The WORST episodes of Square Pegs

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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?

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - A Child's Christmas in Weemawee (2)

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1982

#11 - 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!)

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - 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.