The TV cartoon follows a preteen girl named Ginger Foutley, along with two friends, as they try to fit in social life as well in school and try to avoid any embarrassments.

Characters

Ginger: A sixth-grader who suddenly finds herself in the scary-but-exciting new realm of junior high, Ginger Foutley is a regular kid—although maybe a bit more reflective than most—who’s still trying to figure out who she is.The social structure of Lucky Junior High grosses her out, but she’s also kind of obsessed with it. If she were part of the cool clique, she swears she would do things differently. Yet her bluff is called when Courtney, a princess of cool, decides Ginger can hang. With one foot in each crowd, Ginger constantly flip-flops between her loyalty to her old friends and her desire to be cool with a capital C… Welcome to junior high!

Macie: Allergy-prone Macie breathes out of one nostril, is riddled with neuroses and wears a constant look of panic. Any sort of change alarms Macie, who has been wearing her hair the same way since third grade. She’s so self-conscious that even if she doesn’t know what anyone is laughing about, she assumes she’s the target anyway. Macie relies on her friends Ginger and Dodie to explain junior high-type things, and often convulses with nerves as they discuss anything the least bit intimidating—like the elimination of Jell-0 from the school cafeteria.

Dodie: Chatterbox and gossip maven Dodie is Ginger’s longtime best friend. Her constant bulletins and updates keep Ginger current—once the recycled info is deciphered and checked against what ACTUALLY happened. Dodie knows the name and vitals of every student at Lucky Junior High, as well as the exact shade of lipstick each girl wears and why it does or doesn’t work for her. Dodie wants to be popular more than anything, and it shows so much that she probably won’t get her wish…

Darren: Easy-going, agreeable Darren got his cool like a hand-me-down sweater: His older brother Will is an extremely popular high school student. And Darren himself is one of those rarest of rare animals: a down-to-earth, self-confident 12-year-old. Ginger values Darren’s delivery of highly-coveted inside info from the cool world, but alas, his popularity has been sabotaged temporarily by a massive metal structure attached to his face. The horror of braces and headgear has befallen him.

Courtney: Totally self-absorbed and opportunistic, Courtney takes her position as Most Popular Girl very seriously. She prides herself on the diplomatic control and manipulation of her classmates. She’s intrigued and baffled, however, by Ginger’s backbone and real friendships. So she sets out to pluck the “unknown” from the dregs of everyday life and make her a Popular Girl.Thus, Ginger becomes the latest experiment in Courtney’s puppet show. It sometimes seems as if the spoiled, wealthy Courtney—who, among other notable achievements, is light years ahead of her peers in makeup application skills—was born into her role. You almost can’t blame her for being so inconsiderate and selfish…almost…

Miranda: Cold, calculating Miranda is Courtney’s right hand, and this pre-teen beauty goes green with jealousy whenever “the Foutley girl” is around. She loves to keep Ginger constantly off-balance, scheming to undermine her socially—she’s always whispering some horrible rumor or another in her ear—and smiling widely all the while.

Carl: A 9-year-old fascinated with all things icky, Carl is the only man of the Foutley house. He thrives on adults’ disgust and pouts when he can’t gross someone out. Carl thinks of himself as being way ahead of his years and is particularly proud of his power to disturb grown-ups. His best friend is Hoodsey Bishop, who, as a partner in crime, is kind of a work in progress.

Hoodsy: Dodie’s little brother and Carl’s sidekick, hapless Hoodsey would be perfectly content to sit and watch TV or play with action figures all day. But Carl gets him out into the world—and often into a world of trouble. He’ll usually puff himself up enough to play Carl’s right-hand man, but sometimes he pipes in as the voice of reason against his pal’s outrageous schemes.

Lois: A hard-working nurse and single mom, Lois often gets stuck with the graveyard shift at Sheltered Shrubs Hospital. But no matter how tired she is, she’ll still be the first to arrive at parents’ night at school. Ginger and Carl know they come first with her, even if her way of showing it might be considered “tough love.” She doesn’t have time to mince words, so she tends to say stuff… well… bluntly…

Blake: Blake is Courtney’s little brother and is a total super-brain, which doesn’t always make him popular with the other kids.

Intro (Original)

Show Information

Episode List

Pilot
The Party

Season 1
1. Ginger the Juvey
2. Carl and Maude
3. Stealing First
4. Sleep on It
5. Of Lice & Friends
6. Dare I, Darren
7. Hello Stranger
8. Cry Wolf
9. The Right Stuff
10. Kiss and Make Up
11. The ‘A’ Ticket
12. Come Back Little Seal Girl
13. Blizzard Conditions

TV Movie
The Summer of Camp Caprice

Season 2
14. I Spy a Witch
15. Deja Who?
16. The Even Steven Holiday Special
17. Piece of My Heart
18. Never Can Say Goodbye
19. Gym Class Confidential
20. Fast Reputation
21. Nurses Strike
22. Trouble in Gal Pal Land
23. Sibling Revile-ry
24. Losing Nana Bishop
25. TGIF
26. Lunatic Lake
27. April Fools
28. Ms. Foutley’s Boys
29. Love with a Proper Transfer Student
30. Family Therapy
31. New Girl in Town
32. Mommie Nearest
33. Ginger’s Solo
34. And She Was Gone
35. Next Question
36. No Hope for Courtney
37. Driven To Extremes

TV Movie
Far From Home (aka Foutley’s On Ice)

TV Movie
No Turning Back (aka Butterflies Are Free)

Season 3
38. Wicked Game
39. The Easter Ham
40. About Face
41. Fair To Cloudy
42. Heat Lightning
43. Ten Chairs
44. Stuff’ll Kill Ya
45. Detention
46. Dodie’s Big Break
47. Kiss Today Good-Bye
48. A Lesson in Tightropes
49. Battle Of The Bands

TV Movie
The Wedding Frame

Cast