Growth Spurts

Growth Spurts is the second segment of the fourth episode (and the 8th segment overall). It aired on August 9, 2002 at 9:30 p.m. along with Politics.

Synopsis
Robot Jones modifies himself to be tall enough to be on the basketball team.

Plot
The episode begins with the basketball coach looking for some boys. He measures all the students. Tim is then classified as "puny". Socks manages to get into the basketball team. Robot is classifed as "puny" and he has to play "Crab Soccer". The weather is extremely cold for them, and one of the students even freezes. Tim and Robot wish to have basketball warm-ups.

Back in school, Socks makes it into the basketball team, and gets congratulated by everyone. Robot makes it into the crab soccer team, but nobody congratulates him. Shannon makes it into the cheerleading squad. Socks and Shannon don't notice Robot at all. Since Tim and Robot are too short, they can't see anything in the basketball field.

The following day, Tim says that he got an overnight growth spurt. Robot then learns that he can never have a growth spurt, since he's a robot. Robot escapes the crab soccer team, and begins his process of getting taller. His new form scares everyone, and doesn't impress Shannon. Robot's head breaks the ceiling, which made the French teacher angry. He then has to visit Principal Madman's office.

At the big game, the school's team is losing, with a score of 2-88. Robot accidentally gets taller, which makes the basketball coach impressed. He then becomes a substitution, and helps the team get a tie. After the time-out, Robot helps the team won the match, and impresses Shannon. Unfortunately, Robot's head goes into outer space. He then concludes that his original form is the best.

Characters

 * Robot Jones
 * Socks
 * Tim Baines (debut, final appearance)
 * Basketball Coach (debut, final appearance)
 * Crab Soccer Coach (debut, final appearance)
 * Mr. Workout
 * Shannon
 * The Referee (debut, final appearance)
 * Principal Madman
 * French Teacher (debut, cameo, final appearance)

Gallery
The gallery can be seen here.

Transcript
The transcript can be seen here.

General

 * It's revealed that Robot and Tim, and most of the kids at the crab soccer team are 2 ft 11 in tall. After the growth spurt though, Tim is just as tall as Socks.
 * Socks is presumbaly around 5-7 ft tall.
 * In the original airings, there's a poster that said "Kick Ass". It was later changed into simply "Kick".
 * Timeline: Winter.
 * A promo VHS tape of the show uses this episode (in its original uncut version).

Inefficencies/Goofs

 * During one of the scenes, there are a few papers on top of the posters. In a few other scenes, they disappear.
 * When Robot was trying to raise the score to 88, the score was 88-88.
 * At one point, the timer wasn't changing.