Fanon:Nate and Randy - Master Pranksters

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Nate and Randy - Master Pranksters is a spin-off series to the Nickelodeon Big Nate series. It will start with a season of 26 22-minute episodes, most of which consist of two 11-minute segments, unlike the original series. It is set to premiere and Nickelodeon in 2024. The series is about what if Nate's dad (Martin) and Randy's mom (Barbara) marry, and focuses on a duo of pranksters, spending their Summer pulling extraordinary pranks on people without getting caught, like a more hardcore and rebellious Phineas and Ferb (many episodes have some similarity to the ones from Phineas and Ferb, though suggestions to make them more original are welcome).

Confirmed
Main article: Fanon:Big Nate: The Cartoon Series

Predicted
Randy's posse (appearing in some episodes):
 * Ben Schwartz as Matt
 * Beck Bennett as Brandon
 * Zeno Robinson as Jamie
 * Jack McBrayer as Josh
 * Thomas Middleditch as Philip

Season 1 (2024-2025)

 * Episode 1a: Pranks a Whole Darn Lot! - Martin and Barbara marry, and even though Nate and Randy are initially upset that their worst nightmare came true, their rivalry eventually fades into friendship, and they end up becoming a duo of pranksters, pulling extraordinary pranks on people without getting caught. They start by modifying a rollercoaster track so the rollercoaster drives off all over the city. They succeed, with Nate and Randy sitting in front, and Nate's friends (Francis, Teddy, Chad, Dee Dee) in the back, before eventually making it back to track. Ellen witness the wild rollercoaster on the loose, but Nate and Randy fix the track before she could bust them. Francis, Teddy, Chad, Dee Dee are mad at Nate for helping Randy with that dangerous prank that could've gotten them all killed. After a scathing argument, Nate leaves his earlier friend group for good, they remove Nate from their friend group. That doesn't matter, because Nate has gains new friends who are also Randy's posse that, along with Brad Gunter and Bentley, support Nate and Randy's pranks.
 * Episode 1b: No Beaches - Nate and Randy use a giant vacuum they made to suck up all the water from the beach, which works well until the vacuum explodes and they end up in the middle of the ocean surface with only a shareable float, having to make it back to shore before Ellen and their parents arrive at the beach.
 * Episode 2a: Ain't a Love Song - Nate and Randy decide to write and record a song about how much they hate Nate's former friends, and they send it to the radio station. However, on their way home, they remember a verse in which they were insulting Ellen and their parents as well. So they have to go back to the station and take it back from the manager who is determined to play it. However, their fight for the tape causes it to be destroyed. Nate and Randy go home upset about their song being lost, but relieved that it was never publicly heard.
 * Episode 2b: Car Tuned Up - The boys transform Dad's car into a remote-controlled one that they take for a joyride all over the city, but when they use up all the gas and accidentally cause a flat tire, they have to fix this situation before Ellen and their parents find out.
 * Episode 3a: Blockbuster Busted - When Nate and Randy find out that Ellen is starring in a princess movie, they switch out the film's script with their own without Ellen seeing them, to get her humiliated. Eventually, she quits and later realizes that Nate and Randy wrote the script. She plans to bust them, but Nate and Randy already returned the original script and destroyed the one they made to discard evidence.
 * Episode 3b: Rumble or Fumble - Chester challenges Nate to a wrestling match, but Nate has already taken an online hypnosis class, so he plans to hypnotize Chester so he and Randy can take him down easily, and quickly before Ellen and their parents find out.
 * Episode 4a: Birthday Bashers - It's Ellen's 16th birthday, and she makes sure that Nate and Randy don't crash in and ruin everything, but they already have some sinister friends to get Ellen humiliated in her party without them caught.
 * Episode 4b: Robo-Nates and Randroids - Nate and Randy create robot clones of themselves to cause chaos while Ellen is on a date with Gordie and the parents are out of town.
 * Episode 5a: Wrong Way Runway - Ellen tries to become a fashion model, but Nate and Randy try to ruin her big break by humiliating her on the runway without getting caught by their parents.
