50 Fun Facts About 6teen

Which running gag follows the flirtatious Jonesy Garcia through almost every episode of 6teen?

Getting fired from jobs is Jonesy's trademark: he is hired somewhere new and sacked again in almost every episode. Once in a while he quits before a boss can do it.

In the first episode of 6teen, why does spoiled shopper Caitlin Cooke take a job at a lemonade stand?

Caitlin works to repay a credit card debt she ran up on her father's card. Jen hands over her old job at the Big Squeeze, and Caitlin ends up as the sixth member of the gang.

How does Wyatt's boss and girlfriend Serena end their relationship in the first season of 6teen?

By text message is how Serena does it, and the gang spends the episode helping Wyatt get over it. His moping later gets on her nerves so much that he loses his place at her music store too.

How does the hour-long 6teen special Dude of the Living Dead explain the zombies overrunning the mall?

It was all a dream: Jude nods off during a 24-hour monster movie marathon and imagines the whole outbreak. He wakes, heads to the mall and screams when Jen has the same giant zit she had in it.

In an early episode of 6teen, laid-back skater Jude falls for Betty, who is actually what?

A talking chair wins Jude's heart in the same episode where strict, law-abiding Jen steals an expensive sports jacket to impress a boy who barely notices her.

Christian Potenza, the voice of Jude in 6teen, spent fifteen years voicing which Total Drama character?

Chris McLean, the host of Total Drama, was Potenza's role from 2007 to 2022. That series comes from the same two creators as 6teen, which is why the shows share several voice actors.

Which Schitt's Creek star, known as Stevie Budd, voiced Jude's girlfriend Starr in 6teen?

Emily Hampshire voiced Starr years before Schitt's Creek made her famous. Her other cartoon roles include Misery in Ruby Gloom and Alyson Malitski in Braceface.

When Jude teaches Jen to drive in an early episode of 6teen, where does she crash the car?

Into the mall fountain goes the car, which Jen had been driving around the atrium. In the same episode Ron the Rent-a-Cop makes Jonesy take off his guard uniform in front of the whole mall.

The original voice cast of 6teen reunited in 2018 for a YouTube short promoting which cause?

Voting in the US midterms was the point of Vote, Dude!, an eight-minute short with the gang now aged eighteen. The punchline is that they all live in Canada, so none of them can take part.

What nickname does 6teen give Chrissy, Kristen and Kirsten, the lookalike staff of the Khaki Barn?

The Clones dress alike and love the Khaki Barn's conformity, which makes them natural enemies of their sarcastic co-worker Nikki. Chrissy, the store's manager, leads the other two.

Where in the mall do the six friends of 6teen gather between shifts to swap stories and tease each other?

The food court is home base for the gang. It also houses the Big Squeeze, the lemonade stand where Caitlin works, so she is never far from the table.

Which addiction does Wyatt Williams, the sensitive music lover of 6teen, struggle with throughout the series?

Caffeine is Wyatt's weakness, and the coffeehouse Grind Me is where he feeds it. He once interviewed for a job there, did badly, and ended up at the music store Spin This instead.

What links the families of 6teen's Jen Masterson and Jonesy Garcia, much to the pair's reluctance?

Their parents get married: Jen's mother weds Jonesy's father, and he takes to calling her step-sis. The couple later have a baby girl, so the two end up sharing a little sister as well.

In the two-part finale of 6teen, Nikki's family moves to which far-northern city for her father's new job?

Iqaluit is where Mr. Wong's new job takes the family. Her parents offer to stay put, but Nikki decides it is time to make a sacrifice for them and says goodbye to Jonesy and the gang.

Which holiday does Ron the Rent-a-Cop try to shut down in 6teen by confiscating all the mall's decorations?

Christmas is the target as Ron abuses his power as head of mall security. In the same episode Nikki's mother decides Jonesy is wrong for her daughter and sets Nikki up with other boys.

Why is Stick It, the kiosk Jude runs in 6teen, shut down for good at the start of the second season?

A cockroach in the food, found by a customer, closes Stick It, and Jude had not cleaned the place either. He and Wyatt soon end up working at Underground Video instead.

In 6teen, which vehicle does Jude race against Ron the Rent-a-Cop to decide which one stays in the mall?

