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The Best Episodes of Dr. Slump

Every episode of Dr. Slump ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dr. Slump!

Best episode
S1E16 Living for Tomorrow! / Arale is Akane!?
9.115 votes
Worst episode
S1E1 Arale's Birth / Hey! Friends
8.030 votes
Top season
Season 1
8.6avg
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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 16 - Living for Tomorrow! / Arale is Akane!?
    9.1/10(15 votes)

    S1:E16

    Senbei invents a camera that can take pictures of the future. When Arale plays with it with her friends, they grow suspicious about the fact that she never seems to age in any of the pictures. / Arale and Akane swap lives for the day.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 50 - Yay! A Date for Mr. Copy
    9.4/10(6 votes)

    S1:E50

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 14 - Hero Suppaman
    8.9/10(16 votes)

    S1:E14

    Kento Kuraku is no ordinary man. After he eats his favorite pickled plums, he turns into Suppaman, a not-very-helpful superhero who causes more problems than solves. He, in turn, catches the attention of Arale.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 19 - Arale Swims in the Ancient Past
    8.9/10(14 votes)

    S1:E19

    Arale uses the Time Slipper to go for a swim "a long time ago". When she takes too long to return, Senbei starts to get worried.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 11 - Teketeke Children / Scary Scary Policewoman
    8.8/10(24 votes)

    S1:E11

    Arale meets five-year-old Kinoko, a self-professed hip girl who only loves the most in-style of things. / After being accosted by a threatening female police officer, Senbei creates an invisibility potion to evade her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 5 - Friends With a Bear!! / New Invention! Dekachibi Ray Gun
    8.8/10(20 votes)

    S1:E5

    Arale rescues a bear, but trouble is afoot when her new friend is to be released back into the wild. / Senbei creates a raygun that can make things bigger or smaller than their intended size. Naturally, Arale causes some mischief with it.

    Director:Hiroyuki Ikeda
    Writer:Tomoko Konparu

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  7. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 15 - Arale's Errand / Wai-Wai Wildland
    8.8/10(14 votes)

    S1:E15

    After seeing Akane's bra in the changing room, Arale wants one for herself, not realizing that she doesn't need it. / Arale and pals take an excursion to safari park Wildland, but get into some trouble when their jeep breaks down.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 21 - The Great Space Date Escapade
    8.8/10(12 votes)

    S1:E21

    Senbei, Arale, and Miss Yamabuki take a trip to the stars in Senbei's spacecraft. However, his decision to not install a bathroom ends up getting Yamabuki kidnapped on an alien planet.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 8 - Donbe Story
    8.7/10(21 votes)

    S1:E8

    The tricky fox Donbe uses his kitsune powers of transformation to pull pranks on the town. When he runs into trouble, Arale and Senbei must put their differences aside with the critter who caused them too much trouble in one day.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 18 - The Fairy Tale Machine / Bibiruman the Hitman
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    S1:E18

    Senbei's newest invention allows the user to enter books and interact with the characters as part of the story. When Arale enters the world of Momotaro, her decisions cause the tale to go wildly off-course. / Joe Dunn hires hitman Bibiruman to take out Arale, but her would-be killer gets sucked into her King Kong book with the Fairy Tale Machine.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 20 - Kinoko-chan Leaves Home
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    S1:E20

    After Kinoko's dad eats the strawberry off her cake, she, in a fit of anger, decides to run away and become a juvenile delinquent.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 22 - Senbei Dumbfounded
    8.6/10(8 votes)

    S1:E22

    On the return back from last episode's space adventure, Senbei discovers that Akane and Taro have grown old. They say it's been 50 years since he left the planet, but could there be more to the story?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 13 - The Terrifying Good Girl
    8.5/10(16 votes)

    S1:E13

    Arale, misinterpreting Miss Yamabuki's lesson on being a good kid, spreads chaos with the intention of goodwill.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 12 - Transform Ponpoko Gun / Arale Flies in the Sky!
    8.5/10(19 votes)

    S1:E12

    Senbei creates a tanuki-themed raygun that can turn anyone into anything the wielder desires. In Arale's hands, trouble ensues. / Arale wants to fly in the sky like Gatchan, so Senbei creates a flying machine for her. But, in her soaring endeavors, she inadvertently bugs Raijin, the deity who creates storms and thunder with his drum set.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 7 - Charging Arale-chan
    8.5/10(20 votes)

    S1:E7

    A day in the life of Arale, from her police car destructions to her school life, and home again after accidentally eating whiskey bonbons.

