The WORST episodes of Weird Science

Every episode of Weird Science ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 11/9/2024Network: USA NetworkStatus: Ended
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Stalag 16
star
6.14
7 votes

#1 - Stalag 16

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1997

Principal Scampi is given a China pig award from Chett, and also receives the title Educator of the Decade. Lisa creates a fun holodeck for the boys to fight in, similar to Stalag 17.

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Strangers in Paradise
star
6.33
6 votes

#2 - Strangers in Paradise

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/10/1996

Lisa grants Chett a wish- to be stranded on a deserted island. However, as usual, Lisa's magic goes awry, and Lisa is trapped on the island with him. Not only are they on a desert island, but they are in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, which hinders Lisa's magical powers from working. Not only do Chett and Lisa not get along, but a hurricane is headed directly for the island. Gary and Wyatt try to rescue the two, but have trouble when facing their nemesis- Adam West.

Directors: David Grossman
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Swallow 13
star
6.86
35 votes

#3 - Swallow 13

Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/3/1996

Chett swallows a very rare invitation (complete with directions) to an underground rave. So, Lisa miniaturizes herself, Gary, Wyatt, and a space ship. They take a ride inside of Chett in hopes of getting the directions back. Just as in ""Fantastic Voyage,"" Lisa, Wyatt, and Gary get to see way too much of Chett... The complete inside of him. However, during the trip, Chett's girlfriend Sharon breaks up with him, and Wyatt gets Post Miniaturization Stress-Syndrome, causing him to go mad. Wyatt tries to ruin the plans of the mission, and the ship ends up running out of oxygen. Lisa and Gary need stone cold Chett to cry, or else be trapped inside his body with no air.

Directors: David Grossman
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Fly Boy
star
7.08
38 votes

#4 - Fly Boy

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/22/1995

Lisa zaps Gary up a pair of flying shoes. When Gary is spotted as a UFO, two FBI agents, agent Scolder and agent Molly, arrive to investigate the spottings. They find a real case with Lisa, a magical genie.

Directors: David Grossman
Writer: Jeff Vlaming
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Cyrano DeBrainiac
star
7.34
61 votes

#5 - Cyrano DeBrainiac

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/1994

After not being able to get a date, Gary needs some help. Lisa conjures up the brain of Albert Einstein. Lisa ends up falling in love with the brain in the Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket.

Directors: Mark Jean
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Phantom Scampi
star
7.49
39 votes

#6 - Phantom Scampi

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1996

In order to get Principal Scampi off of his back for a while, Wyatt shoots him with a buddy dart. The dart makes Principal Scampi Wyatt's new best friend. When Wyatt gets sick of hanging around with the principal, he decides it's time to break up the relationship. Principal Scampi then becomes Phantom Scampi. Phantom Scampi lives in Farber High and secretly protects Wyatt.

Directors: David Grossman
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Gary Had a Little Cram
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7.60
40 votes

#7 - Gary Had a Little Cram

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1997

Wyatt wants a good sturdy envelope for his application to Paxton University. So, Lisa zaps the envelope and makes in invincible. She tests it herself by blowing it up, setting it on fire, and allowing Chett to play with it. With all of the talk about college, Gary realizes that he hasn't applied anywhere. He begs Lisa and Wyatt to help him, but Lisa won't use any magic to get him into a school. However, after Gary talks about getting into college would mean to him, Lisa gives him a helmet that allows him to win the triathalon at Farber High. However, Gary finds fame after winning, and may not even bothering going to college since he's extremely popular and has many deals to endorse products.

Directors: David Grossman
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It Takes a Geek
star
7.61
38 votes

#8 - It Takes a Geek

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/2/1996

Lisa gets trapped inside of Principal Scampi's computer. In order to get Lisa back, Wyatt and Gary need to steal the computer. They enlist the help of Chett and create a plan to break in and get the computer.

Directors: David Grossman
Writer: Chris Black
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Killer Party
star
7.61
46 votes

#9 - Killer Party

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/28/1994

Gary wants to throw the party of all parties. So he does. Trouble is, he throws it in Wyatt's house while his parents are gone. Unexpectedly, Wyatt's parents return home. Trying to fix the situation, Lisa zaps Wayne and Marcia Donnelly's brains into the brains of sixteen year old party-goers, as well as zapping Emily and Al Wallace's brains. From then on, all heck breaks loose. Wyatt's mom hits on Gary due to his great set of buns and Gary's dad shows off his stomach. Later, Chett holds everyone hostage with a gun.

