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The episode guide for Fresh TV's 2013 series Grojband. It follows the adventures of the eponymous garage band made up of 13-year-old Corey Riffin and his friends, tomboy Laney Penn and twin brothers Kin and Kon Kujira, as they create songs by getting Corey's evil older sister Trina riled up enough to write entries in her diary that will serve as inspiration for their music's lyrics.

As the series production order is currently unknownnote , the episodes are instead listed by their Cartoon Network broadcast ordernote .


Episodes

  1. Cloudy with a Chance of Malt Balls / Dance of the Dead: Grojband wants to impress movie star Cherry Grapestain so she will use their music in her upcoming movie trailer. / Grojband gets a haunted amp that causes zombies to erupt from their graves and attack their school's Halloween dance.
  2. Pox 'N Roll / No Strings Attached: Corey gets the chicken pox, so he decides to throw the best pox party ever, but Trina has Mayor Mellow quarantine him. / When Trina destroys Corey's favorite childhood animatronic band, The Bubble Bunch Band, Grojband must serve as replacements.
  3. Indie Road Rager / Math of Kon: In order to get ideas on indie music, Corey enters the band into an Indy Racing competition. / Corey books Grojband to play at the Try-math-alon so they can tap into the nerd crowd, but they'll only be allowed to play if Kon can win the contest.
  4. Space Jammin' / Wish Upon a Jug: Grojband accidentally challenges a hostile band of spherical aliens called The Orb Experience to a battle of the bands. / Grojband becomes a jug band to play at a hoedown, but Trina finds a genie in one of their jugs that she uses to wish away their musical talent.
  5. All You Need is Cake / Helmet: Corey and Laney must pretend to date each other to perform at a wedding, but Laney's crush on Corey leads to her taking things too far. / Kin makes a helmet to autotune Corey's voice cracks, but Trina's sabotages turns it into a perfection-obsessed robot.
  6. Monster of Rock / One Plant Band: Grojband decides to become an underground band by literally going underground, only to awaken a sewer monster. / Grojband prepares to play at the opening of a vegan restaurant, but their music causes Trina's new plant to turn sentient, and it takes over the band.
  7. Creepaway Camp / Zoohouse Rock: Grojband competes at a scary campfire song contest at a summer camp, so they seek the aid of retired horror maestro Blade Stabbington. / Corey dresses the band up as bears as part of a costume gimmick, but Trina tricks Mayor Mellow into putting them in the zoo.
  8. Smash Up Terby / Queen Bee: Grojband has been booked to play at a demolition derby, but they'll need to get lyrics from Trina before they can performnote . / Grojband gets a gig performing at the Peaceville Queen Bee Pageant, so they enter Trina into the contest in order to get happy lyrics from her.
  9. Dreamreaver: In this full half-hour episode, Grojband's first ever music video causes Trina to fall unconscious from shock. As a result, the band must enter her subconscious in order to awaken her and get lyrics for the video, only to encounter evil versions of themselves rampaging about in her mind.
  10. Super Zeroes / A Knight to Remember: Grojband puts on a superhero costume gimmick in order to perform at children's birthday parties, but they get mistaken for actual crimefighters. / Grojband gets a gig as minstrels for a LARP game, but a reality-warping comet passing over Peaceville makes things unpredictable.
  11. Line of Credit / Hair Today, Kon Tomorrow: In order to go straight, Grojband decides to earn a bad rep first, so they check into a juvenile detention center to learn how to go bad. / Grojband performs at a dog show using a hair metal gimmick, but an accident with hair tonic causes Kon to believe he is a dog.
  12. On the Air and Out to Sea / Ahead Of Our Own Tone: Grojband sets up a pirate radio station, only to get shanghaied by a gang of real buccaneers. / To make music that's "ahead of its time", Grojband uses a time machine to go one year into the future, only to discover Peaceville is now ruled by a cyborg Trina.
  13. Love in a Nethervator' / 'Six Strings of Evil: Grojband heads for the Underworld to find and destroy the source of Corey's least favorite form of music — elevator music. / Corey gets a new guitar after Trina destroys his old one, but this new instrument is actually an evil artifact that seeks to destroy Peaceville.note 
