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The Worst Episodes of Weird Science

Every episode of Weird Science ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Weird Science!

Gary Wallace, a teenager who dreams of beautiful women and a cheerful life, and his only friend, the shy and geek Wyatt Donnelly, always serve...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyComedy
Network:USA Network

Worst Episodes Summary

"Boys on the Hide" is the worst rated episode of "Weird Science". It scored 5/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by David Grossman and written by N/A, it aired on 1/19/1997. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Gary Had a Little Cram".

  • Boys on the Hide
    5.0/1024 votes
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    #1 - Boys on the Hide

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1997

    The search is on for the vandals who defaced Scampi's portrait, turning Wyatt and Gary into fugitives from the law. But who is that mysterious, one-armed man?

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • Gary Had a Little Cram
    5.6/1024 votes
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    #2 - Gary Had a Little Cram

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1997

    Gary's race to improve his grades to get into college goes off course when his track career kicks into high gear.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Jim Lincoln

  • Show Chett
    5.6/1026 votes
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    #3 - Show Chett

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/1997

    As a way of dressing down Chet for his lecherous behavior, Lisa turns him into an exotic dancer in Vegas. But he turns the tables and proves he can strip with the best of them.

    Director: Tom Spezialy

    Writer: Chris Black

  • I, Chettus
    5.6/1024 votes
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    #4 - I, Chettus

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/1997

    Chett throws off the course of history when he goes time-hopping back to ancient Greece, where he touts himself as a mystical, beer-dispensing oracle.

    Director: Tom Spezialy

    Writer: Chris Black

  • School Spirits
    5.8/1024 votes
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    #5 - School Spirits

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 7/11/1998

    Lisa and the guys help the ghosts of Farber High show their school spirit when they scare Scampi out of tearing down their favorite wing.

    Director: Tom Spezialy

    Writer: N/A

  • Slow Times at Farber High
    5.9/1023 votes
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    #6 - Slow Times at Farber High

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 3/9/1996

    Gary screws up yet again. This time he has sucked all of the intellignce from everyone at Farber High, using a magic brain vacuum. The brain power from the students forms into a giant orb that wants to take over the world. Gary must outwit the wit of every single student at Farber High.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • Future Bride
    5.9/1024 votes
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    #7 - Future Bride

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1997

    With Lisa's "Bride Tracker," Wyatt finds his future wife. However, his intended isn't too intent on spending any time--much less forever--with the rushing groom.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Adam I. Lapidus

  • Stalag 16
    5.9/1025 votes
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    #8 - Stalag 16

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1997

    Gary and Wyatt design a great escape plan when Chett and Scampi become trapped inside Lisa's virtual-reality game, set in a World War II prison camp.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Legend of Red Brick Wallace
    6.0/1030 votes
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    #9 - The Legend of Red Brick Wallace

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 8/12/1995

    Gary is dumbstruck when he finds out that his relatives weren't all cowards and losers. He has an ancestor named Red Brick Wallace, a gunslinger from the old west. Lisa zaps them back to the old west in order to meet Red Brick Wallace. Unfortunately, he turns out to be nothing more than a spittoon polisher. The guys are now on a mission to save Red Brick Wallace from getting shot by the sheriff, who looks strangely like Chett.

    Director: Les Landau

    Writer: Jeff Vlaming

  • Phantom Scampi
    6.0/1027 votes
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    #10 - Phantom Scampi

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1996

    In order to get Principal Scampi off of his back for a while, Wyatt shoots him with a buddy dart. The dart makes Principal Scampi Wyatt's new best friend. When Wyatt gets sick of hanging around with the principal, he decides it's time to break up the relationship. Principal Scampi then becomes Phantom Scampi. Phantom Scampi lives in Farber High and secretly protects Wyatt.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • It's a Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob World
    6.0/1025 votes
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    #11 - It's a Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob World

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 6/15/1996

    Wyatt is sick of his parents not paying any attention to him, so he wishes that his family could be closer and have better family values. Lisa's plan backfires and creates an world in which Wyatt has a family with very strong ties to each other- a family similar to that of the ""Godfather."" In this world, Wyatt Donnellis and his family are the masters of the Homeowners Association. They fix neighborhood Little League games and take kickbacks from children's lemonade stands. However, trouble is in store when Al Wallace tries to take on the Donnellis family. Gary and Wyatt find themselves against each other in the war.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Jim Lincoln

  • Girl Talk
    6.0/1025 votes
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    #12 - Girl Talk

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1997

    Lisa comes out! Her friendship with a waitress from the coffeehouse prompts the genie to admit the truth about her secret powers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Chett World
    6.1/1022 votes
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    #13 - Chett World

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 3/16/1996

    Mr. Donnelly gives Chett the boot and kicks him out of the house until he can find a job. Unfortunately for Chett, there's nothing that he's qualified to do. Wyatt asks Lisa to zap up ""A Man's Man's World"" and creates a monster truck-cigar-jerky-paintball store, since those are the only thing that Chett's any good at. Chett gets a job at the store, working for Mickey and Rhett, who strangely resemble rats. In fact, they are rats. Lisa accidentally turned Rhett and Mickey, two alley rats, into humans. The bad news is that the rats plan to wipe out the human race by using the plot from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Chett, not really realizing what's going on, aids them in their quest.

