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Weird Science

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161 feature instances
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Weird Science	type	TVTItem
Weird Science	label	Weird Science
Weird Science	page	WeirdScience
Weird Science	comment	A 1990s television Fantastic Comedy series based on the 1985 movie of the same name. Nerds Gary (John Asher) and Wyatt (Michael Manasseri), unable to hook up with real girls, use a computer to "create" the perfect woman: Magical Girl Lisa (Vanessa Angel), whose powers initiate wacky adventures.The series, which aired on the USA Network from 1994 to 1998, changed settings from Illinois (in the original film) to California.
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Weird Science / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
Weird Science / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: By Adam West himself in "Strangers in Paradise". During a bidding war over a ceramic squirrel, several nods are made to Batman.
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Weird Science / int_125f3ee4	type	Cannot Keep a Secret
Weird Science / int_125f3ee4	comment	Cannot Keep a Secret: In "Girl Talk", Lisa feels bad about keeping secrets from her new friend and tells her she's a genie. Unfortunately, the friend tells her sister and ultimately leads to about thirty other people (including Scampi somewhere along the line) finding out. In the end, Lisa's friend asks to have her memory wiped of Lisa's secret because she'd never be able to keep from telling everyone.
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Weird Science / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Weird Science / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: Discussed in "Magic Comet Ride" in regards to Lisa herself. She makes all the magical adventures possible, but the Genie Master points out that she was created because Gary and Wyatt were hopeless social outcasts and that they've long since been able to manage just fine. Lisa concedes she fulfilled her original purpose, but she says she's not ready to move on and leave her friends.
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Weird Science / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Weird Science / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: At the neighborhood block party in "Bee in There", Wyatt blames his father for his inability to throw a baseball. Gary likes the idea of blaming the parents for his own failings—calling Al a cold, distant man. We then immediately see Al has been entertaining the neighborhood children and clearly enjoying himself.
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Weird Science / int_158e2891	type	Wondrous Ladies Room
Weird Science / int_158e2891	comment	Wondrous Ladies Room: After entering the ladies room, a virus-afflicted Lisa zaps herself into a soap opera set in a seaport town. Trying to find her, Chett enters the ladies room and arrives in the soap opera, too. Observing his spacious and beautiful surroundings, Chett remarked that this why women spend so much time in the ladies room.
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Weird Science / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Weird Science / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Gary with slasher movies, as seen in "Bikini Camp Slasher". Both Gary and Wyatt with respect to The Sci-Fi Zone in "Sci-Fi Zoned".
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Weird Science / int_17b30e42	type	Pro Wrestling Episode
Weird Science / int_17b30e42	comment	Pro Wrestling Episode: In "Men in Tights", after Chett picks a fight with a nasty wrestler, Lisa gives him wrestling skills to survive it. Because he was trying to pull him out of the ring at the time, Wyatt also got half the power. Chett and Wyatt subsequently become tag-team wrestlers Uncle Slam and Paul Severe. King Kong Bundy makes an appearance As Himself.
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Weird Science / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Weird Science / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: During "Grampira", after realizing the effects the wish will have on everyone.
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Weird Science / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
Weird Science / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: Chett has these moments with Wyatt and less often Gary.
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Weird Science / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Weird Science / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: A constant sore spot for Chett is how Wyatt is constantly the favorite in the family.
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Weird Science / int_19dcd4bc	type	Sand in My Eyes
Weird Science / int_19dcd4bc	comment	Sand In My Eyes: In "Searching for Boris Karloff", after Wyatt gives a heartfelt monologue to a comatose Lisa.
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Weird Science / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Weird Science / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Matthew and Roger, seemingly the only friends that Gary and Wyatt have except for each other and Lisa.
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Weird Science / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Weird Science / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Gary and Wyatt are almost always together, yet are always after girls.
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Weird Science / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Weird Science / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Unintentional example. While Movie!Lisa was very affectionate towards the boys and helped them become more confident and less socially awkward, Series!Lisa definitely has a mean streak and her Jackass Genie antics (which aren't always unintentional) often seem like something that if anything would make them even less confident and more depressive. Any attempts to portray her as Trickster Mentor type also fall flat thanks to Status Quo Is God ensuring Gary and Wyatt won't ever change in any significant way, meaning she is either really bad at the 'Mentor' part or is simply messing with them for her own amusement.
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Weird Science / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Weird Science / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Although they only appear in "Teen Lisa", Brenda Tomlinson and Heather are seemingly the resident alpha bitches of Farber High School. Brenda laughs in Gary's face when he asks her out and then proceeds to mock "Larry Wallace" with her friends in Gary's presence. When Lisa and the boys trade places and Lisa becomes a socially awkward teenager, Brenda and Heather take great delight in trying to make her life miserable while pretending to be her friend.
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Weird Science / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
Weird Science / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: In the film, Gary's father Al is a plumber. In the TV series, he owns a towing business.
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Weird Science / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Weird Science / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Gary is often on the receiving end of these, primarily from Lisa and other women.
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Weird Science / int_246330ec	type	Noir Episode
Weird Science / int_246330ec	comment	Noir Episode: "The Genie Detective" plays it to the hilt. Lisa plays a VR game, where she is a detective named Legs MacGuffin. She has to figure out who poisoned a rich man (who looks like Chett) and find the cure, while the other side characters look like Wyatt, Gary, and Scampi. It turns out, though, the guy actually is Chett; he hooked into the VR game to play, too, only to learn he'll actually die from the poison if they don't solve the case.
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Weird Science / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Weird Science / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Why is Gary so certain that they can create a woman on a computer? In a case of Beyond The Fourth Wall, he says... Like in the movie, it's Gary who names Lisa. In "A Tale of Two Lisas", Lisa is split into two parts and the wilder, more party-oriented Lisa ends up tranforming Gary and Wyatt in to trolls, who look like (somewhat less disgusting) versions of Chett's transformation from the film.
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Weird Science / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Weird Science / int_297170d3	comment	In the Halloween Episode "Demon Lisa", the guys are confronted by the cyber-demon possessing Lisa, and it refers to itself as the essence of all that is evil in the computer world.
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Weird Science / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Weird Science / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Wyatt and Chett's parents are usually always away on business, leaving them the run of the house.
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Weird Science / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Weird Science / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: In "Show Chett", Chett ends up convincing Lisa to make him a successful male stripper. Everything goes great until his female fanbase begins to stalk him, his female boss forces him to have sex with her to keep his job, and finds his attempts to become a "legitimate" dancer squashed by sexist talent agents who see him as a glorified whore.
