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The Best Episodes of Curious George

Every episode of Curious George ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Curious George!

With the help of his friend “The Man in the Yellow Hat,” a curious little monkey named George sets out on adventures to learn about...
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Top Episode Ratings Summary

"Curious George vs. Winter" is the best rated episode of "Curious George". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/23/2007. This episode scored 1.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Charkie Escapes".

  • Curious George vs. Winter
    10.0/101 votes
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    #1 - Curious George vs. Winter

    Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 2/23/2007

    It is early winter in the country and George wants to play outside. But the problem is he has toys for summer and snow but no toys for just plain cold. He decides he will have fun by playing with Bill's bunnies but Bill is taking them to his grandmother's house for the entire winter. Bill wants him to leave out nuts and seeds for Jumpy Squirrel all winter and George wants to find a way to have fun in the winter cold. Later, after he sees how the water in his pool is frozen, he finds a way to have fun outdoors AND give Jumpy the food he needs.

    Director: N/A

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  • Charkie Escapes
    8.8/1037 votes
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    #2 - Charkie Escapes

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 10/6/2006

    George is trying to get up his game and practice soccer, but Steve & Betsy's Aunt Margret says he must dogsit their dog Charkie. Charkie is very wild and playful and does anything she can to run away from the back alley where George is trying to practice. It seems like every time George has an exit covered, Charkie find another way out. George has to find a way to get her to calm down and sit.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pop!
    8.8/109 votes
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    #3 - Pop!

    Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2020

    George and the Man go bird-watching at the park.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George's Home for Pigeons
    8.6/1036 votes
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    #4 - Curious George's Home for Pigeons

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/5/2006

    George has found himself a new friend in the city, Compass. One of the Doorman's homing pigeons which he keeps on the roof of the apartment building. But the only thing is, Compass has a bad sense of direction. So when the Man says George is not allowed to let pigeons inside the apartment, George decides to build Compass a new home on the balcony outside their apartment, eventually deciding on a tree. But soon George finds out building a tree is not as easy as it seems. Where do trees in nature come from if people don't make them?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George, Dog Counter
    8.4/1014 votes
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    #5 - Curious George, Dog Counter

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/26/2006

    Professor Wiseman is taking George to his first dog show which, to his disappointment, is not a show performed entirely by dogs. But when he gets home, The Man with the Yellow Hat wants to hear about all the dogs but George can only remember three. So he goes back to try to take note of them all and eventually brings them all home where he must find a way to organize them to count them easily.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George Goes to the Dentist
    8.4/105 votes
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    #6 - Curious George Goes to the Dentist

    Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 7/15/2020

    George visits the dentist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George's Low High Score
    8.3/1018 votes
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    #7 - Curious George's Low High Score

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 10/10/2006

    George comes across his friends Steve and Betsy playing basketball in the city. When George tries to play, he finds out he is not very good and winds up losing the ball when it accidentally lands on a moving pickup truck. They then decide to play miniature golf instead. After Steve tells him that when playing basketball, the winner is the person that has made the most baskets has the highest score, George figures it is the same way for golf. Then Betsy tells him that in golf, the lowest score wins. Since they find the park mini golf course too hard, they decide to build one of their own.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gutter Monkey
    8.3/1019 votes
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    #8 - Gutter Monkey

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/6/2007

    The Man in the yellow hat is competing in the country town bowling tournament at Bowlmore Lanes but it seems like George does not have any luck getting the ball to hit the pins because it keeps falling into the gutter. When he sees The Man polishing his bowling shoes because they make it extra lucky, George decides to polish his bowling ball too. After George polishes the ball he decides to give it a test roll. However, the yard is bumpy and the driveway is a hill so he just cannot get the ball to roll straight. That is until he keeps the ball so long that The Man forgets it and George sees the road from the country house to the Bowling Alley is like a big bowling lane with gutters.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Doctor Monkey
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #9 - Doctor Monkey

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/29/2006

    The Man with the Yellow Hat takes George to his checkup. George has never seen a doctor's office or a doctor before and becomes curious. After the doctor has to take a break, George puts on his coat and uses his equipment to try to track down a strange "bloopy" sound he had been hearing and, along the way, has to help several patients such as a woman with allergies a man with a broken arm and a woman with hiccups in the way only a monkey can.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All-New Hundley
    8.2/1016 votes
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    #10 - All-New Hundley

