The Tick (Animated) Episode Guide, Season 1 - Pazsaz Entertainment Network

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The Tick vs. The Idea Men
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.

The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale
When "The 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 asChairface Chippendale begins an act so villainous that the whole world for generations to come will know his name?

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.

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 hypnotizesThe 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.

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

The Tick vs. El Seed
The Big City is besieged by plants with a life of their own. We find out it is a new villain named El Seed, who looks like a man with a sunflower head, who doesn't like the animal kingdom oppressors. The Tick and Arthur show up to foil his plans, but The Tick gets dusted literally and plants start to grow on his head and shoulders. The Tick is not all there up there, and he was never a genius in the first place. It falls to Arthur, a vegetable version of The Tick, and the Civic Minded Five to stop El Seed.

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.

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.

The Tick vs. 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 topping his head, a trained flying cyborg dog named Skippy, and a giant multi-mega-devastator cannon in his tree house 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.

The Tick vs. Pineapple Pocopo
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.

The Tick vs. The Mole Men
When The Tick and Arthur discover the Mole-Men (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, having fallen madly in love with supermodel Mindy Moleford). Eventually, all the forces of good combine to do battle with the menacing Lava Man.

The Tick vs. The Proto Clown
The Tick faces Proto Clown, who gets violent when people laugh at him.

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.