The BEST episodes of Bob the Builder season 20

Every episode of Bob the Builder season 20, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Bob the Builder season 20!

Bob the Builder and his machine team are ready to tackle any project. Bob and the Can-Do Crew demonstrate the power of positive thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and follow-through. The team always shows that "The Fun Is In Getting It Done!" Bob the Builder can be seen building, digging, and hauling.

Last Updated: 2/16/2024Network: Channel 5Status: Ended
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Drive-Thru Disaster
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6.92
13 votes

#1 - Drive-Thru Disaster

Season 20 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/1/2016

For his college course, Leo films the team building a drive-thru at the Milkshake Bar. Scoop's desperation to be the star of Leo's film causes disruption and eventually a crash on the drive-thru lane! The drive-thru and film are ruined. Scoop learns that he must let others do their work-he stays off camera as Leo films the team fixing the drive-thru, showing everything that can happen on a build.

Super Scoop
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6.88
8 votes

#2 - Super Scoop

Season 20 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/22/2016

Bob is building an outdoor cinema in the park for the new Dash Lightning premiere. Scoop is inspired to become a superhero, dubbing himself “Super Scoop” and charges off in search of rescues. None of his rescues work and he ends up driving through the cinema screen – in need of rescuing himself! However, when Dash becomes stranded on the way to the premiere, Super Scoop goes to the rescue and personally escorts the movie star to the big event.

Muck The Elf
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6.75
4 votes

#3 - Muck The Elf

Season 20 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/23/2016

While erecting a Gingerbread House display at the plaza, Muck obsessively takes on the role of a Christmas elf – zipping around helping make the season special. He tries building a toy go-kart, decorating a Christmas tree, and even delivering presents. Unfortunately, his efforts don’t seem to be as helpful as he intended. Muck realizes that he is most useful when he helps with things that he is good at doing and assists Bob by collecting supplies for the display. Meanwhile, Wendy and Bob exchange hand-made Christmas cards.

Jumping Muck
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6.71
7 votes

#4 - Jumping Muck

Season 20 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/7/2016

Bob is building the jumps for Henry Corner's cross-country equestrian competition. Muck thinks the idea of jumping over things sounds like fun. Determined to find out, Muck sneaks away to build his own jump. But when he tests it out, he gets stuck. Lofty comes to the rescue, and Bob suggests using Muck's jump to finish the cross-country course.

Muck Mucks About
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6.60
5 votes

#5 - Muck Mucks About

Season 20 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/8/2016

Bob and the team are working at the Zoo replacing Bella the elephant's enclosure to remind her of the wild. Muck and Scoop begin to prank each other, and Muck decides to hide inside the elephant house so he can jump out and surprise Scoop when Scoop passes by. But instead, Muck surprises poor Bella. Using ingenuity and roleplaying skills, Muck acts like an elephant and manages to calm the alarmed Bella down.

Phillip's Important Job
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6.57
7 votes

#6 - Phillip's Important Job

Season 20 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/11/2016

Phillip annoys Betsy by insinuating that his work driving Mayor Madison is more important than hers. But when he breaks down en route to Anish Bose’s book launch at Fixham Castle, Phillip must accept Betsy’s help. Later, Phillip’s quick thinking helps the Mayor to deliver the speech she’d left behind.

Haunted Town Hall
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6.50
10 votes

#7 - Haunted Town Hall

Season 20 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/29/2016

When the new Town Hall alarm keeps going off, Dizzy and Lofty are respectively excited and horrified by Mr Bentley's suggestion that it could be a ghost setting it off. Bob and Wendy eventually find the real culprits - bats that Bob accidentally trapped inside the chimney when he was working on it. To make sure the bats don't get hurt by living in the chimney, the team decides to create a new home for the bats on the roof.

Wild Wild Wedding
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6.50
8 votes

#8 - Wild Wild Wedding

Season 20 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/6/2016

Tilly and Henry have asked Bob and the team to convert Fixham Castle into a spectacular wedding venue. When Scoop learns there will be a 'Best Man,' he volunteers to be 'Best Machine. ' But the job goes to his head as he tries to be the very best at everything, resulting in a disastrous wedding rehearsal. Scoop learns that he doesn't have to be the best at everything and that it is important to know your limits.

