10.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - Clan of the Cave Cow
Season 2 Episode 43 - Aired 9/19/2011
An ancient cave cow comes to attack the barn animals! Meanwhile, scientists kidnap Otis, thinking he's really Cave Cow.
Director: Todd Grimes, Nick Simotas
Writer: Gene Grillo
8.5/1050 votesLoading...#2 - Cows' Night Out
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/2008
Upon realizing how lame his friends are: Freddy and Peck dressing him up as a bunny instead of a monster to scare away crows, Abby inviting him to bingo, and his friends habits at bingo (Pip's loud keyboard typing, Duke's squeaking his toy, Abby's slurping on a drink, and Pig digging in his ear), Otis ditches them and goes out for a night on the town, pulling pranks with the Jersey Cows. Otis, unfortunately, ends up getting arrested. So now his friends have to come get him out and stop the police officer from taking him away again.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Joel Bergen, Alex Muniz
8.3/1031 votesLoading...#3 - Too Good to be Glue
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 10/6/2009
When Pig cooks up what appears to be permanent glue, the animals try to sell the glue to make money. They soon realize that the glue explodes two hours after it is applied and must find a way to get rid of it safely. When they found all the glue from all the buyers, they realized they sold 500 pounds of glue to city hall so that the town can use it to patch the town's cracked manure tank. So the animals race to dispose the manure tank before it floods the town with manure.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Tom Sheppard
8.3/1047 votesLoading...#4 - Fumblebums
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 10/9/2009
The animals must stand in for injured football players in a game and the coach’s mother to like him after becoming the mascots for the team.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Dan Serafin
8.1/1055 votesLoading...#5 - Wild Mike's Dance Party
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/25/2009
Otis is bored of Abby's book club, so he releases Wild Mike from a cage so they can have a dance party, but things get out of control when Wild Mike accidentally escapes the barn and is captured by humans to use on a dancing TV show.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Jed Spingarn
7.9/1034 votesLoading...#6 - Dream Birthday
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/29/2009
The animals feel bad for the Farmer after seeing that everyone forgot his birthday, so they decide to throw him a party and tell him it's a dream, but the Farmer gets carried away. He does this by stealing a motorcycle from a gang of bikers and then believes that the motorcycle can fly so he takes the veterinarian with him. But he forgot that it doesn't and he and the veterinarian ends up falling to the ground below. So Otis hurries to save them before they fall to their death.
Director: Tom Grevera
Writer: Tom Sheppard
7.9/1043 votesLoading...#7 - King Cud
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 10/7/2009
Otis is knocked out and wakes believing that he is King Cudenhotep. The only way for him to get back to normal before the farmer comes back is if someone knocks him in the head again, but Otis has beaver guards that prevent others from getting too close to him. When they finally turn Otis back to normal, the farmer see them but get hit on the head believes he is Ben Franklin.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Dan Serafin
7.9/1028 votesLoading...#8 - Endangered Liaisons
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 10/9/2009
The animals claim the farm as a protected habitat to prevent a wreck crew from tearing it down and disguise Freddy as a spotted three-toed ferret. They then realize that this species is real, and a real female spotted ferret is shipped to the barnyard and Freddy falls in love with her. Sadly, the animals realize that female spotted ferrets eat male spotted ferrets when they marry, so the gang must get rid of her. Freddy is then heartbroken after his friends stop the wedding because he lost his one true love.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: Tom Sheppard
7.8/1031 votesLoading...#9 - Free Schmoozy
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 10/8/2009
The animals liberate a show whale from a water show at a fair, but Otis has a lot more to go when the animals are being constantly eaten by this whale.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Gene Grillo
7.8/1039 votesLoading...#10 - Mr. Wiggleplix
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 11/14/2009
