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'''''Popular''''' is an American teen [[comedy-drama]] television series that aired on [[The WB]], created by [[Ryan Murphy ( |
'''''Popular''''' is an American teen [[comedy-drama]] television series that aired on [[The WB]], created by [[Ryan Murphy (producer)|Ryan Murphy]] and [[Gina Matthews]], starring [[Leslie Bibb]] and [[Carly Pope]] as two teenage girls who reside on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum at their [[high school]], but are forced to get along when their single parents meet on a [[cruise ship]] and get married. The show was produced by [[Touchstone Television]] and ran for two seasons on The WB from September 29, 1999, to May 18, 2001. |
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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. |
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. |
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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]]). |
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]]). |
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==Cast== |
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* Robin John, Harrison's mother ([[Alley Mills]]) |
* Robin John, Harrison's mother ([[Alley Mills]]) |
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* Poppita "Poppy" Fresh (Anel Lopez Gorham) |
* Poppita "Poppy" Fresh (Anel Lopez Gorham) |
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* Lady T ([[Natasha Pierce]]) |
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* April Tuna ([[Adria Dawn]]) |
* April Tuna ([[Adria Dawn]]) |
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* Emory Dick ([[Hank Harris]]) |
* Emory Dick ([[Hank Harris]]) |
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== Broadcast == |
== Broadcast == |
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''Popular'' was broadcast from September 29, 1999 until May 18, 2001, for 2 seasons on The WB. |
''Popular'' was broadcast from September 29, 1999, until May 18, 2001, for 2 seasons on The WB. |
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=== International release === |
=== International release === |
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The show aired in Sweden and Brazil with subtitles while retaining the original music and English dialogue. It also premiered with dubbed versions in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy and Russia. |
The show aired in Sweden, Poland, and Brazil with subtitles while retaining the original music and English dialogue. It also premiered with dubbed versions in Mexico, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy and Russia. |
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==Home media== |
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The complete series of ''Popular'' has been released on DVD in region 1 by [[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]]. The DVD versions of select episodes had to change several songs that were used in the original aired episodes to [[Production music|stock music]] due to [[Music licensing|licensing fees]]. Television shows like ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'', ''[[Daria#Music and licensing|Daria]]'', ''[[Mission Hill (TV series)#Home release|Mission Hill]]'', ''[[Grosse Pointe (TV series)|Grosse Pointe]]'' and other series also went through similar situations where their DVD and streaming (ex. [[Netflix]], [[Hulu]]) counterparts used stock music as a replacement in order to cut costs of using other artists' music. |
The complete series of ''Popular'' has been released on DVD in region 1 by [[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]]. The DVD versions of select episodes had to change several songs that were used in the original aired episodes to [[Production music|stock music]] due to [[Music licensing|licensing fees]]. Television shows like ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'', ''[[Daria#Music and licensing|Daria]]'', ''[[Mission Hill (TV series)#Home release|Mission Hill]]'', ''[[Grosse Pointe (TV series)|Grosse Pointe]]'' and other series also went through similar situations where their DVD and streaming (ex. [[Netflix]], [[Hulu]]) counterparts used stock music as a replacement in order to cut costs of using other artists' music. |
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== Controversy == |
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When Ryan Murphy met with an executive at The WB in 1998, the executive made homophobic remarks and notes to Murphy and about the show, ''Popular''. Murphy recalled, “I had one meeting with an executive about a script, and I showed up at the meeting, and he started imitating my voice, and making feminine hand gestures — which I don’t have — and I never thought my voice was gay until he repeated it back to me...I literally was stunned into silence and he was being really, really brutal to me."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Jung |first=E. Alex |title=Ryan Murphy Remembers a Homophobic Meeting With a WB Executive |url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/ryan-murphy-recalls-homophobic-meeting-with-wb-executive.html |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}</ref> The executive also gave a note on a ''Popular'' script, where one of the characters wore a fur coat and mentioned, "You have to take it out...It’s code for gay. You’re being very gay here."