The BEST episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero season 2
Every episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero season 2!
G.I. Joe is the code name for America's daring highly trained special mission force. Its purpose: to defend human freedom against Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. G.I. Joe was a successful cartoon based on the popular toy line created by Hasbro. The show ended in the 1980s, but the toy line continued until much later.
#1 - Sink the Montana
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/29/1986
An aging admiral learns that his ship is to be scrapped, and he turns to Cobra for help. Cobra renders his ship impervious to electronic vessels, so G.I. Joe must use the two-hundred-year-old USS Constitution to defeat him.
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#2 - Computer Complications
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/26/1986
When the Joes seek to recover a sample of anti-matter from a sunken ship, Zarana is sent to their headquarters to sabotage the operation. She and Mainframe discover they have feelings for each other. In the aftermath of a battle, the USS Flagg is sunk.
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#3 - Into Your Tent I Will Silently Creep
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/20/1986
The Joes are highly annoyed by Cross Country's country music are glad when his tape deck is destroyed during a Cobra battle. When his new tape deck is stolen back at HQ, he intends to find out what's going on and sets a trap. He spots a robotic rat stealing the tape deck and he follows it to a Cobra meeting of the Coil, a group against Serpentor lead by Cobra Commander...
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#4 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 11/19/1986
Slipstream in his Conquest intercepts a Cobra message, which contains an important command code. A squadron of Night Raven are sent after him. He and one of the Night Ravens crash land on an remote island Cobra base. The Stratoviper, a lady named Raven, is injured and not very friendly towards Slipstream. But when BATs land on the island and start firing on both of them, the are forced to team up and enter the abandoned Cobra base, with Doctor Mindbender watching...
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#5 - Not a Ghost of a Chance
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 11/13/1986
Lady Jaye and Hawk are on the tv show Twenty Questions (hosted by Hector Remerez(voice- Neil Ross)) debating with Cobra Comm, Serpentor and Dr. Mindbender whether or not Cobra shot down a prototype jet, the Ghost. Meanwhile, both Joe and Cobra forces search for the two pilots who ejected...
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#6 - Nightmare Assault
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/30/1986
All of the Joes are having nightmare involving a huge snake attacking them. At first they feel that it is due to the stress of the situation. As the nightmares continue, it begins to affect the Joes performance fighting Cobra. In fact, Cobra is controlling the Joes' dreams in an effort to disable them...
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#7 - My Brother's Keeper
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/15/1986
Sergeant Slaughter accompanies Sci-Fi to a science fiction convention, where Dr. Mindbender recruits a handicapped scientist to repair his latest weapon. Mindbender's false promises to enable the scientist to walk again lead him to walk all over his brother.
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#8 - The Spy Who Rooked Me
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/13/1986
International superspy Matthew Burke volunteers his services in helping the Joes transport nerve gas to a safe facility.
#9 - Iceberg Goes South
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/9/1986
The Joes visit an arctic region where Icebergs Girlfriend is collecting samples of animals tissue for her Uncles research at the Tropadome. Icebergs goes to the Trapadome only to be captured by Doctor Mindbenders new mutant animal army...
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#10 - The Rotten Egg
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/7/1986
Leatherneck attends graduation ceremonies at a new academy and discovers it run by former enemy Buck McCann, who is loyal to Cobra. Leatherneck must foil McCann's plan to destroy Parris Island Marine Academy.
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#11 - Cobrathon
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/6/1986
Cobra stages a telethon to raise money for a computer virus that will bring down all the computer systems in the world, as the Joes try to rescue Sci Fi and Lifeline...
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#12 - Let's Play Soldier
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/30/1986
Cobra discovers an Asian tree sap that brainwashes people, and uses it to enslave the native population. Leatherneck must care for four orphans while the other Joes try to prevent Cobra from marketing the sap as chewing gum.
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#13 - Sins of Our Fathers
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 11/18/1986
Cobra Commander tries to communicate with the creature in the pit at Destro's ancestral home in Scotland and fails. Meanwhile, Dial Tone is discharged from the Joes and is hired to work on a communications project that turns out to be communicating with the creature. Flint is sent to spy on Dial Tone in disguise. Dial Tone gets the machine to work and Cobra Commander tells it to destroy Serpentor... (Destro's "ancient chant" is reversed speech, revealing a humorous message poking fun at the then-relevant backmasking concern when played in reverse.)