Pig has been hanging out with his imaginary friend, Mr. Wiggleplix, for weeks and it drives the other animals crazy. Then one day, Pig claims that Otis killed Mr. Wiggleplix so Otis has to dress up as Mr. Wiggleplix for Pig to feel better. Things take a turn for the worst when Otis says he is leaving for a magical land but Pig believes it and wants to go with him. All of the sudden, the real Mr. Wiggleplix comes alive and stops Otis from impersonating him.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Tom Sheppard
7.7/1030 votesLoading...#11 - Paging Dr. Filly
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 11/5/2011
The animals call Dr. Filly to settle a recent persistent argument between Freddy and Peck, but instead of making things better, Dr. Filly seems to make it worse when other animals begin disliking each other. They were almost going to leave (except Bessy) until Otis reveals that "Dr. Filly" is an imposter donkey named Chip who likes to impersonate Dr. Filly.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Tom Sheppard
7.7/1031 votesLoading...#12 - Iron Otis
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 11/6/2009
After Freddy's recipe for a tofrooster that is going to be cooked on the show, things get worse when Chef Big Bones (voiced by Jim Cummings) insists on using a real rooster, and captures Peck, so Otis disguises himself as a chef to save Peck from being cooked.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Dan Serafin
7.7/1032 votesLoading...#13 - Man's Best Fiend
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 10/8/2009
Duke wants a playmate, but no other animal wants to play with him, so the animals convince the farmer to get Duke a playmate. Unfortunately for Duke, the farmer brings Duke's arch-rival Baxter back to the farm, and Baxter causes trouble with the farmer while blaming everything on Duke, getting Duke in trouble and being put in the barn with the other animals. They try to stop Baxter but the farmer scolds them for hurting him. So they dress Otis as a bear so that Baxter pushes the farmer to it and get Baxter in trouble. The plan works but Duke accidentally attacks a real bear instead because Otis was late on cue.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Tom Sheppard
7.6/1043 votesLoading...#14 - Back at the Booyard
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 10/25/2009
n a bid to collect the most Halloween candy and win a prize, Otis tops off the animals' trick-or-treat candy with a handful of candy from a hollow tree that legend says belongs to Hockey Mask Bob who always gets his candy stolen and vows to return for revenge and reclaim his candy.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Jed Spingarn
7.4/10107 votesLoading...#15 - Otis Season
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/29/2008
This week's Moose Appreciation Week, so Otis disguises himself as a moose so he can get positive attention from humans, but his plan goes awry because the week is over and now the Moose HUNTING SEASON starts today and now Snotty Boy and his friends are trying to hunt him down, and his antlers are stuck to his head. So the animals rigged a robotic moose to scare Snotty Boy away from Otis. But Snotty Boy accidentally goes out on a busy road. So Otis has to save him from being hit by a car. Because of his heroism, the county now bans Moose Hunting Season and makes it Moose Appreciation Week all year long.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Jed Spingarn
7.4/1095 votesLoading...#16 - A Tale of Two Snottys
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/10/2008
After Snotty Boy returns to torment the animals, Otis accidentally falls on him and becomes unconscious. Luckily, he's got a pulse and they decide to take him back to the Beady's, but Abby says that Mrs. Beady will blame them. Otis sends a disguised Pig over to the Beadys' as Snotty Boy so they don't get suspicious. But Pig enjoys being Snotty Boy so much that he decides to stay as him forever. Meanwhile, Snotty Boy gets amnesia and the animals realize that the only way to get Pig back is to turn Snotty Boy back to his old mean, obnoxious jerky self so Mrs. Beady will recognize him and because Snotty Boy is annoying them with his newly found kindness and sweetness.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Dan Serafin
7.4/1093 votesLoading...#17 - Lord of the Beavers
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/30/2009
When Otis injures himself, Pip temporarily takes over as the barn leader, and when he recovers, realizes that the others think Pip is a much better leader than Otis was. Insulted, Otis decides to leave the barnyard and be a leader where he's needed – with a den of beavers.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Tom Sheppard
7.3/10120 votesLoading...#18 - Chez Pig
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/2007
When Pig's truffle pies become a huge hit in the barnyard, the animals decide to use Pig's pies to sell them to the humans to make money, but Pig quits when the animals begin to get greedy with trying to make money, especially when a celebrity comes to buy the pie recipe from them.
Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Christopher Painter
7.3/10108 votesLoading...#19 - Fowl Play
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/2007
With Peck nowhere to be seen and Freddy seen lying on Peck's feathers, the animals conclude that Freddy ate Peck and plan to ban Freddy from the barnyard (Duke locks Freddy in a 'scented' pet carrier to attract the pet store truck driver so Freddy would be adopted). Otis is determined to prove that Freddy is innocent, however.
Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Gene Grillo
7.3/1098 votesLoading...#20 - Pigmalion
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/12/2008
After the gang notices a distinctive birthmark on Pig's backside, Pig starts to believe that he is related to the royal Pampered Pigs. After training Pig, he becomes snobbish to his fellow companions.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Lazar Saric
7.2/10112 votesLoading...#21 - Lights! Camera! Moo!
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/2008
After Otis accidentally destroys the barn's safety film, he must make a new one, which he puts a lot of action and suspense in. When the other actors quit because of the dangerous stunts, Otis must make it on his own, and accidentally rises the barn into a tornado. In the end, Bessy makes the safety film all about Otis' unsafe antics.
Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Sam O'Neal, Neal Boushell
7.2/1099 votesLoading...#22 - Big Top Barnyard
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/12/2008
Otis' favorite circus is coming to town, but the gang accidentally injures the main lead. Feeling guilty, Otis offers to take over and along with his friends, but Abby is too afraid to do her part because of an incident that happened long ago: She had dropped her partner when trying to catch him. Abby refuses to do the part because of being afraid to drop Otis. But without Abby, the show ends up being a disaster
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Jed Spingarn
7.2/1093 votesLoading...#23 - Buyers Beware
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/26/2009
When the farmer puts a sign that says "Welcome Buyers", the animals fear that he is selling the barn to other people, so whenever someone comes to the barn, they use tactics to scare them away. Then, though, they realize the Farmer's surname is Buyer and he is only having a family reunion. So they returned the Farmer's family to the barnyard just in time for the reunion.
Director: Mike Gasaway, Tom Grevera
Writer: Dan Serafin
7.2/1096 votesLoading...#24 - Bling My Barn
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/19/2009
When Otis accidentally blows up the barn with an atom smasher he accidentally received in the mail, they audition for "Bling My Barn," a home improvement show that fixes up barns for deserving families. But when they dress up Pig as a baby, he discovers the perfect family they're competing against, he tries to warn the gang but they ignore him thinking he's throwing a tantrum, so he runs away forcing them on a wild goose chase to catch him. When they finally caught Pig, he shows them the perfect family, so they drop out of the contest and use the material from the farmer's house to rebuild the barn.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Dan Serafin
7.2/1098 votesLoading...#25 - Happy Animal Fun Time
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/22/2009
In order to get out of going to a "Brianna Texicanna" concert with Abby so he and his friends can go bowling to beat a rival farm, Otis lies and says he needs to celebrate "Happy Animal Fun Time Day" in which everybody must stay home to celebrate. But Abby believes him and decides to cancel going to the concert and stay home to celebrate too. So Otis distracts her with the holiday's activities so that he can join with his friends at bowling and Abby doesn't see that he lied to her.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Gene Grillo
The Best Episodes of Back at the Barnyard
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Genres:AnimationComedyKids
Network:Nickelodeon
Top Episode Ratings Summary
"Clan of the Cave Cow" is the best rated episode of "Back at the Barnyard". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Todd Grimes, Nick Simotas and written by Gene Grillo, it aired on 9/19/2011. This episode scored 1.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cows' Night Out".