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My So-Called Life

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Title: My So-Called Life (Pilot)
Episode Number: 1
Season: 1
Season Episode #.: 1
Production Number: 59300
Original Airdate: Thursday August 25th, 1994
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Episode Crew
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Winnie Holzman
  Episode Summary  
At the start of her sophomore year at Liberty High, Angela Chase becomes friends with Rayanne Graff and dyes her hair red.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
Margaret NagleplayedScience TeacherRecurring (first appearance)
Amy LelandplayedSecond Bathroom Girl 
Bianca LawsonplayedThird Bathroom Girl 
Cameron ArnettplayedCop 
Devin KaminplayedJordan's Buddy 
Francine RiberplayedFirst Bathroom Girl 
Nada DespotovichplayedMs. Mayhew 
Shane PowersplayedGuy #1 
Stanley DeSantisplayedSocial Studies Teacher 
Tim Williams (2)playedGuy #2 
  Episode Notes  
Angela's hair color is now "Crimson Glow".
 
  Featured Songs  
ArtistSong TitlePlayed When
AnimalbagEverybody 
R.E.M.Everybody Hurts 
  Episode Quotes  
Angela: (VO) So I started hanging out with Rayanne Graff. Just for fun. Just 'cause it seemed like if I didn't, I would die or something. Things were getting to me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way, even your best friend. (...) Like with boys, how they have it so easy. How you have to pretend...you don't notice them... noticing you. (She walks past some cheerleaders.) Like cheerleaders -- can't people just cheer on their own, like, to themselves?
 
Angela: (VO) School is a battlefield...for your heart. (In the bathroom at the Chase residence with Rayanne and Rickie, Angela has just finished dying her hair.) So when Rayanne Graff told me my hair was holding me back, I had to listen. 'Cause she wasn't just talking about my hair. She was talking about my life.
 
Angela: I had my hair dyed.
Patty: Oh, you had it dyed. I thought it had died of natural causes.
 
Angela: (VO) I cannot bring myself to eat a well-balanced meal in front of my mother. It just means too much to her.
 
Angela: (VO) My dad and I used to be pretty tight...
Graham: Um, how's school?
Angela: I'm starting to like "Anne Frank".
Graham: Is she a sophomore too?
Angela: No, she's dead.
Graham: (blankly) Oh, right, yeah.
Angela: Anne Frank, Dad!
Graham: Oh! Right, right, uh, I mean, okay. Uh, don't stay up too late.
Angela: (VO) The sad truth is, my breasts have come between us.
 
Angela: (VO) I'm in love. His name is Jordan Catalano. He was left back, twice. Once I almost touched his shoulder in the middle of a pop quiz. He's always closing his eyes, like it hurts to look at things.
 
Angela: (VO) My parents keep asking how school was. It's like saying, 'How was that drive-by shooting?' You don't care how it was, you're lucky to get out alive.
 
Ms. Mayhew: So, you quit yearbook, hmm? No explanation. Your appearance has altered. I'm really concerned you're getting off on the wrong foot. Is there a problem at home?
Angela: It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you And, I mean, this whole thing with yearbook -- it's like, everybody's in this big hurry to make this book, to supposedly remember what happened, but it's not even what really happened, it's what everyone thinks was supposed to happen. Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really upsetting book. You know, in my humble opinion.
 
Rickie: If you were about to do it, okay, what would you want the other person to say, like, right before?
Rayanne: 'This won't take long.'
Rickie: No, seriously.
Rayanne: 'Don't I know you?'
Rickie: No, for real, like, like, romantic.
Angela: 'You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you.'
Rayanne: 'It hurts to look at you?'
Rickie: How'd you think of that?
Rayanne: Where would it hurt?
 
(Rayanne and Rickie are walking down the school hallway with a few other girls.)
Girl: Rayanne, you are so full of it!
Rayanne: Oh, please! Ask Rickie, it was wicked. It was-- (She sees Angela.) Oh...hey girlfriend!
Rickie: Hey Angela!
Rayanne: Ask Angela, she was there. Angela, tell her...
Rickie: We hung out. And these guys, they tried to pick them up.
Rayanne: It was totally wicked, am I right?
Rickie: And the cops came.
Rayanne: I am telling you, we had a time. Didn't we? Didn't we have a time?
Angela: We did. We had a time. (She smiles.)
 
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