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Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
17
February 14, 2016 (2016-02-14)
July 22, 2016 (2016-07-22)

2
20
February 3, 2017 (2017-02-03)
October 27, 2017 (2017-10-27)

3
TBA
December 8, 2017 (2017-12-08)
TBA

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No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [1][2]
Directed by
Written by
Original air date [1][2]
Prod.
code [1][3]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"Stuck in the Middle"
Jon Rosenbaum
Story by : Alison Brown
Teleplay by : Alison Brown & Linda Videtti Figueiredo
February 14, 2016 (2016-02-14)
101
2.81[4]

Harley struggles to get her siblings and parents to the park, where she is to receive a young inventor's award. She looks to Ethan for help and encouragement that they will make it to the park, but Georgie has a basketball game and Rachel is serving at a soup kitchen. Harley worries the basketball game will not finish on time. Rachel decides to spend time with her boyfriend Cuff after her volunteer work, despite her parents' admonitions. The Diaz family does eventually arrive at the park, though late for Harley's award.
Guest stars: Lauren Pritchard as Bethany Peters, Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters, Brett Pierce as Cuff

2
2
"Stuck in the Sweet Seat"
Jon Rosenbaum
Erika Kaestle & Patrick McCarthy
March 11, 2016 (2016-03-11)
102
1.64[5]

It is Harley's 13th birthday, but it seems no one remembers. Harley believes her parents will feel guilty about forgetting her special day, and decides to use that "guilt" to get the best seat in the family car as a present—the sweet seat, reserved for the oldest child, which is Rachel. To ensure she gets the sweet seat, and as soon as her siblings become aware of what day it is, Harley urges them to stay quiet about it for the rest of the day and distract Suzy and Tom from remembering. In trying to keep her birthday a secret, Harley endures demands from Daphne to keep quiet, as well as getting into trouble. Later that night, Georgie reminds Harley how precious celebrating birthdays with the family is becoming, as the older siblings will soon be leaving home. That prompts Harley to let go of her desire for the sweet seat and let the family know about her big day. As for that sweet seat, she can wait.

3
3
"Stuck with a Guy on the Couch"
David Kendall
Denise Moss
March 18, 2016 (2016-03-18)
104
1.67[6]

When Suzy and Tom refuse to buy the children another tablet to replace the one they broke, Harley comes up with a plan to raise money for that tablet. She decides to rent the family couch to a stranger, picking up the idea from the Peters, who are renting a room in their house. With Ethan's help, she books an Asian music student, Bai Hsu, to stay in the Diaz home for two nights. Bai's accommodations are not exactly as he expects since the children are trying to keep Suzy and Tom from becoming suspicious. When Bai cannot sleep in the Diaz home on the second night, Harley brings him to her father's store, where he ends up sleeping by a raft. The next morning, Harley, Ethan and Georgie discover Bai and the raft are gone. Tom tells them he sold the raft to Bai, whom he recognized in selfies Rachel posted online. As Tom did not accept any additional money from Bai, Harley's effort to fund the new tablet falls short. Meanwhile, the younger children attempt to raise money themselves by promoting frog wrestling.
Guest stars: Lauren Pritchard as Bethany Peters, Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters, Alex Shimizu as Bai Hsu, Kay Bess as Woman's Voice

4
4
"Stuck at the Movies"
Jon Rosenbaum
David McHugh & Matt Flanagan
March 25, 2016 (2016-03-25)
103
1.73[7]

While using her sure-fire way to get free stuff from companies through her "feedback" approach, Harley forgets she has a school science project due until her mother reminds her and wants to see that project. Meanwhile, Suzy is preoccupied with the family's Wi-Fi bill and complains to their provider, but when she follows Harley's system of company feedback by asking for free service and threatening cancellation, the Wi-Fi provider summarily cancels their service, which causes the children to become restless. To calm them down, Suzy and Tom decide to take the family to the movies. Harley figures she can come up with her project before the movie begins, while monitoring the seats she reserved for the family, but fails even after she manages to build something. The Diaz family ends up having a short stay at the theater as Suzy and Tom notice the movie they are watching is not G-rated. Harley finally settles on her project when Ethan shows her behind-the-scenes family moments he captured on his phone while at the theater; she builds a film projector so the family can watch those moments. It does help them pass the time without Wi-Fi service, which Suzy hopes to get restored.
Guest star: Matt Webb as Usher

5
5
"Stuck in the Block Party"
David Kendall
Allan Rice
April 1, 2016 (2016-04-01)
105
1.59[8]

The annual neighborhood block party is nearing, and Harley persuades her mother to let the family do the big activity for the event. To the shock of Ms. Peters, who is not keen on the seeing the Diaz family handle this responsibility, Suzy tells her the family is taking charge of the activity. Harley is left to come up with ideas and wants to do so undisturbed. She moves out of her bedroom and establishes her quiet space for thinking in a closet, leading Rachel and Georgie to fight for Harley's space in the bedroom. The quietude deeply affects Harley's creative mind, and the ideas she is able to muster lack any excitement. Harley realizes she needs the chaos from her siblings for inspiration. She tries to move back into her bedroom with Rachel and Georgie, but when her sisters disallow that, she has Daphne become their roommate. As Harley sees Daphne transport their sisters' stuff out the bedroom window, it inspires Harley to build a roller coaster for the block party.
Guest stars: Lauren Pritchard as Bethany Peters, Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters

6
6
"Stuck in the Slushinator"
Jon Rosenbaum
Lance Whinery
April 8, 2016 (2016-04-08)
106
1.64[9]

At 13, Harley has become old enough to work at her father's marina store and is eager to do so. However, Tom refuses to give her that opportunity, fearing disaster such as what he experienced with Rachel, Ethan and Georgie, so Harley tries to convince him for her chance and succeeds. She wants to add a slushy machine to the store, but after her father disapproves its $500 price tag, she unveils her cost-efficient alternative, the slushinator, powered by bicycles which she hires Lewie and Beast to pedal. It provides a boost to Tom's business, but the twins later decide they are done with slushy-making and want to do something else. After Harley gives the two incentive to return, the twins end up fighting, and their war is felt beyond the store. Harley eventually patches things up between the two. Though her slushinator is short-lived, her father commends her for not sinking his business and offers her the opportunity to continue working for him at the store. Meanwhile, Suzy wants the family to prepare for a church photo at the house, while Daphne takes care of what she believes is a cat. When it comes time for the photo, Daphne introduces the animal, which everyone discovers is actually a skunk.
Guest star: Joel Steingold as Tony

7
7
"Stuck in the Mother's Day Gift"
Jon Rosenbaum
Linda Videtti Figueiredo
April 29, 2016 (2016-04-29)
107
1.53[10]

Every Mother's Day, Harley makes a gift for her mother, while her siblings simply step in to share credit for it without contributing. For this Mother's Day, though, Harley wants the others to come up with their own presents. All their gift ideas fall short of expectation, but Harley and Georgie's decision to get the family car professionally cleaned and detailed leads to panic when the car is not back in time. With her siblings' help, Harley tries to investigate what happened to it, only to come up empty. When Suzy also wants to know what happened to the car, the children take responsibility for its missing. It turns out the car is fine, just parked somewhere else near the house all cleaned up, and Suzy is pleasantly surprised by its makeover. In the end, Harley does not mind her siblings sharing the credit with her on this Mother's Day gift.

8
8
"Stuck in Harley's Comet"
Paul Hoen
Denise Moss
May 13, 2016 (2016-05-13)
108
1.34[11]

With her three younger siblings at their grandmother's with Suzy and her older siblings having plans, Harley gets a rare opportunity to do something on her own in the house. After getting her father's permission, she decides to invite her friends over to an outdoor slumber party for a rare comet viewing. Ellie arrives early for the party, but Harley's sleepover plans do not go smoothly as she deals with Rachel getting grounded, as well as Ethan and Georgie getting tricked at an event for unique basketball shoes. Also, as Harley goes out her bedroom window with Ellie to prepare for the comet's arrival, before the other girls arrive, Ellie's fear of heights causes her to accidentally lock her and Harley out on the roof. Harley tries different ways to get them out of the predicament without her father knowing. One of those ideas ends up distorting the Diaz family's satellite dish, and since Tom was watching television, she gets caught and grounded. After Tom rescues the two girls, they witness the comet's passing.
Guest stars: Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters, Farrah Mackenzie as Sweet Girl
Absent: Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz, Cerina Vincent as Suzy Diaz

9
9
"Stuck with Mom's New Friend"
Jon Rosenbaum
Linda Videtti Figueiredo
May 20, 2016 (2016-05-20)
110
1.41[12]

While Tom is away at Georgie's basketball tournament, Suzy runs the marina store. It worries Harley because her mother is hanging around her too much at the store. Harley and Ethan soon discover that Suzy's lack of friends—including not staying in touch with her old ones—is causing her to cling a lot to the family, so the two use an online site to connect their mother with a new friend who also lives in Marshport. When they find one who is almost a perfect match, they are shocked that it is their own next door neighbor, Bethany Peters. As she and Suzy spend time together as friends, the Diaz children notice radical changes, such as healthy food, limited television time and no dangerous objects, none of which suits them. Attempting to return things to normal, Harley asks her mother to invite Ms. Peters to Daphne's school play. Thanks to Rachel's musical direction for the play with Daphne the center of attention, the play turns too wild for Bethany's taste and effectively ends her brief friendship with Suzy.
Guest stars: Lauren Pritchard as Bethany Peters, Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters
Absent: Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz, Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

10
10
"Stuck with My Sister's Boyfriend"
Jon Rosenbaum
David McHugh & Matt Flanagan
June 3, 2016 (2016-06-03)
111
1.55[13]

With school on break, Cuff is spending a lot of time at the Diaz house with Rachel, which also leads to his hanging with the twins. This overwhelms Harley because he is invading her personal stuff and Ethan because Lewie and Beast start thinking of Cuff as their older brother. Harley decides to find a job for Cuff, who winds up working at her father's marina store with her. Harley later tries to get him to quit by having him do a lot of unpleasant tasks around the store, but Cuff actually likes the work. When Rachel comes into the store to be with her boyfriend, he decides his job is more important, and it devastates Rachel. Cuff's absence at the house affects the twins as well, and Ethan struggles to be the awesome older brother again in their eyes. Seeing Rachel miserable prompts Harley to talk to Cuff about winning Rachel back. In showing Rachel how much he loves her, Cuff ends up getting fired by Tom for defacing store merchandise.
Guest star: Brett Pierce as Cuff
Absent: Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz, Cerina Vincent as Suzy Diaz