    Director: Michael Lange

    Writer: N/A

  • Bee In There
    6.1/1023 votes
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    #14 - Bee In There

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/1997

    Lisa accidentally sends Gary and Wyatt back in time as their own mothers.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • Lucky Suit
    6.2/1029 votes
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    #15 - Lucky Suit

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/6/1995

    Gary decides to borrow Wayne Donnelly's lucky suit for his dad to wear. Just in case the suit isn't really lucky, Gary asks Lisa to zap the suit and make sure that it's really lucky. As soon as Al Wallace wears the suit, he finds a lot of luck at work. However, this new streak of good luck for Al is causing Wayne to have a huge streak of bad luck. Meanwhile, Chett finds a girl that likes him- a clinically depressed girl.

    Director: Max Tash

    Writer: Kari Lizer

  • Men in Tights
    6.2/1033 votes
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    #16 - Men in Tights

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1996

    Lisa's spell goes awry when she zaps Wyatt and Chett into The Yankee Dudes, a powerful wrestling team. They become a top pair of wrestlers in the pro-wrestling world and must face the German wrestler, Der Blitzkrieger.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • Chett-A-Nator
    6.2/1025 votes
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    #17 - Chett-A-Nator

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1996

    The alien race known as Steve kidnapps Chett and replaces him with an Chett look-alike android. The alien race known as Steve wants Lisa for their queen and has Android Chett kidnap her. Lisa objects to being queen because that would mean that her job would be to procreate and keep the dog-face alien race known as Steve populated. Wyatt and Gary now need to rescue Lisa and Chett. Unfortunately, the alien race known as Steve have their own weapon- Isaac the Bartender from ""The Love Boat.""

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Adam Barr, Peter Ocko

  • Wicked Wish
    6.2/1024 votes
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    #18 - Wicked Wish

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 7/18/1998

    Wyatt's mom tries to be the fairest of them all by using a magic mirror to get rid of all of the pretty girls in town--including Lisa!

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Jim Lincoln

  • Genie Junior
    6.2/1024 votes
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    #19 - Genie Junior

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 7/25/1998

    Lisa inadvertently gives birth to a junior genie in a misconceived attempt to teach Chett a lesson about responsibility.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mr. President
    6.3/1039 votes
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    #20 - Mr. President

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/1994

    Wyatt's wish to be elected president of the chess club gets him installed as the real Commander in Chief.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jeff Vlaming

  • Grampira
    6.3/1028 votes
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    #21 - Grampira

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/1995

    Wyatt visits his Grandma in a nursing home and is saddened that she isn't the same old Nana that she used to be. He asks Lisa to give Nana the spirit of a young person, which Lisa does. Nana becomes more spirited, but the new energy is coming from other people- she's sucking the youth out of everyone that she meets. Gary and Wyatt turn into old teens and have to find Nana and return her to the nursing home before they die of old age.

    Director: Max Tash

    Writer: Kari Lizer

  • Community Property
    6.3/1025 votes
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    #22 - Community Property

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 6/29/1996

    Gary and Wyatt are fighting over the use of Lisa. Lisa gets annoyed by the fighting over her and decides to let the boys battle it out in court. Genie Cyber-Court, that is. The winner of the case wins the genie. Gary and Wyatt choose their own lawyers. Gary choosing B.F. Jackie (similar to Cockran), while Wyatt chooses Abe Lincoln. Both lawyers argue out each of their client's side. However, neither Gary nor Wyatt are found to be suitable to be awarded custody of Lisa, so she will be broken down the Internet will be given custody of her.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • Forbidden Janet
    6.3/1026 votes
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    #23 - Forbidden Janet

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1997

    Lisa helps bring Wyatt's dream girl to life, but also whips up a monster intent on eating Chett and Gary.

    Director: Christopher Hibler

    Writer: N/A

  • Wyatt Erectus
    6.4/1038 votes
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    #24 - Wyatt Erectus

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/27/1994

    Lisa tries to bring out Wyatt's "killer edge" in wrestling--and turns him into a cave man.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Jeff Vlaming

  • Magic for Beginners
    6.4/1033 votes
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    #25 - Magic for Beginners

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 9/24/1994

    The boys enter a talent show as magicians, but become disillusioned when they make Lisa disappear.

    Director: Tom Spezialy

    Writer: Alan Cross, Tom Spezialy