first base with someone on the chairlift; it's only when Courtney nominates Ginger that Miranda switches to the "he won't" side (and, as it turns out, Miranda was right).
Just before Ginger gets on the bus, Courtney is on the phone to her father; this is the only clue that Courtney's (and Blake's) father is alive in the first season.
It looks like they're going home at night on the same day they arrived (certainly Lois and Carl wouldn't have stayed there overnight). If so, why did they have all of that luggage? (Okay, most of it was probably ski gear...)
Somebody asked how Darren managed to get on the bus home if he didn't have a permission slip (which he wouldn't have, as he wasn't there as part of the trip). Here's one theory: when Ginger ran into him, he had to be taken to some treatment center, where they would have called his parents, who probably gave their permission (okay, it's "over the phone", but there weren't many alternatives), especially as there's no way he (with his cast), Carl, and Hoodsey would have fit into Lois's car.

Episode 4 - Sleep On It

Story by Emily Kapnek and Evan M. Katz and Kate Boutilier
Teleplay by Evan M. Katz and Kate Boutilier
Directed by Frank Marino
Storyboards by: Wendi Grieb, Gabi Payn, Joseph Scott
Assistant Storyboard Artist: Alan Zegler
Closing tag: (Dodie) "Here, Carl - here, boy! (kiss kiss kiss kiss) [this is actually from "Carl And Maude"]

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Mrs. Gripling, Joann, Mipsy, Traci, Heather, Lonnie

Additional Voices:

Book club members - Liz Georges, Jackie Harris, Laraine Newman, Candi Milo
Computer voice - Adrienne Frantz

When Courtney hears Ginger talk to her friends about their weekly slumber party, she decides she wants to hold one, despite having absolutely no clue as to how to actually throw a party; Blake invites Carl over, but he can't go, so he sends Hoodsey instead - in order to get his detached eye back

Note there is a distinction between "and" and "&" in writing credits; "&" means they pretty much worked together equally, whereas "and" means that either they worked separately or one was involved more than the other (at least that's the way I understand the Writers Guild of America explanation at their website).
This episode takes place after "Carl And Maude", as Carl gives Hoodsey "Maude's hearing aid" to communicate with him while Hoodsey is at Blake's.
Now we know how Hoodsey got his nickname; hanging up on the wall in his room are four of those hooded coats he always wears.
As far as I know, making someone wet themselves by putting their hand in water while they're asleep is an urban legend.
Actually, the Urban Legends FAQ says that it has (supposedly) affected some people but not others.
Notice something strange about these two pictures?

Episode 5 - Of Lice And Friends

Story by by Emily Kapnek and Sheila M. Anthony
Teleplay by Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Jennifer Coyle, Max Martinez, Darin McGowan
Closing tag: (Carl) "You can watch flies for free at the city dump" (Hoodsey) "And we've done it, too"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Ms. Zorski, Mipsy, Traci, Chet, Principal Milty

Additional Voices:

Linda (credited as "Hall Monitor") - Hope Levy
Mrs. Fleming (I assume she's the school secretary) - Rita Rudner
Mr. Pringle (the janitor) - Greg Lewis

New announcement reader Dodie turns the morning reports into a gossip column, which is not good news for Courtney when Dodie finds her name on the list of students with lice.

Carl and Hoodsey attend Lucky Elementary School - not a particularly surprising name, when you consider it's pretty much right next to Lucky Junior High School (as seen in "Dare I, Darren?").
In "Stealing First", Ginger is in a different homeroom from Dodie and Macie, but in this episode, they're in the same one (along with Darren, Courtney, Miranda, and Mipsy) - but this might be explained by a homeroom change between semesters, as there was a running line about a math final.
The lice list: Steven Applebaum, Joannie Asper, Patricia Bucci, Reggie Cameron, David Entwhite, Leon Griffin, Courtney Gripling. Note that three of them (Steven, Leon, and Courtney) are in the same homeroom.
If the lice report said that Courtney needed to be kept away from other students, wouldn't it be a matter of time before somebody found out anyway? (Especially as Dodie said there were ten names on the list but only read six?)
When Ginger left the office after stopping the announcement, Dodie still had the microphone in her hand; why didn't she just pick up where she left off?
For that matter, how come none of the adults in the office tried to stop Dodie from revealing what was obviously confidential information?
Macie's bedroom has a first-aid cabinet in it - and, from the looks of it, she sleeps in a "sunken" kidney-shaped bed.
"How do you know the hall monitor's name?" It's mentioned in "Ginger the Juvey".
I thought Miranda had a crush on Ian...so who's "ninth grade Ben" that warrants her calling him during P.E.?

Episode 6 - Dare I, Darren?

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Wendy Grieb, Michael Daedalus Kenny, Pablo Solis, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: Robert Goodin, Jason Park
Closing tag: (Hoodsey) "I really can't see how a boy his size could possibly eat all that ice cream"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Winston, Ian, Mrs. Gordon, Will, Mipsy, Brandon, Terrence, Mr. Cilia

Additional Voices:

Film narrator - Terri Apple
Harley James ("the vampire thrasher") - Craig Strong
Vampire woman (in movie) - Jackie Harris
Popcorn server - Tress MacNeille

When Miranda sees Darren passing a note to Ginger in class and tells her that "you and your boyfriend make a cute couple" (mainly to keep Ginger away from Ian Richton, so she can have him for herself), Ginger takes a trip to the movies with Darren a little too seriously - especially when she ends up sitting between Darren and Ian (who's sitting next to Miranda); Carl tries to borrow Blake's new telescope so he can win a bet with Brandon

That's one tough teacher Carl has; the homework assignment is "pages 50 to 100".
Mrs. Gordon calls Hoodsey "Hoodsey" (as opposed to "Robert").
Blake doesn't attend private school? Then again, Courtney doesn't...

Episode 7 - Hello Stranger
Nominated for a 2001 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Mark Risley
Storyboards by: Robert Goodin, Jason Park, Sean Pendegrass
Additional Storyboards: Jeffrey Hua, Michael Daedalus Kenny
Closing tag: [acoustic guitar ending] (crickets chirping)

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Jonas (Ginger's father, on the phone), Mrs. Gordon, Ms. Zorski, Joann, Darren's father, Darren's mother, Brandon, Stuart's monkey, Dr. Dave

Additional Voices:

Man delivering flowers - Billy Brown
Student (the one who says "he's turning into a monkey"?) - Kenny Blank
Librarian - Laraine Newman
Snake (in Lois's dream) - Dee Bradley Baker
Nurse - Mo Collins
Florist - Susan Krebs
Radio DJ - (uncredited)

Ginger wants her father, whom she hasn't seen in a while, to see her read a poem at a school show; when Carl is bitten by a monkey, he starts acting like one; Lois drinks a pitcher of "dehydrated sea snake mix"

Most Nicktoons are set in "Anywhere, USA", probably so kids from throughout the country can associate with it, but Ginger has a specific address: 711 Forest Avenue, Sheltered Shrubs, CT (Connecticut) 06930
Her father apparently lives quite close by (unless he rents a post office box): P.O. Box 123, Brittle Branches, CT, and the ZIP code is also 06930. (This isn't necessarily a goof; I grew up somewhere where two communities share the same ZIP code.)
Ginger is mentioned as being in seventh grade - and as she receives a graduation card from her father, presumably it refers to "graduating from elementary school" and seventh grade is the lowest grade at Lucky Junior High School. (See "Come Back Little Seal Girl" for more evidence that this is the case.)
Unlike most episodes, there's no real interaction between Ginger and the "populars", although Courtney does make a comment to Ginger just before Ginger goes on, and Miranda, Lonnie, and Mipsy are in the front row in the audience. (You can also see Heather in the front row after Ginger is finished.)
How does Ginger know her father looks like her? Ginger looks like her mother - her father can look like anything (including Carl). (Presumably, Lois still had a picture of Jonas that she showed her, although Lois had no idea Ginger had invited Jonas to the art fair.)
What do phone numbers beginning with 555 and ZIP code 06930 have in common? They don't really exist. (Most phone numbers on TV and in the movies begin with 555 as, except for toll-free (800, for example) and possibly 900 numbers, no phone numbers are supposed to begin with 555 so nobody will hear a number somewhere and try to call it to see what happens.) Actually, ZIP codes beginning with 069 are all in Stamford, CT (which is where the World Wrestling Federation is based - coincidentally, the WWF recently made a deal with Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon, but the episode would have to have been written months before the deal went through), but they stop at 06928 - at least for the moment.
In "Dare I, Darren?", Blake is in Carl's class, but in this episode, all of the desks appear to be occupied and Blake isn't there.
Carl has monkeynucleosis? (A Hey Arnold! joke...)
Using specific dates is not usually a smart idea - the first sign says the Fall Arts Festival is on "Friday, November 14", but that limits it to every five or six years.

Poem - Hello Stranger

Hello, stranger - you came just in time
I look for your face in a crowd, or in line
Hello, stranger - not a moment too soon
See, that old picture's fading in the drawer of my room
Now toys have gone lost, baby teeth have come loose
There were accidents involving stitches, spilt juice
Report cards were shown, and one time I got sick
But it's nothing I couldn't catch you up on real quick
Hello, stranger - I saved you a place
And it hardly seems strange now that I've seen your face

Episode 8 - Cry Wolf

Story by Emily Kapnek and Alice Miller
Teleplay by Alice Miller
Directed by Carol Millican
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Karen Ciraulo, Monika Tomova
Assistant Storyboard Artist: Gabi Payn
Closing tag: (Hoodsey) "What about my power? (growl)"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Mrs. Gordon, Ms. Zorski, Joann, Brandon, Stuart's monkey, Principal Milty

Additional Voices:

Gregg "with 3 Gs" - Laraine Newman
Stuart Higsby (the boy selling the reports) - Chris Marquette
Mr. Libby (the teacher who lost his toupee) - Bernie Kopell
Bathroom chef - Andrew Lawrence

When Miranda convinces Dodie that Courtney is Ginger's new best friend, Dodie reveals Ginger's secret that her mom won't let her shave her legs, and Miranda uses it to blackmail Ginger; Carl, with a little help from a teacher's toupee, transforms into a "wolf boy"

This is the first time in something like 30 years I've seen a TV show where the fire alarm sounds like a horn and not like a bell. (I've always found that strange, as at every school I went to, including college, the fire alarm was never a bell.)
Hoodsey is seen quite a bit without his hooded coat.
One of Ginger's secrets is her love of smiley-face pajamas - but if she loves them so much, why doesn't she ever wear them?
If we use Carl's reasoning, Lois never said that Carl couldn't shave Ginger's legs, so why didn't the girls have him do it - or, for that matter, Dodie do it with Carl's electric razor?
Okay, I'll ask: how does Ginger get away with not revealing her legs in P.E.? (We know she's in a P.E. class; she's in the girls' locker room in "Of Lice And Friends".)

Episode 9 - The Right Stuff

Story by Sarah Jane Cunningham and Eryk Casemiro
Teleplay by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Frank Marino
Storyboards by: Gabi Payn, Joseph Scott, Alan Zegler
Closing tag: (Miranda) "Ewww - it's Foutley"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Mrs. Gordon, Will, Brandon

Additional Voices:

Chantel - Kimberly Brooks
Andrea - Jamie Maria Cronin
Mrs. Berger (the French teacher - pronouced "bur-ZHAY") - Suzanne Kent
(High School) Principal Erickson - Michael Beattie
Lifeguard - Danny Cooksey
Kid #1 (the one who asked Macie about a diving board) - Kenny Blank
Kid #2 (the one next to kid #1) - Eric Von Detten

When Courtney and Macie are enrolled in a high school French class, Macie somehow ends up hosting a pool party, where a couple of older girls jealous about how Courtney looks at Will Patterson plan to reveal (literally) that Courtney stuffs her bikini top; Carl and Hoodsey try to obtain some of Albert Einstein's DNA for a fourth-grade science fair

There's a high school right next to Lucky Junior High - and, of course, it's called Lucky High School.
Ginger needs to watch herself at pool parties - she almost exposed one of her legs in front of everybody. (See "Cry Wolf" to see why this is a bad idea.)
How did Carl compare everybody's DNA to Albert Einstein's if they couldn't get any of Einstein's DNA in the first place?
Looks like the Griplings are getting better with names; Courtney says "Dodie" and "Macie" (as opposed to, say, "Potie" and "Stacy"), and Blake says "Hoodsey" (instead of "Woodsey").
"Courtney can't lose her bikini top if it's attached to the bottom" - apparently Courtney isn't the only one who prefers two-piece outfits; the only girl wearing a one-piece at the party is Macie.
The sign at the science fair (at the end, when Brandon's exhibit explodes) says it's the 2000 science fair; it's quite rare for years to appear in any cartoon, as it tends to "date" them - if, three years later, a sign says "2003", how do you explain that everybody is the same age they were three years before? (And never mind that the same sign said "Lucky Jr. High" for an elementary school science fair.)
Speaking of Science Fair, Carl may act like he knows something about science, but his spelling leaves much to be desired; one of the signs on his exhibit says "GENIOUS".
Courtney asks Chantel and Andrea, "Who retired and made you crossing guards?"; I've always heard things like this said as "who died and made you (fill in some job title here)". Nickelodeon - the network where you can't say "died", but you can show girls getting their bikini tops removed.
Speaking of Andrea and Chantel, those are the names (well, "Chantal", but it's pronounced the same way) of the first and third North Atlantic tropical storms/hurricanes (I think they're called typhoons in Asia and Australia) in 2007 (and every six years after that until one of them does enough damage to associate the name with that year's storm, after which a new name is used - for example, Allison would have been the first storm in 2007 had it not done enough damage in 2001 to warrant retiring the name.)

Episode 10 - Kiss And Make-up

Written by Emily Kapnek and David Regal
(actually, the Story By credit read this way, and the Teleplay By credit had the names reversed)
Directed by Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Jennifer Coyle, Max Martinez, Darin McGowan
Closing tag: (Macie) "We were hot - so hot!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Winston, Mrs. Gordon, Ms. Zorski, Mrs. Gripling, Chet, Principal Milty, Dwayne

Additional Voices:

Clerk at store - Laraine Newman
Photographer - John Kassir

When Ginger's mother forbids Ginger from wearing makeup to school picture day, the girls decide to create "fake-up"; Carl's ride with the trash collector results in an unexpected prize - Blake's baby blanket

Presumably, this episode is supposed to take place before "Of Lice And Friends", as Chet is the announcement person (rather than Dodie).
Ginger's mother said Ginger couldn't wear makeup - but did Dodie's or Macie's parents say anything to them?
Don't try this at home: Darren is riding a bike before sunrise without a light, which is (a) illegal and (b) quite dangerous if you're out on the street.
Doesn't painting your nails count as makeup?
You would think there would be more kids in "Protected Pines" - maybe the Griplings are the only ones whose kids attend public school?

