The BEST episodes written by Peter Gaffney
#1 - Tarzan and the Poisoned River (1)
The Legend of Tarzan - Season 1 - Episode 7
Tantor falls ill after drinking from the river and the Professor concludes the water must be contaminated. While Terk tends to the sick Tantor, Tarzan, Jane and the Professor begin a perilous journey upriver to find the source of the contamination. Things go from bad to worse when the three are captured by a tribe who accuse them of poisoning the river.
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Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - Season 1 - Episode 21
Returning from a combat mission in a retrieval ship, the Zephyr, the Roughnecks are re-routed to an asteroid to join scientists from another ship, the Sequoia, in a quest for a bio-weapon against the bugs. Just as they are coming in for a landing, tiny flame-breathing bugs, Firefries, hatch from Zander's skin. The ship crashes, badly damaged, but there are no serious injuries. Teams are sent out to locate the Sequoia. One team, Razak and Doc, falls into a subterranean network where they are attacked by marshmallow-like Leeches. Another team, Brutto and T'Phai, find themselves in a battle with adult, human-sized Firefries. Razak and Doc, joined by Dizzy and Gossard from the ship, join in this battle. Meanwhile, the third team, Carmen and Rico, is buried by an avalanche, and beneath the snow they share some intimate moments. Dizzy saves them. All return to the Zephyr, where Higgins awaits with the recovering Zander. They finally realize that they're on the wrong asteroid; the Sequoia awa
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#5 - King Gus
Recess - Season 1 - Episode 9
Bob installs Gus as a substitute king while he has a tonsillectomy, figuring Gus will be easy to control. But Gus turns into a despot instead.
#6 - Snorched If You Do, Snorched If You Don't
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Season 1 - Episode 3
Ickis, having carelessly left his monster manual in the human world, faces the dreaded consequences of being Snorched.
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#7 - All Night Security Dude
Married... with Children - Season 5 - Episode 16
Al gets a job as a security guard at Polk High, but gets fired after the championship trophy is stolen by Al's old nemesis.
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#8 - Monsters, Get Real!
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Season 1 - Episode 2
Ickis, Oblina and Krumm pull off a good scare in Bradley's room, only to discover that Ickis has left his all-important monster manual on the surface.
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#9 - The Legend of Big Kid
Recess - Season 1 - Episode 16
What do the kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him?
#13 - Treehouse of Horror XVII
The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 4
Three more scary tales are offered up in this 17th edition of the Treehouse of Horror.Married to the Blob: After eating mysterious green goo from a meteorite, Homer grows to massive proportions while he eats everything in sight.You Gotta Know When to Golem: Bart takes control of Golem of Jewish folklore, and forces the ancient statue to do his bidding by writing instructions on scrolls and placing them into the Golem's mouth.The Day the Earth Looked Stupid: Taking place in 1938 Springfield, the townspeople react to Orson Welles’ famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast. However, they pay no attention when Kang and Kodos actually do invade the town.
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The Weekenders - Season 3 - Episode 7
Carver finds a note in his locker from a secret admirer. The others try and help him figure out who it is, but get annoyed when Carver insists that his admirer has to be one of the cute girls. His admirer turns out to be Nona, a girl who is very tall. Carver doesn't like her because of her height, but will he be capable of overcoming his shallow nature before his chance with Nona comes to an end?
#15 - Homer Scissorhands
The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 20
After Homer discovers a genius talent for styling hair and opens his own salon, he becomes Springfield’s most in-demand hair stylist. But having to listen to women’s problems and gossip all day long leads Homer to believe his gift may actually be a curse. Meanwhile, when Milhouse decides to live each day to the fullest, he comes out of his shell and professes his love for Lisa, only to have his heart broken. Milhouse then catches the eye of popular fifth-grader Taffy, causing Lisa to make a bold move.
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#16 - Cool Hand Angelica
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 4
After Susie talks about her rough experiences at camp Angelica says that she could handle that entire camp in a day. Of course she's lying and trying to make herself look good but her wish comes true when her parents enroll her in the same camp as Susie and she realizes that it's not a piece of cake.
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#17 - The Pipe of Doom
Beavis and Butt-Head - Season 4 - Episode 22
Beavis and Butt-head visit a construction site; Butt-head gets stuck in a pipe and his rescue becomes a media event. Then, of course, Beavis gets stuck in it. videos: Salt 'N Pepa featuring En Vogue - "What A Man" Mark O'Connor - "The Devil Comes Back To Georgia" Pantera - "I'm Broken"
#18 - Kid TV
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 45
After being disgusted by a competitor's toy commercial on TV (a "Transformer"-type flying bird that flies, goes in space, does your homework, etc.), Stu throws his invention (similar to what's on the commercial, except it doesn't do anything) at the TV, breaking the TV and the bird (the latter already broken to begin with). Afterwards, the Rugrats use a box (a "Cheese of the Month" box that was to be used to ship the TV back to Japan) to make their own shows, all making a rather colorful lineup.
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#19 - Chronophasia
Æon Flux - Season 3 - Episode 7
Aeon is caught in a time loop, in a lab in the jungle somewhere. The reason she was going to the lab was, she was planning to save a test subject but go more than she bargined for. She encounters a little boy, who seems to be the cause of all of this. He wants her, but not in a sexual way, in a motherly figure way. We end the episode, as if they are in another dimesion (in the past) as Aeon drives this little boy (presumbaly her son) to baseball practice.
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#20 - A Wing and a Scare
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Season 1 - Episode 7
Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina get folded and spindled when they get themselves trapped in a suitcase and are loaded onto a plane bound for Wisconsin.
