6teen/Oops, I Dialed It Again

Oops, I Dialed It Again
Season 3, Episode 11
Airdate	November 28, 2007
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6teen — Season Three

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Oops, I Dialed It Again is the eleventh episode of the third season of 6teen, and the sixty-third episode overall.

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Plot Overview

Caitlin brings a batch of new cell phones, which her father's company is testing, to the gang for them to try out. After Caitlin's friends thank her for the new phones, Nikki talks to Jen about surprising Jonesy with a new pair of hockey skates to replace his old ones, mentioning that she intends to do so by earning sales commissions at the Khaki Barn. Caitlin tells Nikki that this goes against one of the rules of a relationship, stating that the guy should be buying gifts for the girl instead of the other way around, but Nikki intends to stick to her plan. As Caitlin talks with Nikki and Jen, she accidentally knocks over a glass of lemon juice, which spills on the floor. Moments later, a woman walks by the Big Squeeze, carrying her baby with her, when she slips on the spot where the juice spilled and falls, causing the baby to fly out of her arms. Wyatt acts quickly and jumps for the baby, catching it in his arms, along with a few other items the mother had with her and lost her grip on, and the gang and some nearby onlookers applaud Wyatt for his efforts in saving the baby. Seconds later, however, Wyatt sneezes and ends up humiliating himself in front of everyone (including his girlfriend Marlowe, just arriving on the scene) when two long strings of mucus shoot out of his nostrils and dangle from his nose as a result of the sneeze.

Not long after, Wyatt serenades Marlowe at the food court with a song he wrote based on his baby-saving escapade and subsequent sneeze when he gets an inspiration and persuades his friends to try humiliating him more in order to keep him inspired for song material. Caitlin gets a call on her new phone and hears from Jude, who dialed her phone by mistake when he accidentally sat on his phone, which he had placed in his back pocket; Jude explains it away as a "bum call", but Cait misunderstands Nikki's way of explanation and gets turned off by it. Elsewhere at the mall, Jen is asked to take part in a survey in a computerized booth to determine her likes and preferences. She willingly takes part in the survey at first, but when the questionnaire starts to drag on and keep her from getting to work (and preventing her from even leaving the booth until the survey's completion), Jen becomes increasingly frustrated.

Nikki puts her plan for earning her way to buying new skates for Jonesy into practice at work when she approaches a pair of customers to make a sale, surprising The Clones in the process (because they're not used to seeing Nikki actually working at their level), but Nikki, not used to making sales herself, finds herself mentally unprepared to follow through and she tells the customers to talk to one of The Clones. Caitlin drops by the Khaki Barn for a visit and, when she hears about Nikki's attempt to make sales, she talks her friend into pretending to be more like her (being nicer and friendlier) to help her make more convincing sales pitches to customers, which Nikki agrees to do. As the girls change the subject to Jonesy's skates, Nikki leans on her phone (which, like Jude earlier, she put in her back pocket) and accidentally calls Jonesy, who overhears her and Caitlin talking and misinterprets the conversation, thinking that Nikki is planning to cheat on him. Over at Burger McFlipster's, Jude takes up Wyatt's earlier offer and teams up with Marlowe to humiliate him on the job by playing an old tape recording of Wyatt as a small boy, singing a song about his mother, to the restaurant's customers, spurring Wyatt to pen a new song based on the experience.

