• Original airdate: October 7, 2004 in the UK on Fox Kids
• TNBC/DCKids original air date: January 8, 2005
• Australia original air date: October 13, 2004
• Writers: Jeff F. King & Jennifer Kennedy
• Director: Mitchell T. Ness

Guest Stars:
Actor's name	Character played
Don Ritchie	Lucas's Dad
Dru viergever	Stu Kubiak

  In Science, as the students are reading their horoscopes, Professor Z explains that scientific prediction is based on things like The Bell Curve. Having changed their seats before class, Professor Z now has them all stand up. They are in an experiment of class height. He points out that most of them are an average height but at the far ends, there are the “abnormally tall,” Stu, and the “atypically short,” Josie. The class sits back down and Professor Z hands out papers explaining The Bell Curve, with a picture of the curve on it. Marshall is organizing CD pictures for Magnet 360, however. By the time Professor Z notices, the bell rings. Marshall seems to ignore Professor Z about working on those after class.

      In the hallway, Corrine inquires how Lucas and Josie’s community service projects are going. Josie is teaching children to read at the Children’s Literacy Center. Lucas, working on Project Keep Holsey Green, is successfully sustaining an endangered species of Swamp Louse. Marshall gives a slight laugh about Lucas’s efforts. Corrine points out that Marshall should be working on his project instead of putting together a Magnet 360 Promo package. Marshall complains that, while he believes in community service, he should be allowed to spend his free time doing what he wants to do.

      It is 12:00am. Lucas is asleep while Marshall is putting the finishing touches on the Magnet 360 promotional package. He wakes up Lucas to see the final product. Lucas asks him if he has finished the essay. Marshall admits that he has not started yet. Lucas reminds him that Principal Durst wanted 1500 words on “the Blake Holsey of tomorrow.” Marshall, looking around for an idea, sees the horoscope page that everyone was looking at in Science. He decides to write some predictions of his own, since that is all he has time to write, he tells Lucas. The predictions are that: a math wiz will have an off day, a skater girl will take an unexpected trip, a football star will save the day, a conspiracy freak will get an unexpected reward from an unexpected source, a wise leader will meet an old friend, and a member of the Science Club will diet. Without proofreading, he sends that off to the newspaper’s printer. All of them are written correctly except the last one, where he accidentally misses typing the “t,” making it “a member of the Science Club will…Die.” Marshall goes into bed, not seeing electricity flow through the paper that Professor Z gave the class about the Bell Curve. The curve inverts.

  Outside of the school, scaffolding is up around the school’s main entrance. The Janitor is replacing the roof tiles. Inside, copies of the Holsey Howler sit on a table in the hallway. Marshall finishes talking to a potential client of Magnet 360 when he sees Corrine walk slowly down the stairs. Her hair is frizzed out, socks don’t match, and her uniform is messed up. She tells Marshall that her alarm clock didn’t go off, she didn’t have time to get properly dressed, and she went to the wrong class, twice. Josie comes up to them, saying that her mom just called her and said that they both will go on a trip to Europe this summer. Seeing that Corrine isn’t having such a good day, asks what happened to her.

The three go into the lounge where Lucas is talking with his father on a cell phone. His father tells Lucas that he caught the tagged bass in the annual fishing tournament, giving credit to Lucas for the lure that Lucas designed, and won $5,000. He is giving Lucas half of the money. Lucas tells the others and tells Marshall that it is all thanks to Marshall’s column in the Holsey Howler, pointing out the comment about a conspiracy freak. Josie is skeptical about Marshall’s prediction’s accuracy until she sees her prediction, about a skater girl. Corrine is not pleased about her prediction, about having an off day. Marshall tries telling them that he made all that stuff up when Principal Durst calls him to her office.

      Principal Durst scolds Marshall about how he has flouted the community service assignment, adding how questionable it is that he has written such bad things about his friends. Marshall rolls his eyes and does not seem very interested in what Principal Durst is saying.

The phone rings and Principal Durst swiftly picks it up, answering it with a not so courteous “hello!” Her tone calms when she hears that it is Marvin Lipschitz. Marshall appears awkward. She tells Marvin that she would love to get together with him, laughing, when she sees Marshall still in the room. She dismisses Marshall, telling him that she will call him she decides on an appropriate punishment for him. Marshall, after inquiring about who the person is, leaves slightly disturbed.

