A story: Cherry asks Max to use his powers to help her pass her drivers’ test; Phoebe’s jealousy causes a problem between her and her best friend.

B story: Meanwhile, with Hank and Barb being more tired than ever due to Chloe’s transportation, Nora and Billy trick them into thinking it is Saturday to skip school.

Sometimes Thundermans episodes work, sometimes they don’t.  This one – so-so.

Its another variation on the Max-Phoebe epic battle with a side of jealousy thrown in.  This has been a running theme in the show – Max is jealous of Phoebe or vice versa.  At the end of such an episode, we get some agreement between the two and then we relive the jealousy one more time in a following episode.

Here, Cherry ends up exploiting Phoebe’s powers: she’s having Phoebe turn back time but wants her help passing PE so that Cherry can get her driver’s license (the girl can’t shoot an arrow, I’m not sure I’d want her behind the wheel).  Max manipulates the situation – he and Cherry become besties – so that Cherry can drive his band (what, no catchy Max-inspired band name?) to their gig on Friday night.

Cherry successfully gets a C in PE after her arrow at least hits part of the bulls-eye.  An A would be better so Max and Phoebe use their powers to try to hit the bulls-eye … but the arrow ends up in Principal Bradford’s foot.  (I was waiting for a Thunderscream at the end of Act 1) Of course, all three end up in detention on Friday afternoon – but they manage to escape with the help of an errant tarantula.  Cherry fails her driving test and Max’s band pushes their gear in a shopping cart (couldn’t they have asked Hank or Barb to drive them … but props to Gideon, he’s awesome!)

Chloe – with her teleportation power – is wearing out Hank and Barb.  H&B get confused on the day – they think its Saturday.  So Billy and Nora take advantage of the situation by skipping school for the real Thursday and the real Friday.  I’m guessing the Hiddenville Elementary School didn’t do an attendance check!  This wasn’t the strongest subplot ever but it is usually fun when Billy and Nora conspire together to get some sort of advantage.

This episode was ok.  Not a winner … but not a loser either.