Jonesy gets another "bum call" from Nikki and overhears her talking with a male customer in the Khaki Barn change room, leading him to believe that Nikki has found someone new and is already going "hot and heavy" with him. Meanwhile, as Wyatt heads to the men's washroom, Jude follows him in, then comes back out to meet Marlowe and shows her Wyatt's clothing, which he pulled off of him in another humiliation attempt. Wyatt emerges moments later, with a fake mustache drawn on him and wearing only briefs and cowboy boots, and attempts to get some spare clothes when he gets spotted and laughed at by mallgoers, then gets picked up by Ron the Rent-a-cop and taken to the mall security lockup, where he calls Nikki to bring him some clothes from work. Nikki arrives with a dress, which both she and Ron tease Wyatt about after she has him put it on—and Wyatt gets another song out of his latest embarrassment. Back at Burger McFlipster's, Jonesy complains to Wyatt about what he overheard from Nikki and Caitlin after getting a third "bum call" from Nikki. After Wyatt convinces him to reassert his confidence (and also asks him to humiliate him again by squirting a bottle of ketchup on his uniform), Jonesy goes to the washroom to motivate himself—and in doing so, makes his own "bum call" to Caitlin when he unintentionally sits on his phone while leaning on the washroom sinks, causing Cait to misinterpret Jonesy's self-motivational speech and make her think he has a crush on her.

Jonesy later confronts Nikki about what he overheard her say on his phone and accuses her of intending to dump him for someone new, which does not sit well with Nikki. Back at the survey booth, after sitting through over 680 questions from the computer questionnaire and getting nowhere, and getting fed up with the computer not allowing her to leave the booth, Jen tricks her way out by using reverse logic to short-circuit and break down the computer, then forces her way through the door and out to freedom. Over at Grind Me, Wyatt tells his friends that they're not allowed to strip him anymore due to his being warned by Ron that the security guard has created a new mall bylaw, stating that anyone caught streaking in The Galleria from now on will be banned from the mall. Jude, however, does not get Wyatt's message and he comes along shortly afterward and pantses Wyatt in front of everyone at the coffee house—right as Ron happens by, leading to trouble for Wyatt as Ron bans him from the mall. Meanwhile, Jonesy arrives at Grind Me and spots Nikki talking with Kyle Donaldson, the customer Jonesy overheard Nikki talking with earlier, and more misunderstandings ensue as Jonesy confronts Kyle, while Caitlin confronts Jonesy about what she thought she heard him saying to her over the phone.

Thanks to Jen, matters are eventually cleared up when it is discovered that the cell phones' keypad arrangements have been causing the bum calls and were responsible for the misunderstandings between Nikki and Jonesy, and between Jonesy and Caitlin. Realizing this, Caitlin takes back the phones from the gang and tells them that she has to return the phones due to their defective design. Nikki, back on good terms with Jonesy, gives him his new skates after earning enough to get them, while Jen discusses her experience with the computerized questionnaire booth, which she found was being used as part of a teen marketing survey, and expresses her displeasure at being used in such a manner. When Wyatt takes his usual seat by the Big Squeeze despite his apparent ban, he explains that he got help from Jonesy in getting the ban lifted by blackmailing Ron, whom the guys found out had used the women's washroom because of a long lineup at the men's room (which, Jonesy reveals, he found surveillance footage of back when he worked mall security under Ron's supervision).

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• Jonesy makes reference to his old job as a security guard at The Galleria in "The Slow and Even-Tempered"
• Kyle Donaldson, the Khaki Barn customer Nikki talks to as Jonesy overhears on his phone, first appeared as Caitlin's date in Season One's "The Sushi Connection"
• This episode marks the second time members of the gang have gotten out of trouble with Ron by blackmailing him; the first time was in "It's Always Courtney, Courtney, Courtney!", when Jen (with help from her sister Courtney) blackmailed Ron into getting her friends off the hook after the rest of the gang get caught with fake IDs, when the Masterson sisters threaten to make an incriminating photo of Ron public unless Jen's friends are released from custody

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The episode title refers to the Britney Spears song "Oops I Did It Again", an instrumental clip of which has regularly been used on the show as Caitlin's cell phone ringtone
• The misunderstandings stemming from the unintended phone calls are a nod to the long-running sitcom Three's Company, many episodes of which similarly revolved around misunderstandings among its characters

Memorable Moments

• Wyatt's save of the baby at the Big Squeeze—followed by his embarrassing sneeze
• Jude's repeated public prankings of Wyatt to humiliate him and motivate his songwriting
• The frequent "bum calls" between the gang with the defective cell phones, and the resulting misunderstandings