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The Worst Episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures

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Jackie Chan teams up with his 11-year-old fictive-niece, Jade, traveling the globe to locate a dozen magical talismans before the sinister Dark Hand. Helping Jackie and Jade is Uncle, a cantankerous but wise antiquities expert.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 31 - Tough Luck
    6.3/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Tough Luck

    S2:E31

    Jackie acquires a cursed emerald, and must find a way to break the curse. Meanwhile, Finn decides to leave the Dark Hand.

    Director:Andy Thom
    Writer:Dean Stefan

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  2. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 3 Episode 1 - Re-Enter the J Team
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Re-Enter the J Team

    S3:E1

    The J-Team reunites to infiltrate a secret island base where Capt. Black believes that Jade (the stone, not the niece) is being smuggled through. Jackie, Tohru, Viper and El Toro masqurade as contestants in a martial arts tournament in order to gain entry. Jade takes upon herself to train Tohru for his sumo competitions. Jade sneaks onto the island and becomes instramental in locating the smuggled Jade stone.

    Director:Christopher Berkeley
    Writer:Duane Capizzi

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  3. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 25 - The New Atlantis
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #3 - The New Atlantis

    S2:E25

    The Dark Hand releases Bai Tza, the Water Demon. She seeks out her old kingdom – Atlantis, but when she finds it in ruins, she chooses to drown San Francisco as a new home with some information from Finn. Meanwhile, Valmont manages to render Shendu out cold and seeks help from the Chans to exorcise him from his body. However as Uncle is preoccupied with finding a spell to stop the flood, so the Chans with Valmont have to face Bai Tza without him.

    Director:Alan Caldwell
    Writer:David Slack

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  4. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 6 - Project A, for Astral
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Project A, for Astral

    S1:E6

    While Jade has an out-of-body experience when she uses the Astral Projection talisman, and while she was roaming around Uncle's shop, the Dark Hand grabs the magic object and Shendu uses it to slip into her vacant body. Pretending to be Jade, Shendu tricks Jackie into telling her where Section 13 was in order to steal all the talismans.

    Director:Bryan Andrews
    Writer:David Slack

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  5. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 7 - Bullies
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Bullies

    S1:E7

    After having a fight with Shendu, Valmont keeps the Dragon Talisman of combustion for himself and not only busts into the U.S. Mint but puts Captain Black into the hospital as well. Valmont steals all the gold in the reserve, and Jackie must get the talisman, but this time, he has to use his brain to defeat Valmont because of Valmont's incredible powers.

    Director:Rick Del Carmen
    Writers:Greg Klein, Tom Pugsley

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  6. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 1 - The Dark Hand
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #6 - The Dark Hand

    S1:E1

    Captain Black hires Jackie Chan to a secret government agency - Section 13, to track down the artifacts pursued by the Dark Hand, a crime organization far darker than anyone could have known. Also, Jackie's 11-year-old niece came to visit from Hong Kong and finds herself willing to help in the fight against evil. Jackie must gather up all 12 magical talismans that the Dark Hand had started retrieving before the Dark Hand does.

    Director:Bryan Andrews
    Writer:John Rogers

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  7. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 4 Episode 9 - The Good Guys
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - The Good Guys

    S4:E9

    Ratso, Finn and Chow decide to become good guys, but they realize they're not much better at being good than bad!

    Director:Bob Hathcock
    Writer:Adam Beechen

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  8. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 8 - Tough Break
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #8 - Tough Break

    S1:E8

    Jade accidentally drops the Rat Talisman into the battery compartment of her Gnomekop toy, and it comes alive through the power of reanimation. The toy is grabbed by the Dark Hand and is used to get to Section 13. Jade and Jackie must track the toy down.

    Director:Gloria Jenkins
    Writer:David Slack

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  9. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 2 - The Power Within
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #9 - The Power Within

    S1:E2

    Jade swallowed the Rooster Talisman which gave her telekinetic powers, and Jade must harness this ""power within"" in order to save Jackie and herself.

