List of Kirby Buckets episodes
Kirby Buckets is an American television series that premiered on Disney XD on October 20, 2014.
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | 21 | October 20, 2014 | August 19, 2015 | ||
2 | TBA | October 7, 2015 | TBA |
Episode list
Season 1 (2014–15)
- Tiffany Espensen is absent for five episodes.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [1] | Prod. code [2] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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1 | 1 | "Cars, Buses and Lawnmowers" | Walt Becker | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | October 20, 2014 | 101 | 0.69[3] |
Kirby learns about a character design contest, with the prize being a chance to meet Mac McCallister in addition to winners being able to show their animated character on TV. He planned to go with Fish and Eli, but when they are stuck at school shortly before the contest, they have a plan that puts them in "Clown Town," an abandoned area of the city where creepy clowns live. Meanwhile, Dawn is angry at Kirby for using an embarrassing drawing of her titled "Dawnzilla" as his submission for the contest, so she and Belinda attempt to stop him. Dawn later wants it because she wants to be popular, only to get made fun of at school. | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Flice of the Living Dead" | Savage Steve Holland | Shawn Simmons | October 27, 2014 | 105 | 0.46[3] |
Kirby and their friends are old enough to attend the Forest Hills Ninth Annual Fright Night Film Festival. However, when their biology teacher accidentally breaks open a container of Forest Hills Super Flice, the principal keeps the class within the school and they aren't able to attend. Meanwhile, Dawn and Belinda are invited to a Halloween party hosted by Evan, one of the coolest kids in school; however, the party was for Evan's little bro. Kirby chooses not to go to Fright Fest in the end. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "The Legend of Prank Williams, Jr." | David Kendall | Joe Stillman | November 3, 2014 | TBA | 0.53[4] |
Kirby learns about Prank Williams, Jr., the greatest prankster of all time. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "The Year of Fridays" | Walt Becker | Kristofor Brown | November 10, 2014 | TBA | 0.47[5] |
Kirby is grounded and is forced by his dad to camp out in the back yard with him. Meanwhile, Kirby, Fish, and Eli can't have their 52nd Friday night hangout due to Kirby's grounding, so they sneak into Kirby's house to play while Kirby has to camp out with their dad. | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Kirby Almighty" | Savage Steve Holland | Joe Stillman | November 17, 2014 | TBA | 0.46[6] |
Kirby starts using a magical pen that can draw things that become alive. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "Killer Puppies" | Walt Becker | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | November 24, 2014 | 102 | 0.45[7] |
Kirby pretends to be sick to avoid getting graded on a bad cooking project and is sent to the nurse. The school takes the sickness seriously and gives him sympathy, gifts, and a fundraiser to cure his "disease." He is worried that they will find out that he lied. | |||||||
7 | 7 | "Art Attack" | Steven Tsuchida | Nicole Shabtai | December 1, 2014 | TBA | 0.53[8] |
Kirby joins a secret artist group after he gets rejected at the art fair. Meanwhile, Dawn finds out about Eli's toddler model career. Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
8 | 8 | "Kirby's Choice" | Steven Tsuchida | Ed Bedrosian | February 2, 2015 | 107 | N/A |
Kirby must decide on which friend gets to go to the Z3 video game convention with him. Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
9 | 9 | "Mac's Back" | Eyal Gordin | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | February 9, 2015 | 111 | 0.42[9] |
Kirby's favorite show is canceled and he encourages the creator to bring it back on. | |||||||
10 | 10 | "Kick the Buckets" | David Kendall | Joe Stillman | February 23, 2015 | 109 | 0.49[10] |
