The WORST episodes of The Raccoons

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

Follow the adventures of Bert Raccoon and his friends in the Evergreen Forest of Western Canada as they strive to thwart the industrialist actions of Cyril Sneer, a pink aardvark, and his pig henchmen.

Last Updated: 6/28/2025Network: CBC (CA)Status: Ended
Go for the Gold
star
6.00
4 votes

#1 - Go for the Gold

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/1990

Cyril is taken ill and is advised to retire. Cedric is intimidated into sponsoring a televised sports event by a very shady character. Lisa and Bert fall out while training for the events, and too late Cedric discovers the scam he's walked into. It's up to the gang to win the event, or Cedric loses one million dollars.

The Evergreen Election
star
6.33
3 votes

#2 - The Evergreen Election

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1990

Cyril and Bert compete for the mayorship of the Evergreen Forest. Finding out about a deal Cyril struck with Lady Baden-Baden, the pigs rig the election, but the outcome is completely unexpected.

The Runaways
star
6.43
7 votes

#3 - The Runaways

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1985

Tommy and Julie run away after Dan the Forest Ranger loses his temper when they fail to tidy their room. Cedric, too, leaves home when Cyril demands too much work from him. However, he soon outstays his welcome at the Raccoondominium, with Bert, Ralph, and Melissa.

Directors: Kevin Gillis
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Buried Treasure
star
6.63
8 votes

#4 - Buried Treasure

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1985

While fishing, Bert finds a treasure map in a boot. They make a ship out of barrels with Cedric and set out to find treasures. In the meantime, the pigs find out about their scheme and tell Cyril Sneer. Cyril, greedy for money, chases them. Bert and Cedric find the treasures, but Cyril shows up and claims possession of the land where they dug up the treasures. But Cedric recollects that Cyril never told him that the land was his, and he and Bert set out in pursuit of Cyril. During the pursuit, Cedric falls in the river and Cyril must choose if he loves Cedric or the treasure more dearly. He chooses Cedric, and the treasure chest is irrevocably lost in the river.

Directors: Kevin Gillis
Promises Promises
star
6.67
3 votes

#5 - Promises Promises

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1990

Bert makes more promises than he can keep. The pigs try their han at jam making and things get decidedly sticky when their Mom turns up.

Black Belt Bentley
star
6.67
3 votes

#6 - Black Belt Bentley

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1990

After being bullied by his classmates, Bentley is set on revenge. It soon transpires that Schaeffer is a black belt in the martial arts, and is persuaded to teach Bert, Bentley and Cedric.

Stress Test
star
6.67
3 votes

#7 - Stress Test

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/13/1990

Cyril has a short stay in hospital and makes a new friend. Bert realises he's been lied to by an advertisment and tries to get a refund from the unscrupulous Mr. Midas.

The Wrong Stuff
star
6.67
3 votes

#8 - The Wrong Stuff

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1990

Cyril launches a new sattelite channel while Bentley is looking after Broo. The pigs leap at the oppurtunity to send their mother a mother's day gift she'll never forget! When Broo's face appears on the monitors just before lift off, a race ensues to save him.

Join the Club
star
6.67
3 votes

#9 - Join the Club

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1990

Cyril wants to join a golf club after losing a client to Knox at another club. Lisa sees an old friend from the City, and is pressured into smoking to fit in. Cyril is surprised when he finds out the final task he needs to obtain membership.

Second Chance
star
6.67
3 votes

#10 - Second Chance

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/6/1989

It's the day before the opening of Schaeffer's cafe. While he and the gang are preparing the place, they're holding a hearing for musicians/entertainers for the next evening. After a ridiculous stage appearance by the pigs, a guitarist shows up, introducing himself as Hill Bailey (sp?), but Bert and Cedric soon recognize him as their long lost and forgotten idol, Woodchuck Berry. Schaeffer hires him for the show. The pigs think, why not act as Woody's ""agents"" and gain some profit without actually doing anything... they manage to trick Woody into signing a contract. It's revealed that Cyril and Woody are friends of old. In their youth, they were practising together (we find out Cyril's a saxophone player), until they were to play on stage for the first time. Cyril fled from the stage, unable to bear with the audience. Meanwhile, the pigs nearly screw up Woodie's appearance by hiring him to another place for the same evening, but Cyril manages to bring him back in time. At the end of th

