Episode
Weird Science: The Genie Detective
Overview
While Gary and Wyatt are at school, Lisa plays a virtual reality game, the Genie Detective. She ends up in the 1930's. Chett joins her, but isn't prepared to play the game. He also doesn't know one important rule- when you die in the virtual reality world, you die in the real world, too. Now it's up to Lisa to save Chett. Wyatt joins the game to help, too.
Details
- Series
- Weird Science
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1997-04-11
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Genie Detective is Episode 12 in Season 5 of Weird Science. It aired on 1997-04-11. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 11: I, Chettus
Chett throws off the course of history when he goes time-hopping back to ancient Greece, where he touts himself as a mystical, beer-dispensing oracle.
Episode 13: Magic Comet Ride
Lisa seeks help from the "genie master" when she becomes discouraged by her faulty powers. Meanwhile, Wyatt and Gary become obsessed with a magic box.
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Episode 10: Stalag 16
Gary and Wyatt design a great escape plan when Chett and Scampi become trapped inside Lisa's virtual-reality game, set in a World War II prison camp.
Episode 14: School Spirits
Lisa and the guys help the ghosts of Farber High show their school spirit when they scare Scampi out of tearing down their favorite wing.
Episode 9: Future Bride
With Lisa's "Bride Tracker," Wyatt finds his future wife. However, his intended isn't too intent on spending any time--much less forever--with the rushing groom.
Episode 15: Wicked Wish
Wyatt's mom tries to be the fairest of them all by using a magic mirror to get rid of all of the pretty girls in town--including Lisa!
Episode 8: Bee In There
Lisa accidentally sends Gary and Wyatt back in time as their own mothers.
Episode 16: Night of the Swingin' Steves
Agents Scolder and Molly are back on the case after Lisa files a complaint against those pesky aliens who keep harassing her to breed with them.
Episode 7: Show Chett
As a way of dressing down Chet for his lecherous behavior, Lisa turns him into an exotic dancer in Vegas. But he turns the tables and proves he can strip with the best of them.
Episode 17: Genie Junior
Lisa inadvertently gives birth to a junior genie in a misconceived attempt to teach Chett a lesson about responsibility.
Episode 6: Man's Best Friend
Lisa turns Chett's new dog into a human, but the morphed mutt has a problem licking his former canine tendencies.
Episode 18: WS4
Lisa's efforts to "erase the hate" among students at Farber High result in aliens invading Earth.