Pelswick
Pelswick Eggert is just like most thirteen year-olds, except that he is in a wheelchair.. or permanently seated as he prefers to call it but he doesn't let that stop him, as he deals with the usual obstacles that come with being a teenager, including school bully Boyd.
- 2000-2002
- 2 seasons
- Nickelodeon Network
- Animation, Comedy, Family
- TV-Y
Pelswick Eggert is just like most thirteen year-olds, except that he is in a wheelchair.. or permanently seated as he prefers to call it but he doesn't let that stop him, as he deals with the usual obstacles that come with being a teenager, including school bully Boyd.
Season 2 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 1
Eggertgeddon
24 mins
A nuclear-powered space station is going to plunge through the atmosphere and hit Bayview; the town goes to self-serving pieces.
Episode 2
Wheeldini
24 mins
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.
Episode 3
The Birdboy of Alcatraz
24 mins
Mr. Jimmy gets a trainee, Albert, who becomes maniacally attached to Pelswick and wont leave him alone. Pelswick has to figure a way to get rid of him.
Episode 4
Boyd, Here Comes the Flood
24 mins
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.
Episode 5
It Must Be the Shoes
24 mins
Julie and Sandra both try out for the girls basketball team. When the coach clearly prefers Sandra, Julie thinks it's 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.
Episode 6
Oh Bully, Where Art Thou?
24 mins
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.
Episode 7
The Case of the Filchered Files
24 mins
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 wont see him doing a little kid job.
Episode 8
Pelswick on a String
24 mins
Pelswick refuses to put his Life and Crafts puppet of himself in a tiny puppet wheelchair and gets suspended for insubordination. He wont tell his family so he spends his time hanging around the Burger Barrel, the movie theatre, and the chat caf while his friends at school lobby in protest to get Pelswick reinstated.
Episode 9
Shall We Dance?
Fri, Nov 30, 2001 24 mins
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 outfit gets her expelled from school. Julie champions her friends case, but Sandra, encouraged by all the First Amendment talk, begins dressing so weird even Julie starts to have doubts)
Episode 10
A Rap and a Hard Place
Fri, Dec 7, 2001 24 mins
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.
Episode 11
Hear No Evil, P.C. No Evil
Fri, Sep 20, 2002 24 mins
Quentin's new girlfriend is monstrously P.C. and Pelswick has to become an ass to shock her into seeing him as human.
Episode 12
Kick Me Kate
Fri, Sep 27, 2002 24 mins
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 outfit gets her expelled from school. Julie champions her friends case, but Sandra, encouraged by all the First Amendment talk, begins dressing so weird even Julie starts to have doubts)
Episode 13
Invasion of the Buddy Snatchers
Fri, Nov 15, 2002 24 mins
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.