Square Pegs: Weemaweegate

Square Pegs: Weemaweegate
CBS
November 15, 1982
Sitcom
DVD
C+

Things that are odd about this episode:

• That LaDonna nominates Vinnie as the school mascot, despite her dislike of him in previous episodes and despite the fact that it will make her best friend jealous;
• That Marshall nominates Johnny, claiming he's part-Indian (actually he's part-Polish, and we find out that his real last name is something like Lassovich);
• That none of these teens (who were six to eight in '74) can remember Watergate, and yet Marshall has Nixon as one of his celebrity impressions;
• That Lauren and even Patty are quick to suspect their friend Marshall of dirty tricks, even though it's obvious to the viewer who the real culprit is;
• That Muffy seems attracted to Vinnie;
• That no one points out all the stereotypes about Indians, although maybe that's a culture gap between the early '80s and now.

Steven Peterman makes his first of five appearances as Lauren's crush, Mr. Rob Donovan, the History and Journalism teacher (and, it's implied, former drug dealer).