Season 1

1999

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E1. UFO-spotting / Forbidden Fruit

Jan 22, 1999 · 24m

Frank is abducted by the aliens and controlled. Thomas, Eric and Jerry must save Frank before it's too late.

E2. The Moose Hunt / Survival Camp

Jan 29, 1999 · 24m

A moose arrives at Frank's house.

E3. Visitors From Outer Space / Stray Dog

Feb 5, 1999 · 24m

E4. The Circus

Feb 12, 1999 · 24m

The circus comes to town and the three friends and Jerry can't resist sneaking inside to have a peak at the animals. Two ostriches manage to escape when Jerry opens the door to their cage and go running around town scaring the inhabitants and generally creating chaos. Jerry manages to lasso one of them and is dragged off in a butt of dust. Meanwhile the angry ring master forces the three friends to do all sorts of demeaning jobs in order to pay for the loss of the ostriches. In the end the ring master gets the ostriches back and is so pleased that he pays the boys for a job well done. Jerry, having been dragged way out of town by the ostrich, appears at that moment with an angry bus driver who takes the money from the three friends to pay for Jerry's ticket.

E5. Brake Slamming

Feb 17, 1999 · 24m

Jerry and Frank both have bikes with pedal brakes and decide to have a competition to see who can make the longest skid marks. Frank, determined to win, particularly as the prize is a kiss from Linda, gives it his best shot. He wins the competition but crashes through the door of the shop and ends up in a pile of damaged groceries, too dazed to collect his prize. While everyone is preoccupied with Frank, a lorry drives over Frank's bike transforming it into a pile of twisted metal. Frank is given a new bike by his parents, but this one has hand brakes. Jerry offers to give Frank his father's Sports trophy, which he claims is his championship trophy in ""Brake Slamming"" in return for a ride of Frank's fancy new bike. Frank agrees but when Jerry rides off on Frank's bike to go and pick up the trophy he runs full speed into a wall as he doesn't realise that it doesn't have pedal brakes.

E6. Carol Singing

Feb 22, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry decide to go door to door singing carols in the hopes of getting some money. With Jerry dressed as the virgin Mary they earn a fair amount of cash until they have a run-in with poor old Vicious Oscar who thinks they are a group of angels who have come to take him away. Oscar manages to hit the boys' lantern which sets Jerry's wig on fire forcing him to dive into the snow to put it out. Having lost their Virgin Mary, they let Linda and the girls join their choral group. Just as they're getting ready to divvy up the evening's proceeds, they are attacked by Vicious Oscar again and they all run off in a panic. Each of them thinks the other has the money, but it turns out it all fell on the ground when they ran away from Oscar and he picked it up. So the true spirit of Christmas won out in the end.

E7. UFO-spotting

Mar 1, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry decide to go UFO-spotting, and manage to tempt the girls along with bags of crisps and other goodies. After a long wait one finally seems to have appeared. They are lit up by a beam of light which turns out only come from the torch that Jerry's father is carrying as he is out jogging. After this anticlimax the girls have had enough and go home. Just as the three friends are smacking Jerry about for making them look so silly in front of the girls a real UFO lands and kidnaps Frank, returning him reprogrammed to destroy the human race. A good smack from Roy Johnson snaps Frank out of it but he has no recollection of anything about the aliens. The next day Thomas, Eric and Jerry try to convince the girls and Frank of what happened, but no one believes them.

E8. Ice Hockey

Mar 8, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry are dreaming of becoming hockey players. When the local ice hockey trainer says they're too old to learn, Jerry's father, the PE teacher, decides to train them himself. He tells the trainer that he'll get them into form in one month when they'll have a test match to prove it. The three friends and Jerry are useless but get unexpected help with their training from the girls figure skating troupe. The big day finally arrives and the trainer comes to see the test match with the three friends and Jerry playing against Linda and the girls. The three friends and Jerry lose miserably as all they seem to manage to do is a series of well executed figure skating moves while the girls keep shooting the puck into the goal. The three friends and Jerry are given parts in the girl's ice skating show and the PE teacher has to eat up his skates as he had promised to do if his boys lost the game.

E9. Tony's Party

Mar 15, 1999 · 24m

Tony's parents are going out of town so he decides to have a big party at his house. His little sister, Tess, threatens to tell on him if he doesn't let her and her friends come, too. Meanwhile, the three friends and Jerry are desperately trying to think up a way they can get into the party, which is sure to be the bash of the year. They finally succeed by getting on each other's shoulders and disguising themselves as two big guys from the city and putting on a hat and a coat and using baseball bats as arms. A couple of nasty biker youths get wind of the party and decide to crash it. They bust in, and start threatening everyone. At that moment, the three friends and Jerry who have been dancing start to lose their balance on the dance floor. Flailing with their baseball bat arms in an attempt to keep their balance, they hit the biker youths who flee in terror. Impressed by this show of heroism, the girls' interest in them becomes so intrusive that they unmask the three friends and Jerry

E10. Work Experience

Mar 22, 1999 · 24m

The entire class has an occupation chosen for them by the teacher that they have to try out for a few days. The three friends have to work with the PE teacher, while Jerry gets to work with the forest warden in the fire watch tower. The PE teacher is preparing for the orienteering championships and tells the three friends to go out into the forest with a map and a compass to put up the check points. They manage to take the wrong map and get hopelessly lost. The race begins and with no check points put up, all the participants get lost as well. The whole thing ends in a huge search for the lost children. The PE teacher comes out looking like a real hero for his daring helicopter rescue of the three friends.

