Even Stevens

Strictly Ballroom

Season 1, Episode 19, Aired 2/2/01

Episode Summary

Ren and Louis are both looking forward to Zack Estrada's party with anticipation and nervousness. Ren has told Ruby that she's planning to make her move on Bobby Deaver at the party. Louis decides to go when Tawny and Twitty say they're going, but he's afraid because he can't dance. Ren is mortified when she hears Louis will be at the same party as her and Bobby so she stipulates all sorts of no-contact rules for Louis to follow. At the party, Louis is too shy to ask Tawny to dance. Ren's attempts to hook up with Bobby meet with disaster. First her hair gets caught in a houseplant, then her foot gets stuck in the toilet.moreless

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Donna Pescow

Eileen Stevens
Shia LaBeouf

Louis Anthony Stevens
Christy Carlson Romano

Renèe 'Ren' Stevens

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Trivia
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- When Ren disconnects Louis' phone call to Twitty, Louis calls for him by his first name, Alan, over the dead line, which is a rarity for the series. Edit
- Eileen Stevens confirms that Ren and Louis are a year apart in age. Edit
- When Louis looks up Betty London's Dance Cabana in the yellow pages, the ad there reads "The Lastest Dances..." instead of "Latest." Edit
Notes
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- Ren's friend Monique is also the name of Kim's friend in Kim Possible, a show Christy Carlson Romano also stars in. Edit
- Ren's "love theme," the music that's often heard when she sees or thinks about Bobby, is heard once again here. Edit
- Unseen characters: Ren mentions Ms. Mason, who has been referred to in several episodes (including as Vice-Principal Mason) but who has never been seen; Marty Tuttle, who Ruby mentions is at the party; Anita Snyder and Jordan Bath, two students Ruby gossips about. Edit
Quotes
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- Twitty: (about Louis' dancing) Louis, as a friend and as a concerned citizen, I cannot let you do that in public. You're going to hurt somebody. Edit
- Ruby: Monique! Look, there's a bathroom downstairs. We're having some plumbing issues in here. Monique: (in discomfort) We're having plumbing issues out here too! Edit
- Louis: I hear the drummer died in a tragic shaving accident. Edit
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- The reference to the "loser wall" at the party might have been inspired by the teen movie Sixteen Candles (1984), directed by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall. Edit
- The title of this episode is taken from the 1992 film Strictly Ballroon, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice. It's a romantic comedy about an Australian couple trying to win a national ballroom dancing competition. The film is part of director Luhrmann's "Red Curtain Trilogy," which includes the films Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001). Edit
- Louis: I hear the drummer died in a tragic shaving accident. This line is no doubt inspired by the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap directed by Rob Reiner and starring Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer. This "mockumentary" followed a fictional British heavy metal band on a tour of the United States. Spinal Tap supposedly had several of its drummers die under strange circumstances, like in a "bizzare gardening accident" and by spontaneous combustion. Edit