Search and Rescue
star
6.67
3 votes

#11 - Search and Rescue

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/1989

Bert and Cedric, watching the stars at night, witness a meteor going down on an island in the Evergreen Lake and set off to search for it. They don't tell anyone where they're going, because they want to be the first to find the meteorite. Meanwhile, Cyril has sent the pigs to investigate how Knox manages to be more successful in business than he is, as he suspects him of spying on him. (Hm, is that a clear sentence, or could it be ambiguous...) They discover that Lady Baden-Baden is giving astrological advice to her husband, and so the pigs offer Cyril their fortune-telling services - hold a seance and pull off a show. In the meantime, fortune has left Bert and Cedric: while they search for the precious stone, their raft gets loose and they're stuck on the island. Even worse, Bert climbs a tree while it's already getting dark, falls off and is lying unconsciously in the cold. Cedric tries to swim to the land, but doesn't get far. Cyril and the rest of the gang are getting worried abou

Spring Fever
star
6.67
3 votes

#12 - Spring Fever

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1989

Bentley visits the Raccoons once more, and this time, he's got company: namely, his older sister Lisa, a nice and attractive teenage coon girl (with a french accent :-) ), and love on first sight for Bert. Mr. Knox (bragging again) tells Cyril that he's going to house the famous Mr. J. P. Gordon for some days - an extremely important businessman, and one of Cyril's great idols. Cyril begs Knox to arrange a meeting, but doubts Knox will really put in a word for him. So, he spends the next one or two days with a series of more or less ridiculous (not to say embarassing) efforts to get into Knox's home and into J. P.'s private rooms, conveniently screwing it up time after time. He's utterly forgotten the promise he gave Cedric (a year ago or so), that he would accompany his son to a banquet of the ""aardvark youth camp"" (?) When he's reminded by Cedric, he can't decide whether to meet J.P. and disappoint his son, or vice versa. (But in the end, he decides in favour of Cedric) In the meanti

The Great Escape
star
6.67
3 votes

#13 - The Great Escape

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1989

Cyril is trying to convince Knox to buy his newest product: a huge steel chamber like the one he uses to protect his wealth, with impermeable steel walls, impossible to intrude upon. Schaeffer has hired the great Tromboni, a famous magician, to perform in his cafe. In his shows, Tromboni is able to escape from the cruelest traps, to unlock any lock, and so he's challenged by Mr. Knox to put the Sneer Steel Camber to the test. They lock him inside, but he's out and behind them as soon as they turn their Bert, deeply fascinated by Tromboni's magic, begs him to take him as an apprentice. He begins practising, but unfortunately, he's far too impatient to learn it properly. Instead of practising the rather unspectacular basic skills, he wants to go right on to the ""real"" imaginatory tricks. At the end, he tries out one of Tromboni's most dangerous traps and nearly suffocates in it.

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The Headline Hunter
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6.67
3 votes

#14 - The Headline Hunter

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/23/1989

The pigs, mightily discontented with their living and working conditions, get in contact with scandal reporter Ms. Barbara LaFrame: a TV talker specialized in interviewing and tormenting rich people who keep their personnel as their slaves... The pigs discredit their boss and she promises to pay him a surprise visit with a camera team that would ruin his reputation. But they soon regret this idea when they learn that her last victim, Milton Midas, utterly destroyed and ruined by her, had to fire all of his staff. Fearing for their jobs, they now try to get rid of her again, describing her boss as a wonderful, friendly father, rather than an employer. But she's not so easily convinced and tries to get her interview. Cyril flees from her, ending up on a roof, from where he crashes through a window and lands right in a ""bachelors auction"", where the reporter has to ""buy"" him for a large amount.

Bully for You
star
6.67
3 votes

#15 - Bully for You

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/8/1989

Mr. Knox and Lady Baden-Baden wish to spend a weekend in privacy, and Cyril agrees to look after Knox' nephew, Bonneville, for some days. As Cyril and Knox are about to sign a contract, it's extremely important that Cyril makes sure Bonneville enjoys his stay. But the little brat knows this as well, and displays some creativity in bullying Cedric and the pigs... Bert and Cedric have been looking forward for this day, er, night because of a very rare event: a huge quartz crystal located inside a cave will be lit by a full moon through a narrow slit and display a colorful spectacle. At night, it's revealed that Bonneville is your typical neglected child; handed over by his parents from one relative to another, lacks basic social abilities, and tries desperately to gain attention. He follows Bert & Cedric into the cave, where he is attacked by them,and he and Cedric fall down a water hole. In order to survive, they have to help each other, and get to talk. Bonneville has a sudden insight,

Simon Says
star
6.75
4 votes

#16 - Simon Says

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/22/1988

An unepected visitor arrives at Sneer mansion, claiming to be Cyril's long lost brother, Simon. Cyril is not convinced, and Bert sets out to discover the truth with a bit of detective work.

