The worst episodes of Samurai Jack
Ranked by viewer rating, lows 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's sandals are run over and destroyed by three robot bikers. Unable to defeat them without protection on his feet, Jack tries out all the latest footwear from the world famous Foot Chalet. But none are adequate replacements.
- 02
The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
Samurai Jack boards a train in the new old West and finds himself cornered by bounty hunter Ezekiel Clench as well as a beautiful filly named Josephine.
- 03
Samurai Jack has been given a map of a booby trap ridden labyrinth that holds a powerful diamond that can return him to his own time. But he gets some competition from an equally accomplished master thief.
- 04
Aku releases the minions of Set who were trapped in ancient Egypt and orders them to destroy Samurai Jack. Luckily Jack knows his way around the pyramids from when he was a boy.
- 05
Samurai Jack hooks up with a group of scientists who are secretly building a rocket to escape from Aku's service. When they hear about Jack's predicament, the scientist come up with a way to send him back in time.
- 06
An old hermit who lives in a swamp leads Samurai Jack on a quest to unite the three gems of the Titans: the Eye of Chronos and the fists of Might and Ability.
- 07
Aku has transported his mortal samurai enemy into the far future in which Aku rules all. Now the warrior has to find a way back while adjusting to his new surroundings. He also takes a new name: Jack.
- 08
Samurai Jack gets an offer to join a Thirties style gang of mobsters at the Blue Monkey club and decides to take them up on it so he can get close to Aku. The gang plans to steal something Aku has been unable to obtain: the legendary Neptune Jewel, guarded by Earth, Wind and Fire.
- 09
Jack follows a trail of stench in an effort to rid the land of this sickening smell. It leads him to a spire where a dragon suffers from a stomach ache.
- 10
Samurai Jack saves a baby boy from three hungry Ogres and looks after him while searching for the child's parents.
- 11
Aku televises Jack's pending death to the entire world, and the armies of the future rise up against him. But all hope lies in the love of a man for a woman.
- 12
Aku's destroyer beetle drones are closing in on Samurai Jack and the pack of archaeologist dogs. Therefore Jack decides to use anything and everything at hand to defend themselves.
- 13
Jack, the Woolies, and the Chritchellites
While hunting for food, Jack helps the tiny Chritchellites recapture an escaped Woolie. But once they invite him back to their village for dinner, Jack begins to suspect an unbalance in the pecking order.
- 14
Samurai Jack ventures into the deep end of the ocean after hearing of a time portal can be found in Oceanis, the sunken underwater city of the Triceraquin.
- 15
Samurai Jack is ambushed while he's sleeping and taken to the Dome of Doom. There he is given the name 'Two Sandles' and has to fight to the death for the spectators amusement.
- 16
Having been deprived of yet another gateway to the past and after almost losing his hat, Samurai Jack is unsure if he can still go on. Then he meets three mountain monks and joins them on their quest to climb the mountain of Fathoom.
- 17
Samurai Jack joins 300 Spartans in their age old war against a mad mechanical beast.
- 18
Aku leads Samurai Jack towards a graveyard where the undead do the evil shape-shifter's bidding.
- 19
Samurai Jack is unable to get rid of a large furry animal that insists on following him.
- 20
The origin of Aku and how he came to terrorize the Earth from the days of the dinosaurs onwards.
- 21
The young emperor is helpless against the evil of Aku. But the ancient gods Odin, Ra and Rama combine forces to forge a sword for him representing all that is good: the only weapon that can hurt Aku.
- 22
Robots that dwell in the sewers of Andromeda ask Jack to enter a giant Robot Samurai and battle Mondo Bot who terrorizes the city.
- 23
Samurai Jack is challenged to a duel by Da Samurai, who despite all his big mouth is not worthy to face Jack's blade.
- 24
A tale told in flashback concerning the childhood training of Samurai Jack in Africa. But even as part the Nubian tribe, the young prince is not safe from Aku's minions.
- 25
Having made his way through a cave filled with booby-traps, Samurai Jack faces a giant lava monster that used to be a viking warrior in days long past.
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