The Worst Episodes of Back at the Barnyard
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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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Back at the Barnyard" is "Home Sweet Hole", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Todd Grimes and written by Jed Spingarn. "Home Sweet Hole" aired on 5/24/2008 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Otis' Mom".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Home Sweet Hole
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 5/24/2008
Pip's mousehole is destroyed by Otis accidentally. He moves in with the others, but they're all unused to each other's habits. After hearing a misunderstanding that is impossible to share a home with Pip, he runs away and finds a bee hive. Otis and his friends must search for him and return him to the barnyard.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Jed Spingarn
- NaN/10 0 votes
#2 - Otis' Mom
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 5/24/2008
Otis discovers that he has the same bell as Bessy's long lost child, so Bessy believes that Otis is her child, so she starts treating him like a child and humiliates him and refuses to let him goof around and do pranks on Mrs. Beady.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Dan Serafin
- NaN/10 0 votes
#3 - Club Otis
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 6/7/2008
Abby discovers Otis' secret club, but the animals don't want a female member there so they pretend the club is very boring so Abby would leave. Soon, though, Abby discovers that Otis is faking, so she creates a club herself. Now everybody wants to join her club and Otis is left alone.
Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#4 - The Chronicles of Barnia
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/7/2008
When the gang gets caught by Snotty Boy in a game of "Dungeons and Barn Animals", they make Snotty believe he is in the mythical land of Barnia, and now the animals must force him out before he takes over the barn.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Jed Spingarn
- NaN/10 0 votes
#5 - Barnyard Idol
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 7/21/2008
When it's discovered that Pig has a beautiful singing voice, Otis and the gang enter Pig in a singing competition to win the farmer a golden tractor. When Mrs. Beady loses, she is out to prove that Pig is a talking barnyard animal. Meanwhile, Pig's over-practicing causes him to lose his voice. So Otis tries to use lip synching but he doesn't know the lyrics in the song, so Pig is booed for singing terrible lyrics. In the end, Pig did win a prize (a tiny tote bag), but they couldn't keep the tractor they stole because it was illegal to steal a grand prize without approval of winning.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Tom Sheppard
- NaN/10 0 votes
#6 - The Haunting
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 7/22/2008
A bunny's ghostly spirit possesses Pig after Otis builds a fun shack over a pet burial ground, and wants to take over the barnyard and reclaim the world.
Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Sam O'Neal, Neal Boushell
- NaN/10 0 votes
#7 - Brave Udders
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 7/23/2008
Otis becomes afraid when he receives a letter from his childhood bully, Krauser Krebs, saying that he's coming to visit the barnyard, so his friends try to help him defend his fear of the bully.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Dan Serafin
- NaN/10 0 votes
#8 - Otis' 11
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 7/24/2008
Otis loses the saloon to Chubs Malone, head of the gopher underground, in a game of Fizzbin. Now, the gophers dominate the barn at night.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#9 - Pecky Suave
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 7/25/2008
Peck takes a fake potion to get enough courage to speak to his crush, Hannah, but he ends up being so confident that he challenges Root, a rooster much bigger than him, to a duel.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Tom Sheppard
- NaN/10 0 votes
#10 - Otis vs. Bigfoot
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 9/22/2008
Bigfoot is sighted in the woods, and Otis decides to go hunting for him, but Abby finds him and brings him to the barnyard for his protection. Mrs. Beady, however, is out to capture Bigfoot and prove she is not crazy.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#11 - Top Cow
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 9/23/2008
Otis becomes the county's new crop dusting ace. An accident causes him to quit, however, and at the wrong moment: a large swarm of locusts is about to destroy the crops.
Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#12 - School of Otis
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 9/24/2008
Otis must take over teaching (in the stern of Bessy) after accidentally injuring Peck, the children's teacher. When he realizes that the kids learn boring things, he teaches the kids how to pull pranks. However, the kids develop an ultimate prank, which sends the barnyard silo to mid air, just when all of the animals are in there to hide from Duke, who appointed himself as new leader.
Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Tom Sheppard
- NaN/10 0 votes
#13 - Otis for Mayor
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 9/25/2008
When Mrs. Beady tries to run for mayor, Otis decides to run for mayor against her to avoid Mrs. Beady from exposing them as talking animals. Their competition goes horribly out of control, however.
