Nightmare Ned

- Season 1

(1997)

One day at school two bullies named Conrad and Vernon put dog food in Ned's sloppy Joe and this gets Ned wheezy and worried so later that night Ned has a dream about turning into a dog.

Robot Ned: Ned and his dad bond by putting together a robot kit, but Dad's insistence on not reading the instructions leaves Ned confused. As he goes to bed, he dreams of his dad introducing the newly built robot as Ned's new brother. Although the robot successfully charms the rest of his family, Ned quickly discovers the robot's true intention and must find a way to destroy it before it destroys him.

After being scolded by his dad for being too forgetful, Ned goes to sleep trying to "remember not to forget," but ends up dreaming that he forgets to wear clothes to school. Now wandering around the school completely exposed, Ned desperately asks help from the two bullies Conrad and Vernon to keep him from being seen, all while the school principal tries to find Ned to present him with the "Dapper Dan" award in front of the entire school.

For his school presentation on "If I could be anyone in the world," Ned tells his class that he would be Gorpulon, a Godzilla-like monster. His classmates laugh at him and is sent to the corner by his teacher. Embittered, Ned falls asleep and dreams of becoming Gorpulon. With his newfound power, Ned terrorizes his classmates for making fun of him, as well as wreak havoc on the city by battling a giant Abraham Lincoln, William Shakespeare, and surprisingly, Florence Henderson.

Finding a discarded ant farm, Ned's dad tries to stir up some enthusiasm in his son about the wonders of ant life, which Ned only feigns interest. Falling asleep out of boredom, Ned dreams that he and his dad have shrunken to the size of ants and end up inside the ant ranch. After wacky hi-jinks ensue, leaving Dad love-stricken with the ant queen, Ned must find a way to save himself and his dad from the ants and their obsession with conformity.

With Mom unable to drive him to school, she informs Ned that he will have to take the bus, much to his dismay. After going to bed, Ned dreams that his school bus is hijacked by a sinister ventriloquist dummy with a mission to drive the bus into the scorching sun. Now Ned must defeat the evil puppet, save all the kids on the bus, and impress the girl of his dreams.

Ned tries to enjoy a horror movie at the theater, but is constantly being pestered by Joanie, a girl who has a crush on him. Ned gives her a toy ring from his candy box in hopes that she'll leave him alone, but instead gives Joanie the impression that they are now married. Ned ends up falling asleep and dreaming of being pursued by a zombie bride after she mistakes Ned's discarded toy ring for a proposal.

While at summer camp, Ned thinks the scary stories his counselors tell are pretty lame, especially one about the so called "Headless Lester." Later that night, he dreams of the dreaded Lester chasing him in pursuit of a new human head.

Ned is frustrated with being young and wishes he could be older. Falling asleep, he dreams of becoming a teenager. With the help of Norm (the living embodiment of his hormones), Ned attempts grown-up activities like driving, going to parties, and talking to girls.

While at the amusement park with his family, Ned wants nothing more than to ride the house of horrors. While waiting in line, Ned falls asleep and dreams that he's next in line, but is forced to ride with an obnoxious patron named Dirk, who ruins the experience for him. Ned however, soon finds out who was actually behind the entire experience all along.

Upset after loosing his last baby tooth, Ned hides it so the tooth fairy can't find it. In his dream, the tooth fairy visits and convinces Ned to come back with her to tooth land. However, Ned learns that she actually plans on robbing him of all his teeth, and the only way for him to keep them is to beat an old wisdom tooth in a game of checkers.

Fearful that the house is haunted, Ned is assured by his dad that the spooky noises he hears are just the house 'expanding and contracting' and that there's nothing to be afraid of. When Ned falls asleep, he dreams of the house and everything in it coming to life.

Ned is embarrassed after being tricked into using the girls restroom by Conrad and Vernon. He then ends up falling asleep in the schoolyard and dreams about becoming a girl. Hilarity ensues when the two school bullies end up falling for him.

Dad tries to spend some quality time with Ned by taking him on a fishing trip, hoping to catch the legendary "Willie Trout." Bored out of his mind, Ned falls asleep and dreams Willie Trout has bitten Dads head off and he must go and find it within the belly of the ginormous fish.

After watching news reports of mysterious happenings involving cattle being defaced with mustache drawings, Ned goes to bed in his cow pajamas and dreams of being abducted by aliens, who mistake him for a cow. Now Ned must find a way off the ship and save all of the Earth cows that have been abducted.

Ned brings home a piglet and wants to keep him as a pet, but his parents break it to him that one of his favorite foods, Canadian bacon, is made of pig. That night, Ned dreams that his pet pig can talk and goes to live with its family in Canada. Ned soon finds out that the pig family is trying to fatten him up in order to eat him for Christmas dinner.

Thinking he's received bad grades, Ned tears up his report card and goes to bed feeling guilty about it. He dreams that he's sent to jail for "one whole weekend" to reflect upon his actions. Unlucky for him, Conrad and Vernon are also in prison and do nothing but cause more trouble to poor Ned.

Ned stays up late studying a math test and falls asleep dreaming of receiving a blank exam paper. Attempting to find the questions, Ned ends up in the surreal world of Muck the answer bird. Ned asks him for help, but Muck only wants to test him, putting him in strange circumstances that he must find a way out of.

To appease his mom, Ned takes accordion lessons from a strange woman named Madame Olga. Ned falls asleep and dreams that his overly-enthusiastic teacher forces him to perform as her organ-grinder monkey, and it's up to Ned's accordion-playing mom to save the day.

Ned is stuck on a family road trip, and his parents and baby sister are quickly wearing on his nerves. He falls asleep and dreams that he and his family check into a run-down motel, run by an innkeeper who gives him the creeps.

Ned is forced to rehearse for his school play about nutrition and is terribly anxious. He falls asleep practicing his lines and is surprised to find himself on stage with an audience of rather angry or, dare we say, "steamed" vegetables.

Ned accidentally swallows a penny in attempting a magic trick as seen by his idol Frank Grimes. He faints and dreams that the magician himself performs a magical surgery on him to remove the penny, in front of a live audience.

Ned goes to the dentist for a checkup and assures his mom that he's perfectly able to see the dentist on his own. He falls asleep and dreams of his twisted dentist sending him on a terrifying journey through his own mouth of rotting teeth.

A clip show episode where Ned recites a poem he's written about the two bullies Conrad and Vernon, and all the trouble they've caused Ned throughout the series.