The BEST episodes of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show season 1

Every episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show season 1!

Wayne Szalinski, the show's protagonist, is the husband of Diane and the father of Amy and Nick. The well-meaning Wayne constructs a variety of inventions, including the Shrink-Ray, Neuron Nudger and Brainiactivator among others, that create predicaments for his family. His wife, Diane Szalinski (Barbara Alyn Woods), is a lawyer. Diane supports Wayne and is very loving, but gets fed up with his antics. Amy Szalinski (Hillary Tuck) is the only daughter of the Szalinski's. She displays normal teenage angst, but comes to love her family more than anything else. Her younger brother, Nick (Thomas Dekker), is very much like his father. Nick likes to invent things and even looks like Wayne. He and Amy generally get along with each other.

Last Updated: 3/16/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Honey, You've Got Nine Lives
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9.33
3 votes

#1 - Honey, You've Got Nine Lives

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1997

Wayne invents a neuron nudger (which we will see for many episodes to come ) Bianca at his work told him not to show it to Mr.Jennings. Since Wayne is new there he belives her and doesn't show Jennings the inventions. Bianca sets a plan to destroy Wayne and steal his inventions. Diane accidently turns the neuron nudger on and got her brain into a Bianca's cat and the cat's brain into her body. Wayne accidently switchs his brain with Quark's. Can the kids stop Bianca and get their parents back? Wuf! Wuf! and Meow! Near the end everyone's brains are in someone else's body. Try and figure who brain is in who's and try to figure out how all the brains got to the right person. A little puzzle for the viewers :)

Directors: Robert Ginty
Honey, They're After Me Lucky Charms
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8.00
1 votes

#2 - Honey, They're After Me Lucky Charms

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1997

Wayne's invention succeeds in finding gold---a pot of doubloons claimed by a leprechaun, who puts a curse on the Szalinskis until they hand it over.

Honey, You're Living in the Past
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8.00
1 votes

#3 - Honey, You're Living in the Past

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1997

Diane wants to get in touch with her teenage-self so that she can understand what Amy and her new client, Howard, are going through. Wayne has invented a machine where you can see yourself in the past. The light goes out so Diane comes out as a teenager. Now Wayne must fix the machine and the family has to deal with Diane and her rebelious self. Will Diane go back to normal?

Directors: Scott McGinnis
Writer: Kari Lizer
Honey, Meet the Barbarians
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8.00
1 votes

#4 - Honey, Meet the Barbarians

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1998

Wayne accidently blows up the mayor's car in front of the mayor. Which is not good because Daine is trying to win the school board campign thing. Wayne knew he upseted her so he goes back in time to redo things. He went to far by accident. So far in fact that it was at the time of ""the barbarians"". He tells them he is a god so that they wont' kill him. He stays a month which is only a while in the present time. Nick works on getting him back. Wayne goes back and accidently brought the ""Barbarians"" with him. He tries to send them back but the machine broke. Diane talks aobut war in the school board and the barbarians misinterpreted as a real war as in swords and bad guys.

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Honey, He's Not Abdominable... He's Just Misunderstood
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8.00
1 votes

#5 - Honey, He's Not Abdominable... He's Just Misunderstood

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1998

Wayne turns Amy's bicycle into a super speed mountain bike. Amy goes on a bike ride to check out her crush. She drives through the woods and crashes. She twists her ankles and goes into a cave. Amy meets a Big foot and she names him George after Curious George. He saves her and takes Amy to her house. Now the family must get him back along with his wife, a Yeti!!

Directors: Chad Gottlieb
Honey, I'm in the Mood for Love
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8.00
1 votes

#6 - Honey, I'm in the Mood for Love

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1998

Since Diane is allergic to chocolate Wayne tries to take from the chocolate the ingredient that Diane is allergic to, but accidently creates a chocolate that makes people fall in love. Damon, Amy's best friend, has a crush on Amy and Nick tries to get Amy to eat the chocolate. When she finds out how the chocolates work, she tries to get her crush ""the make out king"" to eat it. Chaos breaks out when the kids try to get the chocolate in the right mouths but people either accidently eats it or something. Nick and Wayne have to figure out how to stop people from falling in love. The funny thing is that the answer is so simple that they overlooked it. Find out what the simple answer is. Also figure who is in love with who. Meanwhile crazy greedy Jennings tries to make himself a hunk but somehow becomes a bug. So now the family has two problems.

