6 Teens and A Baby

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"Labour Day - Part 2"

"6 Teens and A Baby"

"Blast From The Past"

"6 Teens and A Baby"
Episode name reference to/pun on: The film Three Men and a Baby.
Season 4, Episode 83
Airdate:	CAN: September 24, 2009 USA: April 19, 2010
Directed by:	Karen LessMann
Written by:	Alex Nussbaum
Story Editors:	Alex Ganetakos (supervising)
Episode Guide

6 Teens and A Baby is the third episode of the fourth season and the eighty-third episode of 6teen. It first aired on Teletoon on September 24, 2009, and later on Cartoon Network on April 19, 2010.

In this episode, the gang takes turns looking after Jen and Jonesy's baby half-sister, Emma Jr. Meanwhile, Nikki finds herself having to watch security videos at work while dealing with erotic dreams about Darth, and Wayne gets a new job working at Burger McFlipster's after Underground Video closes down.

Plot

Main Plot

Jen wakes up exhausted after a long night of her new baby sister crying and heads to the bathroom only to be cut off by her stepbrother, who is not tired at all. The reason for this? He had to deal with Diego and Robbie being born already, so he's used to sleeping through the sounds of crying babies. He enters the bathroom to start his day, leaving Jen stranded outside, where her mother confronts her and asks Jen to take care of the baby for the day. While Jonesy butts in at this point, saying that he'd be willing to do it (especially for cash), Jen agrees to take care of the baby, and Emma Masterson heads off, leaving her youngest child in Jen's care.

Jen soon realizes that she's in no condition to take care of a baby, given her tired state, and more than that, there's no way she can stand a full day of Emma Jr. crying. She concludes that her best option is to call Nikki, who has recently discovered she likes babies, and does so. This call interrupts a bad dream Nikki was having while sleeping on the job; however, it is soon interrupted by another call, this one from Coach Halder, who wants Jen to come in to work. Jen agrees, but knows she has to get somebody to watch Emma, and so enlists Jonesy to do it for 25% of her wages that day.

When Jen hands Emma Jr. off to Jonesy, trouble soon starts. Jonesy finds that no matter what he does to try and amuse the baby, it always ends with her crying. This leads him to decide to take Emma Jr. on a field trip and show her the mall. When he gets there, Emma is still crying, so he decides to take Emma Jr. to see Nikki.

However, it turns out that his way of "showing" Emma Jr. to Nikki is instead to drop off Emma with Nikki. This leads Nikki on a different trek, where she takes Emma Jr. to the Big Squeeze so that Nikki can chat with Caitlin. While there, Nikki brings up her problem: she's been having hot dreams about Darth. Caitlin is shocked by this, and doesn't know what to say, but Nikki figures that Jen will probably have some good advice for her, and so asks Caitlin if she can leave the baby at the lemon. Caitlin is unsure, until a jock walks by and compliments both the baby and her, at which point Caitlin readily agrees to Nikki's plan.

Unfortunately for Caitlin, as soon as Nikki leaves, Emma Jr. becomes ill and spits up all over Caitlin. For Caitlin, this means she has to leave Emma Jr. with somebody else while she cleans up, and the next person in line is Wyatt, who currently has his own problems at work. These problems manifest themselves when Wayne and Tim show up and demand that Wyatt remove the baby from the premises. Wyatt thus sets off to take the baby to Jonesy, and along the way runs into Jen and Nikki, who he fills in on why he has the baby.

When he gets to the ice rink, he finds Jonesy and Jude there. At first, Emma Jr. begins crying again, but when Jude sets her down on the Zamboni, she stops crying. It's at this moment that Wyatt gets a text informing him not to tell anyone about Nikki's hot dreams that he reads aloud, inadvertently revealing her secret to Jonesy and Jude.

As time goes by, Jude starts to connect with Emma Jr. and says that she tells some good stories. When Jonesy asks about some of them, he reveals that Emma Jr. thinks that the dreams Nikki had were more like nightmares, and that her real name is Clementine, although she's fine with Emma. Hearing this, Jonesy realizes that they could make money off of Jude's special talent of knowing what babies are saying, and soon they set up a business. To make sure Emma Jr. stays safe, they put her on the Zamboni, but unfortunately aren't paying attention when the parking brake gets released and the Zamboni starts rolling through the mall, carrying Emma Jr. with it.

Someone who does notice the rolling Zamboni is Ron the Rent-a-Cop, who runs after the Zamboni, hops on, and pulls the parking brake. He then proceeds to take Emma Jr. to his office for safety and reports the Zamboni infraction to the ice rink manager. By this time, the gang has noticed that Emma is missing, and are racing around the mall looking for her. Fortunately for them, and unfortunately for Jude, he gets a call from the ice rink informing him that he's been fired because Mall Security found a baby driving the Zamboni through the mall. This makes clear to everyone that Emma Jr. is with Ron, and they all head to Ron's office.

