"Mr. DNA" is the the sixth episode of Season 1, and the sixth episode of Mr. Young overall.
Synopsis
Adam attempts to get the ban on cheerleaders lifted.
Overview
The episode begins with Adam teaching his class about DNA.
Later, the Finnegan Fryers have a pep rally, however there is no real cheerleading, only Mrs. Bryne's cheerleading causing everyone to vomit. Adam and Echo ask Principal Tater (Echo to follow her dream of being a cheerleader and Adam wanting to see Echo in a short skirt) what happened with the cheerleaders, and Tater replies he banned them for a good reason. Tater then explains in a series of flashbacks.
Flashback 1
During the Great Spirit Day of 1985, Tater was the school mascot. He has lost the head of his chicken costume, and runs around looking for it. Rachel finds it, and Tater puts it on. However, there is glue on the costume and it sticks onto his head. He sees Rachel with glue on his hands, and assumes she put the glue on the costume. For the next week, Tater walks around with a chicken head, until people use tug-of-war to pull it off. But his hair also comes off.
Adam and Echo go to Rachel and demand an explanation. Rachel explains someone framed her for the glue incident.
Flashback 2
Rachel is forced to work on her cat collage of the War of 1812. She manages to sneak out to the pep rally, seeing Tater look for the head. Rachel finds it and gives it to him, before noticing she has glue on her hands from the collage she was working on. But Tater still thinks she did it...
Adam and Echo go to Mrs. Byrne and ask her about the situation.
Flashback 3
Mrs. Byrne is preforming a show in 1885.
Adam says he wants to know about the pep rally, and Mrs. Byrne begins her second flashback.
Flashback 4
Mrs. Byrne tells Rachel to get working on her War of 1812 cat collage. She then notices Rachel has slime on her hands, and mysterious things start happening in the room. Then, nice men come in and fix the problem.
Adam states that is the plot of Ghostbusters, proving Mrs. Byrne is no help in solving the cheerleading mystery.
Adam goes to him lab and takes a skin sample from the glue on the chicken head. It turns out the DNA is similar to Slab's DNA, and he concludes Slab's father put the glue. Adam calls him in for a discussion. Echo, disguised as Dang, tries to get DNA samples from Mr. Slabinsky, but they all fail, until he makes him sneeze. But when Adam tests the DNA, it is not the DNA in the skin sample. Therefore, the skin must've come from Slab's mother.
It is later proven to be true, and Slab's mother explains everything that happened.
Flashback 5
In 1985, Mrs. Slabinsky has a crush on Mr. Slabinsky, but so does Rachel. In order to get Rachel away, she puts glue in Tater's chicken head. Rachel obviously gets blamed, and gets suspended for a week. During that time, Mrs. Slabinsky kisses Mr. Slabinsky and they married 11 years later.
Cast
Main
- Brendan Meyer as Adam Young
- Matreya Fedor as Echo Zizzleswift
- Gig Morton as Derby (Minor role)
- Kurt Ostlund as Slab (Minor role) /Mr. and Mrs. Slabinsky
- Milo Shandel as Principal Tater
Recurring
- Paula Shaw as Mrs. Byrne
- Raugi Yu as Dang
- Anna Galvin as Rachel Young
Absent
Trivia
- Derby and Slab only play minor roles in the episode, with each of them only appearing at the beginning and the end of it.
- Slab's parents are shown, and they bear a very strong resemblance to Slab.
- The Finnegan Fryer makes its debut.
- In Disney XD, the scene where Rachel and Mr. Slabinsky kissed is cut.
- In Mrs. Byrne's Ghostbuster's flashback, there were only 3 members of the Ghostbusters instead of the usual 4. It also came out a year before 1985.
- More adults appear in this episode than kids.
- At this point, Ivy has only appeared in half the episodes (1, 2, and 4), while being absent in 3, 5, and this one, 6.
Character Reveals
- Derby attends Finnegan's debate club.
- Echo had always aspired to be a cheerleader.
- Derby's reason for going to high school was because of the cheerleaders.
- Dang comes to pep rallies to clean up vomit caused by Mrs. Byrne's cheerleading.
- Tater's banned Finnegan's cheerleaders because he thought Rachel had placed glue in his chicken head, yet it was actually Mrs. Slabinsky.
- Tater, Rachel, Mr. And Mrs. Slabinsky all attended Finnegan.
- The story of how Mr. Tater became bald is revealed.
- Echo is a fan of Ghostbusters.
- Mrs. Byrne keeps mementos of her past in a trunk.
- Mrs. Byrne has been alive since 1885, while she has been teaching since 1985.
- Tater knew how to break-dance when he was younger.
- Slab's father suffers from full body alopecia.
- Dang has a twin brother named Ding, whom Dang dislikes because he married a duck named Shirley.
- Rachel had a crush on Slab's father, causing Mrs. Slabinsky to frame her.
- Finnegan High's mascot is called the Finnegan Fryer, mostly because the uniform guy misunderstood the term 'Fryer'.
- Slab has a sister who will be attending Finnegan High sometime in the next year.
Continuity
- Tater is proven to be naturally blonde, which was first seen in Mr. Inventor but unconfirmed on the said episode.
- The lines Mr. Slabinsky and Adam say when they first meet are the same lines Slab said to Adam in Mr. Young.
- Adam takes note of this, claiming that 'the fruit all doesn't fall far from the tree'.
- The term 'fruitball' instead of apple was previously heard in Mr. Younger Man.
Allusions
- Ghostbusters - Mrs. Byrne's flashback briefly mentions the movie, which Echo claims to be a fan of.
- Robin Hood - Principal Tater said that the Finnegan High's mascot was originally going to be named based of Friar Tuck, the loyal companion of Robin Hood. Unfortunately, the uniform store clerk believed they meant Fryer, as in a chicken.
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