6.8/1027 votes#1 - Bad Hair Day
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/5/1998
In a parody of Samson and Deliah, K. Rool invents a robot Candy to be Deliah to cut Samson [DK]'s hair so he can be weak and they can steal the Crystal Coconut. Only faith in God and some bananas can make the good ol'ape strong again and save the day.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
7.5/1016 votes#2 - Barrel, Barrel ... Who's Got the Barrel
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/6/1998
In an attempt to impress Candy, Bluster takes the Crystal Coconut. The Coconut accidentally gets into one of the Barrel Factory's barrels and is sent off in a rocket-barrel, ending up with Eddie the Yeti.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
- 5.5/1038 votes
#3 - Kong for a Day
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/7/1998
During a day of truce, K. Rool tricks the apes into thinking Donkey Kong is causing trouble, which gets Donkey Kong banished.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
6.5/1024 votes#4 - Ape Foo Young
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/11/1998
Cranky makes a youth potion, to make himself younger. Donkey Kong, upon finding the potion thinks it's just a regular drink, and is turned into a baby.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
- 6.4/1026 votes
#5 - Buried Treasure
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/12/1998
The island goes treasure hunt crazy. After Donkey Kong, Diddy and Funky find a map, and the others hear about it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.1/1022 votes#6 - Booty and the Beast
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/13/1998
Captain Scurvy and his pirates come to the island, for the Crystal Coconut. Donkey Kong and Diddy get captured by the pirates, but are helped by a Klap-Trap.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
8.5/1060 votes#7 - Get a Life, Don't Save One
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/14/1998
After Donkey Kong saves Bluster, Bluster tries to be helpful to Donkey Kong, but causes more harm then good.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1020 votes
#8 - Orangutango
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/17/1998
K. Rool enters the ""Oranutango Dance Contest"", the grand prize being a wish from the Crystal Coconut.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1022 votes
#9 - Double Date Trouble
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/18/1998
Donkey Kong has big trouble when he has to do triple duty: guarding the Crystal Coconut, being with Diddy and being with Candy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1016 votes
#10 - Cranky's Tickle Tonic
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/19/1998
Eddie the Yeti, in a foul mood, keeps the whole island awake with his pounding. Cranky makes a potion to put Eddie in a better mood.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1021 votes
#11 - Raiders of the Lost Banana
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/20/1998
Donkey Kong takes a golden banana from the Temple of Inca-Dinka-Do, the banana is cursed and causes trouble for anyone possessing it.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
- 6.1/1020 votes
#12 - From Zero to Hero
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/21/1998
Cranky is having x-ray examinations for all the island, and his x-ray machine is on its last legs. Upon overhearing some of the conversation Bluster thinks Cranky means he doesn't have long to live, and goes around trying to be helpful (so-as to be remembered).
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
- 6.3/1019 votes
#13 - Speed
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/25/1998
Krusha gains intelligence, after being hit by a mine cart. He then makes his own plan to try to steal the Crystal Coconut.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
- 5.1/1021 votes
#14 - Bluster's Sale Ape-Stravaganza
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 8/26/1998
Candy asks Cranky to do a commercial for Bluster. After Donkey Kong and Diddy visit Cranky they accidentally cause him to get sent all around the island (while he's asleep, from a sleep tonic).
Director: N/A
Writer: Erika Strobel
- 7.2/1015 votes
#15 - The Curse of Kongo Bongo
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/27/1998
All the apes on the island receive notes, which have the curse of Bluebeard Baboon on them. If the curse is read twice the island will sink into the ocean!
Director: N/A
Writer: Erika Strobel
- 6.0/1012 votes
#16 - Klump's Lumps
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 8/28/1998
K. Rool has had it with Klump's failures, he strips Klump of his rank and banishes him. Dixie befriends Klump, so Klump decides to help her, and the other apes.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
- 5.7/1014 votes
#17 - Ape-Nesia
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/3/1998
After slipping on a banana peel and having a fall, Donkey Kong gets amnesia. During his memory loss, both Captain Scurvy and King K. Rool take advantage of him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ian James Corlett
- 6.0/1018 votes
#18 - I Spy With My Hairy Eye
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 12/21/1998
King K. Rool uses a robot double of Candy (the Candy Clone) to try to steal the Crystal Coconut.
Director: N/A
Writer: Erika Strobel
- 5.2/1013 votes
#19 - Legend of the Crystal Coconut
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 12/22/1998
Everyone is in a mad-dash for the Crystal Coconut. When Donkey Kong, wanting to learn the secrets of the Coconut, gives it to Klump and Krusha, K. Rool has them take it back and the pirates have also come to get the Coconut.
Director: Mike Fallows
Writer: Erika Strobel
- 7.2/1015 votes
#20 - Kong Fu
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 12/23/1998
Kong Fu, a kung-fu ape, faces Donkey Kong in the ""Donkey Kong Challenge"".
Director: N/A
Writer: Nadine Van der Velde
- 6.4/1014 votes
#21 - Watch the Skies
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 12/24/1998
After hearing of ""interplanetary visitor dudes"" from Funky, Donkey Kong and Diddy think aliens really have come when they see a strange craft flying around the island.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dale Schott
- 7.1/1013 votes
#22 - Bug a Boogie
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/25/1998
Cranky sends Donkey Kong and Diddy on a wild goose chase. Then things turn bad, as the pirates are coming, for the Crystal Coconut.
Director: N/A
Writer: Erika Strobel
- 7.1/1013 votes
#23 - The Big Chill Out
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 12/28/1998
Donkey Kong and Diddy go into business, after accidentally making a cold drink, ""Coconut Chill"", during a hot spell on the island.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dale Schott
- 7.0/1013 votes
#24 - Baby Kong Blues
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 12/29/1998
Donkey Kong and Diddy have to baby-sit Baby Kong, but the carriage, with Baby Kong in it, rolls away and right into K. Rool's. K. Rool takes a liking to the baby and wants him to be his heir.
Director: N/A
Writer: Erika Strobel
- 7.0/1013 votes
#25 - To the Moon Baboon
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 12/30/1998
After a semi-suggestion by Donkey Kong, Cranky decides to make a Kongo Bongo time capsule, and send it to the moon.
Director: N/A
Writer: Erika Strobel
The Best Episodes of Donkey Kong Country Season 1
Every episode of Donkey Kong Country Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Donkey Kong Country Season 1!
Taking place on Kongo Bongo Island, the show focuses on Donkey Kong, the island's resident hero. Before the series' events, he was chosen as the...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Bad Hair Day" is the best rated episode of "Donkey Kong Country" season 1. It scored 6.8/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Nadine Van der Velde, it aired on 8/5/1998. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Barrel, Barrel ... Who's Got the Barrel".