Last updated: January 25, 1998.
Miss Dupre cheers Lazzarini up after he's been dumped by his latest girlfriend, and (as usual!) Lazz misconstrues things and decides that he and Miss Dupre are "in love". Jackson is set to perform for Music Agent Ted Ramone (David Fabrizio), and Winnie and Ashley convince him that they should be his back-up singers. The problem? Lauren wants in, too, but she can't sing a note! and the other three don't have the heart to tell her the truth.
[Note: Mr. Elliot is completely absent from this episode, and Christian is hardly in it. This is also the first "post-Steve Slavkin" episode.]
Ashley pretends that she has a boyfriend to the Winnie and Lauren, but she ends up falling for a pizza delivery guy, a biker and artist named Steel (Simon Clarke), whom Winnie and Lauren think are all wrong for Ashley, and whom Mr. Elliot does not approve of. The boys think Miss Dupre is the jewelry store robber, "The Shapely Shoplifter", and search for proof they're correct.
Lazz's litter sister, Niki (Shari Alpert), visits Paris, but Lazz goes over the moon! when his 'little sister' starts growing up after the girls make her over and Niki shows an interest in Jackson. Meanwhile, Miss Dupre is impressed that the P.E. teacher, Mr. Jergens (David Sederholm), is in a running race to raise money for porpoises, so Mr. Elliot enlists Christian to train him for the same race to impress Miss Dupre himself.
Jackson's latest date, a French girl named Simone (Jacky Pinol), offers to tutor Lazz in French, and, soon enough, she tells Lazz she likes him, and they start dating. At first, Jackson is disbelieving, but the situation eventually causes a rift between the jealous Jackson and Lazz. Christian is in the midst of a terrible basketball slump, and Ashley traces the cause to Christian's dating of Winnie; so Winnie dumps Christian to restore his basketball prowess.
While Mr. Elliot and Miss Dupre are away from the school (at a conference), the gang tries to make a little money by turning the dorm into a Bed & Breakfast for American (actually Texas) tourists. Meanwhile, Lauren's boyfriend Wallace (David Chisum) is smothering her, so she has to figure out a way to break it off.
Jackson is just about to get Lauren to go with him to a big Music Awards show, when Lauren gets a baby sitting gig to take care of teacher Mrs. Gower's (Jennifer Hale) baby Max, which prevents the date. But Lazz gives Jackson another idea: help Lauren baby sit, and Jackson can score some points with her. Meanwhile, the other four, led by "director" Lazz, film their own promotional video for the Academy, in the hopes of earning $5000 from Mr. Elliot. Unfortunately, they take the "promotional" aspects of the video beyond the realms of truth and accuracy...
The girls, tired of being around the boys all the time, conspire to get rid of them by tricking them into going camping with Mr. Elliot (which Ashley, his normal camping partner, despises), so that they can have a "girls night". But things don't go well for either: Christian eats all the food and then a bear shows up to ruin things for Mr. Elliot and the boys, and Winnie has a fit when Lauren reveals that she once had a crush on Christian, while Ashley doesn't want to hear who Miss Dupre has a crush on.
--On a way to an audition for Jackson, Jackson and Lauren get stuck in an elevator and end up kissing. Afterward, Lauren (as usual) gets cold feet, but later regrets rejecting Jackson (again), so... aw, you figure it out! Meanwhile, real couple Winnie and Christian, and fake couple Ashley and Lazz, pretend to be newlyweds so that they can go on the gameshow "Just Married", hosted by everyone's favorite gameshow host, Gina McGintey (La Reine Chabut). And Mr. Elliot keeps sneaking out of meetings to watch TV.
Giuseppe Ferrari (Rick Pasqualone) is returning to Paris, and Winnie is convinced that he is returning to win her back, but it turns out that he coming to see Ashley! (it seems the two of them had been having a secret relationship). But Winnie is still incredulous, and her conviction that Giuseppe is still interested in her starts to unravel her friendship with Ashley. Meanwhile, Lazz and Jackson bet Lauren that they can beat her project for the Science Fair, which is a tomato plant.
Jealous of Winnie's dancing partner, Christian joins Winnie's and Ashley's Modern Dance class before a recital (that Ashley is to choreograph) so he can become Winnie's dancing partner (problem: Christian is not a good dancer). Put on restriction in Mr. Elliot's office, Jackson, Lazz and Lauren get into Mr. Elliot's computer, and begin changing student records, for a fee!
Mr. Elliot decides to teach sassy Winnie a lesson: for her Ethics Class grade, Winnie is made Headmaster for a week, a job which she doesn't take seriously at first, but which ends up challenging her loyalties to the gang (sound familiar? see SbtB episode #12.2, "Student-Teacher Week"). Meanwhile, the other suitemates try to hold a "Vegas Night" casino-gambling night to try and pay for a ski trip that Mr. Elliot cancelled for them (which he did as a disciplinary measure, before making Winnie Headmaster), which means they must get Christian to convince Winnie to let them hold it. Meanwhile, is the newly duties-free Mr. Elliot finally making headway with Miss Dupre?
Jackson competes against another girl, Alyssa Martin (Suzanne Longo), during Amateur Night at Cafe USA, and loses. But she wants to do her winning gig with him, which leads to long practices sessions, which, in turn, causes Lauren to get jealous. Meanwhile, Lazzarini's cooking skills lead to a side- business: "Lazzarini's Pizza House"; but his authoritarian management styles turns off Christian.
While doing a project to research some of the gang's heritage, Christian discovers he is the heir to the throne of the small European country of Himmelberg, which affords him a Coronation, a personal inheretance (of 1,000,000 "Crustacies"!) and a personal royal manservant, Frtiz (Allen Williams). The problem? The laws of Himmelberg forbid him from dating a "commoner" like Winnie. For personal reasons, Lazz protests Mr. Elliot's plan to sell a historic bench at the school. Jackson and Lauren can't get anytime alone.
Winnie hosts a public access talkshow (and Jackson produces), and Winnie quickly takes it 'tabloid', which causes friction among the suitemates when Winnie exposes their secrets on the air. Attempting to hypnotize Mr. Elliot, Lazz and Christian accidentally hypnotize Miss Dupre, a situation they use to their advantage once they realize what they've done.
Everyone's favorite teacher, Mr. Phipps (Alan Young), dies in the middle of his 70th birthday party and it affects the suitemates: Lazz decides to swear off meats, Ashley becomes 'germophobic', Jackson and Lauren decide to stop dating exclusively, and Christian and Winnie decide to become much more exclusive.
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