The BEST episodes directed by Robert Alvarez
#1 - Mall Cop
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 4
Dad loves shopping for Mom's stuff. He runs off to get a manicure for her, while Cow and Chicken pay for the other items. The censors go off when Cow passes through, so Red Guy, as a mall cop, chases Cow and Chicken all over the store. Cow learns that the censors have been broken for weeks. Red Guy walks through, and is arrest by the REAL mall cops.
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#2 - Night of the Ed
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 23
Dad decides that the family needs a pet...so he buys a spayed male jackel named Ed. He and Mom go out to celebrate, leaving Cow and Chicken alone with a living terrorist pet. Cow and Chicken then consult ""How to Care for Your First Jackel"" to try to tame Ed.
#3 - Child Star
Cow and Chicken - Season 2 - Episode 23
Amateur director Ivan Panced (The Red Guy) hold auditions for the role of ""Pretty Little Girl"" in his new movie with the same name. Cow wins the role by being the only girl who can't puddle dance. Cow's performance is charming, and well as tear-jerking: the horror is yet to come as the cameraman discovers he forgot to put the film in the camera.
#4 - Magic Chicken
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 16
Chicken hosts his own magic show, and his assitant is Cow. He amazes Flem and Earl, by makings a porkbutt float, Flem's under appear outside his pants, switching Earl's braces to Flem, bird fly from under Earl's hat, and Cow's udder dsiappear. But when he is unable to make her udder reappear, he has no choice but to place reward posters. Meanwhile, Red Guy is enjoying his newfound milk producing body part. I am Weasel: ""I Am Whale Captain""
#5 - Invisible Cow
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 13
Red Guy pops by Cow and Chicken's house selling ""invisible sauce"". Cow unwittingly buys it, and claims she's invisible, so she runs around town performing feats of ""invisibiltiness"". Red Guy sees this, and has Cow steal ""withdrawl slips"" from the bank with her ""invisibleness"". Cow steal fill-out forms instead of cash. Cow then tries to help lousy golfers, but she realizes she never was really invisible at all.
#6 - Cow's Dream Catcher
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 10
Cow tags along with Chicken, Flem, and Earl on their camping trip in the tree fort. Cow says that if Chicken, Flem, or Earl touch her dream catcher that they'll die. Chicken accidentally breaks her dream catcher, and soon, he, Flem and Earl are at the mercy of Cow's worst nightmare: The Milkman.
#7 - Me An' My Dog
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 9
Cow brings home an ""invisible"" dog, whom she dubs, Kevin. Pretty soon, she and Kevin are inseperable, but causes trouble with school and friends. After she enters Kevin in a dog show, and wins, Kevin ""runs away"". Afterwards, Cow finds Kevin, befriended an ""invisible"" homeless man.
#8 - Chicken's Fairy Tale
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 15
Chicken trades Cow to a farmer for five Canadian jumping beans. Mom grounds Chicken, and has him throw the beans out. As you guessed, a beanstalk grew, Chicken, Frem, and Earl climbed it, and was captured by Red Guy who is the giant. Super Cow senses this, and flies to the rescue. Flem in the end, ends up laying a golden egg (no, seriously, he LAYS a golden egg).
#9 - Pizza Boy: No Tip
What a Cartoon - Season 1 - Episode 26
Pizza Boy must deliver a pizza to Antarctica safe and sound under five minutes, or else he will receive no tip.
#10 - Cloud Nine
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 7
Cow and Chicken wait outside the hardware store while Dad shops. Chicken is dying to ride the fighter jet plane ride. When Cow finally lends Chicken a quarter, The Red Guy takes the ride away. Chicken then stows-away on his truck, to ride the plane, but has to plug it up. Once at the gas station, he buys 20 extension cords, but the owner unplugs them. In the end, Chicken discovers that Dad actually collects those kind of rides.
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#11 - Factory Follies
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 18
Red Guy is CEO of a giant factory. He holds a birthday party for himself in the confrence room later that night, but none of the employees show up. But it doesn't matter, he has enough fun by himself.
#12 - Who's Afraid of the Dark?
Cow and Chicken - Season 2 - Episode 20
Mom and Dad are upset that Cow and Chicken aren't afraid of the dark, so they call in a specialist on fear: The Red Guy (who portrays Dr. Lackslacks). He tries everyway he can to make Cow and Chicken afraid, only succeeding in making himself afraid of everything.
#13 - Book 'Em
Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 14
Dexter accidentally takes a library book without checking it out, so he and Dee Dee try to put it back without being caught.
#14 - Penalty Wheel
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 12
Cow, Chicken, Flem, and Earl are contestants on the gameshow ""You've Been Panced?"". Where the contestants have three seconds to perform three complicated tasks, or they have to spin the penalty. Chicken, Flem, and Earl all fail, but thanks to Super Cow, they win the grand prize: Red Guy's life savings. They discovered that they've been swindled, and Super Cow takes out Red Guy.