A Zamboni comes with Jude's later job at the mall's ice rink. In another episode baby Emma is left on it, and it rolls off through the mall when Jude accidentally releases the parking brake.

Which former best friend drops Caitlin in 6teen for taking a job, then becomes her snobbish rival?

Tricia ends the friendship in the very first episode and keeps scheming against Caitlin afterwards, from a Khaki Barn contest she cheats in to a joint sixteenth-birthday party.

Before Caitlin joins them in 6teen, since when have Jen, Nikki, Jonesy, Jude and Wyatt been friends?

Kindergarten is where the five met, which is why Nikki is slow to accept newcomer Caitlin. The two only find common ground when Nikki notices she is not as obnoxious as she seems.

Which real mall did the creators of 6teen take their writers to visit, to watch teenagers hang out?

Toronto Eaton Centre was the research trip, and the show's working title was simply The Mall. The fictional mall on screen also borrows from the West Edmonton Mall.

In 6teen, a rival juice stand shaped like which fruit opens in the mall and outsells Caitlin's Big Squeeze?

A lime is the newcomer, staffed by Jonesy, and it soon becomes more popular than Caitlin's stand. Her boss warns that unless Jonesy is run out of business she will be selling drinks at another mall.

After his friends skip his first gig in 6teen, how does idol-contest winner Wyatt get back at them?

He rewrites his winning song, which had been all about how great his friends are, so that it mocks them instead. The gang then turns on him for ruining their reputation.

The 6teen episode about Jen's jealousy of her older sister borrows its title from which classic sitcom?

The Brady Bunch supplied the model, with middle child Jan jealous of her older sister Marcia. In the 6teen version the glamorous sister has flunked out of college and charms the whole gang before letting them down.

Which business do Jude and Wyatt start in 6teen because its number is one digit off Underground Video's?

A psychic hotline is the sideline the two video clerks run from the shop. In the same episode Nikki asks Caitlin to approach a salesman named Hunter for her, and Caitlin ends up dating him herself.

In 6teen, Caitlin's boyfriend wrongly thinks she is cheating on him when she has really betrayed whom?

Her hairdresser is the wronged party: Caitlin sneaks off to a famous stylist, and something Jude says convinces her boyfriend that he is the one being two-timed.

Which look does Jude adopt in 6teen to impress Starr after she suddenly changes her own image?

Goth is the look Starr takes up, so Jude follows. Seasons later she reinvents herself again as a nerd, and Jude has to sit an IQ test to prove he is smart enough to hang out with her.

In 6teen, Jude's long-distance girlfriend turns out to already have a local boyfriend in which country?

Australia is home to Jude's faraway girlfriend and, it turns out, to her other boyfriend. In the same episode Wyatt's singing at Burger McFlipster's earns him a promotion to assistant manager.

In 6teen, what do Jonesy, Wyatt and Jude agree to give up for a week while the girls act as judges?

Showering is banned for a week so the boys can settle who smells worst and who smells best. Meanwhile Caitlin dumps a boyfriend because a baby-picture booth keeps giving the two of them ugly babies.

Why is Jude so keen to give blood in 6teen, while Jonesy is too scared to donate at all?

To get the free donuts, which the nurse hands to everyone who donates. Jonesy's fear goes back to a childhood accident, when a soccer ball hit him square in the nose.

Which cynical movie snob runs Underground Video in 6teen and hires Jude and Wyatt in season two?

Wayne is the self-styled film expert behind the counter. When the video store finally closes he turns up at Burger McFlipster's as Wyatt's new co-worker, and Wyatt cannot wait to get away from him.

Which geeky Stereo Shack manager in 6teen was bullied by Jonesy in middle school and later dates Julie?

Darth, a huge Star Wars fan, gets his revenge when Jonesy breaks an expensive speaker and has to work for him. He beats Jonesy in a lightsaber duel and keeps the security tape to hold over him.

Which unusual service does Jonesy launch as his own business in 6teen, making plenty of money at first?

Delivering bad news for clients pays well until Nikki's boyfriend hires Jonesy to dump her for him. In the same episode some bullies at the escalator hold Jen's house keys and Jude's old skateboard hostage.

In 6teen, where is Jonesy working when he comes across Jen's private journal and passes it to Caitlin?

The lost and found is Jonesy's post, and he makes extra cash selling the items people have left behind. Once the whole mall knows her secrets, Jen hides in her room and swears off her friends.

