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Season 1

  • S01E01 Crush Test Dummies

    • February 26, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Lor needs Carver's advice on clothes when she develops a crush on Thompson Oberman, but when Carven mistakes "I need Carver. I have to make him love me" for her having a crush on him, Carver and Tino avoid Tish and Lor at all costs.

  • S01E02 Grow Up

    • February 26, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    After playing on a Jumping Jamboree, Tino is the laughing stock of his mom's Vernal Equinox party. So he decides to act more adult, by starting his own internet company, and wearing suits.

  • S01E03 Shoes of Destiny

    • March 4, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Carver has always wanted to be popular, though despite his best attempts, he could never manage to be noticed. The gang decides to help Carver study Brie and Colby, two of the popular kids, in order to help Carver be more like them, in hopes that it will improve his chances of becoming popular.

  • S01E04 Sense and Sensitivity

    • March 4, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    The gang decides to help Carver study Brie and Colby, two of the popular kids, in order to help Carver be more like them, in hopes that it will improve his chances of becoming popular. Having made her friends angry at her for the last time, Lor vows to be sensitive for their every need. However, will her friends, family and even herself like the new her?

  • S01E05 The Perfect Weekend

    • March 11, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Tino has the perfect weekend planned out, but the others disagree with his plan. His friends are pivotal for his plan to work, but will he be able to convince them to go along with his idea?

  • S01E06 Throwing Carver

    • March 11, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Carver can't bring himself to tell Tish her sculpture of him is terrible because he doesn't want to offend his friend, but he doesn't want the sculpture to be used either. Will he be able to find a method of informing Tish without hurting her feelings?

  • S01E07 Home@work

    • March 18, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Tino tries to tutor a hopeless Lor for a history test that she absolutely has to pass. However, the other friends are caught between attending an event or helping their friend. Will they choose to help Lor pass the Civil War test or will they ignore their friendship and go to the event despite Lor's desperate situation?

  • S01E08 To Be or Not to Be

    • March 18, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Tish is very excited because she has recently managed to get a role in a very good play, though her role is somewhat humiliating and her friends merely laugh at her. She decides to disregard her friends for the weekend and associate herself with her adult colleagues on the set of the play. Will Tino, Carver and Lor manage to find a way to make up for their behavior before it's too late?

  • S01E09 Sitters

    • March 25, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    The kids help Carver baby-sit his brother Todd, but they also do not want to ruin their weekend. They decide to take turns baby-sitting Todd in order to permit everyone to have some free time during the weekend, but will they be able to handle this terrible toddler, or will their weekend be ruined?

  • S01E10 Band

    • March 25, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    When Carver lies in order to try to be more popular, the gang finds themselves facing impossible odds because they must convince their favorite band, Chum Bukkit, to dedicate a song to them at their next concert.

  • S01E11 Makeover

    • April 1, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Lor has had feelings for Thompson for quite some time, though she’s nervous about the way she looks and she believes that Thompson won’t find her attractive. She decides to let Christie and Candie give her a makeover, though will Thompson like her new look, despite the fact that she didn’t even know how he felt about her old look?

  • S01E12 The New Girl

    • April 1, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Tish's mom hangs out with the kids to be more American which makes Tish uncomfortable while her friends believe their weekend won't be enjoyable due to Tish's mom, but will the weekend turn out to be something they didn't expect?

  • S01E13 Party Planning

    • April 22, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    A big party is coming up that is going to be the first boy/girl party that the friends have ever attended. Tino and Carver ask Lor and Tish for help, but in the end will they even know how to react? As the day of the party grows near, they all plan to be fully prepared, but will they be able to associate with the opposite gender at the party without messing things up?

  • S01E14 Pudding Ball

    • April 22, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    The kids compete against each other in a pudding ball tournament. Tino and Tish team up against Carver and Lor, but will they be able to enjoy themselves despite the fierce competition?

  • S01E15 Dead Ringer

    • May 6, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Every year each student in Bahia Bay has to compete in a sport at the Bahia Bay Park for a picnic. Everyone is excited except for Tino, because Tino usually signs up for Chess, but this year chess wasn't available. So, Tino and the rest of the gang try and find a sport that Tino's good at. Will they manage to find a sport that Tino will be able to participate in without humiliating himself, or will they run out of time forcing Tino to miss out on the event entirely?

