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The Worst Episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog

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The bizarre misadventures of a cowardly dog named Courage and his elderly owners in a farmhouse in Nowhere, Kansas.

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Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "Courage the Cowardly Dog" is "The House of Discontent", rated 4/10 from 2 user votes. It was directed by John R. Dilworth and written by David Steven Cohen. "The House of Discontent" aired on 11/9/2001 and is rated 3.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Clutching Foot".

  • The House of Discontent
    4.0/10 2 votes

    #1 - The House of Discontent

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 11/9/2001

    Eustace doesn't exchange crops for luck, and the house terrorizes the family.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • The Clutching Foot
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #2 - The Clutching Foot

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/2000

    Fungal gangsters consume Eustace's body (starting with his foot) and take Muriel hostage which forces Courage to carry out their footwork.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • The Hunchback of Nowhere
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #3 - The Hunchback of Nowhere

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/2000

    A hunchback who is rejected by everyone wants to find a house to sleep in. He goes to the Bagge house, but Eustace rejects him. It's raining and Courage gets Eustace's raincoat and finds the hunchback in the barn. He is very friendly and together have fun doing shadow puppets, acrobatic stunts and bell ringing. Muriel is happy to have the hunchback stay with them, but Eustace wants him to go.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: Irv Bauer

  • Queen of the Black Puddle
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #4 - Queen of the Black Puddle

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/2000

    A Queen who lives in a puddle in the yard of the farm rises up out of the puddle. Eustace sees this Queen and decides to follow the hot chick. Little does he know that she is bad and plans to eat him. She drags him into the puddle, and Courage follows to save Eustace. She lives in a castle, which is where she plans to eat him. Courage saves him and gets out of the puddle as they just miss being captured.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: Bill Marsilii

  • Everyone Wants to Direct
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #5 - Everyone Wants to Direct

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/2000

    Benton Tarentella and Erin Von Volkheim are two dead jailed movie directors who plan to capture Muriel and eat her. Eustace loves this idea of being in a movie for the money, while Muriel loves to be on camera. Courage hates the idea. Eustace eventually locks Courage up in a trunk because he kept trying to stop this real movie from happening. Courage finds the script in the trunk and rewrites it so Muriel gets saved. Then, Benton and Erin get in a fight and claim to never work together again, giving up on their realistic movie idea and to bury themselves back where they've always been buried: under the Bagge's basement! Everything goes back to normal.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: Craig Shemin

  • The Snowman Cometh
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #6 - The Snowman Cometh

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/2000

    Courage, Muriel and Eustace go on vacation to the North Pole. Courage goes out to get firewood and comes back to the igloo (where they were staying) and finds everybody else is gone. Courage knew it was a snowman because he saw it earlier. He figured out that the snowman was taking a liquid from Eustace and Muriel's body to be able to live in hot weather and not melt. Courage gets captured by the snowman but breaks out and saves both. The snowman falls into icy water while chasing them and freezes into a giant ice cube. Muriel, Courage and Eustace go home.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: Irv Bauer

  • The Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #7 - The Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/9/2000

    Courage finds a duck egg, brings it inside, and gives it to Eustace. Eustace thinks he is going to eat it for breakfast, but finds out its still alive. It hatches and thinks Eustace is his mom. The duck becomes "Eustace's slave" and it is jealous of Muriel and Courage, which makes it do nasty tricks on both. Courage eventually puts a stop to this, in which...

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: Irv Bauer

  • Heads of Beef
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #8 - Heads of Beef

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/2000

    Muriel is sick, so she sends Courage and Eustace to go to the bakery for her. Eustace gets in his truck and decides to go to eat first. He goes to a place called "Burgers: Really Cheap!". The owner is a pig named Jonn Bonne. He gives Eustace and Courage burgers. When Courage sees a guy come into a room and not come back, he thinks he was made into a burger because the burger looks just like him. He goes down and sees Jonn Bonne and his wife talking over a silhoutte of a person's head on a table! The Bonnes go after Courage, but he escapes through the mail slot and runs all the way home. Muriel has gotten better. It turns out the heads were really sculptures made of hamburger meat that Jonn Bonne makes. He, his wife, Eustace and that guy eat one of Eustace.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: Irv Bauer

