The best episodes of Samurai Jack
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Samurai Jack is crossing a seemingly endless rope bridge when he meets another wanted man coming from the other side: the Scotsman. After fighting each other to a stalemate, they are forced to team-up when bounty hunters arrive on the scene and shackle Jack and the Scotsman to each other.
- 02
After fifty years, Jack is still trapped in the future. Unaged by his passage through time, Jack has upgraded his arsenal but continues his fight against the minions of Aku... unaware that a group of priestesses are training the Daughters of Aku to kill him.
- 03
While bathing, Jack's sword, shoes and clothing are stolen by what looks like a white rabbit. When Jack follows the culprit down a hole, he enters a strange underground realm like none he has ever seen.
- 04
Samurai Jack follows a little girl to return the doll she lost in the woods. She leads him into a haunted house filled with memories of the previous inhabitants.
- 05
While Jack meditates to restore his balance and recover his mystic sword, Ashi protects him against thousands of soldiers... and the woman who was like a mother to her.
- 06
Aku learns from Scaramouch that Jack has lost his sword... but doesn't learn that Jack has recovered it. However, the demon discovers that he has another far more potent weapon to use against Jaack.
- 07
After dealing with his wound, Jack turns to fight the remaining six Daughters of Aku and draws upon the wisdom of his father.
- 08
Jack and the Three Blind Archers
Jack learns about a wishing well of King Osric on top of a tower protected by three unbeatable archers and vows to make his way past them.
- 09
Jack faces his newest enemy, while Aku ponders what to do with his unaging foe
- 10
After he and Ashi are swallowed by a gigantic monolithic monster, Jack must struggle to escape with a prisoner intent on his death.
- 11
Jack aided by an equally skilled warrior woman, to whom has a dark secret, search for a crystal with magical properties.
- 12
After Jack convinces Ashi of Aku's evil, the two of them go to rescue enslaved children. However, Jack soon believes that he has killed them. Meanwhile, an ally from the past leads an attack on Aku's fortress.
- 13
Jack and Ashi grow closer as they fight for their lives against first Aku's tiger soldiers and then an alien leech prisoner.
- 14
Despite a reward of Two Googooplex on his head, no bounty hunter has been able to defeat Samurai Jack. Therefore Aku creates an evenly matched mirror image of Jack to battle him.
- 15
The Scotsman asks Samurai Jack for help him rescue his wife from the Keltic Master o' the Hunt who plans to devour her in the Castle of Boon.
- 16
Jack Versus Demongo, the Soul Collector
Aku unleashes upon Samurai Jack Demongo, who commands the essence of many great warriors who once threatened Aku.
- 17
Jack and the Travelling Creatures
Several creatures help Samurai Jack to travel to an island where a time passage is located. However it is protected by an unbeatable warrior. Only the one to defeat this guardian may enter the passage.
- 18
Jack, the Monks, and the Ancient Master's Son
As Samurai Jack fights two Shaolin monks they are surprised to recognize each others fighting styles. They take him to their secret hidden temple where Grandmaster Tan Zang points Jack towards a time portal. Unfortunately the way to the portal is heavily defended.
- 19
During battle, Samurai Jack accidentally swallows a piece of darkness coughed up by a sickly Aku. When Aku's blackness begins to take over the Samurai, he seeks help from Master Ning.
- 20
The Princess and the Bounty Hunters
Bounty Hunters Jo Junga the Aborigional, I & Am the infamous twins, The Gentleman & Boris the Russian have all tracked down Samurai Jack up North. Princess Mira of the Andaluvians convinces them to join forces and attack the Samurai together.
- 21
After all else fails, Aku challenges Samurai Jack to a duel. To make sure of a fair fight, Jack is not allowed to use his sword while Aku must fight in human form, without minions and magic tricks.
- 22
Summer: while crossing a desert, Jack is attacked by a mirage which takes the shape of a living sand storm. Fall: an evil scientist collects fallen leaves and flowers to brew a deadly poison and put it in a well. Winter: a tribe of ogres forge the ultimate sword using fire and ice, then wage battle to determine the one destined to wield it. Spring: Jack is tempted to take a rest from his quest by a seductive wood nymph.
- 23
As Ashi searches for Jack, she encounters some of the creatures that he's helped in the past and learns how he has inspired thousands.
- 24
Samurai Jack has become a popular folk hero amongst little children, so Aku decides to spread his own kind of fairy tales that put Jack in a bad light.
- 25
Samurai Jack accidentally bumps into an easily irritated wizard, who turns him into a chicken. Before he can catch up with the wicked sorcerer, Chicken Jack is captured and forced to fight for his life in Creature Combat Club.
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