Which merchandise does Jen over-order in 6teen after falling for a sales rep, risking her new promotion?

Wrestling gear piles up at the Penalty Box, where Jen has just been made Assistant Coach. Jonesy turns wrestler under the name The Stud to help sell it, with Jude and Wyatt as commentators.

Why does Jude struggle to talk to the figure skater he falls for at the mall rink in 6teen?

She speaks only French, which Jude does not. In the same episode Wyatt keeps calling his new girlfriend by his ex's name, and Jonesy charges couples to make out in an old sports car.

In 6teen, Caitlin and her date Jasper each wrongly believe the other is fluent in which language?

Spanish is the language neither of them really speaks. Jen has date trouble in the same episode, when a new Penalty Box employee who asks her out proves to be more miser than hunk.

What did Olympic athlete Travis Gibson do to Jen in second grade that makes her avoid him in 6teen?

Threw a rock at her forehead, to be exact, leaving a nasty scar. Jen comes round and dates him anyway, until he ends it because his Olympic training leaves no time for a relationship.

What ends Nikki's short-lived job at a cooking store in 6teen and sends her back to the Khaki Barn?

Laxatives in her muffins, put into a batch of pumpkin ones by accident, cost Nikki the new job. She had only just quit the Khaki Barn, and ends up taking her old place back.

What happens to Nikki in 6teen after her Khaki Barn manager names her Employee of the Month?

She is brainwashed: the award is a ploy to make her less individualistic, and it starts to work. Jonesy, meanwhile, is the mall's secret shopper, and Jen is rude to him at her store.

How does Caitlin's boyfriend end up revealing the gang's embarrassing secrets to the public in 6teen?

Under hypnosis he divulges every story the friends had promised to keep to themselves, after Caitlin passed them on to him. Jonesy spends the same episode screening applicants for a dating service.

Megan Fahlenbock, who voices Jen in 6teen, is also the voice of which Total Drama contestant?

Gwen is Fahlenbock's other best-known role. More 6teen voices turn up in Total Drama: Emilie-Claire Barlow, who plays Chrissy, is Courtney, and Stephanie Anne Mills, who plays Kirsten, is Lindsay.

Which 6teen voice actor went on to play Paige Collins in Royal Pains and Kate in Two and a Half Men?

Brooke D'Orsay, the voice of Caitlin, moved into live-action American television after 6teen. Since 2017 she has also become a familiar face in Hallmark Channel's holiday films.

Terry McGurrin, the voice of Jonesy in 6teen, also voiced which title character of a 2011 YTV cartoon?

Scaredy Squirrel was McGurrin's lead role, and he was that show's story editor as well. He has since been a story editor and executive producer on the Total Drama franchise.

Which award did the 6teen theme song, sung by Talas vocalist Phil Naro, win in 2009?

A Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Original Song went to the theme, written by Don Breithaupt and Anthony Vanderburgh. Its singer also worked with the bands Chain Reaction and Coney Hatch.

Which cartoon did 6teen creators Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch launch on Canadian TV in 2009?

Stoked sends a group of teenagers to work at a surf resort in British Columbia for the summer. Terry McGurrin, the voice of Jonesy, is in its cast too.

Which American channel was first to air 6teen, in 2005, years before Cartoon Network relaunched the show?

Nickelodeon carried the show from December 2005 until May 2006. When Cartoon Network revived it in 2008, 24 episodes went unaired there for censorship reasons.

On which Canadian channel did 6teen premiere in November 2004 and go on to run for four seasons?

Teletoon was the show's home for all 93 episodes. In early 2005 it ranked among the channel's top ten shows for viewers aged ten and over.

Which Canadian Idol winner sings an acoustic version of the 6teen theme in the show's final episode?

Brian Melo, who won the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007, recorded the stripped-back theme heard in the finale. He is a singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario.

To win a bet with her friends in 6teen, what must Jen Masterson avoid doing for an entire evening?

Bossing people around is the habit Jonesy bets she cannot drop, and the gang does its best to make her crack. She finally bursts when Nikki and Wyatt set off to get tattoos.

Where does Jen get trapped with her new crush Nathan in 6teen while her mother is in labour?

In a mall elevator, after a day that had already seen her shoelace caught in an escalator and a spell in the security office. The two are still stuck there when the next episode begins.