Gender Render

Zeke finally gets his nerve up to ask Maxine to the dance, but when he sees her at the track, she's miffed that a female runner on her relay team is moving away, and they don't have a replacement runner. Maxine won't be able to enter the finals now. Zeke tries to console her, but Maxine tells him he's a guy, he just wouldn't understand what it's like to be a girl. Or would he? Zeke decides to draw a girl's brain in his body- that way, he'll get to know what it's like to be a girl, get to know Maxine, and she'll for sure say yes to the dance. But he messes up, and instead of drawing a girl's mind in his body, he draws himself with his own mind in a girl's body. AHHHH! Now, having to bumble his way through life as a girl, he ends up becoming the unwitting female replacement runner for Maxine's track team, which includes intensive training. In the end, the exhaustion and embarrassment (Jay can't help but tease) was worth it as he becomes Maxine's best friend and realizes he should've just got to know Maxine rather than try to fast-track things by becoming a girl. Later, when he's back to being a guy and he's at the dance, Maxine asks him to dance. He'd love to, but& he can't move. Training was really tough on his muscles&

Zeke Palmer, Alvin Palmer, Ida Palmer, Rachel Palmer, Ike Palmer, Jay Fritter, Maxine Marx, The Pad

Meet Zeke Palmer. He's definitely not your ordinary 14-year-old. Zeke's an incredible artist who lives smack dab in the middle of one weird and wacky family. AND he has this awesome little electronic drawing pad that is totally WIRED. Mysteriously wired. Somehow, it makes Zeke's drawings come to life. So extreme things can happen. And boy, do they HAPPEN! Being a creative artist, Zeke is constantly getting brain waves. So he draws them in his super-powered pad. But soon enough, Zeke learns: for every action, there is a reaction. Things just never turn out the way Zeke had imagined&. Ever.

Elan Award, Best Animated Television Production, Delna Bhesania, Liz Scully, Leonard Terhoch and Avrill Stark, Producers, 2009.
Elan Award, Best Art Production, Zoe Evamy, Senior Art Director, Patricia Atchison, Art Director, 2009