The BEST episodes of Clifford's Puppy Days
Every episode of Clifford's Puppy Days ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Clifford's Puppy Days!
Set two years (1998) before the events of Clifford the Big Red Dog, the series focuses on when Clifford was a tiny red puppy, the runt of the litter in a litter of puppies given birth to by the pet dog of Emily Elizabeth's neighbor, Mr. Bradley (who appeared in an episode of the first cartoon series, "Little Clifford"), after he had been adopted by Emily Elizabeth before he grew up into a giant red adult dog, forcing the Howard family to move to Birdwell Island so Clifford would be able to live comfortably. The series shows Clifford and Emily Elizabeth's life and friends before they moved from New York City to Birdwell Island and all of their adventures to make room magic.
#1 - Sweethearts Dance
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 2/23/2006
Valentine's Day brings with it the school Sweethearts Dance. Emily Elizabeth is excited about attending for the first time (and dancing with her father), but soon becomes nervous. Her best friends all know fancy dances, but she doesn't know how to dance at all. She considers skipping the dance when she isn't helped much by a book she checks out from the library on dancing.
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#2 - Valentine Schmalentine
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 2/23/2006
Clifford doesn't even realize it's Valentine's Day until Norville tells him. Norville notes that he's seen Jorge, Flo and Zo and Evan all giving Valentine's Day gifts and he's even working on a necklace for his Mom. Clifford decides to make a gift for Emily Elizabeth, but Daffodil sees what he's doing and makes an even fancier gift. Pretty soon, it's an all-out competition to see who can give Emily Elizabeth the better gift.
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#3 - Paw Print Picasso
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/2003
Emily Elizabeth makes a painting for an Art Fair, but when Clifford starts a game of ball with kittens Flo and Zo, he ends up getting into the paint and getting pawprints all over her painting. Flo and Zo convince him to try and hide what he did by rolling up the painting, but he feels guilty about it the whole night as Emily Elizabeth sleeps. The next day, Clifford slips into Emily Elizabeth's backpack and goes with her to still in an attempt to warn her about what he did to the painting. At school, he tries to show her what happened, but his small size keeps him from even finding her. He's eventually discovered, but by the time Emily Elizabeth figures out what happened, her painting is being hailed as a masterpiece at the art gallery. Emily Elizabeth gives him the credit he deserves and back at home, Daffodil praises Clifford for his braveness.
#4 - Clifford's Magic Lamp
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/12/2005
After Emily Elizabeth reads Clifford the story of Aladdin, he rushes to tell it to his friends. Norville shows up, saying that he knows where to find a magic lamp just like the one in the story. While he flies off to search for it, Clifford, Jorge and Daffodil fantasize about their dream wishes. Jorge wishes for mountains of tacos and burritos, Daffodil for a quiet patch full of cloves and Clifford wishes to fly high in the sky with Emily Elizabeth. But when they realize that the genie only grants three wishes, they begin to wonder if they could live without theirs.
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#5 - Socks & Snooze
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/1/2003
Emily Elizabeth is missing a "lucky sock," one of two from a pair that she wants to wear on the first day of the new school year. She can't find it anywhere and so Clifford decides to help. Emily Elizabeth's pet rabbit Daffodil doesn't think much of his efforts, but he keeps at them and eventually finds the sock in a very unusual place. He has to make a trade to get it back, but is happy to do so. Emily Elizabeth is pleased that he found it and Daffodil admits that she was wrong to discourage Clifford's efforts.
#6 - Shun Gets in the Game
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/24/2003
On the first day of spring, Emily Elizabeth is eager to get up, get dressed and play in the first day of Courtyard Volleyball. Shun, new to the neighborhood, doesn't know how to play, so Emily Elizabeth invites him to join in and learn. When it seems to him like he's not a very good player, he starts making excuses to try to get out of the game. Meanwhile, Clifford and his friends are also looking for fun and take part in a game created by Norville: wall-hit-ball, a wacky game that's fun to play but seemingly has no solid rules.
