Episode
The Weekenders: Testing Dixon
Overview
At the beginning of the weekend, Tino's mom decides to marry her boyfriend, Dixon. When Tino hears of this, he tells Lor, Carver and Tish about the news. Soon, they devise an idea by testing Dixon to see if he is the perfect father for Tino, but will they be successful in their attempts?
Details
- Series
- The Weekenders
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 2001-11-18
- Runtime
- 11 min
Episode context
Testing Dixon is Episode 21 in Season 3 of The Weekenders. It aired on 2001-11-18. The runtime is 11 min.
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Episode 20: Clown
Tino attends a clown school so as to conquer his fear of clowns, though will he be able to overcome the fear that has plagued him since childhood?
Episode 22: Croquembouche
The gang bakes a french cake that they are entering in a contest to win free passes to every museum in the city.
More episodes from this season
Episode 19: Celebrity
Tish stars in an episode of Teen Canyon and becomes a celebrity, so Carver tries to teach her how to behave like one, but she soon starts to act rude and superior.
Episode 23: Imperfection
Tish tries to overcome her perfectionist ways.
Episode 18: An Experimental Weekend
Tish has her mind set on winning a psychology prize.
Episode 24: The Worst Holiday Ever
The Christmas season approaches, but because each member of the gang celebrates different holidays; Lor celebrates Christmas, Tino celebrates Solstice, Tish celebrates Hanukkah, and Carver celebrates Kwanzaa; they all plan to spend the weekend at Lor's grandmother's farm, but her RV gets stuck in a blizzard.
Episode 17: The Tao of Bluke
Tino, Lor, Carver and Tish decide that they want to win a treasure hunt so that they can win a pool table, and they are farily certain that they can win until they find out that they must have a fifth team mate, and Bluke is stuck to go with them. While the team believes Bluke will cause them to loose and they disregard his opinions, they realize the treasure hunt is harder than they thought it would be. They believe they have no chance to win, but they underestimated the one person who they considered incapable of helping them, and it's up to Bluke to save the weekend and help them get their prize.
Episode 16: Tutor
Thomson becomes Lor's tutor, and she tries to impress him by being romantic, but will she be able to execute her plan considering she knows next to nothing about romance?
Episode 15: Careers
The group takes an aptitude test to see what careers they will be most suited for when they grow up, but they are surprised by their results. Will Tino, Carver, Tish and Lor be confident with the results of their test, or will there be more consequences due to the results than anyone has realized?
Episode 14: Follow the Leader
The gang is having trouble trying to figure out what to do as they all have different ideas as to how to spend the weekend. The only way they know how to solve their problems is to have someone think for the whole team, so they hold an event to see who will be the leader of the group, in which Lor wins. Will their plan to have Lor make all the decisions for the group work out well, or will they find that the freedom of choice is a valuable asset?
Episode 13: Father's Day
It's Father's Day, though Tino always gets depressed on this day because he doesn't get to see his father that often. Carver, Lor and Tish agree to not tell Tino what they are doing for Father's Day because they don't want to make their friend unhappy, but will lying to their friend make anything better?
Episode 12: Broken
Tino is excited about a parade that is going to occur that gives out badges to people. He decides to try to get one for having a great non motorized vehicle and his mom and her boyfriend helps him by getting him a brand new scooter. However, Carver carelessly breaks Tino's scooter when he tries to do some tricks with it, and even though he promised to get it fixed for Tino before the parade, he forgets and just decides to buy himself something for the parade. Will Tino's faith that Carver will remember his promise come through or will Carver forget in his own glory and leave Tino to sit out in the parade?