Episode Guide - Season 1

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"Halloween"


U.S. Premiere: October 8, 2004


Teleplay: Michael Caine & Jason Cox


Story: Rachelle Romberg


Director: Fred Savage


Guest Stars:

Kay Panabaker (Debbie Berwick)
Carlie Westerman (Lana)


Co-stars:

Max Joseph Tuber (Halloween Toddler)
Troy Aguyo (Dangerous Dan Delgado)


Futuristic Gadgets:

Cybernetic Catalog
Wizard

Summary:

As Phil & Keely are talking about what to go as for the big Halloween party @ school, they run into Pim signing up students to watch a demolition of an old tomato factory before the party. Debbie is also trying to sign up students to help her bake 50,000 cupcakes for the needy, but everybody signs up for Pim's event instead, so she threatens Pim into helping her. Later, as Phil is leaving the house to go to the party, Lloyd has him check on something in a cybernetic catalog & Phil sees a picture of a cyborg that looks a lot like Debbie: The "Sugar & Spice" 800. Lloyd doesn't think that it could possibly be Debbie Berwick until he remembers that all the "Sugar & Spice" 800s were sent back to the 21st century because of a major malfunction - their intended goodness had turned into evil. Back @ school, Phil & Keely show up @ the party in their two-headed hockey player costume, only to find that the gym is totally empty. As if that wasn't strange enough, they smell something like baked goods & decide to go investigate. Following the sound of a drumbeat into a classroom, they find Pim & the rest of the students trying to make Debbie's 50,000 cupcakes. To try to keep Debbie from overhearing anything, Pim asks them for help by using words she had frosted on some cupcakes. Phil & Keely leave to try to get help, but are confronted & chased all around the school by Debbie. Ending up back in the classroom, Phil comes up w/ an idea when Debbie says that she was starting to get overheated because of all the stress. Remembering what Lloyd had said about how the cyborgs had a problem w/ overheating, he encourages everybody to start eating cupcakes. As he expected, Debbie overheats & melts into a big black puddle of goo & Halloween is saved.


Goofs & Fun Facts:

This is the first episode to include a blooper reel @ the end.

When Phil & Keely rip the jersey that they're wearing & run in separate directions, you can clearly see that Phil's half of the shirt & Keely's half are velcroed together.

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"Age Before Beauty"


U.S. Premiere: November 12, 2004


Writers: Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn


Director: Tim O'Donnell


Guest Stars:

J.P. Manoux (Mr. Hackett)
Rory Thost (Bradley Benjamin Farmer)
Brittney Powell (25-year-old Keely)
Carlie Westerman (Lana)
Peter Allen Vogt (Chef Dupré)
Ronnie Scheck (75-year-old Phil)
Kirsten Vangsness (Veronica)
Max Joseph Tuber (2-year-old Lloyd)


Futuristic Gadget:

New-Ager

Summary:

When Phil & Keely's plant for their science project dies on them because Keely didn't water it, Phil uses his New-Ager (a futuristic gadget that can make old things young & young things old) to bring it back to life. Keely thinks it's really cool & wants to try it on herself to see what she'd look like when she's older, but Phil doesn't let her, so she takes it w/o him knowing. The next day @ school, she uses it to turn herself into a 25-year-old & surprises Phil when she shows up @ his locker. Phil thinks she looks incredible, but gets mad @ her when he realizes she took the New-Ager. A depressed Mr. Hackett passes by & asks why Phil isn't in class, then asks who Keely is & she tells him she's a substitute teacher. Too depressed to teach because his girlfriend Veronica had broken up w/ him, he immediately asks her to sub for him. Keely shows up in class & shocks Phil again when she announces that she's the new substitute teacher, Miss Vanderhoosy. At the end of class, Mr. Hackett comes back, thanks "Miss Vanderhoosy", then asks her out for coffee after school. Keely says yes, but doesn't intend on showing up until Phil tells her that Mr. Hackett will be crushed if she doesn't. Phil comes up w/ a plan to use the New-Ager on himself & show up @ the date as her 30-year-old baseball-playing boyfriend, Blake Bastille, but accidentally switches the age to 75 instead. Finding out that he lost out to a 75-year-old makes Mr. Hackett even more depressed until "Blake" gives him a pep talk. The next day @ school, Keely tells Phil that she's sworn off all futuristic gadgets & Mr. Hackett is back to his old self after patching things up w/ Veronica.

Pim finds out that Bradley Benjamin Farmer was taking bribes to give people good reviews on the morning announcements & forms an alliance w/ him - until Lana finds out & reports them both.