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/9/2007

    George is pretty mad at Hundley who will simply not let him play in the lobby and wishes Hundley could be more like him. One day though, he notices that Hundley is barking loudly and acting bouncy and playful, much to his wish! He then notices that Hundley seems to go back and forth between acting bouncy and playful, and acting like his normal self. Realizing that something is not normal about Hundley's split personality, he tries to figure out what is going on.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George Flies a Kite
    8.1/1047 votes
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    #11 - Curious George Flies a Kite

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/2006

    George wakes up on a windy day in the country. His friend Bill introduces him to a kite, which George wants to fly. However, Bill must go home and George cannot play with the kite until he returns. His curiosity gets the best of him and he soon finds himself flying around the countryside, even taking his friend Jumpy Squirrel with him. This is the pilot episode for the series.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Squirrel For a Day
    8.1/1023 votes
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    #12 - Squirrel For a Day

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/26/2006

    The Man with the Yellow Hat has a predicament. He has to write a tribute speech for Professor Wiseman. Also, the country house cupboards are too small to hold all of their food. Then when Bill tells him how squirrels store food in the ground after seeing Jumpy Squirrel do it, George decides to do the same thing to their food. When the Man finds out, he tells George that squirrels bury nuts, seeds and things that grow. So George decides to plant and grow various objects around the house including the Man's speech which he wants to grow the rest of.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George-Asaurus
    8.1/109 votes
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    #13 - Curious George-Asaurus

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/3/2008

    Professor Wiseman needs the Man with the Yellow Hat's help to assemble some rare dinosaur bones into a skeleton in time for an important archaeologist, Dr. Raj Desai, to see them. Wiseman and the Man finish the task and meet Dr. Desai for lunch. Meanwhile, George and Gnocchi play outside with a toy plane, which floats though a window--landing on the newly assembled dinosaur. When George climbs the fragile bones to retrieve it, the entire skeleton collapses! Using another dinosaur as a model, George is able to organize, sort, and piece together the bones back into its proper form. But how will Dr. Desai feel about a monkey working on his precious dinosaur bones, especially when the wrong head ends up on the dinosaur's skeleton?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • For the Birds
    8.0/1012 votes
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    #14 - For the Birds

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/3/2008

    George loves feeding the birds, but they must be starving, because all the seeds keep disappearing! Perplexed, George returns with more food, only to find a big, bushy tail sticking out of the feeder. It's Jumpy Squirrel, caught in the act of eating all the seeds! George tries to squirrel-proof the birdhouse, moving it further from the tree trunk, clearing away freestanding objects, and even developing a pulley laundry line system to hang it from. But to no avail - that squirrel can climb - and apparently eat - anything! Why does Jumpy keep taking the seeds? Has his appetite suddenly grown — or maybe they're not all for him?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mulch Ado About Nothing
    8.0/108 votes
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    #15 - Mulch Ado About Nothing

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 9/4/2008

    The secret to Bill's amazing garden is the compost he uses to feed his plants. George decides to make compost for his hungry plants...so George empties the entire contents of his fridge in the backyard. The next morning, George realizes that instead of making plant food, he's made a stinky mess! The Renkins teach George that proper compost consists of dirt, water, and air with only certain foods (no meat or dairy). Back at the apartment in the city, George sees that all the plants need food. George prepares a hearty "meal" ...using every container that he can find. When the Man with the Yellow Hat wakes up to an unusual smell, he follows his nose to the compost! To the neighbors' delight, George made enough for all the plants in the building.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sneaky Shadow
    8.0/1012 votes
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    #16 - Sneaky Shadow

    Season 15 Episode 15 - Aired 3/17/2022

    George uses shadow puppets to help Allie.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George On Time
    7.9/1016 votes
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    #17 - Curious George On Time

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/13/2006

    George's friend Professor Wiseman has a pretty interesting habit-building and fixing clocks. She has just finished work on a very interesting clock where a band comes out and plays every hour. But when Compass comes flying in and George tries to show him the clock he accidentally breaks it and then winds up taking it completely apart when he tries to fix it. George goes to the library to try to find out how to fix it but not from a book. The library has a big clock tower on top that the whole city depends upon. But when the clock's chime scares George he winds up breaking the big clock as well.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George Takes a Job
    7.9/1017 votes
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    #18 - Curious George Takes a Job

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/2006

    George is on a city-wide smelling spree when he comes across Chef Pisghetti's kitchen. Chef Pisghetti is cooking a meal for a famous restaurant critic. Then George comes across some pasta the chef was cooking and had placed in a pot. He notices that it had been crisp but is now all floppy. George then decides that kitchens are magic and finds other things to place in the "floppification pot".

