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The Best Episodes of The Future Is Wild

Every episode of The Future Is Wild ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Future Is Wild!

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The Future is Wild is an animated children's version of Canadian 2003 joint Animal Planet/ORF and ZDF co-production The Future Is Wild. It was developed by Nelvana Animation, and directed by Mike Fallows, with characters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 1 - Electric Fisherman
    9.3/10(7 votes)

    #1 - Electric Fisherman

    S1:E1

    The crew must lure and use two lurkfish to jump start the Time Flyer or be stuck in the Bengal swamp, 100 million years in the future. Gill and Butch, two selfish lurkfish, argue over who gets to eat Ethan!

    Director:Unknown
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  2. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 2 - Extreme Bird Watching
    6.8/10(12 votes)

    #2 - Extreme Bird Watching

    S1:E2

    Ethan decides to go out along on a bird watching mission, which has disastrous consequences.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 3 - Sky High Anxiety
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #3 - Sky High Anxiety

    S1:E3

    CG tries to launch a weather station 100 million years in the future, but a great blue windrunner crashes into it and now they must find a way to take care of both her and her chicks

    Director:Unknown
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  4. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 4 - Toratonnage
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Toratonnage

    S1:E4

    While the crew's time flyer is stuck in mud, Luis stays to try to fix it while the rest of them investigate an unusual heat source. Meanwhile, an elderly Toraton,Stoney, trying to reach a Toraton Graveyard, falls asleep on the time flyer thinking its a rock.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 5 - Think Big
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - Think Big

    S1:E5

    The crew accidentally knock a Toraton mom on her back and Luis becomes a de-facto parent to a pair of Toraton infants.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 6 - Squibbon See, Squibbon Do
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Squibbon See, Squibbon Do

    S1:E6

    While the crew is in the Bengal swamp 100 million years in the future, the always playful Squibbon runs off with the telecommunicator key which is the only way CG can communicate with her father. Squibbon tries to get the key back from a Swampus.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 7 - A Poggle's Not a Pet...Yet
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - A Poggle's Not a Pet...Yet

    S1:E7

    Emily attempts to do some girl bonding with CG in the Great Plateau 100 million years in the future, but they wind up in a situation where they're really going to be closer than ever. A poggle named Geb is suspicious about the Silver spiders who look after him and his friends after a few go missing.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 8 - Phantom Fear
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Phantom Fear

    S1:E8

    Ethan must confront his claustrophobia and C.G. her arachnophobia when the Time Flyer becomes stuck under an ocean phantom and the crew has to deal with the ocean phantom's tentacles and hungry reef gliders. A cautious reef glider named Bobber is reluctant to chow down on the ocean phantom after hearing tales of their various weapons and defenses.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 9 - The Future Is Underground
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - The Future Is Underground

    S1:E9

    When blasting forward 200 million years in the future, The time flyer crash lands in a desert wasteland and loses most of its water. Luis shrinks Emily, C.G. and Ethan so they can search a terabyte mound for water. A transporter terabyte tries to gain equality with a warrior terabyte.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 10 - Be True to Your Crew
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Be True to Your Crew

    S1:E10

    The team discovers that C.G. is secretly trying to reactivate her former robot crew members. In this episode, we learn how C.G. met Ethan, Emily, Luis and Squibbon.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 11 - Sign of the Time Flyer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Sign of the Time Flyer

    S1:E11

    The kids encounter the last primate on Earth: the Babookari. Also, Dex, a Babookari is showing some interest in Emily and the Other "No-Tails", much to the displeasure of the troop leader, Alpha.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 12 - De-Tour de France
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - De-Tour de France

    S1:E12

    The kids land on the North European Ice in search of an alloy to repair the time flyer. Also, Art, a lazy shagrat herds up with Luis and Ethan after he is separated from his real herd.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 13 - Night Crawlers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Night Crawlers

    S1:E13

    The kids disagree with C.G.'s decision to leave Pangaea 2. C.G. feels she is not a capable leader. Also, Torq, a rock borer terabyte is curious about the big open outside his home.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 14 - Sweet Home Pangaea II
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Sweet Home Pangaea II

    S1:E14

    CG's dad tells her to study Squibbons unaware that they hid one. While visiting the Northern Forest in 200 million AD, the crew finds that Squibby has forgotten his basic survival skills and consider teaching him and then releasing him. Squibby makes friends with other Squibbons after one of them saves him from a Megasquid.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 15 - Shallow Pals
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Shallow Pals

    S1:E15

    C.G. gives herself, Luis,and Emily food poisoning so Ethan and Squibbon go to investigate an ocean phantom they think is someone's boat. Also, a spindletrooper is unsure of what to defend his ocean phantom from, and so is his leader!

