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This is a list of the episodes of the show Kappa Mikey.
Aired dates correspond to the Nicktoons Network, unless otherwise stated. Episodes are in the order of their timeline.
[edit] Season 1 (2006-2007)
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"The Lost Pilot" |
1/6/2007 |
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[[In the United States, Michael Alexander Simon fails to land a role in Hamlet The Christmas Giraffe, after the instructor tells him he can't act, but by chance, he wins a scratch card contest to fly to Tokyo, Japan and become the star of the anime show, Lilymu, where he meets the main cast. His new friends give him a tour of Japan, and Ozu officially announces the new star to the public. But fame gets to Mikey's head, and after Lily shouts at him, saying the exact same thing the instructor said, Mikey must determine whether or not going to Japan was the right choice. There is no subplot in this episode.]]
- This episode reveals that Mikey graduated High School before looking for an acting job.
- Lily is known for her "OMG" line. Since this episode is the first in the story line, it reveals the Mitsuki was really the first person in the show that we hear say it.
- One of the tourist in the airport looks similar to Kakashi Hatake from Naruto.
- One of the characters at the airport looks similar to Mega Man X from Mega Man X.
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"The Switch" |
2/25/2006 (Nicktoons Network) and 9/10/2006 (Nickelodeon) |
2 |
| It starts out as Mikey wanting to stay in "Lily Mu Towers" with the other stars. So Ozu let Mikey stay in Lily and Mitsuki's room. But with Mikey & Lily arguing, Ozu forced Lily and Mitsuki to move out of their apartment to a room that is cramped, a smell of feets and the piles of pizzas, and no window. Meanwhile, Guano is under a lot of stress, so Gonard cuffed Guano and himself and they tryed to unlock the cuffs to run the Lily Mu show. |
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"Mikey Impossible" |
2/25/2006 (Nicktoons Network) and 9/17/2006 (Nickelodeon) |
3 |
| (Title is inspired after the movie "Mission Impossible") Ozu decides to take a vacation- his first in several decades. Before going, he reads off a long list of rules, most importantly, not to harm his prized 500-year-old Bonsai tree or his samurai sword. Of course, even before he reads this, Mikey accidentally sets the tree aflame with Ozu's samurai sword. Now, Mikey and most of the gang (excluding Lily, who is their temporary boss, and doing all she can to keep them busy) must work to replace the Bonsai before Ozu gets back from his unusually short vacation. There is no real subplot in this episode. |
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"Ship of Fools" |
3/4/2006 (Nicktoons Network) and 9/24/2006 (Nickelodeon) |
4 |
After hearing of the release of his new video game, Mikey tries desperately to get his hands on it - but at the release, fans carry away every available copy. After many unsuccessful attempts at obtaining a copy, he is forced to 'pirate' a copy - that is, get it from actual pirates. He does get the game, but the pirates take something from him in exchange - Gonard! Now, Mikey must save his friend, even if it endangers his life, and the game. In the subplot, in Mikey's absence, Lily is getting swept into the charm of Suave Mikey, a Mikey look-alike, whom they mistake for the real Mikey .
- While everyone is shouting that they are Mikey, one shouts at random "I'm Spartacus!" a spoof of the movie Spartacus.
- In the same sequence, one of the costumed fans has a very similar appearance to Zangief of Street Fighter fame.
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"Saving Face" |
3/11/2006 (Nicktoons Network) and 10/1/2006 (Nickelodeon) |
5 |
After being licked by a pig repeatedly, Mikey develops a large pimple. He makes every effort he can to hide the pimple, until an evil tabloid publisher snaps a picture, and threatens to publish the pimple, if Mikey does not give him secrets about his friends. In the subplot, Lily is outraged over her replacement as spokesperson for Hitoshii Beauty Cream. Her replacement? Socky, a sock puppet. She works to defeat him out for Tokyo Trend's 50 Most Beautiful List, a feat that could be helped discretely by Mitsuki.
- During Mikey's visit to the hospital, Ozu shows him a list of stars that Dr. Katashi has operated on. The second pair of pictures resembles a girl becoming a Chobit.
- Scoop Suzuki, the editor of the tabloid, has a similar appearance to J.J. Jameson from Spider-Man.
