Season 1 is the first season of Stickin' Around. The show first premiered on August 13, 1996 with "The Good, the Bad, and the Bradley" and ended on November 19, 1996 with "Casa Blank Stare". The season consisted of twenty-six episodes averaging at ten minutes in length.
| No. overall | No. in season | Episode | Airdate | Production code | Broadcast order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | 1a | "Aaand Action!"
Bradley and Stacy vie for control of Bradley’s Dad’s video camera. The gang is making a movie! As they race through town shooting the movie, and getting lost, they catch a robbery on tape. The kids enter their cinematic masterpiece in the local home-video show, and lose. The movie didn’t make first prize with the studio audience, but it was a hit with the police, who identified the robber using the gang’s movie, and the kids are rewarded with an envelope full of cash for their efforts in the end. |
August 20, 1996 | 003 | 3 |
| 1b | 1b | "Night of the Living Dumpster"
Taking out the garbage turns into a volcanic experience which almost sends Bradley and Stacy over the edge with fear. At Stella’s request they take the garbage out to the dumpster, which comes alive! The dumpster chases them under Stacy’s bed, where Bradley gives up his locker combination with his dying breath. Only it’s not his dying breath. It’s not the dumpster outside the bedroom door, but Stella, asking Stacy to remember to bring the garbage bin back inside the next time. |
August 20, 1996 | 004 | 4 |
| 2a | 2a | "Disappearing Act"
When Bradley and Stacy realize that Stella’s disappearing cream will make more than just wrinkles disappear (“why?”), they make Bradley invisible first, and Stacy “Stacerini” the magician performs feats of magic using her invisible friend. (“why?”) Bradley’s patience pushed to the limit, he makes Stacy invisible. (“why?”) The two try unsuccessfully to buy a couple of calming ice cream cones, and realize that being invisible can be a drag. (“why?”) When the neighborhood comes out looking for them, helicopter and all! Bradley and Stacy see how much they are loved and missed. (“...because we love you, that’s why.”) |
September 24, 1996 | 005 | 13 |
| 2b | 2b | "And the Wiener Is..."
The ritual of lottery ticket number selection is observed as each kid uses his or her own way of picking a number. Polly lets Pepperoni select a number. Zero. Dill calculates baseball stats. Melody counts the number of cracks she’s rolled over in her wheelchair on the way here. Bradley uses facts about Uranus, of course. Stacy does a sort of play on spin-the-bottle. Each kid fantasizes about how their life might change if they won the big one. Stacy imagines the life of an amazing entertainer, while Bradley is the best athlete in the universe. Polly tours the world and Dill is DJ at his own radio station, playin’ all the tunes real loud! They hide the ticket, but not well enough to fool Lance and Russell, who are clever enough to get their hands on the ticket, but not to keep it. In the end it’s Frank who holds the ticket. The gang matched one number, zero, which means they’ve won a ticket for the next draw. That’s enough to keep them going for another week. |
September 24, 1996 | 006 | 14 |
| 3a | 3a | "Beware the Lunchwad"
At school Mr. Lederhosen is teaching “ How the Body Works.” An excellent lead in to a close up look at what the kids are having for lunch. Russell’s lunch takes on a life of its own and wreaks havoc in the Middlestick Elementary School cafeteria. Mrs. Lewis the cafeteria lady tries to sell the kids lamb chops. Bradley taunts Stacy with “ Okay, but if I said you had to choose between eating... a dead skunk... or a HUMAN EYEBALL” The Burpinator tries his best to belch Russell’s lunch out of existence, but runs out of gas. In a last ditch attempt to get away from Russell’s lunch, Stacy and Bradley hide in a broom closet -- only to find Mr. Coffin in there, pointing out that kids in broom closets is against the rules. Who’d a known he’d be in there... waiting. Eventually it’s William who puts an end to the life of Russell’s lunch, with a hard boiled egg fart. When Stacy gets to her Dad’s house for dinner that night, his cooking doesn’t look so bad compared to what she’d seen this day! |
August 27, 1996 | 001 | 5 |
| 3b | 3b | "Madam Know-It-All"
Bored with television watching, Bradley and Stacy click to the psychic network, Stacy claims she too, as Madam Go-Go, can tell the future. She knows the weather, and Bradley’s future... Meanwhile Stanley has purchased a very used riding lawn mower, and drives around the grounds issuing puffs of smoke and showers of sparks. Back at Madam Go-Go’s fortune telling booth, we get to see Bradley direct Lance and Russell in a star making film! By the end of the story everyone is out of control. The only way to stop the madness, is with the TV remote control. Click. |
August 27, 1996 | 002 | 6 |
| 4a | 4a | "Return Your Seats to an Uptight Position"
“ Oh, you didn’t know? I’m going to be an airline pilot when I grow up.” Bradley is the clipboard carrying, over decorated Mr. Harold Examiner, from the international Aviation and wicked Uniforms Administration.” Stacy decides to skip the zillion years of school it takes to become a pilot, and just do the flight test. Her flight encounters unexpected turbans, really ugly weather patterns (tartan, polka-dot...) and some very hungry passenger windows. Having passed the test this far, the final step is upon her. Captain Stacy must deal with... international terrorists Lance and Russell, who eventually settle for a detour to Mr. Gristle for burgers. When it’s discovered that Russell ate the burger and has been in the lavatory for a very long time, an emergency landing is made. All passengers disembark safely. Bradley is really shaken by the whole experience, and decides the next time he travels, he’ll take the train. Guess Bradley didn’t know Stacy was kinda thinking of train engineer for a future career too... |
October 8, 1996 | 025 | 17 |
| 4b | 4b | "Yams Away!"
