The WORST episodes of Batman: The Animated Series
Every episode of Batman: The Animated Series ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Batman: The Animated Series!
The Dark Knight battles crime in Gotham City with occasional help from Robin and Batgirl.
#1 - The Underdwellers
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/21/1992
Batman traces a series of bizarre robberies on the streets of Gotham back to a band of children - poverty-stricken outcasts who have been raised to do the bidding of their master, the Sewer King.
#2 - I've Got Batman in My Basement
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/30/1992
During a fight with Batman over a stolen egg ruby, the Penguin douses Batman with gas, although he is rescued by a teenage "would-be" detective named Sherman and his friend Roberta, who hide Batman in Sherman's basement long enough for him to heal before the Penguin finds them.
#3 - Be a Clown
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/16/1992
Mayor Hamilton Hill's miserable son, Jordan, becomes even sadder when his father uses his birthday party as a political gathering, and ends up stowing away in the truck of the circus performer hired by Hill for the party, whom he doesn't know is actually the Joker in disguise. It is now up to Batman, whom Mayor Hill distrusts, to rescue the boy before it's too late.
#4 - Moon of the Wolf
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/11/1992
Batman investigates the appearance of a werewolf-like creature in Gotham, not realizing that the monster happens to be one of Bruce Wayne's associates - Anthony Romulus, ex-Olympic champion. Behind the scheme is twisted chemist Professor Milo.
#6 - Fear of Victory
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/29/1992
Several sportsmen start receiving strange letters in the mail, and having frightening hallucinations at their next game. At the same time, one man is making thousands of dollars betting on the events. Batman and Robin (the latter of whom becomes infected), start their own investigation, and come to the conclusion that someone else is continuing the Scarecrow's crimes, since the Scarecrow is currently locked up in Arkham Asylum. Or is he?
#7 - Christmas with the Joker
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/13/1992
After escaping Arkham Asylum on Christmas Eve, The Joker takes over Gotham's airwaves and terrorizes the city. He then challenges Batman and Robin to find his hidden TV studio and free his hostages, Commissioner Gordon, Detective Bullock, and Summer Gleason, before midnight.
#8 - Pretty Poison
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/14/1992
When District Attorney Harvey Dent collapses after a meal with Bruce Wayne and his fiancee Pamela Isley, it transpires that he has been poisoned. Batman must find the culprit and discover an antidote before Dent's time runs out.
#9 - Cat Scratch Fever
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/5/1992
Batman must stop Roland Daggett's plan to release a viral plague designed by Professor Milo into Gotham by way of its stray cat population. The case gains new urgency when Catwoman becomes infected with the virus during her search for her missing cat, Isis.
#10 - On Leather Wings
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/1992
When a horrifying bat creature terrorizes Gotham City, the authorities conclude it must be Batman and put out an all-points bulletin on the Dark Knight . Meanwhile, Batman's investigation leads him to the laboratory of Kirk Langstrom, a prominent zoologist, who has been experimenting with a formula that turns him into the Man-Bat creature. Not only does Batman have to capture Man-Bat in order to save Langstrom, but also to set the police straight and clear his name
#11 - Avatar
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/9/1994
Batman must stop Ra's Al Ghul when he attempts to unleash the power of the ancient God Thoth Khepera.
#12 - Terror in the Sky
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/12/1992
When a man-sized bat ransacks Gotham harbor, Batman suspects that Dr. Kirk Langstrom is up to his old tricks, taking the Man-Bat formula again. Batman isn't the only one. Kirk's wife, Francine, is so distrustful of her husband that she decides to leave him. After further investigation, Batman discovers that this Man-Bat is not Kirk, but someone else.
#13 - The Clock King
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/21/1992
After his company goes bankrupt (without a hearing), Temple Fugate takes up the mantle of the Clock King and pursues the one who he believes responsible for his loss: Mayor Hill, who merely persuaded Fugate to take a later coffee break, which ended in disaster. Can Batman rescue Hill in time, despite his dislike for the Mayor?
