Ellen Steel

Gordena

Tim

Dwight

The BoardX game isn't testing well and Steve (COLIN CUNNINGHAM) has a plan. To get people to like the turtle, he's holding a contest in jPod. Whoever creates the most violent and innovative action sequence wins a priceless pair of Nikuma sneakers. John Doe (TORRANCE COOMBS), Bree (STEPH SONG) and Cowboy (BEN AYRES) each have excuses not to compete. Ethan (DAVID W. KOPP), an avowed sneaker-head and the resident gore specialist, will face off against Kaitlin (EMILIE ULLERUP) in the motion capture studio.

Ethan implores Kaitlin to let him win. Doesn't she understand that his shoe collection is the most important thing in his life? Kaitlin explains that she needs the sneakers so she can afford an operation – she has an absorbed twin. She's known about it for years, but it's starting to grow.

Ellen (DOMINIKA WOLSKI) won't leave her loverboy Jim (ALAN THICKE) alone. She's erected a shrine to him and keeps phoning his home.

Cowboy wants to make it to the top of a sexual conquest website. He'll earn more points by converting a lesbian, and he's met a bi-curious one on-line who seems interested.

Kam Fong's (RAUGI YU) thugs accost Ethan on his way to work. Kam Fong knows about the sneakers and demands that Ethan get them: Kam Fong needs the originals in order to produce knock-offs. Ethan explains that his friend needs the shoes so she can have an operation, but Kam Fong threatens to obliterate Ethan's identity if he doesn't comply.

Ellen stalks Jim. She takes increasing chances and threatens to tell Carol (SHERRY MILLER) everything.

Cowboy meets his blind date (DENA ASHBAUGH) and makes a discovery that may put an end to his player ways.

Ethan and Kaitlin face off in mo-cap. Steve has asked Carol to come in as a special guest judge. Ethan's beside himself, and Kaitlin, and her twin, don't stand a chance, until Kam Fong learns of the absorbed twin (nature's strongest aphrodesiac) and offers to have his surgeon remove it for free.

Jim asks his new best friend, Kam Fong, to help him out with Ellen.

Source: The Official jPod Website

While having lunch at Churley Burger, the Podsters spot the restaurant's mascot, Klownsworthy (KYLE CASSIE). John Doe (TORRANCE COOMBS) confesses a childhood fear of clowns and Kaitlin (EMILIE ULLERUP) slaps the clown's face: turns out he's her old boyfriend, Kevin. Ethan (DAVID W. KOPP) steps in to help Kaitlin, gets shoved by the clown, and accidentally elbows Kevin in the nose. There's blood everywhere. Kaitlin accuses Ethan of hitting a clown and comforts her old flame.

To ensure he'll get more time with Carol, Steve (COLIN CUNNINGHAM) offers Jim (ALAN THICKE) a voice-over gig. Carol (SHERRY MILLER) tells Steve she'd like to see a game with girls in it. Steve instructs the Podsters to add a girl to BoardX.

John Doe's granola-butch mother, Freedom (JESSICA STEEN), shows up at jPod. She's not impressed with her son's work.

The Podsters decide to create a healthy cola.

Ethan plans to apologize to Kevin, but discovers him making up with Kaitlin and feeding her fries. He enlists John Doe's help to learn more about his rival. Kevin is an aspiring actor who had a short arc on a locally-shot sci-fi series. His last girlfriend gained 167 pounds in three months and now lies comatose. Ethan faces the realization that Kevin is a feeder, and won't be happy until Kaitlin gains back all of the weight she's lost.

At Neotronic Arts, Jim manages to massacre every line he tries to deliver.

Steve helps Carol install new lighting in the grow op. He learns that Kevin was an acting coach and hires him to help Jim with the voice of Dwight, the turtle. Jim learns "The Method."

Bree (STEPH SONG) enlists John Doe's militant-lesbian mother, Freedom, to help develop the new girl in the game.

There's a party at jPod where a BoardX prototype is presented, Jim makes his voice-over debut, Carol meets Freedom, and the Podsters launch jCola. Everyone attends, and Klownsworthy is sent packing when it's discovered he spiked the cola...with sugar.

