Flying Rhino Junior High — Season 1, Episode 6: Comic Book Chaos
Animation, Kids • 22 min • 2 seasons, 26 episodes • ★ 6.3/10
Episode synopsis
Earl is furious when Mrs. Snodgrass's class doesn't recognize him as one of history's greatest villains. To show everyone who the world's greatest fiend really is, he launches a full scale, tactical war, and he sends a troop of treacherous, life-sized comic book villains in to conquer the school. Although the boys think that they are the only ones with enough comic book knowledge to thwart the evil villains, they soon realize that they know nothing about these characters! Fortunately, Lydia's knowledge of comic book trivia is tremendous, and she's the only one who can identify each villain's weakness. Lydia and the gang defuse Earl's latest attack, once again saving Flying Rhino Junior High from impending doom. Impressed by Lydia's trove of comic book knowledge, the all-male comic book club realizes that boys and girls can not be stereotyped, and it invites the girls to join.
About Flying Rhino Junior High
Flying Rhino Junior High is a Canadian-French animated television series produced by Neurons Animation, Nelvana Limited and STV Productions. It originally aired from October 3, 1998 to January 22, 2000 on CBS Kidshow. Reruns used to be shown on Scottish Television in Scotland. Reruns returned to YTV after a four year absence in 2011. In the US, both seasons can be purchased as downloads from Amazon Instant Video, and in Scotland the first season can be watched on YouTube. The series revolved around four kids: Billy O' Toole, Marcus and Ruby Snarkus, and Lydia Lopez. The series' main antagonists are Earl P. Sidebottom, AKA The Phanthom and his rat sidekick Ratticus. Earl is a boy genius who some time before the series' beginning got a "D" grade in shop class and retreated to the school's sub-basement boiler room in shame. In there, he built a supercomputer capable of altering reality, which uses to cause chaos in the school as revenge, leaving the protagonists to stop him.