It's the summer they've been waiting for! No more begging for allowance-Jonesy, Nikki, Jude, Jen and Wyatt are all applying for part time jobs. Jen is totally prepared for her interview at The Penalty Box and sails through, but the others do horribly,including Caitlin, the most spoiled girl in school who is forced to get a job after maxing out daddy's credit cards.
Work pressures are getting to the gang and everyone is dying for a day off. After scoring a job at the mall's indoor amusement park, Jonesy comes up with way to get rid of all their blues - he can get them all in for free! They start planning their excuses so they can get a day off and hang out at the amusement park all day long. One problem: work-a-holic Jen (the one who needs a day off more than anyone) doesn't want to risk losing her job. So the rest of the gang put their plans in motion to break Jen out of The Penalty Box. Nikki and Caitlin become friends, and Jen manages getting caught with only probation - Jonesy ends up getting fired.
Caitlin's been slacking big time... she hasn't ordered lemons in ages, she ignores customers, and her lemonade just plain sucks. When Jonsey scores a job running a giant lime juice stand situated right across The Big Squeeze, Caitlin thinks it's great... until his lime threatens to put her lemon out of business. Jonsey christens it ""The Party Lime"" and puts tons of elbow grease and ""Lime-style"" into the grand opening, and soon everyone's hanging out at his juice stand - including Caitlin. When her boss sees how low the profits are, he threatens to move the Lemon to a Strip Mall unless things change - fat. Will Jonsey take one for the team and deliberately get fired? Meanwhile, Wyatt has scored back stage passes to the Mighty Weasels Concert and Jude and Nikki are clamoring over one another to get Wyatt to choose them. Wyatt begins to enjoy the power...
Jen falls instantly in love with Coach Halder's son Corey, who has just started working at The Penalty Box. She goes on a date with him, only to find that's he's horrifyingly similar to his dad. Yuck! She's got to get out of this - and fast. But Corey seems to be in love with her... and her friends warm her that she can't break up with him or she might lose her job. You can't dump the boss's son!!!! But maybe if Jen is the WORST date in the world, she can convince Corey to dump HER... Meanwhile, Jonsey destroys a receiver in Stereo Shack and agrees to work the damages. Unfortunately, the manager is a hard core Star Wars fan named Darth who Jonsey used to torture in middle school... and now Darth can taste the revenge. Jonsey gets humiliated… then fired.
Star Contest comes to the mall, and when Wyatt performs his original song about how awesome his friends are, he wins the regional finals. He gets his big break opening for Utility Pole, but the gang all miss the concert due to unforeseen circumstances (boys, sales, exploiting Wyatt's new fame...). Upset that they all ditched his show, Wyatt rewrites the words to his song at the last minute to reflect his feelings and tells everyone his friends suck. Suddenly the song has a life of its own and is playing all over the mall - and the gang have become pariahs in their own hood. Jonsey takes a job as Wyatt's manager, but gets fired. And Jude tries to instill a new ""barter system"" in the mall by paying for things with Stick IT Kabobs and Gyros.
Christmas at the mall sucks: Line ups, impatient customers, and last-minute shopping is enough to drive anyone crazy. Caitlin tries to get the rest of the gang into the Christmas spirit and plans a Chris Cringle gift exchange. The gang is way too wiped out by the X-mas rush to get into the mood, and eventually Caitlin herself gives up. When Jonesy(who gets fired from his elf gig in Santa's Village) gets them all locked inside the mall after closing, the gang discover the true meaning of Christmas at the mall.
Jen is shocked when the gang reveals that they all ""skim little"" off the top at work. A free drink here, free demo CD there... aren't they terrified that they'll get fired? But then Jen sees how incredible the new Leon Shreds boarding jacket at the Penalty Box looks on her. It's so hot that she scores a date with a guy who's never noticed her until she slipped that jacket on, but it's way out of her price range. When Coach throws her into the penalty box - again - Jen finally snaps and swipes the goods. She's feeling pretty hot until the jacket is discovered missing. Jen is terrified - she's got to get it back before they figure out who took it. Jude falls in love with a talking massage lounger and is convinced he's found his soul mate. Can the others convince him ""Betty"" is just a chair? Oh, yeah, and Jonsey gets fired.
The Penalty Box staff party is coming up and Jen has a crush a new worker. When she fails to get his attentions, Jen turns to her friends for help. The plan? Jen'll find a person to be her date other than the new worker to make him jealous. And it turned out her date would be... Jude! Mean while, Nikki and Jonesy go to a movie together to learn a line from it. However, later on, they get trapped in an elevator.