Episode 11 - The 'A' Ticket

Story by Emily Kapnek and Sheila M. Anthony
Teleplay by Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Michael Daedalus Kenny, Kyle Menke, Pablo Solis
Additional Storyboards: Alejandro Almaguer, Robert Goodin
Closing tag: (Brandon) "Why can't you be a normal good boy, like me?"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Ian, Brandon, Mr. Cilia, Mr. Hepper

Additional Voices:

Soccer buddy (boy Ian was talking to) - Anthony Jesse Cruz
Ludlow Krantz, moose - Kerrigan Mahan

Ginger and Ian are made lab partners in chemistry class, but when Ian seems interested in Ginger, is he interested in her as a person or her as a way to keep a "B" average and his spot on the soccer team?; Carl, Hoodsey, and Brandon audition for a glockenspiel solo in front of the town eccentric

A "B" average is hard enough for most students to maintain; if you add the time required for sports practice as well, most teams wouldn't have enough players to compete. (Most schools require a "C" average.)
See the "questions" page for an explanation of how "letter grades" work in the USA.
Speaking of "A Ticket", it could also be a reference to the days before Disneyland and Walt Disney World switched to "unlimited free rides with admission"; "in my day", each ride required a separate ticket, from "A" for the cheapest (for example, the Main Street Trolley) to "E" for the most expensive (for example, Space Mountain). Needless to say, the E Ticket rides were the ones everybody wanted to ride.
Hoodsey said "we killed him"; normally Nickelodeon doesn't like its shows using words like "dead" and "killed" (see "Carl and Maude"), although as As Told By Ginger is targeted for a slightly more mature audience, they may be a little more lenient.
Macie is wearing her usual glasses instead of goggles, which isn't a particularly smart thing to do (especially if they're made of glass); even the kind Courtney and Ginger are wearing aren't particularly safe, as liquids (for example, acid) can get in through the sides quite easily. (That's why the ones Ginger wears to begin with are more of a "mask around her eyes".)
When this episode was first shown, a note appeared that said Melissa Disney (Ginger's voice) is related to Walt (according to "The (Michael) Starr Report" in the New York Post, they're "distant cousins", although I've received some E-mail questioning this) - which struck me as ironic, as in the Disney TV-movie Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century, one of the things they mentioned was that in science classes on Earth, they still use Farenheit temperatures (by the way, Ginger is right and Zenon is wrong on that one - every science class I've ever been in (going back to 1975) used strictly metric measurements; using a single measuring system is meant to prevent problems like the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter mission, which resulted in the orbiter missing Mars because the designers thought they would be using feet and pounds instead of meters and kilograms).
Lois received a credit at the end of the show, but she wasn't in the episode. (See the note about Ian in "Stealing First" for a possible explanation.)

Episode 12 - Come Back Little Seal Girl

Written by Emily Kapnek and Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
(actually, the Story By credit read this way, and the Teleplay By credit had Emily's name at the end)
Directed by Carol Millican
Storyboards by: Robert Goodin, Jason Park, Sean Pendegrass
Additional Storyboards: Alejandro Almaguer, Jeffrey Hua
Closing tag: [Courtney and Seal Girl themes] (Macie) "Seal Girl lives on!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Mrs. Gordon, Chet, Mipsy, Lonnie, Principal Milty (he introduced Chet at the start of the talent show); Ms. Zorski was also credited, but I didn't notice her voice

Additional Voices:

Audience members (the ones talking about Macie's act) - Laraine Newman, Jeannie Elias
Nervous Kid (?) - Hope Levy
Kid who tells Mrs. Gordon that she parked in the principal's spot (credited as "Teacher's Pet") - LaTonya Holmes
Singer (of the "Courtney" and "Seal Girl" songs) - Shannon Conley

When Ginger and Dodie feel that a talent show act based on "The Little Seal Girl" is a little juvenile, Macie decides to do a solo; Carl comes face-to-palm with a mummufied hand of Mrs. Gordon's that supposedly has a curse

See "Sleep On It" for the difference between "and" and "&" in writing credits.
Like pretty much everything else, the auditorium is named "Lucky Auditorium"; it's possible that it's shared by all three of the schools.
Ginger, Dodie, and Macie have been friends since kindergarten, as they've been "eyeing the trophy" since then - of course, that would have been for an elementary school talent show.
Dodie says this is their first junior high school performance, which must mean the school begins with seventh grade.
See what happens when you say "dead" on the show? Carl said it (referring to the hand), and he didn't get any dessert.
Okay, I'll ask: where did the music come from when Macie finished the song? (Even if the tape would have been fixed, there would have been the original singer's voice on it.)

Lyrics to "The Little Seal Girl" theme

Most folks think that I'm not real
'Cause I'm half girl and I'm half seal
I'm a little seal girl livin' in the real world
And it's so hard to get by
'Cause seals can't even cry
But in this endless, boundless sea
Is there no one who looks like me
I know I must stay chipper;
One day I'll find a friend to hold my flipper
'Cause I'm a little seal girl livin' in the real world
And it's so hard to get by
'Cause seals can't even cry

Episode 13 - I Spy A Witch
First aired 17th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Frank Marino
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Karen Ciraulo, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: Jeffrey Hua, Joseph Scott, Monika Tomova
Closing tag: Miranda laughing maniacally (from her audition)

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Miranda, Mipsy, Chet, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Ms. Zorski, Principal Milty, Winston, Maude (note that Darren, although mentioned by name, never spoke)

Additional Voices:

Lizzie Laypoff - R. Samantha Lee
(the character's last name may not be spelled correctly - only the first name was credited)
Girl with the purple-rim round-lens glasses - Hope Levy
Girl with the glasses that look like Macie's - Tia Texada
(note the previous two credits may be backwards)
Piano player - Matt Farnsworth

Ginger is cast in the lead of the Halloween musical, "I Spy A Witch" (a musical version of The Crucible), until she's falsely accused herself of making a witch - to be more precise, turning the Lucky statue into a witch; Carl tries to conjure up the ghost of Maude

One of the songs in the musical was "Salem Barbecue" - but the only time "Burn Witches!" was ever heard in Salem was centuries later, whenever Monty Python and the Holy Grail was being shown somewhere. The penalty for witchcraft in Salem was death by hanging; one person was killed by being pressed between giant stones, but that was because when he was accused, he refused to plead either innocent or guilty, and the law required him to be pressed under a stone until he either entered a plea or died. (The confusion between burning and hanging may come from the fact that witchcraft was punished with burning in quite a bit of Europe.)
We learn two things in this episode: the name of the person on the statue in front of the school (Nathaniel "Lucky" Winslow - see the Questions page for one theory on why he's "lucky"), and Maude's last name (Webley).
If Courtney and her mother are in France, why didn't they take Blake?
Why didn't Ms. Zorski "borrow" Darren or Chet for the male roles?
They knew when the statue was defaced; certainly Lois could have accounted for Ginger's whereabouts throughout that night.
It never occurred to anybody that they could have checked the stuff in Ginger's bag for fingerprints. It also never occurred to Miranda that she could have said that Ginger took the photo (after all, Ginger had the stuff in her bag).
You could see through Maude (and her clothes) when she left Hoodsey's body, but you shouldn't have been able to see through the "real" photograph she was carrying.
Speaking of Maude the ghost, since she was a ghost, she shouldn't have been able to carry the photograph or ring the doorbell. (If she did have a "physical presence", then she shouldn't have been able to get into and out of Hoodsey's body in the first place.)
Had Ginger not arrived when she did, who was supposed to read "Villager #3's" lines?
Notice Dodie's parents in the audience (in the front row, no less) - with Dodie in the show and Hoodsey with Carl, that's one way out of having to give out candy on Halloween!
Speaking of the audience, someone told me that Fred from "Foutleys On Ice" ("Far From Home") is in the audience as well. See the "Foutleys On Ice" entry on the Season 3 page to see why this doesn't sound right.

Lyrics to "Salem Barbecue"

There's no way we'll ever believe you
This girl's asleep, so tell us, what did you do?
She's a witch, you can't deny
So on the pyre ye shall fry
At our good old-fashioned Salem barbecue!
There's no way we'll ever believe you
See the truth in all of her boo-hoo
She's a witch - just watch her fly!
Escape? Don't you even try!
You're our guest at our Salem barbecue!
There's no way we'll ever believe you
There must be something more that I can do
Prove to us you're not a witch
Too late - I've already snitched
I'll baste her at our Salem barbecue!

Lyrics to "I Spy A Witch"

In Salem town, there was a glitch
When someone thought they saw a witch
And rumor started to arrive
But what was fact were all denied
In Salem town
I spy...a witch! A Witch!
I spy...a wicked witch!
I spy...a witch!

Episode 14 - Blizzard Conditions
First aired 13th in the USA

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Robert Goodin, Jeffrey Hua
Additional Storyboards: Tron Mai
Closing tag: (Carl) "It is so totally your fault!" (Hoodsey) "Hey, you're not the boss of me ever!" (Carl) "Yes I am!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Winston, Joann, Dave (that didn't sound like Cree Summer on the other end of the phone as Miranda, and she wasn't credited)

Additional Voices:

Dr. Randall - S. Scott Bullock
Weatherman (on the radio) - John Kassir
TV Reporter, Second Radio Weather Reporter - Kath Soucie
Muffin - Stacy Winkler

A severe snowstorm causes Courtney, Blake, and Winston to get trapped in their limousine, to be rescued by Ginger, Dodie, and Macie and brought to Ginger's house to get warm - only for the unfrozen food and the firewood to run out and the power be off so they can't cook anything; Carl and Hoodsey take care of their dentist's dog in exchange for a cuspidor (a fancy word for "something you spit into")

Technically, they don't say that members of the Donner party ate each other (they don't use those words...by the way, it did happen, but note they ate the bodies of those who died of other causes), but they do say that the relief party found "the bones of those who had died and been devoured by the few miserable survivors".
The female weather reporter says Winslow county roads and highways are closed, but there is no Winslow county in Connecticut, nor in any of the states which border it. (Based on its ZIP code, it should be in Fairfield county.)
Dodie and Hoodsey's father looks just like Hoodsey...well, Hoodsey wearing Macie's glasses. (And his first name - Dave - is mentioned in the credits.)
Add "playing the guitar" to Ginger's talents (and she plays it right-handed, although even if she was left-handed, it could just be the way she learned to do it).
Ginger says "Betsy Ross flaked on the first flag"; in fact, there's no evidence she had anything to do with making any of what could be called "the U.S. flag" (and almost certainly had nothing to do with putting white stars on blue in the upper left).
Courtney is wearing "The Little Seal Girl" pajamas...which must be Ginger's, seeing as how (a) they wouldn't fit Dodie or Macie and (b) Dodie and Macie are wearing whatever sleepwear they brought.
Looks like Ginger isn't the only one that has problems with two right feet:

Episode 15 - Deja Who?
First aired 19th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Story by Emily Kapnek and Sheila M. Anthony
Teleplay by Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Karen Ciraulo, Joseph Scott, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: Tron Mai, Monika Tomova
Closing tag: (Lois) "Huh - that Joann - what a firecracker"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Brandon, Brandon's monkey, Lois, Joann, Claire, Ms. Zorski, Principal Milty, Mipsy

Additional Voices:

Michael Ricci - Kiel Holmes
Senator Ricci - Dee Bradley Baker

Courtney is expected to escort a senator's son, who is considering transferring from a public school, around Lucky, but when she develops an allergic reaction to the lobster in the cafeteria mystery meat, she trains Ginger to act like her, which she does...a little too well as far as Dodie and Macie are concerned; when Hoodsey bumps his head after falling off a swing, he develops amnesia, and turns into "Rob", who doesn't quite share the same tastes that Carl does

For somebody with puffed cheeks, Courtney certainly sounds normal.
I for one would think that even a Senator's son would eventually be able to tell the difference between a redhead and a blonde (then again, I once announced a high school football game alongside Senator Boxer's son - okay, he was 18 and the Senator wouldn't become a senator for another 10 years or so, but you get the idea); what happens when Michael meets the real Courtney?
Does "new math" still exist? (Those of you outside the USA, trust me, you do not want to know what it is.)
Why would "Rob" replace Carl as his best friend with Brandon? Easy - it must have been Joann's idea (anything to keep Carl out of her house).
Courtney says that Michael has the same highlights as she does, but he doesn't appear to have highlights in his hair; in fact, they're different shades of blonde.
Won't the people watching on TV who know Courtney realize that it isn't her?
They never do say whether or not Michael ends up transferring to Lucky, although even if that had been Courtney at the table with him, Courtney probably wouldn't have let him get away with dissing Dodie and Macie (well, certainly not Macie, after what happened in "The Right Stuff") any more than Ginger did.

Episode 16 - An "Even Steven" Holiday Special
First aired 20th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Carol Millican
Storyboards by: Jennifer Coyle, Gabi Payn, Monika Tomova
Additional Storyboards: Karen Ciraulo, Joseph Scott
Closing Tag: (Ginger) "Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, in no particular order"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Carl, Hoodsey, Brandon, Lois, Jonas, Joann, Dave, Darren's father, Darren's mother, Ms. Zorski, Will, Dwayne

Additional Voices:

Mitchey Mekelburg - Richard Horvitz
Santa Claus #2 (Jonas's replacement on the street corner) - Arthur Burghardt

When Ginger discovers that Lois's father was Jewish, she decides that she'd rather celebrate Chanukah this year, but when she puts everything - and everyone - else aside, she decides to have an "even steven" Chanukah and Christmas celebration instead; Hoodsey tries to prove to Carl that there really is a Santa Claus, and tries to talk a street corner Santa into granting Carl's wish - to have his father come home for the holiday - which turns out to be easier than it sounds when the Santa happens to be Jonas Foutley

Things learned in this episode: Dwayne's last name is Cochran (maybe he's an ancestor of Zefram Cochrane, who invented (er, will invent) the warp drive on Star Trek); Carl is severely allergic to peanuts (so no peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for him).
The sign in Ginger's house spells it "Hanukkah"; personally, I prefer the spelling with the "C", which usually indicates you make that throat sound before pronouncing the H (or, as Angelica on Rugrats puts it, "you have to <ghch> when you say it").
Macie's "family tree" has three pictures, two of which are her Aunt Bridget and a dog, which means that at least one of her parents isn't on there for some reason. (Speaking of Macie, she has an Aunt Bridget and, according to "Kiss And Make-Up", a Great Aunt Brigitte (no, I'm not sure of the spelling), both of whom look a lot like Macie, although Bridget probably isn't Brigitte's daughter as Brigitte never got married.
Ginger says "Happy Birthday Baby J" - as far as I know, this is as close to mentioning the Christian religion as any Nicktoon has ever been (well, except maybe when they sing "Joy to the World" in the first Rugrats Christmas special).
Nickelodeon - the network where they don't like you saying "dead" (although Carl did say "I could die" when talking about the peanuts) but they turn the other way when there's a neon reindeer lifting its leg and relieving itself...
For those of you who wonder what Macie meant by "stop, drop, and roll": it's what you do when you're on fire (stop moving, lie on the ground, and start rolling around to put the flames out on your clothes).
How does Carl know what his father's truck looks like? For that matter, how does Ginger know what Jonas looks like? (She didn't know in "Hello Stranger".)
More fun with dates: on the night before Christmas Eve, Lois is lighting the seventh candle (not counting the one in the middle) on the Menorah, which means that Chanukah began on the night of December 17. The last time this happened was in 1995, and the next will be in 2041.
Maybe it's the glasses, but I for one notice a resemblance between Jonas and Marianne of The Wild Thornberrys (although Marianne's maiden name is Hunter, so they're probably not related).
You never do see Jonas give Ginger her Christmas present, but considering that she doesn't have a picture of Jonas (according to "Hello Stranger"), a picture frame seems somewhat appropriate.

Lyrics to Carl's version of "Jingle Bells"

Jingle Bells
Higsby smells
Dreidels made of clay
Frosty the frigid snowman
Went to his bar Mitzvah day - hey!

