Lindy becomes smitten with Dr Gabriel, a young veterinarian and gets upset when Logan starts hanging out with him. Meanwhile, Garrett gets a job offer at a fast food place and Jasmine seeks to become Pep Club President.

This is a somewhat tired storyline for a DCom or NickCom: brother and sister are interested in the same person – either as a date or as a friend.  Here, Lindy and Logan compete for the affections of Dr. Scott Gabriel, a hugely famous teen veterinarian (who appeared on the cover of Modern Dog magazine).

A few hats off here tho:  Bradley Steven Perry (from Mighty Meds and Good Luck, Charlie) plays Dr. Gabriel (Perry played Gabe on GLC).  Patricia Belcher (Mrs. Dabney from GLC and Gabe’s nemesis) appears as Candy, the vet tech.  But why not name her Mrs. Dabney!

There’s not enough build up between the Lindy-Logan-Gabe dynamic to make it interesting.  Lindy has a date with Dr Gabriel (off screen) and Logan has been hanging with him (off screen).  When Logan and Lindy plan a “date” with Dr G for the same night, the twin tension that the two often experience comes into play.  In the end, Dr G dumps both of them as they “both act young than he does.” This Lindy-Logan bickering can get tiring and there are only so many situations where the writers can go with this.

In B-ish storyland, Jasmine is trying to be promoted to Pep Club President (best lines of the episode: Amanda ran out of pep halfway through the year and I’m a pep pacer).  Danielle Bisutti plays faux-Texan cheerhead Mrs. Clegg (remember her from True Jackson).  For the greatest inside joke, I would have gone with Jami Gertz, who played uber-peppy Muffy Tepperman on Square Pegs.  Jasmine and Delia discover that Mrs. Clegg is actually Mary Ann Narducci from Secaucus NJ and every possible NJ stereotype follows: the Jersey shore, Bon Jovi.  They missed a joke on the NJ Turnpike.

Finally, Garrett seems to be exiled from the group again.  He quits Rumble Juice when he receives an offer from JR Stuff N Stuff.  That involves walking around the mall as a Tac-Dog.  Initially unforgiving Betty visits Garrett at the mall and offers him his job back as Betty notes “you’re not an employee, you’re family.”  There’s a nice relationship here between Betty and Garrett but I worry about Garrett being silo’d from our gang of five.

IDDI nicely weaves three storylines into one episode but there appears to be no overt overlap between the storylines.  We need this interwovenness to take place to keep our main characters interacting.