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After getting his first credit card to use in case of emergencies, Silk uses it a little too often and racks up a large debt. In order to pay off his bill, Rico, Hammer, and he decide to buy a television and raffle it off at the school dance. However, the plan comes to a halt when the TV gets broken in the school hallway. The guys use the team van to drive to Rico's uncle who can repair the TV, only to have the van break down on the way. They stop off to at an auto shop to have the van fixed, but Silk's credit card is maxed out and they can't pay for the repairs, leaving them stranded. Meanwhile, Mary Beth and Michael try and keep quiet about the fact that Julie has been named Indiana state player of the month. But when Julie and Kristy overhear the coach talking about a proposal (which is really for the announcement about Julie at the dance), they mistakenly think that he's getting married.

Hammer meets a waitress at the Stadium named Taylor and tries to get her to attend the school's upcoming dance with him. After she continuosly turns him down, Hammer won't give up and follows her to a homeless shelter, where he thinks she's volunteering. He later finds out that her family is homeless and living in the shelter. The gang decide to try and help her father find a job and donate the money raised from the dance ticket sales to her family instead of buying new uniforms. However, when Hammer announces the change in plans for the money at the dance, students demand refunds, and Hammer accidentally lets it slip that Taylor's homeless and that's whose family the money is going to.

Everyone is excited about the Harvest Moon Dance, especially Danny who will be reunited with Sam. Mary Beth and Vince insult each other over their choices for the dance. Amy tries to convince Teddy to be the DJ for the dance. Danny is upset to receive a letter from Sam telling him that she's found another love

Danny's parents are out of town so he stays with Coach Fuller... Unfortunately for Coach Fuller, Danny ends up inviting nearly the whole school over!

When Mary Beth begins to resent the fact that her father is not spending enough time with her, she starts dating Vince to get his attention. Her plan backfires however when Vince begins to fall for her! Meanwhile, the team is pysched out when they have to play (and beat) undefeated Remington High to get into the play-offs.

It's time for the Mayoral Election and nobody is really interested except Danny, who has a love of polictics. Amy soon becomes interested when she sees one of the candidates John Kent! Meanwhile, the basketball team challenges the football team to various competitions when they accuse the gang of being 'wimps'.

The gang decide to each sacrifice an important personal item for a charity drive - when Mary Beth gets mugged for her efforts, her (somewhat justifiably) uncharatable comments cause Josh to go ballistic.

When Vince hears about a basketball training camp hosted by Coach Fuller and NBA star Muggsy Bogues, he is willing to do anything to get in... including taking steroids!! Meanwhile, the rest of the gang are filming an alien invasion movie called ""Zeltoid Hunters"".

It's the start of a new school year at Deering High: Michael, Chris and Earl have left, as well as Sam who's gone to college in Chicago. New recruits are recruited into the team by new team manager, Mary Beth.

Julie is annoyed when Chris resorts to an old habit to play well in the championship tournament... A good luck kiss from Mary Beth! Meanwhile, Danny is having a hard time saying the ""L"" word to Sam.

Chris and Mary Beth don't seem to agree on anything in their relationship, and the situation only becomes worse when Mary Beth goes out on a date with an old schoolmate without telling Chris! Meanwhile, the team heads to Coach Fuller's to watch a Tyson fight on a Saturday, which presents a problem for Danny who usually goes out on a date with Sam on Saturday nights.

Michael's ego is crushed after he misses two free throws causing Deering to lose a big game, and he struggles with his loss of self-confidence until he gets a surprise visit from his idol, Detroit Piston's star Grant Hill (in a cameo role) who gives him a word of advice. Meanwhile, Samantha gives Danny lessons on how win Julie's heart, but it's Sam who falls for Danny.

After an unexpected loss, the gang argue with one another but when a blizzard hits, everyone, except Michael, gets trapped in the gym over the weekend, including Mary Beth who is the ""parent"" of a baby doll for a class project. Meanwhile, Julie tries to cool things off with Chris because ""teammates can't be together""!

Mary Beth goes ballistic when she begins to suspect (incorrectly) that Chris and Julie have feelings for each other, leading to a fight between Chris and Mary Beth. Meanwhile, Danny tries to tell Julie that he likes her, but fails everytime.

At camp, a new girl named Eve joins the gang, looking to be seen by college scouts. But while she's great at basketball and teams up with Julie, she's automatically jealous of Julie's ability to play. When Eve starts feeling threatened, she starts playing un-sportsmanlike tricks on Julie to keep her from playing in front of the scouts. Meanwhile, Rico, Hammer, Michael, and Silk try to catch whoever is stealing items from their bunk.

