The BEST episodes of The Emperor's New School

Every episode of The Emperor's New School ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Emperor's New School!

"The Emperor's New School" is a unique comedy about Kuzco, a self-centered and spoiled teen who must survive the trials of Incan public school and pass all of his classes so that he can officially become Emperor. His friend Malina keeps his attitude in check, while the evil Yzma (cleverly disguised as Principal Amzy) and her dim-witted sidekick Kronk are out to make sure Kuzco fails.

Last Updated: 11/11/2024Network: Disney ChannelStatus: Ended
star
8.67
3 votes

#1 - Working Girl

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/15/2007

Kuzco and Malina head to Mudka's to eat. When Malina is displeased with Yata and the overall service, she gets a job and starts to improve their service. However, when her service makes Yata look bad, Mudka Junior, the owner, fires Yata. Now Malina, Kuzco, and Yata have to think of a way to get Yata's job back.

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Peasant for a Day
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8.55
11 votes

#2 - Peasant for a Day

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/21/2006

Mr. Moleguaco decides to force Kuzco to experience peasant life for a day.

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Yzmopolis
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8.50
4 votes

#3 - Yzmopolis

Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/11/2006

When Kuzco wishes he had never been Emperor, he soon becomes sorry what he wished for after experiencing a world in which Yzma is Emperor. Now he must do whatever it takes to get the village back the way it used to be and should be.

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The Emperor's New Pet
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8.45
11 votes

#4 - The Emperor's New Pet

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/7/2006

In Home Economics class, everyone is given a kitten to take care of for a week. Once again, Yzma tries to make him fail by turning the kitten into a jaguar.

Directors: Howy Parkins
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star
8.40
5 votes

#5 - Kronkenitza

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 1/28/2008

Kuzco's class is assigned to research their family tree. When Kronk asks his father, he discovers that he is actually from Kronkenitza, which causes Kuzco and some other kids at school to make fun of him for being different. Even Yzma wants in on the fun, so Kronk decides to leave and go to Kronkenitza. However, his leaving may not be a good idea, as soon his friends begin to miss him when some terrible things begin to happen. Meanwhile, Yzma's latest destroy Kuzco scheme involves cloning herself to win a contest.

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star
8.33
6 votes

#6 - Vincent Van Guaka

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 1/14/2008

Kuzco invites Malina, Kronk, Yata, and Guaca over to play games, where they discover Guaca's "fear" of drawing. His father wants him to be an artist, so he entered him in the art competition to be held the next day. Kuzco hates seeing Guaca so depressed (since he keeps spilling his drinks), so he sneaks into Yzma's lab to find a painting potion. When it turns out that Yzma used the last one, Kuzco must make another one. When he goes to test it at the art fair, his pterodactyl drawing comes to life and takes Guaca's father for a ride! Now it is up to Guaca to save his dad.

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Fortune Cookie Day
star
8.33
12 votes

#7 - Fortune Cookie Day

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/5/2006

All of the fortunes in Kuzco's fortune cookies start coming true!

Directors: Dave Knott
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star
8.29
7 votes

#8 - Air Kuzco

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 1/28/2008

Kuzco is sick of Kronk getting all the attention, so he decides to join the Inca Ball team. However, his personality clashes with his teammates as Kuzco thinks he can win the game all by himself. This causes him to become a ball hog, so the Kuzco Academy team begins to lose every game. When the final, most important game of the season comes around, the entire team quits, and leaves Kuzco to play by himself.

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Hungry Hungry Llama
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8.25
12 votes

#9 - Hungry Hungry Llama

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/2006

If Kuzco doesn't have his homework tomorrow, he fails!

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The Big Fight
star
8.20
10 votes

#10 - The Big Fight

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/3/2006

Kuzco teases a student named Kavo thinking he is just joking around. Kavo, who gets mad about it, decides to beat Kuzco up. Kuzco then hides all over the school and even turns himself into a cat to avoid Kavo.

Directors: Howy Parkins
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The Adventures of Red-Eyed Tree Frog Man
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8.18
11 votes

#11 - The Adventures of Red-Eyed Tree Frog Man

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/2006

Yzma’s science class is dissecting frogs, so she turns Kuzco into one so he can be dissected! Instead, he becomes a “hero” known as the Red-Eyed Tree Frog Man.

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star
8.00
6 votes

#12 - Card Wars

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/5/2007

When a new card game becomes the latest craze, Kuzco rushes to get his own set of cards. He then tries to rip off Kronk to get a powerful card, but it turns out that it was he who was ripped off. Now Kuzco will do anything to get the card back. Yzma decides to try and use the card to trade the rights to the throne. Meanwhile, Malina and Yata, who believe they are being mature by not being caught up in the latest fads, start buying all the coolest accessories.

