Student Bodies (1997)
Student Bodies is a syndicated television comedy program that was produced in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1997 to the end of 1999. While a live-action series, animations are used throughout as thoughts and imaginations. The segments are usually dark and comical. Though the show enjoyed much bigger success in Canada, the show was originally made for the American market under the distribution of 20th Television and aired on many Fox affiliated stations for one year. The show aired in Canada on Global and YTV. It has been called "an imitation of Saved by the Bell" by critics, and featured an ensemble cast of high school students at Thomas A. Edison High School.
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Episode 1 - The Pilot
Release Date: 1997-01-10Emily Roberts is new to Edison High, and is introduced to Cody, Chris, and Mags as her new group assignment partners. While another group of students produces a video tribute to class bombshell Morgan, Emily discovers Cody's cartooning talent, and suggests that as their new project topic, but Cody doesn't want his talents seen by anyone else. The group decides to go behind Cody's back and make his drawings their project. Chris, seeing a way to make some money, prints up hundreds of copies of Cody's comic -- the first edition of ""Student Bodies"". Cody is appalled at having his artwork about the school (despite the fact that his name isn't even on it), and so is the vice principal Mrs. Morton. When she discovers who the authors of the comic are, she forbids them to make another. But a reminder from Emily about 'freedom of speech', the comic is allowed to live.. for the time being.
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Episode 2 - Disco Cody
Release Date: 1997-09-27There's a ""Back to School"" dance at Edison High, and Chris asks Kim to be his date, and her friend Alison to be Cody's date. Cody is stunned. First because he has no idea what Alison looks like, and secondly because he can't dance! Romeo suggests that Chris teach Cody, and Chris promises if he can't teach Cody, he'll cancel the date. So Chris, Mags, Romeo, and Emily all try to teach Cody to dance. Then a beautiful girl comes in an introduces herself as Alison. Now Cody is fascinated and really wants to learn to dance. But Emily isn't that thrilled once she finds out how much Cody likes the other girl. So with a half hour before his date is supposed to start, Emily is teaching Cody to dance. When a slow song comes on, Cody and Emily dance closely, looking into each others eyes. Later at the dance, while dancing with Alison, Cody finds that he really isn't looking at Alison, but across the room at Emily, and she's looking back.
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Episode 3 - Monsieur Cody
Release Date: 1997-10-04An exchange student comes to Edison High and Chris is saddled with being a host. That's before he discovers Chantal is from France and is very pretty! Cody and the guys can't help but envy him! The only problem? Chris doesn't speak French, and Chantal doesn't speak English! So he drags Cody (who knows some French) out on their date. But Chantal thinks Cody is speaking for himself and not for Chris, and gives Cody a huge kiss that Flash just happens to catch on film! Now Chris is mad at Cody, Emily is not impressed with the photo, and Cody has to clear things up with Chantal!
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Episode 4 - The Bully
Release Date: 1997-10-11Chris tries to impress Morgan when he takes the credit of Cody's drawing of the school bully, Nick. But when Nick sees the picture, he schedules Chris after school for a pounding. Chris fakes his appearance when dressing as a woman with make up, clothing etc. Nick falls in love with Chris's secret identity, Trixie. When Chris finally takes off his appearance and humiliates Nick, Cody comes to witness the humiliation when the bully threatens to beat both of them. Meanwhile, Emily and Mags videotape everything and trade the tape for the guys. Victor asks Chris if he had seen Trixie and humiliates him as well. The humiliation causes Victor to, accidently, bump into Nick while holding his lunch.
