Square Pegs (1982)

Freshman Patty gets the chance to "click with the right clique" when she attracts the attention of a handsome senior.

The romantic leads in the school musical lead to romance for Patty and Vinnie.

Marshall loses his comic touch when he becomes "possessed" by a video game. His only hope for salvation: exorcism by the cleric of comedy, Father Guido Sarducci.

Lauren talks Patty into joining the Weemawee girls football team. Coached by a gung-ho Army vet and a women's libber who bristles at the slightest slight.

An all-girl Halloween party is interrupted by the boys and a spooky, wheezing stalker.

Marshall tries to prove to Lauren that she loves him by hooking her up to his science-fair project, a "love detector," but the machine ends up short-circuiting every romance in school.

Vinnie's campaign to become school mascot is sabotaged at every turn by an unknown mastermind, so Patty and Lauren play Woodward and Bernstein to break the scandal.

Marshall becomes Johnny's manager and books his band, a band no one's ever seen, for the gala opening of a supermarket deli counter.

When she leaves them off her guest list, Lauren and Patty scheme to get invited to Muffy's bat mitzvah party.

Like, Jennifer does, you know, the uncoolest thing possible - she, like, gets a job (gag her with a spoon!)

Patty's in a quandry: should she spend Christmas in an isolated cabin with her divorced father, or the way she'd prefer - with her friends at school?

Patty's in a quandry: should she spend Christmas in an isolated cabin with her divorced father, or the way she'd prefer - with her friends at school?

Trying to prove that having to wear glasses is the root of her problems, Patty makes a spectacle of herself by refusing to wear them.

To gain popularity, Patty and Lauren become expert pranksters, but the joke's on them when someone else gets credit for their stunts.

Patty hopes to win more than the scholastic quiz show when she and her heartthrob Larry are selected as contestants.

Lauren and Ms. Loomis could be literally swept off their feet when they both fall for the new janitor.

Mr. Donovan's job is in jeopardy because the school board has discovered he's living with a woman.

A substitute teacher's unconventional style wins the hearts of the students and draws the jealousy of Mr. Donovan.

Johnny's talent for hitting home runs rockets him to stardom on the Weemawee baseball team and gets him a scouting visit by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Steve Sax.

Lauren thinks she and Patty have finally been accepted by the "in" crowd, but the real reason for their sudden popularity is something else - and Patty knows what it is.