Miss Teen Seattle Beauty Pageant

The Miss Teen Seattle Beauty Pageant is the center of the storyline in iWas a Pageant Girl. It is a competition that involves girls competing with their appearances, self-introductions, responses to questions about current situations, and talent performances.

Sam used to compete in the pageants, competing with LeAnn Carter who won the pageant 99 times consecutively. When Sam hears about this from her classmate Tara, she forces Carly to compete against her since Sam had been banned from competing for seven years because people believed she pushed LeAnn down the stairs, which was not true. At the pageant, Sam finds out that her seven years has passed and she can compete again, so she does, finally defeating LeAnn.

Trivia

 * LeAnn Carter won 99 consecutive times in a row (revealed in iWas a Pageant Girl).
 * Sam won it once.
 * Sam was banned from it for seven years for pushing LeAnn down the stairs, despite the fact that LeAnn fell down the stairs herself.
 * Performances include LeAnn playing the saxophone and Sam tap dancing.
 * There are apparently a lot of people in the pageant business who happen to know Sam, although she did not compete for seven and a half years.
 * Sam actually loved being in the pageant.
 * According to Sam, pageants smell like hairspray and desperation.
 * One of the pageants is Quinn Pensky, a character from Zoey 101 which is another show created by Dan Schneider.