Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow

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Dave the Barbarian episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 3

Written by

Production no.

111 B

Original airdate

January 23, 2004

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Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow is the second half of episode #1.11 of the animated television series Dave the Barbarian.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Pop culture references
4 Awards

[edit] Plot

The beginning of this story takes place in the year 1994. Ned Frischman, the stereotypical nerd, laments that he has not received employee of the month, despite his uncomplaining and assiduous work ethic. Suddenly, Ned's zipper spontaneously begins to metamorphose, and he comes to realize that this is no ordinary zipper; it is time travelling device. Ned promptly decides to travel back in time and take over the ancient world, wrongly believing that his modern technological advances will facilitate his acquisition of power.

After twice failing in his ambitious scheme, Ned introduces to the ancients a device known as the Gameguy, which rapidly becomes a fad, used by everyone from the royal family, to hairdressers, royal guards, and even invaders. Using everyone's love for this device, Ned enslaves the public and forces them to build pyramids in his honor. This hypnotic hold, however, does not apply to those without thumbs (like Twinkle The Marvel Horse, Faffy and Lula)

After the three unsuccessfully join forces to overthrow Ned, Lula then uses her brains to trick Dave the Barbarian into liberating Udrogoth.

In the end of the episode as Ned plots his revenge on Dave, he loses out on being employee of the month again, this time to a Tyrannosaurus rex.

[edit] Trivia

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First appearance of Ned Frischman

[edit] Pop culture references

How Ned Frischman got the time zipper is a spoof of many origins based upon how superheroes got their power
- Spiderman - a radioactive insect bit something that gave it powers
Back to the Future Part II - the villain travels back in time for selfish reasons.
Gameboy - the GameGuy is an obvious spoof of the handheld game console.
Doctor Who - in a 1965 serial of the classic seies, The Time Meddler, a time traveller was giving out technology to people, centuries before they were even invented.