Childhood Friends

Childhood Friends is the seventh episode of the Fifth Season of Static Shock that aired on February 26, 2005 on Kid's WB.

Plot
After last Christmas, Jimmy and his Childhood best friend, Nick, are at Jimmy's house, drinking some hot chocolate, with Nick thanking Jimmy for saving Reverend Anderson's life with Jimmy stating that it was a team effort and reminessing about all the times him and Jimmy hung out together, with the hot chocolate in particular reminding him about how they would go to Jimmy's house during winter break and his mom would make the best hot chocolate and still does now, and asks Jimmy if he would want to come to a New Years Party with Kevin and Ray and he accepts.

Afterwards, Jimmy is making all the decorations for the party, when suddenly he gets a call from Static saying that there's an emergency and that they need his help and then he immediantly puts on his spy gear and heads out and when he get's back it's already late and he is tired, so without a second thought, he jumps into bed right as he got back home, it's only morning the next day when he hears he parents call him saying that he wakes up, but as soon as he wakes up he realizes that the decorations are unfinished, so he hurries downstairs so that he could eat his breakfast, which was pancakes with bacon, when his parents ask him why he's eating quicker than usual and if he doesn't like the pancakes, Jimmy says that they are as great as usual and says that he needs to do something and that he needed to eat much quicker so he can get started earlier, his parents nodded their heads and a few seconds later he took the last bite of his beacon and quickly went up to his room, where he spent a few hours working on the decorations until he is done and just as he had gotten done, he had another emergency from Static and so once again he puts on his spy gear and uses his grappling hook to climb though a window and as soon as he get's done he rushes over to Nick's house, and gives him the decorations for which he apologizes for being late, Nick says that it's okay and alot has changed since before Johnny past and that he's a completely different person now from what he used to be, but that him, Kevin, and Ray will always be his friends no matter what.

Right them Jimmy is called by Static once again and he immediantly heads off, ending their conversation. The next day, New Year's Eve, Jimmy goes straight to Nick's house where he helps him put up the decorations for the party tonight, while Jimmy is putting up the decorations, Nick surprises him with a cart full of food, Jimmy then asks him if he made the food himself with Nick saying that he had helped the chefs over at Reverend's church prepare for the party and Jimmy then asked him if he ever wanted to become a chef, Nick then says that he never thought of that and that he always wanted to be an athlete who also does philanthropic work, but just then Static calls him and Jimmy then heads off, with Nick looking mildly annoyed as he head off, but fortunately he came back just in time, but as the party was in full swing, the electricity went out and Static and Gear told Jimmy that there is a massive power outage in Dakota and they need him to solve it, Jimmy slips into his spy gear and heads down to a local electric plant, where Jimmy had discovered that it had water on it which messed with the electricity and they suspected The Meta-Breed, spefically Aquamaria had something to do with this and they were eventually proven correct when they saw The Meta-Breed sneaking across the plant and when they were confronted, they denied it, but just then a piece of metal fell out of one of their bags which proved that they were guilty and then they were arrested.

Afterward, Virgil, Richie, and Jimmy all went to Nick's party and apologized for the outage, he said it was okay and that it wasn't their fault and they all enjoyed the party together until they eventually had to leave after they watched the ball drop and the fireworks on the TV, with Nick telling Jimmy that if he ever needed a break from superheroics, he could just contact him and they preformed their secret handshake and parted ways.

Continuity

 * This is the first episode where it formally established who's Kevin and who's Ray out of Nick's friends

Home media releases

 * Static Shock: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD)

Production notes

 * No director is credited.

Cast

 * Phil LaMarr as Virgil 'Static' Hawkins
 * Jason Marsden as Richie 'Gear' Foley
 * Richard Horvitz as Jimmy Osgood
 * Mikey Kelley as Nick Connor
 * James Cronin as Kevin
 * Chad Gabriel as Ray
 * Yeni Alvarez as Aquamaria
 * Danny Cooksey as Hotstreak
 * Matt Ballard as Carmen Dillo
 * Gary Sturgis as Ebon
 * Hynden Walch as Permafrost
 * Pat Musik as Mrs. Osgood
 * Joe Spano as Mr. Osgood
 * Michael Dorn as Reverend Anderson

Quotes
"It's okay Jimmy, alot has changed since before Johnny past, youre different person now from what you used to be, but that me, Kevin, and Ray will always be your friends no matter what."

- Nick to Jimmy "If you ever need a break from superheroics, come see me okay."

- Nick to Jimmy

Tropes
See Childhood Friends/Tropes