Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (truncated to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in the show's title sequence) is an American syndicated comic science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry. It debuted in syndication on September 1, 1997 and ran for three consecutive seasons, concluding with the 66th episode on May 20, 2000.Peter Scolari took over the role as Wayne Szalinski, the wacky inventor in the original film, played by Rick Moranis. Each episode incorporates new technologies and digital effects to feature the family in various new adventures.
Wayne, Diane, and Amy are accidentally shrunk to near-microscopic size. Soon after, Grandpa Murdock (Eugene Roche) drops by to pick up his grandson for a fishing trip. Nick feigns illness to avoid going with his grandfather, who then leaves, but not before inadvertently swallowing his mini-relatives—van and all. Nick interprets Wayne's help message in the newspaper and realizing what has happened, rushes to his family's aid.
Wayne becomes concerned about his family's safety and invents a security system for their protection. F.R.A.N. (Petrea Burchard), the Felon Repeller and Accident Neutralizer takes her duties very seriously and involves herself in every facet of the household. Diane is wary of the overprotective computer, not realizing that F.R.A.N. has developed a mind of her own. When Wayne decides to pull the plug, F.R.A.N. holds the Szalinskis under "house arrest." Wayne and his family try to stop F.R.A.N. before it's too late.
Wayne invents something that could make your vision perfect so Nick tries it out and can see practically anything, even dead people. He befriends a "friendly" ghost who gets into Wayne's body and Nick realizes that the ghost isn't all that good. So he along with Wayne attempt to get control of his body so they can get the ghost out.
Amy is in love with her teacher and when she finds out that her dad has made a time machine, the Szalinski Time Hopper, she decides to go back to the 70s to meet her teacher, when he was 17. She goes back but to 1976 and after numerous attempts decides not to return. Nick tells his dad, who goes back in time to rescue her before she suffers the ill effects of temporal displacement. While Wayne is in the past, he runs into teen-aged Diane and he figures out how to make up for both a forgotten wedding anniversary and a Time Hopper problem.
Wayne accidentally shrinks himself and his brother, Randy, who find themselves in little trouble when they are mistaken for McDonald'sHappy Meal Toys and brought home to a young boy who happens to be a fan of Randy's TV show, 'Randy Rude: The Science Dude' (a parody of Bill Nye the Science Guy).
When Wayne invents a neuron nudger, Diane accidentally turns it on and swaps her brain with that of Bianca's cat. Bianca, Wayne's scheming coworker, switches Wayne's brain with Quark's so she can use Wayne's body to access his vault at work. Nick and Amy then try to switch Wayne, Diane, and Bianca's brain back to their correct bodies.
While Wayne works on controlling the cloning of himself, one of his new selves takes his place at work, where Bianca becomes suspicious of his geniality. Wayne is down because his clone is doing better than the real him. She gives his clone a friendship bracelet that is a tracking device, she befriends the clone and then uses him to kidnap Wayne.
Wayne's invention succeeds in finding gold - a pot of doubloons claimed by a leprechaun, who puts a curse on the Szalinskis until they hand it over.
To return from a time trip to 1864 Colorado, the Szalinskis must help an alien recover his starship from a ruthless gang, who master the alien's weapons and defenses.
Wayne's chemical to increase intelligence has different effects on the family, including mind reading and levitation, while their dog, Quark, is able to hypnotize people.
Diane wants to get in touch with her teenage-self so that she can understand what Amy and her new client, Howard, are going through. Wayne has invented a machine where you can see yourself in the past. When the electricity goes out, Diane is stuck as a teenager. Now Wayne must fix the machine and the family has to deal with Diane and her rebellious self.
Wayne feels overwhelmed with the demands of work and his family so he invents something that will make him go from place to place in seconds. He sets the level on high and somehow travels at the speed of light. Jennings finds a copy of the invention and is traveling fast too and playing tricks on people. The two of them get stuck at hyperspeed and must use another Szalinski invention to slow their molecules.
