The BEST episodes written by Genndy Tartakovsky

Trapped With a Vengeance
star
9.44
41 votes

#1 - Trapped With a Vengeance

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 101

Dexter stays at school too much, forcing the janitor to stay as well, so he waits for a day in which Dexter has to leave early for an emergency, as he plans his revenge...

Watch Now:Amazon
CI
star
8.88
439 votes

#2 - CI

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 10

The fate of the entire universe hangs in the balance as Samurai Jack finally faces Aku.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
XCIV
star
8.79
465 votes

#3 - XCIV

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 3

Samurai Jack is gravely injured, but still decides to face one of the deadliest foes he's ever faced, Assassins from the Cult of Aku.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
XCIII
star
8.76
513 votes

#4 - XCIII

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 2

Jack's will to survive is pushed to its absolute limits after a deadly, unseen foe launches a relentless surprise attack.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
XCVIII
star
8.58
418 votes

#5 - XCVIII

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 7

Jack and Ashi overcome a series of dangerous physical and spiritual tests in order to recover Jack's sword.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Red Mist
star
8.55
238 votes

#6 - The Red Mist

Primal - Season 2 - Episode 4

Spear and Fang fight to save Mira from the warrior clan who enslaved her.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
C
star
8.54
398 votes

#7 - C

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 9

Samurai Jack's worst fear is realized when he faces off against Aku; the demon makes a shocking discovery about Ashi that puts her in grave danger.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Last But Not Beast
star
8.53
15 votes

#8 - Last But Not Beast

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 108

Dexter must save Japan from being destroyed by a monster, but his robot must be controlled by four people to function correctly, so Dexter must tell Dee Dee... and his parents.

Watch Now:Amazon
Rage of the Ape-Men
star
8.49
395 votes

#9 - Rage of the Ape-Men

Primal - Season 1 - Episode 5

An oasis of peace only leads to a brutal attack from a vicious tribe of ape-like men.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
XCVII
star
8.49
435 votes

#10 - XCVII

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 6

Ashi's search for Samurai Jack helps her to see his effect on the world after encountering numerous people and places where he has changed things for the better.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Shadow of Fate
star
8.47
252 votes

#11 - Shadow of Fate

Primal - Season 2 - Episode 2

Spear and Fang get separated in a strange new land.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
XCII
star
8.47
569 votes

#12 - XCII

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 1

It's been 50 years since we last saw Samurai Jack and time has not been kind to him. Aku has destroyed every time portal and Jack has stopped aging, a side effect of time travel. It seems he is cursed to just roam the land for all eternity. His past haunts him as well as a cult of assasins dedicated to killing him for Aku's glory.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
XCV
star
8.45
456 votes

#13 - XCV

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 4

Jack partners with a deadly assassin in order to escape a gargantuan creature that has swallowed them whole.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
XXII: Jack and the Hunters
star
8.44
238 votes

#14 - XXII: Jack and the Hunters

Samurai Jack - Season 2 - Episode 9

On an alien planet, Aku contacts four Emikandi hunters and offers them the chance to hunt Jack. They capture Jack with incredible ease but Jack just as easily frees himself after he hears they're working for Aku and the real hunt begins! After an extended chase the two sides battle atop a skyscraper and Jack falls to his death...but the hunters rescue him out of respect for their greatest prey. Then the Emikandi refuse to give him to Aku out of respect for Jack's skill and depart.

Watch Now:Amazon
The Colossaeus (3)
star
8.43
215 votes

#15 - The Colossaeus (3)

Primal - Season 2 - Episode 9

Spear, Fang and Mira lead a daring escape from the Colossaeus and the Queen bent on their destruction.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
L: Tale of X9
star
8.42
167 votes

#16 - L: Tale of X9

Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 11

The first three-fourths of the story is a monologue: a Terminator-like killer robot with human emotions tells us the story of his life. He formerly worked for Aku, but stopped because of his emotions and because he felt in love with a little dog. But Aku kidnapped his dog and forces him to fight against Jack if he wants to see it again. He is tracking Jack and he is finally destroyed by the samurai His last words are for his puppy and Jack looks sadly at him. Then there is a close-up of his car and the last image of the episode is a photo of the dog.

