5.9/10175 votesLoading...#1 - Dad's Buggin' Out
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 6/4/2010
After Jerry is bitten by a bug from the wizard world he is transformed into a giant bug himself. Meanwhile, Harper joins the Alien Language League Zeke and Justin are in and they hold the annual banquet at the Sub Station.
Director: N/A
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6.0/10198 votesLoading...#2 - Eat to the Beat
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/30/2010
After Harper's lunchtime Shakespeare impressions are a total bust, Alex and Stevie ask Justin to hire a rock band to play at lunchtime. Justin agrees, feeling that he owes Stevie since she got him elected to become Student Body President.
Director: N/A
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6.1/10174 votesLoading...#3 - Magic Unmasked
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 5/13/2011
Alex encourages retired wrestler Muy Macho, her childhood hero, to return to the ring. Meanwhile, Zeke makes plans to wrestle Macho by persuading Justin to use his magic to turn him into a contender.
Director: N/A
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6.3/10170 votesLoading...#4 - Wizards vs. Finkles
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 7/30/2010
Harper and Alex join Harper's parents in a signing act. But Alex finds out it is a lot of working and wants to go home.
Director: N/A
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6.4/10164 votesLoading...#5 - Captain Jim Bob Sherwood
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 7/23/2010
Justin and Alex are chosen to create an issue of the Captain Jim Bob Sherwood comic book, with Justin writing the story and Alex doing the illustrations. But when they can't agree on their ideas, Alex uses magic and displaces Captain Jim Bob from the comic book, leaving him loose out in the city.
Director: N/A
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6.4/10173 votesLoading...#6 - Beast Tamer
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 6/24/2011
When Mason ignores Alex's invitation to the Beast Bowl so he can work on an anniversary gift, Alex decides to go anyway and she meets a boy named Chase.
Director: N/A
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6.5/10171 votesLoading...#7 - Western Show
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 5/14/2010
When the school's superintendant fires Mr. Laritate because of Alex, Mr. Laritate gets a job at a western place. When the school hires a strict new principal, Alex transports Mr. Laritate back to the Old West in an attempt to show him that it's not what he thought it was and make him want to come back to Tribeca Prep.
Director: Bob Koherr
Writer: N/A
6.6/10288 votesLoading...#8 - Curb Your Dragon
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/2007
Justin learns that his new pet beagle is actually a magical dragon. To his dismay, someone else claims the "dog" and enters it in a local canine competition.
Director: N/A
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6.6/10308 votesLoading...#9 - Pop Me and We Both Go Down
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/2008
Justin gets a zit before his prom date with a junior, and to make matters worse, Alex accidentally animates it.
Director: N/A
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6.6/10199 votesLoading...#10 - Hugh's Not Normous
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/12/2009
Alex tries to help Hugh find his birth parent's after he finds out he is adopted. Meanwhile, Max's plan to get revenge on Alex backfires.
Director: N/A
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6.7/10242 votesLoading...#11 - Beware Wolf
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2008
Justin falls for a new girl who is a werewolf and turns him into one, too; Max starts a dog-walking business with a new friend.
Director: N/A
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6.7/10188 votesLoading...#12 - Paint by Committee
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 6/26/2009
Alex is selected to paint the school's mural, which she is very excited about. However, after using magic to make the mural, she ends up messing up her own artistic ideas.
Director: Bob Koherr
Writer: N/A
6.7/10190 votesLoading...#13 - Marathoner Harper
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/4/2009
After Alex uses magic to help Harper win a marathon, she recreates the activities for her friend, so a very upset Harper can win on her own. Meanwhile, Justin decides to enter the marathon to win the first athletic trophy for the Russo family.
Director: N/A
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6.7/10165 votesLoading...#14 - Alex Russo, Matchmaker?
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 7/2/2010
Alex sets up Harper on a date with Justin's best friend Zeke, but the relationship doesn't go as she planned. Meanwhile, Justin prepares a project for a science fair.