    Director:Akinori Nagaoka
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 10 - Ah! Earth SOS!!
    8.5/10(22 votes)

    S1:E10

    The alien King Nikochan and his assistant abduct Arale and Gatchan, with the expressed intent to destroy the world. However, Gatchan's appetite for metal causes their ship to crash, which leaves the two invaders seeking help from the earth people.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 23 - Arale's Hoyoyo Date / Bye-bye Mecchanko Power
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    S1:E23

    Arale goes on a date with the tough Banchou. Her definition of a date is just holding hands, though. Very tightly. / Senbei tries to scale back Arale's strength as to not cause any more destructive trouble.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 17 - The Monsters' Night of Fear
    8.4/10(21 votes)

    S1:E17

    Trampire, a buxom bloodsucker, along with her assistant Franken, terrorize Penguin Village in search of her favorite treat. When she gets to Arale's house, however, the tables are turned.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 2 - Arale Goes to School! / It is! ... not there
    8.4/10(27 votes)

    S1:E2

    Arale's superhuman strength gets word around the school, and all the clubs want her to join them. / Arale comes home to tell Senbei that an integral body part is missing on her body, to which the doctor invents x-ray specs for definitely-not-perverted research purposes.

    Director:Toyoo Ashida
    Writer:Masaki Tsuji

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  20. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 6 - The Teacher is Coming! / Arale Kidnapped!
    8.3/10(19 votes)

    S1:E6

    Arale tells Senbei that her teacher is coming for a home visit. Knowing he has to look his best for Miss Yamabuki, he creates a barber robot to spiff him up. / Criminal Joe Dunn holds Arale and Gatchan hostage, but doesn't realize that he's underpowered compared to the two little terrors he's kidnapped.

    Director:Toyoo Ashida
    Writer:Ayuko Anzai

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  21. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 9 - The Great Strawberry Panties Plot
    8.2/10(21 votes)

    S1:E9

    Arale reveals to Senbei that Miss Yamabuki wears strawberry-patterned panties. In a fit of pure horniness, he enlists the help of the animals of Penguin Village to get him a peek.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 4 - Huh?! Is it a Boy? Is it a Girl? / Gatchan the Courier
    8.1/10(22 votes)

    S1:E4

    The babylike creature that hatched from the prehistoric egg, Gatchan, is the subject of several discoveries for Arale and Senbei. / A day in the life of Gatchan, as they go about town interacting with the Penguin Village citizens.

    Director:Masayuki Ozeki
    Writer:Shunichi Yukimuro

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  23. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 3 - The Big Time Slipper Adventure / What Egg is This?!
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    S1:E3

    Senbei tests out his newest invention: an alarm clock-shaped time machine called the Time Slipper. On its inaugural voyage, Arale gets lost in ancient Japan. / Arale and friends use the Time Slipper to go back to the days of the dinosaurs, and find a mysterious egg.

    Director:Akinori Nagaoka
    Writer:Shunichi Yukimuro

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  24. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 1 - Arale's Birth / Hey! Friends
    8.0/10(30 votes)

    S1:E1

    Senbei creates Arale and takes her on a test-run as a convincing little sister. However, she's not as tuned-up as her creator would have expected. / Arale is enrolled in school, and tries to win over the "tough kids" Akane, Taro, and his little brother Peasuke. Meanwhile, Senbei gets a crush on his creation's homeroom teacher, Midori Yamabuki.

    Director:Minoru Okazaki
    Writer:Masaki Tsuji

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  25. Dr. Slump Season 1 Episode 24 - Arale's Big Change!!
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E24

    After a cricket leaps into Arale's mouth, her personality changes, giving her much more common sense and manners. This starts to freak everybody out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Toshiki Inoue

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Best Episodes Summary

"Living for Tomorrow! / Arale is Akane!?" is the best rated episode of Dr. Slump. It scored 9.1/10 from 15 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on July 29, 1981.

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