The worst episodes of Super Friends
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.
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The Brain Machine / The Joy Ride / The Invasion of the Earthors / The Whirlpool
The Brain Machine: Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin meet up with a misguided genius, Dr. Cranum, and his Brain Machine. Joy Ride: The Wonder Twins and space monkey Gleek have to teach some youngsters a lesson about the dangers of joyriding in an airplane. Invasion of the Earthors: The Super Friends match wits and skills in an underground adventure against the mysterious mining monsters known as the Earthors. The Whirlpool: Aquaman and special guest Black Vulcan find themselves facing the force of a shipwrecking whirlpool.
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Kareem Azaar is a ruthless thief on the planet Zaghdad who has stolen the Magic Lamp of Olam, which contains the power of an evil genie. Kareem uses the Genie's power to take over the planet and banish the Sultan into the world of the Genie's lamp. When the Super Friends arrive to do battle, Superman and the Wonder Twins wind up in the lamp as well, leaving the other heroes to take on Kareem's forces.
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After single-handedly capturing Superman's perennial nemesis Lex Luthor, the bionic Cyborg is invited to join the Justice League of America—but surprisingly turns down the offer. Anxious to have someone his own age as a fellow Team member, the nuclear-powered Firestorm seeks out Cyborg to learn the reason for his reticence. But it will take the intervention of Darkseid and his Parademons, to say nothing of some horrific-looking sea pods, to make Cyborg change his mind.
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The Secret Four / Tiger on the Loose / The Mysterious Time Creatures / The Antidote
The Secret Four: Superman, Batman and Robin are outnumbered but not outsmarted when they change the plans of the mysterious Secret Four. Tiger on the Loose: The outer-space Wonder Twins and Gleek point out the error of jumping to conclusions as they tackle an escaped tiger (and try to end the confusion on how the tiger got out in the first place). The Mysterious Time Creatures: The Super Friends defeat Dictor, who uses an aging/reverse aging technology as a weapon to depose the peaceful elected president of their planet with his totalitarian rule of fear and keep him from conquering the universe. The Antidote: An earthquake occurs in India, where the tremors force many cobras out into the open where they bite villagers, exhausting India's antivenom supply. The Red Cross appeals to the Super Friends for help, who deploy Wonder Woman and Apache Chief to India.
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Invasion of the Hydronoids / Hitchhike / City in a Bottle / Space Emergency
Invasion of the Hydronoids: Aquaman, Batman and Robin meet the menacing Hydronoids in a struggle to save the world from their evil invasion. Hitchhike: The Wonder Twins and space monkey Gleek have a serious problem on their hands when they use their Exxor powers to detour the dangers of hitchhiking when a girl doing so is kidnapped. City in a Bottle: The Super Friends travel to a far-off frozen planet to rescue an entire Earth city stolen by the marauding Mongor. Space Emergency: Wonder Woman with special guests Hawkman and Hawkgirl use their special skills in a space emergency.
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Doctor Fright / Drag Race / Plant Creatures / Fire
Doctor Fright: Superman and Wonder Woman show no fear when they meet up with the terrifying Doctor Fright. Drag Race: The Wonder Twins, Zan and Jayna, and Gleek have to teach a lesson about the dangers of street drag racing. Day of the Plant Creatures: The Super Friends must call on their skills to overcome the perils of monstrous plant creatures. Fire: Batman, Robin and special guest Rima battle a raging forest fire and find two escaped juvenile convicts who end up saving a family's lives.
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The Enforcer / The Shark / Planet of the Neanderthals / Flood of Diamonds
The Enforcer: Upon encountering a man named Garth-1 on a South Pacific Island, Wonder Woman and Aquaman head to his home Arcava (an underground city within a deserted South Pacific Island) to help free his people from an evil dictator called the Enforcer. The Shark: The Wonder Twins, Zan and Jayna, must save two boys that are trapped underwater by a shark. Planet of the Neanderthals: An evil scientist known as Varko devolves Earth back to a prehistoric planet and brings Neanderthals under his command to the present, which will remain so unless the Super Friends can stop him and retrieve the machine responsible for this from the prehistoric times it was placed in. With the help of Skylab, they build a time tunnel and bring his device back, restoring the world. Flood of Diamonds: Aquaman and Green Lantern head to Africa to save trapped miners in a diamond mine that is slowly flooding.
