I don't care how enticing you try to make this show sound, I refuse to watch it! I didn't care about high school drama when I was in high school; I'm certainly not going to start caring now.

Wow that jock looks at least 25. I thought that only happened in MOVIES about High School. For my purposes, he only needs to be 18 though...

oh amanda. this girl gets kicked in the teeth every episode and still comes up smiling. at least on the outside. god bless her ambitious little heart.

I don't think (pretend) high school boys are cute. I don't want to go to prison.

@formerlyzivah: Yeah! Some of us weren't even asked to dances!

As a side note, did anyone see Tina Fey on Oprah talk about not dating in high school? She so described my high school experience.

My 15 year old half sister got grounded last week for sneaking out of the house while the family was watching Lost to walk around the block with her 15 year old skater boi boyfriend. My dad was not pleased. In other news, she had no plan of action for getting back into the house, short of walking back in the front door. I think she should have been grounded for being dumb. Think things through, stupid!

I was just going to complain about missing this, but I turned the channel and it's on! Hurrah! It's like it knows!

Cute as in young child?
thats all i will give you.

poor girl! that really does suck. the look on her face was tragic.

also, i don't think joey kissed her when she sat next to him... i think he smelled her hair. which is creepier.

@formerlyzivah:
You must not watch any reality tv then.

Mmmmm... what tasty snacks.

@Le Kangourou de Kataroo bites her thumb in your general dir...:
He TOTALLY smelled her hair.

I am dying to know what that kid did to get grounded. Dying!

also, i want a loop of Adam dancing in that shirt as my background, if that were possible. Ah-mazing. Think he could guest star with SM and Rich on Pot Psychology when he's 18?

Poor Amanda. She probably watches the episodes at the same time the rest of us do... only she probably gets heartbroken all over again living through her bad friends/luck twice!

I like her.

I loved Boy Amanda, but then he went and broke my heart by ditching the girl he likes, just like Chuck Bass.

this episode made me feel all warm and fuzzy...i love the nerd drama, what can i say.

and honestly? that douchey adam character is so typical in high school--the insecure nerd who was once nice but when given a little bit of power/popularity/a girlfriend, acts like a jerk. he's so realistic that he can be hard to watch. sometimes they work out their issues and end up ok...other times they get worse in college. we all knew an adam, no?

@OSallyTheAlleyCat: Well, I've been too lazy to sign up for cable, so I don't watch anything right now, really. But I do like reality TV - I'm totally without shame. But, I mean, these are kids. Course then I have to wonder whether it's better to watch smart kids or retarded adults . . .

The dancing kid just made my day. I just keep clicking and clicking your post to watch over and over again.

err, i didnt mean adam, i meant that 2nd in command dude

@formerlyzivah: My vote goes to the smart kids.

Uhhh they just used "Working for the Weekend" in a furious work montage. This. show. rulez.

is it bad that the cynic in me thinks the producers had this figured out all along? that they wanted her to go to homecoming alone? cuz it kind of seems that way.

@RudyWaltz: And "Let's Hear It For The Boy" when Adam won? Genius.

oh noes! i forgot to watch this last night (although i was watching my so called life instead, so it's almost like i watched the paper). however, i LOVE LOVE LOVE that the latin boy made her translate him asking her to homecoming (i don't have sound, so that's what i'm assuming). that would have made me melt at 16. hell, it probably still would, as i'm a loser.

@emilies: i'm a little worried about that. if that's true, i'm going to track those producers down and cut them. because high school is hard enough for a kid like amanda without shit like that being thrown at her too.

@CarolineK: That whole situation was dumb. If you're going to get in trouble you might as well get to at least 3rd base.

@Le Kangourou de Kataroo bites her thumb in your general dir...: I know! You can tell the editors love this show.

I'm not buying this kid was grounded. For what? Graffiti-ing "Fiat Lux!" on the walls?

that was the greatest episode ever. the playing of cheesy 80s music whenever something happens to adam? check!
alex being revealed as a total dick/sweaty loser? check!
other kids making fun of giana and trevor's codependency? check!
amanda busting out the robot at a school dance? check and cheeeeeck!

i am now hopelessly addicted to this ridiculous show

Oh and Amanda's dancing at Homecoming hurt me.

Well I agree that Trevor is an asshole. So is Giana. I hate them both (As I am sure I am supposed to.) Their combined assholishness is quite corrosive and if it weren't for them Amanda wouldn't have so many staff problems. Also, Giana thinks that great rack=pretty. She'll find out....

