The BEST episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog season 1

Every episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog season 1!

This show is about a dog named Courage that was found by Muriel Bagge who lives on a farm in the middle of Nowhere with her husband Eustace Bagge. Eustace dislikes Courage and calls him "Stupid Dog". Muriel on the other hand is different from Eustace and loves Courage. But, weird things happen in Nowhere and it's now up to Courage to save them.

Last Updated: 4/7/2024Network: Cartoon NetworkStatus: Ended
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King Ramses' Curse
star
8.06
116 votes

#1 - King Ramses' Curse

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/2000

Courage finds a slab that belonged to a dead guy named King Ramses. A guy named Professor Flith comes and says the slab belongs in the museum. However, Eustace (knowing it's worth a lot) won't give it to him. So, the ghost of King Ramses comes and causes plagues to happen that won't stop until Eustace returns the slab to the museum. The first is a flood, the second is loud music, and the third is locusts. The slab is finally returned, but Eustace is now possessed by King Ramses, as punishment for his greediness.

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The Hunchback of Nowhere
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8.05
74 votes

#2 - The Hunchback of Nowhere

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/2000

A hunchback who is rejected by everyone wants to find a house to sleep in. He goes to the Bagge house, but Eustace rejects him. It's raining and Courage gets Eustace's raincoat and finds the hunchback in the barn. He is very friendly and together have fun doing shadow puppets, acrobatic stunts and bell ringing. Muriel is happy to have the hunchback stay with them, but Eustace wants him to go.

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Everyone Wants to Direct
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7.87
56 votes

#3 - Everyone Wants to Direct

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/2000

Benton Tarentella and Erin Von Volkheim are two dead jailed movie directors who plan to capture Muriel and eat her. Eustace loves this idea of being in a movie for the money, while Muriel loves to be on camera. Courage hates the idea. Eustace eventually locks Courage up in a trunk because he kept trying to stop this real movie from happening. Courage finds the script in the trunk and rewrites it so Muriel gets saved. Then, Benton and Erin get in a fight and claim to never work together again, giving up on their realistic movie idea and to bury themselves back where they've always been buried: under the Bagge's basement! Everything goes back to normal.

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Cajun Granny Stew
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7.83
187 votes

#4 - Cajun Granny Stew

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/1999

An orange Cajun fox repeatedly tries to kidnap a sleepy Muriel so he can use her in a Cajun stew.

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A Night at the Katz Motel
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7.83
295 votes

#5 - A Night at the Katz Motel

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/12/1999

Courage and his owners stop at a lonely motel to end their vacation, but it is owned by a nefarious red cat named Katz, who harbors a penchant for feeding his guests to giant spiders.

Directors: John Dilworth
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Freaky Fred
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7.80
127 votes

#6 - Freaky Fred

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1999

Muriel invites her deranged relative, Fred, to their home. He has a problem, though. He can't stop giving haircuts. He shaves all of Courage's hair off, and he gets caught by the police, who send him back to an insane asylum.

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Dr. Le Quack, Amnesia Specialist
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7.80
119 votes

#7 - Dr. Le Quack, Amnesia Specialist

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1999

Muriel is hit on the head by a fly-away piece of the roof and develops amnesia. Eustace takes full advantage of this and turns his wife into a "slave woman." Courage goes on the internet to find an amnesia specialist, but is answered by Le Quack, a thief who poses as a doctor! Courage tries to get help, while Le Quack tortures Muriel for information on where her valuables are.

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Shirley the Medium
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7.76
67 votes

#8 - Shirley the Medium

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2000

Eustace hires Shirley the medium to settle differences between Eustace and his dead brother, Horace. Some creepy stuff happens and Eustace gets his brother's box, but not in a good way.

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Journey to the Center of Nowhere
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7.76
50 votes

#9 - Journey to the Center of Nowhere

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/2000

Muriel's homegrown eggplants (that live underground) aren't getting enough water and try to attack her. Courage, after constantly trying, finally stops the eggplants from eating Muriel and give the eggplants water. Everything goes back to normal, and Muriel wins an award for the best eggplants.

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The Shadow of Courage
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7.75
137 votes

#10 - The Shadow of Courage

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/1999

A scientist dies and his shadow spooks the town of Nowhere and then the Bagge's house. The shadow then admits he is tired of scaring people and decides to become a star in the sky, literally!

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The Snowman Cometh
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7.75
64 votes

#11 - The Snowman Cometh

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/2000

Courage, Muriel, and Eustace go on vacation to the North Pole. Courage goes out to get firewood and comes back to the igloo (where they were staying) and finds everybody else is gone. Courage knew it was a snowman because he saw it earlier. He figured out that the snowman was taking a liquid from Eustace and Muriel's body to be able to live in hot weather and not melt. Courage gets captured by the snowman but breaks out and saves both. The snowman falls into icy water while chasing them and freezes into a giant ice cube. Muriel, Courage, and Eustace go home.

Directors: John Dilworth
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The Duck Brothers
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7.68
69 votes

#12 - The Duck Brothers

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/2000

Two ducks put an electric device on Muriel's head and she becomes under their control by a remote. The ducks do this so they can save there third brother, who is trapped in a kitchen and ready to be eaten by humans. Eventually, the same is done with Eustace. Courage talks to the Ducks and works out a plan to save their brother. Courage, Eustace, and Muriel settle peace with the duck brothers. The ducks go back home into space.

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Night of the Weremole
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7.65
84 votes

#13 - Night of the Weremole

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1999

Muriel is picking carrots out of the garden and feeds a rabbit one. She gets bit and only thinks it was a rabbit. They go to Dr. Vindaloo to find the cure. He just says to keep soaking it. She turns into a weremole, an animal who has a taste for biting people and rabbits. Once your bitten by one, you become one yourself. Courage must dress up as a rabbit, to get his attention, then pull a hair from the original weremole that bit her and feed it to Weremole-Muriel to turn her back to normal.

