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 - Boyhood's End (2)
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/22/1995
As it turns out, Lee Jordan works for Carmen, and is attempting 'the biggest heist ever'.
#2 - The Play's the Thing
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/7/1994
Carmen goes on a 'Wizard of Oz' related heist.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Just Like Old Times
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1995
Carmen gives herself a Christmas present by downloading The Chief. Only he's got a virus and is losing his memory. He thinks that Carmen is still good and that Zack and Ivy are thieves.
#9 - Can You Ever Go Home Again? (1)
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/26/1998
When Carmen tries to steal some treasures from industrialist Malcolm Avalon she discovers a painting representing her mother. At the same time, Lee Jordan takes the decision to become the new leader of V.I.L.E. Avalon tells Carmen, that the medallion she has with her, representing the same woman as on the painting, was a gift for his daughter, but he says, that Carmen can't be his daughter because she died in a fire and she would never have become a thief. To convince him she turns herself into the police but when Lee abducts Avalon, she breaks out again.
#10 - Can You Ever Go Home Again? (2)
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/2/1999
Has Carmen really found her father and will she stop her life of crime once and for all?
#11 - The Remnants
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1995
While chasing after Carmen, Zack and Ivy discover that Carmen was an orphan. They trail her to the Golden Gate Girls' School which is about to be torn down.
#12 - 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.
#13 - The Trial of Carmen Sandiego
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1996
When Carmen is captured by a judge bent on sentencing her to life in prison, Zack and Ivy are appointed to her defense team. Carmen was accused of recently stealing the Magna Carta, which she did not steal. Zack and Ivy try to gather evidence to prove Carmen did not commit this particular crime. But is she really involved after all?
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Follow My Footprints
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1995
It is reported that Carmen dies in a plane crash. The grief-stricken Chief is unable to help Zack and Ivy solve a series of clues that Carmen left behind to a final caper. The henchman who solves the most of them will be the new leader of V.I.L.E. Zack and Ivy manage to stop all of the thefts. They then travel to the site of Carmen's reported death to pay their last respects. Suddenly, a little bird delivers a message to "look up". When they do, they see Carmen was alive all that time. She had planned to fake her death to see who was worthy enough to take her place - and it turns out Zack and Ivy are the only ones who can!
#18 - 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.
#19 - Birds of a Feather
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1995
Somehow, the world's largest diamond, the Star of Africa, was stolen. The police are baffled and it's up to Zack and Ivy to figure this mystery out. They soon discover that one of Carmen's henchmen tried to double-cross her and keep the diamond for himself. With a little trickery of their own, the detectives recover the diamond.
#20 - Curses, Foiled Again
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1995
Zack and Ivy manage to capture Carmen in Hawaii. However, Zack loses his lucky rabbit's foot and begins to believe he's cursed with bad luck. Meanwhile, Carmen escapes and tries to teach her superstitious henchwoman, Hannah Lulu that there's no such thing as curses or ghosts. Hannah has a panic attack though when Zack and Ivy scare her at a supposedly haunted site. They manage to capture her but Carmen escapes. She leaves behind something Zack was glad to see again - his lucky rabbit's foot.
#21 - A Date with Carmen (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1994
After recovering Ben's key, Zack and Ivy travel back to Boston and discover Carmen has stolen Paul Revere's horseshoe.
#22 - A Higher Calling
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/1994
Zack and Ivy pursue Carmen to Ayer's Rock where she has brought items of mysterious origins together in an attempt to contact aliens.
#23 - Dinosaur Delirium
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/19/1994
Carmen steals top secret genetic research and attempts to create her own dinosaur.
#24 - Moondreams
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/5/1994
Carmen's dream of landing on the moon inspires her to try and make it come true. She also decides to leave a little reminder of her feat- a painted silhouette of herself on the lunar surface.
#25 - By a Whisker
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/12/1994
Carmen kidnapps two white lion cubs and sets up her own game preserve for them.