The BEST episodes of Lab Rats (2012) season 1

Every episode of Lab Rats (2012) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Lab Rats (2012) season 1!

Leo is an ordinary teenager who has moved into a high-tech "smart'' house with his mother, inventor stepfather and Eddy, the computer that runs the house. Leo's life becomes less ordinary when, one day, he discovers a secret underground lab that houses three experiments: superhuman teenagers. The trio -- Adam, the strong one, Bree, the fast one and Chase, the smart one -- convinces Leo and his parents to let them leave their lab and join Leo at school, where they try to fit in while having to manage their unpredictable bionic strengths. As Leo figures out a way to keep his new pals' bionic abilities a secret, they help him build self-confidence.

Last Updated: 9/17/2024Network: Disney XDStatus: Ended
Chore Wars
star
8.05
38 votes

#1 - Chore Wars

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/12/2012

Adam, Bree and Chase learn about chores and earn allowance for the first time. To raise more money, they host a yard sale and accidentally sell an antique jewelry box that Davenport was restoring for Tasha. Meanwhile, Leo and Davenport bond over the latest 'Pig Zombie' movies.

Directors: Sean McNamara
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Chip Switch
star
7.89
36 votes

#2 - Chip Switch

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/28/2012

Adam, Bree and Chase defy warnings from Davenport and swap bionic chips. Chase, with Adam's abilities, attempts to use heat vision for the first time and accidentally fries the elevator's circuitry, leaving Leo trapped inside with Principal Perry. After an unsuccessful attempt to return the chips to their rightful owners, the Lab Rats realize they must work together to stop the elevator from plunging to the basement.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Smart and Smarter
star
7.84
44 votes

#3 - Smart and Smarter

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/2012

When Chase refuses to admit that Adam has good ideas Adam decides to run against him for student of the semester. Meanwhile, Leo takes advantage of Bree's super speed and starts using her as his personal taxi.

Directors: Guy Distad
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Mission Invisible
star
7.77
31 votes

#4 - Mission Invisible

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/22/2012

When Adam, Bree and Chase are caught on Principal Perry's surveillance camera using bionics, they enlist Leo's help to pull off their most important mission yet. Donning Davenport's invisibility cloak, Leo sneaks into Perry's office to retrieve the evidence, but their plan is foiled when Tasha and Davenport arrive early for parent-teacher conference night.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Air Leo
star
7.71
34 votes

#5 - Air Leo

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/8/2012

In order to try and impress Janelle, Leo signs up for a one-on-one basketball tournament against the current reigning champ, Trent. Leo plans to use Davenport's antigravity high-top sneakers to help with his slam dunks, but when the shoes get into the wrong hands, he's stuck playing with his own two feet. Meanwhile, Adam and Bree try out for the cheerleading squad and face the wrath of head cheerleader Stephanie.

Directors: Guy Distad
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Death Spiral Smackdown
star
7.69
36 votes

#6 - Death Spiral Smackdown

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/7/2012

Leo teams up with Adam in the school fitness challenge 'Death Spiral Smackdown,' hoping that Adam's bionic powers will be his secret weapon. But the plan backfires when they end up going head-to-head in the finals. Meanwhile, Bree and Chase use their bionic abilities against one another.

Directors: Sean McNamara
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Night of the Living Virus
star
7.69
39 votes

#7 - Night of the Living Virus

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/15/2012

While helping Davenport in the lab, Leo accidently unleashes an internet virus transforming the "smart house" computer Eddy into an evil version named Teddy. Meanwhile, Bree hosts her first slumber party and invites popular mean girl Stephanie. Adam and Chase decide to prank the girls, but they are interrupted when Teddy takes over and sends everyone into a panic.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
Writer: Mark Brazill
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Rats on a Train
star
7.67
48 votes

#8 - Rats on a Train

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/2012

The Lab Rats get their first mission to stop Davenport's hi-tech super fast train from speeding out of control. Leo sneaks along, but when the Lab Rats discover he accidently discarded the braking system they were supposed to install, they must improvise a way to stop the train before it crashes into a nearby town. Meanwhile, Tasha is given her big break at the TV news station when her boss asks her to cover the runaway train.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Drone Alone
star
7.66
29 votes

#9 - Drone Alone

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/5/2012

When Tasha and Davenport go on a vacation, it is up to Leo to make sure that nothing happens to his stepdad's prized possessions. Leo and the Lab Rats all promise to behave, but the second they're gone, Leo instantly heads to the lab and plays with a new gadget inadvertently causing Adam, Bree and Chase to glitch. However, their fun must come to an end when a Davenport Industries Solar Drone crashes through the window of the great room.