11
11
"Stuck with a Winner"
Linda Mendoza
Jess Pineda
June 10, 2016 (2016-06-10)
112
1.32[14]

With Georgie in her sports off-season, outside of basketball, soccer and softball, Harley tries to involve her in another sport during the break. Knowing Georgie's tendency to score low when she plays, Harley gets her to try out for the golf team and invents a set of remote-controlled balls that will assure her a spot. When Georgie makes the team and starts feeling and acting like a winner, Harley tells her the truth about the golf balls and feels guilty about the cheating. Georgie eventually gives up on sports altogether and wants to become a regular teenage girl, but Harley reminds her how much the sports get the family involved, despite how bad she is. Meanwhile, Suzy challenges Rachel, Lewie, Beast and Daphne to cook dinner after they complain about her meals. After being successful with it once, Rachel and the twins are not thrilled with cooking all the time, so they prepare a less-than palatable meal to get out of it.
Guest star: Jill Basey as Mrs. Sullivan
Absent: Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

12
12
"Stuck with No Rules"
Paul Hoen
Erika Kaestle & Patrick McCarthy
June 17, 2016 (2016-06-17)
109
1.30[15]

While Harley is looking for parts for a snow machine she plans to build, her parents discover a gift certificate for a bed and breakfast trip, which Tom's parents gave to them but is nearly expired. Harley sees that as an opportunity for the two to get away for the weekend and suggests Rachel be in charge. It takes a lot of convincing for Suzy and Tom to believe their 16-year-old daughter is up to the job, but they go on their trip. Harley builds her snow machine and gives Rachel the opportunity to experience a ski vacation in the backyard; the two share a rare but brief sister bond, which ends when Rachel invites her friends over as well as Cuff. Lewie and Beast tackle a list of "don'ts" by doing everything forbidden on that list, while Ethan and Georgie wrestle with Daphne over the television remote. None of them know their parents are watching every minute of the action at the house through their tablet, and they occasionally call. When the house becomes a mess, and Suzy and Tom phone they are coming home, Harley looks to Rachel to take charge. With Rachel's leadership, the house gets clean in time.
Guest star: Brett Pierce as Cuff

13
13
"Stuck in the Harley Car"
Jon Rosenbaum
Allan Rice
July 18, 2016 (2016-07-18)
114
1.43[16]

Ahead of Marshport's tricentennial celebration, Harley invents a pedicab for Ethan's tour business. When the slushy machine breaks down at the marina store, and Harley needs money to replace a part, she teams up with Ethan. Harley's end of the business becomes a shuttle service and later expands into a daycare service. When Ethan finds out his tours were turned into babysitting rides, he quits and Harley continues solo. Although Harley is enjoying the money she is making from the pedicab venture, she misses her slushy business more and decides to fix the slushy machine. She turns the pedicab back over to Ethan for his tours, after which the two happen to spot singer Rachel Platten, the surprise celebrity guest for the tricentennial parade, who needs a ride to her float. Meanwhile, Georgie is selected to lead the parade by Mrs. Sullivan, who also helps get her in shape to walk the route, while Rachel and Daphne compete for Marshport queen. Georgie winds up directing the parade into the Diaz backyard.
Special appearance by: Rachel Platten
Guest stars: Jill Basey as Mrs. Sullivan, Eva Simone Fisher as Woman, Beau Dylan Hart as Kid 1, Toby Grey as Kid 2
Absent: Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz, Cerina Vincent as Suzy Diaz

14
14
"Stuck in Lockdown"
Linda Mendoza
Julia Ahumada Grob & Bryan Larrivee
July 19, 2016 (2016-07-19)
113
1.38[17]

Harley's latest invention, an efficient laundry transport, leads to trouble. After Daphne uses the invention to transport herself downstairs and nearly gets hurt, she blames Harley when their mother checks on what happened. Suzy sends Harley to her room and puts her on "lockdown", the severest form of punishment in the Diaz family. With Harley confined to her bedroom, Tom has Rachel and Georgie work at his marina store, while Harley looks to get back at her younger sister for always getting her in trouble. When she sees Daphne doing something suspicious in the backyard, she elicits Ethan's help and sneaks out of her room. They are ready to bust Daphne as she sells her toys and other things to the neighbors, but when Harley finds out why, she realizes how much she has been neglecting her sister lately. Meanwhile, Rachel and Georgie are put on lockdown after Tom catches them throwing a party in the marina store. Harley manages to return to her bedroom, with her siblings' help, before her older sisters join her in confinement. When Suzy sees evidence suggesting Harley snuck out, Daphne blames Ethan, but Harley comes clean; Suzy adds Ethan to the lockdown. Daphne then gets herself in trouble to join her sisters and spend time with them. All the while, Lewie and Beast are on a week-long camping trip and manage to make it through one day before Suzy decides they have gotten into enough trouble and brings them home.
Absent: Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz

15
15
"Stuck without a Ride"
Jon Rosenbaum
Lance Whinery
July 20, 2016 (2016-07-20)
115
1.29[18]

Harley needs to go to a music event in Boston, where an invention of hers is entered in a contest. Her mother is unable to drive her there, so she looks to Rachel, who has her learner's permit, and asks her to take the driving test to get her license. Suzy finds out Rachel's driving instructor, Phil, is someone she knew in high school. When Rachel fails her test, she and Harley wonder what happened in Phil and Suzy's past that may have influenced his grading. Harley arranges for Phil to come over to the house so he and Suzy can shed light on their time together. As for Rachel's driving test, it turns out Suzy is insecure about any of her children driving, so she asked Phil to fail her daughter even though Rachel had demonstrated to her mother that she is a good driver. Having been unfair to Rachel, Suzy asks Phil for a retest and he is able to schedule it before Harley's trip. Meanwhile, Ethan is doing a buddy cop film and casts Lewie and Beast as the cops. During the filming, the twins happen to tamper with Harley's invention; when Harley shows Phil her invention, it malfunctions and Phil gets further endangered by the twins for the final scene of the film. Suzy ends up driving the family to Boston.
Guest star: Gabriel Tigerman as Phil
Absent: Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz, Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

16
16
"Stuck in the Quinceañera"
Erika Kaestle
Erika Kaestle & Patrick McCarthy
July 21, 2016 (2016-07-21)
116
1.49[19]

Georgie's 15th birthday is days away, but she wants to have a simple party rather than her quinceañera, as she does not like being the center of attention. Though Harley is motivated to use her new "Harleycam" invention for the event, she reminds Georgie about the significance of this special day in the life of a Latina and convinces her to change her mind. Harley gets the rest of the family involved with the planning, but Georgie later backs out, still feeling uncomfortable about the occasion. When the family lets Georgie decide how she wants to celebrate her special day, and whom to invite, she is back on board, with her quinceañera in the Diaz backyard. However, the threat from a hurricane forces the family to turn the occasion into a simple, private celebration inside the Diaz house. With Georgie's ankle getting hurt from the storm's first gusts, the quinceañera's traditional dance is in jeopardy of not occurring until Harley comes up with an idea.

17
17
"Stuck in the Diaz of Our Lives"
Erika Kaestle
Linda Videtti Figueiredo
July 22, 2016 (2016-07-22)
117
2.06[20]

Harley gets to appear on the television series Girl Power to highlight her accomplishments as an inventor. When Mischa and Ken, the two-person crew for the series, see Harley's large family, they decide to go a different route and feature the family in a reality series called The Diaz of Our Lives. As the crew gets to know the family through filming, they make multiple changes such that the Diazes become displeased with the direction of the series and want to quit. Mischa reminds them that they are under contract, but when Harley shows footage of the crew's plans, using the camera feature of her vacuum cleaner invention she first showcased on Girl Power, the crew calls off the reality series.
Guest stars: Kim Shaw as Mischa, Paul Darrigo as Ken

text: Season 2 (2017)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [1][2]
Directed by
Written by
Original air date [1][2]
Prod.
code [1][21]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

18
1
"Stuck in the Waterpark – The Movie"
David Kendall
Linda Videtti Figueiredo
February 3, 2017 (2017-02-03)
201–202
2.13[24]

The Diaz family earns a free weekend vacation at Cannon Ball Cove after the waterpark installs Harley's "Dry-Through" invention for a test run. The children have to convince Suzy and Tom that this vacation will not cause them grief, and sign a contract to that effect. When they arrive at the waterpark, a four-hour trip by car, they realize their hotel room is not large enough for them. Although the children complain about it, and Suzy and Tom are prepared to take them to Pilgrim Land instead, everyone agrees they have come this far and settle on staying. Harley and Rachel find a place to relax, taking over a cabana that another family gives up, while Georgie hesitates on trying the Doom Funnel ride, which Beast and Lewie are too short to try themselves. Ethan, who also wants to go on that ride but injures his right foot by stepping on a bee, spends his money on a ring toss event, impressing a girl named Hannah. As Harley, Rachel and later the rest of the children enjoy themselves in the cabana, Chester Torvilleton, the park's supervisor, presents them with a bill totaling $800, for drinks and treats they thought came free with the cabana.
As Suzy and Tom are enjoying the free vacation, the children are not ready to tell their parents about the bill and decide to come up with a way to handle it. They persuade Mr. Torvilleton to forgive the bill, and he is willing to do so after seeing a sad Daphne, but Lewie and Beast ruin that. With the children's options exhausted, Harley is faced with delivering the unpleasant news until she sees that she can pay off the bill if she and her family participate in the park's annual "aqualympics" and win, the prize being $1,000. They face a tough competitor in the Pillman family, a five-time champion whose patriarch Harley and Rachel met earlier when they were in the cabana; Ethan discovers Hannah is also one of the Pillmans. The two families make it to the finals, and as they are about to go head-to-head in the rope tug-of-war, Harley realizes the value of her invention at the park, which no one was using. She has her family dry off in it while the Pillman family chooses to remain wet, the deciding factor which leads to the Diaz family winning.
Guest stars: Gregg Binkley as Chester Torvilleton, Tom Parker as Mr. Pillman, Kate Tomlinson as Hannah, Corey Dorris as Malcolm, Christopher Chen as Fed Up Dad
Note: This originally aired as a one-hour movie. Disney Channel has since aired it as two parts, the first as "Stuck in the Waterpark",[22] and the second as "Stuck in the Aqualympics".[23]

