List of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episodes facts for kids

In the first episode of the series, the Rescue Rangers discover a sunken pirate ship and a huge cargo of gold, along with a crew of pirate rats who have forgotten about the life above the surface.

A little girl (known as Mandy) is looking for her kitten, Spunky, and the Rescue Rangers are on the case. The trail leads to Nimnul's laboratory, where the professor is kidnapping cats and using them to generate lightning bolts by building up a charge of static electricity in their fur.

Note: This episode marks the first appearance of Professor Nimnul.

A trio of shape-changing aliens from the planet Fleeblebrox are vacationing on Earth. When it's time to leave, one of them, Ditz, decides to remain behind by tricking Dale into switching places with him.

To bring down beloved television star Flash the Wonder Dog, Fat Cat and his henchmen dress up in his costume and perform random acts of badness. Soon, the town is buzzing with bad vibes for Flash and the studio is replacing the canine with his cockatoo sidekick named Conrad. Meanwhile, Dale gets a sobering meeting with his TV hero and finds that Flash is not as brave as he thought he was in real life.

Note: This episode marked the first appearances of Fat Cat and his gang.

The Rangers go to watch the launch of a space plane, but unfortunately Chip and Dale get trapped in a spacesuit in orbit, forcing the other Rangers to attempt a launch of their own.

The Rangers lose the Ranger Plane to a tribe of kiwi birds. In their attempt to get it back, Dale pretends to have broken his toe to receive affection from Gadget.

While trying to recover a stolen statuette – the Maltese Mouse – from Fat Cat, the Rangers accidentally wreak havoc in the home of a squirrel with two daughters. While the mother repairs the damage, the Rangers take care of the girls. The eldest, Tammy, develops a crush on Chip. She decides to prove herself to her hero by sneaking into Fat Cat's hideout and recovering the priceless statuette herself.

MacDuff enlists the Rescue Rangers, with a little help from Sureluck Jones, (a paordy of the fictional sleuth, Sherlock Holmes) a fictional sleuth whom Chip admires from a series of books he reads to find the will that proves the old family mansion rightfully belongs to his master, Roger.

Irwina Allen, a scientist and rockstar wannabe uses her control of bees to steal a swarm and plot her takeover of the world of rock and roll. The queen bee appeals to Zipper and the other Rangers for help, during which Zipper falls in love with her and is trying to win her affection.

A mad egg collector attempts to collect the egg of a mother Booby Bird, and the rangers attempt to help reunite her with her baby.

The homes of the wealthy are being robbed by flying carpets under the control of Professor Nimnul.

While on a camping trip, the Rangers find themselves watching over a little boy named Jeremy, who's also being watched over by a friendly Humphrey the Bear, who quickly discovers that he might have gotten more than he bargained for.

Monty's father Cheddarhead Charlie comes to visit, and tries to help the Rangers stop Fat Cat's latest scheme, but his rash way of doing things are only getting in the way.

A criminal mastermind named Aldrin Klordane and his pet cat, Fat Cat, frame aging police detective, Donald Drake, and his canine companion, Plato, for stealing a priceless ruby. While the human police try to get Drake to confess to the crime, a pair of chipmunks named Chip and Dale help Plato find the real culprits.

In their attempt to get the ruby back, Chip and Dale follow Fat Cat to a Chinese laundry, and later a fishing boat, where they befriend a fat Australian mouse named Monterey Jack and his housefly companion, Zipper (who are on the fishing boat to get the latest shipment of cheese). However the situation gets complicated when Monty becomes enraged at Fat Cat for throwing his house overboard.

While Klordane and Fat Cat head for Glacier Bay, Chip and Dale follow Monterey Jack and Zipper to the home of Monty's old traveling partner Geegaw Hackwrench, hoping to find a vehicle to get them to Glacier Bay, but must deal with Monty's "cheese attacks" (hypnotic spells that occur whenever Monty sees or smells cheese) and an elaborate security system set up by Geegaw's daughter, Gadget.

