An overzealous Oscar bets big that his AAU basketball team can beat Wizard Kelly's so he forces Penny onto his team, but her heart isn't in it because she'd rather spend time with her crush.
Plot[]
Oscar makes a foolish bet with Wizard Kelly that if Oscar's basketball team beats Wizard's, they have to switch lives for a week, but if he loses, his protégé Peabo has to work for Wizard. Oscar inadvertently injures his star player, Michael, and tries to turn to Penny's new tall boyfriend Kareem, but he turns out to be horrible. Oscar discovers that Penny is actually good, as he taught her when she was a little girl, and coerces her to join the team, despite her disliking the sport. Her devotion to the team causes her to miss study meetings with Kareem and allowing LaCienega to bud with him. Hurt and angry Kareem eventually approaches and confronts Penny and tells her to be true to herself, while also revealing that he is good at basketball. Oscar's team is outmatched and Penny has everyone forfeit the game. She stops by Kareem's recital where they reconcile and he leaves LaCienega to be with Penny. Oscar tries to back out of his deal with Wizard Kelly and is forced to work as a ticket taker at the Wizard Kelly Theater with Peabo as his new boss.
The movie Penny and Kareem are watching at the beginning of the episode is the 1954 musical, Carmen Jones.
Disney acquired the distribution rights for the film through its acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
Penny playing basketball on Saturn against a large tentacled alien references the movie Space Jam, right down to recreating the final scene where Michael Jordan stretches his arm to make the winning slam dunk.
Trivia[]
Morals:
Be true to yourself and don't try to let your parents pressure you into doing things that please them.
If you are a parent, don't try to live your dreams through your kids.
Penny references the events of "She's Got Game" and "One In A Million", with flashback footage from the latter also shown.
