Brenda Song | Popular

• Genre: Teen drama, Comedy drama
• Created by: Ryan Murphy, Gina Matthews
• Starring: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham, Sara Rue, Bryce Johnson, Tammy Lynn Michaels, Ron Lester, Leslie Grossman, Lisa Darr, Scott Bryce, Diane Delano
• Opening theme: "Supermodels" by Kendall Payne
• Ending theme: "High School Highway" by Sydney Forest
• No. of seasons: 2
• No. of episodes: 43
• Executive producers: Ryan Murphy, Gina Matthews, Greer Shephard, Michael M. Robin
• Producer: Phillip M. Goldfarb
• Cinematography: Christopher Baffa
• Running time: 44 minutes
• Production companies: Ryan Murphy Productions, Roundtable Ink, The Shephard/Robin Company, Touchstone Television
• Network: The WB
• Release: September 29, 1999 – May 18, 2001

Brooke McQueen (Leslie Bibb) and Sam McPherson (Carly Pope), students at Jacqueline Kennedy High School, are polar opposites. Brooke is a popular cheerleader and Sam is an unpopular reporter for the school newspaper. Their respective groups are forced to socialize when Brooke's father and Sam's mother get engaged and the two girls have to share a house. The plot of the first season revolves around the girls' school life, rival groups of friends, mutual animosity and plan to separate their parents. At the end of the season, Sam finds Brooke's real mother and encourages her to come back to town, which breaks up the engagement and splits the new family apart. By the second season, Brooke and Sam realize that their parents were happy together, and therefore team up to reunite them, a move which results in the girls slowly becoming close friends, and even referring to each other as "family", though tensions rise when they both get involved with the same boy. Also, a reversal of fortunes takes place, with Brooke resigning from cheerleading to focus on her studies, and Sam experiencing a surge of sudden popularity at school. In the end of the second-season finale – which turned out to be the unexpected series finale when the show was cancelled – Brooke is run over by a drunk and angry Nicole Julian (Tammy Lynn Michaels).

"Fall on Your Knees"

"Popular" does Dickens' Christmas Carol. Everyone is invited to Sam and Brooke's first joint annual Christmas party. Carmen breaks her ankle and can't try out for Glamazons. For being a Grinch, Nicole's visited by the ghosts of Christmas.