By the time we get to the end of this week, there will have been eleven new Thundermans episodes in a three week span.  I’m glad they are back with new episodes, but we’ll probably we waiting for fall for Season #3.

A story: Max tries to capture Phoebe in an epic fail video.

B story: Hank, Nora and Billy contract poison ivy.

The best Thundermans episodes are ones where Max and Phoebe are seeking to gain hand over the other.  In this case, Max is trying to fake some epic fail videos he hopes will go viral.  He’s pretty shocked when people online criticize him for faking his vids.  But he’s in for a treat when Billy sends a skateboard into Phoebe, who’s filming a commercial for Hiddenville High’s performance of Swan Lake.  (And props to the writers for using Kira Kosarin’s talents as a ballet dancer.  She is very good in her performance).

Naturally the video goes viral (called Epic Failerina) and Madame Gigi replaces Phoebe as the lead swan.  Phoebe’s pretty ticked off and its not beneath her to do some plotting of her own to get her role back.  She deletes the video from the Internet (with Colosso’s help) and fakes a letter to Madame Gigi from Max, saying the video was staged.

Max shows up at the performance, seeking to create another epic fail video. He’s got Gideon in the audience (played with delight by Kenny Ridwan) trying to capture the epic fail on film.  Max’s attempts to disrupt fail miserably.  Max resorts to locking Phoebe in the janitors closet and taking over the role of the Black Swan.  Phoebe of course escapes and turns the table on Max, turning his already woeful performance into its own epic fail video.

Meanwhile, Nora and Billy disobey Barb’s warning to not go into the yard with poison ivy; Hank does a sad job of watching them and you guessed it, all three of them end up with poison ivy.  Their solution is to get some Brazilian leaves (why not just use aloe) to stop the itching.  However, they discover at the ballet performance that these leaves come with leeches as well.  The B story here isn’t one of the best – it only takes up about 3 scenes and, for some reason, Barb never notices them itching (she always seems to be out doing errands).

Overall, a good dose of sitcom insanity make for an above average episode.