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Popular was a Teenage Dramedy on The WB , created by Ryan Murphy ('' Nip/Tuck '') and Gina Matthews ('' What Women Want '', '' Jake 2.0 '', '' 13 Going On 30 ''), starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope . The show ran for two seasons, from 1999 to 2001 , but was abruptly cancelled as its second season ended, due to increasingly poor ratings (aggravated by a move to a Friday night timeslot). PLOT SYNOPSIS Sam McPherson and '''Brooke McQueen''', high school students at '''Jaqueline Kennedy High School''' are opposites. Brooke is a popular cheerleader, and Sam is an unpopular journalist. Their respective gangs are forced to socialize when Brooke's dad and Sam's mom get engaged. The underlying plot of the first season revolves around the girls' plan to separate their parents. At the end of the season, Sam finds Brooke's real mother, and encourages her to come back to town. This breaks up the engagement. By the second season, Sam and Brooke realize that their parents were happy together. They therefore team up to reunite them. In the second season, a reversal of fortunes of sorts took place with Brooke resigining from cheerleading to focus on school issues as a member of the student counsel, and Sam experienced a surge of sudden popularity at school. Josh and Lily began dating regularly and Carmen replaced Nicole as the leader of the Glamazons. Harrison found himself torn between Sam and Brooke and Sugar Daddy found love with exchange student Exquisite Woo. CHARACTERS The show focuses on the relations between two groups of friends at the Jacqueline Kennedy High School: the popular group and the unpopular group, headed respectively by Brooke McQueen, Head Cheerleader dedicated to maintaining her picture-perfect school life with her Jock boyfriend, and Sam McPherson, a feisty, unpopular, intelligent girl who writes for the school paper and sees herself as an activist. The two nemeses are eventually forced to come to peaceful terms as their parents become romantically involved. Along with Brooke in the popular clique are Brooke's best friend Nicole Julian, a sharp-witted, determined, cold young cheerleader; '''Mary Cherry''', a flamboyant southern girl of doubtful sanity; '''Josh Ford''', Brooke's down-to-earth boyfriend and wannabe singer/actor and '''Sugar Daddy''', Josh's laid-back, ghettoized best friend. Sam is accompanied by Harrison John, a sensitive unpopular boy who has a crush on Brooke McQueen; '''Carmen Ferrara''', a slightly overweight girl who wishes to be part of the school's cheerleaders and '''Lily Esposito''', a young Tomboy and intense Activist . Other significant characters are Miss Roberta "Bobbi" Glass, the groups' deeply sadistic and everpresent Biology teacher, Brooke's father, '''Mike McQueen''', and Sam's mother, '''Jane McPherson''', whose relationship with Brooke's father leads to the growing interaction between the two groups. STYLE Despite fitting into a rather common category, as a teen-centered mix of drama and comedy, ''Popular'' differentiated itself from its peers in its quirky, almost nonsensical humour and overall satirical approach to characters and storylines, a feature that would grow as the series progressed. Such elements included Mary Cherry's long-lost, ghetto sister, B. Ho (and even their mother's name, '''Cherry Cherry'''), an occasion where both groups switched hair colours (Leslie Bibb is a brunette in real life), Bobbi Glass's lost finger being replaced with a metal one complete with extendable pointer and knife attachments, and Josh's work as a window seller. With a variety of pop culture references and nonsensical jokes about Fruitosh . CAST Leslie Bibb .... Brooke McQueen Carly Pope .... Samantha 'Sam' McPherson Tamara Mello .... Lily Esposito Christopher Gorham .... Harrison John Sara Rue .... Carmen Ferrara Bryce Johnson .... Josh Ford Tammy Lynn Michaels .... Nicole Julian Ron Lester .... Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino Leslie Grossman .... Mary Cherry Lisa Darr .... Jane McPherson Scott Bryce .... Mike McQueen Diane Delano .... Miss Roberta 'Bobbi' Glass; Nurse Jessi Glass; Rock Glass; Uncle Tipton AWARDS
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