Directors: Tony Dow
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Honey, The Bear Is Bad News
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8.00
1 votes

#7 - Honey, The Bear Is Bad News

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/1998

Wayne reluctanly has to make a bear productive after speaking up his feelings at Jentech west. He makes the bear smart and while downloading data into the bear's computer chip, a virus name Legion comes into the chip. Now the bear is bent on taking over the world. The family now must stop the bear before he can wreck havoc on the world.

Directors: Scott McGinnis
Writer: Kat Likkel
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Honey, I'm Dreaming... But Am I?
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8.00
1 votes

#8 - Honey, I'm Dreaming... But Am I?

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/23/1998

The prospect of discecting a frog is giving Nick nightmares. Wayne invents a dream machine that would go into Nick's dream. He kills the frog then was stop by a dream guy. He was threatened never to come back into the dream world again. Amy went in against her dads wishes so now the family couldn't sleep or else they could die. Now the family must get out of dreamworld and be able to sleep.

Directors: Michael Lange
Honey, the Garbage Is Taking Us Out
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8.00
1 votes

#9 - Honey, the Garbage Is Taking Us Out

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/1998

Wayne wanting to please Nick invents a Refuse Ingesting Protozoa or RIP that would eat anything. Jennings, who is being tracked by an enviromentalist, puts toxic waste in Wayne's invention. RIP infected Quark, Quark infected the mail-man and so on. Now Wayne and family must stop these garbage-eating-zombies and get them to Jentech West where there is a high security system. However things failed when Jennings locked everyone in. He thought that the zombies were interns or something. Now they must stop these zombies and try to keep them from eating toxic waste. The zombies date the whole toxic watse and is now trying to eat humans. Now they must figure out a way to stop them before is too late.

Directors: Scott McGinnis
Writer: Jeff Vlaming
Honey, You're So Transparent
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8.00
1 votes

#10 - Honey, You're So Transparent

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1998

Wayne's Chameleonator makes people invisible. The Chameleonator was orginally made to change the people's skin color, so they wouldn't need to use make-up anymore. A mole in the company is telling another company about the invention. Amy and Wayne must stop the mole and get his invention back from the company that took it.

Honey, It's No Fun Being an Illegal Alien
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8.00
1 votes

#11 - Honey, It's No Fun Being an Illegal Alien

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1998

Arnox the alien who was in ""honey they called me the space cowboy"" is back again. This time he came for a visit only to have his space ship stolen AGAIN. It was stolen by the so-called men in black. Now the family must get the ship back from ""them men in black"" what are they really? find out

Directors: Tony Dow
Honey, I Got Duped
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7.33
3 votes

#12 - Honey, I Got Duped

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1997

While Wayne works on controlling the cloning of himself, one of his new selves takes his place at work, where Bianca becomes suspicious of his geniality. She gives his clone a friendship bracelet that was a tracking device. Wayne is down because his clone is doing better then the real him. He sneezes,swats,and stinks and makes new clones of himself. He saves the day in the end and all is right in Matheson.

Directors: Scott McGinnis
Honey, I'm Streakin'
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7.00
2 votes

#13 - Honey, I'm Streakin'

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1998

Wayne feels overwhelmed with work and his family all needing him. So he invents something that'll make him go from place to place in seconds. He sets the level on high and somehow travels at the speed of light. Jennings finds a copy of the invention and is traveling at the speed too and playing tricks on people. Nick who is sick is in the family's igloo thing that makes them better when sick. Wayne beeps Nick in morse code. Nick gets out and Wayne and Jennings got in. Will they go back to normal speed?

Writer: Kat Likkel
Honey, You Drained My Brain
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7.00
1 votes

#14 - Honey, You Drained My Brain

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/1998

Diane is very nervous about her case against and tough lawyer. Wayne invents a thinky ring to help her retrieve her thoughts better. She becomes a brain sucking vampire. She goes around the courthouse sucking brains. Wayne finds out and goes after her to lure her home. The kids at home make a brain protector. Nick got the ring off but somehow got it on his finger, which turn him into a brain sucking vampire. No one realizes it until it is too late and Nick plans to take over the world. By then Wayne and Amy brains has been suck. Daine figures things out and plots to fight Nick and get the ring off. Can she beat Nick's evil plan and return him back to normal all by herself?