Caitlin and Jen are beside themselves - Dog Toy, the COOLEST boy band EVER, are coming to the mall to shoot their next live video and they're auditioning local kids to put one lucky fan in the video - on stage! Jen has had a mad crush on Jason, the lead singer, for EVER and Caitlin is in LOVE with all of them. They drag a reluctant Nikki to the auditions, but when Nikki actually gets the part, Jen is furious. Traitor! How could she, she HATES boy bands! Jen refuses to talk to Nikki - until she uncovers Nikki's deep, dark secret - she's a CLOSET BOY BAND FAN! The guys, for their part, can't STAND boy bands... and having been abandoned by the girls for Dog Toy for the week, they resort to typical teenaged guy behaviour. The girls have obviously had a tempering affect on them - without their influence, they run wild around the mall... and hilarity ensues. Jonsey gets a job as the mall mascot and gets fired.
Jen's going for her driver license and Jude, the only one with a valid permit to drive, is giving her some tips. At first she's timid, she's worse than an old lady driver...but after training at the virtual driving game in the arcade, Jen's a lean, mean, driving machine. After Wyatt loses his lucky jacket, he's convinced he's doomed to a life of bad luck. Caitlin has set out to prove to him that luck has nothing to do with your successes in life...or does it? Ask Jonsey...who just got fired again.
When Jen finally gets Caitlin a date with Kyle, the hot guy she's been crushing on, Caitlin has GOT to find the ""perfect outfit"". He always sees her in her dorky lemon hat - she wants to look extra-not-dorky tonight. After a desperate search for the perfect dress, Caitlin's ready to be the perfect potential girlfriend for this perfect date... but the ""perfect evening"" doesn't go quite as planned. Caitlin barfs sushi all over the dress, her date, Jonsey and Wyatt... and Jonsey gets fired. Meanwhile, Nikki gets her big chance to manage the Khaki barn for a day... and learns that the power trip over the clones (as fun as it was) just isn't worth losing your soul.
The guys have a bit of a shock when all three girls' cycles synch up and they all start behaving - well - differently. In fact at first the girls are confused too - Caitlin's snappish, Nikki's emotional, and Jen's too doubled over in pain to do anything. Unfortunately, their behaviour is threatening to disrupt the boys' biggest movie night in a year... and the guys NEED to get the tickets from Caitlin's purse. Will Jonsey's new job at Super Terrific Happy Sushi under the training of Hiro the Sushi Samurai help Jonsey defeat the dragons and get the tickets... or get him fired?
OK, So Nikki and Jonesy have had a Love-hate relationship since the beginning of the show, and Jude talks to Jonesy to ask if he actually LIKES Nikki. And so Jonesy admits that he likes Nikki. So Jen and Caitlyn overhear this and try to stop their date, because if they get in a fight, they'll, of course, have to take sides. So they come up with a plan to stop their relationship from going too far by telling Nikki that Jonesy is looking for a babysitter to look after his bratty little sibling. So when Jonesy tries to ask Nikki out, She gives him a flat out no. Eventually the spills out when Nikki comments to Jonesy how much of a jerk he was being for asking her to babysit.They go to the movies, and Wyatt, Caitlyn and Jen interrupt. So they leave the movie.Meanwhile, Jude borrows this highly concentrated lotion from Jen,which pretty much paralyzes him, and he shows up on the date, when Jonesy and Nikki are about to KISS, and they end up having to help Jude. So in the end, Nikki and Jones
Every year Caitlin is chosen in a contest to represent The Khaki Barn and win a free wardrobe. This year, her longtime ""frienemy"" Tricia is NOT going to let it happen so she enters too. When the contest comes to an end, the Khaki Barn rep. cannot choose between Caitlin and Tricia and Tricia challenges Caitlin to a shop off, winner takes all, so of course Caitlin accepts. It looks like Caitlin is about to win, but Tricia trips her as she's swapping bags and Caitlin is disqualified. While that is happening, Jonesy is running a new food booth in the food court called ""Roast Burky Chunklets"" and with help from Jude, Jonesy forgets to refrigerate the meat, and everybody except Caitlin experiences food poisoning, including Tricia. Because of this, Caitlin is crowned the new Khaki Girl.
