The Break-Up

Miss Ropey provides a writing assignment for her class: "My Best Friend" and tells the class they must write a report about their one best friend and what makes them special. Everyone in the gang knows who they are writing about and look over to C.J., as each member expects she will write about them.

Recess begins, and Rachel begins to follow C.J. and admits she chose C.J. for the "dumb essay" since she has nobody else to write about, despite the two not getting along. C.J. dismisses her and keeps walking, with Rachel trying to bribe her. Mickey and Gret begin to share details about their best friend (C.J.), when Rigalli interrupts them. The five friends begin to argue over who is C.J.'s best friend. Vance decides to just ask C.J.. Before she can explain, each member tries to guilt her by reminding her when they have helped her do something, such as give her a boost, tutoring, etc. The five friends turn on one another by calling each other names such as geek and fatso, even Mickey telling C.J. to "Stay out of it, shorty!". C.J. tries to calm the situation, by things go bad and the gang splits up, declaring the others not their friend.

C.J. gets on the bus home looking to sit by one of her friends, with each one blocking the seat next to them. Rachel offers her a seat before laughing maniacally.

The next day at recess, C.J. goes to look for her gang, who are nowhere to be seen. Rachel comes up to her and tells her they all have split up and found new best friend(s), and tells her how much she despises friends, calling all friends "jerks", as she has had bad experiences with people she thought were friends, but treated her horribly. C.J. once again dismisses her until Rachel has her follow to where her friends are.

* Vance has become one of Queen Barb's guards
* Greta has become pals with Upright Girl and hangs upside down with her
* Rus has become The Diggers' assistant
* Mickey is now Guru Kid's pupil
* Rigalli is now Queen of the The Kindergartners (referred to as Queen Rigaoodi)

C.J. realizes she needs to pick either one best friend or none at all, and goes home to write her assignment. The next day, Miss Ropey is handing back the essays, She tells Greta that it is nice she bonded with Upright Girl, but best friends usually know each other's real names. Rigalli's paper was said to be inspiring, yet primitive. Ropey hands Rus his paper, which was nice, but hard to read with the dirt and dust. When she gets to C.J., she notices she does not have a paper to hand back. C.J. admits she did not turn it in, but has it with her and wants to read it aloud. She gives her the okay as she reads. She admits in his paper she has no best friend, but has some "pretty great friends"

* A kid who is the most athletic and popular kid who could hang out with anybody, but chooses to hang out with C.J. (Vance)
* A kid who is so smart, she could possibly build an atom bomb- but uses her brain to help her when she's down (Greta)
* A kid who is so tough, she could take down someone twice her size, but uses her abilities to help out kids who cannot defend themselves (Rigalli)
* A kid who may look big and scary, but would not hurt a fly and has a heart of gold (Mickey)
* And a new kid who some say is a scaredy cat, but C.J. knows is a hero just by seeing him face his fears and do what's right (Rus)

C.J. ends his paper by saying she does not have *a* best friend, he instead had *five.* The room applauds. The next scene shows the whole gang is once again back together and they promise to never fight again and apologize for being so mean to one another. The episode ends with Rachel playing tether ball by herself until she hits herself in the face.