"Yeah, I’m not awesome, but sometimes, you just gotta wipe the garbage off your butt and keep going." ― Young Max to Sydney in her dream
Nightmare on Syd Street is the eighteenth episode in Season 1 of Sydney to the Max. It first aired on July 16, 2019, along with Mo' Grandmas, Mo' Problems, to 0.48 million viewers.[1]
Contents
Plot
When something embarrassing happens to Sydney at school, she barricades herself in her bedroom and ends up watching old VHS tapes of Max when he was a kid. Sydney eventually falls asleep and dreams that she's in the 90s.
Cast
Main Cast
- Ruth Righi as Sydney Reynolds
- Ava Kolker as Olive Rozalski
- Jackson Dollinger as Young Max Reynolds
- Christian J. Simon as Leo Webb
- Ian Reed Kesler as Adult Max Reynolds
- Caroline Rhea as Judy Reynolds
Recurring Cast
Guest Cast
- Brekkan Spens as Chad[2]
Quotes
The quotes page for Nightmare on Syd Street may be viewed here.
Trivia
- The episode title is probably a play on the American horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street.
- This is the first episode directed by a cast member.
- Sydney mentions Child Labor during her presentation.
- This is the first episode where a present character meets a 1992 character.
- This was Jackson Dollinger’s favorite Season 1 episode to shoot.[3]
- At one point, Judy says “How do you milk an almond?” Booker says the same thing in the Raven’s Home episode “Big Trouble in Little Apartment”.
- Moral: Don't let embarrassing things get to you or it could ruin your life.
Goofs
- Sydney and Olive ask for almond milk from Judy in Syd’s dream, and Judy doesn’t know what almond milk is. However, almond milk dates back a few hundred years and she should’ve known what it was.
- Leo asks Sydney if “computers keep getting bigger and bigger,” but technically computers and phones were already decreasing in size.
- In “Can’t Dye This,” Max’s skateboard in the 90s accidentally causes a dent in his wall. The dent is still there in the present-day in the same episode. However, in Sydney’s dream in this episode, she points out to Young Max that there used to be a dent in his wall, and it is shown to not be there anymore.