#7 - Cat-tastrophe
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/1/2003
Clifford has guests - the kittens Flo and Zo. He's excited that they're staying for the entire weekend, but both Norville and Daffodil warn him that their energetic nature could lead to big problems. Once they arrived, things go exactly as feared, when they want to play constantly and even eat Clifford's food. The final straw comes when they break Clifford's squeak-toy and don't even seem to care. Can anyone get them to slow down and consider the conseqeunces of their actions before they ruin everything?
#8 - Clifford's Club House
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/24/2003
Clifford and the gang get the idea to start a club from Emily Elizabeth and her friend Nina and their first task is to find their perfect clubhouse. Norville has some great ideas, but it turns out that all of his suggested locations have problems which keep them being proper clubhouses. When a new location is suggested, Norville seems unhappy and quits the club and everyone thinks that he is just upset because the location isn't his choice. Everyone, however, soon realizes that isn't the real problem and after choosing an alternative location, everyone learns an important lesson about listening and Norville learns one about speaking up for himself.
#9 - Hup Hup
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/2003
When Emily Elizabeth asks for help figuring out what's wrong with her flower garden from Jenny, a horticulturist who happens to be blind, she lets her guide dog, Bibi, play with Clifford. Clifford is happy to have a new friend, but when she later ignores him when she's busy assisting Jenny, Clifford doesn't understand why she won't play with him. All of Clifford's friends begin to think that Bibi must be some kind of snoot and Norville even goes so far as to spy on her when she goes about her daily business. Eventually, Clifford simply just asks Bibi what's going on and meanwhile, Jenny solves the problem that Emily Elizabeth was having with her flowers.
#10 - My Toy
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/2003
When Nina brings a new squirrel toy to the dog run with Jorge, he doesn't want to share it because he hasn't even had a chance to play with it himself yet. Rather than say so, he worries that the other dogs will be upset and insist on playing with the toy, so he tries to hide it and claim that he doesn't have it all.
#11 - Clifford's Super Sleepover
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/2003
Emily Elizabeth has gone to her friend Nina's for a sleepover and Clifford seems inconsolable. At first Daffodil is annoyed with him and just wants to be in peace, but her heart soon gets the better of her and she decides to help Clifford out. Flo and Zo come over too and everyone works together to keep Clifford from being lonely so that he'll go to sleep because Emily Elizabeth will be there waiting for him in the morning.
#12 - Helping Paws
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/10/2003
Clifford has lots of fun with the Sidarsky kids, but sees how tired they make Mr. and Mrs. Sidarsky, so he agrees to babysit to help them out. He thinks it'll be easy and says that he doesn't need any help from Daffodil when she offers it. Clifford, however, finds out that the Sidarsky kids are more trouble to deal with than he thought. Pretty soon, he's very tired out and ends up asking for help anyway, a move the Sidarskys find very responsible.
#13 - Just the Right Size
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/17/2003
Clifford's excited about Emily Elizabeth's ballet recital, but when Mrs. Howard can't find her car keys, it looks like they might not be going anywhere. Daffodil immediately launches a search, but when Clifford tries to help, she tells him he can't help because he's too small. Encouraged by Norville, Clifford won't give up. He keeps on trying, feeling that there is something he can do to help.
#14 - Flo Motion
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/31/2003
Flo is a great athlete, but when Jorge gets everyone playing a bouncing game with a new beanbag toy of his, she finds that she's not very good at it. She's disappointed and tries playing alone by herself, but soon decides that it's not any fun playing games like freeze-tag or hide-and-seek by herself.
#15 - Fine Feathered Friend
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/2004
Norville has started molting. Being the handsome bird that he is, he worries that everyone will laugh at his new appearance. His friends, however, don't really care how he looks, but have to figure out a way to make him know that.
#16 - Tell Me a Tale
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/17/2004
Emily Elizabeth and Nina are bored stiff inside when a big snowstorm keeps them from having fun in the snow. Shun shows up and tries to capture their interest with a tale from Japan his Gtrandma told him. At first, Nina isn't that interested, but as the tale grows more intense, she finds herself invested in the outcome, even after the snow has stopped falling.
