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The Wonder Years Season 3 Episode 11

Don't You Know Anything About Women?

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Kevin wants to take Susan Fisher to the dance, but she has a boyfriend, Donald Wallach. However, he hears rumors that they have broken up, so he's about to ask her until Donald interferes. Linda Sloan, his lab partner, suggests that they go as friends so they do.moreless

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One of the best.

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By MosriteMarkI, Dec 24, 2009

It was rare for the early years of this show not to have scripts that were dead-on every time - perfect re-creations of what everyone went through growing up. And this episode was exceptional in that regard.

A person goes to a dance with another person for varying reasons - and someone (or several people) wind up getting hurt. All part of the labyrinth of trying to figure out which end is up in adolescence. The whole situation is beautifully and thoughtfully handled in this exceptional episode. Everyone's good but Maia Brewton as Linda is a standout!moreless
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My favourite episode to date.

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By b57j98, Oct 27, 2006

As this series is being re-run and I never watched it at all when it originally ran this is my favourite episode to date and it occurs at the ending of the episode like two ships sailing into the night never to cross paths across a gym floor at a school dance.
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Fred Savage	Kevin Arnold
Jason Hervey	Wayne Arnold
Alley Mills	Norma Arnold
Dan Lauria	Jack Arnold
Josh Saviano	Paul Pfeiffer
Olivia d'Abo	Karen Arnold

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Kelly Packard	Susan Fisher	Guest Star
Maia Brewton	Linda Sloan	Guest Star
Sean Wohland	Donald Wallach	Guest Star
Krista Murphy	Carla Healy	Recurring Role
Ben Stein	Mr. Cantwell	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (3)
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- Paul says he's been dating Carla for 3 months. Didn't Paul start dating Carla last season?
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- Kevin enters in the lunch hall and looks at Susan Fisher. In the meantime his shoulders (with his recognizable dark green shirt) appear behind Susan in the nearest table. In the next sequence Kevin is still on foot at the entrance.
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- In science class, Kevin takes off his protective glasses. He turns around and then in the next shot he is wearing them again.
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QUOTES (2)
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- Narrator: In the game of life, there are few certainties. In fact, most things are left to chance. There's someone for everyone, we're told. But the search for that one person to ride through life beside is serious business. Especially when you're thirteen. It's a matter of trial, error... and pure dumb luck.
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- Narrator: It was the first heart I'd ever broken. And in a way, my own heart was aching a little, too. It didn't seem... fair. I really liked Linda, but the fact was... I just didn't feel about her the way Susan Fisher felt about... Donald Wallach. Maybe she'd just been toying with me, or maybe she used me to get back with Donald. In any event, it was pretty clear... Paul wasn't the only one who had been fooling himself. All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners, and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak, and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect... who might be searching for us.
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- Jason Hervey (Wayne) and Maia Brewton (Linda) played siblings and the future uncle and aunt of Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) in "Back to the Future".
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- Featured Music:
  "Your Love, Keeps Lifting Me Higher" by Jackie Wilson
  "Crimson And Clover" by Tommy Jones and The Shondells
  "Unchained Melody" by The Righteous Brothers
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- Alley Mills (Norma Arnold), Dan Lauria (Jack Arnold), Olivia d'Abo (Karen Arnold) and Jason Hervey (Wayne Arnold) don't appear in this episode, although they are featured in the opening credits.
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