S1 • E1
Squish's best friend Pod doesn't have time to hang out with him, so Squish makes a new friend named Vinny, who seems nice - but is a dangerous virus who keeps multiplying and spreading, until there are dozens of Vinnies!!. Ahhh.
S1 • E2
When the home puddle of Peggy's extended family dries up, Squish suggests that she invite them all to stay in Small Pond. However, the town is quickly over-run by hordes of insanely-happy paramecia. It's hyper-happy Peggy times a hundred. Their clueless joy nearly ends up destroying everything. Can Pod and Squish help Peggy's relatives get back home before their uncontrollable joy changes the town of Small Pond forever?
S1 • E3
Squish is wrongly-accused of stealing Principal Planaria's special box of confiscated student items. In order to prove his innocence, Pod and Peggy must help him "break out" of detention, and track down the real thief - another student named Gusfun Fungus. It's a "Great Escape"-style caper but with a microbial flair. (One of their many offbeat plans even involves Peggy digging - and digesting - an escape tunnel from the school yard into the detention room)
S1 • E4
Pod builds a rocket so Squish can get to school on time, but he accidentally crashes the rocket into Principal Planaria, breaking him in half. There are now TWO Principal Planarias. One is as strict as ever. The other seems groovy and fun. However, when Principal "fun" Planaria takes over the school, he almost destroys it. Can they get the original "strict" Planaria back? Or will Squish just break the new "fun" Principal in half again, and hopefully get an even better replacement?
S1 • E5
Pod gets mad at Peggy for always breaking his stuff so Peggy makes a "Powee-Wowee Paramecium Pinky Promise" to never touch ANYTHING belonging to ANYONE ever again. In the process, she breaks some more of Pod's stuff in his lab - and accidentally super-charges her body's natural magnetic abilities. As she leaves, we reveal: her body is now a powerful magnet, comically attracting all kinds of metallic objects - from small tools to street signs and large appliances. But Peggy stays true to her "promise," and refuses to touch any of the objects now touching and sticking to her body. Can Squish keep her safe from the magnetic metal long enough for Pod to find a way to "demagnetize" her?
S1 • E6
Genius Pod gets transferred to a special School for Gifted Microbes across Small Pond. He is the first amoeba to attend the school, which is filled with a type of brilliant student bacteria called Paenibacillus Vortex (or "Panny"). Not wanting to leave his friends behind, Pod creates an intelligence-expanding helmet for Squish and Peggy so they can join him in the brainiac school too. But when Squish and Peggy arrive, they learn that Pod is unhappy at the school because all the other Panny students are mean to him. Now Squish must help Pod get expelled - by teaching him how to act stupid. Can they all be dumb enough to escape the smartest school in Small Pond?
S1 • E7
Hygiene-obsessed Pod keeps making his friends late for events with his constant need to stop and clean himself. When Squish and Peggy attempt to cure him of this obsession, their efforts work TOO well. Pod suddenly LOVES being dirty. He becomes one of the stinkiest slobs in Small Pond. He also helps a gang of smelly microbes called The Inky Stinkies as they try to turn Small Pond into a paradise of foul odors. Squish and Peggy must figure out a way to "un-cure" Pod and get him to start cleaning again - before he stinks out the entire town.
S1 • E8
Peggy gets kicked out of the school play when Squish accidentally gets cast in her starring role - NOT for his acting ability, but because he can physically transform himself into the shape of a star (which the play's director, Principal Planaria, believes is "crucial" for the part). Squish tries desperately to get himself kicked out of the show so Peggy can get her part back AND because he doesn't really like turning into a star shape. Plus, the other lead actor in the play is the massive bully Lynwood. Meanwhile, Pod works on stage crew, creating the most incredible - and dangerous -- "stage effects" the school has ever seen.
