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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the successful toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 4 - The M.A.S.S. Device: Duel in the Devil's Cauldron (4)
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    #1 - The M.A.S.S. Device: Duel in the Devil's Cauldron (4)

    S1:E4

    G.I. Joe tries to throw off Cobra with a false surrender while mounting a mission to the Ring of Fire for the third element. Destro sabotages the operation but is pursued by Scarlett.

    Director:Unknown

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  2. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 4 Episode 19 - Basic Training
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Basic Training

    S4:E19

    In a clip show, General Hawk advises the audience what it takes to become a GI.Joe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 50 - An Eye for an Eye
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - An Eye for an Eye

    S1:E50

    A civilian's home is destroyed during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra, and he breaks into G.I. Joe Headquarters to seek revenge against Cobra.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 54 - Hearts and Cannons
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Hearts and Cannons

    S1:E54

    A Joe transport plane is caught in a storm, forcing the pilot to ditch his cargo, a valuable Mauler tank, over the desert. Dusty and Footloose volunteer to stay with the tank until it can be retrieved. They inadvertently parachute onto a Cobra proving ground and discover the evil organization's latest innovation: a metal alloy that's impervious to any conventional weapon! With tanks and planes constructed of this alloy, Cobra could attack the Joe team – or anyone else – without fear. With a battalion of Cobras hot on their heels, can Dusty and Footloose survive the track across the hostile desert to warn the Joes?

    Director:Unknown
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  5. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 58 - Pit of Vipers
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Pit of Vipers

    S1:E58

    G.I. Joe is placed under the command of a new computer, Watchdog, which directs Joes to Cobra targets. The computer is under Cobra's control, being used to spread Joe forces thin and leave headquarters vulnerable to attack.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 60 - The Invaders
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Invaders

    S1:E60

    The Joes join forces with a Soviet operation team called ""The October Guard"" to save the world from what seems to be an invasion from outer space. But what is it about this flying saucer threat that seems so daunting? Do the space creatures really exist?

    Director:Unknown
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  8. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 62 - The Great Alaskan Land Rush
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Great Alaskan Land Rush

    S1:E62

    When the last surviving heir of the Russian Imperial Alaskan Colony Company shows up and claims to own Alaska, the Joes suspect it is a Cobra plot to wrench away America's largest state. The only way to disapprove the claim is for the Joes to go to Alaska and find the colony's Imperial Seal. Three problems: the seal has been missing for over a hundred years, the Russians are looking for the seal so they can reclaim Alaska, and Cobra is determined to stop them both!

    Director:Unknown
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  9. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 9 - Let's Play Soldier
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - 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
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - 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!

    Director:Unknown
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  11. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 11 - The Million Dollar Medic
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - 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
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - 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
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 14 - Glamour Girls
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - 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
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - 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...

    Director:Unknown
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  16. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 16 - The Spy Who Rooked Me
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - 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

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  17. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 17 - Grey Hairs and Growing Pains
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - 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
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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

    #18 - 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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  20. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 2 Episode 26 - Joe's Night Out
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Joe's Night Out

    S2:E26

    Wet Suit, Leatherneck, Dial Tone and their dates attend the grand opening of a trendy new night club. The club turns out to be on a Cobra rocket and is sent into orbit around earth. Serpentor demands that Dr. Mullaney surrender himself and his nitrogen fuel engine over to Cobra or they will detonate the club. Wet Suit goes outside the club and with Leatherneck's help, disables the bombs. Meanwhile, Dr. Mullaney surrenders to Cobra. The Joes use the Nitrogen engine to bring the Club back to Earth and Dr. Mullaney escapes, when all of the Cobra jets with the new engines crash thanks to the unstable Nitrogen fuel, turning all the Cobra jets into fire bombs.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 3 Episode 2 - Operation Dragonfire (2)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Operation Dragonfire (2)

    S3:E2

    Cobra has a map showing the locations of Dragonfire around the world, and the Joes and Cobra battle over one of the locations in a mountain. Baroness and Gnawgahyde use the Dragonfire to DNA convert Cobra Commander back into human form. The Joes manage to get inside the mountain base, but are flooded out...

    Director:Unknown
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  22. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 3 Episode 3 - Operation Dragonfire (3)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Operation Dragonfire (3)

    S3:E3

    Next location is a jungle temple in South America, and there's three factions: Serpentor, the Joes, and Cobra Commander. Scoop finds out he was tricked into joining Cobra and turns against them. But the Joes discover he's a Cobra. Cobra Commander uses the Dragonfire to turn monkeys in Ape Warriors that attack the Joes...

    Director:Unknown
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  23. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 3 Episode 4 - Operation Dragonfire (4)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Operation Dragonfire (4)

    S3:E4

    Scoop returns to Cobra to try to defeat them. Gnawgahyde steals a Conquests and blasts the Joes. Cobra Commander starts fusing animals with vehicles and creates Python Patrol. Serpentor is defeated and fused with Gnogahide's pet iguana. The Joes return to base while Low Light stays behind. Destro dumps Zarana for the Baroness...

    Director:Unknown
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  24. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 3 Episode 5 - Operation Dragonfire (5)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Operation Dragonfire (5)

    S3:E5

    The final location is a mesa. Cobra links all of the Dragonfire bases together through their satellite to create an energy weapon and to supercharge their vehicles with the Dragonfire energy. Finally the Joes have their own Dragonfire after Freedom finds a Native American man who knows how to active it. Scoops sends the Joes the frequency to disable Cobra's Dragonfire and causes a chain reaction that destroys all of Cobra's Dragonfire bases.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 3 Episode 8 - Granny Dearest
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Granny Dearest

    S3:E8

    Metal Heads Grandmother comes to visit, who believes he is the leader of Cobra, much to Cobra Commanders disgust...

    Director:Unknown
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  26. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 3 Episode 12 - Pigskin Commandos
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Pigskin Commandos

    S3:E12

    The Joes play a football match against Cobra, with Sgt.Slaughter as the ball...

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The M.A.S.S. Device: Duel in the Devil's Cauldron (4)" is the worst rated episode of "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Ron Friedman, it aired on 9/15/1983. This episode scored 5.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Basic Training".