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#14 - Joe's Night Out
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/10/1986
Wet Suit, Leatherneck, Dial Tone and their dates attend the grand opening of a trendy new night club. The club turns out to be on a Cobra rocket and is sent into orbit around earth. Serpentor demands that Dr. Mullaney surrender himself and his nitrogen fuel engine over to Cobra or they will detonate the club. Wet Suit goes outside the club and with Leatherneck's help, disables the bombs. Meanwhile, Dr. Mullaney surrenders to Cobra. The Joes use the Nitrogen engine to bring the Club back to Earth and Dr. Mullaney escapes, when all of the Cobra jets with the new engines crash thanks to the unstable Nitrogen fuel, turning all the Cobra jets into fire bombs.
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#15 - Second Hand Emotions
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/31/1986
A group of Joes are attending Lifeline's sister's wedding while other Joes are at a nearby weapons depot testing new armor. The Dreadnoks are able to attach small receivers to the back of the Joes' necks and capture Roadblock. Dr. Mindbender uses an organ to send signals to the receivers that controls the Joes emotions...
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#16 - The Most Dangerous Thing in the World
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/29/1986
Cobra takes advantage of General Hawk going to a NATO meeting in Europe and infiltrates the Department Of Defense's computers and promotes Lifeline, Dial Tone and Shipwreck (who's not even in the army) all to the rank of Colonel. The three can't cooperate and are not quite officer material which creates utter pandemonium at G.I. Joe Headquarters. Cobra capitalizes on the situation and attacks a research lab near the Joes' base. The Joes are defeated easily and fall back to Joe HQ. Hawk arrives in the nick of time and organizes a counter offensive, pushing Cobra back.
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#17 - G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/27/1986
There is a Joe/Cobra battle over the Suez Canal when a spacecraft flies overhead and drops a glowing coil. When Joe and Cobra teams are dispatched to investigate, they are sent back to Ancient Greece...
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#18 - Ninja Holiday
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/22/1986
Sergeant Slaughter is captured by Cobra Commander and goes through a series of blood sports with the prize being to assassinate Serpentor...
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#19 - Raise the Flagg!
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/20/1986
The Joes stumble upon an oil platform being used by Cobra to try to salvage the anti-matter pod that went down with the USS Flagg and the Cobra helicarrier. The Joes investigate, followed by Zartan and the Dreadknocks, but both teams are captured by an insane Cobra cook named LaCar...
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#20 - My Favorite Things
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/16/1986
Wet-Suit and Leatherneck have never, ever got along but their heated rivalry must take a backseat when Serpentor begins collecting artifacts from his former lives to gain power, and Leatherneck is poisoned trying to stop him. Wet-Suit has to prove he doesn't have any hard feelings for Leatherneck, as he and Lifeline risk their lives trying to recover an antidote from Serpentor's blood.
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#21 - Grey Hairs and Growing Pains
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/14/1986
Cobra steals Madame Versalles youth treatment. The Joes try to figure out why and that leads them to the Ageless Care Spa, where lady Jaye, Mainframe and Dial Tone are turned into seven year olds...
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#22 - Glamour Girls
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/8/1986
Madame Vail (voice- Mary McDonald Lewis) agrees to sell her youth transference machine, which makes people young (and beautiful), in return for kidnapping some of the world's top models, who's youth and beauty will be transferred to the machine's user. One of these models is Low Light's sister, Una...
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#23 - The Million Dollar Medic
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/2/1986
Bree Van Mark, a cute wealthy woman, develops a crush on Lifeline after he rescues her and her father from a sinking yacht during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra. Lifeline discovers that Cobra is after Bree's father, a wealthy industrialist whose holding include a defense company. But the Joes think that Bree is working for Cobra since some of her gifts, including a gold plated helicopter, have backfires. She flies off in a Tomahawk taking Lifeline with her. They head to a cabin in the Rockies and are followed by Cobra. Lifeline, who is a pacifist, must fend off Cobra until the rest of the Joes arrives.
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#24 - Once Upon a Joe
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/1/1986
When an orphanage is accidentally damaged during a battle, Shipwreck and other members from G.I. Joe volunteer to help repair it. While doing so, Shipwreck is dragged into telling the children a fairy tale...a typically cockeyed Shipwreck extravaganza!
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#25 - Last Hour to Doomsday
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/1986
Lady Jaye disguises herself as the Baroness in order to learn about a Cobra weapon created to form whirlpools and tidal waves.
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