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Weird Science / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Weird Science / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: In "The Feminine Mistake", when Gary tries to command her, Lisa gets her own back by turning the boys into girls. And nobody could forget the episode, "Grumpy Old Genie", where an underage online thief steals Lisa's image, replacing it with Abe Vigoda. (Yes, TV's Fish.). In "Quantum Wyatt", Gary jumps into a phone-sex operator at the end. In the Pilot, Gary (thinking that Lisa had left forever) told Wyatt that he wouldn't be happy unless Wyatt was a "killer babe." Cue Wyatt turning into a gorgeous blonde. And then cue credits before anything interesting happens. In "Bee in There", Wyatt asks Lisa to not only send himself and Gary back in time to 1987 but to leap them into their fathers a la Quantum Leap so they can teach their younger selves show to throw a baseball. Gary, however, leaps into his mother. This leads his dad and Wyatt's mother to believe that their spouses are having an affair.
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Weird Science / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Weird Science / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Done In-Universe during "Grampira" when Wyatt wishes for his grandmother to feel young again. Unfortunately, as a side-effect, she takes the youthful energy of anyone she touches, and it soon spreads like a virus. All the infected teenagers still look the same, but they have really become as old as senior citizens and will die if the wish isn't reversed.
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Weird Science / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Weird Science / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: With the increased emphasis on Chett in the final season, Gary and Wyatt often didn't have much to do on their own show. Many final season episodes have them reduced to subplots or just standing around and making snarky comments.
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Weird Science / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Weird Science / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: A very minor example. In the film, Wyatt has an unseen elder sister named Chloe. In the TV series, Chloe is entirely omitted and Chett is Wyatt's only sibling.
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Weird Science / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Weird Science / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Gary. In "Slow Times at Farber High", he spent hours writing cheat notes all over his body (writing backwards for his back so he could read them in the bathroom mirror) rather than just study. Scampi tells him he could be a great mind if he devoted that kind of energy to his studies.
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Weird Science / int_36754cc7	type	"Freaky Friday" Flip
Weird Science / int_36754cc7	comment	"Switched at Birth" discusses and defies the trope. Gary expected everything to just snap back to normal when the wish was over, so he went hog wild with Wyatt's parents' credit cards. However, Wyatt's computer was abruptly unplugged—cancelling the wish before it fully played out and forcing the characters to deal with the fallout of Gary's actions.
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Weird Science / int_3a9bbb12	type	Man, I Feel Like a Woman
Weird Science / int_3a9bbb12	comment	Man, I Feel Like a Woman: Averted in "The Feminine Mistake" when Lisa seemingly turns Gary and Wyatt into girls. Everyone else sees their feminine forms, but it's just an optical illusion. While they can see the female reflections in the mirror, Gary is quite disappointed to be unable to feel the supposed breasts.
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Weird Science / int_3be7a957	type	Swordfish Sabre
Weird Science / int_3be7a957	comment	Swordfish Sabre: "Bikini Camp Slasher" had the heroes trapped in a slasher movie. They managed to kill the murderer by running him through with a stuffed swordfish - or so they thought; after all, a slasher movie murderer never dies on the first try...
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Weird Science / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
Weird Science / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: Exaggerated, "Stalag 16" has a stereotypical Nazi officer wears a monocle on each eye.
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Weird Science / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Weird Science / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Implied with Gary's parents to Wyatt. In "It's a Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob World", Al and Emily throw Wyatt a small celebration for his perfect scores on the SATs, while his own parents didn't even know he had taken them. Presumably, Gary's parents kept an eye on Wyatt before Chett moved back home.
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Weird Science / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Weird Science / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: In "Magic Comet Ride", Lisa embarks on some training to be a better genie. In the end, her Yoda-like mentor tells her she can go to a place where all of her questions can be answered, but it would mean leaving Wyatt and Gary forever. While she admits that they're not the helpless losers they used to be, Lisa says she still needs them and won't go. Her mentor replies, "Pass the most important test of all you did."
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Weird Science / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
Weird Science / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: In "Free Gary", the guys get to live out a Baywatch-esque scenario, but it turns out Gary can't swim. When he has to save the Girl of the Week, Lisa accidentally turns him into a merman.
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Weird Science / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Weird Science / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: In "Rock Hard Chett", Chett uses his new invulnerability to become a superhero. When the wish wears off, he gets shot during a bank heist, and though Lisa manages to bring him back to life, it leaves her unconscious and unable to help any further. Wyatt suggests just walking away, but Chett goes back in to save the day despite losing his powers. (He manages to talk the robbers down by convincing them their guns have already failed to stop him.)
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Weird Science / int_45bc787c	type	Mundane Wish
Weird Science / int_45bc787c	comment	Mundane Wish: Despite Lisa's nearly-limitless (if temporary) powers, nearly all Gary and Wyatt's wishes are for incredibly mundane things. Lampshaded within an inch of its life in the Grand Finale after Wyatt reveals Lisa's existence to the school:
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Weird Science / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Weird Science / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Chett. While generally a Jerkass to Wyatt and Gary and often brazenly hitting on Lisa, Chett would demonstrate genuine concern and affection for Lisa. He also showed genuine care for a pet dog he had for an episode.
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Weird Science / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Weird Science / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Gary's dad, Al, was initially a lot stricter towards him and more distant towards his wife. A few appearances later, he became more of a loving Bumbling Dad.
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Weird Science / int_47bf7e16	type	Local Hangout
Weird Science / int_47bf7e16	comment	Local Hangout: The Java Man coffee shop.
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Weird Science / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Weird Science / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Both male leads but especially Gary. Wyatt usually at least managed to keep some dignity even when kicked by another wish gone wrong. Chett probably qualifies too, though he (mostly) deserves it.
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Weird Science / int_482c31d4	type	No Hugging, No Kissing
Weird Science / int_482c31d4	comment	No Hugging, No Kissing: Unlike the movie, Lisa tells the guys she won't do anything sexual with them until they're legal. While both are nonetheless attracted to her, Wyatt is too shy to broach the subject and Gary is repeatedly rejected.
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Weird Science / int_485011b	type	MadLibsCatchPhrase
Weird Science / int_485011b	comment	Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "Oh, man! Dumped by a ______!" Usually said by Wyatt ("Oh, man! Dumped by a robot/car/fictional character!") but also by Lisa when she experiences the ultimate humiliation: "Oh, man! Dumped by Gary Wallace!"
