The BEST episodes of Weird Science
Every episode of Weird Science ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Weird Science!
Weird Science is a show based on the 1985 John Hughes movie of the same name. High school geeks Wyatt Donnelly and Gary Wallace create their dream girl, a magical genie named Lisa, on Wyatt's computer. Having a genie leads up to five seasons of unique adventures for the guys. The theme song for the series is the same as the movie- "Weird Science" by 80s group Oingo Boingo.
#1 - Gary and Wyatt's Bloodsucking Adventure
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/1/1996
Gary, Wyatt, and Lisa all decide to go clubbing after hours and become ""creatures of the night."" Lisa turns them all into cool vampires, except the fact that they crave Yoo-Hoo instead of blood. Being vampires gives the guys new powers. They now have the ability to hypnotize people, which they enjoy using on cute women. The night turns out to be not so great when they find themselves with a real group of bloodsucking vampires. Principal Scampi and Chett are determined to stop the vampires and become vampire hunters.
#2 - Funhouse of Death
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/24/1996
While at a carnival, Gary and Wyatt see a hot girl, Valerie, and have a falling out when they fight over her. Lisa zaps the boys into the carnival funhouse and leaves them there until they can stop fighting. They have fun opening mysterious doors trying to find Valerie, and Wyatt seems to get all the good ones- he even gets a puppy out of it. In the end, the guys both get dissed by Valerie as she chooses an evil funhouse clown over the both of them.
#3 - By the Time We Got to Woodstock
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/23/1996
After Gary and Wyatt wish that they could time travel, the wish goes bad and they end up stuck in 1969 along with Lisa. After six months of being in the past, they realize that Lisa can't remember anything. She thinks that she's a hippie on her way to Woodstock. Wyatt and Gary need to get across the country and fix Lisa's memory or be stuck in the hippie age. Wyatt, Gary, and Chett all go on a road trip across the country, even meeting the future president.
#4 - Magic Comet Ride
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/11/1998
Similar to Star Wars, Lisa joins her Genie Master on a comet to learn more about her powers.
#5 - You'll Never Eat Brains in This Town Again
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/30/1996
Wyatt and Gary are making a film entitled ""Night of the Blood-Sucking Zombie Sophomores."" Lisa even zaps up a couple of real rotting zombies to act in the movie. Everything is running smoothly until the zombies decide it's time for lunch and want to eat Principal Scampi's brain.
#6 - Demon Lisa
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/6/1996
On Halloween Lisa gets possessed by Cyber-Demon, an evil creature from the bad side of the internet. Now Cyber-Demon has complete control of Lisa and her powers. Not to mention the fact that the evil demon is sucking everyone's brain juice to feed itself. Now the only person that can help Gary and Wyatt is the mysterious ""Repairman.""
#7 - Cyborg Sam I Am
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/13/1996
In a box of Chett's old junk, Wyatt finds his old favorite toy, the Cyborg Sam action figure. Apparently, Chett had stolen it many years before. Lisa tries to help Wyatt have fun with his toys again, so she brings Cyborg Sam to life. Wyatt finds that having a man dressed up in a space suit follow him all day doesn't help out his lack of popularity.
#8 - Lisa's Childhood Memories
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/4/1996
It's time for Lisa's second birthday, but she isn't very happy because she doesn't have any family members or any other friends to invite to her party. Wyatt and Gary decide to give her the ultimate birthday gift by creating fake memories of a family life for her. Her party goes well until her family shows up. It turns out the Lisa's magic brought her family to life without her knowing. Her family consists of a secret agent dad, a barbarian queen for a mom, and her private detective brother, a chimp named Chad. Another unexpected guest shows up as well- Lisa's old boyfriend, Ripsaw the Gladiator. Lisa is set on marrying Ripsaw and Gary and Wyatt can't change her mind. The only way to stop Lisa from getting married is by Gary beating Ripsaw in a fierce game of miniature golf.
#9 - Lisarella
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/11/1996
When Gary makes a wish under his breath to try eyeliner, Lisa overhears, but mistakenly hears that he wishes he could fly a jet liner. So Lisa zaps the boys into a plane, but when neither of them know how to land it, she saves the day. However, Lisa is not allowed to be seen by everyone, so Gary and Wyatt get all of the credit for the landing. The President would also like to throw a ball in their honor and present them with an award. Since the ball is high profile, they leave Lisa at home and head off. Lisa is hurt by the fact that the guys won't even allow her to attend, but she decides to go to the ball anyway. She meets the President and they fall in love. Unfortunately, the President doesn't seem to have enough time in his schedule for Lisa. So it's up to the boys to talk to the President one on one and fix Lisa's broken heart.
#10 - Family Affair
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/18/1996
Gary starts dating Jenny Dreeson. Unfortunately, there's always a problem. Jenny's whole family hates Gary. Gary makes a wish that the Dreeson family loved him. The wish doesn't turn out as planned when all the members of the Dreeson family decide that they now want to date Gary. Gary's happy to oblige, and doesn't even realize the fact that dating an entire family isn't the best idea ever. Meanwhile, Chett gets to meet his future self, Robo-Chett.