Episode 17 - Piece Of My Heart
First aired 18th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Story by Emily Kapnek and Rain Austin Chandler
Teleplay by Rain Austin Chandler and Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Frank Marino & Joseph Scott (see "Sleep On It" for the difference between "and" and "&")
Storyboards by: Max Martinez, Darin McGowan, Sean Pendergrass
Additional Storyboards: Jennifer Coyle, Tron Mai
Closing tag: [acoustic guitar closing] (Hoodsey) "I like your socks" (Macie) Thank you, Burl

Cast: Ginger, Macie, Dodie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Winston, Mr. Cilia, Mrs. Gordon, Mipsy, Chet, Ian, Will

Additional Voices:

Check-in girl (at the dance) - Kath Soucie
Delivery man - Craig Strong

Macie has a date with a "mystery man" for a school dance, unaware that it's Hoodsey, who has a crush on her; Darren thinks that an invitation to the dance from Courtney for Will is meant for him instead; Carl and Blake team up to get a pig's heart in order to save a dying cow

"In Memory of Lewis Arquette" - Lewis died February 10, 2001, at age 65. Although he was a fine actor in his own right, you might know some of his children, including Rosanna and David (and David's wife, Courtney Cox), better. (Ironically, when Ginger gives the pen to Mr. Cilia, her last words to him were, "You may live to regret those words.")
Note that this episode was made before "Summer of Camp Caprice", which is why Ginger is willing to ask Ian to the dance without any mention of Sasha.
More evidence that episodes have some sort of order: Courtney mentions her French class from "The Right Stuff".
Either Winston is a bit older than he looks, or Sadie Hawkins did exist when he was younger; then again, he almost certainly lived in England when he was young, and it's doubtful that any newspapers over there had "Li'l Abner".
"Excuse me...who's 'Li'l Abner' and what does he have to do with Sadie Hawkins?" Here's the story: in 1937, the comic strip Li'l Abner introduced an annual "Sadie Hawkins Day Race"; it seems that Sadie wasn't exactly the Courtney Gripling of her day, so her father got all of the eligible bachelors together (at riflepoint, presumably) and told them to start running; soon after, Sadie would run after them, and whoever she caught, she would marry. Eventually, the race included every eligible bachelor and bachelorette in town, and any man who got caught that day had to marry whoever caught him. Later, the "Sadie Hawkins Dance" was introduced; the theory was that the women would wear hard shoes and "accidentally" step on the men's feet, making them slower for the race the next day. A "real-life" Sadie Hawkins Dance is nothing more than a dance where the women invite the men.
Macie may be pretty much blind without her glasses, but she isn't deaf; she should be able to tell Dodie was behind her when Dodie speaks to her outside the dance.
It sounds like Hoodsey calls himself "Earl Forkenstock", but Macie calls him "Burl".
Blake says that the Gripling car is a Rolls-Royce (well, he just says "Rolls"), but the trademark grill and logo are missing, and the front grill doesn't have the "Spirit of Ecstacy" on it...but then, the only animated TV show actually authorized to use those was Thunderbirds.
When Winston gives the invitation to Darren, one of the plaques on the wall has part of a uniform with number 33 on it; this seems to be a popular number on Nicktoons, as it's the number on the shirt Gerald pretty much always wears on Hey Arnold!.
Notice that Ginger is dancing with Darren...and speaking of dancing together, all together now: "Dodie Bishop and Chet Zipper?"

Episodes 18, 19, 20 - Summer Of Camp Caprice
(in countries where it is shown as three different episodes, the three parts have different titles:
18 - Season of Caprice
19 - Thicker Than Bug Spray
20 - Break A Lake)
First aired as episodes 14, 15, and 16 in the USA (although Nickelodeon USA has always aired it as a single 90-minute "movie")

Story by Emily Kapnek
Teleplay by Sheila M. Anthony and Emily Kapnek
Directed by Mark Risley, Ron Noble, Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Karen Ciraulo, Robert Goodin, Jeffrey Hua, Michael Daedalus Kenny, Tron Mai, Joseph Scott, Pablo Solis, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: Jennifer Coyle, Max Martinez, Darin McGowan, Gabi Payn, Sean Pendergrass, Monika Tomova
Closing tag: [both "regular" and acoustic guitar closings] (Dodie) "It's over - over - over!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Sasha, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Winston, Joann, Darren's father, Claire (Mrs. Gripling), Miranda's father, Chet, Principal Milty, Archie Chang

Additional Voices:

Melanie (Sasha's sister) - Hope Levy
Margie (the head counselor) - Carol Rosenthal
Policemen - Jeff D. Beuhl, Kenny Blank
Girl in movie - Jeannie Elias
Field hockey player (the one who asks "which one is Matilda?") - Jackie Harris
Georgia (Principal Milty's date) - Tress MacNeille
Courtney's seamstress, Boy in movie - Laraine Newman
Jed (the swimming counselor) - Neil Patrick Harris (yes, there's life after Doogie Howser, M.D.)
Farmhand (at the cow birthing) - Jerry Houser
Sarah (Ginger's past camp friend with darker hair), Carmen (soap opera character) - Candi Milo
Cinammon Ann (Ginger's past camp friend with lighter hair) - Kath Soucie
Giselle (Courtney's maid) - Kate Movius
Doctor in soap opera - Tony Plana
Sergeant (in the teamwork exercise) - Andre Ware
Jarhead (the Camp Spengler staffer who "greets" Will, I think) - John Kassir

Ginger, Dodie, and Macie spend yet another summer at Camp Caprice, where they have some unexpected company - Courtney, who decides that Miranda's comment about how she wouldn't last very long without "high maintenance" needs to be proven otherwise - and Ginger meets a boy she has some serious feelings about (and who feels the same about her); across the lake, Darren and Miranda attend Spengler Military Academy, where they're under the command of Miranda's father - who treats Miranda like any other "private"; Carl and Hoodsey go into the house cleaning business as a front for searching for the dognapper who Carl thinks may have stolen his dog Monster years ago.

"Why do you number it episodes 18, 19, and 20?" Usually, a 90-minute episode is treated as three 30-minute episodes. In fact, in some countries (Australia, for example), it is shown as three regular-length episodes with different titles.
Part 1 of the three-part version is titled "Season of Caprice" as that was the original name of the 90-minute version; the three-part version was sent out before the title could be changed.
Add Principal Milty to the list of people who call Hoodsey "Robert".
Not only can Miranda do "boys-style" push-ups (as opposed to "girls-style", where, at least in my day, your knees were on the ground), but she can do them with one hand behind her back. (This is not an animation goof - doing them this way is one of the better tests of how physically fit you are - not that I know about "physical fitness" from experience; when I was that age, I rated slightly better than Chet Zipper (I actually had some upper body strength, but weighed far too much for it to be much good).)
How old is Sasha, anyway? (In "Ginger's Solo", he's in junior high school.)
At least Macie isn't alone in wearing a one-piece suit; Ginger and some other girls wear one as well.
You would think a girls' camp somewhere in New England would have field hockey played on a field hockey field, but the lines look like they belong on a soccer field. (And yes, they do play field hockey in California and Asia (where the animation is done) - it's even in the Olympics.) (Note to non-North Americans; it's called "field hockey" in the USA as "hockey" usually refers to ice hockey.)
Geography lesson: they're not called the "American Virgin Islands", but the "U.S. Virgin Islands" (or "Islas Virginas", as the principal language seems to be Spanish), and the only other "saint" among them is St. John.
Astronomy lesson: in the scene where Darren and Miranda start to cross the lake, the moon is near the horizon and the lit part is "pointing up". This is impossible late at night; as the moon is lit by the sun, the sun should be visible in this situation. "The horns of the crescent moon point away from the sun."
Courtney's mother's first name, Claire, isn't mentioned on the show, but it is in the credits.
Speaking of credits, there's a reason Miranda's father is credited as "Officer Killgallen" even though he's a sergeant (which is not an officer) at the camp; his normal job is police officer (and he's credited as Officer Killgallen in "Ginger The Juvey").
The bus's license plate is B00014; this was the 14th episode to air in the USA.
Macie asks, "What should (Dodie) have done when two campers were in danger?" Call me old-fashioned, but I would think telling some of the adult counselors so they could handle it would have been the smartest thing. (Tell me what would have happened had Macie suddenly discovered in the middle of the lake that she couldn't swim all that way, or that Dodie managed to lose control of the motorboat. I'll tell you; the producers would have sent the film back to Korea with instructions to stick to the script. Supposedly, this actually happens on occasion, especially when the Korean animators don't animate a joke properly because they don't understand it.)
Then again, most of this mess would never have happened had Margie had the common sense not to give the key to the camp speedboat to a 12-year-old girl...
Speaking of Ginger's locket, she played Melanie's guitar right-handed, but the picture in the locket shows her holding it as if she's playing it left-handed.
Speaking of Ian, in the last class before summer vacation starts, Ginger and Ian are at the same desk.
Maybe Ginger "got off with a warning" (and to be fair, what Ginger did wasn't so bad), but they never do say what happens to Darren and Miranda for their desertion. (Keep in mind that in the "real" armed forces, well, let's just say that you don't want to know what would have happened to them.) What makes it worse is that when Miranda returns home, she has to live with the sergeant who "hunted her down" in the first place. There are some questions best left unanswered...

Lyrics to the Camp Caprice song

At Camp Caprice, price, price

Pronounce "price" as "preece" - rhyme it with "grease"

We don't say "mooses", we say "meece"
And we feel proud, proud, proud

When the girls sing it at school, it sounds like Macie says "are" instead of "feel"

So we sing our song aloud

On the bus, it sounds like some girls sing "as" while others sing "so"
In the Season 2 episode "Lunatic Lake", it's "as"

And every morning, morning, morning
As a new day's dawning, dawning
We are proud, proud, proud
So we sing our song aloud
We come in peace, peace, peace
We're the girls of Camp Caprice
And we are proud, proud, proud
So we sing our song aloud

Lyrics to "Copper Colored Ponies"

There were copper-colored ponies
There was air that smelled like rain

Some people think it's "grain", but the first time Ginger sings it (to Melanie), it's definitely "rain"

And the moon was out in daytime
When I first learned your name
And though the clouds a-quickly moved in

It almost sounds like she's saying "that quickly moved in", but some people have told me that Nickelodeon's As Told By Ginger message board lists the lyrics as "a-quickly", which makes more sense when you combine it with the next line

Though the path looked overgrown
The time that I spent talkin' to you
Made me feel like I was home

SEASON 2 EPISODES

There are 20 episodes currently scheduled for the second season, although some of them may not appear in the USA until the third season.
There are also four episodes that were made for the first season, but were not shown in the USA until the second season; these are included on the Season 1 Episodes page. (In Australia, for example, these four episodes aired along with the other Season 1 episodes.)

Season 2 began on Monday, February 11, 2002, with four episodes shown Monday through Thursday of that week. After that, new episodes aired in the Sunday night slot beginning March 3 through May 19 (except "April's Fools" aired on Monday, April 1, and repeats aired May 5 and May 12).

Episode 21 - Never Can Say Goodbye
First aired 24th in the USA

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Mark Risley
Closing theme "Wrong" music by Jared Faber, lyrics by Emily Kapnek, performed by Kenny Blank
Storyboards by: Tron Mai, Max Martinez, Darin McGowan
Additional Storyboards: (none credited)
Closing tag: (Miranda, after laughing) Stop it!

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Mipsy, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Brandon, Lois, Darren's mother, Mr. Licorice, Dr. Fondfeelings

Additional Voices:

Dr. Weinstein (the dentist) - Larry Drake
Lexi Lanoue (the first girl Darren talks to) - Grey Delisle
Girls in the cafeteria - Kath Soucie, Tress MacNeille
Linda (the first woman talking to Dr. Fondfeelings) - Ja'net DuBois
Sherry (the second woman talking to Dr. Fondfeelings) - Jeannie Elias
Pet store manager - Dee Bradley Baker

When Darren gets his braces removed, suddenly he's the hottest boy on campus and doesn't have time for Ginger, especially when his new girlfriend - Miranda - tries to keep them apart; Carl and Hoodsey search for Brandon's pet monkey

According to what Carl said, the dognapper from "Summer of Camp Caprice" got caught (which might also explain how Principal Milty got The Duchess back in "The Nurses' Strike").
I guess Ginger's shaved legs in "Summer of Camp Caprice" weren't a mistake after all; there's no hair on them when Ginger and Courtney are in the girls' bathroom (when Courtney asks Ginger to smell her breath).
Is the Lucky statue's short leg getting shorter?
Where was Miranda's music teacher at her clarinet practice?
What's with the new hairstyles? Miranda changes hers right after she started seeing Darren, and Courtney changes hers when they're in the mall near the end. (Then again, Miranda is back to her old hairstyle as she's walking with Courtney just before Ginger and Darren meet up near the end.)
When Carl is "adjusting" the picture of Brandon holding a lollipop, look in the upper left corner of the screen; that is a photo of President Richard Nixon bowling. (This reminds me of a gag in an episode of The Simpsons where the family gets a tour of Washington, DC: there's a plaque next to the White House bowling lanes that claims Nixon bowled back-to-back 300 games there.)
"Never Can Say Goodbye" was a song by the Jackson 5 in the early 1970s; I'm a little surprised they didn't have somebody sing it rather than an original song over the closing credits, although it's possible they just couldn't get the rights to it (either that, or somebody considered submitting "Wrong" for an Emmy award, although they didn't sing the entire song in the episode).

Lyrics to "Wrong"

I know I said back then
Never wanted to see you again
But I was wrong
Baby, I was wrong
Nine times out of ten
It seems to happen
That I'm wrong
Baby, I'm wrong
Each day that passes
I can't, although I try
Each day, it hits me
I can't live with goodbye
I know I said back then...
(the song ends here)

Episode 22 - Gym Class Confidential
First aired 21st in the USA

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Robert Goodin, Gabi Payn, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: (none credited)
Closing tag: (Joann) "It's perfectly natural to be embarrassed of your naked self"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Brandon, Terrence, Lois, Joann (Darren was credited but was not in the episode)

Additional Voices:

Girls (in the locker room, discussing the movie) - Jeannie Elias, Kath Soucie
Ms. Powell (the girls' PE teacher) - Mindy Sterling
Film narrator (credited as "Narrator / Doctor") - Ralph Votrian
Mr. Ward (the boys' PE teacher) - Victor Wilson

Macie is terrified about having to watch an upcoming health film; Hoodsey is afraid to shower with the other boys in his PE class

Brandon's monkey has a name - Mr. Licorice - and now it's Brandon's monkey rather than his brothers'.
Courtney appears to have showered in gym class, but in "Of Lice And Friends", the only reason Courtney, or anybody, showered was because of a lice scare.
Blake is in Carl and Hoodsey's PE class - and didn't he get rid of his baby blanket "once and for all" in "Kiss And Make-up"? (By the way, "PE", or "physical education", is the more modern name for "gym class".)
Macie says "How many times do you think I can repeat eighth grade" - although there are references to Season 1 events in Season 2, it isn't clear if they're in seventh grade or eighth.
Macie plays the clarinet, as does Miranda (but Miranda mentioned this in "Ginger the Juvey") - and the band is playing the show's theme song.
"In my day", prison ball was played with one ball. (There were two teams, usually on each side of a basketball court; one player threw the ball, usually at someone on the other team, and if somebody was hit and then the ball hit the ground, that player was out, but if it was caught in the air, the thrower was out. Players who were out went into the "prison" behind the other team's side of the court, and you could throw the ball to your prisoners, who could then try to get someone on the other team out, and if that happened, the prisoner was back in the game.)

