Take This Job and Squeeze It

"Take This Job and Squeeze It" is the first episode of the first season of 6teen. It premiered on November 7, 2004.

Plot
After working at the mall for a year, Jen is ready to quit her job at The Big Squeeze to begin working at The Penalty Box. Her friends Jonesy, Jude, Nikki, and Wyatt all also apply for jobs at the mall, however they all completely bomb their interviews. Meanwhile, Caitlin is shopping with her best friend, Tricia when her credit card gets maxed out and cut up. After this she desperately attempts to find a job in the mall to pay her father back for the debt.

After a lot of failed interviews, Jonesy finds a job at The Soda Hop (which he was fired from almost immediately), Jude becomes the manager of Stick It after lying on his application, and Nikki gets a job at a location she won't reveal. Jen hires Caitlin to be her replacement at the lemon, and when Tricia sees this, she decides they shouldn't be friends anymore. Caitlin's poor work ethic causes Jen to eventually yell at her, not aware that her new boss, Coach Halder, was nearby. After nearly loosing her job, Caitlin convinces Halder to give Jen another chance, which he agrees to. After this the rest of the group (with the acception of Nikki) begins to accept Caitlin as their friend.

Characters
In order of appearance

Other

 * Darth Mall(mentioned)

Locations

 * The Galleria Mall
 * The Big Squeeze
 * Nice Cinnabuns
 * The Penalty Box
 * The Khaki Barn
 * Stick It
 * Wonder Taco

Music

 * "6teen theme" by Phil Naro

General

 * This is the only first episode of a series to not be a two part episode, with Total Drama starting with the episode "Not So Happy Campers (Part 1)" and "Not So Happy Campers (Part 2)," Stoked started with "Welcome to Paradise, Dudes!" (Part 1) and "Another Grom Bites the Dust" (Part 2), and Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race started with "None Down, Eighteen to Go (Part 1)" and "None Down, Eighteen to Go (Part 2)."
 * Jude reveals The Galleria Mall has 936 businesses in it.
 * The title is possibly a reference to the country music song "Take This Job and Shove It" by David Allan Coe, the album of the same name by Johnny Paycheck, or the film with the same name.

Continuity

 * Jen mentions she's worked at The Big Squeeze for a year to help get employed at The Penalty Box as well as to pay for repairs to the team bus she crashed, and incident that would later be seen in the episode "The Slow and the Even-Tempered."
 * Jen reveals that her and Jonesy's parents are dating. They would later get married in "The Wedding Destroyers."