Little Freaks is a 2006 American, flash-animated short pilot created and written by Erin Ehrlich. Co-production was between Nickelodeon and Klasky Csupo. It's uncertain if it ever aired or not, but if it did, it would had aired on the Nickelodeon channel. It centers on a multicolored foursome of kids named Sweeney, Wayne, Lila, and Macon who become extraordinary by gaining superpowers following a freak exposure to radiation from a toilet paper factory. Sweeney has the power of communicating with nature, Wayne has the power of flight, Lila has the power of illumination, and Macon has the power of x-ray vision. It's uncertain why this wasn't picked up and expanded into a series, but it can be theorized that change in management at the network and studio may be the reason. Not to be confused with a KaBlam! segment of the same title.
Plot[]
A narrator explains that in a place called Chesterfield, radiation seeps from a toilet paper plant. The plant happens to be within the same neighborhood where four kids live as their homes are among those that surround it and being exposed to the radiation gives them superpowers. One morning, Wayne and his little brother, A-Ron, are awakened by their mom who enters their room and demands that they clean up their room before leaving the house. Afterwards, Wayne meets up with his friends, Lila and Macon. They're all still trying to learn how to harness their powers. When Wayne learns from Macon the former didn't get the flavor of a smoothie he likes because the latter swapped it, Wayne gets so mad that he flies up on to a tree branch. After Lila and Macon see Sweeney, they ask him to do the favor of helping to get Wayne off the branch and back down on the ground. Reluctantly, Sweeney obliges and does just that. But Wayne gets angry again after Sweeney complains about having to hang around them and how it wouldn't be so bad if they were as cool as he is. Wayne's anger causes him to fly involuntarily again, this time onto a satellite dish on the roof of someone else's house. Later that night, the kids enter the toilet paper factory. While there, Lila theorizes that each of their powers activate whenever they feel something, like her illuminating whenever she gets nervous in her case. Wayne seems to fly only when he gets angry, so he just has to learn to control his anger to prevent that from happening again.
The next day, an hour before school starts, Wayne and his friends are in a classroom as they tape him to a chair to keep him from flying should he become angry again. He is a part of an anger management group. Weeks later, Sweeney, Lila, and Macon walk on a sidewalk, and after calling Wayne, Lila tells the other boys he can't join them due to being busy with doing the chore of polishing a mailbox. Across a street, they see A-Ron and a few other boys near a bagel shop called Fred's Fancy Bagels and Bagel Holes. A-Ron is dared to climb onto a giant bagel statue on the shop's roof and he does just that. But, then he becomes too scared to get back down due to how high he is. After some firefighters fail to get him back down, Sweeney, Lila, and Macon run off to get help and head to Wayne's house. When they tell him what's going on with his brother, he tells them he's unable to use his flight power due to it wearing off since he managed to keep his anger in check after weeks of anger management sessions. The three others head back to the bagel shop. When night comes again, a crowd gathers and witnesses A-Ron still stranded on top of the shop. All of the four kids arrive. Lila says that a distraction is needed that's literally flashy. Macon uses his x-ray vision to see inside the shop. While Lila enters the shop and illuminates the interior, Wayne tells Sweeney and Macon to tell him Yo Mama jokes to get him angry enough to fly again. It works and he comes to A-Ron's rescue, getting him off the roof's bagel statue. Once that's accomplished, Wayne guesses his friends took a picture of him in front of a couple Winnie-Wets-A-Lot dolls on a billboard. They did as they show that to him on a camera phone. Wayne, Sweeney, Lila, and Macon then stick out and place their hands on one another's, making an all-for-one, one-for-all pact as they proclaim themselves to be the Little Freaks.