The Thundermans are forced to relocate to another city after their secret is revealed. However, when a new threat rises in Hiddenville, Phoebe and Max risk everything in order to save Hiddenville.

Now I’ll be honest, I’m a little biased with regard to this episode – in that the next door neighbor is named after me.

With Banished being the Season 4 premiere of the Thundermans, you basically know your characters and you know your storylines.  This is a good thing.  The writing in this episode is tight and the storyline arcs make sense to the long-time viewer.  The Thundermans would have written itself into a corner if every story revolved around one of the characters secretly svaing the world.  But now their secret is out!

But then how to deal with this moving forward.  Hank and Barb are tired of using their powers to solve their neighbors’ problems.  Billy and Nora start up ThunderCon to see who is on Team Billy or Team Nora.  Phoebe and Max “compete” to see who will be the new member of the Z Force (Max has rigged this, of course) and end up destroying Splatburger.  Super President Kickbutt arrives on the scene and eventually banishes the family to Antarctica.  Should they return home to Hiddenville, they will lose their powers.  Their home is given to a new family, including the annoying Candy Falconman.

Life in Antarctica is your typical hilarity for frozen jokes.  Chloe is missing Hiddenville so Billy and Nora decide recreate the experience for her, complete with Max’s slide.  However, Dr. Colosso gets through a message to Max and Phoebe that Candy is brainwashing everyone in Hiddenville to be her friend.  We don’t really know her motivation for doing this, but we will go along for the ride.

Max and Phoebe have two options: stay in Antarctica and let the brainwashing continue or risk losing their powers by heading back to Hiddenville to save their friends.  They decide to hitch a ride on Chloe back to Hiddenville.

They arrive back at the Thunderman house where Candy is having a party.  Oyster, Cherry, Wolfgang and Allison are all there (no Gideon?), repeating the phrase “Candy Falconman is my best friend.”  Max and Phoebe get everyone riled up by asking them how everyone can be Candy’s best friend.  Candy escapes to the roof, where Max and Phoebe (with some good action sequences) finally take down Candy.

The rest of the family teleports back to Hiddenville when they realize what Max and Phoebe have done.  As one might guess, Super President Kickbutt is not happy with the Thundermans and, as promised, takes away their powers in a very public ceremony – in their driveway.  I might have used that Hiddenville Park instead.

The family is a bit dejected but Nora is surprised when her zapping powers still work.  SPK has played a trick on them – she just wanted to make it appear the Thundermans had lost their powers.  Apparently mercy is one of her many talents!  So the Thundermans can stay in Hiddenville but no one knows they still have their powers.  This was a pretty genius move.  If there were to be no season 4, the show could have ended with the family losing their powers.  But since season 4 is a go, it allows for a reboot, if you will, that brings us back to the beginning.  Ironically, Cherry was in the bathroom so she knows the secret.

This episode was well plotted and tightly written!