Last updated: October 28, 2002.
Just Deal's season #2 cast:
The Cast: Dylan Roberts -Brian Skala Ashley Gordon -Erika Thormahlen Jermaine Green -Shedrack Anderson III with, Mrs. Emily Gordon -Alison Matthews Mrs. Coleen Roberts -Eileen Pedde Mr. Mike Roberts, Sr. -Eric Keenleyside Mike Roberts, Jr. -Will Sanderson Naomi -Fiona Scott Hunter -David Paetkau Kim -Kandyse McClure Benny -Michael P. Northey Josh -Antonio Cupo (some episodes)
Just as Ashley and Dylan's romance takes flight, it begins
to stall as their anxieties (some prompted by friendly and
parental advice) take over, leading to awkwardness.
Thus comes Naomi to the "rescue": she convinces Ashley to ask
Dylan out to dinner on a second, "official" date.
Needless to say, things don't go well.
[NOTE: No mention is made of the sudden disappearance of Mr. Pena.]
Ashley is made to feel worse and worse on school Picture Day as a pimple on her nose grows bigger and bigger and bigger. And her vanity about it only leads to more grief for her. Meanwhile, when Dylan and Jermaine see Naomi at the office of Jermaine's father (who's a plastic surgeon), they wonder if Naomi's vanity has prompted her to go "under the knife".
Jermaine gets a job at a hip record shop and is immediately smitten by his beautiful co-worker, Kim (new regular, Kandyse McClure), who can dance, spin and is downright cool. Unfortunately for Jermaine, she already has a boyfriend. And when he tries to talk to Dylan and Ash about it, they are so "into their own relationship" that they don't listen. Meanwhile, Dylan's parents invite Ashley's mother over for the first time but things go horribly when Dylan's parents' conservative political views, and Emily Gordon's liberal views, clash badly.
When Dylan asks his soccer teammates to join him in a pre-game prayer, but teammate Kyle (Jesse Moss) objects to Dylan's interjection of religion into a secular activity (andDylan soon finds out that Jermaine basically agrees with Kyle as well). The upshot is that Coach (Steve Bacic) suspends Dylan from the team until he apologizes to his teammates. But Dylan feels he doesn't have anything to apologize for. A side result of this is that it inspires Ashley to explore her own Jewish faith. Meanwhile, Naomi finally asks Hunter out on a date, to the ballet!
Just as Ashley is about to publicly display her artwork at a local gallery, her old artist boyfriend from San Francisco, Josh (Antonio Cupo) shows up in town. At first, Dylan tries not to mind, but he soon becomes jealous at the obvious closeness and history between Ashley and Josh, and he fears that he may lose Ashley to her old flame. Ashley tries to convince Dylan otherwise. Meanwhile, Jermaine may have to move to Washington, D.C. when his mother gets a job in the Bush administration. So Kim asks Jermaine why he doesn't just move in with his father instead.
While out bowling with the gang (including Kim, and her boyfriend), Ashley sees her mother, Emily, out on a date, and Ash freaks! But if that wasn't bad enough, it's even worse because Emily's date was with Ashley's art teacher (Woody Jeffreys). Meanwhile, Kim's boyfriend (P.J. Prinsloo) asks Jermaine to help him mix a CD for her birthday.
Jermaine is having a lot of trouble adjusting to living with his new family, especially his new stepmom, Angela (Angela Moore), who Jermaine feels is trying to interfere in his life. And he feels even more alienated when his father (William Taylor) keeps coming down on him. But Kim wonders if Jermaine is overreacting. Meanwhile, as Ashley and Dylan study together for midterms, his grades improve while hers plummet.
Stranded away from home on a biking trip, Dylan, Ashley, Jermaine and Kim spend the night in a motel room, alone. While Jermaine enjoys the ensuing freedom with Kim, Dylan and Ashley feel uncomfortable about the "sex" issue resulting from the whole situation. Meanwhile, their parents don't take the news of this well, at all.
In a Halloween inspired episode, each one of the gang has a different story describing a tragedy that supposedly befell a couple at their high school 30 years ago.
As a twist to "Take Your Daughter to Work Day", Ashley accompanies Colleen Roberts to the hospital (Ashley isn't interested in her mom's journalism job), while Naomi jumps at the chance to go to work with Emily Gordon at the newspaper. Meanwhile, at school, Dylan and Jermaine spend the day finding out from Coach (Steve Bacic) what it takes to be "a real man", and it's not what they expect.
Just as Kim breaks up with her boyfriend, Jason (P.J. Prinsloo), Jermaine accuses him of stealing CDs (specifically, a mix CD that he made for Ashley) and reselling them at the record store. Meanwhile, Dylan's peculiar behavior leads his parents to suspect that he's on drugs, but it's his late night phone chats with Ashley that are the real culprit for his red eyes and sleepiness.
Naomi is filming a "self defense" video, and she asks Ashley to be the "victim". As a result, Ashley has to rearrange her entire day to accommodate Dylan's schedule - Ashley wants to go to the museum with him, after he visits his aunt and uncle. But when he gets back from his aunt and uncle's, he get distracted by sports on the TV, and misses his museum date with Ashley, angering Naomi and infuriating Ashley. Meanwhile, after Benny advises Jermaine that they way to get Kim to notice him is to make her jealous, Jermaine asks Naomi to flirt with him at the video shoot.
Ashley's and Dylan's relationship is jeopardized when she is forced to choose between a camping trip with Dylan's family or a summer arts program in San Francisco (i.e. where Josh is). Meanwhile, against his parent's wishes, Mike Jr. wants his high school graduation party to have the traditional celebratory mainstay: beer. But Mr. Roberts says "No".
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