#11 - It's a Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob World
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/15/1996
Wyatt is sick of his parents not paying any attention to him, so he wishes that his family could be closer and have better family values. Lisa's plan backfires and creates an world in which Wyatt has a family with very strong ties to each other- a family similar to that of the ""Godfather."" In this world, Wyatt Donnellis and his family are the masters of the Homeowners Association. They fix neighborhood Little League games and take kickbacks from children's lemonade stands. However, trouble is in store when Al Wallace tries to take on the Donnellis family. Gary and Wyatt find themselves against each other in the war.
#12 - Community Property
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/29/1996
Gary and Wyatt are fighting over the use of Lisa. Lisa gets annoyed by the fighting over her and decides to let the boys battle it out in court. Genie Cyber-Court, that is. The winner of the case wins the genie. Gary and Wyatt choose their own lawyers. Gary choosing B.F. Jackie (similar to Cockran), while Wyatt chooses Abe Lincoln. Both lawyers argue out each of their client's side. However, neither Gary nor Wyatt are found to be suitable to be awarded custody of Lisa, so she will be broken down the Internet will be given custody of her.
#13 - Pirates!
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/13/1996
Wyatt gets the lead role in ""Jolly Roger,"" the school musical. Wyatt has a crush on his leading lady, Jessica, unfortunately she doesn't return his feelings. Lisa tries to make her feel differently, but magic goes awry, and the musical is brought to reality. Now the entire high school is filled with singing pirates and their prisoner, Principal Scampi. Not to mention the fact that they choose a new King, Chett. Not too long after the pirates are discovered, they break out of school in their ship and go about town singing and dancing.
#14 - Girl Talk
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1997
Gary and Wyatt try to be girlfriends with Lisa by playing girly games with her, but that's not enough. Lisa wants some real girls to talk to. Lisa decides to become friends with one of the waitresses at the Java Man. However, trouble soon hits as Lisa must constantly lie to cover up the fact she's a magic genie. Lisa feels bad about lying all the time, so she decides to share her secret with the waitress. That doesn't turn out to be a good idea when the entire student body of Farber High finds out, and the world is on the verge of finding out about her.
#15 - Boys on the Hide
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1997
Principal Scampi is honored at a Farber High school assembly. Unfortunately, some of the students vandalized his photo beforehand. Principal Scampi doesn't have enough to go on to be able to figure out who committed the crime. Lisa feels sorry for him and says that she will help him find out which students are guilty. Unfortunately, as Lisa and Principal Scampi look for clues, they all lead to Wyatt and Gary, both of whom are innocent.
#16 - Forbidden Janet
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1997
Wyatt wants to finally meet the perfect girl for him so Lisa creates a magical hat that will turn Wyatt's dream girl into a real, live girl. However, when both Chett and Gary use the hat to create their dream girls, it turns out that only one girl can exist at a time.
#17 - Man's Best Friend
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1997
Two of Chett's frineds dump him out in the mountains, miles from anywhere. All of a sudden, Chett starts to be followed- by a dog. Chett starts bonding with the dog after saving his life from a truck. When Chett comes home and Lisa sees how nice Chett is with his dog, she turns him into a real, live man.
#18 - Show Chett
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/1997
Lisa decides to make Chett a male stripper at Chip 'N' Tails, the local women's club, after Chett continually shows that he thinks women are just sex objects. Chett quickly becomes an extremely popular stipper, er, ""dancer"".
#19 - Bee In There
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/1997
Wyatt and Gary both think about how their fathers never played with them when they were little. After hearing this, Lisa agrees to let the boys go back in time as their dads, so that they can spend a little time with themselves as children. The wish turns out awry when Gary gets put into his mother's body instead of his father's. When Wyatt and Gary as Wyatt's father and Gary's mom, start doing more things together, Wyatt's mom and Gary's dad think that something is going on between them.
#20 - Future Bride
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1997
Wyatt keeps going out on dates, but none of the girls are right for him. Lisa zaps up a Bride Detector, that will go off when your future wife is close to you. Wyatt's future wife is sitting right in the Java Man. Chett tries to use the detector to make Lisa think she'll be his future wife. So, he uses an engineering manual, and makes the detector go off when it's near Lisa. Unfortunately for him, Lisa knows all about what he's been up to, and strings him along. Wyatt loses his future wife after being too serious about the whole thing. And after it's all over, it turns out that the Bride Detector never really worked.
#21 - The Genie Detective
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/11/1997
While Gary and Wyatt are at school, Lisa plays a virtual reality game, the Genie Detective. She ends up in the 1930's. Chett joins her, but isn't prepared to play the game. He also doesn't know one important rule- when you die in the virtual reality world, you die in the real world, too. Now it's up to Lisa to save Chett. Wyatt joins the game to help, too.
#22 - School Spirits
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/11/1998
The ghosts of old Farber High faculty members are haunting the school. When the gang finds out that all they want is for the new library not to be built over their teacher's lounge, they cook up a plan to haunt Scampi 'The Shining' style.
#23 - Night of the Swingin' Steves
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/18/1998
Agents Scolder and Mully return as does the alien race of Steve.
#24 - Genie Junior
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/25/1998
Lisa wants to test Chett, and makes herself pregnant. Chett later wishes that the load was on him, and becomes pregnant instead of Lisa.
#25 - WS4
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/25/1998
When no one at Farber High is getting along, Lisa decides to zap up some aliens to help erase the hate. However, the aliens attack the school instead of helping matters out.