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Odd Job Jack
2003 - 2007 2.0 (1 votes) 4 Seasons
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Genres
Animation Comedy
Networks
The Comedy Network

Odd Job Jack

Overview

Odd Job Jack was a Canadian animated comedy television show featuring Don McKellar, about one man's misadventures in temporary employment. Seen on and produced for the The Comedy Network, a cable specialty channel, and shown on Adult Swim in Latin America, the show has currently finished its production run as of its fourth season. The second season has been released to DVD, and seasons two through four can currently be seen on the on demand streaming video service Hulu.

Key Crew

Writer: Adrian Carter, Jeremy Diamond, Denny Silverthorne

Producer: Adrian Carter, Jeremy Diamond, Denny Silverthorne

Top Cast

Don McKellar
Don McKellar

Jack Ryder (voice)

Jeremy Diamond

Leopold Trench (voice)

Matthew Ferguson

Bobby Lee (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 (2003)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Death and Life
2003-03-05

Straight out of college with massive debt, Jack decides to get a part time job with the Odd Jobs Employment Agency. His first job involves working at a funeral house, where Jack quickly discovers he's not cut out for any of the tasks involved, from consoling the bereaved, to digging graves.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: I Watch the Watchman
2003-06-28

Jack works as a security guard.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Wheel is not Enough
2003-07-05

While working as a hamster wrangler for famous rodents, Jack and Gary Gerbil, the star of the show, prevent Gary's arch nemesis from destroying the world.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Easy Rider
2003-07-12

Testing new memory drugs has Jack wondering whether or not a bizarre encounter with his estranged father was reality, or just a hallucination in his inebriated state.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Waiting for Gordo
2003-07-19

Jack works as a waiter. When the waiting staff starts disappearing at an ultra-fancy restaurant, Jack realizes it's either eat or be eaten in the world of high class cookery. Meanwhile, Bobby spins records and fights crime.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Go West Young Ryder
2003-07-26

Jack reminisces with Betty about his best job ever: It was back in his college years, and he and his friends went tree planting in an area that was frequented by a dangerous grizzly bear. For defeating the beast, Jack is dubbed a hero, and gets a little complimentary action.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Fatal Extraction
2004-07-01

Under Dr. Renfield, Jack discovers that a dental clinic isn’t always business as usual. When a giant molar is discovered in little Timmy’s mouth, Renfield is prepared to make a deal with the devil to extract the precious tooth.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: HolyLand
2004-07-12

Employed by "the creator", Magnus, Jack is in charge of booting up the androids at the religious-themed amusement park, Holyland. However, once he introduces knowledge to Eve, the female android, it becomes clear that Magnus has a darker purpose in his Creation Sensation.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Broke & Broker
2004-07-22

Jack finds his knack in the corporate world of Divest and Consume. Despite his sister Spoons' arguments, Jack believes he'll be there forever. But after selling big, costing both Betty's aunt her life savings, and Bobby's family their company, Jack starts to rethink how money compares to friendship.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Skateballs of Steel
2004-07-28

Coaching the most terrible team in the skateball league restores Jack's confidence as they claim their first victory under his instruction. But when Jack finds the owner of the team making deals with the opposition, he's quick to give up victory, and coach his team to an honest loss.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Almost Wormless
2004-08-02

Jack works as a roadie for a three day rock festival.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Fantasy Atoll

Jack and Betty work together as virtual reality models for a reality simulator. But once they're used to the strange new job, the question surfaces: what distinguishes the virtual reality from true reality?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: American Wiener
2004-08-14

Still sore about her indiscretion with Jack in Fantasy Atoll, Betty sends him as far away from her as possible, telling him to deliver wieners to Wienerfest. Jack, Bobby and Leo head out on the road, only to be pursued by the American boarder patrol for toting tainted meat.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 (2005)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The 2 Marketeers
2005-07-23

Jack works as an ad whiz alongside his Mom.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Lord of the 3-Ring Binder
2005-07-30

Jack works as a teacher's assistant.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Iron Temp
2005-08-06

Jack works as a game show contestant.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Orgy: The Musical
2005-08-13

Jack works as a stagehand for a musical that involves him being in the nude. Before long, he becomes self conscious about a certain pat of his anatomy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: You Suck
2005-08-20

Jack works as a personal assistant to a drugged up Motivational Speaker

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Jack Ryder goes to War
2005-08-27

Newfoundland declares war against Canada after being ridiculed and made fun of for years. Jack is deployed as a soldier to fight against the rebellion, but soon discovers a deep family secret...

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Odd Job John
2005-09-03

When Jack complains about his odd jobs, Grandma Max recounts of his Great Great Grandfather and his first job in the new country working on the railroad.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Ten Labours of Jack Ryder
2005-09-10

Jack works as a doula for birthing mothers. But when an encounter with a cement truck incapacitates the Chief Midwife, Jack is forced to make a few special deliveries by himself.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Night of the Flesh Eating Zombie Meter Maids
2005-09-17

Jack finds working as a Meter Maid doesn't earn him any extra respect. When a Gypsy places a curse on him for ticketing her car, he suddenly becomes even better at his job... much to his dismay.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: A Christmas Coma
2005-09-24

In this special odd job, Jack works as a gift wrapper for needy orphans. Slaving away and nursing paper cuts, Jack is unable to summon any holiday spirit. Knocked unconscious by an errant toy, Jack is visited by the ghosts of Jobs Past, Present, and Future as they try to teach him the true meaning of gainful employment. Meanwhile, the bruise on comatose Jack's forehead takes on Jesus-like dimensions, giving his family a holiday money making opportunity...

