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The Tick
1994 - 1996 7.4 (98 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Animation Comedy Kids
Networks
FOX
Comedy Central
Fox Kids
Created By
Ben Edlund

The Tick

The Superhero Who's More Than a Little Off-Balance!

Overview

Attention Evil-doers! The Tick is here, and he’s wearing the blue tights of justice! Together with his trusty moth-costumed sidekick Arthur, The Tick keeps the streets of The City safe from a rogue’s gallery of hilariously malevolent villains. So grab a snack, put your feet up and get ready to laugh and cheer as everyone’s favorite brawny hero swats evil on the snout with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness!

Top Cast

Townsend Coleman
Townsend Coleman

The Tick (voice)

Rob Paulsen
Rob Paulsen

Arthur (voice)

Kay Lenz
Kay Lenz

American Maid (voice)

Cam Clarke
Cam Clarke

Die Fledermaus (voice)

Jess Harnell
Jess Harnell

Sewer Urchin (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 (1994)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Tick vs. The Idea Men
1994-09-10

Tick and Arthur reveal their superhero origin story.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale
1994-09-17

A criminal mastermind with an evil plan and a face only an interior decorator could love.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil
1994-09-24

Mutant Dino-Park scientist Neil proves to be a major headache.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Tick vs. Mr. Mental
1994-10-01

Mr. Mental hypnotizes The Tick and sends him to steal the Thinking Cap from Pendecker Labs.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: The Tick vs. The Breadmaster
1994-10-08

The Breadmaster is an evil baker that uses baked goods to terrorize The City.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Tick vs. El Seed
1994-10-15

El Seed hopes to take over the city by bringing all of the plants and trees to life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: The Tick vs. The Tick
1994-10-22

A night at the local superhero bar turns explosive thanks to the evil midnight bomber!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Tick vs. The Uncommon Cold
1994-10-29

Arthur is nursing The Tick, who is infected with a most uncommon cold!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Tick vs. Brainchild
1994-11-05

While Charles's parents discuss child-rearing with no punishinment, their Branchild is ending Earth!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Tick vs. Pineapple Pokopo
1994-11-12

Arthur and The Tick try to rescue Yank, a super-genius, space monkey, captured by an evil ruler.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Tick vs. The Mole-Men
1994-11-19

The King of the Mole People and his ministers come to the surface for a vacation.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Tick vs. The Proto-Clown
1995-02-04

A clown with a major hang-up. Laugh at him and you'll pay the price.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account
1995-02-11

See Arthur face off against the most evil sock puppet in organized crime.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1995)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love
1995-09-09

When Arthur goes off on a date with Carmalita on Hobby Night, Tick builds himself a new sidekick - Little Wooden Boy. Swiss Commandoes are after the notebook of Dr. Vahtoss, Carmalita's father and the inventor of Arthur's flight suit. And Blowhole, a giant long-distance running whale, accidentally swallows everyone, forcing the Tick to light up Little Wooden Boy to cause Blowhole to choke them up. Yep, just another day in The City...

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Alone Together
1995-09-16

The Tick is sent into space to blow the ""CHA"" out of the Moon from when Chairface tried to write his name in the moon. He blows the letter C up while he's inside it and gets sent through space. While in space he comes across a fantastically large alien named Omnipotus. The Tick befriends him and becomes a janitor on his body. But Omnipotus is an eater of planets and plans to eat the Earth when they get to it.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Armless But Not Harmless
1995-09-23

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Coach Fussell's Lament
1995-09-30

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!
1995-10-07

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Bloomsday
1995-10-21

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...

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Evil Sits Down for a Moment
1995-11-04

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Heroes
1995-11-11

A camera crew follows the Tick and Arthur around for a day of crime fighting as they do battle with a unique villain.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Ants in Pants!
1995-11-18

Betty, Queen of the Ants, leads the ants of the City in revolt - it loses its major defender when the Tick is thoroughly creeped out and checks himself into Captain Sanity's Superhero Sanitarium. Betty and her minions capture the other heroes and lock them up in a giant People Farm, then collect enough glass to build a giant magnifying glass and use sunlight to fry them. Fortunately the Tick regains his (normal) sanity in the nick of time and saves the day.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Tick Loves Santa!
1995-11-25

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Tick vs. The Big Nothing
1996-02-03

An alien race called the ""Whats"" kidnap the Tick and Arthur to attempt to thwart their nemesis' the ""Heys"" from destroying the universe.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Tick vs. Reno, Nevada
1996-02-10

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Grandpa Wore Tights
1996-02-17

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.

Runtime: 30 min
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Season 3 (1996)

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: That Mustache Feeling
1996-09-14

The Mustache, a U.S. secret weapon, escapes from the lab and tries to team up with its counterpart, the Russian Beard. In hot pursuit are Jim Rage and the Ladies of Project: Shave, so the Mustache takes refuge on the Tick's lip. Meanwhile, Dinosaur Neil and Dot plan for their marriage.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Tick vs. Dot & Neil's Wedding
1996-09-21

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...

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Sidekicks Don't Kiss
1996-09-28

The Deerfield Aztecs, a baseball team, crashed in Mexico and formed their own lost tribe of real Aztecs. They track their missing shortstop, Carmalita (Arthur's girlfriend) to America but grab Arthur instead. When the Tick and Carmalita pursue, the Aztecs and their leader Wally unleash ""Speak"", some kind of lowly animal that they intend to wed Arthur to. Tick takes a shine to ""Speak"" (as he names him) and he defeats the Aztecs and rescues Arthur.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Tick vs. Arthur
1996-10-05

Arhtur is annoyed at his failed attempts to lose weight and dismayed at how much of a wimp he is. When he and Tick defeat a villain named Evil, Arthur takes Evil's strength-enhancing belt. When Arthur wears it, he gains confidence and likes seeing himself with a muscular physique. While dating Carmalita, Arthur picks a fight with two guys to show his new strength and confidence. The Tick is called in to end the fight and he tangles with Arthur. In the end, Arthur must get rid of his strength belt to save his and Tick's life. Arthur realizes the addiction the belt gave him and tosses it away so that he can be himself.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Devil in Diapers
1996-10-12

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Tick vs. Filth
1996-10-26

Sewer Urchin battles his arch enemy, the Sewer Czar, earning the respect of his fellow superheroes.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Tick vs. Europe
1996-11-02

The Tick is chosen for a superhero exchange program - he travels to Antwerp while Eclair comes to The City. While the Tick and Eclair's sidekick Blitzen foil a kidnap plot against the King of Belgium, Arthur and the lightning-blasting Eclair must defeat the Breadmaster and his Gingerbread men.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Tick vs. Science
1996-11-09

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Tick vs. Prehistory
1996-11-16

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Tick vs. Education
1996-11-24

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.

Runtime: 30 min

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