My Buddy Buddy
Busy and Amanda will be on location at a summer camp for the next two episodes. Amanda is all excited about the summer, but Busy thinks it'll be a drag for no other purpose than for the irony that she will have a better time than Amanda in this episode. Things are already off to a bad start when a counselor named Cherry informs them that they have been placed in separate cabins, despite the fact that their parents had requested that they be together.
Amanda spends a few minutes at her cabin before heading over to find Busy, who has gotten over her doldrums and is having a pillow fight with her cabin mates. Ok, not the greatest picture.
Amanda calls her mother to complain, but Phyllis is already on a plane to Barbados. Suddenly, a small girl comes up to Amanda, introducing herself as Jessica Niblet. She gives her a permanent marker, explaining what the word means. It's too bad she didn't give her the synonym "indelible" for future reference. Jessica also tells Amanda about bugs and the fact that she wants to be an entertainer like her uncle when she grows up.
Things are wild back in the cabin and some water or something spills on Amanda's stuff. A girl named Heather gets to speak the most because she's the better actor out of the group of mean girls. Heather and her friends invite Amanda to go scope out the boys' camp, but Jessica intervenes, wanting Amanda to go to the nature hut with her. Amanda scowls at Jessica as the other girls leave.
Amanda and Jessica are pitted against Busy and her new friend Lola in a three-legged race. Busy and Lola win by a mile and Jessica and Amanda fall in the mud. Amanda's cabin mates complain that if not for her and Jessica, they'd have the best cabin. The counselor just stands by and says nothing.
It's mail call time. Heather gets nothing and Jessica gets the above from her uncle. Because when your favorite niece is having trouble adjusting at camp, you should really send her a ventriloquist dummy. Amanda makes kind remarks about Buddy in front of the other girls.
Another one of those scenes where the main girl of the episode recaps the other on what she missed out on. When Amanda says she's still working on getting transferred to Busy's cabin, Busy laughs and says they could use a nerd to pick on. Amanda takes this jovial comment to heart as Busy runs off with Lola.
There's a talent show/campfire where Jessica does an act with Buddy. Even Busy says how horrible poor Jessica is. Amanda is kicked or shoved out of the campfire ring by Heather. Afterwards, Amanda tries to gain acceptance by the mean girls (including the one who just kicked her) by suggesting kidnapping Buddy.
The girls all take turns saying their comedic goodbyes to Buddy, except Amanda, who seems to be feeling some guilt. It's too little too late, though. Heather accidentally smashes Buddy's wooden head on the floor.
Heather dumps Buddy's remains down an outhouse toilet thing. Jessica is devastated to come back from the nature hut and find a sock-stuffed head on her beloved dummy. Heather tells a story about another cabin coming in and raiding them while the other girls smile.
Good God, more ten year olds smoking real cigarettes on TV! Amanda even tries it, though she was so against even Busy smoking on a previous episode.
Despite Busy's advice, Amanda confesses to Jessica that they were the ones to wreck Buddy. Jessica doesn't exactly jump up and down with joy just because Amanda was honest about this (she'd already guessed the truth), so Amanda still feels guilty.
In the end, Cherry tells Amanda that two girls in Busy's cabin have conveniently come down with the chicken pox. Two girls, and luckily no one wanted the other spot.
This episode is a little hard to watch at times because of how Jessica is treated. We do get to see Amanda finally stick up for what is right, and Jessica is in the next episode so we know she's going to be okay.
Next episode: Amanda gets her just desserts when Busy turns on her in favor of her new friend.
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