      Returning to the lounge, Marshall is confronted by Corrine, Lucas, and Josie. They want to know why he wrote that a member of the Science Club will die. He tells them that he meant to write that a member of the Science Club will “diet,” not “die.” Lucas scolds Marshall for not proofreading but Marshall claims that the error is just a stupid typo. Meanwhile, Vaughn and Stu are outside in PE. Vaughn tells Stu to go easy this time as Stu throws a javelin. Seeing the javelin’s course, going at the Lounge, Vaughn yells for Josie to watch out. Hearing the warning, Josie and Lucas both dodge as the javelin enters through the side window and hits the dart board, directly between Josie and Lucas. Josie and Lucas are both a bit stunned as Vaughn, Stu, and several others run up to the window. Vaughn tells them that Stu almost hit him with a shot put earlier. Marshall returns the javelin to Stu and the crowd walks off. Josie and Lucas are angry with Marshall, saying that this typo was no typo. Corrine points out that Marshall predicted Vaughn would save them, highlighting the part of the prediction that says that “a football star will save the day,” and reminding Marshall that Vaughn is the quarterback. Corrine thinks it is now time to have Professor Z analyze what they know.

      In the Science Room, Professor Z sides with Marshall. He points out that even though predictions have a strange way of becoming true, they are actually more probable than improbable, citing that: someone as organized as Corrine has to have an off day at some point; Josie’s mother has really wanted to spend time with Josie for a long time; that Lucas’s father winning the tournament is not very improbable since there were about 500 participants, Lucas’s father had a one in 500 chance of winning or perhaps better because of the lures that Lucas designed; and that while track and field champion Stu Kubiak is unlikely to have missed his target areas by such a wide margin, it is more likely a freak accident than evidence of Marshall being psychic. He tells them that none of this means that any of them are marked for death and suggests that they relax and take the day as they normally would. Professor Z walks off. Marshall is relieved; Corrine apologizes to Marshall, saying that it is true that they all probably over reacted.
      Upstairs, Marshall walks into his room. He picks up the CD pictures but then notices the Bell Curve handout and sees the diagram of the curve is inverted. Marshall realizes that this means that unlikely events are now normal happenings. Marshall runs out into the hallway. Josie, Lucas, and Corrine are walking down the stairs as two boys carrying a huge wall sculpture of a griffin are trying to walk up the stairs. Marshall calls to Corrine. She turns around to Marshall but then looks back ahead of her and is startled by the wall sculpture. Tripping back, Corrine collides with the banister at her belly, about to fall over it.

  Lucas, Josie, and Marshall rush to her aid and save her from falling over the banister. The two boys with the wall statue continue on their way. Marshall shows them the inverted bell curve. Corrine comes to the same conclusion that Marshall came to, unlikely events having the greatest probability of occurring. Josie says that they should warn Vaughn but Lucas stops them. He points out that Vaughn had told them that Stu almost clobbered him with a shot put. Corrine brings up that Josie and Lucas have already had near death experiences with Stu’s javelin too. This means that Marshall is the only one who has not had a near death experience. Corrine says that they all, except Marshall, have beaten the odds of the inverted bell curve, making Marshall the most likely to have a potential death experience.

      The four show the inverted bell curve to Professor Z in his office. Corrine tells Professor Z of the unlikely probability of these accidents, Stu missing his targets by so much and how she has never tripped on the stairs before, actually occurring. Professor Z begins to believe Corrine, surprising Marshall. Marshall becomes worried, baffled about how something as miniscule as making up predictions can lead to something so dire. Professor Z tells Marshall that there are variables that can change an event’s outcome, like having one’s friends look out for each other, and reminds Marshall that it is Marshall’s carelessness to Principal Durst’s assignment that seems to have started the series of unfortunate events. Marshall sulks about how he was only looking for an easy solution and that he would give anything to have a chance at redoing the assignment. Professor Z suggests that they all get to Science class since Marshall will be safe there until they can figure out how to better Marshall’s odds.

      In the hallway, Professor Z, Josie, Lucas, and Corrine form a circle around Marshall as they walk to Science, effectively guarding him. Principal Durst confronts them in the hallway, telling Marshall that it is time for them to finish their talk, and nudges Marshall back down the hall to her office.

      In Principal Durst’s office, Marshall eyes the many hazards around him; the rotating ceiling fan above him, a letter opener, and scissors. Principal Durst scolds Marshall while fanning herself with a folder, the room is quite hot. She asks him if he was trying to make a joke by saying that a member of the Science Club will die. Marshall explains that it was a mistake but Principal Durst, getting up and walking to the wall, tells him that it is really carelessness and, while turning up the fan, asks Marshall what he thinks his punishment should be. Marshall eyes the fan speeding up.