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"The Fugi-Kid" |
3/18/2006 (Nicktoons Network) and 10/8/2006 (Nickelodeon) |
6 |
(Title is inspired by the movie "The Fugitive") LilyMu has a prop on loan from the government: a hi-tech invisibility jacket. Naturally, Mikey goes and fools with it, leading to its theft by a 'one-armed-man'. Mikey is framed, convicted, and nearly goes to jail - but, he escapes from the officer holding him, and finds himself on the lam. In order to clear his name, he must catch the man who stole the coat and prove himself innocent. There is no subplot.
- Once again, one of the costumed fans that protest for Mikey's freedom looks very similar to Street Fighter's Zangief.
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"Mikey Likes It" |
3/25/2006 (Nicktoons Network) and 2/12/2006 on (Nickelodeon) |
7 |
| (Title is inspired by a catchphase in the Life cereal commercial, "Mikey likes it!") Mikey can't figure out Japan's recycling system, until Mitsuki and Guano explain it to him using a show tune. Of course, then, he is obsessed with it, and begins throwing out personal belonings, including Mitsuki's beloved photo album. He recovers the album, but as he picks it up, all the pictures get sucked out of the book through an air vent. Now, he plans to recreate the pictures before Mitsuki notices. Mikey hangs out with Mitsuki, taking pictures with her, in a stupid attempt to fool her. When a news journalist who discovered the embarrassing photos shows them on the news, Mitsuki gets mad at Mikey for losing her pictures. Mikey tries to explain, but only makes Mitsuki even madder, not just because she has been humiliated all over Tokyo, but mostly because she thought Mikey wanted to spent time with her as a friend, but instead, only hanging out with her to get replacement photos and not showing much affection for her. In the subplot, Gonard and Lily are tricked into a sham romance to stir publicity by Ozu. |
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"Easy Come Easy Gonard" |
5/27/2006 (Nicktoons Network) and 10/22/2006 (Nickelodeon) |
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| (Title is inspired by an old saying, "Easy Come, Easy Go") Mikey is elated upon receiving his first paycheck from LilyMu Studios (after the initial shock that he is paid for acting), so he's naturally eager to spend it. He ends up buying off a younger crowd of fans by promising them to pay for merchandise in his likeness from Tatami Megastore. However, the owner of Tatami Megastore, Mr. Tatami, informs him he owes 20 million in yen (approximately $173,000) for the toys he bought, and he has to get the money in 24 hours or face certain doom in The Tatami Room. His plans for raising money backfire, as does his friendship with Gonard in the resulting fight. Mikey and Gonard are sent to the Tatami Room to pay off the debt and Lily, Mitsuki and Guano were sent to the Tatami Room for shoplifting. Mikey calls Guano, then Mikey and Gonard send a letter to Ozu to help them. Nearing the end of the episode, when Mr. Tatami recaptures the LilyMu cast, Ozu shows up and tells Mr. Tatami that he now owns Tatami Megastore. In the subplot, Mitsuki and Lily attempt to rescue a scared-witless Guano from the two spoiled sons of Mr. Tatami, who think that Guano is a toy. |
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"LilyMeow" |
6/3/2006 |
9 |
Mikey adopts a lost kitten named Kello to gain popularity, but instead the cat gains more popularity than the entire LilyMu franchise. After the platform that Kello the kitten was on from above comes crashing down, he gets injured, Ozu blames the LilyMu team (except Guano) and fires them. They then hire the same coat crook from the 'Fugi-Kid' to steal the kitten, but little do they know, the coat crook eats cats. They're able to stop him (despite the fact that it was them who hired the bandit to steal the cat in the first place). The fans then celebrate team Lilymu's victory and they get the most attention again (plus, Ozu re-hires them until he can remember why he fired them in the first place). In the subplot, Lily and Mitsuki have a spat over the placement of their characters' mannequins in a LilyMu store.
- This episode reveals that Mitsuki has only one kidney, because she donated one to Lily.
