Cherie Lifesaver

"Cherie Lifesaver" is the sixteenth episode in the second season of Punky Brewster.

Summary
Henry's old refrigerator breaks down, so he purchases a new one. At school, Mike teaches CPR to his class, but Allen acts up during the lesson and is sent to the principal's office. Meanwhile, Henry is putting the old refrigerator outside the apartment building for the Salvation Army to pick up. The next day after school, Punky and her friends play a game of hide-and-seek. Henry was preparing to remove the door from the old refrigerator after buying a new one, That is until it started snowing. Punky, Allen, and Margaux tells Henry and Betty to help them look for Cherie, who still hasn't been found in the hide-and-seek game.

Henry and Allen are shocked to find Cherie trapped inside of the old refrigerator, Allen didn’t know how to save her since Mike send him out of class. So he called the paramedics and went to get Betty, while Punky and Margaux administer CPR to Cherie, managing to successfully revive her. Allen is devastated that he was unable to help, and she couldn’t have died because of him. But Henry tells Allen not to blame himself, and suggests the two of them learn CPR together, having learned its value by watching the girls save Cherie's life with it. Henry also explained that he should have taken the fridge door off in the beginning before this tragedy happened. In the end with the paramedics on its way, Cherie was feeling hungry. Punky thinks that she’s going to be just fine.

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"

Trivia

 * This episode's plot was chosen in a home viewer contest, with the young winner named Jeremy Reenes being announced as he appears alongside the cast in an insert just before the actual episode starts. The episode ends with a reminder that CPR should only be administered by those properly trained.
 * This isn't the first time that Punky would do CPR as she does in it the non canon story "Punky says no to drugs & alcohol in Not All Rainbows are Golden" which is based on It's Punky Brewster in which Punky does it to save a girl who overdoses on drugs in the story.