19
2
"Stuck in a Commercial"
Joe Menendez
Erika Kaestle & Patrick McCarthy
February 10, 2017 (2017-02-10)
203
1.09[25]

Tom has bought some ad time on television to promote his bait shop, but when Harley sees a commercial her father plans to submit, made eleven years ago, she feels embarrassed over what happened to her in the commercial and does not want everyone to see it. Knowing Ethan's skill as a film maker, Harley proposes to make a new commercial for the shop, but also knowing Ethan's tendency to quit whatever he sets out to do, she is willing to stick with the old commercial should the project fail. To ensure Ethan stays focused, she secretly monitors his filming activity while building a camera rig to use for the final part of the commercial. Difficulties arise while Ethan is filming, including Daphne's being jinxed by Lewie and Beast, Rachel and Suzy's trying to buy Adele concert tickets, and Georgie's looking after her coach's pet parrot Leo. It becomes a huge mess leading Ethan to quit, but Harley talks sense into him about not giving up. Even with the limited footage, Ethan puts together a commercial worthy of airing on television.
Guest star: Audrey Wasilewski as Leo

20
3
"Stuck in the School Photo"
Mike Mariano
David McHugh & Matt Flanagan
February 17, 2017 (2017-02-17)
204
1.37[26]

When Suzy sees Harley, Rachel, Ethan and Georgie's shocking school pictures, she wants to know the story behind them. The four teenagers recount what happened in school three weeks earlier, on picture day. Rachel wanted the right outfit for her picture and resorted to searching for a top in lost and found boxes, while Ethan celebrated the return of sloppy joe to the cafeteria menu, hoping a food fight would not erupt. Georgie was rejoicing about her recent success in a basketball game and wanted everything to happen exactly as it did that day. Meanwhile, Harley was looking forward to the scientific thrill of indoor skydiving after school, but her substitute teacher Mr. Delorco, known for giving detention to her older siblings, stood in her way. Harley did not want to become the latest Diaz to get into trouble with him, so her friend Ellie helped out. When they were around Mr. Delorco, each of them assumed the other's identity, which ended up carrying over into their pictures because the teacher was present for those. Once the story is over, Suzy hears a knock on the door. Thinking that it is Ms. Peters, Suzy tells Harley, Rachel, Ethan, and Georgie to hide.
Guest stars: Peter Breitmayer as Mr. Delorco, Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters, Zach Timson as Chet, Bentley Green as Miles, Jamison Reeves as Photographer
Absent: Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz, Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

21
4
"Stuck in a Slushy War"
David Kendall
Denise Moss
February 24, 2017 (2017-02-24)
205
0.99[27]

Harley hires Phil Durning to assist with her slushy business at the bait shop. Phil is in need of a job after he got fired from the department of motor vehicles, for a single bad review that Harley wrote after he failed Rachel on her driving test. When Phil starts working for Harley, he senses her discomfort about being his boss, but after Harley tells him to pursue his passion, he decides to open a competing slushy service on wheels. Meanwhile, Rachel is teaching Daphne proper etiquette and dress for a birthday party she has been invited to, and while Daphne goes along with Rachel's advice at first, she comes to the party dressing and acting as herself. Phil becomes furious when he discovers Harley got him fired from his original job, and he works to steal customers away from Harley's slushy business. Ethan and Harley come up with a plan to shut down Phil's business, except they fail to think things through in developing the plan. Ultimately, Harley discovers Phil's passion is to be an instructor for first-time drivers and encourages him to open his own driving school.
Guest stars: Gabriel Tigerman as Phil, Brooke Singleton as Girl
Absent: Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz, Cerina Vincent as Suzy Diaz

22
5
"Stuck in the Garage Sale"
Eric Dean Seaton
Allan Rice
March 3, 2017 (2017-03-03)
207
0.97[28]

As the Diaz family prepares for their annual garage sale, Harley is not enthusiastic about it because she is always left to organize the event. She wants to call it off, but Ethan encourages her to hold the sale and deliberately make it a failure. After Tom tells Harley he and Suzy will double whatever money the family earns, she scraps Ethan's plan and wants everyone to make as much money as possible, so they can reach their goal to buy an above-ground swimming pool. Lewie and Beast become so wound up in the process that they end up selling Harley's invention bag. Seeing how much the bag means to Harley, her siblings work to get it back from the lady who bought it, and their effort cost them nearly all they made in the garage sale.
Guest star: Carol Mansell as Fran
Absent: Cerina Vincent as Suzy Diaz

23
6
"Stuck in the Diaz Easter"
Joe Menendez
Lance Whinery
April 7, 2017 (2017-04-07)
206
1.10[29]

Harley wants Daphne to experience a traditional Diaz Easter and rallies her parents into getting it started on the eve of the holiday. When the children wake up the next morning, though, they see no Easter baskets. Suzy planned to put them together, but she is dealing with a cold and slept through the night. The family, except for Suzy, goes to Easter service at church, but during service, Tom is called to his bait shop because of a malfunctioning refrigerator and brings Ethan with him. With the way the holiday has started out, Daphne becomes disappointed that it will be just another Easter like the others she remembers. Though her other siblings feel the same way, Harley is not about to give up on her promise of a traditional celebration. She, Rachel and Georgie prepare dinner back at the house, while Lewie and Beast work on the Easter baskets, but the result turns into disaster. Meanwhile, the family is unaware that Daphne is still at church, and calls from Ms. Peters to tell them go ignored. When they finally realize where Daphne is, and see that she helped with organizing the Easter dinner at church, they are relieved and proud of what she did, and they also help out with the dinner.
Guest stars: Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters, Lauren Pritchard as Bethany Peters

24
7
"Stuck in the Beast-Day Party"
Mike Mariano
Erika Kaestle & Patrick McCarthy
April 14, 2017 (2017-04-14)
208
0.97[30]

As Harley tries her virtual reality helmet in the attic, which is off-limits to the Diaz children, Lewie and Beast wonder what all the commotion is up there. When the two check on Harley, they discover their birth certificates to find they were born minutes apart on different dates. When Suzy and Tom find out, they promise the twins separate parties for their ninth birthdays in a few months. Lewie and Beast use Harley's being in the attic as leverage to have her throw Beast a half-birthday party, and as the twins believe Ethan suggested it, Harley has him involved in organizing it as well. Lewie becomes unsatisfied with Harley and Ethan's planning and decides to take over. Beast seems okay with Lewie's ideas, but Harley makes Beast realize he should go with what he likes for his party, which leads to Lewie feeling left out. After Suzy and Tom see how Harley has made Beast's party possible, they decide to clear space in the attic for her to use, until they find her virtual reality helmet already there. Meanwhile, Rachel is stressed over taking the SAT because she worries being distracted by boys who will also be taking the test, so she seeks Georgie's help. Georgie finds herself distracted during the test after a boy gets her attention but she has no idea who.
Guest stars: Adam Hochstetter as Wyatt, Matt Lowe as Dumpster Jack, Shana Gregory Williams as Proctor
Absent: Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz

25
8
"Stuck without Devices"
David Kendall
David McHugh & Matt Flanagan
April 21, 2017 (2017-04-21)
210
1.00[31]

Suzy gets fed up when the children are not paying attention or helping her with the groceries, so she confiscates all their electronic devices and wants the family to come together without the technology-based distractions for two days. Lewie and Beast play a game designed to annoy other family members and manage to recruit Rachel into playing, with the loser doing the winner's chores for a whole week, while Ethan uses his tech-free time as a magician but fails to impress Daphne, who stumps Ethan with her own magic. Harley and Georgie bond together doing Double Dutch as they did when they were younger, using an invention Harley built after Rachel became boy-crazy, but when Georgie's response to a text from Wyatt leads him to come to the house to be with her, she pays more attention to him than to Harley. With Rachel, Lewie and Beast tied in their game, they decide to target Wyatt to break the tie, which turns into chaos in the backyard and ruins the picnic Suzy has planned. Realizing she got her point across to the children, Suzy decides to return the electronic devices to everyone except the twins, who were responsible for the backyard mess.
Guest star: Adam Hochstetter as Wyatt
Absent: Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

26
9
"Stuck with a Boy Genius"
Victor Nelli
Denise Moss
April 28, 2017 (2017-04-28)
211
1.17[32]

Rachel, Ethan and Georgie prepare for their spring formal at school. Harley has no interest in going or asking some guy she is not friends with, but when she receives a text from her friend Josh, who is a sophomore at a different high school and an inventor like Harley, her sisters suggest she ask him. After Josh accepts, Harley gets ready for her first formal. The two have never met face-to-face, so it comes as a huge surprise when Harley finds out Josh is only nine years old. While at the formal, Harley feels embarrassed being around him, until she sees an interesting gadget he invented and plays with it. Rachel informs Josh and Harley that they have been chosen as the formal's king and queen, and wants to spare them from doing the spotlight dance, but Harley goes forward with it and gets her siblings and their dates involved in helping her put together a dance that will not attract attention to Josh's age. Meanwhile, Lewie and Beast decide to camp in the backyard, and Suzy and Tom are not delighted about it. They send Daphne to camp with her brothers, attempting to get them to come inside.
Guest stars: Adam Hochstetter as Wyatt, Caleb Brown as Josh, Robbie Davidson as Blake

27
10
"Stuck with a Bad Influence"
Jon Rosenbaum
Allan Rice
June 2, 2017 (2017-06-02)
TBA
1.31[33]

When Harley's siblings refuse to try out her latest invention called the Grocer-Whee, she turns to Ellie to give it a test run, but Ellie worries she will get hurt. Knowing how sheltered Ellie's life has become because of her mother, Harley works on being a good influence to her best friend by helping her through her fears. Eventually, the two ride the Grocer-Whee but end up taking out the Peters' mailbox. Thinking Ellie's punishment will be no big deal, Harley later feels guilty after Ellie tells her that she is being sent to boarding school called Radistone Academy by her mother. With Daphne, Lewie, and Beast's help, the two girls concoct a plan to convince Ms. Peters to change her mind, but she sees through their act. Still, Ms. Peters is made aware of her daughter's feelings about Radistone Academy and cancels her enrollment. Harley is relieved, but after doing research on the school, she realizes Ellie should not pass up the opportunity and has to convince her to go, even though she will miss her. Meanwhile, Rachel joins Ethan's film club at Tom's bait shop, but Suzy and Tom do some investigating after seeing what actually goes on there.
Guest stars: Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters, Lauren Pritchard as Bethany Peters
Absent: Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz

28
11
"Stuck in a Good Deed"
Melissa Kosar
Denise Moss
June 9, 2017 (2017-06-09)
TBA
1.04[34]

Suzy and Harley volunteer for a day at the Golden Horizons retirement home. When they see what activities they do there, they choose to volunteer for more days, intending to take advantage of the amenities instead. With Suzy away from home, Ethan and Georgie are put on laundry duty, while Rachel babysits Daphne. Ethan and Georgie decide to leave the dirtiest of the clothes for their mother, who later presents them the opportunity to volunteer at Golden Horizons, which they refuse. When Ethan and Georgie see the commercial that initially inspired Suzy and Harley to help the elderly, they change their mind but are shocked to see their mother and sister getting massages. Upon hearing about a birthday party being thrown for the grumpy resident Mr. Kibbenshaw, Suzy and Harley are not thrilled to be a part of it, but they arrange for the party to take place at the park. Meanwhile, at the park, Rachel tries to get out of babysitting Daphne by joining a group of nannies who look after the children on a daily rotation. When Rachel is suddenly faced with the responsibility, on the day of Mr. Kibbenshaw's party, she panics and the children run all over the place, leading to the party being ruined. Rachel gets grounded, while Ethan and Georgie are reprimanded for how they handled the dirty laundry.
Guest stars: Davida Williams as Kelly, Tessa Harnetiaux as Natalie, P.L. Brown as Mr. Kibbenshaw, Richard Fancy as Larry
Absent: Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz, Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

29
12
"Stuck Dancing with My Dad"
Carlos Gonzalez
Erika Kaestle & Patrick McCarthy
June 16, 2017 (2017-06-16)
TBA
1.00[35]

Harley seeks Troy Havana to finance her latest invention, the floor finder, and asks Rachel to drive her to Boston, where he is holding a meet-and-greet. After having no success talking to Troy, Harley finds out he will be at the Dancing with My Dad auditions in Boston, and after noticing her father and Daphne have some dancing chemistry, she asks them to take part as contestants on the show. Though not initially on board, Tom changes his mind after hearing his sports idol Brady Rice will be there. Tom and Daphne audition and secure a spot in the competition, while Harley tracks down Troy, who also happens to be a contestant with his daughter Savannah. Troy shows interest in Harley's invention, but when his offer includes the condition that her father and sister not compete, Harley not only rejects the offer but is also determined to see Troy lose. Meanwhile, Lewie and Beast are working on over 100 different ways to use peanut butter. One of those uses causes Daphne to get injured right before the dancing competition begins, resulting in Harley taking Daphne's place. In the end, Tom and Harley score better than Troy and Savannah, but finish second to Brady Rice and his daughter.
Guest star: Laird Macintosh as Troy Havana
Absent: Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz, Cerina Vincent as Suzy Diaz

30
13
"Stuck in a Gold Medal Performance"
David Kendall
Lance Whinery
June 23, 2017 (2017-06-23)
209
1.33[36]

Rachel has joined the spirit squad at school and looks to Harley to come up with something creative for the basketball games. Harley decides on a laser light show and quickly develops a controller for it, which malfunctions and catches fire when she exhibits it at school. Though Harley promises Rachel she will fix the problem in time for a pep rally, she fears the controller will malfunction again and ends up bailing. Meanwhile, Georgie meets Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez at a signing in Boston and, through talk about their Latina heritage, persuades Laurie to visit her home for dinner. Georgie feels she is lacking in the customs, dances and language, but she tries to get her parents to make an authentic meal for Laurie, who decides to stop in Marshport and visit the Diaz home. At dinner, Rachel fumes over Harley's no-show at the pep rally, while the meal is too spicy for Laurie's taste. Georgie and Harley learn about persevering through failure as Laurie recounts her rougher times as a gymnast to them. At the next school basketball game, Harley's laser light show runs smoothly, and the crowd gets to see some gymnastics from Laurie as a bonus.
Special guest star: Laurie Hernandez as herself
Guest star: Jaida-Iman Benjamin as Traci
Absent: Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz

31
14
"Stuck in a New Room"
David Kendall
Linda Videtti Figueiredo
September 15, 2017 (2017-09-15)
220
1.34[37]

Using her eavesdropping invention, Harley overhears her parents talking about cleaning out the attic and turning it into a bedroom. She initially wants to keep this to herself, but Georgie gets Harley to share what she heard. Despite Georgie's intent to keep this news secret, word spreads to the rest of her siblings. With the exception of Daphne, who is not interested in giving up her current bedroom arrangement, the children attempt to convince their parents about why they deserve the attic space. Suzy and Tom call a family meeting and find out that Harley eavesdropped on their conversation in the attic, leading them to drop their plans. With the help of her siblings, Harley comes up with a proposal to decide who gets the attic, and the children offer to clean out the attic as well. They settle on a battle of boys vs. girls, with the two genders agreeing to a series of backyard competitions. When figuring out what kind of competitions, going on what they cleaned out from the attic, they make use of Harley's past inventions. Ultimately, the competitions fail to produce a winner, but the children agree to make the attic space a family game room.

32
15
"Stuck with a Dangerous House"
David Kendall
Linda Videtti Figueiredo
September 22, 2017 (2017-09-22)
214
1.08[38]

Harley, Rachel and Georgie are planning to attend a night concert on the pier, but after their parents tell them no, concerned over their safety, Harley reveals that Daphne's playhouse upstairs has been recalled for an unsafe roof. Suzy and Tom remove the playhouse, forcing Daphne to sleep in her sisters' room and disrupt their lives. Harley figures out a way to make the playhouse safe but finds out it has been discarded, so she, Rachel and Georgie are looking for a store that sells the kind Daphne had. They discover a toy store in Marshport with only one but worry the store owner will not sell it to them because of the family's history at that store. Although the girls successfully manage to purchase the new playhouse, they realize Daphne had memories with the old one in the form of various dents to it. Feeling sad, Harley discovers from Ethan that the old playhouse is in a nearby dumpster, so she, Rachel and Georgie recover the parts to it and put it back together for Daphne. Meanwhile, Ethan is directing Lewie and Beast's online channel called "Trash Twins", but the twins realize eating food from the garbage is harder than they imagined, even to impress Dumpster Jack.
Guest stars: Matt Lowe as Dumpster Jack, Aaron Krebs as Duncan Gloverman

33
16
"Stuck with a New Friend"
Erika Kaestle
Erika Kaestle & Patrick McCarthy
September 29, 2017 (2017-09-29)
219
1.13[39]

Harley meets a new student at school named Sophie, whom she eventually befriends despite an incident that ruins both of their entries for the Marshport Extreme Science Games. They decide to work together on another project for the contest, but when Sophie wants to come over to the Diaz house, Harley worries their friendship will suffer because of her siblings. After finding out Sophie likes Ethan, she expects Ethan to be kind and thoughtful to her, unlike her other friends. When Ethan misses a movie date with Sophie, though, Harley wants him to show that he regrets it, but ends up regretting her part in helping him do so after Sophie is humiliated. To save her friendship with Sophie, Harley decides to take charge of their entry at the science games when she inadvertently puts a prop in the wrong place. Meanwhile, Rachel discovers a traffic ticket in the mail, believing it to be for her mother when it is actually for her. To avoid paying a $500 fine and going to traffic school, Rachel schemes to fool Suzy into thinking she ran a red light in Rhode Island, with Lewie and Beast's help, but it backfires when she finds out.
Guest stars: Talitha Bateman as Sophie, Bryan Coffee as Einstein
Absent: Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz, Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

34
17
"Stuck in a Merry Scary"
David Kendall
Linda Videtti Figueiredo
October 6, 2017 (2017-10-06)
221
1.18[40]

Halloween is Harley's favorite holiday as her inventive mind gives her an edge in scaring her family every year. When Harley selects Rachel in the Halloween "Secret Scarer", she is faced with her biggest challenge yet, but is determined to scare her. A werewolf head in the microwave and spooky hands in Rachel's closet fail to do so, leading Harley to go all out with a bathroom shocker. Not only is Rachel frightened by it, but she also hurts her leg and needs to go to the hospital. This forces Harley to take Daphne trick-or-treating, but Daphne bails on her. Meanwhile, Ethan coaxes Lewie and Beast out of trick-or-treating to serve as security for their "Haunted Hang" in the backyard, to protect it from vandalism and prevent a neighbor from claiming the best haunted display. When Harley returns home and sees the Haunted Hang vandalized, she does not realize what is about to happen to her. The entire family manages to frighten her good disguised as pumpkin-headed creatures as payback for all the times she has gotten them. It turns out they had some tricks up their sleeve: they rigged the Secret Scarer draw so Harley would pick Rachel, and Rachel actually faked her injury.

35
18
"Stuck with a Hook, Line and Sinker"
Julian Petrillo
Jessica Charles & Miguel Ian Raya
October 13, 2017 (2017-10-13)
217
1.10[41]

Colt Bailey, a celebrity fisherman, comes to Marshport for a fishing tournament. Because he signs up late for the competition, he is looking for a place to stay with all the hotels booked. When he offers to pay a large sum, Harley decides to rent out the house to him, and Rachel, Ethan and Georgie offer to help out. Their plan is to save up for a trip to Hawaii, which always eludes them because of the deeds of the younger Diaz siblings. Tom gets sold on the plan with Suzy and the three youngest children away. With Colt staying at the house, Tom and the older children head on a camping trip, which turns out to be an uncomfortable stay at Tom's store because of the stormy weather. Colt asks for a number of accommodations, including a home security system, fresh bait, someone to look after his dog, and an organized kitchen without any fish products. Harley, Rachel, Ethan and Georgie try to make those accommodations work, but it becomes a disaster, which blows any savings toward the Hawaii trip.
Guest star: Morgan West as Colt Bailey
Absent: Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz, Cerina Vincent as Suzy Diaz

36
19
"Stuck in the Babysitting Nightmare"
David Kendall
David McHugh & Matt Flanagan
October 20, 2017 (2017-10-20)
218
1.27[42]