Kirby is wrongly accused of defacing school property by Principal Mitchell and teams up with Dawn to find the person who really did it to prove his innocence and keep Kirby from being expelled. However, when Kirby and Dawn come up empty-handed, not only does Kirby lose his cartoonist job to Jean Luc, Dawn loses her gold star as school sheriff. It is revealed that Dawn's date, Carver, had defaced the property and framed Kirby to get revenge on him. Meanwhile, Fish is impressed with Eli's new arm wrestling skill and puts him in multiple matches to prove he is strong. Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
11 | 11 | "It's a Brad, Brad, Brad, Brad World" | Eyal Gordin | Shawn Simmons | March 16, 2015 | 110 | 0.37[11] |
Kirby is ridiculed at school after causing a toilet to explode. To avoid being teased on the way home, Kirby and his friends venture into The Bradlands, a part of town that only Brads live. | |||||||
12 | 12 | "Gimme Some Room" | Alex Winter | Nicole Shabtai | March 23, 2015 | 112 | 0.40[12] |
Kirby and Dawn have different ideas on the best way to use a spare room. Kirby makes Pearly Todd look like a fool in front of the whole school and later agrees to set Todd up on a date with Dawn. Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
13 | 13 | "Day of the Cat" | Jay Karas | Steve Leff | April 6, 2015 | 114 | 0.43[13] |
Principal Mitchell enlists Kirby's help to draw a portrait of his celebrity cat, Laughy Cat. Meanwhile, Dawn gets a card on her locker from a secret admirer. | |||||||
14 | 14 | "The Rise and Fall of 4th Period" | Jay Karas | Shawn Simmons | June 17, 2015 | TBA | 0.16[14] |
Kirby becomes the leader of his class; Dawn and Belinda go on a hygiene strike. | |||||||
15 | 15 | "The Hurt Box" | Jay Karas | Shawn Simmons | June 24, 2015 | 116 | 0.16[15] |
When Kirby's underground comic book that mocks Forest Hills' teachers is accidentally put in the school's suggestion box, Kirby, Fish, and Eli devise a plan to steal it back before it's too late. | |||||||
16 | 16 | "Get a Grip" | Eyal Gordin | Kevin Garnett | July 1, 2015 | 117 | 0.24[16] |
Kirby, Eli, and Fish are working on their project for the science fair: creating the Ultimate High Five! Kirby breaks his hand and starts acting out like his characters. | |||||||
17 | 17 | "All Hands on Dexter" | Alex Winter | Ed Bedrosian | July 8, 2015 | 113 | 0.26[17] |
Kirby and Fish enter a contest to see who can keep his or her hands on a video game the longest. Meanwhile, Mr. Buckets wants to cash in his "Chore Day" coupon from five years ago. | |||||||
18 | 18 | "The AV Kid" | TBA | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | July 15, 2015 | TBA | 0.35[18] |
Kirby wants a video of him losing a rap battle to his mother to be taken down from the Internet, but he can't do that unless he's a member of the AV club. When he starts being friends with another member of the club, Chip, things go awry. When Kirby stops considering Chip a friend, Chip gets jealous and starts thinking that since Fish and Eli are already Kirby's friends, there's no room for a third friend and gets ultimate revenge on Kirby. Meanwhile, Eli gets $3,000 and has to deal with the pressure of having so much. In the end, when it's heard that Chip is "stupid rich," his punishment is having to pay for the fly spy. | |||||||
19 | 19 | "The Mother of All Lies" | Walt Becker | Joe Stillman | July 22, 2015 | TBA | 0.52[19] |
Kirby and Dawn's mom accepts a job as a substitute teacher at school and Dawn makes her mom promise not to know her while Kirby does the opposite and never leaves her side. Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
20 | 20 | "Send in the Clowns" | David Kendall | Ed Bedrosian | August 12, 2015 | 120 | 0.37[20] |
Kirby gets a golden opportunity to animate and shoot a commercial, but his creativity is hobbled when Wild Gil demands that the commercial include a clown. | |||||||
21 | 21 | "Viva la Dad" | David Kendall | Ed Bedrosian | August 19, 2015 | 203 | 0.35[21] |
When the Babcock twins' web cartoons become more popular than Kirby's, he resorts to uploading his dad's clumsy old wrestling videos to even the score. Kirby posts his dad's old wrestling videos online. |
