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The Best Episodes of The Wild Thornberrys

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The Best Episodes of The Wild Thornberrys

Travel the world with the Thornberrys and come face-to-face with blue sheep in Nepal, emus in Australia, marmots in Pakistan, flash floods in Siberia, Egyptian...

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  1. Background image for Forget Me Not
    8.1/10(59 votes)

    #1 - Forget Me Not

    S2:E27

    When the Thornberrys visit Nigel's friend Jomo, they search for an elephant named Rebecca that Nigel saved 20 years earlier. As the family attends to an elephant stuck in a mudhole, Eliza bonds with Rebecca, only to learn that she is old and ready to die.

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  2. Background image for Flood Warning
    7.8/10(89 votes)

    #2 - Flood Warning

    S1:E1

    When the Thornberrys are forced to spend the night in the middle of the savanna, Eliza seizes the opportunity to go hunting with a pride of lions--only to discover that Debbie is about to become a midnight snack!

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    Director:Steve Ressel
    Writer:Tom Stern
  3. Background image for Hot Air
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #3 - Hot Air

    S4:E6

    Location: Rotura, New ZealandThe Thornberrys visit a tribe of native New Zealanders called the Mahris who are throwing a celebration called a ""Hooey"". As Debbie flirts with a young Mahri, Eliza and Darwin have a fight. When Darwin leaves and Eliza befriends a possum named Penelope who ends up getting her into a hot air balloon that she doesn't know how to steer, will Darwin come to the rescue?

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  4. Background image for Eliza Unplugged
    7.8/10(35 votes)

    #4 - Eliza Unplugged

    S5:E8

    Shane is ready to leave the Thornberrys to go back to his life as a popstar and Eliza has to be fast to tell Shane her true feelings for him before its too late. But when Shane and Eliza have a little fight and Shane runs away,can Eliza find him in time to make up and tell her feelings? (This was possibly the series finale.The show has been put to hiatus after this episode but never returned.)

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  5. Background image for Gold Fever
    7.7/10(57 votes)

    #5 - Gold Fever

    S1:E4

    When Eliza and Debbie discover an old treasure map on the Galapagos Islands, they set out to claim their ""riches."" Once the gold is discovered, however, greed sets in and the girls begin an all-out battle of trickery to get the gold away from each other. They battle continues all the way down to the last coin, until they accidentally lose all the gold in a fiery lava pit.

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    Director:Anthony Bell
  6. Background image for Only Child
    7.7/10(62 votes)

    #6 - Only Child

    S1:E8

    Eliza's imagination gets the best of her when she thinks a local teenage girl is actually a dolphin who's trying to abduct her sister, Debbie, into a watery world.

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  8. Background image for Vacant Lot
    7.6/10(54 votes)

    #7 - Vacant Lot

    S1:E7

    As animals flee their homes and run for their lives, Eliza discovers that Kip and Biederman are destroying part of the rainforest. In an all-out war against the evil duo, Eliza must convince the animals that with everybody's help, they can stop the destruction and save the forest.

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  9. Background image for Naimina Enkiyio
    7.6/10(50 votes)

    #8 - Naimina Enkiyio

    S1:E11

    Challenging an ancient Maasai legend, Eliza marches into a ""haunted"" forest to prove her bravery. Now, with night falling, Eliza must place her trust in the mysterious legends of the Maasai in order to find her way safely through the dark forest.

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    Writer:Mark Steen
  10. Background image for Eliza-cology
    7.6/10(52 votes)

    #9 - Eliza-cology

    S1:E13

    Eliza's good-natured intentions of assisting a struggling bird in getting food set off a chain reaction of destruction within the ecological system. It's up to her to retrace her steps and undo all of her actions while some animals face near extinction.

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  11. Background image for Dances With Dingoes
    7.6/10(43 votes)

    #10 - Dances With Dingoes

    S2:E18

    Debbie discovers Eliza ""talking"" to dingoes and threatens to tell her parents. Eliza, concerned about the possibility of being shipped back to the United States as a science experiment, seeks help from nearby Aborigines. Together they confuse Debbie into thinking it was just a bad dream.

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  12. Background image for Gift of Gab
    7.6/10(51 votes)

    #11 - Gift of Gab

    S2:E29

    Eliza tells Darwin the tale of how she became able to speak to animals, and how she retained her ability to speak to humans as well.

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  13. Background image for The Origin of Donnie (4)
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #12 - The Origin of Donnie (4)

    S4:E4

    Location: Borneo, IndonesiaThe Thornberrys reunite and find Donnie in a remote village and learn from the medicine woman there the terrible fate that befell his parents.