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Weird Science / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Weird Science / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Chett in the It's a Wonderful Plot episode "It's a Wonderful Life...Without You". In a world without Wyatt, Chett is a model student that constantly gets good grades, has numerous outside activities, and is adored by his parents. The problem is that without a sibling to divvy up the attention, the parents put too much pressure on him to succeed; he's constantly on the edge of a nervous breakdown and dreads letting everyone down.
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Weird Science / int_48d87e94	type	Planet of Steves
Weird Science / int_48d87e94	comment	Planet of Steves: Quite literally, recurring characters from an alien race all named Steve who wanted Lisa as their new queen. This is is also the plot of Rhett and Mickey, two rats transformed into humans by Lisa's magic in "Chett's World" —use mind-altering jerky to make everyone in the world act like the moronic Chett, then use humans for science experiments.
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Weird Science / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Weird Science / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: John Mallory Asher doesn't appear in "Phantom Scampi". (Point of fact, it's the only one he missed.) Gary is said to have wished for shrinking pills, leading to a brief scene of a pile of clothes and some low-level squeaking. Vanessa Angel was unavailable for some episodes while she was shooting the movie Kingpin, so the writers wrote in various excuses for why Lisa has only one scene, including a computer hacking incident that makes her look like Abe Vigoda.
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Weird Science / int_49f4768e	type	Temporary Bulk Change
Weird Science / int_49f4768e	comment	Temporary Bulk Change: "One Size Fits All" sees Wyatt wishing for larger muscles to impress an athletic girl. Lisa conjures up a suit that gives him a bodybuilder's physique, and trouble inevitably begins with Gary borrows it. Wyatt even lampshades the fact that people might be confused about his sudden musculature; Gary explains that since Wyatt was a huge nerd before, no one ever noticed his body.
Weird Science / int_49f4768e	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_49f4768e	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_49f4768e
Weird Science / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Weird Science / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Lisa is very casual about endangering the boys' lives or even temporarily killing them.
Weird Science / int_4a4d6f7c	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_4a4d6f7c	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_4a4d6f7c
Weird Science / int_4aafa707	type	Ping Pong Naïveté
Weird Science / int_4aafa707	comment	Ping Pong Naïveté: Lisa was created with a high IQ, but when she has to actually function in the real-world ("Horseradish", "Teen Lisa"), she tends to be clueless. Justified, because she may have intelligence and information, but no real life experience, being just created.
Weird Science / int_4aafa707	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_4aafa707	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_4aafa707
Weird Science / int_4c455537	type	Plot-Driven Breakdown
Weird Science / int_4c455537	comment	Plot-Driven Breakdown: Lisa's powers would sometimes fail her at key moments (like during the Grand Finale). Especially early on, the writers would frequently drive the plot by having Lisa's spell wear off at the most inconvenient time possible.
Weird Science / int_4c455537	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_4c455537	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_4c455537
Weird Science / int_4df919c9	type	Repressed Memories
Weird Science / int_4df919c9	comment	Repressed Memories: In "Fly Boy", Chett is hypnotized as part of an FBI interrogation to get to his subconscious. It turns out he remembers a lot of the weird things that have happened to him during the series.
Weird Science / int_4df919c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_4df919c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_4df919c9
Weird Science / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Weird Science / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: After Wyatt drops his grandmother off at the home, she encourages him to visit more often and to bring Lisa.
Weird Science / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_4e7c4536
Weird Science / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Weird Science / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In the first few episodes, Wyatt and Gary would actually have to type on the computer to summon Lisa. Afterwards, they could still do this, but Lisa was far more likely to pop in on her own.
Weird Science / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_4f4372e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_4f4372e9
Weird Science / int_54d6f53f	type	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
Weird Science / int_54d6f53f	comment	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: In "Universal Remote", the guys use it to play around with time. As Gary increasingly hogs it for his own use, Wyatt remains aware of all the loops, rewinds and fast-forwards.
Weird Science / int_54d6f53f	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_54d6f53f	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_54d6f53f
Weird Science / int_551c5085	type	It's a Wonderful Plot
Weird Science / int_551c5085	comment	It's a Wonderful Plot: Double subverted in "It's a Wonderful Life...Without You" when Wyatt and Lisa see a world where the former was never born. A world without Wyatt seems perfect, as Chett is a straight A overachiever, while Gary is the most popular guy in school and has a steady girlfriend. However, without Wyatt around, the parents have put so much pressure on Chett that he hates his life and is about ready to crack, while Gary was so desperate for popularity that he resorted to chronic lying and stealing.
Weird Science / int_551c5085	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_551c5085
Weird Science / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Weird Science / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: In "By the Time We Got to Woodstock", Lisa gets amnesia after banging her head on the sign reading "You Must Be As Tall as This Sign to Enter the Time Hole" that she placed above Wyatt's bed before she, Gary and Wyatt went back in time to 1969.
Weird Science / int_55b1f9a1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
Weird Science / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: Parodied. Gary and Wyatt, based on what they've seen in movies, hesitate whether the red wire will stop the bomb or is a decoy that'll detonate it. Lisa grabs the whole bundle of wires and yanks them all out at once.
Weird Science / int_55f92df9	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_55f92df9	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_55f92df9
Weird Science / int_564caaae	type	Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure
Weird Science / int_564caaae	comment	Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: In "Sci-Fi Zoned", after a scene in which they say they'll always be friends, Wyatt and Gary are then shown fighting over some school humiliations and agreeing their friendship is over. In "Community Property", Wyatt and Gary accuse the other of hogging Lisa, leading to a fight and a custody battle.
Weird Science / int_564caaae	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_564caaae	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_564caaae
Weird Science / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Weird Science / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Chett and the former "Ass-istant Principal Scampi."
Weird Science / int_5860c090	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_5860c090	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_5860c090
Weird Science / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Weird Science / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Chett and Scampi had to (begrudgingly) team up in "Gary and Wyatt's Bloodsucking Adventure" and "Stalag 16".
Weird Science / int_5989e3b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_5989e3b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_5989e3b6
Weird Science / int_5a021b5e	type	JailBaitWait
Weird Science / int_5a021b5e	comment	Jail Bait Wait: Inverted. In the very first episode, Lisa quickly deduces what the boys' first wish will be, and tells them her ethical programming wont let her do that until they are of legal age.