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Episode 5 - A Date With Morgan
Release Date: 1997-10-18Morgan tells Chris she needs his help and asks if he's free on Friday night. Chris, tongue tied and smitten, agrees to pick her up at 7:30. Chris is so pumped about his 'date' with Morgan, that he asks Flash to come and take pictures at a posh French restaurant, he enlists Romeo to write a romantic love song, and hires a gorilla-gram to deliver chocolates and flowers to Morgan in English class. Chris' friends are a bit skeptical about the date, so Cody asks Morgan, who tells him that Chris is getting her out of the house so she can go meet her real boyfriend. When Cody tells Morgan that Chris thinks they are dating, Morgan tries to tell Chris differently but he won't listen, and even hires a limo for their date. When Chris and Morgan arrive at their restaurant, with Flash, Romeo, and Morgan's 20-something boyfriend Kyle are waiting, Chris is dumbfounded to find out that Morgan really was just using him to get her out of the house. But all in all, by the end, his evening didn't really t
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Episode 6 - All Hallow's Eve
Release Date: 1997-10-25Mags cousin Patrick asks Grace, to the Halloween dance, and Mags, Cody and Emily scramble to do damage control before a klutzy catastrophe happens! Chris, however, talks Bob into filming Grace and Patrick at the dance to show as a 'disaster' movie to the school -- for a profit of course. Meanwhile, Emily wants Cody to go to the dance, but he refuses and winds up insulting her. Then in English class, while reading parts from a play, the two end up in a yelling match in front of the class as they continue their quarrel. Grace overhears Emily and Mags calling her a klutz, Mags ducks out, but Emily stays to apologize to Grace, and offer to un-klutz her in time for he dance. Grace just can't be helped, so Emily and her friends decide their best course of action is to go to the dance, and protect Patrick! Despite their attempts to keep the two apart, Grace and Patrick dance, resulting in Patrick being knocked out. When he comes too, Grace is ready for rejection, but Patrick admits how he lov
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Episode 7 - Scheming Victor
Release Date: 1997-11-01Things aren't going smoothly in the newspaper office at Edison High. Victor has set traps everywhere. Because they share the same office space as the ""Student Voice"", the staff of ""Student Bodies"" never know what is going to happen when the try to use certain supplies. A stapler incident sets off an alarm and a shoving match ensues. Mrs. Morton intervenes, and always ready to take Victor's side, tells the group that any further incidents will leave ""Student Bodies"" with a broom closet for an office. So the ""Student Bodies"" team devise their own trap by making Victor think they've put traps of their own -- but they haven't. They just sit back and watch as Victor get's paranoid and becomes suspicious of everything, and manages to destroy a birthday cake that he thinks is a smoke bomb -- only it really is a birthday cake -- from Mrs. Morton. Mrs. Morton decides that a fit punishment would be to leave Victor in the same office as the ""Student Bodies"".
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Episode 8 - Mags' Dark Side
Release Date: 1997-11-08No one seems to appreciate Mags' fashion column, and this seriously interferes with her dreams of stardom! But someone does notice -- Victor -- who is always looking for a weakness in the ""Student Bodies"" team. Victor attempts to woo Mags by offering her the job of Style Editor on ""The Student Voice"". With the help of Flash, Victor's flattery and persistence pays off, and Mags crosses to the other side of the newspaper office. As part of her new job, Victor asks her to write an expose on ""Student Bodies"". Things on ""Student Bodies"" start to fall apart as everyone realizes how much Mags did. Later Cody overhears Victor tell Flash that he's just using Mags to get her expose on the others. Cody wars Mags, but she doesn't believe him... at first. When Mags realizes what Victor is doing, she outsmarts him, and goes back to ""Student Bodies"", and to her real friends.
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Episode 9 - Cody for Prez
Release Date: 1997-11-15Edison High will be in dire peril if Victor becomes School President! He's already threatened to shut down ""Student Bodies"" if he wins, and when the only other candidate who might win against Victor drops out, Chris convinces Cody into running. Emily becomes his campaign manager, and Mags and Grace talk opinion polls, and promise dates to get guys to vote for Cody. The girls even present Cody with a secret weapon to get the girls' votes -- a leather jacket. The only other candidate, Stevie Blum, is so desperate that he just wants to be able to get 1 vote. Later, at a debate, Victor and Cody battle it out, and when Stevie finally gets a chance to speak, he says he has his 'one vote' -- and suddenly Morgan appears and says that she could never go out with any guy who didn't vote for Stevie. It's a landslide victory for Stevie!
