Ellen: The Bubble Gum Incident

Ellen: The Bubble Gum Incident
ABC
October 30, 1996
Sitcom
DVD
B-

David Walpert's first of five Ellen stories reveals that Ellen and Paige's friendship is built on a lie.  They met in summer camp 25 years ago, as we've heard in other episodes.  But it turns out that Ellen put gum in Paige's hair while the latter was asleep, and let another girl take the blame for it all this time.  Ellen fears Paige learning the truth when they attend their camp reunion, but Paige is remarkably forgiving when she hears.

Romy Rosemont, who was Margaret D. on Roseanne, is The Woman here.  Wolfgang Puck, who was himself on Who's the Boss? in '87, is himself in the title sequence.  As far as I know, Anne Rice doesn't appear in any other of my shows.  And, yes, that is Kaley Cuoco playing Little Ellen in the flashbacks, at the age of 11, eleven years before she'd become Penny on The Big Bang Theory.