The episode list for the Disney Channel sitcom Phil of the Future. The series premiered on June 18, 2004 and ended on August 19, 2006 with 43 episodes spanning two seasons.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 21 | June 18, 2004 (2004-06-18) | October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28) | |
| 2 | 22 | June 25, 2005 (2005-06-25) | August 19, 2006 (2006-08-19) | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2004–05)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 1 | 1 | "Your Cheatin' Heart" | David Kendall | Douglas Tuber & Tim Maile | June 18, 2004 (2004-06-18) | 111 |
| Keely's crush, Tanner, is cheating on her. When Darcy, the other girl, asks about Tanner, Phil morphs into Tanner and kisses her privately. Phil tries to tell Keely but she thinks that he's just trying to break them up. After seeing Darcy return to kiss Tanner, Keely learns the truth and apologizes to Phil. Meanwhile, Pim tries to break up Debbie and Bradley because they annoy her with their love talk. She tricks Debbie into thinking that Bradley hit on her causing Debbie to throw a pie in his face. Debbie then wants Bradley back and asks Pim to train her to be just like Pim. In the end, Bradley ends up really liking Pim. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Unification Day" | Tim O'Donnell | Dan Fybel & Rich Rinaldi | June 18, 2004 (2004-06-18) | 110 |
| Phil's family decides to celebrate Unification Day, the time in the future when world peace began, but Phil and the crew get invited to an 11th grade party. Debbie helps Pim in cooking after she continually uses takeout food as her assignment. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Meet the Curtis" | Neal Israel | Dan Fybel & Rich Rinaldi | June 18, 2004 (2004-06-18) | 105 |
| The Diffy family find out that a caveman stowed away on their time machine, and Lloyd tries to get rid of him, but Phil wants to keep "Curtis". | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Phillin' In" | David Kendall | Ellen Guylas | June 18, 2004 (2004-06-18) | 113 |
| To get the after burner card for his skyak, Phil has to watch Pim while their parents are gone for the weekend; Pim tries to sabotage the weekend. Lloyd and Barbara have unknown mishaps on their road trip, including not realizing they have to pull over for a police car that is following them. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Tanner" | Joanna Kerns | Rachelle Romberg | June 25, 2004 (2004-06-25) | 118 |
| Phil gets sent back to the 2nd grade to improve his penmanship. He then meets Tanner's little brother who has a camera taped onto his helmet. After his embarrassing moments in the 2nd grade he finds out that Tanner's little brother's camera that was taped onto his helmet taped all the things he did in 2nd grade, so he goes to Tanner's house and climbs to his room to try to get the tape back. He fails. The next morning, Tanner reveals to the whole student body that Phil Diffy went back to the 2nd grade. And he shows all the things Phil did. Phil admits that he went to the 2nd grade, but as he was saying this Tanner's little brother comes and tells of all the embarrassing things Tanner did such as he was crying at the petting zoo last week because the goat touched him and his mom had to buy him an ice cream to make him stop crying. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Raging Bull" | Tim O'Donnell | Douglas Tuber & Tim Maile | July 2, 2004 (2004-07-02) | 120 |
| Phil uses his Wizard gadget to save a classmate; Pim pretends Curtis is her dad for a parent conference. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "My Way" | Savage Steve Holland | Story by : Tim Maile Teleplay by : Rachelle Romberg | July 9, 2004 (2004-07-09) | 115 |
