The BEST episodes of Animorphs

#1 - Underground

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1998

The Animorphs try out the disk, but nothing happens. Jake and Marco realize that someone very close to Jake is a Controller. The Controller turns out to be Jake's brother Tom. Jake wants his brother back, and he'll do anything to do it. They tried morphing out into ferocious animals from the clinic that Cassie's mother works in. Jake acquires a Tiger and Rachel acquires a Lion. They use it to try and free all of the humans in the Yeerk Pool located under the school. Their attempt ended with no free humans, without Tom, Tobias was gone (Probably captured by the Yeerks), and the disk was lost.

#2 - The Capture (1)

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1998

Jake's father is almost ready to open the Health Wellness Centre, a division of the hospital he works at. At dinner, Jake found out that Victor Trent (also known as Visser Three) is a partner of his dad's in the creation of the health clinic. Jake went to help his dad, there were a lot of security, but he had to leave. The Animorphs investigate why they had lots of security - the infestation of the governor, Ax scans Marco's video card to respond to all human codes. The Animorphs enter the building as roaches, and searches for the Yeerk Pool. Once they found it, they destroyed the Yeerk Pool in a room and Jake falls into the pool. The Animorphs did not know that Jake was a Human Controller when they left.

#3 - The Leader (2)

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/12/1999

Cassie and Rachel break the Kandrona and return to the barn where Ax was, while Jake was still trying to find a way to escape the pool ship, but Marco did not want to just leave his mother behind now that he found out she's alive. But they can't stay and risk being caught, so they had no choice. So, they decided to hijack a Yeerk blade ship. Rachel and Cassie use Ax to help guide Jake and Marco back to earth. Jake and Marco safely got back to Earth, but now a new enemy has been revealed.

#4 - The Message

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1998

Cassie and Tobias think there is another Andalite on Earth because they can hear noises from a distance. They went into convulsions, and they heard some strange thought-speak message. It sounded like something had crash-landed and needed help. Rachel was at her father's, so the Animorphs checked it out and found out that there was another Andalite on Earth. The Andalite has contacted Visser Three as well. And now, it's a race to find the source. If the Yeerks find the messenger first, the Andalite will become a Controller. Cassie, Marco, and Jake find the Andalite, but The Andalite does not believe them at first when they say that they are allies of the Andalites. Cassie morphed into a Sknunk and saved Ax, and they escaped by morphing into Butterflies. It is revealed that Ax acquired all the DNA Patterns of each Animorph (Except Tobias) and was made into a new person.

#5 - My Name Is Jake (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1998

#6 - The Escape

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1998

Rachel, Marco and Ax were at the Diner when this guy was crazy for Oatmeal. The man was George Edelman and he announced that he had a Yeerk in his brain so Rachel and Marco went to the hospital to check him out. He told them a lot about the Yeerks, Yeerkes crave Instant Maple Oatmeal like a drug and cannot redeem control of their hosts but the Yeerk will always be in his head, and the new Yeerk Pool is under the whole town. So the Animorphs have a new weapon, but how are they supposed to use it? They can't use it on the Controllers, that'd be like hurting the slaves to spite the slave owners. At the restaurant, the Animorphs try to enter the Yeerk pool but it did not work because a Gleet BioFilter was there to destroy all lifeforms without Yeerks in their brains, but luckily, they escaped as roaches. They have to go directly to the source, dig underground as ferrets. When they reached the Yeerk Pool, they threw Oatmeal into the Yeerk Pool, and a Hork-Bajir has taken down Tobias

#7 - The Alien

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1998

Jake, Marco and Ax went to the theatre to watch a movie, where Ax got so obsessed with popcorn, he crawled on the ground frantically looking for more. When stared back at the screen, the picture displayed a reminder of his home, and he must contact his homeworld. Although Ax has been fighting side by side with the Animorphs for as long as he's been on earth, he's always seemed distant, not quite trusting of human beings. They brought him over to Marco's house, where he went crazy over the spicy food that Marco's father made him eat. Ax then breaks into a satellite company, and modifies the computers so he can phone home. Jake and Marco also sneaked in by morphing lizards. When he does, his father picks up and Ax places the dishonour of giving a lower species Andalite technology on Elfangor, he takes on the burden himself, disobeying the law of Seerow's Kindness. But that's not all. Turns out that the Yeerks are hot on his trail. And now Ax wants to take revenge on Visser Three an

#8 - Between Friends

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1998

Tobias returns, but he is stuck in Hawk morph because he stayed in Morph for over two hours. Rachel is worried about Melissa, as Melissa's father is a high-ranked Controller. Rachel morphs into Melissa's cat and enters the Chapman household to rescue Melissa, who was on the verge of being turned into a Controller. Unfortunately, Rachel gets captured by Chapman and is taken to Visser Three. Jake, however, had been spying and morphed into a Dog to go and rescue Rachel. They escaped when Chapman was trying to protect the host's daughter, Melissa, from becoming a Yeerk. Jake and Rachel were able to escape.