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The Yzma That Stole Kuzcoween
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8.00
4 votes

#13 - The Yzma That Stole Kuzcoween

Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/14/2006

Yzma sets out to destroy the annual Kuzcoween holiday.

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Empress Malina
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8.00
12 votes

#14 - Empress Malina

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/2006

Empress Mailna: Kuzco is excited that his date Malina is going to be crowned Empress at the school dance, until he discovers she has a huge zit. The Adventures of Red-Eyed Tree Frog Man: Yzma turns Kuzco into a tree frog.

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star
8.00
3 votes

#15 - Everybody Loves Kuzco

Season 2 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/12/2008

Yzma's latest destroy Kuzco scheme may be the best one yet. After realizing that Kuzco pays more attention to girls then school, she has Kronk trick him into taking a potion which makes girls, including Malina, attracted to him. The girls then begin chasing him everywhere, which is more then Kuzco can deal with.

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8.00
2 votes

#16 - TV or Not TV!

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/4/2007

Yzma is to be interviewed by Empress Magazine, and will also give a tour of the palace. However, she must somehow distract everyone. She "invents" the TV and has Kronk become a TV Superstar to have people become couch potatoes while she does the interview. Meanwhile, Kuzco gets jealous of Kronk getting all the attention.

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8.00
5 votes

#17 - Prisoner of Kuzcoban

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/30/2007

A guy from Kuzco's past comes to get revenge on Kuzco for falsely imprisoning him for breaking Kuzco's statue seven years ago.

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8.00
4 votes

#18 - Room for Improvement

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2007

Kuzco misses all of the room at the palace and is sick of sharing a room with Chaca and Tipo, so he puts them up for sale outside. Kronk comes by and offers to clean the house for them. However, this is a plan by Yzma. She wants Kronk to to find Kuzco's Emperor permit so that she can change it to make her Empress.

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8.00
3 votes

#19 - Guaka Rules

Season 2 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/5/2008

When Kuzco's class visits the museum, an ancient tablet reveals that Kuzco is not the true heir to the throne, Guaka is! Guaka immediately takes over the palace and starts to treat even Kuzco unfairly. Yzma decides to take advantage of this and trick him into hiring her as his adviser, however, none of her old tricks work on Guaka due to his obsession with Kuzco. Then he demands that Malina become his empress or he will build a store over her house. Kuzco and Malina then decide to seek out a special chalice that will reveal the true heir to the throne.

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8.00
4 votes

#20 - Yzma Be Gone

Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 3/24/2008

Following Yzma's latest fail to destroy Kuzco scheme, Kronk convinces Kuzco to finally stand up to Yzma and get rid of her. Kuzco and Guaca team up to remove everything from her lab, which results in a potion battle between Kuzco and Yzma. Meanwhile, Yzma has promised to take Kronk to Pajama Llama on Ice if he tells her who gave Kuzco the idea to destroy her, which results in Kronk trying to figure out what to do.

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Kronk Moves In
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8.00
4 votes

#21 - Kronk Moves In

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/15/2006

After Yzma gets fed up with Kronk and fires him, Kronk begins to question his place in the world.

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8.00
6 votes

#22 - No Man Is an Island

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 1/14/2008

Yzma's latest scheme to get rid of Kuzco is a little more simplistic then usual. She decides to just put him in a box and ship him away. When Kronk sets a trap for Kuzco, he also ends up capturing Malina, and shipping them to a deserted island. While Yzma decides to begin her palace remodeling, Kronk heads to the island to save Malina, and maybe Kuzco. In order to stop Kronk from rescuing Kuzco, Yzma heads to the island. Meanwhile, Malina ends up becoming an idol for the monkeys, who do anything she wants. Kuzco then gets them to worship him, but the two end up being sacrifices to their real idol, a giant monkey.

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Evil and Eviler
star
8.00
4 votes

#23 - Evil and Eviler

Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/5/2006

Yzma hires an evil consultant, who ends up kicking her out of her own offices. Meanwhile, Kuzco starts to go "bad" and not listen to anyone.

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The Bride of Kuzco
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8.00
4 votes

#24 - The Bride of Kuzco

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 8/12/2006

Kuzco and Malina are finally set to have a real date-date when Kuzco learns that a bride has been chosen for him, and if he agrees to marry her he'll get the kingdom back.

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8.00
3 votes

#25 - Too Many Malinas

Season 2 - Episode 51 - Aired 9/18/2008

When Malina won't pay attention to him, Kuzco uses Yzma's new machine to separate all of her personalities. He then begins to date "Smoochy Malina". However, when she becomes to clingy he dumps her. This causes all of the Malinas to turn on him and now he and Kronk must find a way to turn them all back into one Malina.

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