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.

Jerri must deal with her stepmother's alcoholism.

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.

Jerri must lose weight to be in physical shape for the debate team, which she thinks is her ticket to popularity. 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.

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.

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, 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. Can she learn to read?

Jerri runs over Mr. Jellineck and has difficulty keeping the secret; Mr. Noblet discovers that the revelation of another secret is the key to Jellineck’s recovery.

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), and 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.

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.

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. 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.

Bullies threaten both Jerri and Jellineck.

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.