Episode 23 - Fast Reputation

Written by Barbara Schwartz and Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Joseph Scott
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Jeffrey Hua, Frank Jen
Additional Storyboards: (none credited)
Closing tag: (Mipsy) "Looks like bad girls finish first"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Mipsy, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Terrence, Lois, Mrs. Gordon, Principal Milty, Will (although all he did was burp)

Additional Voices:

Jake - Lukas Haas
Chef Bob - Robert Costanzo
Girls in the girls' bathroom - Jeannie Elias, Jackie Harris
Ms. Conners (the cooking teacher) - Kath Soucie
Vice Principal Perucci (man at the auditorium door), food inspector - Patrick Pinney
Sean (boy Jake was talking to in the dentist's office), boy jumping into hot tub - Sam Saletta
Dental hygenist - Tress MacNeille

Ginger, Dodie, and Macie crash a high school party (after Ginger gets tired of being called a "nice" girl), where Ginger talks to a "cool" boy, but her reputation soon gets out of hand; Carl and Hoodsey start a lunch cart featuring good food with bad names

Carl is in fifth grade now (in "The Right Stuff", he's in fourth grade), although he has the same teacher and pretty much the same classmates as before.
"Rubber, glue, back to you" - for those of you who haven't heard the long version, it's usually "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you".
Lonnie, Heather, and Traci have adjoining lockers.
Looks like Mipsy is becoming one of the "regulars"; her last name is included in the credits now.
Macie mentions "Kool Moe Gee" - not to be confused with Kool Moe Dee, I assume.
Lexi Lanoue, the girl hosting the party, is the girl who first talks to Darren after his orthodontia are removed in "Never Can Say Goodbye", but since it's a high school party (and, at the time Lexi talked to Darren, she was in a car with her friends), it's safe to assume Lexi is in high school, so how does she know Darren? (Well, Will was at the party, so it's possible that she's seen the two of them together, at Macie's party in "The Right Stuff" for example, or she may have noticed a resmblance (she just callec him "Patterson", so maybe she didn't know Darren's first name).)
Doesn't Chef Bob know any good spaghetti sauce recipes? Ginger, Dodie, and Macie all have spaghetti without sauce at the end of the episode.

Episode 24 - The Nurses' Strike
First aired 22nd in the USA

Written by Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Michael D�dalus Kenny
Storyboards by: Karen Ciraulo, Sean Pendergrass, Monica Tomova
Additional Storyboards: (none credited)
Closing tag: (Carl) "Adhesive" (followed by Hoodsey spitting out his gum)

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Ms. Zorski, Principal Milty

Additional Voices: (none)

When the hospital nurses go on strike, Ginger doesn't want anyone to know Lois has become a housecleaner to raise some money, only for Ginger to help out in order to raise money for a trip to New York, and discover she's closer to her mother than she thought; Carl and Hoodsey try to train Principal Milty's dog

This is the first episode where only regular characters have lines (if you don't count those kids who are scared of Miranda when she finds one of the flyers).
Speaking of which...one of those kids' mothers is supposed to be modeled after As Told By Ginger creator Emily Kapnek.
The Foutley phone number is hard to read on the flyer, but it's almost certainly 555-2517. (555 numbers can be "real" numbers now, as long as the first two digits after 555 aren't 19, which is why a lot of phone numbers in modern movies are 555-19-something.)
More evidence that "season 2 takes place after season 1": there are references to the "vampire cleaning service" and Principal Milty's dog The Duchess, both from "Summer of Camp Caprice".
Speaking of The Duchess, Principal Milty's girlfriend dumped her outside of the city limits in "Summer of Camp Caprice", and if the dog needs training, how did she get back home?
Please, let's not have any long discussions on "was that one of the World Trade Center towers behind the Statue of Liberty in the poster?"; it didn't appear as if it was meant to be an accurate depiction of the New York skyline (that looked like the Chrysler Building in the near background, but in reality the building is over two miles from the Statue of Liberty). (At least the got the Statue right; the 1984 film Supergirl was notorious for having its posters featuring a Statue of Liberty with the torch in her left hand.)
When the episode premiered, it was not possible to climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty, as the inside was closed after the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001; there are plans to reopen it in the second half of 2004.

Episode 25 - Trouble In Gal Pal Land

Written by Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Tron Mai, Max Martinez, Eric Molinsky, Raymond Smyth
Additional Storyboards: (none credited)
Closing tag: (Winston) "I've never been so happy!" (Carl) "Now that's just swell, Winston"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Darren, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Claire, Mrs. Gordon, Winston

Additional Voices:

Waiter - John Kassir
Euphrasia Weinstein - Kath Soucie

Ginger, Dodie, and Macie become a foursome when Miranda becomes one of Ginger's best friends after getting into an argument with Courtney; Hoodsey poses as a homeless boy Claire Gripling "plucked from the street" so she can be elected president of her country club's charity committee - and Carl can buy a lie detector

Again, Carl says he is in fifth grade.
Speaking of again, it looks like Darren is permanently without his orthodontia now, although he's still wearing it in the show's opening.
Why is Claire driving and Winston riding in the back? Isn't driving the Rolls-Royce his job? From the way Claire ran a stop sign and brakes with both feet, it would seem that way.
It looks like Miranda has a rotary phone in her bedroom, but it could be one of those retro-style phones where the buttons are located where the holes in the dial would be.
"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" - did Dodie Bishop say that?
Ginger, Dodie, and Macie are all eating ice cream sundaes - let's hope somebody remembered to make Macie's with non-dairy ice cream.
If they don't wear friendship bracelets because of Macie's medic alert bracelet (something that describes medical conditions, usually allergies - Macie's might include "lactose intolerant" - so if the wearer is unconscious, whoever is helping him/her knows what the problem could be), why doesn't Macie wear a medic alert necklace instead? (She probably already has one, as there are a number of episodes where you can see she's not wearing a bracelet.)
Carl's check was for $399.99, but he asked for "tax and delivery included".
Who bought the lie detector, anyway? Something tells me this isn't the last we've seen of it...
"Something" was mistaken; that was the last we saw of it
Speaking of which, Carl obviously isn't aware that a lie detector doesn't just light up with a red light or something when someone lies; it constantly analyzes your skin and muscle responses - you have to be trained in order to be able to use one properly.
Euphrasia Weinstein (Claire Gripling's competition) is, presumably, the wife of Dr. Weinstein from "Never Can Say Goodbye" (how else could she get Hoodsey's X-ray from his office?).
Maybe Miranda's mother is alive and well after all; when Macie made a comment to Miranda about "your mom and dad", she didn't react as if the statement was out of the ordinary.
Picky department: a 38-foot-wide (11.6m) basketball 3-point circle cannot fit inside a 30-foot-wide (9.1m) volleyball court. True, most junior high schools can't fit a full 74-by-50 foot (22.5 x 15.2m) high school basketball court in their gymnasiums, but in that case the 3-point circle either wouldn't be there or would be drawn from one sideline to the other. (Note to other countries: in the USA, schools and universities (and the WNBA women's league) use a 3-point circle that's shorter than the 6.25m (20 feet 6 inches) international standard - it's supposed to touch the top of the free-throw circle. It's possible that the Asian animators thought "this must be a mistake" and drew in what they thought was right - it wouldn't be the first show to have that happen.)

Episode 26 - Sibling Revile-ry

Written by Erin Ehrlich
Directed by Anthony Bell
Storyboards by: Robert Goodin, Daren McGowin, Gabi Payn
Additional Storyboards: (none credited)
Closing tag: (Mrs. Gordon) "Everyone knows you're just a gullible sidekick" (Hoodsey) "Am not!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Mrs. Gordon, Principal Milty (Courtney and Miranda were both credited but did not appear)

Additional Voices:

George Magrority - Quintin Flynn
Tad (boy in student council) - Grey Delisle
Meryl (girl in student council), blonde (girl in bathroom) - Anndi McAfee
9th grade girl (the one wanting the quarterback as a big brother) - Kath Soucie
Marine biologist, Janitor - Michael McGaharn

Ginger is elected to the student council on a platform of replacing detention with a "big brother/sister" program, but has second thoughts when students start getting into trouble intentionally in hopes of getting a "cool" partner; after Carl causes the elementary school septic system to explode, he talks Mrs. Gordon into trying it, but has more than second thoughts when Ginger assigns a no-nonsense big brother who thinks the solution is to get rid of the doghouse

One of the credits said that the girl who wanted to be given the high school's quarterback as a big brother was in ninth grade; either the high school has started using Ginger's program the way the elementary school has, or the junior high school goes from grades 7 through 9 (quite a few of them do). (However, Macie's comment in "Gym Class Confidential" about "how many times do you think I can repeat eighth grade" makes it sound like it's the highest grade in the school.)
Technically, the Lucky Junior High flag is attached to the flagpole backwards; you can read the letters as it flies to the left, but a flag should always be attached to a pole so that its front flies away from the pole to the right.
Carl has teddy bear wallpaper in his room.
The whale's food supply of plankton had been damaged by a "red tide" - in short, there was a "growth spurt" of toxic algae, and occasionally the algae releases red pigments into the water, making it look red. Click Here for more information, courtesy of the Scientific American web site.

Episode 27 - Losing Nana Bishop

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Frank Jen, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: (none credited)
Closing tag: (Joann) "Robert Joseph, do you have a key for Carl Foutley?" (Hoodsey) "Uh-uh"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Jonas, Joann, Dave

Additional Voices:

Minister - Tom Dixon

When Dave's mother dies, Joann wants Hoodsey to say something at the funeral, but Hoodsey doesn't know what to say, mainly because he never got along with her as well as Dodie did; the death leads Ginger to want to learn more about her own grandmother, and get closer to her father in the process; Carl and Hoodsey manage to lock themselves in shackles and an iron face mask, respectively, and lose the key

Notice that Dave Bishop sounds less like Gomez on The Addams Family and more like Homer on The Simpsons? That's because Dan Castellaneta (who is, in fact, the voice of Homer Simpson - and Grampa, Krusty, and Kent Brockman, but that's another story for another web site) takes over from John Astin (who was Gomez on the old The Addams Family TV series) as Dave's voice beginning with this episode.
Speaking of credits, Joann is credited as "Joanne". (She's credited with the "e" at the end in most of her second season appearances, although not in "Gym Class Confidential".) Mark Risley tells me that Eryk Casemiro had a habit of spelling it "Joanne", much to the dismay of Emily Kapnek.
The first time you see Carl's shackles (before he puts them around his ankles), he's able to open them without the key.
I assume Macie is carrying her clarinet home - but as someone who remembers all too well what it was like to play clarinet in the school band, I never saw one that was long and flat (Miranda's case in "Ginger The Juvey" was more like it).
That's funny - my family's home movies go back to the 1960s, and they're all in color, yet Lois's only back to 1980 or so (and the ones with Ginger are from around 1990) and they're in black and white. (By the way, if you're wondering why they are on film rather than video, video cameras did exist in 1990, but they were rather expensive, and not nearly as small as they are today.)
There's a dog in some of the home movies with young Ginger and Carl; could that be Monster?
Speaking of the home movies, one has what appears to be Ginger's second birthday (the cake has two candles), but baby Carl is in it, which would make Ginger less than two years older than Carl, yet she's three grades ahead of him. Of course, there are any number of explanations, one of which was "Carl ate one of the candles".
...just as there are probably a number of explanations as to why home movies with Ginger and Carl in them are in a box labeled "JONAS FOUTLEY 1979-81"; for example, maybe they were originally in a box marked "GINGER & CARL HOME MOVIES" but that box broke.
Macie says that nobody sleeps in pigtails - but Dodie does, at the end of "Sleep On It" and during "Summer Of Camp Caprice". (And are they "pigtails" if they stick out to the side like that? I always thought pigtails always pointed straight down.)
Jonas says that his "real father" was a disappointment; it sounds as if his father left him, just as he left Ginger and Carl.
"Nana Bishop" has a first name, if you listen carefully when she's lowered into the ground: Ernestine. That's also when Joann mentions Dave's middle name (Charles). (It sounds like Joann calls Dave "Charles Bishop"; you have to listen very carefully to hear say "David Charles Bishop".)

Episode 28 - TGIF

Teleplay by Rafi Simon and Sheila M. Anthony, based on an idea by Barbara Schwartz
Directed by Joseph Scott
Storyboards by: Karen Ciraulo, Jeffrey Hua, Sean Pendergrass, Monica Tomova
Additional Storyboards: (none credited)
Closing tag: (Reporter #1) "Eh, they say it's a stage four stachybotrys" (pronounced "stocky-boo-tris") (Reporter #2) "No kidding"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Darren, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Brandon, Lois, Joann, Claire, Prescott, Winston, Mrs. Gordon, Principal Milty, Buzz

Additional Voices:

Medic (who takes Ginger's journal from her) - John Kassir
Librarian - Susan Krebs
Sensationalistic reporter - Candi Milo
(Lucky Elementary) Principal Huliski, reporter #1 - Brian Cummings
Mrs. Lawrence (Ginger's teacher), reporter #2 - Roberta Farkas
Maid - Cree Summer
Delivery man (who delivers Ginger's journal) - John Mariano

On Friday the 13th, the Foutley house is overcome by "F-13 mold", causing Lois and Carl to move in with the Bishops temporarily - and Ginger, who can't understand why Lois and Carl are soaking up the attention, moving in with Courtney

"Why is the back of Lois's car on fire?" Because that's where the engine is on the "old" Volkswagen Beetles. (This is also why there's smoke coming out of the back of the car in the show's opening.)
In the early scenes, the limo the Griplings are in is white instead of the usual black one (which appears later, when Courtney and Miranda arrive at Ginger's house).
When the Gripling limo hit a pothole, it tossed Ginger and Carl out of their seats, but not only were the Griplings not tossed around, but Courtney didn't spill the cappuccino she was pouring.
Another thing to add to "the Macie file": she's afraid of heights. (No wonder she fainted on her way up to the top of the Statue of Liberty in "The Nurses' Strike".)
Mr. Gripling's first name is Prescott - but in "Kiss And Make-up", Claire says it's "a Gripling tradition" that the boys have first names beginning with B (so they can pass the baby blanket from generation to generation).
Speaking of names, Dodie's full name is said for the first time: Deirdre Hortense Bishop.
Ginger writes with both hands in this episode; she writes her paper with her right hand in the beginning, but near the end, she writes in her journal with her left hand.
More fun with dates: Mrs. Lawrence's desk has a large calendar for April on it, and presumably it's the "current" month as it has Friday the 13th; there was a Friday the 13th in April in 2001.
Here's one for you (okay, us) Carl fans out there: one of the reporters says "it could be a Stage 4 Stachybotrys"; in fact, stachybotrys has its own website - www.stachybotrys.net.

Episode 29 - Lunatic Lake
Nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Michael D�dalus Kenny
Storyboards by: Tron Mai, Max Martinez, Eric Molinsky
Additional Storyboards: Bob Fuentes
Closing tag: (Joann) "Your father says lots of things that never come true"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Joann, Dave, Ms. Zorski, Archie Chang

Additional Voices:

Crazy Floyd - Charlie Dell
News announcer - Jackie Harris

During a school break, the Bishops take Ginger, Carl, and Macie on their annual trip to Loon Lake, where an escaped mental patient is reportedly on the loose, and Ginger wonders why Dodie is always sticking up for her mother's behavior; Carl and Hoodsey plan to scare Blake, who's there on a survival outing

Ms. Zorski tells the class, "See you in 11 days"; presumably, in addition to a full week off, the school gets either the Friday before or the Monday after off as well.
Hoodsey is using what is presumably an 8mm film camera, as opposed to a video camera, although you can't really take out and put in reels of film like that. (It could be some strange video format.)
Was I the only one expecting something to pop out of the bucket of clams Carl gave Joann?
For someone who is lactose intolerant, Macie certainly claims to like cheese a lot. (Then again, it's "canned cheese", which I assume is that stuff you spray out of a nozzle, so there's no guarantee that anything resembling a dairy product got anywhere near it.)
This show could start its own urban legend - "right after Hoodsey drops his camera in front of the skunk, in the next scene, you can see the ghosts of the original voiceover actresses who were killed in a terrible, and heavily covered-up, microphone accident"; in fact, you can see right through Ginger, Dodie, Macie, and Joann, for some strange reason (my guess: they tried to make part of the scene transparent so you could see through the flashlight beams).

