The WORST episodes of Samurai Jack
Every episode of Samurai Jack ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Samurai Jack!
Made by Genndy Tartakovsky, this cartoon tells the story of a great warrior displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot warlords. Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of a time portal that can return him to his home time so he can "undo the future that is Aku!".
#1 - XXXVIII: The Birth of Evil (2)
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/16/2003
The gods send the Emperor a mystical horse to free him and deliver him to a castle in the sky. The three gods give him powers and forge a mystic sword for him to wield before sending him forth to fight Aku.
#2 - XXXVII: The Birth of Evil (1)
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/16/2003
The gods Odin, Ra, and Rama battle a great dark evil. One shard escapes and falls to primitive Earth, creating a vast black forest. Down through the millennia it spreads and kills until the period of feudal Japan.
#3 - XLVII: Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2003
A prince and princess flee invaders of their planet and go for help, but ended up stranded on Earth and captured by Aku's forces - only Jack can rescue them.
#4 - XLV: The Scotsman Saves Jack (1)
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/23/2003
While traveling the Scotsman finds Samurai Jack working as a waiter named Brent Worthington. The Scotsman rescues the amnesiac Jack from bounty hunters and realizes that Jack was injured by the tango beast. He follows the trail from the tango beast to a bar of bounty hunters to a sea captain to a chart that directs them to The Great Unknown. The Scotsman hires a ship to take them there.
#5 - XLVIII: Jack vs. Aku
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2003
Tiring of the failure of his minions, Aku decides to engage Jack in one-on-one combat to settle matters between them once and for all.
#6 - XXI: Jack and the Farting Dragon
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/6/2002
Jack discovers a village of panicky medieval serfs, overwhelmed and unable to earn their livelihood because of a horrible stench coming from a nearby mountain. After getting some more information from a demented scissorsmith, Jack heads to "The Spire" to deal with the source of this stink: a fire-breathing dragon who needs Jack's help in dealing with some serious indigestion!
#7 - XLI: Robo-Samurai vs. Mondo Bot
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/21/2003
Jack enters the abandoned city of Andromeda and finds himself under attack by a monstrous giant robot, the Mondo-Bot. Jack is initially defeated and rescued by local robots who believe he is the Chosen One. The city is built on a magical city of giants and Jack goes underwater to seek them out and finds a giant samurai robot which pulls Jack into it. Jack's bot is resistant to everything the Mondo-Bot shoots at it so the two engage in an enormous close combat battle and Jack proves triumphant.
#8 - LII: Jack and the Baby
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/25/2004
While peacefully enjoying a snack of peaches, Jack hears a baby cry and races to find out what's the matter. He rescues Baby from a crew of hungry (baby-eating) monsters. The two then set off to find the baby's mother. Jack makes a great temporary parent, finding food, shelter, dealing with diapers. He tells Baby a bedtime story of Momotaro (Peach-boy, an archetypal Japanese folk-tale). When sick, Baby wants peaches; when they return to the peach orchard, the monsters find them again. After the final defeat of the monsters, Baby's mother is found. When she notices a surprising change in her child, Jack explains the baby has achieved sakai, the spirit of the samurai.
#9 - XLIX: The 4 Seasons of Death
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/25/2004
Four separate stories following Jack through the four seasons: Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. In Summer, Jack is traveling through the desert and is set upon by strange creatures formed of sandstorms. In Fall, a creepy little scientist attempts to make a poison to kill Jack. In Winter, a warrior race forge a mighty sword with which to slay Jack. In Spring, Jack finds rest in a mysterious garden paradise.
#10 - XXIV: Jack Is Naked
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/27/2002
Jack's clothes are stolen and he must get them back while being chased by an angry mob who thinks he's indecent.
#11 - XXXIX: Jack and the Labyrinth
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/7/2003
Jack is directed to a deathtrap-filled labyrinth which holds a diamond that can restore him to his time. Unfortunately a master thief also enters the labyrinth going for the item.
#12 - XXXI: Jack in Egypt
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/22/2002
As Jack travels towards Egypt, Aku unearths three ancient Minions and tasks them to kill Jack in return for freeing them.
#13 - XXXIII: Jack and the Creature
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/3/2003
Whilst crossing a desert to seek the Crystal of Cagliostoro, Jack comes across a oasis. He unwittingly disturbs an overly friendly creature, who begins following Jack, messing up Jack's every move along his quest.
