Unfabulous is a live action television series on Nickelodeon about an "unfabulous" Junior high school student, played by Emma Roberts. The series was created by Sue Rose, who previously created the animated television series Pepper Ann and Angela Anaconda.
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| Created by | Sue Rose |
| Starring | Emma Roberts Malese Jow Jordan Calloway Tadhg Kelly Molly Hagan Markus Flanagan |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 24 (As of January 2006) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 min. (per episode) |
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| Network | Nickelodeon |
| Release | September 12 2004 – present |
As of November 2005 the show, which debuted in fall 2004, is in its second season and among the three most-watched programs in the United States among kids between the age of 9 and 14.[1]
Overview
Unfabulous' main character is 13-year-old seventh grader Addie Singer (Emma Roberts), who writes songs about her life in junior high. Her best friends are Geena (Malese Jow), who is into fashion and designs her own clothes, and the environmentally-committed school basketball player Zach (Jordan Calloway). They all attend Rocky Road Middle School in an unspecified East Coast city. Addie's older brother Ben (Tadhg Kelly) works at The Juice, a smoothie bar where Addie and her friends often hang out after school. Template:Spoiler-aboutThroughout the first season, Addie obsesses about her crush on Jake Behari (Raja Fenske), who already has a girl friend. In the second season, however, Addie is dating Randy Klein (Evan Palmer). Template:Endspoiler
The show's theme song is performed by Jill Sobule, who also writes Addie's songs for the series.
Along with the start of the second season in September 2005, Nickelodeon also began selling different types of Unfabulous-related merchandise, beginning with the album Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts (see Soundtrack below). In November 2005 the album was followed by two books tying into the show, Keepin' It Real (ISBN 0439796660) and Split Ends (ISBN 0439801796), both written by Robin Wasserman, and the first items in a line of clothes based on Addie's wardrobe on the show. [2] Two more books were released in February 2006, Starstruck (ISBN 0439831571) and Jinxed! (ISBN 043983158X).
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Cast
- Emma Roberts as Addie Singer
- Malese Jow as Geena Fabiano
- Jordan Calloway as Zach Carter-Schwartz
- Tadhg Kelly as Ben Singer, Addie's older brother
- Molly Hagan as Sue Singer, Addie's mother
- Markus Flanagan as Jeff Singer, Addie's father
- Mildred Dumas as Principal Brandywine
- Chelsea Tavares as Cranberry
- Emma Degerstedt as Maris
- Carter Jenkins as Eli Pataki
- Raja Fenske as Jake Bahari
- Stephen Lunsford as Chad
- Evan Palmer as Randy Klein
List of episodes
First season
| # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 12 2004 | "The Party" | To become popular Addie decides to host a party at the beginning of the seventh grade as Randy, who usually hosts the party, gets a sprained ankle. |
| 2 | September 19 2004 | "The Secret" | As she finds out Geena and Zach haven't always been telling her the truth, Addie comes up with a rule, forbidding the three friends to lie to each other. |
| 3 | September 26 2004 | "The Picture" | It's picture day and Addie feels insecure when Maris and Cranberry tell her that her hair is flat. Her attempts to change her hair style go awry. |
| 4 | October 10 2004 | "The Book Club" | Instead of spending time with her mother in a "mother daughter book club" Addie sneaks out and goes to a hip hangout place with Geena. |
| 5 | October 17 2004 | "The Pal" | Addie is not sure if Jake Behari has a crush on her or if she is just a friend to him and follows a teen magazine's advices to get him to like her. |
| 6 | October 24 2004 | "The Pink Guitar" | Addie joins a girl group, but her other band members are more interested in learning their choreography than rehearsing their songs. |
| 7 | November 7 2004 | "The Rep" | Addie becomes "popular" in a school assignment where the students are put into cliques and not allowed to talk to members of other groups. |
| 8 | January 2 2005 | "The 66th Day" | Addie tries to get her CD of 65 songs about her crush on Jake Behari, which Zach borrowed by mistake, back before anybody gets to hear it. |