The Rangers return to the city, where Professor Nimnul has transported a glacier to, so it can be crushed and transported underground. After Klordane breaks Drake out of prison as part of his scheme to frame him for his master plan, the Rangers also find themselves having to save Plato from the animal shelter which gets complicated, when Monty, still obsessed with Fat Cat for destroying his home leaves with Zipper.

The Rangers discover Klordane and Nimnul's plot to create an underground earthquake via a giant gelatin mould for robbing a bank, and they are the only ones who can stop them. With both Drake and Plato captured, the Rangers must work together to create a second earthquake to bring in the authorities but must contend with Fat Cat first.

Fat Cat attempts to get hold of a magic lamp, but it falls into the hands of Monterey Jack instead. After Monty alienates the other Rangers by his greed, the genie tricks him into switching places, just as Fat Cat finds the lamp.

A failing inventor who believes that all his troubles are due to bad luck alone is aided by the Rangers. However, Gadget learns that the inventor's cat has been sabotaging his inventions.

Monty's weight problem encourages the Rangers to go on diets and to exercise more frequently. Meanwhile, Fat Cat is hiring Jamaican fruit bats to steal jewels for him.

While visiting the Tower of London on a quest to stop Fat Cat, the Rangers meet up with the ghost of one of Monty's ancestors, Sir Colby. Monty then learns that Sir Colby isn't as brave as he's made out to be.

The Rangers investigate a peanut shortage at the zoo. When the leader of the zoo's elephants accuses the Rangers of stealing the peanuts, the Rangers must find the real thief in order to clear their names.

Professor Nimnul uses his Gigantico Gun on some pillbugs, and an unwitting Zipper, as part of his plan to fake an alien attack and extort much gold for "spaceship fuel".

When Dale stays up all night, he's too tired to help the other Rangers with tracking down a stolen toy train the next day and ends up sleepwalking.

The Rangers attend a human opera and discover it is being sabotaged. The culprit is the alligator Sewernose de Bergerac, who plots to replace the lead in the opera.

While test-driving the Ranger-mobile, the Rangers stumble across a group of soda-worshipping mice who call themselves the Cola Cult. But it soon becomes clear that the Cult's leaders are exploiting its members, stealing everything they donate, and things get worse when Gadget (who feels that she's losing her engineering edge) joins.

At the tomb of King Nutun-Khamun, an archeologist finds the ring to unlock the diamonds of the Sphinx of Inka-dinka-do. His greedy assistant Wexler steals the ring and eludes the mummy assigned to guard it, Hiram. Wexler tries to hide the ring and Dale gets it for a while, putting the Rangers on the case.

Prof Nimnul is using a shape-shifting device to trade places with a wolf. While Nimnul robs homes as a wolf, the wolf-turned-human experiences the downtown nightlife.

A junkman builds a mechanical guard-cat. When it breaks down, Gadget fixes it and makes it friendly. Fat Cat finds out about this and plots to reprogram the cat for his own ends.

Professor Nimnul trains lab animals to follow the maze that mimics the city's tunnels in order to use them as a navigation system for his bank-robbing super-rat robot. The team befriends two of them, Sparky and Buzz. Meanwhile, the battle between Chip and Dale for Gadget's attention begins to get ugly.

Dale's discovery of a rodent-sized space-travelling stegosaurus is certainly a surprise to the Rangers; and when the diminutive dinosaur suddenly begins to grow in size and lose intelligence, the rangers have to save him.

The Rangers are spurred into action by a rash of bizarre attacks on seafood shipments and restaurants. After some research, they find that the attacks are being led by a fish by the name of Captain Fin, who has modified a sunken submarine so that it holds water, allowing Captain Fin and his crew to traverse on land.

Note: The submarine seen in this episode is similar to the Nautilus seen in Walt Disney's 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Professor Nimnul designs a super-weapon that levels cities with mega-amplified sound. However, his nephew Normie borrows the "molecular sound amplifier", the main part of the weapon, for the school science project.