Season 2 (2015–16)
- Tiffany Espensen is absent for six episodes.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [22] | Prod. code [23] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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22 | 1 | "Failure to Launch" | Eyal Gordin | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | October 7, 2015 | 201 | 0.36[24] |
Kirby launches his own web channel named Kirblammo. | |||||||
23 | 2 | "The Gil in My Life" | David Kendall | Timothy Stack | October 14, 2015 | 204 | 0.30[25] |
Gil's mini-mart is closed down for health violations. When Kirby discovers that Gil had also been living there and is now homeless, he allows Gil to move into the Buckets' house. Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
24 | 3 | "The School Spirit" | Eyal Gordin | Kristofor Brown | October 21, 2015 | 202 | 0.49[26] |
When Kirby wants to find out a mascot he uncovers the ancient grave of a school mascot that possesses Fish when puts on the head. Meanwhile, Dawn and Belinda get trapped in the emergency room. Guest stars: Stephen Kearin as Principal Mitchell, Jack Foley as Big Ricky, Nathan Barnatt as Mascot Ghost | |||||||
25 | 4 | "War and Pizza" | Linda Mendoza | Shawn Simmons | October 28, 2015 | 205 | 0.24[27] |
A cult of Pizza Men band to get revenge on Kirby, Fish and Eli after the no-pay time rule. | |||||||
26 | 5 | "The Kirbinator" | Linda Mendoza | JD Ryznar | November 4, 2015 | 206 | 0.36[28] |
On Prank Williams Jr. Day, Kirby encounters a strange man who claims to be Kirby from the future. Guest stars: Stephen Kearin as Principal Mitchell, Corin Nemec as Future Kirby, Elliot Moore as Jean Luc | |||||||
27 | 6 | "Balloonacy!" | David Kendall | Farhan Arshad | November 18, 2015 | 208 | 0.32[29] |
Kirby thinks one of his new teachers is a clown. Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
28 | 7 | "Kirby Sells Out" | Eyal Gordin | Kyle Mack | November 25, 2015 | 209 | 0.32[30] |
29 | 8 | "It's a Kirbyful Life!" | David Kendall | Marissa Berlin | November 30, 2015 | 207 | 0.31[31] |
30 | 9 | "Atta Boy" | Jay Karas | Ed Bedrosian | December 2, 2015 | 212 | 0.37[32] |
Kirby's father turns into a monster on game days and asks Kirby to make sure that nothing happens to his special pants. However, while working on improving his throw, Kirby spills water on the pants and then tries to dry them, but essentially removes the while hand print left on the backside as an autograph, which is what made them special, while doing so. Meanwhile, Dawn and Belinda babysit a baby; however, Dawn accidentally glues eyebrows and an axe on the baby with industrial strength glue. When the baby's father comes back, he doesn't suspect a thing because the police are on the search for a criminal who was last seen with big brows and an axe. Later, Kirby, Fish, and Eli steal Trace's hand replica in order to attempt to re-apply the hand print, but it goes wrong when Kirby's father discovers what's going on. However, he's later proud of Kirby for going through all that just for him. | |||||||
31 | 10 | "I, Gregory" | Eyal Gordin | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | January 27, 2016 | 210 | N/A |
32 | 11 | "Weekend with Inga" | Jay Karas | Shawn Simmons | February 10, 2016 | 211 | N/A |
Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
33 | 12 | "Ripper Impossible" | Eyal Gordin | Ben Glass Ross Zimmerman | February 17, 2016 | 214 | N/A |
34 | 13 | "Kirby to the Max" | David Kendall | Timothy Stack | February 24, 2016 | 215 | N/A |
35 | 14 | "Oh Bros, Where Are Thou?" | David Kendall | Marissa Berlin | March 2, 2016 | 216 | N/A |
36 | 15 | "Twinsies" | Eyal Gordin | Kyle Mack | March 9, 2016 | 217 | N/A |
Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
37 | 16 | "Say Uncle" | Eyal Gordin | JD Ryznar | March 16, 2016 | 213 | N/A |
Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
38 | 17 | "When Mitchell Met Dad" | Eyal Gordin | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | March 23, 2016 | 218 | 0.26[33] |