 * Episode 5b: Don't Have a Cow, Man! - Nate and Randy lets loose termites to destroy a barn and set free cows to run wild in the city. When Ellen finds out, she plans to bust Nate and Randy, but the cows end up chasing her. She has to lure the cows into a huge empty truck which then inadvertently takes them to a different city.
 * Episode 6a: Snow Big Deal - Nate and Randy sneak into people's houses at night to open their fridges and leave them wide open, causing a second Ice Age, which lasts until the mid-day heat starts melting the snow, and Martin and Barbara were having an overnight motel date, so they get home before Ellen could bust the boys.
 * Episode 6b: Circus Jerkus Maximus - Ellen joins a circus to perform, but Nate and Randy sneak in some wild parsnips that she is allergic to so she can end up suffering an allergic reaction while performing.
 * Episode 7a: I Want My Mummy! - After watching a scary mummy movie, Ellen develops a fear of mummies. Upon hearing about that, Nate and Randy take advantage of her fear by disguising themselves as mummies. However, in the bathroom, Ellen sprays them with the shower-head, revealing them as Nate and Randy with toilet paper wrapped around each of them. In a panic, they shove all the toilet paper they used into the toilet and flush, causing the toilet to be clogged and overflow, flooding the house until they open a door to let the water out. Not wanting to be busted along with Nate and Randy, she has to help them clean up the house before Martin and Barbra come back from their date.
 * Episode 7b: Band Play'd - Ellen travels on a tour bus with her favorite rock band, but Nate and Randy secretly tag along to cause some chaos in the bus without getting caught.
 * Episode 8a: Ice-Creamed - Ellen has to get her tonsils taken out. After that, Martin and Barbara plan to take her out for ice cream. Nate and Randy go around using a flashlight and magnifying glass to melt all the ice-cream in every ice-cream parlor and any other place that sells ice-cream to make sure it does not happen, all while not getting caught. They succeed in that mission, but it gets foiled when Ellen discovers some ice-cream that's already in the fridge at home.
 * Episode 8b: Toys Shall Destroy - Nate and Randy find Ellen's old toys and modify them to come to life and scare Ellen, which works until their batteries run out, the only batteries compatible for them.
 * Episode 9a: Small Boys, Bigfoot Plans - At a campout with their paternal grandparents, when Gramps tells the story of Bigfoot that scares Ellen, Nate and Randy disguise themselves as a bigfoot to give Ellen quite a fright, until they trip and roll down a rough hill.
 * Episode 9b: A Muddy Mud World in Here - The family get front row seats to watch a demolition derby. When Martin and Barbra have to head home due to Martin's toilet snake fear coming back, Nate and Randy push Ellen off the bleachers into the muddy derby. She has to escape the derby without getting run over by the vehicles, but Nate and Randy head home before she could bust them.
 * Episode 10a: Papa Birthday Bashers - It's Martin's birthday, and Randy wants to prank him like he and Nate have done to Ellen in Episode 4a. However, Nate doesn't want to prank his dad. After a bit of arguing, Nate and Randy decide to instead prank Ellen while she's singing a special birthday song for Martin, without getting caught. After their pranks fail, they ultimately decide to just sing along with Ellen because after all, it is Martin's birthday.
 * Episode 10b: Into the Darkest Depths of Ellen - When Nate and Randy hear that Ellen is allergic to eggs, they sneak egg salad into a sandwich she is eating. She suffers an allergic reaction that puts her in a coma and on the brink of death. Nate and Randy find and buy a shrinking drone that they use to retrieve the egg salad chunks in her stomach to save her life before their parents find out.
 * Episode 11: Time Pranksters - Nate and Randy decide to repair a time machine at a natural history museum and use it to go back to caveman times to pull pranks on people there. Ellen accidentally goes with them while trying to stop them. Nate and Randy carry on with their pranks there, but when they come back to the present, they find out that they turned the world in a pranking dystopia, and they're fading from existence. So they have to go back to caveman times, stop the slightly younger selves from pranking the cave-people and make them apologize to those people. As Nate, Randy, and Ellen from the bad present completely fade, their slightly younger selves return to the good present and shut down the machine for good.