#9 - My Name Is Jake (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1998

Sometimes weird things happen to people. Ask Jake. He might tell you about the night he and his friends saw the strange light in the sky. He may even tell you what happened when they realized the ""light"" was only a plane -- from another planet. Here's where Jake's story gets a little weird. It's where they're told that the human race is under attack -- and given the chance to fight back. Now Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco have the power to morph into any animal they choose. And they must use that power to outsmart an evil greater than anything that world has ever seen...

#10 - The Forgotten

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/1998

Rachel changes into a hawk to find Tobias but then she fell and was unconscious. She slams into a tree and, when she awakens, has lost her memory. Her friends, the Yeerks, the Animorphs! She almost got turned into a Controller. She ran into a lady named Fran, a crazy former Controller, and now she wants to trap Rachel to get rid of the Controller in her brain (which she doesn't have). Rachel asked many questions but Fran did not care because she thought Rachel was an Andalite scum. Rachel finds her way to a Controller camp where's she taken in by the two leaders there (Brad and John) while the Animorphs are still searching for her using the keen scent smelling of Homer which Jake morphed into. The Controllers have no idea who Rachel is, but realize she's perfect to make a Controller. Marco morphed a Wolf to scare away the Controllers, and they took back Rachel and tried to remind Rachel that she is an Animorphs. Jake morphed a Tiger to show her, and she was finally able to reminder

#11 - Face Off (2)

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1999

Rachel meets up with Tobias outside, and is surprised to discover he's human again! Rachel tells Tobias of the Yeerk plot, and they decide they need to get down to the Yeerk pool. In order to get past the scanners, however, Rachel'll need to do something she never thought she would, Rachel morphs a Yeerk using the DNA pattern saved on the disk, and she crawls into Tobias' head. Chapman tells everyone that there is a Tornado Warning (But we know, they are trying to get more hosts), and he sends everyone in the auditorium go down the stairs to what they think is a basement shelter, but is really the Yeerk pool. Marco, Cassie, and Ax, are not sure of what was going on but they were going to be infested by the new breed of Yeerks, along with all the other students. Jake (who is a Lizard) gets caught in a room, and Tom thinks he has an Andalite so he is ready to use him to unlock the disk. Cassie and Ax is ready to become infested, while Tobias and Marco thinks of a way to get Jake out.

#12 - Tobias

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/1999

A Darktech Detac is a device is like a diary, that Ax has invented, it allows people to go into their minds and relive their memories. Tobias was Ax's closest friend, so he offers to let him have the first chance to use it. With it, Tobias goes back in time to the days before he became an Animorph, back to where he first started his at his new school, meeting a nice girl named Rachel, and being frustrated because of what has happened that night at the construction site, a conversation with a mysterious old man, and the acquired of his first morph - The Red-Tailed Hawk. Ax also uses the device, and Tobias gets to see an amusing day in Ax's earth life. Using his human morph, he decides to learn more about our world, he leaves the barn after Cassie goes to do her homework, by taking a trip to the mall. He gets into trouble with a cab driver because he did not know how human transportation works. When he bothers a teenager playing a game at Cyberia, the guy punished him. The cab driver c

#13 - The Leader (1)

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/5/1999

Marco was painting while Jake finds out Visser One will be at the EGS Tower, where the Kandrona is and the mock Yeerk sun, which nourishes the Yeerks. Now all they need to do is find a way to get in and destroy it. The Animorphs go spy on the Yeerks but they have a Morphing Detector so when Jake and Marco morphed Lizards the alarm went off and the walls close around them. The Yeerks have captured Jake and Marco in a spacecraft, then they blast off, and they were being sent to the Yeerk pool ship. They needed to find a way to escape, and when they escape and got lost in the Yeerk Mother Ship, they discovered a startling secret; Marco's Mom was alive, controlled by Visser One.

#14 - The Stranger

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1998

Rachel's dad wants Rachel to go with him to the famous gymnast. He wants Rachel to move away with him -- as thoughts of ""should I or shouldn't I?"" run through her head, Ax is being captured by the Yeerks! Knowing they can't let the Yeerks take another Andalite host, let alone one of their close friends, the Animorphs move in. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a trap, and they're caught in a net and Visser Three began to move in! All seems lost - until a mysterious glowing blue man called an Ellimist shows up, stopping time. He gives them a choice; they could stay and fight or go to another world with their families. After seeing the future, they wanted to stay because the future seemed that the Yeerks have taken over Earth. They were able to get away from the Yeerks, using a knife from the scene showed by the Ellimist. Rachel morphed a Lion to defeat the Controllers while the rest save Ax.