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Reilly |first=Kaitlin |title=Hollywood Is Ryan Murphy's Response To Years Of The Industry's Homophobia |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/05/9756058/ryan-murphy-hollywood-homophobia-story |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.refinery29.com |language=en}}</ref> The executive also talked about the character Mary Cherry<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last1=September 26 |first1=Tim Stack Updated |last2=EDT |first2=2016 at 09:57 PM |title=Ryan Murphy: The WB Was 'Very Homophobic' During the Making of 'Popular' |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/09/26/ryan-murphy-wb-popular-homophobic/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref> by commenting, “Could this character be less gay?...The language coming out of this character’s mouth seems very flamboyant, which we think is too gay and will offend some of our viewers, can you take that out?”<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> |
When Ryan Murphy met with an executive at The WB in 1998, the executive made homophobic remarks and notes to Murphy and about the show, ''Popular''. Murphy recalled, “I had one meeting with an executive about a script, and I showed up at the meeting, and he started imitating my voice, and making feminine hand gestures — which I don’t have — and I never thought my voice was gay until he repeated it back to me...I literally was stunned into silence and he was being really, really brutal to me."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Jung |first=E. Alex |title=Ryan Murphy Remembers a Homophobic Meeting With a WB Executive |url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/ryan-murphy-recalls-homophobic-meeting-with-wb-executive.html |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Vulture |date=March 2017 |language=en-us}}</ref> The executive also gave a note on a ''Popular'' script, where one of the characters wore a fur coat and mentioned, "You have to take it out...It’s code for gay. You’re being very gay here."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Reilly |first=Kaitlin |title=Hollywood Is Ryan Murphy's Response To Years Of The Industry's Homophobia |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/05/9756058/ryan-murphy-hollywood-homophobia-story |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.refinery29.com |language=en}}</ref> The executive also talked about the character Mary Cherry<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last1=September 26 |first1=Tim Stack Updated |last2=EDT |first2=2016 at 09:57 PM |title=Ryan Murphy: The WB Was 'Very Homophobic' During the Making of 'Popular' |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/09/26/ryan-murphy-wb-popular-homophobic/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref> by commenting, “Could this character be less gay?...The language coming out of this character’s mouth seems very flamboyant, which we think is too gay and will offend some of our viewers, can you take that out?”<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> |
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Murphy continued, "They were interested in gay people who were tragic...They were interested if you were gay and you would kill yourself. Or if you would try and commit suicide. They weren’t interested in gay sensibility, or the language of being gay, which is sometimes not just gay characters."<ref name=":2" /> |
Murphy continued, "They were interested in gay people who were tragic...They were interested if you were gay and you would kill yourself. Or if you would try and commit suicide. They weren’t interested in gay sensibility, or the language of being gay, which is sometimes not just gay characters."<ref name=":2" /> |
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== Reception == |
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In a review for [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.com]], Bret Fetzer wrote, <blockquote>"The key to ''Popular'' is how it merges melodramatic [[Soap opera|soap-opera]] stories with wrenchingly blunt and honest portrayals of the cruelties of adolescence. While some viewers may find it galling to listen to a gorgeous young actress who's been on magazine covers moan about how she can't be as perfect as a model, the series tackles everything from [[Anorexia nervosa|anorexia]] to peer manipulation to teen sex with directness and an eye for moral and emotional complexity. An episode about a [[Sadie Hawkins dance]] becomes a [[Satire|satirical]] farce about body image (female and male); a slumber party turns into brutal humiliation; a teacher decides to get a sex-change operation, prompting anxiety throughout the school. Almost every character gets a moment of heartfelt grandstanding, yet the actors pull them off with commitment and guts ([Sara] Rue routinely turns speeches that could have been cheesy schlock into genuine pathos). Sure, some fantasy sequences are silly, but the show skillfully creates characters and situations that defy easy definition...''Popular'' cunningly subverts expectations; it's a smart show for both."