7.3/1075 votesLoading...#1 - The Tick vs. The Mole-Men
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1994
The King of the Mole People and his ministers come to the surface for a vacation.
Director: Art Vitello
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
- 7.4/1069 votesLoading...
#2 - Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1995
A flunky of air conditioner repair school makes a time machine and goes back and kidnaps the greatest inventors of all time so he can go back in time and reinvent everything.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Michael Rubiner
- 7.4/1052 votesLoading...
#3 - Devil in Diapers
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1996
Mr. Mental steals a device from Dr. Pendecker that lets him hypnotize Arthur and the Tick into thinking he's a baby so they'll protect him. Unfortunately, Mental leaves the device in the taxi and has to recover it.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Randolph Heard
- 7.5/10124 votesLoading...
#4 - The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1994
Mutant Dino-Park scientist Neil proves to be a major headache.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.6/10108 votesLoading...
#5 - The Tick vs. Mr. Mental
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1994
Mr. Mental hypnotizes The Tick and sends him to steal the Thinking Cap from Pendecker Labs.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.6/1072 votesLoading...
#6 - Armless But Not Harmless
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1995
The Tick and Arthur run afoul of Venus, a portly but alluring love goddess/villain, and her sycophantic sidekick, Milo. The villains successfully remove The Tick and Arthur's arms and attach them to a pair of crude lookalike robots. Venus begins a crime spree with the help of the heroes' arms, while The Tick and Arthur evade a police manhunt and try to reclaim their errant extremities and save the day.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.7/10139 votesLoading...
#7 - The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1994
A criminal mastermind with an evil plan and a face only an interior decorator could love.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.7/1084 votesLoading...
#8 - The Tick vs. Pineapple Pokopo
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1994
Arthur and The Tick try to rescue Yank, a super-genius, space monkey, captured by an evil ruler.
Director: Art Vitello
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.7/1071 votesLoading...
#9 - Coach Fussell's Lament
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1995
The evil Brainchild returns and using his Nanny-of-the-Apocalypse, captures the Tick and transforms him into a two-headed bird that speaks bad French. Thus rendered powerless, The Tick is auctioned off by Brainchild, and it's up to the other heroes to sneak into the villain gathering and save him.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Pippin Parker, Andy Yerkes
- 7.7/1068 votesLoading...
#10 - Bloomsday
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1995
El Seed has returned and this time he wants to destroy the whole city by making a 400 year flower bloom in ""the bad way"". This flower will bloom in this ""bad way"", when there is no gentle music around. But when Professor Ichibana, owner of this rare & amazing flower, switches flowers with The Tick and Arthur, these accursed superheroes are tossed in El Seed's salad once again. El Seed creates Rosebud, who manages to steal the flower from Arthur. El Seed makes the flower bloom in ""the bad way"", but even he cannot control it's powers. Only the Tick's opera singing can save the City now...
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.7/1059 votesLoading...
#11 - Tick vs. Reno, Nevada
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/1996
When Reno entertainers Soren and Frederica lose their prized animal, a trained dolphin, they call upon Arthur (they know his parents), and he and the Tick come to their aid. Little do they know that the dolphin, The Fin, plans to rule the world with his newly-invented Fish Magnet, with which he plans to bury the city in fish. The Tick must cope with his newfound weakness - gambling addiction - but manages to overcome it and beat The Fin by holding his breath longer.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Pippin Parker, Andy Yerkes
- 7.7/1054 votesLoading...
#12 - Tick vs. Science
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1996
The Tick and Arthur are invited to the Mad Scientist Fair to help Dr. Vahtoss try out his mind-transference device. Hilarity ensues when the two switch bodies. Chairface Chippendale moves in to try and steal the device and soon everyone is switching with everyone.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Christopher McCulloch, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.8/1090 votesLoading...
#13 - The Tick vs. Brainchild
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1994
While Charles's parents discuss child-rearing with no punishinment, their Branchild is ending Earth!
