The Parent Zap is the fourth episode in Season 1 of The Thundermans: Undercover. It premiered on February 5, 2025.
Plot[]
Summary[]
After Phoebe and Max let Chloe's friends watch a horror movie and eat candy, Jinx and Booch's parents want to meet Chloe's; with Hank and Barb away, Max and Phoebe transform into them to help Chloe; it goes well until the real Hank and Barb show up.
Full Plot[]
Phoebe gives Chloe a smoothie from the smoothie machine while Max comes in from the slide after Phoebe and Chloe put the slide on insanity mode. Thunderford sends a message to Phoebe, Max and Chloe that the Hero League sent new gadgets to help on their mission, including a disguise-alizer that can change appearance to anybody. Phoebe and Max let Chloe have a movie night at their home with her friends. At the movie night, Max gives Chloe, Booch and Jinx candy to eat from a vase. Phoebe and Max leave Chloe with her friends but the movie scares Jinx and Booch is addicted to candy.
At Secret Shores School, Principal Taylor receives complains from Booch's dad and Jinx's mom, Randy and Adele, that their child watched a horror movie and ate candy because of Phoebe and Max. Randy and Adele wanted to see Chloe's parents to decide whether their child could hang out with Chloe. Phoebe and Max call Barb and Hank to see whether they could come help but they were at the Hero League space base on the moon with Nora and Billy for three days.
Chloe teleports to the command center and tells Phoebe and Max that Randy and Adele are coming over. Phoebe uses the disguise-alizer on herself and Max to turn into Barb and Hank. Phoebe and Max, as Hank and Barb, meet Randy and Adele and accidentally use their parents' superpowers while talking with them. The real Hank and Barb show up and Chloe teleports with them to the command center to explain what was happening. She also tells Phoebe and Max that their parents are also here as well. Phoebe and Max, as Barb and Hank, tell Randy and Adele that they have plans after, but they question that they are leaving Chloe by herself. The real Barb and Hank use the disguise-alizer to turn into Phoebe and Max to help.
Randy and Adele go to the kitchen to get more tea and found their child spying on them. Randy gets everyone to hold hands in the living room which causes Hank and Barb use Phoebe and Max's EMP Generation and cause a small explosion. Randy and Adele leave with Booch and Jinx and avoid Chloe hanging out with them. Chloe uses the disguise-alizer to turn them all back to normal and gets an idea for one of them to turn into Principal Taylor to convince Randy and Adele that the Thundermans are a trustworthy family. Dr. Colosso turns into Principal Taylor and manages to convince Randy and Adele so that their child could continue hanging out with Chloe again. When Randy and Adele leave, Hank and Barb take the disguise-alizer with them and Hank flies them out of the house after forgetting they left Nora and Billy.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Kira Kosarin as Phoebe Thunderman/Barb Thunderman (disguise)
- Jack Griffo as Max Thunderman/Hank Thunderman (disguise)
- Maya Le Clark as Chloe Thunderman
- Kinley Cunningham as Booch Dreamweaver
- Nathan Broxton as Jinx
- Dana Snyder as Dr. Colosso (voice)
Recurring Cast[]
- Chris Tallman as Hank Thunderman/Max Thunderman (disguise)
- Rosa Blasi as Barb Thunderman/Phoebe Thunderman (disguise)
- Daran Norris as Thunderford
- Jennifer Spence as Principal Taylor/Dr. Colosso (disguised as Taylor)
Guest Cast[]
- Katrina Reynolds as Adele
- Toby Berner as Randy Dreamweaver
Continuity[]
- Phoebe and Max continue their cover jobs as the art teacher and vice principal from Bummer School.
- Dr. Colosso still has a crush on Barb.
- Phoebe and Max's twin power, EMP Generation, is used again by Hank and Barb as Phoebe and Max.
- This is the first time where Hank's second power, Super Strength, appears in The Thundermans: Undercover, as it was used by Max as Hank.
- Booch's full name is revealed by her dad.
Trivia[]
- This episode was the second episode filmed of the series.
- Hank and Barb return in this episode.
- Barb, Hank, Billy and Nora were at the Hero League lunar space base on the moon for three days on a mission.
- The movie Chloe, Booch and Jinx were watching, "One Night at Busters", is a wordplay of Five Nights at Freddy's.
- When Barb and Hank use Phoebe and Max's EMP Generation in front of Jinx and Booch's parents, their superpowers could be exposed.
- Jinx’s mother named Adele is a reference to the British singer with the same name.
- Since the previous episode, this marks the second time where Chloe gets mad/angry at the Thunder Twins.
- This is also the second time Chloe gets angry. First, she was mad at the Thunder Twins at the previous episode, and she was angry at Hank and Barb for spying at her in The Thundermans Return.
- This marks the first time where Chloe gets frozen by Phoebe and Max’s Freeze/Heat Breath (Barb and Hark in disguise).
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