Julie needs to get a good grade on her upcoming math exam or be benched from playing. She aces her exam, thanks to Kristy who spent all of her extra time tutoring Julie. However, Kristy starts to feel jealous and underappreciated after everyone misses her decathalon because they're celebrating Julie's grade.

Rico meets a girl at the Stadium and asks her out. He's excited about their upcoming date until he starts to get self-conscious about being with a girl that's taller than him. Meanwhile, Mary Beth accidentally gets throws Hammer's lucky jacket away and it's up to her and Kristy to find it before Hammer finds out.

After Kristy and Antonio start dating, Julie finds out that Kristy has run off to a wedding with him- possibly her own. So, Hammer, Rico, Silk, and Mary Beth go to where the ceremony is being held to spy. Mary Beth, Rico, and Silk disguise themselves as nuns, while Hammer pretends to be a monk.

Mary Beth and Hammer start having relationship problems when they disagree on their plans. So Mary Beth gives herself a make-over to look more like a biker to surprise Hammer. She and Kristy go to a biker hangout to find Hammer, only to find that they're at the wrong club and are alone with a bunch of tough bikers. Meanwhile, Coach Katowinski thinks about buying the Stadium. However, his new plans have the place full of senior citizens. Looking to get their hangout back, the gang try to convince him not to buy.

Eugene starts gambling online and racks up a huge debt. He decides to keep it a secret, but when Silk finds out, he tells the Coach. Meanwhile, Kristy has a dental problem (and a ""hump"" on her back- an ice pack) that makes it difficult to speak. She's supposed to be interviewed by Stanford University, so she has Mary Beth take her place.

When a favourite teacher at Deering High School encourages the students to rebel against a newly enforced dress code, they gain victory, but their teacher is sacked. At their next big basketball game, the media are around and the team see their perfect opportunity to stage a sit-in. They get their point across but eventually Coach convinces everyone to get up and play the game - except Julie and Silk, who decide to boycott the match unless their teacher is rehired, or at least is given a good reason for being sacked. Eventually it is revealed that the teacher was fired because the board thought that he was getting too old to teach, and they'd taken this opportunity to let him go.

The gang are counselors at Coach Fuller's basketball camp. The kids arrive and only one is a girl, so Julie immediately tries to bond with her. However, Julie starts pushing her too hard. So hard, that she decides she wants to leave camp because she's not having any fun. Meanwhile, Mary Beth starts to receive love letters from one of the kids and Danny is terrorized by his group of campers.

Coach Fuller sets a curfew for the team before the big game. However, Teddy meets a girl and is invited to her sorority's party. He goes to the party with the idea that he'll only stay for a little while and get back in time for Coach Fuller's head count at curfew. But when the gang notice that he's not back yet, Julie, Michael, and Vince go to the party to get Teddy. After Coach Fuller shows up at the sorority looking for them, all four of them dress up like members of the opposite sex and sneak out. But Teddy still isn't finished talking with the girl that he's met, and everyone but Teddy makes it back before curfew. When Coach Fuller greets him, he lets him know that he's benched from the game.

While in New York, Rico meets with his grandfather who wants to spend the holidays with him. However, Rico's embarrased by him and lies to him saying that the team has to go back to Indiana early and won't be around the city for the holidays. During the gang's Christmas Eve party, Rico feels too guilty and tells everyone what he did. They take the party on the road and search the subways trying to find Rico's grandfather at work.

In this clip show, the Deering game reminisce about the past year and all of the important events that have taken place. Meanwhile, Mary Beth refuses to leave her room after a famous hairdresser ruins her hair.

After becoming the manager of Michael's band, Mary Beth tries to talk to a record executive. However, she finds that he's not willing to listen to anything that a female manager has to say. Meanwhile, the team thinks that Coach Katowinski might be leaving to take another job and come up with a plan to make him stay.

Eugene takes up an interest in skateboarding and starts to act like it's more important than basketball. After the Coach won't cut Eugene any breaks and allow him time for both sports, Eugene thinks about focusing solely on skateboarding.

Julie and Antonio both love swing dancing and decide to enter a competition together. At first, Kristy and Michael are just annoyed that they can barely spend time with either of them. However, Mary Beth plants the idea that there may be more than dancing going on between the two. Meanwhile, Silk and Eugene work on setting up pranks to catch on video, so that they can make money by sending their tape to a funniest home videos television show.