| Phil tries to help Keely overcome her stage fright so she can perform in front of the school. But that plan backfires when Phil notices that Keely can only sing in front of him. To end the problem, Phil shrinks himself and climbs up the mike stand to help to Keely sing "Protecting Me". She then forgets about Phil and begins to swing the mike stand as she sings confidently as she swings the mike stand Phil flies off. She does not win first place, but in fact Tara did. She then thanks Phil for his help. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Daddy Dearest" | Tim O'Donnell | Adam Lapidus | July 23, 2004 (2004-07-23) | 114 |
| Lloyd plans to play American folk music at Phil's school assembly when Lloyd soon finds out that Phil and Pim are embarrassed by him; Curtis visits the dentist with caveman cavities. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Pheremonally Yours" | Tim O'Donnell | Danny Kallis | August 6, 2004 (2004-08-06) | 106 |
| Phil draws the affections of a Southern girl named Marla, but her feelings are unrequited. Pim joins the orchestra directed by Bradley but Debbie wants him to take Pim out of the show. Pim finds out and tries to sabotage Debbie's solo. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Future Tutor" | Neal Israel | Tim O'Donnell | August 13, 2004 (2004-08-13) | 101 |
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Phil and his family are stuck in the 21st century. Not knowing when they'll return to their homes, Pim and Phil go to school. Pim becomes her class' chalk monitor, while Phil tutors Keely in algebra and teaches her to be accepting of people outside her clique; Pim runs against Debbie in an election for chalk monitor. Note: This is the pilot episode of the series. This episode, "Future Jock" and "You Say Toe-Mato" aired as a three-episode event on August 13, 2004. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Future Jock" | David Kendall | Adam Lapidus & Steve Luchsinger | August 13, 2004 (2004-08-13) | 102 |
| Phil uses a futuristic gadget to join the gymnastic team and competes in the gymnastics tournament to impress Keely; Pim tries to get Phil in trouble. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "You Say Toe-Mato" | Tim O'Donnell | Douglas Tuber & Tim Maile | August 13, 2004 (2004-08-13) | 104 |
| Phil's class takes a field trip to a local tomato farm, where one of the activities is to go barefoot in a vat of tomatoes. Phil is self-conscious about his feet he, like the rest of the family, only has four toes on each foot. Lloyd makes him prosthetic toes, which are then lost in the tomatoes but quickly found by Keely. They have a discussion about being honest, and Phil tells her he's from the future. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Doggie Daycare" | Rich Correll | Dan Fybel & Rich Rinaldi | August 27, 2004 (2004-08-27) | 117 |
| Phil and Keely take care of dogs to earn money for the Festapalooza Concert. They generate a bond with a dog named Max (voiced by Rodney Dangerfield, in one of his last acting performances before his death later that year). Pim pretends to be injured to make Debbie serve her. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "We'll Fix It in Editing" | Brian Roberts | Douglas Tuber & Tim Maile | October 1, 2004 (2004-10-01) | 108 |
| A school video project causes Phil to overlook his friends' feelings while Pim is a fast walker in a track meet. Phil apologizes in a video, and Pim uses Debbie's kiss as weapon to defeat her opponent. The reigning champion fast walker is afraid of girls. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Halloween" | Fred Savage | Story by : Rachelle Romberg Teleplay by : Michael Caine & Jason Cox | October 8, 2004 (2004-10-08) | 119 |
| Debbie is revealed to be an evil cyborg who terrorizes Pickford, leaving Phil and Keely to save Halloween. Upon finding the room where Debbie's slaves are making cupcakes for charity, Phil convinces them to eat the cupcakes, causing Debbie to overheat and melt into black goo. (The canonicity of the episode is called into question by the fact that the character of Debbie appears in the episode "Neander-Phil", which both aired and was produced after this episode. Kay Panabaker did not appear as Debbie in season two.) | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Age Before Beauty" | Tim O'Donnell | Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn | November 12, 2004 (2004-11-12) | 112 |
