Just Friends
Busy and one episode wonder Jamie are discussing an original song that will be featured in this episode. They play some baseball and then Amanda shows up. Jamie's demeanor changes so you know he's got a thing for her and not Busy. Jamie gets Amanda to try a little baseball, which of course she is bad at.
Amanda talks about a party the girls will be attending later on in the episode. Busy isn't showering because she's playing catch with Jamie after school and will just get sweaty again anyway. I hope she has gym last period or else that's really inconsiderate.
I think the sweatiness and the dressing more like a boy (notice the backwards cap) are supposed to be reasons Jamie doesn't see Busy as a girlfriend, but maybe he's the only character on this show with an ounce of gaydar. In this scene, Busy thinks he's about to ask her to the party, but instead he says, "Busy, would you...give me Amanda's phone number?" Burn!
The teacher is talking about magnets and opposites attracting. Amanda says someone called her last night and hung up.
Jamie tells Busy what we've already guessed; that he chickened out of calling Amanda. Busy asks Jamie why he likes Amanda when they have nothing in common. One of the attributes he names is her smell, which gives Busy an idea. Jamie asks if she can fix it so the three of them can walk to the party together.
In the school restroom, Busy asks Amanda if she'll go to the party by herself because Jamie is coming by. Amanda wants to know if Busy like-likes Jamie, which Busy vehemently denies. I'm not sure why, because she IS supposed to like him. Anyway, this is the first time we've really seen Busy like a guy without Amanda pushing her into it from the beginning.
Busy bathes before the party, I guess in part because of what Jamie said about liking Amanda's smell. Busy asks her mother about how she and her father met and this is close as I ever am to being convinced she isn't a lesbian. But notice there is no boy in the scene.
Busy puts on some of Amanda's perfume and I think she also stuffs her bra, though she doesn't look as bad as she did in Tongue Tied. Jamie arrives with Amanda, having picked her up on the way. Busy says that Amanda lives like a mile from her. I always kind of pictured them being neighbors, but maybe they were before Amanda moved. Anyway, Jamie tosses Busy a desperate look and says he was in Amanda's neighborhood. Then Jamie asks what smells like mosquito repellent. Apparently the same perfume that attracted him to Amanda smells bad on Busy.
Jamie asks Busy to see if Amanda likes him. Amanda sees another boy she likes, Alex, looking at her and Busy gladly pushes them together. Busy and Jamie dance. Busy requested Shattered Hearts, the song they were talking about earlier. Jamie wants to ask Amanda to dance, but Busy tells him Amanda doesn't like him. It is strange that this is one of the only cute boys who have appeared on this show that Amanda hasn't been drooling over. Maybe she sensed that Busy wanted him for her beard and obeyed the girl code.
Broken hearted, Jamie decides to leave the party early. Busy tags along. Busy hints that there is a girl who really likes him out there. Busy and Jamie share a special friendship handshake similar to Busy and Amanda's, and then Busy leans in for what is possibly her most awkward kiss on this show. Jamie jumps back comically, yelling, "Busy! We're friends. Just friends." It's one of the coldest shut downs you've ever seen.
Amanda is excited to show Busy her first hickey. Jamie avoids Busy.
Busy finally admits to Amanda that she did like Jamie but he liked someone else. She evades the question of who that someone else was, so Amanda never finds out it was she. Busy questions if there's something wrong with her, because she was the one with so much in common with him. Amanda explains that love is like magnets and is not logical. Jamie comes up then and asks Busy to play catch after school. Busy says no, but maybe next week.
Next episode: Instead of having a bat mitzvah, Amanda decides to act like a complete idiot for her thirteenth birthday.
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