3!), give Ginny the Mean Girls rundown of the school. And while there are plenty of non-white people in Ginny's new school, there's definitely tension that we can see as Max and her friends, Abby (Katie Douglas) and Norah (Chelsea Clark, Degrassi alum No. Ginny feels uncomfortable with her identity in general, since sometimes she feels she's not white enough for the white kids and not Black enough for the Black kids. Ginny helps her remove it, but thinks seriously about the kind of armor that beauty can provide - for her mother, it's both armor and a weapon. This is why Georgia gets so freaked out when she sees Ginny flirting with Marcus, and even boldly kissing him.Ī crisis is afoot in the Miller household - one that has Georgia waking Ginny up screaming at 5 a.m.

It's not not true, but it does establish the relationship between Ginny and Georgia - Georgia has a huge personality and is prone to flights of fancy, so Ginny has positioned herself as the wise, grounded one in their relationship. Actually, later, when Ginny is getting ready for her first date with cute popular guy Hunter, she even tells her mom she's trying too hard to be edgy. 'Thirsty moms throw their twats at him,” says Max, because, just a reminder, this show is edgier than Gilmore Girls. Max tells Ginny all about Mayor Paul when the teens spot Georgia chatting with the politician after school. 2: That would be Raymond Ablack, who plays Joe, the owner of the local restaurant whom Georgia meets just before she has a meet cute with the town's dreamy mayor, Paul Randolph, played by Jason Street himself (Scott Porter, for you non- Friday Night Lights-watching philistines). What are those mysterious noises coming from the Customer Service and Human Resources bullpen in the back? A game of Dunderball, which consists of bouncing a ball against the wall over the cubicles’ divider.It's time for Degrassi alum No. What’s underneath the accountant’s expense reports? The scoreboard for Hateball, a paper football game that Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) and Oscar (Oscar Nunez) have been playing for years. And this is the series’ fundamental theme: The Office is, at its core, an ode to the monotony of office life. Meanwhile, back at the office, Jim surveys other Dunder Mifflin staffers to see if they, too, are dying of boredom on the job. (Afterward, he reveals to the audience that he owns a 60-acre beet farm, and would never consider living anywhere else.) When Michael magnanimously offers to rent him a room in his new condo-to counterbalance what he just spent-Dwight underhandedly forces Michael to rescind the offer by being purposely demanding. For someone with an excessive (and even aggressive) desire to please the boss and be his “No.

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