Episode
As Told by Ginger: New Girl in Town
Overview
A new student, Laticia Bowers, comes to Lucky Junior High. Her quirky behavior and the fact that she's a mortician's daughter makes her an outcast and target of gossip with the rest of the students. When Ginger and her pals accept her as a friend, will they get Courtney and the "dominant social group" to go to a party at her funeral home house? Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey go to Brandon's birthday party.
Details
- Series
- As Told by Ginger
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 2002-04-28
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
New Girl in Town is Episode 18 in Season 2 of As Told by Ginger. It aired on 2002-04-28. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 17: Family Therapy
Macie thinks her parents are planning a birthday party for her because they are acting elusive, but they actually forget the date. When she confronts them about it, they throw her a birthday party suited for a 4 year old, not a 13 year old. Will Macie show her parents how to treat her like a young lady and not a little kid, or will she enjoy this trip back to her childhood?
Meanwhile, Mipsy, who has her birthday the same day, throws a giant party, and Carl gets scared of a naked mole rat.
Episode 19: Mommie Nearest
When Courtney's mother gets hospitalized from a botched plastic surgery, Courtney decides to stay with Ginger and her mom. Will she warm her way into Mrs. Foutley's heart over Ginger?
Meanwhile, Carl wants to get a chin implant.
More episodes from this season
Episode 16: Love with a Proper Transfer Student
Dodie has a crush on Joaquin Cortez, the new transfer student. But she may have some competition, not only from Mipsy, who likes him too, but also from Ginger. When the girls try out for the school musical "Mambo In The Catskills", and Ginger gets the lead opposite Joaquin, will the two best friends come to terms with the fact that they both have a crush on the same guy? Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey try to make aphrodisiacs.
Episode 20: Ginger's Solo
When Ginger fings out that the marching band at her school is going to play at Heathered Hills, where Sasha is a student, she joins up as the extra grande triangle player. Will she rekindle her summer love or will he end up disappointing her?
Meanwhile, Hoodsey and Carl become psychics to raise money.
Episode 15: Ms. Foutley's Boys
Ginger really wants her mom to start dating, but when she starts seeing Buzz the handyman (from the episode TGIF) and his three boys invade the Foutley house, Ginger mifht have second thoughts about it.
Episode 21: And She Was Gone
When Ginger enters a writing competition and writes a story called "And She Was Gone", it causes Ms. Zorski to think Ginger might be suicidal. Can she convince her teacher and the school psycologist that it was just a work of fiction?
Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey try to make a student, Noelle Sussman, disappear with vanishing cream. When they succeed after they discover she might be the perfect girl for them, can they bring her back?
Episode 14: April Fools
Ginger decides to play an April Fools joke on Dodie by forging a love letter to her from Dustin, (a weirdo in her class that eats his sandwiches with chopsticks). Things get messy when Dodie admits to having a secret crush on Dustin, while Dustin reveals he really HAS sent a love letter, but to Macie! Will Ginger find a way to work it out?
Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey tell Blake they sold his tonsils to a witch doctor, causing him to become sick.
Episode 22: Next Question
When Ginger gets a crush on her English teacher and Quiz Team leader Mr. Gardner, what will he say when she asks him out on a date?
Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey plot to kidnap the famous Groundhog Pawtucket Pete in order to sell more of their hand-woven scarves.
Episode 13: Lunatic Lake
Ginger, Carl and Macie go on vacation to Loon Lake with Dodie and her family, where an escaped "lunatic" from the insane asylum has been reported to be hiding. Will Carl and Hoodsey get to scare Blake, who is camping in the woods there as well, or will they be in for a scare themselves? Meanwhile, Ginger and Macie deal with Dodie's mom Joann, who is a bit "high strung".
Episode 23: No Hope for Courtney
Ginger and her friends decide to help a Lucky Junior High School girl named Hope to gain popularity by offering her some social and fashion tips. When she takes to the advice so well that she challenges and beats Courtney's reign as the most popular girl in school, will Courtney be able to regain her title?
Meanwhile, Carl causes his teacher Mrs. Gordon to retire and get replaced by music teacher Hepcat Hepper. Will he convince her to come back?
Episode 12: TGIF
Friday the 13th, Carl's favorite holiday, begins with the Foutley car breaking down, Ginger's sweater getting ripped, and her school paper being blown away. Then a rare house-eating mold is discovered in Ginger's house that causes it to be condemned. Will the streak of bad luck continue, and could it get any worse? Maybe if Ginger gets completely fed up with her family...
Episode 24: Driven To Extremes
Ginger's new substitute teacher is an elderly lady named Ms. Grimley who rules her class with an iron fist. When she assigns Ginger, Courtney and Miranda an 17,000 word essay on the cotton gin, the students decide to get even. But will their plans for revenge end up back-firing?
Meanwhile, Carl and Hoodsey try to teach Mr. Licorice an act for the upcoming pet show... by showing him how to ride a motorcycle.