Stress and competition take their toll on each friend’s quest to take home the winning prize at the Pootatuck science fair.

There’s witty and then there’s super witty.  100 Things continues to be super witty.This would make a great companion piece to Ned’s Declassified.

It’s science fair time!  Fenwick is determined to win again – and triumph over Mindy Minus.  Crispo seems challenged to find a science fair project.  CJ’s challenge is that her older brother Ronbie has won almost every academic and science fair award in Pootatuck.  They are tough shoes to fill.  Even worse, the entire phalanx of Ronbie’s awards are in fully view of CJ’s bedroom.  All CJ has to show – her lonely stuffed animal.

Each of our fearless middle schoolers goes on his or her own journey to find success in the science fair.  Fenwick engages in a war of one upmanship with Mindy.  Watching the two of them blast each other’s robots with potatoes is a hoot – as is Fenwick’s responses to Mindy’s team of programmers.

Crispo’s science fair ideas are lame.  He hops on his feet – and believes that as long as he has goggles and clipboard, he’s ok.  His final project: himself.  Seeing him sitting in front of the trifold board as his own project was priceless.

CJ’s fresh out of ideas until Ronbie suggests that her list is actually her project.  It’s probably one of the best experiments you could do – testing the challenge of middle school.

The science fair is filled with projects galore – until Fenwick’s robot blasts potatoes all over the place, leaving only Crispo’s project standing.  He’s declared the winner.  No trophy or ribbon for CJ.

In one of the sweetest scenes in the series, Ronbie takes all of his trophies and renames them all as “Best Sister” or some title such as that.  The dynamic between Ronbie and CJ is true brother/sister and Ehrich and Moner make that dynamic happen.

I love the writing on 100 Things and Fellows has managed, once again, to bring together a troop of actors who take what some might suggest are bizarre stories and make them believable.  That’s not easy at all!  Bravo!

When Logan and Delia attend a New York Science Presentation they run into Trish and Dez and a crazy fortuneteller, at the city’s biggest Halloween party. Meanwhile, Garrett takes Betty’s nephew, Kevin, trick-or-treating.

Now that Monstober is here on the Disney Channel, its time for the time honored tradition of cast cross-pollination.  I’m not a big fan of them, mainly because they don’t drive story, they just promote other Disney Channel shows.

Here, we get Trish and Dez from Austin & Ally at the Central Park Spooktacular running into Logan and Delia, who are in NYC to present a paper at a prestigious science convention.  Logan’s dressed as Einstein (a nice play on his stupidity) and Delia’s dressed as Marie Antoinette (her Marie Curie costume was ruined).  I’d argue that these two characters have some of the wittiest lines on the show.  The two switch costumes after some low-rent psychic tells him “something bad will happen.”  Delia ends up winning the raffle (the winning ticket was in the Einstein costume) and Logan ends up as the Bride of Frankenstein.

In another story arc, Lindy and Jasmine are approached by a blood donor seeker named Vlad from ….sylvania about donating blood.  Lindy plays a trick on Jasmine that she has been turned into a vampire.  Zzzzzz.

Plus the isolation of Garrett continues into Betty and Kevin land.  Garrett takes Kevin trick or treating.  They aren’t too successful. But when they hit the jackpot at one woman’s house, they keep switching costumes (where do they get all these costumes) to keep getting tons of candy.   My favorite costume: Garrett’s “I’ve run out of ideas” boy.  In the end, Betty has them donate all the candy to the local “children’s hospital.”

One might call IDDI “I’ve run out of ideas.”  The whole I didn’t do it concept has disappeared and every episode is three stories in one.  The stories don’t particularly overlap.  But the writing on IDDI is super witty.  That’s just enough to keep me watching.

Max and Phoebe start a fight between Billy and Nora so they can avoid riding a scary roller coaster, but their scheme backfires when the feud escalates.

Some of the best Thundermans episodes are ones that involve the whole family.  Recently, Max and Phoebe have been isolated from Hank and Barb.  Its good to see the whole family back together.

Max and Phoebe are terrified of return to ride Thunderman: The Ride.  Naturally, Billy and Nora (who has now reach the minimum ride height) are excited to finally having the chance to ride it. In the car ride to the amusement park, Max and Phoebe start a fight between Billy and Nora (that’s pretty cruel in my book) and, of course,  the trip is off.  Hank utters one of the classic parenting lines – “If you kids don’t stop fighting, I’m going to turn this car around.”  And that he does.

When they return home, the fighting between Billy and Nora escalates to a point where they aren’t speaking.  Nora argues that she has to do everything for Billy, while Billy counters that he has to wait around for Nora to get bigger to do stuff.  We need this conflict to move the story along but Max and Phoebe don’t seem to be overly upset by the growing dispute.  They do put on a play to convince Billy and Nora to make up but that doesn’t work either. In the end, Max and Phoebe cave and bring Billy and Nora back to the amusement park, using Chloe’s teleportation technique.  Max and Phoebe fess up – and Billy and Nora trick Max and Phoebe onto the ride.  Lesson learned!

In the B story, Dr Colosso spends about $2000 of Hank’s $ to play some form of Candy Crush.  Colosso decides to raise money by selling Collos-O’s cereal (he must have a pretty savvy marketing plan because sales go through the roof).  Don’t the raisins!  Colosso’s sales are recognized by the Cereal Bureau of the IRS and Colosso’s business is shut down.  While Colosso’s commercials are hysterical, this is a pretty weak B story.

The Thundermans seems to be getting back on track.  The beats in the story work well, and the conflict is slowly amped enough to make it believable.  Max and Phoebe’s comeuppance at the end was visible from miles away but that’s to be expected.

Two extra points for an episode title that pays tribute to that classic Nick show “Are You Afraid of the Dark?