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Ready or Not (1993)

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Ready or Not is a Canadian television series that aired on the Showtime Movie Channel from 1993 to 1997, on The Disney Channel from 1996 to 2000, and also on Global Television Network. The show ran for five seasons and had 65 episodes. The show began as a short film titled Thirty-Two Double A, which was eventually turned into a series.Amanda Zimm (Laura Bertram) and Elizabeth "Busy" Ramone (Lani Billard) are two teenage girls who live in the suburbs of Toronto. Amanda is an only child raised by liberal former hippie parents, while Busy is from a rather traditional Italian-Canadian Catholic family with three older brothers. The girls start the show as sixth graders and continue to the ninth grade.Towards the end of Ready or Not's original run, Showtime Movie Channel and Disney Channel began airing episodes in the United States.It is unrelated to the Ready or Not (2019) film, the 2005 sequel to the Young Adult novel All-American Girl (Meg Cabot), or the upcoming video game about a SWAT Team.
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Therapy Is for the Weak
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Therapy Is for the Weak: The Ramone family begrudgingly agrees to attend family therapy sessions as part of an agreement with Lucy Ramone, who has returned home after some time living on her own. Despite being unenthusiastic during the sessions, the family later has a Epiphany Therapy.
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Non-Residential Residence
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Non-Residential Residence: Amanda flees her home because she can’t deal with her parents’ decision to split. She goes to a shopping mall and manages to stay in hours past closing time until security finds her.
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Sorry, I'm Gay
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Sorry, I'm Gay: Variation in "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not." Busy gets a crush on her male karate teacher, but then later sees him kissing another man. The episode is an Aesop about how there's nothing wrong with being gay.
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Hippie Parents
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Hippie Parents: Phyllis, Amanda’s mom, has a more bohemian attitude towards life and is not averse to things like posing nude for an art class.
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Men Can't Keep House
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Men Can't Keep House: When Lucy Ramone temporarily moves out, the Ramone men are initially lost when it comes to upkeep in the home. In a later season episode, Busy and Amanda switch lives. At Busy’s home, Amanda is made to clean up after the Ramone brothers.
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Little Sister Is Watching: When Frankie starts hanging out less with Busy and takes up smoking, Busy tries smoking herself.
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Sibling Rivalry
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Sibling Rivalry: The three Ramone brothers engage in the occasional teasing and ribbing with each other. When Manny deduces Dom is a virgin, Dom responds by claiming the last action Manny got was from “Mrs. Hand and her five daughters�.
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Poor Communication Kills
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Poor Communication Kills: The episode “Tongue Tied� has Busy stuffing her bra because she misinterprets a French-speaking boy and thinks he is pointing out how flat-chested she is.
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Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy
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Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: In early seasons, Amanda has an unrequited crush on Justin, one of the popular guys in her grade.
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Green-Eyed Monster
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Green-Eyed Monster: Amanda aspires to be an actress, so she gets envious when Busy gets picked over her to star in a TV commercial.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Busy and Amanda are best friends and incredibly close. Busy has three older brothers and Amanda is an only child, so they become very close and basically grow up together. The finale features a flashback scene showing when they met as small girls, with Amanda crying and Busy helping her out.
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Alpha Bitch
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Alpha Bitch: Older classmate Chrissy was your stereotypical popular, pretty mean girl who usually picked on Busy and Amanda.
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Ambiguously Jewish
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Ambiguously Jewish: Amanda finds out as she gets older that she's Jewishnote which she never knew about since her parents were Agnostic but is unsure about following the religion due to anti-Semitism displayed throughout her community.
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Tomboy and Girly Girl
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Busy and Amanda are teenagers and have been best friends since childhood. Busy is a major tomboy who loves all kinds of sports, plays the drums and wears casual clothes like plaid shirts, baseball caps, and jeans. In contrast, Amanda is a romantic boy-crazy girly girl who likes makeup, nice clothes, writing, and wants to be an actress.
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Hidden Depths: Chrissy is established as a bully, but the first two seasons progressively show other sides to her. Her parents are also divorced, which becomes a bonding point between her and Amanda.
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Face Death with Dignity
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Face Death with Dignity: Not her own death as she would survive everything, but after Mrs. Ramone's miscarriage and as devastated as the rest of the family is, she tells her daughter that she has accepted the loss, even calling it "God's will".
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Babysitting Episode
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Babysitting Episode: Amanda babysits for a bohemian couple and invites Busy over. It is this couple's house where the two girls come across the "Guide to Sex" book.