Writer: Mark Brazill
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Mission: Space
star
7.60
25 votes

#10 - Mission: Space

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/5/2012

While Adam, Bree and Chase head off for their latest mission to fix a broken panel in Davenport Industries' Space Station, Leo is tasked with distracting his nosy nemesis Marcus. When Marcus wanders into the lab, Davenport is forced to cover and answer his prying questions instead of guiding the Lab Rats through their biggest mission yet. Meanwhile, Chase accidently discovers a hidden bionic ability, molecular kinesis, leaving Adam and Bree curious about their own secret abilities.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Commando App
star
7.60
57 votes

#11 - Commando App

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/2012

On the Lab Rats' first day of school, all goes awry when Chase is confronted by a football player and his "Commando App" is triggered, transforming him into Spike, an unruly drill sergeant. When Spike defies the school principal, she pits the Lab Rats up against the football team to battle it out for the coveted cafeteria table

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Exoskeleton vs. Grandma
star
7.57
44 votes

#12 - Exoskeleton vs. Grandma

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/6/2012

When Davenport's prized invention, a super strength and laser empowered exoskeleton suit, malfunctions, after Chase reverses its controls, to get back at Leo for stealing his presenting job. However, it ends up unleashing destructive power on the household, making Leo's grandma even more suspicious of the family.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Back from the Future
star
7.56
41 votes

#13 - Back from the Future

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/21/2012

Davenport's time machine brings Leo, from seven years in the future, to present day to prevent Adam, Bree and Chase from going on a mission from which they'll never return. Davenport takes the warning seriously and forbids the Lab Rats from going on the mission, but they decide to sacrifice themselves in hopes of saving the world. Meanwhile, future Leo teaches present day Leo how to be cool and shows Davenport his fate.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Dude, Where's My Lab?
star
7.52
31 votes

#14 - Dude, Where's My Lab?

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/16/2012

Tasha takes the entire family on a nice 'tech free' beach weekend in the RV, but when Davenport discovers a solar flare headed in the Earth's direction, he secretly enlists the help of the Lab Rats. While Davenport distracts Tasha, the trio is forced to wait in the RV-turned portable lab for their rocket launch window. Cooped up inside during their first summer vacation, Leo and the gang sneak out for a quick jaunt on the boardwalk but when they return the RV is gone.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Crush, Chop, and Burn (1)
star
7.47
141 votes

#15 - Crush, Chop, and Burn (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/27/2012

Leo discovers three teen super-humans Adam, Bree and Chase, living in a secret underground lab in the high-tech home he shares with his inventor stepdad, Donald Davenport, his mom, Tasha, and Eddy, the "smart house" computer. Leo takes the trio to school, but when they are unable to contain their bionic abilities on campus, Davenport sends them away to a remote secret lab and now Leo must find a way to save his new friends.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Bionic Birthday Fail
star
7.42
43 votes

#16 - Bionic Birthday Fail

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/2012

When Adam, Bree and Chase forget to invite Leo to his surprise birthday party, they must make it up to him, so they take Leo into the ultra-cool virtual mission simulator and show him what it's like to be bionic.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Leo's Jam
star
7.41
58 votes

#17 - Leo's Jam

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/12/2012

When Leo needs help asking a girl to the school dance, Adam and Chase step in to help, but the plan backfires when she falls for the wrong brother. The boys decide to settle their differences on the dance floor and each show off their best moves. Meanwhile, Bree gets to know her crush, but he gets to know her glitche

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Crush, Chop, and Burn (2)
star
7.41
44 votes

#18 - Crush, Chop, and Burn (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/27/2012

The trio has switched places with robot versions of themselves, sending the robots to the remote lab. Tasha is afraid of Leo's attachment to the 'robots' and convences Donald to send them to the scrap yard. Leo heads off to rescue his new friends. On their return home Donald agrees to let them stay and learn about normal human life if they and Leo can keep their bionic powers a secret.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Can I Borrow the Helicopter?
star
7.21
33 votes

#19 - Can I Borrow the Helicopter?

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/14/2012

Leo borrows Davenport's helicopter to take Janelle on a daring date. Bree gets her own room and Adam and Chase are excited to have a room to themselves. But things get out of hand and Chase divides the room up.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
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Concert in a Can
star
6.81
59 votes

#20 - Concert in a Can

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/29/2012

Adam and Chase form a band with a new kid at school named Marcus, but when Marcus blames Leo for his broken guitar, Leo is convinced that he's up to no good. Meanwhile, Bree tries to bond with Davenport during Career Day.

Directors: Victor Gonzalez
Writer: Mark Brazill
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