Season 2

Nov 22, 1998 · 24m

While in town with Frank's father, the three friends and Jerry walk past the ""Super TV"" studios where their favourite show ""Derision and Degradation"" is made. There they see an advertisement for a new game show that the studio is launching where it says they are looking for kids to be on the show, so the three friends and Jerry apply. Their heads quickly fill with dreams of stardom, and when they each receive an invitation to be on the show they are ecstatic. The whole town starts to treat them as stars, but when they arrive at the studios to be on the show it turns out that they already have enough kids. Just as Frank is contemplating his humiliation, the show host for ""Derision and Degradation"" comes along desperate for someone to fill a last minute cancellation on his show. Frank sees his chance. Of course, Frank's humiliation turns out to be all the more painful as he is brought on the show only to be made a fool on one of the most watched TV shows.

E2. The Forging Machine

Nov 29, 1998 · 24m

The school is having a charity drive and all the children are asked to bring in old clothes to send off to the third world. Jerry comes up with the idea of making a machine to print money so that they can send cash instead. Discussing the dubious ethics of forging money they decide that it's all right if you give all the money away. Convinced that the best place to hide the machine is in Oscar's shed they gather there to print one banknote and test it out by buying ice cream at the shop - it works! Encouraged by their success they begin to dream of using the machine to get rich, and end up promising Linda and the girls all sorts of gifts. In the meantime, their machine disappears and Oscar seems suddenly to be bathing in money. Unbeknownst to the three friends and Jerry, Oscar has actually won the lottery and simply thrown out their machine. However, the boys fear the worst and when they see a policeman carting off Oscar they confess to everything. They don't have to go to prison but t

E3. Stars in your Eyes

Dec 6, 1998 · 24m

Dick Priest is addressing the adult community's concerns about the inappropriate music that their children are being exposed to and suggests a music competition in which only nice music will be allowed. All participants get to impersonate a band of their choosing, and the winner gets a prize. The three friends and Jerry decide they want to be a heavy metal band and go to Tony for help as they don't actually own any heavy metal music. Always happy for a chance to create mischief, Tony takes advantage of their ignorance and gives them a CD of ""Dogsun"" - the very band most vilified by Dick Priest. After Linda and the girls' performance - which turns out to be a real crowd pleaser despite the attempted sabotage by the three friends and Jerry - the boys head-bang along to ""Dogsun"" in front of a horrified audience. An uncushioned stage dive finale and undoubtedly a good thrashing from the PE teacher puts them all in hospital where they reveal the mastermind behind the fiasco, who is subjecte

E4. Fishing Trip

Jan 31, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry are playing cowboys when Linda and the girls come along riding real horses - not logs like the three friends and Jerry had been pretending with. Their honour as cowboys at stake, the boys promise to prove themselves in the saddle and accompany the girls to the stables for the show down. While the three friends are making fools of themselves failing miserably in their attempts at riding ponies, Jerry is forced to clean out the horse droppings in the stables. In doing so he manages to break one of the riding-masters many trophies. He tries to glue it back together with super-glue, managing to get more on his pants than on the trophy. Startled by the riding-master's return, Jerry falls from the hay loft and lands in saddle of the rogue horse Crazy Grim - a horse so fierce, no one has ever ridden him, not even the riding-master, who has promised to reward anyone who manages it. Literally glued to the saddle, Jerry succeeds beyond all expectations, in fact, he ca

E5. The Beauty Contest

Dec 20, 1998 · 24m

Each member of the class is asked to bring in a picture of themselves to put up on the wall when they were little, which causes some concern as not everyone is very pleased at the prospect of reminding the class what they looked like at the age of two. Even Linda's memories are tarnished as that was the one year she didn't win the local beauty contest. Brimming with nostalgia even for this lost pageant, Linda and her mum watch a video of the ill-fated beauty contest. Frank, unable to gain entry to the normal categories, toddles unwittingly off into the dog category and wins. Roy Johnson, ever willing to do what he can for his daughter, Mimmi, bribes the near-sighted judge, Vicious Oscar, whose blurred vision picks out Jerry for the girls' prize instead. The flashback ends with Linda's mother violently protesting the jury's decision and Roy Johnson attacking Oscar. Frank tries to avoid being made fun of by gluing his face on a pop star's body, but the class still gets their laugh as Lin

