Ned's Newt

- Season 3

(1999)

Keen on spicing up Ned's diary entries, Newton decides to begin by spicing up his owner's life.;Ned is having difficulty with fractions, so Newton divides himself in half as a Math teaching aid. But his bottom half develops a mind of its own and runs away.

Rusty McCabe and Ned face-off at the Friendly Carnival to win the most plush toys for the lovely Linda.;When Ned sends away for a toy by mail but nothing comes in the advertised 6 to 8 weeks, Newton decides to make like a devoted pet and go fetch it.

Except for Ned, all the kids at Xylophone Camp have been dumped there by their parents against their will. Unless Ned and Newton can excite these young musicians about this wonderful instrument, it'll vanish from the face of the Earth!;Ned has to cure Newton of his fear of the spooky Friendly Triangle by dragging him there to experience it for himself.

Because Newton believes grown-ups don't have pets, he drags his owner to Never-Never Land to enlist Peter Pan's help in locking Ned in perpetual boyhood.;When Friendly Falls discovers rich kid Rusty McCabe is only as prosperous as everyone else, it triggers a town-wide outpouring of misplaced sympathy.

Eric and Sharon decide to split the cost of a mountain cottage with Eric's brother and sister-in-law... which means a month in the woods with Renfrew and his malicious cat Bundle.;A bottle washes ashore containing a note from a long-lost Flemkin who disappeared years ago at sea. Newton and Ned to the rescue!

Ned joins the debating team to be close to Linda, but can't bring himself to argue with her. So Newton helps him be contrary. Perhaps a little too contrary.;After a little Newton re-tooling, the Flemkins' TV aerial downloads several gigabytes of top-secret info into their VCR... and Ned and Newton go on the run from international spies.

Newton overhears Ned rehearsing his role as ring-bearer at a cousin's wedding, and, thinking Ned is marrying someone other than Linda, decides to ruin the wedding for his beloved owner's own good.;A freak accident makes Ned and Newton change bodies, but Ned doesn't know any more about being a 6-foot morphing newt than Newton does about being a 9-year-old boy.

All kids know you never enter the rear door of a school bus unless you want to get sucked into an Alternate Universe from which there's no return. But Newton doesn't know that...;When Newton loses the party invitations Ned was supposed to deliver, he more than makes up for it by going back in time and dragging infamous couples from history to the Flemkins' Costume Party.

Ned wants to take Linda to a sad movie so she'll sob on his shoulder like she did last time, but there are no other weepies playing. That is, until Newton gets in the Director's chair;Newton sees Ned listing his toys and decides to inventory his own possessions. After dead-ending at "Bowl and Rock," Newton decides the problem with his life is, he needs way more stuff.

Newton misunderstands Ned's anxiety at having invited two girls to the new Aquarium opening, and invites 310 more to keep him company.;Ned's new digipet makes Newton jealous, but little do either of them suspect the innocent-looking toy's true evil purpose.

When a calendar misprint cancels July and August, Ned and Newton have to find out what happened to them before their summer vacation vanishes.;Every Mom in Friendly Falls is hosting a Snapperware Party, but trust Ned's tiny pet to get sealed inside one of the containers and shipped off to parts unknown.

Protecting his owner from burglars, Newton unwittingly attacks the Tooth Fairy, who puts a curse on Ned that makes his front teeth grow to the size of playing cards.;Ned receives help on a rigged Scavenger Hunt from Newton... and from a magical remote that doesn't work on televisions but does seem to work on everything else.

When Ned and Newton accidentally bankrupt Friendly Falls, everyone he knows has to take a demeaning second job in neighbouring Carty Garbageton to pay the town's bills.;Ned's classmates watch in stunned horror as he shows the film he made for Health class with (unfortunately) Newton's help.