Episode
Dennis the Menace: A Better Mousetrap/The Wizzer of Odd/Canine Car Wash
Overview
Mrs. Wilson will not return until Mr. Wilson gets rid of all the mice. PeeBee's special mousetraps are regarded as circus rides by the mice and they come from everywhere to play, which costs Mr. Wilson a lot of quarters, the price he pays to the boys for each mouse captured.
Details
- Series
- Dennis the Menace
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1985-12-30
Episode context
A Better Mousetrap/The Wizzer of Odd/Canine Car Wash is Episode 17 in Season 1 of Dennis the Menace. It aired on 1985-12-30.
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Episode 16: It's a Ruff Life/Professor Myron Mentalapse/Dennis Race 2000
When Ruff upsets one of PeeBee's experiments, the dog and Joey end up with their brains switched, Ruff can speak, while Joey can only bark! PeeBee and Dennis chase them around town, trying to capture them and re-switch their brains back to their owners.
Episode 18: Ride'Em Cowboy/Tenting Tonight/A Hair Raising Tale
Dennis and his parents visit the beautiful ranch of his favorite Uncle Bud. Uncle Bud has always wanted to win the local rodeo, and Dennis helps him out by riding the wildest bronc in six counties!. Henry's company has developed a sophisticated self-inflating tent to be used by space explorers on the moon.
More episodes from this season
Episode 15: Up Up and Away (From Here)/Going Ape/Dennis the Pirate
Dennis, George, Henry, and Joey all enter a balloon race. Dennis wins the race, but only after a wild series of adventures. A take-off on King Kong, in which PeeBee, experimenting with a gas-filled balloon, loses control of it, and he, Dennis, Margaret, and Joey, are carried off, ending up on a banana-shaped island.
Episode 19: Medieval Evil/Beaver-Mania/Say Uncle
Episode 14: Henry the Menace/Come Fly with Me/Camping Out
Henry's father comes to visit, and he tells Dennis what Henry was like as a little boy. Not surprisingly, the child-sized Henry and the present-day Dennis had a lot in common. They both create chaos wherever they go. Dennis and PeeBee enter a friendly challenge of building and flying their own airplanes.
Episode 20: Hopping Mad/Mayan Mayhem/The Big Power Trip
Dennis buys a magician's hat and gives it to Margaret at her cello recital. The hat goes wild, spewing frogs and rabbits all over the place, creating all kinds of comedy. Dennis and George Wilson take the wrong vacation plane and end up in South America, being pursued by Mayan natives. They have all kinds of wild adventures trying to get back home.
Episode 13: The Supermarket/The Big Candied Apple/The Defective Detector
Dennis visits a supermarket and completely dismantles it. The Mitchell's visit New York. The Statue of Liberty will never be the same. The gang goes to the beach and decide to look for treasure with a metal detector. Once there, a bully tries to take it away from them. Ultimately, Dennis saves the bully from danger by way of the metal detector's powerful magnet.
Episode 21: Strong Medicine/Gold Strike/Lights! Camera! Mud!
Dennis is blasted by a "strength ray" that Peebee has invented, and suddenly has super muscles. he goes around using his new-found strength to do various good deeds; rescuing kittens from tall trees, etc. Dennis challenges the town bully to a fight, not realizing that his super strength has worn off. But the bully proves to be a coward, and runs off anyway.
Episode 12: Chitty Chitty Moon Walk/Wet 'N Wild/Dennis at the Movies
Dennis keeps his eye on the secret solar powered moonwalker for his Dad. But when Joey touches the wrong button, it takes them for a stop-and-go-ride around town, eventually leading two crooks who want to steal it to the police. Dennis and Joey build a raft to go down the local river.
Episode 22: Invasion of the Blob/Wild West Show-Down/The Hen Party
A blob from outer space enters various forms tree, Ruff, Alice, Henry, Mr. Wilson, baseball in search of a good place to plan an invasion. But Dennis manages to make the blob uncomfortable no matter where it hides.
Episode 11: Snowman Madness/The Invisible Kid/Home Destruction
Slippery ice causes chaos when Henry and Dennis set out to make a snowman. After tumbling and sliding all over the ski resort, they end up as part of a snowman and receive hot cocoa for their efforts.
Episode 23: Up Up and Oh Boy!/The Company Picnic/Aw Nuts!
On a bicycle-built-for-two Henry and Mr. Wilson race after Dennis, Margaret and Joey who have accidentally taken flight in Henry's newest invention, a dirigi-blimp.