E6. The Club House

Dec 27, 1998 · 24m

The three friends have built a tree house as the headquarters for their secret club. Jerry wants to join and the three friends give him impossible tests to pass in order to become a member, secure in the knowledge that he can't possibly succeed so they'll never have to let him enter their club house. Against all expectation, Jerry's completes every test, each of which involves some prank played on Roy Johnson who lives next door to the empty lot where they've built their club house. After the third prank the three friends give in and lower the rope ladder for Jerry to climb up. This time, however, Roy Johnson has traced the perpetrator of these pranks and appears on the scene accompanied by a redneck with a chainsaw. Revenge is his as he gives orders for the tree to be felled while the three friends and Jerry jump for their lives.

E7. Boomerang

Jan 3, 1999 · 24m

The class is going to start learning about Australia. Jerry tells the teacher about his Australian pen pal who is coming for a visit and the teacher suggests that he come along to talk to the class about his homeland. Meanwhile Jerry impresses everyone with tales about his friend's amazing talents ranging from crocodile wrestling to boomerang throwing. Jerry brings in his boomerang and the class decides to have a contest to see who can make the boomerang come back. As Jerry's friend is giving a slide show it becomes obvious that he isn't Australian at all and the class becomes unruly as they vent their anger at Jerry's deception. At that moment Jerry's friend reveals his true talent - he is an amazing impersonator - and calms the class with a few quick barks in the PE teacher's voice. Immediately popular again, everyone is asking him to imitate them. In the end he does an imitation of Frank having a tantrum, which sends Frank into such a rage that he throws the boomerang, which misses

E8. Neat and Tidy

24m

E9. My Friend is an Ant

24m

E10. Catch the Girl

Jan 24, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry go on an educational visit to the local prison with their class. There they meet a charming thief named Jimmy the Jemmy who manages to convince them that he is in fact innocent. They are so taken in by him that he convinces them to go and pick up some bread for him from a baker friend of his. The baker, of course, is himself a rather dodgy looking character and bakes all sorts of escape tools into a loaf of bread that the boys then deliver to Jimmy. At the same time, through casual conversation Jimmy learns what the three friends and Jerry got for Christmas, and upon his escape from prison he immediately breaks into their respective houses dressed as Santa Claus to steal their presents. His final escape is foiled, however, when he walks right into Jerry's ""girl-trap"" - a snare Jerry had set up to catch girls. Encouraged by this success, Jerry is filled with renewed hope that one day he might actually catch a real girl in his trap.

E11. Cowboys

24m

E12. Scientists 'R' Us

Feb 7, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry develop a sudden interest in studying when they realise that the first prize in the ""Scientists â€˜R' Us"" competition is a trip to Egypt. They fail miserably in the class qualifying test, however, and their chances of being allowed to take part in the competition seem remote. One member of the class team becomes ill and the teacher encourages everyone to visit him. The three friends and Jerry are the only ones who don't, and as everyone else becomes ill as a result, the three friends and Jerry go to the competition. To improve their chances, Jerry sits outside the radio station where the contest is being held, and with an assortment of encyclopaedias at his side, looks up the correct answers to the questions and communicates them to Frank using walkie-talkies. Unfortunately they run into a little radio interference and the three friends get all the wrong answers. The opposing team wins the trip to Egypt, and the three friends get sent off to a special school f

E13. Camping

Feb 14, 1999 · 24m

The three friends and Jerry are going to camp out in the yard. At the same time, a local farmer's goat has run off, and Frank uses a portion of the ""wanted"" poster to convince his friends and Jerry that there is a maniacal murderer on the loose. Thomas and Eric get so scared they run off home and Jerry goes off sleep-walking in the night while Frank is asleep. Meanwhile, the goat has found its way into Jerry's sleeping bag and when Frank tries to wake Jerry and the goat appears, he becomes so terrified that he begins to believe his own story and passes out. The next morning his mother finds the goat and remembering the poster calls the farmer to come and collect it. Thankful for the safe return of his goat, the farmer gives Frank a reward - a whole day on his farm learning how to milk goats.