  • Klub Katz
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #9 - Klub Katz

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/16/2000

    Marooned during a cruise, Courage and his owners once again run afoul of Katz. Transformed at his spa into machines designed to fight for Katz's amusement, Muriel places her hope of rescue on Courage.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • The Revenge of the Chicken from Outer Space
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #10 - The Revenge of the Chicken from Outer Space

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/23/2000

    Courage notices a familiar UFO come toward the Bagge's House. He sees a chicken (the same chicken from the pilot episode. Courage shot the chicken with a raygun and blew up the chicken's head) The chicken wants revenge, so he captures Muriel. Courage saves her before any harm is done. He captures Eustace and pulls off his head with a plunger! The chicken (with Eustace's head) chases Muriel and Courage, but later everything turns out OK with the exception of Eustace's missing head.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: John R. Dilworth, Irv Bauer

  • Journey to the Center of Nowhere
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #11 - Journey to the Center of Nowhere

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/2000

    Eustace hires Shirley the medium to settle differences between Eustace and his dead brother, Horace. Some creepy stuff happens and Eustace gets his brother's box, but not in a good way.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: Craig Shemin

  • Little Muriel
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #12 - Little Muriel

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/2000

    A tornado rips through Nowhere, destroying the farmhouse and turning Muriel into a little girl again - just three-and-a-half years old.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • The Great Fusilli
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #13 - The Great Fusilli

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/30/2000

    A traveling trailer comes by. The Great Fusilli houses it and decides to make Eustace, Muriel and Courage acting stars in his portable set. But Courage discovers a bunch of marionettes and sees that Eustace and Muriel have transformed into marionettes. Courage must stop the madness.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: Irv Bauer

  • Mega Muriel the Magnificent
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #14 - Mega Muriel the Magnificent

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/6/2001

    The Computer decides to take over Muriel's body to show the world what it can do.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • Bad Hair Day
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #15 - Bad Hair Day

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/13/2001

    Muriel is kidnapped and taken to a hair farm to be used for growing hair.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • The Forbidden Hat of Gold
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #16 - The Forbidden Hat of Gold

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/13/2001

    Eustace takes the family on an adventure to find a hat worth millions.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • Serpent of Evil River
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #17 - Serpent of Evil River

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/20/2001

    The family signs up for a free vacation but ends up having to serve as the ship's crew.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • The Transplant
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #18 - The Transplant

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/20/2001

    Courage unearths a bone from a giant kangaroo.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • Car Broke, Phone Yes
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #19 - Car Broke, Phone Yes

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 10/26/2001

    A visitor on an alien mission extracts Muriel's kindness.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • Cowboy Courage
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #20 - Cowboy Courage

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 10/26/2001

    Courage dreams of being a brave lawman.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • Evil Weevil
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #21 - Evil Weevil

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 11/2/2001

    Muriel invites a weevil to the farmhouse to recover from his injuries.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • McPhearson Phantom
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #22 - McPhearson Phantom

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 11/2/2001

    A ghost harasses Muriel by sabotaging everything she does for Eustace.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • The Sand Whale Strikes
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #23 - The Sand Whale Strikes

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 11/9/2001

    A sand whale arrives at the farm demanding his accordion.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen

  • The Tower of Dr. Zalost
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #24 - The Tower of Dr. Zalost

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 1/11/2002

    The miserable Dr. Zalost rains pink cannonballs down on the people of Nowhere, turning them gray and depressed.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: John R. Dilworth

  • Tulip's Worm
    7.0/10 1 votes

    #25 - Tulip's Worm

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 6/28/2002

    Two alien teddy bears blast the citizens out of sight when they are looking for a giant worm. Courage discovers the worm outside of the farmhouse, and it reacts whenever he plays a tuba. The space bears come to the scene, and reveal that the little worm is actually a space worm owned by an alien girl named Tulip. As Muriel and the two teddy bears are eaten by the beast, Courage must take the worm to outer space before Muriel and the bears are digested.

    Director: John R. Dilworth

    Writer: David Steven Cohen