The WORST episodes of Stanley

#1 - Tasmanian Tantrum / Sea Otter Safety

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/2003

A) When Lester's little sister starts screaming for no reason, his mom explains that she's just having a tantrum. Lester and the others want to know more about tantrums, so they get out the great big book of everthing and learn about one animal that has the biggest tantrums of all; the Tasmanian Devil. B) Stanley and his friends don't want to wear their life vest when they go on a trip to the beach. So Dennis teaches them how sea otters use their fur as safety when they're in the water.

#2 - Ant Picnic / The Tooth About Teeth

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/2002

A) Stanley and his friends have a picnic and learn about ants. B) Stanley learns about teeth.

#3 - Eel-ectricity / Roller Rhino

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2002

A.) The electricity at Stanley's house goes off, right in the middle of his favorite game show! Not happy at all about that, Stanley turns to the Great Big Book of Everything to learn about Electric Eels - so maybe they can bring back the power. B.) Stanley gets a new scooter, but doesn't want to wear the protective gear with it, fearing everyone will laugh at him. He then learns about Rhinos, who have built-in padding and protection.

#4 - Keep 'Em Flying / Guess What's Coming for Dinner

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2002

A) Dennis wishes he could fly, and gets rather depressed when he realizes that his dream will never come true. Stanley wants to cheer up his best friend, so he turns to the Great Big Book of Everything to learn about an amazing fish species called the Flying Fish. B) Stanley is afraid to try new foods when he is invited to his friend Jane's house. But soon he learns to like the Chinese food learns about the Giant Panda.

#5 - Bloodhound Blues / Clock-A-Doodle-Do!

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/2002

A) Stanley loses The Great Big Book of Everything. B) Stanley learns about roosters.

#6 - Mistaken Mermaid / It Pays to Be a Pelican

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/28/2002

A.) The kids visit the aquarium. B.) Dennis and Stanley learn about pelicans.

#7 - Grandma Griff's Mystery Guest

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/13/2002

All the kids are invited to a Halloween party at Grandma Griff's house.

#8 - Woodpecker Woes / P.U. Pup

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/2002

Woodpecker Woes: Stanley's father is trying his best to work on a new comic, but finds himself faced with a noisy problem. A woodpecker has stationed itself in a tree just outside his home office and won't stop pecking. Wanting to help his dad, Stanley tries his best to get the woodpecker to be quiet. When he finds that simply asking it to quiet down won't work, he realizes that it might be helpful to learn more about the reason why it's pecking on the tree. P.U. Pup: Stanley and his family are going on an overnight camping trip and Mrs. Griff agrees to let Dennis and Harry come along. Stanley is told that Harry is his responsibility, but when Stanley briefly lets Harry off the leash, Harry ends up having a close encounter with a skunk. As Harry undergoes a tomato bath, Stanley wonders just a why a skunk would want to spray Harry. A trip into The Great Big Book of Everything provides him with a lesson in responsibility.

#9 - Mockingbird Scat / Horsepower

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/25/2002

A) Staney learns how mockingbirds mock other birds. B) Lionel needs someway for his cardboard car to run without pedals or a motor. Stanley thinks about animals who are useful for powerful transportation.

#10 - Proud as a Peacock / Dances With Flamingos

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/2002

Proud as a Peacock: Stanley is disappointed one day when it seems like his family and friends all have special talents to demonstrate, but he has nothing. He takes solace in his animal friends, sure that animals never show off. Dennis, however, shows him that the peacock is quite the show-off of the animal world. Dances With Flamingos: Mimi is practicing for a performance for a ballet class, but is having trouble standing on one leg. Her friends all find it difficult as well and wonder just how anyone can do it. Realizing that flamingos spend much of their time standing on one leg, they decide to look up flamingos in The Great Big Book of Everything to find out just how this feat is accomplished.

#11 - Sunburn Stanley / Time for Toolfish

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/2002

A) When the Griffs go out and spend a day at the beach, Stanley forgets to put on sunscreen, and eventually gets sunburned, and turns red (like a lobster). Since he can't go back in the sun, he stays under a beach umbrella, and he and Dennis learn about lobsters. B) Dad and Lionel are building a bookcase together, and Stanley wants to help. Unfortunately, he's too little to use any of the tools his dad and Lionel are using. So he looks in the Great Big Book of Everything, and hopes to learn about carpentry from a Sawfish and a Hammerhead Shark.

#12 - The Robbing Raven / Flashlight Fireflies

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/2002

A) A raven steals Lionel's camera. B) Stanley learns about Fireflies.