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The Invisible Menace / Initiation / Coming of the Arthropods / River of Doom
The Invisible Menace: Superman and Aquaman discover a deep down mystery of sinister submarines and sea life as they battle the Invisible Menace. Initiation: The Wonder Twins and Gleek excel with Exxorian powers when they have to bring a dangerous initiation stunt to a safe ending. Coming of the Arthropods: The Super Friends zoom off in an all out struggle against invading insects from a far off planet, for the entire Earth is threatened by the coming of the Arthropods, led by the evil Insecta. River of Doom: Flying over jungle rain forests, Wonder Woman and Rima search for some missing scientists who are about to become victims of the River of Doom.
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Attack of the Giant Squid / Game of Chicken / The Water Beast / Volcano
Attack of the Giant Squid: Superman and Aquaman find themselves entangled in a deep-sea mystery when they meet the tentacled attack of a giant squid. Game of Chicken: The Wonder Twins and their space monkey Gleek teach some young people the serious dangers of playing the foolish game of "Chicken". The Water Beast: It is the Super Friends' problem when trouble surfaces on the high seas. All are in trouble from the menace of the deep, the marauding Manta and his terrifying water beast. Volcano: Superman and special guest hero, Samurai, face the heat of a volcano in making a dangerous rescue of space aliens too paranoid of the natives to request help.
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Forbidden Power / Pressure Point / The Lionmen / The Day of the Rats
Forbidden Power: Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman must save the world from the mysterious mutants of the space sphere and its forbidden power. Pressure Point: The Wonder Twins and Gleek travel into the hot desert to cool the dangerous canyon jumping stunts of some reckless motorcyclists. The Lionmen: A spaceship controlled by mysterious Lionmen probes for minerals and starts an earth-shaking process that splits our planet into pieces. Will the Super Friends meet the challenge? The Day of the Rats: An experimental electronic device turns sewer rats mad. Can Batman, Robin and Black Vulcan save Gotham from the Day of the Rats?
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The Marsh Monster / The Runaways / Will the World Collide? / Time Rescue
The Marsh Monster: Superman, Batman and Robin move into action when an inventor's valuable plans are put in peril by the terrorizing tactics of a mysterious Marsh Monster. The Runaways: The far from home Wonder Twins and Gleek try to rescue some misguided teenagers who face trouble when they decide to become runaways. Will the World Collide?: The Super Friends exhibit all their bravery against the super sinister scheme of the vengeful Professor Fearo and the threat of a world collision. Time Rescue: A scientist finds trouble when a time machine puts him 2,000 years into the future and he is captured by desert slavers. Superman, Hawkman and Hawkgirl come to his rescue.
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The Protector / Stowaways / The Ghost / Rampage
The Protector: Batman, Robin and Aquaman put to sea in an effort to end the pirating and pillaging of Captain Shark and his immobilizing ray. Stowaways: The Wonder Twins activate their special powers to save a couple of girls who try an ill-advised adventure as stowaways and almost become flotsam and jetsam. The Ghost: The Super Friends tackle the supernatural when the Ghost, a villain from the past, is freed from his imprisonment and wants to take revenge on Superman and Wonder Woman for imprisoning his spirit by threatening the world with his ghostly fate if they do not surrender themselves to him. Now the other Super Friends members must save Superman and Wonder Woman before it is too late. Rampage: In India, Superman and Green Lantern have their hands full when a huge, wild white elephant tears through jungles and villages on a rampage looking for its baby.
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Secret Origins of the Super Friends
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The evil Captain Nimoy plots to use nuclear warhead missiles to sink continents below the sea where he plans to rule. Nimoy is aided by an android duplicate of Batman to help him out, but with Superman and Wonder Woman away on a space mission, the Super Friends are aided by Superman's tiny Kryptonian friends from the bottle city of Kandor.