Director: Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone
Writer: Jed Spingarn
- NaN/10 0 votes
#14 - Dummy and Dummier
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 9/26/2008
When Freddy gets depressed over his lack of talent, Otis and the gang decide to make him take up ventriloquism. The dummy that they make, Mr. Jinx, comes alive, however, and tries to kill them. It turns out that a colony of termites has possessed Mr. Jinx to get revenge on them for using their tree to create Mr. Jinx.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Dan Serafin
- NaN/10 0 votes
#15 - Some Like It Snotty
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 10/24/2008
Otis and his friends dress up as girls because the bowling alley is open, but only girls get to go free. Their plan backfires when Snotty Boy and his friends try to take them out on a date. They are forced to agree when they realize that Abby and Bessy have put glue on their women's clothes so that they can't take them off and they can't throw them off because Pip removed the stink bomb from the purse to make room for himself. After one night, the other animals couldn't take it anymore, but Otis still continues to go out as a girl so he can get free things from Snotty Boy. Everything goes well until Otis realizes that Snotty Boy has engaged to him.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Tom Sheppard, Steve Oedekerk
- NaN/10 0 votes
#16 - Cowman: The Uddered Avenger (1)
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 11/28/2008
When Otis as Cowman is assigned the task of guarding the Jurassic Corn Kernel at the county fair, Mertin Fargleman (voiced by Tom Kenny) wants to steal it to win the Gardening Award posing as Professor Twineyvines. When the town is impressed with Twineyvines and unimpressed with Cowman trying to save the Kernel from him, Twineyvines becomes the new protector. Immediately, Otis takes the kernel to protect it and is branded a thief and then chased by a mob. He then decides to stop Twineyvines when Abby finds Otis and Pip headed for Peru and says that Peck, Pig and Freddy have been kidnapped by Mrs. Beady, who they do not know is in line with Twineyvines. Now, Otis, Pip, Abby, Pig, Freddy and Peck must unite to defeat Fargleman, clear Cowman's name, and save the Jurassic Corn Kernel (mutated into a giant monster) from destroying the fair (even though the fair was already destroyed).
Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Jed Spingarn, Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#17 - Cowman: The Uddered Avenger (2)
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 11/28/2008
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Director: Mike Gasaway
Writer: Jed Spingarn, Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#18 - Pig Amok
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 1/20/2009
Pig returns to his birthplace to be married, but after Otis realizes that Pig's bride, Brunhilda, is cruel and bratty, he tries to stop the wedding by beating Pig in a contest.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#19 - The Sun Cow
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 1/21/2009
Otis' new Kobe cow neighbors begin to think that he's the reincarnation of the legendary Sun Cow when they discover Otis has a fifth udder (which was actually a bee sting). Otis is glad he has that status until he realizes that the cow neighbours actually serve "Sun Cows" at a steak restaurant and they're planning to do the same to Otis.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Jessica Gao
- NaN/10 0 votes
#20 - Doggelganger
Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 1/22/2009
While Duke is at the vet after being sprayed by Pig’s skunk, a mischievous mutt named Baxter sneaks out and goes to the barnyard while disguised to look like Duke for what his life is.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Dan Serafin
- NaN/10 0 votes
#21 - Save the Clams
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 1/23/2009
Under Abby's request, Otis takes in a clam that she rescued from a nearby café. However, the clam is a rude and demanding house guest. It hogs the shower, Pig hanged up on a radio contest that Otis was calling to for temperatures in the barn, it takes over the barn at bedtime and, to make matters worse, it reproduces many party-going clams. Otis believes that Abby will get in trouble with the farmer once he finds out she is the one who brought all the clams into the farm and decides to relax while the other animals are stuck with the millions of clams. Soon they do not want to leave and instead bile Otis when he tells them to get out. Now, the animals must figure out how to calm them down.
Director: Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone
Writer: Ned Goldreyer
- NaN/10 0 votes
#22 - Cowdyshack
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 2/23/2009
Otis uses Crazy Louie – a loopy groundskeeper at a high-end golf course and apparently his friend – to let him and the animals through the back gate and play a round. When Pig throws a club and accidentally hits Louie in the appendix, though, a guilt-ridden Otis decides to win the big golf tournament to get a new appendix.
Director: Todd Grimes
Writer: Tom Sheppard
- NaN/10 0 votes
#23 - Adventures in Snotty Sitting
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 2/24/2009
After the animals break the farmer's classic video game system, they need to make some quick cash to replace it. Seeing an ad to babysit, they dress up as British nannies and show up at the address on the ad. Only when Mrs. Beady answers the door do they realize they're babysitting Snotty Boy, but Snotty Boy wreaks havoc on them and the animals have to get the little terror fed, bathed and into bed before the Beadys get home and earn the money for babysitting.
Director: Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone
Writer: Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#24 - Chain Gang
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 11/14/2009
The animals get arrested when they are mistakened by the police for bandits disguised in animal costumes. Chained together, they try to escape so that they can use a computer to find the real thieves. But when they do catch the real thieves, the police says due to budget cuts, they aren't any keys to free them from their chain, so now they're stuck chained together
Director: Tom Grevera
Writer: Gene Grillo
- NaN/10 0 votes
#25 - It's an Udderful Life
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 12/5/2009
Otis convinces his college buddies Donner and Blitzen to stop by the barnyard on Christmas Eve. During the visit, Otis accidentally gives Santa a cup belonging to Freddy, who is sick. When Santa comes down with Ferret Fever and can't finish his rounds in the county, which turns out to be his last stop on his Christmas Eve rounds, then Otis and the animals vow to make toys and deliver them by midnight to save Christmas. Meanwhile, Snotty Boy, not knowing he’s on the naughty list, really wants a Red Rider BB Taser that Santa doesn't bring him every year. So he sets a trap for Santa to make sure he brought his present.
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Writer: Gene Grillo