Eugene and Silk both get jobs co-managing a new dance club. They're faced with a difficult decision when they find that a classmate and a great customer is dealing dope. Meanwhile, Kristy and Mary Beth decide to buy drugs from the dealer undercover in order to win spots on the newspaper.

Silk's dad is a police officer and as part of the job, he puts criminals behind bars. Silk starts to be terrorized by a vengeful criminal named Eric who was recently released from jail and has it out for Silk. After being confronted by Eric, Silk starts to get nervous about being alone without any defense, so he starts arming himself with a gun. During another confrontation with Eric, the gun accidentally goes off, nearly hitting Mary Beth, Michael, and Eugene.

The team travel to yet another state final. Antonio meets up with some friends of his that are in a fraternity. Kristy becomes jealous when she finds out that other girls were at a party hosted by the fraternity, so she and Mary Beth come up with a scheme in which they dress up as guys and head on over to the fraternity's next event in order to spy on Antonio. Meanwhile, Michael's temper flares on the court when he continually gets harassed by a guy in the stands.

When Coach tells Julie to toughen up for Deering's upcoming big game against Montrose, she rises to the challenge. However her excellent defense lands Montrose's star player, Dave Carter, who was destined for the NBA next year, in hospital with a serious injury. Julie loses her confidence and gets benched for the next game. She visits Dave in the hospital and he assures her that he doesn't hold her responsible for his injury. Meanwhile, Mary Beth and Kristy have problems of their own when an ATM spews $1000 out when Kristy asked it for $20. The bank had no record of their mistake and didn't want the money back, so the girls go shopping. However they began to have bad luck after keeping the cash.

When Kristy and Antonio both get jobs working at the local cinema, they enjoy working together until a promotion becomes available. They each work on a marketing ploy - Antonio makes an elaborate spacecraft out of candy boxes, and Kristy organizes a late night celebrity showing of ""Saved By The Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas"" with a celebrity appearance from Dustin Diamond, a.k.a. ""Screech"". Kristy gains the promotion, and bosses an envious Antonio around so much that he quits, and his relationship with Kristy hits a rocky patch. Meanwhile, Mary Beth has a romantic dream about Eugene. She finds herself attracted to him in daylight too, so they go out on a date, and have a good time until they kiss.

The basketball team is thrown into chaos when new transfer Julie Connor tries out for the boys' varsity basketball team, prompting resentment from Team Captain Chris Atwater and jealousy from Head Cheerleaner Mary Beth. Meanwhile Coach Bill Fuller adjusts to his new job, and his new team manager, the enthusiastic Samantha. Danny, Earl and Michael are also introduced.

The team makes it to the Tri-State final and travel to Texas for the game. At the hotel, Silk meets a beautiful girl named Rose. The trouble is, he sees her as she's getting out of a limo, giving him the impression that she must be pretty wealthy. Feeling like he has to meet her standards, Silk calls himself Kenneth Hayes III and pretends that Coach Katowinski's Presidential Suite is his own. However, he finds it hard to keep up with all of the lies that he's told Rose to make himself look better. Meanwhile, Kristy also finds a possible love interest at the hotel. She meets Antonio and thinking that he can only speak Spanish, tries her best to impress him with her not-so-great foreign language skills. However, Antonio neglects to tell Kristy that he's American and speaks English.

Mary Beth purchases sport bags for the team that cost $1,000, not realizing that the amount is the team's budget for the entire year. After not being able to return them because they're monogramed, Coach Fuller tells her that she's going to have to pay for them. Her father refuses to loan her the money, so she gets a job at the Stadium working with Tom, one of Deering's former players. But when Tom starts harrassing her, Mary Beth doesn't know what to do.

The team goes to California for a tournament, and Kristy gets a call from her mother. It turns out that Kristy's birth mother lives in California and since they would both like to finally meet each other, they set up a lunch date. They get along so well that her birth mother asks her to move in with her, leaving Kristy with an incredibly hard decision to make. Meanwhile, Vince and the guys enter a game show looking to win prizes and later find out that it's a dating show. Vince is hesitant to go because of Mary Beth, but does anyway and ends up winning the date.

In California, Julie and Teddy end up being the only ones practicing when the rest of the team go with Mary Beth to watch for celebrities at their hotel. When Julie and Teddy take on two guys in a two-on-two basketball game, an onlooker makes a bet on Julie and Teddy's team and ends up winning. Looking to pay for their room service bill, Teddy and Julie go back and bet a $100 that they can win another game. Not only do they lose their money, but they find that they were being set up all along. Meanwhile, Vince finds Mel Gibson's wallet at the hotel.