Original title
Pelswick
Released
10/5/2000
Origin country
CA, US
Genre
Animation, Comedy, Kids
Production companies
Nelvana, Nickelodeon Productions, Hong Ying Animation
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
26
Pelswick Eggert is just like most 13-year-olds, except that he is in a wheelchair -- or permanently seated as he prefers to call it. He doesn't let that stop him, though, as he deals with the usual obstacles that come with being a teenager.
Fearing for his safety, the school forbids Pelswick to go on a class camping trip, even though Pelswick correctly points out that ""I'm the only kid who can't get accidentally paralyzed!""
Unable to threaten Pelswick physically, Boyd decides to humiliate him on a whole different level -- by nominating him for school president.
Ace and Goon lure Pelswick into particpating in the latest craze, the Brain Suckers trading card game. Soon Pelswick is totally hooked -- and Boyd has the one ultra-rare card Pelswick would do anything to get.
Pelswick tries to avoid the humiliation of having Gram-Gram deliver a guest lecture at school.
Pelswick's anonymously drawn cartoon is banned from the school newspaper, leading to a suspension for editor Julie when she won't reveal who drew it.
A pre-packaged boy band has all the girls swooning. Pelswick, meanwhile, desperately tries to hate the band, but to his horror finds that he actually kinda likes their music...
Pelswick and Boyd build a chili-powered battery that ends up turning Pelswick's wheelchair into a 50-mph menace.
A camera crew invades the Eggert household when a producer sees Pelswick as the ideal subject for a reality-based TV show.
Despite a noticeable lack of talent, Goon becomes a professional wrestler -- and Pelswick must figure out a way to keep him from getting slaughtered in the ring.
Ace, Goon and the Eggert family head off to Camp Self-Esteemawa for Spring Break...but the camp's determinedly non-competitive atmosphere prevents anyone from having fun.
When Bayview's only rock-and-roll radio station changes its format to all-news, Pelswick opens a pirate rock music station of his own -- one that quickly begins consuming all his time and energy.
The school is thrown into an uproar when a website publishes a list of students in order of popularity.
Gram-Gram and her friends decide to check into a shady nursing home without even saying good-bye to their families. It's up to a bewildered Pelswick to organize a rescue mission while simultaneously planning a surprise party for Quentin.
All of Bayview starts panicking when it appears that a nuclear-powered space station is going to plunge through the atmosphere and destroy the town.
The mayor of Bayview somehow manages to lose all of the town's money, so he hires a magician to find it. Though it's obvious the magician is a sham, no one but Pelswick realizes this. Meanwhile, Gram-Gram and Agnes go searching for the missing money on their own, with some help from a mule.
Pelswick is deemed terminally uncool when he takes up birdwatching to impress Julie. Meanwhile, Gram-Gram and Agnes get jobs as store detectives, and a trainee guardian angel takes over for Mr. Jimmy.
Substitute teacher Gram-Gram spins tales about the Bayview flood of 1921 in order to impress Pelswick's class, little dreaming of the disastrous consequences that will follow.
Basketball fever sweeps Bayview as Pelswick considers trying out for the school basketball team, Sandra and Julie try to organize a girls' team, and Quentin tutors Boyd and his gang so that they can remain eligible to play.
Pelswick enters the Paraquest Games for handicapped athletes, and is surprised to find that Boyd is his chief competitor. Meanwhile, Julie and Sandra try to save a tree.
The Eggert family are forced to scrimp and save when Quentin loses his job; Alcatraz Junior High celebrates its 75th anniversary.
A decidedly flaky therapist forces the students in Pelswick's class to build marionettes in their own self-images as a therapeutic exercise. When Pelswick refuses to include a wheelchair as part of his self-image puppet, he's deemed to be deliberately undermining the therapy, and is suspended until he can put his puppet on a wheelchair.
Pelswick goes on a blind date with a girl who doesn't know about his wheelchair. When he discovers that his date loves dancing, he goes to extreme lengths to keep her from finding out that he's paralyzed from the waist down.
Julie tries to shake everyone out of their apathy by forming a band; Sandra obsesses on the healing powers of yellow boots; Gram-Gram and Agnes go gambling.
Quentin's politically correct new girlfriend wins over everyone in the Eggert family except Pelswick.
Pelswick tries to get Kate's new boyfriend to stand up for himself; Julie gets increasingly frustrated with Sandra's outrageous clothing; Gram-Gram and Agnes go on dates.
Almost everyone in town gets caught up in a bizarre pyramid scheme to sell laundry detergent. The only exceptions are Julie and Sandra (who are too busy embarking on a recycling drive of truly epic proportions) and poor Pelswick, who, as usual, is trying to be the voice of reason amidst all the chaos.
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