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The Best Episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 13 - The Rotten Egg
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    S2:E13

    Leatherneck attends graduation ceremonies at a new academy and discovers it run by former enemy Buck McCann, who is loyal to Cobra. Leatherneck must foil McCann's plan to destroy Parris Island Marine Academy.

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  2. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 1 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1)
    7.2/10(29 votes)

    S2:E1

    A surprise attack by Cobra, using the new BATs, reveals that the Joes have gotten sloppy. General Hawk asks Sergeant Slaughter to help whip the team back into shape. Meanwhile, a series of dreams prompt Dr. Mindbender to concoct a plan to build a new Cobra leader from the DNA of long-dead conquerors. A package downed Night Raven reveals that Zartan has been asked to expand his team of Dreadnoks so he turns to his siblings, Zandar and Zarana for help, and the Joes investigate and discover the plan, only to be cornered by Thrasher and his Thunder Machine.

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  3. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 3 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (3)
    7.2/10(30 votes)

    S2:E3

    Cobra takes DNA from the tombs of Ivan the Terrible and Alexander the Great. Sergeant Slaughter retrieves a DNA pack from Cobra's raid on Sun Tzu's tomb, and from it the Joes surmise that Cobra is building a new breed of soldiers. Dr. Mindbender intends to use Slaughter's DNA as a replacement, and so feigns defeat as a ploy to retrieve the sarcophagus of Genghis Khan and capture Slaughter.

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  4. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 7 - Computer Complications
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    S2:E7

    When the Joes seek to recover a sample of anti-matter from a sunken ship, Zarana is sent to their headquarters to sabotage the operation. She and Mainframe discover they have feelings for each other. In the aftermath of a battle, the USS Flagg is sunk.

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  5. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 8 - Sink the Montana
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    S2:E8

    An aging admiral learns that his ship is to be scrapped, and he turns to Cobra for help. Cobra renders his ship impervious to electronic vessels, so G.I. Joe must use the two-hundred-year-old USS Constitution to defeat him.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 11 - The Million Dollar Medic
    7.2/10(30 votes)

    S2:E11

    Bree Van Mark, a cute wealthy woman, develops a crush on Lifeline after he rescues her and her father from a sinking yacht during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra. Lifeline discovers that Cobra is after Bree's father, a wealthy industrialist whose holding include a defense company. But the Joes think that Bree is working for Cobra since some of her gifts, including a gold plated helicopter, have backfires. She flies off in a Tomahawk taking Lifeline with her. They head to a cabin in the Rockies and are followed by Cobra. Lifeline, who is a pacifist, must fend off Cobra until the rest of the Joes arrives.

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  7. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 9 - Let's Play Soldier
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    S2:E9

    Cobra discovers an Asian tree sap that brainwashes people, and uses it to enslave the native population. Leatherneck must care for four orphans while the other Joes try to prevent Cobra from marketing the sap as chewing gum.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 16 - The Spy Who Rooked Me
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    S2:E16

    International superspy Matthew Burke volunteers his services in helping the Joes transport nerve gas to a safe facility.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Susan K. Williams

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  9. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 4 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (4)
    7.0/10(29 votes)

    S2:E4

    Cobra Commander sabotages Dr. Mindbender's first experiment, and it rises as a hideous monster. Sergeant Slaughter briefly escapes, then is recaptured but manages to destroy his DNA sample. The second attempt is successful, and Serpentor is created. Meanwhile, a Joe search party is sent to Cobra Island to rescue Slaughter and learn more about Cobra's plans.

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  10. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 21 - Ninja Holiday
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E21

    Sergeant Slaughter is captured by Cobra Commander and goes through a series of blood sports with the prize being to assassinate Serpentor...

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  11. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 23 - The Most Dangerous Thing in the World
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E23

    Cobra takes advantage of General Hawk going to a NATO meeting in Europe and infiltrates the Department Of Defense's computers and promotes Lifeline, Dial Tone and Shipwreck (who's not even in the army) all to the rank of Colonel. The three can't cooperate and are not quite officer material which creates utter pandemonium at G.I. Joe Headquarters. Cobra capitalizes on the situation and attacks a research lab near the Joes' base. The Joes are defeated easily and fall back to Joe HQ. Hawk arrives in the nick of time and organizes a counter offensive, pushing Cobra back.

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  12. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 24 - Nightmare Assault
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E24

    All of the Joes are having nightmare involving a huge snake attacking them. At first they feel that it is due to the stress of the situation. As the nightmares continue, it begins to affect the Joes performance fighting Cobra. In fact, Cobra is controlling the Joes' dreams in an effort to disable them...

