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Sonny with a Chance Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
Sketchy Beginnings
Sun, Feb 8, 200922 mins
Sonny Munroe, a Wisconsin girl with a popular website, has won a nationwide talent search to move to Los Angeles and star in the television sketch comedy series "So Random." Like many who enter Hollywood for the first time, she finds it's not all it seems to be.
Episode 2
West Coast Story
Sun, Feb 8, 200922 mins
Sonny is really happy when she meets Chad Dylan Cooper, but then finds out that the cast of "So Random" hates him and his show "Mackenzie Falls". Sonny gives their parkingspot and tween award to Chad by accident and tries to get it back by challenging him for a game of Musical Chairs.
Episode 3
Sonny at the Falls
Sun, Feb 15, 200922 mins
In the on-going battle between the casts of So Random and MacKenzie Falls, Chad Dylan Cooper decides that the best way to win is to divide and conquer. By that, he means divide Sonny away from the rest of her cast, which he finds easy to do when her ideas for new sketches no longer seem to be appreciated.
Episode 4
You've Got Fan Mail
Sun, Feb 22, 200922 mins
Sonny is feeling insecure about the fact that she hasn't gotten any fanmail, so she decides to write some herself. This goes terribly wrong after Marshall calls "the fan" and asks him to meet Sonny. He even wants them to appear on live TV together. This leaves Sonny with a big problem, because she can't be two people at the same time.
Episode 5
Cheater Girls
Sun, Mar 1, 200922 mins
Sonny and Tawni have a new sketch named "The check it out girls" and are really excited about it, but it all goes wrong when Sonny gets a bad grade on her math test and her moms threatens to take her off the show. Tawni doesn't want this to happen either, cus Marshall said she can't do the sketch alone. Tawni and Sonny then think they can solve their problem by cheating, but it ends up only making things worse.
Episode 6
Three's Not Company
Sun, Mar 8, 200922 mins
Tawni and Sonny are invited to Chad's birthday party and Tawni expects them to go together, but Sonny already has other plans. Her best friend from Wisconsin, Lucy, is coming to visit and Sonny has the whole day planned out. When Lucy arrives it turns out that she is a lot more interested in Hollywood than Sonny expected and they turn out doing other things than Sonny had planned.
Episode 7
Poll'd Apart
Sun, Mar 15, 200923 mins
Gossip blogger Sharona targets Sonny and Tawni, but when Sharona keeps on saying bad stuff about Tawni, Sonny tries to tell Sharona to stop blogging about Tawni. Tawni wore a bald cap because Sharona said Sonny's hair was better than Tawni's. Sonny tried to make things better, but like usual, it turns out even worse; Sonny accidentally told Sharona about Tawni was wearing the bald cap. But Sharona wrote on her gossip blog that Tawni was bald. Sonny makes a mean sketch, which name is Wicked Witch of the Web resemble Wizard of Oz that hurts Sharona's feelings. Sharona threatens them with meat so they won't come to the Oh No You Di'nt Awards. The cast goes anyway and gets revenge wearing the same clothes as Sharona, making her mad and she falls into a pond. Meanwhile, Nico and Grady try to persuade Chad to drive them to the awards ceremony in his new car by bribing him. Chad takes their gifts and leaves them without a ride. To get back at him Nico and Grady take the battery out of Chad's car and replace it with a plate of doughnuts.
Episode 8
Fast Friends
Sun, Mar 29, 200922 mins
When Sonny is interviewed by Tween Weekly TV, Chad immediately steps in and uses Sonny to make himself look better. When Sonny realizes this, she gets frustrated with Chad and the cameras witness the interaction, making everyone hate her. Sonny sees herself getting angry with Chad on TV and decides to talk to him and clear her name. But Chad refuses to help Sonny's reputation so she fights fire with fire and catches Chad being a jerk on a hidden camera in her hat. Impressed, Chad gives Sonny 'props' and says they should hang out sometime, and Sonny says he can stop acting since the camera is off. Chad says he knows, implying that he likes her. Sonny smiles at him and nods, and Chad smiles back. Meanwhile, Nico and Grady sort through Tawni's trash to sell it online, but are caught and punished by Tawni by having to feed her and apply lip gloss whenever she tells them to.
Episode 9
Sonny with a Chance of Dating
Sun, Apr 12, 200922 mins
Sonny falls for an actor who has a guest appearance on MacKenzie Falls, in spite of Tawni's persistent advice that she shouldn't.
Episode 10
Sonny and the Studio Brat
Sun, Apr 26, 200922 mins
Sonny volunteers to show a good time to a seemingly underprivileged little girl who's not what she appears to be.
