This is a list of Double the Fist episodes. Craig Anderson is one of the television show's creators.
Series 1
Episode 1: Vertical Challenge In this first episode, Steve challenges the Fist team to abseil down a cliff - without any ropes or means of suspension. Mephisto decides to construct a batsuit to glide safely down; he fails due to a lack of updrafts. Rod decides his strategy will be to jump the distance from the top of the cliff to the water; however, that distance is about 2 metres longer than the world record long jump, and even though Rod has his legs waxed in order to reduce air resistance, he fails. The Womp tests several strategies by throwing watermelons off the cliff, but every watermelon splats on the ground; he eventually succeeds by wrapping himself in over 900m of Bubble Wrap. First aired 21 May 2004.
Episode 2: Extreme Makeover Steve challenges the Fist team to improve the lifestyles of some weak viewers. Womp is assigned a kid, Rod is assigned an old lady, and Mephisto is assigned a mediocre magician. To test the fist-worthiness of the subjects at the end, they will have to get on a luge and do a jump over a ramp. The jumps of the kid and old lady end disastrously. The magician decides he will do his jump in a bag (tied up), in a locker on wheels that is chained and padlocked, which is on fire; this also ends in disaster as the fire warps the metal and is unable to roll (as told by Mephisto). The magician burns to death, but wins as he put himself in mortal danger (i.e., a position where he couldn't get out of). This episode includes Mephisto's thoughts on vegetarians and Rod teaching his elderly lady a very painful way to drink tea. First aired 28 May 2004.
Episode 3: Fistathlon Steve pits the Fist team against each other in attempt to make sport more fistworthy. The first sport is golf; each contestant tees off as usual in a game of golf, but Panda is hidden somewhere on the course, armed with a Glock. Panda eliminates Rod and Womp (after teaching Womp to hit the ball off the tee) before they can get their ball into the hole; Mephisto then kills Panda with a knife. Mephisto triumphantly drops his ball into the hole, but does not receive any points because he was supposed to hit it in. The second game is clay pigeon shooting: each contestant is charged with making what Steve thinks is a boring sport into something more exciting. Womp decides to vary the angle at which the clay pigeons are launched, but some of them end up being directed at him, and he is pelted by them. Rodd decides to have targets that shoot back, and is killed by one. Mephisto decides that he will be launched (by catapult) as he attempts to shoot at a stationary clay pigeon on the ground; however, he shoots too late and misses. No one receives any points. Several more events are briefly summarized, including "Breast Stroke" (stroking a strangers breasts) bowling, the "fire sprint" (which resulted in all of the contestants exploding), and the smorgasbord event, which Womp won by eating 17 courses. The final challenge is a 'steeplechase', a run along the highway, over a space/time vortex, and through a "trap canyon" (basically a maze full of trapdoors, swinging blades, and spikes). The Womp gets off to a slow start and falls into the vortex; because the vortex transports him 5 minutes back in time, it effectively clones him. Womp falls in several times, so there end up being quite a few clones of him. Mephisto and Rod reach the trap canyon first, but are both quickly dispatched by it. The Womps get to the trap canyon, and by sheer numbers, one manages to get to the end. The Womp is declared the overall winner of the Fistahlon, and is granted the privilege of climbing "Mount Fistus" (a nondescript hill). This episode also divulges Mephisto's hatred of road safety campaigns and could be the first appearance of Blue Womp. The special features on the DVD of season 1 reveal that another sport, sprinting, was intended to be satirized; however, there was a significant pyrotechnic mishap and the scene had to be cut. First aired 4 June 2004.
Episode 4: Fear Factory Reality television comes under fire this week, as Steve pits the Fist team and some guests against each other inside the world's most deadly factory. This episode includes Ugly Dave Gray as well as Yvonne Strahovski as competitors in the contest, Womp and Blue Womp arguing about cookery, shark-like creatures flying through the air and eating people, and Rod fighting evil flying furniture. During this episode, Mephisto gets possessed by an ancient Aztec demigod, steals Steve's car, and disappears from the show until episode 6. First aired 11 June 2004.
