The Tick (1994)

Name: The Tick (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy
Rating: 8.2

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Genres: Action Adventure Animation Children Comedy Family Fantasy Sci-Fi

First Aired: 1994-09-10Length: 25 MinStatus: Ended

After "crashing" the super hero convention, the blue-clad hero, the Tick, is deemed the protector of "the City." On his first mission he runs into Arthur, an accountant with a moth costume who aspires to superherodom. They soon strike up a hero partnership to protect the City from a host of nefarious villains such as Chairface Chippendale, El Seed and many more. (Source: thetvdb.com)

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Season 3 (show/hide)
10	Tick vs. Education	1996-11-27
The Tick and Arthur are chosen to teach Superhero School and a classroom of unlikely heroes. They must rush into action to take on Uncle Creamy, a corporate mascot turned into a evil ice cream cone who strikes out at the company who made him. Meanwhile Uncle Creamy II attacks, trying to kill Uncle Creamy before he tells the heroes what the company is up to. Guest stars: Bobcat Goldthwait, Charlie Adler, Danny Mann, Jim Belushi, Kevin Schon, Laraine Newman, Paul Eiding
9	Tick vs. Prehistory	1996-11-16
The Tick and Arthur end up in the distant past and uncover a diabolical plot by the Hotel Manager, a man from the future using prehistoric man as staff for his Hotel at the beginning of the universe. They manage to defeat him and free man's ancestors from a life of low-paying minimum wage jobs. Guest stars: Maurice LaMarche
8	Tick vs. Science	1996-11-09
The Tick and Arthur are invited to the Mad Scientist Fair to help Dr. Vahtoss try out his mind-transference device. Hilarity ensues when the two switch bodies. Chairface Chippendale moves in to try and steal the device and soon everyone is switching with everyone. Guest stars: Hamilton Camp, Jennifer Hale, Steve Susskind, Tony Jay
7	Tick vs. Europe	1996-11-02
The Tick is chosen for a superhero exchange program - he travels to Antwerp while Eclair comes to The City. While the Tick and Eclair's sidekick Blitzen foil a kidnap plot against the King of Belgium, Arthur and the lightning-blasting Eclair must defeat the Breadmaster and his Gingerbread men. Guest stars: Candi Milo, Jess Harnell, Lisa Raggio, Pat Fraley, Phillip Proctor, Xander Berkley
6	Tick vs. Filth	1996-10-26
Sewer Urchin battles his arch enemy, the Sewer Czar, earning the respect of his fellow superheroes. Guest stars: Chuck McCann, David L. Lander, John Mariano
5	Devil in Diapers	1996-10-12
Mr. Mental steals a device from Dr. Pendecker that lets him hypnotize Arthur and the Tick into thinking he's a baby so they'll protect him. Unfortunately, Mental leaves the device in the taxi and has to recover it. Guest stars: Canned Walla, Jennifer Darling, Jim Cummings, Mark Hamill
4	Tick vs. Arthur	1996-10-05
Arthur is annoyed at his failed attempts to lose weight and dismayed at how much of a wimp he is. When he and Tick defeat a villain named Evil, Arthur takes Evil's strength-enhancing belt. When Arthur wears it, he gains confidence and likes seeing himself with a muscular physique. While dating Carmalita, Arthur picks a fight with two guys to show his new strength and confidence. The Tick is called in to end the fight and he tangles with Arthur. In the end, Arthur must get rid of his strength belt to save his and Tick's life. Arthur realizes the addiction the belt gave him and tosses it away so that he can be himself. Guest stars: Brian Peck, Jennifer Hale
3	Sidekicks Don't Kiss	1996-09-28
The Deerfield Aztecs, a baseball team, crashed in Mexico and formed their own lost tribe of real Aztecs. They track their missing shortstop, Carmalita (Arthur's girlfriend) to America but grab Arthur instead. When the Tick and Carmalita pursue, the Aztecs and their leader Wally unleash ""Speak"", some kind of lowly animal that they intend to wed Arthur to. Tick takes a shine to ""Speak"" (as he names him) and he defeats the Aztecs and rescues Arthur. Guest stars: Jennifer Hale, Jess Harnell, Phil Austin, Phillip Proctor
2	Tick vs. Dot & Neil's Wedding	1996-09-21
Dinosaur Neil, palaeontologist, curator of Dinosaur Grotto and one-time giant city-destroying mutant, is marrying Arthur's sister Dot. Chairface Chippendale, The Breadmaster and El Seed have other plans, though - plans which involve tampering with Neil's medication, man-eating bouquets, exploding wedding cake, and The Indigestible Man. And as if that wasn't enough, Neil's best man is... The Tick! It's up to our blue hero, Arthur and Dot to save Neil, with the aid of a submarine and 1,400 pounds of pungent raw meat... Guest stars: Danny Mann, Ed Gilbert, Pat Musick, Roddy McDowall, Tony Jay
1	That Mustache Feeling	1996-09-14
The Mustache, a U.S. secret weapon, escapes from the lab and tries to team up with its counterpart, the Russian Beard. In hot pursuit are Jim Rage and the Ladies of Project: Shave, so the Mustache takes refuge on the Tick's lip. Meanwhile, Dinosaur Neil and Dot plan for their marriage. Guest stars: Brad Garrett, Danny Mann, Dorian Harewood

