California Dreams

A battle of bands: Dreams vs. their rivals, Bradley and the Billionaires.

The Dreams book two gigs on the same night: a wedding and a luau.

Jenny and Tiffanis friendship is threatened by competition for a guys affections.

Sly and Tonys machismo irks the gals, who decide to retaliate.

Surfs up for Sly and Tiffani, who are drawn together by an interest in the waves.

Jenny is consumed by a reignited old flame, an actor who once dumped her for a costar.

Matt and Sly (as well as the rest of the band) are scared of the ""tough guy"" at school, Jake Sommers. Then Jake starts to take an interest in joining the band.

An exchange student from Hong Kong, Samantha Woo, comes to live with the Garrison family, taking Jennys place. When the band finds out that Sam can sing, they discuss letting her fill the open slot in the band. The boys also make a bet as to who will first kiss Sam.

Sly tries to get Matt to let him stay at the Garrisons house so that he can hit on Sam. Matt agrees and Sly moves in. Meanwhile, Tiffani is busy trying to figure out who her secret admirer is.

Football player Darrin Young gets tutoring from Sam, but is really trying to use her to pass his big Math test and to not pay for her services. Her bandmates are not sure what to do about it. Meanwhile, Jake and Tiffanis relationship gets rocky while they argue about their mid-term exams.

Jake lies to Tiffani about the fact that he took on an awful job at a store entitled Maniac Music. He needs the job in order to earn enough money for an anniversary gift for Tiffani. Tiffani thinks that Jake might be cheating on her.

After the van breaks down again, Sam gives the band the money that she was going to use to go back to Hong Kong to celebrate the New Year. After giving the money to the mechanic, the gang is scammed and no repairs are done on the van.

Matt starts to like a girl named Katie, but then he finds out that her father, Mr. Stone, is the new owner of Sharkys. Mr. Stone would rather demolish the place instead of continuing it on as the restaurant Sharkys. So, the band must figure out a way to stop Mr. Stone from tearing down their hangout.

The school has a servant auction to raise money. Matt buys Tony and Tiffani is now Sams servant. Sly bids and wins a girl that he likes and hopes to win over, Julie Pruit.

After the Garrison family moves away, including Matt, Sam moves in with Lorena Costa. The band also get to use her place to practice from now on. Unfortunately, all their equipment is at a pawn shop and they have to get it back. They also need to find a replacement for Matt. Sly thinks that his cousin, Mark, might be right for the job, but Mark has had a bad case of stage fright ever since Sly embarrased him at Carnegie Hall.

Lorena loves working on the school radio station, but due to budget cuts, the station will be closed. She takes Jakes advice to try and keep it open. Mark also does an on-air review of Tonys play ""Hamlet"".

Its time for another battle of the bands. This time the California Dreams are against the rap group Total Defiance. Managed by Rosie, Sly in the form of a girl. After Total Defiance says that Lorena is just a groupie, she wants to join the band. When she auditions, the band realizes that she cant sing at all. They dont want to hurt her feelings and tell her, especially Jake.

The gang competes in a video competition. When trying to write a new song, Mark spends a lot of time at Lorenas house. They end up kissing and Mark tries to find a way to confess to Jake without getting the pulp beat out of him.

The band must work on a project for school, creating their own television shows. Tiffani and Mark partner up to create ""Ms. Smiths Neighborhood"", which is a cross between a surfing show and ""Mr. Rogers Oceanside."" Jake, Lorena, and Sam partner up to create ""Hall Monitors,"" a take-off on ""Cops."" While Sly and Tony create ""The Goo-Ga-Moo Guys,"" a ""Waynes World""-type show for guys that are interested in girls. ""The Goo-Ga-Moo Guys"" becomes a hit show on a local station and Sly quits being manager of the band. However, Sly and Tonys friendship gets strained over greed.

The gang is assigned a school project to research their family tree and give a report. Tony isnt able to find anything about his family past the Civil War. Embarrassed, Tony lies about his familys background. Sly and Mark give a speech about their ancestors who had the Winkle charm, and try to use it on girls.

The new guy at school, Tommy Keating, bad-mouths Jake around the school. After Tommy challenges Jake to a motorcyle race, Jake accepts. After hitting a speed bump at Sharkeys, Jake crashes his bike and doesnt compete in the race, resulting in being accused of being a coward. Tony and Sly also become school safety monitors.

For an economics project at school, the gang decides to sell Sams Great Great Grandmothers cold remedy. Sam is overwhelmed with greed, and later has to decide whats more important- money or her Great Great Grandmothers honor. Jake and Mark decide to create their own business as music teachers.