When the Morelands need a new babysitter for their triplets, Harley feels she is ready for the job based on her experience with Daphne, Lewie and Beast. She gets an opportunity to show she can handle the babysitting duty full-time when Suzy and Tom attend a neighborhood association meeting next door at Bethany Peters' house, and Rachel heads to a beach party with Ethan and Georgie. The younger siblings usually look forward to Harley's babysitting since she makes it fun for them, but when she does things differently, they decide to give her a true test of the job. Meanwhile, Rachel, Ethan and Georgie deal with a flat tire on the car while navigating to the beach party, but Ethan runs into trouble himself trying to replace the tire. Suzy and Tom get offended at the neighborhood meeting after Bethany details every little problem she has seen with the Diaz family.
Guest stars: Lauren Pritchard as Bethany Peters, Greg Rogstad as Oscar

37
20
"Stuck in the Diaz Awards"
Leslie Kolins Small
Bryan Larrivee
October 27, 2017 (2017-10-27)
213
1.31[43]

In this clip show, the fifth annual Diaz Awards have arrived. Each year, the Diaz family looks back at their achievements, surprises and disappointments, and the children are awarded in various categories. Whoever wins in the most categories picks up the Diaz of the Year trophy. Harley has never won the Diaz of the Year and is hoping to change her luck, but she falls behind all of her other siblings early in the ceremony. Eventually, she pulls off a winning streak to take the lead in the tally, two ahead of Lewie and Beast with two categories to go. The twins end up taking those remaining categories and force a tiebreaker, which also goes to them. Harley painfully accepts her defeat, but Ethan informs her of a special award not based on votes, unlike the other awards handed out. Because of her overall contribution to the family, Harley is named the Most Valuable Diaz.
Special guest star: Laurie Hernandez as herself
Guest stars: Peter Breitmayer as Mr. Delorco, Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters, Alex Shimizu as Bai Hsu, Jaida-Iman Benjamin as Traci, Kay Bess as Woman's Voice

text: Season 3 (2017–18)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [1][2]
Directed by
Written by
Original air date [1][2]
Prod.
code [1][21]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

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1
"Stuck at Christmas – The Movie"
David Kendall
Linda Videtti Figueiredo
December 8, 2017 (2017-12-08)
3-99
1.36[44]

As the Diaz family prepares their home for Christmas, Harley needs to know how long to steam pasteles and winds up calling Abuela to find out. Harley is hoping Abuela will ask whether the family will spend Christmas with her in Florida, but when the question does not come up, Harley is prompted to bring the family there. They initially take a plane to Florida, but when a storm in the flight's path causes the plane to land in Columbus, Ohio, they settle on two small, uncomfortable rental cars to continue their journey. The discomfort is short-lived as Harley spots a huge tour bus belonging to a rock band that is not around to claim it. With Tom having a license to drive that kind of vehicle, the family continues their trip in the bus and decorates it for the holiday. Daphne suddenly realizes her doll "Deathnee" is missing, which Harley traces back to the rental cars, so the family tracks down the doll, while Suzy confiscates the children's electronic devices which had distracted them when the doll went missing. The family ends up at a camp where they meet another family with a little girl named Joyanne, who has Deathnee and is not about to give her up. Georgie makes a deal with Joyanne, getting back Deathnee in exchange for toys she collected for a toy drive. As the Diaz family gets ready to leave, Tom sees a penny he hopes will bring good luck, but as he picks it up, the contents of his pouch, which includes their money, credit cards and electronic devices, falls into the camp fire. Adding to the misery, the bus later breaks down, with the impact causing Harley's glass ornament for Abuela to break.
Hoping to reach Abuela's by Christmas, the Diaz family turns to a repairman named Buddy Burtz, whom Harley discovers is a middle child just like her, often ignored by his brothers. With the backlog at the Burtz repair shop, Tom offers to pay double to get the bus fixed, while Suzy attempts to withdraw the necessary funds from the bank, which falls through. Harley finds out that Buddy's brothers are taking part in an annual holiday race known as the Iron Elf but are not interested in having Buddy on their team due to his fear in one event the year he took part. Harley strikes a deal with Buddy, having him compete with her family in the race, and if they win, he will fix the bus for free. Buddy ends up facing the event he struggled with before, but with Harley believing he will overcome his fear, he succeeds, helping the Diaz family pull out the victory. Harley gives the trophy to Buddy, while the children donate the presents they won on Georgie's request. Sticking to his end of the deal, Buddy prepares to work on the bus, with his brothers offering to help. The Diaz family makes it to Florida in time, and they surprise Abuela with their visit. She surprises them by celebrating the holiday on the beachside.
Guest stars: Olga Merediz as Abuela, Steve Monroe as Buddy Burtz, Stephen Kramer Glickman as Benny, Judy Kain as Mrs. McDoogan, Eileen O'Connell as Marla, Ron G as Rental Agent, Troy Blendell as Roger, Chloe Perrin as Joyanne, Patrick Faucette as Cop
Note: Ronni Hawk is not included in the opening credits of this special, and does not appear.
Note: This originally aired as a one-hour movie. Disney Channel has since aired it as two parts, the first as "Stuck in a Christmas Road Trip", and the second as "Stuck in a Christmas Race".

39
2
"Stuck with Rachel's Secret"
Jon Rosenbaum
Erika Kaestle & Patrick McCarthy
January 19, 2018 (2018-01-19)
TBA
1.16[45]

When Rachel starts acting unusually generous, her siblings become suspicious. Harley and Georgie later find out that during Rachel's Christmas trip to France, she applied to a fashion internship at a university there and got accepted. The internship starts much sooner than the family was expecting Rachel to leave for college, and she needs the support of her siblings to help with breaking the news to Suzy and Tom, but Daphne and the twins are not on board. With some trickery from Rachel, Ethan takes the three youngsters to the mall and ends up getting a makeup job after displaying his knowledge about it to a store customer, while the other three are reminded about Rachel anywhere they go in the makeup store. Meanwhile, Rachel tells Suzy and Tom about her internship, but they are not convinced she is ready to go so soon and recall a large list of promises she failed to deliver on. They change their mind after she proves she can deliver on those promises, which got fulfilled with her siblings' help. As Harley and Georgie prepare for Rachel's leaving, they hear from her that she missed the enrollment deadline at the school and is not going, but later find out she actually withdrew her application. Upon questioning her, they realize she is afraid to leave but they help her through it. After an emotional goodbye at the airport, the family wonders who will take over Rachel's spot in the car, the sweet seat, but not even Harley is ready to do so.
Special guest star: Ronni Hawk as Rachel Diaz
Guest stars: Briana Lane as Jayden, Alana Baer as Chloe, Anissa Borrego as Girl

40
3
"Stuck with a Diaz Down"
Mike Mariano
David McHugh & Matt Flanagan
January 26, 2018 (2018-01-26)
TBA
1.07[46]

With the Diaz family missing Rachel, they look to Georgie to fill her shoes as the oldest sibling, and Harley attempts to prepare her for a number of situations that could arise. Unable to deal with the pressure of this responsibility, Georgie panics and Harley finds herself stepping into the job. When faced with resolving two problems her other siblings bring up—Ethan's struggles dating Chloe, and how Lewie and Daphne should handle Beast after he reveals the truth about Rachel's "blackmail book"—Harley winds up giving the wrong advice. Both Harley and Georgie realize it is better to just be themselves when tackling the problems of their siblings, and Georgie manages things all right doing just that. In the final scene, Harley and Georgie have an encounter with a boy named Aidan, whose ball was accidentally shot through their bedroom window.
Guest stars: Joshua Bassett as Aidan, Alana Baer as Chloe

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4
"Stuck in Camp Chaos"
Eric Dean Seaton
Lance Whinery
February 2, 2018 (2018-02-02)
TBA
1.07[47]

With Ellie on winter break from Radistone Academy for a week, Harley wants to do something fun with her during that time. As the two brainstorm different ideas, they settle on running a camp for youngsters in the Diaz backyard, which Harley hopes will also fund something special for her upcoming quinceañera. As this would keep Daphne, Lewie, and Beast occupied, Suzy is okay with the idea as long as it does not disturb her. Daphne has no interest in the camp, so Harley has Georgie keep an eye on Daphne. Meanwhile, Harley has to deal with another problem, not involving her siblings: her new neighbor Aidan, who is also Ellie's cousin and a lacrosse player. His hitting balls into and over the fence separating the Diaz and Peters backyards is disrupting camp activities. Harley tries to be diplomatic by getting him to stop while she is conducting camp, but he refuses to cooperate. Things get worse when Aidan changes the fence's location, placing it deeper into the Diaz backyard and causing Harley to retaliate as Ellie wants no part of it. When her campers, including Lewie and Beast, bring the fence down, it is enough to disturb Suzy, who shuts the camp down and leaves Harley to clean up the mess. While cleaning up, Harley rekindles her friendship with Ellie who helps her clean up as Harley whispers the something special in her ear. Harley realizes this is only the beginning with Aidan, who shows up in one of her classes at school and plans to be around for the whole semester.
Guest stars: Lulu Lambros as Ellie Peters, Joshua Bassett as Aidan, Antonio Raul Corbo as Hunter
Absent: Isaak Presley as Ethan Diaz, Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

42
5
"Stuck with Harley's Bethany"
David Kendall
Allan Rice
February 9, 2018 (2018-02-09)
TBA
1.01[48]

Harley's dislike of Aidan continues to consume her as it is now affecting her at school. She asks her mother for tips on how to deal with him, knowing her long-term battle with Bethany is similar. Suzy tells Harley to simply agree with Aidan, as that is what she does to avoid arguments with Bethany. The method appears to work at first, while Harley and Aidan work together near the restored fence between their backyards, but when Aidan messes up Harley's delivery of the school's announcements, it becomes a battleground that everyone at school witnesses, with Harley accidentally broadcasting her argument with Aidan over the PA system. Suzy and Bethany also hear the two bickering, since they are volunteering at the school's bake sale, and they start to argue once Harley brings up how she has been coping with Aidan using Suzy's "yes for no distress" technique. Meanwhile, Ethan is trying to get new subscribers for his web channel by filming a new segment starring Lewie and Beast at Tom's store, but when they see the segment is a failure and are no longer allowed to film in the store, they go to the bake sale and end up capturing Suzy and Bethany's arguing on camera. Harley tries another method to cope with Aidan, developing special earplugs to keep herself from hearing his boasts.
Guest stars: Lauren Pritchard as Bethany Peters, Joshua Bassett as Aidan
Absent: Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz

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6
"Stuck in a Nice Relationship"
TBA
TBA
March 9, 2018 (2018-03-09)
TBA
TBD

44
7
"Stuck with Horrible Helpers"
TBA
TBA
March 16, 2018 (2018-03-16)
TBA
TBD

45
8
"Stuck in a Mysterious Robbery"
TBA
TBA
March 23, 2018 (2018-03-23)
TBA
TBD

46
9
"Stuck in a Besties Battle"
TBA
TBA
March 30, 2018 (2018-03-30)
TBA
TBD

text: Stuck in the Store (2016)[edit]

text: Stuck in the Store is a Stuck in the Middle special that aired on Disney Channel on December 16, 2016, consisting of six 2–4-minute shorts.

text:
No.
Title
Original air date

1
"Operation: Mega Mart"
December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)

As the Diaz family prepares to shop at Mega Mart, its store manager Rodney is keeping an eye on them as they have two strikes against them for past mischief. With a third strike, he can ban the family from the store and highlight them on the store's wall of shame. If the children can avoid getting into trouble, Suzy and Tom are promising each of them a family-sized pizza. Harley develops a way to communicate with her siblings around the store, using Tom's old cell phones which also serve as a source for live-streaming.

