The Tick Quick Episode Guide

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Episode Guide 

Season 1 

001 THE TICK VS THE IDEA MEN  
002 THE TICK VS CHAIRFACE CHIPPENDALE  
003 THE TICK VS DINOSAUR NEIL  
004 THE TICK VS MR. MENTAL  
005 THE TICK VS THE BREADMASTER  
006 THE TICK VS EL SEED  
007 THE TICK VS THE TICK  
008 THE TICK VS THE UNCOMMON COLD  
009 THE TICK VS BRAINCHILD  
010 THE TICK VS PINEAPPLE POKOPO  
011 THE TICK VS THE MOLE-MEN  
012 THE TICK VS THE PROTO-CLOWN  
013 THE TICK VS ARTHUR'S BANK ACCOUNT 

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Season 2 

014 THE LITTLE WOODEN BOY AND THE BELLY OF LOVE  
015 ALONE TOGETHER  
016 ARMLESS BUT NOT HARMLESS  
017 THE TICK LOVES SANTA!  
018 LEONARDO DA VINCI AND HIS FIGHTIN' GENIUS TIME COMMANDOS!  
019 BLOOMSDAY  
020 COACH FUSSEL'S LAMENT  
021 EVIL SITS DOWN FOR A MOMENT  
022 HEROES  
023 ANTS IN PANTS!  
024 THE TICK VS. THE BIG NOTHING  
025 TICK VS. RENO, NEVADA  
026 GRANDPA WORE TIGHTS 

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Season 3 

027 THAT MUSTACHE FEELING  
028 DEVIL IN DIAPERS  
029 TICK VS. DOT & NEIL'S WEDDING  
030 SIDEKICKS DON'T KISS  
031 TICK VS. FILTH  
032 TICK VS. ARTHUR  
033 TICK VS. EUROPE  
034 TICK VS. PREHISTORY  
035 TICK VS. SCIENCE  
036 TICK VS. EDUCATION 

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Season 4

The following scripts have reportedly been written 
(although they may never be aired): 

"The Tick Vs. Downward Mobility,"  
"The Tick Vs. Youth,"  
"The Tick Vs. The Crazy Hat Fad"  
"The Tick Vs. Skull Canada."  

January, 2000--Word is Ben Edlund is hard at work on the live action Tick Movie.
Reports are they are having trouble with writing a script for live action versus
animation. They are looking for an approach that will keep special effects to a
minimum. 




Episode 1: The Tick vs. The Idea Men
(first episode) The Tick arrives in The City, a town full of somewhat off-center
superheroes. He hooks up with a sidekick named Arthur, an ex-accountant who wears a
moth suit and is looking for some adventure in his life. Their first superhero
assignment: Stop the Evil Idea Men who are robbing The City's banks.


Episode 2: The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale
When "Thw World's Greatest Criminal Mastermind" stages a supervillain event, The Tick,
Arthur, and American Maid decide to crash the party. But an old enemy recognizes
American Maid and the super trio is roped up. Must they watch helplessly as Chairface
Chippendale begins an act so villainous that the whole world for generations to come
will know his name?


Episode 3: The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil
When paleontologist "Dinosaur Neil" accidentally swallows dinosaur tissue, he begins to
grow uncontrollably. The Tick and Arthur must reverse Neil's mishap before he does
irreparable damage to himself and The City.


Episode 4: The Tick vs. Mr. Mental
When The Tick is chosen as a volunteer in Mr. Mental's nightclub act, it turns out that
the performer's powers are real! The psychic hypnotizes The Tick, taking control of our
hero's less-than-powerful mind, and instructs him to hand over the device known as the
Thinking Cap. When The Tick is more than willing to carry out Mr. Mental's wishes, only
Arthur can help.


Episode 5: The Tick vs. The Breadmaster
When the Bread King and his buttery sidekick, Pat, are expelled from Baking College,
they get even by planting exploding loaves of bread all around The City. As the
dangerous loaves rise, soon to explode, The Tick and Arthur discover an even scarier
problem: the insane bakers are making a huge souffle to swallow the whole city!


Episode 6: The Tick vs. El Seed
Although The Tick, Arthur, and American Maid hoped to relax at The City's Annual Flower
Show, they must capture the criminal mastermind El Seed who intends to steal the show's
star attraction: an orchid that blooms only once every 400 years. El Seed knows that
with this special flower he could entwine and control The City.


