7.9/10170 votesLoading...#1 - Jimmy
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 5/4/2002
Virgil and Richie befriend shy classmate Jimmy Osgood, who is the focus of a school bully.
Director: Joe Sichta
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
7.8/10196 votesLoading...#2 - The Big Leagues
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/2002
Virgil gets help from Batman and Robin to battle The Joker and thwart the Gotham City bigwig's efforts to recruit thugs from Dakota to carry on his mayhem.
Director: David Chlystek
Writer: Len Uhley
7.8/10130 votesLoading...#3 - Flashback
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 6/7/2003
When Static becomes involved with a meta-human who can manipulate time and space, Static is thrown back in time and encounters his mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Semper Jr.
7.7/10146 votesLoading...#4 - Sons of the Fathers
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/2000
Richie's captured by Ebon after running away from home because of his father's racist attitude toward Virgil.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Christopher Simmons
7.7/10178 votesLoading...#5 - Future Shock
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2004
Static must save his future self when he's accidentally transported 40 years into the future.
Director: Victor Dal Chele
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
7.6/10161 votesLoading...#6 - A League of Their Own (1)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/1/2003
Static and Gear are alone in the Justice League's headquarters when Brainiac takes it over.
Director: Victor Dal Chele
Writer: Ernie Altbacker
7.6/10159 votesLoading...#7 - A League of Their Own (2)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/8/2003
Back on Earth, Static discovers that Brainiac has taken over Gear through Backpack. Static needs the help of the Justice League to save his friend.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
7.4/10149 votesLoading...#8 - Frozen Out
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/2002
At Christmastime, Static must stop the icy antics of a homeless metahuman named Permafrost.
Director: David Chlystek
Writer: Len Uhley
7.4/10110 votesLoading...#10 - Static in Africa
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/8/2003
While visiting Africa as his secret identity, Static teams up with an African superhero, Anansi, to defeat the villain Osebo, before he blows up a dam.
Director: Victor Dal Chele
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
7.3/10143 votesLoading...#11 - Toys in the Hood
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 5/3/2003
Static teams up with Superman when the Man of Steel's old nemesis Toyman appears in Dakota.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Ridley
7.2/10217 votesLoading...#12 - Shock to the System
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2000
Virgil gains powers after being exposed to a strange gas that leaks from its cannister when it's hit by a bullet during a gang gunfight.
Director: James Tucker
Writer: Christopher Simmons
7.2/10107 votesLoading...#13 - Gear
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/1/2003
Richie's newfound supersmartness leads to him becoming a superhero in his own right and Static's latest partner.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
7.2/10133 votesLoading...#14 - Army of Darkness
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2004
Static and Gear fight Nightbreed, a meta-human gang whose members can't live in sunlight, so they're setting out to take it away from everyone else.
Director: Mark Howard
Writer: John Semper Jr.
7.1/10104 votesLoading...#15 - Blast from the Past
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 6/21/2003
Static teams up with a retired superhero when the old crimefighter's nemesis comes back to threaten the town of Dakota.
Director: N/A
Writer: Adam Beechen
7.1/10108 votesLoading...#16 - Power Outage
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 5/22/2004
all the Bang Babies--Static and Gear included--begin to lose their powers, thanks to Dr. Donald Todd.
Director: Chuck Drost
Writer: Len Uhley
7.0/10140 votesLoading...#17 - Aftershock
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2000
F-Stop, Virgil's teen-gang nemesis, gains his own superpowers and calls himself "Hotstreak." Meanwhile, Virgil learns who's responsible for the gas that gave him and F-Stop their powers.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
7.0/10127 votesLoading...#18 - The Breed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2000
A track athlete Virgil's tutoring mutates into a metahuman and joins Ebon's criminal gang known as the "Metabreed."
Director: Denys Cowan
Writer: Christopher Simmons
7.0/10113 votesLoading...#19 - Tantrum
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/2001
A purple metahuman goes on a rampage at school, and Virgil and Richie think they know who it is: an honor student whose grades were less than perfect.
Director: James Tucker
Writer: Christopher Simmons
7.0/10100 votesLoading...#20 - Bad Stretch
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/23/2002
Rubberband Man returns and saves Static from a new villain named Aquamaria, but it'll take more than that to get Static to believe that Rubberband Man is now a good guy.
Director: Joe Sichta
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
7.0/1091 votesLoading...#21 - No Man's an Island
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/2004
Edwin Alva captures Static and Hotstreak for scientific experiments and handcuffs them together. So they must work together if they're going to escape. Trouble is, they can't stand each other.
Director: Mark Howard
Writer: Ralph Soll
6.9/10120 votesLoading...#22 - They're Playing My Song
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2000
Rubberband Man goes after the rapper he says stole his music, and Static gets caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Virgil gets a job at a burger joint.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
6.9/10113 votesLoading...#23 - Child's Play
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2000
A bad boy learns that his younger stepbrother is metahuman, and wants him to use his powers to steal things.
Director: James Tucker
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
6.9/10112 votesLoading...#24 - Bent Out of Shape
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/27/2001
Sharon dates a rapper who turns out to be Rubberband Man, who has escaped from prison. Static isn't pleased and that's not all Rubberband Man has to worry about: two metahuman bounty hunters are on his trail.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
6.9/10108 votesLoading...#25 - Power Play
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/2002
Richie gets temporary superpowers, and really likes using them. Perhaps too much.
Director: Joe Sichta
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
The Best Episodes of Static Shock
Every episode of Static Shock ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Static Shock!
An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero.
Genres:Action & AdventureAnimationSci-Fi & FantasyKids
Network:The WB
Best Episodes Summary
"Jimmy" is the best rated episode of "Static Shock". It scored 7.9/10 based on 170 votes. Directed by Joe Sichta and written by Dwayne McDuffie, it aired on 5/4/2002. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Big Leagues".