| Keely takes Phil's New-Ager and makes herself older as a 25 years old (Brittney Powell) to see what she'll look like, but Mr. Hackett asks her out. Mr. Hackett is feeling depressed about his dating problems, and Phil and Keely help him gain the confidence to impress his ex-girlfriend. Pim and Bradley get bribes from a chef. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Neander-Phil" | Matt Dearborn | Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn | December 10, 2004 (2004-12-10) | 121 |
| A malfunctioning gadget switches Phil's and Curtis' personalities once in a while, Phil tries to impress a girl named Alice Da Luca (Alice Greczyn), Pim gets stressed out by her "not so best friend" Debbie (who previously died in “Halloween”) and she takes a yoga class that Debbie teaches. Keely gets jealous of Phil's love interest to Alice and in the end of the episode Alice finds out that Phil was trying to impress her and she breaks up with him, Keely and Phil dance to the last song at the Ball. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Double Trouble" | Joanna Kerns | Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn | January 1, 2005 (2005-01-01) | 109 |
| Pim and Phil have problems with school bullies; Curtis adopts the neighbor's lawn ornaments. A bully's older brother wants to fight Phil, after Phil helps Pim stand up to the bully. Phil learns the older brother likes rabbits and gives him one, defusing the situation. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Milkin' It" | Savage Steve Holland | Rachelle Romberg | March 25, 2005 (2005-03-25) | 107 |
| Lloyd thinks that Phil's science project will lead to their discovery, and decides they must move. To prevent this, Phil and Keely disguise themselves to fool the science fair security guard. Things are not going well, but Lloyd shows up and saves the situation. Meanwhile, Pim misuses her cinespecs for a school writing assignment. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "Corner Pocket" | Savage Steve Holland | Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn | April 8, 2005 (2005-04-08) | 103 |
| Keely lies and tells her mom Mandy (Yeardley Smith) that she made the cheerleading squad. Phil, Keely, and Tia stage a cheerleading event to continue the deception, but Keely ends up telling her mom the truth. Meanwhile, Pim discovers Debbie's single dislike, raisins, and uses it against her. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Team Diffy" | Tim O'Donnell | James Kramer | October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28) | 116 |
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Phil is blackmailed by Andy Baxley (Orlando Brown), a rival from 2121, when Phil refuses to pull a prank on Mayor Da Luca (Terry Rhoads) jeopardizing his family's chance of returning back to their own time. Note: This episode was first included in the Gizmo & Gadgets DVD, released on August 16, 2005, prior to premiering on Disney Channel. Although this is a season one episode, Disney Channel premiered this episode once they had already begun airing season two episodes. | ||||||
Season 2 (2005–06)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 22 | 1 | "Versa Day" | Matthew Diamond | Roger S. H. Schulman | June 25, 2005 (2005-06-25) | 202 |
| Lloyd forces Phil and Pim to switch bodies after their bickering escalates. Meanwhile, Lloyd tries to get Curtis a job. | ||||||
| 23 | 2 | "Virtu-Date" | Fred Savage | Michael Curtis & Roger S. H. Schulman | June 26, 2005 (2005-06-26) | 201 |
| A fun day with Keely in Phil's future-virtual mall turns sour when Keely forms a crush on a robot. | ||||||
| 24 | 3 | "The Giggle" | David Kendall | Bill Canterbury | July 9, 2005 (2005-07-09) | 204 |
| When Keely changes her future for the worse by looking at a future internet machine, Phil and Keely must pass an impossible test given by a tough teacher. Pim sneaks into an R-Rated movie with Curtis as her guardian, but is scared stiff by it. | ||||||