From Honey, with Love
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7.00
2 votes

#15 - From Honey, with Love

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/1998

Wayne makes gadgets for spies in Canada. Now they are on a mission to stop a missile from blowing up the moon.

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Honey, the House Is Trying to Kill Us
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6.00
1 votes

#16 - Honey, the House Is Trying to Kill Us

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1997

After their home is burglarized, Wayne becomes concerned about his family's safety and invents a security system for their protection. F.R.A.N., the Felon Repeller & Accident Neutralizer takes her duties very seriously and involves herself in every facet of the household, including protecting Amy from bad fashion choices and Wayne from eating too much rich pie. Diane is wary of the overprotective computer, not realizing that F.R.A.N. has developed a mind of her own. When Wayne decides to pull the plug, F.R.A.N. holds the Szalinskis under ""house arrest."" Can Wayne demonstrate logically who is the real threat and get them sprung?

Directors: Tom Spezialy
Writer: Chris Black
Honey, I'm Haunted
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6.00
2 votes

#17 - Honey, I'm Haunted

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1997

Wayne invents something that could make your vision perfect. Nick tries it out and can see practically anything. Even dead people. He befriends a ""friendly"" ghost. In the ghost's time, he was a lawbreaker. He gets into Wayne's body. Nick realizes that the ghost isn't all that good. So he along with Wayne trying to get control of his body tries to get the ghost out. Nick, since he can see so well goes to a warehouse to find the guy who wants the ghost dead. Can they stop the ghost?

Directors: Bill Malone
Honey, We're Stuck in the 70's
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6.00
3 votes

#18 - Honey, We're Stuck in the 70's

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1997

Amy falls in love with her teacher. She finds out that her dad has made a time machine, Szalinski Time Hopper, so she decides to go back to the 70's to meet a her teacher, but when he was 17. Approximately two hours later she goes back to the future. She was mad but she really likes the guy. So she keeps going back in time until finally she got sick of it so she told Nick she was never coming back. She even ditched the recall watch. Nick tell his dad, so he goes back in time after her. By then Amy begins to dislike the 70's and wants to go back home. She starts crystalizing when her dad came for her. They made a Time Hopper with toys and tried to go back with it but something went wrong. So now the family must figure out a way to get back to the future before Amy crystilizes.

Directors: Valerie Breiman
Honey, I Shrunk the Science Dude
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6.00
1 votes

#19 - Honey, I Shrunk the Science Dude

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1997

Wayne accidently shrinks himself and his brother, Randy, who find themselves in little trouble when they are mistaken for McDonald's Happy Meal's Toys and brought home to a young boy who happens to be a fan of Randy's tv show, Randy Rude: The Science Dude.

Writer: Kat Likkel
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Honey, We've Been Swallowed by Grandpa
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5.67
3 votes

#20 - Honey, We've Been Swallowed by Grandpa

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1997

On their way to the mall in the family van, Wayne, Diane, and Amy are accidentally shrunk to near-microscopic size. Soon after, Grandpa Murdock drops by to pick up his grandson for a fishing trip. Nick feigns illness to avoid going with his grandfather, who then leaves, but not before inadvertently swallowing his mini-relatives -- van and all. Nick interprets Wayne's help message in the newspaper and realizing what has happened, rushes to his family's aid. It's a race against the clock. Can the tiny Szalinskis find a way out through Grandpa's body before the shrinking effect wears off in three hours?

Directors: David Grossman
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Honey, They Call Me the Space Cowboy
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#21 - Honey, They Call Me the Space Cowboy

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1997

To return from a time trip to 1864 Colorado, the Szalinskis must help an alien recover his starship from a ruthless gang, who master the alien's weapons and defenses.

Directors: Tony Dow
Honey, I Know What You're Thinking
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#22 - Honey, I Know What You're Thinking

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1997

Wayne's chemical to increase intelligence has different effects on the family, including mind reading and levitation, while their dog, Quark, is able to hypnotize people.

Directors: Robert Ginty