The first episode I watched was about kevin neglecting to do his science project so his teacher (played by ben stein) gives him the weekend to do it. Kevin and paul experiment on a hamster to see how certain foods affect it's ability to finish a maze. Norma and jack decide to go on a date and karen just leaves to hang with her friends, leaving the 2 arnold boys and paul home alone. Obviously kevin and wayne get into a fight and he ends up sucking up kevin's hamster with the vacuum cleaner in process killing it. Kevin has had enough so he unloads on wayne a bombshell of "no one likes you because your mean". They don't talk after that until they run into each other in the park and wayne apologizes and they make up.
The 2nd episode I saw felt really dragged out and forced. It is about the sport of basketball in gym class. Paul is picked last for the teams and kevin feels bad for him. He goes to his teacher coach cutlip and tells him how it is not fair someone has to be last. The next day kevin is made a team captain and he picks paul then screech(from saved by the bell) then he goes all out and composes a team of castoffs. Of course they do terrible and paul misses a shot horribly which hits coach cutlip on the head causing him to swallow his whistle. Everyone forgets about the game and laughs at him. Now all the boys are united and play the game with more vigor.
The 3rd episode I saw was about protesting the vietnam war. Many of the students in the student council are organizing a walkout to protest the fact that american troops are in vietnam. The students pick arnold as their leader and when he walks out the others will follow him. The vice principal lets everyone know that any student walking out will be suspended and it will go on their permanent record. One of kevin's teacher's lets him know that the decision is all up to kevin. On the day of the scheduled walkout, kevin gets up but only to go to the restroom, the other students follow and walk out. Kevin comes out and sees that the whole school is taking part so he joins in.
The 4th episode I saw was about kevin making jokes about his friends behind their backs. He assumes no one will spread his jokes until his ex, becky slater tells everyone what he said about them. She is about to tell winnie what kevin said but has a change of heart because she doesn't want to hurt her. Just when things look good for kevin, becky slater does tell winnie and winnie gets mad at kevin for it.
As I'm watching these episodes, kevin already has been through a lot in his life especially for a 12 year old. Some of these episodes feel forced and should have been a 2 part episode like the one where kevin goes steady with becky and where he dumps her. While others should have been the subplot in a episode such as the basketball one
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