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The Super Friends Meet Frankenstein
When a descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein abducts and steals the powers of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman and transfers them into his latest creation, it is up to Robin to stop the Super-Monster. He transfers the remaining powers into himself, then manages to restore the Super Friends' powers.
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After the Wonder Twins and the Dynamic Duo find out they are not able to get rid of a tornado, the storm transports the Hall of Justice to the Land of Oz, where Mister Mxyzptlk, who has once again escaped from the Fifth Dimension, informs the Super Friends that they must find the Wizard to get home. Along the way, they encounter the Wicked Witch of the Worst Kind in a gingerbread house, who turns Aquaman into the Scarecrow, Superman into the Tin Man, and Wonder Woman into the Lion.
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The Lava Men / Bazarowurld / The Warlord's Amulet
The Lava Men: After saving a killer whale, Aquaman notices the water is on fire and radios Wonder Woman for help who then tells Superman. Meanwhile Aquaman, with the help of his whale friend helps move a ship from the path of the flaming water. Superman arrives stops the flames with a concrete road and his super breath. The Super Friends find out that a group of Lava Men are the ones who are causing the trouble. Bazarowurld: Superman and Black Vulcan are tricked by Bizarro into going to Bizarro-World. Black Vulcan is tricked into a Maze of Mirrors, while Superman is tricked into a Red Kryptonite Mine, turning him into a skinny figure while Bizarro is immune to it. The Warlord's Amulet: After receiving a Trouble Alert from Samurai's homeland, Samurai responds to the call at once and finds an ancient fugitive warlord that escaped his time period using his Amulet.
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The Iron Cyclops / Palette's Perils / Colossus
The Iron Cyclops / Palette's Perils / Colossus" October 24, 1981 The Iron Cyclops: Superman finds a mysterious purple ray that is lifting objects in downtown Metropolis. Batman uses the Justice League computer from the Hall of Justice to try to control the beam while Black Vulcan and the Atom joins Superman in Metropolis. They find out that the Iron Cyclops who is projecting the ray lives on a planet which has no gravity and he wants to steal the Earth's. Palette's Perils: Wonder Woman and El Dorado responds a series of art gallery robberies in Metropolis. Colossus: Colossus, a reckless and destructive cosmic barbarian many times larger than the Earth, turns his attention to Earth's solar system. Apache Chief charges into action using a shrink ray to reduce the Colossus to ordinary Earth mortal size; Colossus then plummets to Earth.
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Mxyzptlk's Revenge / Roller Coaster / Once Upon a Poltergeist
Mxyzptlk's Revenge: A doorway appears inside the Hall of Justice. Superman and Batman wonder where it originated from and where it leads. Then the voice of Mxyzptlk is heard and Superman realizes who's responsible. The door opens up, sucking everything inside, including Batman and Superman. Roller Coaster: Three kids ride a condemned roller coaster that gradually falls apart. The Wonder Twins and Gleek, exiting a movie theater, respond to the crisis. After Zan accidentally breaks a rusted power control and realizing that they need additional help in the rescue attempt they send Gleek to the Hall of Justice and find Atom. Once Upon a Poltergeist: At the Wayne Building in Gotham City, a confused spirit of a Mohawk Indian terrorizes the area due to his belief that the building sits on top of an ancient burial site. Batman, Robin, and Apache Chief battle the spirit but its power is greater.
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Warpland / Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One / Bulgor the Behemoth
Warpland: Superman and Batman are pulled into a space warp where they come across a strange planet inhabited by aliens known as Zoons. Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One: Wonder Woman and Green Lantern think the Legion of Doom will strike since the entire Justice League is going to meet in the Hall of Justice the next day. Jayna and Zan are put in charge of security during the night. Giganta sets a trap and captures Gleek with bananas and takes him to Gorillia Grodd. A mechanical duplicate of Gleek arrives at the Hall of Justice to use his killer laser eyes on the Justice League and help Grodd and Giganta take over the Hall of Justice. Bulgor the Behemoth: A writer turns into the creature he created after a lightning bolt electrocutes an electrical tower nearby. Apache Chief and Superman are on hand to stop the behemoth from continuing his destructive ways.