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"Splashomon" |
8/27/2006 (Nickelodeon) |
10 |
| Ozu's new prize Jade Tigerfish is stolen so they start a crime scene investigation on who took the Jade Tigerfish. Guano says Gonard took it.Gonard says Lily took it and Lily says Mikey did it. Then Mikey says he took it, only to tell a story, but after he does Mitsuki admits she took it because she was afraid Ozu was going to kill it. Ozu actually intends to make it the centerpiece of his new aquarium. The whole episode is a spoof on the story formula utilized in the Japanese film Rashomon. There is no subplot in this episode. |
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"The Good the Bad the Mikey" |
7/8/2006 |
11 |
(Title is inspired by the movie "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly") Mikey, Gonard and Guano catch The Dum Dum Show in the Tatami Megastore. However, the embarrassing antics of the actor who played Mikey's favorite superhero "Captain Impressive", who is now The Dum Dum Show's host, embarrass Mikey. Not wanting to wind up with the same fate, Mikey turns himself into a bad boy and becomes a bad role model for Tokyo's child audience. In the subplot, Lily teaches Mitsuki all about dating, something she thought she could reconsider when she finds out that's Mitsuki's secret love is Mikey.
- The first episode in which Mikey uses his catchphrase of "w'ever".
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"Sumo Of All Fears" |
8/5/2006 |
12 |
| (Title is inspired by the movie "Sum of All Fears") Unable to lift a heavy prop, Mikey goes to the gym. There, he gets a new rival in the shape of a Yokuzuna which challenges him. He and Guano get trained by a janitor. Mikey inexplicably beats the Yokuzuna by tickling him, but once he does, he becomes Yokuzuna, and everyone he encounters wants to challenge him as well! Ozu calls Mikey to say to him - in the middle of a fight- and tells him that in some of life's situations, you are your own worse ENEMY! Mikey forms a subplot from this advice by terminating the opponent in his next match, thereby, erasing the current opponents once he changes back to himself. In the subplot, Gonard pretends he was beaten up to get the girls to pamper him. |
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"Lost in Transportation" |
8/20/2006 (Nickelodeon) and 10/8/2006 (Nicktoons Network) |
13 |
(Title is inspired by the movie "Lost in Translation") Because he doesn't fit in the LilyMu battle wagon, the stubborn Mikey wanders off looking for acceptance and falls in with a biker gang called The Chums ("Chum it up! sssssssssssssssss.). This is bad, because the rest of the gang is at the birthday party of their biggest sponsor's son-and he wants Mikey.
- This episode appeared out of natural order.
- It was also Mitsuki's birthday, but it seems that everyone forgot about her.
- When Mikey attempts to escape his trouble with the Chums by dancing is a parody of Pee Wee Herman dealing with bikers in the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
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"Big Trouble in Little Tokyo" |
10/3/2006 (Nickelodeon) |
14 |
Guano is tired of the LilyMu cast ignoring him. Mikey doesn't even listen to him when he tells him not to go to the secret floor in LilyMu tower. When they get to the floor, they meet a mad scientist who made all the monster movies. But when everyone started bossing him around, he confined himself to the secret floor. Mikey, in an attempt to free Guano, supersizes Gonard,, who starts to attack the city. His friends finally listening to him, Guano supersizes himself and defeats Gonard, turning him back to normal. In the subplot, Ozu has Yes Man perform dangerous comical bloopers.
- The title is inspired by the John Carpenter's 1986 film Big Trouble in Little China.
- This is the thirteenth episode aired, keeping within the theme of the number 13 (It was the number of the secret room and considered an unlucky number).
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"The Phantom of the Soundstage" |
10/28/2006 |
15 |
(Title is inspired by the movie "The Phantom of the Opera") When Mikey discovers a book on good pranking, he immediately pulls "innocent" pranks on the rest of the cast. Lily and Mikey hear that the soundstage is haunted by the Phantom of the Soundstage, who is Ozu's janitor by day, and whose soul purpose is to punish anyone who dare pull a prank. Lily is fed up with Mikey's pranks, so she aligns herself to the Phantom to get revenge with the biggest prank ever. In the subplot, Guano's costume gets covered in yellow-green paint due to Mikey's ruckus, and he must face his fear of possibly living outside his suit, with Gonard and Mistuki giving him advice.
- It is revealed that Guano is NOT actually a purple creature, but a guy in a costume.