| 25 | 4 | "Dinner Time" | Henry Chan | Julie Sherman Wolfe | July 24, 2005 (2005-07-24) | 203 |
| To thwart his suspicion, Phil invites Vice Principal Hackett to dinner at the Diffys' after Hackett moves in next door, but appearing to be a "normal family" is more difficult than it seems. | ||||||
| 26 | 5 | "Tia, Via, or Me... Uh" | David Kendall | Ivan Menchell | August 5, 2005 (2005-08-05) | 206 |
| Tia has moved away, and Keely has enlisted Phil into joining her in feminine activities, such as makeovers and shoe sales. Phil meets a new girl, Via, and makes her hang out with Keely so he can free himself from doing girl stuff with Keely. But Phil soon gets jealous when Keely begins spending more time with Via than him. | ||||||
| 27 | 6 | "Get Ready to Go-Go" | Jace Alexander | Sharon A. Wong & Masha Tivyan | August 5, 2005 (2005-08-05) | 207 |
| Phil and Keely are going together to the school dance, which excites them both... until Lloyd tells Phil that he has fixed the time machine and the Diffys are leaving on the day of the dance. | ||||||
| 28 | 7 | "Phil Without a Future" | Savage Steve Holland | Sharon A. Wong & Masha Tivyan | August 21, 2005 (2005-08-21) | 208 |
| It's career week at H.G. Wells Jr./Sr. High School, but Phil can't find a career that suits him. Pim decides to pursue a career as a corrections officer. | ||||||
| 29 | 8 | "Time Release Capsule" | Fred Savage | Michael Curtis | August 27, 2005 (2005-08-27) | 210 |
| H.G. Wells Jr./Sr. High School is about to bury a time capsule which Lloyd and Barbara will find in the future. Lloyd tells Phil to place a note in the capsule warning them not to travel into the past, but it means that Keely and Phil's memories of each other will be erased forever. | ||||||
| 30 | 9 | "Mummy's Boy" | Fred Savage | Dan Fybel & Rich Rinaldi | September 9, 2005 (2005-09-09) | 205 |
| Phil finds a part of the time machine when he goes to a museum; Keely and Owen sneak into the museum basement in order to film material for her project. | ||||||
| 31 | 10 | "Maybe-Sitting" | Fred Savage | Ivan Menchell | September 23, 2005 (2005-09-23) | 211 |
| When Phil and Keely baby-sit Nathan (Josh Flitter), the trouble-making nephew of Mr. Messerschmitt, they get more than they bargained for, so they use the New-Ager, a device that changes one's behavior. But things go haywire, leaving Nathan to act like an old man, while Phil is acting like a little boy. Now it's up to Keely to solve the problem before Mr. Messerschmitt and Lloyd get home. But her only salvation, Pim, is too busy using the Wizard to mass-produce and then sell model volcanoes for science class. | ||||||
| 32 | 11 | "Good Phil Hunting" | Andrew Tsao | Peter Tibbals & Eric Goldberg | September 30, 2005 (2005-09-30) | 214 |
| When Phil solves one of Mr. Hackett's difficult math problems, Keely accidentally blurts out the answer and is upgraded to the advanced math class. | ||||||
| 33 | 12 | "Pim-Cipal" | David Kendall | Douglas Tuber & Tim Maile | October 21, 2005 (2005-10-21) | 217 |
| Pim abuses her power when she becomes school principal for a day and it's to Phil to save the day. | ||||||
| 34 | 13 | "Phil of the Garage" | Roger S. H. Schulman | Roger S. H. Schulman | November 11, 2005 (2005-11-11) | 220 |
| When Phil feels his family's invasion of his privacy has gone too far, he opts to move into the garage with Curtis, but finds out the responsibility may be more than he can handle. | ||||||
| 35 | 14 | "It's a Wonder-Phil Life" | Douglas Tuber | Ivan Menchell | November 27, 2005 (2005-11-27) | 218 |
| After embarrassing himself with his knowledge of future-history, Phil gets fed-up with having to be dishonest about where his family is from. Phil comes clean to the world, but his newfound fame destroys his friendship with Keely. After she leaves him, the whole experience is revealed to be a vision Phil has. Meanwhile, Pim goes up against Helka the Hulka at a weightlifting competition. | ||||||
| 36 | 15 | "Christmas Break" | Fred Savage | Julie Sherman Wolfe | December 2, 2005 (2005-12-02) | 213 |