Danger House
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6.50
2 votes

#9 - Danger House

Season 20 - Episode 52 - Aired 8/24/2017

Unaware that the film set Bob is building is designed to fall down as part of a film stunt, safety conscious Leo spots what he thinks is a problem and fixes it.

Flotsam and Jetsom
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6.45
11 votes

#10 - Flotsam and Jetsom

Season 20 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/30/2016

While clearing trash from Fixham Beach, Lofty collects all of the driftwood he can find. Scoop is baffled that Lofty thinks the driftwood is beautiful and tries to throw it all away. When Muck hauls the debris to the dump, Lofty spots a prize piece of wood, and grabs it, causing the trash to fall back into the water! With creative problem-solving and teamwork, Bob uses the driftwood to create a floating barrier in order to collect the flotsam and jetsam. Later they use the driftwood to decorate the path to the beach. Even Scoop is impressed.

Ice Cold Fixham
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6.43
7 votes

#11 - Ice Cold Fixham

Season 20 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/21/2016

The centerpiece of Mayor Madison’s arctic-themed charity event to raise money for polar bears is an ice sculpture of a polar bear carved by Wendy. Scoop is horrified to discover that it will melt away by the end of the evening. He takes it away to find a cold place where it won’t melt, but by the time Bob and Wendy find him, it’s too late—the bear has turned into a puddle of water! Bob comforts Scoop while Wendy makes a brand new sculpture. This time she carves a splendid ice sculpture of Mayor Madison herself.

Dizzy And The Butterfly
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6.40
5 votes

#12 - Dizzy And The Butterfly

Season 20 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/26/2016

Dizzy is thrilled to be working on the new butterfly house and wishes an orange butterfly would land on her. The butterfly pupae arrive and Dizzy is so excited that she doesn’t realize that one has fallen into her mixing drum. When she goes outside, the butterfly hatches, flying to the top edge of her drum. Dizzy has to remain still and calm in order to move the butterfly safely back into the habitat. Once inside, she is happy to discover that all of the butterflies are flying around – and landing on her!

Dino Coaster
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6.40
5 votes

#13 - Dino Coaster

Season 20 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/28/2016

While Bob and the team complete work on a dinosaur-themed rollercoaster at the Dino Park, Lofty and Dizzy think they’ve broken a precious dinosaur egg – and that a baby dinosaur is now on the loose! They embark on a hunt, which ends in Lofty crashing through the coaster tracks while Leo takes a test run. Wendy steps on the brakes, stopping the zooming car and saves Leo! The machines discover that the egg is not real, but part of the exhibit, and what they thought was a baby dinosaur was really Pilchard.

Moving House
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6.38
8 votes

#14 - Moving House

Season 20 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/19/2016

When Mayor Madison wants to save an old historic house that is dangerously close to a crumbling cliff, Bob and the team lift it onto Two-Tonne’s flatbed to take it to a new site. Mr. Bentley accompanies the convoy and, being a keen bird watcher, he spots a nest of very rare eggs by the side of the road. To avoid disturbing it, Two-Tonne decides to take a different route through the city, but he misjudges the height of the bridge and the house gets stuck. Luckily Bob has a solution! He lets the air out of Two Tonne’s tires so the vehicle becomes low enough to squeeze under the bridge and move to the new site.

Wendy's Surprise
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6.38
8 votes

#15 - Wendy's Surprise

Season 20 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/20/2016

It’s Wendy’s birthday! Bob has planned a surprise party at the yard, but Wendy keeps adding lights to the Spring City Rockets’ ice-skating show and won’t leave until she is finished. Trying to get Wendy to leave, Lofty accidentally ruins the light display. Bob quickly comes up with a new plan and brings the party to Wendy!

