YMMV / As Told By Ginger S 3 E 02 Wicked Game

• Bizarro Episode: A plot where Ginger's best friends conspire to break her and Darren up over jealousy. It's wildly out of character for Macie, and arguably for Dodie as well (while often a toxic friend, Relationship Sabotage is a step up for her). And of course, it's practically forgotten by the next episode.
• Catharsis Factor: Courtney exposing Miranda and Mipsy is quite cathartic for how their mean girl antics often went unpunished in the series. Miranda's "that was Ginger?" is a true Break the Haughty moment if there ever was one.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The episode's plot revolves around Dodie, Macie, Miranda, and Mipsy trying to break Ginger and Darren up for dumb reasons. Come A Lesson in Tightropes a few episodes later, and the duo actually do break up.
• Never Live It Down: Dodie's lowest moment in the entire series. It's often forgotten that Macie took part too, because Dodie has several other instances of being a bad friend. The fact that she's Easily Forgiven just increases it.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The fallout from this storyline is never explored. It's not shown how Dodie and Macie apologised, why Ginger decided to forgive them or even why Courtney still hangs with Miranda and Mipsy after the incident. It's hard to call Fanon Discontinuity on it because Courtney references it in a later episode.
  • The plot itself requires Dodie and Macie to act hugely out of character. A better plot could have had Miranda and Mipsy as the ring leaders, and merely trick Dodie and Macie into going along with them for whatever reasons.
  • Even more so is that the plot point of a new couple causing friction in a friend group, and how things have to now accommodate the change is a worthy one to explore - and could have allowed Character Development for Dodie.