The Journal

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"Selling Out To The Burger Man"

"The Journal"

"Silent Butt Deadly"

"The Journal"
Episode name reference to/pun on: None
Season 3, Episode 58
Airdate:	CAN: October 7, 2007 USA: September 3, 2009
Directed by:	Karen Lessmann
Written by:	Alex Ganetakos
Story Editors:	Nicole Demerse Alice Prodanoue
Episode Guide

The Journal is the fourth episode of the third season and the fifty-eighth episode of 6teen. It first aired on Teletoon on October 7, 2007, and later on Cartoon Network on September 3, 2009.

When Jonesy gets a job at the mall's lost-and-found, he decides to look around and see what cool stuff people have lost. In doing so, he discovers Jen's journal, where she writes down all of her private thoughts. He starts to read it, and soon Jen's secrets start to circulate around the mall–along with several items from the lost-and-found.

Plot

Main Plot

Jonesy's new job has him stationed at the mall's lost-and-found, and he loves it there due to the amount of lost stuff lying around. Soon, he picks up a journal and starts to read it only to realize midway through an entry that the journal belongs to Jen. When Nikki comes by, having heard Jen already upset about having lost her journal, she does not join in with her boyfriend's antics, instead passing the journal to Caitlin so that Caitlin can deliver it to Jen.

While walking through the mall on her way to Jen, Caitlin runs into Jude and the journal falls open. Caitlin can't help but notice her name, and when she reads an entry complaining about how easily Caitlin seems to get dates, Caitlin is hooked. She begins to read the journal, and soon Darth and Julie begin peering over her shoulder to see what she's reading about. As time goes by, Jen's secrets start to get spread around the mall, including ones about how she called Coach Halder a lunkhead and how she has a bad rash.

Worried, Jen calls Nikki to vent, and Nikki quickly diagnoses what must have happened. She finds Caitlin still by the fountain with a crowd of old people behind her and starts to berate Caitlin for being a bad friend. However, when Caitlin remarks that Nikki's attitude must be why she was ranked last in Jen's ranking of people with charisma, Nikki checks to see if this is true and soon gets absorbed into the reading as well.

Wyatt is the next one to join the group, when he learns that he has the worst coffee breath. After this happens, Jonesy meets his friends and joins them in reading the journal. However, he doesn't get far into the reading before Jen arrives, having been alerted to their location by a tip from Darth. Jen is crushed to see that her friends have betrayed her–and to a crowd that had gathered behind them while they weren't looking, no less. Jen is humiliated, but her humiliation is not complete until her crush comes up to her and asks about her rash.

Jen's reaction to this is to run out of the mall in tears, leaving her friends behind. Soon, the five are sitting by the Big Squeeze, feeling guilty about how they betrayed Jen's trust in them. They decide to fix things by talking to Jen, but when they go to see her, she's hiding in her room in her bed and is unwilling to forgive them or even talk to her so-called friends.

Later, Nikki is at work when she hears the Clones gabbing about Jen. When she suggests that there's a rumor going around about the Clones to get back at them, Nikki realizes that rumors are the solution: if the group spreads good rumors about Jen around the mall, the newer false rumors will take precedence over the older true rumors and make Jen sound amazing. Soon, the group engages in doing just that, and the mall begins to buzz with people praising Jen for being an inspiration to everyone.

With this mission accomplished, the friends send Jude as an emissary to Jen. Jude manages to convince Jen that the mall has forgotten everything, and they've fixed her social life, and she comes back to the mall. There, Jen basks in the affection of her peers, who have all come to regard her as a goddess. To make things even better for Jen, her crush Eddie asks her out. Of course, after one date Jen realizes that Eddie isn't right for her, because he treats her like she's too amazing for this earth. However, Jen is perfectly happy to live a new life as a role model for the entire mall.

Sub-Plot: Lost-and-Found

After Nikki removes Jen's journal from Jonesy's possession, Jonesy starts to look around the lost-and-found for other cool things that people have lost. He settles on a portable video game, and when Stanley comes by to take his game system back, Jonesy refuses to hand the game over. However, when Jude comes by and tries to purchase some bongos, Jonesy realizes that he could make some money under the table and begins selling people's lost possessions.

Jonesy's selling goes on until he takes a break and finds the group reading Jen's journal by the fountain. His break doesn't end until he sees Jude get his bongos repossessed by the person who actually lost them, and at that point he heads back to the lost-and-found where he finds a long line of people looking for their stuff. Jonesy is unable to provide the goods, and he naturally ends up fired from his job.

Trivia

• Jonesy's job: The mall's lost-and-found tender
  Reason for firing: He sold the lost belongings to other people, with the original owners later finding them.

Notes

• There was no need for Wyatt to get upset when Jen mentions he has the worst coffee breath, as it has been explained to him and the main six that he drinks coffee regularly.
• Charlie Dobbs makes a cameo near the end of the episode.
• According to Jen's butt chart, Caitlin has the highest butt while Nikki has the roundest butt.
• Jen mentions in her journal that she had a crush on Jonesy when they were both in the 7th grade.
• Jude was the only member of the main six to not read Jen's journal.

Errors

• Wyatt is eager about a Gibson Les Paul guitar being in the lost-and-found. Despite this, he was shown to own said guitar in the episode "The Lords of Malltown".

Episode connections

• Jen's mushroom allergy, which was a plot point in the episode "The One with the Text Message", is mentioned in this episode.
• Nikki punching Jonesy's face, which was first used in the episode "Selling Out To The Burger Man", is reused in this episode.

Cultural references

• Stanley's handheld console is similar in design to Nintendo's Game Boy handheld, which was first released in 1989.
  • Another parody of the Game Boy system would later appear in the episode "Blast From The Past", although with a different design.
• A Gibson Les Paul guitar can be seen amongst the lost items in the lost-and-found.
• Jude mentions actor Kiefer Sutherland when imagining about a movie based on the main six.
• Wyatt's line, "The first crush is the deepest.", is a play on the 1976 Rod Stewart song "The First Cut Is the Deepest."

Video

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