document.write('<A NAME="episode26"></A><B>Grandpa Wore Tights:</B> (Episode 26) In this story, <A HREF="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</A> and <A HREF="2_tick.html#arthur">Arthur</A> find themselves in <A HREF="6_tick.html#home">Commander Goodbye\'s Superhero Retirement Home</A> listening to stories told by the <A HREF="7_tick.html#squad">Decency Squad</A>. The stories are long winded and a fellow visitor by the name of <A HREF="22_tick.html#terry">Terry</A> asks about a story involving the <A HREF="8_tick.html#desirovac">Desirovac</A>, a machine that can give it\'s user what ever he desires. Of course the <a href="7_tick.html#squad">Decency Squad</a> is happy to tell the story but unknowingly reveal the location of the Desireovac. Terry, it turns out, was planted in the home by his father, the evil <A HREF="22_tick.html">Terror</A> who wants the <a href="8_tick.html#desirovac">Desirovac</a> to furthur his evil goals. <a href="22_tick.html#terror">The Terror</a> takes Terry and breaks the <A HREF="12_tick.html#ton">Human Ton</A> out of prison. Together, they go to the hiding place of the <a href="8_tick.html#desirovac">Desirovac</a>, in an old abandoned mine shaft outside of <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> follow them and confront them, but it\'s too late. <A HREF="23_tick.html#antennea">The Tick\'s Antennea</A> are taking from him by <a href="22_tick.html#terror">The Terror</a>, leaving him offbalanced. <a href="22_tick.html#terror">The Terror</a> then wishes the <a href="7_tick.html#squad">Decency Squad</a> to the abandoned mine to gloat over his victory. A fight ensues that leave the oldsters in harms way. They fight magnificantly and when Terry revolts against his father, <a href="2_tick.html#arthur">Arthur</a> uses the Desireovac to return <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a> to his original state. The battle is won when <a href="22_tick.html#terror">The Terror</a> is captured and the <a href="12_tick.html#ton">Human Ton</a> is flattened against the wall by <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a>. After the day is won, the <a href="7_tick.html#squad">Decency Squad</a> leaves <a href="23_tick.html#tick">The Tick</a> to destroy the <a href="8_tick.html#desirovac">Desirovac</a>. He makes one wish before the deed is done, a BLT. He discovers it dry and wishes for mayo. He is drenched.<br> [Written by: <A HREF="actor.html#Ed&Lieb">Ben Edlund and Richard Liebmann-Smith</A>  Directed by: <a href="actor.html#Hank">Hank Tucker</a>]<P>');