Wayne accidentally blows up the mayor's car in front of the mayor which upsets Diane, who wants to run for the school board, so he goes back in time to redo things. He accidentally goes back to the time of "the barbarians". When Wayne comes back he accidentally brings the "Barbarians" with him but when he tries to send them back the machine is broken. The barbarians become involved in the school board race when they are convinced that Diane's rival is an evil Norse god.
Diane is very nervous about her case against a tough lawyer so Wayne invents a thinky ring to help her retrieve her thoughts better. Unfortunately, she becomes a brain sucking vampire. Wayne finds out and goes after her to lure her home. Nick manages to get the ring off but this turns him into a brain sucking vampire. Diane figures things out and plots to fight Nick and get the ring off before he takes over the world.
Wayne turns Amy's bicycle into a super speed mountain bike. Amy goes on a bike ride through the woods, crashes, twists her ankle and finds refuge in a cave. Amy meets Bigfoot and she names him George after Curious George. He saves her and takes Amy to her house. Now the family must get him back along with his wife, a Yeti.
Since Diane is allergic to chocolate Wayne tries to remove the allergic compound from the chocolate, but accidentally creates a chocolate that makes people fall in love. Damon, Amy's best friend, has a crush on Amy and Nick tries to get Amy to eat the chocolate. When she finds out how the chocolates work, she tries to get her crush "the make out king" to eat it. Diane, Wayne, Tiara, and a mutated Dr. Jennings also eat the chocolates, so Nick has to find the antidote that will make everyone (relatively) normal again.
Wayne reluctantly has to make a toy bear more high tech after sharing his feelings at Jentech West. He makes the bear smart and while downloading data onto the bear's computer chip, a virus named Legion is also downloaded onto the chip. Now the bear is bent on taking over the world and the family now must stop the bear before he can wreak havoc.
Wayne makes gadgets for spies in Canada. Now they are on a mission to stop a missile from blowing up the moon as the situation becomes increasingly complicated.Diane acts as a spy to know more informations and ends up with a don who takes her as a call girl and she bravely shares bed with him while her daughter is tortured by thugs.
The prospect of dissecting a frog is giving Nick nightmares so Wayne invents a dream machine that would go into Nick's dream. He kills the frog but is threatened never to come back into the dream world again. Amy, against her dad's wishes, goes in so she can annoy Nick, so now the family can't sleep or else they could die.
Wayne, wanting to please Nick, invents a Refuse Ingesting Protozoa or RIP that can eat anything. Jennings, who is being tracked by an environmentalist, puts toxic waste in Wayne's invention. RIP infected Quark, Quark infected the mail-man and so on. Now Wayne and family must stop these garbage-eating-zombies and get them to Jentech West where there is a high security system.
Wayne's Chameleonator makes people invisible. The Chameleonator was originally made to change the people's skin color, so they wouldn't need to use make-up anymore. A mole in the company is telling another company about the invention. Amy and Wayne must stop the mole and get his invention back from the company that took it.
Ar'nox the alien, who was in "Honey, They Call Me The Space Cowboy", returns. This time he comes for a visit only to have his space ship stolen again. Now the Szalinski must get the space ship back, stolen from the so called "Men in Black".
Wayne invents a way to make veggies bigger, only it turns the veggies into big bad mutants. Quark eats some of the stuff after the Szalinskis killed the Mutant Veggies. So now Quark is mutating and looks like Godzilla! Can the family get Quark back to normal before he destroys the town?
Wayne creates a skin lotion to make people become great swimmers like fish in the water. Amy takes some of it to a pool party that she is invited to. When Amy uses the lotion, she becomes the life of the pool party so the girl who the party is being held for tries it as well. However, things go terribly wrong (as usual) when the girls find the lotion has turned them into "mermaids". They'll end up completely turning into fish unless Wayne can create an antidote. However, things get even worse when the desperate and greedy owner of the pool kidnaps the girls to use them as a money-making attraction.
