Episode
Small Wonder: The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
Overview
When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of sex education and tries to help him out.
Details
- Series
- Small Wonder
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1986-05-10
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
The Birds, The Bees, and Robots is Episode 23 in Season 1 of Small Wonder. It aired on 1986-05-10. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 22: Vaudeville Vicki
When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.
Episode 24: Grandpa Lawson's Visit
Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, that his new lovely adopted granddaughter is really a robot.
More episodes from this season
Episode 21: The Reluctant Halfback
Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.
Episode 20: Health Nuts
Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.
Episode 19: Ted's Lay-Off
United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
Episode 18: The Robot Nappers
When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot and plan to "robotnap" her.
Episode 17: Substitute Dad
When golf-crazed Ted neglects taking Jamie to a Father-and-Son picnic for a golf tournament, Brandon steps in and incites a "father war" while Joan uses Vicki to voice her disapproval to Ted.
Episode 16: First Love
To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.
Episode 15: Babes in the Woods
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
Episode 14: The Burrito Story
Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
Episode 13: RoboBrat
When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantrums, Ted must purge the brat out of her at his factory -- but not before Harriet and Bonnie Brindle wonder where Vicki suddenly vanished to and summon the police.
Episode 12: Brindles Move In
A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.