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Penn Zero is not your average kid - every day, he's zapped into another dimension with his friends to save the world.
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Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero premiered December 5, 2014. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Penn Zero is not your average kid - every day, he's zapped into another dimension with his friends to save the world.
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Episode 1
Penn doesn't want to celebrate Christmas because his parents won't be there. However, he is sent to the North Pole to fill in for Santa Claus to save Christmas.
Directed by Adam Henry, Tom De RosierWritten by Sam Levine, Jared Bush, Jeffrey PoliquinGuest stars Henry Winkler
Episode 2
Penn, Boone, and Sashi are zapped into an underwater world to save a society of fish people, but their mission gets complicated when Penn finds out that Boone is afraid of water.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Jared Bush, Sam Levine
Episode 3
When Penn and his team are zapped into an old west cowboy world where the cowboys ride dinosaurs, the town sheriff joins them on their mission to prove he still has what it takes.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Jared Bush, Sam LevineGuest stars Beau Bridges
Episode 4
Penn, Boone, and Sashi are zapped into a world of living stuffed-animals to save the town's mayor from giant babies.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Kenny ByerlyGuest stars Diana Rigg
Episode 5
Penn and Boone's friendship is put to the test when they both fall for a beautiful alien princess that they must escort though the jungle back to her tribe.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Julia MirandaGuest stars Elizabeth Henstridge
Episode 6
When Penn, Boone, and Sashi are zapped into a world where everyone has superpowers, Penn learns that you don't have to have superpowers to be a hero.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Jase RicciGuest stars Adam West
Episode 7
After Penn and his team are zapped into a desert world filled with flying carpets, Penn begins to question Boone's abilities as the team's part time wise man.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Jared Bush, Sam Levine
Episode 8
Exhausted from recent missions, Penn is relieved when he is zapped into a seemingly ordinary job as a food court employee in a mall, but it turns out that Penn and his team are in an alternate world where a zombie apocalypse is taking place.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Sam Levine, Jase Ricci, Jared BushGuest stars Michael-Leon Wooley
Episode 9
When Penn, Boone, and Sashi are zapped into a clown world as clown cops, Sashi must tap into her silly side to save the mission.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Sam Levine, Jared Bush, Kenny ByerlyGuest stars Garry Marshall
Episode 10
Penn becomes concerned that Sashi takes her role as sidekick too seriously. Meanwhile, he and his team are zapped into a new world as spaceship heroes to save a starship from destruction, but the mission is complicated when Sashi accidentally turns Penn into a weird space animal.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Sam Levine, Jared Bush, Kenny ByerlyGuest stars George Takei, Lauren Tom
Episode 11
Phyllis has Penn and his team watch a play-back of their just-completed mission in which they were explorers in a race against time to return an idol to a temple while being chased by Rippen and a giant man-eating toilet.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Kenny Byerly
Episode 12
When the team is zapped into an alternate world where Penn is president, Sashi is a general, and Boone is a Supreme Court justice, Boone finds himself on the most popular game show in the galaxy where he must plead his case and compete against Rippen in an outrageous contest that will determine the fate of the Earth. However, Boone has a fear of public speaking.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Jeffrey PoliquinGuest stars Chris Parnell, Bruce Vilanch
Episode 13
While in a medieval world, Rippen holds tryouts to replace Larry as his number two, and Penn goes undercover as Rippen’s new minion to find a village’s stolen gold.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Paiman Kalayeh
Episode 14
Penn and his team are zapped into a world where they are enormous yet misunderstood monsters. They must convince the human President of a nearby island city that the monsters mean them no harm.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Mike Winn, Kevin HyltonGuest stars Maria Bamford
Episode 15
In a world where everyone is a cereal mascot and cereal is grown on farms, Penn seeks the help of an imprisoned Rippen to catch The Milk Man, a villain threatening to flood all the cereal crops with milk, turning them soggy.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Kenny ByerlyGuest stars Paul Reubens
Episode 16
Penn, Boone, and Sashi are zapped back to the super hero world to help Captain Super Captain defeat his twin brother, Professor Evil Professor, who has turned all the superheros evil.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Jase RicciGuest stars Adam West
Episode 17
Concerned about his abilities as a leader, Penn and his team are zapped into a world where they are sports balls to teach the other balls to defend themselves from their enemies.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Jeffrey PoliquinGuest stars Brian Posehn, Kari Wahlgren
Episode 18
