The BEST episodes of The Tick

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

After "crashing" the super hero convention, the blue-clad hero, the Tick, is deemed the protector of "the City." On his first mission he runs into Arthur, an accountant with a moth costume who aspires to superherodom. They soon strike up a hero partnership to protect the City from a host of nefarious villains such as Chairface Chippendale, El Seed and many more.

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Heroes
star
8.58
81 votes

#1 - Heroes

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1995

A camera crew follows the Tick and Arthur around for a day of crime fighting as they do battle with a unique villain.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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Evil Sits Down for a Moment
star
7.63
52 votes

#2 - Evil Sits Down for a Moment

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1995

A villain who can animate furniture and make it do her bidding falls in love with Die Fledermaus and tries to take over The City, with hilarious consequences and sexy results.

Directors: Hank Tucker
Writer: Jed Spingarn
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The Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love
star
7.60
40 votes

#3 - The Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1995

When Arthur goes off on a date with Carmalita on Hobby Night, Tick builds himself a new sidekick - Little Wooden Boy. Swiss Commandoes are after the notebook of Dr. Vahtoss, Carmalita's father and the inventor of Arthur's flight suit. And Blowhole, a giant long-distance running whale, accidentally swallows everyone, forcing the Tick to light up Little Wooden Boy to cause Blowhole to choke them up. Yep, just another day in The City...

Directors: Hank Tucker
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Alone Together
star
7.48
25 votes

#4 - Alone Together

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1995

The Tick is sent into space to blow the ""CHA"" out of the Moon from when Chairface tried to write his name in the moon. He blows the letter C up while he's inside it and gets sent through space. While in space he comes across a fantastically large alien named Omnipotus. The Tick befriends him and becomes a janitor on his body. But Omnipotus is an eater of planets and plans to eat the Earth when they get to it.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil
star
7.45
184 votes

#5 - The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1994

The Tick and Arthur go on a trip to a field park about dinosaurs. There they meet Dinosaur Neil, a scientist who shows the two that he has a real dinosaur cell, but it would grow if it isn't kept in a special substance. Neil accidently eats the cell and slowly turns into a half-man, half-dinosaur monster. Arthur realizes the ""special"" substance was merely aspirin, so he gets The Tick to feed a giant aspirin to the man-beast, turning him back into a human. In the end, Neil starts talking to and dating Arthur's sister, Dot.

Directors: Art Vitello
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Tick vs. Filth
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7.35
17 votes

#6 - Tick vs. Filth

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1996

Sewer Urchin battles his arch enemy, the Sewer Czar, earning the respect of his fellow superheroes.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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The Tick vs. the Idea Men
star
7.35
280 votes

#7 - The Tick vs. the Idea Men

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1994

The super-strong but slow-witted and pretty much insane superhero called ""The Tick"" is assigned to defend ""The City"". Arriving there, he meets Arthur, a bank accountant who got fired for wearing his moth suit (that everyone mistakes for a bunny costume). The Tick asks Arthur to become his sidekick and reside in their headquarters: Arthur's apartment. Some criminals calling themselves ""The Idea Men"", guys who don't want to work anymore and are impossible to understand because of their full-face masks, rob a bank. They fail, thanks to the Tick, but manage to escape. They proceed to threaten to blow up the City's bank if they don't get a million bucks, so the Tick and Arthur go out once more to stop their evil ways.

Directors: Art Vitello
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The Tick vs. the Proto-Clown
star
7.28
68 votes

#8 - The Tick vs. the Proto-Clown

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/1995

The Tick gets knocked into space and into a self-exploratory journey by a giant genetically-enhanced clown. The remaining superheroes are forced to try to fight off the evil proto-clown until the Tick returns.

Directors: Art Vitello
Writer: Henry Gilroy
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That Mustache Feeling
star
7.27
22 votes

#9 - That Mustache Feeling

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1996

The Mustache, a U.S. secret weapon, escapes from the lab and tries to team up with its counterpart, the Russian Beard. In hot pursuit are Jim Rage and the Ladies of Project: Shave, so the Mustache takes refuge on the Tick's lip. Meanwhile, Dinosaur Neil and Dot plan for their marriage.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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The Tick vs. Brainchild
star
7.24
129 votes

#10 - The Tick vs. Brainchild

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1994

While shopping, the Tick and Arthur run afoul of Charles, aka Brainchild - a 9-year old with his brain in a transparent dome on his head. Assisted by his cyborg dog Skippy, Charles uses his multi-mega-destructor cannon to smash the Moon into the Earth, and only the Tick can save the day!