  • S01E16 Carver the Terrible

    • May 6, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    During a game of soccer, Carver accidentally trips one of the toughest people at his school. However, all the others who saw it occur begin to respect him out of fear due to their belief that he tripped the bully on purpose. Carver's friends know that he didn't do it, but will they manage to convince Carver to tell the truth before he pays a heavy price for his lies, or will Carver continue to exploit the situation to his advantage, despite knowing that it's wrong?

Season 2

  • S02E01 Radio Drama

    • September 9, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Tino, Carver and Lor want to take a weekend to just relax and do nothing, but when Tish signs them up to do a Radio Play, their plans are ruined. Will they be able to find a way to get out of doing the play, or will they actually have to do something this weekend?

  • S02E02 The Tradition

    • September 9, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Tish's parents want her to participate in Momatuche, a ceremony from the old country. Tish wants nothing to do with the tradition until she realises how much it means to her family, but will she be able to perform in the ceremony in accordance to tradition?

  • S02E03 To Each His Own

    • September 16, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Since the friends missed their previous weekend plans due to external circumstances, they decide to find ways to spend the weekend this time. However, they all come up with different things that would be cool. To remedy the problem, they all agree to go to everyone's event to make it fair, but will they be able to enjoy the weekend through doing such?

  • S02E04 Diary

    • September 16, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    While helping Tish clean her room Carver purposefully drops open Tish's diary and reads a page that says her and her family and moving back to the old country. Carver goes and tells Tino and Lor what he read, but is Tish really moving back to the old country?

  • S02E05 The Invited

    • September 23, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Tino and Tish get invited to a Costume Party and they don't want to tell Lor and Carver that they were note invited. However, Carver and Lor were invited to that same party, though they try not to tell Tino and Tish that they weren't invited. As the day of the party goes near, will the friends be able to resolve their conflict?

  • S02E06 Real Fake

    • September 23, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    The gang is excited about appearing in a film-makers documentary about children until they realize that they're lives aren't exactly the most interesting ones in the world. The film maker mentions the show "Teen Canyon" while speaking to the gang, so they decide they should copy the characters from the show so they'll appear more interesting, but will their thesis prove correct?

  • S02E07 Super Kids

    • November 4, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    Carver's parents decide he isn't goal orientated, so they force him to attend 12-year-old super-achiever Tripp Nickerson's motivational seminar and the others decide to tag along to get the free donuts. Tripp's seminar gets the kids thinking that maybe they don't achieve enough, so they each work on their own separate goals, but will they be happy with their endeavors or will they realize there is more to life than achieving things?

  • S02E08 Crevasse of Dreams

    • November 4, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    After Tino finds a cool spot to hangout and he takes his friends all the way up there, they find the place packed with people. The others give him a hard time about his "secret mountain" and when he mentions the gang's cool old hangout "The Crevasse", it turns out that he is the only one who can actually remember it. Will Tino be capable of helping them find The Crevasse or is it just a figment of Tino's imagination?

  • S02E09 Dixon

    • November 11, 2000
    • ABC (US)

    The episode starts out the guys trying to get tickets to the re-opening of their favorite amusement park. They can't seem to come up with a good plan and resort to doing volunteer work in order to win some tickets. Things get even harder on Tino when he finds out his mom has started dating again. Will the gang be able to get tickets to get into the amusement park and what will Tino think about his mom's new boyfriend? The night before the re-opening Tino finds out his mom's date with Dixon didn't go so well. Tino isn't happy about this and wants them to keep going out, but will he be capable of convincing them to give the romance one more shot?

  • S02E10 Taking Sides

    • January 13, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino gets fed up with Carver always trying to be cool and impress people and Carver decides Tino is holding him back, so the two split up and try to get Lor and Tish on their sides. Lor takes Tino's side and Tish takes Carvers side, but will they realize that friendship is something that shouldn't end over such a pointless argument?

