Post by George WK Newman on Apr 12, 2010 22:23:16 GMT -5
~episode guide~
1.01 - "Pilot"
Brady arrives on campus, a freshman without a clue. He picks up his free copy of "the Voice" and after flipping through it tosses it in the trash "right wing garbage".
Passing by a building Brady looks up just in time to have a pretty blonde Kate fall on him from a second floor window, she had been leaning out taking a picture of the campus for "the voice".
When Brady finds out about her job on the student newspaper he mentions what he thinks of the paper. Kate says that the student editor Maggie is the ice princess right-wing nut, who worships Ann Coulter but that it will be her last year on campus. A small nucleus of Voice employees are bucking for change next year. When Brady mentions being the editor for his high school paper she urges him to try and get a position on the Voice; but the only oppenings right now are for photographers.
Brady goes to the offices of the Voice, after making some wardrobe changes to appear more Conservative (using a picture of George W as his prop). He is almost run over by a pleasantly plump photographer Austin who at the moment is raging bad. He's telling one of the reporters and the editor Maggie about having been the victim of a hazing incident while covering the football team. He claims to have just been freed from being duct taped to the goalpost for the entire practice. He wants justice. The reporter just laughs at him and calls him a geek. Maggie is sympathetic but obvioulsy her concern is skin deep and she disuades Austin from doing anything.
Brady finally corners Maggie, who while impressed with his dapper appearance is not impressed that he was a fellow editor and not a photographer. However, when he brings out his present for Maggie (an autographed copy of Ann Coulter's latest book) she takes a shine to him and gives him the job.
Maggie takes Austin off the football coverage and assigns Brady to the job. After covering practice Brady does some undercover work (with the help of Tiffany and Kate) covering the shenanighans of team members at a frat party that night.
He knows the Voice will never publish a story about it though and tarnish the football team's image, so instead Brady uses the pictures as leverage with the football coach to extract an apology from the players involved to Austin for his hazing incident.
At closing Kate tells Brady how happy she is that he came to work for the paper, but questions his taste in authors. How did you get that witch's autograph anyway? Brady smiles, pulls out a sharpie and in his best witch voice signs the air, "Ann Coulter"
1.02 - "Plagarize This!"
The photographers take a stand when The Voice's editor backs administration's efforts to stomp out plaguirism on campus. The administration's solution actually relies on ignoring the copyrights of students.
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Campus administration is up in arms when an online expose is done of post-secondary academic cheating using internet resources.
The Voice's right-wing editor Maggie is very excited about the prospect of exposing cheaters and runs a story in the student newspaper.
Kate & Brady attend some student protests which are poorly attended and ignored by The Voice.
However, when the college signs up for an electronic service which analysis papers submitted against a huge database to find possible plagarism, it comes at a cost. That cost not only includes much needed funding but also that in turn the College allow submitted papers to become part of the ever growing database of source material.
Kate & Brady see this clearly as a breach of the students rights to copyright over their own works, but the College (and the Voice) see it as part of the student contract.
The Voice's earstwhile photographers use on-line sources and hide behind aliases to begin to gather student rage against the machine. However, Maggie works the other end posing as an influential alumni and setting up a meeting to "out" the conspirators.
In the end it's a professor of English Lit. that comes to their rescue, having been tipped off to the meeting he shows up and saves the photographers jobs by pretending to be the on-line conspirator. The professor has the power to wield to out Maggie for her subversive tactics on-line, but holds off at the request of Kate & Brady. They tell the professor that the Voice is much bigger then just Maggie, and her connection with the paper will tarnish the Voice much more then is deserved for one woman's mistakes.
However, the protests have grown and the College drops the idea all together.
1.03 "Retraction on page 5"
The staff of the collegiate "The Voice" go after the big city newspaper when a man formerly printed as a fugitive is assaulted by some citizens, although he had since turned himself in and was cleared of the charges.
This episode attempts to question the use of the newspaper for identifying suspects in criminal most wanted lists, without proper follow-up of any exoneration.
