How to rock

Television series
German title	How to rock
Original title	How to rock
Country of production	United States
original language	English
year	2012
Production company	Alloy Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment Nickelodeon Productions
length	23 minutes
Episodes	26 in 1 season
genre	Youth series , sitcom
Theme music	Only You Can Be You by Cymphonique Miller
idea	David M. Israel Jim O'Doherty
production	David M. Israel Jim O'Doherty Gina Girolamo Leslie Morgenstein
First broadcast	February 4, 2012 (USA) on Nickelodeon
German-language first broadcast	October 1st, 2014 on Nickelodeon
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How to Rock is an American youth - sitcom that the everyday life of the singer told and student Kacey Simon. The series was developed by David M. Israel and Jim O'Doherty . The first episode aired on February 4, 2012 on the US television station Nickelodeon . The German-language first broadcast was planned for October 7, 2012 at Nickelodeon Germany , but has been postponed repeatedly for unknown reasons. It has been broadcast in German-speaking countries since October 1, 2014 in the Nicknight program block .

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The series is about a popular girl named Kacey Simon. Since having to wear braces and glasses , some girls insulted her because of her appearance. However, Kacey finds a new way to express her feelings, namely through music. She becomes the lead singer of the pop / hip-hop band Gravity 5, which also includes Zander, Stevie, Nelson and Kevin. Little by little, a competition develops between Gravity 5 and The Perfs, a band in which their former best friends Molly and Grace also play.

production

The series is based on the How to Rock Braces and Glasses book series written by Meg Haston . On May 23, 2011, the broadcaster ordered the first season with a total of 20 episodes. In May 2012, Nickelodeon ordered six more episodes for the first season. Filming began in August 2011. The first trailer for the series aired on December 10, 2011 on Nickelodeon during a rerun of the film Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh .

On August 26, 2012, Nickelodeon announced that the series would be discontinued after a season. The final episode, How To Rock Christmas , aired on December 8, 2012.

Cast and dubbing

role	actor	German Voice actor
Leading roles
Kacey Simon	Cymphonique Miller	Victoria Frenz
Stevie Baskara	Lulu Antariksa	Sarah Everything
Molly Garfunkel	Samantha Boscarino	Julia Meynen
Zander Robins	Max Schneider	David Turba
Grace King	Halston Sage	Julia Stoepel
Nelson Baxter	Noah Crawford	Jannik Endemann
Kevin Reed	Chris O'Neal
Supporting roles
Andy Bartlet	Andy Bartlet	Amadeus Strobl
Mr. March	Kirk Fox	Axel Malzacher
Dean Hollis	Jacob Artist

Guest stars

• Big Time Rush as herself in How To Rock an Election
• Cee-Lo Green as himself in How To Rock Cee Lo

Seasons

Charisma

Season	Episodes	Airing (USA) Nickelodeon	Broadcast (D / A / CH) Nickelodeon
season 1	26th	February 4 to December 8, 2012	October 1st to December 31st, 2014 August 19th, 2015

