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The Best Episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 1 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1)
    7.3/10(24 votes)

    #1 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1)

    S2:E1

    A surprise attack by Cobra, using the new BATs, reveals that the Joes have gotten sloppy. General Hawk asks Sergeant Slaughter to help whip the team back into shape. Meanwhile, a series of dreams prompt Dr. Mindbender to concoct a plan to build a new Cobra leader from the DNA of long-dead conquerors. A package downed Night Raven reveals that Zartan has been asked to expand his team of Dreadnoks so he turns to his siblings, Zandar and Zarana for help, and the Joes investigate and discover the plan, only to be cornered by Thrasher and his Thunder Machine.

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  2. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 2 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (2)
    6.5/10(24 votes)

    #2 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (2)

    S2:E2

    The Joes send teams out to guard the tombs on Zartan's list, but each team is defeated in turn: by Zarana in Egypt, the Crimson Twins in Paris, the Dreadnoks in the Yucatan, and the Baroness in Transylvania. Duke's team and the Oktober Guard are in a standoff with BATs while defending the tomb of Ivan the Terrible.

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  3. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 3 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (3)
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    #3 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (3)

    S2:E3

    Cobra takes DNA from the tombs of Ivan the Terrible and Alexander the Great. Sergeant Slaughter retrieves a DNA pack from Cobra's raid on Sun Tzu's tomb, and from it the Joes surmise that Cobra is building a new breed of soldiers. Dr. Mindbender intends to use Slaughter's DNA as a replacement, and so feigns defeat as a ploy to retrieve the sarcophagus of Genghis Khan and capture Slaughter.

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  4. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 4 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (4)
    7.1/10(23 votes)

    #4 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (4)

    S2:E4

    Cobra Commander sabotages Dr. Mindbender's first experiment, and it rises as a hideous monster. Sergeant Slaughter briefly escapes, then is recaptured but manages to destroy his DNA sample. The second attempt is successful, and Serpentor is created. Meanwhile, a Joe search party is sent to Cobra Island to rescue Slaughter and learn more about Cobra's plans.

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  5. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 5 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (5)
    6.2/10(23 votes)

    #5 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (5)

    S2:E5

    Seargent Slaughter and the rescue team escape Cobra Island, but Serpentor captures Washington D.C. just as the Joes learn about the new leader. But Serpentor's lack of experience in modern warfare puts Cobra at a disadvantage when G.I. Joe stages a counterattack.

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  6. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 6 - Last Hour to Doomsday
    7.1/10(22 votes)

    #6 - Last Hour to Doomsday

    S2:E6

    Lady Jaye disguises herself as the Baroness in order to learn about a Cobra weapon created to form whirlpools and tidal waves.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 7 - Computer Complications
    7.7/10(21 votes)

    #7 - Computer Complications

    S2:E7

    When the Joes seek to recover a sample of anti-matter from a sunken ship, Zarana is sent to their headquarters to sabotage the operation. She and Mainframe discover they have feelings for each other. In the aftermath of a battle, the USS Flagg is sunk.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 8 - Sink the Montana
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    #8 - Sink the Montana

    S2:E8

    An aging admiral learns that his ship is to be scrapped, and he turns to Cobra for help. Cobra renders his ship impervious to electronic vessels, so G.I. Joe must use the two-hundred-year-old USS Constitution to defeat him.

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  9. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 9 - Let's Play Soldier
    7.1/10(22 votes)

    #9 - Let's Play Soldier

    S2:E9

    Cobra discovers an Asian tree sap that brainwashes people, and uses it to enslave the native population. Leatherneck must care for four orphans while the other Joes try to prevent Cobra from marketing the sap as chewing gum.

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  10. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 10 - Once Upon a Joe
    6.7/10(22 votes)

    #10 - Once Upon a Joe

    S2:E10

    When an orphanage is accidentally damaged during a battle, Shipwreck and other members from G.I. Joe volunteer to help repair it. While doing so, Shipwreck is dragged into telling the children a fairy tale...a typically cockeyed Shipwreck extravaganza!

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  11. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 11 - The Million Dollar Medic
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #11 - The Million Dollar Medic

    S2:E11

    Bree Van Mark, a cute wealthy woman, develops a crush on Lifeline after he rescues her and her father from a sinking yacht during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra. Lifeline discovers that Cobra is after Bree's father, a wealthy industrialist whose holding include a defense company. But the Joes think that Bree is working for Cobra since some of her gifts, including a gold plated helicopter, have backfires. She flies off in a Tomahawk taking Lifeline with her. They head to a cabin in the Rockies and are followed by Cobra. Lifeline, who is a pacifist, must fend off Cobra until the rest of the Joes arrives.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 12 - Cobrathon
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    #12 - Cobrathon

    S2:E12

    Cobra stages a telethon to raise money for a computer virus that will bring down all the computer systems in the world, as the Joes try to rescue Sci Fi and Lifeline...