Episode 11
Promises, Prom-Misses
Sun, May 3, 200922 mins
Sonny realises she's going to miss an important teen milestone - her prom. So, she tries to organise one for the cast on set.
Episode 12
The Heartbreak Kid
Sun, May 17, 200922 mins
When the So Random cast keeps getting bad grades, Sonny thinks it might be because Msr. Bitterman is lonely. This is why she decides to bring her and Marshall together. After this worked the cast is supposed to be happy, because they are getting better grades, but Msr. Bitterman has started to boss them around on set and make changes in the script. This is why Sonny goes to Chad for help, since he is the "king of breakups".
Episode 13
Battle of the Networks' Stars
Sun, Jun 7, 200922 mins
Chad is filming a movie about his life: Chad Dylan Cooper: The Chad Dylan Cooper Story. Chad decides to have the real So Random cast to play their parts except for Sonny because he thinks she is difficult to work with. So, he decides to hire Selena Gomez to play the part instead. Selena sees that Chad and Sonny like each other, but when they both deny it, she uses reverse psychology to get them to admit that they do. When Chad and Sonny had enough of Selena saying they like each other (even though she is right), Sonny ends up admitting she thinks Chad has sparkly eyes and Chad ends up admitting that he thinks Sonny has pretty hair when they get into a fight. In the end, Selena leaves with anger, saying that they are perfect for each other and she doesn't have to do Chad's movie because she was in Camp Hip Hop (A parody of Camp Rock). Chad then gives Sonny the part. Meanwhile, Nico and Grady hangs out with the lookalikes of themselves, but get into hot water with Tawni when Grady's alter-ego tries to hit on her.
Episode 14
Prank'd
Sun, Jul 5, 200922 mins
Chad is the host of a new celebrity prank show, and Sonny fears she is his next target when Chad arranges a movie audition for her that happens to be for the role of Sonny's favorite superhero "Fashionita."
Episode 15
Tales from the Prop House
Sun, Aug 2, 200922 mins
The So Random! cast attempts to preserve its claim on the prop house and prevent it from being turned into a meditation room for the MacKenzie Falls cast.
Episode 16
Sonny in the Kitchen with Dinner
Sun, Aug 16, 200922 mins
Sonny tries to help Tawni have a good date with new intern Hayden in spite of one misfire after another.
Episode 17
Guess Who's Coming to Guest Star
Sun, Sep 27, 200922 mins
Chad is the new guest star on So Random, and he and Sonny have to do a sketch together where they will kiss, much to her dismay. Chad then says when Sonny looks into his eyes she will fall in love with him. Nico and Grady get control of Marshall's office for the day.
Episode 18
Hart to Hart
Sun, Nov 1, 200922 mins
Tawni's mum visits, and looks just like her. Sonny disagrees with Tawni over a silly sketch and tells her to fire her manager, only to discover her manager is her mother.
Episode 19
Sonny in the Middle
Sun, Nov 8, 200922 mins
It's Nico and Grady's birthday and Sonny gives them the perfect gift. Or at least she thinks she did, because as it turns out, the boys have a little trouble sharing the gift. This eventually results in them not being friends anymore and Sonny is left to try and fix things between them.
Episode 20
Cookie Monsters
Sun, Nov 15, 200922 mins
Zora is a member of the Blossom Scouts and wants to break the record for selling the most cookies, but as it turns out Dakota is going up against her for the record. Sonny once wanted to be a scout really badly (and it's still bothering her), so she decides to help Zora.
Episode 21
Sonny: So Far
Sun, Nov 22, 200922 mins
When Sonny and Tawni are guests on "Gotcha with Gilroy Smith," Gilroy tries to get Tawni and Sonny to confess some embarrassing moments on "So Random!". Sonny and Tawni make a pact backstage that they will have each others back but they realize that there is a hidden camera so Gilroy knows about their pact. Tawni breaks the pact and Sonny starts to think about Chad Dylan Cooper, but Gilroy knows that is a face of someone who has a boy crush. Gilroy brings Chad out (Chad thinks he's there because of a book he read) and shows a clip of him and Sonny sharing a rather romantic moment from Episode 2. They both go backstage and they don't realize there's another hidden camera and everyone is watching them. Sonny and Chad are about to tell each other what their feelings are for one another, but Tawni, feeling she owes Sonny, grabs the remote and turns off the camera so Gilroy and the studio audience can't see what happens. Gilroy turns the camera back on and sees Sonny saying "That was so much easier to say than I thought it would be," and then walking away with Chad. Gilroy becomes mad because he doesn't know what Sonny and Chad said to each other, although it is thought that they told each other that they like each other, based on what they were saying before and after Tawni turned the camera off.
