Mike, Lu & Og

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Mike, Lu & Og
Image:Mike_Lu_Og.jpg
From bottom to top: Mike, Lu and Og
Genre Cartoon
Running time 30 minutes
Creator(s) Mikhail Shindel
Mikhail Aldashin
Charles Swenson
Starring Nika Futterman
Nancy Cartwright
Dee Bradley Baker
S. Scott Bullock
Corey Burton
Martin Rayner
Kath Soucie
Country of origin USA
Original channel Cartoon Network
Original run May 7, 1999–August 18, 2000
No. of episodes 26
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

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.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Mike

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 she 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.

[edit] Princess Lulu

Lu (more properly Princess Lulu), 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.

[edit] The Pirates

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.

[edit] Clans

Lu, Og and their parents (and old Queeks) are all descendants of the Albonquentine clan. In the second season, we meet another group of islanders, descendants of the Cuzzlewitt clan, who have also "gone native". Both clans were originally aboard the same ship, but moved to opposite sides of the island after a great feud.

[edit] Voice actors and their characters

[edit] Episode list

[edit] Season 1: 1999

  1. The Tube / Roller Madness
  2. Sultans of Swat / Tea for Three
  3. Losing Lancelot / Buzz Cut
  4. Elephant Walk / Palm Pet
  5. 'Yo Ho Who / A Boy's Game
  6. 'Whole Lotta Shakin' / Mother of All Marathons
  7. Hot Couture / Opposites Attack
  8. Scopin' It Out / Good Ship Bad
  9. High Rise / The Great Snipe Hunt
  10. JuJu Bombs / Turtle Stew
  11. Crowded House / A Bicycle Built For Me
  12. Nobody's Nose / Scuba Dooby Doo
  13. High Camp / Sneeze Please

[edit] Season 2: 2000

  1. A Learning Experience / We the People
  2. Money / Repeat After Me
  3. Thanks, But No Thanks / Hot Dog
  4. That Sinking Feeling / Founders' Day
  5. Giant Steps / Night of the Living Ancestors
  6. For the Love of Mike / Sparks
  7. Brave Sir Lancelot / The Big Game
  8. Flustering Footwear Floatsam / Fathers and Pies
  9. Who's Got the Queeks / Alfred, Lord of the Jungle
  10. The King of Curtains / Margery the Duck
  11. A Freduian Split / Fitness Fever
  12. The Hunter and the Hunted / To Serve Lu
  13. The Three Amigas / Sleeping Ugly

