all right listen up and i want you to listen good unfabulous is an underrated
gem that y'all really ain't appreciating like you should be also hi glad you're
here for the video unfabulous definitely got lost in the shuffle of more iconic and
well-recognized nickelodeon live-action shows from the time but that doesn't mean you should
overlook it i mean it lasted for three seasons someone out there has to feel the way i do
it was also one of the most watched programs for the 10 to 16 demographic anyways today i
want to look into and discuss unfabulous with you all maybe i'll find some other people
here who one remember the show and two have similar feelings towards it hit it kiki after day
unfabulous premiered september 12 2004 lasting until december 16 2007 and the creator is no
stranger here to being mentioned in their work being discussed on this channel sue rose who
created pepperan and angela anaconda was ready to tackle a different medium other than animation
to tell stories serving as creator executive producer and writer for unfabulous i mean just
look at the intro sequence with the cutout head expressions totally an angel anaconda vibe
okay well sue did create and write the sleepover club starting in 2003 but i've never seen it so
you know we move on unfabulous was about addie singer a middle school girl dealing with all the
problems and dramas that come with the territory played by emma roberts addie is a musician who
writes songs with her guitar about her daily life situations along with addie her two best friends
gina and zack always get caught up in the mix of things going on gina is outspoken and wants to be
a fashion designer constantly getting in trouble at school for the outfits she creates zack while
being a basketball player has aspirations to be an advocate for environmental safe keeping
other main characters in the show are ben addy's older brother who throughout the show
we see his life go from just this annoying older brother that sometimes shows signs of caring for
addy to a young adult who still annoys and sometimes cares for addie okay well there's
more development than that but we'll get to him later there's addie's parents sue and jeff singer
who kind of tackle parenting in a more unique way maris bingham and cranberry saint claire are the
mean girls who also get the award for the worst names i've ever heard you can't forget the school
principle principal brandywine who aside from just driving around on her scooter throughout the halls
is a pretty eccentric and sometimes strict principle and then there's jake who is the
main overall love interest throughout the entire show here's unfabulous right now
the unfabulous movie the perfect moment saturday at 8 on nick so what's this show about overall
aside from the average drama school can bring throughout all three seasons we see addie go from
having a crush on jake that would later develop fully into a relationship come season 3 after the
season 2 season finale tv movie the perfect moment before then it was a bit of a back and forth with
finding real feelings with addie specifically spending most of season 2 with randy who's randy
it doesn't matter because we're worried about jake here okay and yes if you were guessing
that there might be some romantic feelings between the two best friend characters you'd be right come
season 3 as well after zach comes to terms that he really likes one of his best friends and we see
gina dealing with on and off again relationships we kind of end up dealing with the anticipation
of zach getting the courage to speak to gina about his feelings as well as him not feeling so
great when she always gets back together with her fake italian boyfriend and zack has to find ways
to cope with that but also really interesting is ben's journey throughout the show from being the
irresponsible big brother that deals with high school related issues as he prepares for the
real world of adulting fastly creeping upon him his relationship with addie growing within some
episodes only to go right back to their bickering sibling ways in the end for ben himself we follow
him finding love working at juice which is the local hangout joint for everyone it seems as well
as him dealing with big life impacting decisions for his future a fact that i thought works
extremely well as he could have easily just been a one note annoying brother character but instead
has some good depth to him the parents even break usual parenting tradition right off the bat with
the first episode of the series being about addie hosting a party at her house and the parents being
okay with her growing up and having a social life now of course later on in the series they show
that they aren't so lackadaisical especially when another party is thrown unbeknownst to them they
properly ground both addie and ben for having it and trying to hide it while unfabulous was
first coming out nickelodeon sneakily wanted to bring fans from other shows to give it a shot
so similar to how a lot of live-action nickelodeon shows have their own ncu addie herself would cross
over with drake and josh in 2004 for the drake and josh episode honor council as megan's friend
pulling a prank what else would you expect this is a cool moment to look back on as it
makes the worlds of those shows feel larger and more expansive than self-contained this