Paperback Hero
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6.75
4 votes

#17 - Paperback Hero

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/1988

Benoit Laveur est époustouflé lorsque le héro de son livre, le Comte Malcom Havelock, arrive dans la forêt des Sapins Verts. Inspiré par les aventures extraordinaires du Comte, Benoit se prépare à réaliser son ambition de toujours en rejoignant le Comte dans un safari. Mais il découvre la triste vérité au sujet de son héro.

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Monster Mania
star
6.75
4 votes

#18 - Monster Mania

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1988

After Melissa snaps a blurry photo of a creature swimming in Evergreen Lake, unruly mobs of monster watchers descend on the Evergreen Forest. When Bert traps the monster it takes him on a hair raising race across the lake that ends in a spectacular crash. Everyone learns the difference between fact and fiction when the monster is revealed to be yet another Cyril Sneer tourist trap.

Gold Rush
star
6.80
5 votes

#19 - Gold Rush

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/1986

There is gold in the Emerald [Evergreen] Forest and Cyril Sneer wants it.

Directors: Kevin Gillis
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Power Trip!
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6.80
5 votes

#20 - Power Trip!

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/1987

After having his electricity cut off for failing to pay his bills, Cyril Sneer decides to build a hydroelectric dam. Meanwhile, Ralph and Melissa have gone camping and Bert is playing host to adventurous Great Aunt Gertie.

Directors: Kevin Gillis
Moving In
star
7.00
3 votes

#21 - Moving In

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/14/1990

Ralph's brother George moves into the Evergreen Forest with the rest of his family. George has been offered the job of presenter of a cooking program on K.N.O.X. TV. The pigs try out a career in television after being fired for shredding money by mistake. Lisa finds it difficult to adjust to the change.

Stealing the Show
star
7.00
3 votes

#22 - Stealing the Show

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1989

Bert and Cedric have gone skate-crazy. Cyril and Mr. Knox are trying to settle in the skateboard market; they have both developed their own product line and each of them equips a team for a coming race in order to prove the quality of his boards. There seems to be no place in the forest for two skateboard brands - they agree that the looser has to retreat from this market. At the pigs' place... Lloyd and Pink are huge comic book fans and members of a ""Mudman"" fan club, and feel quite elitary, scorning Floyd, who can't afford these books. In order to gain their respect, he begins to steal them from Willow's, and suffers from his bad conscience. In the end, he's going to be discovered and punished. During the race, Cyril's and Knox's race teams behave rather unfairly, trying to throw their opponent out of the race, but don't care for Bert and Cedric, which enables them to win the race (using neither Cyril's boards nor Knox's).

Making the Grade
star
7.00
3 votes

#23 - Making the Grade

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1989

Bentley's summer holidays are ending and a new school year awaits him. He's visiting Bert and Cedric and brings up memories of their own youth in them. Together they pay the Evergreen Elementary School a visit, and meet Ms. Primrose, the Raccoons' and Cedric's former teacher. When they hear the school's about to be closed, they try to help prevent this. In the end, Cyril, in a lapse into sentimentality, donates the money to modernize the school and enhance the building, which changes the government school inspector's mind.

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The Phantom of Sneer Mansion
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7.00
3 votes

#24 - The Phantom of Sneer Mansion

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1989

The Sneer Theatre is about to be re-opened; just in time for Cedric, who has written a play (""The secret of the cursed treasure""). Lady Baden-Baden appears to the casting and gets crazy for the main role. In order to make sure she gets the role, Knoxie puts Cyril under pressure, who in turn tries to convince Cedric to modify the play in favour of Lady B.B. Cedric agrees to 'improve' the script, and from this moment, odd things start to happen - Cyril has a series of utterly improbable accidents each time he tries to take influence in Cedric's writing. When they hear the phantom's threatening voice and realise there's someone behind the events, Bert and the pigs unpack their ghostbusting equipment (they've got the will, they've got the technology!) After a chase and fright sequence, the phantom is revealed to be another author formerly employed and exploited by Cyril, who wanted to take revenge, while saving Cedric from suffering the same fate.

Science Friction
star
7.00
3 votes

#25 - Science Friction

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1989

Prof. Smedley-Smythe holds a science contest for young people, who are to prepare any kind of scientific projects and present them to a jury. Bert's digging for dinosaur fossils, while Cedric and his father build a flight device resembling a pedal-driven helicopter. After not too long, Bert finds a promising tar pit and prepares to examine it more closely. But the pigs, thinking they'd improve Cedric's chances in the contest by sabotaging Bert's project, sink a heap of fresh bones in the pit, and thus cause confusion as usual.