<P> At a New Year's Eve party at Big John's (Eric Bruskotter) house, Ronald gets drunk and has sex with his date, Iris (DeVasquez), in the bathroom . Iris has a reputation nailing a lot of popular guys . Cindy walks by and hears Ronald reciting to Iris the very poem that she had written and allowed him to read . Devastated, she starts drinking heavily . Later, as a surprise, Cindy's boyfriend, Bobby, shows up at the party, as he still has strong ties to the athletes at the school . After he learns about her relationship with Ronald, through Quint and Ricky (Gerardo Mejia), Cindy is brutally dumped in front of her friends . Even though she tried to explain to Bobby, he paid her to go out with him . Bobby didn't believe her and he still broke up with her . In anger and frustration, she tells the party - goers the truth about her relationship with Ronald and his "cool" pretenses . She scolds her friends for falling for his act and for being "a bunch of followers". "Our little plan worked, didn't it Ronald?" Cindy says as she crushes his popularity, sending Ronald back to the bottom rung of the high school social ladder . Rejected and dejected, Ronald leaves the party alone to spend the night in his garage, crying himself to sleep . When school resumes after the holiday break, he immediately finds himself ostracized as a social pariah . The "jocks" once again tease and throw food at him, and he soon finds that the nerdy crowd has abandoned him also . His distress only deepens when his attempts to reconcile with both Cindy and Kenneth are rebuffed . </P> <P> A moment for Ronald to redeem himself comes when he defends Kenneth against a potentially violent encounter with Quint . Kenneth, while helping Patty (Darcy DeMoss) with her math homework, is approached by Quint, who orders him back to his side of the cafeteria, or take a serious beating . Ronald intervenes, threatening to break Quint's pitching arm if he does not leave Kenneth, who had only been tutoring Patty out of sincere kindness, with no ulterior motive, alone . Ronald points out that the three were all friends at one time: when they were nine, Quint had fallen out of their tree house and broken his arm . Kenneth carried him twelve blocks to the hospital, with Quint crying all the way . He tells Quint that he - Ronald - was desperate to run with the popular crowd, but he had messed up by trying to buy his way in . Kenneth, however, was just trying to make friends by being himself . Ronald goes on to say that the cool / nerd dynamic is "all bullshit, it's tough enough just being yourself", and walks away . Quint apologizes to Kenneth and the two shake hands as the whole school applauds . Ronald finally redeems himself with everyone . </P> <P> Following the incident, Cindy recognizes Ronald's worth, and the two reconcile when she decides to hop on the back of his riding lawn mower instead of hanging out with her popular friends . He asks her to prom and the two kiss as the title song plays . Closing credits roll while the two of them ride off into the sunset on the lawn mower . </P> <Ul> <Li> Patrick Dempsey as Ronald Miller </Li> <Li> Amanda Peterson as Cindy Mancini </Li> <Li> Tina Caspary as Barbara </Li> <Li> Darcy DeMoss as Patty </Li> <Li> Cort McCown as Quint </Li> <Li> Eric Bruskotter as Big John </Li> <Li> Gerardo Mejía as Ricky </Li> <Li> Courtney Gains as Kenneth Wurman </Li> <Li> Seth Green as Chuck Miller </Li> <Li> Sharon Farrell as Mrs. Mancini </Li> <Li> Dennis Dugan as David Miller </Li> <Li> Cloyce Morrow as Judy Miller </Li> <Li> Devin DeVasquez as Iris </Li> <Li> Ami Dolenz as Fran </Li> <Li> William Hannah V as Telescope Salesman </Li> <Li> Paula Abdul as Dancer </Li> <Li> Troy Monroe Lunch room back round </Li> <Li> Lisa Christiansen as Bambi La Brock </Li> </Ul>

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