While Maggie stands firmly behind the big city paper, and hopes to land a job there one day, by the end she stands up for "The Voice" and backs her beleaguered colleges.
Brady and Kate take the opportunity go on a first date when in the big city, and it doesn't go well, putting a strain on their fledging friendship. Kate reveals her psychiatric history to Brady.
1.04 - "Self Portraits"
As a spoof on reality shows the photographers each accept a personal challenge as a contest. Austin to lose weight, Kate to nurture a house plant, Tiffany to not wear make-up, and Brady to ask 6 girls out on a date.
Austin doesn't manage to lose weight but when he attends a Weight Watchers meeting he becomes the object of desire and a catfight from two big, beautiful ladies.
Kate fusses over her plant so much that she kills it with kindness. All the while she is in a jealous snit over Brady trying to get over his shyness by asking a bunch of girls out on a date. Brady manages to make a couple of dates but then makes an idiot out of himself when he has to break them because he has eyes only for Kate.
In the meantime Tiffany fakes having a cold as an excuse to stay in her dorm all week because she doesn't want to be seen in public without make-up. So in the end Tiffany wins the contest against her friends but openly admits to them that she was the only one who didn't actually "win" anything.
The ending scene shows "The Voice" run a story on the little contest, complete with a page 2 photo of their very own Tiffany as the winner of the contest - the photo of course having been taken discreetly by Kate and showing Tiffany without her makeup.
1.05 - Debateable
Tiffany defies Maggie and steps up to a public debate between the campus newspaper and the campus radio station. But things get complicated when she falls for the guy she will be debating and begins to trip over her own tongue.
Brady and Kate attempt a second date. But Brady gets baited into an argument with a jerk patron at the restaurant and ruins it for Kate; and gets himself punched for good measure.
Austin tries to get over his fear of cats by bringing a cat to live with him in his dorm, against college housing rules.
1.06 - Buns of Steel
Austin tries to expose the truth about a football player suspended for immoral behaviour but he is working against the reporter he is assigned to resist who has it in for athletes in general.
Kate attends some neo-feminist club meetings on campus after Brady makes fun of them, just to get back at him for their previous date. But when she stops going because of their incompatible views, one of the members stalks her with "cheer" to try and get her to come back.
Brady receives a surprise visit from his eccentric parents.
1.07 - Or get off the Pot
When there is a push to go to unisex restrooms at the University it pits the camera crew against each other. With Tiffany believing it is empowerig, Kate believes it does just the opposite with women staff having to share facilities with their most often male bosses, and Austin against it because quite frankly it freaks him out.
Brady gets stuck in an elevator with his editor Maggie, the ice princess. In the end they find something they have in common, a love for ancient Egypt and a desire to visit there. They make a pact that if neither is able to go before Maggie's 30th birthdays they will go together.
1.08 - 53rd Annual Duck Cup
The shutterbugs are added to the line-up for the annual dodgeball game against the campus radio station which happens to employ many of the University jocks. This brings back painful memories of gym class for both Austin and Kate, while stoking an inner fire of competition that Brady didn't think he had.
1.09 - Everyone wants to be a Star
For once the photographers and the reporters come together for a common cause, to thrawt the efforts of "Sorority Sisters" an amateur rip-off of Girls Gone Wild, from filming on campus when administration fails to heed the warnings they receive.
Wanting to show they are not prudes, the photographers Brady, Kate, Austin, and Tiffany hold a game of strip poker, unknowingly becoming the target of the film crew from Sorority Sisters.
1.10 - Mid-terms
Each member of the shutterbugs deals with the pressures of mid-term exams in a different manner. Brady talks only like a badly dubbed Bruce Lee movie; Kate studies while playing the drums, driving her roomates crazy; Austin eats an unhealthy amount of sugar foods until he is hospitalized; and Tiffany goes shopping for a new wardrobe while reviewing her study notes on a Blackberry.
1.11 - Baffoons
When a campus cartoonist has his strip dropped by the Voice after doing a parody of Maggie, the shutterbugs try to come to the resuce.