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Popular: Season 1 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Season-1-Leslie-Bibb/dp/B0001I55S8 |access-date=June 8, 2022 |website=[[Amazon.com]]}}</ref></blockquote>In 2014, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' listed ''Popular'' at #21 on its list of the "26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever", calling it "the proto-''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]''" and saying it "celebrated the value of outcasts and portrayed overplayed topics—Homecoming Court, sex, and secrets—through an absurdist lens."<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine |date=March 2014 |title=26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever |url=https://ew.com/gallery/26-best-cult-tv-shows-ever/?slide=380657#380657 |access-date=October 24, 2022 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> |
In a review for [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.com]], Bret Fetzer wrote, <blockquote>"The key to ''Popular'' is how it merges melodramatic [[Soap opera|soap-opera]] stories with wrenchingly blunt and honest portrayals of the cruelties of adolescence. While some viewers may find it galling to listen to a gorgeous young actress who's been on magazine covers moan about how she can't be as perfect as a model, the series tackles everything from [[Anorexia nervosa|anorexia]] to peer manipulation to teen sex with directness and an eye for moral and emotional complexity. An episode about a [[Sadie Hawkins dance]] becomes a [[Satire|satirical]] farce about body image (female and male); a slumber party turns into brutal humiliation; a teacher decides to get a sex-change operation, prompting anxiety throughout the school. Almost every character gets a moment of heartfelt grandstanding, yet the actors pull them off with commitment and guts ([Sara] Rue routinely turns speeches that could have been cheesy schlock into genuine pathos). Sure, some fantasy sequences are silly, but the show skillfully creates characters and situations that defy easy definition...''Popular'' cunningly subverts expectations; it's a smart show for both."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Popular: Season 1 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Season-1-Leslie-Bibb/dp/B0001I55S8 |access-date=June 8, 2022 |website=[[Amazon.com]]|date=21 September 2004 }}</ref></blockquote>In 2014, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' listed ''Popular'' at #21 on its list of the "26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever", calling it "the proto-''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]''" and saying it "celebrated the value of outcasts and portrayed overplayed topics—Homecoming Court, sex, and secrets—through an absurdist lens."<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine |date=March 2014 |title=26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever |url=https://ew.com/gallery/26-best-cult-tv-shows-ever/?slide=380657#380657 |access-date=October 24, 2022 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> |
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Opening theme | "Supermodels" by Kendall Payne |
Ending theme | "High School Highway" by Sydney Forest |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 43(list of episodes) |
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Network | The WB |
Release | September 29, 1999 (1999-09-29) – May 18, 2001 (2001-05-18) |
Popular is an American teen comedy-drama television series that aired on The WB, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls who reside on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to get along when their single parents meet on a cruise ship and get married. The show was produced by Touchstone Television and ran for two seasons on The WB from September 29, 1999, to 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).
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1 | 22 | September 29, 1999 (1999-09-29) | May 18, 2000 (2000-05-18) | |
2 | 21 | September 22, 2000 (2000-09-22) | May 18, 2001 (2001-05-18) |
Popular was broadcast from September 29, 1999, until May 18, 2001, for 2 seasons on The WB.
The show aired in Sweden, Poland, and Brazil with subtitles while retaining the original music and English dialogue. It also premiered with dubbed versions in Mexico, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy and Russia.
The complete series of Popular has been released on DVD in region 1 by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. The DVD versions of select episodes had to change several songs that were used in the original aired episodes to stock music due to licensing fees. Television shows like Dawson's Creek, Daria, Mission Hill, Grosse Pointe and other series also went through similar situations where their DVD and streaming (ex. Netflix, Hulu) counterparts used stock music as a replacement in order to cut costs of using other artists' music.
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1 | 22 | September 21, 2004 |
2 | 21 | March 8, 2005 |
Popular is currently not available for streaming on any digital platform.