Weird Science / int_5a021b5e	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_5a021b5e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Weird Science / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Weird Science / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal:
Weird Science / int_5a3b8032	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_5a3b8032	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_5a3b8032
Weird Science / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Weird Science / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Rhett and Mickey (the two rats turned human in "Chett World") want to take over the world and avenge their kind for being experimented on, but they genuinely like Chett and offer him a position of power.
Weird Science / int_5aa8d3d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_5aa8d3d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_5aa8d3d8
Weird Science / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
Weird Science / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: In "Community Property", Wyatt and Gary fight over Lisa, leading to a cyber-court battle over who should get custody.
Weird Science / int_5f207a1a	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_5f207a1a	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_5f207a1a
Weird Science / int_5f9fbd83	type	Not Allowed to Grow Up
Weird Science / int_5f9fbd83	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Up: Averted. Gary and Wyatt are starting their sophomore year in the first episode and are well-into their senior year by the Grand Finale. The show did last five seasons, but its initial run was over the course of three years (barring six episodes being burned off a year later).
Weird Science / int_5f9fbd83	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_5f9fbd83
Weird Science / int_650a309b	type	Forgot About His Powers
Weird Science / int_650a309b	comment	Forgot About His Powers: Lisa and the boys are constantly resorting to zany schemes to do things that Lisa could accomplish with one wave of her hand. Lampshaded in "Searching for Boris Karloff" after Lisa makes a heartbroken speech over the dead body of Frankenstein's monster:
Weird Science / int_650a309b	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_650a309b	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_650a309b
Weird Science / int_65244998	type	Lightning Can Do Anything
Weird Science / int_65244998	comment	Lightning Can Do Anything: How Lisa was created. This is the cover story the guys give Chett in "Rock Hard Chett" to explain his sudden invulnerability. When the wish wears off, Wyatt then tries to tell him, "The lightning wore off!"
Weird Science / int_65244998	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_65244998	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_65244998
Weird Science / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Weird Science / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: In "Horseradish", Wyatt's computer gets a security upgrade, but Gary forgets the password - locking Lisa out and cutting off her magic.
Weird Science / int_66ea7e5c	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_66ea7e5c	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_66ea7e5c
Weird Science / int_671681af	type	Jackass Genie
Weird Science / int_671681af	comment	Lisa herself fits this at times. In several episodes (such as the above example), she purposefully misinterprets the boys' wishes to teach them a lesson.
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Weird Science / int_671681af	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_671681af
Weird Science / int_67b4153c	type	Weird Science
Weird Science / int_67b4153c	comment	Weird Science: Like the film, this is the premise of the series and thus what named it (making it another inversion of the Trope Namer).
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Weird Science / int_67b4153c	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_67b4153c
Weird Science / int_6feeef5c	type	Censor Box
Weird Science / int_6feeef5c	comment	Censor Box: In "Magnifico Dad", Gary wishes to see Lisa naked. She grants the wish, sort of, by using censor boxes to block off the parts you can't show on TV, explaining that if the boys actually saw her naked, "it would spoil you for real women."
Weird Science / int_6feeef5c	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_6feeef5c	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_6feeef5c
Weird Science / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Weird Science / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Generally enforced. Due to limitations in Lisa's powers, wishes only last a short time and everything goes back to normal no matter what the characters experienced. (Whether or not other characters remember what was going on depends on the given episode.) "Switched at Birth" discusses and defies the trope. Gary expected everything to just snap back to normal when the wish was over, so he went hog wild with Wyatt's parents' credit cards. However, Wyatt's computer was abruptly unplugged—cancelling the wish before it fully played out and forcing the characters to deal with the fallout of Gary's actions.
Weird Science / int_704d7e91	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_704d7e91
Weird Science / int_715c463e	type	Literal Split Personality
Weird Science / int_715c463e	comment	Literal Split Personality: In "A Tale of Two Lisas", Gary wants Lisa to take him to Mardi Gras and Wyatt wants her to help him study for his biology test the next day. As she was programmed to please both of them, Lisa cannot choose between them and she splits into two. Gary's Lisa is wild and impulsive while Wyatt's Lisa is reliable and responsible. Both boys are initially happy with their respective Lisas but it turns out that things have Gone Horribly Right: Gary's Lisa is so impulsive that she is uncontrollable and Wyatt's Lisa is so responsible that she won't allow him to have any fun. As such, each Lisa possesses an exaggerated version of the relevant boy's personality. Gary's Lisa also has a more pronounced version of the normal Lisa's mean streak, turning first Gary and then Wyatt into trolls. The two Lisa recombine when Gary and Wyatt patch up their friendship.
Weird Science / int_715c463e	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_715c463e	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_715c463e
Weird Science / int_738fa379	type	New Job Episode
Weird Science / int_738fa379	comment	New Job Episode: "Nightmare on Chett Street" sees Chett get a job at the Java Man (which he hates) and gets fired. In "Chett's World"m he's thrown out of the house until he can find a job, so Lisa creates a store selling everything he cares about. (Course, that one turns into evolved mice trying to takeover the world.)
Weird Science / int_738fa379	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_738fa379	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_738fa379
Weird Science / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Weird Science / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Chett became so popular with the writers that in the final season he wound up getting more spotlight episodes than the leads.
Weird Science / int_76a5eaf8	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_76a5eaf8	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_76a5eaf8
Weird Science / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Weird Science / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: "Sci-Fi Zoned" builds up to this. Lisa zaps Gary and Wyatt into The Sci-Fi Zone, the show that helped them become best friends. They're told it'll only last for a day, but once time is up, they instead crash into a city with no food or water. Lisa realizes she forgot that time has no meaning here, so a day could last a lifetime. Worse, the guys find this Lisa is just a hologram—meaning they're completely on their own.
Weird Science / int_7870735b	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_7870735b	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_7870735b
Weird Science / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Weird Science / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: "Stalag 16" double subverts it in the prison camp plot. Chett is fully prepared to leave Scampi behind due to their history, but the latter later proves his worth by acting as a distraction. When the other men decide to leave Scampi behind anyway, Chett goes back for him.
Weird Science / int_7969f21e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Weird Science / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: The Steves were always comical, but in their first appearance, they were a true threat—effortlessly capturing the protagonists and being poised to destroy Earth. In their second appearance, they were instead quite hapless and pathetic.