The cartoonist they are trying to save turns out to be a bit of a reclusive nutbag which prevents most from having any sympathy for him.
But Brady perseveres, as does Kate who admires Brady's stance against censorship. But in the end the cartoonist refuses to rejoin the Voice anyway, preferring to parlay the publicity into an on-line edition of his popular strip.
1.12 - Missing Persons - part 1 of 2
When the editor and ice princess Maggie takes a sudden and unexpected leave of absence from the paper, the shutterbugs convince themselves that their is more to this then meets the eye. Despite their strong dislike for Maggie, their allegiance to The Voice, and their pursuit of a story has them trying to find her. However, when Brady goes to great lengths to try and sabotage their investigation the 'bugs begin to suspect he may have something to do with the sinister disappearance of Maggie.
1.13 - Missing Persons - part 2 of 2
As the 'bugs continue to investigate Maggie's disappearance they distance themselves from Brady who they suspect may have been involved. This leads to a confrontation between Kate and Brady. Brady is upset that Kate doesn't trust him, while Kate is upset that Brady won't trust her with whatever he is hiding. Austin and Tiffany get into all sorts of trouble while exploring the campus for clues. Finally Maggie returns to the paper, having gone to her biological father's funeral, a man she had never met. She had confided in Brady to hold his trust, but decides to let the rest of the 'bugs know just to watch them squirm afterward.
1.14 - Urban Legends, hunting Mazlow
It's a slow newsday so the shutterbugs travel with their appointed reporters chasing down the college's ties to several urban legends. Kate searches for a student who was reported to have a nervous breakdown during an engineering exam, proclaiming "I'm an Orange, and Oranges don't take tests", before stripping and being removed from the classroom by security. Austin pursues rumors that the campus library is slowly sinking because of the weight of the books. Tiffany gets frightened when they track down a psychic who was rumored to have predicted a Halloween murder on campus. And Brady searches for "Lazlow" who now would be in his 50's is reported to be living in the underground tunnels of the college. The mentally unstable genius was used in the movie "Real Genius" in the 1980's.
1.01 - "Pilot"
Brady arrives on campus, a freshman without a clue. He picks up his free copy of "the Voice" and after flipping through it tosses it in the trash "right wing garbage".
Passing by a building Brady looks up just in time to have a pretty blonde Kate fall on him from a second floor window, she had been leaning out taking a picture of the campus for "the voice".
When Brady finds out about her job on the student newspaper he mentions what he thinks of the paper. Kate says that the student editor Maggie is the ice princess right-wing nut, who worships Ann Coulter but that it will be her last year on campus. A small nucleus of Voice employees are bucking for change next year. When Brady mentions being the editor for his high school paper she urges him to try and get a position on the Voice; but the only oppenings right now are for photographers.
Brady goes to the offices of the Voice, after making some wardrobe changes to appear more Conservative (using a picture of George W as his prop). He is almost run over by a pleasantly plump photographer Austin who at the moment is raging bad. He's telling one of the reporters and the editor Maggie about having been the victim of a hazing incident while covering the football team. He claims to have just been freed from being duct taped to the goalpost for the entire practice. He wants justice. The reporter just laughs at him and calls him a geek. Maggie is sympathetic but obvioulsy her concern is skin deep and she disuades Austin from doing anything.
Brady finally corners Maggie, who while impressed with his dapper appearance is not impressed that he was a fellow editor and not a photographer. However, when he brings out his present for Maggie (an autographed copy of Ann Coulter's latest book) she takes a shine to him and gives him the job.
Maggie takes Austin off the football coverage and assigns Brady to the job. After covering practice Brady does some undercover work (with the help of Tiffany and Kate) covering the shenanighans of team members at a frat party that night.
He knows the Voice will never publish a story about it though and tarnish the football team's image, so instead Brady uses the pictures as leverage with the football coach to extract an apology from the players involved to Austin for his hazing incident.