@wideeyedgradstudent: @wideeyedgradstudent:

YES! I can't stand Alex (or Alix for that matter)! And he is such a momma's boy too! The scenes with his mom saying "you should have been editor in chief" over sandwiches with the crusts cut off drive me crazy. Enabler? I'd tell my kid to suck it up and be a team player.

@Jessi Ramsey: Romanes Eunt Domus.

This girl Amanda is great! Loverboy dancing kid complete with home sweatband-making kit is fun as all get out. He'll be living in Chelsea in,mmm, five years or so, after Yale.

"Estimated translation time: five to ten minutes. Or 30 seconds. If you were me." I love it when nerdy kids recognize their own awesomeness, even when nobody else does. That's the best part of this show.

If Latin Club boy has parents like my parents, he got grounded for something normal parents would be happy with. I got a B+ one quarter in Dual Credit / AP Calculus and as a result was grounded until the next report card came out (aka 9 weeks). Seriously that was crap.

@Jessi Ramsey: Latin Club boy totally wussed out and couldn't handle the pressure of actually going to a DANCE. Realizing that he was going to have to dance is what killed it for him. Probably. The fact that he texted her instead of calling supports this theory: if it wasn't an anxious cop-out, he'd at least call, right?

Or not, he is 17.

@NotIt: interesting theory. i once asked a friend to prom, and he said yes. only to call me three days later and change his mind. 17 year old boys suck.

I love this show, mostly because it's so nice to see normal teenagers doing normal things. I think my mind has been warped by too much The O.C., Gossip Girl and Laguna Beach. Also, the soundtrack to this show rocks!

No one puts Adam Brock in %$#&@*$^ corner!

Her dad looks just like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.

This show almost makes me wish I got MTV, though.

@onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: Same. Happened to me twice, in fact.

I got grounded at 17(!!) because I had a party when my parents went away and my Dad found out. So cliche, but O-M-G my Dad was pissed! Mostly because someone he works with came up to him and said, so my son was at the party at your house this weekend...

I love high school.

am i alone in thinking that the very best aspect of this show is the audience world laughing at trevor and giana for thinking they are cooler than everyone when we all know they are complete nobodies outside of that classroom? like, how hard did we all laugh when they had a "party" and acted all mean-girls-ish about not inviting amanda, but then the people at the party consisted of THEM? this is why i stick by mtv.

yeah, i totally didn't buy that latin honor society boy got grounded. i mean, what could he have done? not put the trash can on the curb before the garbage truck came?

and amanda, after having a little cry, was still looking forward to the dance because alex had told her that he would save a dance for her. and the jerk got all sweaty, pissy, and bitchy and avoided fulfilling his promise. at least she finally realized he was an asshole by the end of the episode. i hate alex more than anyone else on the show, and this is significant because giana and trevor set such a high bar.

and did you see how adam was making up for last week's douchiness? sweet redemption.

is it totally creppy that i want to teach trevor the ways of a woman? i'm 30.

@HelloTitty:

Giana makes my blood boil. To be fair if I were in that high school I probably would kind of hate Amanda as well but Giana's whole bored/dismissive/lazy/boobs in your face bitchy vibe is unbearable.

If I were Amanda, I'd have popped Alex in the face when he wouldn't smile for that homecoming photo, right as the camera went off.

YOU CAN'T TEXT MESSAGE BREAK-UP!!!

Aww, my 8th grade semi-formal date got grounded and couldn't go. I didn't actually find out until his best friend told me at the dance which is, wow, still a really painful memory.

ARGARGARG. I liked Alex before. Now, he's just a douche.

@lucyjae: right before our grade's FIRST EVER dance (7th grade) my *friends* got the boy i liked to ask me to the dance, solely so they could laugh at me when i said yes (thus proving that i liked him, which they had so generously shared with him already). i was honestly surrounded by people laughing at me. and yeah, that one will always sting a little.

@formerlyzivah: Please please watch just one. If you allow yourself one guilty I-will-never-admit-to-watching-that reality show pleasure, let this be it!

dude, i almost died of cutestipation when latin kid asked her. my face was all squished up strangely.

THEN, i could NOT stop smiling after adam won and they played "let's hear it for the boy." amazing!

why is alex such an asshole? i totally agree about his mom being an enabler. is his life really so empty that the fact that amanda didn't have to change her seat (i mean, so what? she's not even next to cassia or anything) is cause for whining?

i hope this mystery is solved by the end of the season.

Holy crap do I want to watch this show. It's like reading an alternative reality judy blume novel, what with self confident kids and real live homos (seriously Judy, us lezebels need to identify with someone too). These little clippies are just not enough anymore. Anyone know if the show is streamed on MTV.com??