The BEST episodes of Samurai Pizza Cats

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

The Samurai Pizza Cats are a trio of crime-fighting super-heroes in the town of Little Tokyo, Japan. Wearing Samurai costumes, they burst through the air to the rescue from a humongous cannon connected to their headquarters - A fast food restaurant. Little Tokyo is populated by all kinds of animals. The official governor of the town is the Emperor, but since he became insane, a council takes care of the well-being of the village. One of the members of this council is called Seymour "Big" Cheese, who secretly wishes to take over control of the village.

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Frightening! Koon no Kami's Big Research
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8.67
3 votes

#1 - Frightening! Koon no Kami's Big Research

Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 1/22/1991

In a last desperate attempt to take over, the Big Cheese diverts a comet towards Little Tokyo and blackmails the city. Can the Pizza Cats stop the comet before it destroys Little Tokyo?

The Great Golden Cluck
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8.60
10 votes

#2 - The Great Golden Cluck

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/1990

A flying demon emerges in Little Tokyo but is finally recognized as a giant gold chicken with Bad Bird as the pilot. He announces that his robot can tell the future and grant wishes - for a price. When a woman wants her husband to be cured so they can boogie again, the robot grans their wish and it comes true. Everyone rushes to the machine to receive their fortunes as Speedy notices that the first demonstrated couple was being paid by the Ninja Crows. Everyone from around the world are being granted wishes as the Big Cheese is swimming in money. Soon, Cluck decides to leave and reaches a rich man's house to talk about his investments, and the Pizza Cats arrive in time and start battling with the Ninja Crows. An octopus is released from the broken robot and begins attacking the Cats. Reinforcements for the Pizza Cats arrive and they demolish the competition.

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Bad Bird Uncaged (1)
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8.50
2 votes

#3 - Bad Bird Uncaged (1)

Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/9/1990

Bad Bird is back with powerful new weapons, and challenges Speedy to a battle. Can Speedy defeat him?

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Close Encounters of the Pig Kind
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8.00
2 votes

#4 - Close Encounters of the Pig Kind

Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/11/1990

A pig from space, who gets attached to Speedy, is cute to start with, but when he starts eating...

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Unidentified Flying Oddballs
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8.00
3 votes

#5 - Unidentified Flying Oddballs

Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/30/1990

The bad guys pretend to be aliens and kidnap Princess Vi.

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Those Transformin' Felines
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8.00
4 votes

#6 - Those Transformin' Felines

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/8/1990

Everyone in Little Tokyo is going crazy over the latest wave of Pizza Cats merchandise and the merchants are pumped with monet from the sales. Big Cheese is angry due to the fact that the Cat's are popular and that Jerry Attric are interested in them. Bad Bird is piloting a boat down the river, with Big Cheese under the boat who has a plan. Big Al, who was able to witness Bad Bird, thought that he was suspicious, so he called the Pizza Cats. They blasted off as Cheese continues to look for ways to improve his image. He tries to save people from danger, but causing more trouble as he does. A Ninja Crow - Rude Noise appears in a new robot, and starts eliminating the town. In this plan, Big Cheese comes to the rescue in a robot that looks just like him, but the Cats come with Supreme Catatonic and begins to battle the enemies. The enemies are feared and runs away, but Speedy is able to destroy Cheese's robot.

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If You Knew Sushi Like I Know Sushi
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7.87
39 votes

#7 - If You Knew Sushi Like I Know Sushi

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/1990

Lucille's brother, a sushi-maker named Wally, is walking home with his eyes closed and is captured by the Ninja Crows. Next morning, the Professor gives a description on how the Pizza Cats' cannon works. On delivery, Lucille explains to Speedy about the disappearance of her brother (who worked for the Big Cheese in the past). Over at the palace, Jerry Attric completes the plan to hypnotize Wally for Big Cheese. Later, a giant robot is attacking the city, and Lucille recognizes that it's her brother. As the robot continues to cause havoc, turning people into sushi, Lucille is knocked down, and the robot reaches out to grab her. Speedy, Guido, and Polly start attacking the robot but then Guido is turned into sushi. When Lucille escapes the robot's clutches and asks Wally why he is destroying the city. Bad Bird attacks Speedy, and the Ninja Crows go after Polly. Polly successfully annihilates all the crows, Speedy scares away Bad Bird, and Guido manages to free himself and resue Wally fro

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Kind of a Drag
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7.50
4 votes

#8 - Kind of a Drag

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/22/1990

Big Cheese is throwing severely embarrassed him somehow, and he wants revenge. During delivery, Guido bumps into a girl and is in awe with her beauty. She explains that she is being chased by Ninja Crows but Guido was not listening. When the Ninja Crows approach, Guido made them retreat. Taking Ruby home, Guido finally arrives at Ruby's condominium, and is very impressed by the high-class building (but inside is a dump). She reveals that she had made a dress for Big Cheese's daughter, and when Guido left, Bad Bird bursts in but is scared away by the noise from Ruby cutting sheet metal with a band saw. Bad Bird returns to the Ninja Crows to tell them where the girl lives. Seymour tells them that he was dressing up in costume for ""The Sound of Music"" (he was Maria von Trapp), when Ruby stumbled in on him, embarrassing him completely. He wants dispose of her before she tells anyone about it. The Pizza Cats receives a call from Ruby that her house is being attacked. They send Bat Cat to pu

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Stop Dragon My Cat Around!
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7.45
74 votes

#9 - Stop Dragon My Cat Around!