 * Episode 12: Battle of the Band Members - Nate and Randy form a metal band duo, with Randy playing guitar and lead vocals (clean/unclean) and Nate playing drums and backing vocals. They use the opportunity to revisit their hate song for Nate's former friends from Episode 2a, with the intention of performing it at the Battle of the Bands. However, at the Battle of the Bands, they find out that Nate's former friends are also at the competition, as Nate's former band Fear the Mollusk. The differences from the lineup being Teddy playing keytar, Dee Dee playing bass and backing vocals and Chad playing drums (his second instrument after the oboe). Francis still plays the guitar, and Artur is still the lead vocalist. Nate and Randy perform their song anyway, causing a huge fight between the two bands and strengthening the rivalry. Both bands are banned from future competitions, but not before Nate and Randy break the camera to discard any evidence.
 * Episode 13a: Tree You Later! - Nate and Randy build a tree-house to pull pranks on unsuspecting people that work better on a high place, such as throwing water balloons and releasing wild birds to attack people, but Ellen threatens to have the tree-house cut down and bust the boys if they don't stop.
 * Episode 13b: We Are Who We ARR! - Nate and Randy dress up as pirates and ride a cannon-firing ship to terrorize the beach, while Ellen spies on them and has to beat them at their own game by stowing away and starting a pirate showdown.
 * Episode 14a: Chariot Idiots - Nate and Randy design some Ancient Greek-like chariots to race through the streets and cause chaos in the city, while Ellen tries to hire a cop in attempt to stop the boys.
 * Episode 14b: Chaos Caught on Camera - Ellen uses hidden cameras all over the neighborhood to film Nate and Randy filling up the streets to make a moat all over the neighborhood and city, but when Nate and Randy find out about the hidden cameras, they are determined to get rid of all the evidence before their parents can see them.
 * Episode 15a: Rolling with the Punches - Nate and Randy enter a roller derby to throw stuff like banana peels, rakes, and marbles into the track for the roller-skaters to slip on them or get hit by the rakes. Ellen, who is one of the skaters, gracefully dodges them all, except for one rake near the finish-line. Since she isn't wearing a helmet, the boys have to take her to the hospital and get her concussion healed before their parents find out.
 * Episode 15b: Nothing to Do...or Something? - Nate and Randy pretend to do absolutely nothing to show that they're not doing any pranks for a day. However, they actually sneak in some subtle yet impactful pranks whenever no one's around. Ellen is suspicious about this deceitful plan and is determined to catch them in the act as always.
 * Episode 16a: Caveman Craziness - Nate and Randy revive a caveman from a glacier and set it loose to terrorize the neighborhood, but the caveman falls in love with Ellen who tries to avoid him and bust the boys.
 * Episode 16b: Cat vs. Fish - Ellen finally gets a pet cat, much to Nate and Randy's dismay because of Nate's fear and Randy's allergy. They fish out some fish from a pond and use them to lure the cat into the neighborhood and attempt to get it into different traps. They finally lure the cat into a lake, but because it can't swim and the boys don't dare to touch it, a lady rescues the cat and keeps it as her pet.
 * Episode 17a: Surely You Joust - Nate and Randy attend a Renaissance fair where they participate in a jousting tournament, but they ride their horses out of the fair and cause chaos to the city, while Ellen is watching as the princess in the tower.
 * Episode 17b: Camera Caught - Ellen acquires footage from a traffic camera showing proof of her brothers' antics, but Nate and Randy have to destroy the tape to hide the evidence.
 * Episode 18a: Get Ballin' - Nate and Randy steal all the bowling balls from the city bowling alley and start rolling them into the streets, but when they accidentally cause Martin to crash his car, they have to return all the balls and cover their tracks without being seen.
 * Episode 18b: Game On or Off! - Nate and Randy face off against Ellen and Dee Dee in a "boys against girls" sports competition to see which gender is better, but the boys resort to cheating.
