Ready or Not

- Season 2

(1994)

Busy and Amanda are reading a romance novel and start talking about love and sex. Amanda has an embarrassing encounter with her parents. Amanda avoids talking to her father about it. Later, Amanda is babysitting and Busy comes over to hang out. The girls stumble on a sex guide and hide it so they won't get caught looking at it. Amanda struggles with keeping the book hidden when she discovers that it's fallen into someone else's hands. Busy attempts to ask her brother Dom about sex but is interrupted. Amanda must eventually face the music with her parents. After a ...

Troy writes a poem for Busy. With some prodding from his friends, Troy asks her to go out with him on a bowling date. Amanda helps Busy to get ready for her date with some disastrous results. Busy's brothers seem to find out about the date and try to give her some well intentioned advice. Meanwhile, Troy has his own struggles getting ready. Busy doesn't want her father to know that she's going out so Amanda does her best to distract Mr. Ramone while Busy sneaks out with Troy. With Troy's father as the chaperone for their date, Troy and Busy start bowling with a bit of...

Busy's family is sitting down for Chinese takeout when her father gets a phone call from her mother (who has been away at her mother's house) and she tells them that she is coming home. Busy gets the house in order while waiting. The Ramones have a sit down and Mrs. Ramone agrees to only move back if everyone goes to Family Therapy. With the therapist, the Ramones begin to air their grievances. The therapist gives each family member "homework" for the week. Back at the house, Mrs. Ramone tells everyone that she is moving back in but that things need to change. The ...

Amanda tries to reinvent her style when she sees some hurtful graffiti about the way she dresses. Her hopes of asking her parents for additional clothing allowance are dashed when her dad comes home and reveals that he's been fired. Eager to help, Amanda lies about her age in order to start a waitress job, much to the delight of Chrissy and her friends. The owner soon discovers Amanda's true age and fires her instantly. She is then forced to enter a dance marathon with Busy in the hopes of scooping the $1000 prize fund.

Busy and Troy are pretty much officially in a relationship. Busy, Troy and Amanda win two tickets to a rock concert while listening to the radio. The situation becomes awkward because Busy must choose between Troy and Amanda for the second ticket to the concert. Busy tries to talk Amanda out of going to the concert by telling a few white lies and ultimately revealing that the tickets are no longer available. When Amanda tries to talk to her mother about trying to get tickets to the concert, she can barely get a word in because of her parents bickering over her father ...

Busy thinks about trying out for the basketball team. Troy has a girl for a lab partner, who is also black, and Busy starts to feel insecure about her relationship with Troy. Things get tense when Eve, Troy's lab partner, starts to compete with Busy for Troy's attention. The girls begin to bicker after a game a fling racial slurs at each other. Eve gets the upper hand by telling Troy about Busy being racist. Busy gets ousted from the team but ultimately decides to participate in the next game. Eve admits to saying racially insensitive things about Busy in front of ...

Amanda's parents are fighting. Trying to distract herself, Amanda goes to the mall with Busy. However, later that evening, Amanda's parents let her know that her dad will be moving out of the house. Amanda become angry at her mother for not trying harder to work things out with her father. Amanda attempts to talk to Busy about her situation by going to Busy's house. Not wanting to encroach on Busy's family time Amanda heads to the mall where she hides out while its closing. The night guard at the mall discovers Amanda and agrees not to call the police or Amanda's ...

Amanda and her mom are moving into a new apartment when they come across a new neighbor. Amanda bonds with her new neighbor, a boy, when she finds out that he is product of divorce. Busy and Amanda discover that Danny, the new neighbor, is attending their school. Busy and Troy agree to go on a double date with Amanda and Danny. Busy gets upset because Danny is rude on the date and when Amanda confronts him, he goes on the defense again. When Danny continues to be rude at the dance he quickly finds himself isolated. Danny admits to Amanda that the way he acts is based ...

Troy tries to make the moves on Busy while the are alone. Busy rebuffs every advance and starts to feel uncomfortable. Busy confides to Amanda that Troy is starting to act "weird" around her. Meanwhile, Amanda is lamenting the fact that Danny must leave for his mother's home in New York and she tells Busy that she's lucky to have Troy around. Troy keeps wanting to move things forward things get awkward. Busy finally gets the chance to talk things over with Amanda and she reveals that she wishes that things wouldn't change between her and Troy. Busy tells Troy that she...

Amanda is upset when her mother starts dating again, so she attempts to ruin her love life. After her mother catches on to her, Amanda is forced to deal with the fact that her parents are not getting back together and that they're moving on with their lives.

Busy's drum playing is annoying everyone in her family. She moves her practicing to school and meets an older boy, Peter. They bond over music and he asks her to play drums for him. Peter starts showing signs of having anger management issues. When Busy is over at Peter's house, she sees that Peter gets his temper from his father and later sees the aftermath of his angry outburst. Busy chooses to tell the school councilor about what she saw.

Busy and Amanda are hard at work on the yearbook when they go over the "Bests and Mosts" lists. A teacher asks Amanda to tutor an 8th grade student. Amanda worries that people see her as a nerd so she starts hiding her intellect. Amanda soon learns that she may not be so different from the popular girl after all.

Busy and Amanda are listening to a sex talk radio show and start discussing their experiences. Amanda goes to Busy's house and has an embarrassing encounter. Later that night, Amanda begins to worry that she is overly preoccupied with sex. Busy tries to get Amanda to help her solve a sexy mystery but Amanda is worried about seeming perverted. Ultimately the girls realize that they're curiosity is perfectly normal.