Chyna's grandmother visits. Skidmore retires, and she is the new principal, Chyna is happy at first but later she turns the school into a madhouse, so Chyna, Olive, Fletcher, and Angus try to get Skidmore out of her retirement.

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China Anne McClain

Sierra McCormick

Jake Short

Stefanie Scott

Carlon Jeffery

Rich Correll

influANTces

chANTs of a lifetime

A teen movie sensation Sequoia Jones who is playing the role of a tween musical prodigy and follows Chyna around to study for her role. But then, Chyna learns Sequoia is trying to steal her life.

creative consultANT

A baby named Sebastian, thought to be a prodigy, is left in the care of the A.N.T.s and Chyna, Olive, Violet, and Fletcher try to uncover the baby's prodigal aptitude. They try art, music, karate, etc. Skidmore entrusts them to find its talent. But actually this was a trick Skidmore played on the ANTs.

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The ANTs are in charge of arrangements for the school dance. Fletcher and Chyna go together so Fletcher doesn't have to go with Violet. Meanwhile Chyna and Olive pretend Fletcher's dead to raise money for the dance by selling his paintings. Cameron looks for a date to the dance, and finds a girl who apparently likes him, too, but it turns out she was imaginary.

fANTasy girl

Chyna helps Cameron track down the model who he imagined was his girlfriend. Chyna, disguised as a model agent, gets Vanessa to date Cameron. Vanessa wants to go on a picnic in a hot air balloon. Lexi gets a new job at Hippo's new restaurant.

modeling assignmANT

Principal Skidmore shuts off the school's Internet access so the ANTs start the ANTernet. Meanwhile, Lexi begins to get jealous of Vanessa when she is selected to model for Hippo's restaurant.  When Lexi is so confused about why Vanessa is Cameron's girlfriend, she wonders if Vanessa is a vampire. Cameron won't expect it saying that she babysits,"Why would anyone hire a babysitter who's a vampire?" This is referring to Vanessa's role on "My Babysitter's a Vampire.

ANTswers

After creating a really sad animation, Chyna advises Fletcher to do an animation on something he's familiar with, so he creates an offensive animation about Olive, making her an ant named "Pimento". It gains major popularity, and Olive is majorly offended, so she tries to offend Fletcher back, but that doesn't work out so well. After Olive issues a lawsuit on Fletcher for offending her, they go to student court, where they learn to be friends again, and start teasing Chyna. Chyna takes it okay, so they all hug and make up.  Cameron joins the beauty club to keep Vanessa away from other boys, but things go horribly wrong.

the ANTagonist

The ANTs go to an Australian ANT convention. Coincedentally, Lexi and Paisley went to Australia for vacation, but were stuck at the ANT convention. At the convention, Chyna sees an Australian Nature prodigy named Neville, who has a show, where his name was Tazmanian Neville. Fletcher wants to prove that he has "manly skills", so he asked an Australian supervisor, who dropped him off in the middle of the Australian Outback. Chyna, Olive, Angus, and Neville go to save him, but then learn that Neville is actually an Acting prodigy, who knows nothing about nature. Olive suggests to throw a boomerang to hunt birds, but it doesn't work. Chyna suggests to crack "rocks" together to make fire, but the "rocks" were actually emu eggs. Later on, the 4 of them hide in an old car, when they discuss how much they miss Fletcher. Just when they thought Fletcher was not ever coming back, they saw him riding on an emu. Chyna starts to tell Fletcher that she'd might actually- Just then, the boomerang came back and hit her on the head. Meanwhile, Lexi and Paisley dress up as nerds and participate in the ANTlympics.

endurANTs

The ANTS go to an Amusement Park. Lexi, Paisley, and Olive enter a doll beauty pageant. China and Cameron end up giving all of Olive's other dolls away. Meanwhile, Fletcher and Angus keep going on a ride again and again to get a good picture.

amusemANT park

Both Chyna and Lexi are determined to take home the $1,000 cash prize at a local carnival's Salute to Friendship contest, and conclude that their best chance at winning is to work together. Meanwhile, Cameron and Fletcher spend the afternoon hunting down a carnival character, a giant dragon, who they think has stolen Fletcher's wallet.

contestANTs

Chyna, Fletcher and Olive fear funding cuts will affect the art and music programs. Meanwhile, Lexi takes over morning announcement duties from Cameron.

ConfinemANT

The ANTs take the IQ test; Olive is devastated when Chyna scores higher. Olive retests to receive a higher score, but she doesn't do so well. Olive decides to dumb herself down and starts acting like a dumb blonde. The next day, she has transformed into a mini Paisley, acting just as clueless as her. Meanwhile, since Chyna got the highest IQ score in the entire school, Principal Skidmore chose her to represent Webster High in the Acadecathalon. Chyna is completely lost, so Olive steps in and takes her place. It is revealed that Angus hacked into the school computer and messed with Olive's IQ test results to lower her self-esteem to finally go out with her. Elsewhere, hoping to be excused from P.E., Lexi and Cameron train to compete in curling in the Olympics with Gibson and Violet.

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After being asked out by Fletcher over and over, Chyna finally agrees.

significANT other

Mutant Chyna develops a forbidden crush on a boy who is human. Mutant Olive creates a duplicate of herself.

mutANT farm 2

Chyna accidentally convinces her father, Darryl, to quit his job after he tells her much he hates it. Darryl tries finding other suitable jobs, but it is no use. Chyna does not like seeing him depressed, so after she witnesses him track down the remote control very cleverly, she tells him to work as a private investigator. Plus, Chyna creates a fake crime scene at school to get his business started. Meanwhile, Lexi is horrified when she realizes that she and Paisley have the same amount of friends on Wolf Pack, a popular social network. After finding out that Cameron just signed up to Wolf Pack, they try to compete over whose friend request he should accept first in order to obtain more friends.

detective agANTcy

Webster High is completely deserted due to the teachers getting food poisoning from the cafeteria. The ANT's are the only ones at school, and instead of attending class, Principal Skidmore sends them on an educational scavenger hunt around San Francisco. After Chyna and Lexi are chosen as team captains, they pick their teams, and head off. Now, both teams compete to see who comes out victorious.

scavANTger hunt

Chyna and the ANTs are tasked with creating a special project for Black History Month. As Chyna struggles to write a song for her presentation, she decides to lock herself in a recording booth until she comes up with a great song. After accidentally falling asleep, Chyna takes a dream journey back in time where she becomes famous African American music icons from the past, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, and Janet Jackson. Using her dream as inspiration, Chyna writes a new version of the A.N.T. Farm theme song "Exceptional" with lyrics that pay tribute to the great women who came before her.

After noticing that her friends have become oddly respectful of Principal Skidmore, Chyna discovers that she has been manipulating the ANTs with a frozen yogurt machine. Meanwhile, Lexi is disturbed by a recurring nightmare where she has a crush on Cameron.

idANTity crisis

Olive is instantly smitten with a talented young chef now working at IHOW, but when he joins the A.N.T. program, they discover Olive’s new crush is actually a bit conceited. Meanwhile, when Lexi learns that some major pop stars got their start as singing waitresses, she asks Hippo if the wait staff can sing at IHOW.

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Episode 21

Chyna Parks, an 11 year old musical prodigy, gets into a gifted program called Advanced Natural Talents at the local high school. Along with her fellow elementary school-aged 'ANTs', she must navigate the halls of a new school of older kids who are not particularly fond of grade-skipping newbies.

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