  • S02E11 To Tish

    • January 13, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    The others make up the word "Tishing" to describe when Tish acts smart. It's not long before their lingo catches on throughout the city and Tish isn't so fund of everyone using her name to describe things that are artsy and intellectual. Tish doesn't like what is occurring, but will her friends be able to convince her that they meant for the word to be a good thing?

  • S02E12 Tickets

    • January 27, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino wins two tickets to the sold out Chum Bukkit concert and must pick one of his three friends to go with him.

  • S02E13 Vengeance

    • January 27, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Carver is constantly getting tricked into embarassing himself by Christie until he sends her a fake note saying she has won a contest and gets to go out with Lonnie, from a boy band, wearing a scuba outfit!

  • S02E14 Murph

    • February 3, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino can't understand why everyone likes him except for one guy, Murph. Can Tino manage to convince Murph to like him so that he doesn't feel disliked or is Murph just too indifferent to care?

  • S02E15 Uncool World

    • February 3, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino, Lor, Carver and Tish get sick of Colby and Bree constantly making fun of those who are "beneath them", so Tino confronts them and argues that they can't both be the cool kids, one must be cooler, so they have a "Cool Showdown". Colby wins and the now un-cool Bree gets help from the gang on how to deal with the un-cool world.

  • S02E16 My Punky Valentine

    • February 10, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino gets a crush on a punk girl so he turns into a punk himself to try and impress her, but it doesn't seem to work. The others, who don't approve of his crush, try and get him to like several other girls, but will Tino be able to get the girl he really loves despite his friends' objections?

  • S02E17 Brain Envy

    • February 10, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Lor discovers that Thompson and Tish have something in common, as they're both really smart. This leads her to think that Tish is after Thompson, so she acts smart to try and impress him. Will Lor be correct in her assumption and will she be capable of winning Thompson's love, or will she end up making a fool of herself in one way or another?

  • S02E18 Tish's Hair

    • February 17, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tish gets a new hairdo and the gang is too afraid to tell her it's ugly.

  • S02E19 I Want to Be Alone!

    • February 17, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tish decides to spend the weekend alone and the gang goes on a mission to discover why.

  • S02E20 Baskets for Bucks

    • March 3, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Lor is under pressure when she must sink three baskets in a row to win money, and thinks that losing will end her friendship with the others.

  • S02E21 Pru

    • March 3, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    A popular girl makes the gang popular to get back at her friends.

  • S02E22 Talent Show

    • March 10, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Lor tries out for the talent show.

  • S02E23 Relative Boredom

    • March 10, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino's super geeky cousin is coming over for the weekend, conflicting his plans to see the new Chum Bukket movie.

  • S02E24 New Friends

    • March 17, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    After Tino meets his mom's former best friend, he decides that the differences he has with his friends will only end in tears.

  • S02E25 The Awful Weekend

    • March 17, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    The gang experiences a terrible weekend, but end up laughing in the end because it's so terrible.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Crushin' Roulette

    • September 9, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tish is upset because everyone else has a crush except her, so she decides the others should survey people around the town and decide who she should have a crush on.

  • S03E02 Lucky Shoes

    • September 9, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Carver, convinced he can win a race as long as he is running in his lucky shoes, bets that if he loses, the others will be his opponent's slaves. Unfortunately, his "lucky shoes" get destroyed and the others don't want to tell him in case he loses his confidence, but will their deceit pay off and help Carver out?

  • S03E03 Cry

    • September 16, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    After Tino cries at a movie in school, he decides to no longer have emotions. Will he be capable of doing such a grandiose task or will he find that emotions are something that everyone needs?

  • S03E04 The Perfect Son

    • September 16, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    When Tino starts staying over at Carver's house, Carver gets the suspicion that his Dad likes Tino more and pictures Tino as a "model son".

  • S03E05 Listen Up

    • September 23, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Carver tries to learn listening skills after getting kicked out of Mrs. Duong's Preteen Pals, though will he be able to improve his skills by the time the weekend ends?

  • S03E06 Never Say Diorama

    • September 23, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    For this weekend Tish, Tino, Lor and Carver have to design Dioramas for school, but Lor and Carver keep slacking off. Tino and Tish finish their diorama right away so they can hangout for the rest of the weekend, but Lor and Carver haven't even started, but will Tish and Tino be able to find a way for them to get their projects done on time?

