Excellent news : Samurai Jack isback next month ! Even excellenter news : To fete , Adult Swim is streaming all 52 episode of the show on eyelet , available for barren online with no ads , right goddamn now . You should watch all of it , of course , but here are 10 installment you just ca n’t miss before the new season returns on March 11 .
1) Jack and the Three Blind Archers
A perennial favorite , this instalment sees Jack attempt to get access to a well guarded by three Jackal Archers , who ’ve trained themselves to master their blindness to unleash volleys of pointer at anyone who comes close to it . It ’s a tale of Jack ’s ingenuity as he endeavor to get over the Canis aureus ’ defense force , but as with a lot of Jack installment , it ’s also severalise in an unbelievably fashionable manner , with virtually no dialogue — or else , using the series ’ stellar medicine and sound pattern to tell its tale . ( Season One , Episode 7 )
2) Samurai vs. Ninja
That amazing competitiveness in the newfangled season five trailer between Jack and the female assassins , light up the dark with the brush of their weapons ? It ’s an court to one of the most stylish episodes of the serial publication , in which Jack faces a robot ninja sent by Aku to stamp out him , and the two warriors utilize Inner Light and dark to conceal themselves from each other during a truly prominent duel . ( S4 , E1 )
3) Any Episode With the Scotsman
Aside from Jack and Aku , Samurai Jack does n’t really do resort characters . One of the few exceptions to this rule is the Scotsman , Jack ’s rowdy , screaming , simple machine - gun - for - a - wooden leg - take hydrofoil across several episodes . He ’s always a hiss when he show up , but season four ’s two - parter “ The Scotsman Saves Jack ” in special is not bad .
4) Tale of X9
Jack is barely in this episode , but it ’s an awful , tragical insight into the world of Aku ’s land and his minion , frame through a noir lens . X9 , a robotlike detective type given a personality by Aku , is the star as he hunts for the one thing he ’s bonded with : a small dog named Lulu . ( S4 , E11 )
5) Jack Learns to Jump Good
Jack is often go through as being corking at everything , especially in a fight . But this fun , slimly cockamamie installment focuses on a rare area of weakness for our paladin . It ’s sort of an protracted take on the classic training sequence collage , but with a Greenwich Village of incredibly amiable monkey - like creature . ( S2 , E1 )
6) Jack and the Haunted House
The close thing Samurai Jack has to a Halloween special also features one of the most gorgeous fight scenes of the entire series . Jack battles an malevolent spirit in a style that looks like a moving ink house painting mixed with a sentient Rorschach look-alike . ( S3 , E9 )
7) The Princess and the Bounty Hunters
Another episode where Jack is scarce in it , “ Princess and the Bounty Hunters ” is told from the perspective of a grouping of bounty hunter who are explain their program to take down Jack ( and then being told how poorly it will go by the titular Princess ) . Although it ’s a circle of fun , when Jack at long last appears at the end the instalment pivot into a brilliantly anxious tantrum that is one of the most gut - wrenchingly tense moment of the show . ( S4 , E5 )
8) Aku’s Fairy Tales
One thing time of year five will be sorely overlook is the absence seizure of Mako Iwamatsu , the malevolent Aku ’s original voice actor , who sadly hand away in 2006 . “ Aku ’s Fairy Tales ” is separate from the villain ’s perspective , as he attempts to make the children of the world fear him once again by telling a trio of fairy narrative and replacing the Heron and villains with himself and Jack , respectively . It ’s an exemplar of the remarkable range and astuteness Iwamatsu leave to his performance . ( S1 , E13 )
9) Jack and the Smackback
One of the best thing about Samurai Jack is its brightly choreographed action , and this episode is pretty much all natural process . snare in an homage to the Mad Max ’s Thunderdome , Jack is forced into combat against a series of brilliant , unearthly , and fearsome foeman , one after the other . They ’re all dissimilar battle that Jack overcomes in dissimilar ways , but the sequence essentially one long master class in the show ’s violent , kinetic plan of attack to legal action . ( S2 , E3 )
10) Robo-Samurai vs. Mondo Bot
As the title imply , Jack gets a Brobdingnagian goddamn golem ( well , it ’s in reality a big golem ) to pilot in this episode , as he get up against the mammoth robotic shielder of the city of Andromeda after it unwittingly goes rogue and turns on its Divine . believe it the spiritual ancestor of Tartakovsky’sshort - lived but excellentSym - Bionic Titan , which further explored his erotic love of the mecha genre . ( S4 , E2 )
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