The Best Episodes of Square Pegs Season 1

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

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

The romantic leads in the school musical lead to romance for Patty and Vinnie.

Director: Kim Friedman

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An all-girl Halloween party is interrupted by the boys and a spooky, wheezing stalker.

Director: Terry Hughes

Writer: Marjorie Gross

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

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

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

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

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

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