While at a carnival, the Rangers meet a fortune-telling moth named Cassandra, who predicts that Chip will be killed "before the next sun rises". On learning that one of the carnival members is a crook who is using his monkey accomplice to rob the homes of those people who have won prizes at his booth, the Rangers must find a way to solve the case while keeping Chip out of harm's way.

When the Rangers are shipwrecked on an island, Gadget and Chip try to find a way off the island before a hurricane hits while Monty and Dale find treasure. The pirate rats then come to the island to search for the treasure that Dale and Monty found.

Monty gets invited over Tramplonia, Spain, where he is regarded as a hero for defeating a vicious bull. Truth is, Monty didn't defeat the bull with his bare hands, and that bull is out seeking revenge.

Note: This is the first episode (not counting the "To The Rescue" five-part pilot) in which Jim Cummings voices Monterey Jack.

While on vacation in the Amazon, a mad, German chocolate lover employs mosquitoes loaded with drugs to make the locals easily hypnotizeable and make them unknowingly work night shifts at his chocolate factory, and Dale is the only member of the Rangers unaffected by the drugs.

The Rangers crash-land in Ireland and are tricked by Darby Spree, King of the Leprechauns, into helping him rescue his fellow leprechauns from their enslavement to a banshee.

Note: This is the last episode in which Peter Cullen voices Monterey Jack.

Professor Nimnul's weather machine vs. Monterey Jack's weather-predicting tail.

While Fat Cat plots to steal the world's biggest pearl from a tank guarded by a vicious shark, Chip and Dale engage in a war of practical jokes that ends with Dale in Fat Cat's clutches.

The Rangers attempt to enjoy a day at the beach is nearly ruined by Chip's micromanagement style, so Dale is made leader for the day, just before the group discovers that the beach's crabs are having their shells stolen.

While fighting two wooden furniture thugs, Monterey Jack gets distracted by a smell that's (for once) not cheese. Rather, it's the smell of perfume from Desiree D'Allure, a female mouse he fell in love with back when he was a globetrotting explorer (and whom he planned to marry, only to get a whiff from a cheese truck and eat himself into a food coma), who comes back into his life and begs him to help her get away from her criminal boyfriend — but Chip thinks the entire thing is a trap.

The Rangers' new vehicle, the Ranger Wing, accidentally takes them to the Himalayas, where they come to the aid of the emperor's songbird, Chirp Sing. It appears that the gentle emperor is going insane, while his greedy sister plots to sell the valley to developers. The Rangers must discover what is really going on and turn the tables on the scheming Su Lin.

Dale and Zipper decide to emulate their heroes, Dirk Suave (Double 'O Super-Spy) and Odd Shoe, and soon become involved in a real spy caper.

Gadget is tricked by her Hawaiian double, Lahwhinie into trading places with her right before the Hawaiian mouse is to be tested for her worthiness to become queen of the mice.

Two parts of a meteor crashing into Earth give Dale and a crooked travel agent super stretching powers. Dale becomes the Rubber Bando and leaves the Rangers, while Seymour uses his powers to steal national monuments for ransom. Soon the Rubber Bando is blamed for the thefts, and must turn to the Rangers for help.

Monterey Jack and Zipper go to an abandoned diner to prepare Monty's famous cheese chowder (after it explodes in their kitchen), only to discover that a pair of crooks are using the diner to dig their way into a neighboring bank. Things get complicated when the police mistake the crooks for the chefs behind the cheese chowder and the police come over to try it.

After botching a rescue due to a cheese attack, Monterey Jack decides to give up cheese, which is easier said than done, especially when there's a cheese shortage in town courtesy of Rat Capone.

A gangster has kidnapped Professor Nimnul, and is using his Gigantico Gun (in reverse) to steal museums and statues, both for the valuables inside, and to provide doll houses for his spoiled daughter Buffy. The Rangers are on the case, until Chip and Dale are captured and forced to be Buffy's pets.

Note: This episode shares its name with a 1951 Donald Duck short that featured Chip 'n' Dale.

