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The Best Episodes of Back at the Barnyard Season 2

Every episode of Back at the Barnyard Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Back at the Barnyard Season 2!

What do farm animals really do when the humans aren't looking? Just ask Otis, a carefree "party cow" who inherited the job of keeping the barn... and it's residents... in order. But instead of responsibility, Otis is driven by an insatiable need for fun, fun, fun. Along with his barnyard friends Pip, Pig and Freddy, Otis will stop at nothing in his pursuit of a good time... which usually means a few close calls with humans and other threats to what really goes on behind closed barndoors.

Genres:AnimationComedy
Network:Nickelodeon

Season 2 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Back at the Barnyard" season 2 is "Wild Mike's Dance Party", rated 8/10 from 51 user votes. It was directed by T.J. Sullivan and written by Jed Spingarn. "Wild Mike's Dance Party" aired on 2/25/2009 and is rated 1.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Buyers Beware".

  • Wild Mike's Dance Party
    8.0/10 51 votes

    #1 - 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

  • Buyers Beware
    6.8/10 88 votes

    #2 - 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

  • Anchor Cow
    6.6/10 91 votes

    #3 - Anchor Cow

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/27/2009

    When news anchor Hilly Burford is crushed covering a giant cheese curd that Otis made, the animals fill in for him on the news. They turn out to be a huge hit and replace Hilly, but Otis doesn't want them to replace him so they try to convince Hilly to get back to his job.

    Director: Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone

    Writer: Tom Sheppard

  • Abby and Veronica
    6.4/10 93 votes

    #4 - Abby and Veronica

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/18/2009

    Abby is excited that her cousin, Veronica, is coming to the barnyard for a visit, but it turns out Veronica, despite appearing to be nice on the outside, is actually using her beauty to manipulate the animals into doing things to please her.

    Director: Todd Grimes

    Writer: Gene Grillo

  • Bling My Barn
    6.8/10 91 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Udderado
    6.8/10 100 votes

    #6 - Udderado

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/20/2009

    The animals turn the barnyard into a Wild West theme park to raise the Farmer's bail money (who got arrested because of Otis wearing a viking helmet and mooning a cop) and decide to hire an actor to play the bandit. Instead of an actor, unfortunately, a real bandit shows up to pillage the town. So Pig comes to Otis' rescue with unicorns from the unicorn theme park to stop the bandit from attacking the barnyard.

    Director: Tom Grevera

    Writer: Jed Spingarn

  • Cupig
    6.6/10 88 votes

    #7 - Cupig

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2009

    Pig writes a love letter to his favorite pastry treat, but Otis finds it and thinks Abby wrote it to him.

    Director: Todd Grimes

    Writer: Dan Serafin

  • Happy Animal Fun Time
    6.9/10 93 votes

    #8 - 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

  • Dream Birthday
    7.6/10 29 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Lord of the Beavers
    7.0/10 88 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Little Otis
    6.9/10 88 votes

    #11 - Little Otis

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 7/1/2009

    Otis is too lazy to do chores around the barnyard so he creates a clone of himself to do the work for him. It turns out the clone is a much smaller version of him, and when Mrs. Beady ends up capturing the clone, she is set to take him to a TV show so she can prove that animals can talk.

    Director: T.J. Sullivan

    Writer: Chris Hardwick

  • Kids in the City
    6.6/10 91 votes

    #12 - Kids in the City

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/2/2009

    When responsibility is thrust upon Otis to watch the three kids of the barnyard, Joey the calf, Macy the lamb, and Boyle the chick, after Abby and Bessy read story time, Otis loses them upon taking them around the big city when Otis and the gang had to remove a chip from Freddy's skin to keep Abby and Bessy from finding out where they are. So Otis and the gang stage a fake robbery to reunite with the kids after a cop finds them and about to take them to the station. But soon the kids call Abby & Bessy to pick them up. On the way back to the barnyard in a helicopter, Bessy tells them about Otis being a lair and after each line, she punches Otis and with him asking for a parachute to bail the helicopter.

    Director: Todd Grimes

    Writer: Gene Grillo

  • Snotty and Snottier
    6.8/10 88 votes

    #13 - Snotty and Snottier

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/3/2009

    When Snotty Boy's cousin Bernard stays at the Beady house and torments Snotty, he escapes and tries to seek refuge in the barnyard, so the animals must help Snotty to defeat Bernard so then he could leave.

    Director: T.J. Sullivan

    Writer: Jed Spingarn

  • Paging Dr. Filly
    7.3/10 25 votes

    #14 - 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

  • Barnyards and Broomsticks
    6.8/10 78 votes

    #15 - Barnyards and Broomsticks

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/5/2009

    When the animals go on a camping trip, Pip tells a scary campfire story about a witch. When they get lost and find an old woman's house with tons of sweets, Otis fears that this woman is indeed the witch from Pip's story.

    Director: T.J. Sullivan

    Writer: Dan Serafin

  • The Barn Buddy
    6.8/10 92 votes

    #16 - The Barn Buddy

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 10/5/2009

    The animals buy a security system called The Barn Buddy (voiced by Gilbert Gottfried) for the barnyard, but it turns out that the system is doing more harm than good.

    Director: Todd Grimes

    Writer: Gene Grillo

  • Iron Otis
    7.4/10 26 votes

    #17 - 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

  • Too Good to be Glue
    8.0/10 26 votes

    #18 - 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

  • Everett's Treasure
    6.8/10 74 votes

    #19 - Everett's Treasure

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 10/7/2009

    The animals find an old safe in the barn that belonged to Everett's former owner Nebraska Schwartz. Everett doesn't remember the lock combination to open the safe, so Otis helps Everett recreate past memories of Everett's adventures with Nebraska Schwartz to help Everett recall the number.

    Director: Todd Grimes

    Writer: Jed Spingarn

  • King Cud
    7.5/10 37 votes

    #20 - 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

  • Free Schmoozy
    7.5/10 26 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Man's Best Fiend
    7.4/10 27 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Fumblebums
    8.2/10 43 votes

    #23 - 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

  • Endangered Liaisons
    7.6/10 23 votes

    #24 - 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

  • Back at the Booyard
    7.3/10 38 votes

    #25 - 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