Weird Science / int_7bb844ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_7bb844ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_7bb844ec
Weird Science / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Weird Science / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: In “Sex Ed” Lisa takes over teaching the boys’ sex education class. She tells the students that after they demonstrate that they’ve learnt the material, they will conclude the class by having sex. To her surprise, Gary (not normally a good student) passes the test on the material with flying colours. Lisa then decides that, before he can have sex, he also needs to pass a completely different test to get a “Sex License”.
Weird Science / int_7df2b942	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_7e5f2db2	type	Talk Like a Pirate
Weird Science / int_7e5f2db2	comment	Talk Like a Pirate: "Pirates!", of course.
Weird Science / int_7e5f2db2	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_7e5f2db2	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_7e5f2db2
Weird Science / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Weird Science / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: After learning about her, Chett had a habit of purposefully annoying or goading Lisa. It went as well as you'd expect.
Weird Science / int_7eb73553	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_7eb73553	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_7eb73553
Weird Science / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Weird Science / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Master Chett". the guys and Lisa antagonize Chett without any on-screen justification and then openly brag about how they were able to do it with a genie. They do so because they think they can wipe his memory... only to then find out that they can't. Whoops.
Weird Science / int_7fbb2a3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_7fbb2a3
Weird Science / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Weird Science / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: "Quantum Wyatt" has Wyatt and Lisa pretending to be brain surgeons who perform an operation on Gary and Wyatt's principal. Afterward, Wyatt says that he didn't know Lisa knew how to perform brain surgery, and Lisa says she didn't, but that she saw it performed on last night's ER.
Weird Science / int_850258ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_850258ca	featureConfidence	1.0
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Weird Science / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Weird Science / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Some episodes ended with Wyatt or Gary actually getting/impressing girls, only for them to be single the very next episode.
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Weird Science / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
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Weird Science / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Weird Science / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: During "Searching for Boris Karloff", when the guys are preparing to use Frankenstein's laboratory to revitalize Lisa.
Weird Science / int_86b21114	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_86b21114	featureConfidence	1.0
Weird Science	hasFeature	Weird Science / int_86b21114
Weird Science / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Weird Science / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: During the Whole-Plot Reference to The Twilight Zone, Gary has a moment that parodies the famous climax to Planet of the Apes (1968). Seems like a simple unrelated-Shout-Out, but as the writers knew, TZ creator Rod Serling wrote a draft of the movie's script and originated said climax.
Weird Science / int_86daf505	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_87465977	type	Memory Wipe Exploitation
Weird Science / int_87465977	comment	Memory Wipe Exploitation: One episode of gives Gary a remote control that lets him fast forward, rewind, or pause time. Unfortunately the remote breaks and he and Wyatt get stuck in a loop. Wyatt figures it out and rushes to fix things, but before doing so the last time he takes a moment to kiss his French teacher.
Weird Science / int_87465977	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Weird Science / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Wyatt is the folks' clear favorite—much to Chett's annoyance.
Weird Science / int_88933ad4	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_88933ad4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Weird Science / int_8c0bbee3	type	The Family for the Whole Family
Weird Science / int_8c0bbee3	comment	The Family for the Whole Family: In "It's a Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob World", the Donnellys become the Donnellis, a loving family that runs the Homeowners Association like a criminal empire. This later leads to a goofy Mob War between them and the Wallaces.
Weird Science / int_8c0bbee3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_8d612fe6	type	Swapped Roles
Weird Science / int_8d612fe6	comment	Swapped Roles: In "Teen Lisa", Lisa goes to school disguised as a Hollywood Homely teenager while the boys become the world's most inept genies.
Weird Science / int_8d612fe6	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_8d612fe6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Weird Science / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Weird Science / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: In "The Legend of Red Brick Wallace", Gary's great-great-grandfather Red Brick Wallace looks exactly like his father Al. In the same episode, Wyatt and Chett's ancestor Sheriff Donnelly looks exactly like Chett, only with a moustache.
Weird Science / int_8dd4a996	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Weird Science / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "Master Chett", where Chett has developed immunity to memory wipes and learns about Lisa permanently.
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Weird Science / int_8e20979	featureConfidence	1.0
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Weird Science / int_8e9a79b1	type	Teasing the Substitute Teacher
Weird Science / int_8e9a79b1	comment	Teasing the Substitute Teacher: "Party High, U.S.A." has Gary wish that the classes at his high school were geared more towards his likes. After Lisa grants the wish, one of the classes is about how to torment a substitute teacher.
Weird Science / int_8e9a79b1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Weird Science / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In "Camp Wannabe", Gary tries to change history by having Lisa send him back in time to Camp Hi-De-Ho in 1986 so that he can win the heart of Julia Putnam, on whom he had a crush, and spare himself the embarrassment of being tied to a tree all night by Jeremy Scanlon. He succeeds in doing so but he changes history back, albeit very reluctantly, after Julia breaks up with him and Jeremy's life is ruined. In "By the Time We Got to Woodstock", Chett tries to prevent Richard Nixon's downfall while in 1969. In "Bee In There", Gary and Wyatt ask Lisa to send them back in time in their fathers' bodies, as in Quantum Leap, so that they can teach their younger selves to throw a baseball and impress girls in the present. As ever, things don't go according to plan. When they arrive in 1987, Wyatt is in his father Wayne's body but Gary is in his mother Emily's body. Due to a misunderstanding involving Wyatt helping Gary take off his bra, Gary's father Al and Wyatt's mother Marcia become convinced that their spouses are having an affair. Although Gary and Wyatt are able to save their parents' marriages, they never get around to teaching the 1987 versions of themselves how to throw a ball.
Weird Science / int_93ed8515	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_98da00fb	type	Caught in the Ripple
Weird Science / int_98da00fb	comment	Caught in the Ripple: "What Genie?" starts with Gary and Wyatt getting bullied which they're used to, but they seemingly have no knowledge of Lisa. They then discover evidence of her existence and look into her. It's later discovered they told a classmate about Lisa and the classmate made Lisa her slave. One of the first things she did was wish Gary and Wyatt forgot about Lisa.
Weird Science / int_98da00fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Weird Science / int_98da00fb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Weird Science / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
Weird Science / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: As explored in several episodes such as "Switched at Birth" and "It's a Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob World", Wyatt's parents Wayne and Marcia are too wrapped up in their own lives (work for him, various voluntary organizations for her) to pay him much attention.
Weird Science / int_99e87707	featureApplicability	1.0
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Weird Science / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
Weird Science / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: The girls in the co-ed shower room in "Strange Daze" are seen in this fashion.
