Honey, She's Like A Fish Out Of Water

Honey, She's Like a Fish Out of Water is the second episode of the second season and twenty-fourth episode overall of Honey I Shrunk The Kids: The TV Show.

Overview
Amy can't swim but wants to show up the most popular girl by stealing and using her father's experimental swimming enhancer. While both girls end up turning into mermaids, Diane wants to sell a program to a potential benefactor that is too conservative.

Summary
While her friend is wondering about their lunch's content, Amy is annoyed that she isn't invited to her arch-enemy Veronica's birthday party. After accidently causing some food to fall on to herself, Amy receives an initiation by Veronica. Later that day, Diane and Jake McKenna try to convince Mrs. Gotteramerding about Diane's Responsible Parents Responsible Teens Program. While others praised Diane's program, Mrs. Gotteramerding has doubts due the Szalinski family's unorthodox personality. As Diane tries to convince the opposite, she kicks Mrs. Gotteramerding out. Inside the Szalinski house, Wayne and Nick try to fix an invention that caused yet another problem just as Amy arrives home.

Later that night, Amy asks for Wayne's help as she can't swim so she asks for the Swim Fish Cream, an untested cream which is supposed to tap into a human's buried fish instincts. Despite Wayne's refusal and his speech of being the best individual, Amy steals the cream in desperate attempt to outdo Veronica. While Amy obtains her sample, some of the cream drops onto Nick's pet Guinea Pig. The next day at Marv Fishland's Fun Park, the owner Marv Fishland is deeply in debt with the bank despite getting an advance for Veronica's birthday party. As Amy arrives at the party, Veronica is showing off her swimming skills and occasionally insulting Amy. After being pushed into the pool, Amy applies the Swim Fish Cream onto herself. Back at the Szalinski home, Diane notices Nick's pet in the sink just as Mrs. Gotteramerding arrives. Unfortunately, Nick notices Alvin now has grown a fish-like tail which explains how he could can successfully swim like he never could before. Meanwhile, Amy can feel the effects of the cream as soon as she applies it, and she starts to swim really well in front of her classmates, performing jumps similar to a dolphin. While Diane tries to convince Mrs. Gotteramerding again on her program, Nick tells Wayne about Amy stealing his untested formula. Much to Diane's reluctance, Wayne kicks out Mrs. Gotteramerding and the family head to the party. Annoyed at being uprooted at her own party, Veronica also applies the Swim Fish Cream onto herself so Amy and Veronica end up trying to outdo each other with their new dolphin-like abilities. As Fishland broods over losing his theme park, his clueless employee points out that the girls are making the partygoers simply in awe but they all ran out when the skin on Veronica's arm is pulled off, revealing a scaled forearm and a webbed hand. Amy and Veronica sprout fins along their forearms by the time the Szalinski family arrive to see them panicking at the edge of the pool, just before their legs morph into humanoid fish-like tails, growing over their bikini bottoms.

As the Szalinski's escape with the girls into the family van, FishLand attempts chase them in order to save his park, Wayne manages to evade Fishland by changing the lights at the intersection. Back at the house, Diane distracts McKenna while Wayne and Nick gets the girls inside using a wheelbarrow. Amazingly, FishLand manages to find the Szalinski house and attempts to bribe Nick then Diane about giving him the two "mutant freak girls" to save his park. Disgusted with Fishland's general dialog, Diane has Quark attack to which Fishland retreats. In the backyard, Amy and Veronica are scratching their scaly arms, needing fresh water while they sit in a Jacuzzi. As they argue and fight about how they got this situation, Nick simply watches in amusement. Based on Wayne's analyze of Nick hamster, the Fish Swim Cream brings out buried instincts but also brings out ancient ancestors... of the fish kind. Late into the night, Amy and Veronica are left with Quark as they get ready for an uncomfortable sleep in the Jacuzzi. They don't show it but they are getting mildly scared as their spines become more spiny and fish-like. Meanwhile, Wayne works hard through the night for an antidote but even he falls asleep. As everyone is sleeping, FishLand covers Quark with a towel before tying him up. Amy soon wakes up before Fishland steals her and Veronica. By the morning, Wayne develops the antidote and immediately cures the Guinea Pig, Wayne tells Diane that Nick's pet is lucky as this could have been permanent as well as for the girls if not treated after some time. Unfortunately, Nick notices the Jacuzzi empty and the girls missing.

The Szalinskis free Quark and quickly deduce that Fishland has the girls due to a towel left behind with the parks name on it. As they leave to rescue them, they accidently run Mrs. Gotteramerding off the road and catch McKenna's curiosity. At FishLand's park, Amy and Veronica had at this point lost the hair on their head and now sport fish-like scalps and their ears had become finned. They are on display with the crowd in awe but the mermaids attempt to scare them away by hissing. While having their picture taken and being stared at against their will, Amy finds out from Veronica that this is what being popular gets them. Veronica also implies jealously as her own father is nowhere to be found unlike Amy's "freaky family" who are trying to help her. FishLand disperses the crowd but says to the mermaids that they should prepare for the next show. Meanwhile, the Szalinskis sneak into Fishland's park despite being blacklisted on the property. McKenna and Mrs. Gotteramerding followed the family with Gotteramerding annoyed that Diane blew her off and McKenna worried that something bad is happening. Disguised as employees, the family split up in hopes of the girls. As Fishland plans to take his sideshow with the two "fish girls" out of the country, McKenna comes in asking if this attraction is some kind of a fraud. To shake him off, Fishland claims they are not really mermaids but actors, and he will fax the paperwork later. Despite their efforts, Wayne and Diane get pinched by security and tied to a chair. While having his clueless employee go after Nick, Fishland tells Wayne and Diane that he can now make "a couple of fishies disappear". While hiding from Fishland's most clueless employee, Nick discovers salt water under the truck he is hiding under and and figures out the girls' are inside. Unfortunately for Amy and Veronica, their "mermaid" transformation progresses further as their ability to talk is slowly replaced with dolphin squeals. As Fishland monologues about he's successful, McKenna unknowingly knocks Fishland on the ground to which Diane retrieves the antidote and runs to the girls' rescue while Wayne tells McKenna that Amy has kidnapped. FishLand attempt to drive off with the girls while the two "little mermaids" are scared but can only make dolphin noises. After blowing off Mrs. Gotteramerding yet again, Diane procures a bike to cut off Fishland's truck and manages to cure the girls mere seconds prior to the Matheson police arriving to stop Fishland. Questioned, Wayne and Diane tells McKenna that Fishland threatened them and is a fake. While handcuffed and pushed in a police car, Fishland tries tell the police that the "mermaids" were real. McKenna believes that this was why the Szalinski family acted weird these past couple of days, Mrs. Gotteramerding has a change heart after finding out what's happened from McKenna, and Amy and Veronica unofficially bond as friends even though they're in high school.

Main Cast

 * Peter Scolari - Wayne Szalinski
 * Barbara Alyn Woods - Diane Szalinski
 * Hillary Tuck - Amy Szalinski
 * Thomas Dekker - Nick Szalinski
 * Quark - Himself

Guest Cast

 * George Buza - Jake McKenna
 * Miranda Frigon - Veronica
 * Vanessa King - Danielle
 * Christine Willes - Mrs. Gotteramerding
 * Jon Polito - Marv Fishland
 * Terry Lawrence - Timmy