is my friend daddy i'm her friend one thing i'll never forget was on nickelodeon's website at one
point they would post behind the scenes content about all their different shows they posted some
bloopers of unfabulous where the mom slips up and curses and emma robert's reaction was priceless
unfortunately i have scoured the internet looking for these exact bloopers and nothing from all the
behind the scenes footage out there has anything that i vividly recall so either it remains forever
a lost piece of media or i'm an idiot and my brain is completely making it up but if
you also remember that please let me know in the comments so i don't feel like i'm alone here in
2005 during the show's second season nickelodeon's nick records and columbia records thought it was
time to capitalize on the music aspect something we would later see in shows like victorious and
big time rush so they released the unfabulous and more album which also would technically
be emma robert's debut album and only album it peaked at 46 on billboard's heat seekers but hey
on billboard's kids chart it peaked at number 10 emma roberts though has had quite the career
post unfabulous with becoming a bit like jamie lee curtis and being a scream queen for horror-based
properties like scream 4 american horror stories and oh yeah scream queens the nerve of me to
forget that and that's just a bit of what emma has been a part of i'm sure i would get lambasted if
i didn't say the word aquamarine overall i adore what this show was it blended so many different
vibes together from lizzie mcguire with those out of body surreal visual moments to the quirkiness
of ned's declassified a bit of as told by ginger a bit of rugrats all grown up but in live action
a strangely nice cacophony of viewpoints and operating a bit differently than others
at the time it offers the unique perspective writing that sue adds to the shows she creates
it felt especially if you were at the right age growing up with it that it truly grew up with you
over its three seasons the relatability factor was pretty good amongst the bits of wackiness included
now as far as watching it today maybe some of the situations dialogue etc are stuck between the
years of 2004 and 2007. however i don't think that means it's a bad show to go back and watch in fact
i think a lot of it still works the characters are fun the brother-sister relationship of addy and
ben is still a nice tug-of-war battle of siblings and it offers some interesting perspectives like
deciding if college is the right move or not and what's more important for one's future
here's an extra scoop of unfabulous hi my name is sarah hester and here on unfabulous we like
to play a lot of games when we're not filming and speak this was steve's very last time we
brand new unfabulous the new series tomorrow at 5 30 only on nickelodeon it's good for the soul
when it comes to forgettable unfortunately it goes against its own theme song and didn't leave that
impact on everyone that it had on me personally most people do remember it by name when brought
up but aside from knowing it as ah that's the emma roberts show it doesn't sit on most people's
top shelf of memories too many other shows that went on to leave a larger impact and legacy that
unfabulous would see its fate as an overshadow nickelodeon live-action classic the show came
to its gradual end with its second tv movie the best trip ever where all the main story lines in
the show relationships and more come to a head it's the eighth grade trip hence the name the
best trip ever and addie wins the task of planning the trip so after choosing a cruise for the trip
the mean girls along with patty another mean girl stepping up to the plate start planning
the downfall of addie as addie has been ascending to the heights of the popularity social ladder
zack has his own set of issues to handle as gina is finally single again and since neither addie
or gina know his true feelings only jake had known zack plans to tell her on the cruise but before so
thanks to the tape of an earlier recorded venting moment from zack about his feelings for gina addie
finds out and freaks over worrying about losing her best friends whether they work out or not
but love isn't the only thing bumpy at sea not long onto their trip a storm rages on forcing
everyone to huddle in safety within the ballroom where truths come out friendships are mended and
popularity is rendered useless and through her and her friends ultimately having such big impacts in
each other's lives addie found what after three years would turn her from unfabulous to fabulous
hey at least we got an unfabulous gameboy advance game from thq you essentially go around doing addy
singer things climb that social ladder and look just like the intro theme with those big ol heads
if you ask the website gamers with jobs if you should play the game you shouldn't so that's
unfabulous a show in which i fondly remember and have it held in high regards i hope this helps
give more people an interest in at least checking it out for themselves please let me know if you've
seen the show what are your thoughts on it do you love it do you hate it drop a comment a huge thank
you to offbeat kiki for the amazing rendition of the unfabulous theme song and thanks so much
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