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A Rap and a Hard Place

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Dec 29, 2015

Pelswick manages and performs in Goon, Ace, Julie and Sandra's band. The band is sort of a Rorschach for the entire town: what everyone hears in the lyrics reveals their own insecurities and obsessions. The band must find a way to persuade everyone their music is inoffensive.

Full Episodes

Season 2, 13 episodes

Bayview is suffering economic cutbacks and the town hires a psychic to help them come up with tactics to gain equity (i.e. winning numbers for lottery tickets, where to drill for oil etc.). Pelswick sees through the guy's schtick and must find a way to expose him as a fraud.

23m Dec 29, 2015

A nuclear-powered space station is going to plunge through the atmosphere and hit Bayview the town goes to self-serving pieces.

23m Dec 29, 2015

The Bird Boy of Alcatraz,

Mr. Jimmy gets a trainee, Albert, who becomes maniacally attached to Pelswick and won't leave him alone. Pelswick has to figure a way to get rid of him.

23m Dec 29, 2015

It Must be the Shoes,

Julie and Sandra both try out for the girl's basketball team. When the coach clearly prefers Sandra, Julie thinks its favoritism. But in reality it's because Julie really stinks. Sandra becomes self-conscious so she enlists Pelswick to teach her to stink at the game too.

23m Dec 29, 2015

Pelswick on a String,

Pelswick refuses to put his Life and Crafts puppet of himself in a tiny puppet wheelchair and gets suspended for insubordination. He won't tell his family so he spends his time hanging around the Burger Barrel, the movie theatre, and the chat café while his friends at school lobby in protest to get Pelswick reinstated.

23m Dec 29, 2015

Invasion of the Buddy Snatchers,

Goon gets involved in the sale of a pyramid-product (Glurpee Seed and Fertilizer). The whole town gets sucked in. Pelswick and Ace must find a way to expose the sham and deprogram the residents of Bayview.

23m Dec 29, 2015

Boyd, Here Come the Flood,

Gram-Gram becomes a T/A at Alcatraz, in Pelswick's class. At first she's an unholy embarrassment and Pelswick dreads going to class. But then she wins over the class - and the school - with her fascinating (if bizarre and contradictory) recollections of the cataclysmic Bayview Flood. Of course at the end they find out Gram-Gram managed to make fun because everything she remembered was wrong.

23m Dec 29, 2015

Hear No Evil, P.C. No Evil,

Quentin/s new girlfriend is monstrously P.C. and Pelswick has to become an ass to shock her into seeing him as human.

23m Dec 29, 2015

The Case of the Filchered Files,

When Quentin is laid off, the household needs money while he hunts for work. Gram-Gram tries out for super model, test pilot etc., Kate starts day trading on the stock market and Pelswick takes a paper route at 4:30 a.m. so his friends won't see him doing a little kid job.

23m Dec 29, 2015

A Rap and a Hard Place,

Pelswick manages and performs in Goon, Ace, Julie and Sandra's band. The band is sort of a Rorschach for the entire town: what everyone hears in the lyrics reveals their own insecurities and obsessions. The band must find a way to persuade everyone their music is inoffensive.

23m Dec 29, 2015

Kate gets her first boyfriend. Pelswick becomes the world's most protective older brother even though it's her poor little 7-year-old boyfriend who needs protecting. (B-story: Sandra's outré outfit gets her expelled from school. Julie champions her friend's case, but Sandra, encouraged by all the First Amendment talk, begins dressing so weird even Julie starts to have doubts)

23m Dec 29, 2015

Shall We Dance?,

Pelswick meets a girl on the Internet. Pelswick is afraid to tell her about the wheelchair and goes to elaborate lengths to keep her from finding out that he's sitting down every time she sees him for a reason.

23m Dec 29, 2015

Oh Bully Where Art Thou,

Pelswick enters the local Paralympics Games. Boyd gets hurt in an accident that Pelswick could have prevented. And after a full week of his usual pithy chair-taunts - oh the irony! - Pelswick's greatest enemy ends up in a wheelchair himself.

23m Dec 29, 2015