The Best Episodes of The Challenge
Every episode of The Challenge ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Challenge!
Each Challenge pits numerous cast members from past seasons of reality shows against each other, dividing them into two separate teams according to different criteria, such as gender, which show they first appeared on, whether or not they're veterans or rookies on the show, etc. The two teams compete in numerous missions in order to win prizes and advance in the overall game.
Top Episode Highlight
The best episode of "The Challenge" is "Rumor Has It", rated 9.6/10 from 44 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Rumor Has It" aired on 3/6/2018 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Match Point".
9.6/10 44 votes#1 - Rumor Has It
Season 31 Episode 10 - Aired 2018-03-06
When a secret hookup is exposed, two romances are shattered and the entire house is turned upside down. Tony struggles with making a huge game decision.
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9.5/10 11 votes#2 - Match Point
Season 14 Episode 12 - Aired 2007-06-05
Players from each team have to transfer hand-carved wooden giraffes across a lake, to one of 15 cages that contains an identical twin giraffe. There are numerous giraffes on the shore across the lake that are in different shapes and sizes, and before advancing across the lake, each player has to randomly uncover one of 15 cages at the start of the course that are covered with white tarps, then memorize the details of the caged wood-carved giraffe inside, then swim across the lake to find the identical matching twin, with a key that will unlock a player's designated cage at the start of the course. Each player will have a 30-minute time limit, and the team that completes the challenge in the fastest average time wins.
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- 9.4/10 17 votes
#3 - Cold Blooded
Season 15 Episode 8 - Aired 2008-03-12
With only two gauntlets left before the final challenge backstabbing and fighting abounds on both teams.
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- 9.4/10 13 votes
#4 - Reunion
Season 18 Episode 11 - Aired 2009-12-17
The reunion was hosted by Maria Menounos and was taped at the MTV Studios. Cast members that attended were Landon, Evan, Rachel, Brittini, Aneesa, Kim, Dunbar, Brad, Tori, Diem, Mark, Jenn & Paula. The many relationships/hookups, fights & missions were discussed.
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9.4/10 36 votes#5 - Mercenaries of Mayhem
Season 31 Episode 8 - Aired 2018-02-20
Challenge legends continue to wreak havoc on the game. One player uses the power of the grenade to threaten the competition, creating a powerful vendetta in the process.
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- 9.3/10 25 votes
#6 - Always a Bridesmaid
Season 20 Episode 9 - Aired 2010-12-08
Johnny and CT face off in the Gulag; Sarah and Laurel hatch another plan to get rid of Cara Maria.
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9.3/10 19 votes#7 - Lovers in the Dark
Season 26 Episode 10 - Aired 2015-03-10
The first night time challenge brings the teams to new heights; a power couple tears apart their alliance.
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- 9.3/10 24 votes
#8 - One in a Million
Season 30 Episode 17 - Aired 2017-11-07
The Finalists brave the elements and extreme altitude as they race through the mountains of Argentina with a million dollars in prize money at stake. At the finish line, TJ has one last dirty trick up his sleeve
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- 9.3/10 21 votes
#9 - Finale (2)
Season 30 Episode 19 - Aired 2017-11-21
Our scandalous Dirty 30 cast members continue to dish out and discuss rivalries, salvaged friendships, hottest hook-up's, and secret alliances. And our four finalists find out who is getting their dirty hands on their share of one million dollars!
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- 9.3/10 33 votes
#10 - The Final Countdown
Season 35 Episode 10 - Aired 2020-06-03
Bananas and Wes' alliance comes to a crossroads as players realize that they may not have much longer to earn a Red Skull to make it into the finals. Players must compete in TJ's favorite game of each season: trivia.
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9.3/10 27 votes#11 - True Lies
Season 36 Episode 17 - Aired 2021-04-07
An "introverted" player makes a big, public announcement about their future as the finals draw near. TJ shows up at headquarters with a shocking request. Two players battle it out in the final elimination of the season.
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9.3/10 30 votes#12 - The World Is Not Enough
Season 36 Episode 19 - Aired 2021-04-21
after a disastrous start to the final, one team worries if they can even continue on in the game. the remaining agents must persevere through mental and physical exhaustion in order to win their share of the one million-dollar prize.
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- 9.2/10 14 votes
#13 - Sour Grapes
Season 14 Episode 7 - Aired 2007-05-08
Players from each team have to fill up a series of team-designated glass bottles with grape juice on one side of a course, by transferring handfuls of grapes from the bed of a classic truck to a wine tub, then smashing the grapes, which will send juice through a spigot, where players have to transfer the juice with their mouths to the glass bottles. The team that transfers the most juice into their designated bottles within 30 minutes wins.