E11. The Snowball Fight

Mar 29, 1999 · 24m

The town council gives orders that a new shed be built for Vicious Oscar to live in. Meanwhile, the three friends are having a snowball fight with Linda and the three girls, but they can't get near them in their impregnable snow fortress. Jerry comes along and offers to bring over his snowball catapult to do the job. They launch a great snowball at the fortress, but it overshoots and destroys Oscar's shed with him in it, though he emerges unscathed. Deciding they can't leave him to freeze in the snow they decide that Jerry should take him home to his house, while the three friends try to fix the shed. Oscar ends up emptying out all of Jerry's mother's bottles of perfume and gets thrown out of the house by Jerry's dad. The three friends work throughout the night to fix Oscar's shed only to see it bulldozed the next morning in preparation for the new one. As it turns out, Roy Johnson is also having a new garage built for himself and somehow the plans get exchanged by mistake, so Roy ends

E12. South Seas

Apr 5, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry are feeling particularly worn out by things in general. On the way home after a particularly gruelling day at school they catch sight of Roy Johnson's advertising blimp. They climb up the rope to check it out. When they see how small the town looks form up there, and how insignificant their worries, they cut the ropes and drift off through the air. They end up on a small tropical island, where their every need is tended to by a group of girls who look a lot like Linda and the girls. They are made members of the family and the next morning everything changes. They are treated like slaves and just as it seems as if the natives are going to eat them for breakfast, Frank is woken from his dream by Jerry, shaking him from his nightmare. They are still up in the blimp, which is remains anchored to the ground. They clamber down the ropes and go home.

E13. Fashion

Apr 12, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry decide they need to do something about their nerdy image if they're ever going to have any luck with girls. They quickly realise that getting cool clothes and haircuts is way beyond their means if they have to pay for them, but decide that they can do it themselves. So, with a fashion magazine as guide they create their own clothes and haircuts. The fashion editor of ""Cool Guide"" spots them on the street, and is so impressed she invites them to a photo shoot. They appear in the magazine's next edition portrayed as a hard inner-city youth gang. Despite having first made fun of their clothes, Linda and the girls melt at the sight of them in a magazine and they arrange to hang out with them after school. Before the end of the day, however, an irresistibly handsome man gives a talk against crime at the school, so when the three friends and Jerry come to hang out after class, the girls will have nothing more to do with them.

E14. My Friend is an Ant

Apr 19, 1999 · 24m

As part of a school project on insects, the teacher organises an insect exhibition and all the kids are asked to bring in an insect for a competition to be judged by a scientist from the natural history museum. Jerry brings his ant, which is immediately recognised by the scientist as a spectacularly rare specimen. Coveting the ant for his collection at the museum the scientist steals the ant from Jerry with the help of some very shady looking characters. Despite getting help from the three friends, Jerry is unsuccessful in his attempts at freeing his little friend. In the end, the ant manages to escape on its own and with Jerry ever on its mind completes the difficult trek back to Jerry's house, sneaking unseen into Jerry's bedroom and snuggling up next to Jerry who's just having a nightmare. Startled by his dream, Jerry sits up suddenly in his bed, and laying his head back down on the pillow, crushes the poor little ant.

E15. Neat and Tidy

Apr 26, 1999 · 24m

As usual, Frank returns home from school completely filthy. His mum, exasperated at the constant washing she has to do on his account promises him 10 pounds if he can manage to stay clean for a whole day. Thrilled at the prospect of easy money, and not completely unaware of the effect an improved appearance might have on Linda, Frank is determined to stay neat and tidy. However, that turns out to be more difficult than he had thought, and he has a hard time avoiding his friends' attempts at sullying him. While at school, they attend an information meeting about the dangers of rabies and how to spot someone who's been infected. By the end of the day, Frank has somehow managed to avoid getting dirty, but if they missed Frank his friends have managed to turn his room into an absolute pig sty, for which his mother takes back the 10 pounds. Enraged that all his efforts came to naught, Frank begins to foam at the mouth. Remembering what they learned in the information meeting Thomas, Eric an

The three friends and Jerry decide to go out on a deep-sea fishing trip. Linda and the girls show up on the same boat and the captain of the boat announces a fishing competition - the one who catches the largest fish wins a prize. Frank immediately becomes very ill from seasickness and the girls appear to have the competition won, quickly catching a large pile of good sized fish. Meanwhile, after Jerry carelessly puts a magnet next to the compass, the fishing boat stays into an area where the navy is having manoeuvres. After a barrage of near misses the boat heads back to port. When they reach the harbour they pull up Frank's line, which has been untouched the whole trip as Frank has been so seasick, and pull on board the winning fish. Frank's pleasure is short-lived as his first prize turns out to be a four-day deep-sea fishing trip.