Thursday, May 5th, 1994: Buck Björnsen and Isaac J. Pinkerton isolate the nerd gene.

Unimpressed, Mr. Jacobs fails them both after discovering an empty can of Reddi Wip in Buck’s backpack, and for the simple fact that if they had actually read the assignment and done their homework like everybody else, they would have known that they were supposed to be searching for single-celled organisms in samples of tap water brought from home.