Wyatt's sixteenth birthday has arrived and no one could be less trilled than Wyatt. Thanks to his family's twisted party themes he hates birthday parties and wishes his friends would just let this one go by. But Jen has other ideas and rallies the troops to give Wyatt the sixteenth birthday he deserves. It's a biggie! Wyatt begrudgingly agrees to a party and Jen delegates the duties to the gang. Unfortunately, all of them get tied up during the day and by six o’clock there's no cake, no decorations, and no party. Scrambling to save the day, Jonsey sneaks them into a bridal shower for an Albatross and Finch employee in the store and the gang has to pretend that the party is actually for Wyatt. They almost have him fooled and really enjoying his party, until he gets up to give a thank you speech and is booed off the stage by the wedding shower guests. Wyatt realizes that it's the thought that counts and in the end is glad his friends tried so hard - as long as they never throw him anothe
Wyatt asks Serena out for Valentines Day and makes tons of traditionally romantic plans for the big night - flowers, candy, reservations - the works,. But when he overhears Serena talking about how cheesy Valentine's Day is, Wyatt panics and cancels all his plans. Caitlin and Jen convince him that this is in fact a mistake of gargantuan proportions and that Serena's feelings will be hurt if he plays it too cool on this holiest of girl holidays. So with mere hours to go, Wyatt searches high and low to find the perfect gifts for his crush, Meanwhile., Jonsey ventures waaaay out on a limb and asks Nikki out a date - but Nikki turns him down because she doesn't do Valentines Day dates anymore. Her Valentine's Day Date Embargo stems from some very bad experiences in years past and she's not about to risk another bad date. Nikki tries to convince Jen and Caitlin, who are searching frantically for dates, that they don't need a guy to have fun on Feb. 14th, but the girls try to find some anywa
The gang is in agreement - Jen is always butting into everyone else's business. In fact, they’re convinced that it is physically impossible for Jen to keep her opinions to herself for 24 hours. Jen, being competitive in nature, decides to take that bet. The gang have some fun toying with Jen and come up with wild plans that they know that she knows are a bad idea in order to win the be. Meanwhile, Jude’s been acting strangely lately, skipping skating sessions, forgetting about movie marathons with the guys, losing passion for his Stick-it art - it's very anti-Jude. After much sneaking around and spying on him (Jen tries to resist but gives up and takes a loss on the bet - this is way too interesting!), the gang learn that Jude's ""big deep dark secret"" is that he’s flunking several classes at school. They all get together to help him get his grades up... but will Jude have to repeat a year?
Wyatt has taken Serena out on a few dates now, but their ""relationship"" is yet to be defined, and Wyatt finally gets up the courage to ask her if she'd like to be his girlfriend. Serena tells Wyatt she thinks she's a little too ""mature"" for him, being one year older and all, and Wyatt is crushed until Jonsey convinces Serena that younger guys are puppies – ""easily trainable"". Wyatt takes Serena on what Caitlin assures him is a ""mature"" date, but it ends up backfiring on him big time. Meanwhile, Caitlin's dream of being part of the Albatross and Finch family looks like it just might come true. The usually ‘legacies only' stores is holding an open audition for new Greeter Gods and goddesses and Caitlin has got her snobby stares to perfection. But her dreams of getting out of them lemon for good are shattered when the A&F crew choose Jonsey instead. Caitlin learns through Jonsey's experience that working at A&F isn't all the catalogues crack it up to be…
When Jonsey starts working at The Penalty Box and doing a much better job at sales than Jen, Jen is furious. The two start competing for commissions and the customers become the spoils of war. The competition extends to their personal lives when Jonsey makes a comment at lunch about how ""guys are just naturally better at some things"" and Nikki, Jen and Caitlin take offence. Soon the lines between the sexes are drawn and an all out all-over-the-mall battle of the sexes begins, culminating in the ultimate dare of a lifetime. Meanwhile, Jude starts a Dude Daycare at The Mall and ends up with more kids – and trouble – than he can handle. Will the guys have to ask the girls for help after all?
Jonsey's new gig as the production assistant for local cable access isn't moving his new ""film career"" forward as quickly as possible, so he decides to film his own, ""Prank T.V."". And the first victim - Nikki. Caitlin agrees to be an accomplice and convinces her to spend the day with her getting a girlie make-over. Nikki reluctantly agrees and endures her personal nightmare of a day - manicures, waxing, and the ultimate horror - bikini shopping - all to make Caitlin feel better about getting dumped by a guy she wasn't even dating. But what will Nikki do to them when she finds out she's been pranked?
The Big Dance is coming up and everyone is desperately looking for dates.... everyone except for Wyatt. Wyatt is head over heels in love with Serena. So in love, in fact, that he doesn't care if Jonsey and Jude rib him like crazy for it - which they do, without abandon. When Serena goes on a senior's trip to France with the rest of her class the week before the dance, Wyatt isn't worried.... so everyone is shocked when he receives a text message from Serena saying that they're trough. ""She broke up with you on a TEXT MESSAGE?"" The girls tend to Wyatt's broken heart (and making sure Serena pays) while the guys help him get 'back in the saddle' in time for the dance.