S1 • E9
Squish signs up for Peggy's charity race thinking it's only 27 millimeters long, but it's actually 27,000 millimeters (a HUGE distance for an amoeba). Meanwhile, Pod "generously" offers to sponsor Squish in the race, thinking he will never finish the epic event - and he does everything he can to keep Squish from completing it. Ultimately, Squish figures out a way to both finish the race for Peggy - and NOT finish it for Pod - thanks to a special single-cell ability called "Mitosis."
S1 • E10
Hoping to raise money to buy a special ballcap, Squish and Pod start a pet-sitting business. But when the many pets they are caring for become too much to handle, Pod invents a robot to watch them - and the robot ends up losing all the creatures. Now Squish, Pod, and Peggy must track down the missing pets before their owners come to claim them. Squish learns that pets are a LOT smarter than he ever imagined, as Peggy's Slime Mold Fluffy helps them save the day.
S1 • E11
Squish resists when his Dad wants to join the garage band Squish has formed with Peggy and Pod. Dad used to be in a band when he was a kid and he offers them plenty of "helpful tips." Squish keeps dismissing his advice as "uncool." But it turns out that most of his suggestions are really valuable, especially when they learn a competing band is holding a big concert on the same exact night as their show. Will they be able to draw a crowd away from the other band? And will they ever play Dad's "special song," which has a wildly- unusual affect on the bacteria in the audience?
S1 • E12
High-fashion student Helen the Hydrozoa befriends Peggy and gives her a "makeover" as she tries to turn her into one of her "mean girl" minions. Squish and Pod attempt to win Peggy back from the ultra-stylish Helen so Peggy can help them compete in a "Wacky-Vac" dive-and-splash contest at the local pool. Peggy is at the mercy of Helen's overbearing personality and, eventually, her "toxic" fashion products, which clog up Peggy's cilia and keep her from moving. Can Squish and Pod save her from girly-bully Helen in time to win the Wacky Vac contest?
S1 • E13
Squish has a rivalry with the tiny bully Shirley the MicroShrimp, but when an encounter with a pile of salt accidentally shrinks him to her size, Squish must rely on Shirley to show him how to survive as one of the smallest kids in school. Squish eventually learns to love being small - and he likes hanging out with Shirley, especially when they sneak into Principal Planaria's office and see the Principal playing with all the toys and electronic items he confiscates from students. Ultimately, Pod creates a device to help Squish grow back to his normal size - but will he ever choose to use it?
S1 • E14
Squish thinks the massive tough-guy student Lynwood is after him so he forms a protective cyst around himself - sort of like a large, round shell. But living inside the cyst prevents Squish from doing ANYTHING, like hanging out with friends, taking tests, or even eating breakfast. Squish finally breaks out of his cyst, and directly confronts Lynwood - only to discovers that the bully NEVER wanted to hurt him -- Lynwood just wanted to peacefully talk out their misunderstandings. "Stupid cyst!"
S1 • E15
Due to a unique activity of amoebas, Squish accidentally gets stuck to his best friend Pod like a Siamese Twin. At first, they both think this will be fun, but they soon realize that even best friends can spend TOO much time together. Unable to EVER be alone, they begin to get on each other's nerves, and realize that being THIS "close" is pulling them further apart as friends. They eventually learn how to adjust their friendship to the situation, and start having fun - just as they are physically separated by the same process that brought them together.
S1 • E16
Pod gets hurt when Squish "lies" to him about an art project. Pod then mixes some glowing substance inside Squish's cupcakes, making him glow every time he "lies". Will Squish be able to go on with his day without all the little white lies he's used to say to everyone? How will he handle being forced to tell the truth all the time?
S1 • E17
Squish spends all the money his father gave him for supplies on what he thinks is a "gold-making" plant. But the plant only produces poop - which Squish proudly claims is "real" gold, until Pod corrects him. Now Squish must admit to everyone that he was fooled, as well as stop Peggy from spending his non-existent fortune on an elaborate carnival. And, after all that, he must still 'fess up to his father about spending all his cash.