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Weird Science / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Weird Science / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: "Chett World" turns out to be one: the episode opens with Chett running down the street screaming for help, then telling his story to a mysterious shadowy figure. Turns out it's his dad, and Chett's explaining why he should be let back into the house.
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Weird Science / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Weird Science / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In "What Genie?", the boys sneak onto the the set of a talk show and appear as guests. The topic of the day? "Men who turned into women who turned into men again." See Gender Bender below. This episode also sees Wyatt and Gary going over the former's journal - referencing several past episodes. "Free Gary" has him reveal that he can't swim. A later episode ("It Takes a Geek") has a couple scenes involving being on a boat in a lake, so Gary is shown wearing a life-jacket.
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Weird Science / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Weird Science / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: In "Teen Lisa", Lisa (disguised as a Hollywood Homely teenager) suffers a lot of misfortune at school before being asked out by one of the popular guys. Gary and Wyatt are initially confused and worried, but just as they think this is all on the up and up, they overhear the Alpha Bitch and Beta Bitch talk about how "happy" they are for Lisa.
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Weird Science / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Weird Science / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: In "Gary & Wyatt's Bloodsucking Adventure", the guys and Lisa become vampires, but substitute blood-drinking for Yoo-hoo and there's no indication that sunlight affects them. Of course, they run afoul of more typical vampires.
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Weird Science / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Weird Science / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Chett (begrudgingly) becomes this after repeated memory wipes give him an immunity. Wyatt's grandmother becomes one near the end of "Grampira", though she doesn't appear again.
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Weird Science / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Weird Science / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Chett was neglected after Wyatt was born, while Wyatt gets neglected due to work.
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Weird Science / int_a5c121ef	type	CoolLoser
Weird Science / int_a5c121ef	comment	Cool Loser: Like in the movie, Wyatt and Gary start out as absolutely pathetic. After about a season or so, they become this—able to interact socially with their peers and ask girls out. They're still considered unpopular, but that's shown to be because the popular kids are assholes.
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Weird Science / int_a698ad42	type	City with No Name
Weird Science / int_a698ad42	comment	City with No Name: The town is unnamed, but somewhere in southern California.
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Weird Science / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Weird Science / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Taken to the extreme. In several episodes, one of the guys actually got a girlfriend. But since this would've left the writers without an objective to drive future plots, she would quietly disappear between episodes. A more in-universe example: Lisa's magic eventually wears off, resetting things back to normal no matter how out of control the wishes make things. Her only spells that seem to be permanent are the ones that restore the original status quo, like erasing people's memories of her. Averted in "Master Chett", with the revelation that Chett had been mindwiped so many times by Lisa, that he had become immune to her ability to erase/alter memories. This leads to him becoming part of the group and participating in various adventures.
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Weird Science / int_a6f23b2d	type	Skepticism Failure
Weird Science / int_a6f23b2d	comment	Skepticism Failure: In "Girl Talk", Lisa tells her new friend Tisch that she's a genie. Tisch actually believes in a lot of supernatural-type stuff, but doesn't believe Lisa because she thought she was making fun of her. Lisa convinces her by making it rain... inside the Java Man... with men instead of rain.
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Weird Science / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Weird Science / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Chett. Wyatt tends to stick up for him out of family loyalty, but Gary often snarks at him and Lisa has a lot of issues with him, too. It turns out that the people Chett regularly hangs out with look down on him, too.
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Weird Science / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Weird Science / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Lisa fakes this in "Magnifico Dad" to mess with the guys.
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Weird Science / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
Weird Science / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: In "Sex Ed", Lisa takes over Farber's health class and openly performs magic in front of the class. To get around the problems of that, she zaps the other students and tells them that nothing they see in the class for the next week will seem out of the ordinary.
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Weird Science / int_ad118ed1	type	Aesop Collateral Damage
Weird Science / int_ad118ed1	comment	Aesop Collateral Damage: In “The Feminine Mistake” Gary makes Lisa mad and so she turns the boys into girls. When Wyatt protests about the fact that he's being punished for something Gary did, Lisa simply insists “he’s your friend”.
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Weird Science / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Weird Science / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In "You'll Never Eat Brains in This Town Again", after Lisa realizes her zombie actors are about to turn carnivorous. Late in "Rock Hard Chett", Chett takes a bite out of a slice of the pizza Wyatt and Gary are having when he's about to go to a bank to fight off bank robbers, only to complain that the pizza burned his tongue due to how hot it was. Given he's made invincible due to Lisa's magic early in the episode, this incident alerts Wyatt and Gary to the possibility that he's no longer invincible, prompting them both to scream for Lisa and run to her for help at once.
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Weird Science / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Weird Science / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Gary.
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Weird Science / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Weird Science / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Lisa, who's gorgeous and wears many Fanservice outfits through the story, at least Once per Episode. Her Catwoman outfit in "A Tale of Two Lisas" is probably the best example of that.
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Weird Science / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Weird Science / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: A frequently used trope to the point of being Once per Episode. "The Most Dangerous Wish" revolves around the guys being given a brand new computer game by Lisa; they then blow her off completely to play the game but are disappointed that the game turns out to be too short. When they complain to Lisa — well, she's so miffed at being ignored, she brings the video game villain to life. See also Turned Against Their Masters.
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Weird Science / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Weird Science / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayfly–December Romance: Wyatt falls in love with a robot, but she dumps him when she finds out he's human. She loves him but doesn't want to get involved with someone who's going to grow old and die someday.
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Weird Science / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Weird Science / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In "Slow Times at Farber High", Gary's attempt to use a brain-draining machine on a nerd who humiliated him backfires when he inadvertently sucks up everyone's intelligence. At one point, he wonders where all of the now-stupid teenagers have vanished to. It turns out they've all gathered to watch Saved by the Bell: The College Years. In the Halloween Episode "Demon Lisa", the guys are confronted by the cyber-demon possessing Lisa, and it refers to itself as the essence of all that is evil in the computer world.
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Weird Science / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Weird Science / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: As goofy as he could be, Scampi was always able to rein in Chett during high school and foil all of his pranks. In "The Bazooka Boys", Wyatt and Gary's clones do a better job of leading their lives than they do.
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Weird Science / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Weird Science / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In "Genie Junior", Wyatt chastises Lisa for willingly kissing Chett and calls the guy the most immature person he knows. In "The Feminine Mistake" when Gary and Wyatt are lamenting their inability to ask girls out, Lisa insists they should just do it and that women weren't unapproachable, and are just waiting for guys to ask them out. This is immediately followed by a guy coming up and politely attempting to ask Lisa out, only for her to shut him down halfway through.
