The Superhero Who's More Than a Little Off-Balance!
Attention Evil-doers! The Tick is here, and he’s wearing the blue tights of justice! Together with his trusty moth-costumed sidekick Arthur, The Tick keeps the streets of The City safe from a rogue’s gallery of hilariously malevolent villains. So grab a snack, put your feet up and get ready to laugh and cheer as everyone’s favorite brawny hero swats evil on the snout with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness!
Attention Evil-doers! The Tick is here, and he’s wearing the blue tights of justice! Together with his trusty moth-costumed sidekick Arthur, The Tick keeps the streets of The City safe from a rogue’s gallery of hilariously malevolent villains. So grab a snack, put your feet up and get ready to laugh and cheer as everyone’s favorite brawny hero swats evil on the snout with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness!
Season 2 episodes
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When Arthur goes off on a date with Carmalita on Hobby Night, Tick builds himself a new sidekick - Little Wooden Boy. Swiss Commandoes are after the notebook of Dr. Vahtoss, Carmalita's father and the inventor of Arthur's flight suit. And Blowhole, a giant long-distance running whale, accidentally swallows everyone, forcing the Tick to light up Little Wooden Boy to cause Blowhole to choke them up. Yep, just another day in The City...
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-SmithGuest stars Jennifer Hale, Steve Susskind, Roger Rose
The Tick is sent into space to blow the ""CHA"" out of the Moon from when Chairface tried to write his name in the moon. He blows the letter C up while he's inside it and gets sent through space. While in space he comes across a fantastically large alien named Omnipotus. The Tick befriends him and becomes a janitor on his body. But Omnipotus is an eater of planets and plans to eat the Earth when they get to it.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Christopher McCullochGuest stars Pat Fraley, Roger Rose, Ron Feinberg
The Tick and Arthur run afoul of Venus, a portly but alluring love goddess/villain, and her sycophantic sidekick, Milo. The villains successfully remove The Tick and Arthur's arms and attach them to a pair of crude lookalike robots. Venus begins a crime spree with the help of the heroes' arms, while The Tick and Arthur evade a police manhunt and try to reclaim their errant extremities and save the day.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-SmithGuest stars Linda Gary, Gerrit Graham
The evil Brainchild returns and using his Nanny-of-the-Apocalypse, captures the Tick and transforms him into a two-headed bird that speaks bad French. Thus rendered powerless, The Tick is auctioned off by Brainchild, and it's up to the other heroes to sneak into the villain gathering and save him.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Pippin Parker, Andy YerkesGuest stars Tony Jay, Miriam Flynn, Phil Proctor, Dorian Harewood, Stuart Stone, Pat Musick
Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!
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A flunky of air conditioner repair school makes a time machine and goes back and kidnaps the greatest inventors of all time so he can go back in time and reinvent everything.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Michael RubinerGuest stars Paul Williams, Jim Cummings, Dorian Harewood, Jeff Bennett, Lynne Marie Stewart, Ed Gilbert, Hamilton Camp, Cynthia Songé
El Seed has returned and this time he wants to destroy the whole city by making a 400 year flower bloom in ""the bad way"". This flower will bloom in this ""bad way"", when there is no gentle music around. But when Professor Ichibana, owner of this rare & amazing flower, switches flowers with The Tick and Arthur, these accursed superheroes are tossed in El Seed's salad once again. El Seed creates Rosebud, who manages to steal the flower from Arthur. El Seed makes the flower bloom in ""the bad way"", but even he cannot control it's powers. Only the Tick's opera singing can save the City now...
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-SmithGuest stars Ed Gilbert, Pat Musick
A villain who can animate furniture and make it do her bidding falls in love with Die Fledermaus and tries to take over The City, with hilarious consequences and sexy results.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Jed SpingarnGuest stars Mary Kay Bergman
Betty, Queen of the Ants, leads the ants of the City in revolt - it loses its major defender when the Tick is thoroughly creeped out and checks himself into Captain Sanity's Superhero Sanitarium. Betty and her minions capture the other heroes and lock them up in a giant People Farm, then collect enough glass to build a giant magnifying glass and use sunlight to fry them. Fortunately the Tick regains his (normal) sanity in the nick of time and saves the day.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Ralph SollGuest stars Roger Rose, Mary Kay Bergman, Jim Cummings, Pat Fraley, Dorian Harewood, Cathy Moriarty
A small-time bank robber in a stolen Santa Claus costume is chased into an electric billboard, gaining miraculous powers. He becomes Multiple Santa, a villain able to create electric clones of himself. The Tick, Arthur, and their superhero friends are called upon to rid The City of this Christmas menace.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-SmithGuest stars Kevin Schon, Roger Rose, Jim Cummings, Ron Feinberg
When Reno entertainers Soren and Frederica lose their prized animal, a trained dolphin, they call upon Arthur (they know his parents), and he and the Tick come to their aid. Little do they know that the dolphin, The Fin, plans to rule the world with his newly-invented Fish Magnet, with which he plans to bury the city in fish. The Tick must cope with his newfound weakness - gambling addiction - but manages to overcome it and beat The Fin by holding his breath longer.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Pippin Parker, Andy YerkesGuest stars Pat Musick, Maurice LaMarche
The Terror sends his so-so villainous son Terry to recover his Desire-O-Vac - he lost it in an epic battle against the Decency Squad decades ago. The Tick is there listening to the old-time Squadders' tales and eventually gets involved, but it's a rebellious Terry and the aged Decency Squad members who save the day.
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Directed by Hank TuckerWritten by Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-SmithGuest stars Maurice LaMarche, Pat Fraley, Jim Cummings, Kevin Schon, Susan Blu, Peter Bergman
Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith, Christopher McCulloch, Randolph Heard, Henry Gilroy, Andy Yerkes, Pippin Parker, Martin Pasko, Jed Spingarn, Michael Rubiner, Art Vitello, Ralph Soll