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- 9.2/10 13 votes
#14 - Team Girl Squad
Season 14 Episode 15 - Aired 2007-06-26
Players from each team have to climb up a cargo net that is hanging from a platform above water, retrieve one team flag, then unhook a rope in order to swing themselves toward another cargo net and retrieve another flag. The process continues until a player retrieves four flags. If a player falls off the rope or the net into water, he/she will be imposed a time of 15 minutes. Each player will have a 15-minute time limit to retrieve four flags, and the team that completes the challenge in the fastest average time wins. Note: Tonya received a medical exemption from this challenge due to dehydration, and did not participate.
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- 9.2/10 17 votes
#15 - What Goes Around
Season 15 Episode 7 - Aired 2008-03-05
Coral catches wind of the Vets plan to throw her into the Gauntlet and decides to take the game into her own hands.
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- 9.2/10 11 votes
#16 - The S#!t They Should Have Shown
Season 18 Episode 12 - Aired 2009-12-23
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- 9.2/10 24 votes
#17 - A Million More Reasons
Season 30 Episode 15 - Aired 2017-10-24
The remaining Redemption House players compete in a winner-take-all challenge, sending a bunch of heavy hitters packing. TJ blows everyone's minds when he reveals he's been lying to them all along, and they're really competing for one million dollars
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9.2/10 30 votes#18 - Baskets of Deplorables
Season 31 Episode 9 - Aired 2018-02-27
One player's humiliating performance may cost her the game when she gets shamefully stuck in a basket; Devin vows to wage war against his enemy, Bananas.
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- 9.2/10 34 votes
#19 - This is the End
Season 33 Episode 16 - Aired 2019-05-22
Those who remain battle it out for their share of the $1,000,000 prize purse. One player will be crowned champion of War of the Worlds.
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- 9.2/10 38 votes
#20 - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Season 35 Episode 7 - Aired 2020-05-13
Tori believes that she is ready to earn her red skull. Nany's budding crush on one player causes tension in her friendship with Aneesa. Two players face off in the Dust-to-Dust elimination.
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9.2/10 29 votes#21 - No Time To Die
Season 36 Episode 18 - Aired 2021-04-14
the remaining eight agents arrive at tj’s final and begin their most grueling mission of the season. one team’s fate hangs in the balance after a shocking revelation.
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- 9.1/10 13 votes
#22 - Bouncing Back
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 2007-05-15
Players have to advance on a series of five platforms, with trampolines located in between. Each platform decreases in size as each team tries to advance to the end. To start, one player at a time will jump from a trampoline to a platform, without their hands or arms coming in contact with the platform, which would result in a player having to start over. Once players from a team have made their way to the final platform, their team time will stop when they hold their pose for three seconds. The team that advances o the last platform in the fastest time wins. Note: Aneesa was prohibited from participating in this challenge due to a knee injury. As a result, the Good Guys were forced to sit out one player (Paula) in order to even out the teams.
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- 9.1/10 12 votes
#23 - Workin' on the Railroad
Season 14 Episode 11 - Aired 2007-05-29
Teams have to race on a 300-yard railroad track on a "hand car." To start, two players per team will pump their hand car from one end of the track to the other and pick one teammate, then race back to the opposite end of the tracks and pick up another teammate, and the process will continue, until each team picks up all of their teammates, and reaches the stop zone. A hand car must come to a complete stop within the stopping zone before a teammate can climb into the hand car, and each player is required to pump the hand car least once throughout the challenge. The first team to pick up all of their teammates and reach the stop zone wins. Note: Since the Bad Asses had one more player than the Good Guys, one player from the Bad Asses team (Jenn) sat out this challenge.
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- 9.1/10 12 votes
#24 - High Voltage
Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 2007-06-12
Players from each team are asked a series of ten trivia questions regarding information related to the Inferno 3 challenge. One girl from each team is designated by the opposing team as the "Captain," and will be strapped into an African throne, and be connected to designated electric shock boxes. T. J. Lavin will ask the remaining players from each team trivia questions. Each player will write down an answer on an oversize card, and if a player is correct, he/she accumulates points for their team, but if an answer is wrong, the captain will get "zapped." The team that accumulates the most points wins, and a team wins if the captain from the opposing team decide that she can no longer handle the shocks.
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- 9.1/10 13 votes
#25 - Hook The Man
Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 2007-06-19
The male players on each team are positioned on opposite fishing boats, with each boat containing a deep-sea fishing pole. One girl per team will be in the water, attached to the ends of the fishing poles. Each girl will have 30 seconds to swim as far away as possible from the boats, then T. J. Lavin will signal one guy from each team to pick up the fishing poles, and try to reel in their female teammate out of the water. The process continues, until the team whose male players reel in all of their female teammates out of the water in the fastest average time wins.
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