The WORST episodes of Doug

Every episode of Doug ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Doug!

Created by former Nickelodeon artist Jim Jinkins in 1990 and produced through Jinkins' production company, Jumbo Pictures Inc., Doug follows the life of an average kid named Doug Funnie. Doug and his family have just moved from their former residence in Bloatsburg, to the new town of Bluffington. There he meets Skeeter, Patti, Roger and Beebe, and his new life in a new town begins! Doug writes in his journal and sometimes even imagines himself as a superhero named Quailman to help him out with situations and decisions.

Last Updated: 11/7/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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#1 - Doug: Beebe Goes Broke

Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/10/1999

Beebe Bluff's family is penniless due to heavy investments in the Yakestonian snoozegraffle crop, which gets completely destroyed due to a storm. Also because of the destroyed crop, Fentruck's family can't support their son overseas and will have to send him back home if he doesn't raise enough money. Doug, Patti and Skeeter try to save Fentruck from leaving and show Beebe that you don't need a lot of money to have a good time.

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#2 - Quailman's Bad Hair Day

Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/3/1999

Doug always manages to have a bad hair day on school-picture day. So when school-picture day comes around again, Doug douses himself with hair-care products to prevent bad hair. Meanwhile, he daydreams how Quailman would handle a bad hair day, as an evil shampoo from the S.T.U.A.R.T. company is taking over the hair of all the citizens in Megalopolis.

Writer: Lisa Johnson
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#3 - Doug's Secret Christmas

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/14/1996

With a new baby on the way, Doug's family is too busy to have a traditional Christmas and Doug wants one. So Doug and Porkchop decide to have their own secret holiday celebration in his room. But when he later finds the house completely empty Phil phones with news, the baby is born on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Fentruck tells all his friends how they spend Christmas in Yakestonia.

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#4 - Doug: The Big Switch

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/30/1996

Doug complains to Patti about how tough he has it at home. Doug thinks she must have it easy because she is home schooled. Soon, Beebe and Skeeter and Chalky and Roger debate over who has it hardest. So they all agree to switch places for a day. Also, Moo comes to Doug for advice on his brother who is dying his hair, changing his style of clothes and making friends, and Moo doesn't want his brother to change.

Writer: Alan Higgins
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#5 - Doug's Dougapalooza

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1997

Connie Benge becomes obsessed with winning a local radio-station contest to become a rock 'n' roll star. She brings Doug into it, and is so obsessed she thinks about quitting school just like Flounder from The Beets did. Soon she realizes Flounder may have not done the right thing. Meanwhile, Al, Moo and Skeeter try to contact the monster of the lake by creating a monster calling machine.

Directors: Maurice Joyce
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#6 - Judy, Judy, Judy

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1997

Judy helps out with Gwen Gauntlet, her favorite actress and teen role model, while she is in town to shoot an entertainment show. Judy hopes she can get a recommendation from Gwen for Vole University. However, Gwen is so self-absorbed that it tests the limits of Judy's patience. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter think they've shot proof of the monster on Judy's video camera and Judy won't let them see the tape.

Directors: Maurice Joyce
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#7 - Doug's Dream House

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1998

While Chad is out of town, Patti comes to stay with the Funnies for a week and Doug worries she will realize that he is just an average guy. So he tries to be someone else in front of Patti in order to impress her. Meanwhile, Al, Moo, and Skeeter build a submarine out of junk to look for the Lucky Duck monster.

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#8 - Doug: Oh, Baby

Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1997

Doug begins to worry that the new baby Cleopatra Dirtbike will end up being another Judy, and Judy is afraid she'll grow up to be like Doug. So the two set out to shape the baby's personality. When Phil and Theda go out for an evening, Judy and Doug are left to babysit and don't want the other to be left alone with Dirtbike. But when their fighting leaves Dirtbike alone in Mr. Dink's house, they realize they are going to have to co-operate to get her out.

Writer: Joe Fallon
Doug's Sister Act
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#9 - Doug's Sister Act

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/19/1993

Theda invites Judy's new boyfriend over for dinner, but Judy is embarrassed by her boring family, especially Doug. So she decides to "spruce" things up around the house.

Doug Pumps Up
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#10 - Doug Pumps Up

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/29/1992

Doug compeats in the Mayor's fitness test featuring Ronald Weisenheimer and to get in shape, Doug starts a crash exercise program. But this only brings Doug to hurting every muscle in his body, and with sore muscles, Doug may not be able to compeat.

Doug and the Yard of Doom
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#11 - Doug and the Yard of Doom

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/4/1993

Doug and Skeeter are playing with Patti's new Wacky-Wizzer frisbee and accidentally toss into a fenced-in yard. Going in after it, Doug has a near-death experience when he encounters a huge guard dog named Lady.

Doug's Christmas Story
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#12 - Doug's Christmas Story

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/12/1993

When Porkchop has been mistakenly accused of attacking Beebe, Doug has to try and clear his best non-human friend out. Unfortunately, Bill Bluff and former Mayor White are determined to make sure that Porkchop never bothers anyone again by having him euthanized. After a trial in court, Porkchop is sentenced to a dog pound for bad dogs. Then, Doug convinces the court to let Porkchop return to the scene of the alleged crime to show them what really happened.