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/1990

Speedy is serving a pizza to Lucille but then Guido pops up and steals the Pizza to deliver it Lucille. As they continue to reach their destination, they continuously steal the pizza from each other. When Speedy gives it to Lucille, Guido says that Lucille and he are in love, and the two get into a brawl. Lucille stops them by blow them up. Bad Bird sends out a giant, robotic dragon and it wreaks havoc on Little Tokyo. Speedy and Guido notices Ninja Crows inside the Dragon and they decide to defeat this machine before it demolishes every structure in the city.

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The Case of the Bogus Billionaire
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7.33
3 votes

#10 - The Case of the Bogus Billionaire

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/1990

Big Cheese meets up with Al Dente and shows him a picture of a gardener who looks identical to the Emperor. Al calls on the Pizza Cats as the Cheese is planning to use the look-alike to control Little Tokyo and earn money from the photo. Bad Bird distributes the bulletin as Al Dente tells the Pizza Cats that the Empreror's nany is the only one who can prove who is the real Emperor. Bad Bird reveals to Cheese that he has finished with the bulletins while the Pizza Cats finally reach their destination, but had to attack some Ninja Crows to save the nanny. On their way back to the town with the impostor, Bad Bird and his Ninja Crows spot the Pizza cats and attacked but they both fled away from each other. Reaching the city first, the Ninja Crows use robots to block the Pizza cats' passage. Finally defeating the robot usaing the Ginzu Sword, they weren't able to get back in time to stop the chaos to come. Meowza is sent to help and they are able to reach Little Tokyo and prove the impostor

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No Talent Guido
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7.33
3 votes

#11 - No Talent Guido

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 8/21/1990

Speedy, Polly, and Lucille are all becoming music stars, leaving Guido to depressed to save the city from the Big Cheese's singing.

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Samurai Savings Time
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7.33
3 votes

#12 - Samurai Savings Time

Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 12/11/1990

The Big Cheese builds a robot that can travel through time, so he can go into the future and get a super weapon. Meanwhile, the Pizza Cats are on their way to the palace to celebrate the anniversary of their formation. Big Cheese, Bad Bird, and the Cats accidently get sent back in time with the robot, and the Cats try to stop Big Cheese from meeting up with Jerry Attric and the Ninja Crows.

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The Pizza Cats Are Only Human (2)
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7.20
5 votes

#13 - The Pizza Cats Are Only Human (2)

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/1/1990

After crawling back into Little Tokyo, the Pizza Cats are sent to find Guru Lou, who will help them defeat the robot. Bad Bird activates a pair of magnifying glasses in the robot's fans, resulting in a beam from the sun that will burn up Little Tokyo. When they met up with Guru Lou, they had to prove worthy to receive a robot of their own by presenting their logic, violence, begging, and bribery. Guru finally tells that they will have to play poker, while the town is still under attack by heat beams. Winning the game, Polly and the gang searches for the robot, and run into trouble with Bad Bird. Speedy is finally able to release the Supreme Catatonic from a statue. They form the Extra-Topping Pizza Cats as they control their new robot to defeat Bad Bird's robot.

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Let the Cellar Beware
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7.17
6 votes

#14 - Let the Cellar Beware

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/8/1990

There have been reports of strange noises in the palace, and a nightwatchman has been hired to investigate and discovers a giant bug and runs in terror. Meanwhille, Princess Vi decides to quit school as Speedy has a slight cold. The Council Members believe that there is a ghost amongst them while Princess Vi is excited and wants to meet this spirit. Working on his latest scheme, Cheese wants his minions to create a giant carousol that would spin Little Tokyo. When the workers are tired, they order pizza and Francine wonders why the group wants so many pizzas and discovers that it is the Big Cheese. The Pizza cats decide this is a chance to investigate the cellar of the palace. When Speedy rushes into the palace, he bumps into Princess Vi and the two discover a robotic bug and try to escape. The robotic bug continues to find and attack them and it is finally destroyed in a room full of machines, and exposes Big Cheese's plan with the carousol.