Watch Now:Amazon
XCVI
star
8.42
433 votes

#17 - XCVI

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 5

Samurai Jack fights to save a group of enslaved people from being harvested as the power source for a monstrous Mega-Robot.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
XCIX
star
8.31
428 votes

#18 - XCIX

Samurai Jack - Season 5 - Episode 8

The burgeoning relationship between Jack and Ashi takes a turn after they are hunted by one of the galaxy's deadliest creatures.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Coven of the Damned
star
8.30
314 votes

#19 - Coven of the Damned

Primal - Season 1 - Episode 8

A tribe of mysterious, primitive women seek to further their coven by using dark magic on Spear and Fang.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Terror Under the Blood Moon
star
8.26
393 votes

#20 - Terror Under the Blood Moon

Primal - Season 1 - Episode 4

The horrors of the red night challenge Spear and Fang for their very survival.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
911
star
8.25
12 votes

#21 - 911

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 47

When Dexter's favorite show gets interrupted by an emergency, he searches all town trying to find it and solve so regular broadcast returns.

Watch Now:Amazon
Sports a Poppin'
star
8.15
13 votes

#22 - Sports a Poppin'

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 57

Dad wants to show Dexter the joy of sports.

Watch Now:Amazon
The Laughing
star
8.15
13 votes

#23 - The Laughing

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 64

After Dexter gets bitten by a clown, he turns into one every night.

Watch Now:Amazon
XXXII: Jack and the Travelling Creatures
star
8.13
227 votes

#24 - 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.

Inflata Dee Dee
star
8.12
26 votes

#25 - Inflata Dee Dee

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 1 - Episode 36

Dee Dee tries on Dexter's inflatable suit, and is swept away on the wind. In getting her down, Dexter accidentally destroys the suit. Dee Dee fixes it by tying balloons to it.

Watch Now:Amazon
Spear and Fang
star
8.11
630 votes

#26 - Spear and Fang

Primal - Season 1 - Episode 1

Tragedy forces a caveman and a dinosaur to rely upon each other for their survival.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
I: The Beginning
star
8.11
898 votes

#27 - I: The Beginning

Samurai Jack - Season 1 - Episode 1

Aku, the shape-shifting master of evil, devastates a young boy's land, forcing him to travel around the world to train as a samurai. When Samurai Jack returns to free his people, he is instead flung into the far future, where he must quest to undo the future that is Aku.

Watch Now:Amazon
Dexter is Dirty
star
8.11
19 votes

#28 - Dexter is Dirty

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 38

To avoid the bath, Dexter decides to laminate himself.

Watch Now:Amazon
VI: Jack and the Warrior Woman
star
8.10
358 votes

#29 - VI: Jack and the Warrior Woman

Samurai Jack - Season 1 - Episode 6

Jack searches for the the magical jewel the Woolies told him would be able to send him back in time. Locating the last survivor of the race who can reveal its location, Jack learns of how to find the jewel, and meets up with a woman questing for the same jewel. They journey through the desert together, but will they be able to share the jewel if they find it?

Watch Now:Amazon
Sea of Despair
star
8.00
258 votes

#30 - Sea of Despair

Primal - Season 2 - Episode 1

Spear and Fang venture into the unknown to rescue Mira from her captors.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
A Boy and His Bug
star
8.00
11 votes

#31 - A Boy and His Bug

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 72

Dexter creates a small bug that eats all the scrap metal caused by Dee Dee's destruction.

Watch Now:Amazon
Dexter's Laboratory
star
8.00
2 votes

#32 - Dexter's Laboratory

What a Cartoon - Season 1 - Episode 2

Dee Dee and Dexter battle turning each other into animals, using Dexter's latest invention. Note 1: First short to become a series after being deemed most popular through a vote held in 1995. Note 2: First pilot to Dexter's Laboratory.

Watch Now:Amazon
Rushmore Rumble
star
8.00
11 votes

#33 - Rushmore Rumble

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 71

Dexter and Mandark mechanize the giant figures of Lincoln and Washington from the Mount Rushmore statues and wreak havoc with them.

Watch Now:Amazon
Germ Warfare
star
8.00
18 votes

#34 - Germ Warfare

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 28

Everybody except Dexter gets sick, so he makes himself a plastic bubble to get germ protection.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
III: The First Fight
star
8.00
560 votes

#35 - III: The First Fight

Samurai Jack - Season 1 - Episode 3

Aku learns of Jack's arrival in the future, and of the help he is giving the dogs. He sends a huge army of insect drones to destroy Jack and the dogs alike. Jack has been busy preparing many traps for them however, and when they arrive the battle begins in earnest.

