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| EpisodeNumber = 11
| EpisodeNumber = 11<br />12
| Title = Cyd and Shelby Strike Back
| Title = Cyd and Shelby Strike Back
| DirectedBy = Shannon Flynn<br />Shelley Jensen
| DirectedBy = Shannon Flynn<br />Shelley Jensen
| WrittenBy = Steve Jarczak<br />Shawn Thomas<br />Jim Martin
| WrittenBy = Steve Jarczak<br />Shawn Thomas<br />Jim Martin
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2015|11|27}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2015|11|27}}
| ProdCode = 111
| ProdCode = 111<br />112
| Viewers = 1.72<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-update-11-27-2015.html|title=Top 100 Friday Cable Originals & Network Updated: 11.27.2015|work=Showbuzz Daily|last=Metcalf|first=Mitch|date=November 27, 2015|accessdate=December 1, 2015}}</ref>
| Viewers = 1.72<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-update-11-27-2015.html|title=Top 100 Friday Cable Originals & Network Updated: 11.27.2015|work=Showbuzz Daily|last=Metcalf|first=Mitch|date=November 27, 2015|accessdate=December 1, 2015}}</ref>
| ShortSummary = {{plot|episode|date=December 2015}}Cyd and Shelby discover that Janet Smythe is the one behind the future lab and seek to get rid of the lab and GloboDigiDyne. With Barry and Naldo's help, and an unauthorized biography of Janet, the girls find out Janet came up with the idea of wireless technology after being shocked by her desk lamp in 1991. Their time travel to that period proves to be a challenge, as they encounter numerous traps set by Janet. As they learn to avoid the traps by repeatedly jumping back, they discover their ability to time travel is compromised and need to save their power to return to the present. They navigate successfully through the traps and break Janet's lamp, but severely mess up the future and create a different timeline. Upon returning from their time travel jump, Cyd ends up in Peru with her parents and Shelby ends up in Alaska with her parents because there is no GloboDigiDyne, and Shelby's dad could not find a stable job in Portland. The girls make a plan to meet each other in Portland so they can time travel and make sure Shelby's dad gets a solid job in Portland. Shelby ends up going to her old house to wait for Cyd and notices Barry and Naldo hardly recognize her from when she used to live there. Things take a bad turn when Shelby sees Janet living in the house. Shelby finds Janet briefly hospitable to her, with apparently no recollection of what happened in 1991, and texts Cyd about Janet, but then finds out the truth when she goes up to her old room. Janet does indeed remember what the girls did, including the time travel, and seeks revenge. She realizes Shelby could not time travel alone and waits for Cyd to show, then lures her by using Shelby's phone and texting as her. With the two girls tied up, Janet unveils a molecular disrupter and vows to find out how the girls know about time travel. Janet decides Shelby should go into the chamber first, but Cyd offers to go instead. Shelby becomes free of the ropes, thanks to Diesel's spiky collar, and attempts to rescue Cyd while being hit by lasers, only to find she is too late ... or actually, not. Cyd tricks Janet by coming out from behind the chamber and shocks Janet unconscious. The girls then go back to 1991, to the point where Janet gets shocked by the lamp, and right things, restoring the original timeline where GloboDigiDyne exists again. Their time travel, though, leaves behind some particles which the 1991 Janet captures and seeks to investigate.
| ShortSummary = {{plot|episode|date=December 2015}}Cyd and Shelby discover that Janet Smythe is the one behind the future lab and seek to get rid of the lab and GloboDigiDyne. With Barry and Naldo's help, and an unauthorized biography of Janet, the girls find out Janet came up with the idea of wireless technology after being shocked by her desk lamp in 1991. Their time travel to that period proves to be a challenge, as they encounter numerous traps set by Janet. As they learn to avoid the traps by repeatedly jumping back, they discover their ability to time travel is compromised and need to save their power to return to the present. They navigate successfully through the traps and break Janet's lamp, but severely mess up the future and create a different timeline. Upon returning from their time travel jump, Cyd ends up in Peru with her parents and Shelby ends up in Alaska with her parents because there is no GloboDigiDyne, and Shelby's dad could not find a stable job in Portland. The girls make a plan to meet each other in Portland so they can time travel and make sure Shelby's dad gets a solid job in Portland. Shelby ends up going to her old house to wait for Cyd and notices Barry and Naldo hardly recognize her from when she used to live there. Things take a bad turn when Shelby sees Janet living in the house. Shelby finds Janet briefly hospitable to her, with apparently no recollection of what happened in 1991, and texts Cyd about Janet, but then finds out the truth when she goes up to her old room. Janet does indeed remember what the girls did, including the time travel, and seeks revenge. She realizes Shelby could not time travel alone and waits for Cyd to show, then lures her by using Shelby's phone and texting as her. With the two girls tied up, Janet unveils a molecular disrupter and vows to find out how the girls know about time travel. Janet decides Shelby should go into the chamber first, but Cyd offers to go instead. Shelby becomes free of the ropes, thanks to Diesel's spiky collar, and attempts to rescue Cyd while being hit by lasers, only to find she is too late ... or actually, not. Cyd tricks Janet by coming out from behind the chamber and shocks Janet unconscious. The girls then go back to 1991, to the point where Janet gets shocked by the lamp, and right things, restoring the original timeline where GloboDigiDyne exists again. Their time travel, though, leaves behind some particles which the 1991 Janet captures and seeks to investigate.
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Best Friends Whenever
GenreComedy
Created byJed Elinoff
Scott Thomas
Starring
Opening theme"Whenever" performed by Forever in Your Mind
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes12 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersScott Thomas
Jed Elinoff
Michael B. Kaplan
ProducerJulie Tsutsui
Camera setupmulti-camera
Running time23 minutes
Production companiesDiphthong Productions
Entertainment Force
It's a Laugh Productions
Original release
NetworkDisney Channel
ReleaseJune 26, 2015 (2015-06-26) –
present