Meanwhile, outside, Vaughn warns Stu to be more careful with the discus. Stu spins around and launches the discus. It flies straight at Principal Durst’s office! Principal Durst and Marshall watch as the discus breaks through the window and strikes the fan, causing it to release a surge of electricity and break from its hold to the ceiling. Principal Durst shoves Marshall to the floor, protecting him from the fan which falls right where Marshall was sitting in front of Principal Durst’s desk. Principal Durst is horrified that they both were almost killed but Marshall is ecstatic. Marshall jumps up and dances out of the office, exclaiming that he is safe. Principal Durst looks angrily at the mess as Stu comes up to the window and observes the damage.

      Marshall runs into the Science room, as Science is letting out, exclaims how he is now safe. Professor Z congratulates him and leaves the room after hearing that Principal Durst is alright as well.

      Marshall is retelling the story, laughing, to Josie, Lucas, and Corrine as they walk out from a side exit, going to the school’s front. They see Professor Z, with a bicycle, standing at the school’s main entrance. He is putting on his helmet. Above him, the Janitor is continuing to work up on the roof. The Janitor is placing a statue of an owl up at the edge of the roof. The four realize that Professor Z is technically a member of the Science Club and that they have overlooked him when considering who the prediction affected. Marshall yells to Professor Z to get out of the way. The scream startles the Janitor and he fumbles with the statue but regains control of it and sets it down. He then reaches across the scaffolding for something. The four run to Professor Z screaming for him to get out of the way. The Janitor accidentally kicks the statue in his attempts to obtain what he is reaching for and the statue falls. Marshall runs up to Professor Z and shoves him onto the grass as the statue crashes to the ground, breaking into pieces.

  At the picnic tables on the patio, Marshall tells Lucas, Corrine, and Josie that he will now put school assignments first, before Magnet 360. Corrine asks what is going to happen to his community service and Marshall informs them that he still has to do it but has decided to volunteer to tutor people in Science rather than wait for something to be forced upon him. At that moment, Principal Durst calls out to Marshall, tapping her watch and telling him to start picking up the trash. The three laugh at Marshall as he picks up his pick-up stick, for collecting paper off the ground, and starts stabbing papers.

      Meanwhile, out in the field, the Janitor is also collecting the trash that people have left on the ground when he comes across the school newspaper and its predictions and discourages predictions about the future.

Episode notes:

• Janitor's secret message: "The future is told. The impossible becomes probable. Lives are endangered."

Personal thoughts:
A very thoughtful episode. While entirely filler, it had a nice, "feel good" feeling to it (Which is why I rated it so high). The episode showed a togetherness among the Science Club. The part with Principal Durst about Marvin was funny. A long thought on forums about whether or not Professor Z is/should be a member of the Science Club is answered.
This episode picks up on a forming trend with Marshall. Whenever business is involved, he seems to lose sight of certain ethics or common sense. In Cold, he worked when he was sick instead of getting rest to advance his computer business. In Technology, he helped Tyler cheat to advance his cell phone business. Now, for Magnet 360, he is putting off community service and being careless in what he writes.
Aside from hearing that Marshall is still with Magnet 360, the episode relates to other episodes, which filler episodes normally do not do. From Camouflage, we hear about the Children's Literacy Center. Josie is volunteering at it this time. In Camouflage, the school was raising money for Children's literacy programs. From Brainwaves, we hear the name Marvin Lipschitz again. On an amusing note, there was the poking fun at Josie's (or rather, Emma Isherwood's) height. Reminded me of Chemistry where Stu teased Josie in PE, with Stu being so tall and Josie being quite short.
I am surprised by how closed Professor Z was to believing that Marshall's predictions may be coming true. We have two seasons of Professor Z eager to look into something that appears strange but then here, he shoots down the thought.
Marshall safe in Science class? What's so safe about Science? That's the class with the open flames and the chemicals *heh heh*
There was a really weird error in this episode. When Stu throws the javelin, it enters the lounge from the side window. That window looks out onto another part of the school, not the field. You will notice Stu and Vaughn walk up to and away from the window at a perpendicular angle. This means that for the javelin to enter from that window, it would have had to make a 90 degree turn at the window. It didn't fly straight in.
Overall, a really good filler episode.
Rating: 8/10