The team zaps into a musical fairy tale universe where everyone sings when they speak. Penn is a princess, Sashi is a knight, and Boone is a fairy godmother. During their mission to save the queen from being turned to stone, their true feelings come out in song.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Jase RicciGuest stars Rena Strober
Episode 19
Larry becomes an acting part-time villain as he substitutes for the ailing Rippen. The team's mission is endangered when Penn takes pity on Larry.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Paiman Kalayeh
Episode 20
When Penn and his team are zapped into a world where the colorful Hues and the gray Drabs are in a feud, they must stop Rippen from destroying the rainbow rocks, which provide the world's colors.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Elizabeth RinehartGuest stars Pamela Adlon, Harland Williams, Maurice LaMarche
Episode 21
When a power outage prevents anyone from zapping, both teams of part-time heroes and part-time villains kill time at Larry’s estate by trying to locate Larry’s missing teacup elephant.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Jase RicciGuest stars Maria Bamford, Maurice LaMarche
Episode 22
Rippen falls for a space villain named Lady Starblaster.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Jeffrey PoliquinGuest stars Sigourney Weaver
Episode 23
Penn and his team return to the cowboy world and get help from Sheriff Scaley Briggs to stop Rippen and Briggs' daughter Amber from rustling Cow-o-saurs.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Paiman KalayehGuest stars Olivia Holt, Beau Bridges
Episode 24
After Boone fools around on the zapping platform, he and Penn swap roles, so Boone becomes the hero.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Chad DrewGuest stars Maria Bamford
Episode 25
Penn and his team return to the underwater world and must find a royal fish named Rufus.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Jase RicciGuest stars Peter Stormare
Episode 26
When Penn discovers that Phyllis is trying to locate the Most Dangerous World Imaginable to bring his parents back to Middleburg, he takes matters into his own hands leading to catastrophic results.
Directed by Adam Henry, Chuck AustenWritten by Jared Bush, Jeffrey PoliquinGuest stars Kate Micucci, Kumail Nanjiani
Episode 27
Penn must overcome his jealousy of popular fellow cadet Blaze to complete his mission and finish at the top of his class at Dragon Flight School.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Shane MorrisGuest stars Kenny Loggins, Sean Astin
Episode 28
Penn accidentally drinks a potion that turns him into a Rippen-monster, whenever he loses his temper.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Jeffrey Poliquin, Jase Ricci
Episode 29
A clown-style street race is held in Chuckle City to determine the next mayor.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Paiman KalayehGuest stars Garry Marshall, Jeff Gordon
Episode 30
Penn endangers a mission when he discovers he has the lowest tech gadgets available.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Shane MorrisGuest stars Maria Bamford
Episode 31
Penn tries to solve a twisted mystery in a world where everyone is a plant.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Paiman KalayehGuest stars Rena Strober
Episode 32
Boone gets zapped into a barbarian wizards world where he is tasked with conjuring up a spell to stop Rippen.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Jase RicciGuest stars Blake Anderson
Episode 33
Uncle Chuck and Aunt Rose accidentally break an essential part of the machine that zaps Penn back from other worlds.
Directed by Tom De RosierWritten by Paiman Kalayeh, Jase RicciGuest stars Maria Bamford, Maurice LaMarche, Fred Tatasciore
Episode 34
The kids get zapped into a backyard world where they become military action figures.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Adam SteinGuest stars Wanda Sykes
Episode 35
Penn and his friends merge as giant metamorphosing robots to fight for control of an alien planet.
Directed by Chuck AustenWritten by Sam Levine
Episode 36
The fate of two alien planets is tied to the outcome of a sporting event.
Directed by Adam HenryWritten by Thomas MiddleditchGuest stars Jason Alexander, Jane Kaczmarek, John K. Anderson, John Henson, Dee Bradley Baker
Episode 37
Penn's origin story is revealed in a flashback to his first day of high school when he learns his parents are part-time heroes instead of insurance salespeople.
Directed by Adam Henry, Tom De RosierWritten by Jared Bush
Episode 38
Phil and Rippen tunnel into The Odyssey and damage the Multi Universe Transprojector, causing unbalance in the multiverse. Vortexes form in every world that Penn and his team have visited. Penn, Boone, and Sashi must travel to each world and close all of the vortexes before everything and everyone from all the worlds get sucked into nothingness. During their mission, Penn finds a crystal shard in the nothingness, which, according to Phyllis, is the key to finding his parents.
Directed by Tom De Rosier, Chuck AustenWritten by Jeffrey PoliquinGuest stars Adam West, Maria Bamford, Wanda Sykes, Olivia Holt, Beau Bridges, Sean Astin
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Thomas MiddleditchPenn Zero (voice)
Tania GunadiSashi Kobayashi (voice)
Adam DevineBoone Wiseman (voice)
Alfred MolinaRippen (voice)
Larry WilmoreLarry (voice)
Sam LevinePhyllis (voice)
Gary ColeBrock (voice)
Lea ThompsonVonnie (voice)
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