Popular
| Fandom | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Popular |
| Abbreviation(s): | |
| Creator: | Ryan Murphy & Gina Matthews |
| Date(s): | September 29, 1999 – May 18, 2001 |
| Medium: | TV series |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
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Popular was a WB teen comedy-drama that lasted for two seasons.
Canon
Brooke McQueen (Leslie Bibb) and Sam McPherson (Carly Pope), students at Jacqueline Kennedy High School, are polar opposites. Brooke is a popular cheerleader and Sam is an unpopular journalist. Their respective groups are forced to socialize when Brooke's father and Sam's mother get engaged and the two girls have to share a house.
Main Characters
Popular Crowd:
- Brooke McQueen
- Josh Ford
- Nicole Julian
- Mary Cherry
Unpopular Crowd:
- Samantha "Sam" McPherson
- Harrison John
- Lily Esposito-Ford
- Carmen Ferrara
- Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino
Adults:
- Roberta "Bobbi" Glass
Fandom
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While the fandom is fairly small, it's often cherished by fans for its characters, comedy and relationships. Fanfiction is mainly focused on Fanfiction.net, LiveJournal or author websites, but fanworks on Archive of Our Own is growing. Gifs of Mary Cherry and other popular characters are fairly common to find.
For most of the fans of the series, Popular is often the first fandom they had for the actors Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Christopher Gorham, Bryce Johnson, Leslie Grossman, Tamara Mello, Sara Rue and Wentworth Miller.
Many compare Sam/Brooke pairing to Quinn/Rachel of Glee, Ryan Murphy's next big TV hit that gained a much larger fandom.
Shipping
Pairing names such as smooshed or fanciful were not used in the Popular fandom. Most fans just simply used initials of the two characters, such as S/B, or the actual names:
- Sam/Brooke (The exception to the above rule, Bram is sometimes used)
- Sam/Harrison
- Sam/Josh
- Sam/Nicole
- Brooke/Harrison
- Brooke/Josh
- Sam/Nicole
- Lily/Josh
Femslash is very popular, in particularly the Sam/Brooke pairing. Het and Gen also appeared frequently. Slash is fairly rare.
Fanworks
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Archives & Fannish Links
- Popular works at FFN
- Popular works at AO3
- Popular Slash FanFicion (defunct)
- FemFic.org had a Popular section
Mailing Lists
LJ communities
- popular_fans, general
- popular_fic, fanfiction
- SamBrookisOTP, Sam/Brooke
- The Zapruder, fandom newsletter
- populardaily
- popularicons