NED'S NEWT EPISODES

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CURRENTLY, THERE ARE 13 EPISODES OF NED'S NEWT, EACH WITH 2 STORIES.

#1-A: "Out With The Old, In With The Newt" Day-dreaming youngster Ned Flemkin smashes his piggybank to buy an exciting pet 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.

#1-B: "What Rock Through Yonder Window Breaks?" 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-sized Romeo and Juliet.

#2-A: "Nightmare On Friendly Street" 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.

#2-B: "A Snitch In Time" When Ned's tattletale cousin Renfrew visits and gets Ned in trouble, Newton sees a way to discredit him once and for all, by turning Renfrew into 'The Boy Who Cried Newt.'

#3-A: "Mars Dilemma" Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese, so Ned and Newton convert the family station wagon into a spaceship to find out if Mars is made of tomato paste.

#3-B "Mall Good Things Come To An End" Ned gets locked in the mall, distracted by an amok-running Newton and pursued by a crazed security guard.

#4-A "The Most Grating Show On Earth" 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.

#4-B "Saving Lummox" 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.)

#5-A "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Dump" 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!)

#5-B "Happy Blood Altar Ring To You" As Ned's Mom's birthday approaches, she admires a replica Sacrificial Peruvian Blood Altar 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!"

#6-A "Citizen Ned" Newton takes a simple twenty-home paper route which Ned got in order to save up for a bike, and turns him into the Rupert Murdoch of Friendly Falls.

#6-B "Home Alone With Frank" Newton fills in for the babysitter and the Flemkins go out to dinner, asking uncle Frank to drive by and check on Ned. The uncle, on his way to a costume party as Frankenstein, sees Newton's big shadow and tries the front door. Ned and Newton, terrified by the Late Show, see the creature outside and decide it must be kept outside at any cost.

#7-A "One Flu Over The Cuckoo's Nest" 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 queezy himself!)

#7-B "Saturday Night Fervour" 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.

#8-A "Planes, Trains, and Newtmobiles" Ned's on vacation with him Mom and Dad, passing the time with a dumb "Vehicle Bingo" game. When he gets left behind at a rest stop, he and Newton have to take every kind of transportation on his game (and plenty more) to catch up to the blithely unaware Flemkins.

#8-B "Show Me The Money" Track and field day looms at school, with its 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.

#9-A "Jurassic Joyride" 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 and 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!

#9-B "Help Me, I'm Bald" Newton overdoses on TV, then decides to drastically improve Ned's life... using the hard-sell advice of 1,000 commercials as his guide.

#10-A "Boring, Boring" Ned has to write a ten-page report on the remote, featureless island of Boring-Boring. There's no information on it in the library, and nothing on the Internet, so Newton takes Ned there to show him that if you know where to look, every place is interesting.

#10-B "Newton Falls In Love" 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.

#11-A "Take A Hike" Ned attends a jamboree, where Newton notices that some other kids have more merit badges then his owner. Not if he can help it...

#11-B "Can't See The Forest For The Treefort" Newton watches Bob Villa 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 site down the street.

#12-A "New Improved Zippo" The New Improved Zippo that Ned mistakenly buys makes Newton malfunction in some 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 he decides to go straight to the source, Mega-Brand's corporate headquarters!

#12-B "Newton's Day Out" 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 before he can leave. Stowaway Newton finds some ancient Zippo in a Grecian urn... then finds a way of making the museum fun with his own unique version of history.

#13-A "What Big Rewrites You Have" Ned is set to perform in the school pageant but his staff sponsor/dramaturge is a would-be writer who gives picky notes that slowly turn "Little Red Riding Hood" into "Mad Max and the Chicken-Wolf". (Newton plays Ned's "agent" and his co-star.)

#13-B Broken Record" A world record held in Friendly Falls since 1959 (and immortalized in local sculpture, lore, and song) falls to a foreign competitor. The town is engloomed. Hiram Friendly offers a prize to anyone who can break a world record, any record, for Friendly Falls. Newton and 101-plate-spinning, 65-raw-egg-eating Ned to the rescue!