Best Friends Whenever is an American multi-camera sitcom developed for Disney Channel, created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas and executive produced by Jed Elinoff, Scott Thomas, and Michael B. Kaplan. The series stars Landry Bender as Cyd and Lauren Taylor as Shelby.

Plot

Set in Portland, Oregon, two girls named Cyd and Shelby are best friends living together while Cyd's parents are on an archaeological dig in Peru. After an accident in their neighbor Barry's science lab, they are given the ability to travel in time, provided they are thinking of the time they want to go and are together hugging or high fiving. Of course when it comes to their trips to the future, they briefly find themselves strapped to tables in a futuristic lab, and now they must figure out what this means while having various misadventures along the way.

Cast and characters

Main

The main characters. Matthew Royer as Chet, Gus Kamp as Barry, Landry Bender as Cyd, Lauren Taylor as Shelby, Ricky Garcia as Naldo and Benjamin Royer as Brett.
  • Cyd (Landry Bender) is Shelby's best friend who is staying with Shelby's family while her parents are away in Peru. She owns a pet dog named Diesel.
  • Shelby (Lauren Taylor) is Cyd's best friend.
  • Barry (Gus Kamp) is an aspiring young scientist who lives in a Winnebago that is parked outside of Shelby's backyard that he also uses for his lab. One of his inventions gave Cyd and Shelby the ability to travel through time.
  • Naldo (Ricky Garcia) is Barry's best friend and lab assistant. Barry calls him "Renaldo".
  • Bret (Benjamin Cole Royer) is Shelby's brother who is the twin brother of Chet.
  • Chet (Matthew Lewis Royer) is Shelby's brother who is the twin brother of Bret.