Episode 30 - Ms. Foutley's Boys
First aired 31st in the USA

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Robert Goodin, Darin McGowan, Gabi Payn, Raymond Smyth
Additional Storyboards: Bob Fuentes
Closing tag: (Junior) "This a whole lot better than our doublewide"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Dr. Dave, Dr. Fondfeelings, Buzz, Junior, Junior Sr., Rhesus

Additional Voices:

Nurse Betty (the nurse that Lois talks to) - Jeannie Elias

Lois starts to date Buzz Harris (the plumber from "TGIF"), who turns out to be an obnoxious, selfish jerk who keeps making unnecessary repairs around the house and his three sons, the twins Junior and Junior Sr. and their younger brother Rhesus, are loud and wreck her house - but Ginger wants to keep them together as she's afraid Lois will end up lonely; Carl uses the boys to test out his latest idea - combination fabric softener/aftershave and dryer sheet/handkerchiefs

It's a good thing Ginger always gets the mail - I can only imagine what would happen if Lois ever found out that Ginger put in a personal ad in her name.
"Rhesus, like the monkey?" It's also what provides the "positive" or "negative" in blood types - whether or not your blood has the "Rh (short for Rhesus) factor".
You know it's serious when Ginger calls Lois "Lois".
What, they can't find a sandwich shop where they make meatball and non-meatball sandwiches? (And how can anybody say no to a meatball sub? Although the one time I was in Connecticut, in the late 1980s, they were called "grinders".)
How come Darren didn't trigger off the alarm? For that matter, why didn't Ginger mind that Darren came into her room while she was wearing nothing but her bathrobe?
Ginger should realize that "just being in a relationship" doesn't always work - Lois was in one already, with some guy named Jonas...

Episode 31 - April's Fools
First aired 30th in the USA

Story by Emily Kapnek and Vera Duffy
Teleplay by Vera Duffy
Directed by Anthony Bell
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Frank Jen, Dave Williams, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: Bob Fuentes, Raymond Smyth
Closing tag: (Hoodsey) "Can't...reach...toilet plunger!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Joann, Dwayne

Additional Voices:

Dustin - Pamela Segall-Adlon
Mrs. Lawrence (Ginger's (social studies?) teacher) - Roberta Farkas

Ginger plays an April Fool's Day prank on Dodie by forging a love letter to her from a boy, only for Dodie to admit she really likes him - and the boy to admit that he likes Macie; Carl makes Blake think he's sold Blake's tonsils (as seen in "Dare I, Darren?")

The yearbook doesn't have the names of the students near their photos; also, the photos don't seem to be in any order (otherwise, why isn't Chet Zipper located near the end?).
The only clue as to what subject Mrs. Lawrence teaches: she writes "Renaissance History" on the blackboard, so I assume she's Ginger's social studies teacher. (Since the girls were reading A Midsummer Night's Dream at the beginning, it's possible that she's Ginger's English teacher, but I think that's what Ms. Zorski does.) Note that, in "Ginger's Solo", she has an American History class, so it's possible that this particular social studies class is European history (as that's where "the Renaissance" took place).

Episode 32 - Love With A Proper Transfer Student

Story by Emily Kapnek, Sheila M. Anthony, and Erin Ehrlich
Teleplay by Erin Ehrlich
Directed by Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Karen Ciraulo, Jeffrey Hua, Monica Tomova
Additional Storyboards: Bob Fuentes, Raymond Smith, Bonita Versh
Closing tag: (Ginger) "Those are all my favorite things too!" (Joaquin) "Shut up!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Mipsy, Chet, Carl , Hoodsey, Lois, Ms. Zorski

Additional Voices:

Joaquin Cortez - Mathew Valencia

Ginger signs Dodie up for the school musical to try to get her closer to a new transfer student, only for he and Ginger to get the leads - and Ginger to realize that she may have feelings for him as well; Carl tries to develop an aphrodisiac

"Mambo in the Catskills" sounds like something I've been hearing stories about called "The Baby & Johnny Project" - yes, it's a stage musical version of Dirty Dancing, which, from what I've heard, is still being worked on.
Even though it's a musical, nobody sings anything during the entire episode.
Looks like Ginger is "back" in seventh grade - it's rather hard to be an eighth grader without being at least 13 years old, and both Lois and Carl say she's not a teenager yet.
Lois should already know Carl has some idea how to cook, assuming this episode takes place after "Fast Reputation".
You can actually read what Ginger writes in her diary, as opposed to it appearing as squiggly lines.
Why do I have this feeling this is probably the last we'll hear about Joaquin and Dodie, or Joaquin and Ginger, or Joaquin and anybody for that matter? (And did you notice Dodie didn't stop Ginger from "giving up on Joaquin" - and Ginger didn't explain to Joaquin how Dodie felt about him?)

Episode 33 - Family Therapy

Story by Sheila M. Anthony and Paul Greenberg
Teleplay by Paul Greenberg
Directed by Joseph Scott
Storyboards by: Tron Mai, Max Martinez, Eric Molinsky, Sean Pendegrass
Additional Storyboards: Bob Fuentes, Raymond Smith
Closing tag: (Bobby) "Three - two - one - blast off!" (personally, I would have went with Bobbie's "I'm hugging the bear - I haven't a care")

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Chet, Mipsy

Additional Voices:

Bobby Lightfoot, Ph.D. (Macie's father) - Michael McKean
Bobbie Lightfoot, Ph.D. (Macie's mother) - Mary Gross
Receptionist - Jeannie Elias
Sobbing patient - Nancy Lunari
Expert on naked mole rats - Paul Greenberg (he not only writes the episode, he acts in it too)

When Macie's parents forger Macie's 13th birthday, they try to make up for it - and, presumably, quite a few other birthdays they've missed - by treating Macie more like an 6-year-old; Carl hides in fear of naked mole rats when one crawls up his leg

When Chet read the birthdays, the first two he read were for two students who were turning 12 - does Lucky Junior High School have sixth-graders now? (It didn't in "Hello Stranger", when seventh-grader Ginger got a "graduation card" from her father that was months late.)
More evidence that Ginger and company are in seventh grade; Macie turns 13, and Ginger, Dodie, and Courtney are still 12, in April.
Ginger tells Lois that Macie's birthday is on Sunday, but according to Bobby's PDA, April 22 is a Monday. (The obvious explanation: the episode was written in 2001, when April 22 was a Sunday, and the scene with the PDA was probably animated in 2002, when April 22 was a Monday.) It's possible that Mipsy's party was a day early (so it could be all day), but then why would Macie think that her parents had forgotten her birthday if it was actually the next day?
Whoever wrote the addresses on Mipsy's invitations puts those little horizontal lines through their 7s. (Courtney was in charge of the guest list, but do you honestly expect Courtney to write addresses on envelopes herself?)
Why would Courtney and Miranda even bother to show up at Macie's birthday party, much less one at a petting zoo?

Episode 34 - New Girl In Town

Written by Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Michael D�dalus Kenny
Storyboards by: Robert Goodin, Darin McGowan
Additional Storyboards: Bob Fuentes, Erik Moxcey, Raymond Smith, Kahee Yum
Closing tag: (electronic mall Muzak - it kinda sorta says "Carl and Hoodsey")

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Mipsy, Carl, Hoodsey, Brandon, Mr. Licorice, Will, Principal Milty

Additional Voices:

Laetitia Bowers - Cara Delizia
Laetitia's father, Ginger's math teacher - Stuart Pankin
Brandon's father - Dee Bradley Baker
Brandon's mother - Sally Struthers
Mitchell (boy who taps Macie on shoulder) - Jeannie Elias
Carl's art teacher - Christina Pickles

Ginger tries to make a new girl more popular, which is not easy when you have to start with a mortician's daughter; Carl and Hoodsey are the only guests at Brandon's birthday party

Was I imagining things, or didn't Laetitia Bowers look like Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family (the TV version of which starred John Astin, the first season voice of Dodie's father)? Carrying around a skull didn't exactly dispel the similarities.
Brandon acts that way without sugar?
You would think that Mipsy would know that all of her mother's cousins are her own cousins as well.
Looks like an animation reunion: Stuart Pankin and Sally Struthers played Earl (the father) and Charlene (the daughter) on Dinosaurs (if you don't remember it, it's because it ended in 1994; it co-starred Sam McMurray, who voices Courtney's father in "TGIF")
You know you've been watching TV for too long when you see the name Christina Pickles in the credits and the first thing you think of is her role on St. Elsewhere (that show didn't hurt Denzel Washington's career any) before realizing that most of your readers might know her better as Ross and Monica's mother on Friends.

Episode 35 - Ginger's Solo
First aired 36th in the USA

Story by Emily Kapnek and Erin Ehrlich
Teleplay by Erin Ehrlich
Directed by Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Robert Goodin, Frank Jen, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: Won Ki Cho, Bob Fuentes, Raymond Smyth
Closing tag: (Ginger) It's a long story (Miranda) I'm already bored

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Miranda, Sasha, Carl, Hoodsey, Lois, Blake, Brandon, Terrence, Mrs. Gordon, Sasha

Additional Voices:

Clover (Sasha's girlfriend) - Tress MacNeille
Katie (band member with glasses) - Heather Ryan
Mr. Blauer (band teacher) - Danny Mann
Disgruntled Girl (who calls Carl lame) - Grey Delisle
Ex-Extra Grande Triangle Player - David Goldstein
Song Leader (who starts the chant on the bus) - Mindy Sterling

Ginger joins the school band when she hears they're going to a competition at the school that Sasha attends; Carl and Hoodsey try to raise money by making psychic predictions

At first, I thought this episode took take place soon after school started, since it wouldn't make much sense for Ginger suddenly to be interested in Sasha again, and she didn't look particularly interested in other episodes. However, I've been told that (a) Macie is in the band in "Mommie Nearest", as Ginger says Macie had band practice, and (b) the sweatshirt Ginger is wearing is the one she got on her New York trip in "The Nurses' Strike".
The band is referred to as the "Lucky Goat Middle Marching Band" - why not the "Lucky Goat Junior High Marching Band"? (The medals at the end say "Lucky Jr. High", so the school hasn't changed its name.)
"Why let a lack of talent and ability stand in your way?" You don't think it's because pretty much every band makes you audition (unlike, perhaps, the ethnic cooking club)?
I guess we'll never know Sasha's last name...
...but we have some vague idea where he lives - 2 1/2 hours' drive, which would be 125 miles (200 km) or so, from Sheltered Shrubs; assuming Sheltered Shrubs' ZIP code puts it near Stamford, Heathered Hills could be anywhere from northern New Jersey to southern Massachusetts, or in upstate New York. (Note that they never say where Camp Caprice is.)
(In reality, there are two schools named Heather Hills, but they're both elementary schools: one in Indianapolis, and one in the Washington, DC suburbs. There is also a Heather Hill Elementary School south of Chicago; it's likely that this is named after somebody named Heather Hill.)
A triangle is supposed to make the same noise wherever you strike it, but Ginger manages to get different sounds out of hers.
Carl got an A-plus and a smiley face on his history test
Did that scene with Ginger sunbathing on the pier as Sasha swam across, with the shadow of a plane going across the water, look familiar? If I remember correctly, a very similar scene appeared in a commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume.
Even though Sasha and Ginger aren't a couple any more, I'm a little surprised that Sasha's sister Melanie wasn't in the crowd at the contest (presumably Sasha would have told her that Ginger was in one of the bands).
Pardon me for being picky when it comes to band matters (no, I didn't play the triangle when I was in school...okay, it was the clarinet, but I was a much better "math geek" than a "band geek"; it also doesn't hurt that I live in the area of two of the top drum and bugle corps in the country, the Concord Blue Devils and the Santa Clara Vanguard), but if it's not a marching band competition (and nowhere does it say that it is), why is it held on a football field and everyone has to wear uniforms? (By the way, there's no such thing as an "extra-grande triangle" (if there was, it would probably be named for the note it makes when you hit it, like "B-flat triangle"), although a part of me can't help but think that I've heard that name somewhere before...)
Actually, most non-"concert band" competitions take place on football fields - in fact, quite a few organizations' rules require football field markings.
How did Lucky win, considering (a) they only had 18 instruments, at least four of which were percussion, and (b) how poor a clarinet player Miranda is? Then again, you don't hear any particularly noticeable klunkers - perhaps Miranda knows when to keep silent? On top of that, how did the medals get the school's name on them so fast?
Then again...most band organizations have different levels of competition based on either the size of the band or the number of students in the school; it's possible Heathered Hills was hosting a competition for "smaller" junior high school bands.
Hmmm...young boy, dark hair, goes to a school where the logo is two Hs slightly offset...could it be that Sasha is really Batman? Hey, you never seem them together. (For those of you who think I've finally completely lost it, the Batman Beyond series is about a high school student who, something like 20 years from now, takes the aging Bruce Wayne's place as Batman; the high school he attends is named Hamilton Hill High School (named for the mayor of Gotham City in Batman: the Animated Series, I think), and its logo, like Heathered Hills, is two Hs next to each other but slightly apart vertically. Actually, the Hamilton Hill logo has the Hs separated horizontally as well, while the Heathered Hills logo does not.)

Episode 36 - Mommie Nearest
First aired 35th in the USA

Written by Sheila M. Anthony
Directed by Anthony Bell
Storyboards by: John Eddings,Jeffrey Hua, Monica Tomova
Additional Storyboards: Jerilyn Dever, Raymond Smith
Closing tag: (Dr. Dave) Right...yes, uh, that'd be fine, too

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Terrence, Lois, Claire, Dr. Dave

Additional Voices:

Dr. Juan, running doctor (on TV) - Jesse Corti
"Ultra-Plastic Surgery" announcer - Candi Milo

When Claire has to stay in the hospital after her face lift gets infected, Courtney stays with Ginger, and starts bonding with Lois, making Ginger jealous; Carl wants plastic surgery on his chin, so Dr. Dave suggests a "fake chin" as a "test drive"

If you're wondering about the title: it comes from Mommie Nearest, Christine Crawford's book about her mother Joan, where she didn't exactly spend the entire time saying nice things about her...
You would think Claire would have enough money to pay for the best plastic surgery possible, or at least go to a hospital that had a private room available.
Hoodsey says he can tell the difference between 1% and 2% fat milk - who can't? (I certainly can. Telling 2% from whole milk is another story. Besides, that's why they invented things like Ovaltine.)
There's a real (rather than a drawn) picture of a skull in the nurses' lounge.
It's a ghost book! Actually, in the scene where Ginger, Dodie, and Macie are putting covers on their books, when Ginger starts talking and Dodie lifts her book, the pattern on the cover doesn't move with the book - it's as if the cover pattern is being projected onto the book.

