Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown Podcast

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 32, “Regret Me Nots.” We pick up almost right where last episode left off. Alex and Cassidy play basketball on deck, and as you might imagine things start to get a little physical. They have yet another moment that looks like it might be leading to something when the school bell rings. After the theme song, Tamira and...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 31, “Jimmy Behaving Badly.” If some of what we’ve seen up to this point isn’t considered him “behaving badly,” I’m a little scared. We start the episode with Jimmy watching Sean and Tamira play checkers. As they finish the game, Sean and Tamira try to sneak off for some alone time, but are unable to - Jimmy is clearly...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 30, “He Shoots, He Scores.” We start with the boys playing a game of ball hockey on deck, and Sean is terrible enough at it to break the window in Captain Ballard’s office. Tony arrives and says he booked them an actual ice hockey game against a Prince Edward Island team; Alex declines at first, embarrassed about the...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 29, “Moon Over Tamira.” We start with Sean failing yet again to ask a girl out. Tamira sees the whole thing from behind the coffeehouse counter, and advises him to be himself, and maybe his nervous habits will go away - then completely contradicts herself as she starts hyperventilating when her newest crush Spencer ap...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 28, “Stowing Pains.” Guess it wouldn’t be a show about a ship without a stowaway plot point/episode! We start the episode at night with Nigel holding a flashlight and a teddy bear. He finds a trail of food, leading to his unlocked kitchen! The next morning, he is standing next to Captain Ballard as the captain speaks...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 27, “Some You Win, Some You Luge.” Jimmy spills his Skittles while walking down the hallway, and some of them slide under the door to Cassidy and Denise’s cabin, which has been left unlocked. Jimmy hears the girls chatting on their way back to their room, so instead of staying where he is and explaining what he’s doin...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 26, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Post Office.” After Sean and Jimmy hijack it for a few minutes, Denise films what seems to be a sort of video diary for her parents. In it, she sets the scene: The ship has just docked in Amsterdam, and she has something important to tell them, important enough that she as...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 25, “Swiss You Were Here.” The teens will be spending winter break in Switzerland! Ashley and Cassidy will even be in Ashley’s dad’s chateau, but Ashley is only able to bring one friend, so they can’t tell anyone else. Most of the others will be staying in a youth hostel - except for Tamira, who can’t even afford that...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 24, “Tamira Has Two Faces.” Cassidy and Denise are keeping Tamira company as she volunteers at the library when Tamira’s crush Price walks in. Have we ever seen this guy before? Nope! Does this kind of introduction absolutely track for Breaker High ? Yes, indeed, it does. Tamira may be going into her “I can fix him!”...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 23, “Two Seans Don’t Make a Right.” The episode begins in the coffeehouse, with Cassidy bragging about her matchmaking skills with two other students. This only eggs Ashley on to want to prove her superiority in the area, so she winds up promising to get Captain Ballard and Ms. Mitchell together. Does she give a hoot...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 22: “Yoo Hoo, Mr,” and with that, we are halfway through the show’s run. We are still in London, and Sean and Jimmy are escorted back onto the ship by the police - they seem to be making a habit of getting mixed up with local law enforcement and celebrities. This time the famous person involved wasn’t as nice as super...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 21: “That Lip Synching Feeling.” We are well ahead of the Ashlee Simpson SNL mishap, so I’m curious what we’re getting into. It is the ‘90s, so what pop group will we start the episode talking about? The Spice Girls of course! Ashley is reading their “dirty secrets” aloud from a tabloid while Cassidy rolls her eyes an...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 20: “Squall’s Well That Ends Well.” Looks like this will be another all-on-ship episode; if you couldn’t guess from the title, Captain Ballard and Tony confirm it when discussing how they need to avoid some rough weather before heading to port, but after having been at sea for two weeks the kids are starting to go a l...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 19: “All Seeing Bull’s Eye.” We’ve got flamenco music playing and a shot of the running of the bulls on screen - we must be in Spain! Tamira has found herself in a fortune teller’s tent and somehow doesn’t go full skeptic when the woman guesses about 20 different “T” names, of which none are her own, so when the fortu...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 18: “Silence of the Lamborghini.” After last episode, the show can’t really go anywhere but up, so as long as this isn’t a full horror movie parody, we should be good. Ashley’s dad pulled some strings (aka bought a textile company) and got all four of our main girls tickets to Milan’s biggest fashion event of the year...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 17: “When in Rome.” Are we in Italy now (despite it being very far from Scotland, where we were last episode)?! We are! Clad in a swimsuit (as is everyone else on deck), Ashley announces they’ll be arriving in Rome within the hour. While she wants to upgrade her wardrobe to the newest designer fashions, the other girl...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 16: “The Caber Guy.” If I’d known a caber was something to be thrown in the Highland Games, I would’ve gotten the pun and been able to guess where they are. Though they did come from Dublin last episode, so this makes sense. The episode begins with Tamira playing the bagpipes and her friends attempting to be polite bu...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 15: “Kissin’ Cousins.” Ooh, this episode is getting under my skin already. Ashley is taking a magazine personality quiz about how good a friend she is, and clearly has no self-awareness as she marks down that she’s a great listener while at the same time is totally brushing Tamira off. Though when the words out of Tam...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 14: “For Pizza’s Sake.” Italy perhaps?! Seems we have some fallout from last episode already - Tamira comes upon Max and Cassidy sitting at a table on-ship holding hands and quickly kissing as Max gets up to leave. He greets Tamira with his hands on her shoulders as he passes by her; when Cassidy tries to call her ove...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 13: “Tamira is Another Day.” I know the song I’m about to mention came out six years after this show aired, but if anyone remembers “Tomorrow” by Lillix - “Tomorrow’s just another day…” - that is now stuck in my head. You’re welcome. We start on the deck, with Tamira trying to work up the courage to give Max a necklac...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 12: “Out with the Old, In with the Shrew.” I would say I’m getting 10 Things I Hate About You vibes but it turns out this came out first! We start with Tony getting rebuked by Captain Ballard - his title is “Activities Director” but all of his recent ideas have been total flops (I personally would have enjoyed “Karaok...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 11: “Chateau L’Feet J’mae” which I can only assume is a representation of a gross mispronunciation of the French language, and we are officially a quarter of the way through the series. Our location is established right up front: Ashley is upset that the students are in Bordeaux, when Paris is so close , but she does...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 10: “Rooming Violations.” We start out on the ship with a sequence that I truly cannot tell whether or not it’s a dream. Literally everyone is complimenting Cassidy, Tamira talks about how she’s never had a boyfriend (okay that might be true), and Max is keeping Alex and Ashley apart on purpose because “she’s out of h...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 9: “Belly of the Beast,” for which we are in Turkey! The usual group has split up a little differently today. Cassidy, Tamira, Alex and Jimmy are all in on belly dancing (Denise begs off and goes back to the boat, claiming she has to study and that “shaking it in public” isn’t exactly a cultural experience in her mind...

Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Breaker High , episode 8: “Beware of Geeks Baring Their Gifts.” Full disclosure, I accidentally spoiled the episode summary for myself when I looked up the title to make sure I was spelling it correctly (and because as a self-identified geek I was slightly offended) but it didn’t mention everyone and actually sounded better than I thought w...