| With Christmas on the way, Phil remembers the first time he came to Pickford and meeting Keely while Lloyd recounts getting their house. | ||||||
| 37 | 16 | "Stuck in the Meddle With You" | Fred Savage | Ivan Menchell | January 6, 2006 (2006-01-06) | 215 |
| Keely tries to put together two classmates, Grace (Ashley Drane) and Grady (Jason Earles). When she gives Grace a complete physical and confidence makeover, she then tells her to go for the person she likes. To Keely's surprise Grace likes Phil instead of Grady. But Phil doesn't like her back so he pretends to be a low-life so Grace won't like him but it still doesn't work, so they make a double date with Grady and Keely, Phil and Grace. Before the date Keely and Phil transform Grady into something more like Phil. At the end of the date Grady and Grace go to clean the telescope and Phil and Keely enjoy their date. | ||||||
| 38 | 17 | "Broadcast Blues" | Fred Savage | David Steven Cohen | March 24, 2006 (2006-03-24) | 219 |
| When Keely's undercover news show isn't getting any viewers she teams up with Pim, who advises her to talk about fashion. While Pim's ideas gain Keely a big audience, it turns her show into an infomercial and makes her a trendsetter instead of the investigative reporter she intended to be from the beginning. | ||||||
| 39 | 18 | "Happy Nird-day" | Christopher Erskin | Wayne Stamps | March 31, 2006 (2006-03-31) | 209 |
| Phil forgot about Keely's birthday his first year in the past. This year, he gives Keely the best birthday present of the century, a skyacking trip. But then, Lloyd takes all the batteries out of their future gadgets. Pim meets her scheming match, fellow student named Simon Buber. | ||||||
| 40 | 19 | "Ill of the Future" | Henry Chan | Bill Canterbury | June 24, 2006 (2006-06-24) | 212 |
| The Diffy family gets a future disease called greenmia that turns them green and makes them act the opposite of what they normally do. For example, Phil usually tells the truth, when he got the disease he couldn't stop lying. | ||||||
| 41 | 20 | "Where's the Wizard?" | J. P. Manoux | Michelle Wendt & Kimberly Joy Kessler | July 7, 2006 (2006-07-07) | 216 |
| Phil, Keely, and Pim lose the Wizard, but find it in Vice-Principal Hackett's hands. But lucky for them, Pim knows that Hackett will have trouble finding out how to use the Wizard. | ||||||
| 42 | 21 | "Not-So-Great Great Great Grandpa" | Fred Savage | Ivan Menchell | August 11, 2006 (2006-08-11) | 221 |
| Phil finds out that a kid in his school is actually his great-great-grandfather, from Barbara's side of the family. But when Phil accidentally messes up the course of history, he, Pim, and Barbara start to disappear. | ||||||
| 43 | 22 | "Back to the Future (Not the Movie)" | Michael Curtis | Michael Curtis & Roger S. H. Schulman | August 19, 2006 (2006-08-19) | 222 |
| After being voted Cutest Couple by the school, Phil and Keely decide to become a couple but Phil gets the grim realization that the time machine is fixed. It also revealed that Lloyd was intentionally not repairing the time machine because the whole family is so happy living in this century. Upset that Phil's leaving just as they've admitted they love each other, Keely decides not to be there when the Diffys leave. But she changes her mind and rushes to the time machine... too late. Phil begs his father to go back, so he can truly say goodbye to Keely. Keely is reading the school news when Phil comes back to say goodbye. Phil exclaims "I didn't wanna leave without saying goodbye for real", and gives her a big passionate kiss on the lips in front of the entire school. Keely tells Phil to wait for her and Phil agrees and she gives him one more kiss. Phil leaves and goes back to the time machine, only to realize that they have left their pet caveman Curtis in the present, and start to go back. In the final scene of the series, we see Curtis getting food from the fridge. Curtis notices he's alone and panics. | ||||||
References
- "Phil Of The Future" – via Internet Archive.
- "Phil of the Future - Gadgets & Gizmos". Amazon. August 16, 2005. Retrieved December 17, 2016.