Gadget decides to adopt a policy of non-violence for the team, which is immediately put to the test as the Rangers investigate a dwarf posing as a baby to rob the homes of rich childless couples.

A washerwoman named Winifred is seeking to become a witch by means of a spell she found in the library. Compiling the ingredients are her familiars: Bud the snake, Lou the spider, and Foxglove the bat. During her mission, Foxglove falls in love with Dale, and has second thoughts about being a villain.

The Rangers help a lost sparrow return to Capistrano and discover a bad "chicken" pie outfit using an electromagnet to catch the migrating birds. This episode also has references to the Stage Musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Note: This episode featured the voice of Ruth Buzzi.

When the Rangers learn that dogs are fleeing from Paris, they travel there and learn about the latest plot of Maltese de Sade, Fat Cat's cousin. Meanwhile, Dale realizes he's a distraction to the rest of the Rescue Rangers and wanders aimlessly through Paris, where he suffers amnesia and is brainwashed by Maltese de Sade into fighting against his friends.

When the Rangers go to investigate a sunken ship, they learn that Fat Cat is responsible, as he hired fireflies to confuse the captain.

When Professor Nimnul invents an aging ray and turns Monty (who is already insecure about getting old) into an old man, the rangers attempt to stop the mad Professor and reverse the effects of his ray on Monty.

Monty's mother Camembert Kate (last seen at the end of "Parental Discretion Retired") comes to visit, but Monty can't stand her smothering and does what he can to prove that he's a grown mouse. In his latest dog-ridding scheme, Fat Cat recruits a team of moles to dig underneath the foundations of the city's buildings, causing them to lean over, and driving everyone (and their dogs) out of town.

Note: Following the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States, this episode was banned from reruns on The Disney Channel and Toon Disney. As of 2019, this episode is available on streaming through Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, and Google Play, and is on the complete series Blu-Ray.

Nimnul hypnotizes all the mice in town (including Monty and Gadget) into running on hamster wheels, so that they can charge a powerful generator for him. Dale's own hypnotic skills are the only thing that can help deal with this crisis.
NOTE: Reruns of this episode on The Disney Channel and Toon Disney (though not the version shown on Disney XD in May 2022 as part of a marathon promoting the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers movie) edited out all scenes featuring a deaf-mute character named Mouseo, which Disney executives at the time felt was a negative stereotype. The Blu-ray version and the version shown on Disney+ have reinstated the scenes.

The Rangers agree to rescue Ku-Ku the gorilla's pet kitten Boots who was catnapped by Fat Cat. Fat Cat is holding Boots hostage, so that Ku-Ku will commit crimes for him.

Rat Capone's use of slave labour to build himself a castle draws the attention of the Rangers — unfortunately, Dale's attempts to emulate his TV hero, the Red Badger of Courage, lead to the other four rangers becoming the slave labour.

Zipper leaves the Rescue Rangers after Monty blames him for ruining his cheese souffle and becomes the king of a tribe of water beetles. Little does he know that the tribe has a bad habit of sacrificing their kings to a giant frog.

The Rescue Rangers go to Hong Kong, where a cereal manufacturer is smuggling cars into the US without import fees by shrinking them into cereal toys.

Professor Nimnul has invented a device to transmit himself across telephone wires, and uses it to steal scientific devices from guarded laboratories. A neglected Zipper discovers Nimnul in the act and is caught in the Modemizer with him, leading to two creatures out of The Fly.

The rangers break up when Monty and Zipper refuse to help the others locate the missing tap shoes of a female dog named Canina La Fur and instead are trying to locate the cause of what has been sinking cargo ships in the Arctic Circle. Both groups soon find that both these random events are connected, as Nimnul had stolen all of the dance shoes so that he can get a group of penguins to create icebergs through excessive tap dancing to sink the ships with and steal their cargo.

In the final episode of the series, Zsa Zsa Labador, Canina La Fur's stand-in, strands her in Taxedermia, where all animals are fair game for hunting. Worse the rangers are separated, with Monty being stuck with Canina, and despite not being one of her fans, he must help get Canina out of the country.