This is a list of Freakazoid! episodes. Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid! is an American animated series that lasted 24 episodes in two seasons from 1995 to 1997. Freakazoid! lasted one complete season and part of a second season on its premiere network, Kids' WB, from September 9, 1995, until February 14, 1997, when it was cancelled due to low ratings.[1] However, the show was later picked up by Cartoon Network and was rebroadcast on April 5, 1997.[1]
This list shows both seasons. The episodes here are organized by the air dates in which the episodes were shown with their segments in their originally produced order. (For example, the episode "Statuesque" actually premiered on November 29, 1996, with its respective segments in a different order, but its airdate is given as June 6, 1997, the airdate in which it was shown with its segments in the original order.)[2] Most episodes were written by Paul Rugg and the directors for each cartoon varied.
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| 1 | 13 | 1995–1996 | July 29, 2008 | TBA | TBA | ||
| 2 | 11 | 1996–1997 | April 21, 2009 | TBA | TBA | ||
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| 1-101 | "Five Day Forecast/The Dance of Doom/Handman" | Ronaldo Del Carmen and Jack Heiter | John McCann and Tom Ruegger | September 9, 1995 | 001 |
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Five Day Forecast - Freakazoid announces the day's weather, getting more and more overexcited as he mentions more and more dangerous weather. He then comicaly calms down[4] |
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| 2-102 | "Candle Jack/Toby Danger in Doomsday Bet/The Lobe" | Scott Jeralds | Tom Minton, Paul Rugg | September 16, 1995 | 002 |
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Candle Jack - Presented in Scream-O-Vision, on a camping trip in Camp Wennamigunnagohome with Steff, Freakazoid runs into the ghostly villain Candle Jack, who kidnaps and ties up anyone who says his name.[7] |
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| 3-103 | "Mo-Ron/The Sewer Rescue/The Big Question/The Legends Who Lunch" | Dan Riba | Tom Ruegger, Paul Rugg | September 23, 1995 | 003 |
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Mo-Ron - An unintelligent being lands on Earth on a bathroom break, but is left ebhidn when government agents arrive. Becoming fat and severly stupid from earth fastfood, Mo-Ron meets Freakazoid, who teaches him about the laws of earth in exchange for what little he remembers of space. Ultimately, Freakazoid helps Mo-Ron call his shipn back and send him home. |
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| 4-104 | "And Fan Boy Is His Name/Lawn Gnomes: Chapter IV - Fun in the Sun/Frenching with Freakazoid" | Scott Jeralds and Turk Flipnutt | Paul Dini and John McCann | September 30, 1995 | 004 |
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And Fanboy Is His Name - Fanboy desires to become Freakazoid's new sidekick... whether he likes it or not. |
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| 5-105 | "Foamy the Freakadog/Office Visit/Ode to Leonard Nimoy/Emergency Broadcast System" | Ronaldo Del Carmen and Eric Radomski | Paul Dini and Paul Rugg | October 14, 1995 | 005 |
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Foamy the Freakadog - In an installment of The Sidekick Chronicles, Freakazoid remembers his rabid canine sidekick Foamy. |
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| 6-106 | "The Chip (Part I)" | Dan Riba | Paul Rugg | November 4, 1995 | 006 |
| Dexter Douglas gets the new Pinnacle Chip for his computer. Dexter's cat steps on the keyboard and enters the secret combination of letters and numbers that sucks Dexter into the computer when he hits the "delete" key, turning him into Freakazoid. | |||||
| 7-107 | "The Chip (Part II) /Freakazoid is History" | Dan Riba | Paul Rugg and Alan Burnett | November 11, 1995 | 007 |
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The Chip (Part II): Continuing from part one, Dexter unleashes Freakazoid for the first time in defeating the evil Guitierrez. Freakazoid is History: A strange mishap sends Freakazoid back in time to Pearl Harbor in World War II. Will Freakazoid's sense of justice alter history itself? Can he take his eyes off the hula girls long enough to do so? |
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| 8-108 | "Hot Rods from Heck/A Time For Evil" | Ronaldo Del Carmen, Jack Heiter | John McCann | November 18, 1995 | 008 |