Wayne sees a meteorite heading for earth though his super scope. Whilst the people in town cause havoc and the people at Jentech are acting crazy, Wayne must figure out how to stop the asteroids. Things get a little more complicated when Jenning's brother has a launch system to blow up the meteorite while Wayne finds out there is life on the asteroid. Can he save the world?
Wayne goes back in time to prove to his family that the Bopkas and the song he likes really do exist. There he finds out that they are Russian spies with plans to take over the world by overthrowing parents. The family goes back in time to help him stop them. One question remains if they never sang the song, then where did he hear it?
Wayne brings a dead man's brain back to life, hoping to swap scientific ideas for inventions with him. However, the brain begins longing for the life he never had: a happy family. To this end, he (still having his "mind" stuck in the past) hypnotises Wayne's family; Diane is turned into a housewife, Amy becomes swedish, and Nick becomes a punk; Mr Jennings also becomes a goofy golfer. This done, he now plans to put his own brain in Wayne's head. Can Wayne undo the hypnotisum done to his family and get rid of this brain?
Diane's sister, Elaine, is in town and as Wayne doesn't like her he invents something so he can't understand her. As usual Wayne's creation goes wrong and Elaine's personality gets into Wayne's brain. Now the family must work together to get everything back to normal without the help of Wayne.
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Wayne creates the Szalinski Scan-O-Caster a machine that scans text, converts the narrative into tangible holograms, and projects the stories as 3-D images. Accidentally a book falls on the machine, turns it on and makes all the Urban legends come to life. Meanwhile there's a new kid at Nick's school, David Foaf...
Nick is upset because he is having trouble playing baseball so he asks his dad to make some inventions to help him play baseball better. Elsewhere, Diane is worried her recital and Amy uses a cream that camouflage pimples but she uses too much and it hides her nose.
He's invented a machine that will make old people feel and act younger. However, it takes Diane and Wayne's youth, giving it to an older couple; the effects take a long time to kick in. As the other couple grows young and immature, Wayne and Diane grow old and scared for their lives. Can Nick and Amy find the old couple and bring them back before Wayne dies of old age and can't reverse the process?
Wayne and his family are going camping with the chief and his kids. Wayne makes a home away from home that he carries on his back. At night time during a storm it takes them back to the prehistoric age and now they must figure out a way to get back to the future.
After wrestlers Bret and Owen Hart are injured at the Szalinskis', Wayne and the Chief agree to take their places in a match, aided by Wayne's remote-controlled bodysuit.
Nick invents a machine of his own in an attempt to resurrect his dead pet bunny, Copernicus. Things go wrong when his invention summons a monstrous creature from another dimension that possesses the body of his deceased friend.
Nick is running from a bunch of bullies when he takes a hard fall and a circus takes him home. The head guy steals everything in Wayne's lab so now the family must rescue Nick and they must do this by joining the circus themselves.
To save his bankrupt company, Jennings sends Wayne to find a magical stone that can turn metal into gold. But Jennings' greed alters the stone's power.
Wayne works on a superhero suit to combat a crime wave by off-road bikers. Will this invention work, or will it backfire like usual?
Amy and Nick are kidnapped by a cyborg from the future, a result of Jennings' misuse of Wayne's environment-friendly car.
Amy's use of a mental enhancer inadvertently gives her the power to control nature, which goes to her head as she establishes herself as a supreme ruler. Here we go again!
Diane is suffering a mid-life crisis in which she tries to look younger and after a trip to the museum with her husband and son, she finds out about a spell that could make her younger. Diane translate the tablets against Wayne's wishes and unknowingly wakes up as an evil princess. Now it is up to the Szalinski team to fight the evil princess and get Diane back. Meanwhile, the chief tries to beat Wayne in a spring decoration contest.
Jennings romantically pursues Diane after using Wayne's "Electric Chair of Love"; Amy and Nick contract chicken pox, forcing Diane to move into a hotel. Only one things for sure: this ain't going to end well for Jennings.