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"Neander-Phil"


U.S. Premiere: December 10, 2004


Writers: Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn


Director: Matt Dearborn


Guest Stars:

Kay Panabaker (Debbie Berwick)
J.P. Manoux (Curtis)
Alice Geczyn (Alice De Luca)
Terry Rhoads (Mayor De Luca)
Gregory "Gregg" Hinton (Cleo Washington)
Sterling Rice (Catherine)


Futuristic Gadget:

Wizard

Summary:

While @ his locker talking to Keely, Phil suddenly notices a girl down the hall. He's instantly attracted to her & asks Keely who she is. Keely tells him that her name is Alice DeLuca, she's the mayor's daughter, & she speaks French & likes horses & karate. Armed w/ this info, Phil shows up @ karate club & tries to impress her, but accidentally gets knocked out by her instead. When he tells her that he also speaks French & likes horses, she's amazed @ how much they have in common & asks him to go to the mayor's ball w/ her. He tells Keely about it & she's really happy for him - until he mentions that his date w/ Alice is going to be @ the same place where she'll be bussing tables for a catering service. At the ball, the green-eyed monster of jealousy rears its ugly head when Keely sees Phil w/ Alice. Phil, on the other hand, has problems of his own. Pim had broken the wizard & until Lloyd could fix it, the last thing that was programmed on it will keep happening - which unfortunately for Phil happens to be the brain swap between him & Curtis earlier that day. He keeps switching places w/ Curtis throughout the night, causing him to make a complete fool of himself & a total chaos of the ball. Phil (in Curtis's body) finally helps Lloyd fix the wizard, & back in his own body, he decides to tell Alice the truth. She doesn't take it very well, but Phil knew he deserved what he got for lying to her & that she deserved better than that. To Keely's surprise, he asks her to dance w/ him & she couldn't be happier.

Pim's annoyance of Debbie Berwick causes her to break her locker door right off its hinges & she gets in trouble for it. At home, Barb suggests taking a yoga class to help calm her down. Pim protests & in the process, breaks the wizard. The looks on her parents' faces puts an end to her protesting & she agrees to go to yoga class w/ Barb, only to discover that the yoga teacher is none other than Debbie Berwick. During one of the sessions, Debbie makes Pim so mad that she tells her they were never friends & Debbie is crushed. Barb tells Pim that she should give Debbie a chance, so she writes up a contract w/ a bunch of conditions & tells Debbie that she'll be her "new best friend" only if she signs it.

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"Double Trouble"


U.S. Premiere: January 1, 2005


Writers: Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn


Director: Joanna Kerns


Guest Stars:

J.P. Manoux (Curtis)
Yeardley Smith (Mandy Teslow)
Rachel Snow (Jerry)
Jeff D'Agostino (Myron)


Futuristic Gadget:

Invisi-spray

Summary:

Phil & Barb notice Pim making lunch for some kid named Jerry @ school & automatically think she has a crush on someone. But when Phil uses the Invisi-spray to spy on her & find out who her mystery crush is, he finds out that "Jerry" is actually a girl who bullied Pim into making her lunches for her. Phil tells Pim to stand up to the bully & it works...until Jerry's older brother Myron finds out about it & starts bullying Phil. Phil takes his own advice & stands up to Myron, believing that bullies are just all talk & no action, but soon realizes that's not the case w/ Myron. After talking to his mom about it, he decides to take her up on her advice & find a "kinder side" to Myron. He bribes Jerry into telling him if Myron has ever been nice to anyone, & she tells him about a pet rabbit he once had. When it comes time for his "showdown" w/ Myron, Phil shows up w/ a rabbit, but it escapes out the window. They both race outside & find it up in a tree, & Myron uses Phil as a stepladder to try to reach it. Pim, meanwhile, uses the Invisi-spray & rams into Myron, knocking him down just as he gets the rabbit out of the tree. She then tries to use a hose on him, but Phil stops her. After Myron leaves w/ his rabbit, Pim becomes visible again & Phil thanks her for sticking up for him. Pim, being her usual bratty self, ruins their lovely "brother/sister moment" by soaking him w/ the hose.

Lloyd gets a visit from Keely's mom, Mandy, who tells him that someone has been stealing her lawn ornaments. After finding out that Curtis was stealing them, Lloyd has him help put the ornaments back on her lawn, & learns that the reason Curtis was stealing them was because he was just lonely & needed friends.


Fun Facts:

This was the first episode aired where there is a definite difference in one of the scenes. This is because they got rid of the idea of Barb being half robot, so they had to reshoot certain scenes like the one in this episode where Phil is talking to her in the backyard. His hairstyle is way different & he looks older, the same look he had for Disney Channel's New Year's Eve House Party. Apparently the original scene had the same dialogue, but it had Barb trying to make the sculpture w/ just her head while Phil is talking to her about Myron.

"Double Trouble" was voted to be the first new Disney Channel episode aired in 2005.

Airing-wise, this is Keely's mother Mandy Teslow's first appearance, but in production order, it's actually her second appearance.