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"Battle of the Bands" |
11/26/2006 (Nickelodeon) and 1/26/2007 (Nicktoons Network) |
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The gang discovers unused musical instruments in the soundbooth and decides to form a band! The catch: they are all terrible at it. Ozu mistakes the ringtone on Mikey's cell phone for the real thing, and immediately seeing the money rolling in, spends millions on ads for a very special LilyMu musical episode! The band must keep their cover by pretending to play, in sync with Mikey's ringtones. When they become bigger than ever, things get complicated when a rival musical group named Ori and Yori challenge them to a rock duel. There is no subplot in this episode.
- This episode features rock songs written and composed just for this show.
- This episode has a spoof of Yu-gi-oh! character Yami Yugi as a similar character with over sized hair.
- Ori and Yori are a direct spoof of Puffy AmiYumi from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, and appear to be animated in the style of Magical DoReMi.
- The reporter looks similar to Yubaba/Zaneba from Spirited Away.
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"La Cage Aux Mikey" |
11/19/2006 (Nickelodeon) and 2/3/2007 (Nicktoons Network) |
17 |
| When a reporter from Cleveland visits the set to do a story on Mikey, Mikey lies about his friends to make himself sound more important. When his parents read the story and announce that they’re coming to visit, Mikey must get his friends to play along with all his outrageous lies. In the subplot, Ozu torments Yes Man once again but making him the guinea pig for his new weather-controlling invention when his golf game is rained out. This episode spoofs the storyline of the classic French play La Cage Aux Folles, and subsequently, the 1996 film The Birdcage. |
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"Reality Bites" |
12/3/2006 (Nickelodeon) and 1/28/2007 (Nicktoons Network) |
18 |
| Guano gets writer's block and can't come up with scripts anymore, so Ozu turns LilyMu into a reality show about the stars' lives in order to fill airtime. Soon, the cast realizes they don't want their pivacy intruded upon, so they must find a way to dodge the cameras, cure Guano's writer's block, and convince Ozu to turn the show back into the way it was. There is no subplot in this episode. |
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"With Fans Like These" |
2/17/2007 |
19 |
(Inspired by the saying, "With friends like these, who needs enemies")Mikey is kidnapped by well-meaning but confused fans who want to protect him from Gonard. Guano is forced to use subliminal advertising to make people give gifts to Gonard and Lily.
- Mitsuki saved Mikey from his two biggest fans by introducing them to her two biggest fans. The two Mikey fans and the two Mitsuki fans fell in love with ether other and all four of them abandon Mikey and Mitsuki.
- At the end, Mikey shows more affection for Mitsuki.
- At the middle of the episode, Lily shows a little affection for Gonnard.
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"Big Brozu" |
2/19/2007 |
20 |
(Title is inspired by the show "Big Brother")Ozu's twin brother and rap guru Brozu shows up unexpectedly and wants to change the Lilymu company. He fires Ozu and decides to hire Mikey as the new producer of Lilymu show. Mikey thinks it will be an easy job, but turns out to be terrible at it. This causes Lily, Mitsuki, Guano and Gonard to quit the show and go on strike. Brozu also moves to Lilymu towers and starts holding parties every night... right above his brother's penthouse apartment. Everything seems hopeless until they discover a loophole in Brozu's contract. There is no subplot in this episode.
- The Lily Mu sequence at the beginning and end of the show is similar the the climax of The Matrix.
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"The Man Who Would Be Mikey" |
3/3/07 |
21 |
(Title is inspired by the movie "The man who would be King")After Mikey sells a LilyMu prop, he has to find a replacement for them to finish a shoot. He finds a sword stuck in a rock called "The Dragon's Spike". When he shows off its powers, his friends start hanging out with him just to enjoy the sword's magic, and they start to fight over his friendship. The gang soon finds out that the sword is the only thing that can slay a dragon. The dragon now wants to eat Mikey for waking him up from his thousand year nap. There is no subplot in this episode.
- Out of all of Mikey's friends, Mitsuki was the only one that didn't try to use Mikey to get to the sword. There real reason she visited Mikey was because she has a crush on him.