2
"Operation: Discount"
December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)

Ethan disguises himself as a Mega Mart employee named Boris and helps an old lady carry a giant teddy bear for her grandniece's birthday party. Meanwhile, Lewie and Beast are sampling some barbecue chicken tenders and each decide to sample one for Ethan. The twins get busted by Rodney for oversampling.
Absent: Ronni Hawk as Rachel Diaz, Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz

3
"Operation: Cake"
December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)

Georgie tries an unsuccessful move to get lettuce for Harley which ends with her crashing into a box of pillows. Daphne sees a huge cake and decides to take ownership by sitting on it as part of her "You butt it, you buy it." Rodney gets hold of both Georgie and Daphne.
Absent: Ronni Hawk as Rachel Diaz, Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz, Cerina Vincent as Suzy Diaz, Joe Nieves as Tom Diaz

4
"Operation: Fame"
December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)

Rachel uses a store camera to broadcast herself across Mega Mart and to The Squad. Rodney sees her and attempts to grab the camera from her, but the camera breaks and Rodney rips his pants. It is the third strike Rodney was looking for to ban the Diaz family from Mega Mart.
Absent: Isaak Presley as Ethan Diaz, Ariana Greenblatt as Daphne Diaz, Kayla Maisonet as Georgie Diaz, Nicolas Bechtel as Lewie Diaz, Malachi Barton as Beast Diaz

5
"Operation: Break Out"
December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)

Harley and Ethan, as Boris, organize an attempt to get their siblings out of confinement. They distract Rodney briefly, but he spots the Diaz children trying to escape.

6
"Operation: Escape"
December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)

Harley makes one last effort to divert Rodney's attention so the entire family can leave the store unscathed. Rodney catches up to them though and bans them. When Suzy confronts him about his customer relations, pointing out she was watching the children's live streams as they were getting caught, Rodney retracts his ban. Harley and her siblings celebrate, only to realize they will not be getting any pizza because Suzy reminded them that she watched their live streams. This disappoints the children and Tom.


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text: Ministers[edit]

text: The MHCLG's ministers are as follows:[3]

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Minister

Rank

Portfolio

The Rt Hon. James Brokenshire MP

Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Overall leadership of the Ministry, Troubled Families

Kit Malthouse MP

Minister of State for Housing and Planning

Housing, Ebbsfleet, planning policy, neighbourhood planning, lead minister on the Housing Bill, planning casework, London

Jake Berry MP

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth

Northern Powerhouse, city deals, European Regional Development Fund, Enterprise Zones and Local Enterprise Partnerships, building regulations, supporting minister on the Devolution Bill, planning casework

Rishi Sunak MP

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government

Local Government policy and finances, adult social care, local government pensions and interventions policy, troubled families, parks/green space

Heather Wheeler MP

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Homelessness

Homelessness and rough sleeping, private-rented sector, Housing Ombudsman and redress, leasehold reform,voluntary right-to-buy, home buying process reform, domestic abuse and refuges, supported housing,

The Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Departmental business in the House of Lords, local government finance and policy, integration and faith, High Speed Rail 2 (HS2), Travellers, supporting the Secretary of State on City Deals and Troubled Families, women and equalities (supporting the Department for Education in the House of Lords)

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text: The Permanent Secretary is Melanie Dawes who took up her post on 1 March 2015.[4]

text: Henry Smith was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on 26 May 2015.[5]

text: History and responsibilities[edit]

text:
MHCLG was formed in July 2001 as part of the Cabinet Office with the title Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), headed by the then Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. In May 2002 the ODPM became a separate department after absorbing the local government and regions portfolios from the defunct Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions. The ODPM was criticised in some quarters for adding little value and the Environmental Audit Committee had reported negatively on the department in the past.[6][7]
During the 5 May 2006 reshuffle of Tony Blair's government, it was renamed and Ruth Kelly succeeded David Miliband to become the first Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). In January 2018, as part of Theresa May’s Cabinet Reshuffle, the department was renamed the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

text: Responsibilities[edit]

text: The Ministry is responsible for UK Government policy in the following areas, mainly in England:[8]

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building regulations
community cohesion
decentralisation
fire services and community resilience
housing
local government
planning
race equality
the Thames Gateway
urban regeneration

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text: On its creation it also assumed the community policy function of the Home Office.  Ministers have since established the Commission on Integration and Cohesion, and the now separate Government Equalities Office which is now part of the Department for Education.

text: Bodies sponsored by MHCLG[edit]

text: Executive agencies[edit]

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Planning Inspectorate
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre

text: The department also was previously responsible for two other agencies. On 18 July 2011 Ordnance Survey was transferred to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills[9] and on 28 February 2013 the Fire Service College was sold to Capita.[10]

text: Non-departmental public bodies[edit]

text: In January 2007, Ruth Kelly announced proposals to bring together the delivery functions of the Housing Corporation, English Partnerships and parts of the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government  to form a new unified housing and regeneration agency, the Homes and Communities Agency (renamed Homes England in 2018). Initially announced as Communities England, it became operational in December 2008. This also includes the Academy for Sustainable Communities. 2008 was also the year that the department along with the Local Government Association produced the National Improvement and Efficiency Strategy [11] which led to the creation of nine Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) with devolved funding of £185m to drive sector-led improvement for councils.

text: Devolution[edit]

text: Its main counterparts in the devolved nations of the UK are as follows.

text: Scotland

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Communities Directorates
Learning and Justice Directorates

text: Northern Ireland

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Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (civil resilience, community cohesion, race relations)
Department of the Environment (local government, planning)
Department of Finance and Personnel (building regulations)
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (fire services)
Department for Social Development (housing, urban regeneration)

text: Wales

text: Welsh Government Department for Local Government and Public Services


document_title: Cypress Hill

question_text: where did cypress hill get their name from

text: Cypress Hill

text: History[edit]

text: Formation (1988)[edit]

text: Senen Reyes (also known as Sen Dog) and Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (also known as Mellow Man Ace) are brothers born in Pinar del Río, Cuba. In 1971, their family immigrated to the United States from Cuba. They initially lived in South Gate, California. In 1988, the two brothers teamed up with New York City native Lawrence Muggerud (also known as DJ Muggs, previously in a rap group named 7A3) and Louis Freese (also known as B-Real) to form a hip-hop group named DVX (Devastating Vocal Excellence). The band soon lost Mellow Man Ace to a solo career, and changed their name to Cypress Hill, after a street in South Gate.[4]

text: Early works and mainstream success (1989–95)[edit]

text: After recording a demo in 1989, Cypress Hill signed a record deal with Ruffhouse Records. Their self-titled first album was released in August 1991. The lead single was the double A-side "The Phuncky Feel One"/"How I Could Just Kill a Man" which received heavy airplay on urban and college radio. The other two singles released from the album were "Hand on the Pump" and "Latin Lingo", the latter of which combined English and Spanish lyrics. The success of these singles led to the album selling two million copies in the US alone. Cypress Hill contributed the song "Shoot 'Em Up" to the soundtrack of the movie Juice. The group made their first appearance at Lollapalooza on the side stage in 1992.

text: Black Sunday, the group's second album, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 1993, recording the highest Soundscan for a rap group up until that time. Also, with their debut still in the charts, they became the first rap group to have two albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 at the same time. With "Insane in the Brain" becoming a crossover hit, the album went triple platinum in the U.S. and sold about 3.25 million copies.

text: The band headlined the Soul Assassins tour with House of Pain and Funkdoobiest as support, then performed on a college tour with Rage Against the Machine and Seven Year Bitch. In 1993, Cypress Hill also had two tracks on the Judgment Night soundtrack, teaming up with Pearl Jam (without singer Eddie Vedder) on the track "Real Thing" and Sonic Youth on "I Love You Mary Jane".

text: The group later played at Woodstock 94, introducing new member Eric Bobo, son of Willie Bobo and formerly a percussionist with the Beastie Boys. Rolling Stone magazine named the group as the best rap group in their music awards voted by critics and readers. Cypress Hill played at Lollapalooza for two successive years, topping the bill in 1995. They also appeared on the "Homerpalooza" episode of The Simpsons. Prior to Bobo joining the crew, Panchito "Ponch" Gomez sat in as a percussionist when not acting.

text: Their third album III: Temples of Boom was released in 1995, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA.[5] Cypress Hill also contributed a track "I Wanna Get High" to the High Times sponsored Hempilation album to support NORML.

text: Continued career (1996–2002)[edit]

text: Sen Dog took a break from the band to form a Los Angeles-based rap rock band, SX-10.[6] Meanwhile, in 1996, Cypress Hill appeared on the first Smokin' Grooves tour, featuring Ziggy Marley, The Fugees, Busta Rhymes and A Tribe Called Quest. The band also released a nine track EP Unreleased and Revamped with rare mixes. In 1997, band members focused on their solo careers. Muggs released Soul Assassins: Chapter 1 featuring contributions from Dr. Dre, KRS-One, Wyclef Jean and Mobb Deep. B-Real appeared with Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J and Method Man on "Hit Em High" from the multi-platinum Space Jam Soundtrack. He also appeared with RBX, Nas and KRS-One on "East Coast Killer, West Coast Killer" from Dr. Dre's Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath album, and contributed to an album entitled The Psycho Realm with the band of the same name. Though the focus that year was not on group efforts, the band played Smokin' Grooves with George Clinton and Erykah Badu.

