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A group of American teenagers, indistinguishable from each other except by name, encounter a boy from another planet. The friends are curiously uninterested in the alien's culture and experiences; instead, they're more concerned that he doesn't immediately take to ball-games, discos and dating. The alien makes one or two mildly amusing remarks in the style of A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, but American middle-class values aren't challenged at all. When the newcomer begins to be a nuisance, the friends arrange - by a most unconvincing contrivance - to get him beamed back to his own planet, so that they can continue to enjoy their cheerleading, fashion-shows and movies unencumbered by someone who won't fit in.