#14 - XXVII: Chicken Jack
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2002
Jack bumps into an old wizard who transforms him into a chicken - a rather goofy-looking master of the martial arts that nobody can understand. He gets captured and taken to a animal fight where he must defeat a robot beetle and snake. Jack wins but must then fight a spider-like creature, a giant worm, and the ratlike mechanical "Finisher". Jack's series of wins make his new owner a wealthy man but when he goes out to buy some decent clothing he bumps into the same wizard who hits them both with a spell - causing Jack to become human and the owner to become a chicken. Jack departs with a new found appreciation for the virtues of not eating chicken.
#15 - XXXIV: Jack and the Swamp Monster
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/10/2003
Jack finds a swamp where a foul-tempered hermit answers his call. The wizard tells Jack of the titan Chronos and his powers over space and time, now locked within three pieces of armor set with gems.
#16 - V: Jack in Space
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/27/2001
Samurai Jack befriends a future community building a spaceship to escape Aku's tyrannic rule. Jack agrees to assist in their escape by fighting off the blockade orbiting the planet in return for a trip through time back home.
#17 - IV: Jack, the Woolies, and the Chritchellites
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/13/2001
Jack comes into contact with a tribe of creatures who utilize their technology to subdue a group of supposedly savage beasts called "Woolies." Little does Jack know, there is more to the situation than meets the eye.
#18 - II: The Samurai Called Jack
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/10/2001
Jack befriends some talking archeologist dogs and learns of his location: In the future shaped by years of Aku's evil reign. He vows to help the dogs gain their freedom from a life of enslaved jewel mining.
#19 - LI: Young Jack in Africa
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/25/2004
This episode takes place during Jack's childhood. After Aku's first attack, Jack is brought to a tribe in Africa where he is admitted into the adult community after a small ritual and the chief of the village teaches him the art of fighting with a stick. But an enemy tribe attacks the village in order to get a reward promised by Aku for Jack's capture and everyone is captured except for Jack. So he follows them, mastering the captors' weapon, using qualities of the animals he has observed to do so. After a difficult series of fights, Jack releases all the prisoners and with their help, the enemy tribe is defeated. At the end, Jack leaves the tribe because he is now considered to have learned all he can from them.
#20 - XLII: Samurai vs. Samurai
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/28/2003
While traveling through the rain, Jack takes refuge in an inn and meets Da Samurai, a hip-hop singer/fighter. His performance is interrupted by a new version of Aku's bounty hunters. Jack defeats them handily, much to Da Samurai's amazement. Da Samurai challenges him to battle and Jack eventually agrees. Jack requires him to first fight with sticks and Jack is clearly the superior warrior. Their fight is interrupted by the arrival of many more of Aku's hunters. Da Samurai is captured and Jack defeats the 100+ robots...but they assemble into one gigantic multi-headed robot. Da Samurai saves Jack by taking an energy blast, giving Jack time to defeat the robot and acknowledge Da Samurai has taken the first step on the path of a true warrior.
#21 - XXVIII: Jack and the Rave
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/2002
In his travels Jack comes to a tavern and a crying tavern owner. Then shadowy figures attack but Jack discovers they are teenagers, the "Children of Aku", under a magical musical spell. Knocking one out and following them in disguise, jack finds their rave and a sinister DJ playing the music. The DJ spots Jack and a fight ensues. Jack takes the fight directly to the DJ who is his near-equal. When Jack gets the upper hand the DJ dons a speaker-battlesuit but Jack regains his lost sword at the last minute and triumphs, freeing the children.
#22 - XXIX: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/2002
While taking a trip on a Old West-style train, Jack is stalked by a bounty hunter, Ezekial Clench. He manages to defeat him but unwittingly falls prey to Ezekial's ex-wife Josephine.
#23 - III: The First Fight
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/10/2001
Aku learns of Jack's arrival in the future, and of the help he is giving the dogs. He sends a huge army of insect drones to destroy Jack and the dogs alike. Jack has been busy preparing many traps for them however, and when they arrive the battle begins in earnest.
#24 - IX: Jack Under the Sea
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/3/2001
Jack hears tales about a race of amphibians living in an underwater city who have a time machine. He searches them out, and they agree to let him use the machine, but the creatures have not been entirely truthful.
#25 - XV: Jack Tales
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/2002
Three short stories: 1) Jack confronts a two-headed riddling serpent who will grant him his wish if he can answer their questions. 2) Jack confronts a family that feed on metal, only for him and they to find out that they are robots. 3) Jack tries to rescue a wish-granting fairy from a gargoyle.