Review: Wild Grinders “Dr Jeckyll ANd Mr. Grinder” ; “Skate Or Sick”

Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers!

Dr Jeckyll and Mr. Grinder –

The Grinders are shining their wheels as Flingo Jalapeno approaches the crew. Flingo challenges Rob to a skate off and while the skate off was closely contested Lil Rob wins. Flingo impresses Rob enough to be named an honorary Grinder. Suddenly, Skadooch (don’t know how it’s actually spelled, but I’m running with that) comes out of the bushes. He’s a foreign exchange student living with Emo Chris’ family. He came around to learn to skate but Flingo gave him and epic wedgie and left him in the bushes. Skadooch is afraid of speed and asks for a board that has no wheels. Rob is convinced that he can teach him to skate. Skadooch lacks courage and Rob tries to plan a way to help him gain courage. The Grinders huddle, Skadooch leaves and Flingo comes back. He tries to buy the Grinders affection by giving them polyurethane wheels and a new skate park. Oddly, the words “Polyurethane wheels” change Skadooch into Flingo. He’s two people in one! Skadooch tells a story about how he created a potion to give him courage to skate and it changed him into the ultra-confident Flingo. Skadooch skates into a Venus fly trap. In the hospital, Skadooch vows that when he heads back to his country he’ll continue to skate. The Grinders celebrate this news with juice boxes, but the words “juice box” turns JJ into Stubford. Solid episode.

Skate Or Sick –

Googles unveils his new hoverboard! Sadly, Lil Rob has to go with his father, Gene, to a tool convention unless he has a great and unbelievable sickness. Rob convinces his family that he has “Gromatitis” and gets out of the convention. The Grinders test the hoverboards at the skate park. Stubford comes on the scene and says his hoverboard is much better. Apparently his version of the hoverboard is his security guard carrying him around. Stubford goes for a nosegrind but eats asphalt. When he stands back up, he has the same symptoms that Rob used to get out of the convention. The sickness quickly spreads to all the other skaters in town. The skaters enter a zombie-like trance as the mayor puts the city under quarantine. Rob brings the Grinders to ToolCon and admits to his parents that he lied about Gromititis. Turns out that Gene knew Rob lied all along so he set up an elaborate rouse to show Rob that lying is bad.