Season 2 (show/hide)
13	Grandpa Wore Tights	1996-02-17
The Terror sends his so-so villainous son Terry to recover his Desire-O-Vac - he lost it in an epic battle against the Decency Squad decades ago. The Tick is there listening to the old-time Squadders' tales and eventually gets involved, but it's a rebellious Terry and the aged Decency Squad members who save the day. Guest stars: Cam Clarke, Jess Harnell, Jim Cummings, Kevin Schon, Maurice LaMarche, Pat Fraley, Peter Bergman, Rob Paulsen, Susan Blu
12	Tick vs. Reno, Nevada	1996-02-10
When Reno entertainers Soren and Frederica lose their prized animal, a trained dolphin, they call upon Arthur (they know his parents), and he and the Tick come to their aid. Little do they know that the dolphin, The Fin, plans to rule the world with his newly-invented Fish Magnet, with which he plans to bury the city in fish. The Tick must cope with his newfound weakness - gambling addiction - but manages to overcome it and beat The Fin by holding his breath longer.
11	Tick vs. the Big Nothing	1996-02-03
An alien race called the ""Whats"" kidnap the Tick and Arthur to attempt to thwart their nemesis' the ""Heys"" from destroying the universe. Guest stars: Hank Saroyan, Steve Susskind
10	The Tick Loves Santa!	1995-11-25
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, Arthur, and their superhero friends are called upon to rid The City of this Christmas menace. Guest stars: Jim Cummings
9	Ants in Pants!	1995-11-18
Betty, Queen of the Ants, leads the ants of the City in revolt - it loses its major defender when the Tick is thoroughly creeped out and checks himself into Captain Sanity's Superhero Sanitarium. Betty and her minions capture the other heroes and lock them up in a giant People Farm, then collect enough glass to build a giant magnifying glass and use sunlight to fry them. Fortunately the Tick regains his (normal) sanity in the nick of time and saves the day. Guest stars: Cathy Moriarty
8	Heroes	1995-11-11
A camera crew follows the Tick and Arthur around for a day of crime fighting as they do battle with a unique villain. Guest stars: Jess Harnell, Maurice LaMarche, Paul Eiding
7	Evil Sits Down for a Moment	1995-11-04
A villain who can animate furniture and make it do her bidding falls in love with Die Fledermaus and tries to take over The City, with hilarious consequences and sexy results. Guest stars: Mary Kay Bergman
6	Bloomsday	1995-10-21
El Seed has returned and this time he wants to destroy the whole city by making a 400 year flower bloom in ""the bad way"". This flower will bloom in this ""bad way"", when there is no gentle music around. But when Professor Ichibana, owner of this rare & amazing flower, switches flowers with The Tick and Arthur, these accursed superheroes are tossed in El Seed's salad once again. El Seed creates Rosebud, who manages to steal the flower from Arthur. El Seed makes the flower bloom in ""the bad way"", but even he cannot control it's powers. Only the Tick's opera singing can save the City now... Guest stars: Ed Gilbert
5	Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!	1995-10-07
A flunky of air conditioner repair school makes a time machine and goes back and kidnaps the greatest inventors of all time so he can go back in time and reinvent everything. Guest stars: Paul Williams
4	Coach Fussell's Lament	1995-09-30
The evil Brainchild returns and using his Nanny-of-the-Apocalypse, captures the Tick and transforms him into a two-headed bird that speaks bad French. Thus rendered powerless, The Tick is auctioned off by Brainchild, and it's up to the other heroes to sneak into the villain gathering and save him. Guest stars: Pat Musick, Stuart Stone, Tony Jay
3	Armless But Not Harmless	1995-09-23
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 reclaim their errant extremities and save the day. Guest stars: Gerrit Graham, Kevin Schon, Linda Gary
2	Alone Together	1995-09-16
The Tick is sent into space to blow the ""CHA"" out of the Moon from when Chairface tried to write his name in the moon. He blows the letter C up while he's inside it and gets sent through space. While in space he comes across a fantastically large alien named Omnipotus. The Tick befriends him and becomes a janitor on his body. But Omnipotus is an eater of planets and plans to eat the Earth when they get to it. Guest stars: Pat Fraley, Ronald Feinberg, Tony Jay
1	The Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love	1995-09-09
When Arthur goes off on a date with Carmalita on Hobby Night, Tick builds himself a new sidekick - Little Wooden Boy. Swiss Commandoes are after the notebook of Dr. Vahtoss, Carmalita's father and the inventor of Arthur's flight suit. And Blowhole, a giant long-distance running whale, accidentally swallows everyone, forcing the Tick to light up Little Wooden Boy to cause Blowhole to choke them up. Yep, just another day in The City... Guest stars: Jennifer Hale, Kevin Schon, Steve Susskind