Phillip's Sleepover
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6.30
10 votes

#16 - Phillip's Sleepover

Season 20 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/28/2016

While Bob and his team are building an underground car garage for Phillip at the Town Hall, Phillip sleeps in Bob's yard for the night with the rest of the machines. In the middle of the night, he accidentally scares an already intimidated Muck, who mistakes him for a ghost! In the commotion, the hydraulic jacks for the construction project are ruined. Muck comes up with an idea for how Bob and his team can get the garage finished before Mayor Snipe arrives.

Where's Pilchard?
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6.29
7 votes

#17 - Where's Pilchard?

Season 20 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/4/2016

Bob, Wendy and the team set out to build a tire shed for Curtis. When Muck shoos Pilchard out of his way, she suddenly vanishes. Leo and the machines run around looking for Pilchard, desperate to find her before Bob finds out that she's disappeared. When Muck admits that he had some part in her disappearance, they all discover that the cat had been sound asleep in his dumper the whole time.

Pyramid Puzzle
star
6.10
29 votes

#18 - Pyramid Puzzle

Season 20 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/27/2016

Bob and Lofty are going to construct the museum's new pyramid exhibition building. Lofty is excited that he gets to use his new claw attachment. Upon arriving at the site, they discover that Tiny has already built most of the pyramid for an archaeologist, Anish Bose, who wants to put his exhibits inside the central chamber. Lofty wants to finish up the work by himself but places a stone at the entrance of the pyramid by mistake, trapping Bob, Wendy, and Anish inside! Lofty realizes that his eagerness to do too much on his own caused the problem, and that working as a team with Tiny is much better.

Too Many Cooks
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6.00
2 votes

#19 - Too Many Cooks

Season 20 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/15/2017

Tread takes on more work than he can handle and ends up delivering all the wrong things to all the wrong people.

Crane Pain
star
6.00
4 votes

#20 - Crane Pain

Season 20 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/29/2016

The team is at the stadium construction site installing sections of concrete onto the steelwork. Lofty is excited to be working with Tiny and wants to impress him. Lofty doesn’t admit to finding the concrete difficult to lift and he drops a section in front of the access way, trapping everybody inside the stadium. With some creative problem solving and collaboration, the team completes the job in time!

Bob's Badges
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6.00
4 votes

#21 - Bob's Badges

Season 20 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/4/2016

When Bob rewards the machines with stars for good work, Muck has the fewest. His efforts to earn more put the new restaurant’s waiting area in jeopardy. The team works together to finish the job and everyone earns more stars for doing what they do best.

A Christmas Fix
star
6.00
3 votes

#22 - A Christmas Fix

Season 20 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/27/2016

A very excited Mr. Bentley gets Bob and the team to set up Fixham's big Christmas party, but he insists on hanging so many lights that they cause a power failure! Unable to use the square, Bob offers to relocate the event to his yard for a smaller, but just as enjoyable, party.

A Message From Space
star
6.00
3 votes

#23 - A Message From Space

Season 20 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/30/2016

Bob is building a radio telescope for Mei at the Observatory. Mei wants to test it by contacting her twin sister Lin on an orbiting space station. Lofty wants to make sure nothing damages the telescope, but ends up breaking it himself! Lofty offers to use his crane arm to position the telescope's dish and they are able to contact Lin.

Best Laid Plans
star
5.67
3 votes

#24 - Best Laid Plans

Season 20 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/7/2016

As a result of Bob's office being so messy he accidentally gives Mr Bentley the plans for the new giraffe house instead of the plans for his new garden shed!

Bob's Band
star
5.63
8 votes

#25 - Bob's Band

Season 20 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/5/2016

Roley is excited that Bob will be playing his saxophone with the town band as soon as the park bandstand has been renovated. Meanwhile, Leo is tidying up the warehouse at Bob's yard, but is distracted when he discovers he can make music using the leftover piping and old oil drums. When Roley accidentally rolls over and flattens the band's instruments, he is so upset that he rolls away to hide. Bob comes to Roley's rescue by suggesting they follow Leo's creative idea and use bits and pieces from the yard to make new instruments. Bob's 'Junk Band' is a great success and even Mayor Madison approves!