Top-rated
Sat, Dec 12, 2009
The show begins as five freshman teens (Alan, Andrew, Drew, Mariah and Shaylen) attend an arts academy boarding school where they assume they'd learn to become pop stars, but unfortunately not. The stuffy academy only teaches the classics: ballet, instrumental music, and Shakespeare. After a contemporary singing battle in the student lounge, the five teens are given one week of punishment to work at a local café, for free! Fortunately for them Sarah, the daughter of the café owner shares the same hopes of becoming a pop star. She coaxes her dad into letting her and the academy students rock out at the café, but the café owner gets his own ideas. He has them dress in fruit costumes to promote his latest smoothie creations. Fruit costumes and all, the band is a hit. The owner will allow them to rock out every week but the kids bargain to dress in their own disguises. It's a deal. Our wannabe pop stars are on their way, until they get caught, that is.
Dec 2009
When a rich girl becomes obsessed with Drew's put-on Scottish accent, she woos him with gifts and crowds his space. His friends help him to realize that this girl is manipulative and spoiled. When Drew tries to break it off with her, she threatens to expose the rest of The Wannabes' identities to Mr. Pesckow. Her efforts are foiled when Sarah devises an idea to formulate unlikely replacements for their performance. The trick pays off, but not without Drew learning that he should stick to what he knows: being himself. Meanwhile, Mr. Moody is hosting the Sunshine Ladies annual gathering at the sweet shop. Sarah takes interest in a group of ladies who send her back in time through a dream sequence to their shot at stardom as a group called, The Mermaids. In her vision, The Mermaids are Shaylen, Mariah and she. The Mermaids story is a tragic one leading Sarah to learn that "You should stick to what you know...and no bongos." Fortunately for The Mermaids, Sarah gives them an opportunity to perform one last time as The Wannabes disguised as cars.
Tue, Dec 1, 2009
Sarah finally gets to join her friends at the Highlands Academy when she is accepted into the "Prep Program" for potential students. This seems like a perfect world to her, but becomes the "perfect storm" after she makes a few childish mistakes and her friends feel she is too immature to hang out with them at school. Things get more complicated when her new cell phone with video of a Wannabes rehearsal is taken by Mr. Pesckow. She struggles internally (as evidenced a tiny Angel and Devil who appear above her shoulders) with whether she should tell her friends about her blunder or retaliate for their harsh treatment by letting them get caught. She eventually listens to the Angel and tells them what happened. Desperate not to blow her friends' cover, she helps them concoct a plan to break into his office and retrieve the phone. Things do not go smoothly as the gang discovers her "one of kind" phone is not one of a kind. When they bring a collection of identical phones to her, Mr. Moody reveals he retrieved her phone earlier from Mr. Pesckow.