Source: The Official jPod Website

It's Bree's (STEPH SONG) 29th birthday and she loves the video card that Ethan (DAVID KOPP), Cowboy (BEN AYRES) and John Doe (TORRANCE COOMBS) have made for her. When Steve (COLIN CUNNINGHAM) sees it, he wonders why the Podsters are singing "For She's a Jolly Good Fellow" instead of "The Birthday Song." John Doe explains it's too expensive: the lady who owns the song is the most vicious copyright enforcer on the planet. Steve tells them to get the song anyway – he wants to embed it in BoardX for his son's birthday.

Carol (SHERRY MILLER) is frantic when she finds Polaroids of Jim (ALAN THICKE) dancing with Kam Fong (RAUGI YU) and calls Ethan about the "sexually explicit photos" of his father having a "torrid gay love affair with a Chinese mafia kingpin." When Ethan returns to his apartment that night, he finds his father, Kam Fong and Kam's posse enjoying a karaoke soiree. Ethan gets smashed and belts out a rendition of Air Supply's "All Out of Love." By the next morning, Ethan's performance is the number three viral video clip on earth, and all of his co-workers have seen it – except for Kaitlin, whose name was scrawled across his chest in lipstick.

Jim asks Carol for her late father's stun gun because he wants to get on White Ghost, a Hong Kong TV show that airs videos of North Americans doing stupid stuff.

Kaitlin sets up a meeting with Lila Theron (BABZ CHULA), owner of the "Birthday Song" copyright, but Lila is impossible and wants $10 million for its use. Lila has cruel, but accurate, personal insights into each of the Podsters. Kaitlin demands that Lila apologize and, when she doesn't, Kaitlin ties her up with duct tape.

The Podsters don't know what they're going to do with their hostage, but then Ethan gets a call from his brother, Greg (PETER BENSON). Greg hears something in the background and asks Ethan if he has a woman named Lila, gagged and screaming. Greg also asks if Ethan has filmed her, revealing that Lila likes to be watched. Greg shares his naughty video of Lila, rolling on a bed, eating money, with the Podsters.

The Podsters show the video to Lila and threaten to make it public unless she promises not to sue them or press charges. They untie Lila and, reluctantly, she signs the agreement. When she's done, she throws the pen at the Podsters. It misses them, but hits the keyboard and uploads the video for the world to see.

Kam Fong joins the Jarlewski family to watch Ethan and Jim compete on White Ghost and it turns into one of the great family meltdowns of all time. Back at jPod, Kaitlin watches Ethan's video, again and again and again.

Source: The Official jPod Website

Just as Ethan (DAVID KOPP) musters up the nerve to ask Kaitlin (EMILIE ULLERUP) out, her old flame Kevin (KYLE CASSIE) becomes a hero. Kevin is an actor, and his current gig is playing Klownsworthy, the Churley Burger spokesclown. As Klownsworthy, Kevin has apparently rescued three terminally-ill children from a burning building. Kevin's all over the news and when he's interviewed he tells the world he wants Kaitlin back.

Meanwhile, Jim (ALAN THICKE) is delighted to have an opportunity to do research for an upcoming bikesploitation movie when he and Carol (SHERRY MILLER) visit a biker's house in hopes of expanding her marijuana market.

Back at jPod, Steve (COLIN CUNNINGHAM) asks Ethan to attend a meeting he can't make. The Podsters are disappointed with Ethan for agreeing to go, but Kaitlin is impressed, and that was Ethan's plan. It may be the only way he can compete with a "hero."

The meeting marks the return of legendary Neotronic Arts employee, Alistair Parrish (RYAN ROBBINS), who was sent to American prison camp Guantànamo for creating an astonishing flight simulator game engine that involved flying jets into office towers.

When Ethan describes Cowboy as "the most talented coder in the building," Alistair wants to meet him. Cowboy and Alistair bond instantly and parse code together at a feverish pace.

Carol gets nowhere with the bikers -- they take her and Jim for narcs. On their second visit, Jim wears biker duds and Carol brings samples of her best bud.

Ethan gets invited to another meeting, but he is horrified when he learns that it's for Klownsworthy: The Game, on which Kevin will be intimately involved. Ethan and jPod are to start working on the game full time.