#15 - The Reaction

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1998

Cassie and Rachel saves a boy from a crocodile pit and she began to change when she doesn't want to because she was allergic to crocodiles. Cassie's morphing out of control. She has been invited to the Larry and Linda Show where the famous star, Jason Jon McCole is also a guest talking about The Sharing. Cassie got rid of the defective crocodile DNA by burping it out and stopped Jason Jon McCole before millions of rabid female JJM fans decide that The Sharing is the club for them. The Crocodile was on the loose, but the Animorphs were able to stop it. Marco morphed a Llama while Jake and Ax morphed Beetles.

#16 - The Capture (2)

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/1998

Everyone thought they had managed to save the governor without any hitches -- except Ax. When he sees Jake, he knows. Jake is one of them, a Controller. The Animorphs now kept Jake tied and up and kept a close watch on him for three days, while Ax becomes Jake for a while, taking his place, being weird at the dinner table, and doing extraordinary well in school. The Yeerk uses all of Jake's memories in a psychological war, preying mostly on Cassie's romantic feelings towards him. If there is a Yeerk in his brain it will die from Kondrona Rays. When Rachel pretended to be asleep, Jake morphed a dog and tried to escape to the nearest Yeerk Pool, but the Animorphs managed to find him, Rachel as a Lion, Marco as a Wolf, Cassie as a Horse, and Ax as Jake. Now the Animorphs know another entrance to the Yeerk Pool. The Yeerk escapes from Jake's body and Jake destroys it. Ax hooked up a system where Jake could call Tom, his brother in another voice, to tell the real Tom that they will figh

#17 - On the Run

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1998

The Andalite disk which Jake lost and Tobias are still missing. Jake and Marco get an e-mail in Cyberia from the Yeerks offering them a trade. They want to trade an Andalite for the disk. The Animorphs plan to trick the Yeerks by giving a normal animal to the Controller. The animal is not really Andalite, but they believe the Yeerks will assume that the ""Andalite"" is in morph. Jake morphs into a Lizard to use thought-speak. Marco is caught shoplifting Jake (Who is still a lizard), and had to morph into a rat to escape. Rachel and Cassie go to A Sharing meeting with Melissa. Rachel morphed into a Fly to find out The Sharing's future plans that are coming up. Jake and Marco thought that they had the disk after finding it in the city garbage dump, which is where Jake had to morph into a Dog to resuce Marco. They soon realize that the disk is fake, and that the Yeerks have been using it to track them.

#18 - Not My Problem

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/1999

Jake is depressed after a bad day and wishes he'd never met Elfangor so an Ellimist grants his wish because he did well in the fight against the Yeerks. Now Jake, Rachel, Cassie, and Marco are totally un-aware of the invasion, and living a normal life once again. But there's a hitch -- turns out Tobias still met Elfangor. The world is suddenly turned upside down, and we don't know whom to trust. It turns out all the Animorphs are now normal kids but now they are infested by Yeerks except for Tobias. Tobias wants more kids to be on his team so there is way to beat the Yeerks. Morphing a Lizard, Tobias learns that Jake is a Yeerk, and he only could trust Rachel. No one believed Tobias' story about parasitic alien slugs invading Earth. At the Spider Party, Marco acted weird, and Cassie found a slug in the bathroom. Tobias asks Rachel to meet him at the Spider Club (which is closed) so the could find where the Yeerk pool was, but it turns out Rachel was a Yeerk too, when Tobias morphed

#19 - Face Off (1)

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1999

The Animorphs attend the district finals basketball game where everyone is planning to go. It's Ax first sporting event, so everyone's really excited. Especially Jake, the basketball nut, but when he tries to spy on Tom, while as a Lizard, Jake was trapped inside Tom's backpack, but now Jake knows that Tom had the Andalite Disk in his room the whole time. He was brought down to where all the Controllers were ready unleashing Yeerks that don't need Kandrona to get more hosts. Meanwhile, Rachel and Cassie morph Rats and found out that Chapman has the disk (but he really does not) so Ax spills juice on Chapman and checks Chapman's pockets to see if it's there, but no sign of the disk. Jake gets trapped near the Yeerk Pool. Chapman steals the Disk from Tom's bag, and Tobias grabs the disk and he unlocks while Rachel was searching for him. Then he returns to human form because he can morph again!

