O'Grady

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The O'Grady characters in a scene from the episode "Sugar Hill".

O'Grady is an animated television show created by Tom Snyder and Carl Adams that currently airs on The N in the US, Family Channel in Canada, on MTV in Latin America, and on Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom. It stars Melissa Bardin Galsky and H. Jon Benjamin, among other Soup2nuts Productions alumni, as high school students Abby and Kevin, and chronicles their lives along with those of other residents of O'Grady, a fictional town which is periodically plagued by "The Weirdness." The Weirdness affects its residents in strange ways such as projecting their private thoughts in bubbles over their heads, or producing copies of them every time they get angry.

O'Grady episodes became available for downloading on the iTunes Music Store in April, 2006, with all five episodes of the second season available for free. They are now back to regular price.

Characters

Major characters

• Abby Wilde (Melissa Bardin Galsky)
• Kevin Harnisch (H. Jon Benjamin)
• Beth Briggs (Holly Schlesinger)
• Harold Jenkins (Patrice O'Neal)

Supporting Characters

• Iris (H. Jon Benjamin)
• Pete Klesko (Larry Murphy)
• Phillip Demorio (H. Jon Benjamin)
• Mr. Lipschitz (Larry Murphy)
• Dr. Myers (Bill Braudis)

Episode Guide

Season 1: 2004-2005

1. Sweats (July 30 2004) - As the Weirdness causes people who sweat to have their insecurities physically magnified, Kevin, Beth and Abby make a documentary about O'Grady and Harold worries about an upcoming wrestling match.
2. Clones (August 6 2004) - The Weirdness creates a clone every time a person loses their temper. Harold is jealous and lonely when he finds that he cannot create a clone for himself, while Abby and Kevin are horrified to discover that their clones are romantically interested in each other.
3. Party Gong (August 13 2004) - The Weirdness causes short term memory loss, which Kevin exploits to convince Beth that she is having a party while her family is out of town. Meanwhile, Harold tries to track down the source of a mysterious phone number he finds himself in possession of.
4. O'Grady Idol (AKA Cat People) (August 20 2004) - The Weirdness causes everyone to act like cats. Meanwhile, Kevin and Abby compete against each other in the O'Grady Idol singing contest, and Beth struggles to judge them impartially.
5. Magnets (September 3 2004) - The Weirdness causes people to act as magnets, attracting and repelling objects from themselves. Meanwhile, Beth asks Abby for help facing the future of coffee shops, and Kevin almost gets Harold fired from his job at Eatsa Pizza.
6. Signs (AKA Sign Language) (September 10 2004) - The Weirdness makes public service signs come to life as Abby learns never to agree to dance with Phillip, Kevin spies on Abby, and Beth and Harold take Driver's Ed.
7. Bubbleheads (December 31 2004) - The Weirdness causes people's inner thoughts to appear in bubbles over their heads, preventing them from lying. Abby is excited to go to a concert with her crush Pete Klesko, while Kevin and Harold's friendship is strained by the truth.
8. Robo-Babies (April 1 2005) - The Weirdness causes everyone who yawns to instantly teleport. The class is assigned robo-babies to care for, which exhausts Abby, while Beth avoids her 'husband' Harold and Kevin tries to spin the assignment into a scheme for cash.
9. Cop 'Stache (April 8 2005) - The Weirness makes it impossible to insult someone else, much to the chagrine of Abby's friends after she changes her look to impress Pete Klesko. Kevin becomes a mall cop, and Harold falls in with the popular crowd.
10. Sugar Hill (April 15 2005) - O'Grady High goes without sugar. Beth and Abby find that the lack of sweets strains their friendship, while Kevin gets rich from black-market sugar sales. The Weirdness creates soundtrack music to the characters' lives.
11. Old Cold (April 22 2005) - The Weirdness causes people to age 30 years when they sneeze. Kevin convinces Harold, Beth and Abby to skip to avoid their elderly classmates, but they run into a few kinks.
12. No Pain, No Gain (May 6 2005) - The Weirdness makes everyone invincible to pain, which Harold uses to his advantage by joining the football team. The New Yous, a popular makeover show, comes to O'Grady, and Kevin tries out for the annual crazy stunt competition.
13. Remotes (May 13 2005) - The Weirdness causes remotes to work on people. Abby joins the cheerleading squad to get Pete's attention, and Harold and Kevin decide to open a club in Kevin's garage.

Season 2: 2006

1. Jerked (March 3 2006) - The weirdness makes everyone float when they're happy and turn their feet into lead if they're mad or sad (which makes them sink). This episode guest starred Conan O'Brien and Amy Poehler.
2. Vacation (March 10 2006) - The weirdness makes people periodically have to urinate. Whilst Beth helps build homes for the destitute, Kevin sees an oppurtinity. Iris becomes obsessive in a single white female way about Abby and Harold becomes obsessed with an aged arcade game.
3. Big Jerk on Campus (March 17 2006) - The weirdness causes people to become invisible when they hold their breath. One of Kevin's older brothers, Randy visits from college. Abby takes a liking to an emo boy who likes to hang out in strange places. He writes many songs about her and she becomes uncomfortable around him. This episode guest starred David Cross.
4. The Fly (April 10 2006)- The weirdness causes animals to be able to speak, so Harold uses a fly to learn and spread the gossip of the high school.
5. A Stronger O'Grady (April 17 2006) - The weirdness gives all women super strength, leading to Beth becoming a contender in the school elections, meanwhile Iris uses her strength to enforce a techno run on the radio station and Kevin's band to become a techno band. Abby becomes infatuated with a 'dead poet's society' wannabe civics teacher who turns out to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist, leading Beth to read out his manifesto at the election debates.
6. Cut the Cord (April 24 2006)- The weirdness forces certain people to stay together; when they attempt to leave, a glowing cord comes out and ties them together. Abby and Harold sign up for a big brother/big sister program. Abby's sister Ruby shows no interest in being a little sister, and begins to act strangely. Abby later discovers that Ruby is actually the younger sister of famous star "Gwen". Harold's sister turns out to be a hot Catholic schoolgirl his age. Beth discovers Mr. Lipshitz used to be a famous singer but when she confronts him, he denies it. Also, Kevin wins the chance to be his favorite Radio Host's partner. The Radio Station has a 'Dare 2 Swear' policy, which Kevin thinks is about swearing on the air, but is in fact a pledge of abstinence. This episode guest starred Will Arnett.

Trivia

• If you look carefully, you can spot a penguin in a lot of episodes. One sticks off the front of the car during the opening, one was at the top of the food pyramid in Sugar Hill, one was on Kevin's suit in Sugar Hill, and one was in the opening of "A Stronger O'Grady".

• Kelly Osbourne sings the theme song.

External links

• [The N's O'Grady website]
• [Soup2Nuts O'Grady website]

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