The WORST episodes of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
Every episode of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?!
The world-famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, this energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to our detectives and the audience to figure out where in the world she is.
#1 - Timing is Everything
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/5/1998
Carmen's henchman Mason Dixon steals her time machine. Suddenly, he is the leader of V.I.L.E. and Carmen is only his henchwoman. Zack and Ivy have to restore the damage Mason has done and also stop him from trying to change the outcome of the Civil War.
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#2 - Cupid Sandiego
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/1998
All ACME detectives are having holidays on Seychelles. Joshua, the resident genius of the detectives, is in love with Ivy but she doesn't notice. When Carmen tries to steal Joshua's latest invention, she tries to distract the detectives by stealing supposed romantic items.
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#3 - Retribution (3): Maelstrom's Revenge
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/1/1998
The Chief manages to convince the local sheriff to free Zack and Ivy. They meet up with Carmen again and pursue Maelstrom. Maelstrom begins to steal items and frames Carmen for their thefts! He wants to ruin her reputation as a thief with a conscience.
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#4 - Retribution (2): In Memoriam
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/31/1998
Zack and Ivy escape Maelstrom's ship and find out that Carmen still believes that Maelstrom died in his try to escape from the prison. Carmen wants to give him a worthy Viking-like funeral in Norway. Zack and Ivy find her beginning to give him such a funeral and are about to tell her that Maelstrom is alive when Maelstrom appears in a ship beside Carmen. He challenges her to come after him or die and then speeds off. Carmen manages to get Zack and Ivy aboard her ship and they make an agreement to join forces to capture Maelstrom.
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#5 - Trick or Treat
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/1996
When Carmen is tricked at a heist in China, she decides to get even with a Halloween surprise. She decides to set up a haunted house with items she's recently stolen. Zack is a bit frightened by all the spooky stuff in the house and has to convince himself it's all fake.
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#13 - Hot Ice
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1994
Carmen warns the Player that her next crime "promises to be a real gem". Soon he and the detectives discover what Carmen meant - she has created a large diamond and uses it to cause an information traffic jam across Acme's frequencies.
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#18 - Labyrinth (2): Woman of the Year...2101
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1995
Carmen arrives in the year 2101 where she stops a heist of a powerful electro-magnet. Meanwhile, Zack and Ivy arrive at the future Acme Detective Agency where the wacky Future Chief doesn't recognize them. They try to prove who they are but run into a few scrapes with the law. Eventually, they meet up with Carmen in Africa. Although the detectives expose that she is a criminal, she escapes with the magnet and Zack and Ivy end up captured instead.
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#19 - Retribution (1): The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/1998
Maelstrom, a thief who was caught by Carmen during her time as an ACME detective, escapes from prison, swearing revenge on her. At first, it is reported to the detectives that he died during his escape. Zack and Ivy find out that Maelstrom is alive and see the opportunity to catch both Carmen and Maelstrom. However, when the detectives sneak aboard Maelstrom's ship, he captures them.
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#20 - Labyrinth (3): When in Rome
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1995
Zack and Ivy escape from the future and follow Carmen to Rome. There, the detectives are captured and are sentenced to fight each other in the Colosseum games. Luckily, they are spared from having to fight each other to the death. They escape, and discover Carmen's plan - she's going to steal the Colosseum! The detectives realize this is part of her plan to become 'the greatest thief of all time' by stealing objects from the past, present, and future.
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#21 - Labyrinth (1)
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1995
Zack and Ivy discover Carmen's underground training facility and go undercover as henchmen in training to try and nab Carmen. However, Carmen discovers them and leads them to a chamber that seems to have no way out. There is one way - an escape into time. Carmen created another time machine and uses it to escape. The detectives use a new Chronoskimmer that the Chief gives them and they trace where Carmen is heading - the future.
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#22 - Shaman Spirits
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1995
Carmen's reoccurring nightmare sends to her to seek the help of three Native American shamans to interpret it. Meanwhile, Zack, Ivy and a Native American detective named Billy 'Running Bird', track Carmen to Devil's Tower where the meaning of her dream is revealed. Though Carmen is captured, the shamans let her go. They do not want to go back on their promise - they would interpret her dream in exchange for the return of the items she stole from them.
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#23 - Scavenger Hunt
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1994
When Carmen steals famous gifts from around the world, Zack and Ivy are puzzled, especially since her clues are in the form of a scavenger hunt. Suddenly, the detectives realize why Carmen is doing this. It's her birthday and she is stealing these famous gifts to give them to herself.
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#25 - The Good Old, Bad Old Days
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/19/1994
The Player challenges Carmen to a low-tech crime. Carmen accepts the Player's challenge and attempts to steal the Orient Express. Zack and Ivy need some help to solve Carmen's clues and are partnered with a gaucho detective named Armando.
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