Square Pegs
Created by	Anne Beatts
Starring	Sarah Jessica Parker Amy Linker
Theme music composer	The Waitresses
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	20
Production
Camera setup	Single camera
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 27, 1982 – March 7, 1983

Square Pegs was a CBS comedy television series that aired during the 1982-83 season. The series followed Patty Greene (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren Hutchinson (Amy Linker), two awkward teenage girls desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Anne Beatts is an American comedy writer. ... Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress producer, with a portfolio of television, movie, and theater performances. ... Amy Linker was a child actress, and co-starred on the TV show, Square Pegs (On Square Pegs, she had to wear fake braces and a fatsuit). ... The Waitresses were an experimental New Wave band from Kent, Ohio,[1] United States. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A single camera setup is the name given to the filming procedure used to film motion pictures. ... CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ... is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1982 in television involved some significant events. ... is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // February 8 - Minipops premieres on Channel 4 in the UK. Though a ratings success, it is canceled after the first series due to heavy media criticism. ... CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ... The year 1982 in television involved some significant events. ... // February 8 - Minipops premieres on Channel 4 in the UK. Though a ratings success, it is canceled after the first series due to heavy media criticism. ... Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress producer, with a portfolio of television, movie, and theater performances. ... Amy Linker was a child actress, and co-starred on the TV show, Square Pegs (On Square Pegs, she had to wear fake braces and a fatsuit). ...

Created by former Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts, the series was much acclaimed by critics at the time for its realistic (if comic) look at teenage life, reflecting a sensibility somewhat similar to the John Hughes teen comedies of a few years later. This article is about the American television series. ... Anne Beatts is an American comedy writer. ... John Hughes, Jr. ...

The show lasted one season (A TV Guide article dated June 9, 1984 blamed the show's failure on the inexperience of its staff, and drug use on the set), but it struck a chord with many Generation X viewers and many of its catchphrases and characters are still fondly remembered by fans. TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ... June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... This article is about the year. ... Generation X is a term used to describe generations in many countries around the world. ...

Main characters

Lauren and Patty were surrounded by colorful supporting characters. Their friends Marshall Blechtman (John Femia) and Johnny Slash (Merritt Butrick) were a pair of lovable geeks, with Marshall a motormouthed, would-be comedian and Johnny a soft-spoken punk and new wave fan who was constantly pronouncing things "a totally different head... totally." Patty and Lauren were forever hoping to impress the popular kids: Jennifer DiNuccio (Tracy Nelson) was the quintessential Valley Girl, her boyfriend Vinnie Pasetta (Jon Caliri) was a greaser hood and LaDonna Fredericks (Claudette Wells) was Jennifer's sassy friend. Muffy B. Tepperman (Jami Gertz) was the endlessly chipper chairperson of the Weemawee Pep Committee, head of the Morals Club, chairman of the Science Fair Committee and member of the Future Nurses of America. Muffy had a memorably pompous, oratorial speaking style and began many sentences with "It behooves us..." She remembered her 20th century presidents by using the phrase "Rough Toughs Eat Cool Jello!" (For Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson - it is pointed out in the episode that Kennedy doesn't begin with a "c", but Muffy brushes off this inconvenient fact.) Merritt Butrick (September 3, 1959 in Gainesville, Florida – March 17, 1989 in Los Angeles, California of AIDS) was an American actor who was best known for his role as Captain James T. Kirks son David Marcus in the movies Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek... Punk Rock is an anti-establishment music movement that began about 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified by The Ramones,the Misfits, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Bold text New Wave in the late 1970s and early 1980s was inspired by the punk rock. ... Tracy Nelson is best known for playing the part of Sister Stevie (the sidekick of Father Dowling in the tv show of Father Dowling Mysteries) that starred Tom Bosley of Happy Days fame and the late Mary Wickes. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jami Gertz (born October 28, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress of Jewish descent. ...

Opening dialogue

Every episode began with the following dialogue before the credits:

Lauren: "I've got this whole high school thing psyched out. It all breaks down into cliques." Patty: "Cliques?" Lauren: "Yeah, you know. Cliques. Little in-groups of different kids. All we have to do is click with the right clique, and we can finally have a social life that's worthy of us." Patty: "No way! Not even with cleavage." Lauren: "I tell you, this year we're going to be popular." Patty: "...Yeah?" Lauren: "Yeah. Even if it kills us."

Air times

Square Pegs debuted on CBS on September 27, 1982, in the 8 p.m. slot on Mondays, which was formerly held by M*A*S*H (which had moved to 9 PM.) In recent years, episodes have been rerun on the USA Network, Nickelodeon, TVLand, and most recently in HDTV on HDNet. is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1982 in television involved some significant events. ... M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, inspired by the 1968 novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker (penname for H. Richard Hornberger) and its sequels, but primarily by the 1970 film MASH, and influenced by the... USA Network is a popular American cable television network with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005. ... This article is about the TV channel. ... TV Land is an American cable television network which first started transmissions on April 29, 1996. ... High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ... HDNet is a general interest television channel in the United States, broadcasting exclusively in high-definition format, and available via cable and satellite television. ...

Theme music

The show's opening and closing themes were performed by The Waitresses. The Waitresses were an experimental New Wave band from Kent, Ohio,[1] United States. ...

Other uses

• Square Pegs is also the title of a very early pre-World War II television broadcast aired on the BBC in 1939.^[1]

• A Chinese TV series, Life Made Simple, is also sometimes known as Square Pegs.

Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... Life Made Simple Life Made Simple (阿旺新傳) is a 32-episode modernized version of the hit TVB series Square Pegs (2002-2003), which broke TVBs record for highest rated television drama of all time in 2003. ...

Current Airings

• Currently, US subscribers of Comcast digital cable can view selected episodes On Demand, thru the ondemand menu >> TV entertainment >> Tube time >> Square Pegs. Currently the show is on a 4 to 5 episode rotation, with each episode getting about 3 weeks in the rotation.

• Square Pegs will air in Canada weekends at 10:30am and 2:30pm beginning September 15, 2007 on Canwest's digital specialty channel, DejaView.

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References

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083482/

External links

• Square Pegs at the Internet Movie Database
• Square Pegs at TV.com
• Jump The Shark - Square Pegs
• Fan page