This Thanksgiving, for his class project, Bradley is thankful for totally dumb stuff, like nostrils and that cactuses don’t have legs. Stacy is truly thankful for Thanksgiving, “...’cause my Mom is the best cook in the world, and she makes the best Thanksgiving Dinner in the SOLAR SYSTEM.” Bradley says Stacy’s Thanksgiving is doomed when she claims that is will be “the best one ever”. Then Stella tells Stacy that she has to work, and Stanley will take over the preparation of Stacy’s favorite meal of the year. Stacy begins to think Bradley is right. This will be the worst Thanksgiving ever! It’ll probably be Wennie Beans for dinner. Stacy can’t even get a turkey sandwich at the Mr. Quickie! Bradley tries to cheer her up to no avail. Even Mr. Doddler’s telling of the first Thanksgiving doesn’t cheer Stacy. Finally it’s time for dinner. Stacy decides that, for her Dad, she’ll make an effort. When she and Bradley walk into Stanley’s apartment, all the gang is there, having brought a wonderful pot luck Thanksgiving dinner, with all the trimmings. “And so I learned I have a lot more to be thankful for than I thought -- I have a Dad and a Mom who loves me -- in their own unique way -- and I have lots of friends who come through in the crunch, especially when you don’t expect them to. The end. Thank you. “ |
October 8, 1996 | 026 | 18 |
| 5a | 5a | "The Good, the Bad, and the Bradley"
The School day starts out with math class, where geometry takes on a life of its own, until Commander Bradley saves the planet from alien math domination! “That’s one small burp for Bradley... and one giant belch for MATH CLASS!” In the process he’s busted by Principal Coffin, and jailed in the principal’s office. Since, according to Miss Mobley, “...recent studies have shown that children with certain recurring behavioral problems often respond positively when given some level of personal responsibility...," Bradley is made Hall Monitor and the hallways of Middlestick Elementary School get a look at the wild side. The power of the position goes to Bradley’s head, creating cowboy showdowns, spy thrillers, super hero heroics, and the reality of contagious throwing up. It’s the “ornery vomits” that brings Bradley back to reality. |
August 13, 1996 | 007 | 1 |
| 5b | 5b | "Bye Bye, Baby Birdie"
Bradley and Stacy are totally bored with television and decide to go bug Stella. Stacy’s mom is very busy trying to concentrate on paying the bills and orders the kids “outside!”. They are surprised to find that, if you look hard, there’s nature to be found even in the city - even around Latchkey Apartments! While Stacy fancies that they’re shooting a nature documentary, Bradley has more of a jungle safari in mind, with him as the big game hunter of course. In the course of catching the Bengal Snow (tomcat) tiger, our safari comes across the feared head hunters, Lance and Russell. Freedom is almost bought with a trunk load of Cheese Poopers, until Frank drools on the booty. Luckily Dill shows up just in time to do a little archeology, and explain what hieroglyphics are. (Dill’s so good at EXPLAINING.) Oh, wait. It’s not a tomb but the gym bag! Then, a real find -- Baby birds, only one of them is a dead baby bird. The question is, how to dispose of the body. Cryogenics, cremation, mummifying and burial at sea (“flush”) are all rejected. Finally the kids decide on burial in a nice plain box. Luckily the Ice Cream truck bells break the solemnity, and happiness reigns again. |
August 13, 1996 | 008 | 2 |
| 6a | 6a | "Didn't'cha, Mr. D?"