    Director:Unknown
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  13. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 13 - The Rotten Egg
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    #13 - The Rotten Egg

    S2:E13

    Leatherneck attends graduation ceremonies at a new academy and discovers it run by former enemy Buck McCann, who is loyal to Cobra. Leatherneck must foil McCann's plan to destroy Parris Island Marine Academy.

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  14. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 14 - Glamour Girls
    6.5/10(20 votes)

    #14 - Glamour Girls

    S2:E14

    Madame Vail (voice- Mary McDonald Lewis) agrees to sell her youth transference machine, which makes people young (and beautiful), in return for kidnapping some of the world's top models, who's youth and beauty will be transferred to the machine's user. One of these models is Low Light's sister, Una...

    Director:Unknown
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  15. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 15 - Iceberg Goes South
    6.8/10(20 votes)

    #15 - Iceberg Goes South

    S2:E15

    The Joes visit an arctic region where Icebergs Girlfriend is collecting samples of animals tissue for her Uncles research at the Tropadome. Icebergs goes to the Trapadome only to be captured by Doctor Mindbenders new mutant animal army...

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  16. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 16 - The Spy Who Rooked Me
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    #16 - The Spy Who Rooked Me

    S2:E16

    International superspy Matthew Burke volunteers his services in helping the Joes transport nerve gas to a safe facility.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Susan K. Williams

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  17. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 17 - Grey Hairs and Growing Pains
    6.2/10(20 votes)

    #17 - Grey Hairs and Growing Pains

    S2:E17

    Cobra steals Madame Versalles youth treatment. The Joes try to figure out why and that leads them to the Ageless Care Spa, where lady Jaye, Mainframe and Dial Tone are turned into seven year olds...

    Director:Unknown
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  18. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 18 - My Brother's Keeper
    6.4/10(20 votes)

    #18 - My Brother's Keeper

    S2:E18

    Sergeant Slaughter accompanies Sci-Fi to a science fiction convention, where Dr. Mindbender recruits a handicapped scientist to repair his latest weapon. Mindbender's false promises to enable the scientist to walk again lead him to walk all over his brother.

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  19. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 19 - My Favorite Things
    5.7/10(21 votes)

    #19 - My Favorite Things

    S2:E19

    Wet-Suit and Leatherneck have never, ever got along but their heated rivalry must take a backseat when Serpentor begins collecting artifacts from his former lives to gain power, and Leatherneck is poisoned trying to stop him. Wet-Suit has to prove he doesn't have any hard feelings for Leatherneck, as he and Lifeline risk their lives trying to recover an antidote from Serpentor's blood.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 20 - Raise the Flagg!
    6.6/10(21 votes)

    #20 - Raise the Flagg!

    S2:E20

    The Joes stumble upon an oil platform being used by Cobra to try to salvage the anti-matter pod that went down with the USS Flagg and the Cobra helicarrier. The Joes investigate, followed by Zartan and the Dreadknocks, but both teams are captured by an insane Cobra cook named LaCar...

    Director:Unknown
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  21. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 21 - Ninja Holiday
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Ninja Holiday

    S2:E21

    Sergeant Slaughter is captured by Cobra Commander and goes through a series of blood sports with the prize being to assassinate Serpentor...

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  22. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 22 - G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece

    S2:E22

    There is a Joe/Cobra battle over the Suez Canal when a spacecraft flies overhead and drops a glowing coil. When Joe and Cobra teams are dispatched to investigate, they are sent back to Ancient Greece...

    Director:Unknown
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  23. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 23 - The Most Dangerous Thing in the World
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Most Dangerous Thing in the World

    S2:E23

    Cobra takes advantage of General Hawk going to a NATO meeting in Europe and infiltrates the Department Of Defense's computers and promotes Lifeline, Dial Tone and Shipwreck (who's not even in the army) all to the rank of Colonel. The three can't cooperate and are not quite officer material which creates utter pandemonium at G.I. Joe Headquarters. Cobra capitalizes on the situation and attacks a research lab near the Joes' base. The Joes are defeated easily and fall back to Joe HQ. Hawk arrives in the nick of time and organizes a counter offensive, pushing Cobra back.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 24 - Nightmare Assault
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Nightmare Assault

    S2:E24

    All of the Joes are having nightmare involving a huge snake attacking them. At first they feel that it is due to the stress of the situation. As the nightmares continue, it begins to affect the Joes performance fighting Cobra. In fact, Cobra is controlling the Joes' dreams in an effort to disable them...

    Director:Unknown
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  25. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 25 - Second Hand Emotions
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Second Hand Emotions

    S2:E25

    A group of Joes are attending Lifeline's sister's wedding while other Joes are at a nearby weapons depot testing new armor. The Dreadnoks are able to attach small receivers to the back of the Joes' necks and capture Roadblock. Dr. Mindbender uses an organ to send signals to the receivers that controls the Joes emotions...

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1)" is the best rated episode of "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" season 2. It scored 7.3/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/15/1986. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (2)".