7.5/1021 votes#1 - Western Day
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/6/2000
Doug must wrangle up his own fun when the Anipals ditch him for high times south of the border in Tijuana.
Director: Ted May, David Concepcion, James Dean Conklin, Sean LeFleur
Writer: Robert Smigel, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell
- 7.1/1015 votes
#2 - Hawaiian Day
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/13/2000
Doug and Rocky the Fish have a luau all by themselves while the Anipals help Chickie rescue his 95th son, Jason, from a cult.
Director: Ted May, Sean Lattrell, David Lipson, Don McGrath, Benjamin Porcari
Writer: Robert Smigel, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell
- 7.3/1019 votes
#3 - Christmas Day
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/20/2000
The Anipals tap Doug's spine to extract his Christmas cheer. One of Chickie's sons helps to turn the cheer into powder, and the Anipals become addicts.
Director: Sean Lattrell, Bill Berner, David Wachtenheim
Writer: Andy Breckman, Robert Smigel, David Reynolds, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell
- 6.9/1014 votes
#4 - Mexicans Day
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/27/2000
The Anipals appear on The Sally Jessy Raphael Show to get endangered lizard Dave laid. Doug is left to celebrate Mexicans Day with a tequila worm and a Puerto Rican Mexican-food delivery guy.
Director: Ted May, Sean Lattrell, Benjamin Porcari, Bill Berner, Adam Sorota, Brian Kalin O'Connell
Writer: Robert Smigel, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell
- 6.5/1015 votes
#5 - Caveman Day
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/3/2001
The Anipals compare New Year's resolutions: Hojo wants to learn the saxophone, Chickie hangs out with his brother with Tourette syndrome, and Fogey must resist eating his own poop. Meanwhile, Doug dresses as a caveman and builds a dinosaur skeleton out of baby back ribs, and Rocky the Fish takes a group of kids to visit a cookie factory.
Director: Sean Lattrell, Bill Berner, John Schnall
Writer: Robert Smigel, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell
- 7.0/1015 votes
#6 - Safari Day
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/10/2001
The Anipals travel to Atlantic City to visit Fogey's old friend, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, where Chickie falls in love with a chimpstitute. Meanwhile, Doug goes on a safari and ends up with a rash from a tropical plant.
Director: Ted May, Sean Lattrell, David Wachtenheim, Robert Marianetti
Writer: Robert Smigel, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell
- 6.9/1014 votes
#7 - Astronaut Day
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/17/2001
Still in Atlantic City, the Anipals attempt to 'unstick' Triumph before his big show. At the Funhouse, Doug tries to achieve weightlessness while dressed as an astronaut.
Director: Ted May, Sean Lattrell, David Lipson, Don McGrath, David Wachtenheim
Writer: Robert Smigel, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell, Sean LeFleur
- 5.9/1013 votes
#8 - Chinese New Year's Day
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/24/2001
The Anipals ditch the Funhouse to enter the lucrative, glamorous world of laboratory animal testing, as Doug celebrates Chinese New Year's Day and makes fireworks with a panda.
Director: Ted May, Sean Lattrell, Bill Berner, David Wachtenheim, Robert Marianetti, Michael Wetterhahn
Writer: Robert Smigel, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell, Jason Brandenberg, A.J. Jacobs
The Best Episodes of TV Funhouse Season 1
Every episode of TV Funhouse Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of TV Funhouse Season 1!
In this spin-off of the Saturday Night Live TV Funhouse cartoons, happy-go-lucky Doug hosts a children's show in the vein of Pee-wee's Playhouse, wherein he...
Genres:AnimationComedy
Network:Comedy Central
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Western Day" is the best rated episode of "TV Funhouse" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Ted May, David Concepcion, James Dean Conklin, Sean LeFleur and written by Robert Smigel, Mark Rivers, Tom Bell, it aired on 12/6/2000. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Hawaiian Day".