S1 • E18
Helen the Hydrozoa, who has several extra limbs, won't let Peggy on the cheerleader team because she only has two arms. Squish convinces Peggy to form her own competing team of cheerleaders, filled with an eclectic collection of microbes. The two squads compete to be the school's official team, and Peggy's cheerleaders are triumphant, thanks to the unconventional skills of her misfit team.
S1 • E19
The Algae Brothers mock Squish when he claims the school is being invaded by a monster worm that only Squish has ever seen. But it's the Algae Brothers who are begging Squish for protection when they realize the monster is real and it's a Nematode - who loves to eat algae. Squish must now help the kids that made fun of him, as well as work with Pod and Peggy to scare away the giant creature.
S1 • E20
Squish's Dad is looking forward to taking him to a father-and-son Slime Hockey Game, but Squish would rather go to a party with Pod and Peggy. Squish thinks this will be the social event of the year - a "beach party" thrown on a sunny hilltop by the Algae Brothers. But the bash turns out to be a total bummer for Squish and Pod. The partygoers are mean to them and the two amoebas dry out in the hot sun at the event. Meanwhile, all the algae there multiply wildly in the sun, crowding the space and threatening to destroy Squish, Pod, and Peggy. Can they escape the party - and make it too the Slime Hockey game with Squish's Dad ?
S1 • E21
Helen the mean-girl Hydrozoan threatens to show the school an embarrassing video of Squish unless he agrees to act as her boyfriend so she can make another boy she likes jealous. Squish doesn't like Helen, and has no idea how to be a boyfriend so Peggy goes overboard in helping him "romance" Helen. Meanwhile, Pod is upset that Squish never told him he had a "girlfriend" and is obsessed with uncovering the truth about this "affair." Ultimately, Squish has to come clean about both the fake "relationship" and the incriminating video - but not before Helen's plan totally backfires for her.
S1 • E22
When a list of the smartest students in school is posted, Pod is shocked to learn that Peggy ranked higher than him. While they both got the same grades, Peggy earned extra points for her positive attitude. So Pod attempts to learn how to be as "happy" as Peggy. When that doesn't work, he uses one of his inventions to genetically import her "happy" and "goofy" qualities into himself. The results are disastrous: a really HAPPY Pod who uses his scientific skills to pursue incredibly "goofy" and destructive plans. Can B-student Squish figure out how to save Peggy and Pod, the two smartest kids in school.
S1 • E23
Squish, Pod and Peggy arrive at school to find all the students are missing. They soon learn that everyone broke so many rules that Principal Planaria sent them all to detention. But now he can't punish any more kids, or there will be no one to attend class, and the school will have to shut down. So not only will Squish, Pod, and Peggy have the whole school to themselves, but they can't get in trouble - no matter what they do. At first they think this will be fun, but it turns into a nightmare. Why is everyone breaking so many rules? And how can Squish, Pod, and Peggy get everyone else out of detention - when Planaria refuses to send them there?
S1 • E24
Squish is a big fan of the fictional super-hero, Super Amoeba. While discussing a recent episode of the Super Amoeba TV show with Pod, Squish jokes about saving a baby bacteria like his TV hero. Peggy mistakenly believes Squish is talking about himself, and proudly boasts about Squish's "heroics" to everyone at school. Soon, everyone thinks Squish is a real hero. Pod advises Squish to tell the truth, but Squish loves the attention too much. That is - until Squish is called to rescue a real creature in need. He realizes he must finally be honest, and face the fact that he is not a hero. Or is he...?
S1 • E25
Vinnie the Virus returns to Small Pond. Squish is wary at first, but Vinny claims that he is only here to help Squish. Vinnie has the ability to make himself look just like Squish, and then do all his chores and schoolwork. Squish thinks this is great, and even gives Vinny-Squish lessons on how to be as "cool" as the real Squish. But soon Vinny-Squish replicas are popping up all over town. We learn their real goal is to secretly take over Small Pond disguised as Squish. And they chose this disguise NOT because Squish is cool, but because they think he looks "boring and harmless."
