O'Grady is an animated television show created by Tom Snyder and Carl Adams and developed for TV by co-star Holly Schlesinger. It used to air on The N

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. It stars Melissa Bardin Galsky

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 alumni, as high school students Abby and Kevin, and chronicles their lives along with those of other residents of O'Grady, a fictional town which is periodically plagued by "The Weirdness." The Weirdness affects its residents in strange ways such as projecting their private thoughts in bubbles over their heads, or producing clones of themselves every time they get angry. The random changes in the show's logo explains the plot.

Although The N no longer airs reruns of the series, episodes can still be viewed on the network's website. Episodes are also available for purchase through iTunes, as well as Amazon Instant Video.

Major characters

• Abby Wilde (Melissa Bardin Galsky
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Abby is a vain average teenager. Kevin and she have feelings between them, which have been shown in many episodes. Her main love interest is Pete Klesko, but she never manages to make him feel the same way.

• Kevin Harnisch (H. Jon Benjamin
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Kevin's a slacker teenager, who never wants to do hard work, has a tendency to find a way to use the weirdness for his own gain in various ways. He is in a band with Harold and Iris, but the band never progressed past a few shows. He also has a crush on Abby, although he would never admit it.

• Beth Briggs (Holly Schlesinger)

Beth is a blue haired environmentalist vegetarian, the classic concerned hippie with big ideas. She has good intentions as she is the opposite of Kevin, but she is also very naive. She's Abby's best friend.

• Harold Oscar Jenkins (Patrice O'Neal)

Harold works at Eets-A-Pizza, and is Kevin's best friend. He can be a little nerdy and often is uncomfortable with Kevin's various schemes.

Supporting characters

• Iris (H. Jon Benjamin
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Iris is a neurotic German exchange student and a devoted fan of techno music. She speaks with an accent, and is one of the show's breakout characters, her humorous (though not intended to be funny) statements make her very popular with fans. She is often quoted. She is also very obsessive with chocolate and enjoys licking spoons.

• Pete Klesko (Larry Murphy
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Pete Klesko is the most popular guy in school. He plays on the lacrosse team, and Abby has had a crush on him for a long time, despite him not being able to remember her name. He has a very dull personality but is still nice.

• Phillip Demorio (H. Jon Benjamin
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He is one of their classmates, and is very smart, nerdy, and a total mama's boy. He is also wealthy, speaks very aristocratically, and is always wearing a tie.

• Donald Alan Lipschitz (Larry Murphy
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The monotone-speaking vice-principal. He says "Oh Lord" frequently whenever something bad happens. He also seems to suffer a reverse effect to every weirdness. He has to teach classes whenever the staff become victims to The Wierdness and is often teaching every class the main characters attend.

• Dr. Myers (Bill Braudis
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The school principal. He's shown as not very intelligent and has braces. He and Mr. Lipschitz have a somewhat friendship, with both being a little annoyed of the other.

Season 1: 2004-2005

	Series #	1	1	Sweats	July 30, 2004	101
As the Weirdness causes people who sweat to have their insecurities physically magnified, Kevin, Beth and Abby make a documentary about O'Grady and Harold worries about an upcoming wrestling match.
2	2	Clones	August 6, 2004	102
The Weirdness creates a clone every time a person loses their temper. Harold is jealous and lonely when he finds that he cannot create a clone for himself, while Abby and Kevin are horrified to discover that their clones are romantically interested in each other.
3	3	Party Gong	August 13, 2004	103
The Weirdness causes short term memory loss (signified by the bang of a gong Gong A gong is an East and South East Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is hit with a mallet.... ), which Kevin exploits to convince Beth that she is having a party while her family is out of town. Meanwhile, Harold tries to track down the source of a mysterious phone number he finds himself in possession of.
4	4	O'Grady Idol	August 20, 2004	104
The Weirdness causes everyone to act like cats. Meanwhile, Kevin and Abby compete against each other in the O'Grady Idol singing contest, and Beth struggles to judge them impartially.
5	5	Magnets	September 3, 2004	105
The Weirdness causes people to act as magnets, attracting and repelling objects from themselves. Meanwhile, Beth asks Abby for help facing the future of coffee shops, and Kevin almost gets Harold fired from his job at Eatsa Pizza.
6	6	Sign Language	September 10, 2004	106
The Weirdness makes public service signs come to life as Abby learns never to agree to dance with Phillip, Kevin spies on Abby, and Beth and Harold take Driver's Ed. Beth uses the driving simulator as a way to vent out her anger, while Harold traumatizes the class by showing them horrifically bloody driving films such as "Humvee Bloodspree" and "Burn! Burn! Burn! On the Autoban".
7	7	Bubble Heads	December 31, 2004	107
The Weirdness causes people's inner thoughts to appear in bubbles over their heads, preventing them from lying. Abby is excited to go to a concert with her crush Pete Klesko, while Kevin and Harold's friendship is strained by the truth.
8	8	Robo-Babies	April 1, 2005	108
The Weirdness causes everyone who yawns to instantly teleport. The class is assigned robo-babies to care for, which exhausts Abby, while Beth avoids her 'husband' Harold and Kevin tries to spin the assignment into a scheme for cash.
9	9	Cop 'Stache	April 8, 2005	109
The Weirdness makes it impossible to insult someone else, much to the chagrine of Abby's friends after she changes her look to impress Pete Klesko. Kevin becomes a mall cop, and Harold falls in with the popular crowd.
10	10	Sugar Hill	April 15, 2005	110
O'Grady High goes without sugar. Beth and Abby find that the lack of sweets strains their friendship, while Kevin gets rich from black-market sugar sales. The Weirdness creates soundtrack music to the characters' lives.
11	11	Old Cold	April 22, 2005	111
The Weirdness causes people to age 30 years when they sneeze. Kevin convinces Harold, Beth and Abby to skip to avoid their elderly classmates, but they run into a few kinks.
12	12	No Pain, No Gain	May 6, 2005	112
The Weirdness makes everyone invincible to pain, which Harold uses to his advantage by joining the football team. The New Yous, a popular makeover show, comes to O'Grady, and Kevin tries out for the annual crazy stunt competition.
13	13	Remotes	May 13, 2005	113
The Weirdness causes remotes to work on people. Abby joins the cheerleading squad to get Pete's attention, and Harold and Kevin decide to open a club in Kevin's garage, while Mr. Lipschitz uses his remote to screw around with Dr. Myers.