text: Cypress Hill released IV in 1998 which went gold in the US, on the backs of hit singles "Tequila Sunrise" and "Dr. Greenthumb". Sen Dog also released the Get Wood sampler as part of SX-10 on the label Flip. In 1999, Cypress Hill helped with the PC crime video game Kingpin: Life of Crime. Three of the band's songs from the 1998 IV album were in the game ("16 Men Till There's No Men Left", "Checkmate" and "Lightning Strikes"). B-Real also did voice work for some of the game's characters. Also in 1999, the band released a greatest-hits album in Spanish, Los grandes éxitos en español. In 2000, Cypress Hill then fused genres with their fifth album, Skull & Bones, which was a two-disc album. The first disc, "Skull" was composed of rap tracks while "Bones" explored further the group's forays into rock. The album reached the Top 5 on the Billboard 200 and number 3 in Canada. The first single was "Rock Superstar" for rock radio and "Rap Superstar" for urban radio. Following the release of the album, Cypress Hill (along with MxPx) landed a slot opening for The Offspring on the Conspiracy of One tour. The band also released Live at the Fillmore, a concert disc recorded at the Fillmore (in San Francisco) in 2000. Cypress Hill continued their experimentation with rock on the Stoned Raiders album in 2001. However, its sales were a disappointment, as the disc did not even reach the top 50 of the US album charts. In 2001, the group appeared in the film How High.

text: Till Death Do Us Part (2003–07)[edit]

text: Cypress Hill recorded "Just Another Victim" for WWE as a theme song for Tazz. At the time, WWE was using original music for almost all of the wrestlers. The band released Till Death Do Us Part on March 23, 2004. The album saw the band experiment with reggae especially on the lead single "What's Your Number". The track features Tim Armstrong of Rancid on guitar and backup vocals. It is based on the classic song "The Guns of Brixton" on The Clash's London Calling and has proven to be a success on the modern rock charts. However, the album represented a further departure from the signature sound of their first four albums. The album also features appearances by Damian Marley, son of Bob Marley, Prodigy of Mobb Deep and producers the Alchemist and Fredwreck.

text: In 2004, the song "How I Could Just Kill A Man" was included in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas created by Rockstar Games, playing on West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos. In December 2005 a best of compilation album titled Greatest Hits From the Bong was released including nine hits from previous albums and two new tracks. The group's next album was tentatively scheduled for an early 2007 release. In the summer of 2006, B-Real appeared on Snoop Dogg's single "Vato", which was produced by Pharrell Williams.

text: In 2007 Cypress Hill toured with their full line up as a part of the Rock the Bells tour, held by Guerilla Union, B Simm, and headlined with Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and a reunited Rage Against the Machine.

text: Departure from Sony and Rise Up (2008–present)[edit]

text: On July 25, 2008, Cypress Hill performed at a benefit concert at the House of Blues Chicago, where a majority of the proceeds went to the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness.[7]

text: In August 2009, a new song by Cypress Hill, titled "Get 'Em Up", was made available on iTunes. The song is featured on the Madden NFL 2010 video game.[8]

text: In November 2009, a new version of the Guns N' Roses classic "Paradise City" performed by Cypress Hill, Slash and Fergie was made available as a bonus track to Slash's single "Sahara" from Slash's solo album Slash.

text: Cypress Hill's eighth studio album Rise Up, features contributions from Everlast, Tom Morello, Daron Malakian, Pitbull, Marc Anthony and Mike Shinoda.[9] The album was released on Priority Records/EMI Entertainment, as the group was signed to the label by new Creative Chairman Snoop Dogg on January 15, 2010. The album was released on April 20, 2010.[10] The album's introduction single, "It Ain't Nothin'" was released as a free download from the group's official website. The song "Rise Up" was featured at WWE's pay-per-view, Elimination Chamber, as the official theme song for that event, and was released as the third single for the album, with "Armada Latina" being fourth. The song also appeared in the trailer of the movie The Green Hornet.

text: Cypress Hill commenced its Rise Up tour in Philadelphia on April 10, 2010. Julio G had replaced DJ Muggs for the tour. Muggs had been absent due to working on several other projects, including separate albums with B-Real and Sen Dog. The group was supposed to stop in Tucson, Arizona but canceled the show in protest of the recent immigration legislation. At the Rock en Seine festival in Paris on August 27, 2010 they said in an interview that they would wait and see what happens with the legislation before going back there.[11] Cypress Hill performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2010, on August 28 at Leeds and August 29 at Reading.

text: On June 5, 2012, Cypress Hill and dubstep artist Rusko released a collaborative EP entitled Cypress X Rusko. Also in 2012, Cypress Hill collaborated with Deadmau5 on his sixth studio album Album Title Goes Here, lending vocals on "Failbait".[12]

text: On August 2017, Cypress Hill's "Ain't going out like that" was featured as a trailer soundtrack for Netflix's Narcos Season 3.

text: Style[edit]

text: Rapping[edit]

text: One of the band's most striking aspects is B-Real's exaggeratedly high-pitched nasal vocals.[4] In the book Check the Technique, B-Real describes his nasal style, saying his rapping voice is "high and annoying... the nasal style I have was just something that I developed... my more natural style wasn't so pleasing to DJ Muggs and Sen Dog's ears"[13] and talking about the nasal style in the book How to Rap, B-Real says, "you want to stand out from the others and just be distinct... when you got something that can separate you from everybody else, you gotta use it to your advantage."[2] In the film Art of Rap, B-Real credits the Beastie Boys as an influence when developing his rapping style. Sen Dog's voice is deeper, more violent and often shouted alongside the rapping; his vocals are often emphasized by adding another background/choir voice to say them. Sen Dog's style is in contrast to B-Real's, who says, "Sen's voice is so strong," and "it all blends together" when they are both on the same track.[13]

text: Both B-Real and Sen Dog started writing lyrics in both Spanish and English and B-Real was inspired to start writing raps from watching Sen Dog and Mellow Man Ace writing their lyrics,[13] and originally B-Real was going to just be the writer for the group rather than a rapper.[13] Their lyrics are noted for bringing a "cartoonish" approach to violence by Peter Shapiro and Allmusic.[4][14]

text: Production[edit]

text: The sound and groove of their music, produced by Muggs, has spooky sounds and stoned aesthetic; with its bass-heavy rhythms and odd sample loops ("Insane in the Brain" has a pitched-altered horse neigh looped in its chorus), it carries a psychedelic value, which lessened in the later albums.[4][14]

text: For using rock/metal instrumentation the band is sometimes classified as a rap rock/rap metal group.[4] The double album Skull & Bones consists of a pure rap album ("Skull") and an entire CD of rap/rock/nu metal songs ("Bones"). In the live album Live at The Fillmore some of the old classics are played in a rock/metal version, with Sen Dog's band SX-10 and Eric Bobo playing the rock instrument.

text: While the first album and Black Sunday follow a more minimalistic and funky sound, III (Temples of Boom) has a very dark, spooky atmosphere and heavy beats, sometimes approaching hardcore rap. IV introduced more diverse sounds on the beats while maintaining the hardcore edge. The first albums are mostly influenced by psychedelic music, but the band eventually got closer to modern rap as it is today while still experimenting with rock from time to time, like on "Skull and Bones" and "Stoned Raiders".

text: Discography[edit]

text:
Cypress Hill (1991)
Black Sunday (1993)
Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom (1995)
Cypress Hill IV (1998)
Skull & Bones (2000)
Stoned Raiders (2001)
Till Death Do Us Part (2004)
Rise Up (2010)
Elephants on Acid (2018)[15]

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text: Grammy Awards

text:
Year
Nominated work
Award
Result

1994
"Insane in the Brain"
Best Rap Performance by a Group or Duo
Nominated

1995
"I Ain't Goin' Out Like That"
Best Rap Performance by a Group or Duo
Nominated

1996
"Throw Your Set in the Air"
Best Rap Performance by a Group or Duo
Nominated

text: MTV Video Music Awards

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Year
Nominated work
Award
Result

1994
"Insane in the Brain"
Best Rap Video
Nominated

text: Members[edit]

text:
Current

Louis "B-Real" Freese – lead vocals (1988–present)
Lawrence "DJ Muggs" Muggerud – turntables, samples (1988–2004; 2014–present)
Senen "Sen Dog" Reyes – vocals (1988–present)
Eric "Bobo" Correa – drums, percussion (1993–present)

Former

Ulpiano "Mellow Man Ace" Reyes – vocals (1988)
Farid "Fredwreck" Nassar – turntables, samples (2004–07)


document_title: Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell

question_text: tremors a cold day in hell filming location

text: Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell

text: Plot[edit]

text: In Canada's Nunavut Territory, a team of young researchers collecting ice core samples of glaciers is attacked by a Graboid. After brushing off a tax agent, Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his son Travis Welker (Jamie Kennedy) are asked by Dr. Rita Sims and a young Graboid hunter Valerie McKee to investigate. Their plane is attacked by an Ass Blaster, but Burt and Travis make it to the facility. They learn that Arctic heat conditions have made the area prime for Graboids. Burt suspects their research neighbors at DARPA are developing bio-weapons out of the Graboids. When an Ass Blaster attacks the facility, Burt rescues a researcher but experiences an episode and collapses. He learns that he has been infected by a parasite based on Graboid venom, and that they need to extract the antibodies from a live Graboid.