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  13. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 25 - Second Hand Emotions
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E25

    A group of Joes are attending Lifeline's sister's wedding while other Joes are at a nearby weapons depot testing new armor. The Dreadnoks are able to attach small receivers to the back of the Joes' necks and capture Roadblock. Dr. Mindbender uses an organ to send signals to the receivers that controls the Joes emotions...

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  14. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 27 - Not a Ghost of a Chance
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E27

    Lady Jaye and Hawk are on the tv show Twenty Questions (hosted by Hector Remerez(voice- Neil Ross)) debating with Cobra Comm, Serpentor and Dr. Mindbender whether or not Cobra shot down a prototype jet, the Ghost. Meanwhile, both Joe and Cobra forces search for the two pilots who ejected...

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  15. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 28 - Sins of Our Fathers
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E28

    Cobra Commander tries to communicate with the creature in the pit at Destro's ancestral home in Scotland and fails. Meanwhile, Dial Tone is discharged from the Joes and is hired to work on a communications project that turns out to be communicating with the creature. Flint is sent to spy on Dial Tone in disguise. Dial Tone gets the machine to work and Cobra Commander tells it to destroy Serpentor...

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  16. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 29 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E29

    Slipstream in his Conquest intercepts a Cobra message, which contains an important command code. A squadron of Night Raven are sent after him. He and one of the Night Ravens crash land on an remote island Cobra base. The Stratoviper, a lady named Raven, is injured and not very friendly towards Slipstream. But when BATs land on the island and start firing on both of them, the are forced to team up and enter the abandoned Cobra base, with Doctor Mindbender watching...

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  17. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 30 - Into Your Tent I Will Silently Creep
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E30

    The Joes are highly annoyed by Cross Country's country music are glad when his tape deck is destroyed during a Cobra battle. When his new tape deck is stolen back at HQ, he intends to find out what's going on and sets a trap. He spots a robotic rat stealing the tape deck and he follows it to a Cobra meeting of the Coil, a group against Serpentor lead by Cobra Commander...

    Director:Unknown
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  18. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 12 - Cobrathon
    6.9/10(29 votes)

    S2:E12

    Cobra stages a telethon to raise money for a computer virus that will bring down all the computer systems in the world, as the Joes try to rescue Sci Fi and Lifeline...

    Director:Unknown
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  19. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 15 - Iceberg Goes South
    6.9/10(24 votes)

    S2:E15

    The Joes visit an arctic region where Icebergs Girlfriend is collecting samples of animals tissue for her Uncles research at the Tropadome. Icebergs goes to the Trapadome only to be captured by Doctor Mindbenders new mutant animal army...

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  20. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 6 - Last Hour to Doomsday
    6.8/10(28 votes)

    S2:E6

    Lady Jaye disguises herself as the Baroness in order to learn about a Cobra weapon created to form whirlpools and tidal waves.

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  21. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 10 - Once Upon a Joe
    6.8/10(27 votes)

    S2:E10

    When an orphanage is accidentally damaged during a battle, Shipwreck and other members from G.I. Joe volunteer to help repair it. While doing so, Shipwreck is dragged into telling the children a fairy tale...a typically cockeyed Shipwreck extravaganza!

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  22. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 2 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (2)
    6.3/10(30 votes)

    S2:E2

    The Joes send teams out to guard the tombs on Zartan's list, but each team is defeated in turn: by Zarana in Egypt, the Crimson Twins in Paris, the Dreadnoks in the Yucatan, and the Baroness in Transylvania. Duke's team and the Oktober Guard are in a standoff with BATs while defending the tomb of Ivan the Terrible.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 20 - Raise the Flagg!
    6.3/10(26 votes)

    S2:E20

    The Joes stumble upon an oil platform being used by Cobra to try to salvage the anti-matter pod that went down with the USS Flagg and the Cobra helicarrier. The Joes investigate, followed by Zartan and the Dreadknocks, but both teams are captured by an insane Cobra cook named LaCar...

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  24. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 14 - Glamour Girls
    6.2/10(25 votes)

    S2:E14

    Madame Vail (voice- Mary McDonald Lewis) agrees to sell her youth transference machine, which makes people young (and beautiful), in return for kidnapping some of the world's top models, who's youth and beauty will be transferred to the machine's user. One of these models is Low Light's sister, Una...

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  25. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 18 - My Brother's Keeper
    6.2/10(25 votes)

    S2:E18

    Sergeant Slaughter accompanies Sci-Fi to a science fiction convention, where Dr. Mindbender recruits a handicapped scientist to repair his latest weapon. Mindbender's false promises to enable the scientist to walk again lead him to walk all over his brother.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Rotten Egg" is the best rated episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero season 2. It scored 7.3/10 from 28 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 7, 1986. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1)".