Episode list

No.	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	Prod. Code
1	How to rock braces and glasses	How to Rock Braces and Glasses	Feb 4, 2012	Oct. 1, 2014	Eric Dean Seaton	Jim O'Doherty	101
Kacey Simon is the most popular girl in school and she thinks she is perfect. That's why she founded the "Perfs" with her friends Molly and Grace. However, when Kacey comes to school one day with glasses and braces and is no longer perfect, she realizes that her friends are not really friends at all. She finds solace in "Gravity Four", a band made up of four classmates, each of whom is quite strange in its own way. Together with them she is preparing for a band competition in which she wants to beat the "Perfs". When Molly realizes that she has a good chance of winning, she tries to bring Kacey back to the "Perfs", which initially seems to be crowned with success. But when Kacey realizes that she should hide her face during the performance, she decides against the "Perfs". On the evening of the performance, Kacey has got rid of glasses and braces, leaves the "Perfs" for good and rocks the stage with "Gravity Four". Since they now have a new member, they rename themselves to "Gravity Five".
2	How to Rock a Bet	How to Rock a Messy Bet	Feb 4, 2012	Oct 7, 2014	Roger S. Christiansen	Nina Bargiel	105
3	How to rock a guest list	How to Rock a Guest List	Feb 11, 2012	Oct 8, 2014	Rich Correll	Bill Martin & Mike Schiff	106
4th	How to rock a statue	How to Rock a Statue	Feb. 18, 2012	Oct 9, 2014	Rich Correll	Erica Spates & Sam Littenberg-Weisberg	107
An art competition is held at the school. Zander is making a statue of Kacey for this. Molly also wants to take part in the competition with a picture that she did not paint herself. To prevent Molly from winning the competition, Kacey eventually makes herself a statue. In the end, she is discovered and reveals Molly's deception. Molly and Zander will both be disqualified. Finally there is a big surprise, because when two people argue, the third is happy.
5	How to Rock a Music Video	How to Rock a Music Video	Feb 25, 2012	Oct 6, 2014	Roger S. Christiansen	Yamara Taylor & Lena D. Waithe	104
6th	How to Rock an Election	How to Rock an Election	3rd Mar 2012	Oct 17, 2014	Adam Weissman	Bill Martin & Mike Schiff	114
Kacey runs for student representative to prevent Molly from winning the election. In order to get the school's nerds on their side, she asks Kevin to also stand for election, to retire shortly before the start of the election and to suggest to his supporters to vote for Kacey. In a discussion, however, she promises her classmates an appearance by "Big Time Rush". Desperate, she tries to convince the band to perform, but initially doesn't succeed. Kacey realizes that Kevin no longer wants to withdraw his candidacy. During the election, she takes herself out of the running and encourages classmates to vote for Kevin, who wins the election over Molly. "Big Time Rush" now decides to appear at Kacey's school, and so they appear at the election victory party for school representative Kevin.
7th	How to Rock the News	How to Rock a Newscast	17th Mar 2012	Oct 15, 2014	David DeLuise	Bill Martin & Mike Schiff	112
Stevie is given the responsibility of producing the school news. She assigns everyone their tasks. Kacey envy Molly her job as an investigative reporter and works on Stevie until she can prove herself in that position. She reports on a supposedly highly dangerous fungus at the school, which turns out to be a big mistake. But the chaos at the school that she started with can no longer be stopped.
8th	How to rock a prank	How to Rock a Prank	24 Mar 2012	Oct 10, 2014	Eric Dean Seaton	Lena D. Waithe & Yamara Taylor	108
9	How to rock a secret agent	How to Rock a Secret Agent	31 Mar 2012	Oct 3, 2014	Eric Dean Seaton	David Sacks	103
Kacey turns Stevie into a secret agent to find out what outfit Molly will wear to a party. Molly, however, only lets Stevie go to the "Perfs" to spy on Kacey. Over time, Kacey gets the impression that Stevie likes the "Perfs" and tries to convince her that Molly is just taking advantage of her. But Stevie realizes that both Molly and Kacey wanted to take advantage of them and hits them both with their own weapons.
10	How to rock a lunch table	How to Rock a Lunch Table	Apr 7, 2012	Oct 2, 2014	Eric Dean Seaton	Steven James Meyer	102
When Kacey was still popular, she could always sit at the best lunch table in school. The "Perfs", to which she no longer belongs, claim that for themselves. For "Gravity Five" there is only one table left on which birds are constantly doing their business. Kacey forges a plan and with the help of Kevin and Nelson tries to recapture her favorite table.
11	How to rock a birthday party	How to Rock a Birthday Party	Apr 14, 2012	Oct 14, 2014	Sheldon Epps	Erica Spates & Sam Littenberg-Weisberg	111
Kacey and Nelson have their birthday on the same day. Kacey wants to organize the perfect birthday party for both of them. However, since she finds Nelson's ideas inappropriate, she ignores him in all decisions, so that he finally throws down and no longer wants to be there. When Kacey realizes what a bad friend she was, she gives up what she sees as the perfect party and designs it according to Nelson's ideas in order to surprise him.
12	How to rock a part time job	How to rock a part-time job	Apr 21, 2012	Oct 13, 2014	Eric Dean Seaton	David Sacks	109
Kacey needs money. To help her, Stevie gets her a temporary job in a smoothie shop where she also works. However, since Kacey has never worked and is ashamed of her work in front of friends and pretty boys, there are some problems. So it doesn't really help that Grace and Molly show up and bully Kacey as best they can.
