What are the best episodes of Samurai Jack?

The best rated episodes of Samurai Jack are: CI - S5E10 rated 8.9, XCIV - S5E3 rated 8.8, XCIII - S5E2 rated 8.8, XCVIII - S5E7 rated 8.6, C - S5E9 rated 8.5, XCVII - S5E6 rated 8.5, XCII - S5E1 rated 8.5, VI - S1E11 rated 8.5, XVIII - S2E5 rated 8.5, XCV - S5E4 rated 8.4

What are the worst episodes of Samurai Jack?

The lowest rated episodes of Samurai Jack are: XXI - S2E8 rated 7.3, XXIV - S2E11 rated 7.5, XLVII - S4E8 rated 7.6, XIII - S1E13 rated 7.7, VIII - S1E9 rated 7.8, LII - S4E13 rated 7.8, IV - S1E4 rated 7.8, XLI - Robo/Mondo - Bot - S4E2 rated 7.8, XXXIII - S3E7 rated 7.8, XXVII - S3E1 rated 7.8

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Aug 2001 - May 2017

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Best Episodes of Samurai Jack

CI
S5 Ep10
8.9
20th May 2017
The fate of the entire universe hangs in the balance as Samurai Jack faces Aku.
XCIV
S5 Ep3
8.8
25th Mar 2017
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.
XCIII
S5 Ep2
8.8
18th Mar 2017
Jack's will to survive is pushed to its absolute limits after a deadly, unseen foe launches a relentless surprise attack.
XCVIII
S5 Ep7
8.6
29th Apr 2017
Jack and Ashi overcome a series of dangerous physical and spiritual tests in order to recover Jack's sword.
C
S5 Ep9
8.5
13th May 2017
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.
XCVII
S5 Ep6
8.5
22nd Apr 2017
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
XCII
S5 Ep1
8.5
11th Mar 2017
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.
VI
S1 Ep11
8.5
19th Nov 2001
Jack and a mysterious woman goon a quest in an attempt to resolve their personal goals.
XVIII
S2 Ep5
8.5
29th Mar 2002
Jack goes from destroyed village to another looking for those responsible, only to find the destruction was commissioned by Aku.
XCV
S5 Ep4
8.4
8th Apr 2017
Samurai Jack partners with a deadly assassin in order to escape a gargantuan creature that has swallowed them whole.
XXV
S2 Ep12
8.4
4th Oct 2002
Jack comes upon a battle where a mere 300 men are fighting a vast, unending army of robots and their evil robotic leader.
XXXII
S3 Ep6
8.4
26th Apr 2003
Jack must travel along a water creature, a mountain creature and a flying creature to get to a portal to return home. But once he reaches the portal, it is guarded by an undefeatable warrior who tells him that this portal is not for him.
Birth of Evil
S4 Ep4
8.4
16th Aug 2003
When ancient gods try to destroy a powerful evil, they send one piece of the beast hurtling through space. This piece lands on earth, spreading its evil through the land. When it encroaches on an Emperor's empire, he takes it upon himself to destroy the evil, but ends up unleashing the evil that is Aku.
XCVI
S5 Ep5
8.4
15th Apr 2017
Samurai Jack fights to save a group of enslaved people from being harvested as the power source for a monstrous Mega-Robot.
XXXV
S3 Ep9
8.4
17th May 2003
When Jack enters a spooky, old mansion and gets locked inside, he catches sight of a figure and sets after it to find out what is going on. As Jack is led further and further in, he discovers that the house and its inhabitants have an evil plan that involves…him.
XXIX
S3 Ep4
8.4
8th Nov 2002
Jack boards a train to his next destination only to be attacked by a couple of arguing bounty hunters.
XXXVI
S3 Ep10
8.4
31st May 2003
Jack falls into a hidden temple sanctuary to find monks trained like him in the style of the Ancient Master. The Ancient Master's Son then tells Jack of a portal to send him home, but in order to use it, his new friends must be sacrificed.
IX
S1 Ep7
8.3
3rd Sep 2001
Jack has an underwater adventure with a jelly-whale and sea monkeys while hunting foran ancient time portal.

