The WORST episodes of Monster Garage

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

Monster Garage is a game show where a group of people who have a passion for building, modifying, or fabricating cars get the chance to create a vehicle that can transform into a completely different machine. If the build is successful, the build crew gets a tool chest with $3,400 worth of Mac tools. Later add-ons to the prize, Monster Garage soundtrack CD, and occasionally (to some of the builders who go above and beyond) a Monster Garage jacket. If the build is a failure, host Jesse James feeds it to a shredder. James got his Discovery Channel fame by being chronicled in Motorcycle Mania and Motorcycle Mania 2. In Monster Garage, he is practically involved in every build; from design, construction (or destruction), and the Monster Challenge.

Last Updated: 10/29/2026Network: DiscoveryStatus: Ended
Milk Bomb
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#1 - Milk Bomb

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2005

Jesse and five builders take a beat-up, 1959 Chevy Apache milk truck and transform it into the world's first mobile milking parlor. The truck is gutted to make room for a milking machine, a custom pasteurizer, a cow stall, and a 1,400-pound dairy cow!

Peel Trident Micro Car
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#2 - Peel Trident Micro Car

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/2005

A 1964 Peel Trident is rebuilt with a go-cart frame and four-cylinder engine.

T-Bucket/Snow Cat
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#3 - T-Bucket/Snow Cat

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/2005

Jesse combines a Sno-Cat and a 1970's T-bucket into one mean monster.

D.C. High-School Build
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#4 - D.C. High-School Build

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/2005

The team builds a Chopper Kit with six high-school students. Derrick Butler - auto-shop teacher, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C. Mark Hargrove - student, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C. Andre Lee - student, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C. Chris Merriweather - student, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C. Genieva Robertson - student, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C. Charles Stotts - student, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C. Timothy Williams - student, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C. Duane French - assistant auto-shop teacher, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C

Anglia Nitro Dragster
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#5 - Anglia Nitro Dragster

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/2005

Jesse and his team of mechanics try to transform a 1959 British Anglia Coupe into a high-speed drag racer.

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Backyard Monsters II
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#6 - Backyard Monsters II

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/2005

Jesse leaves behind the monster garage and searches for Backyard Monsters.

All Female Dirt Racer Revisited
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#7 - All Female Dirt Racer Revisited

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2005

Jesse and the all-female Monster Garage team tries to build a dirt-track racer.

Backyard Monsters I
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#8 - Backyard Monsters I

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2005

Jesse leaves behind the monster garage and searches for Backyard Monsters.

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#9 - Crop Circler

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2005

Jesse makes a Crop Circle Maker out of an old, beat-up farmer's tractor. He wants to do what the aliens do; visit a field of wheat, and leave behind a pattern that can only be explained as a visit from another world.

Full Steam Ahead
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#10 - Full Steam Ahead

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2005

A team of experts joins Jesse in his dream quest to harness the awesome power of steam, by converting an 18-foot, 1964 Chris Craft wooden boat into a steam-powered monster.

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Armored Dunkster
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#11 - Armored Dunkster

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2005

The Team tries to turning an armored truck into a mobile dunk tank.

Sour Kraut
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#12 - Sour Kraut

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2005

Jesse and a team of legendary Volkswagen racers and customizers set their sights on turning a rare, 1951, split-window ragtop. They attempt to turn this car, which had been left to rot in a swamp, into a nine-second quarter mile dragster.

Logsplitter
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#13 - Logsplitter

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/2005

For this build it was "goodbye, crash helmet" and "hello, wool cap," as Jesse and the crew created a log splitter out of a 1982 powder-blue Zimmer Golden Spirit, a car made famous in the early '80s for an over-the-top, pimped-out luxury style. The plan: to cut the Zimmer in half, extending the car; after a log was dropped in, the car would come back together via a couple of hydraulic cylinders and thus split the log.

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#14 - Dodge /.44 Magnum

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/28/2004

A Dodge Magnum RT is turned into a speeding train.

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#15 - Miata / Jet Ski

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/7/2004

The gang tries to convert a Miata convertible into a personal watercraft.