Watch Now:Amazon
Dawn of Man
star
7.96
229 votes

#36 - Dawn of Man

Primal - Season 2 - Episode 3

The quest to find Mira leads Spear and Fang to the village of fearsome warriors.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Night Feeder
star
7.95
289 votes

#37 - The Night Feeder

Primal - Season 1 - Episode 9

A horrific unseen terror stalks the night as well as our heroes, Spear and Fang.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Way of the Dee Dee
star
7.94
32 votes

#38 - Way of the Dee Dee

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 1 - Episode 28

Dee Dee tries to get Dexter to loosen up. It works, but Dexter ends up trying to destroy his lab. Dee Dee realizes her mistake, that she tried to change who Dexter is.

Watch Now:Amazon
Jurassic Pooch
star
7.92
52 votes

#39 - Jurassic Pooch

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 1 - Episode 13

Dexter creates a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has the brain and heart of a dog, and Dee Dee makes him her pet.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
LI: Young Jack in Africa
star
7.89
158 votes

#40 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
II: The Samurai Called Jack
star
7.89
699 votes

#41 - II: The Samurai Called Jack

Samurai Jack - Season 1 - Episode 2

Jack befriends some talking archeologist dogs and learns of his location: In the future shaped by years of Aku's evil reign. He vows to help the dogs gain their freedom from a life of enslaved jewel mining.

Watch Now:Amazon
River of Snakes
star
7.88
484 votes

#42 - River of Snakes

Primal - Season 1 - Episode 2

Man and beast are challenged to find a way to exist together.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Gooey Aliens That Control Your Mind
star
7.82
11 votes

#43 - Gooey Aliens That Control Your Mind

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 95

Dexter must save his family after they get possessed by aliens.

Spacecase
star
7.78
32 votes

#44 - Spacecase

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 1 - Episode 31

To get rid of some aliens, Dexter offers Dee Dee as a test subject tricking her into thinking they're going to candy land. The guilt drives Dexter crazy and he goes to rescue her. The aliens willingly gives Dee Dee back (she wrecked their ship looking for candy).

The Primal Theory
star
7.76
232 votes

#45 - The Primal Theory

Primal - Season 2 - Episode 5

A night of horrors reveals the true nature of man's origin.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Double Trouble
star
7.75
59 votes

#46 - Double Trouble

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 1 - Episode 10

In order to rid himself of Dee Dee, Dexter clones himself. However, Dee Dee, and her friends, Mee Mee and Lee Lee do the same, causing havoc.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Comedy of Feathers
star
7.73
15 votes

#47 - Comedy of Feathers

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 4 - Episode 38

When Dee Dee sees an ostrich at the zoo, she wants one of her own as a pet.

Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor
star
7.71
59 votes

#48 - Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 1 - Episode 11

Monkey's birthday is interrupted by Barbequor, a villain who wants to roast Earth for his next meal.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Morning Stretch
star
7.69
29 votes

#49 - Morning Stretch

Dexter's Laboratory - Season 2 - Episode 11

Dexter oversleeps and still has to finish his homework along with getting ready for school and eating breakfast, so he creates a helmet that expands thirty seconds into thirty minutes, but realizes that slowing down time is more detrimental than helpful. When he gets everything done, the helmet shuts off. But Dee Dee blocks his door causing him to miss the bus. When Dexter asks Dee Dee why, she replies "Snow Day, school's canceled!". Dexter realizes he did all that rushing around for nothing!

Watch Now:Apple TV
LII: Jack and the Baby
star
7.64
168 votes

#50 - LII: Jack and the Baby

Samurai Jack - Season 4 - Episode 13

While peacefully enjoying a snack of peaches, Jack hears a baby cry and races to find out what's the matter. He rescues Baby from a crew of hungry (baby-eating) monsters. The two then set off to find the baby's mother. Jack makes a great temporary parent, finding food, shelter, dealing with diapers. He tells Baby a bedtime story of Momotaro (Peach-boy, an archetypal Japanese folk-tale). When sick, Baby wants peaches; when they return to the peach orchard, the monsters find them again. After the final defeat of the monsters, Baby's mother is found. When she notices a surprising change in her child, Jack explains the baby has achieved sakai, the spirit of the samurai.

Watch Now:Amazon