- 8.0/1032 votesLoading...
#1 - The Maddening Sprite of The Stump/Shrink Rap
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2004
Lula gets stuck in a tree stump during Dave's attempt to guard the Enchanted Forest against a giant man-eating muffin. When the royal family is unable to free Lula, a tiny, winged sprite establishes himself as the ruler of Udrogoth/ Dave believes helping others is his whole purpose in life and starts giving out advice as a "psychofloobicologist."
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Mark Drop
- 7.5/1023 votesLoading...
#2 - Girlfriend / Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2004
Dave begins dating Princess Irmaplotz, but breaks up with her when he learns that she is evil. Irmaplotz is upset about the break up and sends an army of filthy pixies to attack Udrogoth./A nerd named Ned Frischman travels back in time and tries to take over the ancient world using video games. When everyone is hooked on the video games, Faffy, Lula, and Twinkle The Wonder Horse (Being The Only Ones Without Tumbs) must face off against Ned.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Ralph Soll
- 7.4/1014 votesLoading...
#3 - Termites of Endearment / Thor, Loser
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2004
Vermites destroy Dave's boutique only to find out that they are controlled by The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy/ Lula tries to impress her sister.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Kevin Hopps
- 7.4/1015 votesLoading...
#4 - A Pig's Story
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/2005
Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy has a plan that can't fail; he kidnaps the Storyteller and forces him to read narration in which Dave loses! Chuckles soon finds himself not only Master of the World, but also the new star of "Dave the Barbarian," which has been renamed "The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy Will Destroy You All Variety Hour." But when the Storyteller gets laryngitis, it looks like the winner will be whoever can find the best new narrator.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Doug Langdale, Paul Rugg
- 7.2/1016 votesLoading...
#5 - Band / Web
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/13/2004
The teen protectors of Udrogoth spend their downtime jamming in a popular rock band/ Candy has difficulty paying off an expensive spending spree.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Doug Langdale
- 7.1/1019 votesLoading...
#6 - Beef! / Rite of Pillage
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2004
Candy seeks instant muscle gratification/ Dave faces losing his barbarian title if he cannot pass a pillaging test.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Brian Palermo
- 7.1/1017 votesLoading...
#7 - King for a Day or Two / Slay What?
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/2004
Dave in his capacity as temporary ruler of Udrogoth forces the citizenry to attend his musical production, "Oh, Pastry!"/ Fang's barbarian idol arrives in town to settle a grudge against an unsuspecting Faffy.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Mark Drop
- 7.1/1017 votesLoading...
#8 - Civilization / The Terror of Mecha-Dave
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/30/2004
Candy sets her sights on making Fang presentable in high society./ Dave fears he has been brainwashed to act like a bully by Chuckles the Silly Piggy.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Kevin Hopps
- 7.1/1020 votesLoading...
#9 - The Way of the Dave / Beauty and the Zit
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/6/2004
Candy's quest for an ultra-trendy antler hat takes her outside of the kingdom and in direct conflict with Chuckles the Silly Piggy./ The princess demands Oswidge come up with a magic spell to remove a pimple from her face on the night of the Barbarian Ball.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Doug Langdale
- 7.1/1012 votesLoading...
#10 - Red Sweater of Courage / Dog of the Titans
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/17/2005
To make Dave brave, Fang makes him wear the Red Sweat of Courage. Unfortunately, Dave becomes so brave that he insults Chuckles The Silly Piggy, Malsquando, and Quasmire, so the three villains team up to destroy Udragoth.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Brian Palermo
- 7.1/1014 votesLoading...
#11 - Not a Monkey / Happy Glasses
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/22/2005
Fang gets a illness, so Uncle Oswich and Dave take her to the doctor. The doctor says that Fang gets the illness that only monkeys get. Fang can only get the cure from the island far far away. The cure is berries. After a long cruise, they reached the island. Fang sets out to find the berries but she is taken away by a pack of monkeys. They accept her at first but when eats the berries and she isn't cured, Fang realizes she is not a monkey. But she is in trouble when she gets chasen by monkeys and Dave is chasen by gorillas.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Evan Gore, Heather Lombard
- 6.8/1021 votesLoading...
#12 - Pet Threat / Lula’s First Barbarian
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2004
Faffy is sad because the family forgot to get him anything during Dragon Appreciation Week, so Dave buys Faffy a diseased weasel for a pet. The diseased weasel gets all of Dave's attention, so Faffy runs away. The weasel turns out to be Chuckles The Silly Piggy, who wants to steal a magical fruit hidden in Faffy's room/Lula's old owner, Argoth The Ageless, comes to town and Lula wants to find some way of getting him to come back to her.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Tom Minton
- 6.8/1014 votesLoading...
#13 - Sorcerer Material / Sweep Dreams
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/20/2004
Uncle Oswidge has the "Hicats" and need to go to Malsquando's, only to realize that Malsquando knew Oswidge back in the past and tells Dave and Fang that Uncle Oswidge worked in a cafeteria and never went to sorcery school./ Well, its the beginning of spring and that means only 1 thing for Dave...SPRING CLEANING!! The rest of the family run away from the castle to avoid cleaning. Dave uses Dusty, the magical cleaning broom and sweeps the castle. After months of cleaning, Dave is in need of one more thing, Castle Polish. Oswidge finds a coupon for Castle Polish at 1/2 price, so they go to the Fortress of Cleanliness, only to find that the Fortress of Cleanliness is the Fortress of Uncleanliness and is a trap set by The Dark Lord Chuckles The Silly Piggy and are forced to clean for him. The family wants to leave, but Dave is too obsessed about cleaning and doesn't want to leave...
