Episode
Weird Science: Horseradish
Overview
After Chett almost deletes all of Lisa's files Wyatt's computer, the guys decide that they need to maximize security. Lisa creates a top of the line system to protect the computer from intruders. Of course, after about minute, Gary forgets the password that he chose. Now Lisa is locked out of her home and can't gain access to her magic, making her a normal human being. She has many new experiences, such as her first dream, her first time using the restroom, and her first crush. She also finds out what it feels like to have a broken heart.
Details
- Series
- Weird Science
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1995-04-15
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Horseradish is Episode 2 in Season 3 of Weird Science. It aired on 1995-04-15. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 1: Earth Boys Are Easy
After Chett's girlfriend Rose breaks up with him after their date, he decides to take his anger out on Wyatt, which isn't unusual. To get Chett to leave him alone, Wyatt asks Lisa to create the perfect girlfriend for Chett. Using a fishing pole and a photo of Chett, they go ""fishing"" for Chett's perfect mate. They reel in Ali, a hot girl that finds Chett irresistible. However, it turns out that Ali is really an ugly alien from outer space. She does still want to get it on with Chett. Unfortunately for him, she wants to eat him for a snack afterwards.
Episode 3: Grampira
Wyatt visits his Grandma in a nursing home and is saddened that she isn't the same old Nana that she used to be. He asks Lisa to give Nana the spirit of a young person, which Lisa does. Nana becomes more spirited, but the new energy is coming from other people- she's sucking the youth out of everyone that she meets. Gary and Wyatt turn into old teens and have to find Nana and return her to the nursing home before they die of old age.
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Episode 4: Rock Hard Chett
When Chett almost gets struck by a bolt of lightning, Lisa makes Chett invincible to save him. Now, nothing can harm Chett, not even the fact that he was electocuted, run-over, and shot. Gary and Wyatt get Chett to use his powers for good, so Chett becomes the super hero, the Star-Spangled Butt Kicker. Chett works at helping to put a stop to crime. However, trouble occurs when his powers wear off while he's trying to stop some homicidal maniacs.
Episode 5: Lucky Suit
Gary decides to borrow Wayne Donnelly's lucky suit for his dad to wear. Just in case the suit isn't really lucky, Gary asks Lisa to zap the suit and make sure that it's really lucky. As soon as Al Wallace wears the suit, he finds a lot of luck at work. However, this new streak of good luck for Al is causing Wayne to have a huge streak of bad luck. Meanwhile, Chett finds a girl that likes him- a clinically depressed girl.
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 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 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 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 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 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 12: Free Gary
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.
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.