Career Jeers
Episode 95
Season 6, 1989



Introducing: --



 

The kids have suffered an agonizing afternoon at the hands of a career placement test, and they are all complaining about it – except Stacy. She’s curious to see what the results are. Everyone else already knows what they want to be when they grow up, however, and they just laugh off the test.



  


Predictably, the test results come in, and everyone gets a positive result except – you guessed it – Stacy. The test somehow concludes she can’t get a job at all because she’s an underachiever.

 

 No amount of encouragement from the kids can get her to cheer up. She believes she’s doomed to be a dunce and has taken to studying like mad in order to compensate.


 


It turns out that the other kids’ results, while being legitimate careers, are completely wrong for them, which only convinces them more that Stacy is not the next Bart Simpson.


   

Inspired, Stacy attempts to find a vocation – with disastrous results. She runs off to see if she can mope correctly.


Oh no! Now where will Barbie live? Your computer has performed an illegal action and must be shut down... So you use a firehose to set your bangs? No wonder they're called 'waves'! You're not supposed to be the dressmaker's dummy, dummy!


The next time Stacy sees her friends, they are all struggling with one problem or another. She helps them all out without thinking – proving to herself that she is competent and can choose any career.




What she chooses next is to be the lead singer in the next number.




I gave this episode 4 mics because it’s valid. Stacy herself is approaching child star purgatory by this point. She’s been on the show 6 seasons and is very lucky to have had even that. Since she got no exit storyline, which was a damn shame, this is sort of her swan song episode. Life goes on after Kids Inc, LOL.


Guest star: --

Vocab: --

Continuity, gags and themes:
Stacy’s always the dumb blonde, but it’s never freaked her out before. The sad part is that Stacy herself is a straight-A student. This must have been painful.
The kids always want to be singers – or superstars – when they grow up. No use for school or tests.
For once, Stacy’s age is right here.

New Locations: An upstairs to The P*lace

Pop culture references: --

Punderstanding: Stacy and her “strength comes from within” speech.


Solos:
Kenny (1)
Stacy (2)
Episode Total: 3
Total: to be determined later

Performance outfits:
Green/pink and checkered skirts. Oh, and Stacy’s Africa pendant that seems a bit out of place here…yeah, those were popular in the late 80’s/early 90’s


- Wait, Stacy’s 14?? She was 9 in ’85! Stacy is the one character they keep giving inconsistent ages to throughout her run. She’s either the youngest or the oldest, so they downgrade or upgrade her age whenever it suits them.

- You can see upper windows in The P*lace during an exterior shot. What’s up there is anyone’s guess…probably storage. Back when The Palace was new, it was common for people to live above their businesses, so perhaps it was an apartment.

 
Kenny is given the job of philosopher – which he deems too deep
Robin is given the job of nurse – but she faints at the slight of blood
Richie is given the job of college professor, for his calm, quiet personality – isn’t that the best job in the whole entire universe?? AAH, a gorilla! 




Songs:
Cross My Heart -
Don't Rush Me -
One Moment in Time -
Somebody Tell Me Why -
All Fired Up -



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