  • S03E07 Secret Admirer

    • September 30, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Carver finds a note in his locker from a secret admirer. The others try and help him figure out who it is, but get annoyed when Carver insists that his admirer has to be one of the cute girls. His admirer turns out to be Nona, a girl who is very tall. Carver doesn't like her because of her height, but will he be capable of overcoming his shallow nature before his chance with Nona comes to an end?

  • S03E08 The Lone Wolves Club

    • September 30, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino, Lor, Carver and Tish are excited when they find out the towns coolest club, the Lone Wolves, are accepting a new member. That night, Tino is visited by a couple of the clubs members who tell him he must do everything they say in order to become a member. Will Tino be capable of getting into the club or will he find that there are more important things than a silly club?

  • S03E09 The Most Dangerous Weekend

    • October 7, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino misunderstands what a nurse tells him and is convinced that the world is too dangerous to live in. He attempts to follow every safety precaution possible, but will someone be able to convince him to stop his foolishness?

  • S03E10 Charity Case

    • October 7, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tish convinces the others they should try and help BeeBee, a girl at school who has no friends. However, BeeBee isn't exactly a kind individual and the Tino, Carver and Lor want to get rid of her but Tish objects. Will they be able to enjoy their weekend despite BeeBee's presence?

  • S03E11 Best

    • October 14, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    The school yearbooks are voting on the students with the best or most ability to do something. While the other friends seem to have something they are good at, Tino doesn't fit any of the categories and he's afraid that he won't win a title in the yearbook. Will Tino be capable of proving he's the best at something, or is he truthfully just not good at anything?

  • S03E12 Broken

    • October 14, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino is excited about a parade that is going to occur that gives out badges to people. He decides to try to get one for having a great non motorized vehicle and his mom and her boyfriend helps him by getting him a brand new scooter. However, Carver carelessly breaks Tino's scooter when he tries to do some tricks with it, and even though he promised to get it fixed for Tino before the parade, he forgets and just decides to buy himself something for the parade. Will Tino's faith that Carver will remember his promise come through or will Carver forget in his own glory and leave Tino to sit out in the parade?

  • S03E13 Father's Day

    • October 21, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    It's Father's Day, though Tino always gets depressed on this day because he doesn't get to see his father that often. Carver, Lor and Tish agree to not tell Tino what they are doing for Father's Day because they don't want to make their friend unhappy, but will lying to their friend make anything better?

  • S03E14 Follow the Leader

    • October 21, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    The gang is having trouble trying to figure out what to do as they all have different ideas as to how to spend the weekend. The only way they know how to solve their problems is to have someone think for the whole team, so they hold an event to see who will be the leader of the group, in which Lor wins. Will their plan to have Lor make all the decisions for the group work out well, or will they find that the freedom of choice is a valuable asset?

  • S03E15 Careers

    • October 28, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    The group takes an aptitude test to see what careers they will be most suited for when they grow up, but they are surprised by their results. Will Tino, Carver, Tish and Lor be confident with the results of their test, or will there be more consequences due to the results than anyone has realized?

  • S03E16 Tutor

    • October 28, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Thomson becomes Lor's tutor, and she tries to impress him by being romantic, but will she be able to execute her plan considering she knows next to nothing about romance?

  • S03E17 The Tao of Bluke

    • November 4, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    The group has a team challenge called "Bluke".

  • S03E18 An Experimental Weekend

    • November 4, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tish has her mind set on winning a psychology prize.

  • S03E19 Celebrity

    • November 11, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    The makers of "Teen Canyon", the gangs favourite show, shoot en episode in Bahia Bay. The gang goes down to check it out at the producers put Tish in one of the scenes. She's only in it for a couple of seconds, and her speaking voice isn't even hers, but everyone decides that Tish is now a celebrity. Carver, jealous that Tish is famous and not him, decides he will be Tish's manager and forces her to act like a celebrity. Unfortunately, fame goes to Tish's head and she ditches her friends. That is, until the next day, when no one wants to know her any more! The others are annoyed at Tish until they realise that they were the ones who forced her to act that way. So they go to apologise to her, but she has already set up a party to apologise to them. Everyone says their sorry and they become friends again.