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Hot Rods from Heck: Freakazoid has to stop evil villain Longhorn from stealing a missile using robotic hot rod cars and his super truck. The hero's new Freakmobile- which is featured in a fake in-show ad- helps him save the day, not to mention a special assist from the seventh-inning stretch. |
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| 9-109 | "Relax-O-Vision (Terror on the Midway)/Fatman and Boy Blubber/Limbo Lock-Up/Terror Palace" | Scott Jeralds, Eric Radomski, Jack Heiter | Paul Dini, Tom Ruegger, John P. McCann | November 25, 1995 | 009 |
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Relax-O-Vision/Terror on the Midway: The Lobe's super-evil plan coincides with Kids' WB's new network standards to reduce the effect of cartoon violence, much to Freakazoid's dismay. |
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| 10-110 | "In Arms Way/The Cloud" | Dan Riba, Scott Jeralds | Ken Segall, Paul Rugg | December 16, 1995 | 010 |
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In Arms Way - Freakazoid's Christmas shopping is interrupted by Arms Akimbo's crime spree. |
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| 11-111 | "Next Time, Phone Ahead/Nerdator" | Eric Radomski, Jack Heiter | Tom Ruegger, Paul Dini | February 3, 1996 | 011 |
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Next Time, Phone Ahead - In a parody of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Mo-Ron is found and cared for by Freakazoid, who tries to help him "phone home." |
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| 12-112 | "House of Freakazoid/Sewer or Later" | Scott Jeralds, Mitch Schauer | Paul Dini | February 10, 1996 | 012 |
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House of Freakazoid - A werewolf, who somehow knows about Dexter's secret identity, visits his home to ask his assistance for a cure. Freakazoid sends him into the internet by exploiting the flaw. The werewolf is cured, but he did not change in any other way. |
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| 13-113 | "The Wrath of Guitierrez" | Scott Jeralds | Paul Rugg | February 17, 1996 | 013 |
| Using his authority in jail, Guitierrez manages to escape into the Internet and become a being similar to Freakazoid (but retains his sanity). He then begins draining power from Freakazoid, prompting him to having to jump into trap in the Interent to survive. Using a video game, Guiterrez has Freakazoid fight for his life, but ultimately is thrown off a castle tower and into the digtal abyss of the internet. | |||||
| # | Original title (top) | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate | Prod. code |
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| 14-201 | "Dexter's Date" | Jack Heiter | Paul Rugg and Alan Burnett | September 7, 1996 | 014 |
| Dexter is on a date but after he took a short break to deal with The Lobe, he is unable to transform back into Dexter, instead turning into different TV personalities. He asks The Lobe to help him, but he needs to chase him first. | |||||
| 15-202 | "The Freakazoid" | Rich Arons and Jack Heiter | Paul Rugg | September 14, 1996 | 015 |
| In a parody of The Godfather, Freakazoid has to grant all requests made to him on his birthday. As a result, he cannot stop the Lobe's latest crime spree, since the Lobe requested that he leave him alone. Cameo appearance from Wakko Warner and The Brain of Animaniacs, as well as Dot appearing on the wrapping paper. (Freakazoid himself made a cameo in Star Warners.) | |||||
| 16-203 | "Mission: Freakazoid" | Rich Arons and David Marshall | John McCann | September 28, 1996 | 016 |
| In a parody of Mission:Impossible, Freakazoid and his friends travel to Vuka Nova, the brutal police state, to rescue the Douglas Family (and a mime) from Chesky Beresch Prison. | |||||
| 18-204 | "Virtual Freak" | Peter Shin | Melody Fox and John McCann | November 2, 1996 | 018 |
| The Lobe traps Freakazoid and Cosgrove in a shoot-'em-up video game, while the characters they were playing as wreak havoc in the real world. | |||||
| 19-205 | "Hero Boy" | Jack Heiter and Rich Arons | Paul Rugg, Tom Sheppard, and Wendell Morris | November 9, 1996 | 019 |
