document.write('<A NAME="episode18"></A><B>Coach Fussell\'s Lament:</B> (Episode 18 [19]) The <a href="4_tick.html#brainchild">Brainchild</a> is at it again! This time he has strapped Miriam Brunch, a dowdy middle-aged babysitter, on a cybernetic exoskeleton, in order to terrorize <A HREF="6_tick.html#city">The City</A>. <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a> and <A HREF="2_tick.html#arthur">Arthur</A> engage her in combat. <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a> is stunned, captured, and brought in to the clutches of Miriam\'s tormentor. <a href="4_tick.html#brainchild">Brainchild</a> subjects the captive Tick to a humiliating series of transformations: he is shrunk to the size of a third-place bowling trophy and saddled with an extra head, then turned into a two-headed bluebird that can only speak high school French. The Diner Gang, led by <A HREF="2_tick.html#arthur">Arthur</A>, restore <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a> and bring <a href="4_tick.html#brainchild">Brainchild</a> to justice, just as his <a href="5_tick.html#parents">parents</a> come home.<BR>[Written by:&nbsp; <A HREF="actor.html#P&A">Pippen Parker and Andy Yerkes</A>  Directed by: <a href="actor.html#Hank">Hank Tucker</a>]<P>');