S1 • E26
Squish accidentally posts a ridiculous picture of himself on his Germbook page, and the post becomes a huge hit on the site. So Squish posts more absurd images of himself and quickly becomes a social media sensation. However, Squish loves the attention so much that he will stop at nothing to create pictures with the most "likes." He even abandons his best friends Pod and Peggy in the process. But when Squish finds himself in need for help - who will come and save him? All his social media "friends?" Or his good pals Peggy and Pod?
S1 • E27
Peggy discovers that she, like all paramecia, has trichocysts - harpoon-like tethers she can use to capture prey. Or in this case - her friends. Peggy uses her "Peg-poons" to instantly pull Squish and Pod over to her, regardless of where they are or what they're doing. At first it seems fun to "Peg-poon" her friends, but Squish and Pod soon get annoyed at being pulled out of bed, the bathroom, or other areas, and demand that she stay away from them. Peggy vows to keep her distance. But then - Squish and Pod miss her. How will they ever get their best friend back - without having to be "Peg-pooned?"
S1 • E28
Squish hopes to win a videogame during a fundraising raffle at school, but instead wins another prize, which turns out to be - Lunch with the Principal. Squish is horrified, because Principal Planaria is always punishing him. However, the lunch event turns out to be more fun than he ever expected. He enjoys himself so much that he grows concerned that his new "closeness" with the Principal will ruin his "troublemaker" reputation. Can he be both a "cool kid" and a "friend of the Principal" at the same time?
S1 • E29
Pod freaks out when he almost runs into his academic rival from the smart school, Franny the Panny. He begs Squish to "eat him" so he can hide from her in Squish's belly. The plan works. Later, when Pod and Peggy have exclusive tickets to a movie premiere, Squish begs Pod to let him hide in Pod's belly so he can sneak into the movie. Pod refuses. Squish thinks this is unfair, and tries to climb inside Pod's mouth (and stomach) anyway. He succeeds - just as Pod ends up on accidental movie "date" with Franny. Talk about being a "third wheel!"
S1 • E30
Squish invites everyone in school to his backyard barbecue...except for Benjamin the Methanogen, a bacteria that is so disgusting and stinky that no one wants to be around him. However, when Squish runs out of fuel at his barbecue, his only option is to convince Benjamin to come to the party and use his unique methane emissions to power his barbecue. Benjamin ends up being the hit of the party.
S1 • E31
When Peggy and Squish complain that Pod is too unemotional, Pod invents a device to increase his emotional response at appropriate times. However, the device breaks, just as Principal Planaria asks the normally-calm and rational Pod to convince a group of brilliant, prospective students to enroll in their school. Pod is now a rollercoaster of emotions, thanks to his busted "emotionizer" device. The prospective students are freaked out, until Pod's emotionizer "infects" them too. Now everyone is emotionally out-of-control, and it is driving the Principal nuts.
S1 • E32
Pod freaks out after failing to get an "A" on Mr. Rotifer's test, but Squish claims it probably won't affect his final grade. Seeking to reassure Pod, the three friends set out to retrieve Pod's final grades from Mr. Rotifer's laptop. But gaining access to the laptop requires them to follow the boring Mr. Rotifer all over town, where they learn some very not-so-boring things about their teacher. They are most stunned to realize Rotifer hides his grades - inside a pet owned by big-fist Brian.
S1 • E33
Squish attempts to convince the founder of Microtopia Theme Parks to build his next amusement center in Small Pond. But Squish's civic-boosting presentation is abruptly interrupted when Peggy's relatives from the Puddle of Weeeee. show up, and make their own pitch for building the theme park in their town. Peggy is torn between helping Squish and supporting her relatives from Weeeee. This upsets Squish, who accuses her of betraying him. But the real traitor is someone he never even suspected.