Season 1 (show/hide)
13	The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account	1995-02-11
The Tick blows Arthur's bank account to upgrade his apartment into their secret headquarters - when Arthur doesn't take it well, Tick moves out and forms his own HQ - a rather shaky ""Crime Tower."" Hearing that the Tick is out of action, the 115-year old Terror summons his allies, Stalingrad, the Human Ton and Handy, Tuun-La, and the Man Eating Cow, and forms a new League of Evil to kidnap the mayor. Desperate, American Maid and the Arthur send forth the Tick Signal and the Tick realizes it is his destiny to be with Arthur and fight crime - the League is no match for the assembled heroes. Guest stars: Jim Cummings, m Robertson, Maurice LaMarche, Maurice LaMarcheRob Paulsen
12	The Tick vs. the Proto-Clown	1995-02-04
The Tick gets knocked into space and into a self-exploratory journey by a giant genetically-enhanced clown. The remaining superheroes are forced to try to fight off the evil proto-clown until the Tick returns. Guest stars: Kevin Schon, Pat Fraley, Phil Proctor, Rob Paulsen, Roger Rose, Susan Silo
11	The Tick vs. the Mole-Men	1994-11-19
The Mole Men come to the surface on vacation and the Tick ends up being their tour guide and protector - they meet supermodel Mindy Moleford and pursue her romantically. Complicating matters is the arrival of the Lava Man, who tries to kill the Mole King. Guest stars: Dan Castellaneta, Gail Matthius, Jess Harnell, Micky Dolenz, Townsend Coleman
10	The Tick vs. Pineapple Pokopo	1994-11-12
The government asks the Tick and Arthur to help when a space capsule with a monkey (with super smarts due to exposure with cosmic rays) crash lands in Pokoponesia - the heroes must recover the monkey. The two plus American Maid go there and find themselves in battle with the country's evil ruler, Pineapple Pokopo. Guest stars: Dorian Harewood
9	The Tick vs. Brainchild	1994-11-05
While shopping, the Tick and Arthur run afoul of Charles, aka Brainchild - a 9-year old with his brain in a transparent dome on his head. Assisted by his cyborg dog Skippy, Charles uses his multi-mega-destructor cannon to smash the Moon into the Earth, and only the Tick can save the day!
8	The Tick vs. the Uncommon Cold	1994-10-29
The Tick falls prey to an uncommon cold and is a less then subtle sufferer - Arthur while tending him goes next door and is kidnapped by Thrakkorzog, evil ruler of Dimension 14B. Thrak plans to conquer Earth with an army of Tick clones, but all that an Arthur-clone can get in the way of Tick's cell samples is mucus from his handkerchiefs. This leads to the creation of Mucus Tick, whom The Tick must battle for the sake of the world! Guest stars: Jim Cummings, Kim Robertson
7	The Tick vs. the Tick	1994-10-22
The Tick and the gang take Arthur's sister's car to a Superhero night club. Arthur can't get in because he's a sidekick so he has to wait in the sidekicks lounge. A pseudo-superhero calling himself the Tick comes to the club and he and The Tick battle. Also a skinny, tiny villian called the ""Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight"" tries to blow up the superhero night spot, with hilarious consequences. Guest stars: Cam Clarke, Jess Harnell, Jim Cummings, Kevin Schon, Maurice LaMarche, Pat Fraley, Susan Silo
6	The Tick vs. El Seed	1994-10-15