Season 2: 2006

	Series #	Production Code
1	14	Jerked	March 3, 2006	201
The weirdness makes everyone float when they're happy and turn their feet into lead if they're mad or sad (which makes them sink). This episode guest starred Conan O'Brien Conan O'Brien Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....  and Amy Poehler Amy Poehler Amy Meredith Poehler is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is... . This episode may also be known as "Frenched".
2	15	Vacation	March 10, 2006	202
The weirdness makes people periodically have to urinate. Whilst Beth helps build homes for the destitute, Kevin sees an opportunity. Iris becomes obsessive in a single white female way about Abby while Harold becomes obsessed with an aged arcade game.
3	16	A Stranger O'Grady	April 17, 2006	203
The weirdness gives all women super strength, leading to Beth becoming a contender in the school elections, meanwhile Iris uses her strength to enforce a techno run on the radio station and Kevin's band to become a techno band. Abby becomes infatuated with a 'dead poet's society' wannabe civics teacher who turns out to be an insane conspiracy theorist, leading Beth to read out his manifesto at the election debates. Meanwhile, Iris uses her new strength to insert the joys of techno music into the lives of her fellow students, whether they like it or not.
4	17	The Fly	April 10, 2006	204
The weirdness causes animals to be able to speak, so Harold uses a fly to learn and spread the gossip of the high school.
5	18	Big Jerk on Campus	March 17, 2006	205
The weirdness causes people to become invisible when they hold their breath. One of Kevin's older brothers, Randy visits from college. Abby takes a liking to an emo boy who likes to hang out in strange places. He writes many songs about her and she becomes uncomfortable around him. This episode guest starred David Cross.
6	19	Cut the Cord	April 24, 2006	206
The weirdness forces certain people to stay together; when they attempt to leave, a glowing cord comes out and ties them together. Abby and Harold sign up for a big brother/big sister program. Abby's sister Ruby shows no interest in being a little sister, and begins to act strangely. Abby later discovers that Ruby is actually the younger sister of famous star "Gwen". Harold's sister turns out to be a hot Catholic schoolgirl his age. Beth discovers Mr. Lipshcitz used to be a famous singer but when she confronts him, he denies it. Also, Kevin wins the chance to be his favorite Radio Host's partner. The Radio Station has a 'Dare 2 Swear' policy, which Kevin thinks is about swearing on the air, but is in fact a pledge of abstinence. This episode guest starred Will Arnett. This is the series finale.

Trivia

• Many episodes have a penguin in them somewhere. One is on a sign during the opening, one was at the top of the food pyramid in Sugar Hill, one was on Kevin's suit in Sugar Hill, one was on the hood of the car in Old Cold, one was in the opening of "A Stronger O'Grady" and with the O'Grady opening title in "The Fly", one was on the newspaper in "Sign Language" and was expressed verbally in the episode "Frenched" when Chip said "Like a penguin's nuts."

External links

• The N's O'Grady website
• O'Grady Video Page - Watch All the Episodes Online
• IM Interview with 'Beth' and 'Abby'
• Soup2Nuts O'Grady website (Under Construction)