The essential episodes of The Emperor's New School
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Emperor's New School — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Kuzco faces his first threat of losing his position as Emperor when he struggles in P.E. and his teacher threatens to flunk him if he can't win a race with Kronk. However, Principal Amzy (who is really Yzma) tells Kronk to turn Kuzco into a turtle so he has no chance of beating Kronk, but instead, Kronk gives Kuzco the wrong potion and he ends up as a rabbit.
- 02
While waiting to be seated at a restaurant, Kuzco discovers Malina's competitive side. A waiter fills them in on a potato growing contest. Malina enters the contest, but can not grow a potato, so Kuzco offers her some of Yzma's super grow potion. Meanwhile, Yzma and Kronk try to think of new ways the destroy Kuzco, including bringing a statue of him to life.
- 03
Kuzco and Pacha's family goes on vacation to the beach. When Kuzco thinks they are taking away his coolness, he starts hanging out with a girl named Yasmine, who just happens to be a young Yzma in disguise.
- 04
It is school picture day and Malina is making a big fuss about how her school picture must be perfect. When her picture ends up being bad, she rounds up all the yearbooks and destroys them. However, she forgets that a yearbook is locked in a Time Capsule in the temple. Now, her, Kuzco, and Kronk must get the yearbook before the temple is locked for 1,000 years.
- 05
Malina signs up for the "Save A Manatee Program" and is forced to take care of a manatee at her house. When the manatee, named Doyle, expects her to do all the work and messes up her room along with Kuzco, Malina tries to get rid of Doyle.
- 06
With the Kuz-Carnival coming up, Kuzco wants to go with Malina so they can go in the tunnel of love. However, she once again turns him down. This time it is because Ramon asked her to go. Kuzco decides to ruin the date., so he shoves Bucky in their popcorn, sprays Ramon with water, and even puts him into a arena with a hungry bear. But will his tricks work?
- 07
It is prank day at the school, and Kronk is trying to avoid Kuzco so that he doesn't fall into another one of his pranks. However Kuzco comes to school acting extremely scared of a "Moon Beast" that he saw the previous night.
- 08
The Emperor's New School Spirit
When Kuzco enters a pep rally, he is disappointed to find out that everyone could care less about him, and they only want to see the school’s mascot, Victor the Llama. In order to gain more attention, he decides to get rid of Victor. Meanwhile, Yzma is getting prepared for her high school reunion, and is having doubts about going because of the kids who made fun of her.
- 09
When a new card game becomes the latest craze, Kuzco rushes to get his own set of cards. He then tries to rip off Kronk to get a powerful card, but it turns out that it was he who was ripped off. Now Kuzco will do anything to get the card back. Yzma decides to try and use the card to trade the rights to the throne. Meanwhile, Malina and Yata, who believe they are being mature by not being caught up in the latest fads, start buying all the coolest accessories.
- 10
The Emperor's New School Musical
Yzma comes up with the ultimate way to prevent Kuzco from graduating! She wastes school funds and the academy goes bankrupted, and Yzma tries to tear it town. Malina convinces Yzma to give them two days to raise enough money to save the school and she decides to do a musical. The plan seems to be ruined prematurely when no one is good enough to be in it. However, things are saved when Yata manages to get pop superstar Dirk Brock to perform in the musical. Now that Kuzco can't star in the musical, he tries to get rid of Brock (as does Yzma), but his advances could push Malina away from him.
- 11
Giftmas is just around the corner and everyone is getting ready for the holiday. Malina and Yata go shopping to find Kuzco some kind of gift he might actually like, while Pacha tells Chaca and Tipo a bedtime story about Papa Santos. However, Kuzco tells them that he does not exist, which fuels Tipo to find proof that he does. Meanwhile, Yzma’s fruitcake plan fails and she comes up with another way to get rid of Kuzco. She makes a game show about him (which he ironically comes in second place) in order for him to win a trip to a ski resort on Mount Reeve. However, the mountain does not have a resort and Kuzco and Kronk end up frozen. Then some gnomes show up and take the two of them to Papa Santos’ ice palace. Kuzco finally believes in him and finds out that he is on the naughty list, which is why his wishes never come true. He then sets out to correct all the wrong things he has done in order to get his wish to be Emperor. Meanwhile, Malina still struggles on what to get Kuzco.
- 12
Yzma's latest scheme to get rid of Kuzco is a little more simplistic then usual. She decides to just put him in a box and ship him away. When Kronk sets a trap for Kuzco, he also ends up capturing Malina, and shipping them to a deserted island. While Yzma decides to begin her palace remodeling, Kronk heads to the island to save Malina, and maybe Kuzco. In order to stop Kronk from rescuing Kuzco, Yzma heads to the island. Meanwhile, Malina ends up becoming an idol for the monkeys, who do anything she wants. Kuzco then gets them to worship him, but the two end up being sacrifices to their real idol, a giant monkey.
- 13
Kuzco invites Malina, Kronk, Yata, and Guaca over to play games, where they discover Guaca's \"fear\" of drawing. His father wants him to be an artist, so he entered him in the art competition to be held the next day. Kuzco hates seeing Guaca so depressed (since he keeps spilling his drinks), so he sneaks into Yzma's lab to find a painting potion. When it turns out that Yzma used the last one, Kuzco must make another one. When he goes to test it at the art fair, his pterodactyl drawing comes to life and takes Guaca's father for a ride! Now it is up to Guaca to save his dad.
- 14
Kuzco decides to ditch school for the day. However, it turns out that this will be Kuzco's tenth absence from school, meaning he will be expelled, and his chance of becoming emperor will be forever gone. Malina and Guaca then ditch school to get Kuzco back to school before the final bell. Meanwhile, Yzma learns of this and together her and Kronk try to keep Kuzco away from the school.
- 15
As Kuzco prepares to graduate, he must watch a Emperor orientation video. The video makes him question whether or not he can lead his people and if he really wants to become the Emperor again. Yzma, needing to make a last-ditch effort to prevent his graduation, decides to prey upon Kuzco's new insecurity. She gives him a potion that will turn him into a chicken forever. He decides to take it, and runs away and accidentally winds up in a Mudka's meat mug manufacturing plant. With Yzma becoming Empress inevitable, Kronk and Malina must find Kuzco and turn him back into a human so he can become Emperor.
