ParticipANTs

ParticipANTs is technically the first episode of season one of A.N.T. Farm due to the episode TransplANTed being shown as the preview. However, most people refer to it as the second episode.

Overview
Chyna decides to get involved in extracurricular activities and joins the cheer squad. Meanwhile, Fletcher joins Cameron's "End Hunger Now" club and soon learns he is using it to get free food.

Episode Summary
Chyna convinces Olive to make an effort to be more involved with their school's extracurricular activities, so they both tryout for the cheer-leading squad. Only Chyna gets accepted, but she gets more than she bargained for when Lexi puts her cheer-leading skills to the test. She purposely weakens Chyna enough to make her lose her voice and injure herself, right before the school musical auditions. Chyna apologizes to Olive, using an A.N.T. Pad. She tells her that she will not tryout for the school play, but Olive convinces her to go for it. Lexi's singing audition went perfectly, but Chyna's singing audition was hoarse. Chyna confronts Lexi, Mr. Zimbaldi, and the pianist, about looking at her as if she is a freak. Mr. Zimbaldi n believes she is actually citing lines from a movie, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", and gives her the part, causing Lexi's plan to backfire. Meanwhile, Cameron creates his own club called the "End Hunger Today Club" as an excuse to slack off and eat buffalo wings, but when Fletcher catches him in the act and threatens to tell the teachers about his fake club, Cameron is forced to let Fletcher join. After Cameron is unsuccessful in getting donations for the club, Fletcher creates a poster that claims that the club is endorsed by Oprah, in order to gain fraudulent donations. When Principal Skidmore finds out what the boys have been up to she, instead of punishing them, wants to join them. At the end of the episode Olive is seen asking if she can join the club, but Principal Skidmore throws a buffalo wing at her, claiming that the club is full when there were only three people in the room.

Cast

 * China Anne McClain as Chyna Parks
 * Sierra McCormick as Olive Doyle
 * Jake Short as Fletcher Quimby
 * Stefanie Scott as Lexi Reed
 * Carlon Jeffery as Cameron Parks
 * Allie DeBerry as Paisley
 * Zach Steel as Gibson
 * Mindy Sterling as Susan Skidmore
 * Aedin Mincks as Angus
 * Mark Teich as Mr. Zimbaldi
 * Christian Campos as Wacky the Wolf (not credited)

Trivia

 * This episodes attracted a total of 4.3 million viewers on it's premiere night.
 * In this episodes it is revealed that the school mascot is a wolf.
 * This is the first episode where we see Principal Skidmore.

Goofs

 * Chyna said that the play could be Cats and she could end up playing the litter box, but in TransplANTed it was already announced that the play would be Hairspray.

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