Most kids dream of being superheroes. Not Eric Needles. Eric dreams of being a sidekick. So you can imagine his elation when his favorite superhero, Maxum Man, selects Eric to be his sidekick. But things take a weird turn when, on the day that Eric is scheduled to start being a full-time sidekick, Maxum Man vanishes. The superhero's disappearance leaves Eric responsible to convince the world that Maxum Man is still on the job, doing what a superhero does. Eric's peers include Kitty Ko, a boy-crazy heroine who serves up stellar advice.
The best episode of "Sidekick" season 1 is "Maxum Man Mark Two", rated 7.2/10 from 6 user votes. It was directed by Joey So and written by Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott. "Maxum Man Mark Two" aired on 9/11/2010 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "To Party Perchance To Party".
Eric shirks his cleaning duties by trying to source it out to an angry Man Maid, who then comes to attack Eric. Meanwhile the two boys have cloned Trevor’s hamster, mistakenly making a hamster/Maxum Man hybrid, which Trevor takes to school.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott
Vana is throwing a party and Eric and Trevor try to crash it while having to deal with an escaped super villain Drilliam Shakespeare.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott
In order to get attention from Vana, Eric uses some supergoggles. However, it makes everyone love him, and he tries to get them off.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Doug Hadders, Adam Rotstein
For their community service school program, Eric and Trevor get stuck with tending to Megamatraz, while Vana and Kitty are at the Super Old Folks Home, helping an elderly former super hero, who ends up helping defeat XOX at the jail in the end.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Doug Hadders, Adam Rotstein
For their science fair, Trevor haphazardly grabs one of his dad’s plants, not knowing it’s an evil poisonous plant. He infects Pamplemoose, and the kids have to take care of him before he goes completely evil, and find the antidote, which is in the desert.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Doug Hadders, Adam Rotstein
Eric, Trevor, Vana and Kitty find out that Golly Gee Kid is a janitor at the school. Eric, not wanting the same fate, tries to get Golly Gee to become a super hero again, but it goes too far when Golly Gee calls out a particularly angry Brute Brutal (XOX’s gargantuan sidekick), and obviously is ill equipped to battle him.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Doug Hadders, Adam Rotstein
Worried that Maxum Brain invites computer to the party, Eric, Trevor, Vana and Kitty tries to stop Brain from super computer power drain fest and get back to normal!
Director: Joey So
Writer: Shawn Kalb
Mysterious action figure that he could detroy Splittsboro. Frustrated by The Entrepreneuronator who activates the giant robot, Eric has to get his friends back and battle a giant Eric Robot, with his own giant Eric robot.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Ben Joseph
After getting sick from his first chores, Eric starts to do for a new job: doing cutting ribbbons. But, it could become the worst evil in Splittsboro... Ribbonor.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Grant Sauvé
When Maxum Mom comes to visit Eric for Super-Mother’s Day, he must keep her son's disappearance a secret from her! But the only way to become Eric into... Maxum Man!
Director: Joey So
Writer: Grant Sauvé
Eric, Trevor, Vana and Kitty are taking a camping trip, which is acutally a survival camp! When a Moustach-Squatch turns into a full bodied moustache monster, they must find the Squatch to defeat it, before sundown!
Director: Joey So
Writer: Dan Williams, Lienne Sawatsky
While Pamplemoose is having a summer vacation, Trevor invites Eric to join him for a field trip. But the only way to sneak out is finding Master XOX from weirder!
Director: Joey So
Writer: Scott Albert
What kind of super hero he should be? For the indentity day, Eric must pick a superhero costume for "Choose Your Sidekick Indentity", so he can become even more cooler. When he decides to become like Kid Vicious, everything got mixed up.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Ken Cuperus
Troubled by Eric and Trevor failed a test and are sent back to super-preschool, Vana and Kitty volunteers at the pre-preschool between classes. Now Frow Pamplemoose is taking a baby daycare, while Eric and Trevor are doing thrives, passing every nap, mush eating and drool test with ease.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Mike Kiss
Eric and Trevor tries starts going to a awesomest hamburgers ever made, at Beelzeburger. Vana and Kitty are customized at school by building “Eric & Trevor” robots.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Ben Joseph
To complete this Henchman Challenge for winning an Annual Henchman Cup, Eric, Trevor, Vana and Kitty are forced to square off against their counterpart the bad guys, XOX’s henchman.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Scott Albert
On Family Fun Day, everyone enjoys at picnic and Maxum Brain takes Eric for a picnic. Since the battle got problem, Family Fun Day got cancelled by Master XOX. Can Eric and Maxum Brain challenge them to Master XOX?
Director: Joey So
Writer: Dan Williams, Lienne Sawatsky
While taking care of an alien spore for a pet project, Eric got big buddy from eating too much. But it might end up destroying the earth instead! The spore will grow to a ginormous sizes, cause the city’s and possibly the earth’s destruction.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Shawn Kalb
After playing virutal lasers from hanging out at the Mansion, Vana got ideas that she could do is replacing the security systems and rooms so that even Eric doesn’t have. Kicked out from the boot by Vana, Master XOX plans to defeat teenagers from his house.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Mike Kiss
Repeating too much over time and time, again, Eric must find the way to fix it. He tries to figure out what happened, right after spending hundreds of repeats from doing anything.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Ken Cuperus
For Halloween, Eric is now becoming a clown costume, while Vana, Kitty and Trevor are taking a costume style. But Wardroman the wizard wants revenge everyone and turn them into their costumes.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Doug Hadders, Adam Rotstein
Feeling about dimension is not a good idea, Eric and Trevor finds out that Evil Eric kidnaps Kitty and Vana from freezing, while the other dimensional Erics (including monkey Eric, and Fairy Eric) to take down from him.
Director: Joey So
Writer: Doug Hadders, Adam Rotstein
The teenage students start using the new social media network, Squawk, while Eric and Trevor stars doing funny videos. But the only fake chirp who destroying the taste from Vana and Kitty is... the Wreck-Orator!
Director: Joey So
Writer: Richard Clark
With an invaded Eric's body from Master XOX, it's up to Trevor, Vana and Kitty to rescue Eric!
Director: Joey So
Writer: Shawn Kalb