Pelswick

Bayview is suffering economic cutbacks and the town hires a psychic to help them come up with tactics to gain equity (i.e. winning numbers for lottery tickets, where to drill for oil etc.).

A nuclear-powered space station is going to plunge through the atmosphere and hit Bayview... the town goes to self-serving pieces.

Mr. Jimmy gets a trainee, Albert, who becomes maniacally attached to Pelswick and won't leave him alone. Pelswick has to figure a way to get rid of him.

Julie and Sandra both try out for the girl's basketball team. When the coach clearly prefers Sandra, Julie thinks its favoritism.

Pelswick refuses to put his "Life and Crafts" puppet of himself in a tiny puppet wheelchair and gets suspended for insubordination.

Goon gets involved in the sale of a pyramid-product (Glurpee Seed and Fertilizer). The whole town gets sucked in.

Gram-Gram becomes a T/A at Alcatraz, in Pelswick's class. At first she's an unholy embarrassment and Pelswick dreads going to class.

When Quentin is laid off, the household needs money while he hunts for work.

Pelswick manages and performs in Goon, Ace, Julie and Sandra's band. The band is sort of a Rorschach for the entire town: what everyone hears in the lyrics reveals their own insecurities and obsessions.

Kate gets her first boyfriend. Pelswick becomes the world's most protective older brother - even though it's her poor little 7-year-old boyfriend who needs protecting.

Pelswick meets a girl on the Internet. Pelswick is afraid to tell her about the wheelchair and goes to elaborate lengths to keep her from finding out that he's sitting down every time she sees him for a reason.

Pelswick enters the local Paralympics Games. Boyd gets hurt in an accident that Pelswick could have prevented.