text: As Graboids continue to kill off researchers and staff, several members of the group try to make their way from the lab to the generator area where the pilot Mac is repairing the plane, and the facilities manager Swackhamer has created a makeshift underground electric fence. Others head for the communications tower and to turn off a drill that has automatically activated. With his own research team attacked, Agent Cutts of DARPA joins Burt's group, revealing that his team was more interested in extracting the melted water and not fashioning bio-weapons. He agrees to Burt and Travis's conditions that the government remove the tax liens from their place in Perfection and exempt them from paying property taxes hereforth. The group eventually use a storage container to trap one of the Graboids, spearing it from the side to hold it into place, and cutting off its front tentacles. Travis reaches in the graboid's mouth and draws venom using a syringe on its internal gland sac, which is then used to save Burt. Cutts gives the Gummers the paperwork freeing them from taxes, but they blow up the last Graboid before Cutts gets any ideas of really using it as a bio-weapon.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Michael Gross as Burt Gummer, the only resident left in the apparently abandoned and demolished Perfection, Nevada. Burt resides in and runs Chang's Market which appears to be all that's left of the town.
Jamie Kennedy as Travis B. Welker, Burt's son who works as a filmmaker.
Tanya van Graan as Dr. Rita Sims, the lead researcher at Boite Canyon Arctic Research Facility
Jamie-Lee Money as Valerie McKee, a Graboid expert and a student intern at the facility. She is the daughter of Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Rhonda LeBeck (Finn Carter) from the first Tremors film.[4]
Kiroshan Naidoo as Hart Hansen, a researcher in geomorphology
Keeno Lee Hector as Aklark, Valerie and Rita's assistant, a local to the area
Rob van Vuuren as Swackhamer, facility manager
Adrienne Pearce as Mac, the pilot who flew Burt and Travis in
Francesco Nassimbeni as Dr. Charles Ferezze, a cowardly researcher who wants to get out of the area by any means possible
Paul du Toit as Mr. Cutts, a DARPA agent in charge of the neighboring facility
Christie Peruso as Geo-Tech Vargas, a researcher
Jay Anstey as Dr. D, a researcher

text: Filming[edit]

text: The crew had originally intended to shoot in the mountains of Bulgaria, but after the country had endured one of its largest blizzards, they opted to return to South Africa.[5] Filming took place in the Cape Town area which is where Tremors 5 was filmed. The opening scene was filmed in the desert made to look like snow with filters and video processing techniques.[4][6] The nice weather was explained by climate change causing unusual warmth in the area.[5] Having worked on the previous film series, the crew used CGI for many of the Graboid scenes.[5]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Critical Response[edit]

text: Tim Janson of The SciFi Movie Page gave the film 2 stars out of 5 saying, "While none of the Tremors sequels (nor the one prequel) have ever been able to hold a candle to the original, A Cold Day in Hell is definitely one to miss. This sleep-inducing bore fest cannot even be saved by Burt’s over-the-top arrogance and crankiness." [7]


document_title: Weather satellite

question_text: when was the first weather satellite launched into space

text: Weather satellite

text: History[edit]

text: As early as 1946, the idea of cameras in orbit to observe the weather was being developed. This was due to sparse data observation coverage and the expense of using cloud cameras on rockets. By 1958, the early prototypes for TIROS and Vanguard (developed by the Army Signal Corps) were created.[3] The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched on February 17, 1959.[4] It was designed to measure cloud cover and resistance, but a poor axis of rotation and its elliptical orbit kept it from collecting a notable amount of useful data. The Explorer VI and VII satellites also contained weather-related experiments.[3]

text: The first weather satellite to be considered a success was TIROS-1, launched by NASA on April 1, 1960.[5] TIROS operated for 78 days and proved to be much more successful than Vanguard 2. TIROS paved the way for the Nimbus program, whose technology and findings are the heritage of most of the Earth-observing satellites NASA and NOAA have launched since then. Beginning with the Nimbus 3 satellite in 1969, temperature information through the tropospheric column began to be retrieved by satellites from the eastern Atlantic and most of the Pacific Ocean, which led to significant improvements to weather forecasts.[6]

text: The ESSA and NOAA polar orbiting satellites followed suit from the late 1960s onward. Geostationary satellites followed, beginning with the ATS and SMS series in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then continuing with the GOES series from the 1970s onward. Polar orbiting satellites such as QuikScat and TRMM began to relay wind information near the ocean's surface starting in the late 1970s, with microwave imagery which resembled radar displays, which significantly improved the diagnoses of tropical cyclone strength, intensification, and location during the 2000s and 2010s.

text: Observation[edit]

text: Observation is typically made via different 'channels' of the electromagnetic spectrum, in particular, the visible and infrared portions.

text: Some of these channels include:[7][8]

text:
Visible and Near Infrared: 0.6–1.6 μm – for recording cloud cover during the day
Infrared: 3.9–7.3 μm (water vapor), 8.7–13.4 μm (thermal imaging)

text: Visible spectrum[edit]

text: Visible-light images from weather satellites during local daylight hours are easy to interpret even by the average person; clouds, cloud systems such as fronts and tropical storms, lakes, forests, mountains, snow ice, fires, and pollution such as smoke, smog, dust and haze are readily apparent. Even wind can be determined by cloud patterns, alignments and movement from successive photos.[9]

text: Infrared spectrum[edit]

text: The thermal or infrared images recorded by sensors called scanning radiometers enable a trained analyst to determine cloud heights and types, to calculate land and surface water temperatures, and to locate ocean surface features. Infrared satellite imagery can be used effectively for tropical cyclones with a visible eye pattern, using the Dvorak technique, where the difference between the temperature of the warm eye and the surrounding cold cloud tops can be used to determine its intensity (colder cloud tops generally indicate a more intense storm).[10] Infrared pictures depict ocean eddies or vortices and map currents such as the Gulf Stream which are valuable to the shipping industry. Fishermen and farmers are interested in knowing land and water temperatures to protect their crops against frost or increase their catch from the sea. Even El Niño phenomena can be spotted. Using color-digitized techniques, the gray shaded thermal images can be converted to color for easier identification of desired information.

text: Types[edit]

text: Each meteorological satellite is designed to use one of two different classes of orbit: geostationary and polar orbiting.

text: Geostationary[edit]

text: Geostationary weather satellites orbit the Earth above the equator at altitudes of 35,880 km (22,300 miles). Because of this orbit, they remain stationary with respect to the rotating Earth and thus can record or transmit images of the entire hemisphere below continuously with their visible-light and infrared sensors. The news media use the geostationary photos in their daily weather presentation as single images or made into movie loops. These are also available on the city forecast pages of www.noaa.gov (example Dallas, TX).[11]

text: Several geostationary meteorological spacecraft are in operation. The United States has three in operation; GOES-12, GOES-13, and GOES-15. GOES-12, previously designated GOES-East and now used for South America, is located at 60 degrees west.[12] GOES-13 took over the role of GOES-East on April 14, 2010 and is located at 75 degrees west.[13] GOES-11 was GOES-West over the eastern Pacific Ocean until it was decommissioned December 2011 and replaced by GOES-15.[14] Russia's new-generation weather satellite Elektro-L No.1 operates at 76°E over the Indian Ocean. The Japanese have the MTSAT-2 located over the mid Pacific at 145°E and the Himawari 8 at 140°E. The Europeans have four in operation, Meteosat-8 (3.5°W) and Meteosat-9 (0°) over the Atlantic Ocean and have Meteosat-6 (63°E) and Meteosat-7 (57.5°E) over the Indian Ocean. China currently has three Fengyun (风云) geostationary satellites (FY-2E at 86.5°E, FY-2F at 123.5°E, and FY-2G at 105°E) operated.[15] India also operates geostationary satellites called INSAT which carry instruments for meteorological purposes.

text: Polar orbiting[edit]

text: Polar orbiting weather satellites circle the Earth at a typical altitude of 850 km (530 miles) in a north to south (or vice versa) path, passing over the poles in their continuous flight. Polar orbiting weather satellites are in sun-synchronous orbits, which means they are able to observe any place on Earth and will view every location twice each day with the same general lighting conditions due to the near-constant local solar time. Polar orbiting weather satellites offer a much better resolution than their geostationary counterparts due their closeness to the Earth.

text: The United States has the NOAA series of polar orbiting meteorological satellites, presently NOAA 17 and NOAA 18 as primary spacecraft, NOAA 15 and NOAA 16 as secondary spacecraft, NOAA 14 in standby, and NOAA 12. Europe has the Metop-A and Metop-B satellites operated by EUMETSAT. Russia has the Meteor and RESURS series of satellites. China has FY-3A, 3B and 3C. India has polar orbiting satellites as well.

text: DMSP[edit]

text: The United States Department of Defense's Meteorological Satellite (DMSP) can "see" the best of all weather vehicles with its ability to detect objects almost as 'small' as a huge oil tanker. In addition, of all the weather satellites in orbit, only DMSP can "see" at night in the visual. Some of the most spectacular photos have been recorded by the night visual sensor; city lights, volcanoes, fires, lightning, meteors, oil field burn-offs, as well as the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis have been captured by this 450-mile-high space vehicle's low moonlight sensor.

text: At the same time, energy use and city growth can be monitored since both major and even minor cities, as well as highway lights, are conspicuous. This informs astronomers of light pollution. The New York City Blackout of 1977 was captured by one of the night orbiter DMSP space vehicles.

text: In addition to monitoring city lights, these photos are a life saving asset in the detection and monitoring of fires. Not only do the satellites see the fires visually day and night, but the thermal and infrared scanners on board these weather satellites detect potential fire sources below the surface of the Earth where smoldering occurs. Once the fire is detected, the same weather satellites provide vital information about wind that could fan or spread the fires. These same cloud photos from space tell the firefighter when it will rain.

text: Some of the most dramatic photos showed the 600 Kuwaiti oil fires that the fleeing Army of Iraq started on February 23, 1991. The night photos showed huge flashes, far outstripping the glow of large populated areas. The fires consumed millions of gallons of oil; the last was doused on November 6, 1991.

text: Uses[edit]

text: Snowfield monitoring, especially in the Sierra Nevada, can be helpful to the hydrologist keeping track of available snowpack for runoff vital to the watersheds of the western United States. This information is gleaned from existing satellites of all agencies of the U.S. government (in addition to local, on-the-ground measurements). Ice floes, packs and bergs can also be located and tracked from weather space craft.

text: Even pollution whether it is nature-made or man-made can be pinpointed. The visual and infrared photos show effects of pollution from their respective areas over the entire earth. Aircraft and rocket pollution, as well as condensation trails, can also be spotted. The ocean current and low level wind information gleaned from the space photos can help predict oceanic oil spill coverage and movement. Almost every summer, sand and dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa drifts across the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean. GOES-EAST photos enable meteorologists to observe, track and forecast this sand cloud. In addition to reducing visibilities and causing respiratory problems, sand clouds suppress hurricane formation by modifying the solar radiation balance of the tropics. Other dust storms in Asia and mainland China are common and easy to spot and monitor, with recent examples of dust moving across the Pacific Ocean and reaching North America.

text: In remote areas of the world with few local observers, fires could rage out of control for days or even weeks and consume millions of acres before authorities are alerted. Weather satellites can be a tremendous asset in such situations. Nighttime photos also show the burn-off in gas and oil fields. Atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles have been taken by weather satellites since 1969.[16]