Episode 7: The Tick vs. The Tick
On their night off, The Tick, Arthur, Sewer Urchin, and Die Fledermaus gather at the
Comet Club, the local superhero hangout. There, The Tick runs into a man named Barry, a
wannabe superhero who also calls himself The Tick. While The Tick and Barry square off
over who should be rightfully called "The Tick," the club falls under attack by The
Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight, a demented supervillain hoping to gain a
name for himself by blowing up the Comet Club. Arthur, who had been relegated to the
Sidekick Lounge, discovers the evil plot and warns The Tick.


Episode 8: The Tick vs. the Uncommon Cold
Besieged by a nasty cold, the last thing The Tick needs to deal with is his new
neighbor: Thrakkorozog, an oozing blob from another dimension with dreams of world
domination. A master of cloning, Thrakkorozog procures one of The Tick's many used
tissues to create a mucus-like Tick clone. Arthur helps the virus-weakened Tick with
his latest foe.


Episode 9: The Tick vs. The Brainchild
A casual trip to a sprawling appliance store leads The Tick and Arthur into the
clutches of Charles, a nine-year-old "brainchild" with aspirations of becoming a
criminal mastermind. Charles has a transparent dome for a head, a trained flying cyborg
dog named Skippy, and a giant multi-mega-devastator cannon in his treehouse which he
plans to use to smash the Moon into the Earth. The Tick manages to get the Moon back in
its orbit while teaching Charles a thing or two about family values.


Episode 10: The Tick vs. Pineapple Pokopo
Surf's up as The Tick, Arthur, and American Maid head off to Pokoponesia on a
government mission to rescue Yank, a monkey astronaut who through a NASA mishap becomes
a certifiable genius. Yank is being held by the villainous despot Pineapple Pokopo.
Disguised as tourists, our superheroes "hang ten for justice" as they brave Pokopo's
deadly sharks.


Episode 11: The Tick vs. the Mole-Men
When The Tick and Arthur discover the Mole-Men (Bob, Todd, Larry, and the Mole King) in
their laundry room, they feel it is their civic duty as superheroes to show the sights
to these vacationing creatures from below The City. Unbeknownst to any of our
protagonists, a fiendish Lava Man from the sewers arrives to terminate the Mole King
(who remains clueless to the pursuit because he has fallen madly in love with
supermodel Mindy Moleford). Eventually, all the forces of good combine to do battle
with the menacing Lava Man.


Episode 12: The Tick vs. the Proto Clown
The Tick and Arthur return from vacation to find a hulking, genetically engineered
Clown laying waste to The City. The Tick engages the freakish harlequin in battle, only
to be hit by a bus and knocked into orbit around the Earth. While in orbit, the
punch-drunk Tick experiences an inner journey deep into his Dali-esque psyche with the
various personalities hidden in his mind acting as his guides. Meanwhile, Arthur, the
Civic-Minded Five and the other heroes of The City battle the Clown, but they are badly
in need of The Tick's help.


Episode 13: The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account
The Tick, swept up in a fever of superhero improvements, devastates Arthur's bank
account and credit rating by purchasing an array of crime-fighting gadgets, Finally,
Arthur is forced to kick The Tick out of the apartment. While The Tick sulks on the
roof, The City falls prey to a band of villains led by the legendary Terror. The Tick
is then called out of an early retirement to help the distressed City.


Episode 14: The Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love
Blowhole, an eighty-foot tall, bipedal whale, bursts from the Atlantic Ocean and begins
a cross-country jog. Meanwhile, The Tick and Arthur encounter Carmelita Vatos, daughter
of the eccentric inventor J.J. "Eureka" Vatos, missing inventor of Arthur's moth suit.
Arthur and Carmelita fall in love, but theyir idyll is interrupted by the pursuit of
Swiss industrial spies, who wield four-foot-long Swiss Army knives loaded with
offensive options.


Episode 15: Alone Together
While attempting to erase Chairface Chippendale's "CHA" from the surface of the Moon,
The Tick blasts himself into outer space, where he encounters Omnipotus, a plent-sized
"devourer of worlds." The Tick is convinced by the lonely Omnipotus to sign on as his
personal custodian, patrolling the giant's body for hygiene and grooming problems.
Omnipotus has a sinister ulterior motive: to use The Tick to guide him to a new planet
to feast upon ... the Earth!