Episode 37 - No Hope For Courtney
First aired 39th in the USA

Story by Emily Kapnek and Laura McCreary
Teleplay by Laura McCreary
Directed by Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Tron Mai, Eric Molinsky, Sean Pendergrass
Additional Storyboards: Gabi Payn, Raymond Smyth
Closing tag: (Mrs. Gordon) No one likes a kiss-up, Carl

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Mipsy, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Lois, Mrs. Gordon, Principal Milty, Mr. Hepper

Additional Voices:

Hope Rogers - Jane Wiedlin (credited as "Jane Weidlin")
Jean-Pierre - Laraine Newman

When Ginger sees Courtney snub another student, she turns her into "the next Courtney", who decides that she - and her newfound friends - are too good for the old Courtney; Carl and Hoodsey try keep Mrs. Gordon from retiring

Hope is voiced by Jane Wiedlin, guitar player for "The Go-Gos" (although, to be fair, she does have a few albums on her own).
Hope is called "Faith" and "Charity" at various times; "faith, hope, and charity" is a somewhat common phrase, probably originating from the names of three early Christian martyrs (there seem to be two different "stories", in much the same way that there are a number of versions of the "true" story of the Disney movie Mulan; in one, the three women are sisters, while in the other, they are usually friends).
I doubt that there is any rule concerning how long a class has to go without a teacher before it becomes "permanent recess", although even "in my day", whenever a teacher was late, somebody usually said something about 15 (or 20) minutes.
Ginger says she didn't "hook up" with Dodie and Macie until (at least) second grade, but in "Come Back Little Seal Girl", they say that they have been trying to win the talent show since kindergarten.
Neither Noelle nor Brandon are in band class.
Mrs. Gordon's last line (literally), "No one likes a kiss-up, Carl", is also the last line in "Dare I, Darren?".
"In Memory of Kathleen Freeman" - Kathleen Freeman (the voice of Mrs. Gordon) died not too long after recording this episode. The original plan was for Mrs. Gordon to come back to Carl's class (notice how she winks at him after his song; also, in most countries, this episode airs before "And She Was Gone", where Mrs. Gordon is still alive), but when Freeman died, they decided not to try to replace her with another actress.
No, there was nothing wrong with the TV signal during the closing credits; they didn't play any closing music.
Why do I have the feeling that, despite Hope's newfound popularity, this is the last we'll see, or at least hear, of her?
She is in Courtney's "inner circle" in "About Face", and Dodie calls her by name, but she has no lines

Lyrics - Carl's song to Mrs. Gordon
You're the butter on my biscuit
The hair on my mole
I was lost before I met you
But Gordo, now I'm whole
You're the tartare on my steak
The ketchup on my eggs
School just won't be the same
Without that white hair and those spindly legs
So take a tip from Foutley, Gordo
Hear my plea
And march that old butt
Back to Lucky Elementary
By the way, that's "tartare" ("steak tartare" is a fancy term for "raw beef with herbs"), not "tartar" (as in "tartar sauce")

Episode 38 - Next Question

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Jopseph Scott
Storyboards by: Max Martinez, Darin McGowan, Gabi Payn, Rafael Zentil
Additional Storyboards: Jerilyn Dever, Sean Pendegrass, Raymond Smith
Closing tag: (Hoodsey) In a minute, I'm gonna spew stomach bile, you hear?

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Chet, Brandon, Lois, Mr. Licorice, Archie Chang

Additional Voices:

Mr. Gardner - Eric Loomis
Dr. Randall (master of ceremonies at the Pawtucket Pete ceremony), Naturevision narrator - S. Scott Bullock
Quiz bowl opponent (I think it's the one who answers the states question) - Grey Delisle (the one who answeres the questions about relative humidity and Mercury is uncredited)
Cleetis Boregard - Billy West
Pawtucket Pete - Dee Bradley Baker
"Pizza Dog" clerk - Hope Levy
Closing credits singer - Shannen Conley

Ginger has a serious crush on her Quiz Team coach; Carl and Hoodsey try to free the local groundhog so they can sell scarves with its likeness on it

You mean there isn't anybody smarter in the school than Ginger, Macie, or Chet?
There was another boy and girl at Chet's table during the practice section with bells in front of them, and Mr. Gardner handed out uniforms to them as well, without saying anything about there being only three students on the team.
Nobody cares that one team's coach is reading (and probably wrote) the questions?
In the actual competition, there aren't any lights that indicate which team buzzed in, and all the buzzers sound the same - if players from both teams buzzed in at the same time, who would know which team buzzed in first?
Pawtucket Pete is obviously based on Puxatawny Phil, the resident groundhog of Puxatawny, Pennsylvania, probably made most famous in the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. (For those of you outside of the USA who may be unfamiliar with this: some European traditions say that if it's sunny on February 2, another winter storm is coming, but if it's not, winter is over for the year; Germans added a hedgehog to this tradition, and when German settlers came to North America in the 1800s, they didn't find many hedgehogs, but plenty of groundhogs.)
Did I say (and I did, in earlier versions of this page)...
- ... "we know who the mayor is"? Actually, he probably isn't the mayor of Sheltered Shrubs, as Pawtucket Pete's "home" is right near where Mr. Gardner lives, and it's in someplace called Marshy Hills, according to what Chet said in the scene right after Macie's rollerblading accident. Besides, it appears as if he's now the former mayor.
- ..."why didn't anybody hear 'Mark Twain' and 'nom de plume' and immediately buzz in with 'Samuel Clemens'"? Nobody buzzed in on any questions before they were finished, which might mean that this was a rule of some sort. (In most competitions of this sort, you can buzz in before a question is completed, but they stop asking the question when you buzz in.) Notice that, in the practice round, he finishes reading a question even after Macie rings in. Then again...
- ..."why did Furnace Brook get a 'free question' after Ginger asked Mr. Gardner out"? If you look closely, he's in the middle of asking a question when Ginger buzzes in; maybe you can buzz in during a question, in which case Lucky's "answer" was incorrect and Furnace Brook gets to try to answer it (the way they got to answer the "first three states in alphabetical order" one when Chet missed it and for the record, the first time I heard that question, I said the same thing Chet did).
Macie says that Mr. Conley chews his food at least 25 times. If you think you've seen that before somewhere, you may have; there are signs saying this in the cafeteria on Hey Arnold!. ("In my day," it was 32 times.)
No, I don't know who that old man was with the walker at the ceremony, either, but if the master of ceremonies looks familiar, that's Dr. Randall from "Blizzard Conditions", and it looks like he got his dog Muffin back (Muffin was one of the dognapped dogs in "Summer of Camp Caprice").
That's twice that Shannon Conley has sung a Seal Girl song; she sings the Seal Girl theme in "Come Back Little Seal Girl".
Note that "Cleetis Boregard" is how the name is spelled in the credits; usually it's "Cletis (or Cletus) Beauregard (or Beauregarde)".
I thought the girls couldn't wear makeup? In the bathroom, right after the practice session, Dodie and Macie are both putting on lipstick, and Dodie asks Ginger why isn't glossing. (Then again, I suppose it's possible to gloss your lips without using "lip gloss".)
Did Macie's parents finally get the message about spending more time with Macie? Someone who looks a lot like Macie's mother is in the fifth row behind Lois.
When Brandon changes the channel after watching NatureVision, we can see Dr. Fondfeelings's show, and one of the cartoons Carl was watching from "Ms. Foutley's Boys".

Lyrics - "Teen Seal" Song
(the lyrics are from the closing credits, except where noted)
Take my flipper, let's swim away
Toward a brand new dawning day
Brandon says "towards" when he sings it
To a place where you and I can live as teen seals
Past the ice floes, and farther still
Just beyond Old Smelt Fish Hill
To the only place where you and I are free
And if they only knew
What a teen seal wants to do
Every time the tide takes the seal girl out to sea
The closing credits version ends here - this part was sung by Carl to Mr. Licorice
Let that buoy show us the way
To a harbor beyond today
To the place where you and I can live as teen seals
Past the ice floes, and farther still
Just beyond Old Smelt Fish Hill
To the place where you and I can live as teen seals

Episode 39 - Driven To Extremes
First aired 40th in the USA

Story by Nate Eddinger and Erin Ehrlich
Teleplay by Erin Ehrlich
Directed by Michael D�dalus Kenny
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Robert Goodin, Frank Jen
Additional Storyboards: (none)
Closing tag: (Chet) Fire...fire...emergency!

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Chet, Carl, Hoodsey, Brandon, Mr. Licorice

Additional Voices:

Mrs. Grimley - Billy West
Steven Applebaum (boy with red hair) - Robbie Rist
Talent show MC - Dee Bradley Baker

A tough new substitute teacher drives Ms. Zorski's class to take matters into their own hands, but when they decide to go a little too far, Ginger backs out; Carl offers to teach Mr. Licorice a talent for a pet show - how to ride a motorcycle

Either Darren is sick as well, or Ms. Zorski's class is one of the few that Ginger and Darren do not have together (like, for example, Mr. Cilia's).
When Mrs. Grimley first re-arranges the desks, Ginger is sharing a desk with Stuart Higsby. (This could be why she calls Mr. Licorice "Stuart Higsby's Monkey"; besides, he was Stuart's monkey for a long time.)
Brandon's "piccolo" is a flute; a piccolo is smaller and has a higher pitch.
The Gripling motto is "Love, Honor, Affluence".
While it's common for women to voice boys, this is one of very few times where a man (Billy West) voices a woman (Mrs. Grimley). (If you think you've heard that voice before: Billy West has done quite a few voices, including Doug and Roger on the Nickelodeon version of Doug, Stimpy (and, in the "Games Animation" episodes, Ren) on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rancid Rabbit on CatDog, and Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Professor Farnsworth, and Zapp Brannigan on Futurama.)
Here's someone from the "Whatever happened to..." department: Robbie Rist (the voice of Steven Applebaum) was "Cousin Oliver" in the last season of The Brady Bunch (when somebody decided to add a young kid because even Bobby and Cindy were no longer "cute").

Episode 40 - And She Was Gone
First aired 37th in the USA
Nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Mark Risley
Storyboards by: Jeffrey Hua, Tron Mai, Max Martinez, Darin McGowan, Eric Molinsky, Monica Tomova, Alan Zegler
Additional Storyboards: Michael D�dalus Kenny, Todd Risley, Raymond Smith
Closing tag: Emily Kapnek reads "And She Was Gone" over the credits, followed by a crow call

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Courtney, Miranda, Carl, Hoodsey, Brandon, Noelle, Lois, Ms. Zorski, Mrs. Gordon

Additional Voices:

Dr. Leventhal (the psychiatrist) - Beth Howland
Louie (the magic shop owner) - Eddie Barth
Librarian - Hope Levy
Girl in elementary school playground ("Did you hear about Kerrie?") - uncredited

Ginger's poem for a writing competition, about a girl who wishes she could disappear - and does - makes people think the story is about Ginger herself; Carl discovers that a girl in his class is too crazy not to be without - after he (apparently) makes her disappear with vanishing powder first

What does a murder mystery by author Susan McBride have to do with this show? Well, it's called And Then She Was Gone, which was the original title of this episode until somebody discovered McBride's book and had the episode title changed. Note that, while Ginger's version of the poem ends with "and then she was gone", the version over the closing credits is just "and she was gone".
Chet Zipper was credited, but did not have any lines. This time, I have some idea why; in an early version of the script, Chet had a question about what happened next to the boy in the story Ms. Zorski read.
How did Ms. Zorski know that Ginger would take an application? You don't think that Ginger asking about the competition rules had anything to do with it, do you?
This time, Mrs. Gordon calls Hoodsey "Hoodsey", as opposed to "Robert".
Mrs. Gordon says "ladies and gentlemen...Hoodsey"; Blake says something similar ("gentlemen...Woodsey") in "Never Can Say Goodbye".
Carl only gets $1 a week? (He paid "four months' allowance" for the powder, which was on sale for $21.95.) Then again, he's not exactly from a rich family.
Noelle was held back a year in kindergarten, so presumably she's a year older than Carl - what is it with Carl and older women (first Maude, now Noelle)?
I don't think Charles Darwin ever said that about penguins...
It looks like the printing press is printing out thick books containing just Ginger's poem, but the scene is in black and white, which I think means that it's all part of the "imaginary world" the girl who disappears is in.
Nothing new about a show's creator doing a voice on the show; others include Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold!), Peter Hannan (CatDog), Joe Murray (Rocko's Modern Life), and Jhonen Vasquez (Invader Zim; he's credited as "mr. scolex"). (King of the Hill goes one better; its creator, Mike Judge, is the voice of the main character, Hank.) For that matter, Walt Disney was the original voice of Mickey Mouse.

"And She Was Gone" - note this is the version Ginger reads during the show
(it is also the version in the Cooltoons.com pin-up - click here to download it, although you will need Adobe Acrobat to see it)

She chose to walk alone, though others wondered why
Refused to look before her, kept eyes cast upwards towards the sky
She didn't have companions; no need for earthly things
Only wanted freedom from what she felt were puppet strings
She longed to be a bird, that she might fly away
She pitied every blade of grass, for planted they would stay
She longed to be a flame that brightly danced alone
Felt jealous of the steam that made the air its only home
Some say she wished too hard; some say she wished too long
But we awoke one autumn day to find that she was gone
The trees, they say, stood witness; the sky refused to tell
But someone who had seen it said the story played out well
She spread her arms out wide, breathed in the break of dawn
She just let go of all she held...and then she was gone
The version in the closing credits is slightly different: remove "kept" from the second line, add "She" to the beginning of the fourth line, change "was" to "had" in the tenth line, and remove "then" from the last line

SEASON 3 EPISODES

There are 20 episodes currently scheduled for the third production season, counting the longer episodes as multiple episodes. ("Stuff'll Kill Ya", for example, is episode 11 of the season.)

Episodes 41, 42, 43 - Foutleys On Ice

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Michael D�dalus Kenny, Anthony Bell, Joseph Scott
Storyboards by: Curtis Cim, Jeffrey Hua, Tron Mai, Max Martinez, Darren McGowan, Eric Molinsky, Sean Pendergrass, Gabi Payn, Monica Tomova, Rossen Varbanov
Additional Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Bob Fuecks, Frank Jen
Closing tag: (Noelle) I'm really angry! (Carl) Is she the greatest, or what?

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Mipsy, Carl, Hoodsey, Noelle, Blake, Brandon, Lois, Darren's father, Darren's mother, Winston, Ms. Zorski, Dwayne

Additional Voices:

Thea - Joey Lauren Adams
Fred - Toran Caudell
Punk kid - Kenny Blank
Turtle eater - John Kassir
Space Cannibal (in the movie) - Tress MacNeille
Hysterical citizen (in the movie) - Jeannie Elias
Silver-haired woman (in line to see the list of finalists?) - Laraine Newman
Cheese attendant - Eryk Casemiro
Bus driver - Wes Parnell
Radio voice, train conductor - Chris Parnell
Hip art student - Lauren Tom

Ginger gets invited to attend an arts academy, although it wasn't entirely based on talent; Carl, Hoodsey, and Noelle plan to attend a "Weird Human Winterfest" when Carl discovers Noelle can move things with her thoughts

For some reason, Nickelodeon refers to this story as "Far From Home", even in the commercials for the repeat showings they aired in the middle (and at the end) of the first airing, and on the DVD. (The title "Foutleys On Ice" doesn't even appear in the DVD version of the episode.)
The finalists for the Weird Human Winterfest: bilge drinker; chicken boy; Pete; mole butt (Blake); turtle bater; torpito Guito; flying Nansen; untamed showhorn; Bela; Zotar; heavy metal weasel; great Olga; human scowler; Ignatz; stealth; the Malaprops; Dixie, whistling; Jupiter splits; Tom; "nitro" Zev; vaude villain (not to be confsued with "vaudevillian"); mean Dean; telekinetic girl (Noelle); non bather; the Belgian brain; Ms. Flibbertiggibit; man child; Lampy
Ginger calls Dodie "my best friend" right in front of Macie - and Dodie does the same thing.
You don't get "carded" (have your ID checked) for a PG-13 movie, as it's just a parental advisory. (Well, you might have it checked if you claim to be younger than 13 to get a children's discount, but most kids that age don't carry an ID that says how old they are.)
On the way to Miranda's party, Ginger calls her school a "middle school".
Why would a self-described "science geek" (in "Next Question") like Ginger want to attend an "arts school", anyway?
Thea was wearing her wig even when Ginger wasn't around, and nobody said anything. Was she "in disguise" ever since she came to the school - and if so, why?
Speaking of "why", why would Mipsy keep a copy of all of the "Operation Transfer Girl" notes, especially somewhere where Courtney might find them?
Carl locked himself in the doghouse - how did he do it, and how did he expect to get back out?
What caused the ice to crack where Carl was standing, anyway?
Question: if Ginger was the only one from Sheltered Shrubs to be at Avalanche Arts, then what was Fred doing in the audience in "I Spy a Witch"?