13	How to rock Halloween	How to Rock Halloween	Apr 28, 2012	Oct 31, 2014	Rich Correll	Nina Bargiel	116
14th	How to rock a basketball team	How to Rock a Basketball Team	May 5, 2012	Oct 16, 2014	Adam Weissman	Nina Bargiel	113
Kacey wants to join a sports team. She is encouraged to join the basketball team of which Stevie is captain. But after a short time, Kacey pushed himself into the team so much that Stevie no longer seems to care what she has to take note of with disappointment and anger.
15th	How to rock a love song	How to Rock a Love Song	June 30, 2012	Oct 20, 2014	Sean Lambert	David Sacks	115
Kacey and Stevie are secretly leafing through the book of Zander's lyrics. They come across a love song and suspect that the song is for one of them. While they argue about who Zander is in love with, they are also afraid that this love could endanger their friendship with Zander and thus endanger the band. So try to be as repulsive as possible to him. But Zander didn't write the song for either Stevie or Kacey, and when he learns they've betrayed him, he decides to get them back.
16-17	How to Rock Cee Lo	How to Rock Cee Lo	Aug 18, 2012	Dec 31, 2014	Eric Dean Seaton	David M. Israel	123-124
The Perfs were able to get hold of tickets for the first row in the concert of Cee Lo Green , Gravity 5 went empty-handed. In order to see Cee Lo anyway, they dress up as catering staff and so, after fleeing from the security service, Gravity 5 lands on the stage and spontaneously appears in front of all the concert-goers. Since Cee Lo likes the performance, he offers Kacey to go on tour with him in his ensemble. She is now faced with the difficult decision to come with Cee Lo or to stay with her friends.
18th	How to rock a singing telegram	How to Rock a Singing Telegram	22 Sep 2012	Oct 29, 2014	Adam Weissman	David Sacks	125
To earn money for new instruments, Gravity Five starts delivering singing telegrams. For a small reward, they deliver messages to recipients in song form. In order to keep track of the sender, recipient and message, Nelson has come up with a secure system, which Kacey completely messes up in a rash act. As a result, the five of them confuse some news. Stevie wants Kacey to send her crush in a singing telegram to ask if he would like to go to the school ball with Stevie. Unfortunately, he sees it as an invitation from Kacey and accepts.
19th	How to Rock a Yearbook	How to Rock a Yearbook	29 Sep 2012	Oct 22, 2014	Roger S. Christiansen	David Sacks	118
20th	How to rock a high school sensation	How to Rock a High School Sensation	Oct 13, 2012	Oct 23, 2014	Sheldon Epps	Nina Bargiel	119
21st	How to rock a good deed	How to Rock a Good Deed	Oct 20, 2012	Oct. 24, 2014	David DeLuise	Bill Martin & Mike Schiff	120
22nd	How to rock camping	How to Rock Camping	Oct 27, 2012	Oct. 27, 2014	Shannon Flynn	Erica Spates & Sam Littenberg-Weisberg	121
Contrary to what the class imagined, the class trip goes camping in the wilderness. Molly and Kacey are not at all enthusiastic, while Grace is happy because she used to go camping with her grandpa. When they are divided into groups to prove which group can survive best in the wilderness, Kacey sees herself as a sure loser, as she ends up in a group with Molly and Grace and the other group members don't give much hope either. But in the end it is surprising Grace with her experience, who not only rocks the task, but also keeps a cool head and saves the situation in great need.
23	How to rock a fashion victim	How to Rock a Fashion Victim	Nov 3, 2012	Oct 28, 2014	Sean Lambert	Bill Martin & Mike Schiff	122
24	How to rock a uniform	How to Rock a Uniform	Nov 10, 2012	Oct 21, 2014	Shannon Flynn	Bill Martin & Mike Schiff	117
Through Molly and Kacey's fault, a uniform is introduced at the school. While Nelson can see advantages in this and he and Grace grow closer, Kacey and Molly can't stand to be dressed like everyone else. They have to realize that they can only solve this problem together and join forces for a short time to get rid of the uniforms.
25th	How to rock a tennis ball	How to Rock a Tennis Ball	Dec 1, 2012	Oct 30, 2014	Sheldon Epps	David Sacks	126
26th	How to rock Christmas	How To Rock Christmas	Dec 8, 2012	19 Aug 2015	Neal Israel	Sam Littenberg-Weisberg & Erica Spates	110

Web links

• How to Rock in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website at Alloy Entertainment
• Official website at Nickelodeon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Schneider: Nickelodeon don 'Braces and Glasses' . In: variety.com . Variety . January 3, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
2. ↑ Bill Gorman: Nickelodeon's New Series 'How To Rock' Premieres Saturday, February 4 . In: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com . TV by the Numbers. December 21, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
3. ↑ How to Rock . Beviacom.de . Retrieved on March 30, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
4. ↑ ^{a b} Through the night with Nicknight - Nickelodeon starts a new program block from October 1st . In: Presse.Nick.de . August 20, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
5. ↑ Bill Gorman: Nickelodeon Greenlights 'How To Rock', A New Live-Action Series Featuring Original Music Starring Cymphonique Miller . In: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com . TV by the Numbers. May 23, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
6. ↑ ^{a b} David Israel: How To Rock: 26 first season episodes . In: twitter.com . Twitter. May 17, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Nellie Andreeva: Nickelodeon's 'How To Rock' Canceled After One Season . In: deadline.com . Deadline. August 26, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
8. ↑ How to Rock. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 5, 2014 .