Original title
O'Grady
Released
7/30/2004
Origin country
US
Genre
Animation, Comedy
Production companies
Soup2Nuts
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
19
O'Grady is an animated television show created by Tom Snyder and Carl Adams and developed for TV by co-star Holly Schlesinger. It was the first original animated series for Noggin's teen block, The N. The show stars Melissa Bardin Galsky and H. Jon Benjamin, among other Soup2nuts Productions alumni, as high school students Abby and Kevin, and chronicles their lives along with those of other residents of O'Grady, a fictional town which is periodically plagued by "The Weirdness." The Weirdness affects its residents in strange ways such as projecting their private thoughts in bubbles over their heads, or producing clones of themselves every time they get angry. The random changes in the show's logo explains the plot.
Abby enlists Beth and Kevin's help to make a video showing how O'Grady High is like any other high school; while Harold fights pre-wrestling jitters. The new weirdness in town: anyone who sweats will have their insecurity magnified!
The weirdness is back and it's making clones of everyone in O'Grady! Harold is jealous of the town's clones; Kevin and Abby discover their clones like each other.
Kevin throws a party at Beth's house; Everyone develops short-term memory loss at the sound of a gong.
Kevin and Abby go head to head in the O'Grady Idol competition, and if the Weirdness has its way, they'll get catty in the process. Also Abby gets a call from her crush Pete Klesko.
Beth must face the toxin and technology-ridden future of coffee shops after asking Abby for help. Kevin's brilliant ideas for Eatsa Pizza threaten to get Harold fired.
Abby learns that ballroom dancing should never include Phillip. Beth and Harold find the road is even more dangerous when street signs come to life.
When everyone's inner voices become outer ones, the laws of high school relationships are turned on their heads!
O'Grady High gets a lesson in childcare when everyone is assigned to be robo-baby mamas and robo-baby daddies, which is fine as long as the Weirdness stops teleporting everyone at the first sign of a yawn.
Abby decides to change her look to impress Pete much to the pain of her friends who find that the Weirdness has made it impossible to dish an insult. Kevin gets the most coveted job in the world: mall cop.
Trying to earn the newest gadget, the Lingonberry, O'Grady High is forced into a sugar lock-down, and it's more than some can handle.
The Weirdness is back, whenever someone sneezes they instant get older. Kevin manipulates Abby, Harold, and Beth to escape the adults by ditching school and go to a secluded spot in Kevin's brother's car. But when the car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, the Weirdness works its way around Kevin's heart.
Gurus for the New You's, the world's hottest makeover show, invades O'Grady High and their latest subject, Jonah, has won Beth's heart. Jonah asks Beth out on the show's ""Big Date"" and with all the cameras around, she seeks Abby's help with her own makeover. Since the latest ""weirdness"" makes everyone invincible to pain, Kevin tries out for the town's annual crazy stunt competition, The Insanity Games. Kevin gives the reigning champ, Flip, a run for his money when he auditions performing outrageous stunts involving a bike ramp, inserting pins in his face and a pool of scorpions. Harold is determined to keep his family's football legacy alive and joins O'Grady's team, but not the position his father, an ex-football star, was picturing.
In an attempt to get Pete to spend more than just sixteen seconds with her, Abby decides to become a cheerleader and drags Beth along with her. However, the head cheerleader, Brooke is mean and possibly biploar, which causes all the girls who tried out to quit. Thus, unanimously putting Abby and Beth on the squad. Later, Harold and Kevin discover old remotes that doesn't control TVs but controls people. Abby uses one of the remotes to get close to Pete, but when Brooke steals Beth's remote, she tries to steal Pete away from Abby. Meanwhile, Kevin accidently got Harold stuck on fast-foward and cannot find the remote. Harold's best years of his life could be passing him by.
With Beth off to France, Abby and Kevin start their summer jobs right next to each other at the local pool. But when Abby's summer starts looking up, it's Kevin who's floored.
The weirdness strikes again, and causes everyone to have to pee in at a random second. Beth volunteers to help build a house for homeless people, that is lead by an ex-con to pay off for his community service. Kevin volunteers too, but instead uses the building material to make a skateboarding ramp. Mean while, Abby helps Iris at the mall, and Iris thinks they're the best of friends now, and things start getting really creepy. Harold discovers an old game at the pizza place where he works, and tries to beat the mystery person's high score.
The weirdness is back again, and it's causing everyone to disappear when they hold their breath. Kevin's older brother, Randy, comes home from college and is ready to show everyone what he's "learned." Meanwhile, Derrick, the shoegazer, has found a muse in Abby. But don't hold your breath, because not everyone's what they appear to be.
The weirdness strikes again when it causes animals to talk. Harold's blog becomes the talk of O'Grady with stories about everyone, including Abby, which is starting to cause an allergic reaction.
The weirdness returns again, and gives a few individuals super-strength. Beth is running for class president,(and the weirdness really helps her campaign) against the all-around nerd Philip. Mr. Lipschitz gets replaces by a temp who Abby develops a crush on. Kevin and Harold create a punk band, but what could be more punk than dressing up as a techno band?
Kevin goes on air as a shock-jock sidekick, and ends up being the poster boy for absolutely everything he's against. Also, Abby and Harold join Super Siblings, which makes them very attached to their siblings.
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