Episode 16: Armless But Not Harmless
The Tick and Arthur run afoul of Venus, a portly but alluring love goddess/villain, and
her sycophantic sidekick, Milo. The villains successfully remove The Tick and Arthur's
arms and attach them to a pair of crude lookalike robots. Venus begins a crime spree
with the help of the heroes' arms, while The Tick and Arthur evade a police manhunt and
try to reclaims their errant extremities and save the day.


Episode 17: The Tick vs. Multiple Santa or The Tick Loves Santa
A small-time bank robber in a stolen Santa Claus costume is chased into an electric
billboard, gaining miraculous powers. He becomes Multiple Santa, a villain able to
create electric clones of himself. The Tick, Arhtur, and their superhero friends are
called upon to rid The City of this Christmas menace.


Episode 18: Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time-Commandos
The Mother of Invention, a bitter little man who flunked out of air conditioner repair
school, has kidnapped some of history's greatest inventors from their respective eras
in time. His plan: to use a "time bomb" to blow up the Renaissance, thus casting the
world back into the Dark Ages, giving him the chance to reinvent all the world's
technology.


Episode 19: Bloomsday
El Seed, notorious, flower-headed revolutionary leader of the plant kingdom, returns to
kidnap Akiko Ikebana, a Japanese botanist and his rare "Four Hundred Year Bloom," a
plant capable of immense destruction when it blooms every four centuries. The only way
to prevent the plant from flowering in "the bad way" is to keep it soothed with music.
El Seed unleashes the plant, which grows to the size of a skyscraper, its roots tearing
through the streets. The Tick and Arthur must sing the giant bloom into submission
while battling El Seed.

Episode 20: Coach Fussell's Lament
The Brainchild is at it again! This time he has strapped Miriam Brunch, a dowdy
middle-aged babysitter, on a cybernetic exoskeleton, in order to terrorize The City.
The Tick and Arthur engage her in combat. The Tick is stunned, captured, and brought in
to the clutches of Miriam's tormentor. Brainchild subjects the captive Tick to a
humiliating series of transformations: he is shrunk to the size of a third-place
bowling trophy and saddled with an extra head, then turned into a two-headed bluebird
that can only speak high school French. The Diner Gang, led by Arthur, restore The Tick
and bring Brainchild to justice, just as his parents come home.


Episode 21: Evil Sits Down for a Moment
The Ottoman, a beautiful, interior-design-savvy villainess with the power to animate
and control furniture, falls in love with Die Fledermaus during her plot to take over
The City. Die Fledermaus is at first enthralled by the icy elegance of his evil
paramour, but loses enthusiasm when she reveals the crowning touch of her heinous
scheme: to marry him!


Episode 22: Heroes
Based loosely on the TV series " COPS," this episode gives us a gritty, real-life look
at the glory and boredom of superhero life in The City. A shaky, hand-held documentary
camera follows The Tick and other heroes as they pursue The Deadly Bulb, a
lightbulb-themed villain desperate for national TV exposure -- and a popular show like
"HEROES" is just the place to get it.


Episode 23: Ants in Pants
The Tick battles a gang of glass-stealing women, only to find that they are in fact
swarms of intelligent, tiny little ants stuffed together into dresses, pumps, and
simhats. The Tick is blanketed by a mass of crawling ants during the battle and freaks
out entirely. He is so traumatized that he has to seek therapy at Captain Sanity's
Superhero Clinic. While The Tick is being subjected to Captain Sanity's bizarre
treatment modalities, Arthur, American Maid, Die Fledermaus, Sewer Urchin, and Fishboy
work their way into the twenty-story ant tower of the ant-women. Once inside the tower,
they are captured by the ants and imprisoned in a huge People Farm. The Tick must
overcome his fears and valiantly save his friends.


Episode 24: The Tick vs. The Big Nothing
The Tick and Arthur are abducted by The Whats, a race of space aliens whose language
consists of a single word: "What" delivered in a rainbow spectrum of emotional
tonalities. They need The Tick's help to battle the scourge of the known universe --
The Heys (who also have a one-word language: "Hey"). This alien race worships The Big
Nothing, and has set out to end all of time and space by smashing one black hole into
another.


Episode 25: The Tick vs. Reno, Nevada
The Tick and Arthur are summoned to Reno, Nevada to solve the mysterious kidnapping of
"Mr. Smarty Pants," the world's most intelligent trained dolphin. Soren and Fred, the
pair of Germanic "enter-trainers" who own Mr. Smarty Pants, help The Tick and Arthur
find the trail of the missing dolphin. As it turns out, Mr. Smarty Pants has engineered
his own kidnapping to escape his humiliating lot and to carry out his plan to design an
enormous fish magnet that will pull seafood from all corners of the globe to rain on
downtown Reno.