  14. Rockersize / Grin Reaper: In order to get a gig performing at a gym, Grojband performs workout music for some old ladies, but their performance proves a little too effectivenote . / The Happiest Man in the World visits Peaceville and puts bracelets on everyone that makes them disturbingly cheerful.
  15. "Rock the House" / "War and Peaceville": Grojband enters the school's Battle of the Bands Extreme Curling Competition against their gender-flipped lookalike rivals, The Newmans. / Peaceville's centennial devolves into a feud that divides the town when Corey learns the story of the hug that founded the town is a sham.
  16. "Myme Disease" / "Kon-Fusion": When Peaceville takes down a park statue, Grojband must compete with a group of mimes for the new busking space that's opened up. / A new fusion restaurant opens up in town, inspiring Grojband to give fusion music a try by literally fusing themselves with The Newmans.
  17. "Inn Err Face" / "Who Are You": When Trina accidentally shrinks and swallows Kon with Kin's science fair project, Grojband has to get their drummer out of Trina's body. / Grojband gets a gig at a hipster cafe, but they need to figure out how to appeal to a crowd that doesn't care about anything.
  18. "Pop Goes the Bubble" / "Girl Fest": Grojband puts on a pop music gimmick to perform at Peaceville's Soda-Fest, but a disaster causes Mayor Mellow to cancel the festival. / Grojband gets the opening performance at a concert held by feminist girl-rocker Candy Jams, but Laney discovers her to be a total fraud.
  19. "The Bandidate" / "The Pirate Lounge for Me": Corey wants to make Grojband a political band, so he makes Trina the mayor of Peaceville to protest against her. / Corey turns the band's garage into a jazz lounge, but with everyone busy relaxing there, a gang of pirates decides to take advantage of the situation.
  20. "Hologroj" / "The Snuffles with Snarffles": Corey spreads a rumor that he and his bandmates have died in order to use holograms of the band for a popularity stunt. / Grojband makes a music video about a cute, sickly puppy named Snarffles to raise charity money for him, but their plan works much too well.
  21. "Bee Bop A Loofah" / "A-Capella-Lips Now": When Trina empties the town reservoir, leaving everyone in Peaceville unable to bathe, it's up to Grojband to clean out the town's stench. / A torrential downpour floods Peaceville and knocks out the power, meaning Grojband has to do their next concert unplugged.
  22. "Soulin' Down the Road" / "That's My Jam": Grojband's attempt to master soul music by amplifying their souls instead traps Trina's soul inside of her own car. / Grojband's music ends up creating a sapient blob of jam that they and Trina fight over as their entry in Peaceville's jam-making competition.
  23. "For Hat and Country" / "It's In The Card": To acquire a cowboy hat that will only be given to the most "country" of country musicians, Corey declares his house its own nation. / Grojband's Valentine's card love song is sabotaged by Trina, and ends up causing every couple in Peaceville to break up.
  24. "Saxsquatch" / "Group Hug": On a trek up Howling Heights Mountain, Grojband befriends a saxophone-playing Sasquatch that Trina makes her boyfriend. / Grojband's biggest fans Kate and Allie kidnap Corey and force him to write a song dedicated to them — something he just can't do without Trina's diary.
  25. "Curse of the Metrognome" / "Dueling Buttons": To ruin Grojband's upcoming New Year's Eve concert, Trina awakens the Metrognome, a mystical being that feeds on the timing ability of music bands. / Corey falls into a serious rut when he loses to Trina at the music rhythm game Solo Shredder.
  26. "Hear Us Rock!": In the half-hour Grand Finale, Grojband learns that the world is coming to an end. As it turns out, a meteor is about to collide with Peaceville, sent by The Orb Experience as revenge against the band (with Trina helping them so she will be spared). Now, it's up to the gang to use The Power of Rock to save the world.

Online Shorts

These super-quick shorts were featured on the show's official website until it was shut down. Most of them were created for the purpose of being shown on the website's Wicked Cool Transition Builder as part of a contest where fans could create and submit their own transitions that would be featured during airings of the show on Teletoon. None of them are titled, so we're organizing them by theme.

