Jerri is asked to spy on her lockermate, looking for signs of retardation. Later evolved into Episode 104, "Who Wants Cake?"

Jerri tries to make friends by supplying a classmate with drugs.

Jerri is assigned to take care of a 10-pound baby in order to learn responsibility, reminiscent of the 1985 ABC Afterschool Special "First the Egg".

Jerri must deal with her stepmother's alcoholism, reminiscent of the ABC Afterschool Specials "Francesca, Baby" (1976) and "She Drinks a Little" (1981).

Jerri is asked to spy on her lockermate, looking for signs of retardation.

Jerri befriends the new student, Ricky (Fred Koehler) but discovers a secret that will keep them apart forever.

Flatpoint High is in the grip of a racist who spray-painted an ethnic slur on the wall, reminiscent of the 1989 ABC Afterschool Special "Taking a Stand".

Jerri must lose weight to be in physical shape for the debate team, which she thinks is her ticket to popularity, loosely inspired by the ABC television film The Best Little Girl in the World. Meat man "Stu" (David Pasquesi) moves in with the family.

Mr. Noblet discovers that Jerri is a violin prodigy, and he strives to use her talents for his own purposes in competing against Mr. Jellineck's orchestra, reminiscent of the 1982 ABC Afterschool Special "Between Two Loves".

Homecoming-Queen hopeful Jerri struggles with the Inner Beauty category.

Jerri turns back to a life of drugs after being seduced by a beautiful female druggie, reminiscent of the 1980 ABC Afterschool Special "Stoned".

Jerri becomes a virgin again, but struggles with keeping her funbox closed.

Jerri finds herself attracted to a blind classmate. While she tries to navigate the sightless world (reminiscent of the 1976 ABC Afterschool Special "Blind Sunday"), he fights for the right to play on the football team.

Jerri agonizes over what she wants to do with her life while Mr. Jellineck quits teaching to become a starving artist.

Jerri’s daddy is eaten by high school mascots, leaving her out of the big Father–Student Sack Race.

Flatpoint High discovers Jerri’s illiteracy, which she must overcome in order to make the cheerleading squad, reminiscent of the 1984 ABC Afterschool Special "The Hero Who Couldn't Read".

Jerri runs over Mr. Jellineck and has difficulty keeping the secret, reminiscent of the 1979 ABC Afterschool Special "The Terrible Secret". Mr. Noblet discovers that the revelation of another secret is the key to Jellineck’s recovery.

Jerri is assigned a partner in class to learn what married life is really like, reminiscent of the 1979 ABC Afterschool Special "Make Believe Marriage". Mr. Noblet grows jealous of the special fake bond between Mr. Jellineck and Coach Wolf as Jerri’s control issues threaten her own fake union in a marriage experiment gone awry.

Jerri is recruited by a cult of happy people who sing the same song (a lot), reminiscent of the films Ticket to Heaven (1981) and Split Image (1982). Flatpoint High begins a radical change in politics, becoming a totalitarian regime, keeping its students/citizens to a code of strict anonymity and perfect obedience.

After Jerri becomes perfectly assimilated into the cult’s mindset, its leader finds that sometimes cults have to be selective with their recruits. Jerri is thrown out of the cult and has to be deprogrammed.

Flairs, a shoe with a ridiculously long lace, take the fashion world by storm and become the key to Jerri’s social success.

With the school "Purity Dance" days away, Jerri struggles with the decision to tell her popular new boyfriend that she has contracted an epic case of syphilis.

Jerri’s "au naturel" self-portrait ignites a storm of censorship from the school.

Jerri must again face her own racist views when she discovers that she is a full-blooded Native American Indian and is sent to a cultural-immersion camp for adopted redskins.

Jerri wonders if she can cure her stepmother's lover's insanity in time for him to speak at Flatpoint High's Occupation Week, reminiscent of the 1989 ABC Afterschool Special "My Dad Can't Be Crazy...Can He?".

Desperate to stay on the track team, Jerri abuses steroids and pushes them to her teammates.

Jerri's secret relationship with the school stud makes her question her own self-respect.

Jerri takes over the school newspaper’s advice column from Jellineck, reminiscent of the 1976 ABC Afterschool Special "Dear Lovey Hart: I Am Desperate". Disaster follows, especially in the relationship between Jellineck and Noblet.

Jerri must deal with sexual harassment and prevent her new jazz-orchestra beau from finding out, reminiscent of the 1994 ABC Afterschool Special "Boys Will Be Boys: The Ali Cooper Story".

Bullies threaten both Jerri and Jellineck, reminiscent of the 1972 ABC Afterschool Special "Psst! Hammerman's After You!".

As Flatpoint High is set to turn into a strip mall, Jerri becomes friends with a popular girl (guest star Winona Ryder) and must decide if she wants to leave her old friends behind forever to finally find lasting popularity.

The film takes place before the series. Jerri Blank discovers her mother has died, her father, Guy, has remarried to the hateful Sara Blank, and she has an arrogant half-brother Derrick. To make matters worse, her father is in a "stress-induced coma". Taking the suggestion of the family doctor literally, Jerri decides to pick her life back up where she left it, beginning her high school all over again as a freshman at Flatpoint High.