Episode 26: Grandpa Wore Tights
Captain Decency and The Decency Squad tell stories to The Tick and Arthur about past
heroic deeds. The Terror's son attempts to get information regarding the location of a
device from them. The Terror, after learning the location of the device, breaks The
Human Ton and his sidekick, Handy, out of prison to help him get the device. A battle
of epic proportions ensues.


Episode 27: That Moustache Feeling
The Tick wakes up one morning to discover that he's grown a perfectly groomed Errol
Flynn-style moustache -- literally overnight. But his joy turns to dismay when the
lively facial hair turns out to be a U.S. government Cold War era weapons experiment
gone badly awry.


Episode 28: Devil In Diapers
The evil Mr. Mental hypnotizes The Tick and Arthur into believing he's a baby that's
been left on their doorstep. Our heroes' adventures in parenting take a turn for the
grotesque when their little "son" begins sprouting a mentalplasmic monster from his
forehead.


Episode 29: The Tick vs. Dot and Neil's Wedding
Arthur's sister Dot and Dinosaur Neil are about to be married, and The Tick is the Best
Man -- a job that turns out to require a lot more than just making a toast, when Neil
metamorphoses into an enormous prehistoric reptile through the machinations of the
dastardly Chairface Chippendale.


Episode 30: Sidekicks Don't Kiss
Arthur's long-awaited first date with Carmelita Vatos turns into a nightmare when he's
violently abducted by what appears to be a contingent of Aztec warriors. The Tick and
Carmelita fly to Mexico in hot pursuit, where they discover that the "Aztecs" in
question are the Deertown "Aztecs," a former Little League baseball team on which
Carmelita played as a child, and whose twisted captain has been carrying a torch for
her ever since.


Episode 31: The Tick vs. Filth
There's evil afoot in the subterranean reaches of The City's sewer system when a horde
of amorphous Filth Monsters threatens to fatally pollute the world above. The Tick and
Arthur are called upon to join forces with Sewer Urchin to plumb the depths of
malevolence, battling giant lobsters and other bizarre denizens of the deep, including
Lou Salazar, "The Sewer Czar."


Episode 32: The Tick vs. Arthur
While The Tick is obsessed with his new pet, Speak, The City is terrorized by Baron
Violent, a nasty character with a hi-tech belt that can increase his size and muscle
power to frightening dimensions. Arthur gets a hold of Violent's belt and succumbs to
temptation, making himself bigger -- and nastier -- until The Tick is forced to cut his
errant sidekick down to size.


Episode 33: The Tick vs. Europe
As part of an international superhero exchange of Antwerp, Belgium, an impressive
flying heroine named Eclair comes to The City. While Eclair and Arthur defend The City
against an infestation of meddlesome gingerbread men baked by the notorious
Breadmaster, The Tick must surmount the obstacles of European culture and language to
pit his all-American superhero know-how against the wily Octopaganini, a spidery
eight-limbed criminal mastermind/violin virtuoso and Eastern Bloc Robot Cowboy, a mad
scientist who transplanted his brain into a lethally-enhanced vending machine.


Episode 34: The Tick vs. Prehistory
The Tick and Arthur find themselves mysteriously transported back 3.5 million years
into the past, where they're taken in by a band of Australopithecine ape-men, then
kidnapped and forced to wait tables at a kind of time-travel Club Med that has been
built on the ancient savanna by humans from the distant future.


Episode 35: The Tick vs. Science
At The City's annual Mad Science exposition, The Tick and Arthur switch bodies in an
experiment conducted by J.J. "Eureka" Vatos. When the villainous Professor Chromedome
starts a mad frenzy of random body-switching, The Tick (now in the body of a zebra)
must battle his own body, now occupied by the notorious Chairface Chippendale.

Episode 36: The Tick vs. Education
While The Tick is teaching a continuing education course on being a superhero, Uncle
Creamy, the mascot for an ice-cream company, suffers a horrible accident that leaves
him permanently in the form of an ice cream cone. Creamy set out to wreak revenge on
the ice cream company, but to the surprise of Professor Tick and his students, he turns
out not to be as much of a villain as he appears.