Parker Lewis Can't Lose
1990 - 1993
High schooler Parker Lewis—part Ferris Bueller/part Dobie Gillis—gets into wacky adventures with his buds, Mikey, Jerry, and sometimes Larry "Kube" Kubiac, while avoiding the wrath of Principal Musso and Parker's scheming little sister, Shelly.
- Stars: Corin Nemec, Billy Jayne, Troy W. Slaten, Abraham Benrubi, Melanie Chartoff, Maia Brewton, Taj Johnson, Timothy Stack, Mary Ellen Trainor, Anne Bloom
- Created by: Lon Diamond, Clyde Phillips
- Tags: kidcom, quirky, school, teens
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Episode Tropes
Season 1
- Cyrano de Bergerac: Episode 1, "Pilot" (1990). Mikey is in love with a new girl at school, but he's too nervous to talk to her, so when he meets her at work, Parker feeds him lines through a mini TV screen hidden in a book.
- My Fair Lady: Episode 2, "Operation Kubiac" (1990). The buds give Larry a makeover and coaches him on how to be less threatening so he can appear before college recruiters. Parker tells him what to say through a headset, but his connection gets lost when Frank challenges him to solve a math problem, leading to disaster.
- Election: Episode 4, "Parker Lewis Must Lose" (1990). The buds nominate Parker for class president, but he falls for one of his opponents and wants to help her win, so he hatches a plot to throw his campaign.
- School Reunion: Episode 10, "Deja Dudes" (1990). Musso and Parker's parents all graduated the same year, and they're celebrating their 20th high school reunion. Musso is anxious about the event because of a gelatin-based prank pulled on her their senior year. She's desperate to find out who did it, but what she doesn't know was that it was Mr. Lewis and his buds.
- Time Capsule: Episode 10, "Deja Dudes" (1990). In high school, Mr. Lewis and his buddies pulled a massive prank on Musso involving probably more than $240 worth of Jell-O, and they buried the evidence in a time capsule that would be opened at their 20th high school reunion. It's now 20 years later, and Mr. Lewis, Parker, and their buds are scrambling to get the time capsule away from Frank so they can remove the evidence before Musso opens it, but to almost everyone's surprise, the opening is uneventful. Later, Musso opens a locker and is once again buried in Jell-O.
- Not Since the Incident: Episode 12, "Science Fair" (1990). The guys urge Jerry to enter the annual science fair and represent Santo Domingo High, but Jerry is reluctant because when he was in elementary school, he blew a big science fair and embarrassed himself. Parker and Mikey manage to talk him into doing it anyway, but Frank preys on Jerry's nervousness and psychs him out. At the least minute, Jerry summons his courage and enters, and his experiment is a success, but Kubiac surprises everyone by creating a potato-powered flashlight that wins the day.
- Rags to Riches: Episode 19, "Citizen Kube" (1991). Kubiac randomly wins a sweepstakes and becomes a millionaire, but he blows all his money in one day on food and giving it away to everyone at school just to be nice.
- It's a Wonderful Life: Episode 23, "King Kube" (1991). In an unusual move, Jerry nominates Kubiac for prom king and gets the whole school to vote for him as a joke, and when Kube finds out, he's so depressed that he tells everyone he's leaving school. To convince him to stay and be buds, the buds make an It's a Wonderful Life-style video showing him what they think their lives would be like if they never met.
- My Fair Lady: Episode 25, "My Fair Shelly" (1991). Shelly gets invited to the most popular girl in school's party, but she can't get a date, so she threatens Parker into finding her one. He and the other buds teach Shelly how to act like a normal human being and tell what to say to a guy she likes named Brad, and he asks her out right away.
Character Tropes
- Slutty Spinster: Ms. Grace Musso - Melanie Chartoff.
- Frenemy: Larry "Kube" Kubiac - Played by Abraham Benrubi.