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Doug Langdale
- 6.7/1015 votesLoading...
#14 - Here There Be Dragons / Pipe Down!
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/27/2004
Faffy's allegiance to his dragon brethren makes it tougher for Dave to reverse an unnatural heat wave that has struck Udrogoth/ Dave's horrendous playing of a bagpipe-like instrument is enough to stir an angry god from his subterranean resting place.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Doug Langdale
- 6.7/1011 votesLoading...
#15 - The Brutish Are Coming / The Lost Race of Reeber
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/30/2004
Dave and Fang try to protect Udrogoth from invading monsters/ Princess Candy must help the Lost Race of Reeber reclaim its land.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Kevin Hopps
- 6.7/1011 votesLoading...
#16 - Lederhosen of Doom / Floral Derangement
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/2005
Fang gets some pants sent by her parents and doesn't bother to read the note that came with them. This is problematic, because the note explains that the pants are the evil trouser beast and will take control of anyone who wears them. Fang loves the pants at first because they give her fantastic strength – at last she's as strong as Dave! But soon the pants take her over, using her as a tool to get revenge on their hated foe... Oswidge./ After promising never to mess with Dave's life again... Fang does it again. She swipes some of Oswidge's magic and makes some of Dave's flowers – his prized Purple Winkies – grow huge. Surprisingly, gigantic ravenous flowers cause a few minor problems, which Fang struggles to conceal from Dave
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Ralph Soll
- 6.6/1012 votesLoading...
#17 - Night of the Living Plush / I Love Neddy
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/27/2004
Candy has bought too many plush animals. When her room explodes from being stuffed with too much fluff, she finally realizes...that she needs to buy more. Chuckles the silly piggy discovers that candy needs plush toys, and disguises himself as a piggy doll. After candy buys him and takes him home, she immediatly leaves and buys more. Meanwhile chuckles, using his amulet, creates an army of plush animals, in an attempt to conquer udrogoth.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Mark Drop
- 6.6/1011 votesLoading...
#18 - Shake, Rattle, & Roll Over / Bad Food
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 12/30/2004
While retrieving the magical Combat Rattle from an ancient temple, Faffy causing a statue to come to life and attack Dave and the others. Dave decides to get Faffy trained, so the Dark Lord Chuckles The Silly Piggy disguises himself as a dragon trainer in order to steal the Combat Rattle.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: John Behnke, Rob Humphrey
- 6.6/1011 votesLoading...
#19 - Fiends & Family / Plunderball
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/21/2005
When her parents announce that they have to start their quest all over again, Fang is crushed and cheering her up is a Herculean task.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Doug Langdale
- 6.5/1016 votesLoading...
#20 - That Darn Ghost/ The Cow Says Moon
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/2/2004
Candy discovers that she is the only person in Udrogoth who does not have a ghost haunting her house. Caring for their sister, Dave and Fang go down to the local ghost shop, and hire a ghost. The ghost throws a huge ghost party, and everyone's ghost attends. After Candy tries to kick them all out, the ghosts get angry, and chase the gang around Udrogoth/
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Evan Gore, Heather Lombard
- 6.4/1011 votesLoading...
#21 - The Princess and the Peabrains / Horders & Sorcery
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/26/2004
Candy makes her friends princess while she haves fun and all. Meanwhile, Chuckles and his silly brother are planning to take over Udrogoth (not to mention that his brother really want to be a Harvest Hog)./ Fang tricks Dave into thinking he's going to a hat show, only to realize that he's really in warrior boot camp! Fang wants to be a warrior, but she's too small. She fails tests like sword fights and amoeba wrestling?
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Earl Kress
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#22 - Happy Glasses
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 1/22/2005
When Chuckles the silly piggy sets to defeat Dave the barbarian once again, he invents glasses that make whoever is wearing it what they really want to world to be like. Chaos is started when the glasses is worn by Fang, Uncle Oswich, Candy and Dave wears it and they fight only to destroy themselves. Chuckles destorys the world...maybe not!
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Doug Langdale
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#23 - Shrink Rap
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 1/23/2004
Dave believes helping others is his whole purpose in life and starts giving out advice as a "psychofloobicologist."
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: David Warick, Amy Debartlomeis
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#24 - Lula's First Barbarian
Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 1/23/2004
Lula's old owner, Argoth The Ageless, comes to town and Lula wants to find some way of getting him to come back to her.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Evan Gore, Heather Lombard
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#25 - Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow
Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 1/30/2004
A nerd named Ned Frischman travels back in time and tries to take over the ancient world using video games. When everyone is hooked on the video games, Faffy, Lula, and Twinkle The Wonder Horse (Being The Only Ones Without Tumbs) must face off against Ned.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Evan Gore, Heather Lombard
The Best Episodes of Dave the Barbarian
Every episode of Dave the Barbarian ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dave the Barbarian!
This animated comedy series is set in the Middle Ages and follows the title character, Dave, in his comedic adventures with his family (his sisters,...
Genres:AnimationSci-Fi & FantasyComedy
Network:Disney Channel
Top Episode Ratings Summary
"The Maddening Sprite of The Stump/Shrink Rap" is the best rated episode of "Dave the Barbarian". It scored 8/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by Howy Parkins and written by Mark Drop, it aired on 1/23/2004. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Girlfriend / Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow".