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My So-Called Life Season 1 Episode 12

Self-Esteem

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AIRED: 11/17/94

Self-esteem is the lesson of the day for Angela's warped relationship with Jordan, Brian's unreciprocated devotion to Angela, Rickie's flair for the dramatic, and Graham's cooking expertise.

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The one where Jordan and Angela finally get together.

9.6

By chocoholicgrl91, Nov 24, 2010

This is the one episode of My So-Called Life that I can actually, truthfully say I loved. I was just caught up in the love trouble between Angela and Jordan. I was watching it in my Creative Writing class because my teacher had brought it in, and this was the one episode that I didn\'t treat as free time in class. I was actually watching. And the entire class loved it. We wanted to know what happened next, and we had to know. The entire episode, we were quiet and watchful, which was very weird for us. And in the end, when Jordan held Angela\'s hand, we all cheered.moreless
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Jordan Catalano hearts Angela Chase, except he doesn't want anyone to know about it.

8.5

By Schroxy, Jul 04, 2007

Girl likes boy, boy likes girl, but boy is too embarrassed to walk hand in hand with girl in the school hallways. I was a bit annoyed that it took a while for Angela to stick up for herself. It was like she was fine with being his doormat every time he felt like making out with someone in the boiler room. Halfway through i wanted to slap him myself. What was his deal? Except i kinda know where he's coming from. Well that just blows everything bad i said about Jordan out of the water.

Rickie was hilarious when he was making fun of his new English teacher. Because swear to God, i had the exact same type in high school and me and my friends used to do it all the time. But thankfully he never saw any of making fun of him. He was awfully scary. This was a good episode. The characters were great and the acting felt real. It's a bit disappointing that they stopped making the show.moreless
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Bess Armstrong	Patty Chase
A. J. Langer	Rayanne Graff
Wilson Cruz	Rickie Vasquez
Devon Gummersall	Brian Krakow
Claire Danes	Angela Chase
Devon Odessa	Sharon Cherski

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Shannon Leto	Shane	Guest Star
May Quigley	Ms. Lerner	Guest Star
Karen Malina White	Abyssinia Churchill	Guest Star
Lisa Waltz	Hallie	Recurring Role

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- In one scene when Angela and Jordan are kissing, Angela is wearing a maroon turtle neck, but when Jordan gets called up the stairs by his friend, Angela walks out the door wearing a multi-colored sweater.
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QUOTES (5)
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- Rickie: Where did you get Chinese food?
  Rayanne: Two words: Tino.
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- Angela:There's something about Sunday night that really makes you want to kill yourself...And that creepy '60 Minutes' watch that sounds like your whole life ticking away.
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- Angela: So I tried to be invisible. It's surprisingly possible. You just sit in the back and keep quiet and let the boys shout out the answers, which they will, even if they're wrong. Boys are less afraid of being wrong.
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- Rayanne: Angela, I can handle the boiler room. You, however, cant!
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- Angela: There are certain places in life. Certain places where only certain people go. Like, there's this line that you know not to pass. Like, there's this boiler room, in the basement by the north exit, where only certain people go. For only one reason...
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- German episode title: "Heimlichkeiten" (Secrecies)
  French episode title: "L'amour à toutes les sauces" (Love in all colors)
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- When Rickie finally signs the Drama Club sign-up sheet, the two names above his are Nancy Jacobs, the first assistant director, and Diane Kelly, the script supervisor.
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- Music: "Soda Jerk" & "Late at Night" by Buffalo Tom; "Fountain and Fairfax" by Afghan Wigs.
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- Paul Dooley, who plays Patty Chase's father Chuck Wood in this episode and in "Father Figures", is the husband of Winnie Holzman, creator and writer of My So-Called Life.
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- The scene where Jordan Catalano and Angela Chase hold hands was rated one of the ten most romantic moments in TV Guide's "TV's Most Romantic Moments"
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- Mr. Katimsky: Who are you, Groucho Marx?
  
  Groucho Marx, an American comedian and actor, was known for his trademark painted-on moustache and eyebrows.
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- Angela (voice over): And that creepy 60 Minutes watch that sounds like your whole life ticking away.
  
  60 Minutes is an investigative television news program in the United States, which has run on CBS since 1968. The opening credits features a ticking watch.
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- Hallie: Say, what do we think of him?
  Graham: Stephan Dieter?
  Hallie: No, Rush Limbaugh.
  
  Rush Limbaugh is an American radio talk show host. He discusses current events and politics on his show entitled The Rush Limbaugh Show.
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- Hallie: Hey, doesn't this remind you of one of those Twilight Zone episodes? [...] No, wait, one of those human behavior experiments, to determine how long it takes till we turn into Lord of the Flies?
  
  The Twilight Zone was a science fiction TV series that often had unexpected twists.
  Lord of the Flies, a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding, is about a group of young boys stranded on an island who attempt to govern themselves and fail disastrously.
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- Rickie: Si, mi nombre es Enrique, and I want to live in America.
  This is an allusion to the 1957 Broadway musical and subsequent motion picture "West Side Story". Set among the Puerto Rican community of New York City, its hit-songs include the famous "I Want to Live in America", quoted here by Rickie who is half Hispanic.
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- The poem read by Mr Katimsky in English class is William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. This poem is particularly known for being an unconventional tribute to his Mistress (commonly referred to as the "dark lady", she appears in sonnets 127 to 154) of whom he makes a realistic and flawed portrayal as opposed to the traditional romanticism seen in other love sonnets at the time, where the beauty of a woman was most frequently extolled and magnified through hyperbolically epic metaphors.
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