    Director:Vincenzo Trippetti
    Writer:David Slack

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  10. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 3 - The Mask of El Toro Fuerte
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #10 - The Mask of El Toro Fuerte

    S1:E3

    Jackie gets into the ring with Mexico's greatest wrestler (El Toro Fuerte) when Jackie and Jade visit Mexico. Jackie found that the Ox Talisman of super strength was embedded into El Toro Fuerte's mask, and the Dark Hand found out and stole it. Jackie, El Toro Fuerte, and Jade must get it back. Jade had stowed away on the plane that the enemy escaped in, along with Jackie and El Toro and she reclaims the strength talisman.

    Director:Andy Thom
    Writer:Duane Capizzi

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  11. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 4 - Enter the Viper
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Enter the Viper

    S1:E4

    Jackie must steal the next Talisman of Invisibility from a museum before the Dark Hand does, but when he was in the building, Jade followed him, and a thief was also inside the building trying to steal a jewel, and the talisman mistakenly ends up in the hands of jewel thief The Viper instead and Jackie was arrested because he had the jewel.

    Director:Rick Del Carmen
    Writer:David Slack

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  12. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 1 Episode 5 - Shell Game
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #12 - Shell Game

    S1:E5

    Jackie and Jade have different goals after learning the Dark Hand members have stolen an endangered tortoise, which has the Rabbit talisman of super speed encrusted on its shell. And now, the Dark Hand must try to get it out, and Jackie must obtain the talisman and the tortoise before it becomes someone's dinner.

    Director:Andy Thom
    Writer:Duane Capizzi

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  13. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 37 - Shrink Rap
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Shrink Rap

    S2:E37

    Jackie finds the Bands of Shiva. Hak Foo pursues Jacki back to Uncle's shop to get the bands. Jade casts a spell to make Hak Foo disappear, but inadvertently shrinks Jackie and Hak Foo.

    Director:Alan Caldwell
    Writer:Alexx Van Dyne

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  14. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 38 - I'll Be a Monkey's Puppet
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #14 - I'll Be a Monkey's Puppet

    S2:E38

    Jackie buys Jade a Monkey King puppet to help Jade in an upcoming talent show. They inadvertently release the Monkey King, and he quickly causes mischief. Jackie has been turned into a puppet.

    Director:Christopher Berkeley
    Writer:Alexx Van Dyne

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  15. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 3 Episode 13 - Animal Crackers
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Animal Crackers

    S3:E13

    Daolon Wong releases Shendu from his etheiral enprisonment in exchange for the talisman power of the Dragon - Combustion. Jackie, Uncle, Jade and Thoru attempt to stop Shendu's return to earth but fail. Shendu goes back on his deal w/ Dalon and absorbs the Dragon power for himself, and then drains Dalon of the tailsman powers he holds. Shendu persues Jackie back to Section 13 where the other talisman animals are. Before Shendu can absorb their powers, Jackie and Jade flee with the animals. Shendu stops Jackie and Jade at the zoo. Depsite Jackie's heroics, Shendu absorbs all of the talisman powers. Before Shendu can finally destroy Jackie, Uncle, Thoru and Section 13 arrive chanting a chi-spell (that Uncle got from Daolon Wong). The spell returns Shendu to his 'original' statue form and the talismans pop-out from his body. The talismans and Shendu are locked up in Section 13's vault for good.

    Director:Michael Goguen
    Writer:Adam Beechen

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  16. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 4 Episode 8 - The Shadow Eaters
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Shadow Eaters

    S4:E8

    After many failed attempts to acquire the power of an oni mask, Hak-Foo finally gets one. He is a disappointed in the small size of his shark like shadowkahn, but Hak-Foo soon discovers their monstrous appetite for devouring shadows.

