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S1 • E1
Daydreaming youngster Ned Flemkin smashes his piggybank to buy an excitingpet, but various costly distractions en route to the store leave him with only enough money for a newt...which is utterly unresponsive until Ned feeds him some Zippo Newt Food, and discovers he's created a fast-talking, morph-a-minute monster.;When Newton discovers that bashful Ned has a crush on the little girl down the street, he spares no effort - or embarrassment - to unite the pint-size Romeo and Juliet.
S1 • E2
Ned is happily building his class float for the annual Friendship Day Parade...until over-protective Newton finds out about a "competing" float and turns Ned's Humble effort into the Death Star on wheels.;When Ned's tattletale cousin Renfrew visits and gets Ned in trouble, Newtonsees a way to discredit him once and for all, by turning Renfrew into the Boy Who Cried Newt.
S1 • E3
Ned's Mom throws out his rare Captain Ocelot action figure so he goes to the dump with Newton and searches through trash for it. He comes home with the doll, a truckload of recovered treasure, and really bad-smelling shoes. (The Dump Hermit turns out to be Captain Ocelot!);As Ned's Mom's birthday approaches, she admires a replica Sacrificial Peruvian Blood Alter Ring in a catalogue. "A replica?" snorts Newton slapping an Indiana Jones hat and leather whip onto Ned..."we'll get her the real thing!"
S1 • E4
Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese, so Ned and Newton convert thefamily station wagon into a spaceship to find out of Mars is made of tomato paste.;Ned wants to go to the school dance with Linda, but not wanting to be embarrassed by his poor technique, enlists master of all footwork Newton as his tutor.
S1 • E5
Newton takes a simple 20-home paper route which Ned got in order to save up for a bike, and turns him into the Rupert Murdoch of Friendly Falls.;Ned is asked by his one love, Linda, to go to the circus. So he saves his money, but it's a disaster, un-scary lions, skinny elephants, seals that can't balance, etc. Newton goes backstage at half-time to do some serious pep-talking and give his owner his money's worth.
S1 • E6
Sunday night, Ned wishes he could go back to Friday to enjoy the weekend over again. Newton finds a time machine in the attic and when Ned an Newton step out of it onto an uncut lawn, they think they might have accidentally gone back to Thursday...until the first dinosaur walks by.;Ned attends a Jamboree, where Newton notices that some other kids have more merit badges than his owner. Not if he can help it...
S1 • E7
The New Improved Zippo that Ned mistakenly buys makes Newton malfunction insome bizarre way (he can't control what or who he changes into); just when Ned's cousin Renfrew and his cat Bundle are visiting. Ned needs to find Zippo Classic, which is out of stock...so his decides to go straight to the source, Mega-Brands Corporate headquarters!;Ned is set to perform in the school pageant, but his staffsponsor/dramaturge is a would be writer who gives picky notes that slowlyturn "Little Red Riding Hood" into Mad Max and the Chicken-Wolf." (Newtonplays Ned's "agent" and his co-star).
S1 • E8
Newton fills in for the baby-sitter and the Flemkin's go out to dinner,asking Uncle Frank to drive by and check on Ned. The Uncle, on his way to acostume party as Frankenstein, sees Newton's big shadow and tries the frontdoor. Ned and Newton, terrified by the Late Show, see the creature outsideand decide it must be kept outside at any cost.;When Ned's Dad inadvertently deposits Ned's lucky penny in the bank, Newtondecides to do the only sane and reasonable thing to help his owner...tunnelinto the bank vault and go through every coin to get it back.
S1 • E9
Newton overdoses on television, then decides to drastically improve Ned'slife...using the hard-sell advice of 1 000 commercials as his guide.;Ned's on vacation with his Mom and Dad, passing the time with a dumb"Vehicle Bingo" game. When he gets left behind at a rest stop, he andNewton have to take every kind of transportation on his game (and plentymore) to catch up to the blithely unaware Flemkin's.
S1 • E10
A world record held in Friendly Falls since 1959 (and immortalized in localsculpture, lore, and song) falls to a foreign competitor. The town isengloomed. Hiram Friendly offers a prize to anyone who can break a worldrecord, any record, for Friendly Falls. Newton and 101-plate-spinning,65-raw-egg-eating Ned to the rescue!;Ned's in the Friendly Falls Museum of Dusty Old Things with his class,moping about the scavenger-hunt-type questionnaire he has to complete beforehe can leave. Stowaway Newton finds some ancient Zippo in a Grecianurn...then finds a way of making the museum fun with his own unique versionof history.
S1 • E11
Newton watches Bob Vila and decides Ned's tree fort could do with a little improving. Ned asks for, and eventually "borrows" an entire subdivision worth of wood from the construction side down the street.;Doogle's parents wonder aloud how his dog Lummox got fleas. "He just lies around, we have to get rid of 'em" -- but Doogle only hears this last part and figures it's curtains for Lummox. Newton feels for a fellow pet and pulls out all the stops to prove the mutt's worth. (He paints the house then puts the brush in Lummox's hand, plays a sonata then leans the dog on the piano, etc.)
S1 • E12
Newton's not his normal self; something biological's going on, and he decides he's in love. Okay...with what? After a lot of soul-searching, Newton finds out he's not in love, he's only shedding his skin.;Track and field day looms at school, with it's promise of gold ribbons, and there has to be a sport in which Ned excels, but what is it? Newton becomes his coach and drags Ned through real and ridiculous sports in pursuit of his true athletic calling.
S1 • E13
Ned's parents get the flu and Newton shows Ned that doing 100 household chores can be fun! Well, it starts out as a good idea.. (In the end, the chaos they manage to create causes Ned to feel kinda queasy himself!);Ned gets locked in the mall, distracted by an amok-running Newton and pursued by a crazed security guard.
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