In the pilot episode, Gidget falls in love with two things: surfing and her surf boy Jeff. Life's swell until Gidget's protective older sister Anne, reads her diary and assumes her highly imaginative confessions are true.

Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.

A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.

Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.

Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.

An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.

Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.

Gidget's meddling sister and brother-in-law convince her father he's too dependent on her. So he decides to send Gidget away to a private girl's school in Paris.

Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.