Episode
The Weekenders: Taking Sides
Overview
Tino gets fed up with Carver always trying to be cool and impress people and Carver decides Tino is holding him back, so the two split up and try to get Lor and Tish on their sides. Lor takes Tino's side and Tish takes Carvers side, but will they realize that friendship is something that shouldn't end over such a pointless argument?
Details
- Series
- The Weekenders
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2001-01-13
- Runtime
- 11 min
Episode context
Taking Sides is Episode 10 in Season 2 of The Weekenders. It aired on 2001-01-13. The runtime is 11 min.
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Episode 9: Dixon
An amusement park is re-opening and the gang tries to earn tickets while Tino frets about his mom's upcoming date but after finding out his mom's date, Dixon, is cool, Tino tries to make sure they get together.
Episode 11: To Tish
The others make up the word "Tishing" to describe when Tish acts smart. It's not long before their lingo catches on throughout the city and Tish isn't so fund of everyone using her name to describe things that are artsy and intellectual. Tish doesn't like what is occurring, but will her friends be able to convince her that they meant for the word to be a good thing?
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Episode 8: Crevasse of Dreams
After Tino finds a cool spot to hangout and he takes his friends all the way up there, they find the place packed with people. The others give him a hard time about his "secret mountain" and when he mentions the gang's cool old hangout "The Crevasse", it turns out that he is the only one who can actually remember it. Will Tino be capable of helping them find The Crevasse or is it just a figment of Tino's imagination?
Episode 12: Tickets
Tino wins two tickets to the sold out Chum Bukkit concert and must pick one of his three friends to go with him.
Episode 7: Super Kids
Carver's parents decide he isn't goal orientated, so they force him to attend 12-year-old super-achiever Tripp Nickerson's motivational seminar and the others decide to tag along to get the free donuts. Tripp's seminar gets the kids thinking that maybe they don't achieve enough, so they each work on their own separate goals, but will they be happy with their endeavors or will they realize there is more to life than achieving things?
Episode 13: Vengeance
Carver is constantly getting tricked into embarassing himself by Christie until he sends her a fake note saying she has won a contest and gets to go out with Lonnie, from a boy band, wearing a scuba outfit!
Episode 6: Real Fake
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Episode 14: Murph
Tino can't understand why everyone likes him except for one guy, Murph. Can Tino manage to convince Murph to like him so that he doesn't feel disliked or is Murph just too indifferent to care?
Episode 5: The Invited
Tino and Tish get invited to a Costume Party and they don't want to tell Lor and Carver that they were note invited. However, Carver and Lor were invited to that same party, though they try not to tell Tino and Tish that they weren't invited. As the day of the party goes near, will the friends be able to resolve their conflict?
Episode 15: Uncool World
Tino, Lor, Carver and Tish get sick of Colby and Bree constantly making fun of those who are "beneath them", so Tino confronts them and argues that they can't both be the cool kids, one must be cooler, so they have a "Cool Showdown". Colby wins and the now un-cool Bree gets help from the gang on how to deal with the un-cool world.
Episode 4: Diary
While helping Tish clean her room Carver purposefully drops open Tish's diary and reads a page that says her and her family and moving back to the old country. Carver goes and tells Tino and Lor what he read, but is Tish really moving back to the old country?
Episode 16: My Punky Valentine
Tino gets a crush on a punk girl so he turns into a punk himself to try and impress her, but it doesn't seem to work. The others, who don't approve of his crush, try and get him to like several other girls, but will Tino be able to get the girl he really loves despite his friends' objections?