#15 - Perpetual Energy
Cow and Chicken - Season 2 - Episode 24
Cow and Chicken mess with a Junior Chemistry Set, and created perpetual energy, a beam of energy that keeps on going forever. The Red Guy kidnaps Cow and Chicken to recreate the energy, so he can win a trip to up North without having to sell Military Scout Cookies. I Am Weasel: ""My Friend, the Smart Banana''
#16 - Cow's Pie
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 24
Cow bakes her own pie and wants Chicken to try it...but he doesn't want to. Cow then follows Chicken everywhere until she takes drastic measures...hiding all of the food in the house, only leaving the pie. Chicken gives in, and discovers the pie is actually good. Little does he know...it's really poop.
#17 - Meet the Beat Alls
The Powerpuff Girls - Season 3 - Episode 22
Mojo Jojo, Princess Morebucks, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and Him all team up as The Beat Alls to defeat the Powerpuff Girls. All is going well until Mojo Jojo falls in love with Moko Jono who breaks up the Beat Alls.
#18 - Chickens Don't Fly
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 13
Cow and Chicken are taking a trip all by themselves. Their taking an airplane. Once Chicken sees the actual plain, he starts to have anxiety attacks and believes that flying is a dangerous way to travel.
#19 - Monster in the Closet
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 14
Cow wakes up in the middle of the night and finds a monster in the closet. Mr. Monster is actually quite friendly, and the next day, Cow treats him to a grand day out. They enjoy jumping ropes, eating ice cream, and watching TV. But when Mom and Dad discover this, they freak out, and have Cow banish Mr. Monster in the closet forever.
#20 - The Full Mounty
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 3
It's ""Bring Your Kids to Work Day"", so Dad does just that. Dad's job is guarding the government's money. When he has to appear at a sudden confernce, he leaves Cow and Chicken in his office. Red Guy, who is now a Canadian Mounty Police, finds them, and begins to stalk them, until they surrender.
#21 - Goin' My Way?
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 3
While driving in the snow, Mom and Dad find The Red Guy who says he's heading "home"; so Mom and Dad take him home with him, and immediately think of him has their new favorite son. Cow and Chicken work together to try to prove The Red Guy's a fraud.
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#22 - Snail Boy
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 11
Cow and Chicken visit their cousin, Snail Boy for Sunday Dinner. Later that night, Mom's Sis announces that Snail Boy has been transformed to Cow and Chicken's school. During his first day of school, Chicken becomes the laughing-stock when every finds out that Chicken is the cousin of a snail. Snail Boy then becomes the target of the eyes of the bullying track team.
#23 - Send in the Clowns
Cow and Chicken - Season 4 - Episode 8
Dad isn't friendly terms with the new neighbors, who happen to be clowns. Cow falls in love with the clown son, who in return falls in love with Cow. They play hooky to spend the day together. Dad finds out, and Cow in grounded, while he kicks the clown son out, and chews clown dad out.
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#24 - Professor Longhorn Steer
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 25
Mom and Dad are disgusted that Cow and Chicken believe the world is round, so they hire Dad's brother, Longhorn Steer (who really is a steer) to tudor Cow and Chicken. Longhorn fails, but Cow and Chicken learn that he doesn't want to teach...we wants to be a normal steer, get married, have kids, hold a job, and stampede.
#25 - A Couple of Skating Fools
Cow and Chicken - Season 3 - Episode 26
Chicken's dream is to be a world famous figure skater, so he and Earl enter a figure skating contest. Red Guy is jealous because his partner is Flem, so, he injures Earl, making Chicken helpless out on the rink...until Cow comes to save Chicken's dream.
#26 - The Wrath of Dark Kat
Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 3
Criminal mastermind Dark Kat breaks into the Megakat Nuclear Plant and steals the components to build his ""doomsday device,"" a powerful nuclear bomb that he plans to drop on the city. Commander Feral sneaks aboard Dark Kat's ship, the Doomsday Express, in an effort to stop him, but is quickly captured. Lieutenant-Commander Steele, Feral's second in command, assumes control of the Enforcers, but would rather advance his career than rescue his boss. Thus, it's up to the Swat Kats to save both Feral and Megakat City.
#27 - The Dark Side of the Swat Kats
Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron - Season 2 - Episode 11
A stray lightening bolt hits the Turbokat while the Swat Kats are testing their new dimensional radar system, which results in them being hurled into an alternate dimension where evil versions of themselves are not only wanted for just about every crime in Megakat City, but are also working for Dark Kat. Mistaken for the Dark Swat Kats by Dark Kat, T-Bone and Razor are sent to Puma-Dyne to steal the Mega-Detonator, a key component for an implosion bomb which the criminal mastermind plans to use to destroy Enforcer Headquarters. When Dark Kat realizes he's been had, he sends the real Dark Swat Kats to kill their good counterparts and acquire the Mega-Detonator. Making things even more complicated for the vigilante duo are the fact that Callie Briggs is also evil and in on Dark Kat's plot, but the Enforcers mistake them for the Dark Swat Kats and are after them, too.