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Biggest Bang
2005-10-01

Jack works as a Bellhop at the Star Tramps theme hotel. While working as Galaxander, the Bellhop from the series, he meets the girl of his dreams. Meanwhile, are the Astronauts next door doing more then just research?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Close Encounters of the Uncomfortable Kind
2005-10-08

Having accidently being launched into space, Jack works as an Astronaut. Jack, Tiberius, Leo, and Bobby try to keep sane on the voyage to Saturn, but Bobby's lack of a liver, Leo's fusion with a worm, and Tiberius' sex withdrawal make this problematic. When the ship's half programmed computer puts them into suspended animation for 16 years, Jack tries to stop the mission.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Law & Lawlessness
2005-10-15

Jack works as a Court reporter.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 3 (2006)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Twenty-One, You're Dead
2006-07-22

Jack goes to work as a croupier at a local casino and soon finds himself in a game where the players literally have their lives at stake. At the same time, Bobby becomes addicted with playing scratch and win tickets.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Jack Ryder and the Fountain of Life
2006-07-29

In this Odd Job, Jack works as an Archaeologist and is forced to team up with his "ex," a daring explorer by the name of Alberta Malone. Immediately they resume the constant bickering that doomed their relationship as they dig for the Lost City of Wu, an ancient matriarchal culture said to contain the mysterious Fountain of Life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Temp, The Slut, The Queen and Her Corgis
2006-08-05

In this Odd Job, Jack is sent to jolly England and works as a Royal Timekeeper in Buckingham Palace for the big Daylight Savings job. While on duty, he takes some pictures of the Queen in her bedroom. The tabloids get a hold of them and chaos ensues throughout the realm.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Kindergarten Temp
2006-08-12

In this Odd Job, Jack works as a Substitute Teacher at a day-care for gifted children. But when the kids stage a rebellion, it's up to Jack to quell the uprising. Meanwhile, Leo must deal with his unruly nephew.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Dragon Dueler
2006-08-19

Jack goes to work as a member of a road construction crew but the tough conditions result in his imagination going into overdrive.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Big Dump
2006-08-26

Jack's latest job is working as a Garbage Detective but he finds himself ensnared in a world of power, evil and human trash that soon threatens him personally.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: 29.5
2006-09-02

Jack goes to work playing a corpse for a counter terrorist drill but is mistaken as a real agent by the people participating.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: A Candidacy of Dunces
2006-09-09

Jack goes to work as a pollster for an elderly candidate for the mayor's office but meddles with the candidate's campaign to the point that he has to try and keep the man from dropping out altogether.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Great White Joke
2006-09-16

Jack is sent in error to work as a Dancer for a hip-hop group that is getting ready to compete in a dancing competition. Meanwhile, Bobby and Leo setup their own dance troupe to enter the competition.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Man Who Smelled Too Much
2006-09-23

Jack goes to work as a 'Nose' for a perfumery but his success at his job gives him a swelled head as well as dangerous enemies.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Claws
2006-09-30

Jack goes to work as a Crab Fisherman but finds the crew he is with bitter and the captain obsessed with revenge against a legendary king crab.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Jack Ryder Gets Hitched
2006-10-07

Jack goes to work as a Social Worker and quickly falls in love with a new woman in his life. Meanwhile, Bobby turns gay, Babs goes broke, Max gets stoned, Spoons becomes redundant, and Leo goes outside.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: My Big Miserable African Honeymoon
2006-10-14

Jack, still working as a Social Worker, is spending his honeymoon in Africa and finding the joy of marriage waning with each passing moment. Meanwhile, it's free Leo, broke Babs, and gay Bobby to the rescue.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 4 (2007)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: No One Likes a Gorilla!
2007-07-22

Jacks works as a mattress company mascot and hands out fliers to passerbys while he is dressed as an ape.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Jack Ryder: Mindhumper
2007-07-29

Jack works as an assistant to a magician until the magician is arrested and Jack is thrust into the spotlight.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Good Locksmith
2007-08-05

Jack goes to work as a locksmith and tries to remain honest even when everyone else in the business seems to be dishonest.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Insecticidal Tendencies
2007-08-12

In this Odd Job, Jack is an EXTERMINATOR, with a talent and a taste for the killin’. But is he also exterminating his soul?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: The Flight of the Bumbling Idiot
2007-08-19

In this Odd Job, Jack is a FLIGHT ATTENDANT, and does his best to fluff pillows, remain calm, and not crash the plane.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Beauty Beast
2007-08-26

In this Odd Job, Jack is a PLASTIC SURGEON, and acquires a taste for going under the knife and "improving" himself.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Ryder's Ride
2007-09-02

In this Odd Job, Jack is a LIMO DRIVER and tries to keep his cool and “couth” in the middle of prom season.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Jack to the Future
2007-09-09

In this Odd Job, Jack is an "EGG FARMER" and must face his Future Self who wants to kill him for starting the Apocalypse.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Master of Temps
2007-09-16

In this Odd Job, Jack is a CAREER COUNSELOR at Odd Jobs and experiences life from the other side of the desk.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Revolving Jobs
2007-09-23

In this Odd Job, Jack gets his dream job as a SPRAY ON TANNER, but on the way to work gets trapped in a revolving door with a fellow sociologist.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: You Almost Got Served
2007-09-30

In this Odd Job, Jack is a PROCESS SERVER and finds the one job where he has a zero success rate, but refuses to quit.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: King Whore
2007-10-07

Jack is an ESCORT and tries to show the ladies a good time while remaining on his pimp’s good side.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Jack And The Magic Pencil
2007-10-14

In this Odd Job, Jack works at an animation studio where his boss has a magic pencil capable of altering reality.

Runtime: 30 min

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