While trying out for a spot on the National Volleyball Team, Tiffani realizes that her small size is keeping her from being the best. Sly suggests that Tiffani takes steroids to make her bigger and stronger. The band soon realizes that Tiffani is addicted to them. Sam and Lorena also have a studs contest featuring Tony, Sly, and Mark as contestants to see which one of the guys is the best with the ladies.

During Valentines Day Tony realizes that he and Sam only have four months before Sam has to return to Hong Kong. He writes a special song for her and also decides to propose to her, so that they can stay together. The gang has doubts about whether she should accept.

Its Jake and Tiffanis three month and two day anniversary. Jake agrees to go on the dating game as contestants along with Sly and Tony. To Jakes surprise, he ends up winning the date, and decides to keep it a secret from Tiffani. She finds out, causing her to break up with him again. Meanwhile, Tony gets to meet his idol, gameshow host, Milt Bradley.

Using flashbacks from previous episodes, the gang puts Sly on trial for being the most greedy and selfish person in the world. Tony is defending Sly, while Tiffani is the prosecutor, and Jake becomes the judge.

Sly is rude and makes fun of the ""Senior Surfers"". After having a dream that he is old, Sly decides to change his attitude toward the group.

The gang gets involved in community service projects. Tony and Jake volunteer for Meals on Wheels, Mark cleans up the beach, Sam works for the blood drive, and Tiffany and Sly work at a teen help line. Sly is of course just doing the community service in order to meet girls.

Sams father gives her a credit card to use in case of emergencies. Sam goes a little overboard and ends up reaching the limit of the credit card. When she cant pay her father back, he threatens to make her return home to Hong Kong. The gang has to try and help her raise enough money to pay off the debt.

Lorena wants to impress the new guy at school, Alan, so she decides to pretend that shes a poet. Sly and Mark want her to turn her loft into a coffe house while her parents are away. Lorena reads a poem that her father wrote for her mother, passing it off as her own. When Alan takes the poem, she has to think of a way to get it back from him.

Jake gets a new job as a motorcycle mechanic, but Tiffani thinks it might be a bad idea when she finds out that his boss, Mel, is a very pretty woman. When he starts to work even more hours, Tiffani gets jealous, and Lorena and Sam decide to spy on him. The plan backfires and Jake ends up getting fired. Meanwhile, Sly and Tony want to create a winning video for the show ""Wacky Videos"" by playing a joke on Mark.

Sly gets a job working as a used car salesman at a store run by Gem Diamond. Sam comes to buy a used car and in order to make a sale, Sly sells her a bad car. Not being a very good driver, when Sam comes to return the car, she drives it right into a telephone pole. Meanwhile, Lorena pretends to be interested in Mark in order to help him get another girls attention.

Sam becomes the new president of the Honor Society at school. Since Tony isnt a member, he never seems Sam because shes busy with activities involving the Honor Society. Tony decides to cheat on a test in order to be able to join Sam in the club. Harvey Cramdon, the old Honor Society president, will stop at nothing to get his old position back.

Feeling neglected because his dad never spends any time with him, Sly starts to gamble. His gambling gets too out of hand when he ends up losing the bands equipment. The band has to figure out how to fix the relationship between Sly and his father. Meanwhile, Tony is on the Senior Awards committee and cant keep the fact that Jake is going to be awarded with the Himalaya Award (an award that is given to the most unique senior) a secret.

During the contest for Prom King and Queen, Jake and Tiffani tie Tony and Sam for the crowns. The competition between the two couples starts getting way out of hand. Meanwhile, Mark tries to ask a girl to the Prom and Sly books the band for a gig on the day of the Prom. - The gang ends up getting stranded in the woods before they make it to the Prom.

The gang decides to rectify the thing that they most regret doing or not doing during their time at high school. Slys biggest regret is never telling Lorena that he has feelings for her. He tries to fix the problem by sending her anonymous love letters. Tiffanis biggest regret is being mean to a boy that asked her out freshman year. While, Sam and Tony regret not competing in the dance contest. Mark regrets letting the schools gym teacher get to him and Jake regrets not playing the bagpipes in public.

The bands amp blows and Lorena offers to buy them a replacement. The only catch is that she wants to be co-manager of the band alongside Sly. When she and Sly start arguing, it costs the band gigs. The new amp that Lorena buys blows the wiring at her loft and Jake and the guys try to fix it.

The next year of school starts in a week. Tiffani is going to study oceanography at the University of Hawaii. Sam is going to study physics at Oxford, while Mark is going to study music at Juliard. Sly and Lorena are both going to attend Pacific University, while Tony is going to go off and study acting. Jake tries to keep the band together by scoring a record contract. When he finally gets Brett Dewey of StyleJam records to offer them a contract, the rest of the band decides that they would rather go off to college than continue on in the band, but they encourage Jake to take the record contract for himself and continue on in music. Jake isnt sure that he wants to go on without the rest of the band.