Amy's science teacher quits unexpectedly so her dad volunteers to teach. He makes a formula to make him charming so that the students will like him. Amy catches him and tries to alter the formula, however something goes wrong and the formula makes Wayne act like a bad person. Now it is up to the rest of the family to find a way to get Wayne back. Meanwhile, Diane and Nick try to give Quark a bath.
A new boss has taken over Jentech west and there is a new guy. Wayne's uncle finds out some info about this guy after Wayne told him to leave him alone and not interfere. This turns out to be important info because the guy who became Wayne's new supervisor steals inventions and patents them as his own.
Wayne is knocked senseless by a tree while trudging home in a blizzard and awakens to find himself on trial in Dreamland because of his erratic inventions.
While Wayne and Diane are out celebrating the anniversary of their first date, Amy's party is crashed by a group of aliens contacted by Nick using one of Wayne's communication gizmos. One of the aliens, through his bizzare home world customs, marries Amy after using a device to make the family some-what subserviant to her. Finding out their true origins, Amy demands her family be turned back to normal and their "marriage" be ended. Both are undone and he aliens part ways on good terms.
Wayne invents an invention called the 3iDer which turns people into different people. The invention and Wayne got nominated for the inventors recognition achievement award. An evil clown tries to steal the invention and frame Wayne so it is up to Team Szalinski to stop this clown and clear Wayne's name.
Wayne's comment at a seminar offends some witches. The witches cast spells on the family. Now they must stop the witches and get Nick back.
Wayne and the kids settles down to watch television during a big storm in town and he has invented a remote control that will bring any tv shows you could ever watch from the past to now. Somehow they get sucked into the tv so when Diane and the Chief come home and finds them in the tv they need to try to get Wayne and the kids out.
Wayne is busy trying to perfect his Hypolyptical Organic Oxide Ray (a.k.a. the Hoo-Ray), a device based on mood-ring technology that will cause people to be happy, thus ending war and boosting global self-esteem. Wayne's new foreign assistant, Vlad Bolvahnicz, cautions that changing nature isn't necessarily a good thing.While working late on the project, Vlad is visited by members of the Global League of Oppressed Madmen (GLOOM). Vlad is actually an anarchist too, and his job at Jentech is part of GLOOM's eco-terrorist plot to teach the industrialized, polluting Western hemisphere a lesson by destroying a key polluter city.
Ninjas invade Matheson, and Team Szalinski is in for much kung fu fighting to save the town. A monk, Master P'tui, appears to help Wayne and teach him martial arts. Meanwhile, Nick, tired of being bullied into doing other people's homework, invents a spray that can turn anyone into a kung fu expert. Also, Lord Bilious wants Diane to defend him after he tried to bribe town officials and landowners to sell him the town.
Crazy greedy Jennings bets his company even though he can't play golf very well. He asks Wayne to build golf clubs to help them win but Jennings gets hurt so Wayne has to play. Meanwhile Diane and the kids are feeling crowded with Wayne's invention so they decide to sell the stuff they don't use but after a while people don't like them so now they have to get them all back.
Randy Rude the Science Dude comes into town to visit. and he wants to get married so Wayne tries to fix him up with the love chair and love booster. Something happens when Randy tries to leave with the van and presses the booster button that blasts them into space. Or are they really in space?
Amy can finally drive so her and the family look for a car and they buy a junk one. Wayne re-designs it completely into the weirdest car you've ever seen. Also included is a safe-t-guy that gives you tips about practically everything. When she takes the car for a trip she tries to stop the safe-t-guy from talking, resulting in making him drive them off the cliff. The family gets a call from Amy and they go after her to stop safe-t-guy and the car from going off the cliff. Will they make it in time?
Amy begs Wayne to direct a play to save a community theatre. He reluctantly agrees and finds people coming to his doorstep to try out. Meanwhile three aliens came to the house to fix their spaceship. The aliens came here since they know Amy and the family. Some bad guys are after the aliens so the family is on the look out whilst also being in the play.