    Director:Unknown
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  16. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 16 - Parent Trap
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Parent Trap

    S1:E16

    C.G. tests a fast growing crop in the Antarctic Forest, 100 million years in the future. Simile, a false spitfire bird must defend her eggs from spitfire birds and (so she thinks) Emily and Ethan! In this episode, it is hinted that CG and Luis have a crush on each other. Also Ethan may like Emily, by the way he tried to protect from the false spitfire bird and blushed when she thought it was a hug.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 17 - Around the World In 80 Minutes
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Around the World In 80 Minutes

    S1:E17

    Luis leaves behind geocaches for other time travelers. He doesn't however, know that he made them out of a toxic material! The crew must find one in all the environments of 100 million AD in 80 minutes!

    Director:Unknown
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  18. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 18 - Monkey Brains
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Monkey Brains

    S1:E18

    Ethan dares C.G. to use the chameliographic helmet to spend time with the babookari and prove she can be silly and wild. After an accident with some carakillers, C.G.'s brain is implanted with babookari behavior patterns! Zodek, the carakiller hunt leader is demoted after being afraid of the "lightning monkey" (C.G. with the chameliographic helmet) that zapped him and Subo, the new hunt leader, tries to rekindle his spirit.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 19 - Swimming with Slickribbons
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Swimming with Slickribbons

    S1:E19

    The kids can't leave the Central Desert until they wash the Time Flyer. Also, a tough slickribbon named Philo who wants "a meal with a challenge" gets more than he bargained for when he chases a miniaturized Luis in the flooded Time Flyer.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 20 - Scared Safe
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Scared Safe

    S1:E20

    After an accident on a glacier 5 million years in the future, C.G. becomes overly protective of the crew. Also, a curious gannetwhale named Tooby investigates the Time Flyer and gets himself, Emily, Ethan, Luis and Squibbon cornered by a snowstalker.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 21 - He Might Be Giant
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - He Might Be Giant

    S1:E21

    A tree falls on the Time Flyer and the crew uses the molecular compressor to make Ethan large enough to move it. Then, Ethan (still a giant) befriends a megasquid.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 22 - Ghost in the Machine
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Ghost in the Machine

    S1:E22

    The kids test a falconfly repellent. All compounds are unsuccessful, except for a mystery mixture found by C.G. Also, things are being lost and the Time Flyer is moving on its own. What's more, the crew are seeing ghostly copies of themselves! Later it is found that Squibbon has learned to control the Time Flyer and chameliographic helmet and mixed the successful falconfly repellent! He also finds an egg in an unknown era that begins to hatch!

    Director:Unknown
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  23. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 23 - Cure For The Common Megasquid Cold
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Cure For The Common Megasquid Cold

    S1:E23

    Luis believes he has a megasquid disease. Squibbon helps a forest flish from a slithersucker, and the flish tries to convince his friends that Squibby is a good Squibbon.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 24 - Queen of the Squibbons, Part 1
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Queen of the Squibbons, Part 1

    S1:E24

    During a trip to the Northern Forest of 200 million years A.D., Emily discovers a baby squibbon who's been orphaned during a Megasquid attack.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 25 - Queen of the Squibbons, Part 2
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Queen of the Squibbons, Part 2

    S1:E25

    The crew is trying to get back to the Northern Forest of 200 million years A.D where they left Emily, but they are facing some problems.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Electric Fisherman" is the best rated episode of "The Future Is Wild". It scored 9.3/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/13/2007. This episode scored 2.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Extreme Bird Watching".