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Weird Science / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Weird Science / int_ba236071	comment	In "Chett's World"m he's thrown out of the house until he can find a job, so Lisa creates a store selling everything he cares about. (Course, that one turns into evolved mice trying to takeover the world.)
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Weird Science / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
Weird Science / int_ba3b41d6	comment	In "Sci-Fi Zoned", after a scene in which they say they'll always be friends, Wyatt and Gary are then shown fighting over some school humiliations and agreeing their friendship is over.
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Weird Science / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
Weird Science / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: At the end of "It's a Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob World", Wayne tells Wyatt that he has always made him and Marcia proud.
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Weird Science / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Weird Science / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Heaven help the boys if they ever try to command Lisa to do something, or refer to themselves as her masters.
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Weird Science / int_bf460681	type	BeyondTheFourthWall
Weird Science / int_bf460681	comment	Why is Gary so certain that they can create a woman on a computer? In a case of Beyond The Fourth Wall, he says...
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Weird Science / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Weird Science / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: Taken to an extreme in "Rock Hard Chett" when Lisa discovers a previously-unknown power to bring Chett back to life.
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Weird Science / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Weird Science / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Wyatt, Gary, and Lisa. Chett is begrudgingly included after he learns the big secret.
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Weird Science / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Weird Science / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Vanessa Angel as Lisa.
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Weird Science / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Weird Science / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: In "Cyrano De Brainiac", Wyatt realizes that getting turned down wouldn't be the end of the world and gains a new level of confidence. He's back to his old shy self in the very next episode. At the end of "Grampira", Wyatt realizes that being old isn't something to be ashamed of, but Gary still complains about it (evidenced by him whining about the shows with old people on TV — e.g. The Golden Girls) despite spending the whole episode's events with him and wishes to "never age". Lisa promptly metalizes him and seals him inside a block of metal.
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Weird Science / int_c5910d80	type	Time-Travelers Are Spies
Weird Science / int_c5910d80	comment	Time-Travelers Are Spies: In "By the Time We Got to Woodstock", Gary, Wyatt and Chett are mistaken for spies when they visit The Pentagon in 1969 as Chett reveals that he knows about the US Army secretly bombing Cambodia, Richard Nixon taping conversations in the Oval Office, J. Edgar Hoover being a crossdresser and the exploding cigars that the CIA sent to Fidel Castro.
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Weird Science / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Weird Science / int_c5b47b36	comment	In the Pilot, Gary (thinking that Lisa had left forever) told Wyatt that he wouldn't be happy unless Wyatt was a "killer babe." Cue Wyatt turning into a gorgeous blonde. And then cue credits before anything interesting happens.
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Weird Science / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Weird Science / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The first episode acknowledges I Dream of Jeannie and John Hughes. "Bikini Camp Slasher" parodies the slasher/horror genres - throwing out references to The Exorcist, Evil Dead 2, Halloween, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Friday the 13th, Poltergeist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead (1968). (By the way, the episode premiered a good year before Scream (1996) came out. Eerie.) The plots of both "Quantum Wyatt" and "Bee In There" are parodies of Quantum Leap and it is mentioned in the latter. For you trivia buffs, Michael Manasseri (Wyatt) appeared in the Quantum Leap episode "Return of the Evil Leaper". In one episode, Gary dates a cheerleader from Santo Domingo High, the high school on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, which many of the producers had previously worked on. In "Lisa's Childhood Memories", an animal-themed detective yells at Chett, "What the hell are you starin' at?!" In "Chett's World", Lisa's magic accidentally turns two rats into humans, who then proceed to try to take over the world. In "A Tale of Two Lisas", when Gary has been transformed into a troll, Wyatt has to transport him in his bike's basket in the same way Elliot did to E.T. in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
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Weird Science / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Weird Science / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Chett's bullying of Wyatt. A flashback in "Strangers in Paradise" shows Chett was moved into a smaller room to make way for newborn Wyatt. This is followed by a montage of moments of their parents constantly praising Wyatt and criticizing Chett. His grudge against Scampi, as well. At first, it just seems solely based on Scampi foiling his pranks and disciplining him, but "Stalag 16" reveals that he blames Scampi for being expelled and sent to military school.
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Weird Science / int_c9c317cd	type	Last-Minute Hookup
Weird Science / int_c9c317cd	comment	Last-Minute Hookup: "WS4" reveals that Lisa and Wyatt had been secretly dating for some time. Course, they actually break-up before the episode is over.
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Weird Science / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
Weird Science / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: In "You'll Never Eat Brains in This Town Again", Lisa is trying to make an indie horror movie with zombies. When the student actors don't work out, she zaps up some real zombies. The zombies do what they're told and behave, but when the sun goes down, they get hungry. And one of them bites Lisa...
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Weird Science / int_ce6487aa	type	Misery Builds Character
Weird Science / int_ce6487aa	comment	Misery Builds Character: Gary's actions in "Switched at Birth" make it look like Wyatt is out of control and in need of discipline. Marcia believes the only solution is to send Wyatt to the same military school Chett was sent to.
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Weird Science / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Weird Science / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Lisa gives Wyatt a watch that shows when he'll die and Gary a watch that shows when he'll lose his virginity. According to the watches, Wyatt will die in 90 years and Gary will lose his virginity in a few days. A few days later, they realize they have the wrong watches, which means Wyatt has 10 minutes to live. He avoids his death by refusing to help Chett soup up his Jeep with nitro. Then Gary ignores his destiny by having sex with a nerdy classmate.
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Weird Science / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Weird Science / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: As a Whole-Plot Reference to The Twilight Zone (1959), the vast majority of "Sci-Fi Zoned" is in black and white. The Noir Episode "The Genie Detective" is also predominantly in black and white.
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Weird Science / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
Weird Science / int_d355ba37	comment	Turned Against Their Masters: After Lisa brings a video game villain to life, it promptly kidnaps her; Gary and Wyatt must fight for her release. Lisa herself fits this at times. In several episodes (such as the above example), she purposefully misinterprets the boys' wishes to teach them a lesson.
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Weird Science / int_d3a840a8	type	Opening Shout-Out
Weird Science / int_d3a840a8	comment	Opening Shout-Out: For most of the run, the series intro began and ended with Stock Footage from Bride of Frankenstein. Since "Searching for Boris Karloff" was a salute to Universal's Frankenstein movies, the opening exchange was re-created (albeit with Frankenstein instead of Pretorius).
