Just Say No

"Just Say No" is the eighth episode in the second season of Punky Brewster.

Summary
Punky and Cherie are playing in the backyard when a girls club called "the Chicklets" show up. They say they love Punky's fashion sense and her tree house. They also explain to Punky and Cherie how being part of a club "is like everything." Punky invites them up to her tree house, and the Chicklets ask Punky and Cherie if they'd like to be a part of the Chicklets.

The Chicklets want to make them members so they can use Punky's tree house for meetings. On the next day, Punky and Cherie say the pact to get into the club, and the Chicklets want to celebrate it by doing drugs. Punky and Cherie say maybe another time. Punky goes to Mike and asks him what to do. Mike hands Punky a book for the "Just Say No" club, and tells Punky about the club. On the next day, when the Chicklets pressure Punky and Cherie to do drugs, Punky tells the Chicklets about the "Just Say No" club. Chicklets member Kate (Stefanie Ridel), who is fed up with Chicklets leader Emily (Jennifer George), wants to join the "Just Say No" club with Punky. At the end of the episode, Soleil Moon Frye is shown participating in a "Just Say No" march in Atlanta, Georgia, while Cherie Johnson is shown participating in a "Just Say No" march in Los Angeles, California.

Trivia

 * This episode focuses on Drugs & Peer Pressure, it's the first to focus on drugs followed by Unhooking Henry, & Under the Influence.
 * The marches that both Cherie & Soleil attend were real.
 * The Just Say No Campaign was started by then president Ronald Regan to combat drugs & to prevent kids from getting addicted to drugs.
 * A similar story to this episode involving Cherie & Punky happens in a book based on It's Punky Brewster called "Punky says no to drugs & alcohol in Not All Rainbows are Golden". This story features a club similar to the "the Chicklets" called "the Dazzlers", Glomer who tells Punky if she did drugs he wouldn't be her friend no more, & towards the end of the book is similar to Cherie Lifesaver where Punky does CPR to save the girl who overdoses, like the ending to this episode it also involves the Just Say No Campaign.

Cast

 * Soleil Moon Frye as Punky Brewster
 * Cherie Johnson as Cherie Johnson
 * George Gaynes as Henry Warnimont
 * Susie Garrett as Betty Johnson
 * T. K. Carter as Mike Fulton
 * Ami Foster as Margaux Kramer
 * Casey Ellison as Allen Anderson
 * Sandy as Brandon "the Wonder Dog"
 * Stefanie Ridel as Kate
 * Jennifer George as Emily