The BEST episodes written by Erik Wiese

8.42

225 votes

#1 - XX: Jack and the Monks

Samurai Jack - Season 2 - Episode 7

After Aku's beetle drones destroy yet another gateway to the past, only moments before he's is able to reach it, Jack is overcome with frustration and is about ready to give up the quest. Then, by chance, he meets three monks about to climb the Mountain of Fatoom. Where, legend has it, truth can be found at the top.

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XXXII: Jack and the Travelling Creatures

8.13

231 votes

#2 - XXXII: Jack and the Travelling Creatures

Samurai Jack - Season 3 - Episode 6

To get to a time passage, Jack must pass a lake which sucks down any who try to cross it without touching its bottom.

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8.04

277 votes

#3 - XV: Jack Tales

Samurai Jack - Season 2 - Episode 2

Three short stories: 1) Jack confronts a two-headed riddling serpent who will grant him his wish if he can answer their questions. 2) Jack confronts a family that feed on metal, only for him and they to find out that they are robots. 3) Jack tries to rescue a wish-granting fairy from a gargoyle.

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7.98

203 votes

#4 - XXVIII: Jack and the Rave

Samurai Jack - Season 3 - Episode 3

In his travels Jack comes to a tavern and a crying tavern owner. Then shadowy figures attack but Jack discovers they are teenagers, the "Children of Aku", under a magical musical spell. Knocking one out and following them in disguise, jack finds their rave and a sinister DJ playing the music. The DJ spots Jack and a fight ensues. Jack takes the fight directly to the DJ who is his near-equal. When Jack gets the upper hand the DJ dons a speaker-battlesuit but Jack regains his lost sword at the last minute and triumphs, freeing the children.

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7.90

166 votes

#5 - LI: Young Jack in Africa

Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 12

This episode takes place during Jack's childhood. After Aku's first attack, Jack is brought to a tribe in Africa where he is admitted into the adult community after a small ritual and the chief of the village teaches him the art of fighting with a stick. But an enemy tribe attacks the village in order to get a reward promised by Aku for Jack's capture and everyone is captured except for Jack. So he follows them, mastering the captors' weapon, using qualities of the animals he has observed to do so. After a difficult series of fights, Jack releases all the prisoners and with their help, the enemy tribe is defeated. At the end, Jack leaves the tribe because he is now considered to have learned all he can from them.

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7.65

221 votes

#6 - XLI: Robo-Samurai vs. Mondo Bot

Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 2

Jack enters the abandoned city of Andromeda and finds himself under attack by a monstrous giant robot, the Mondo-Bot. Jack is initially defeated and rescued by local robots who believe he is the Chosen One. The city is built on a magical city of giants and Jack goes underwater to seek them out and finds a giant samurai robot which pulls Jack into it. Jack's bot is resistant to everything the Mondo-Bot shoots at it so the two engage in an enormous close combat battle and Jack proves triumphant.

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