Recurring

  • Astrid (Mary Passeri) is the mother of Shelby, Bret, and Chet.
  • Norm (Kevin Symons) is the father of Shelby, Bret, and Chet. He works as an accountant at GloboDigiDyne and later gets promoted to the company's Pelican Ball Room.
  • Marci (Madison Hu) is a weird friend of Cyd and Shelby who is always relaxed.
  • Ms. Nesbit (Jocelyn Ayanna) is a woman who was first seen as Cyd and Shelby's strict history teacher at West Portland High School. Due to Cyd and Shelby's time-traveling, Ms. Nesbit now works as a police officer.
  • Mr. Doyle (Larry Joe Campbell) is a gossip-loving teacher at West Portland High School who teaches science and driver's ed.
  • Janet Smythe (Nora Dunn) is an entrepreneur and the CEO of GloboDigiDyne who has invented many things in her life starting with wireless objects.

Production

Best Friends Whenever was created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, who have also created Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. Casting started January 2015.[1] On March 6, 2015, Disney ordered Best Friends Whenever with production starting the same month.[2] The series premiered on June 26, 2015, directly after Teen Beach 2.[3]

Episodes

  • Benjamin Cole Royer and Matthew Lewis Royer are both absent for five episodes.


No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date [4]Prod.
code [5]		U.S. viewers
(millions)
1"A Time to Travel"Shelley JensenJed Elinoff
Scott Thomas		June 26, 2015 (2015-06-26)1013.54[6]

Two best friends, Shelby (Lauren Taylor) and Cyd (Landry Bender), mess around in their classmate Barry's lab and end up getting powers to time travel. They use the ability by thinking about what time they want to go to and hugging each other. The problem is that the two of them have to do it together.

Guest stars: Madison Hu as Marci, Emery Kelly as Cameron
2"A Time to Cheat"Shelley JensenJed Ellinoff
Scott Thomas		July 12, 2015 (2015-07-12)1022.02[7]

Shelby and Cyd try to avoid studying by time traveling to the day of the test because of the theory that if they time travel there they'll already know the stuff. Unfortunately, they don't know and try to go back, but get stuck in the time period without knowing what to do on the test.

Guest star: Jocelyn Ayanna as Ms. Nesbit
3"A Time to Say Thank You"Shelley JensenMichael B. KaplanJuly 19, 2015 (2015-07-19)1031.96[8]

Cyd tries to plan a thank you party for Shelby's family, but it doesn't go as planned after Shelby attempts to help.

Guest stars: Mary Passeri as Astrid, Kevin Symons as Norm
4"A Time to Jump and Jam"Shelley JensenDebby WolfeJuly 26, 2015 (2015-07-26)1042.01[9]

Shelby and Cyd's powers are broken when they try to travel back to Cyd's favorite junior high moment, and they have to find out why. It turns out Shelby was holding them back from time traveling to the event because she wanted to hide an embarrassing secret she had been keeping from Cyd.

Guest stars: Eryn Pablico as Jen, Jocelyn Ayanna as Ms. Nesbit
5"A Time to Rob and Slam"Shelley JensenJim HopeAugust 9, 2015 (2015-08-09)1051.87[10]

Shelby's science teacher Mr. Doyle pairs her up with a student called The Rob. The Rob is a jerk, and Cyd and Shelby soon travel back to see why.

Guest stars: Larry Joe Campbell as Mr. Doyle, Randy J. Goodwin as Vance Carroway, Madison Hu as Marci, Brendan Meyer as The Rob

Absent: Benjamin Cole Royer as Bret, Matthew Lewis Royer as Chet
6"The Butterscotch Effect"Shelley JensenSteve Jarczak
Shawn Thomas		August 16, 2015 (2015-08-16)1061.67[11]

Cyd and Shelby go back in time to help Barry meet his idol. When they make it so Barry does that, they return to find that Barry has started a rock band because his idol ridiculed his theories, causing Cyd and Shelby to correct it; however, when they return to the present again, they find that Barry is an evil genius, and they go back to see that this is because they caused something else that made Barry and Naldo not meet.

Guest stars: Stephen Full as Ray, Kevin Symons as Norm, Mary Passeri as Astrid, Ernie Kamp as Young Barry
7"Shake Your Booty"Victor GonzalezJed Elinoff
Scott Thomas		August 23, 2015 (2015-08-23)1072.03[12]

Cyd and Shelby go back to the 1970s and get caught in a feud between punk and disco kids, but start forgetting each other when they start fitting in with the time period on each of the opposing sides.