S1 • E34
Squish gets stuck planning a big celebration for Principal Planaria, and Peggy insists on bringing her pet Fluffy to do some tricks for the event. But pets aren't allowed at school, so Pod figures out a way to shrink Fluffy so Peggy can carry the pet in her backpack. However, when various items and students at school start to disappear, everyone thinks Peggy is stealing them - not realizing that Fluffy is sneaking out of the backpack to eat everything in sight. When it comes time for Squish to throw the celebration for Planaria, no students are left to attend it. Planaria is devastated. Can Squish, Pod, and Peggy - and Fluffy too - find a way to make things right?
S1 • E35
Squish unintentionally insults Shirley the Microshrimp and gets "dis-invited" to her huge, "Sweet Molting" party. Squish desperately tries to find someone - anyone - to hang out with on the night of the party, but all are attending the event - even his best friends Pod and Peggy, and his father too. Squish takes desperate measure to sneak into the party, but ends up unwittingly "crushing" the party's main "attraction." And that's when he meets something called - "Ghost Shirley."
S1 • E36
Squish gets assigned to work on a school project with Abby, who accidentally dissolves things with her body acid whenever she gets nervous. Squish tries to build up her confidence so she will stop vaporizing desks, walls, and even other creatures with her acid. Nothing seems to work until Abby asks to borrow Squish's ballcap. She suddenly becomes the most confident kid in school while cap-less Squish turns into a "nobody" failure. Who knew this headgear had so much power? When Squish asks for his ballcap back, Abby refuses to return it. Will Squish ever get back his cap - and his confidence?
S1 • E37
Pod is frustrated that Squish never wants to join him in his science based hobbies, so Pod creates a miniature replica of himself that will share the same interests. Squish is hurt that Pod has a new "friend," but Peggy tries to bring everyone together. At first, Pod and "mini-Pod" get along great, but the replica gets extremely possessive and tries to keep Pod all for himself. That's when Pod asks his old friends for help in freeing himself from the clutches of the clingy "mini-Pod."
S1 • E38
Pod's parents mistakenly think Squish and Peggy are a bad influence on him so they create a robotic guardian to keep Pod away from his friends. Peggy insists on proving that Pod's friends are actually a "good influence," while Squish enjoys the newfound social cachet he enjoys as a trouble-making "bad influence." While Squish doubles down on his "bad influencing" and Peggy powers up her "good influencing," both of their efforts end up causing Pod even more problems. Ultimately, the friends discover that the robotic guardian is the worst influence of all. Will they ever have just right kind of "influence" to get their friend back?
S1 • E39
Squish makes a deal with Planaria to cancel all of his detentions, but then an accident causes Planaria to lose his memory. Plus, Planaria now thinks he is a swashbuckling knight from the book he had been reading just before the accident. While Peggy thinks the new "Lord Planaria" is so much fun, Squish desperately struggles to get Planaria to remember his real identity - and the promise about the detentions.
S1 • E40
Popular girl Helen is so mean to her minions Holly and Heather that the two girls "dump" Helen and instead because minions to - Peggy. However, Peggy doesn't want minions who imitate her every move. Squish and Pod decide the only way to help Peggy is to make Holly and Heather jealous by becoming Helen's new "minions."
S1 • E41
Brian is a bacteria and one of the biggest and toughest kids at school. Squish is an amoeba, who always tries to be Brian's friend. But Brian never says a word. He just hits Squish with his big fists. This is frustrating for Squish. It's even worse when Squish learns that Brian has just "told" the funniest joke ever. However, the only kids who heard the joke are other bacteria who can understand Brian's bacterial signals. Pod tries to help by creating a device that translates Brian's bacterial signals into words. Finally - Squish gets to "communicate" with Brian, who is so happy, he won't stop "talking" - and "talking" to Squish. Now Brian won't shut up. It gets frustrating for Squish, so he ends up breaking the device. But now how will he hear Brian's funniest joke ever?