#20 - Face Off (3)

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/1999

The infestation continues as Visser Three tries to figure out which one is the real Tom. Rachel, still inside Tobias as a Yeerk is getting very mad because she does not want to stay in the Yeerk morph any longer. Meanwhile, Cassie and Ax are rapidly approaching the infestation pier. Ax only has minutes left before he has to demorph, and he's next in line for the new Yeerk. Cassie is helpless as a human, but she can't morph in front of the Controllers. Marco is the only one who can do anything to help all the other Animorphs, he finds out that Jake has morphed Tom, and he destroys all the special Yeerks, Jake (in Tom morph) reacts to the screams of the Yeerks and run in to check on them, while Visser Three and his Human Controllers take away the real Tom. Everyone hears the alarms, Cassie and Ax escapes while Ax morphs back to an Andalite in a hidden place. Marco morphs a cockroach and dodges boulders crashing to the ground, to get out, as Jake as Tom is also trying to get out. As

#21 - The Front

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/1999

Ax lands a job at a new electronics store. The store owner pushes Ax to sell, sell, sell for their huge cell-phone promotion. When Tom buys two--one for himself and another for his latest crush, Melissa Chapman, Jake and Marco get a little suspicious. What's with this sudden cell-phone craze? They follow Tom to investigate the situation...and are horrified to discover what Ax is really selling.

#22 - The Release

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1999

The Animorphs find out that the Yeerks don't have enough Kandrona Rays for a lot of Controllers so there is a lot of Controllers that are sick like Tom, Yeerks are dying from lack of Kandrona rays. One of them happens to be the Yeerk who controls science teacher Mr. Perkins. Now, Mr. Perkins is on a crusade to free other Controllers. So Jake and Marco try to rescue Tom but they found out that Mr. Perkins (Teacher) is a free Controller, and is also trying to free Tom, but Tom escapes. He gathers up some Controllers and look for Mr. Perkins, but fortunately, Jake as a Tiger and Marco as a Wolf scare away all the Controllers and save Mr. Perkins. Jake looked for Mr. Perkins at the camping site, and discussed how they will help each other out.

#23 - My Name Is Erek

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/1999

After Jake and Marco witnessed a kid their own age perform a feat of super-human strength, they are stunned. The kid just ran in front of a car to save a dog, and he did not even get a scratch, and the car was destroyed. Ax, has become a television-obsessed alien who can not stop watching television and imitating everything that is produced from the stations. They are even more surprised when the kid follows them back to Cassie's barn and reveals his secret after Jake and Marco morphed dogs to find out that he had no human scent, he is part of an android race called the Chee, which was created by the Pemalites for non-violent creatures. Now the android, Erek, needs their help. The Yeerks have stolen the Chee hologram crystal and plan to use it to hide Yeerk pools from human eyes; so all the humans can only see a hologram. Erek can't touch the crystal himself; it would destroy his hologram, that is why he needs help from the Animorphs. Jake, Rachel, and Erek try to find the crysta

#24 - Changes (1)

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1999

Tired of defending the world from alien invaders, the Animorphs decide to unwind and relax at their school's spring dance. Rachel can't wait to go with her dream date--Tobias, of course. Once she persuades Jake and Cassie to double date with them, she drags Cassie off to the mall in search of the perfect dress. The shopping expedition ends in disaster when Cassie discovers that a well-known cosmetics company tests their products on animals. Enraged, she convinces Jake to break into the laboratory with her and free the animals. When their plan backfires completely, the other Animorphs rush in and save the day. Exhausted from the battle, Marco as a dog; runs into the woods so that he can morph in private. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that he's got company; a boy was taping him morphing back into a human....

#25 - Changes (2)

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1999

Nothing is going right for the Animorphs. Tobias refuses to take Rachel to the dance, Marco can't find a date at all, and Ax is acting even stranger than usual. To make matters worse, Harold Nesbit, notorious computer nerd, has a video tape of Marco morphing from dog to human, and he was about to mail it to ""The World's Weirdest Video"" show for a big money reward. The night before Harold was going to send the video, Marco and Jake trespassed on his property and try to steal the tape, but they were unsuccessful, they accidentally stole the wrong tape. The next day, the group found out that Harold has not sent in the video, yet and they search the mall to find him, but he had already sent it before going to the mall. Jake and Rachel decide to sneak into the TV studio and steal the tape. Unfortunately, this is not as easy as it sounds. When Rachel and Jake arrive at the studio, they discover that a new TV executive has taken control of the studio...and his name is Visser Three, whil