Episode
Weird Science: Free Gary
Overview
Lisa turns Gary and Wyatt into lifeguards ""Baywatch""-style. Everything's fine until Gary gets turned into a merman when he tries to save an environmentlist from drowning. Also, it turns out that there may be more than one magical genie in the world, when Lisa meets Kahuna, a mysterious man.
Details
- Series
- Weird Science
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1995-07-01
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Free Gary is Episode 12 in Season 3 of Weird Science. It aired on 1995-07-01. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 11: The Wyatt Brief
Lisa shows Gary what's going to happen in the future, only to reveal that Wyatt will end up stealing Gary's date to the prom. Wyatt tries to change the outcome of the future by having Lisa give him the worst personality that she can create. She zaps up a pair of magical Chett underwear, giving Wyatt Chett's personality. Unfortunately, Gary's date likes the new Wyatt even more and Chett is happy because his brother is finally becoming cool.
Episode 13: Quantum Wyatt
In order to let Wyatt try some different careers for later in life, Lisa zaps up some magical chocolates. One of the chocolates makes Wyatt a police detective who must clear Gary of stealing an expensive comic book. Meanwhile, Gary tries out some new careers, including talking to Chett on his 976-GARY, or otherwise known as the 976 CONNEXXION phone line.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: Sci-Fi Zoned
A butt crack comment and a welt lead to the end of the Wyatt and Gary's friendship. To try and bring them closer together, Lisa zaps them into their favorite television show ever, ""The Sci-Fi Zone,"" which brought them together in the first place. While being narrated by Chett doing a great Rod Serling impression, Wyatt and Gary meet talking candy bars and dolls, a pig-faced woman, an evil fortune telling machine, and a satanic Principal Scampi. The boys have to either help each other or get stuck living in the Sci-Fi Zone where time has no meaning.
Episode 14: Fly Boy
Lisa zaps Gary up a pair of flying shoes. When Gary is spotted as a UFO, two FBI agents, agent Scolder and agent Molly, arrive to investigate the spottings. They find a real case with Lisa, a magical genie.
Episode 9: What Genie?
Phoebe, an old friend of Wyatt's, comes back to town. Both the boys think she's pretty hot and end up spilling the secret about Lisa to her. She then takes control of Lisa herself and has Lisa erase Wyatt and Gary's minds of the fact that they ever had a genie. Phoebe also becomes the host of her own daytime talk show, very similar to ""Sally."" The only thing that can help the boys remember is the fact that Wyatt keeps a daily diary-- I mean journal. The boys also get to be guest stars on an episode of ""Phoebe"" entitled Men Who Became Women Who Became Men Again.
Episode 15: Teen Lisa
Wyatt and Gary think that being a genie would be easy. Lisa thinks that being a teenager and going to high school is easy. So, they switch places. The now teenage Lisa falls head over heels for the popular guy at school, Lyle, and tries to make friends with girls who aren't very accepting of her. Meanwhile, the guys try their luck at zapping up things, messing up every time.gets turned into a poodle
Episode 8: Bikini Camp Slasher
After watching a movie entitled Bikini Camp Slasher, Lisa thinks it would be lots of fun if they all were zapped into the movie to experience it for themselves. After they enter the movie, they are chased around by Mittface, a murderer with a sickle. The only thing that they have to protect them is all of the rules that Gary knows about teen horror movies. Not only can they get killed by Mittface, but they are also in danger of getting taped over.
Episode 16: Dead Can Dance
When Lisa performs a seance, it of course doesn't go right. Chett brings, Uncle Baldash, a member of the Donnelly family back to life. Uncle Baldash was a warrior during the 1100s. Chett loves his new uncle and goes back in time in order to live as a warrior. This means that Wyatt has to go back in time to save Chett from getting killed.
Episode 7: Hot Wheels
Wyatt finally gets with a date with Mindy, but needs a car to drive on their date. When his dad agrees to buy him a car, Wyatt excitedly imagines what kind of great sports car he'll get. Unfortunately for Wyatt, his dad decides to get him a junker, in order to try and not make the same mistakes with Wyatt that he did with Chett. So, Lisa zaps Wyatt's ""new"" car into Nadine. Not only does Nadine look great on the outside, she also has a wonderful personality. Wyatt falls deeply in love with Nadine and ends up breaking up with Mindy. When Gary and Mindy try to figure out what's going on with Wyatt, they become romantic themselves. That is, until Gary falls head over heels for the car, too.
Episode 17: The Legend of Red Brick Wallace
Gary is dumbstruck when he finds out that his relatives weren't all cowards and losers. He has an ancestor named Red Brick Wallace, a gunslinger from the old west. Lisa zaps them back to the old west in order to meet Red Brick Wallace. Unfortunately, he turns out to be nothing more than a spittoon polisher. The guys are now on a mission to save Red Brick Wallace from getting shot by the sheriff, who looks strangely like Chett.
Episode 6: Gary Wallace: Boy Reporter
Gary decides to join the school newspaper as a reporter, in order to get closer the girl that serves as editor on the paper. The only problem is that Gary has never read any news except for tabloids. Gary has nothing to report about, so Lisa creates an equalizer, which is a magical pen that will make whatever you write come true. Now the town is full of UFOs, Elvis encounters, a two-headed Scotsman, and even Chett as a Yeti.
Episode 18: Spies 'R' Us
Lisa creates a virtual reality game in which Gary and Wyatt can pretend that they are spies. After Gary breakers the machine, the game takes on a life of it's own and becomes real. Farber High becomes very interesting as the boys are trying to stop Scampfinger, the evil Principal Scampi, who wants to put all of the world's water inside of a dixie cup. Wyatt also gets a full cavity search from Chett.