A Pain in My Sidekick
Year produced: 2004
Production code: 209a
Original U.S. air date: 6/23/2005
Holy mole-y!
The one with Silver Shell's sidekick.
Tuck discovers the Silver Shell uniform in Sheldon's garage, and ends up becoming Silver Shell’s sidekick: Tin Can Man.
"A Pain in My Sidekick" contains examples of:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Mole Monster that becomes this episode's Monster of the Week.
- Blackmail: Tuck finds out that Sheldon is the Silver Shell, and threatens to tell everyone unless Sheldon makes him a super hero like him.
- Bumbling Sidekick: Tin Can Man. Nevermind that the suit has no special abilities unlike Silver Shell, and the heavy weight combined with the impractical design makes mundane things like escaping a kiddie pool a challenge for Tuck.
- Toilet Teleportation: Tuck does this to escape the opera house blowing up.Tuck: "I flushed myself down the toilet, like anyone would!"
Crash Pad Crash
Year produced: 2004
Production code: 209b
Original U.S. air date: 6/23/2005
She's leavin' home.
The one with Jenny's girl-cave.
Jenny feels that her mother is overprotective of her and wants a life of her own. Dr. Wakeman allows Jenny to live in the backyard shed, and promises that she will never interfere with her life. Soon Jenny's new "bachelor pad" is the new hot spot in town, but she's throwing so many parties that she begins to slack off on her heroic duties, and school as well.
"Crash Pad Crash" contains examples of:
- Bankruptcy Barrel: Near the end, one of the party guests running amok is a boy wearing a barrel.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Jenny makes herself a pad out of the abandoned shed in the backyard because she was tired of her mom hounding her on how to run her own life. Then she finds out that trying to properly maintain it while throwing party after party is not an easy task, especially once it starts impacting her daily routine. Nora even enforces this by stating that she could intervene at anytime, but how else is Jenny supposed to learn responsibility?
- Chekhov's Gag: Jenny refusing Nora's two cents only to reveal she actually has two cents in her pocket becomes this, as those pennies provides instant regeneration and cleaning to Jenny's systems, allowing her to save the day.
- Not Hyperbole: Jenny refuses to take Nora's two cents at one point in the episode. Turns out, Nora has a pair of pennies that she just keeps in her pockets because.