Jen's hotter and more popular older sister Courtney comes to town, and the entire gang abandons Jen, with the guys astonished by Courtney's looks, and girls loving to listen about her life, ex-boyfriends, and trips abroad. But when Courtney takes the gang to a nightclub using a Fake ID, Jen is out to prove that she's more fun than her sister, but accidentally rips her dress while dancing, exposing her boobs.
(Between first and second seasons) Jude and his friends are attacked by zombies, who quickly spread the infection (whose original host is unknown) by inflicting superficial flesh wounds. In the end, Jude discovers that it was only a bad dream, induced by a 24-hour horror movie marathon. Upon awakening and meeting his friends at the mall, finding one element of his dream (Jen's zit) to be comically prophetic, Jude runs off screaming. This episode was aired prior to Halloween on Cartoon Network as a series premiere and Teletoon. (In this episode, a zombie vaguely resembling Micheal Jackson is present, possibly a reference to the artist's music video, "Thriller".)
Wyatt tries to get Serena back, and finds out that Wayne might be his only hope because of his ability to choose the perfect movies for broken couples. Meanwhile, Jen wants to end her relationship with Charlie Dobbs, but the gang loves him and persuades Jen to keep a relationship with Charlie, much to her dismay. Also, Jonesy has an argument with Nikki over her style, and Caitlin's blender is broken which stands in the way for the bonus that she wants.
Jude is fired from Stick-It after a customer complains about finding a cockroach in his food, and Wyatt is fired from Spin This for getting on Serena's nerves. Both find themselves at Underground Video, working for the cynical so-called movie expert Wayne. Meanwhile, Caitlin is afraid her boyfriend, Tallen, will break up with her, until she finds out he kisses "like a golden retriever".
Starr wants to help Wyatt control his anger, and introduces him to a small poet society. All goes well until his friends find out and Caitlin farts during one of his poems, causing the whole gang to laugh and embarrass Wyatt. (This is a reference to the movie "Dead poets Society, starring Robin Williams.)
Jude finds himself a new goldfish friend named "Fish". Meanwhile, Nikki snaps at Caitlin, after Caitlin keeps telling stories to her friends about her new crush, Wade, which leads to Caitlin and Nikki being no longer friends. After the gang is forced to take sides they try to get Nikki and Caitlin back together.
Ron the Rent-a-cop hires an assistant security guard who is way more fun than Ron. But after the gang gets Ron fired, they find out that the assistant security guard is nothing but an inexperienced rookie. The mall then becomes crazy, and makes life more miserable for the gang. When Caitlin sees how sad Ron is without his job, she gets him to hang out with them. But after finding out what a downer Ron is, the others don't want to hang out with him and make another plan to get Ron's job back.
The gang convinces Jen to throw a small get-together for New Years at her house, and everyone is excited, including Nikki who's coming back from Acapulco with her parents. However, Jonesy tries to turn the party into a "chick fest." Meanwhile, Wyatt takes advantage of Serena and Chad's relationship problems to make up with Serena.
Jonesy is scared to donate blood because of a childhood experience, unlike Jude who is obsessed with donating blood because he wants the free donuts the nurse gives away to the people who donate. Meanwhile, Caitlin and Jen wait in line for a once-in-a-lifetime sale at Albatross & Finch, but the line to get in is extremely long.
As the wedding between Jonesy's Dad and Jen's Mom approaches, it's all too clear that the amalgamation of the two families is not going to be smooth sailing. When Grind Me gets double booked for their Mom's wedding shower AND Jonesy's Dad's Stag, all heck breaks loose! The parents are finally forced to make a decision to postpone their wedding until the children are grown and out of the house. Can the kids and their parents work things out? Meanwhile, The Clones accuse Nikki of stealing merchandise, and desperately call in Ron the Rent-a-cop to prove it.
Jonesy starts his own business, a "breaking bad news service" that delivers all types of bad news to people on behalf of someone else, which he makes a lot of money on, and "catches girls on the rebound", too. Everything is fine, until Wayne gets furious at Jonesy for taking away his fries under his mom's orders, so Wayne starts manhunting Jonesy around the mall. Also, to make matters worse, Jonesy is hired by Nikki's boyfriend to break up with her. Meanwhile, the escalator girls hold Jen's house keys and Jude's old skateboard hostage.
Jonesy gets a job in the mall's spa. Meanwhile, Jude tries to compete against his rival Mike Dent in a skateboarding race. He starts to practice by pulling Caitlin around on his skateboard, but when he finds out he's getting slower, he goes to great lengths (such as shaving all his hair off) to go faster. Little does he know that the only reason he's getting slower is because Caitlin is gaining weight at her part-time job, where she eats nothing but free chocolate.