Roundhouse (1992)
Roundhouse is an American sketch comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1992 through 1996.
- Buddy Sheffield
- Benny Hester
- Rita Sheffield
Stars:
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Episode 1 - Disaster
Release Date:The family moves to Hollywood where they experience mudslides, earthquakes, tornados, etc. The family moves to California and is plagued by a series of natural disasters.
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Episode 2 - Summer Camp
Release Date:Jack and Diane go to camp for the summer, but shortly become homesick. The gang makes life long memories while away at camp for the summer.
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Episode 3 - Change
Release Date:Bernie goes to Junior High and is overwhelmed by changes. Meanwhile, Dad thinks he's Elvis. The Anykid family struggles with changes dad thinks he's Elvis and his son starts going to Junior High.
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Episode 4 - Nobody's Perfect
Release Date: 1994-06-04In an episode performed and aired live on June 4, 1994, KC learns to deal with making mistakes. Casey struggles with handing his mistake in baseball game and while persistently sticking his foot in his mouth in the series only live episode.
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Episode 5 - Dropout
Release Date:Skip drops out of school to pursue his skateboarding career.
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Episode 6 - The History of Anyfamily Part 1
Release Date:In the first part of the only Roundhouse two-parter, Fred and Jill Anykid come across a blender that's really a time machine! They travel to ancient times and meet their ancestors. The also find that the past is filled with as much commercialism as the present. When they return to their time, they destroy the blender to prevent any further time travel mischief - but have they interfered with history and changed the fate of their parents and themselves? The Anykid family attends a family reunion and finds a time machine.
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Episode 7 - The History of Anyfamily Part 2
Release Date:Having destroyed the blender from last week's episode, Jill and Fred are troubled about how to return to the past. Luckily, the future Jill and Fred travel to give the present Jill and Fred a time traveling out-house (AKA "Jill & Fred's Excellent Head-venture"). They must use the out-house to go back to the past to correct the effects of their prior interference with history. After altering the past, the kids try to restore order in their family.
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Episode 8 - Justice
Release Date:Les has to defend his friend Joey in a mock school trial. When a social studies test answer key goes missing the kids learn about justice by way of a classroom trial.
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Episode 9 - Superstitions
Release Date:Paul AnyKid's lucky underwear really do bring him good luck. He even lands an audition for the telvision show, Clap Trap. The show Claptrap (a cute self-parody) is looking for new talent. Paul gets a chance to audition, with the help of his lucky underwear.
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Episode 10 - Stress and Success
Release Date:Darrell Anykid has to come up with an underachievement Project for school to compete with child genius Donald Chump.
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Episode 11 - Obsession
Release Date:Cindy wants to go to the mall to meet Prince, but must find a way to get past Jan and Marcia, her evil step-sisters. As stated in the show: "A delightful Cinderella parody about obsession with surprisingly few fart jokes."
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Episode 12 - War & Peace
Release Date:For a political science lesson, a classroom is divided into two nations that must get along for the school year. War breaks out. Brothers Jake and Jay start a 'war' when they have a disagreement.
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Episode 13 - Endings
Release Date:The kids graduate from Anytown Junior High. Ivan's character quickly realizes that this means Roundhouse is cancelled. He spends the remaining 18 minutes trying to save the show. A fitting finale for the series, with many sketches of the same theme as waiting for the fat lady to sing (which she finally does). Most notably, among the goodbyes in this episode, there's a segment with the cast reading fan mail. Ivan picks up a letter and says, "This is for our friend Dom, who couldn't be here tonight," dedicating the episode to his long-time friend and coworker Dominic Lucero. Dom was originally the main character of the show before being diagnosed with leukemia half way through the second season. He returned for an episode here and there. A poll was sent out to fans asking for mail sent to the studios to continue the series. All attempts at protest had high results, yet issues following a corporate buyout meant the axe for Roundhouse.