Wynonna Earp 4.8 “Hell Raisin’ Good Time”

Pumpkinhead…never mind. Rotten Jack shows up, as he apparently does every Halloween, and starts killing BBD people. He’s an animated scarecrow. He’s why we call them Jack O’Lanterns.

Wynonna and Waverly go after him, with instructions to keep him alive, but they wander into a memory-erasing fog and start going around trying to work out who they are.

Amon auctions off the right to kill Wynonna and Waverly live on TV, but Jeremy shows up in a demon costume with the antidote.

And yeah, they kill Rotten Jack. Because you ain’t keeping that thing alive.

This ends with Amon dead and the revelation of what happened to Robin…total amnesia. Possibly with some ongoing loss (we’re going to watch Badagook again). Total amnesia, new boyfriend. Poor Jeremy.

So, this is a bit of a mess, isn’t it, although at least Wynonna seems a little saner. A little. Maybe being without her memories…and responsibility…for a bit helped her out.

Wizards of Waverly Place 2.12 "Fairy Tale"

When your lead actress is a pretty good actor...make her act badly. Laritate forces Justin to direct the school production of Peter Pan and Alex schemes to meet her extracurricular requirement by being Tinkerbell's understudy so she doesn't have to do anything.

When Harper literally breaks a leg, Alex has to actually play. And she is, of course, terrible.

Only a pretty good actor could pull this one off. There's also a typecasting joke in there, and we discover Jerry was a theater kid because of course Jerry was a theater kid.

I also loved the fairy talent agency with one fairy.

Wizards of Waverly Place 2.12 "Fashion Week"

Never trust Alex with anything valuable. Its fine, though, she ends up on the catwalk.

The D&D stuff is hilarious. "All supermodels play" (They changed the name to avoid lawsuits, not that I have ever heard of one). "You think because I'm pretty I can't be an 11th level cleric?"

(Actually, it's Justin that ruined the valuable thing).

We discover the in character explanation for limiting wizards. Wizard power is centralized and distributed, so they have to limit the number so that they don't have too many. The talent appears to be genetic, but access to the wizard power is...controlled.

That's actually something that could be explored more seriously when not being used to explain sitcom decisions.

Wizards of Waverly Place 2.14 "Helping Hand"

Justin designs a new "spell." Well, really, its more of a magic item, which seems more Justin. Its a disembodied hand that will do what you need an extra hand for.

Alex borrows the hand to get her chores done, tires it our and makes it mad, and has to apologize.

Pretty simple really (but really, I don't blame Alex, if my parents gave me that many chores and I'd made a promise to a friend, I would be tempted too. Also, it was Harper's idea).

Yes, Harper still knows about magic. She's been good! Surprisingly good.

This show is all about those kids, after all. The freaks, the geeks, the neurodivergent.

Wizards of Waverly Place 2.15 "Art Teacher"

Turns out Alex does have a class she enjoys. Art. Of course. Unfortunately, the art teacher turns out to be a 16 year old girl who's wizard ex boyfriend turned her into an "old lady" of 40.

Alex uses undo dust to put her back (and immediately realizes why the wizard ex boyfriend broke up with her. I would too. Wow). But this means there's no art teacher...

Meanwhile Max pretends to have a rare disease called monoorangeosis and even gets celebrity visits. Said celebrities, not happy when they find out.

(How did they find out about him? That part's...unclear).