The Tick: vs. Season Two
Buena Vista (1994)
TV Series  /  Action, Animation, Comedy
In Collection
#1347
0*
Seen ItYes
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IMDB   7.9
255 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Rob Paulsen Arthur
Cam Clarke Die Fledermaus
Townsend Coleman The Tick
Jess Harnell Sewer Urchin
Kay Lenz American Maid
Roger Rose Brian Pinhead
Pat Fraley Mayor Blank
Kevin Schon
Jim Cummings Owner
Maurice LaMarche The Deadly Bulb
Mary Kay Bergman Ants / Secretary
Pat Musick The Bee Twins
Phil Proctor Charles' Father
Dorian Harewood Taft
Brad Garrett What Interrogator
Steve Susskind
Ed Gilbert Johannes Gutenberg
David Ossman
Ron Feinberg Omnipotus
Peter Bergman Terry
Director
Hank Tucker
Producer Ben Edlund
Tom Griffin
C.J. Kettler
Hank Tucker
Writer Ben Edlund
Ralph Soll
Andy Yerkes
Randolph Heard
Musician Doug Katsaros

Animated. After "crashing" the super hero convention, the blue-clad hero, the Tick, is deemed the protector of "The City." On his first mission he runs into Arthur, an accountant with a moth costume who aspires to superherodom. They soon strike up a hero partnership to protect The City from a host of nefarious villains such as Chairface Chippendale, El Seed, and many more.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/9/1995  1.  The Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love
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...
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Ben Edlund  / Richard Liebmann-Smith 
Guest starring:  Steve Susskind, Jennifer Hale,  Kevin Schon
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/16/1995  2.  Alone Together
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Christopher McCulloch 
Guest starring:  Ronald Feinberg,  Tony JayPat Fraley
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/23/1995  3.  Armless But Not Harmless
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Ben Edlund  / Richard Liebmann-Smith 
Guest starring:  Linda Gary, Gerrit Graham,  Kevin Schon
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/30/1995  4.  Coach Fussell's Lament
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Andy Yerkes  / Pippen Parker 
Guest starring:  Tony Jay, Stuart Stone,  Pat Musick
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/7/1995  5.  Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Michael Rubiner 
Guest starring:  Paul Williams
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/21/1995  6.  Bloomsday
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...
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Ben Edlund  / Richard Liebmann-Smith 
Guest starring:  Ed Gilbert
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/4/1995  7.  Evil Sits Down for a Moment
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Jed Spingarn 
Guest starring:  Mary Kay Bergman
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/11/1995  8.  Heroes
A camera crew follows the Tick and Arthur around for a day of crime fighting as they do battle with a unique villain.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Ben Edlund  / Randolph Heard 
Guest starring:  Maurice LaMarcheJess HarnellPaul Eiding
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/18/1995  9.  Ants in Pants!
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Ralph Soll 
Guest starring:  Cathy Moriarty
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/25/1995  10.  The Tick Loves Santa!
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Ben Edlund  / Richard Liebmann-Smith 
Guest starring:  Jim Cummings
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/3/1996  11.  Tick vs. the Big Nothing
An alien race called the ""Whats"" kidnap the Tick and Arthur to attempt to thwart their nemesis' the ""Heys"" from destroying the universe.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Ben Edlund  / Richard Liebmann-Smith 
Guest starring:  Hank Saroyan,  Steve Susskind
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/10/1996  12.  Tick vs. Reno, Nevada
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Andy Yerkes  / Pippen Parker 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/17/1996  13.  Grandpa Wore Tights
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.
Director:  Hank Tucker  Writer:  Ben Edlund  / Richard Liebmann-Smith 
Guest starring:  Rob PaulsenPeter BergmanMaurice LaMarcheJess HarnellJim Cummings, Susan Blu,  Kevin SchonCam ClarkePat Fraley
Edition Details
Edition Season 2
Series The Tick
Distributor Walt Disney Video
Release Date 8/7/2007
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 2