[edit] Trivia

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  • Although Mike's last name is given as "Mavinsky", everyone (including Mike herself) pronounces it "Mazinsky". [citation needed]
  • The name of the shipwrecked vessel was the HMS Betty Anne, captained by Joshua Wendel Albonquetine. (In "Yo Ho Who", Margorie calls him Wendel Joshua Albonquetine -- "a good captain but a bad navigator".) The survivors salvaged most of the shipwreck to use for shelter. The Cuzzlewitts evidently moved after the feud developed to take up residence in caves on the other side of the island. [citation needed]
  • In "A Bicycle Built for Me" Marjorie says that the feud between the Albonquetines and the Cuzzlewitts dates from an incident in which the Right Honorable Martin Cuzzlewitt took offense to the way Jebediah Albonquetine wore his wig. It evidently ended with the Cuzzlewitts burning the wig. In "Night of the Living Ancestors" she says the feud began July 27th, 1778 (although some "visiting" ancestral spirits quibble about the exact date and time of day). [citation needed]
  • In "The Tube", Mike recalls that back at "St. Albine", Sister Mary Magdalene told her that being an exchange student would be a learning experience. At the end of "Hot Couture", when Og displays ... "the Og", Mike, just before almost passing out, cries out "Sister Mary Francis, where are you now?" In "Buzz Cut" she tells Og that Sister Ignatius would have loved to have him in science class, and in "Scuba Dooby Doo" tells him that her friends Melissa and Max stood with her when Sister Ignatius accused Mike of having a terminal smirk. This all suggests that back in New York Mike attended a parochial school. If so, "St. Albine" may be named for Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis, a French writer and early proponent of modern methods of education. [citation needed]
  • Mike's favorite color is red. Not only are all her outfits and sneakers red, but from time to time we see her wearing a pink nightshirt. And when Og makes her a bicycle in "A Bicycle Built for Me", he gives it a red finish. [citation needed]
  • British performer Alison Larkin provides the voice for Hermione, of the Cuzzlewitt clan, in Season Two. The two Cuzzlewitt boys who keep banging each other with clubs are Haggis and Baggis. Haggis is a well known classic of Scottish cuisine. [citation needed]
  • In "For the Love of Mike", Mike makes reference to an older cousin named "Rita". It's the only name we have for any of Mike's relatives. [citation needed]
  • Music for the First Season is credited to "The Red Elvises". In Season Two, the opening theme is credited to "members of The Red Elvises", and other music is credited to "The Albonquetine National Orchestra and Chorus". [citation needed]
  • In "The Three Amigas" Mike, Hermione and Lu are having a pajama party. Mike has on her usual pink nightdress, and Hermione and Lu are both wearing modern pajama suits. Since everyone on the island normally wears items made of grass and/or animal hide, where did Hermione and Lu get their pajamas from? Were they gifts from Mike? [citation needed]
  • Wendel (Lu's father) has the title of "Governor", but also sometimes uses the title "Mayor". He probably has the right to both titles. [citation needed]
  • The official island bird is the wagga-wagga. Mike tries to obtain a piece of a wagga-wagga egg shell in "Giant Steps", and Og puts the bird's face on the island's first paper currency in "Money" (until Lu replaces it with an imprint of her own royal face). Wagga Wagga is actually a city in New South Wales, Australia. [citation needed]
  • In "Scuba Dooby Doo", Mike tells Og that her best friends are named Melissa and Max. At the end of the episode, she reads in a postcard that they have dumped her for a new best friend, Jeannine. Mike complains "how can you be best friends with someone who actually likes to play Squash?" [citation needed]
  • Mike's one obsession may be Action Guy, a fictional superpowered crimefighter. She sees her prized collection of Action Guy comics as her link to the Civilized World. There are also Action Guy audio tapes and other merchandise. Mike even owns an Action Guy costume, and on a couple of occasions dresses up as Action Guy to save the day. She especially admires his ultimate fighting technique, the Elbow of Destruction. Different closeups of the cover of the comic books, show the title sometimes as "Action Guy", and sometimes as "Actionman". [citation needed]
  • Mike knows, or suspects, that Goat, Pig and Porcupine (who along with Og make up the island's Philosophical Society) can talk. She has never been able to get them to admit it, though. Nevertheless she knows they have influence over Og and from time to time asks them to help their friend. The three animals have considered asking Mike to join their group, but have never actually gotten around to it. [citation needed]
  • In "Flustering Footwear Flotsam", Mike tells us she isn't all that excited about footwear. We then see through her eyes a montage of shoe shopping in The Big Apple, and we get a brief glimpse of a younger, almost pre-school Mike (in a red dress, coat and hat, of course), crying because she'd rather be anywhere else. [citation needed]
  • In "Crowded House", Og starts building a searchlight and ends up building a matter/antimatter powered variable particle accelerator. It has five settings -- 1, 2, 10, 1000 and 50,000. Setting "2" still acts as a searchlight to attract a passing cruise ship, but Og hints that the top setting could vaporize the moon. It's reminiscent of "A Bicycle Built for Me" in which the gear train on the bike he builds for Mike has a 26th gear with a built-in ion fuel rocket boost. [citation needed]


  • We see Og's "scuba diving" equipment in "Scuba Dooby Doo" and "Giant Steps". The equipment shown is actually a diving suit and helmet and an independent air pump. In "Giant Steps", Mike's diving helmet has an interesting adaptation: it has holes on each side to let out her pony tails. [citation needed]
  • In "Thanks, But No Thanks" Mike temporarily rechristens the visiting pirates Jennifer, Christie and Jocelyn. Jennifer was the girl Mike's old friends dumped her for in "Scuba Dooby Doo", so calling the pirate captain "Jennifer" might have been a bit of revenge on Mike's part. [citation needed]
  • Many of the shows end not with the usual closing theme but with a short song sung by one or more of the characters -- Mike, Lu, Queeks, duets of Mike and Lu, Alfred and Wendel, Alfred and Margorie, and even a rap by Og. [citation needed]

[edit] External links

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