Love Potion

Love Potion is the first episode of the first season of Fred: The Show.

Synopsis
Fred develops a crush on the new student Nicolette, so he makes a love potion for his science fair project, but when he tries to spray Nicolette, Kevin gets in the way!

Plot
The episode begins with Fred explaining he's been up all night trying to find an idea for his science fair project. At school, he talks with Bertha, saying that all he came up with was the rubber pencil trick. Kevin sees him doing it and says he had claimed it as his idea. He then starts bullying Fred (as usual) and showing off his wheelie backpack until a girl comes up to Kevin and scares him out of the hallway. She leaves, much to an awestruck Fred. He wonders who she is, and Bertha explains that she's the new girl Nicolette. Because she intimidates Kevin, Fred is enamored by her.

At home, he is still trying to come up with a project idea. After his mom ate moldy bread he was going to use for the project and him complaining that now he doesn't have a way to impress Nicolette, her response gives Fred the idea to create a love potion for his project. He does so and notes that not only does it make one fall in love with the first thing someone sees, it has an interesting side effect of being able to be used as a pesticide. He finally confirms that it works once he uses it on his elderly neighbor.

On the day of the science fair, Fred tries to impress and spray Nicolette with his love potion, only to accidentally spray Kevin with it instead. When Nicolette doesn't respond well to his advances, Fred assumes the potion doesn't actually work and tosses it to the floor as Kevin starts to make romantic advances towards him.

His teacher finds the potion and, thinking it was perfume, sprays it on herself, making her fall in love with the model skeleton. Due to Kevin appearing vulnerable as he tries to woo Fred, Nicolette has a change of heart and attempts to be friends with Kevin, much to Fred's frustration. The effects wear off, and Kevin begins to bully Fred again, prompting Nicolette to change her mind. Fred assumes that the potion did work after all and then tries to find it, while his teacher knocks over Bertha's project in the middle of making out with the skeleton.

Bertha's poisonous ants are released, putting everyone in danger. Fred decides to use the last of his love potion to kill them, and due to all the chaos, everyone will get an A on their project.

Fred hints that he could make another batch of the potion, only for Nicolette to smack him on the head, telling him "don't even think about it."

Transcript
Full transcript here.

Trivia

 * This episode had the series' highest viewership at almost 3.7 million viewers.
 * First instance of a love interest for Fred besides Judy.
 * Kate Brochu guest stars as Nicolette.