Mr. Doddler attracts Bradley and Stacy’s attention when he has some difficulty with his laundry. The dryer has eaten one of Mr. D.’s socks. Isn’t it always the way. In the course of defending Mr. Doddler from the killer sock-eating Dryer monster, Bradley manages to Super Slash soak all the dry clothes. As the clothes dry, again, Stacy and Bradley ask their old friend about what it was like to do laundry when he was growing up. Guided by Bradley and Stacy’s questions, Mr. Doddler tells the history of his life, which encompasses the history of creation. We travel through time from washing clothes on a rock in a river, to walking miles through snow barefoot to school (before shoes were invented). Once there making your own pencils. Until Mr.D. was ten years old there wasn’t even color, and everything was black and white - no microwaves or video games. For fun you’d listen to the sound of the ocean in a sea shell. Back Mr. Doddler takes us, through knights and Dragons, Pyramids, dinosaurs, to a time of leglessness when Mr. D. wasn’t much better than primordial soup. Until finally, the dawn of time and the big bang. |
September 3, 1996 | 009 | 7 |
| 6b | 6b | "The Amazing Rubber Guy"
Bradley gets a little carried away with his multiple comic book personalities and nearly drives his friends mad during a baseball game. |
September 3, 1996 | 010 | 8 |
| 7a | 7a | "If It Ain't Fixed, Break It"
When it becomes apparent that Frank the wiener dog, Stacy's beloved pet, is creating too many puppies, Stella decides to have Frank "fixed". This episode takes a hilarious look at the difference between Stacy's thoughts and Bradley's take on what Frank will have to go through. |
September 10, 1996 | 014 | 9 |
| 7b | 7b | "The Mucus Touch"
Stacy visits Bradley after school to cheer him up. He’s been home with the snottiest cold ever! The two get into bedtime story fantasies which bring Bradley some relief from his runny affliction. |
September 10, 1996 | 013 | 10 |
| 8a | 8a | "Jumbo Frank"
While chasing the cat Bradley has brought home from school to earn a responsibility credit (Fluffy AKA “The Slasher”), Frank gets stuck in his doggie door, and so a diet is inflicted upon him. When Stanley says he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with Frank, Stella suggests that perhaps Stanley could lose a few pounds too. And so Stanley and Frank both pursue food in the face of food being taken away from them. Frank eats everything in his path, while chasing Bradley’s cat all over the Latchkey Gardens. When it comes time for the weigh-in, Frank is ten pounds lighter. Must’ve been all that cat chasing. But wait, Stella is ten pounds lighter too. Stanley weighs in five pounds heavier and can’t figure why, since he adjusted the scales to ten pounds lighter. Oops. |
September 17, 1996 | 011 | 11 |
| 8b | 8b | "Owed to a Tree"
When the city threatens to cut down the very best (and only) climbing tree in the neighborhood, Stacy and Bradley realize the value of ‘their’ tree. The tree has lifted a bit of sidewalk, and some one could trip and sue! The kids see that the tree is not only a place for them to hide and play, but also a place that hides many animals, like squirrels, cats, bugs... In an effort to save the tree, which also happens to be Frank the wiener dog’s favorite stop, Bradley and Stacy rally the Latchkey Apartment dwellers around a cause. It takes some tricky business from Bradley to motivate people to come to the tree, but in the end the city decides to do the good thing, and save the tree. Even gives the tree a plaque to ensure it’s future. |
September 17, 1996 | 012 | 12 |
| 9a | 9a | "Lassie Go Home"
It’s Pet Day at school, and everyone just has to enter a pet. Stacy has Frank the wiener dog. Bradley has Lester the chameleon. Polly has Pepperoni, her ‘dog’ on a string... Russell and Lance will come up with something, and/or ruin the chances of the others at the same time. Ashley, the rich girl in school, has the most beautiful, and smart, Collie dog anyone has ever seen! |
October 1, 1996 | 015 | 15 |
| 9b | 9b | "Hit the Showers"
Gym class with Mr. Lederhosen is bad enough, but the showers afterwards... they're just too much. The kids of Middlestick elementary battle " the towel of ultimate doom", mold monsters, and worse, end up in the wrong change room. "Ahhhhhhhh!" |
October 1, 1996 | 016 | 16 |
| 10a | 10a | "This is a Hiccup!"
These hiccups are contagious. |
October 22, 1996 | 018 | 20 |
| 10b | 10b | "Disciplinary Action"
Bradley plays a prank on Mr. Lederhosen (fart cushions in his runners) and thinks that Stacy is going to get the punishment. Imaginings of Principal Coffin’s torture devices drive Bradley crazy with fear and guilt. He finally has to break Stacy out of Coffin’s office to spare her the injustice, only to discover she was called there to receive an Outstanding Student Award, and not take the rap. Oops. Now Bradley has admitted he did it. What will he be in for?!?! |
October 22, 1996 | 017 | 19 |
| 11a | 11a | "Buttnocchio"
Stacy and Bradley’s butts grow when they tell a lie. |
October 29, 1996 | 019 | 21 |
| 11b | 11b | "Dill, Man of Letters"
Dill shares his enthusiasm for the library with Bradley and Stacy. |
October 29, 1996 | 020 | 22 |
| 12a | 12a | "Coat of Many Troubles"
Stacy is thrilled with her new coat, until she learns it’s actually a hand-me-down from Ashley, the rich kid no one likes. |
November 12, 1996 | 021 | 23 |
| 12b | 12b | "Environmentally Frenzied"
The kids put on a science fair with the “Save the Planet” theme. They each have three days to come up with new ideas on how to restore the environment. |
November 12, 1996 | 022 | 24 |
| 13a | 13a | "Photo Oops"
The tension and trauma of class picture day. |
November 19, 1996 | 023 | 25 |
| 13b | 13b | "Casa Blank Stare"
Bradley and Stacy have a very visual argument as to what the greatest movies of all time are. Stacy favoring the gentle classics while Bradley’s interpretation of classic includes monsters, car crashes and blood and guts horror. |
November 19, 1996 | 024 | 26 |