Directors: Tom Spezialy
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It's a Wonderful Life... Without You
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7.63
38 votes

#10 - It's a Wonderful Life... Without You

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/27/1996

After Chett hits Wyatt in the face with a ceramic ashtray, Wyatt wishes that Chett could see what his life would be like without Wyatt around. Lisa, always eager to help, zaps up a world where Wyatt has never been born, but only exist as phantoms. The plan doesn't work out as planned when Wyatt finds out that everyone ends up having a better life without him around. Gary's now the big man on campus and Chett's heading off to college. Even worse, Lisa can't bring herself and Wyatt back from the alternate planet. Their only option is to somehow get Gary and Chett to create a genie of their own.

Writer: Kari Lizer
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Slow Times at Farber High
star
7.66
35 votes

#11 - Slow Times at Farber High

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/9/1996

Gary screws up yet again. This time he has sucked all of the intellignce from everyone at Farber High, using a magic brain vacuum. The brain power from the students forms into a giant orb that wants to take over the world. Gary must outwit the wit of every single student at Farber High.

Directors: David Grossman
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She's Alive
star
7.66
127 votes

#12 - She's Alive

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1994

Similar to the movie, best friends Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly use Wyatt's computer to create their perfect woman. Lisa is the woman/genie that they created- brought to life by a freak lightning storm. Lisa uses her magical powers to get the boys dates.

Directors: Max Tash
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Airball Kings
star
7.67
49 votes

#13 - Airball Kings

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/16/1994

Gary and Wyatt want a spot on the basketball team. Unfortunately, neither of them has any ounce of athletic ability. Lisa decides to grant their wish by putting Coach Armstrong's brain in their bodies. Coach Armstrong believes that they are the stars of the team. Unfortunately for Gary and Wyatt, they suck. The boys awful playing leads to a downward spiral. Farber High can't win a game- making the other team members angry, as they realize that the guys don't have any game.

Directors: Max Tash
Writer: Jeff Vlaming
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Wicked Wish
star
7.70
37 votes

#14 - Wicked Wish

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/18/1998

In a Snow White parody, Mrs. Donnelly doesn't feel pretty anymore. Lisa tries to help her out, but instead makes Mrs. Donnelly want to be the fairest of them all.

Directors: David Grossman
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Magnifico Dad
star
7.70
88 votes

#15 - Magnifico Dad

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/26/1994

As usual, Lisa's wish doesn't work exactly as it was supposed to. Gary's wish makes his father, Al, switch places with stud Magnifico, making Gary realize that having a studly dad isn't as great as it sounds.

Directors: Mark Jean
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I Dream of Gene
star
7.71
38 votes

#16 - I Dream of Gene

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

Lisa wants someone else to talk to. Someone that understands her better. - So, she decides to look for other magic genies in the world. She meets one in Texas, Gene. Chett gets jealous and searches the teapot in which Gene lives. Chett finds the address of Gene's master and lets his master know where gene is. Later, after Lisa finds out, Chett realizes that he made a mistake. He tries to get Gene back, and Gene is finally free of being trapped in the clutches of his master. However, the second after he's free, he leaves Lisa for another woman.

Directors: Sandy Smolan
Writer: Jeff Vlaming
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Strange Daze
star
7.73
37 votes

#17 - Strange Daze

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/22/1996

Lisa gives the school a technological upgrade to fufill Wyatt's wish. Unfortunately, Gary and Wyatt end up in a bad sci-fi movie plot from the 80's. In this school, zombie teenagers are having their hormones taken away by Future Scampi. Gary and Wyatt are considered outlaws and are hunted down by the team of hall monitors that Scampi has assembled.

Directors: Tom Spezialy
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Unplugged
star
7.74
38 votes

#18 - Unplugged

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/5/1994

Gary and Wyatt make another wish- to be rock stars. What better way to get girls? The guys and Lisa make up the new rock group MegaHurtz. Unfortunately for the band, they can't write any new songs after their first hit. The group crashes within a week. Gary can't believe that his fame and fortune is over, so he becomes a regular game show contestant and records a new single with Alvin and the Chipmunks. He also becomes the national spokeman for a hemorrhoid cream called Analene.