Worst Episodes of Samurai Jack

XXI
S2 Ep8
7.3
6th Sep 2002
When a flatulent dragon begins stinking out an entire village. Jack slays the beast and ventures inside it to cure to source of its bellyache.
XXIV
S2 Ep11
7.5
27th Sep 2002
When Jack has his sword and clothing stolen, he must give chase to a white rabbit who took them while trying to maintain his modesty.
XLVII
S4 Ep8
7.6
19th Nov 2003
Jack helps save a Prince and Princess whose ship has been shot down to Earth by Aku.
XIII
S1 Ep13
7.7
3rd Dec 2001
Aku tells fairy tales to the children to try and win them over to his side instead of Jack's.
VIII
S1 Ep9
7.8
15th Oct 2001
Jack meets up with Mad Jack and must battle his darker self.
LII
S4 Ep13
7.8
25th Sep 2004
Jack finds a baby and the two travel together as Jack tries to return the boy to his mother.
IV
S1 Ep4
7.8
13th Aug 2001
Jack helps free the Woolies from the tyrannical Chritchellites.
XLI - Robo/Mondo - Bot
S4 Ep2
7.8
21st Jun 2003
Jack enters a village to discover that he is their Chosen One meant to embody the Robo-Samurai and destroy the Mondo-bot that has come to destroy them.
XXXIII
S3 Ep7
7.8
3rd May 2003
An over-friendly creature begins following Jack, messing up Jack's every move along his quest.
XXVII
S3 Ep1
7.8
18th Oct 2002
Jack is turned into a chicken by a cranky wizard. While he tries to fix this, he gets caught by a "handler" and becomes a prize-winning Creature Combat fighter.
V
S1 Ep6
7.9
27th Aug 2001
When Jack mistakenly destroys a group of scientists' chance to escape Aku, he and the scientists join forces to try and fix the problem, hopefully returning Jack home as well.
XV
S2 Ep2
7.9
8th Mar 2002
Three short stories: Jack vs. the Worm: Jack confronts a two-headed riddling serpent who will grant him his wish if he can answer their questions; The Metal-Eaters: Jack confronts a family that feed on metal and eat Jack's sword; Jack, the Gargoyle and the Fairy: Jack tries to rescue a wish-granting fairy from a gargoyle so that she may grant his wish to return home.
II
S1 Ep2
7.9
10th Aug 2001
The Samurai lands in the future and is named Jack. He is enlisted by a race of dogs to destroy Aku.
VII
S1 Ep5
7.9
20th Aug 2001
Jack must get past three blind archers to reach an all-powerful wishing well.
XLIX
S4 Ep10
7.9
25th Sep 2004
As Jack goes through fall, winter, spring and summer, he must battle the perils that each season brings.
XXVI
S2 Ep13
8.0
11th Oct 2002
When a band of bikes mow over Jack's sandals, he goes on a hunt for the perfect footwear.
XII
S1 Ep12
8.0
26th Nov 2001
Jack hooks up with some Chicago gangsters to try and get close to Aku.
XVI
S2 Ep3
8.0
15th Mar 2002
Jack is kidnapped and placed in a chain gang of warriors chosen to battle in front of a coliseum audience against the Dome of Doom's Champions.

Samurai Jack Episode Guide

I
S1 Ep1
8.2
10th Aug 2001
When Aku is reborn to set forth his reign of terror, the Emperor's son is sent off to learn the ways of the samurai. That boy becomes a man and attempts to slay Aku with a mighty sword, but Aku banishes him to the future.
II
S1 Ep2
7.9
10th Aug 2001
The Samurai lands in the future and is named Jack. He is enlisted by a race of dogs to destroy Aku.
III
S1 Ep3
8.1
10th Aug 2001
Jack gets weapons and beats back Aku's army of beetles saving the canine race.
IV
S1 Ep4
7.8
13th Aug 2001
Jack helps free the Woolies from the tyrannical Chritchellites.
VII
S1 Ep5
7.9
20th Aug 2001
Jack must get past three blind archers to reach an all-powerful wishing well.
V
S1 Ep6
7.9
27th Aug 2001
When Jack mistakenly destroys a group of scientists' chance to escape Aku, he and the scientists join forces to try and fix the problem, hopefully returning Jack home as well.
IX
S1 Ep7
8.3
3rd Sep 2001
Jack has an underwater adventure with a jelly-whale and sea monkeys while hunting foran ancient time portal.
X
S1 Ep8
8.1
12th Oct 2001
Jack goes through a cave full of challenges only to find an old warrior longing to reach Valhalla.
VIII
S1 Ep9
7.8
15th Oct 2001
Jack meets up with Mad Jack and must battle his darker self.
XI
S1 Ep10
8.2
29th Oct 2001
WhenJack and a Scotsman meet ona never-ending bridge, they end up shackled together and on the run from bounty hunters.
VI
S1 Ep11
8.5
19th Nov 2001
Jack and a mysterious woman goon a quest in an attempt to resolve their personal goals.
XII
S1 Ep12
8.0
26th Nov 2001
Jack hooks up with some Chicago gangsters to try and get close to Aku.
XIII
S1 Ep13
7.7
3rd Dec 2001
Aku tells fairy tales to the children to try and win them over to his side instead of Jack's.

A great warrior is displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot warlords. Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of a time portal that can return him to his home time so he can "undo the future that is Aku!".