Unfabulous is a Nickelodeon teen sitcom franchise created by Disney's Pepper Ann creator Sue Rose that aired on the Nickelodeon channel. The franchise is about an "unfabulous" middle schooler named Addie Singer.
Main Cast[]
- Addie Singer, the 13-year-old main character Addie Singer.
- Geena Fabiano, Addie's best friend who is interested in fashion and designs her own clothes, which are usually provocative and therefore she receives daily lectures from the school principal.
- Zack Carter-Schwartz, Addie's other best friend who is on the basketball team and an environmental advocate that wears sandals
- Ben Singer, Addie's older brother
- Mrs. Sue Singer, Addie's mother
- Mr. Jeff Singer, Addie's father
- Maris Bingham, a mean girl.
- Cranberry St. Claire, Maris' best friend.
The franchise's plot[]
Unfabulous's main character is a teenage girl named Addie Singer (Emma Roberts), who writes songs about her life in middle school. Her best friends are Geena Fabiano (Malese Jow), who is interested in fashion and designs her own clothes, and the environmentally committed school basketball player Zack Carter-Schwartz (Jordan Calloway). They all attend Rocky Road Middle School in an unspecified East Coast city. However, in episode 34 "The Birthday" when Addie receives a letter from when she was 7 years old the address is listed as "Pinecrest, PA". Addie's older brother Ben (Tadhg Kelly) works at Juice!, a smoothie bar where Addie and her friends often hang out after school.
TV Media[]
TV Pilot[]
:Main article: Unfabulous (Pilot)
The summary of the pilot started when in order to become popular at school, Addie Singer decides to host a part. Randy usually hosts the party, but he can't because of a skiing accident.
The episode opens up with Addie having a dream that she is new and improved. She gets surrounded by people. She wakes up when her dog barks in her face. Addie mentions that she is really excited to show everyone at school how much she has changed over the summer of grade 6. It is now the first day in grade 7. She mentions (over narration) that she taught herself how to play guitar at the age of nine. It goes through her memories of her younger years singing and playing the guitar about her life.
TV Series[]
- Main article: Unfabulous (television series)
After the team finishing the pilot episode "The Party" To become popular, Sue Rose decided to put the show on Nickelodeon for a green-lit hit Right before The series ended on December 16, 2007, with the final episode titled "The Best Trip Ever". In 2004, Rose's live-action tween sitcom Unfabulous debuted on Nickelodeon. The show starred Emma Roberts and ran through 2007.
The TV Show's note for The character's last name is spelled both Behari and Bahari by Nickelodeon.
TV Films[]
| Title | Plot | Directed by | Written by | Original air release | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unfabulous: The Perfect Moment | After spending her whole summer pining for Jake Behari, who has been away at camp in Canada, Addie finally gets the chance to admit her feelings to him but first she has to track him down in Chinatown, where he's attending a wedding, but more surprises come when she learns Jake's back together with Patty, his old girlfriend. With the help from Geena, Zach, and Ben she will track him down no matter what. Meanwhile, Geena wants to move to Paris cause there's no boys here anymore but she meets a handsome waiter who likes her. Zach goes to a restaurant to free a lobster, but Addie's parents are there and Ben attempts reuniting with Jen and ends up in jail. | Joe Menendez | Laura McCreary and Madellaine Paxson | October 7, 2006 | N/A |
| Unfabulous: The Best Trip Ever | The eighth grade trip is here for Rocky Road and Addie wins a contest to plan the trip. She chooses a cruise, where Zach plans to tell Geena he loves her. Meanwhile, Maris, Cranberry, and Patty plan to destroy Addie’s newfound popularity by giving Addie the video tape of Zach’s break down the Rocky Road’s TV station about his love for Geena. Once Addie sees this tape she plans to keep them apart to save their friendship. Jake spends his time on the cruise trying to keep Addie’s plans to keep Zach and Geena apart from coming true. On the second day of the cruise a storm gathers forcing the students in the ballroom to wait it out when the truth comes out. Soon after, Cranberry reveals she was the one who showed Addie the tape. The friends soon make up, with Maris and Cranberry befriending them. The storm is ridden out and the cruise is over with Addie more popular and Zach and Geena date. | Savage Steve Holland | Matt Negrete and Sue Rose | December 16, 2007 | This is a two-part episode that was promoted as a made-for-TV movie by Nickelodeon. |
Merchandise[]
Along with the start of the second season in September 2005, Nickelodeon also began selling different types of Unfabulous-related merchandise, beginning with the album Unfabulous and More (see Soundtrack below). In November 2005, the album was followed by two books tying into the show, Keepin' It Real (Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").ISBN 0-439-79666-0) and Split Ends (Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").ISBN 0-439-80179-6), both written by Robin Wasserman, and the first items in a line of clothes based on Addie's wardrobe on the show.[1] Two more books were released in February 2006, Starstruck (Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").ISBN 0-439-83157-1) and Jinxed! (Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto module").ISBN 0-439-83158-X).
Videogame[]
- Main article: Unfabulous (video game)
Before the launch of the third season, a video game based on the show was released for the Game Boy Advance by THQ on September 25, 2006.[2]
iTunes[]
All episodes from the first and the second season (including The Perfect Moment) were available for download in the iTunes Store in the U.S. since fall 2006, but are now not available anymore. They have since been put back for download as of 2012.
Soundtrack[]
:Main article: Unfabulous and More
On September 27, 2005, shortly after the premiere of the show's second season, Columbia Records and Nick Records released the album Unfabulous and More, which serves as both the show's soundtrack and as Emma Roberts' debut album.
The album includes several original songs (among them "Dummy" and "I Wanna Be", both of which were also released as music videos, "I Have Arrived", and "This Is Me", which was co-written by Roberts), as well as some of Addie's songs from the first season (however in newly recorded versions), including "Punch Rocker" and "New Shoes" (both from the episode "The Party"), "94 Weeks (Metal Mouth Freak)" (from "The Bar Mitzvah") and "Mexican Wrestler" (which had previously appeared on Jill Sobule's 2000 album Pink Pearl and in the Unfabulous episode "The 66th Day").
The album peaked at #46 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums.[3]
References[]
- ↑ "TV fans can now dress the part", USA Today, October 4, 2005.
- ↑ "Unfabulous for Game Boy Advance".
- ↑ "Emma Roberts Chart History". Billboard.