8.7/10163 votesLoading...#1 - Muffy's Bat Mitzvah
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1982
When she leaves them off her guest list, Lauren and Patty scheme to get invited to Muffy's bat mitzvah party.
Director: Terry Hughes, Kim Friedman
Writer: N/A
8.4/10144 votesLoading...#2 - To Serve Weemawee All My Days
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1983
Mr. Donovan's job is in jeopardy because the school board has discovered he's living with a woman.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: Andy Borowitz
8.3/10150 votesLoading...#3 - A Cafeteria Line
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1982
The romantic leads in the school musical lead to romance for Patty and Vinnie.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: N/A
8.3/10162 votesLoading...#4 - No Substitutions
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1983
A substitute teacher's unconventional style wins the hearts of the students and draws the jealousy of Mr. Donovan.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: Andy Borowitz
8.2/10153 votesLoading...#5 - Pac Man Fever
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1982
Marshall loses his comic touch when he becomes "possessed" by a video game. His only hope for salvation: exorcism by the cleric of comedy, Father Guido Sarducci.
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: Marjorie Gross
8.2/10140 votesLoading...#6 - The Arrangement
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1983
Lauren thinks she and Patty have finally been accepted by the "in" crowd, but the real reason for their sudden popularity is something else - and Patty knows what it is.
Director: Craig Richard Nelson
Writer: Anne Beatts
8.0/10148 votesLoading...#7 - Open 24 Hours
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1982
Marshall becomes Johnny's manager and books his band, a band no one's ever seen, for the gala opening of a supermarket deli counter.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: N/A
8.0/10142 votesLoading...#8 - A Child's Christmas in Weemawee (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1982
Patty's in a quandry: should she spend Christmas in an isolated cabin with her divorced father, or the way she'd prefer - with her friends at school?
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: Marjorie Gross
7.9/10142 votesLoading...#9 - It's All How You See Things
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1982
Trying to prove that having to wear glasses is the root of her problems, Patty makes a spectacle of herself by refusing to wear them.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: N/A
7.9/10140 votesLoading...#10 - Merry Pranksters
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1983
To gain popularity, Patty and Lauren become expert pranksters, but the joke's on them when someone else gets credit for their stunts.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: N/A
7.9/10140 votesLoading...#11 - It's Academical
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1983
Patty hopes to win more than the scholastic quiz show when she and her heartthrob Larry are selected as contestants.
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: Andy Borowitz
7.9/10140 votesLoading...#12 - The Stepanowicz Papers
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1983
Lauren and Ms. Loomis could be literally swept off their feet when they both fall for the new janitor.
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: N/A
7.9/10140 votesLoading...#13 - No Joy in Weemawee
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/1983
Johnny's talent for hitting home runs rockets him to stardom on the Weemawee baseball team and gets him a scouting visit by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Steve Sax.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marjorie Gross
7.8/10158 votesLoading...#14 - Halloween XII
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1982
An all-girl Halloween party is interrupted by the boys and a spooky, wheezing stalker.
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: Marjorie Gross
7.8/10150 votesLoading...#15 - Weemaweegate
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1982
Vinnie's campaign to become school mascot is sabotaged at every turn by an unknown mastermind, so Patty and Lauren play Woodward and Bernstein to break the scandal.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: N/A
7.8/10142 votesLoading...#16 - Hardly Working
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/1982
Like, Jennifer does, you know, the uncoolest thing possible - she, like, gets a job (gag her with a spoon!)
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: Andy Borowitz
7.7/10166 votesLoading...#17 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1982
Freshman Patty gets the chance to "click with the right clique" when she attracts the attention of a handsome senior.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: Anne Beatts
7.7/10146 votesLoading...#18 - A Child's Christmas in Weemawee (1)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1982
Patty's in a quandry: should she spend Christmas in an isolated cabin with her divorced father, or the way she'd prefer - with her friends at school?
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: Marjorie Gross
7.5/10145 votesLoading...#19 - Square Pigskins
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1982
Lauren talks Patty into joining the Weemawee girls football team. Coached by a gung-ho Army vet and a women's libber who bristles at the slightest slight.
Director: Kim Friedman
Writer: Andy Borowitz
7.5/10147 votesLoading...#20 - A Simple Attachment
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1982
Marshall tries to prove to Lauren that she loves him by hooking her up to his science-fair project, a "love detector," but the machine ends up short-circuiting every romance in school.
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Square Pegs
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Two awkward freshmen desperate to fit try to adjust to life at Weemawee High School.
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"Muffy's Bat Mitzvah" is the best rated episode of "Square Pegs". It scored 8.7/10 based on 163 votes. Directed by Terry Hughes, Kim Friedman and written by N/A, it aired on 11/29/1982. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "To Serve Weemawee All My Days".