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Just the Way You Are
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Just the Way You Are: Amanda is the more appearance-conscious of the pair. The episodes “Model Perfect� and “Glamour Girl� show her dealing with the costs of looking a certain way.
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Your Tradition Is Not Mine
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Your Tradition Is Not Mine: Busy comes into conflict with her traditional Italian family when she has to choose between playing a high-profile gig with her band and attending her family’s big reunion party. Sam accuses Busy of dishonoring the family because of her lifestyle choices like getting a nose piercing and going vegan, plus her favoring of the band gig.
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Family Business
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Family Business: Sam Ramone operates a butcher shop where his kids sometimes help out.
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Consistent Clothing Style: Amanda is almost always wearing something purple.
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Convenient Miscarriage
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Convenient Miscarriage: Lucy suffers a miscarriage and Busy calls out her dad for making her work too hard at the butcher shop.
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One of the Boys
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One of the Boys: Elizabeth "Busy" Ramone is an only girl with three older brothers who are fairly close in age. She's by no means a pampered baby girl of the family and has to be tough. She loves sports, plays the drums, and hangs out with guys. Her only female friend is her best friend Girly Girl Amanda.
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Just Friends
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Just Friends: In the episode aptly titled "Just Friends", Busy realizes she has a crush on her friend Jamie, who in turn reveals he has a crush on Amanda. Jamie just wants to be friends with Busy, which she has a hard time accepting.
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Death Is Such an Odd Thing
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Death Is Such an Odd Thing: Played with in "Saint Carla". When a classmate named Carla passes away in a car accident, whereas everyone else in the school is shocked or reeling from the loss, Busy feels bad for not feeling as bad as everyone else.
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Painful Body Waxing
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Painful Body Waxing: Amanda screams out in pain when she has Busy try waxing her leg. The next shot of her is with bright red welts on her leg.
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In with the In Crowd
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In with the In Crowd: Amanda has fallen into this trope a couple of times; in one episode she hangs out with Chrissy under the impression Chrissy genuinely sees her as a friend, only for Chrissy to use Amanda to complete a school assignment for her. In a later episode set in junior high, Amanda falls in with a group of girls who have a dining club, only for Busy to accidentally reveal an embarrassing secret about Amanda which causes them to ostracize her.
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Kids Are Cruel
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Danny is hit with an acne problem, causing Amanda to distance herself out of embarrassment.
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Maligned Mixed Marriage
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Maligned Mixed Marriage: Not marriage, but Busy's father disapproves of her relationship with her Black boyfriend, Troy, even at one point accusing him of stealing money from the cash register.
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Girliness Upgrade
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Girliness Upgrade: Subverted: Amanda was already pretty girly, especially when compared to Busy, but in the episode where she "befriended" Chrissy, she also begins to curl her hair, wear makeup and experiment with wearing heels. However, once she realizes that Chrissy was using her, she soon reverts back to her regular style.
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Embarrassing Damp Sheets
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Embarrassing Damp Sheets: At summer camp, boys do a raid on the cabin Amanda sleeps in, causing her to wet her sheets out of surprise.
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Big Brother Instinct
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Big Brother Instinct: When Busy asks her eldest brother Manny a question about sex, he tells her she should never feel pressured to do it in the future. In “When a Kiss is Just a Kiss,� Frankie has a guy friend named Jonah stay over during a basketball tournament. Busy shows interest in Jonah and he reciprocates, but Frankie warns Busy from getting too attached.
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Romantic Spoonfeeding
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Romantic Spoonfeeding: Busy's oldest brother and his fiancée sit close together at the table, sharing one meal and spoon-feeding each other in an episode close to their wedding.
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Sexiness Score
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Sexiness Score: "Members Only" has Justin and a bunch of other dudes take it upon themselves to rate the girls walking up or down the stairway, holding up their scores as they pass. This particularly distresses Amanda, because she just grew a pimple, so she really doesn't want to be rated.
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Only-Child Syndrome
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Only-Child Syndrome: Amanda is an only child, so she gets jealous when she sees her mom giving her boyfriend’s daughter special treatment. Amanda eventually gains step-siblings through her mother’s remarriage.
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Broken Pedestal
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Broken Pedestal: In "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not", Amanda gets her latest crush of the week, a famous singer name Bonzai and spends the rest of the episode fantasizing over him. That is until she gets to meet him and is dismayed to discover he's a huge jerk who calls the handmade bracelet she personally made for him "a piece of crap" before handing it to his security guard.