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"Uh Oh Guano" |
3/24/07 |
22 |
Ozu announces the Lilymu show will be shown internationally. The first country they release outside of Japan is Buttstonia, where it has been edited to the point of being ridiculous. Mikey is appalled to discover that the United States has retitled it as "Mighty Go Go Guano" and reedits it to make Guano the star. Guano, however, has fears of people with cameras and begs Mikey to make him unpopular. In the subplot, Gonard, Lily and Mitsuki hire a Buttstonian servant named Sergu who will do everything they want if they pay him in his nation's currency.
- This episode makes reference to the fact that some dubbing companies, such as 4kids Entertainment, edit nationally distributed anime series heavily.
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"Like Ozu Like Son" |
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| (Title is inspired by the old saying "Like father, Like son") Nobody remembers that it is Mikey's birthday, so to cheer him up, the gang throws a surprise party for him, but to no avail (which Lily relishes in). Ozu, who realizes that Mikey doesn't have a father figure in Japan, proposes that he be his son for a weekend, and they go on a boating trip that immediately goes awry, stranding them in the middle of an ocean. In the subplot, Gonard and Guano discover a lost baby bird, and experience parental difficulties as they try to teach it to fly. |
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"Le Femme Mitsuki" |
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(Title is inspired by the movie "La Femme Nikita")Mitsuki is discovered to have led a life of espionage before her days in Lilymu when a mysterious stranger trys to convince her to return to her past life. Now they come back to finish the plan, but it means putting Mikey in the thick of danger as well. In the subplot, Gonard meets an "Earthie" (hippie, really), who inspires him to become one himself after Lily thinks it will be fun watching him make a fool of himself, that is until Gonard and the "Earthie" start living with her.
- Because this episode is about Mitsuki, it is likely she'll want Mikey to led the past people with her, or she'll forget about Mikey and out of all the cast members, Mikey will have to be the one to convince her to stay in Japan.
- While walking Guano, Mikey can be heard whistling the Kappa Mikey theme song.
- The title of the episode is a reference to La Femme Nikita.
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"The Oni Express" |
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| Mikey discovers a secret society called the Order of the Oni, a cult that Yoshi, and later, the rest of the Lilymu cast, are members of. Mikey wants in, but has to fulfill three initiation tasks, and has trouble keeping everything about the Order a secret from non-members. In the subplot, Yesman goes missing, so Ozu calls on Guano to be his temporary Yesman until he finds the original one, but Guano is not a very good Yesman. |
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"A Christmas Mikey" |
12/7/2006 on Nickelodeon and 12/9/2006 |
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| (Title is inspired by the movie "A Christmas Carol") Mikey tries to get Ozu to renew his contract, but Ozu, in the midst of his annual holiday angst, shouts out that Mikey was hired on the show because he won a contest, and that he is not a great actor. Crushed, Mikey is about to leave for Ohio. He bumps into Laurence, his guardian angel, who shows him what things would've been like if he had NOT won the contest, similar to the classic film It's a Wonderful Life. In the subplot, shortly after the meeting, Ozu is confronted with the Ghosts of Japanese Christmas Past, Present, and Future, to make him understand where his
holiday depression came from, like A Christmas Carol.
- It is revealed that Guano is Ozu's son. Whether or not this is canonical remains to be seen.
- In the Christmas party (near to the end of the episode) Mitsuki and Mikey share a kiss under the Mistletoe (more accurately, he kisses her on the cheek and she faints from being lovestruck while Mikey was blushing)- any change in their relationship after this point is uncertain.
- This is the second time Guano has taken off his costume, (even though what Guano looks like remains to be seen)
- Nicktoons Network aired a second version of the same episode, with about a minute and a half of footage that was not seen on Nickelodeon.
- In the iO Digital Cable guide, the episode is incorrectly given the summary that Mikey is leaving because he gets a role in Hamlet. Curiously, this is the summary that almost ALL the cable listings have used, as opposed to Ozu's depression, which is what really pushes the story forward.
- The first episode in which the cast of LilyMu gets through the scene on the first take, therefore, this is the only episode thus far that does not end with the LilyMu team "getting it right".
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[edit] Season 2 (2007)
[edit] To Be Announced...
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