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Flying Rhino Junior High

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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.

Oct 3, 19982 seasons26 episodesEndedEN

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Terri Hawkes

Lydia (voice)

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Ashley Brown

Billy (voice)

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Len Carlson

Principal Mulligan (voice)

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Ron Rubin

Raticus (voice)

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Richard Binsley

Earl / Phantom (voice)

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Seasons

Season 1

13 episodes

Premiered Oct 3, 1998

Season 2

13 episodes

Premiered Oct 2, 1999

Episodes

1–6 of 13

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Ep 1

Prehysterical

Oct 3, 1998

Earl gets so upset by inaccuracies in a game of ""dinosaurs"" Jeopardy that he decides to give the students a first-hand account of the early Mesozoic era by filling the halls with computer-generated velociraptors and T-Rexes! None of the kids know how to get rid of these massive monsters, except for Marcus, but he lacks the confidence to express his ideas. Only when he's urged to speak up does Marcus voice his plan to freeze the school and send the dinosaurs to the only local source of heat: Earl's boiler room! Marcus' plan saves the school and helps him build the confidence to express himself.

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Ep 2

Phantu's Curse

Oct 10, 1998

Inspired by a classic horror film, Mrs. Snodgrass builds an exact replica of an Egyptian tomb and brings it to class. Lydia mocks the movie, claiming that it is just a story, and that it has no basis in fact. Earl, a big fan of the film, becomes so enraged that he morphs the school into an Egyptian tomb. The gang has to find its way out of the maze of corridors to stop Earl and return the school back to normal. But when Lydia takes a scarab from the tomb of the Mummy, it sets in motion ""the curse of Pharaoh Phinster."" Marcus, also a big fan of the movie, knows what to expect at every turn because events occur exactly as in the movie. Lydia, however, doesn't believe anything that isn't documented in her reference book about Egypt. Each person has to listen to the others' views before they are sealed up in the tomb forever.

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Ep 3

Underwaterworld

Oct 17, 1998

Ruby and Marcus get entangled in a sibling battle for personal space during a class on undersea life. When Ruby stops to giggle over a fish which looks just like Earl, Earl gets so mad that he floods the school with giant hungry fish! A lonely only child, Earl also abhors siblings who can't get along, and enjoys plunging them into ""an ocean of space""! Drawing on a home economics lesson about cooking, the kids plunge underwater in a pressure cooker to unclog the drain (and drain out the school). But Marcus and Ruby are so caught up in sibling strife that they threaten to upset the pot's delicate balance. Only when the two siblings agree to respect each other's space and work together can the kids successfully open the drain and flood Earl's boiler room!

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Ep 4

Solar Flexus

Oct 24, 1998

Earl gets irate when Mrs. Snodgrass praises Billy and Marcus' model space shuttle as the most ambitious that she's ever seen. Earl hauls out his old model of the solar system and expands it to life size to remind her of his great work. But the planets are all out of order and turn the school into a massive galaxy that's going to hurtle the earth right into the sun! Billy tries to realign the solar system by knocking planets into their proper places with their space shuttle, but he takes short cuts which threaten to ruin the mission. Marcus reins in Billy's rushed effort and calmly figures out a way to divert the sun, sending it crashing into Earl's boiler room! Marcus saves the school, and Billy learns the value of careful preparation and planning.

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Ep 5

Frankensidebottom

Oct 31, 1998

Mrs. Snodgrass is introducing the great classic ""Frankenstein"" to the class just as Lydia arrives with a bulky new addition to her braces. Teased about her appearance, Lydia is made to feel like a monster by the other children. Earl, inspired by the genius of Baron von Frankenstein, decides to morph the school into a Bavarian village, complete with a deadly and ferocious monster. Raticus is sent out to retrieve body parts for Earl's creation, but he substitutes a big wad of bubble gum for the creature's brain. The monster turns out to be sweet, bumbling and misunderstood instead of fearsome and dangerous. Lydia and the monster, both feeling outcast because of their looks, have to prove to the others that you shouldn't judge a person based on their appearance.

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Ep 6

Comic Book Chaos

Nov 7, 1998

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.

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