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#21 - Generation in Crisis
Beavis and Butt-Head - Season 4 - Episode 29
An amateur filmmaker documents America's youth culture in a film featuring Beavis and Butt-head. videos: The Ramones - "Substitute" Blur - "Chemical World" Morphine - "Thursday"
#22 - Monstrous Makeover
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Season 1 - Episode 6
Wanting a face only a monster could love, Ickis contemplates plastic surgery. John Astin guest-stars.
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#24 - A Last Time For Everything
Æon Flux - Season 3 - Episode 4
Aeon teams up with a double agent named Scafandra, who has hands on her feet. Trevor manages to create a cloning device and he manages to clone Aeon. Aeon then, we think, switch places with her clone but Trevor knows this. The "real" Aeon falls for Trevor, the "clone" Aeon tries to carry on. In the end things get too complicated to explain to the clone and the real Aeon allows herself to get killed as the "clone" runs away.
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The Weekenders - Season 3 - Episode 15
The group takes an aptitude test to see what careers they will be most suited for when they grow up, but they are surprised by their results. Will Tino, Carver, Tish and Lor be confident with the results of their test, or will there be more consequences due to the results than anyone has realized?
#29 - Madame Blavatsky
Beavis and Butt-Head - Season 4 - Episode 15
Beavis & Butt-head visit a phony fortune teller who cons Beavis into thinking he has the gift of second sight. videos: Metallica - "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Nina Hagen - "Herman Was His Name" Donald Fagen - "Snowbound"
#31 - Utopia or Deuteranopia
Æon Flux - Season 3 - Episode 1
Trevor has an obsession with Aeon and tries to create a space in the ambassador's body (whose gone missing) for several days now. A Breen named Gildemere teams up with Aeon and tries to bring down Trevor and his evil ways, but instead Aeon turn on Gildemere as he is charged with the murder of the ambassador.
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#32 - Grandpa's Date
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 16
After 40 years, Grandpa's long, lost love, Morgana, pays a visit. Morgana broke up with Grandpa over his affair with another woman named Trixie McGee, but never knew the real story. Also, Grandpa doesn't want her to know that he's a grandfather, so he rushed Tommy & Chuckie to bed. In any case, everyone had to contend with Stu's new remote-controlled couch, which is more like a mechanical bull for 2.
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#33 - The Santa Experience
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 27
After Angelica finds out that Santa Claus is a fake she decides to take away Phil and Lil's presents. Meanwhile Tommy tries to convince Chuckie that Santa Claus isn't a scary man. The adults take them all for a trip in the mountains for Christmas and there is where the Christmas spirit strikes Angelica and she decides to give Phil and Lil back their presents so she won't get coal for Christmas. Chaz decides to dresss up as Santa and when Chuckie sees him he loses his fear of Santa Claus.
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Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 37
Chuckie hates being noticed by everyone because of his red hair, so he uses Grandpa Lou's hair dye and turns it black, only to realized he liked getting attention in the first place.
#35 - Cold Hard Toenails
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Season 1 - Episode 18
Ickis becomes rich when he discovers an unending supply of toenails, but soon discovers money doesn't make the monster. Jonathan Winters guest-stars.
#36 - My Friend Barney
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 39
Chuckie introduces his imaginary friend, Barney (who looks just like Chuckie, according to Chuckie), to the other Rugrats, but becomes concerned when Barney "oversteps his authority". Meanwhile, Didi runs with Betty in the "Save The Grunion" 10K marathon, paying a little "price" at its end.
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Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 32
When Chaz wins a clearing house sweepstakes, Chaz and Chuckie are rich, and Chuckie lives the high life until Chaz blows all his fortune in a bad investment.
#39 - Simon Strikes Back
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Season 1 - Episode 23
He's baaaaaaack! The relentless Simon the Monster Hunter is up to his old tricks with new traps. Ickis tries to save their friends talking to the first kid he ever scared: Bradley.
#40 - Chuckie Loses His Glasses
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 30
Angelica plays a hide and seek game with the babies, but its all a plan to steal Chuckie's glasses. Chuckie tries to look for them but he can't see so he tries to find his "eyes", but breaks Grandpa Lou's instead. In the end Angelica literally gets sick of them and Tommy gives them to Chuckie.
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#42 - The Seven Voyages Of Cynthia
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 38
While Stu and Drew are cleaning Drew's boat, Chuckie and Tommy shanghaied Cynthia so she could be captain; however, when she got lost in the sewer system, it broke Angelica's heart. She did get her back, but not without sailing miles and miles in the sewers and taking a bath in toxic waste. Meanwhile, after being chased away by Angelica, Spike hitches a ride in a garbage truck to the city dump, which doubles as a "scenic overlook".
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#43 - The Inside Story
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 24
Chuckie Accitendly swallows a watermelon seed. The babies all pretend to go inside of him, and find the seed. Angelica wants to grow the seed so Chuckie will explode and "DIE". Tommy Stops her and they get the seed,but at the end, Spike eats the seed.
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#49 - The Sky is Falling
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 46
Following Angelica's story on "The End of the World" (which previously happened 2 years before), the Rugrats prepare for the falling sky, and its aftermath (Angelica becomes the world President and orders the Rugrats to do what she says), while Stu and Chazz brush up on their tennis.
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#50 - Family Reunion
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 15
While Grandpa goes on to Chicago because he missed his train stop (likely on purpose), the Pickles stop in (fictional) Willoughby, Iowa to attend their family reunion, hosted by Hugh Pickles and his wife, Dotti. Angelica tells Tommy and the other kids that reunions are swap meets for kids, with the kids being swapped. Her lie ended up backfiring on her, however, when a couple other farming relatives, Mackie & Edie, like a kid like Angelica,
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