#14 - See No Evil
Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 2/24/1993
Lloyd "Eddie" Ventrix is on the verge of losing his daughter, Kimberly, to his ex-wife, Helen, due to his past as an con artist. Determined not to lose Kimberly, Ventrix dons a suit, stolen from where he used to work while on parole, which grants the user invisibility but also becomes highly toxic, and poses as Kimberly's imaginary friend, Mojo, while stealing jewellery for her. Can Batman solve the mystery crimes and stop Ventrix, and at the same time, save his life, despite the fact that he can't even see him?
#15 - The Forgotten
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/8/1992
While investigating the disappearances of Gotham's homeless in an undercover disguise, Bruce Wayne is kidnapped. Imprisoned in a chain gang mining camp and suffering from amnesia, will he be able to escape and free the rest of the prisoners?
#16 - Batgirl Returns
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1994
Batgirl and Catwoman team up to investigate the theft of a rare cat statue.
#17 - Tyger, Tyger
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/30/1992
Selina Kyle is kidnapped by an evil scientist who turns her into a real cat-woman.Selina Kyle is kidnapped by the villainous genetic engineer Dr. Emile Dorian and becomes his latest experiment to provide his man-cat hybrid named Tygrus with a mate. Batman learns of this and comes to the island to rescue Selina. He is captured and forced into a deadly game of cat-and-flying mouse as Tygrus hunts Batman through the island's jungles.
#18 - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/18/1992
Edward Nygma creates the game, "The Riddle of the Minotaur", and makes millions for the company Competitron. He is then fired by his superior, Daniel Mockridge, who wants the profits for himself. Nygma vows revenge, and two years later, he takes up the mantle of the Riddler and traps Mockridge inside a life-sized version of the Minotaur maze. Batman's sympathy is with Nygma, but he and Robin have to stop him before he kills Mockridge, despite the fact that Mockridge cannot legally be brought to justice.
#19 - The Cat and the Claw (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1992
Batman encounters a new cat burglar, Catwoman, and around the same time, meets a woman named Selina Kyle (as Bruce Wayne), to whom he is visibly attracted. When Selina runs into trouble with a terrorist cartel known as The Red Claw (who wants the mountain lion sanctuary she was trying to protect), she decides to take matters into her own hands and investigate.
#20 - Harley's Holiday
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1994
After being discharged from Arkham, Harley Quinn tries to lead a normal life but she keeps getting into trouble.
#21 - Shadow of the Bat (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1993
Robin discovers that Gil Mason is in league with the underworld and goes to investigate him. He encounters Batgirl along the way, and go their separate ways to stop Mason. They then meet again to learn that Gil is working with Two-Face to take out Gordon, and have Batman (as Matches Malone) captured.
#22 - Catwalk
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/1995
Catwoman's attempt to go straight runs into problems when she is enticed into one last job by the Ventriloquist.
#23 - Zatanna
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 2/2/1993
When the glamorous magician Zatanna is framed for a robbery during her act, Batman swings to her defense. Zatanna is grateful though a little puzzled by the Dark Knight's commitment to prove her innocence, but the two heroes unite and use the skills her father, Zatara, taught them to expose and combat the culprit: an evil illusionist named Montague Kane.
#24 - Birds of a Feather
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 2/8/1993
Veronica Vreeland is looking for a way to create a splash with her next party and arrives at the idea of having a former criminal in attendance—especially if there's one whose manners would create a stir. Penguin, who has recently reformed, fits the bill perfectly. In the process of convincing the Penguin to come to her party, Veronica finds she likes the corpulent little guy. For his part, the Penguin begins to fall in love with her, until he overhears that he is merely being used...
#25 - Feat of Clay (1)
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/8/1992
Bruce Wayne is framed for the attempted murder of Lucius Fox. The real perpetrator is an actor and master of disguise named Matt Hagen, who was disfigured in a car accident years ago. In order to keep his fame, he secretly started working for Roland Daggett, who provides him with a monthly supply of an addictive face cream known as Renuyu (a pun on "Renew You") that can temporarily reshape his face back to normal, and who wants to take Wayne Enterprises over for marketing expansion. For botching the murder, Hagen's supply is cut off, and when he breaks into Daggett's lab for more Renuyu, he pays the price dearly when Daggett's men drench his face in the formula. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne is arrested and taken into custody.