What's Happening!!: Dee the Cheerleader

What's Happening!!: Dee the Cheerleader
ABC
January 25, 1979
Sitcom
DVD
C+

This Sally Wade story has potential but it also has flaws:

1. There's too much set-up to explain why Rerun is absent and Snake has temporarily moved in;
2. Little Earl creeps me out when he talks about Dee's "crazy hips";
3. Not enough distinction is made between the effects of busing and the specific expectations of Mr. Bradley the principal (Davis Roberts returning in the role);
4. And Dee is 13 but going to high school?  Did she skip a grade at some point?

I do like Dee standing up for her rights, the ironic twist about the Chicana cheerleader, and the bonding not only between Dee and her friend but among the girls and Shirley.