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Underground, Underwater, Undercooked
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7.09
66 votes

#15 - Underground, Underwater, Undercooked

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/1990

On her way to the mall, Lucille notices that the subway train she is on is comandeered by Bird Bird and the Ninja Crows. They announce that they are taking all the passengers prisoner and bringing the train into a hidden tunnel so no one will find them. Later at the Pizza Parlour, Speedy and Polly are discussing the disappearance of the subway train while Guido rushes in tell them about Lucille's disappearance. Believing that Lucille is on the missing train, the Pizza Cats search the subway tunnels to find the train. Meanwhile, Bad Bird orders the passengers and mining robots to dig through the ground for riches. Lucille blows her top and the Pizza Cats are injured as well as the enemies. When the other Pizza Cats return to the Pizza Parlour to suit up for battle, Bad Bird suddenly believes that he has reached the riches but only to find a giant goldfish. The Pizza Cats arrive when Lucille blows her top again, and Bad Bird's robot decide to leave quickly. Francine sends for Meowzma, a

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A Little Bit 'O Luck
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6.75
4 votes

#16 - A Little Bit 'O Luck

Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 12/4/1990

Jerry and Bad Bird build two robots, one which will make you money, which Speedy gets, and one which will lose you money, which the Big Cheese gets.

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Teyandee! This is Nyankii
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6.67
3 votes

#17 - Teyandee! This is Nyankii

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/3/1990

A clip show chronicling all the details from the first 9 episodes.

Pizza Bird Delivers!
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6.60
5 votes

#18 - Pizza Bird Delivers!

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/26/1990

The Big Cheese hasn't paid his minions in three weeks, so Bad Bird gets a job at the Samurai Pizza Parlour, failing to recognize the Cats in their civilian clothes. For the first time in his life Bad Bird knows real job satisfaction, and is torn between his duty to live up to the evil legacy of his father, and his desire to seek his own path to personal happiness. Bad Bird and Speedy form a bond of friendship, which shows up in later episodes.

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Double Trouble for Princess Vi
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6.50
4 votes

#19 - Double Trouble for Princess Vi

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/29/1990

The Pizza Cats are busy preparing for the Little Tokyo Arts Festival. When Al Dente receives a message that Princess Vi is going to the festival disguised, he asks the Pizza Cats to protect her. Cheese decides that this is a perfect opportunity to get rid of the Princess and take over the town treasury by creating a powder to make her think she's a dentist when Jerry Attric overhears this and reports it to the Big Cheese. The two retrieve Big Bert. When the Pizza cats blast off to find her, she is actually already at the festival, and Bad Bird poses as the waiter so he can give the Princess a drink with the powder in it. Fortunately, he forgets to add the stuff. Big Cheese summon Big Bert, who tranforms himself into an exact likeness of Vi while Big Al has to deliver all the pizzas while the Cats are out. When Lucille and Vi enter the theatre, Bad Bird is ready to shoot a dart contained with the powder and Speedy attacks him just in time. In another attempt to cahange Vi, Bad Bird deci

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Speedy's Double-Time Trick
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6.50
4 votes

#20 - Speedy's Double-Time Trick

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/5/1990

Speedy makes a date with Lucille, but forgets that he also has an appointment with Polly to run some low level missions. He decides to zip back and forth between his engagements. He then accidentally uncovers the Big Cheese's plan to attack Little Tokyo with a giant Hot Tub robot.

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Big Cheese Shows His Filmy Substance
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6.40
5 votes

#21 - Big Cheese Shows His Filmy Substance

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/3/1990

Princess Vi wants to produce a movie. The Big Cheese, Guido, Speedy, and many others run an obstacle course which will determine the male lead.

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Quake, Rattle, and Roll
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6.40
5 votes

#22 - Quake, Rattle, and Roll

Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 1/15/1991

Speedy and Big Cheese have a fear of earthquakes. The robot Jerry Attric and Bad Bird are building only makes things worse.

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The Terror of Prisoner Island
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6.33
3 votes

#23 - The Terror of Prisoner Island

Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/31/1990

There is a flaw in the palace. The Pizza Cats are sent to find the architech, who has been banished to an island by Princess Vi, but the Ninja Crows are after him too.

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The Nuclear Potato
star
6.25
4 votes

#24 - The Nuclear Potato

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/15/1990

Bad Bird's robots are attacking the city but are disposed by the Pizza Cats. Cheese successfully has Emperor Fred let his friends dump their toxic potato peelings in Little Tokyo. As a bonus, the dumpers give Big Cheese a nuclear potato. The next day, everyone has gathered to watch the bribes from the ship being unloaded. Amongst the fancy treasure chests, there is an innocent-looking wooden box (which Speedy specualtes containing the nuclear potato). Al Dente calls the Pizza Cats into action, and they blast off towards the harbour. When they arrive, one of the Ninja Crows flys into the air, and begins showering the crowd with gifts. As they scramble to get them, the four robots carrying the box slip into a back alley unnoticed. Speedy happens to spot their retreat, and the Pizza Cats confront Bad Bird and his henchmen. A battle commences and Francine sends for Spritz T. Cat, the fourth member of the Rescue Team and he uses water from the ocean to short-circuit the robots. The nuclear

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Field of Screwballs
star
6.25
4 votes

#25 - Field of Screwballs

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/29/1990

The Big Cheese kidnaps a famous baseball player, whom Princess Vi is a big fan of. He uses him in a baseball battle of the good guys vs. the bad guys.

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