#28 - XXII: Jack and the Hunters
Samurai Jack - Season 2 - Episode 9
On an alien planet, Aku contacts four Emikandi hunters and offers them the chance to hunt Jack. They capture Jack with incredible ease but Jack just as easily frees himself after he hears they're working for Aku and the real hunt begins! After an extended chase the two sides battle atop a skyscraper and Jack falls to his death...but the hunters rescue him out of respect for their greatest prey. Then the Emikandi refuse to give him to Aku out of respect for Jack's skill and depart.
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#29 - XL: Samurai vs. Ninja
Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 1
Aku sends forth the robotic ninja Shinobi, Warrior of the Dark, to kill the Samurai. Jack responds to the cries of a young boy from a village beset by robot lobsters. Jack defeats them all while Shinobi watches - then the ninja takes the boy to a nearby ruined tower where he strikes from the darkness at Jack as he follows. Jack knows of the ninja's technique and reveals that he is trained to blend with the light just as Shinobi can blend with the dark. The warriors of light and dark fight from shadow to light and back again - with the sun going down, Jack quickly runs out of concealment and in a last desperate measure reflects the waning light onto Shinobi and destroys him with a well-tossed sword.
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#30 - The Dabba Don
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law - Season 1 - Episode 6
Fred “Freddy” Flintstone: simple construction worker, or head of an organized crime family? Harvey’s on the case, trying to prove Fred’s innocence based on the theory of a simple bowling ball. Spyro is the prosecution, with the honorable Judge Mentok, the Mind Taker presiding.
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#31 - X: Jack and the Lava Monster
Samurai Jack - Season 1 - Episode 10
Called on by a mysterious voice, Jack overcomes many obstacles and booby traps to find who is calling him. Deep in the earth he finds it is a creature made from rock and lava, who immediately challenges Jack to a fight, but why did it call for Jack?
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#32 - XXVI: Jack's Sandals
Samurai Jack - Season 2 - Episode 13
Jack's enjoying a nice, quiet day by the riverside... until a band of transforming biker-bots nearly runs him down, wrecking his precious sandals in the process!
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#33 - Deadomutt (2)
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law - Season 1 - Episode 8
Harvey is sentenced and sent to jail for five years after killing off Blue Falcon's sidekick Dynomutt. Hilarity ensues as Harvey is sent to prison for the crime he committed.
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#34 - Cow Loves Piles
Cow and Chicken - Season 1 - Episode 22
Cow buys the new Piles the Beaver Doll, and takes him to the carnival with her. When he's catapaulted into the air, she then goes on a wild goose chase all over the carnival just to catch him.
#35 - XLIV: The Princess and the Bounty Hunters
Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 5
Bounty hunters come together and vie among themselves to determine who will go first. Each hunter outlines his plan while another, armored hunter points out the flaws in each plan. The armored hunter is a woman, Princess Mira and she proposes they fight together, but she claim the bounty so that Aku will free her people.. The bounty hunters prepare their trap, digging pits to ambush Jack. But Jack defeats them all in the span of a second and even the princess yields before his superior ability.
#36 - Keen on Keane
The Powerpuff Girls - Season 4 - Episode 11
It's Valentine's Day and the Powerpuff Girls try to hook up Ms. Keane and the Professor together.
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#37 - XLII: Samurai vs. Samurai
Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 3
While traveling through the rain, Jack takes refuge in an inn and meets Da Samurai, a hip-hop singer/fighter. His performance is interrupted by a new version of Aku's bounty hunters. Jack defeats them handily, much to Da Samurai's amazement. Da Samurai challenges him to battle and Jack eventually agrees. Jack requires him to first fight with sticks and Jack is clearly the superior warrior. Their fight is interrupted by the arrival of many more of Aku's hunters. Da Samurai is captured and Jack defeats the 100+ robots...but they assemble into one gigantic multi-headed robot. Da Samurai saves Jack by taking an energy blast, giving Jack time to defeat the robot and acknowledge Da Samurai has taken the first step on the path of a true warrior.
#38 - XXXVII: The Birth of Evil (1)
Samurai Jack - Season 3 - Episode 11
The gods Odin, Ra, and Rama battle a great dark evil. One shard escapes and falls to primitive Earth, creating a vast black forest. Down through the millennia it spreads and kills until the period of feudal Japan.
