TMC
09-03-2024, 05:51 AM
http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/2017/05/one-size-does-not-fit-all.html
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I was a huge fan of this sitcom (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125314/http://www.jumptheshark.com/s/squarepegs.htm) during its original run in the 1982-83 season, and was a bit bummed when I learned it was not going to be picked up for another year because I thought it was a bright, funny look at high school angst. (I suppose, in retrospect, that I should not have been surprised a smart series like Pegs was cancelled too soon…there’s a reason why we call that device “the idiot box.”)
But on the off-chance that anyone reading this was cryogenically frozen during its original run, Square Pegs was the stirring saga of two young girls entering their freshman year at Weemawee High School: Patty Greene (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren Hutchinson (Amy Linker). Patty was, according to the write-up TV Guide gave the series in its 1982 Fall Preview issue, “the smart, skinny, nearsighted one” while Lauren was “the one with baby fat and braces.” The girls wanted nothing more than to “click with the right clique and we can finally have a social life that’s worthy of us,” as viewers were reminded in a voiceover that opened the show each week. (Patty: “No way—not even with cleavage!”) “This year we’re going to be popular…even if it kills us,” Lauren assured her pal. This quest for popularity would prove to be a daunting task.
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I was a huge fan of this sitcom (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125314/http://www.jumptheshark.com/s/squarepegs.htm) during its original run in the 1982-83 season, and was a bit bummed when I learned it was not going to be picked up for another year because I thought it was a bright, funny look at high school angst. (I suppose, in retrospect, that I should not have been surprised a smart series like Pegs was cancelled too soon…there’s a reason why we call that device “the idiot box.”)
But on the off-chance that anyone reading this was cryogenically frozen during its original run, Square Pegs was the stirring saga of two young girls entering their freshman year at Weemawee High School: Patty Greene (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren Hutchinson (Amy Linker). Patty was, according to the write-up TV Guide gave the series in its 1982 Fall Preview issue, “the smart, skinny, nearsighted one” while Lauren was “the one with baby fat and braces.” The girls wanted nothing more than to “click with the right clique and we can finally have a social life that’s worthy of us,” as viewers were reminded in a voiceover that opened the show each week. (Patty: “No way—not even with cleavage!”) “This year we’re going to be popular…even if it kills us,” Lauren assured her pal. This quest for popularity would prove to be a daunting task.