The WORST episodes of Wishbone
Every episode of Wishbone ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Wishbone!
An intelligent and witty dog imagines himself in the role of characters from classic books and gets involved in similar real-life adventures.
#1 - Barking at Buddha
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1997
Wishbone wants to be a hero and tries to rescue two misguided youngsters when they set out to impress the older kids. As ""Monkey,"" he yearns to be immortal and seeks a position of importance in Wu Ch'eng-en's Chinese folktale.
#2 - Groomed for Greatness
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/6/1997
A statue to honor Wishbone consumes David's every waking moment, or at least that's what his friends think. It appears to Wishbone that David strikes a chord with Pip in Dickens's Great Expectations.
#4 - The Pawloined Paper
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/5/1995
Joe has a substitute teacher for his class, who he likes a lot. After a word puzzle he makes up about her gets snatched, courtesy of Curtis, Joe must get it back before anyone sees it. Meanwhile, Wishbone tears the living room upside down looking for his toy newspaper, which is right under his nose the whole time, just like where the stolen letter is hidden in today's story ""The Purloined Letter"" by Edgar Allen Poe
#7 - Golden Retrieved
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/27/1995
Wishbone is distressed with his owner Joe's infatuation with his new mountain bike, which causes Joe to pay less attention to Wishbone, and to act less caring and patient towards him. Then when Wishbone goes missing for a day, Joe realizes how much Wishbone means to him, and how his dog's company is so much more important than his new bike. Meanwhile, as Silas Marner, Wishbone learns the value of human warmth and companionship as opposed to acquired wealth.
#9 - Bone of Contention
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/7/1997
Joe and David's friendship is tested when they both are interested in the same girl. Wishbone, as John Alden, and his best friend have to decide how valuable their friendship really is in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ""The Courtship of Miles Standish.""
#10 - Rushin' to the Bone
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/8/1996
Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.
#11 - The Entrepawneur
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/5/1996
Based on a portion of the epic poem ""Metamorphoses,"" by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, this episode focuses on the story of King Midas. Meanwhile, Joe is in a ""touchy"" situation with his friends David and Samantha when he hires them to help run his summer grocery delivery business. See more at RECAP
#12 - Bark to the Future
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/6/1995
Joe learns that his own intellect can never be replaced by modern technology. Meanwhile, Wishbone, as The Time Traveler, finds that in the year 802,701 the lazy Eloi have allowed their intellect to be replaced by technology in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.
#13 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1997
Joe and his two best friends, David and Samantha, form a team to go on a Halloween scavenger hunt. Damont also competes in the game, but he tries to win by cheating. Meanwhile, Wishbone imagines himself as Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"".
#14 - A Dogged Expose
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/8/1996
Wishbone is Sherlock Holmes, deftly trying to stop a mastermind from the pages of A Scandal in Bohemia while Samantha is unwillingly tangled in a scandal at Oakdale.
#15 - The Roamin' Nose
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/1997
It's graduation time for the middle-school students, as they face the uncertain future in more ways than one. Wishbone sees a future with just as many question marks in Virgil's The Aeneid.
#16 - Moonbone
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/1997
Would you believe a missing Super Bowl ring could be traced to Wishbone? Hard for him to notice, as he imagines himself as Franklin Blake in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.
#18 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/1997
Continuation of Part 1.
#19 - Picks of the Litter
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/9/1996
The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).
#21 - Pantin' at the Opera
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/6/1996
Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""
#23 - Muttketeer!
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/2/1996
Wishbone is always eager to make friends. He does so in the real world at the local school. And as D'Artagnan, Wishbone makes friends of the Three Musketeers.
#24 - Shakespaw
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 3/10/1996
David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
#25 - Terrified Terrier
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 3/9/1996
Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.