As Told by Ginger is an animated
series on Nickelodeon. The show features Ginger, a young girl in
jr. high school who is stuck between her friends and an attempt
to make friends with the most popular girl in school, Courtney
Gripling. Tho the show is based around Ginger and her two best
friends, Dodie and Macie...I find the subplots featuring Carl (Ginger's
brother) and Hoodsey much more entertaining. Other characters in
the show include, Miranda, the snobbiest girl in school, who is
always Courtney's best friend; Darren, the awkward boy with
braces, who is Ginger's best guy friend; and Ginger's mother...a
nurse who seems to have been a feminist at one point in her life.
The show airs on the weekends and on some weekdays on Nickeloden...the
schedule changes all the time. You can be sure to catch it Sunday
night on Teen Nick tho.
AS TOLD BY GINGER FACTS
The series takes place in the
city of Sheltered Shrubs (this is a fictional city)
The Foutley house is at 711 Forest
Avenue, Sheltered Shrubs, CT 06930 (we find this out from
the envelope that held the letter from Ginger's dad in
the episode "Hello Stranger," and it is also
mentioned in the ATBG movie, "Summer of Camp Caprice.")
Ginger's dad's
address is: (we learn fhis from the episode "Hello
Stranger" as well.)
The Foutley's phone number is
555-2517 (as seen in episode: "Nurses Strike"
when Lois puts a sign for her cleaning business in the
window of the car...) Ginger takes down the flyer in the
window so Courtney and Miranda won't see it. Lois tells
her she was thinking of a name for the business- Lois'
Spit and Shine.
Lois (Ginger's mom) works at
Sheltered Shrubs Memorial as a nurse.
Carl used to have a dog named
Monster (hence the name on the doghouse.) We find this
out during the episode- SUMMER OF CAMP CAPRICE. He talks
about how Monster was stolen years before.
Ginger and Carl's father (whose
name I don't know) appeared in the Christmas Special
episode dressed as Santa Claus. It seems that he and Lois
are divorced and the kids rarely see him (as is evident
from the episode, "Hello Stranger."
In the episode "Nurses
Strike," we find out that Lois (Ginger's mom) used
to live in New York City after her sophmore year of
nursing school. She sublet an apartment...worked by day
and danced all night. She was kind of a legend for the
summer, she tells Ginger.
Courtney and Macie take
advanced French at Lucky High School. (episode: "The
Right Stuff")
Sasha is the boy from Camp
Caprice that Ginger liked. His little sister is named
Melissa, and Ginger befriends her as well.
Miranda's father is the head
drill seargent at the camp across the lake from Camp
Caprice
