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Summary Who’s hot? Who’s not? The popular ones, the unpopular ones, the jocks, the geeks. Kennedy High is the set for a big war: the popular against the unpopular. This is the concept behind the 99-01 teen television series Popular. On the popular side: Brooke McQueen, a gorgeous blonde, and the head cheerleader; backed up by her best friend...

Directed By: Perry Lang

Written By: Ryan Murphy, Gina Matthews, Oliver Goldstick

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S1 • Episode 12

The Trial of Emory Dick

Air Date: Jan 20, 2000

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Summary Who’s hot? Who’s not? The popular ones, the unpopular ones, the jocks, the geeks. Kennedy High is the set for a big war: the popular against the unpopular. This is the concept behind the 99-01 teen television series Popular. On the popular side: Brooke McQueen, a gorgeous blonde, and the head cheerleader; backed up by her best friend...

Created By: Gina Matthews, Ryan Murphy

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Episode 1 • Sep 29, 1999

The Phantom Menace

It's the first day of a new school year. Brooke has self-image issues. Sam thinks Brooke is shallow. Josh tries out for a musical. Sugar raps. Nicole's picking a new cheerleader. Carmen and Mary Cherry apply. Lily won't dissect a frog.

Episode 2 • Sep 30, 1999

Mo' Menace, Mo' Problems

Josh is pressured to quit the musical. Brooke comforts Carmen. Sam and her friends aren't invited to Glamazons' exclusive party. Sam and her dreamy teacher Luke have dinner. Lily still won't dissect a frog. Jane and Mike have big news.

Episode 3 • Oct 7, 1999

Sam and Brooke clash over their first family dinner. Ms. Glass tries to make conscientious Lily cave in and dissect a frog. Josh's football coach and drama teacher clash over him. Sam's new editorial angers Nicole. The Novac is explained.

Episode 4 • Oct 14, 1999

Josh has a spontaneous erection when Sam sits on his lap. Carmen accidentally sends everyone her e-mail about this embarrassing event. Harrison comforts hurt Brooke, while Sam and Josh bond. Lily's broke and finds a fast food job.

Episode 5 • Oct 21, 1999

Slumber Party Massacre

Carmen invites the cheer-leading squad to her sweet 16 slumber party, causing Sam to question their motives. At the party Nicole tries to impress Carmen's older brother, Leo.

Episode 6 • Nov 6, 1999

Truth or Consequences

Sam discovers that Nicole, Mary Cherry, and Poppy have stolen the answers to the Biology midterm, and she sets out to gather the evidence she needs to turn them in.

Episode 7 • Nov 11, 1999

Brooke, Poppy, Mary Cherry, and Carmen are nominated for the Junior Court Homecoming Queen. Each runs a different style of campaign. Cherry's mom Cherry Cherry is introduced. Brooke and Sam can't stand living together.

Episode 8 • Nov 18, 1999

Tonight's the Night

Sam and Brooke bet on if Sam can land a boyfriend by the end of the week and if Brooke can prove that her relationship with Josh is more then just physical. Also, the gang plans to lose their virginity.

Episode 9 • Dec 2, 1999

Wild, Wild Mess

The students have to find nominees for Principal for the Day. While a custodial strike leaves the school a wild mess. Meanwhile, Brooke fears she may be pregnant, and Harrison has to deal with his mother being a lesbian.

Episode 10 • Dec 9, 1999

Fall on Your Knees

"Popular" does Dickens' Christmas Carol. Everyone is invited to Sam and Brooke's first joint annual Christmas party. Carmen breaks her ankle and can't try out for Glamazons. For being a Grinch, Nicole's visited by the ghosts of Christmas.

Episode 11 • Jan 13, 2000

Ex, Lies and Videotape

Josh's father forbids him to do the musical. Sam and Brooke are asked by a network TV producer to make a video piece on Josh. Now that Carmen is a Glamazon, April Tuna becomes her obsessive fan. The Glamazons take a driving test.

Episode 12 • Jan 20, 2000

The Trial of Emory Dick

Emory puts the popular crew, Ms. Glass and lunch lady Vera Crups on trial for harassing him. Sam and Lily volunteer to represent him at the school's mock proceedings before a jury of his peers.

Episode 13 • Jan 27, 2000

A Sadie Hawkins dance has most of the students obsessing over their appearances, while Brooke considers asking a man of substance instead of going for looks.

Episode 14 • Feb 3, 2000

Tensions between Sam's friends and Brooke's friends are leading to a rumble, but the guys intervene and lock the ladies in a school bathroom where secrets are revealed, new bonds are formed, and a friendship comes to and end.

Episode 15 • Feb 10, 2000

Sam and Brooke work on the School's peer crisis hot line. Josh, Harrison and Sugar Daddy are forced to attend a weekend sensitivity camp after they harass a scantily clad Lily.

Episode 16 • Feb 17, 2000

A new male student sets out to join the cheer leading squad. Meanwhile Sam bests Brooke in a modeling competition.

Episode 17 • Feb 24, 2000

Lord of the Files

School's dreamy new vice-principal Calvin Krupps attracts attention of several girls. Brooke tries to get Josh back. Harrison performs a song about Carmen's love life, which devastates her. Krupps gives his lazy students Tai chi lessons.

Episode 18 • Apr 20, 2000

Episode 19 • Apr 27, 2000

Hard on the Outside, Soft in the Middle

Blonds and brunettes switch hair color to test Sam's natural selection theory that blonds always get preferential treatment. Bowling decides it. Losers get mohawks. Sugar falls for an Asian exchange student. Lily fails to save a lobster.

Episode 20 • May 4, 2000

Lily and Carmen become Nicole and Mary Cherry's servants in hopes of receiving wigs to cover their mohawks. Sam and Brooke plan to stop their parents' wedding. Mary Cherry opposes her mom's decision to marry "CHiPs" actor Erik Estrada.

Episode 21 • May 11, 2000

What Makes Sammy Run

Sam tracks down Brooke's estranged mother and learns a lot about life from her. Brooke, Lily and Carmen try to cover for Sam. The boys use oblivious Mike to get into a strip club only to find Mary Cherry and Nicole stripping there.

Episode 22 • May 18, 2000

Two Weddings and a Funeral

The gang investigates the suspicious death of Ms. Glass in this season finale that parodies TV tropes that season finales often use such as murder, musical numbers, gore, nudity, teen pregnancy, terminal illness, wedding, earthquake, etc.

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