Episode
Out of This World: Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind
Overview
There's a new boy in town named Elroy who everyone thinks is a nerd, and when Evie feels sorry for him, she accepts his invitation to go to the "Sock Hop" so that he won't feel disliked.
Details
- Series
- Out of This World
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1988-12-10
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind is Episode 10 in Season 2 of Out of This World. It aired on 1988-12-10. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 9: Go West, Young Mayor
Evie, Donna, Beano, and Kyle decide to take a vacation, but on thier way, they get lost in a western ghost town and meet two men who claim that they run the town but are really counterfeiters, and when Evie, Beano, and Donna find out what they are up to, the counterfeiters kidnap them, and it is up to cowboy Kyle to rescue them.
Episode 11: The Incredible Hunk
A talent agent spots Chris at the "Goodie Goodie" and wants him to pose as a surfing model, but Chris declines, so Evie convinces him to go for it, but when Chris becomes popular with the ladies, Evie realizes that convincing him to go for it was a big mistake.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Guess Who's Coming to Earth
Evies grandfather from outer space visits. He wants to take Evie home with him to meet her dad. Will Evie choose to stay?
Episode 12: Pupil's Court
After Lindsay puts her favorite tape into Evie's stereo, the tape and the stereo both get ruined, and when the girls both refuse to pay each other back for the damages, they take it out in student court.
Episode 7: Old Flame
When Donna discovers that her old beau, Rob Jamison, is coming to Marlowe for their class reunion, she invites him over to the house hoping that they can catch up and reminisce on old times, but when Evie catches him kissing her mother, it misleads Evie to believing that her mother no longer loves her father.
Episode 13: Evie's Two Dads
The father/daughter dance is coming up and Evie decides that she doesn't want to take her uncle Beano anymore after realizing that she has a great father, and when a school girl picks on Evie for never bringing her father to the dance, Evie gleaps up a really cool dad to impress everybody.
Episode 6: Princess Evie
A visiting prince is coming to Marlowe and everyone is anxious to meet him except Evie, until she finds herself attracted to him, but if sweeping Evie off her feet, with his good looks and charm, wasn't enough- the prince asks Evie to marry him.
Episode 14: The Secret of Evie's Success
Evie decides to get a job and is hired as a waitress at the "Goodie Goodie", but when she uses her powers to help her on the job and becomes waitress of the month, she causes and old, experienced waitress to lose her job.
Episode 5: Evie's First Kiss
It's the night Evie has been waiting for, her first, real date alone with Chris, but when Chris kisses her for the first time, Evie gets the wrong idea and thinks that they are a couple.
Episode 15: Honest Evie
Evie decides to run for class president, but when she wishes that she had someone experienced in politics to guide her, she accidently gleaps up Abraham Lincoln.
Episode 4: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?
Kyle discovers that, Jim, his old buddy from high school is coming for a visit and Kyle is determined to shape himself up to impress Jim after remembering how Jim always had everything that he didn't, but when Jim gets to the house, Kyle realizes he is handicapped.
Episode 16: Evie Goes to Hollywood
Evie and the gang decide to go to Hollywood for a vacation, and while Evie and Lindsay go on an adventure to look for Tom Cruise, the rest of the gang have some adventures of their own.