Director: Mary Lou Belli
Writer: N/A
6.7/10182 votesLoading...#15 - Uncle Ernesto
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 8/27/2010
Wilmer Valderrama guest stars on Wizards of Waverly Place in the episode 'Uncle Ernesto'. Uncle Ernesto has no idea that the Russo's have magic abilities, so they promise a magic free night so that he can come over for a birthday dinner. Meanwhile, the kids get a magical chicken that can tell them the answer to anything. They ask it the age-old question, "Which one of us is going to win the wizard competition?" But when the chicken runs amuck, they have to catch it before he lays the answer and Uncle Ernesto finds out about magic.
Director: Bob Koherr
Writer: N/A
6.7/10202 votesLoading...#16 - Daddy's Little Girl
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 1/21/2011
Max, now Maxine, has become the center of Jerry and Teresa's attention, leading Alex to become jealous. Justin takes Maxine to karate class. Harper tries to keep Zeke away from the Russos in order to avoid having to explain Max being replaced by Maxine.
Director: N/A
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6.7/10188 votesLoading...#17 - Meet the Werewolves
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 6/17/2011
Mason tries to hide the truth about his parents from Alex, and about Alex from his parents. Max makes his parents' food taste like kid food in order to make it taste good, but it has adverse effects.
Director: N/A
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6.7/10182 votesLoading...#18 - Wizards vs. Asteroid
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 8/19/2011
Alex, Justin, and Max must get into a Captain Jim Bob Sherwood spaceship in order to destroy an asteroid coming toward the earth.
Director: N/A
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6.7/10165 votesLoading...#19 - Alex the Puppetmaster
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 9/16/2011
Alex and Harper decide to move out and live on their own, but they need money first, so they they decide put on puppet show. But when Alex doesn't keep up her end of the bargain, she and Harper have a fight. Meanwhile, Max might lose his girlfriend when Talia's parents don't like his parents.
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6.7/10181 votesLoading...#20 - Ghost Roommate
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 10/14/2011
Alex and Harper find an extra roommate, Lucy, to help with their living expenses. Lucy is heartbroken over the loss of her previous boyfriend over the Bermuda Triangle, so they try to cheer her up by finding her a new boyfriend. Zeke's mail-order robot finally arrives, only for him to suspect it's evil.
Director: N/A
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6.8/10237 votesLoading...#21 - Graphic Novel
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2008
Justin and Max steal Alex's diary only to have it stolen again by Gigi, Alex's arch nemesis. In an attempt to recover the diary, the brothers accidentally place Gigi inside the book and into Alex's secret fairy-tale princess world.
Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writer: N/A
6.8/10218 votesLoading...#22 - Alex's Brother Maximan
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2008
The kids fail at their group magic project, so Jerry devises a plan that will force them to work together. Now Alex must wrestle with sacrificing her first one-on-one date with Dean so that she and Justin can help Max's superhero, "Maximan," solve the crime and prove to Jerry that the siblings can work as a team.
Director: N/A
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6.8/10206 votesLoading...#23 - Fairy Tale
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/2009
Alex gets the lead as Tinkerbell in the school's production of Peter Pan but doesn't want the part. So when she enlists the help of a real fairy to sub in and play the part, it causes the production to get out of control and the play is not necessarily performed in the same way as the traditional Peter Pan fairytale!
Director: Bob Koherr
Writer: N/A
6.8/10211 votesLoading...#24 - Halloween
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/2009
The Russo family comes together to create the scariest haunted house ever for Halloween.
Director: Bob Koherr
Writer: N/A
6.8/10187 votesLoading...#25 - Third Wheel
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 4/30/2010
Harper is desperately trying to remember something, but she cannot. Alex offers to help Harper recall her memory, so she casts a spell on her. Harper then remembers: Stevie is a wizard, and she saw her cast a spell. Alex and Harper confront Stevie, and she confirms their suspisions by casting a spell in the ground that opens up a warp hole and a student falls in. Alex is happy that she has a wizard friend, but Harper feels left out.
Director: N/A
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The Worst Episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place
Every episode of Wizards of Waverly Place ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place!
Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle...
Genres:ComedySci-Fi & FantasyKids
Network:Disney Channel
Worst Episodes Summary
"Dad's Buggin' Out" is the worst rated episode of "Wizards of Waverly Place". It scored 5.9/10 based on 175 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/4/2010. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Eat to the Beat".