At closing Kate tells Brady how happy she is that he came to work for the paper, but questions his taste in authors. How did you get that witch's autograph anyway? Brady smiles, pulls out a sharpie and in his best witch voice signs the air, "Ann Coulter"
1.02 - "Plagarize This!"
The photographers take a stand when The Voice's editor backs administration's efforts to stomp out plaguirism on campus. The administration's solution actually relies on ignoring the copyrights of students.
********************************
Campus administration is up in arms when an online expose is done of post-secondary academic cheating using internet resources.
The Voice's right-wing editor Maggie is very excited about the prospect of exposing cheaters and runs a story in the student newspaper.
Kate & Brady attend some student protests which are poorly attended and ignored by The Voice.
However, when the college signs up for an electronic service which analysis papers submitted against a huge database to find possible plagarism, it comes at a cost. That cost not only includes much needed funding but also that in turn the College allow submitted papers to become part of the ever growing database of source material.
Kate & Brady see this clearly as a breach of the students rights to copyright over their own works, but the College (and the Voice) see it as part of the student contract.
The Voice's earstwhile photographers use on-line sources and hide behind aliases to begin to gather student rage against the machine. However, Maggie works the other end posing as an influential alumni and setting up a meeting to "out" the conspirators.
In the end it's a professor of English Lit. that comes to their rescue, having been tipped off to the meeting he shows up and saves the photographers jobs by pretending to be the on-line conspirator. The professor has the power to wield to out Maggie for her subversive tactics on-line, but holds off at the request of Kate & Brady. They tell the professor that the Voice is much bigger then just Maggie, and her connection with the paper will tarnish the Voice much more then is deserved for one woman's mistakes.
However, the protests have grown and the College drops the idea all together.
1.03 "Retraction on page 5"
The staff of the collegiate "The Voice" go after the big city newspaper when a man formerly printed as a fugitive is assaulted by some citizens, although he had since turned himself in and was cleared of the charges.
This episode attempts to question the use of the newspaper for identifying suspects in criminal most wanted lists, without proper follow-up of any exoneration.
While Maggie stands firmly behind the big city paper, and hopes to land a job there one day, by the end she stands up for "The Voice" and backs her beleaguered colleges.
Brady and Kate take the opportunity go on a first date when in the big city, and it doesn't go well, putting a strain on their fledging friendship. Kate reveals her psychiatric history to Brady.
1.04 - "Self Portraits"
As a spoof on reality shows the photographers each accept a personal challenge as a contest. Austin to lose weight, Kate to nurture a house plant, Tiffany to not wear make-up, and Brady to ask 6 girls out on a date.
Austin doesn't manage to lose weight but when he attends a Weight Watchers meeting he becomes the object of desire and a catfight from two big, beautiful ladies.
Kate fusses over her plant so much that she kills it with kindness. All the while she is in a jealous snit over Brady trying to get over his shyness by asking a bunch of girls out on a date. Brady manages to make a couple of dates but then makes an idiot out of himself when he has to break them because he has eyes only for Kate.
In the meantime Tiffany fakes having a cold as an excuse to stay in her dorm all week because she doesn't want to be seen in public without make-up. So in the end Tiffany wins the contest against her friends but openly admits to them that she was the only one who didn't actually "win" anything.
The ending scene shows "The Voice" run a story on the little contest, complete with a page 2 photo of their very own Tiffany as the winner of the contest - the photo of course having been taken discreetly by Kate and showing Tiffany without her makeup.
1.05 - Debateable
Tiffany defies Maggie and steps up to a public debate between the campus newspaper and the campus radio station. But things get complicated when she falls for the guy she will be debating and begins to trip over her own tongue.
Brady and Kate attempt a second date. But Brady gets baited into an argument with a jerk patron at the restaurant and ruins it for Kate; and gets himself punched for good measure.
Austin tries to get over his fear of cats by bringing a cat to live with him in his dorm, against college housing rules.
1.06 - Buns of Steel
Austin tries to expose the truth about a football player suspended for immoral behaviour but he is working against the reporter he is assigned to resist who has it in for athletes in general.