Kaitlin accompanies Kevin to Churley Burger to shoot a Klownsworthy commercial. Kevin is miked for sound but, not having been on camera for a while, he's nervous and his "spastic colon" starts acting up.

Carol and Jim again return to the bikers. Carol is mortified when Dwight (DARREN MOORE), a biker she'd given up for dead and tossed into a dumpster weeks before after a botched drug deal, answers the door. She drops her handgun and it goes off... accidentally, into Dwight's foot.

Cowboy proudly shows the Podsters the disc of his new source code, but Alistair grabs it from him and runs. Having used Cowboy to update his skills, Alistair is now the best coder in the building.

While in the toilet at Churley Burger, Kevin gets a collect phone call from his convict brother. Kevin tells him that he didn't intend to save the kids: he'd gone in to retrieve his cell phone (recently loaded up with Scooby-Doo ring tones) and, "Those brats latched on to me and wouldn't let me go." Of course, Klowsnworthy is miked and the entire crew and Churley executives listen in as he insults them and the company. It's the end of the road for Kevin's Klownsworthy gig.

Back at the Jarlewski home, Steve confesses to Jim that he's in love with Carol, so Jim asks Kam Fong (RAUGI YU) for a "favour" to deal with Steve.

Source: The Official jPod Website

Steve (COLIN CUNNINGHAM) has gone missing. Ethan (DAVID KOPP) believes that Steve is still alive but the other Podsters think he's committed suicide.

Carol (SHERRY MILLER) is sad about Steve's disappearance and Jim (ALAN THICKE) wants to cheer her up. He finds just the thing: The Vancouver Swing Society is hosting an excursion to the botanical gardens in Victoria. Something for both of them!

Meanwhile, the Podsters learn that Steve's replacement is Alistair Parrish (RYAN ROBBINS), the code-thief. Their new boss kills BoardX and assigns his new game, an embarrassing sword and sorcery adventure called SpriteQuest.

At the hotel, Jim and Carol meet Bertrand (JOHN NOVAK) and Justine (MARIA MARLOW). They like them very much until they learn they're at a sex convention for swingers. Carol is furious and gets even angrier when Jim implies she was romantically involved with Steve. She accepts Bertrand's invitation to an orgy. Jim imagines her as the centre of attention, but Carol just locks herself in the bathroom.The Podsters resist their new boss, but Kaitlin (EMILIE ULLERUP) wants to excel. Alistair has her install new software which she doesn't realize will monitor the Podster's productivity. Ethan is ready to revolt when Alistair cuts off their telephones and internet and moves his desk into jPod.

Ethan gets an anonymous instant message instructing him to watch Alistair, who behaves bizarrely then heads out. Ethan's phone rings and the voice of the mysterious "Babette" explains how she got Alistair to leave. The Podsters are back on line, too, and they send Ethan a news story that Steve has left a suicide note. Cowboy (BEN AYRES) passes out bottles of Chugatussin and the Podsters toast the memory of Steve and get tussed up.

When Alistair returns, he threatens to fire Ethan but Ethan counters by challenging him to a duel. If Alistair wins, they'll work on SpriteQuest and, if he loses, they'll finish BoardX. Alistair selects Rock Paper Scissors and then reveals that he was a three-time World Champion. Ethan's phone rings. It's Babette, telling him to watch for light signals that will indicate what to throw against Alistair.

Meanwhile, after trying to coax Carol to join the orgy, Bertrand tells her that Jim honestly thought it was a dance convention. Carol finds Jim and they are very happy to make up.

Ethan and Alistair face off. It's a dead heat as Ethan manages to keep throwing exactly what Alistair does. They agree to call it a draw: jPod will concentrate on SpriteQuest, but Alistair will move out of jPod and cancel production quotas.

Ethan asks the Podsters if anyone knows a Babette that works at N.A.

Source: The Official jPod Website

Ethan (DAVID KOPP) passes out invitations to the Jarlewski Annual Chuckshot, a celebration in honour of his late maternal grandfather. "Grampie Chuck" (BARRY KENNEDY) was with the police department and, every year, in his memory the family pulls out his large weapons collection. The evening is capped off with firing one shotgun shell of Chuckshot: Chuck's ashes loaded into shotgun shells. This year marks the final round of Chuck.