 * Episode 19a: Meteor-Wrong - Nate and Randy climb up the exterior to put a steak on the giant telescope to fool the scientists into thinking a meteor is coming, when disrupts Ellen's date with Gordie.
 * Episode 19b: Golf for It - Nate and Randy play mini-golf. They make it more exciting by playing mini-golf around town, causing a bit of chaos when the ball gets hit into different places. Meanwhile, Ellen is sick at home.
 * Episode 20a: Great Minds Alike - While Nate and Randy try to prank Ellen during a thunderstorm by getting her struck by lightning, Nate accidentally gets struck together with Ellen, causing their minds to switch bodies, so they have to find a way to get them struck again so they can be back to normal.
 * Episode 20b: By Gorge! - Nate and Randy decide to jump gorges all over the state in just their bikes, and Ellen tries to stop them, especially since they're about to jump the state's huge canyon.
 * Episode 21: Be There or Be Scared - The family goes to a haunted house, which is quite terrifying, especially for Ellen. Nate and Randy decide to take home some of the haunted house decorations and use them to scare Ellen everywhere she goes, including on a date with Gordie. With Ellen not being able to go anywhere without getting spooked, she locks herself in the closet and stays in there for a few days. Nate and Randy enjoy this at first, but soon they realize their mistake and break open the closet door to get Ellen out. Due to her lack of food and water, the family takes her to the hospital where can be healed.
 * Episode 22a: Randystein's Monster - Still having some haunted house decorations from the previous episode, Nate and Randy decide to create a monster that would come to life and terrorize the city, and Ellen is too scared of the monster to stop it.
 * Episode 22b: Art Failure - Ellen convinces Nate and Randy to take a break from pranking and turn to art instead. They paint a mural across the entirety of the school exterior, depicting an all-out prank war against Nate's former friends and Ellen. After taking several pictures of the mural, they intend to remove the mural before their family and the police finds out, though the graffiti is hard to come off.
 * Episode 23a: Toony Loons - Nate and Randy create a superhero cartoon that shows themselves battling Nate's former friends and Ellen. They post it on the web for the ex-friends to see. However, the high popularity makes it tough for Nate and Randy to delete the video.
 * Episode 23b: United Nate-ion of Randania - Nate and Randy build their own country on the entire rooftops of their school in an attempt to make people surrender to their pranks. However, nobody listens to them and Ellen intends to bust them. Soon it starts raining and it causes their "country" to fall apart because it's made entirely of papier-mâché.
 * Episode 24: The Ace of Space - Nate and Randy take on junior astronaut training so they can travel to the moon and pull some pranks there. When they arrive at the moon, they pull some pranks such as taking off other astronauts' helmets for a second and putting them back on, sandboarding on the outside of the space shuttle, and carving their faces on the surface for the Earth to see. However, they get lost in the dark side of the moon and have to get back to the shuttle before it takes off without them.
 * Episode 25: Summer Science? - Mr. Galvin informs Nate about his lousy 6th-grade science grade and threatens to send Nate to Summer school for the rest of the Summer if he doesn't make a project for the Summer Science Fair and get an all-important grade. Nate and Randy create a 4th-dimensional portal that turns into a black hole. When they realize their mistake, Nate and Randy let themselves get sucked in, prepared to sacrifice themselves before anyone else could get sucked in. The black hole ejects the boys and disappears. Despite the disaster the black hole, Mr. Galvin is impressed by the project and gives them an A+, eliminating any possibility of Nate going to Summer school.
 * Episode 26: Busted and Gunted - Ellen finally busts Nate and Randy, resulting in them being sent to the Institute of Criminally Insane Tweebs (Randy's first time and Nate's second time). They escape with the help of Brad Gunter, Bentley, and Randy's posse. When Ellen notices them, she threatens to bust them for escaping and possibly get them sent back to the institute permanently, until Brad convinces her that they're all just kids who want to have some imagination and creativity in the Summer, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Note: There will be a season 2 revival.