Directors: Art Vitello
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The Tick vs. the Breadmaster
star
7.23
172 votes

#11 - The Tick vs. the Breadmaster

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1994

The Breadmaster and his sidekick, Buttery Pat, plot to conquer The City by baking a giant Lemon Dessert Souffle and only The Tick and Arthur can stop him. The Tick uses the Human Cannon's cannon to fire himself, create a sonic boom, and collapse the Souffle before it can crush The City.

Directors: Art Vitello
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Tick vs. Reno, Nevada
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7.21
19 votes

#12 - Tick vs. Reno, Nevada

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/1996

When Reno entertainers Soren and Frederica lose their prized animal, a trained dolphin, they call upon Arthur (they know his parents), and he and the Tick come to their aid. Little do they know that the dolphin, The Fin, plans to rule the world with his newly-invented Fish Magnet, with which he plans to bury the city in fish. The Tick must cope with his newfound weakness - gambling addiction - but manages to overcome it and beat The Fin by holding his breath longer.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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The Tick vs. Mr. Mental
star
7.19
173 votes

#13 - The Tick vs. Mr. Mental

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1994

The Tick's mind is taken over by an evil mind controller, Mr. Mental. (Yes, the Tick actually does have a mind). Mr. Mental uses the Tick to get a machine that will increase his mind abilities even more. It's up to Arthur and his other superhero friends to break the Tick out of Mr. Mental's control

Directors: Art Vitello
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The Tick vs. the Tick
star
7.12
108 votes

#14 - The Tick vs. the Tick

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1994

The Tick and the gang take Arthur's sister's car to a Superhero night club. Arthur can't get in because he's a sidekick so he has to wait in the sidekicks lounge. A pseudo-superhero calling himself the Tick comes to the club and he and The Tick battle. Also a skinny, tiny villian called the ""Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight"" tries to blow up the superhero night spot, with hilarious consequences.

Directors: Art Vitello
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Tick vs. Science
star
7.12
17 votes

#15 - Tick vs. Science

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1996

The Tick and Arthur are invited to the Mad Scientist Fair to help Dr. Vahtoss try out his mind-transference device. Hilarity ensues when the two switch bodies. Chairface Chippendale moves in to try and steal the device and soon everyone is switching with everyone.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account
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7.11
53 votes

#16 - The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/11/1995

The Tick blows Arthur's bank account to upgrade his apartment into their secret headquarters - when Arthur doesn't take it well, Tick moves out and forms his own HQ - a rather shaky ""Crime Tower."" Hearing that the Tick is out of action, the 115-year old Terror summons his allies, Stalingrad, the Human Ton and Handy, Tuun-La, and the Man Eating Cow, and forms a new League of Evil to kidnap the mayor. Desperate, American Maid and the Arthur send forth the Tick Signal and the Tick realizes it is his destiny to be with Arthur and fight crime - the League is no match for the assembled heroes.

Directors: Art Vitello
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Armless But Not Harmless
star
7.11
27 votes

#17 - Armless But Not Harmless

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1995

The Tick and Arthur run afoul of Venus, a portly but alluring love goddess/villain, and her sycophantic sidekick, Milo. The villains successfully remove The Tick and Arthur's arms and attach them to a pair of crude lookalike robots. Venus begins a crime spree with the help of the heroes' arms, while The Tick and Arthur evade a police manhunt and try to reclaim their errant extremities and save the day.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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Tick vs. Arthur
star
7.11
18 votes

#18 - Tick vs. Arthur

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1996

Arthur is annoyed at his failed attempts to lose weight and dismayed at how much of a wimp he is. When he and Tick defeat a villain named Evil, Arthur takes Evil's strength-enhancing belt. When Arthur wears it, he gains confidence and likes seeing himself with a muscular physique. While dating Carmalita, Arthur picks a fight with two guys to show his new strength and confidence. The Tick is called in to end the fight and he tangles with Arthur. In the end, Arthur must get rid of his strength belt to save his and Tick's life. Arthur realizes the addiction the belt gave him and tosses it away so that he can be himself.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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Ants in Pants!
star
7.10
21 votes

#19 - Ants in Pants!

