The Nerd Club

The Nerd Club is the eleventh episode of the second season.

Youtube
Talking Ben wants to hang out with more intellectual people. Enter: The Smarties! But not everyone’s pleased with his new choice of friends.

IMDb
Desperate for intellectual conversation, Talking Ben joins a club for hyper-intelligent people. He is excited to finally be among people who think like he does - until the Smarties start making fun of his non-genius friends. Tensions run high as Ben is forced to decide between his old friends and his new club.

Plot
Tom is brainstorming ideas for the Founder's Day parade, as he is Mayor, but it turns into a dance party. Ben is quite annoyed and he stops the dancing, then gives Tom a speech that directly addresses the town's issues in a very complicated way. Tom calls it a "boring speech", then continues on to dance it out, but Tom trips over Ben's spreadsheet with speech ideas. Ben gets very annoyed that his friends are not as smart as him, and goes to Xenon, his girlfriend. Xenon suggests that he joins the Smarties, a group that only lets in smart people. He quite easily joins them, but when the Smarties come to The Studio, they mock Tom, Angela, Hank, and Ginger for their normality. Ben, however remains firm in his belief that the Smarties are the best friends ever. The Smarties then bring in an invention called the No-Brainerator, which translates Smarty-speak into normal English, in the voices of Tom and the gang. The gang however doesn't care what they say, and they leave for the Founder's Day parade. Tom, in his wheelchair, can't dance, so the gang tries to dance him around, but he almost falls off, and the parade seems like a disaster. But then Ben, who has quit the Smarties, comes and holds the chair in place, keeping Tom on it. Then they all start dancing together, and the parade is a success.

Reception

 * The Nerd Club got 18,748 likes on YouTube and 5,721 dislikes, indicating positive reception. However, the views have been below average compared to other episodes in the series, amounting to 6 million as of December 2017.

Goofs

 * When Angela says "Yeah, alright!" Her mouth doesn't move.