  • Wicked Cool Transitions
    • When Corey loses his guitar pick down the drain, Grojband discovers they have no Wicked Cool Transition to get them to the music store for a new pick.note 
    • Laney reminds fans to submit their own Wicked Cool Transitions.
    • Corey reminds fans to submit their own Wicked Cool Transitions.
    • Kin reminds fans to make their own Wicked Cool Transitions.
    • Kon reminds fans to play the site's games.note 
    • Grojband finally gets to the music store.

  • Game Openingsnote 
    • Battle of the Bands: The Newmans challenge Grojband to Mayor Mellow's Battle of the Bands.
    • Water You Doing: Grojband begins an operation to sabotage Trina's school dance with Nick Mallory.
    • Legends of Mount Rocklympus: Kin and Kon fear that Grojband has angered the gods of rock, so they take Corey and Laney to Mount Rocklympus to gain the gods' forgiveness.

  • Grojfans
    • Corey hides behind a door to escape Kate and Allie.
    • Corey finds Kate and Allie inside his school locker.

  • Magic
    • Kin and Kon try to make a caged lion disappear.
    • Kin pulls Kon's shirt from out of a hat.
    • Kon demonstrates a trick with Kin's nose.

  • Pets
    • Kon asks Corey if he can keep a zombie as a pet.
    • Kon asks Corey if he can keep a dinosaur as a pet.
    • Kon asks Corey if he can keep a monster as a pet.

  • Zombies
    • Kon uses his burping power to save someone from a zombie.
    • Grojband plays a song that makes zombies dance.

  • Pick Flicks
    • Corey flicks his guitar pick, which ricochets about and ruins Mayor Mellow's attempt at a romantic gesture.
    • Corey flicks his guitar pick, which ricochets about and ruins Mayor Mellow's chance to win a dog show.
    • Corey flicks his guitar pick, which ricochets about and helps Mayor Mellow open a stubborn water bottle.

  • Instruments
    • Corey tries to play his guitar with his tongue.
    • Corey strums his guitar and it makes the sounds of a duck.
    • Corey strums his guitar and it makes the sound of bagpipes.
    • Laney plucks her bass' strings, but the sound causes the screen to shatter.
    • Kin changes his hair to look like Beethoven and plays "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on his keyboard.
    • Kon plays the drums while Kin does a strange dance.

  • Nick Mallory
    • Trina hangs her newest picture of Nick Mallory on her bedroom wall.
    • Nick Mallory shows off his muscles, hair, and jacket.
    • Nick Mallory stands atop a mountain, with his hair blowing in the wind.
    • Nick Mallory's pencil breaks, and he finds many girls eager to give him a replacement.
    • Trina uses binoculars to spy on Nick Mallory and is spotted by him.

  • Miscellaneous
    • Mina waters a giant carnivorous plant.
    • Kin brings some drumsticks for Kon.
    • Kon shows off his balloon-making skills.
    • Grojband dresses up as snack items for their latest publicity stunt.
    • Kon propels himself through space with his own farts.
    • Laney does backstroke while crowdsurfing.
    • Corey and Laney take crowdsurfing literally.
    • Corey finds himself alone in a dark forest with lots of glowing red eyes behind him.
    • Kon finds himself in a monster's cooking pot.
    • While Corey plays video games, Kin and Kon re-enact Donkey Kong.
    • Grojband roasts sausages over a campfire.
    • Kon rides through Peaceville in a cowboy outfit on a unicorn's back.
    • Corey finds a pair of 3-D glasses that changes the appearances of people seen through them.
    • Grojband has a tea party with a bear.
    • Laney watches Corey lovingly and tries to hide it when he notices her.
    • Kon eats all the free cupcake samples at the grocery store.
    • Kin finds that everything he works on blows up in his face.
    • Corey finds a monkey living in his guitar case.
    • Laney performs her morning dress-up routine.
    • Corey and Laney are shocked to find a monster eating at their breakfast table.
    • Grojband watches TV and finds something very weird.

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