document.write('<A NAME="episode22"></A><B>Ants in Pants:</B> (Episode 22 [23]) <A HREF="6_tick.html#city">The City</A> is under seige by a group of <a href="1_tick.html#ants">glass-stealing women in trenchcoats</a>. <A HREF="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</A> confronts these thieves and discovers that each woman is made of thousands of intelligent <A HREF="1_tick.html#ants">ants</A>, stuffed together in dresses, pumps, and hats. In the melee, <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a> is covered by a swarm of these insects and freaks out entirely. The encounter traumitizes him so he seeks therapy at <A HREF="6_tick.html#clinic">Captain Sanity\'s Superhero Sanitarium</A>. While <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a> is in for treatment, the ants attempt to take over <A HREF="6_tick.html#city">The City</A>. <A HREF="2_tick.html#arthur">Arthur</A>, <A HREF="1_tick.html#maid">American Maid</A>, <A HREF="20_tick.html#urchin">Sewer Urchin</A>, <A HREF="8_tick.html#maus">Die Fledermaus</A>, and <A HREF="10_tick.html#fishboy">Fishboy</A> come to <A HREF="6_tick.html#city">The City</A>\'s aid by working their way up a twenty story ant hill, but are captured and imprisoned in a giant people farm. After <A HREF="5_tick.html#sanity">Captain Sanity</A> and his physical therapist, <A HREF="22_tick.html#taft">Taft</A>\'s brand of therapy fails, <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a> overcomes his fear and confronts the object of his nightmares, a giant composite ant lead by the <A HREF="3_tick.html#betty">ant queen, Betty</A>, and a large magnifying glass that threatens to burn <A HREF="6_tick.html#city">The City</A> to the ground. After the battle, <a href="3_tick.html#betty">Betty</a> is captured, and the remaining ants, leaderless, pose no further threat to <A HREF="6_tick.html#city">The City</A>\'s saftey.<br> [Written by: <A href=\'actor.html#Soll\'>Ralph Soll</a> Directed by: <a href="actor.html#Hank">Hank Tucker</a>]<P>');