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  14. Background image for Dinner With Darwin
    7.5/10(59 votes)

    #13 - Dinner With Darwin

    S1:E2

    Annoyed with Eliza, Darwin sets off into the jungle to prove he still has his natural instincts. After a scary night in the jungle, he stumbles upon an empty shack and hides out. When the family who lives in the shack returns to find Darwin in their home, they couldn't be more pleased with their new guest. It's up to Eliza to save the oblivious Darwin from becoming the next family dinner!

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  15. Background image for Matadi or Bust
    7.5/10(60 votes)

    #14 - Matadi or Bust

    S1:E5

    When Eliza, Darwin and Donnie are flung from a Matadi-bound barge and stranded on the banks of the Congo river, they must traverse the cliffs and crags of mountainous Zaire in order to catch up with her family.

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  16. Background image for Flight of the Donnie
    7.5/10(45 votes)

    #15 - Flight of the Donnie

    S1:E14

    Eliza and Debbie must take over Marianne's duties when she is sick. Debbie goes with Nigel to shoot footage of a condor and Eliza must care for Donnie. Covered with feathers from a pillow, Donnie is snatched up by the condor and Eliza and Darwin must rescue him and help the condor find her real baby. In return for the favor, the condors stay on a tree branch so Debbie can get footage of them.

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  17. Background image for Lost and Foundation
    7.5/10(90 votes)

    #16 - Lost and Foundation

    S1:E15

    When the girls discover that their parents have mistakenly taken embarrassing home movies to an awards banquet, they join forces in order to save face. Their cross-island trip turns into a race against time in order to beat their parents to the podium and stop the world from seeing them at bath time.

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  18. Background image for Born to Be Wild
    7.5/10(56 votes)

    #17 - Born to Be Wild

    S1:E20

    When Eliza sneaks out ahead of her parents in order to find a rare Sumatran rhino, she discovers that to expose his life would only lead extinction of the species. Now instead of taking the prized rhino to her parents, she must try to keep them from filming it. And the bad news is, Nigel's already on its trail!

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  19. Background image for Rebel Without a Trunk
    7.5/10(42 votes)

    #18 - Rebel Without a Trunk

    S2:E1

    Eliza succumbs to peer pressure from a ""teenage"" elephant, which gets in the way of her closeness with Marianne on an overnight trip.

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    7.5/10(44 votes)

    #19 - Pal Joey

    S2:E2

    Eliza convinces a mother kangaroo that she can handle the responsibilities of baby-sitting. She quickly learns that this mischievous joey is more than meets the eye. After a close encounter with Tasmanian devils, Eliza is all too happy to relieve her duties and go back to being a kid herself.

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  21. Background image for Rain Dance
    7.5/10(47 votes)

    #20 - Rain Dance

    S2:E3

    With the commvee broken down in the desert and no water left to survive, the Thornberrys go through desperate measures to maintain their sanity. However, on the verge of dehydration, Eliza convinces her family to perform the rain ritual pictured in a nearby monolith. Everyone cheers as the rains pour down among them.

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  22. Background image for You Ain't Seen Nothin', Yeti
    7.5/10(45 votes)

    #21 - You Ain't Seen Nothin', Yeti

    S2:E11

    To study and protect the snow leopards from extinction and a construction site that is threatening their survival, Nigel's mentor (thought to be lost for many years) has left civilization to be a yeti. Eliza discovers his identity, helps him fend off the construction workers, and reunites him with her father.

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  23. Background image for Reef Grief
    7.5/10(53 votes)

    #22 - Reef Grief

    S2:E16

    Eliza gets in over her head when she assumes responsibilities she can't handle. She is soon forced to don scuba gear and rescue a fumbling Nigel and a tumbling commvee under the dangerous waters of Australia.

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    7.5/10(43 votes)

    #23 - Thornberry Island

    S2:E17

    The Thornberrys get stranded on an uncharted island, basking at first in all the beauty and the splendor, but discover soon enough that being marooned isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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    Director:Becky Bristow
  25. Background image for The Origin of Donnie (2)
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    #24 - The Origin of Donnie (2)

    S4:E2

    Location: Borneo, IndonesiaDonnie searches the jungles of Borneo for his ancestry, causing Eliza to worry that he will break ties with the Thornberry clan.

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  26. Background image for The Origin of Donnie (3)
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    #25 - The Origin of Donnie (3)

    S4:E3

    Location: Borneo, IndonesiaA huge fire strikes while Eliza and Darwin search for Donnie, Nigel and Marianne come across poachers, and Debbie and Grandma Sophie get taken in by a native tribe.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Forget Me Not" is the best rated episode of "The Wild Thornberrys". It scored 8.1/10 based on 59 votes. Directed by Mark Risley and written by Kate Boutilier, Eleah Horwitz, it aired on 2/24/2000. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Flood Warning".