Directors: David Grossman
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The Most Dangerous Wish
star
7.74
42 votes

#19 - The Most Dangerous Wish

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/20/1994

After waiting on the boys hand and foot while they play a new computer game that *she* got them, Lisa feels like she's being taken for granted. After the boys decide that her game wasn't hard enough and want more levels, Lisa grants their wish by bringing the game to real life. Now the evil alien Zanthrax is after Gary and Wyatt for real. After taking Lisa hostage, Gary and Wyatt must enter the world of Cyberspace to rescue her. - And Chett's actually nice for once and agrees to help Wyatt and Gary kill Zanthrax.

Directors: Max Tash
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I, Chettus
star
7.75
36 votes

#20 - I, Chettus

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/1997

When greeted at school by Principal Scampi in a toga, Gary and Wyatt know that something is wrong. They are in trouble for not only being late, but for not being dressed properly. They must go back to Ancient Rome and fix what Chett has done.

Directors: Tom Spezialy
Writer: Chris Black
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Teen Lisa
star
7.75
40 votes

#21 - Teen Lisa

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/29/1995

Wyatt and Gary think that being a genie would be easy. Lisa thinks that being a teenager and going to high school is easy. So, they switch places. The now teenage Lisa falls head over heels for the popular guy at school, Lyle, and tries to make friends with girls who aren't very accepting of her. Meanwhile, the guys try their luck at zapping up things, messing up every time.gets turned into a poodle

Directors: Les Landau
Writer: Kari Lizer
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One Size Fits All
star
7.76
50 votes

#22 - One Size Fits All

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/1994

Wyatt's got a crush on a girl that spends almost all her time doing athletics and other physical fitness activities. The problem? She's never going to notice Wyatt. So, Lisa conjures up a muscle suit for Wyatt to wear to give him the body of a buff stud. After borrowing the suit, Gary puts in the dryer, which is a major don't. The suit shrinks and Wyatt's left once angain without muscles.

Directors: Mark Jean
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Nightmare on Chett St.
star
7.76
42 votes

#23 - Nightmare on Chett St.

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/17/1994

Lisa creates a new magical invention- Dream Chairs. These chairs let Gary and Wyatt enter the minds of anyone. Something goes wrong and Gary is trapped inside of Chett's head. The good part? Gary gets to control part of Chett's body. Chett is on the first day of his new job as a busboy at Java Man. If the job doesn't go smoothly, he's getting kicked out of the house. What does Gary do? Try and get Chett fired.

Directors: David Grossman
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Circuit Courtship
star
7.77
39 votes

#24 - Circuit Courtship

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/22/1994

Lisa creates a new supercomputer for Wyatt and Gary named Hank. At the beginning, Hank is wonderful. He knows what the guys want and does it for them, from changing their grades to getting Principal Scampi summoned for Jury duty. The trouble is, Hank falls in love with Lisa and decides that he needs to delete the competition (AKA Gary and Wyatt).

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Camp Wannabe
star
7.78
40 votes

#25 - Camp Wannabe

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/15/1994

At Java Man, Gary gets a huge shock. The girl that he had a crush on during summer camp is now dating the guy that tortured him during his stay at Camp Hi-Di-Ho. Not only is Jeremy Scanlon now dating Gary's old crush, he's also student body president. Now Gary wants revenge on the boy that tied him to a tree wearing nothing but a sock. So, Lisa takes the boys back to summer camp in 1985 and they pose as camp counselors. The guys save the eight year old Gary from getting tied to the tree. While at the camp, Wyatt finds that the English teacher he has a crush on used to work there as a camp counselor in 1985, when she was his age. Now he has a chance with her! When the gang returns to present-day, it turns out that their plan worked a little too well. Jeremy is no longer the man that he once was. His clean-shaven appearance and cologne have now been replaced by dirt and the smell of trash. The only way to fix this is to go back to Camp Hi-Di-Ho and let Jeremy humiliate Gary...

Directors: David Grossman
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