Flowers all around the City have come alive and are attacking the citizens. The criminal responsible is the evil Spanish sunflower El Seed, who wants revenge on humans and animals for mistreating flowers. When the Tick encounters him on his cropduster, El Seed sprays the Tick with a rapid plant-growth formula, causing flowers and plants to bloom all over his body. The Tick must get the antidote to save the City and himself, while fighing El Seed and his army of corn-soldiers. Fortunately he gets some help from the Civic-Minded Five. Guest stars: Ed Gilbert
5	The Tick vs. the Breadmaster	1994-10-08
The Breadmaster and his sidekick, Buttery Pat, plot to conquer The City by baking a giant Lemon Dessert Souffle and only The Tick and Arthur can stop him. The Tick uses the Human Cannon's cannon to fire himself, create a sonic boom, and collapse the Souffle before it can crush The City. Guest stars: Roddy McDowall
4	The Tick vs. Mr. Mental	1994-10-01
The Tick's mind is taken over by an evil mind controller, Mr. Mental. (Yes, the Tick actually does have a mind). Mr. Mental uses the Tick to get a machine that will increase his mind abilities even more. It's up to Arthur and his other superhero friends to break the Tick out of Mr. Mental's control Guest stars: Jennifer Darling, Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen
3	The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil	1994-09-24
The Tick and Arthur go on a trip to a field park about dinosaurs. There they meet Dinosaur Neil, a scientist who shows the two that he has a real dinosaur cell, but it would grow if it isn't kept in a special substance. Neil accidently eats the cell and slowly turns into a half-man, half-dinosaur monster. Arthur realizes the ""special"" substance was merely aspirin, so he gets The Tick to feed a giant aspirin to the man-beast, turning him back into a human. In the end, Neil starts talking to and dating Arthur's sister, Dot. Guest stars: Kim Robertson
2	The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale	1994-09-17
The Tick, American Maid, and Arthur go undercover as caterers to infiltrate Chairface Chippendale's party. Chippendale has gathered the City's criminal underworld to witness his latest scheme - employing Professor Chromedome to inscribe Chairface's name on the Moon! The Tick blows their cover but the trio escapes Chippendale's death trap and manages to stop him before he can carve more than the first three letters of his name on the Moon. Guest stars: Hamilton Camp, Pat Fraley, Rob Paulsen, Tony Jay
1	The Tick vs. the Idea Men	1994-09-10
The super-strong but slow-witted and pretty much insane superhero called ""The Tick"" is assigned to defend ""The City"". Arriving there, he meets Arthur, a bank accountant who got fired for wearing his moth suit (that everyone mistakes for a bunny costume). The Tick asks Arthur to become his sidekick and reside in their headquarters: Arthur's apartment. Some criminals calling themselves ""The Idea Men"", guys who don't want to work anymore and are impossible to understand because of their full-face masks, rob a bank. They fail, thanks to the Tick, but manage to escape. They proceed to threaten to blow up the City's bank if they don't get a million bucks, so the Tick and Arthur go out once more to stop their evil ways. Guest stars: Pat Fraley

Season 0 (show/hide)
4	Viewer Mail
A combination of multiple viewer mail as analyzed by the Tick.
3	Tick Interviews
Arhur and the Tick are interviewed to uncover the secret to the dynamic duo
2	Tick Sums It Up
The tick philosophically sums up multiple episodes
1	Arthur Explains It
Arthur explains the background and research put into multiple episodes

(Source: thetvdb.com)

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