#13 - Mysterious Moe / Spelling Bee Situation

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/2003

Mysterious Moe: When Elsie accidentally kicks a ball into a neighbor's yard, she and the kids are reluctant to retrieve it when Mimi and Marci say that it's the home of "Mysterious Moe." Moe is apparently a strange man who prefers to be alone and has the power to turn people invisible. Everyone is scared of the story except Dennis, who is sure that the story is just a rumor. He has everyone venture into The Great Big Book of Everything to meet a mysterious animal (an orangutan) to show them that sometimes we only fear things because they're unknown to us. Spelling Bee Situation: After Mimi becomes the spelling bee champion of Ms. Diaz's class, Ms. Diaz agrees to a competition with Mr. Bartalone's class. Pleased to know a champion speller, Marci and Stanley ask Mimi to help them practice, but soon find that Mimi's championship status has gone to her head. As she bosses them around, they begin to despair of getting any real practice done. When Mrs. Griff suggests that Mimi is behaving like a "queen bee," the expression sparks an interest in learning more about real bees. Inside The Great Big Book of Everything, Mimi learns something surprising about these buzzy creatures.

#14 - Follow the Lemur / Zebra Jigsaw

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/23/2002

Follow the Lemur: Stanley and his friends have a lot of fun at a game of "follow the leader" until Marci takes one too many turns being the leader. She thinks it's all right to be the only leader, but her friends soon grow tired of her bossiness. They decide to find out what type of behavior is normal for animals and learn that some animals have many leaders, but some, such as the ring-tailed lemur, only have one within each pack. They pay a visit to The Great Big Book of Everything to learn more about such behavior. Zebra Jigsaw: Stanley and his friends try to put a jigsaw puzzle but are stymied because they feel the zebras all look alike. When Dennis tells them that zebras have way of telling each other apart, they decide to pay a visit to The Great Big Book to learn more about it. They find out some interesting and some cases surprises facts about zebras. The experience also gives them a new insight into how to go about solving puzzles.

#15 - Hummingbird Humdinger / Koala Cuddle

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/2003

#16 - Double-Duty Dad / Look Who's Helping

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/2003

A) Stanley appreciates his stay-at-home Dad and learns how sea horeses are great Dads. B) Stanley meets his cousin Max at a family reunion picnic and finds out that Max loves animals too.

#17 - A Turkey of a Thanksgiving

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/2004

Stanley is disappointed when he is assigned to play a turkey in the Thanksgiving pageant, but when he looks in his Great Big Book of Everything to get facts about the Eastern Wild Turkey, Stanley realizes how great it is to play a turkey. Meanwhile, after a snowstorm delays the holiday arrival of Grandma Griff, Stanley wonders what there is to be thankful for after all. When he gets the idea to postpone their Thanksgiving dinner for Grandma, he discovers the true meaning of the holiday. Lionel also realizes the spirit of the holiday and arranges an encore performance of the pageant for Grandma Griff.

#18 - Going-Away Goose / Time To Climb!

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/15/2003

Going-Away Goose: Stanley and his friends are excited about winter vacation, but Lester is upset about having to miss out on all the fun. He's visiting his grandparents in Florida and won't be back until after the holiday. Stanley, Lester, Mimi and Marci learn together that Lester's situation resembles that of the Canada goose. Time To Climb!: Stanley joins Lester's family on a trip to a state park. When Mr. Goldberg tells them that they're going to climb Mount Honeyhut, Stanley and Lester are sure that there's no way they can make it. Then, they learn about the ox from The Great Big Book of Everything and realize that they might have a chance if they emulate this animal's behavior.

#19 - Stanley's Super Spectacles / The Ugly Griffling

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/4/2003

A) Stanley tries to get super vision. B) Stanley learns to feel good about himself.

#20 - X-Ray X-tra! / The Birds-Eye Boys

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/26/2003

A) Stanley and friends learn about X-rays. B) Stanley and Lester decide to live in Stanley's treehouse.

#21 - I Scream For Ice Cream! / Snack Savers

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/3/2003

A) Stanley misses the ice crem truck and now he's the only one without ice cream. He really wants some, so Dennis tells Stanley about cows and how they are involved in the making of ice cream. B) Stanley doesn't understand why his Mom won't let him eat more snacks so close to dinner time. So Stanley learns about the vole, who eats and then store their food for later.

#22 - A Little Nightingale Music / Super Squirrel

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 1/17/2003

A) Stanley and his Dad play the recorder for the family, while Dennis shows how nightingales sing. B)

#23 - Outfoxing Lionel / Jackrabbit Hide-And-Seek

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 1/20/2003

"Outfoxing Lionel" When Lionel gets a practical joke kit, he uses it to play tricks on Stanley at every turn. Stanley learns about foxes in The Great Big Book of Everything in the hopes of avoiding his brother's tricks. "Jackrabbit Hide-And-Seek" Lester is upset because he is always found when he plays games of hide-and-seek with Stanley, Mimi and Marci, and then tagged before he can reach base. He looks up jackrabbits with Stanley's permission, after Dennis tells him about how they often play hide-and-seek.

#24 - Me And My Pal Fish / At The Zoo!

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 1/26/2003

A) Stanley and his friends work together against a bully. B) Stanley and friends learn about creature habitats.

#25 - Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up (1)

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2004

Stanley and his family visit their uncle's farm and are excited to ride horses. But the farm is in danger of being sold to new rich owner, unless they can find dinosaur bones underneath the farm.