| In this Emmy Award winning episode, Guitierrez returns! However, he is back to human form and now a cyborg due to their previou encounter. After many comical misunderstandings on what Freakazoid's weakness is, Guiterrez tricks the heroic moron into revealing negatively charged metal stops his powers.With Freakazoid captured, Guitierrez sends a robotic clone of the hero out into the city to cause intintial mayheme and destruction to ruin the dimwit's reputation. | |||||
| 17-206 | "A Matter of Love" | Rich Arons | Paul Rugg and Lisa Malone | November 16, 1996 | 017 |
| Cosgrove begins dating cosmetics queen Mary Beth, ignoring poor Freakazoid in favor of her. Frakazoid tries filling the hole Cogrove left by spending time with his butler, but finds it not to be as enjoyable. On a bathroom break, he notices Mary Beth overreact to a spill on her dress, revealing herself to be a green-colored monster with glowing yellow eyes and a manish growling voice. Freakazoid consults a monster researcher for advice and is told that he must force her to reveal her true nature to Cosgrove by trying ANY (like lighting a candle with her nose). Invited to dinner at Mary Beth's factory, Freakzoid falls into a trap and is put in a device that will drain his essence into a potion to keep Mary Beth alive and young. Cosgrove learns the truth and has the audiance clap loudly to snap Freakazoid out of a trance, making the process fail. Mary Bethh crumbles into dust and Cosgrove tries to comfort her, leaving with Freakazoid and walking out into the sunrise. | |||||
| 22-207 | "Statuesque" | Peter Shin | John McCann | June 6, 1997 | 022 |
| Waylon Jeepers has finally perfected his Medusa Watch, which turns humans and pigeons into stone. When Steff gets petrified, Freakazoid must seek a cure. | |||||
| 21-208 | "Island of Dr. Mystico" | Rich Arons and David Marshall | Jed Springarn | February 7, 1997 | 021 |
| Freakazoid, his butler, Cosgrove, and girlfriend are flying a plane of villains to a new prison, but end up crashing on an island due to Freakazoid's idiocy causing damage to the plane. While Candle Jack scares the butler and Cobra Queen helps fix the plane, Freakazoid, Cosgrove, Cave Guy, Long Horn and the Lobe go out into the jungle to look for provisions. However, they are captured one by one by a mad scientist who wishes to rule the world by switching animals and people's DNA with each other. Teaming up with his foes, Freakzoid breaks free and stops the mad man. Once the plane is operational, everyone leaves. (Freakzoid gets annoyed by his girlfriend as she keeps praising him on his flying skills) | |||||
| 23-209 | "Two Against Freak" | Rich Arons | Ken Segal | February 14, 1997 | 023 |
| Cave Guy and Cobra Queen have joined forces to obtain the Diamond Hat of the Czars, while Freakazoid tries to learn the art of telekinesis with his mentor. However, due to his mental instability, Freakazoid ends up hitting himself in the face repeatedly with bricks. (resulting in a phobia of them) When he attempts to stop Cobra Queen and Cave Guy at a robbery, Freakzoid goes into shock when he sees a brick. After spending some time in the hospital, Freakzoid perfects his telekinesis. He tracks down the villains and defeats them. | |||||
| 20-210 | "Freak-A-Panel/Tomb of Invisibo" | Rich Arons and Peter Shin | Mitch Watson | May 31, 1997 | 020 |
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Freak-A-Panel: While pursuing Cave Guy at a TV/comic book convention, Freakazoid takes in the sights, discovers to his disappointment that everyone's more interested in Superman than him, and even learns Klingon. |
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| 24-211 | "Normadeus (Series Finale)" | Rich Arons and David Marshall | Paul Rugg | June 1, 1997 | 024 |
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The Lobe has committed the most heinous crime ever: kidnapping Norm Abram and forcing him to build the ultimate weapon against Freakazoid. Succeeding in having a giant horn built and Freakazoid captured and tied to the end of it, the Lobe invites a few fellow enemies of Freakazoid to have a party to celebrate his upcoming demise. Gutieris wins a lottry to see which villain will kill Freakazoid, but the horn falls apart due to intentional shoddy workmanship and the villains are swiftly defeated. Breaking the Fourth Wall, all the characters appear on a stage and say this is the final episode of the show, signing a farewell song. (Some of the characters can't handle the pressure and run away as the song goes on) Steven Spielberg has a cameo guest star at the end |
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