Mike, Lu & Og
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Mike, Lu & Og is an American animated television series that ran on Cartoon Network, produced by Kinofilm Studios (Russia). The show was the seventh Cartoon Cartoon, based on a short for The What-A-Cartoon! Show. Created by Chuck Swenson, the show follows a girl named Mike (short for Michelene), who is a foreign exchange student from Manhattan, a stuck up island princess named Lu, and a native boy named Og who is a gifted inventor. They go through a series of wacky adventures as Mike learns the customs of the island and the natives learn the customs of the United States. 26 half-hour episodes were produced, featuring two stories per episode. The series aired from 1998 to 2001 on Cartoon Network, and featured voice actors: Nika Frost as Mike, Nancy Cartwright as Lu, and Dee Bradley Baker as Og. It began airing on Boomerang in May 2006.
Characters
Mike applied as a foreign exchange student, and on a lark asked to be sent to a tropical island. She found herself dumped on a forgotten, barely mapped island populated by descendants of a British shipwreck (which is why Lu and Og, and their parents, speak perfect English). This island may be based on the real-life Pitcairn Island. The islanders have "gone native" and are trying to behave like Polynesians, with varying degrees of success. Amongst other things, this explains Og's name and his (un)dress sense.
Manhattan-born Mike enjoys the sun, the beach, and the relaxed (school-less) atmosphere, but misses kosher delis, all night neon lights and skateboards. Fortunately, Og seems able to improvise anything out of coconut husks and sea shells. On one occasion he even managed to build a television set. The set only ever showed static because there were no stations in range, but that did not prevent the fascinated islanders from watching it all day and neglecting their other activities.
Lu, being a princess, is often haughty and arrogant and looks down on Mike, but usually learns a lesson in humility by the end of each episode. Lu also has a long-suffering pet turtle named Lancelot.
Also living nearby are three pirates, descended from the pirates who caused the Brits to be shipwrecked in the first place but were then shipwrecked themselves. Their leader is a captain with two wooden legs and two eyepatches. Despite these handicaps he seems to get around without any problems. The pirates sometimes attempt to catch and eat Lancelot but are always foiled by the three children.
Voice actors and their characters
- Nika Frost - Michelene "Mike" Mavinsky
- Nancy Cartwright - Lu
- Dee Bradley Baker - Og
- S. Scott Bullock - Wendell
- Corey Burton - Old Queeks
- Martin Rayner - Alfred
- Kath Soucie - Margery
Episode list
Season 1: 1999
- The Tube / Roller Madness
- Sultans of Swat / Tea for Three
- Losing Lancelot / Buzz Cut
- Elephant Walk / Palm Pet
- 'Yo Ho Who / A Boy's Game
- 'Whole Lotta Shakin' / Mother of All Marathons
- Hot Couture / Opposites Attack
- Scopin' It Out / Good Ship Bad
- High Rise / The Great Snipe Hunt
- JuJu Bombs / Turtle Stew
- Crowded House / A Bicycle Built For Me
- Nobody's Nose / Scuba Dooby Doo
- High Camp / Sneeze Please
Season 2: 2000
- A Learning Experience / We the People
- Money / Repeat After Me
- Thanks, But No Thanks / Hot Dog
- That Sinking Feeling / Founders' Day
- Giant Steps / Night of the Living Ancestors
- For the Love of Mike / Sparks
- Brave Sir Lancelot / The Big Game
- Flustering Footwear Floatsam / Fathers and Pies
- Who's Got the Queeks / Alfred, Lord of the Jungle
- The King of Curtains / Margery the Duck
- A Freduian Split / Fitness Fever
- The Hunter and the Hunted / To Serve Lu
- The Three Amigas / Sleeping Ugly
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