Air Date: October 4, 2014

A story: Phoebe has a new crush, Oyster.

B story: Billy blabs that his dad, the “superhero,” will appear at his school’s career day.

If you’ve seen the iCarly episode “iDate a Bad Boy,” then you have the general idea of this episode.  In that episode, Carly was crushing on neighbor Griffin, who’s secret was his collection of Beanie Babies.  Here, Phoebe is crushing on Max’s bandmate, Oyster, while Max’s other bandmate, Gideon, crushes on Barb (that’s just weird).  This is also a flip of the episode “Dinner Party,” where Max crushed on bad girl Tara (Cole Campbell’s sister).  The crush storyline is getting a little bit repetitive.

The episode continues the theme as Phoebe continues her “transformation” into a normal teenager.  She barely uses here superpowers here – once in a duel with Max over a bag of potato chips and later, to have Peggy the guitar “choose Max.”  In the end, though, as hard as she wants to be a bad girl, Phoebe comes clean and tells Oyster that they aren’t a good match.

The B story – where Billy tells his classmate his dad is a superhero to impress her – is somewhat standard issue.  There are some kooky parents at Career Day – alligator wrestler and rodeo clown to name a few; and Hank finally appears as a plumber (to flush out crime).  In the end, Billy’s proud of his dad – “You’re my hero just for showing up” – while Hank’s plumbing douses bad girl Morgan.

A few little quibbles:

• Why not have Evan and Tyler in the band – the show is accumulating too many second-stringers as Max/Phoebe friends and classmates.
• The band formation timeline is a little bit off.
• Billy and Nora’s clothes do not change for the entire episode – even tho the day changes.

And a few little nuggets:

• Mrs. Wong makes a couple of appearances (I love Mrs. Wong!)
• The potential names of Max’s band are amusing – Maxford and Sons, Bruno Max and Max-Eyed Peas.
• Oyster has two nifty catchphrases: Sweeches and Awesedelic.

I have no doubt we will see Oyster again.  But lets end the Phoebe crush storylines!