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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#6 - 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...
#7 - 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).
#8 - Switched at Birth
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/8/1994
Wyatt would like to see his parents more- they're always away somewhere. Gary on the other hand, feels like his parents are home too much. Lisa makes it so the boys can get what they want- They swap places. Now Wyatt can have Al and Emily Wallace, two parents that are always at home, and Gary can live with Wyatt's parents and be on his own. Gary decides to pass the time by racking up large bills on Mrs. Donnelly's platinum credit card. When it's time for the boys to go back to their own real families, Wyatt takes the fall for the credit card bills. Wyatt's parents have sold his computer (along with Lisa inside) in order to help pay off some of their credit card bills. Even worse, Wyatt's parents are planning on sending him to Westmonth Military Acedemy, the school that took Chett's love of ice skating and turned him into the man that he is today.
#9 - Copper Top Girl
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/1/1994
Wyatt is owed a favor from Gary and Wyatt wants wants to cash in the favor. He wants a date. Unfortunately, Gary is having troubles finding a girl that likes video games, foreign films, and MST3K. Gary decides it would be best to ask Lisa for help on this one. So, Lisa creates a robot girl named Rachel to go on the date with Wyatt. After the date, Wyatt and Rachel fall in love- Something that was *not* supposed to happen. Gary's going to have to break the news to Wyatt- he's in love with a hunk of metal.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Bazooka Boys
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/13/1994
Being busy high school students, Wyatt and Gary have way too much to do to fit it all into the twenty-four hours in a day. Lisa fixes this probably by creating clones of the boys. Out of bubble gum. That way, the real Gary and Wyatt can do all the fun, exciting things in life, while the clones can do the rest. The problem here? The clones make a better Gary and Wyatt than the real ones do. The two clones cook up a plan to kill the real Gary and Wyatt and take their place permanently.
#13 - Sex Ed
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/4/1994
Gary and Wyatt don't like the Sex Ed class that Farber High provides. No one will tell them about sex straight-out. As usual, Lisa tries to help solve the problem, by zapping something. This time she makes herself the teacher of Farber High's new and improved Sex Ed course. Gary ends up not enjoying this class as much as he thought. His lab project? Well, he needs to do an in class demenstration with his new lab partner.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Fatal Lisa
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/21/1994
Gary, being the horn-dog that he is, wishes for Lisa to get the hots for him. The plan doesn't work out as Gary had hoped when Lisa instead falls in love with Wyatt. Lisa has turned into a monster- an obseesed, freaky monster. She's psycho for Wyatt and won't let anyone get in her way of winning him over.
#16 - Mr. President
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/1994
After wishing to be the president of the chess club, Lisa accidentally makes Wyatt the President of the United States. Wyatt ends up almost getting impeached and his rec room gets trashed by tobacco protestors.
#17 - Keeps on Tickin
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/7/1994
The boys both have a problem. Straight-laced Wyatt Donnelly does *not* like taking risks. Risk-taker Gary Wallace is afraid that he'll never get to, um...., with a girl. Lisa tries to help solve their problems by creating a ,magical watch for each guy. The watch that is given to Gary predicts that he'll have his dream come true in three days, while Wyatt's watch predicts that he'll live to be ninety-seven. Not too late after this, the boys realize that they have their watches switched. Wyatt only has three days to live and Gary won't get to acheive his goal for over eighty more years.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Party High, USA
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/1994
Gary, unable to do as well as Wyatt in school, wishes that school could be a little more geared toward him. Lisa makes his wish a reality by creating new classes like: The History of the Bikini, the Literature of Supermarket Tabloids, How to Eat a Pizza, and Substitute Teacher Torture. Even with these easy classes, Gary still doesn't do as well as he hoped. - Wyatt's even worse off and isn't looking forward to a major in pizza-tology.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Feminine Mistake
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/9/1994
Angry at Gary and Wyatt's sexism, Lisa transforms them both into girls. Gary enjoys it because of the free stuff that guys buy him and the fact that he can look at himself in the mirror. The downside? The guys get pinched and stared at everywhere that they go. In fact, Chett gets into a fight with a football player to determine who gets to see Gary naked.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.