39 | 18 | "Mitchell's Gauntlet" | Savage Steve Holland | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | March 30, 2016 | 220 | N/A |
Absent: Tiffany Espensen as Belinda | |||||||
40 | 19 | "Call of Doodie" | Joe Menendez | Joe Stillman | June 20, 2016 | 221 | N/A |
41 | 20 | "Tunnel Babies" | Joe Menendez | JD Ryznar | June 27, 2016 | 222 | N/A |
Dawn and Kirby discover from news host Dallas Cleveland that they were the center of an old news story when they were toddlers, in which their parents lost them and they wandered into the city's tunnels, becoming known as the "Tunnel Babies." Dawn and Kirby learn that it was Dawn who rescued Kirby from the tunnels and was labeled as a hero. Kirby subsequently feels the reluctant urge to behave friendly toward Dawn for saving his life. Dawn and Kirby appear on Cleveland's news program. Kirby has a plan to rescue Dawn from a falling sandbag during the program, so he can be her hero and end his friendly feelings for her. However, Kirby's idea does not go as planned and he unintentionally pushes Dawn under the falling sandbag. While Dawn is unconscious in a hospital, Kirby discovers that her condition improves each time he insults her. Their mother then reveals to Dawn that she never rescued Kirby, but actually brought him into the tunnels because of her dislike for him. Dawn regains consciousness upon hearing the truth. Meanwhile, Fish and Eli begin selling wigs at school, but must do so covertly because of Principal Mitchell's ban on disguises. | |||||||
42 | 21 | "Buckets of Money" | David Kendall | Bijan Shams-Pirzadeh | July 11, 2016 | TBA | 0.34[34] |
43 | 22 | "Torched" | David Kendall | Ed Bedrosian | July 25, 2016 | 223 | 0.35[35] |
44 | 23 | "Me Time: The Ballad of Mac and Mom" | Savage Steve Holland | Shawn Simmons | August 15, 2016 | 219 | N/A |
Mac McCallister visits Kirby's house. Kirby discovers that his mother and Mac have a substantial dislike for each other, as they were in a high school band that broke up after a disagreement. A CD player is left by an unknown individual at the doorstep of the Buckets' house, and Kirby learns that it has the ability to transport him to the high school during the band's final performance in 1994. Attempting to keep the band from breaking up, Kirby relives the experience several times and ultimately succeeds. Meanwhile, Dawn begins taking fashion advice from a talking parrot, after deeming Belinda a poor fashion advisor. Guest stars: Michael Naughton as Dad, Suzi Barrett as Mom, Stephen Kearin as Principal Mitchell, Michael Daniel Cassady as Mac McCallister | |||||||
45 | 24 | "Battle of the Ballot" | Kristofor Brown | Kristofor Brown | August 22, 2016 | 225 | 0.21[36] |
Kirby is caught having a party in Principal Mitchell's office. As punishment, Kirby must eat lunch with Mitchell for the next 100 school days. Kirby convinces Eli to run for class president, so Eli can pardon Kirby from his punishment. Dawn, who does not like listening to Kirby chew food with his mouth open in the school cafeteria, plots to keep Kirby's punishment ongoing. Dawn convinces a student named Sad Randy to run for class president, using his sad life history to persuade other students to vote for him. Eli decides he cannot run against Sad Randy, for whom he feels sorry. Kirby then convinces Fish to run for president, despite his initial reluctance, as he claims to become overly obsessive with school politics. Despite falling down a well, Sad Randy participates in the school debate via cell phone video. Eli appears at the school debate to announce that he has been meeting with an elderly woman who enjoys pinching his cheeks, in exchange for money to pay for expensive campaign supplies. Eli officially withdraws from the school election. With Belinda's help, Kirby discovers that Sad Randy is actually in Dawn's closet, and that the well story was fabricated by Dawn to help him win the election. Fish wins the election and pardons Kirby. As punishment, Dawn must now eat 100 lunches with Mitchell. | |||||||
46 | 25 | "The Goods" | Kristofor Brown | Mike Alber Gabe Snyder | August 29, 2016 | 226 | 0.18[37] |
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