How To Be Indie

2009 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Season 1 episodes (26)

1 How to Make Your Rep
12/6/09
Season-only
It is the first day of eighth grade and Indie's determined to make this her year - no matter what it takes.
2 How to Have Your Samosa and Eat it too
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie wants to show the school that South Asian food is awesome! But chaos ensues when nemesis Ram Ramachandran challenges her to a cook-off.
3 How to Be Carlos Martinelli's 'Capital L' List, and Live
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie must throw the world's best party to keep cruel class clown, Carlos Martinelli, from making fun of her, but live chickens make the event anything but normal.
4 How to Trick Your Parents Into Treating you Like A Grown-Up
12/6/09
Season-only
How can Indie show her family that she's brave enough to watch scary Halloween movies when a creepy doll is watching her?
5 How to Strike a Balance
12/6/09
Season-only
When Indie and Abi try put an end to their mothers' 'my kid is better than your kid' competition, a cut-throat piano recital tests the girls' mettle.
6 How to be a Mehta
12/6/09
Season-only
When Indie gets an F in gym and tries to hide it, Indie's parents sign her up for the world's scariest, strictest, awful-est boarding school ever!
7 How to Make a Comeback
12/6/09
Season-only
To save their school from a losing streak, Indie, Abi and Marlon join the quiz team with trivia master, Mr. Mehta as their coach. But will his 'training' help or hinder?
8 How to Be Ridonkulous
12/6/09
Season-only
Desperate to win tickets to see her favourite band, Indie must convince her parents to let her have a cell phone.
9 How to Get a Pet
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie wants a dog so badly that she takes care of an abandoned turtle to prove to her parents she is 'pet worthy'.
10 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Lying
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie goes head to head in a business battle with her evil cousin Ruby, but can she outsell Ruby without stooping to her level?
11 How to Get Some Cred
12/6/09
Season-only
When Indie's South Asian cred is questioned - she sets out to out-culture her evil cousin Ruby.
12 How to Prove You're Actually a Nice Person...
12/6/09
Season-only
When Indie accidentally puts her foot in her mouth at school, how many good deeds will it take before she can pull it out?
13 How to Make a Good Impression
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie's crush on a new neighbour leads her to get a makeover - on her family.
14 How to Keep Your Cool in a Heatwave
12/6/09
Season-only
A brutal heat wave and no air-conditioning make Indie and Abi desperate to attend Evil Cousin Ruby's 'cool' sleep over party.
15 How to Party Like Chanra
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie has a crush on Chad Tash and when she hears about the Library Social, an exclusive invite only high school party, she must get a ticket so she can get closer to Chad.
16 How to Make the Most Out of Being a Host
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie learns that her relative is coming to visit from India. She asks her mother for permission to look after him in return for a trip to India.
17 How to Get Gotten
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie is trying to explain to Ms. Roland, the strictest teacher in school, that her family always gets in the way of her homework but nothing she says helps the situation.
18 How to Be a Hit on TV
12/6/09
Season-only
When Evil Cousin Ruby's dad appears on TV, Indie stops at nothing to get her family into the spotlight too.
19 How to Pass the Smell Test
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie's clothes reek of mothballs just as Carlos Martinelli is looking for someone new to make fun of.
20 How to Cement the Win
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie and her friends try to save their favorite teacher's job by entering Marlon in the Science Fair. But will their plan come unglued?
21 How to Not Get Crushed By Your Crush
12/6/09
Season-only
Valentines Week at Rexdale Jr. High means carnations, crushes and... combat?
22 How to Fight for Your Rights
12/6/09
Season-only
How can Indie prove her strength in karate class when Chad Tash makes her weak at the knees?
23 How to Manage Your Moms
12/6/09
Season-only
Indie and Abi get the coveted job of planning the eighth grade dance, but will they be able to get around their meddling moms to do it?
24 How to Have the Last Laugh
12/6/09
Season-only
When she tries to keep her mother from reading her diary, Indie accidentally puts her most private thoughts on display in the worst way possible!
25 How to Be Mum's Number One
12/6/09
Season-only
It's a birthday battle to the death when Indie, Chandra and AJ try to outdo each other on Mum's special day.
26 How to Beat Father Time
12/6/09
Season-only
How will Indie be remembered in the Rexdale Jr. High time capsule?

About this show

Indie is 13 and her only job is to grow up. Sounds simple enough, but everything's way more complicated than when she was little and she could pass off her goat curry as 'stew'. Now her school friends are enjoying all the fun that comes with being a teenager but her eccentric South-Asian parents are pretty fond of their old-school values... So what's a girl to do? Indie always manages to find a third way, her way, and with insight and humour blazes her own trail, creating a life that is neither ruled by her family nor ruled by her peers, but is, rather, 100% Indie.