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#16 - Gorillamobile

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/14/2004

The team of builders turns a pickup truck into a gorilla transport for Koko, a gorilla that understood over 2000 words and communicate with sign language.

NYC Hot Rod
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#17 - NYC Hot Rod

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/2005

Jesse and his builders convert a 1929 Ford Model-A into a hot-rod in New York City.

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#18 - Ultimate Surfmobile

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/2005

Jesse and a team of surfers, transform a broken down, rusted out, 1950 Ford Woody Wagon into the ultimate wave-chasing off-road machine.

Belly Tank Lakester
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#19 - Belly Tank Lakester

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/13/2004

Project vehicle: Phantom F-4 fuel tank Jesse James competes in the fastest challenge ever by building a vehicle from a fuel tank. Will the transmission fail him this time? Design team: Bill Burke (world's first lakester builder), Al Teague (fastest lakester speed record holder), Jason Wilbur (artist) Build team: Robert ""Stainless"" Steele (as Stainless), Boeing technical support specialist from Wichita, Kansas John Gowestski, retired air force machine builder and fabricator from Littleton, Colorado Charlie Hamilton, lakester expert, mechanic and fabricator from Lake Tahoe, California James Iiams, welder and fabricator from Cypress, California Tim McNees, race car fabricator and builder from Salt Lake City, Utah Al Teague, the king of speed from Brea, California

Open-Road Racer
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#20 - Open-Road Racer

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/2004

Project Vehicle: 1964 Lincoln Continental A luxury cruiser was converted into a race vehicle to run in open road. Design team: Dave Golder (expert open road race car designer), Craig Jull (race car builder and fabricator), John Caswell (automotive designer) Build team: Matt Goodsell, race car fabricator from Orange, California Brian Haynes, hot rod builder from Jamesville, California Craig Jull, fabricator from Bellflower, California Dave Golder, open road race driver and mechanic from Highland, California Pat McElreath, race car designer and old timer from Portland, Oregon

All-Girl Build: Dirt-Track Racer
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#21 - All-Girl Build: Dirt-Track Racer

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/2004

Project vehicle: 1975 Chevrolet Camaro Design team: Michelle Christensen (auto artist), Sherri Heckenast (race car driver and dirt track owner), Kathy Pierson (dirt racer) Build team: Candice Burris (23), auto body technician from Prunedale, California Carolyn Coquillette, mechanic extrodinaire from Oakland, California Emily Ericksen, welder and mechanic from Lake in the Hills, Illinois Tiffany Wesson, parts specialist and Camaro queen from Rancho Palos Verdes, California Sherri Heckenast, dirt track owner and race car driver from Frankfort, Illinois

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#22 - How To Monsterize Everything

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/25/2004

Combining the talents from Monster Garage and Monster House, 6 items from a home owner's house were taken to the Monster Garage for monsterization. Design team: Jarri Schwartz (Monster House decorator), Gadget (Monster House/BIG! builder), Big Schwag (Monster Garage commentator), The Pizz (artist) House owner: Miles Build team: Michael Gump (Previous work: Fright house (door frame)), artist Dan Danknick (Previous work: Geo Tracker balloon), electrical genius Nikki Giovacchini (as Nik Giovacchini) (Previous work: Mobster house), monster veteran Chuck Mignacco (Previous work: Geo Tracker balloon), welder Mike Massingill (Previous work: Fire house), carpenter/firefighter Mac Sufuentes (Previous work: Low bull rider), lowering expert Ian Roussell (Previous work: Mad scientist house (mad scientist bar)), welder/fabricator Ed Robinson (Previous work: Remote control car), circus performer/mechanical expert

Honey Bee Drift Car
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#23 - Honey Bee Drift Car

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/2004

A 1975 Datsun 210 Honeybee is Monster-ized into a drift car when the team installs a Nissan 350Z engine.

Army Tractor Pull
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#24 - Army Tractor Pull

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/18/2004

Jesse, and his team of Army gear-heads, modifies a vintage World War II Willys Jeep into a twin-engine tractor-pulling beast.

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#25 - On The Road - Baja Trophy Truck II

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/5/2006

As Jesse competes in the Baja 1000, he must drive for 24 straight hours with hopes of making it out alive.