| 9 | January 9 2005 | "The List Of Kissed" | Addie wants to get on a list of girls who have been kissed, which is posted in the girls' bathroom, and tries to get her first kiss from Eli Pataki. |
| 10 | January 16 2005 | "The "B" Word" | Geena gets mad about Addie when Addie talks bad about Geena's new boyfriend Chad, and accuses Addie of being jealous. |
| 11 | January 30 2005 | "The Little Sister" | Addie wants to achieve something in school her older brother has not done before, so she is no longer referred to as "Ben Singer's little sister". |
| 12 | February 13 2005 | "The Partner" | Addie wants Zach to be her partner for the annual science fair, but Zach teams up with someone else, as Addie is "cursed" when it comes to science. |
| 13 | March 6 2005 | "The Bar Mitzvah" | Randy invites Addie to his Bar Mitzvah, but Addie does not want to go because she got braces and does not want to be seen in public. |
Second season
| # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | September 10 2005 | "The Rhinoceros In The Middle of The Room" | Addie has trouble dealing with her relationship with Randy Klein, her braces, and the death of her great-aunt. |
| 15 | September 18 2005 | "The Balancing Act" | Addie ignores her friends to spend more time with her boyfriend. |
| 16 | September 25 2005 | "The Job" | Addie tries to pay back money she's borrowed through a babysitting job. |
| 17 | October 9 2005 | "The Eye Randy" | Addie's jealousy over other girls looking at her boyfriend, Randy, drives them apart. |
| 18 | October 16 2005 | "The Road Trip" | Addie and her brother spend a weekend without their parents, resulting in a house party. |
| 19 | October 23 2005 | "The Charity Case" | Addie and Geena team up to help with a charity chase, but compete with Maris and Cranberry for a trip for whoever gets the most money out of the chase. |
| 20 | October 29 2005 | "The Dark Side" | On a Halloween party Addie has to kiss someone dressed up as Darth Vader when playing spin the bottle, and later tries to find out who was behind the mask. |
| 21 | November 6 2005 | "The Information" | Addie is surprised to learn the guys have been playing min-golf without inviting the girls. |
| 22 | January 15, 2006 | "The Grey Area" | Addie has to choose between Geena and Maris when the two design new cheerleader uniforms but Addie doesn't want to be accused of choosing Gina just because she's her best friend. |
| 23 | January 22, 2006 | "The Perfect Couple" | Addie starts doubting that Randy is the right choice for her because Randy doesn't know much about her, and vice-versa. Meanwhile, Zach has girl trouble with an 8th grader that won't go out with him because he is a 7th grader. |
| 24 | January 29, 2006 | "The Set Up" | You can help by adding a summary |
| 25 | February 12, 2006 | "The Drama" | You can help by adding a summary |
| 26 | "The Last Day of 7th Grade" | ||
| 27 | "The Perfect Moment" (part 1) | ||
| 28 | "The Perfect Moment" (part 2) |
Soundtrack
On September 27 2005, shortly after the premiere of the show's second season, Columbia Records and Nick Records released the album Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts, which serves as both the show's soundtrack and as Emma Roberts' debut album.
The album includes several original songs (among them "Dummy" and "I Wanna Be", both of which were also released as music videos, "I Have Arrived", and "This Is Me", which was co-written by Roberts), as well as some of Addie's songs from the first season (however in newly recorded versions), including "Punch Rocker" and "New Shoes" (both from the episode "The Party"), "94 Weeks (Metal Mouth Freak)" (from "The Bar Mitzvah") and "Mexican Wrestler" (which had previously appeared on Jill Sobule's 2000 album Pink Pearl and in the Unfabulous episode "The 66th Day").
It was also one of the albums originally released by Columbia Records with the controversial Extended Copy Protection digital rights management scheme.[3]
As of October 2005 the album peaked at #46 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers.[4]
References
- ^ "For teens & tweens, 'Chris' is still cool". Media Life Magazine. November 10.
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- ^ "Emma Roberts: Artist Chart History". Billboard. October 31.
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