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"Susie Sings the Blues" is the second episode from Season 1 of All Grown Up!.
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Summary[]
When a talent scout hears Susie singing "The Star Spangled Banner" at school she decides to take her on as her new client...for a price. But will this talent scout prove to be all she claims to be, or will Susie's musical career be short-lived? Meanwhile, Chuckie decides to become more daring by pulling pranks that could get him in trouble
- Description from Klasky Csupo
Plot[]
After meeting a woman named Beverly Jones from a talent agency, Susie begins to believe that she has the talent needed to become an international pop star. The woman tells Susie that she has many perspective clients ready to meet her, provided she pays $1,000. Unable to come up with the money on her own or ask her parents for it, she turns to her older sister, Alyssa, who has been saving up for a house. Alyssa agrees to give her the money, however, when Susie arrives at the building she was told to meet at, she discovers it is deserted. Completely devastated to realize that she was swindled, Susie goes home and tells her sister about what happened, which of course grieves her, but not necessarily because of the money. Alyssa explains to Susie what a dangerous thing to do it was entrusting in a complete stranger, and that the "talent agent"/con artist could have taken it a lot further than she did (e.g. kidnapping, trafficking, or murder). Being that her sisters safety is her main concern, Alyssa cools off since Susie's okay and calmly allows to pay back the money. Despite her setback, Susie goes onstage at the Java Lava for a talent night and is a huge success.
Meanwhile, after seeing a group of students getting punished for a school prank, Chuckie decides that he is tired of playing it safe and decides to reinvent himself as Chuck, a boy who is not afraid of taking risks. With the reluctant help of Tommy, Chuckie superglues all of the basketball team’s sneakers to the bathroom ceiling but doesn't get caught for the prank. Chuckie and Tommy rig the soda and ice cream machines to explode all over Vice Principal Pangborn and replace his diploma with a photocopy of Chuckie’s rear. When they go to his office, the boys discover the Pangborn is a closet poet and inadvertently encourage him to read some of his works at the Java Lava. Inspired by Chuckie's daringness, Pangborn only tells the boys to clean up their mess, much to Chuckie's disappointment.
Trivia[]
- Ending Tagline: "No! I want to limp out of here in a neck brace!" - Chuckie
- Even though Susie kept what happened to her a secret from her parents, if something like this happens, especially to a minor, you always file a police report, as it's very possible this woman could have gone to an area nearby and done the same thing.
- Susie is also extremely lucky that the only thing that happened to her was her getting conned for money. In some cases, like this with young girls in particular being a victim of talent scams, worse or even tragic things could have and do tragically happen in some cases.
- This episode shows that Kimi has some sort of close relationship with Alisa and Susie's family. How else would she know that she and her boyfriend were saving money for a house?
- Dil didn't say a single word in this episode ergo making it the first episode where a main character didn't have a single line of dialogue.
- In this episode, Chuckie is being a Bad Boy and in the next episode "Bad Kimi", Kimi is being a Bad Girl which is very ironic.
- We can assume that Susie's parents still do not know that Susie went through with meeting Beverly and paying $1,000. Only Alisa and Kimi know that Susie paid Beverly.
- This episode can be watched on the Game Boy Advance by purchasing All Grown Up!: Volume 1.
- On the cover of All Grown Up!: Volume 1, Susie wears an afro, but in the episode, she wears locs.
- This episode marks Angelica, Susie, and Kimi's debut in the series.
- This episode marks the first time Susie appears with locs.
- This is also the only episode where Susie is seen without locs. Not counting "All Growed Up."
Goofs[]
- Despite being left-handed, Chuckie uses his right one for his spoon during the cafeteria scene at the beginning of the episode.
- When Chaz and Betty suggest that Susie can perform a concert at the Java Lava when Angelica has mentioned "somebody they've known since she was practically still in diapers," wouldn't Susie have already been toilet-trained by the time she moved into the neighborhood at the age of three years old back in the Rugrats episode Meet the Charmaechels?