Lyrics to Ginger's song at the end

All this time it was you
I didn't think that it could be true
You were right there from the start
And what might be the strangest part
Is while I sure enjoyed the view
Of seeing everything brand new
It's still you
It sounds like she says just "still you", but the closed captions say "it's still you"
All this time I was home
I didn't know just how far I'd roam
Winter brings all this snow
Blinding, it covers everything you know
But when the sun comes shining through
And the sky returns to blue
I will rush to take my cue and find you
(For those of you who have only seen the version with "reduced" credits, there are no lyrics over the closing credits)

Episode 44 - Wicked Game

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Rubi Berden, Jeffrey Hua, Darin McGowan
Closing tag: (Courtney) "Why do they make children's aspirin so very difficult for the small children to open?"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Mipsy, Carl, Hoodsey, Noelle, Polly, Blake, Ms. Zorski

Additional Voices:

Radio voice (at beginning), student - Rino Romano
Fred - Toran Caudell
Iris - Jeannie Elias

Dodie and Macie (who are tired of Darren getting in the way of them and Ginger) team up with Miranda, and Mipsy (who can't get close enough to Ginger for a put-down) to try to break Ginger and Darren up; Noelle learns two lessons of gambling ("never bet anything you can't afford to lose" and "there's no such thing as a sure thing; that's why they call it gambling") when she loses Carl for a weekend to another girl in a card game

It's not entirely clear if Miranda really wants to get back together with Darren, or it's all part of the plot to separate Ginger and Darren.
The way the two stories (Ginger's and Carl's) ended, I for one was expecting a "To Be Continued" message at the end, as if this was the first half of an hour-long episode.

Episode 45 - The Easter Ham

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Dean Criswell
Storyboards by: Max Martinez, Sean Pendergrass, Monica Tomova
Closing tag: (Joann) "Robert Joseph, are you burning toast?"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Lois, Joann, Dr. Dave, Carl, Hoodsey, Brandon (note that the monkey was not credited)

Additional Voices:

Old lady (one of Carl's "customers") - Jeannie Elias
Lucinda (soap opera character) - Grey Delisle
Dirk (soap opera character), boy at party - Jason Marsden

When Joann has to go to the hospital after fighting with Lois over the last ham at the supermarket, she forbids Dodie and Hoodsey from being friends with Ginger and Carl, so Ginger has to decide whether or not to throw Darren's birthday party without her; Carl, Hoodsey, and Brandon go into business selling Easter baskets with months-old candy

Ginger is serving ham at the party, despite the fact that she considers herself Jewish.
Just before Joann collapses, she feels pain in her right arm; in fact, one of the "classic" symptoms of a heart attack is feeling pain in your left arm.
Nickelodeon - the network where you can't show people smoking cigarettes, but you can have 12-year-olds using the word "suicide".
The last customer Carl mentions is named Bouvier; coincidentally (or is it?), that's Patty and Selma's last name (and Marge's, before she changed it to Simpson when she got married) on The Simpsons, which was originally done in part by Klasky-Csupo (and has Tress MacNeille (the voice of Hoodsey) in minor roles, including Principal Skinner's mother, in just about every episode).
When this episode first aired in the USA, Frankie Muniz was co-hosting the TeeNICK segments that aired that night; Jason Marsden (who did two voices in this episode) replaced Frankie as the voice of Chester on The Fairly Oddparents.

Episode 46 - About Face

Written by Emily Kapnek
Directed by Anthony Bell
Storyboards by: John Eddings, Frank Jen, Pablo Solis
Additional Storyboards by: Tron Mai
Closing tag: (Joann) "And that was dope!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Mipsy, Lois, Joann, Dave (Dodie's father) Dr. Dave, Dr. Dave's Mother, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Noelle

Additional Voices:

Nurse Betty - Jeannie Elias
Jeweler - Dan Castellaneta
Diva (one of the popular girls) - Kath Soucie

Dr. Dave wants to propose to Lois, but two things stand in the way; his mother's approval, and the fact that the engagement ring is stuck on Carl's finger; Joann becomes a teacher at Lucky Junior High, only to start hanging out with the popular girls in an attempt to become the popular girl she tried to be when she was that age - and when Dodie suddenly realizes something very familiar about the way Joann is acting, maybe being popular isn't as important as she once thought; Blake shows Noelle a photo of Carl and Polly (from "Wicked Game") and mentions that Carl has an engagement ring

If Dr. Dave's mother's voice sounds familiar: Patti Deutsch is probably best known for (a) 1970s game shows like Match Game (although GSN doesn't show these as often as they used to), and (b) the voice of Norbert's computer on The Angry Beavers.
"Is Dave his first name or his last name?" Both - it's Dr. David Dave.
Speaking of people with the same first and last name, Joann calls Principal Milty "Milton", although that may just be an assumption on her part.
Joann calls Dodie "Deirdre Hortense", but she put "Dodie" on her lunch bag. (It's possible that Dave - not Dr. Dave, but Dave Bishop - wrote the names on the lunches, as he calls his kids "Dodie" and "Robert", but why would be put "Josie"?)
Yes, Dr. Dave and Dodie's father have the first name Dave. Most TV series do not give characters the same first name, except as a joke (example: the two Darryls in Newhart), as it leads to confusion.
The Lucky Junior High Yearbook is from 1980 - but that means Joann isn't quite in her 40s (at least until 2006), despite what Courtney claims. Wait a minute...I'm four years older than Dodie's mother?
Speaking of Lucky, Dave called it a middle school.
Lonnie is no longer part of Courtney's "inner circle". Also, one of those girls looked like Latitia from "New Girl In Town", but her name wasn't mentioned, unless she goes by a nickname (the girls are Courtney, Miranda, Mipsy, Missy, Mindy, Tracey, Stacy, Casey (K.C.? - Casey is usually a boy's name), Donna, Diva, Dinah, and Hope; the one that sounds most like a nickname is Diva, but Diva was the girl who spoke in Ginger's bedroom).
Dodie still has her "Popular In Peach" nail polish from "Ginger the Juvey".
Josie MacDonald looks like a blonde version of Margo Sherman from The Critic.
The show's closing, with the song "Diamonds are Expensive", is based on the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever.

Episodes 47, 48 - Butterflies Are Free / No Turning Back
This episode was originally called "Butterflies Are Free", but the version shown on Nickelodeon (USA) was retitled "No Turning Back"

Written by Eryk Casemiro & Emily Kapnek
Directed by Michael D�dalus Kenny, Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Rudi Berden, Jennifer Coyle, Jeffrey Hua, Frank Jen, Tron Mai, Darin McGowan, Eric Molinsky, Joseph Scott
Closing tag: (Mr. Minor) "Fantastic! I hope to see you next year!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Lois, Dr. Dave, Jonas, Claire, Ms. Zorski, Mr. Hepper, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Brandon, Noelle, Polly

Additional Voices:

Andrew (Macie's boyfriend) - Laraine Newman
Pep Squad members - Melissa Disney, Aspen Miller, Suzanne Kent*
Stephany (one of the two girls who threw Courtney into a locker) - Jeannie Elias
Bethany (the other one) - Kath Soucie
Student Council members - Jackie Harris, Grey Delisle
Mrs. Jackson (school secretary) - Tress MacNeille
News reporter (at Courtney's reappearance) - Elizabeth Halpern
Coach Candace (pep squad coach) - Nora Dunn
Principal Ericson, Mr. Puttnam (teacher leading Ginger's group) - Michael Beattie
I don't think Mr. Puttnam had any lines in the episode
Mr. Guardino (football coach?) - David Jeremiah
Mr. Minor (band teacher), football quarterback - Cutter Mitchell
Police Officer (talking to Claire) - Andre Ware
Leandra - Leandra Argyos
Football player (I think it's the one who says "my nose!" during the practice) - Kenny Blank*
*Actually, Kenny Blank was credited as a pep squad member and Suzanne Kent as a football player, but something tells me these are switched
Also, that sounds like John Kassir as Winston when he's crying during the ceremony, but he's not credited; it could be taken from a different episode (for example, "Dare I, Darren?" or "Trouble In Gal Pal Land")

Ginger and her friends are graduating from junior high school and about to enter high school, but Ginger is having trouble writing a speech for the event, especially as it seems as if she and her friends are being pulled apart; a high school student has his eye (his one good eye) on Macie; Carl, Blake, and Brandon put their prized possessions (the petrified eyeball, Blake's tonsils, and one of Mr. Licorice's teeth) into a time capsule, only to discover that Polly tricked them into it

In the USA, all commercial references to this episode, as well as its TV listings, called this episode "No Turning Back". When it aired on Nickelodeon for the first time, in June, 2004, the opening credits said "Butterflies Are Free"; however, when it aired two months later, the credits were changed to "No Turning Back". (By the way, Butterflies are Free is also the name of an Academy Award-winning movie, so I am surprised it's also the title of an episode, considering the problems with And Then She Was Gone.)
("How did they change the title after the show was completed?" One way they could do it: the scene with the title on it is animated without the title as well, so the title can be shown in another language in countries where they don't speak English, and they could just put "No Turning Back" over that version and replace the scene where the old title appeared.)
Just like at Lucky Junior High School, Lucky High School requires a B average to participate in after-school activities (sports, band, cheerleading, etc.). It's hard enough in junior high school, but in high school, it's bordering on impossible to get enough kids to be able to do that. (For those of you outside of the USA, see the "Questions & Notes" page for information on what they mean by a "B average"; the short answer is, "on a 0-100 scale, you have to average an 80".)
The music Mr. Hepper is playing is by Charlie Parker, also known as "Bird".
Hope was seen in the same orientation group as Ginger, but the Fs (Foutley) and the Rs (Rogers) were in different groups.
Andrew's instrument sounds like a bass clarinet, but no bass clarinet I've ever seen is made of metal; he's playing some sort of saxophone (although it is shaped like a bass clarinet).
How did Andrew open the locker that Courtney was in without knowing the combination?
Hoodsey said he was putting his favorite sweatshirt, "the purple one with the hood," into the time capsule, but he has more than one; in fact, he's wearing one while he puts another one into the capsule.
"In my day," you got to select which period (and which teacher) you got to take each of your classes in high school. (A number of people have since told me that "in their day", it works the way it does on the show.)
Dodie is hit in the nose by a football in Ginger's dream; most likely, this is a reference to an episode of The Brady Bunch (and possibly one of the Brady Bunch movies as well), where it happens to Marcia.
It looks like Mipsy's injury in "About Face" is more serious than first thought; at the graduation, she is wearing an eyepatch.
How big is Lucky Junior High? There were only fifty chairs for the graduating students. (Then again, a drop in class sizes would explain why sixth graders now attend there rather than the elementary school.)
Pardon me for being really nitpicky, but I don't think any state allows in-uniform high school football practice in the spring. (For the record, high school football players aren't allowed to wear 00 either.)
Speaking of nitpicky, the principal's name is spelled Ericson in the credits, but Erickson in the credits to "The Right Stuff".
According to the scoreboard, Lucky lost the last basketball game it played at home 32-0. (Must be that B-average thing.)
Macie's parents showed up; they were seated behind Claire and Winston. (Prescott Gripling, on the other hand, appeared to be a no-show, and I didn't notice Officer Killgallen there either.)

Episode 49 - Heat Lightning
First aired 50th in the USA

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Michael D�dalus Kenny
Storyboards by: Aldin Baroza, Boris Likomanov, Michael Mullen, Joseph Scott
Additional Storyboards by: Dean Criswell, Mark Garcia, Tron Mai, Monika Tomova
Closing tag: (Mrs. Dave) "Oh, so bitter"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Sasha, Lois, Dr. Dave, Dr. Dave's Mother, Joann, Carl, Hoodsey, Brandon

Additional Voices:

Margie (head counselor at Camp Caprice) - Carol Rosenthal
Jimmy (salesman who sold Carl and Hoodsey the air conditioner) - Kevin Michael Richardson
Nancy (one of the girls at camp) - Susan Chesler
Vanessa (another of the girls) - Cristina Pucelli

Ginger returns to Camp Caprice, this time as a cabin leader, but she thinks that the reason that she feels that she and Darren seem to be separating might have something to do with Sasha...who asks her to meet him while they're at camp; Dr. Dave moves in Lois while his condominium is being fumigated, which is not a good thing when he realizes he had made plans for his mother to come over for a few days

This episode was originally going to be called "Hurricane Caprice", but somebody felt it was too close to the Rocket Power story "Hurricane Maurice"; then, it was changed to "Atmospheric Conditions" before finally being called "Heat Lighrning".
"Who's 'Kenn Michael'?" (credited as the voice of Darren) That's Kenny Blank's new "stage name".
Notice that Ginger's hair is longer, and Macie's is parted, although it's back to being olive green. (Dodie's is still the way it was in "Butterflies Are Free".)
After what happened last year, it's surprising that Courtney would volunteer to return to Camp Caprice.
The camp bus has seat belts - is that a common thing nowadays?
You never see any "older" girls at the camp, although it's possible that this session is specifically for younger girls. Also, it appeared as if the only "cabin leaders" were Ginger, Dodie, Macie, and Courtney.
The Foutley phone isn't the kind that you plug into an electric outlet, so it shouldn't have gone dead when the power went out.
Sasha mentioned "Melanie"; for those of you who didn't see "Summer of Camp Caprice", that's Sasha's little sister (who didn't appear in this episode for whatever reason), who, if you go by what Sasha says, isn't particularly happy that Clover is Sasha's girlfriend and Ginger isn't.
If you're looking for the lyrics to the song at the end, I couldn't get them; the first time the song is sung, Ginger talks over them, and the second time (over the closing credits), Nickelodeon cut back to TeeNICK.

Episode 50 - Fair To Cloudy
First aired 49th in the USA

Written by Kate Boutilier
Directed by Andrei Svislotski
Storyboards by: Aldin Baroza, Mark Garcia, Monica Tomova
Closing tag: (Hoodsey) "I'm scarred! Scarred for life!"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Lois, Winston, Carl, Hoodsey

Additional Voices:

Weaver - Jeannie Elias
Jake (the carny at the oddities exhibit) - John Kassir
Raymo - Floyd Van Buskirk
Farmer Don - David Allen Thomas, Jr.

When Ginger decides to take Darren to her, Dodie, and Macie's traditional trip to the county fair, Dodie decides to invite Courtney to join them; Carl frees what he and Hoodsey think is a two-headed miniature pony

More evidence that the girls have known each other since first grade: this is Ginger, Dodie, and Macie's eighth annual county fair together.
Macie is wearing a Lucky High School band shirt of some sort.
Nickelodeon - the network where you can't say "beer" but you can say "afterbirth"...