Guest stars: Ben Giroux as Mr. Canavan, Mollee Gray as Roller Girl

Absent: Benjamin Cole Royer as Bret, Matthew Lewis Royer as Chet
8"Back to the Future Lab"
"Jump to the Future Lab"		Shelley JensenMichael B. KaplanSeptember 20, 2015 (2015-09-20)1082.09[13]

Shelby and Cyd discover a strange logo all throughout Barry's lab that has a tie with their brief future experiences. Upon identifying the logo, they infiltrate the company GloboDigiDyne where Shelby's father supposedly works. Meanwhile, Bret and Chet think that Cyd and Shelby are detectives and follow them into GloboDigiDyne at the same time when the company's CEO, Janet Smythe, is testing the new robots.

Special guest star: Nora Dunn as Janet Smythe

Guest star: Kevin Symons as Norm
9"Cyd and Shelby's Haunted Escape"Victor GonzalezJim MartinOctober 4, 2015 (2015-10-04)1092.18[14]

Barry creates a teleportation device, allowing Cyd and Shelby to travel to New York so they can attend the Halloween Spooktacular in New York.

Special guest stars: Rowan Blanchard as Riley Matthews, Peyton Meyer as Lucas Friar

Absent: Benjamin Cole Royer as Bret, Matthew Lewis Royer as Chet
10"When Shelby Met Cyd"Victor GonzalesJim HopeOctober 25, 2015 (2015-10-25)1101.76[15]

After Cyd and Shelby return from the trip to their kindergarten years, things start going wrong when they begin de-aging due to never having time traveled to when they were that young. Barry and Naldo must help them by getting them to drink a lot of milk. However, while it works on Shelby, it does not work on Cyd. It turns out that Cyd was scared of growing up. After a pep talk from Shelby, all ends well.

Guest stars: Larry Joe Campbell as Mr. Doyle, Lauren Lindsey Donzis as 9yr old Cyd, Amiah Miller as 9yr old Shelby

Absent: Benjamin Cole Royer as Bret, Matthew Lewis Royer as Chet
11
12		"Cyd and Shelby Strike Back"Shannon Flynn
Shelley Jensen		Steve Jarczak
Shawn Thomas
Jim Martin		November 27, 2015 (2015-11-27)111
112		1.72[16]
Cyd and Shelby discover that Janet Smythe is the one behind the future lab and seek to get rid of the lab and GloboDigiDyne. With Barry and Naldo's help, and an unauthorized biography of Janet, the girls find out Janet came up with the idea of wireless technology after being shocked by her desk lamp in 1991. Their time travel to that period proves to be a challenge, as they encounter numerous traps set by Janet. As they learn to avoid the traps by repeatedly jumping back, they discover their ability to time travel is compromised and need to save their power to return to the present. They navigate successfully through the traps and break Janet's lamp, but severely mess up the future and create a different timeline. Upon returning from their time travel jump, Cyd ends up in Peru with her parents and Shelby ends up in Alaska with her parents because there is no GloboDigiDyne, and Shelby's dad could not find a stable job in Portland. The girls make a plan to meet each other in Portland so they can time travel and make sure Shelby's dad gets a solid job in Portland. Shelby ends up going to her old house to wait for Cyd and notices Barry and Naldo hardly recognize her from when she used to live there. Things take a bad turn when Shelby sees Janet living in the house. Shelby finds Janet briefly hospitable to her, with apparently no recollection of what happened in 1991, and texts Cyd about Janet, but then finds out the truth when she goes up to her old room. Janet does indeed remember what the girls did, including the time travel, and seeks revenge. She realizes Shelby could not time travel alone and waits for Cyd to show, then lures her by using Shelby's phone and texting as her. With the two girls tied up, Janet unveils a molecular disrupter and vows to find out how the girls know about time travel. Janet decides Shelby should go into the chamber first, but Cyd offers to go instead. Shelby becomes free of the ropes, thanks to Diesel's spiky collar, and attempts to rescue Cyd while being hit by lasers, only to find she is too late ... or actually, not. Cyd tricks Janet by coming out from behind the chamber and shocks Janet unconscious. The girls then go back to 1991, to the point where Janet gets shocked by the lamp, and right things, restoring the original timeline where GloboDigiDyne exists again. Their time travel, though, leaves behind some particles which the 1991 Janet captures and seeks to investigate.

Special guest star: Nora Dunn as Janet Smythe

Guest stars: Kevin Symons as Norm, Madison Hu as Marci, Tamela D'Amico as Young Janet

Absent: Benjamin Cole Royer as Bret, Matthew Lewis Royer as Chet
13"The Girls of Christmas Past"David KendallKevin Engelking
Sarah Jeanne Terry		December 6, 2015 (2015-12-06)1141.33[17]

Cyd is feeling guilty on Christmas Eve that Shelby's gifts are always a lot better and jumps in bed with Shelby in order to jump back to a year earlier before she moved in. Cyd does her best to keep Shelby from finding out that they jumped while Shelby was sleeping; however, Shelby eventually finds out. Meanwhile, against Naldo's wishes, Barry performs an experiment and causes a war between Bret's group and Chet's group. However, he later realizes that what he did was wrong and apologizes. His apology is accepted, but he ends up being tied up in Christmas lights.

Guest stars: Kevin Symons as Norm, Mary Passeri as Astrid

Broadcast

Best Friends Whenever airs on Disney Channel in Canada[18] and premiered on Disney Channel in Australia and New Zealand on October 16, 2015.[19]

Critical reception

Brian Lowry, writing for Variety, thought the show's pilot episode was formulaic and did not take full advantages of the time travel premise. In particular, the show "appears more content to focus on the humdrum details of Shelby and Cyd’s frantic lives than, say, sending them back to meet Abraham Lincoln or ahead to a time of flying cars."[20]

References

  1. ^ "Disney Channel casting call for new series 'Best Friends Whenever'". Disney Channel Auditions.
  2. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (March 5, 2015). "Disney Channel Orders 'Best Friends Whenever' Series Starring Landry Bender". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
  3. ^ Wagmeister, Elizabeth (May 6, 2015). "Disney Sets June 26 Premieres for 'Teen Beach 2' & New Series 'Best Friends Whenever'". Variety.
  4. ^ "Best Friends Whenever Episode Guide". Zap2it.
  5. ^ "Best Friends Whenever". Disney ABC Press. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  6. ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (June 29, 2015). "Friday Cable Ratings: 'Teen Beach 2' & 'Alaskan Bush People' Top Night + 'Girl Meets World', 'Best Friends Whenever' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  7. ^ Bibel, Sara (July 14, 2015). "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'Naked and Afraid XL' Wins Night, 'True Detective', 'Basketball Wives', 'Ballers', 'The Strain' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
  8. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (July 21, 2015). "Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals: 7.19.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  9. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (July 28, 2015). "Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals: 7.26.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  10. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (August 9, 2015). "Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals: 8.9.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  11. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (August 16, 2015). "Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals: 8.16.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  12. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (August 23, 2015). "Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals: 8.23.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  13. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (September 22, 2015). "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 9.20.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  14. ^ Porter, Rick (October 6, 2015). "Sunday cable ratings: 'Fear the Walking Dead' finale leads night, plus 'The Strain' finale, 'Rick & Morty,' 'Kardashians'". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
  15. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (October 27, 2015). "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 10.25.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  16. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (November 27, 2015). "Top 100 Friday Cable Originals & Network Updated: 11.27.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  17. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (December 8, 2015). "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Update: 12.6.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  18. ^ "Disney Channel September 2015 Programming Highlights" (Press release). Toronto: Corus® Entertainment Inc. September 8, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  19. ^ "Best Friends Whenever". Foxtel. Archived from the original on October 11, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  20. ^ Lowry, Brian (June 25, 2015). "Disney Channel's 'Best Friends Whenever". Variety. Retrieved July 8, 2015.


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