  • S03E20 Clown

    • November 18, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tino attends a clown school so as to conquer his fear of clowns, though will he be able to overcome the fear that has plagued him since childhood?

  • S03E21 Testing Dixon

    • November 18, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    At the beginning of the weekend, Tino's mom decides to marry her boyfriend, Dixon. When Tino hears of this, he tells Lor, Carver and Tish about the news. Soon, they devise an idea by testing Dixon to see if he is the perfect father for Tino, but will they be successful in their attempts?

  • S03E22 Croquembouche

    • November 25, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    The gang visit a food festival with presentations.

  • S03E23 Imperfection

    • November 25, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Tish tries to overcome her perfectionist ways.

  • S03E24 The Worst Holiday Ever

    • December 2, 2001
    • ABC (US)

    Christmas time approaches, but the kids as celebrate different holidays. Lor celebrates Christmas, Tino celebrates Solstice, Tish celebrates Chaunkha and Carver celebrates Kwaanza. Because of this, the weekend before Christmas is the only one they can all spend together. So, Granny Macquarrie takes them all up to the mountains in her R.V., but the snow causes a road block and they have the spend the whole weekend trapped in the R.V. telling stories of the worst holidays each of them has ever had. After all the disappointment of spending their holiday trapped in an R.V., Granny Macquarrie makes them realise that they still has a good holiday because they were all together.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Nevermore

    • October 19, 2002
    • ABC (US)

    It's Halloween and Tino is very excited, as he has a great plan to get as much candy as possible. However, his friends have decided not to go trick or treating this year, so Tino decides to try to force them to go with him. Will Tino be able to get his friends to go Trick or treating with him, or will Tino ruin both his plan and his reputation trying?

  • S04E02 Brain Dead

    • November 7, 2003
    • ABC (US)

    After Tish gets a B on her test, many people begin to think she isn't as smart as they once made her out to be. After she continuously gets pestered, she eventually gets choosen a new personality since her prior personality of being smart was in doubt. Will Tish be able to live with her new persona or will she find a method to just keep being her old self?

  • S04E03 Lor's Will

    • November 7, 2003
    • ABC (US)

    Lor fractures her kneecap after playing basketball and she needs to get laser surgery for it come Sunday. She goes totally paranoid about the surgery, describing it as a kind of death sentence! Therefore, she writes a will bequeathing all her items to her loved ones, but is she just over exaggerating the scenario, and did she even write her will in a manner that will make her loved ones happy?

  • S04E04 Radio Free Carver

    • November 14, 2003
    • ABC (US)

    Carver is picked to be a DJ for the schools Radio station but doesn't prepare any music and blows it and so refuses to try it again.

  • S04E05 Dinner Party

    • November 14, 2003
    • ABC (US)

    After being placed at the kids table Tish wants to be considered more mature and wants to change the rest of the gang as well.

  • S04E06 Laundry Day

    • November 21, 2003
    • ABC (US)

    It's laundry day at the MacQuarrie household, and it's Lor's turn to do the laundry. However, since her family is so large it would take her an entire weekend in order to get the laundry done. She tries to formulate a plan in order to do the job without waisting her weekend, but will she be able to get her plan to work?

  • S04E07 Penny McQuarrie

    • November 21, 2003
    • ABC (US)

    Lor's brother Kirk goes out with Carver's sister Penny, and Lor and Carver are having problems dealing with it. Will Carver and Lor be able to resolve the problem in a manner that doesn't ruin their sibling's weekend, or will they even handle the crisis in an appropriate manner?

  • S04E08 Tino's Dad

    • February 29, 2004
    • ABC (US)

    Tino's Dad is coming to spend the weekend, though to Tino's dismay, his father is planning the trip through visiting some of his old friends, since he doesn't think he's enough to keep Tino interested by himself. Meanwhile, Lor, Carver and Tish are trying to get enough money to go so a comedian's show. Will Tino be able to enjoy his time with his father and will the rest of the group be able to go see the show, or will all of their plans end in failure?

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