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"Milking It"


U.S. Premiere: March 25, 2005


Writer: Rachelle Romberg


Director: Savage Steve Holland


Guest Stars:

Brenda Song (Tia)
Steve White (Mr. Smythe)
Marshall Allman (Roger)
G.J. Callahan (Officer Cobb)
Suzanne Krull (Miss Winston)


Co-star:

Carlie Westerman (Lana)


Futuristic Gadgets:

Cinespecs
Milk Engine

Summary:

Phil & Keely use a milk engine for their science fair project (a voice-activated pudding machine), but Phil later realizes that that was a big mistake. Since the milk engine wasn't invented until 2075, Lloyd fears that it will uncover the family's secret & tells Phil that they'll have to leave Pickford to avoid being discovered. Phil protests, but Lloyd doesn't see any other way to keep from being found out. After some "wise advice" from Curtis, Phil decides to try steal the milk engine from school that night, but he & Keely have a hard time trying to get past the security guard until Lloyd shows up & distracts him. Removing the milk engine causes their science fair project to bomb, but to Phil & Keely, it was a small price to pay.

Pim tries to take the easy way out in her creative writing class by using her Cinespecs to give the play-by-play of her favorite movie from 2121, Galacta Girl, but it backfires when the glasses break. As punishment, her mom makes her write "a no less than 50-page essay" on a sappy love movie.


Fun Facts:

This is the second episode aired that shows a difference in one of the scenes (the scene was reshot in November 2004). Phil's hairstyle is again different & Curtis is actually speaking broken English instead of his usual caveman banter.

First aired on the Family Channel in Canada on February 18th, 2005

Kay Panabaker (Debbie Berwick) is listed as a guest star in the end credits even though she did not appear in this episode.

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"Corner Pocket"


U.S. Premiere: April 8, 2005


Writers: Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn


Director: Savage Steve Holland


Guest Stars:

Yeardley Smith (Mandy Teslow)
Kay Panabaker (Debbie Berwick)
J.P. Manoux (Mr. Hackett)
Evan Peters (Seth Wosmer)
Brenda Song (Tia)


Futuristic Gadget:

Wizard

Summary:

Keely tries out for cheerleading but does one too many cartwheels & doesn't make it. Her mom shows up after tryouts & Keely tries to tell her that she didn't make the squad, but not wanting to break her mom's heart, she lies & tells her that she did. Phil encourages Keely to tell her mom the truth, but when he sees for himself just how important cheerleading is to her mother, he chickens out, too. When Mrs. Teslow tells them that she'll be able to make it to school to watch Keely cheer, Phil comes up w/ a plan for he, Keely, & Tia to cheer @ a billiards game. During the game, Keely realizes that cheerleading is her mother's dream, not her own, & finally works up the courage to tell her mother the truth.

Debbie Berwick's excessive happiness drives Pim even more crazy than usual, so she tries to find the one thing that Debbie hates to try to get her to admit that she can't possibly like everything.


Fun Facts:

In production order, this is actually the 3rd episode in the series, not "You Say Toe-Mato".

This is the third episode aired where there is a definite difference in two of the scenes (where Phil & Pim are talking to their mom in the backyard) because they had to be reshot.

First aired on the Family Channel in Canada on January 21, 2005

Airing-wise, this is the second appearance of Keely's mother Mandy Teslow, but in production order it's actually her first appearance.

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"Team Diffy"


U.S. Premiere: Phil of the Future: Gadgets & Gizmos DVD
(August 16, 2005)


Writer: James Kramer


Director: Tim O'Donnell


Guest-stars:

Orlando Brown (Andy Baxley)
J.P. Manoux (Curtis/Mr. Hackett)
Terry Rhoads (Mayor Da Luca)


Futuristic Gadget:

Wizard

Summary:

As Phil & Keely are trying to give Curtis some lessons in table etiquette, Phil's troublemaker friend from the future, Andy Baxley, pays them a visit. The Diffy family couldn't be happier to see him (especially when he promises them a ride home in his time machine), but Phil doesn't trust him. When Phil & Keely give him a tour of Pickford, Andy shows his true colors when he tries to blackmail Phil into helping him mess w/ the new statue of the city's founder. Phil originally refuses, but doesn't have the heart to tell his family that they won't be going back to the future if he doesn't go along w/ Andy's plans, so he reluctantly gives in. Using his Wizard, Andy does his best to try to deface the statue, but Phil eventually has enough & tries to undo what Andy did, only to end up a statue himself. When confronted by Phil's parents, Andy apologizes profusely, but ends up leaving the Diffys behind when he goes back to the future.

Thinking that she'd be going back to the future, Pim decides to wreak havoc in school, but the fun doesn't last long when she realizes she won't be going home after all...