    Director:Brandon Vietti
    Writer:Michael Jelenic

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  17. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 5 Episode 2 - It's All in the Game
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - It's All in the Game

    S5:E2

    Uncle has fashioned a locater for the activated relics. As Jade watched a game show called, ""The International Island Challenge,"" the locater senses the next relic, which is the prize on the game show: the gourd containing the Water Demon's chi. Jade pleads Jackie to let them enter the contest held on Boru Island, but Jackie explains that this is a serious mission. However, on the set, the producer mistakes Jackie, Uncle, Jade, and Tohru as a competing family. They must face off against the Dusseldorf family, but they fail in the first task when Tohru falls off the bridge after being pelted by coconuts. However, it is Uncle who is voted out of the family, but he manages to stay on the island for the night after complaining about his supposed fear of flying. In the second round, neither family wins the bug-eating contest, so they must race in the tie-breaking round. When Jackie, Tohru, and Jade near the finish line, Drago appears, manages to obtain the Water Demon chi, and creates a tid

    Director:Jay Oliva
    Writer:Marsha Griffin

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  18. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 5 Episode 7 - Antler Action
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Antler Action

    S5:E7

    The Demon Chi briefly escapes from the Containment Unit. All of them are retrieved, except for the Earth Demon chi, which flees Section 13 and inhabits the body of one of Jades' Friends Larry (a comic book nerd, who also loves Super Moose) who proceeds to use his new demon powers for good as the superhero Spectacularry. Unfortunately he causes more problems than he solves. To prevent Draco obtaining the Earth demon Chi Jackie, Jade and Uncle Head to where any comic nerd with super powers would go, a comic fair. But the Demon Chi is slowly overwhelm Larry's good nature and with Drago closing in, Jackie, Jade and Uncle must save Larry before his super heroics destroy all around him.

    Director:Anthony Chun
    Writer:Adam Beechen

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  19. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 16 - The Lotus Temple
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #19 - The Lotus Temple

    S2:E16

    Jackie searches for the Lotus Temple. Jade gets lost and finds the temple. She also encounters a young girl who is cursed. Jade promises to help her break the curse.

    Director:Michael Chang
    Writers:Jan Strnad, Steven Melching

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  20. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 32 - The Chosen One
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #20 - The Chosen One

    S2:E32

    Monks arrive and claim that Tohru is their reincarnated leader. They take him to their temple where they hope to awaken the memories of his past lifetimes. But Daolon Wong, a dark chi wizard, plots to prevent his ascension.

    Director:Phil Weinstein
    Writer:Adam Beechen

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  21. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 1 - Through the Rabbit Hole
    8.3/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Through the Rabbit Hole

    S2:E1

    In a mix of science and magic, the Rabbit Talisman sends Jade back in time to 1976, where she encounters younger versions of Jackie, Uncle and even Valmont. However when Shendu sends the Enforcers back to recover the Talisman (Which Jackie follows), they decide to try to change history by getting rid of the younger Jackie Chan.

    Director:Michael Chang
    Writer:David Slack

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  22. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 2 - The Warrior Incarnate
    8.3/10(4 votes)

    #22 - The Warrior Incarnate

    S2:E2

    Jackie and Uncle try to study the marking on the statue of Lo Pei, the warrior who scattered the Talismans, hoping to find clues to the remaining ones. When Jade shatters the statue, she finds a way to repair the damage, and brings the ancient warrior to life.

    Director:Bryan Andrews
    Writer:Dean Stefan

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  23. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 13 - Queen of the Shadowkhan
    8.3/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Queen of the Shadowkhan

    S2:E13

    When her classmates get a tattoo, Jade decides to get one also. The design she chooses, however, comes from a magical book, which has unexpected consequences.

    Director:Michael Goguen
    Writer:David Slack

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  24. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 22 - Danger in the Deep Freeze
    8.3/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Danger in the Deep Freeze

    S2:E22

    The museum asks Jackie to help someone who claims to have made a major discovery in the arctic circle.

    Director:Michael Chang
    Writers:Patricia Carr, Lara Olsen

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  25. Jackie Chan Adventures Season 2 Episode 23 - Into the Mouth of Evil
    8.3/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Into the Mouth of Evil

    S2:E23

    An evil dentist smuggles an ancient artifact called the Holy Sutras in Jackie's filling. The hero must prevent the Sutras from falling into the wrong hands.

    Director:Phil Weinstein
    Writer:Steven Melching

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Tough Luck" is the worst rated episode of "Jackie Chan Adventures". It scored 6.3/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Andy Thom and written by Dean Stefan, it aired on 3/16/2002. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Re-Enter the J Team".