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Episode 10 - Tutor's Pet
Release Date: 1997-11-22Emily agrees to help members of the football team study for their biology mid-term. However, they try to show Emily their appreciation for her efforts and end up giving her too much attention.
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Episode 11 - The Christmas Concert
Release Date: 1997-12-20Due to budget cuts, there will be no annual Christmas concert at the school. The gang decide to save the concert by raising money through a raffle.
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Episode 12 - Mags' Birthday
Release Date: 1998-01-17When she was little, Mag set a goal to be a super star before she turned 16 years old. Friday, it's his 16th birthday. Emilie receives $200 from Mrs. Morton and wants to throw a party for Mags, but Mags doesn't want to have a party.
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Episode 13 - Cyrano de Edison
Release Date: 1998-01-24The gang must perform the play ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" for French class. Cody gets jealous when Romeo gets the role of Christian and Emily is chosen to play his love interest Roxanne.
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Episode 14 - Goop
Release Date: 1998-01-31Grace and Romeo inadvertantly creates a new substance called 'Goop' after having a lab experiment go awry.
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Episode 15 - Victor in Love
Release Date: 1998-02-07Victor thinks he's finally in love. However, the rest of the gang is out to prove that the girl he's set his sights on, Priscilla, is just after his money.
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Episode 17 - Date-a-Rama
Release Date: 1998-02-21A battle of the sexes starts when students in economics class are paired up as husband and wife.
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Episode 18 - Mags' Secret Admirer
Release Date: 1998-02-28Mags starts getting messages and even filet mignon from a SecretAdmirer04. She and the rest of the gang try to figure out who the admirer is and if it's one of them.
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Episode 19 - Mags Rags
Release Date: 1998-03-14When everyone seems to love Mags' fashion designs, she decides to put on a fashion show with Chris as her manager.
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Episode 20 - Career Day
Release Date: 1998-03-21Mrs. Morton decided to let the gang run the school for a day. Everyone will have to accomplish their job: Cody will be the janitor, Romeo and Mags will be the doctors, Chris and Victor will be the cooks, Flash will be their boss, Grace will be the vice principal, Emily will be her assistant, and Morgan will be the dean of students. Grace, nervous about being the vice principal, will not know what to do, she who has no sens of responsibilities and who is so shy. Morgan had the brillant idea to play music in all the school but when Mrs. Morton hears it, she thinks that Grace is responsible for that! Grace tells Mrs. Morton that she doesn't understand how could she chose a girl like her to be the vice principal. Mrs. Morton tells Grace that she'll have to be more strict with her friends and the rest of the students. That conversation was very fruitful: Grace had become so severe with her friends that she was even giving them unhappy faces stickers when they were acting bad. Result: they a
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Episode 21 - Secret Weapon
Release Date: 1998-04-04Morgan shows interest in joining the Student Bodies staff and Chris battles Victor to attract her.
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Episode 22 - Flash
Release Date: 1998-04-18Chris hides a secret as his friends try to help him out of a dating slump.
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Episode 23 - Cody Presley
Release Date: 1998-04-25Chris suggests students don their blue suede shoes for an Elvis impersonation contest to raise money for a new scanner.
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Episode 24 - Bad Girl Emily
Release Date: 1998-05-02Emily wants to play the bad girl in Flash's student film.
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Episode 25 - Grounded
Release Date: 1998-05-09After posing as a ""bad girl"" to impress Flash, Emily is grounded, so the gang tries to sneak in to see her.
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Episode 26 - Tanya
Release Date: 1998-05-16Cody gets more than he bargained for when he signs up for an art class at the local college.