Kate attends some neo-feminist club meetings on campus after Brady makes fun of them, just to get back at him for their previous date. But when she stops going because of their incompatible views, one of the members stalks her with "cheer" to try and get her to come back.
Brady receives a surprise visit from his eccentric parents.
1.07 - Or get off the Pot
When there is a push to go to unisex restrooms at the University it pits the camera crew against each other. With Tiffany believing it is empowerig, Kate believes it does just the opposite with women staff having to share facilities with their most often male bosses, and Austin against it because quite frankly it freaks him out.
Brady gets stuck in an elevator with his editor Maggie, the ice princess. In the end they find something they have in common, a love for ancient Egypt and a desire to visit there. They make a pact that if neither is able to go before Maggie's 30th birthdays they will go together.
1.08 - 53rd Annual Duck Cup
The shutterbugs are added to the line-up for the annual dodgeball game against the campus radio station which happens to employ many of the University jocks. This brings back painful memories of gym class for both Austin and Kate, while stoking an inner fire of competition that Brady didn't think he had.
1.09 - Everyone wants to be a Star
For once the photographers and the reporters come together for a common cause, to thrawt the efforts of "Sorority Sisters" an amateur rip-off of Girls Gone Wild, from filming on campus when administration fails to heed the warnings they receive.
Wanting to show they are not prudes, the photographers Brady, Kate, Austin, and Tiffany hold a game of strip poker, unknowingly becoming the target of the film crew from Sorority Sisters.
1.10 - Mid-terms
Each member of the shutterbugs deals with the pressures of mid-term exams in a different manner. Brady talks only like a badly dubbed Bruce Lee movie; Kate studies while playing the drums, driving her roomates crazy; Austin eats an unhealthy amount of sugar foods until he is hospitalized; and Tiffany goes shopping for a new wardrobe while reviewing her study notes on a Blackberry.
1.11 - Baffoons
When a campus cartoonist has his strip dropped by the Voice after doing a parody of Maggie, the shutterbugs try to come to the resuce.
The cartoonist they are trying to save turns out to be a bit of a reclusive nutbag which prevents most from having any sympathy for him.
But Brady perseveres, as does Kate who admires Brady's stance against censorship. But in the end the cartoonist refuses to rejoin the Voice anyway, preferring to parlay the publicity into an on-line edition of his popular strip.
1.12 - Missing Persons - part 1 of 2
When the editor and ice princess Maggie takes a sudden and unexpected leave of absence from the paper, the shutterbugs convince themselves that their is more to this then meets the eye. Despite their strong dislike for Maggie, their allegiance to The Voice, and their pursuit of a story has them trying to find her. However, when Brady goes to great lengths to try and sabotage their investigation the 'bugs begin to suspect he may have something to do with the sinister disappearance of Maggie.
1.13 - Missing Persons - part 2 of 2
As the 'bugs continue to investigate Maggie's disappearance they distance themselves from Brady who they suspect may have been involved. This leads to a confrontation between Kate and Brady. Brady is upset that Kate doesn't trust him, while Kate is upset that Brady won't trust her with whatever he is hiding. Austin and Tiffany get into all sorts of trouble while exploring the campus for clues. Finally Maggie returns to the paper, having gone to her biological father's funeral, a man she had never met. She had confided in Brady to hold his trust, but decides to let the rest of the 'bugs know just to watch them squirm afterward.
1.14 - Urban Legends, hunting Mazlow
It's a slow newsday so the shutterbugs travel with their appointed reporters chasing down the college's ties to several urban legends. Kate searches for a student who was reported to have a nervous breakdown during an engineering exam, proclaiming "I'm an Orange, and Oranges don't take tests", before stripping and being removed from the classroom by security. Austin pursues rumors that the campus library is slowly sinking because of the weight of the books. Tiffany gets frightened when they track down a psychic who was rumored to have predicted a Halloween murder on campus. And Brady searches for "Lazlow" who now would be in his 50's is reported to be living in the underground tunnels of the college. The mentally unstable genius was used in the movie "Real Genius" in the 1980's.