The show's main opening theme was excerpted from the song "Supermodels", a track from indie singer-songwriter Kendall Payne's 1999 album Jordan's Sister.[1] The ending theme song is "High School Highway" by Sydney Forest.[1]
When Ryan Murphy met with an executive at The WB in 1998, the executive made homophobic remarks and notes to Murphy and about the show, Popular. Murphy recalled, “I had one meeting with an executive about a script, and I showed up at the meeting, and he started imitating my voice, and making feminine hand gestures — which I don’t have — and I never thought my voice was gay until he repeated it back to me...I literally was stunned into silence and he was being really, really brutal to me."[2] The executive also gave a note on a Popular script, where one of the characters wore a fur coat and mentioned, "You have to take it out...It’s code for gay. You’re being very gay here."[3] The executive also talked about the character Mary Cherry[4] by commenting, “Could this character be less gay?...The language coming out of this character’s mouth seems very flamboyant, which we think is too gay and will offend some of our viewers, can you take that out?”[3][4]
Murphy continued, "They were interested in gay people who were tragic...They were interested if you were gay and you would kill yourself. Or if you would try and commit suicide. They weren’t interested in gay sensibility, or the language of being gay, which is sometimes not just gay characters."[2]
In a review for Amazon.com, Bret Fetzer wrote,
"The key to Popular is how it merges melodramatic soap-opera stories with wrenchingly blunt and honest portrayals of the cruelties of adolescence. While some viewers may find it galling to listen to a gorgeous young actress who's been on magazine covers moan about how she can't be as perfect as a model, the series tackles everything from anorexia to peer manipulation to teen sex with directness and an eye for moral and emotional complexity. An episode about a Sadie Hawkins dance becomes a satirical farce about body image (female and male); a slumber party turns into brutal humiliation; a teacher decides to get a sex-change operation, prompting anxiety throughout the school. Almost every character gets a moment of heartfelt grandstanding, yet the actors pull them off with commitment and guts ([Sara] Rue routinely turns speeches that could have been cheesy schlock into genuine pathos). Sure, some fantasy sequences are silly, but the show skillfully creates characters and situations that defy easy definition...Popular cunningly subverts expectations; it's a smart show for both."[5]
In 2014, Entertainment Weekly listed Popular at #21 on its list of the "26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever", calling it "the proto-Glee" and saying it "celebrated the value of outcasts and portrayed overplayed topics—Homecoming Court, sex, and secrets—through an absurdist lens."[6]
Season | U.S. ratings | Time slot | Network rank | |
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1 | 1999–2000 | 2.9 million[7] | Wednesday at 9:00 pm (Episode 1) Thursday at 8:00 pm (Episodes 2–22) |
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2 | 2000–2001 | 1.7 million [citation needed] | Friday at 9:00 pm | #11 |
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2000 | Casting Society of America | Nominated | Best Casting for TV, Comedy Pilot | Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer, and Robert J. Ulrich | [8] |
2000 | GLAAD Media Awards | Won | Outstanding TV Individual Episode (for episode "Wild Wild Mess") | [9] | |
2001 | GLAAD Media Awards | Nominated | Outstanding TV Comedy Series | [10] | |
2000 | Genesis Awards | Won | Television – New Series (for episode "Under Siege") | [11] | |
2001 | Genesis Awards | Won | Television – Comedy Series (for episode "Joe Loves Mary Cherry") | ||
2000 | SHINE Awards | Won | Comedy Episode (for episode "Booty Camp") | [12] | |
2000 | TV Guide Awards | Nominated | Favorite Teen Show | [11] | |
2000 | Teen Choice Awards | Nominated | TV – Choice Sidekick | Ron Lester | [13] |
Nominated | TV – Choice Comedy | ||||
Nominated | TV – Choice Actress | Carly Pope | |||
Nominated | TV – Choice Actress | Leslie Bibb | |||
Won | TV – Choice Breakout Show | ||||
2001 | Teen Choice Awards | Nominated | TV – Choice Sidekick | Ron Lester | [11] |
Nominated | TV – Choice Comedy |
In February 2000, the casts of Popular and Freaks and Geeks competed against each other in a special celebrity week of Family Feud hosted by Louie Anderson.[14]
Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope appeared in episode 6 of fellow WB series Grosse Pointe as actresses from Popular in a volleyball game against Johnny and Courtney.
In 2012, several of the main actors reunited and raised $30,000 for AIDS WalkinLos Angeles.[15]
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