When they get there, they find that Ron has taken good care of the baby, and he hands it over to Jen to take home. Before Jen leaves, however, Emma Jr. explains (through Jude) that Emma Sr. was actually kind of nervous about leaving [Emma Jr.] with Jen (due to Jen's lack of experience with being an older sibling), but still had more confidence in her than with Jonesy, due to Jen being much more mature and responsible. Upon hearing this, Jen proclaims victory over her stepbrother and leaves to get their sister back home.

Later that day, Nikki has finished reviewing the security tapes while Jonesy sleeps. Jen calls, and it is revealed that she managed to get Emma Jr. back home safe and sound before their parents returned and figure out what happened. Nikki, meanwhile, couldn't find any evidence of shoplifting anywhere on the tapes, leading her and Jen to believe that Chrissy just miscounted the inventory. While she goes to talk to Chrissy, Jonesy's dream is shown: it's an erotic dream about Darth. Jonesy awakens in the middle of the dream and is visibly shaken by the experience.

Sub-Plot One: Dreams About Darth

Nikki is in the middle of sleeping on the job when her cell phone rings, awakening her from her dream. Despite the rude awakening, Nikki is actually glad for the distraction, because she had been having a hot dream about Darth. However, Jen soon gets distracted by other calls, and ends up hanging up on Nikki.

Nikki's attention is soon called upon by Chrissy, who informs the gathered Khaki Barn employees that some clothes have gone missing. She suspects a shoplifter and wants Nikki to watch the security tapes to check for shoplifting. Nikki initially protests, but when she sees Darth outside the store, she agrees to do so, if only to get away from him.

Later, Nikki is watching the tapes when Jonesy brings Emma Jr. by and unceremoniously leaves the baby with her. This leads Nikki to trek to the Big Squeeze to get a lemonade and talk to Caitlin about her hot dream. When she gets there, she's initially reluctant to divulge details, knowing what a blabbermouth Caitlin can be; however, she's convinced to do so by Caitlin, and ends up revealing that she had a hot dream about Darth. Right then, she sees Darth and ducks away. Naturally, Darth's interest is piqued by how Nikki seems to be noticing him today, and he wonders what is going on.

Nikki decides she needs to talk to Jen, and so heads out to do so. Caitlin, meanwhile, has a puking mishap with Emma Jr., and drops the baby off with Wyatt, along the way blurting out Nikki's secret in a stressful panic. When Wyatt gets kicked out of Burger McFlipster's for having a baby with him, he runs into Jen and Nikki, where he reveals that he knows about Nikki's dreams.

Nikki naturally traces the leak back to Caitlin and goes to talk to her at the lemon. While Nikki is talking, Darth listens in, and when he finds out what happened, he gleefully spreads the word around to everyone. Nikki naturally isn't very happy to see this, and heads over to Stereo Shack to set things straight. She threatens Darth with her beating him up if he doesn't stop talking about it; when Darth shows reluctance, she throws coffee mugs at him to get him to acquiesce.

Later, Jonesy is sleeping in the back room of the Khaki Barn when he has a similar hot dream about Darth. When he wakes up in a cold sweat, Nikki asks him what he dreamt about, but Jonesy merely says he doesn't want to talk about it.

Sub-Plot Two: Wayne's New Job

When Wyatt arrives at work, he finds a horrible surprise waiting for him: Wayne is now his new co-worker, as Underground Video has closed down. To make matters worse, Tim loves Wayne, as one of Wayne's few talents is his ability to suck up to the boss. This means that Wayne is having an easy time looking good in front of Tim while being his normal, surly, lazy self otherwise.

This comes to a head when Wayne complains about Emma Jr. having been left with Wyatt, causing Wyatt's ejection from the store until he finds somebody to take the baby. However, when Wyatt returns, he comes up with an idea to lower Wayne's status: make Wayne sing a jingle. Wayne refuses and suggests getting rid of the jingles altogether, but this upsets Tim, as he loves the jingles. With no choice but to sing, Wayne does so, and reveals that he has a horrible singing voice. This sours Tim on Wayne, ending Wayne's plan to rise to the top by sucking up to Tim when the manager is around and being himself when Tim isn't looking.

Trivia

• Jonesy's self-employed job: Babysitting Emma Jr. while Jen was at work.
  Reason for firing: He passed Emma Jr. among the others to shirk his responsibilities and ended up losing her in the process.
• Jude's job: Zamboni driver at the Galleria Mall Ice Rink.
  Reason for firing: Ron found Emma Jr. riding the runaway Zamboni after the parking brake was released, causing carnage throughout the mall.

Notes

• In this episode, Jude gets fired twice. Jonesy fires him first (from his assistant babysitter job) and he then gets a call on his cell phone where he's fired from driving the Zamboni.
• Underground Video has apparently closed down, probably due to a lack of business.

Episode connections

• Jude got fired twice in this episode, similarly to how Nikki got fired in the episode "Welcome to the Darth Side".

Cultural references

• The hairstyle Nikki and Darth had in the nightmare heavily resembles the hairstyle of the Star Wars character Princess Leia.

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