Part of the family tradition is that an animal, shot in the wild, provides the meat for the event. Carol (SHERRY MILLER) hands a reluctant Jim (ALAN THICKE) her father's shotgun and sends him out on the hunt. Jim calls Kam Fong (RAUGI YU) and the friends enjoy cocktails in Kam Fong's limo before stepping out to buy freshly-shot ducks from a hunter's pick up truck.

Ethan recalls his grandfather's tragic death, demonstrating Fun with Gun Safety at Ethan's fourth-grade show and tell. Ethan was Chuck's favorite grandson and he sees this as the last chance he'll have to spend time with his beloved grandfather.

Dwight (DARREN MOORE), the biker Carol accidentally shot, is out for revenge. He screws a silencer onto his gun while watching the house.

A limo pulls into the Jarlewski driveway. Carol is not pleased that Jim has invited Kam Fong to the Chuckshot, but she cheers up as the other guests arrive. The party moves to the backyard, where guests enjoy shooting melons and soup cans. Dwight fires a few shots, too, but keeps missing his target, Carol.

Ethan and Katilin (EMILIE ULLERUP) arrive, and Dwight isn't the only stalker. Kaitlin's boyfriend, Kevin (KYLE CASSIE), the disgraced spokesclown, is also spying and he crashes the party.

After dinner, it's time to for Carol to fire the Chuckshot, but the shotgun jams. As Jim tries to fix it, a drunken Greg (PETER BENSON) grabs the gun from his father it and accidentally fires. Carol is devastated.

Kaitlin dumps Kevin, while Bree (STEPH SONG), having learned that John Doe (TORRANCE COOMBS) is a master of the "oral arts," lures him into Ethan's childhood bedroom.

Ethan comforts Carol. It turns out that, wanting to keep a part of his grandfather, he had swapped a dummy shell with the last remaining Chuckshot. Ethan gives his mother the real Chuckshot and she fires off the final round. A dead Dwight falls from a nearby tree.

Kam Fong comes across mother, son and dead body in the background. He offers to help dispose of the body and asks Carol for her duck recipe. A friendship is born.

All's well until Ethan finds Steve's missing PDA in the basement. He confronts his father and Jim confesses to having Steve "kamnapped." Ethan gets Jim and Kam Fong to agree to send him to China to bring Steve back. Cowboy wants to go, too.

Source: The Official jPod Website

Ethan (DAVID KOPP) and Cowboy (BEN AYRES) are detained when they arrive in Beijing – they had no idea their luggage contains 50 bags of heroin. But when the guard learns they've been sent by Kam Fong (RAUGI YU), he releases them after pocketing several bags.

Back in Vancouver, Kaitlin (EMILIE ULLERUP) tracks Ethan and Cowboy's movement through China on GPS while lovebirds Bree (STEPH SONG) and John Doe (TORRANCE COOMBS) start to get on each other's nerves.

Kam Fong needs a location to shoot No, Grandpa!, an erotic film for the "indie" market. Both Jim (ALAN THICKE) and Kam Fong are surprised when Carol (SHERRY MILLER) agrees to let him shoot an adult film in her home – but she asks for a portable generator as payment. The film crew arrives and Carol is astonished that the lead actress is Sarah (TAMMY GILLIS), Ethan's ex-girlfriend.

Ethan and Cowboy expect to find Steve (COLIN CUNNINGHAM) recovering from injuries incurred at a Himalayan Cuddling Retreat and are surprised when they, and the suitcase of heroin, are let off at a huge factory: the Peoples' Victorious Communal Rubber Shoe Sole Facility Number 47. Factory Manager Thong Wing (YEE JEE TSO) takes them to Steve, who, it turns out, is very happy working on the shoe sole-making machine. Oh yeah, Kam Fong has also got Steve addicted to heroin.

Back at Ethan's parents' place, Carol and Sarah catch up. When Kam Fong instructs his actress to get to work, Carol tells Sarah to decline to work in the film: she sees her opportunity to be a grandma.