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Weird Science / int_d53d0080	type	Vampiric Draining
Weird Science / int_d53d0080	comment	Vampiric Draining: When Wyatt wishes for his Nana to have the energy of a teenager in "Grampira", Lisa inadvertently gives her this ability: when Nana touches a young person, she drains the youthfulness out of them, making teens act old while she gets progressively more and more energetic and excited.
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Weird Science / int_d581ba71	type	Comes Great Responsibility
Weird Science / int_d581ba71	comment	Comes Great Responsibility: In "Rock Hard Chett", a prank on Chett is about to go horribly wrong, so Lisa gives him invincibility to save his life. He finds out about his new powers when he stumbles onto and foils a bank robbery. He quickly decides to put on a costume and become a superhero. Amazingly enough, he takes it very seriously and does a great job.
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Weird Science / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Weird Science / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Gary often referred to Wyatt as "Big Guy," presumably because Wyatt was quite a bit shorter than him.
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Weird Science / int_dd891949	type	Who Writes This Crap?!
Weird Science / int_dd891949	comment	Who Writes This Crap?!: In "What Genie?", Lisa is genie-napped and the boys lose all memory of her. Wyatt, reviewing past entries of his journal, finds references to her. He lists the plots of a few past episodes to Gary and exclaims: "Who could come up with this stuff?" Gary remarks: "Oh, please, a 4-year-old could come up with this stuff."
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Weird Science / int_e1f59bf0	type	Musical Episode
Weird Science / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: "Pirates!" Wyatt is cast as the lead in the school musical, but Lisa accidentally brings singing pirates to life, and they make Chett their leader. After four brief interludes, the episode ends with a lengthy musical number.
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Weird Science / int_e2b576a1	type	I Just Want to Be You
Weird Science / int_e2b576a1	comment	I Just Want to Be You: What helps get the "Freaky Friday" Flip in "Switched at Birth" going. After his parents again bail on him, Wyatt says Gary is lucky to have parents who are always around and want to do family activities. Gary, however, is annoyed by how his parents never leave him alone and wouldn't mind having absentee folks that shower a kid with money and gifts.
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Weird Science / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Weird Science / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Several episodes take the premise of existing shows. In "Sci-Fi Zoned", when the boys were fighting, Lisa zaps them into a world based on their favorite show, The Sci-Fi Zone. In "Quantum Wyatt", Lisa helps Wyatt figure out possible careers by spoofing Quantum Leap. "Searching for Boris Karloff" to Universal's Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein. "Wicked Wish" to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Gary lampshades it at one point. "Stalag 16" is mostly Stalag 17 with a little Hogan's Heroes thrown in. "Chett's World" to Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), complete with Chett running through the streets and telling his story in flashback. However, instead of aliens, the threat is mind-altering beef jerky that makes everyone act like Chett. "Show Chett" is one to Showgirls. Lisa forces Chett to be a stripper to teach him a lesson about objectifying women, but he actually likes it and tries to make it to the top. The Series Finale "WS4" is one to Independence Day.
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Weird Science / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Weird Science / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The FBI characters in "Fly Boy" are patterned after Mulder, Scully and the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
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Weird Science / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Weird Science / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Lisa, from a competent but unpredictable genie to a full-fledged Inept Mage whose spells never work right.
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Weird Science / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Weird Science / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Chett starts out as an unrepentant asshole that regularly bullies and annoys others. Over time, Character Development gave him more likable qualities.
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Weird Science / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Weird Science / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: When Gary is proven wrong or surprised, he usually responds with "Son of a gun."
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Weird Science / int_ea9f0351	type	My Brain is Big
Weird Science / int_ea9f0351	comment	My Brain Is Big: In "Party High, U.S.A.", Lisa initially gives Gary a huge brain so he can pass a test on the history of the bikini but he asks her to undo it since it would impede his efforts to score.
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Weird Science / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Weird Science / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: In "Fatal Lisa", a botched wish causes Lisa to fall in love with Wyatt. She becomes increasingly clingy and possessive - to the point of making everyone else disappear to leave the two of them alone.
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Weird Science / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
Weird Science / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: The three male characters all appeared, voicing themselves, on another USA network show, Duckman, where the villain was planning to kill the regulars from both shows.
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Weird Science / int_fb724048	type	Real After All
Weird Science / int_fb724048	comment	Real After All: In "Free Gary", Lisa is drawn to a guy nicknamed Kahuna that seems to know everything about her, but speaks vaguely about it. She soon believes he's a genie (especially when Gary is somehow saved from a wish gone wrong), while Wyatt thinks he was just giving her pickup lines and everything else was a coincidence. The last scene reveals that Kahuna is a genie.
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Weird Science / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Weird Science / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Gary and Wyatt sneak onto a talk show (see below) and reveal they have a genie in "What Genie?", Chett, Principal Scampi and a Jerk Jock at school feel "that explains a lot." Gary's father, however, asks, "Where'd Gary get the money for a sex change operation?"
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Weird Science / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Weird Science / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Lisa is insistently referred to as a "magic genie."
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Weird Science / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
Weird Science / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Chett's friends can be just as obnoxious to him as he is to others. "Man's Best Friend" even opens with them abandoning Chett in the woods and forcing him to walk back home.
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Weird Science / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Weird Science / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Chett and Lisa in the final season. They don't.
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Weird Science / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Weird Science / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Generally enforced. Due to limitations in Lisa's powers, wishes only last a short time and everything goes back to normal no matter what the characters experienced. (Whether or not other characters remember what was going on depends on the given episode.)
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Weird Science / int_fe3368cf	type	My Future Self and Me
Weird Science / int_fe3368cf	comment	My Future Self and Me: In "Camp Wannabe", Gary has Lisa send him and Wyatt to Camp Hi-De-Ho in the summer of 1986 where he meets himself as an eight-year-old. When he reveals his identity to the 1986 Gary, he screams for help. The 1994 Gary is able to prove that he is telling the truth as he knows that his younger self vomited in his sock drawer and blamed it on the dog the previous summer.
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Weird Science / int_feb72f62	type	Literal Genie
Weird Science / int_feb72f62	comment	Literal Genie: In "Cyrano De Brainac", Gary wishes for the brain of Albert Einstein, so Lisa zaps up Einstein's Brain in a Jar. Note this was after he tried to be very careful with his wording to avoid a mishap like his head being replaced by Einstein's.
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