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The Worst Episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

Every episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero!

Worst episode
S2E19 My Favorite Things
5.526 votes
Best episode
S1E14 The Pyramid of Darkness: Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls (4)
7.729 votes
Top season
Season 3
7.0avg
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2d 21h
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 19 - My Favorite Things
    5.5/10(26 votes)

    S2:E19

    Wet-Suit and Leatherneck have never, ever got along but their heated rivalry must take a backseat when Serpentor begins collecting artifacts from his former lives to gain power, and Leatherneck is poisoned trying to stop him. Wet-Suit has to prove he doesn't have any hard feelings for Leatherneck, as he and Lifeline risk their lives trying to recover an antidote from Serpentor's blood.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 5 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (5)
    5.8/10(29 votes)

    S2:E5

    Seargent Slaughter and the rescue team escape Cobra Island, but Serpentor captures Washington D.C. just as the Joes learn about the new leader. But Serpentor's lack of experience in modern warfare puts Cobra at a disadvantage when G.I. Joe stages a counterattack.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 17 - Grey Hairs and Growing Pains
    6.1/10(25 votes)

    S2:E17

    Cobra steals Madame Versalles youth treatment. The Joes try to figure out why and that leads them to the Ageless Care Spa, where lady Jaye, Mainframe and Dial Tone are turned into seven year olds...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 9 - The Revenge of Cobra: Battle on the Roof of the World (4)
    6.2/10(26 votes)

    S1:E9

    As G.I. Joe and Cobra race to retrieve the three parts, Zartan ensures that each side acquires one piece, and then steals the laser core at the Roof of the World.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. 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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 3 - The M.A.S.S. Device: The Worms of Death (3)
    6.3/10(31 votes)

    S1:E3

    Snake Eyes returns home with the help of a wolf and a blind man. The Joes and Cobras battling for undersea elements must join forces to escape giant tubeworms on the ocean floor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ron Friedman

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  8. 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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  9. 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...

    Director:Unknown
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  10. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 12 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Rendezvous in the City of the Dead (2)
    6.4/10(25 votes)

    S1:E12

    With G.I. Joe headquarters nearly destroyed, the Joes establish a temporary base on the USS Flagg. Joes on the space station try to warn the team of Cobra's plan to plant cubes at strategic locations to create an electricity-inhibiting pyramid over the northern hemisphere.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 7 - The Revenge of Cobra: The Vines of Evil (2)
    6.7/10(30 votes)

    S1:E7

    Flint and Mutt, stranded by the weather dominator, hire Shipwreck to ferry them out of Cobra territory. Meanwhile, the Joes develop an energy mirror to fight the dominator's attacks, but Destro smashes them with a hailstorm. During the battle, Destro's weapon breaks, and the three pieces scatter over the globe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 4 Episode 19 - Basic Training
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E19

    In a clip show, General Hawk advises the audience what it takes to become a GI.Joe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 2 - The M.A.S.S. Device: Slave of the Cobra Master (2)
    6.8/10(30 votes)

    S1:E2

    The Joes travel to the arctic to retrieve rare minerals to fuel their MASS device, but Cobra ambushes them, and Snake Eyes is presumed dead. Duke manages to escape the Cobra base with the help of a slave girl, but he is injured and cannot remember the base's location.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ron Friedman

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  14. 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 8 - The Revenge of Cobra: The Palace of Doom (3)
    6.8/10(27 votes)

    S1:E8

    As Flint, Mutt, and Shipwreck return to Joe Headquarters, the Joes and Cobras head to the Island of No Return and the jungle Palace of Doom to retrieve parts of the weather dominator.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 10 - The Revenge of Cobra: Amusement Park of Terror (5)
    6.8/10(27 votes)

    S1:E10

    Cobra steals the Joes' piece of the dominator and assaults Zartan's base. Now in possession of all three pieces, Destro seeks to rebuild the weather dominator. The Joes locate the Cobra Temple and attack it.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. 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!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 19 - Cobra Stops the World
    6.8/10(26 votes)

    S1:E19

    Cobra attacks crucial oil derricks, pipelines, and tankers, seeking to control the world's fuel supplies. But G.I. Joe use Cobra Commander's remote-control attacks to pinpoint his location.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 18 - Satellite Down
    6.8/10(24 votes)

    S1:E18

    When Cobra uses a tractor beam to steal a spy satellite recently placed in space by the Joes, Breaker forces the satellite to crash in the jungles of Africa, but a tribe of hominid Primords complicates Joe and Cobra's efforts to recover the technology.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 50 - An Eye for an Eye
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E50

    A civilian's home is destroyed during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra, and he breaks into G.I. Joe Headquarters to seek revenge against Cobra.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 54 - Hearts and Cannons
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E54

    A Joe transport plane is caught in a storm, forcing the pilot to ditch his cargo, a valuable Mauler tank, over the desert. Dusty and Footloose volunteer to stay with the tank until it can be retrieved. They inadvertently parachute onto a Cobra proving ground and discover the evil organization's latest innovation: a metal alloy that's impervious to any conventional weapon! With tanks and planes constructed of this alloy, Cobra could attack the Joe team – or anyone else – without fear. With a battalion of Cobras hot on their heels, can Dusty and Footloose survive the track across the hostile desert to warn the Joes?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 58 - Pit of Vipers
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E58

    G.I. Joe is placed under the command of a new computer, Watchdog, which directs Joes to Cobra targets. The computer is under Cobra's control, being used to spread Joe forces thin and leave headquarters vulnerable to attack.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 60 - The Invaders
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E60

    The Joes join forces with a Soviet operation team called ""The October Guard"" to save the world from what seems to be an invasion from outer space. But what is it about this flying saucer threat that seems so daunting? Do the space creatures really exist?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 62 - The Great Alaskan Land Rush
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E62

    When the last surviving heir of the Russian Imperial Alaskan Colony Company shows up and claims to own Alaska, the Joes suspect it is a Cobra plot to wrench away America's largest state. The only way to disapprove the claim is for the Joes to go to Alaska and find the colony's Imperial Seal. Three problems: the seal has been missing for over a hundred years, the Russians are looking for the seal so they can reclaim Alaska, and Cobra is determined to stop them both!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 22 - G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E22

    There is a Joe/Cobra battle over the Suez Canal when a spacecraft flies overhead and drops a glowing coil. When Joe and Cobra teams are dispatched to investigate, they are sent back to Ancient Greece...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"My Favorite Things" is the worst rated episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. It scored 5.5/10 from 26 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 16, 1986. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (5)".

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