Nick's troublesome teenage son Liam ( Stephen Hoyle ) arrived, and neighbourhood nosey parker Bill Cockerill ( Roger Sloman ) and his wife Samantha ( Tessa Wyatt ) would make several appearances.

They become romantically involved, but Nick dies in a car wreck caused by a drunk driver, at which point Ann starts raising Nick's teenage son, Alex ( Glenn Scarpelli ).

Once the two get there, they initially set out where Harry's son was last seen, only to have Nick's powers tell them that Harry is up to something.

When he and his young son, Charlie, finish the late, legendary St. Nick's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole where Scott learns he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he is indeed Father Christmas.

In the end, Nick's insistence on keeping his son at the top of the card led to a hostile split of the territory.

Directed by Randal Kleiser and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri and Amy O ' Neill, who reprise their roles as Wayne, Diane, Nick, and Amy Szalinski respectively, as well as newcomer Keri Russell as Mandy, Nick's love interest and babysitter of Adam, the Szalinskis ' new two-year-old son, whose accidental exposure to Wayne's new industrial-sized growth machine causes him to gradually grow to enormous size.

* Nicky Diamond Jr., ( Brendan Muller ): Nick's son, who appeared in several episodes.

His son, Joel, is one of Nick's friends.

Recurring roles included Tom Wilson ( as Coach Fredericks ), Chauncey Leopardi ( as bully Alan White ), Shaun Weiss ( as student Sean and the bass player in Nick's band ), Joel Hodgson ( as a salesman who loves disco ), Trace Beaulieu ( as Mr. Lacovara, the school's biology teacher ), Joanna García ( as head cheerleader Vicki Appleby ), Kayla Ewell ( as Maureen Sampson, a transfer student ), Lizzy Caplan ( as student Sara ), Claudia Christian ( as Bill's mother ), Samaire Armstrong ( as " Deadhead " Laurie ), Ben Foster ( as the mentally handicapped student Eli ), and Kevin Tighe ( as Nick's father ).

In complexity theory, the class NC ( for " Nick's Class ") is the set of decision problems decidable in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors.

The novel is set in the weeks following Nick's recapture after several years on the run, alternating between moral arguments with his interrogator, who is trying to discover why the program's star pupil had absconded, and flashbacks of his career.

At the age of 22, Nick's age when he left Tarnover, Kate is a perpetual student at " UMKC ".

She is perceptive enough to penetrate Nick's adopted persona, deeply disturbing him even though she fascinates him.

Nick's plan is to lead him to areas where his high intelligence will question his perceptions and beliefs, resulting in the inevitable turning away from the power elite he serves.

Besides the two Hearing Aid tapeworms, and Nick's ultimate tapeworm, there is a " denunciation tapeworm " created as revenge by a representative of " Anti-Trauma Inc ." whom Nick insults and curses.

Mike enters himself in a game of Russian roulette against Nick, hoping to jar Nick's memory and persuade him to come home, but Nick's mind is gone.

Though Helena is the victim of Nick's kidnapping and mutilation, she dominates the dialogue with her constant emasculating ridicule of him for all of his shortcomings.

Nick shrewdly suspects that her boyfriend, who is considerably older than Alex, plans to sleep with her and then dump her, but she does not want Nick's advice.

Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a relaxing day at a racetrack, but when a jockey accused of throwing a race is found shot to death, Police Lieutenant Abrams requests Nick's help.

The musician is too badly shaken up to answer Nick's questions, though Nora's presence seems to calm him down.

The residents are convinced that Nick is in town on an investigation, despite Nick's repeated denials.

( Early on, it is revealed that Nick's father, Dr. Bertram Charles, has never been overly impressed with his son's unusual career choice, so this gives Nick an opportunity to change his father's mind.

Nick's father is very impressed.

The white cliff headland of Young Nick's Head at the other end of the bay is visible from the city.

The principal decides to visit Nick's house to end the use of the word, but the situation is out of Nick's hands now, and the word's usage cannot be controlled.

Alfie is a friend of Nick's.

Although his body type is similar to that of Nick's, he has less hair and is even less intelligent.

( In a later book of the series, The Tin Woodman of Oz, the girl is said to be the Witch's servant, and it is the Witch herself who decides to enchant Nick's axe.

Meanwhile Nick's wife Natalie ( Amy Poehler ) decides to run for state senate but is continually plagued by questions about her husband's product.

CIA operative David Jenkins ( Sam Neill ), who has a shady past, arrives on the scene to contain the damage, and he discovers Nick's condition.

When Charles Manning ( Richard Gaines ), Gladys's business manager, finds out about Nick's criminal past, Nick admits the truth to Gladys.

Nick's flight attendant girlfriend, Diane ( Angela Bassett ), encourages this decision, promising to fully commit to their relationship if he does indeed go straight.

The plot focuses on Nick's community service and recovery from drug addiction, as well as his strained relationship with his father who was managing partner of the corporate law firm where Nick was employed full time.

Stephen Cook coined the name " Nick's class " after Nick Pippenger, who had done extensive research on circuits with polylogarithmic depth and polynomial size.

Freeman, a tall gaunt African-American, gradually comes to realize that he has more sympathy with Nick's views than his employer's, and eventually absconds himself, giving Nick computer access so that Nick can make his own escape.

"), which was a frequent parting gift for contestants on Nick's popular game show Double Dare, where slime was heavily used along with several variations such as ' gak ' or ' gooze ', and Mattel even sold Nickelodeon slime and gak in the 1990s.

The film ends with the whole cast at their friend's bar, singing " God Bless America " and toasting in Nick's honor.

Apart from the animation style, Nick's Arnold now wears a sweater, with his plaid shirt untucked ( resembling a kilt ).

However, before he can discover this, Drake accidentally sweats on the power converter and the machine blows up, in Nick's words, with " the force of a stick of dynamite ".

He became a regular at Nick's in Manhattan, where he played with Pee Wee Russell, Baby Dodds, and others.

* NC ( complexity ) Nick's Class, the set of decision problems decidable in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors

Nick's friends attack the rapping biker who fights back, leaving Nick in the hospital with a broken nose.

As a tactic intended to get Cora and Frank to turn on one another, he charges only Cora with the crime of Nick's murder, coercing Frank to sign a complaint against her.

He worked with various bandleaders ( including Louis Prima ) before beginning a series of residences at the famous jazz club " Nick's " in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, in 1937.

He played with Bobby Hackett's big band, and began playing with Eddie Condon, with whom he would continue to work, off and on, for much of the rest of his life – though he complained, " Those guys Nick's and Condon's made a joke, of me, a clown, and I let myself be treated that way because I was afraid.

The complexity class, Nick's Class ( NC ), of problems quickly solvable on a parallel computer, was named by Stephen Cook after Nick Pippenger for his research on circuits with polylogarithmic depth and polynomial size.

Following an interview with Nick Leeson in prison, Sir David Frost realized the potential for a movie and optioned the rights to Nick's story.

Although Nick was initially leery of Heath and felt he had to test Heath's mettle, Heath would go on to prove himself worthy of even Nick's acceptance, and eventually Nick seemed to grow even closer to Heath than he was to Jarrod, perhaps in a sense due to Heath having more in common with him than Jarrod did.

The company has also experimented conversion with the Alabama-based Jim ' N Nick's Bar-B-Q chain.

With Nick's help, they find out that their dials were created by a being called The Wizard ( not to be confused with the DC Comics villain of the same name ), whom the Master thought he'd killed years before.