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#13 - Doug's Movie Madness

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1996

After Doug and Skeeter see a commercial for the new movie Targetman, they desperately want to see it. Soon, all of Doug's friends and even his teachers are talking about Targetman. When Doug tells his parents he wants to see it, they don't allow him because it is way too violent and they feel Doug is not mature enough to see it. So Doug tries to be more mature in front of his parents in order for them to let him see the movie, but they still say no. Doug goes with Skeeter to see the movie anyway, only to regret it later on. Meanwhile, Mr. Klotz is in town to visit Roger who also wants to see Targetman, but Mr. Klotz won't let Roger see it, and he doesn't realize why.

Writer: Mark York
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#14 - Doug's Thanksgiving

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1997

Bill Bluff's public relations firm decides that Bill should have Thanksgiving Day dinner with an average Bluffington family to increase his popularity. Doug's family is choosen and turns their simple Thanksgiving plans upside down. They won't let Patti join their dinner and Judy doesn't like what Bill is doing in preparation for the big dinner. So Doug sets out to make everyone happy for Thanksgiving.

Directors: Maurice Joyce
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2 votes

#15 - Quailman vs. the Annoying S.T.U.A.R.T.

Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1998

The S.T.U.A.R.T. corporation's faulty products are making citizens in Megalopolis uncharacteristically short-tempered. Quailman has had enough of the faulty products, so he and Silver Skeeter set out to find the leader.

Doug's Derby Dilemma
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#16 - Doug's Derby Dilemma

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/1/1992

Doug and his friends are all building soapbox racers for the Mt. St. Buster Downhill Speed Race, and they all want to win, and Doug and Skeeter are having trouble keeping their racer a secret. But once the race starts, there's a disaster on the track, and everyone finds out that helping a friend is more important than winning.

Doug on the Trail
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#17 - Doug on the Trail

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/8/1992

The Bluffscouts are on a canoe trip. But trouble arrives when Scoutmaster Dink heads off into the forest to fix his broken computer, leaving Roger in charge. Doug and Skeeter can't stand Roger's orders so they search for Mr. Dink who seems to have disappeared.

Doug Inc.
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#18 - Doug Inc.

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/20/1993

Doug wants to raise enough money to buy a new skateboard and sets up a lawn mowing enterprise to do so. Skeeter and the Sleech Twins join in, but they soon feel Doug is being unfair. Doug may raise the cash, but he risks losing his riends in the process.

Writer: Joe Fallon
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5.33
3 votes

#19 - Doug's Big Comeback

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1996

When Doug gets tired of being insulted by Roger and his gang, he gets help from Mr. Dink, who provides him with some home movies of the famous insult comedian, Rick Nickles. After viewing these home movies, Doug gets the ability to crack insulting jokes. At first it puts Roger in his place, but Doug soon realizes that he's made a mistake when he makes wisecracks about the people he loves. Meanwhile, the Beebe Bluff Middle School baseball team goes on strike after Chalky is unfair in his coaching.

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#20 - Quailman vs. the Whackhammer

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1999

Doug volunteers to spend time with the residents of the Maturing Meadows retirement home. He meets Mrs. Whackhammer and doesn't make a good first impression (or a second impression). Doug turns to Quailman, to see how he would handle a monster who turns the citizens of Megalopolis grouchy.

Directors: Bernie Denk
Writer: Kate Donahue
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#21 - Doug's in the Middle

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1998

Patti and Skeeter comment about how great Guy's weekend party was which makes Doug decide to have his own party. At school, Patti and Skeeter accidentally get locked in a janitor's closet after doing a favor for Miss. Kristal. While being locked in, they share a secret and promise each other not to tell anyone else. But somehow Roger finds out and he tells the whole school about Patti and Skeeter's secrets, which leaves the question of who spilled the secret. Patti thinks Skeeter told, and Skeeter thinks Patti told. The two friends become so angry at each other, that Doug has to try to get them to be friends again before his party.

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#22 - Doug Gets Right Back On!

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1998

Doug is practicing for the Rudolph Bluff Memorial Bike Rally, where he is on Patti's team and they are determined to beat Roger's team. But after Doug has a bicycle accident, he breaks his leg and once it heals, he is afraid to get back on his bike. His fear won't let him practice or even ride in the rally, and if he doesn't overcome his fear, it would let Patti and the team down. Meanwhile, Doug learns about Mr. Dink's phobia of beans and how he has tried to overcome it.

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#23 - Doug Gets It All

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1997

When Doug worries he is only average, he decides that to make his level of importance higher he should be a collector of unusal and (hopefully) valuable items. So he goes to a flea market with a valuable collecters item book looking for rubber tub stoppers and bowls, but someone has already gotten to them. Meanwhile, Roger gets on Mr. Bone's good side to get himself out of detention and Skeeter asks the A.V. Nerds to help him find the Lucy Duck Monster using A.V. equipment.

Directors: Maurice Joyce
Writer: Joe Fallon
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2 votes

#24 - Doug's Chubby Buddy

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1997

Patti panics and thinks she's fat after watching a commercial selling a diet kit, so she, Connie, and Beebe set out to lose weight. Patti decides to go on a drastic diet and excercise routine. But once she starts losing weight, she can't seem to stop herself, even with Doug's help. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter are convinced that the only way to catch the Lucky Duck Lake monster, is to lure it with a female monster.

Directors: Maurice Joyce
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5 votes

#25 - Doug's Hoop Nightmare

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1996

The Funnie family is curious when Doug gets a letter from Bolivia. Doug's explanation involves the previous summer, where Doug went to the Grinning Bear Sports Camp with Patti. Meantime, Doug's asthmatic cabinmate Leonard, who has made a career of escaping summer camps, plans yet another escape. However, Doug, Chalky, and Patti have to worry about the upcoming basketball game they have to play against a tougher camp.