Episodes 51-56

These are the "high school" episodes; from what people have told me, I believe this order is the one in which they are supposed to be shown (except maybe "Battle of the Bands" and "Ten Chairs" could be switched) - Season 3 seems to be more of a "teen soap opera" where things happen in a particular order
However, in the UK, "Dodie's Big Break" aired before "A Lesson In Tightropes", even though something happened in "Tightropes" that was mentioned in "Break"
Please do not ask when (or even if ) these will air - if it doesn't say anything on the main page schedule or in the "news" section, then I have no idea

51 - Stuff'll Kill Ya
High school freshman Ginger (by the way, I'm one of those people who thinks "freshman" applies to girls too - none of this "freshperson" nonsense) becomes a "caffeine junkie"; junior-high-school student Carl is tricked into believing he's inhaled something deadly
52 - Detention
Darren wants Ginger to be at his football game, but she has to serve detention for sleeping in class - so it's a bit of "Deja Who, Part 2" as Ginger gets Dodie to go to the game dressed as her
53 - Kiss Today Good-Bye
Dodie describes her day - not quite in the order in which events happened
54 - A Lesson In Tightropes
Ginger has a cute appendix? Wait a minute...my mistake; Ginger has acute appendicitis - and a new guy in her life
This was originally titled "What Makes Us Stronger"
55 - Dodie's Big Break
Dodie wants to play in a big street hockey game despite having a broken leg...no, that's "Otto's Big Break" - what is it with the Rocket Power titles?
Dodie becomes a cheerleader - but these titles usually have two meanings, and "big break" could be something painful...
56 - Battle Of The Bands
Ginger tries to save Lucky's marching band, and ends up in a band of her own , which gets involved in a music competition

Episode 57 - Ten Chairs

Written by Eryk Casemiro
Directed by Ron Noble
Storyboards by: Dean Criswell, Frank Jen, Max Martinez
Additional Storyboards by: Aldin Baroza, Rudi Berden, Broni Likomanov
Closing tag: (Hoodsey) "I think there's something wrong with that turkey"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Lois, Dr. Dave, Mrs. Dave, Jonas, Dave Bishop, Joann, Carl, Hoodsey (what a coincidence; they fill the "ten chairs")

Additional Voices:

Mr. Talbit (turkey farm owner) - Dan Castellaneta

Ginger invites a surprise guest to the Foutley Thanksgiving: Jonas - which doesn't go over to well with Carl; vegans Carl and Hoodsey buy a turkey so they can set it free

This episode doesn't follow continuity as much as the other Season 3 episodes do, although it takes place when Ginger is in high school, as Mrs. Dave and Lois did not meet until the Easter just before Ginger's graduation. (Still, they make it sound as if Ginger and Orion haven't met yet.) Also, the "For Sale" sign, presumably the same one shown in "The Wedding Frame" appears.
Something is out of place...I got it; it's a Nickelodeon cartoon, and somebody is actually eating turkey on Thanksgiving. (In the Rugrats, CatDog, Rocko's Modern Life, and The Wild Thornberrys Thanksgiving specials, they have something other than real turkey; I think the only other Nicktoon (so far) with a Thanksgiving episode where there are people actually eating turkey is Hey Arnold!.)
Carl called Hoodsey a "Wampanoag"; that is the tribe (actually, "tribes" may be more accurate) that was in Plymouth when the Mayflower landed. See http://www.wampanoagtribe.net.
Jonas is introduced to Dave and Joann, but they've already met - at an earlier Chanukah/Christmas party. (Then again, the Bishops might have left before they knew who he was.)
Be safe or be homeless: the turkey fryer was far too close to the house. (However, they did get one thing right; when you fry a turkey, always do it outdoors.)

Episodes 58, 59, 60 - The Wedding Frame
First aired 49th in the USA

Written by Emily Kapnek & Eryk Casemiro
Part 1 Directed by Michael D�dalus Kenny
Part 2 Directed by Ron Noble
Part 3 Directed by Mark Risley & Michael D�dalus Kenny
Storyboards by:
(Part 1) Aldin Baroza, Dean Criswell, Frank Jen, Max Martinez
(Part 2) Mark Garcia, Bao Nguyen, Jeff Scott
(Part 3) Broni Likomanov, Tron Mai, Bao Nguyen, Jeff Scott, Rafael Zentil
Additional Storyboards by:
(Part 1) Rudi Berden, Won Ki Cho, Bao Nguyen, Jeff Scott, Joseph Scott
(Part 3) Pablo Solis
Closing tag: (Ginger) "That was beautiful, Mom"

Cast: Ginger, Dodie, Macie, Darren, Courtney, Miranda, Orion, Simone, Will, Lois, Joann, Jonas, Dr. Dave, Mrs. Dave, Mrs. Patterson, Buzz, Carl, Hoodsey, Blake, Brandon, Noelle, Junior, Junior Sr., Rhesus, Archie Chang
(Melissa Disney voiced "adult" Ginger as well)

Additional Voices:

Nikki LaPorte - Jennifer Coolidge
Dr. Ron (one of the doctors discussing the bachelor party) - Christopher John Fields
Anesthesiologist Al (the other doctor) - Phil Reeves
Buddy Baker (realtor) - Ben Stein
Mary Ellen (travel agent), Librarian - Valerie Harper
Camera store clerk - Billie Worley
Music video singer - Shannon Conley
Sales clerk (? - it is listed in the Part 1 credits) - Melissa Disney
Delivery man - Gregory Jbara
Myrna (bakery store woman) - Estelle Harris
Minister, Nicholas LaPorte - Dan Castellaneta
Diane Francis - Grey Delisle
Voice on the Hawaii video tape - (uncredited)

Someone is trying to frame ("I get it - wedding frame") Dr. Dave before he marries Lois; Prescott Gripling is arrested, and the Griplings are forced to move out of Protected Pines; Ginger and Darren aren't sure where their lives are headed; an old four-legged friend of the family crashes the wedding

These episodes were released on DVD before any of the high school episodes (beginning with "Stuff'll Kill Ya") ever aired in the USA, so many people who viewed it are probably still wondering who Orion and Simone are.
If this episode never airs in the USA, this could be the reason: when describing what a "manila envelope" is, Mrs. Dave mentions it is made of hemp...and hemp is cultivated from marijuana plants (the main reason it is not used in the USA, even though the Declaration of Independence is written on hemp paper).
Or this: a pack of "nicotine chewing gum" is shown. (Nickelodeon is supposed to have a zero-tolerance ban on showing cigarettes or other tobacco.)
Blake's middle name is Sophia.
At the end of Orion's song, the stars of the constellation Orion can be seen in the sky.
In one scene, the Foutley phone has three rows of four buttons. At least it has buttons; Miranda has a dial phone.
Looks like somebody knew the show was ending; when they drive by the cemetary, the tombstones say "ATBG RIP".
There are a few references to past TV series; for example, Lois says "we're movin' on up", which is in the theme to The Jeffersons, and Jonas's apartment number is 227 (which, coincidentally, starred Marla Gibbs, who was Florence the maid on The Jeffersons).
Omaha has the world's longest yardstick? Er, by definition, all yardsticks are the same length - exactly 91.44 cm.
Archie Chang works for Channel 3; its logo makes it look like it is a Fox network affiliate.
Lucky High School has at least six floors.
Courtney says that now that her family is poor, they have to "eat in", but in "TGIF", Courtney's family "eats in" pretty much every night.
Noelle is left-han...er, "left-footed"; she signs the receipt for the envelope with her left foot.
Hoodsey blows soap bubbles from a pipe, something Bart does a few times on The Simpsons.
Carl and Hoodsey eat Kapnek Krunch cereal (named after the creator of As Told By Ginger, no doubt).
No surprise; Carl mentions the service is "non-demoninational". (For some strange reason, in Nicktoons, the only two religions seem to be Judaism and "other".)
It must be tough playing that organ; it has only white keys.
What was Benny doing there? He was in San Quentin, which is in California. (Before you say, "Maybe Prescott was sent to San Quentin as well", San Quentin is limited to non-federal crimes committed in California.)
Ginger didn't use her married name on her book.
Adult Hoodsey has a pinky ring (and a wedding ring on the next finger); Darren, however, does not have a ring.
Neither Carl, Hoodsey, nor Macie had a spouse present at the book reading. (You don't think Macie finally figured out who "Burl" was in "Piece Of My Heart", do you?)
"Who's that holding Dodie's daughter?" Dodie's husband - Chet Zipper. (Remember "Piece Of My Heart"?)
You can't really tell if Ginger and Darren had a son or a daughter, although it "kinda sorta" looks more like a girl (and she is sucking on a pink pacifier). Then again, the child looks a little like Harold on All Grown Up, doesn't she?
I didn't recognize everybody at the wedding, but here is who I did notice:
- Groom's side, row 1: Dr. Fondfeelings; Hope Rogers; Myrna; Mary Ellen
- Groom's side, row 2: Mr. and Mrs. Higsby and Stuart; Nurse Betty
- Groom's side, row 3: Buzz and his sons; Nikki
- Groom's side, row 4: Jonas; Mr. Hepper; Principal Milty; I think that's Crazy Floyd (from "Lunatic Lake") as well; the man on the far left might be Dr. Randall from "Blizzard Conditions"
- Bride's side, row 1: Orion; Mr. and Mrs. Bishop; Mr. and Mrs. Lightfoot
- Bride's side, row 2: Simone; Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, Darren, and Will
- Bride's side, row 3: Claire Gripling, Courtney, and Blake; Winston; Miranda
- Bride's side, row 4: inmates, including Prescott Gripling and "San Quentin Benny"
- Ms. Zorski (playing the organ) and Brandon are in the balcony
"Who's that on the cover of Ginger's book?" That's Ginger, as she was drawn in the pilot episode, "The Party". (Click Here to go to my site's page for the pilot, complete with pictures.) The book's title also appears in the typeface used for the credits in the pilot.

Bonus Pictures

Lyrics to "Go Slip Away"

There were days when our woven fingers would sway
Now your hands only push mine away
I won't keep you - go slip away
There were ways; I would try to find one every day
But you couldn't hear what I had to say
I won't keep you - go slip away
That's what you really want
To fade into the grain of my mind
You're racing towards the finish line
I won't keep you

Lyrics to "You Bounced"

How could you go and leave me here
To sink with all the rest
How could you go and leave me behind
Baby, I'm not impressed
I should have known you'd bail on me
Leave me adrift at sea
To sink with all the broken hearts
And share their misery
I'll never forget your misery
No matter how hard I try
I won't forget how many times
You left me here to cry
Just keep going - don't look back
It's easier that way
Forget all that we ever had
I'm just your yesterday
You bounced - You quit
You walked away - That's it
We're over - You split
You walked away - You bounced
That's it
(repeat the last five lines)

Lyrics to "Treasured Love"

We're painting a picture
As we stand side by side
In welcoming a love
Of a groom and of his bride
Committed here forever
Devoted all their days
These two shall form a bond
That shall never fade away
Treasured love - Treasured love

SEASON 1 EPISODES

Pilot - The Party

Episode 1 - Ginger The Juvey

Episode 2 - Carl And Maude

Episode 3 - Stealing First

Episode 4 - Sleep On It

Episode 5 - Of Lice And Friends

Episode 6 - Dare I, Darren?

Episode 7 - Hello Stranger Nominated for a 2001 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

Poem - Hello Stranger

Episode 8 - Cry Wolf

Episode 9 - The Right Stuff

Episode 10 - Kiss And Make-up

Episode 11 - The 'A' Ticket

Episode 12 - Come Back Little Seal Girl

Lyrics to "The Little Seal Girl" theme

Episode 13 - I Spy A Witch First aired 17th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Lyrics to "Salem Barbecue"

Lyrics to "I Spy A Witch"

Episode 14 - Blizzard Conditions First aired 13th in the USA

Episode 15 - Deja Who? First aired 19th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Episode 16 - An "Even Steven" Holiday Special First aired 20th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Lyrics to Carl's version of "Jingle Bells"

Episode 17 - Piece Of My Heart First aired 18th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Lyrics to the Camp Caprice song

Lyrics to "Copper Colored Ponies"

SEASON 2 EPISODES

Episode 21 - Never Can Say Goodbye First aired 24th in the USA

Lyrics to "Wrong"

Episode 22 - Gym Class Confidential First aired 21st in the USA

Episode 23 - Fast Reputation

Episode 24 - The Nurses' Strike First aired 22nd in the USA

Episode 25 - Trouble In Gal Pal Land

Episode 26 - Sibling Revile-ry

Episode 27 - Losing Nana Bishop

Episode 28 - TGIF

Episode 29 - Lunatic Lake Nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

Episode 30 - Ms. Foutley's Boys First aired 31st in the USA

Episode 31 - April's Fools First aired 30th in the USA

Episode 33 - Family Therapy

Episode 34 - New Girl In Town

Episode 35 - Ginger's Solo First aired 36th in the USA

Episode 36 - Mommie Nearest First aired 35th in the USA

Episode 37 - No Hope For Courtney First aired 39th in the USA

Episode 38 - Next Question

Episode 39 - Driven To Extremes First aired 40th in the USA

Episode 40 - And She Was Gone First aired 37th in the USA Nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

SEASON 3 EPISODES

Episodes 41, 42, 43 - Foutleys On Ice

Lyrics to Ginger's song at the end

Episode 44 - Wicked Game

Episode 45 - The Easter Ham

Episode 46 - About Face

Episodes 47, 48 - Butterflies Are Free / No Turning Back This episode was originally called "Butterflies Are Free", but the version shown on Nickelodeon (USA) was retitled "No Turning Back"

Episode 49 - Heat Lightning First aired 50th in the USA

Episode 50 - Fair To Cloudy First aired 49th in the USA

Episodes 51-56

Episode 57 - Ten Chairs

Episodes 58, 59, 60 - The Wedding Frame First aired 49th in the USA

Bonus Pictures

Lyrics to "Go Slip Away"

Lyrics to "You Bounced"

Lyrics to "Treasured Love"

Episode 7 - Hello Stranger
Nominated for a 2001 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

Episode 13 - I Spy A Witch
First aired 17th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Episode 14 - Blizzard Conditions
First aired 13th in the USA

Episode 15 - Deja Who?
First aired 19th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Episode 16 - An "Even Steven" Holiday Special
First aired 20th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Episode 17 - Piece Of My Heart
First aired 18th (as part of the second season) in the USA

Episode 21 - Never Can Say Goodbye
First aired 24th in the USA

Episode 22 - Gym Class Confidential
First aired 21st in the USA

Episode 24 - The Nurses' Strike
First aired 22nd in the USA

Episode 29 - Lunatic Lake
Nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

Episode 30 - Ms. Foutley's Boys
First aired 31st in the USA

Episode 31 - April's Fools
First aired 30th in the USA

Episode 35 - Ginger's Solo
First aired 36th in the USA

Episode 36 - Mommie Nearest
First aired 35th in the USA

Episode 37 - No Hope For Courtney
First aired 39th in the USA

Episode 39 - Driven To Extremes
First aired 40th in the USA

Episode 40 - And She Was Gone
First aired 37th in the USA
Nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award (Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour))

Episodes 47, 48 - Butterflies Are Free / No Turning Back
This episode was originally called "Butterflies Are Free", but the version shown on Nickelodeon (USA) was retitled "No Turning Back"

Episode 49 - Heat Lightning
First aired 50th in the USA

Episode 50 - Fair To Cloudy
First aired 49th in the USA

Episodes 58, 59, 60 - The Wedding Frame
First aired 49th in the USA