Directors: John Dilworth
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The Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling
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7.64
53 votes

#14 - The Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/9/2000

Courage finds a duck egg, brings it inside, and gives it to Eustace. Eustace thinks he is going to eat it for breakfast, but finds out its still alive. It hatches and thinks Eustace is his mom. The duck becomes ""Eustace's slave"" and it is jealous of Muriel and Courage, which makes it do nasty tricks on both. Courage eventually puts a stop to this, in which...

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Klub Katz
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7.63
52 votes

#15 - Klub Katz

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/16/2000

Courage, Muriel, and Eustace go on a cruise, but a tidal wave strands them onto an island. Katz returns and says he'll let stay at ""Klub Katz"". Muriel and Eustace go into a ""spa"", where they're turned in

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Mother's Day
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7.63
75 votes

#16 - Mother's Day

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1999

Eustace & Courage visit Ma (Eustace's Mother). Muriel refuses to see her. When they arive at her trailer, she welcomes Courage instead of Eustace because he is just a ""stupid boy."" When they eat lunch, Courage gets a lot of dogfood and Eustace barely gets any bacon. Eustace gives Ma some gifts, but rejects them all except one, a mirror. Ma then gives Courage a teddy bear. She doesn't have a gift for Eustace. Ma then tells Eustace ahow he always was a scared child. Eustace then proves his manhood by arm wrestling her. She almost wins but Courage sticks some flowers in her face, (which she is allergic to) making her sneeze, which stops the arm wrestling. Her wig falls off and she complains of being ugly. Eustace says ""No, Ma, you've always looked good to me."" He then takes off his hat and shows his bald head, too. They end up bonding together.

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Hothead
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7.58
102 votes

#17 - Hothead

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/26/1999

Eustace wants more hair on his head and buys this new tonic. Little does he know that when he gets mad, the effect of the tonic makes him dangerously angry!

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Little Muriel
star
7.51
53 votes

#18 - Little Muriel

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/2000

Little Muriel: Muriel is picked up by a tornado and is turned into a little kid. Courage has to put up with Little Muriel's antics and must find a tornado spinning the opposite direction to change Muriel back.

Directors: John Dilworth
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Revenge of the Chicken from Outer Space
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7.49
51 votes

#19 - Revenge of the Chicken from Outer Space

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/23/2000

Courage notices a familar UFO come toward the Bagge's House. He sees a chicken (the same chicken from the pilot episode. Courage shot the chicken with a raygun and blew up the chicken's head) The chicken wantsa revenge, so he captures Muriel. Courage saves her before any harm is done. He captures Eustace and pulls off his head with a plunger! The chicken (with Eustace's head) chases Muriel and Courage, but later everything turns out OK with the exception of Eustace's missing head.

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The Clutching Foot
star
7.41
58 votes

#20 - The Clutching Foot

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/2000

Eustace gets a terrible foot fungus, and it grows until it takes over Eustace's body! The foot makes Courage steal money or else Muriel "gets it." Courage goes on the computer and finds out dog spit will get rid of the fungus. So, he licks the foot until it's gone and Eustace is back.

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Heads of Beef
star
7.40
87 votes

#21 - Heads of Beef

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/2000

Muriel is sick, so she sends Courage and Eustace to go to the bakery for her. Eustace gets in his truck and decides to go to eat first. He goes to a place called ""Burgers: Really Cheap!"". The owner is a pig named Jonn Bonne. He gives Eustace and Courage burgers. When Courage sees a guy come into a room and not come back, he thinks he was made into a burger because the burger looks just like him. He goes down and sees Jonn Bonne and his wife talking over a silhoutte of a person's head on a table! The Bonnes go after Courage, but he escapes through the mail slot and runs all the way home. Muriel has gotten better. It turns out the heads were really sculptures made of hamburger meat that Jonn Bonne makes. He, his wife, Eustace and that guy eat one of Eustace.

Directors: John Dilworth
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The Great Fusilli
star
7.30
46 votes

#22 - The Great Fusilli

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/30/2000

The Great Fusilli: A traveling trailer comes by. The Great Fusilli houses it and decides to make Eustace, Muriel, and Courage acting stars in his portable set. But Courage discovers a bunch of marionettes and sees that Eustace and Muriel have transformed into marionettes. Courage must stop the madness.

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Courage Meets Bigfoot
star
7.28
111 votes

#23 - Courage Meets Bigfoot

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1999

Bigfoot comes to the Bagge house. Courage and Bigfoot have a food fight, dance in Carmen Miranda outfits and have a good time. All the fun comes to an abrupt stop as soon as a mob of people arrive to get a reward for Bigfoot. Bigfoot's dad shows up and takes him home, without anyone getting hurt.

Directors: John Dilworth
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The Demon in the Mattress
star
7.22
130 votes

#24 - The Demon in the Mattress

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/1999

Muriel orders a new mattress and when she lays on it, a demon inside the mattress enters her body and takes over. Courage gets rid of the demon by finding a chant on The Computer. It exits Muriel's body and the mattress is sent back.

Directors: John Dilworth
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The Gods Must Be Goosey
star
7.20
54 votes

#25 - The Gods Must Be Goosey

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/2000

A Goose God wants to marry Muriel. He flirts with her, but Courage is angry because he thinks the Goose God will take Muriel away forever. He tries to act as though Eustace is being nice to Muriel. Muriel says she can't marry the goose god because she's "already spoken for". The Goose God tries to kidnap her, but when Courage makes Eustace's truck honk, the Goose God loves it and leaves Muriel. He ends up marrying Eustace's truck!

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