In China, after Ethan and Cowboy help Steve meet his shoe quota, it's time for Steve's heroin fix. Thong Wing opens the suitcase and is outraged that some of the shipment is missing. Ethan and Cowboy are manacled to the shoe machine. While Steve is perfectly content to remain in the factory forever, Cowboy grows increasingly agitated. His obsessive preoccupation with death is fueled by the confiscation of his cigarettes and cough syrup.

And then Cowboy sees a way out -- an opportunity to break through the Great Firewall of China using an East German computer made in 1985, and connecting it to an in-house P/A system telephone. It works, and Ethan is able to get a call through to Kam Fong. Ethan asks for help but Kam Fong, displeased that Ethan's parents have brainwashed his actress, hangs up.

Cowboy connects another call and Kaitlin's face appears on the ancient monitor. Unfortunately Kaitlin can't hear Ethan, and before he can send her an SOS, Thong Wing tears the power cord from the wall and crushes Cowboy's GPS.

Later, Cowboy tells Ethan and Steve of the fateful Christmas Eve when he found his parents dead in a murder suicide pact. Just then, Thong Wing attacks Ethan, but Cowboy steps in with a Kung Fu move that manages to work. Thong Wing lands on the conveyor belt and is sucked into the machine.

Outside the factory, a worker finds a dead bird. Bad news! The "Plague Whistle" blows and the factory workers flee in panic.

Back at the Jarlewskis, Carol and Sarah go to the spa, while Jim orders a pizza. Kam Fong is pleased that he may have found a new leading lady: a genuine pizza delivery girl.

Ethan, Cowboy and Steve return to Vancouver. Steve heads for an alley to score heroin. Cowboy visits his parents' grave. And Ethan returns home to find Sarah waiting for him in his apartment wearing a silk robe.

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Ethan (DAVID KOPP) and his old girlfriend, Sarah (TAMMY GILLIS), are grabbing breakfast in his apartment, when Steve, (COLIN CUNNINGHAM) high on heroin, pops in to offer Ethan a ride to work. Sure. Sarah asks if she can crash at Ethan's and he reluctantly complies.

In the Neotronic Arts parking lot, Alistair (RYAN ROBBINS) bumps into Steve and both men drop their key fobs. Ethan introduces his bosses to each other, but Alistair rants a martyr's terrorist tirade and runs off. When Steve clicks his fob to lock his car, kablam! It's the wrong fob and Alistair and the bomb strapped to him blow up.

After the commotion dies down, the Podsters have their first meeting with the new heroin-addicted Steve: and they aren't impressed. Instead of bringing back BoardX and killing Alistair's game, Steve wants its lame replacement, SpriteQuest, fast-tracked. He also spills the beans about Ethan's ex-girlfriend, Sarah. Ethan tries to explain Sarah to Kaitlin, but Kaitlin (EMILIE ULLERUP) tells him she's happy for him.

Later, Ethan catches Steve trying to break into his apartment. Sarah gives Steve a fix and suggests they wean him off heroin. Ethan wonders how she knows these things.

Kaitlin pays a visit, wanting to clear up any weirdness between her and Ethan. As they talk in the hallway, Sarah steps out, hugs Kaitlin and invites her out for bubble tea. The girls walk off like best friends.

Steve, high on smack and consequently calm, cool and collected, visits Jim (ALAN THICKE) and Carol (SHERRY MILLER). He admits his infatuation with Carol and tells them he's a new man.

Bree (STEPH SONG) asks Cowboy (BEN AYRES) for a favour. She wants to scare her mother, Winnie, with the most horrific boyfriend imaginable: can he play the role? John Doe (TORRANCE COOMBS) protests that he can be a boyfriend from hell but Bree doubts it. John Doe consults Kam Fong (RAUGI YU) on how to piss off his Chinese girlfriend's mother.

When Sarah arrives at jPod to have lunch with Kaitlin, Bree explains that Ethan has Betty and Veronica Syndrome – the inability to choose between two women who are friends.

Bree coaches Cowboy on how to insult her mother.

Ethan searches for Steve.

Kaitlin returns from lunch with Sarah, clearly no longer interested in Ethan.

Meanwhile, Ethan and Sarah have dinner with Jim and Carol. Ethan argues that Steve shouldn't use heroin but Sarah disagrees and convinces his parents that they should help Steve with his addiction. Jim asks his good buddy Kam Fong to help.

