Original release 4 novembre 2001
Previous episode S01E01 - A Thing for Musicians
Number S01E02
Episode runtime 23 minutes
Country France
Original language French
Genres Science-Fiction, Family, Comedy, Children, Animation, Action
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The New Jerry

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The girls arrive at WOOHP to find that Jerry has retired. In his place is Mac Smit -- a handsome, charismatic, intelligent, cool, thirty-something who Sam develops a bit of a crush on. When strange things start to happen (the credit card Mac gave them turns evil, the car he lent them explodes) the girls deduce that someone is after Mac. As they follow clues to find out who the unseen assailant is, the girls soon discover it is Mac himself (he’s really a rogue WOOHP agent named Tim Scam). Mac’s plan is to use an Evapo-Blaster -- a device he developed when he was at WOOHP -- to dehydrate all the earth’s water. But first he must get rid of the spies -- just like he’s gotten rid of Jerry! In the b-story, the girls grow sick of the way Jerry is treating them and wish they had a new guardian.

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Totally Spies! Season 8 Finale Debrief: Why Sam, Clover and Alex Still Make the Perfect Spy-Team Comeback

The Season 8 finale of Totally Spies! aired on September 2, 2026, and now that viewers have had a couple of days to process it, one thing feels clear: this season understood exactly why the series has lasted across 186 episodes. Totally Spies! has always worked because it refuses to choose between the ridiculous and the sincere. Sam, Clover and Alex can be battling a demented global threat one minute and worrying about school, family, friendship or image the next. Season 8 leaned into that dual identity with confidence, especially in its final stretch, where the spy spectacle mattered less than what it revealed about the trio’s bond and their evolving place inside WOOHP.

What worked best in the finale was the way it paid off the season’s biggest question: what happens when the girls are no longer just talented agents reacting to Jerry’s briefings, but figures with responsibility, authority and consequences? Early in Season 8, the WOOHP-er heists and Zerlina’s connection to them immediately suggested that this would not be a simple “villain of the week” run. Episode 2 pushed that further by disrupting WOOHP’s established organization and forcing the Spies to lead while Zerlina, Jerry and Toby faced a global threat in the field. By the finale, that shift in power dynamics had become the season’s real engine. Sam, Clover and Alex were not simply proving they could save the world again; they were proving they could think like leaders without losing the impulsive, funny and deeply human energy that made them great in the first place.

Emotionally, Season 8 found some of its strongest material in the tension between independence and connection. Sam’s intelligence, Clover’s confidence and Alex’s heart have always complemented one another, but the finale underlined how much they rely on trust rather than just teamwork choreography. The series has never been afraid of exaggeration, and its villains are often delightfully unhinged, but the stakes land when the girls have to make choices that test their loyalty to each other. That was the key emotional beat of the finale: not just whether WOOHP could be protected, or whether the season’s threat could be contained, but whether the Spies could keep their friendship intact while navigating a more complicated espionage world.

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