#39 - LI: Young Jack in Africa
Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 12
This episode takes place during Jack's childhood. After Aku's first attack, Jack is brought to a tribe in Africa where he is admitted into the adult community after a small ritual and the chief of the village teaches him the art of fighting with a stick. But an enemy tribe attacks the village in order to get a reward promised by Aku for Jack's capture and everyone is captured except for Jack. So he follows them, mastering the captors' weapon, using qualities of the animals he has observed to do so. After a difficult series of fights, Jack releases all the prisoners and with their help, the enemy tribe is defeated. At the end, Jack leaves the tribe because he is now considered to have learned all he can from them.
#40 - XXVII: Chicken Jack
Samurai Jack - Season 3 - Episode 1
Jack bumps into an old wizard who transforms him into a chicken - a rather goofy-looking master of the martial arts that nobody can understand. He gets captured and taken to a animal fight where he must defeat a robot beetle and snake. Jack wins but must then fight a spider-like creature, a giant worm, and the ratlike mechanical "Finisher". Jack's series of wins make his new owner a wealthy man but when he goes out to buy some decent clothing he bumps into the same wizard who hits them both with a spell - causing Jack to become human and the owner to become a chicken. Jack departs with a new found appreciation for the virtues of not eating chicken.
#41 - XXIV: Jack Is Naked
Samurai Jack - Season 2 - Episode 11
Jack's clothes are stolen and he must get them back while being chased by an angry mob who thinks he's indecent.
#42 - XXIX: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Samurai Jack - Season 3 - Episode 3
While taking a trip on a Old West-style train, Jack is stalked by a bounty hunter, Ezekial Clench. He manages to defeat him but unwittingly falls prey to Ezekial's ex-wife Josephine.
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#43 - XXXIII: Jack and the Creature
Samurai Jack - Season 3 - Episode 7
Whilst crossing a desert to seek the Crystal of Cagliostoro, Jack comes across a oasis. He unwittingly disturbs an overly friendly creature, who begins following Jack, messing up Jack's every move along his quest.
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#44 - XLVIII: Jack vs. Aku
Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 9
Tiring of the failure of his minions, Aku decides to engage Jack in one-on-one combat to settle matters between them once and for all.
#45 - XXI: Jack and the Farting Dragon
Samurai Jack - Season 2 - Episode 8
Jack discovers a village of panicky medieval serfs, overwhelmed and unable to earn their livelihood because of a horrible stench coming from a nearby mountain. After getting some more information from a demented scissorsmith, Jack heads to "The Spire" to deal with the source of this stink: a fire-breathing dragon who needs Jack's help in dealing with some serious indigestion!
#46 - The Giant Bacteria
Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 2
The swamp-dwelling Dr. Viper mutates his fellow evildoer Morbulus into a hulking bacteria blob following Morbulus' humiliating defeat by the Swat Kats. The bacteria monster then goes on a rampage through Megakat City, inconveniently dividing into two anytime it's hit. Viper's plan is for the monsters to break into the supposedly impenetrable Megakat Biochemical Labs and steal Katalyst 99, a rare biochemical compound he wants. With normal weapons ineffective against the giant bacteria, the Swat Kats quickly discover that the creatures have one weakness: electricity.
#47 - The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice
Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 1
Two grave robbers accidentally release the Pastmaster from his 800-year imprisonment within the Casket of the Ages. Disgusted with the modern era, he steals his spellbook, the Tome of Time, from the Megakat City Museum of History and attempts to magically transform the metropolis back to the medieval state he prefers. He summons dinosaurs through a magical time vortex to act as his bodyguards, one of whom knocks the Swat Kats through the portal and into the prehistoric era. Low on time and fuel, the Swat Kats must figure out a way to get back to the present-day Megakat City to stop the Pastmaster.
#48 - LII: Jack and the Baby
Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 13
While peacefully enjoying a snack of peaches, Jack hears a baby cry and races to find out what's the matter. He rescues Baby from a crew of hungry (baby-eating) monsters. The two then set off to find the baby's mother. Jack makes a great temporary parent, finding food, shelter, dealing with diapers. He tells Baby a bedtime story of Momotaro (Peach-boy, an archetypal Japanese folk-tale). When sick, Baby wants peaches; when they return to the peach orchard, the monsters find them again. After the final defeat of the monsters, Baby's mother is found. When she notices a surprising change in her child, Jack explains the baby has achieved sakai, the spirit of the samurai.
#49 - The Black Market Car
Infinity Train - Season 2 - Episode 1
Mirror Tulip tries to create a new life for herself outside the Mirror World.
#50 - Deadomutt (1)
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law - Season 1 - Episode 7
A hot new lawyer, the Blue Falcon, joins Harvey's law firm. Everyone's excited to have, for the first time, an ex-superhero on the firm. But Harvey does nothing to hide his hatred for the annoying Dynomutt, who winds up jammed and mangled beyond recognition in a copy machine. Harvey is arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to the electric chair. Will he fry? Tune in next week!
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