Cowboy, Bree and her mother, Winnie, have lunch. John Doe arrives, dressed in gangsterish "Triad Chic." He introduces himself as Bree's "other white meat." Winnie is mortified, and Bree even more so.

Back at his apartment, Ethan finds Sarah cutting heroin with sugar. It turns out she's a user, too and she wants to cut the heroin Kam donated to Steve, and sell the remainder. Ethan shows her the door.

The next day at jPod, Steve is confronted by an "untervention." The Podsters and Carol speak their piece. They tell Steve he's been way cooler since he's been on heroin, but they can't take his yo-yoing personality. They propose that if he can't quit, he needs to become a high-functioning addict and "use drugs responsibly."

Steve considers their words, but then later, he shoots up in an alley.

At the end, Ethan learns that maybe Kaitlin hasn't lost interest in him after all.

Source: The Official jPod Website

To celebrate Kaitlin's (EMILIE ULLERUP) graduation from a high school equivalency program, the Podsters decide to throw her a prom.

But there's bad news: The Podsters learn that the Princess Stephanie Institute has lost its accreditation, rendering Kaitlin's diploma worthless. Ethan can't bring himself to tell Kaitlin and prom plans continue anyway.

Cowboy (BEN AYRES) notices things are missing from his desk -- Steve (COLIN CUNNINGHAM) is stealing to support his heroin habit.

Jim (ALAN THICKE) takes up screenwriting, determined to write his way to fame. With a little help from his friend, he plans to write the life of Kam Fong (RAUGI YU). Jim, of course, will play the lead. While the men are upstairs writing, Carol's (SHERRY MILLER) grow op is ransacked. Jim suspects Steve, but Carol is sure Ethan's old girlfriend, Sarah, is responsible. Kam Fong is also angry with Sarah for deserting his porn shoot. Carol and Kam Fong make a plan.

The next time Steve tries to sell stolen technology, his fence wants more: he asks for information on SpriteQuest, the game jPod's working on.

Ethan is determined to help Kaitlin and asks John Doe (TORRANCE COOMBS) to hack her transcripts into a safe, accredited school. Bree (STEPH SONG) finds the "Let's English! Academia College,"

Cowboy suspects that Steve is the thief. When he confronts him, Steve offers a hug machine —a device used to dispense non-human hugs to autistics - as a bizarre repayment.

Carol tells Ethan about the plan to ship "that dreadful whore" Sarah off to China in a freight container.

Meanwhile, Bree is looking forward to the prom for John Doe's sake because, "for someone who is trying to be as statistically normal as humanly possible, there is nothing more statistically normal than doing it on prom night."

Kaitlin learns from Gordina (KAREN HOLNESS) in Human Resources that the Princess Stephanie Institute has closed and she hasn't graduated, after all. Gordina gives Kaitlin an ultimatum: she must find who is leaking NA information to Awesome Arts or Kaitlin will be out of a job.

Suddenly, all of the Podsters are Kaitlin's suspects. But then Steve wants to speed up SpriteQuest production and they catch him in the act of selling the game engine. Kaitlin gets to keep her job. Steve is fired.

Meanwhile, as Carol has second thoughts about having Sarah kidnapped and sent away for life, Jim reassures her that it's not the first time it's been done. Carol asks what he means and it comes out that Jim had a female stalker. Carol puts two and two together and she is crushed.

It's prom night in jPod and the theme is "Night of a Thousand Clichés." While the other Podsters dance, Cowboy feels a little lonely – until Gordina arrives. She wants Cowboy all to herself and, together, they go upstairs. Bree leads John Doe out to initiate him in the limo, and Ethan and Kaitlin, now a full-fledged high school graduate, reign as king and queen of the prom. Ethan and Kaitlin dance and, finally, they share their first kiss.

At the Jarlewski's, Carol has packed a suitcase. She reads Jim the goodbye letter she's written, but rather than listening, Jim heads into the kitchen to fetch ice for his drink. When Jim returns, Carol has left. He watches her back the station wagon out of the driveway. Neither Jim nor Carol realize she's run over Steve.

Source: The Official jPod Website