Episode 5: High School Challenge In this episode, the Fist Team competes with some high schoolers in various challenges. Each challenge is worth 1 point. The team with the most points at the end is deemed the most fistworthy. Among the challenges were: Library Search: the teams were given the task of finding a golden key hidden in a book in the library. They were only given one clue. The Fist Team won by stealing the golden key after the high schoolers found it. Egg protection: Each team had to protect an egg from being smashed by Panda's cricket bat. The high schoolers made a contraption to protect it from high falls, and then dropped it off the side of the building, dissuading Panda from smashing it. The Fist Team quarrelled, so their strategy ended up being Blue Womp trying (and failing) to protect the egg with his body. Mathematics Challenge: One designated player on each team (Rod for the Fist Team, and Emily for the High School Team) lies head-first on a skateboard, which is attached to a long rope, such that it can be dragged towards an operating lawn-mower. Steve asks the teams numerical questions, and the amount by which they are incorrect is translated into the distance the skateboards are drawn forward (much like Cliff Hangers from The Price Is Right). The Fist Team came from behind to win after the High School team incorrectly guessed Steve's weight, and Emily's head was pulverised. History challenge (worth double points): The two teams were given the task of recreating the Gallipoli landing from World War I, with the two teams playing the ANZACs and the rest of the school students playing the Turkish forces. Showing favouritism, the rest of the school students refused to attack their friends, attacking only the Fist Team; however, this backfired for the school students, because by getting massacred, the Fist Team's more accurately recreated the actual outcome at Gallipoli. At the end of the episode, the Fist Team was the overall winner, 4–1. Also, Steve became frustrated with Blue Womp, and after beating him violently, forbade him from ever appearing again. (He did reappear in the final episode of the season, but only to be shot in the head with a cannon). First aired 18 June 2004.
Episode 6: Bush Bash The episode begins with Steve deriding the ability of nonviolent protestors to ever accomplish anything. He then announces that there is a major logging operation taking place in a forest in Australia, and gives the fist team the assignment of stopping it; whoever eliminates the most loggers will have won. After several misadventures, the Womp, Rod, and Tina T manage to reach the main site of the logging operation, where it is revealed that Mephisto, possessed by an Aztec demigod is cloning pandas in a giant pyramid. The Womp pokes Mephisto in the eye, detaching the demigod from him. The dazed Mephisto orders the pandas to stop logging. Steve says that because Mephisto stopped the most loggers, he won the challenge. First aired 25 June 2004.
Episode 7: Terrorism This episode is slightly different from the others - it does not feature any of the recurring segments, and instead plays as a story. Steve challenges the team to stop a mysterious terrorist group, but when they are all taken hostage, it's up to Steve to save the day - and it turns out the head terrorist has a grudge against him. The split-screen effects and timers used throughout the episode are clear homages to the TV series 24. The action-packed ending and particularly the ending credits are a parody of the 1998 film Armageddon. First aired 9 July 2004.
The title "Terrorism" is often given to the episode by TV guides, but throughout the episode itself it is called "Episode 7".
Episode 8: Special Edition This is a prank clip show episode, featuring previews for upcoming, and non-existent, episodes. It also has supposedly behind-the-scenes footage, expanded back stories for the characters, and some other miscellaneous clips like a music video featuring Rod Foxx on lead vocals. Steve claims on the website that he had a plan for a different episode, but ABC wouldn't let him broadcast it, so he had to throw together the "special edition" at the last minute. The false previews for the next eight episodes were paid off when they pretended the ABC had cancelled the series and faked being taken off air with two minutes left to go, with an intentionally bad replacement, Town and Country, being shown for the remainder of the time slot. First aired 16 July 2004.
Extra Special Edition This DVD exclusive episode continues the prank clip show episode theme from Episode 8, which also features previews for upcoming, and non-existent, episodes. Letter of the Weak also touched upon the use of special effects in the show. (Apparently not only just for spectacular stunts, but for everything else as well.) The episode also features audition tapes from various members of the public who deem themselves fistworthy. One such tape came from Bill Karas who, according to Steve Foxx, originally had his own segments in the series which were barred from broadcast by the ABC. The segment titled "Fist Boy" had Karas take on fast food restaurant chain McDonald's for slaughtering billions of friendly cows and not giving back to the cow community by buying all their stock. The Womp's sexuality towards Steve Foxx is also questioned. The Episode ends with a rant from Steve Foxx regarding his difficulty with the ABC cancelling the show in favour of BBC Costume dramas and concludes with Steve kicking out the ABC camera crew from his house with whom he was dissatisfied in the first place. This episode has not aired on TV and is featured on the Series One volume Two DVD.
Series 2
Episode 9: Beat The House Steve returns to Earth (chronologically after Episode 7) to find four years have passed and weakness is at an all-time high. He encounters a pair of medieval re-enactors upon landing, and beats them up when they ask that he join them as their leader. He then sets out to find his team: Rod is spying on gymnastics performers, Mephisto is guarding a blood bank (but some vampires have him in their pocket), Womp is being crushed by cars at a derby and Panda is in a zoo.
With his team reassembled, Steve tells his plan: to create the ultimate fist-worthy base to eradicate weakness, particularly that of the Medieval Re-enactors, from the face of the Earth. For this, they will need $1,000,000. He has a plan: the Fist Team's new target is gambling- not gambling itself, but the losers. He plans to beat the house in the most fistworthy way imaginable: steal it. For his plan, Rod will impersonate a famous hypnotist while Panda will be his 'lovely assistant'; Womp will pretend to be a famous professional gambler and provide a distraction while Mephisto will pretend to be a guard, allowing to sneak in a vampire friend (who will not show up on the security cameras).