The WORST episodes of Great Teacher Onizuka
Every episode of Great Teacher Onizuka ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Great Teacher Onizuka!
Tough on the outside, all heart on the inside, Onizuka turned to the life of a high school teacher for less excitement and action... or so he thought. GTO, a.k.a. Great Teacher Onizuka, is the racy story of Onizuka, a former motorcycle gang member who becomes a teacher to make a difference and... to meet girls? Using his street smarts to deal with colleagues, students and troublemakers, Onizuka finds that he too has many lessons to learn!
#1 - Onizuka's Final Battle
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 9/17/2000
Miyabi's friends and teachers work to protect her from the corrupt teacher's union whose pressure on Mr. Saitou over his unprofessional relationship drove his student lover to suicide. Eikichi decides to take the blame for the stabbing to clear Miyabi of any wrongdoing.
#2 - Destination: Okinawa
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/7/2000
Framed as an embezzler, Eikichi promises to make it up to all of the 3rd year students with a trip to Okinawa. He claims that he can pay for it with a winning lottery ticket, but when he finds out that the ticket was a fraud, he has to find another way to pay for the ¥8 million trip.
#3 - The Law of Probability
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/14/2000
Eikichi wins a Mercedes-Benz E-class sedan in a local contest, worth enough to pay for the trip. Unfazed, Miyabi arranges for a suicidal salaryman to jump in front of Eikichi's car and ruin his chances of selling it.
#4 - Search and Rescue
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/28/2000
To teach Miyabi and her friends a lesson, Urumi orchestrates their kidnapping to hold them for ransom. Eikichi literally flies in to save the day and foils Urumi's plans.
#5 - Wedding Bell Blues
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/11/2000
When Kunio finds a wedding dress catalog at home, he suspects his mother will marry someone behind his back. Overprotective of his mother, Kunio will stop at nothing to stop her wedding.
#6 - Self-Improvement: Fuyutsuki's Transformation
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/18/2000
Nao helps Azusa choose a bathing suit for the trip to Okinawa. Asuza tries to get a makeover in order to impress Eikichi, but ends up getting carried away in the process.
#7 - Living Together
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 7/16/2000
To make it a trip to remember, Eikichi assigns his students to co-ed rooms. Noboru is perplexed with Eikichi's decision to assign him with Anko and her friends. Eikichi helps Noboru make the most of a bad situation with a good old-fashioned prank on the girls.
#8 - Great Treasure Okinawa
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 7/30/2000
Eikichi learns of a hidden treasure somewhere on one of Okinawa's islands and decides that a special class trip is in order. During the expedition, Anko and her friends tie up Noboru to leave him in the jungle, but end up getting lost in the process.
#9 - Alone in the Dark
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 8/13/2000
Separated, Anko and Noboru are forced to find their way to safety together. Eikichi, however, believes their disappearance was a ruse to conceal their discovery of the treasure, and searches for them in hot pursuit.
#10 - Matters of the Heart
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 8/20/2000
Following her ordeal, Anko is conflicted over the new emotions that she feels for Noboru. To teach Anko to be true to her heart, Eikichi plans a special nighttime lesson for the class.
#11 - Confessions
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 8/27/2000
Eikichi orders his class to walk through a derelict hotel as a test of nerves. Anko and Noboru make it past Eikichi's test, but when confronted by four local hooligans, Anko stands up for Noboru against the bullies and confesses her feelings towards him.
#12 - Old Wounds Revisited
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 9/10/2000
Miyabi confronts Noboru Saitou, the class's former teacher, about the incident that drove them to hate teachers. When Mr. Saitou is later found stabbed, suspicion immediately falls on Miyabi.
#13 - Good Cop / Bad Cop
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/4/2000
When Tomoko, Eikichi, and his friend Toshiyuki Saejima find a suitcase filled with gold, they find themselves on the run from the yakuza. However, they later discover that they were unlikely victims of a celebrity prank played on Tomoko.
#14 - Money Talks, GTO Walks
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/30/2000
Led to believe that he spent the school's money, Eikichi attempts to raise the money himself while his students investigate who set him up. The school's faculty decides to hold a student assembly so Eikichi can take responsibility for his actions.
#15 - Revolution Everywhere
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/2000
Unable to cope with the pressures of teaching, Azusa runs away to her former school in Hakuba. Eikichi, Tomoko, Yoshito, and Kunio follow in order to convince her to return.
#16 - Studies in High Finance
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/23/2000
Before the annual class field trip, Miyabi and her friends steal the school's trip money and blackmails the English teacher, Mr. Sakurada, into luring Eikichi to a fake "underground girls club" with the stolen money planted on him. At the club, a drunken Eikichi unwittingly spends the school's money.
#17 - Whatever Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/16/2000
From getting bōsōzoku gangs to vote for Tomoko to questionable marketing ploys, Eikichi does whatever he can to make sure that Tomoko will win the contest. However, a contemptuous rival competitor undermines his efforts.
#18 - Agent To The Stars
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/2000
Eikichi becomes Tomoko's manager and arranges a series of innocuous commercial shoots to increase her national profile. Her commercials attract the attention of a popular magazine who wants her entered into their beauty contest.
#19 - Playing Doctor - GTO Style
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/2000
An attractive school nurse, Nao Kadena, arrives at the school, much to the delight of Eikichi. However, she soon starts using her looks and the school to fund her money-making schemes.
#20 - Compromising Positions
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/2000
Mr. Uchiyamada experiences a mid-life crisis, wondering if there is any meaning left to his life. His family has grown apart and now fears for the worst when his daughter Yoshiko takes a liking to Eikichi.
#21 - Superstition
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/2000
Eikichi receives a cursed chain letter, but he dismisses it as superstition. After a series of misfortunes, he begins to believe in the letter and does whatever he can to dispel the curse.
#22 - The Art of Demolition
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/2000
Azusa learns that her former school will be demolished. During the countdown, a former student of the school runs into the building to retrieve a precious heirloom. Eikichi pursues in order to rescue her before the school is destroyed.
#23 - Love Letters
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/2000
Kunio finds a love letter addressed to him, initially believing it is from Akane Fujita, a girl he likes. However, when Akane dumps him, Kunio realizes his true feelings for his platonic friend, Fuyumi Kujirakawa.
#24 - Private Investigations
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/2000
Urumi's teacher admits that she was the cause of Urumi's mistrust towards teachers. When Urumi was younger, she accidentally revealed the secret about Urumi's father. Eikichi decides that only a special lesson across an incomplete freeway will teach Urumi about life.
#25 - How to Dine and Dash
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/2000
Blackmailed by Urumi for pushing her off a building, Eikichi subjects himself to her whims. After meeting her former elementary teacher, Urumi goes on a classroom terrorism spree.