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.
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.
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.
Wayne creates the Szalinski Scan-O-Caster a machine that scans text, converts the narrative into tangible holograms, and projects the stories as 3-D images. Accidently a bok falls on the machine, turns it on and makes all the Urban legends come to life. Meanwhile there's a new kid at Nick's school, David Foaf, he is a very weird kid with a very weird family. Discover how the Szalinskis will get rid of all those Urban legends, the ones are told by the Friend Of A Friend.
Wayne gets a grant to work someplace else. He invented a machine that will make old people feel and act younger. The machine instead made Wayne and Diane older and an old couple younger. Now it is up to the kids to get the old couple back before their parents die
Wayne and his family are going camping wiht the chief and his kids. Wayne makes a home away from home that he carries on his back. At night time during a storm it took them back to the prehistoric age and now they must figure out a way to get back to the furture. Chief thinks a cute guy is making go-go eyes at his girl. :)
After wrestlers Bret and Owen Hart are injured at the Szalinskis', Wayne and the Chief agree to take their places in a match, aided by Wayne's remote-controlled bodysuit.
Nick invents a machine of his own in an attempt to resurrect his dead pet bunny, Copernicus. Things go wrong when his invention summons a monstrous creature from another dimension that possesses the body of his deceased friend.
To save his bankrupt company, Jennings sends Wayne to find a magical stone that can turn metals into gold. But Jennings' greed alters the stone's power.
Wayne works on a superhero suit to combat a crime wave by off-road bikers.
Amy's use of a mental enhancer also gives her power over nature, which goes to her head as she establishes herself as a supreme ruler.
Jennings romantically pursues Diane after using Wayne's ""Electric Chair of Love""; Amy and Nick contract chicken pox, forcing Diane to move into a hotel.
Amy's science teacher quit unexpectantly so her dad volunteers to teach. The first few days were tough with bullies giving him a hard time. So he makes a formula to make him charming so that the students would like him. Amy catches him and tries to alter the formula. However, something went wrong and the formula made Wayne act like a really bad person. Now it is up to the rest of the family to find a way to get Wayne back. Meanwhile, Diane and Nick tries to give Quark a bath. Quark hides by using a time machine.
Wayne's dead uncle came to him for some reason. Wayne feels that his uncle is butting into his life. A new boss has taken over jentech west and has a new guy. Wayne's uncle finds info about this guy after wayne told him to leave him alone and not interfere. This info was that the guy who became Wayne's new supervisor steals invention and patents them as his own.
Wayne is knocked senseless by a tree while trudging home in a blizzard and awakens to find himself on trial in Dreamland because of his erratic inventions.
While Wayne and Diane are out celebrating the anniversary of their first date, Amy's party is crashed by a group of aliens contacted by Nick using one of Wayne's communication gizmos.
Wayne invented a really cool invention called the 3dier. It turns people into different people. The invention and Wayne got nominated for inventiors regignition achievement award. An evil clown tries to steal the invention and fram Wayne. Wayne gets framed and sent to jail. But luckily he got out. Now it is up to Team szalinski to stop this clown and clear Wayne's name.
Wayne's comment at a seminar offends some witches. The witches cast spells on the family. Now they must stop; the witches and get Nick back.
Wayne goes back in time to prove to his family that the Bopkas and the song he likes really do exists. Well there he finds out that they are russian spies with plans to take over the world by overthrowing parents. The family goes back in time to find and help him stop them. One question remains if they never sang the song, then where did he hear it. Watch it to find the answer
Wayne brings a dead man's brain back to life. The man has an evil plan to take Wayne's family away. Wayne must stop this guy.
Diane's sister, Elaine, is in town. Wayne doesn't like her. So he and Amy tried to lock up the house to make Elaine think they aren't home but Diane came down and let her in. So Wayne tries to invent something so he could understand her. As usual Wayne's creation went wrong and Elaine's personality got into Wayne's Brain. Now the family must work together to get everything back to normal until they found out that the Elaine's help is evil. She took control of Elaine's body. Now the family must stop her.
Wayne and the kids settles down to watch tv during a big storm in town. He had invented a remote control that will bring any tv shows you could ever watch from the past to now. (sounds awesome, doesn't it?) Well, somehow they get sucked into the tv. Nick goes through a few shows destined for destruction in each of them. Wayne and Amy goes looks for Nick before time runs out. They finally all land in an animated show. Diane and the Chief come home and finds them in the tv. Can they pull Wayne and the kids out?
Wayne is busy trying to perfect his Hypolyptical Organic Oxide Ray (a.k.a. the Hoo-Ray), a device based on mood-ring technology that will cause people to be happy, thus ending war and boosting global self-esteem. Wayne's new foreign assistant, Vlad Bolvahnicz, cautions that changing nature isn't necessarily a good thing. For example, because of accidental global warming, his once-frozen country is now covered with grass and butterflies, destroying their snowshoe and dog-sled economy. Wayne, however, is not convinced. While working late on the project, Vlad is visited by members of the Global League of Oppressed Madmen (GLOOM). Vlad is actually an anarchist too, and his job at Jentech is part of GLOOM's eco-terrorist plot to teach the industrialized, polluting Western hemisphere a lesson by destroying a key polluter city. GLOOM is thwarted, but Wayne realizes they were doing the wrong things for the right reasons -- science shouldn't try to change the way people think and feel - and he
Ninjas invade Matheson, and Team Szalinski is in for a lot of kung fu fighting to save the town. The ninjas first arrive at a restaurant while the Szalinkis are having dinner with Jake. When they attack, Wayne fights back and the ninjas retreat, warning that they'll be back. A monk, Master P'tui, appears to help Wayne and teach him martial arts. Wayne has several fights with the ninjas as he tries to protect his family and friends. Meanwhile, Nick, tired of being bullied into doing other people's homework, invents a spray that can turn anyone into a kung fu expert. Lord Bilious, an odd British fellow, wants Diane to defend him after he tried to bribe town officials and landowners to sell him the town. Turns out Lord Bilious is as crazy as he is rich. After Amy sees his manservant, Neato, giving money to the ninjas, Lord Bilious admits he hired the ninjas to take over the town so he could build an empire. When Lord Bilious kidnaps Diane and Amy, Wayne and Nick rush to fight Bilious and
Crazy greedy Jennings bets his company even though he can't play golf very well. He askes Wayne to build golf clubs to help them win. Jennings gets hurt so poor Wayne must play. In the later part of the game he realizes that golf is geometric. Will he come through saving the company and the town? Meanwhile Diane and the kids are feeling crowded with Wayne's invention so they decided to sell the stuff they dont' use but after a while people don't like them so now they have to get them all back.
Randy Rude the Science Dude comes into town to visit. He wants to get married so Wayne tries to fix him up wiht the love chair and love booster. Somethings happen when Randy tries to leave with the van and pressed the booster button that blasts them into space. Or were they really in space? Find out where they really were. hm