S1 • E42
Squish is thrilled to hear that the annoying Algae Brothers have been transferred to the "Smart Kid School" across town, but Pod is concerned because the Algae Brothers are not that smart. Something does not seem right here. Pod convinces his friends to investigate, and they eventually learn that the smart kids only brought in the Algae Brothers so they could perform an elaborate experiment. Squish, Pod, and Peggy manage to "save" the Algae Brothers and turn the tables on the smart kids.
S1 • E43
Peggy thinks everyone needs friends, and gets very upset when she learns that there is a hermit bacteria living all alone deep underground. She makes Squish and Pod accompany her on a journey to the center of the Earth to befriend this "poor bacteria." However, once they reach the bacteria, they learn that he really likes being alone. Peggy refuses to believe this. Can Squish and Pod save this "poor bacteria" from their friend Peggy and her obsession with friendship?
S1 • E44
When Squish learns that tough amoeba Lynwood always gets less detentions than him for the same infractions, he begs Lynwood to teach him his secrets. Lynwood explains that Squish can get anything he wants by taking his acting lessons and becoming a "great actor." Squish gets carried away exploiting his newfound theatrical skills, causing himself unexpected trouble. He eventually learns that the only way to help himself is to prepare for his most difficult "role." It's called - "learning how to act like himself."
S1 • E45
Squish is excited that Peggy will be staying with him for a week while her family is out of town. But once Peggy moves in, she completely takes over his room and his house. Squish gets so frustrated that he tries to go live with Pod. Peggy realizes he is upset, and vows to go stay with her relatives in the Puddle of Weeeee. But once she's gone, Squish misses her. Can he make things right with Peggy?
S1 • E46
The unexpected results of a school poll declare that Pod is the coolest kid in school. Squish is jealous, and doesn't understand how a "nerd" like Pod can be so "cool?" Squish tries to be nerdy too, but fails miserably. Meanwhile, Pod hates being popular and begs his friends to make him "less cool." Squish realizes he is an expert in being "uncool," and soon helps Pod convince the rest of the school to leave him alone.
S1 • E47
Squish has a hard time keeping up with the ever-changing trends at school so Pod programs his robot to predict upcoming trends so Squish can stay ahead of them. The problem is: once Squish adopts a trend, he somehow finds a way to make it seem lame. Can the robot predict a trend that even Squish can't ruin?
S1 • E48
Shirley the Microshrimp is jealous of the friendship of Pod, Peggy and Squish. She wishes she had the same kind of relationship with her pals Brian and Gusfun. She confronts Peggy, demanding to know the secrets of their friendship. Peggy is happy to explain the bonds she shares with Squish and Pod, but her recollection of their best moments together make Shirley realize that every friendship is unique, and that's what really makes it so special.
S1 • E49
Peggy is always happy to help people around her. She even agrees to help Planaria clean up his office. But when Planaria mysteriously disappears, Peggy finds herself taking over his job. Running a school is not an easy task and Peggy reveals an unknown side of herself. Not everyone is happy with "Principal Peggy," so Squish and Pod attempt to find out what happened to the missing Planaria.
S1 • E50
For year, Squish has been accidentally disrupting a local shopper as he runs to school. The shopper is always get smashed, bumped, or otherwise injured as he tries to avoid the speeding Squish - who is completely unaware of the trouble he is causing. The Shopper is determined to finally get his revenge. Meanwhile, Pod, Squish and Peggy have formed a club to help others in town. However, in their efforts to help others, Squish causes even more harm to the shopper, who keeps trying to thwart Squish. Will these do-gooding kids ever actually do some good and help the hapless shopper?
S1 • E51
Peggy attempts to make a documentary about Squish, claiming he is the luckiest boy in Small Pond. Squish argues that he is not so lucky - and Peggy's documentary seems to be making everything worse as he suffers a series of hardships during filming. However, once Squish sees the final film, he realizes that he is luckier than he ever imagined.
S1 • E52
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