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First Period Panic
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"Busy's Curse" was about Busy getting her first period.
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Blaming the Victim
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Blaming the Victim: In “Crossing the Line�, Busy spends a day with older guy Steve at an amusement park. Later, Steve forces himself on Busy and accuses her of leading him on just because she hung out with him.
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First Kiss
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First Kiss: Busy has her first kiss with Troy and Amanda has hers with Danny.
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Not So Stoic
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Not So Stoic: In the episode where Busy's mother miscarried her sister and Busy blamed her father for making her carry heavy things at the store, the next early morning, she discovers her usually stern and unemotional father crying his eyes out at the kitchen table, having also blamed himself for the miscarriage.
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Dramatic Irony
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Dramatic Irony: When Amanda butts heads with her mother over her dating life, she tells her, "Good! Then maybe I should just move in with Dad, he doesn't throw himself at every woman he meets!" Much later, Amanda finds out her father's infidelity was one of the reasons for her parents’ divorce.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Amanda hated her mother's one boyfriend Mel and spray-painted "Smel" on his car. While Busy protests her actions, Amanda assures her that the paint is indelible, which she then tells her means "permanent". Cue a slow-motion realization of this from Amanda.
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Deadpan Snarker: Busy usually has the sarcastic one-liners to offset Amanda’s cheeriness. She would often call out people on their phoniness, like Chrissy supposedly starting an environmental club for altruistic reasons.
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Summer Campy: "My Buddy Buddy" and "The Last Hurrah" were the only two episodes to be set in a different location—at a girls' summer camp. Busy and Amanda bunked in a cabin, had outdoor adventures and engaged in a prank war with the boys’ camp.
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Abusive Parents: In "Monkey See, Monkey Do", Busy befriends Peter over their shared love of music, and he offers Busy a chance to play drums on his demo. But while practicing at Peter's house, Peter's manager father is shown to be physically abusive towards his son, prompting Busy to tell a social worker about the situation.
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Prejudice Aesop: The episode “Black or White or Maybe Grey� deals with Troy getting a job at Sam’s shop and Sam accusing Troy of stealing money from the register. "White Girls Can't Jump" is about the conflict that happens when Busy, in an argument with the Black captain on the girls' basketball team, repeats a racist comment her dad made.
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Double Standard: Chrissy lampshades the fact that after being caught in the closet with one of their male classmates made him a stud but her a slut.
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True Companions: Despite being total opposites in character and interests, Busy and Amanda are each other's closest friend. They try cultivating other friendships when they hit a rough patch, but end up realizing no one else understands them better than each other.
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And Starring
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And Starring: Only two actors are listed in the opening credits, so to give the actors equal weight while emphasizing their individuality, they are billed as "Starring Laura Bertram/And Lani Billard".
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Naïve Everygirl: Amanda is generally optimistic and a romantic to a fault. When a boy kisses her, she naively believes he immediately desires a relationship with her.
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Compliment Backfire
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Bully Chrissy admitted in one episode how people don't expect Amanda to act a certain way because of her looks unlike herself, citing how the younger girl is "sweet, innocent and flat".
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"Double Talk" addressed slut-shaming.
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You're Just Jealous
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You're Just Jealous: Amanda accuses Busy of lying to her about Frankie because she’s jealous of not being in a relationship and dislikes being left out.
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I Just Want to Be You
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I Just Want to Be You: Busy and Amanda decide to switch lives for a weekend because Busy longs for a quieter home life and Amanda wants to know what it’s like to have a big family.
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Primal Scene: Amanda walks in on her parents, prompting her mother and dad to separately attempt to have The Talk with her.
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A-Cup Angst: Both Busy and Amanda deal with this on separate occasions given they're only in junior high. Bully Chrissy admitted in one episode how people don't expect Amanda to act a certain way because of her looks unlike herself, citing how the younger girl is "sweet, innocent and flat". Another episode had both friends trying to impress some French foreign exchange students with Busy stuffing her bra and unfortunately said tissue eventually being discovered. Thankfully, the boy was still interested in her.
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Malicious Misnaming: In “The Big Gulp�, the girls attend a house party where the kids refer to one of the guys, named Emory, with the derisive name "Emma".
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My Sister Is Off-Limits
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My Brother Is Off-Limits: Amanda has a crush on Busy’s older brother Dom, but Busy isn’t bothered by it because Amanda is not serious about it. It’s when Amanda gets close to Frankie, Busy’s other older brother, that things get awkward between the two friends.
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