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1995

Betty, Queen of the Ants, leads the ants of the City in revolt - it loses its major defender when the Tick is thoroughly creeped out and checks himself into Captain Sanity's Superhero Sanitarium. Betty and her minions capture the other heroes and lock them up in a giant People Farm, then collect enough glass to build a giant magnifying glass and use sunlight to fry them. Fortunately the Tick regains his (normal) sanity in the nick of time and saves the day.

Directors: Hank Tucker
Writer: Ralph Soll
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Coach Fussell's Lament
star
7.05
57 votes

#20 - Coach Fussell's Lament

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1995

The evil Brainchild returns and using his Nanny-of-the-Apocalypse, captures the Tick and transforms him into a two-headed bird that speaks bad French. Thus rendered powerless, The Tick is auctioned off by Brainchild, and it's up to the other heroes to sneak into the villain gathering and save him.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale
star
7.04
181 votes

#21 - The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1994

The Tick, American Maid, and Arthur go undercover as caterers to infiltrate Chairface Chippendale's party. Chippendale has gathered the City's criminal underworld to witness his latest scheme - employing Professor Chromedome to inscribe Chairface's name on the Moon! The Tick blows their cover but the trio escapes Chippendale's death trap and manages to stop him before he can carve more than the first three letters of his name on the Moon.

Directors: Art Vitello
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Grandpa Wore Tights
star
7.00
19 votes

#22 - Grandpa Wore Tights

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/17/1996

The Terror sends his so-so villainous son Terry to recover his Desire-O-Vac - he lost it in an epic battle against the Decency Squad decades ago. The Tick is there listening to the old-time Squadders' tales and eventually gets involved, but it's a rebellious Terry and the aged Decency Squad members who save the day.

Directors: Hank Tucker
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The Tick vs. El Seed
star
7.00
129 votes

#23 - The Tick vs. El Seed

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1994

Flowers all around the City have come alive and are attacking the citizens. The criminal responsible is the evil Spanish sunflower El Seed, who wants revenge on humans and animals for mistreating flowers. When the Tick encounters him on his cropduster, El Seed sprays the Tick with a rapid plant-growth formula, causing flowers and plants to bloom all over his body. The Tick must get the antidote to save the City and himself, while fighing El Seed and his army of corn-soldiers. Fortunately he gets some help from the Civic-Minded Five.

Directors: Art Vitello
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Bloomsday
star
6.98
55 votes

#24 - Bloomsday

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1995

El Seed has returned and this time he wants to destroy the whole city by making a 400 year flower bloom in ""the bad way"". This flower will bloom in this ""bad way"", when there is no gentle music around. But when Professor Ichibana, owner of this rare & amazing flower, switches flowers with The Tick and Arthur, these accursed superheroes are tossed in El Seed's salad once again. El Seed creates Rosebud, who manages to steal the flower from Arthur. El Seed makes the flower bloom in ""the bad way"", but even he cannot control it's powers. Only the Tick's opera singing can save the City now...

Directors: Hank Tucker
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Tick vs. Dot & Neil's Wedding
star
6.94
18 votes

#25 - Tick vs. Dot & Neil's Wedding

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1996

Dinosaur Neil, palaeontologist, curator of Dinosaur Grotto and one-time giant city-destroying mutant, is marrying Arthur's sister Dot. Chairface Chippendale, The Breadmaster and El Seed have other plans, though - plans which involve tampering with Neil's medication, man-eating bouquets, exploding wedding cake, and The Indigestible Man. And as if that wasn't enough, Neil's best man is... The Tick! It's up to our blue hero, Arthur and Dot to save Neil, with the aid of a submarine and 1,400 pounds of pungent raw meat...

Directors: Hank Tucker
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