Director: Art Vitello
Writer: Ben Edlund, Art Vitello
- 7.8/1089 votesLoading...
#14 - The Tick vs. The Proto-Clown
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/1995
A clown with a major hang-up. Laugh at him and you'll pay the price.
Director: Art Vitello
Writer: Henry Gilroy
- 7.9/10163 votesLoading...
#15 - The Tick vs. The Idea Men
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1994
Tick and Arthur reveal their superhero origin story.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.9/10106 votesLoading...
#16 - The Tick vs. The Breadmaster
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1994
The Breadmaster is an evil baker that uses baked goods to terrorize The City.
Director: N/A
Writer: Martin Pasko, Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.9/1098 votesLoading...
#17 - The Tick vs. El Seed
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1994
El Seed hopes to take over the city by bringing all of the plants and trees to life.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 7.9/1065 votesLoading...
#18 - Heroes
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1995
A camera crew follows the Tick and Arthur around for a day of crime fighting as they do battle with a unique villain.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Randolph Heard
- 7.9/1054 votesLoading...
#19 - Tick vs. Prehistory
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1996
The Tick and Arthur end up in the distant past and uncover a diabolical plot by the Hotel Manager, a man from the future using prehistoric man as staff for his Hotel at the beginning of the universe. They manage to defeat him and free man's ancestors from a life of low-paying minimum wage jobs.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Randolph Heard
- 8.0/1070 votesLoading...
#20 - Evil Sits Down for a Moment
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1995
A villain who can animate furniture and make it do her bidding falls in love with Die Fledermaus and tries to take over The City, with hilarious consequences and sexy results.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Jed Spingarn
- 8.0/1085 votesLoading...
#21 - The Tick Loves Santa!
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1995
A small-time bank robber in a stolen Santa Claus costume is chased into an electric billboard, gaining miraculous powers. He becomes Multiple Santa, a villain able to create electric clones of himself. The Tick, Arthur, and their superhero friends are called upon to rid The City of this Christmas menace.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 8.0/1065 votesLoading...
#22 - Tick vs. The Big Nothing
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/1996
An alien race called the ""Whats"" kidnap the Tick and Arthur to attempt to thwart their nemesis' the ""Heys"" from destroying the universe.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 8.0/1053 votesLoading...
#23 - Tick vs. Dot & Neil's Wedding
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1996
Dinosaur Neil, palaeontologist, curator of Dinosaur Grotto and one-time giant city-destroying mutant, is marrying Arthur's sister Dot. Chairface Chippendale, The Breadmaster and El Seed have other plans, though - plans which involve tampering with Neil's medication, man-eating bouquets, exploding wedding cake, and The Indigestible Man. And as if that wasn't enough, Neil's best man is... The Tick! It's up to our blue hero, Arthur and Dot to save Neil, with the aid of a submarine and 1,400 pounds of pungent raw meat...
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 8.0/1064 votesLoading...
#24 - Tick vs. Education
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1996
The Tick and Arthur are chosen to teach Superhero School and a classroom of unlikely heroes. They must rush into action to take on Uncle Creamy, a corporate mascot turned into a evil ice cream cone who strikes out at the company who made him. Meanwhile Uncle Creamy II attacks, trying to kill Uncle Creamy before he tells the heroes what the company is up to.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
- 8.1/1064 votesLoading...
#25 - Grandpa Wore Tights
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/17/1996
The Terror sends his so-so villainous son Terry to recover his Desire-O-Vac - he lost it in an epic battle against the Decency Squad decades ago. The Tick is there listening to the old-time Squadders' tales and eventually gets involved, but it's a rebellious Terry and the aged Decency Squad members who save the day.
Director: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ben Edlund, Richard Liebmann-Smith
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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Tick vs. The Mole-Men" is the worst rated episode of "The Tick". It scored 7.3/10 based on 75 votes. Directed by Art Vitello and written by Christopher McCulloch, it aired on 11/19/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!".