Wayne's brother Randy Rude the Science Dude comes to town with his show. He invites Wayne to help him get the ratings up. Wayne agrees to help but unknown to him, he started taking over. When he realizes this, he plans a way to pay back for all the times that he has taken over.
Wayne invents a pair of glasses to watch the solar eclipse with his family. Somehow he can see the future with the glasses. The rest of the family members are having trouble getting to the eclipse. Amy loses her note, the bus breaks down for Nick, and Diane is in a dog case. Wayne sees the future where his family is nearly killed. Can he save them in time?
Amy wants to get into college, and Wayne wants to help impress the recruiter who's coming to dinner at the Szalinski house. Worried about being embarrassed by her family, Amy convinces Diane to talk to Wayne about acting normal during dinner. Diane talks to Wayne while he's working on the Psycho-Cybernetics Generator, a machine that makes one's thoughts happen in real life. Diane blurts out that she wishes they were a normal family just as she's zapped by the generator. The next day Diane becomes frozen in time and, lost inside her thought of a normal family, learns that normal can be boring. Worried that Diane might not know she's trapped in a dream, Wayne wires them both to the generator, which projects his thoughts into Diane's head. If Wayne can join Diane in her thought, he can help her get back to her very non-normal life.
Things go wrong when Wayne tries to fix the fridge as his hinge ruins the kitchen so now they have to clean the kitchen. Mishappenings just keep happening and as usual Jennings makes things worse. Can they get everything back in order before the family comes back? Amy, Diane, and Nick are at the zoo trying to save it. Amy, who usually messes everything up, lets a journalist in, against the zoo's wishes, because he was "cute" so now they must get the guy out.
Amy writes a good story about her dad and his inventions. Two mobsters, one that looks like Wayne, finds Wayne and decides to switch, so they can get in the clear. They kidnapp Wayne and the bad guy goes into the house. After a while Wayne gets taped and tied at a hotel and Amy figures out what's going on. Will the bad guys get caught and will Wayne get home safely?
Wayne makes police equipment for the Chief. Jake is running to be chief for another two years is reluctant, and won't listen the rest of the family. The family are at a community service, serving meals where the people protest and the cook quits. Also, a jewel thief ties the family up. Wayne goes after Jack to warn him and save his family.
Diane is running to become partner in her law firm and she must host a dinner for a man and his wife. The time hopper is broken and Wayne is trying to repair it but it sends them through time and space during the dinner. Now the family and the couple must work together to get everything back to normal. Will Diane get her new job? Will Wayne get the time hopper fixed?
Diane somehow comes into possessing a haunted trunk dating back to the 1800s. Strange things begin to happen, a cable bites Wayne, Nick turns into a plant, and Amy gets possessed. Now the family has to figure out how to get Nick back to normal and get rid of the spooky things that are happening. With the help of an expert, will they succeed?
When a Canadian secret service recruits Wayne to capture a fiendish villain that Wayne once went to school with, plans to capture him go haywire, and Amy is dating his son. Amy finds out that her supposed boyfriend is using her to steal one of Wayne's inventions, she tries to stop him, but will Amy succeed? And, will Wayne and the Chief stop the bad guys?
Nick wants to appear on a show called Smart Mouth because he believes he knows everything. Everyone tells him that he is too young so Nick makes a number 2. But his parents eventually create an antidote so now they must convince Nick to go back to normal or he will be a grown up forever.
The shrink ray is not working and it shrinks Amy, Jack, Wayne and Jake so now they must try to get back to their normal size again. Also, Diane has a big surprise for everyone at the end of the show.
Wayne writes a story in his lab about a detective who must solve a case that becomes extremely confusing. Some of the people look very familiar in his story. Note: This was the last episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. Both St. Claire Entertainment and the Walt Disney Company announced that the series would end after this episode.