Sidekick

Seasons

2010

4.1

TV-G

Orphan Eric Needles trains to become a sidekick to heroes at Splittsboro's Academy for Aspiring Sidekicks, alongside his best friend Trevor Troublemeyer, while also keeping the disappearance of his superhero mentor Maxum Man a secret.

Episode List

Maxum Man Mark Two/To Party Perchance to Party

S1 • E1

Maxum Man Mark Two/To Party Perchance to Party

Eric and Trevor try to clone Maxum Man but end up with a half-human half-hamster monster instead;Eric and Trevor try to crash Vana's party while fighting super villain Drilliam Shakespeare.

S1 • E2

Gone Gaga/Like Supervillain, Like Son

Maxum Mom comes to visit Eric, and notices he only has one set of clothes, so she takes him to Supers-R-Us for a shopping spree. At first Eric loves being doted on by Maxum Mom, but it soon grows tiresome as she insists on buying him the clothes she likes and he doesn't. So he ditches her and goes off with Trevor, Vana, and Kitty. Mom follows him out of the store to stop him, accidentally still carrying unpaid for clothes. She's caught by security and thrown into stasis. Eric, finding this out, feels horrible and teams up with his friends to break her out. Turns out she could have gotten out whenever she wanted, she is super powerful after all, but she was testing Eric, like any good super mother does;Eric and Trevor are paired with Static Clint, a superhero and member of the LASER super team, on Shadow a Super Day at school, while Vana and Kitty are paired with Uni-Cyclops, Clint's former partner. The boys tail Clint to Megamatraz, and while playing around, they accidentally release all the prisoners, which in turn gets Clint kicked off the LASER team. With nowhere to go, Eric invites Clint to stay at the mansion. But the mopey Clint quickly becomes the unwanted house guest. With all the super villains still at large, Eric decides that helping Clint capture them might be a way to get him back onto Team Laser and out of the mansion. A great idea. If it works. Which it doesn't

S1 • E3

A Monster Headache/Days of Golly

Trevor's science fair project turns Professor Pampelmoose into a plant-monster!;The kids try to help the Golly Gee Kid relive his Sidekick glory days.

Ain't No Party Like a Maxum Brain Party/Hello Dolly

S1 • E4

Ain't No Party Like a Maxum Brain Party/Hello Dolly

Maxum Brain quits the mansion and tries to make it on his own;Eric tags along as Trevor and his Dad take their evil super villain Grandpa on a road trip

S1 • E5

The Amazing Super Chores/Maxum Mom

When Eric fails at his super-chores the whole world pays the price;It's Super-Mother's Day and Eric finally gets to meet Maxum Mom!

S1 • E6

Moustachesquatch/Endless Summer

A curse turns Eric into a moustache-monster and nearly ruins his summer camp fun!;Eric hits the road with Trevor and his Dad - and evil super-villain Master XOX tags along!

S1 • E7

Identity Crisis/Fart of Darkness

Eric struggles to find out what kind of super hero he should be;Eric and Trevor fail a test and are sent back to super-preschool

S1 • E8

The Bogey Man/Crud Burger

The kids must cooperate to defeat an evil golfer;Eric and Trevor venture to the evil side of town for a forbidden hamburger

S1 • E9

The Henchman Challenge/Family Fun Day

Eric competes against the evil Henchmen to try to win the Henchman Challenge;Eric and Trevor compete at the annual Family Fun Day picnic

S1 • E10

Slime Spree/The Short List

This Hour Has 22 Million Minutes/Halloweenie

S1 • E11

This Hour Has 22 Million Minutes/Halloweenie

Eric is surprised when he wakes up one morning to find that he's been repeating the same hour over and over again. He tries to figure out what happened, right after spending hundreds of repeats doing anything in the world he can think of for fun, bringing Trevor along for the ride. Once he's bored, he enlists Maxum Brain to help find out how to stop it;Eric has never had a real Halloween before, so he's super excited. He dresses as a clown, which he thinks is awesome, until he sees that everyone in town dresses like Maxum Man, because well, that's just what they do (except Trevor who couldn't decide what to be so he is half XOX/half Maxum Man). Which is the reason that Wardroman the wizard decides to curse everyone and turn them into their costumes. No one buys his handmade outfits anymore, all they want is Maxum Man. Now there are a million little Maxum Men running around town, not able to control their powers and generally causing chaos. Because the others are off with their amazing Maxum Man powers, Eric tracks down Wardroman and fights him, with his amazing clown powers. Eventually getting everything back to normal by stuffing Wardroman in a clown car.

S1 • E12

Eric Squared/Squawk

Eric and Trevor must fight their Evil Twins when they travel to another dimension;The latest texting craze gets Eric into big trouble

S1 • E13

Internal Affairs/Virtual Mayhem

The Maxum Switch-eroo/Sleepless in Splittsboro

S1 • E14

The Maxum Switch-eroo/Sleepless in Splittsboro

Maxum Man returns!. Which excites everyone, most of all Eric. But something is off about him. He doesn't act the way Maxum Man is supposed to act, and he forgets things around the house, like his passwords. Eric, using different forms of spying, finds out that it's an impostor, a former Maxum Man impersonator taking it one step further. Eric sets about exposing this fact and banishing the fake Maxum Man before he can do any more damage;The kids are having nightmares. Nocturnus, former sleep scientist, is haunting them in their dreams. All of their worst fears are being played out in their dreams, as Nocturnus tries to gain enough power from their fright to bust out into the real world. The kids turn it around and start to manipulate their own dreams, taking Nocturnus from each of their happiest thoughts to the next, finally destroying him in the end.