#17 - Extra! Extra!
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/2005
Emily Elizabeth and her friends have decided to create a newspaper and promise to deliver copies of it to people in the apartment and around the neighborhood before dinner. After trying to figure just what exactly is news, they all go out searching for stories and snapping photographs. When they get back together, however, they worry that they don't have any stories that would be good for a newspaper.
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Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/13/2005
While attending a carnival, Nina and Jorge unwittingly strike a great pose and before they know it, their picture is in papers around the nation. Suddenly they're the "hot dog duo" and enjoying all the benefits of fame --- free hot dogs, adoring crowds and signing autographs. Jorge even manages to enlist Clifford as his "assistant," depsite loud complaints about this from Daffodil. Nina and Jorge become completely absorbed in their fame, cutting off ties to the activities they used to enjoy. Then, one day, they head out and find that nobody seems to be noticing them anymore.
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Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/15/2005
It's back-to-school for Emily Elizabeth and Clifford is going to miss her --- he wishes he could go to school too. His friends suggest that perhaps they all could --- they'll create their own school. They soon find that for the most part they want to be teachers and only Clifford wants to be a student. The next thing he knows, he's being dragged back-and-forth from lesson-to-lesson, getting tired out and not sticking in one spot long enough to learn much of anything.
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Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/16/2005
Clifford, Jorge, Flo and Zo watch with interest as Jenny shows Mr. Solomon how a broken willow branch can be planted to grow into a whole new toy. When Flo and Zo end up breaking one of their toys, he ends up hearing about the willow and comes up with an intriguing idea. He suggests that the toy could be planted, along with some of everyone else's broken toys and then that would repair them. They're not sure at first, but decide to give it a go. However, things get out of control and Shun and Clifford come down to stop them going crazy with the hose. When they see the broken toys, it gives them another new idea.
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Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/2005
Norville becomes Clifford and Emily Elizabeths' houseguest after he injures his wing. At first, Clifford is happy to have him as a guest and tells him about how great it is to be cared for by Emily Elizabeth. He starts, however, to feel left out when it seems like Norville is getting all the attention.
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Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/16/2005
Emily Elizabeth, Nina, Jorge and Clifford watch a newsbit on TV about the local City Restoration Project, which inspires them to do something about the empty lot behind the apartment. They enlist the help of Shun, Evan and Vanessa and get to work creating a garden. However, problems soon arise as there seems to be no solid plan. Everyone ends up getting in each other's way and soon things are actually looking worse than they were when they started.
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#23 - The Monster in 3B
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/1/2003
New neighbors are greeted with suspsicion by the gang, particularly Norville. They fear that the new neighbors might be keeping a monster, an idea which seems to be confirmed by an unearthly wailing coming from their unit. To figure what's really going on, they stage a stakeout, but their plan go awry and they worry that the worst has happened: one of them has been captured by the monster. In the end, it turns out that there is no monster and what they really have are some new friends.
#24 - Jorge And The Dog Run
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/2003
Clifford is excited to go to his first outing at the local dog run, but becomes worried that he won't fit in after a conversation with Norville. At the dog run, he can't get anyone to notice him at first, but soon finds a friend named Jorge. Jorge lets him join in a game called Dog Ball and sticks up for him when he messes up because he didn't really know how to play. Later, Clifford shares a snack with Jorge and upon returning home finds out that Jorge is actually a nearby neighbor.
#25 - Sock It To Me
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/2003
Clifford has a favorite toy called a sock spider which he and Emily Elizabeth enjoy playing with. Daffodil, however, claims that she doesn't like it and it isn't a real toy, which leads Clifford, acting on Norville's advice, to try and get rid of it. The truth, however, is that Daffodil doesn't really mind the toy, what she minds is feeling left out. It's up to Clifford to find out Daffodil's real problem and find a way to help her out.