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George Goes Up the River
    7.9/1022 votes
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    #19 - Curious George Goes Up the River

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/15/2006

    George and The Man with the Yellow Hat go to the country to feed ducks but have to put their plans on hold when the Renkins' chicks are missing and they must find them. George, however finds a raft on the edge of the river and soon, along with Jumpy Squirrel, finds himself-literally-going up the creek without a paddle. They eventually find a way to stop but they must now find their way back home to the Renkins' farm.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George Discovers the Poles
    7.9/1018 votes
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    #20 - Curious George Discovers the Poles

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/27/2006

    George has gone to his favorite country place, Lake Wanasinklake, where he finds Bill fishing in the lagoon. Bill has caught not fish, but tadpoles and he asks George to look after them as they grow up because "they do some amazing things". But when George figures they are growing tired of the same, small fishbowl, he decides to release them into the lagoon. Later he tries to do anything to get them back but only catches a small green creature which is not one of his tadpoles. Or is it?...

    Director: N/A

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  • Curious George Finds His Way
    7.9/1015 votes
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    #21 - Curious George Finds His Way

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/27/2006

    George has to stay with Hundley in the lobby as the apartment gets cleaned but Hundley does not want George to eat his messy snack in the lobby. After George and Hundley get locked out in the alley behind the apartment building, Hundley runs off trying to find a better way in. George follows him and they eventually meet in a place very far away from home. They decide that, since it is dark out and they can not see their way home, they can hear their way home instead.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Monkey Underground
    7.9/1016 votes
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    #22 - Monkey Underground

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/4/2007

    The Renkins' are having a problem with their grape yard. A group of gophers have made their home in the ground under the garden and are stealing the grapes. Upset with the problem, Mr. Renkins calls Calhoun the Gopher-getter, an exterminator, to come and catch the gophers. George does not like the idea of somebody catching the innocent gophers, even if he does plan to release them again. So he decides to build a connecting tunnel between his house and the Renkins' garden so the gophers can escape.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Well Done, George
    7.9/108 votes
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    #23 - Well Done, George

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 9/8/2010

    George is outside watering the garden when he gets muddy. He tries to take a bath but there's no water. Not even in the sink. Mr. Quint explains that they have a broken pump. And then he explains how to get the water, with a well and a pump. The pump they have is old. Then The Man explains that an electric pump sends it through a pipe to the house. And they go back to the city since it'll take days to get a new pump. When the go to the apartment, they don't see an orange flier. It says the plumber must shut off the water now. This means there's no water here, too. So George tries to get more water with a pipe.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Zeroes to Donuts
    7.8/1020 votes
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    #24 - Zeroes to Donuts

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/6/2006

    On a sunny city Saturday, George and the Man decide that it is a good day for donuts and eggs. The Man tells George to write down the number of eggs they have in the refrigerator but George does not write anything because they had none. The Man then realizes that after teaching George everything for so long he forgot to teach him about nothing! He says that zero alone means nothing but when added to smaller numbers makes them bigger. The Man then sends George off to get the donuts with a paper that has an order of 1 Dozen Donuts. But George does not know about a dozen and changes the order to 100 dozen donuts. But after seeing just how many donuts 100 dozen make he tries to do anything to get away with only 1 dozen.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious George Takes Another Job
    7.8/1018 votes
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    #25 - Curious George Takes Another Job

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/14/2006

    Continuing from the previous part, George wants to continue helping Chef Pisghetti in his kitchen but the chef has no work for him. But the chef has a friend named Mr. Glass, a billionaire who owns an apartment building called the Glass Palace and has a love of all things unique. He hires George as a window washer. Things go well until George sees some shadows in one room that look like jungle animals and decides to paint them. As a result, this causes Mr. Glass to get angry and orders 2 painters to chase George but is rescued by The Man With The Yellow Hat. Although Mr. Glass appreciates the room with the jungle animals and decides to rent it out.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A