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The Best Episodes Directed By Joe Barruso

Every TV Episode Directed by Joe Barruso Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Dinosaur Delirium
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E3

    Carmen attempts to genetically engineer a pet dinosaur.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - The Good Old Bad Old Days
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    S1:E6

    The Player challenges Carmen to a low-tech crime. Carmen accepts the Player's challenge and attempts to steal the Orient Express. Zack and Ivy need some help to solve Carmen's clues and are partnered with a gaucho detective named Armando.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - By a Whisker
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    S1:E5

    Carmen kidnaps two white lion cubs and sets up her own game preserve for them.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - Chapter and Verse
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    S1:E9

    Carmen steals objects that have to do with literature such as Mark Twain's writing desk, Charles Dickens's inkwell, and a jungle ruin like the one that appears in the Jungle Book. They follow Carmen's clues to a remote hideaway in the Swiss Alps where they think Carmen was writing her memoirs. However, she was actually sending the detectives on a wild goose chase while Sara Bellum had tapped into Acme's files and stolen them all.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Moondreams
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    S1:E4

    Carmen's dream of landing on the moon inspires her to try and make it come true.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - The Play's the Thing
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E10

    Carmen pursues objects related to the history of theatre.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - Music to My Ears
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E8

    Carmen figures out a way to steal musical talent and transfers it to her two talentless henchwomen. She decides to showcase her accomplishment in a concert inside the stolen Sydney Opera House.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - Rules of the Game
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E7

    Zack and Ivy are partnered with a Russian detective as they follow Carmen's game-like clues to Hawaii for a life-sized, winner-take-all chess game.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - A Higher Calling
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E2

    Carmen brings items of mysterious origins together in an attempt to contact aliens.

    Director:Joe Barruso
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  10. undefined Season 3 Episode 8 - Labyrinth (2): Woman of the Year...2101
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S3:E8

    Carmen arrives in the year 2101, where she stops a heist of a powerful electromagnet. Zack and Ivy must prove that she is a thief, not a hero, against the wishes of the future Chief, who has forgotten them. They eventually learn her ultimate goal: to become the greatest thief of the past, present, and future.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  11. undefined Season 3 Episode 7 - Labyrinth (1)
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S3:E7

    Acme is puzzled when Carmen steals scale copies of landmarks rather than the real thing. Zack and Ivy discover that she's using them in a training facility for new henchpeople - so they pose as new recruits to try to track her down.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 8 - When It Rains...
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S2:E8

    The detectives are puzzled by what seems like an abrupt shift in Carmen's behavior as she begins trashing crime scenes. They discover that Carmen is being held prisoner by an imposter aiming to take her place as the queen of crime.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Split Up
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S2:E3

    Zack creates a computer, the Zack Attack 20,000, which he believes will capture Carmen. However, when Carmen escapes with one of the treasures Zack had the computer protect, Ivy decides that she doesn't want to put her faith in it. The siblings go their own separate ways on this case, until Ivy is captured by Carmen.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  14. undefined Season 3 Episode 9 - Labyrinth (3): When in Rome
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E9

    Zack and Ivy escape from the future and follow Carmen to Rome. There, the detectives are captured and are sentenced to fight each other in the Coliseum games.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  15. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - Curses, Foiled Again
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E3

    Working with a Native Hawaiian detective, Aileen, Zack and Ivy finally capture Carmen, along with her henchwoman Hannah Lulu. After escaping, Carmen tries to teach Hannah the value of confidence over luck by stealing supposedly unlucky items around Hawai'i.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  16. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - The Remnants
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E2

    Carmen's thefts all seem to follow a Wizard of Oz theme. While chasing after Carmen, Zack and Ivy discover that Carmen was an orphan, and her thefts relate to things she treasured in childhood.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - A Date with Carmen (2)
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E2

    After Carmen disrupts Ben Franklin's kite experiment, Zack and Ivy must reverse all of her meddling to fix history and restore the present.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - A Date with Carmen (1)
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E1

    Carmen goes back in time to steal Revolutionary War relics that no longer exist in the present.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  19. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Stolen Smile
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    S1:E1

    Carmen steals parts of famous artwork to try to create her own personal masterpiece.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  20. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Scavenger Hunt
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S2:E5

    When Carmen steals famous gifts from around the world, Zack and Ivy are puzzled ‒ especially since her clues are in the form of a scavenger hunt. Suddenly, the detectives realize why Carmen is doing this. It's her birthday and she is stealing these famous gifts to give them to herself.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - Hot Ice
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E6

    Carmen creates a large diamond to disrupt Acme's computer systems.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 10 - Just Like Old Times
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E10

    Carmen gives herself a Christmas present by kidnapping the Chief, unaware he has a virus that's attacking his memory. Zack and Ivy take advantage of the situation by posing as thieves, leaving Carmen and her henchmen clues to their next heist.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  23. undefined Season 3 Episode 6 - Follow My Footprints
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E6

    When Carmen reportedly dies in a plane crash, Zack and Ivy are compelled to compete against her henchpeople to inherit leadership of VILE.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  24. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - Birds of a Feather
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E4

    After the world's largest diamond is stolen, Zack and Ivy discover that one of Carmen's henchmen tried to double-cross her and keep the diamond for himself.

    Director:Joe Barruso
    Writer:N/A

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  25. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - The Tigress
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E1

    When Carmen attempts to steal several items having to do with military strategies, she is foiled several times by her new rival, the Tigress. Zack and Ivy pursue both thieves to the Tigress' hideout in Antarctica, where her true identity - and motives - are revealed.

    Director:Joe Barruso
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Joe Barruso Ratings Summary

"Dinosaur Delirium" is the best rated episode directed by Joe Barruso. It scored 9.0/10 from 2 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on February 19, 1994. It is rated 0.7 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Good Old Bad Old Days".