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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Hot dogs for Mike (and in one episode, everyone else), Juju Bombs for Lu and turtle soup for the pirates
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* WalkThisWay: In "Yo Ho Who", the captain leads the kids to treasure and as the captain follows what the map says, the kids follow what he says.
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* HumbleBeginnings: The show's beginnings trace toward Mikhail Aladhin's short films "Poumse" and "The Hunter" (the former looking much closer to the show). The execs at Cartoon Network saw them as came up with the idea to make a show based on them while at the same time, veteran director CHarles Swenson came up with the idea of a spunky, redheaded tomboy. The two ideas were combined and the rest was history.
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* MythologyGag: Co-creator Mikhail Aldahin's film "Poumse", the partial inspiration for the show, was about a saleman who came to sell his items to a group of island natives. Guess what was the plot of "The King Of Curtains".
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* MythologyGag: Co-creator Mikhail Aldahin's film "Poumse", the partial inspiration for the show, was about a saleman salesman who came to sell his items to a group of island natives. Guess what This was the plot of eventually reworked as "The King Of Curtains".
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* TheKidsAreAmerican: While the adults have British accents, Lu and Og speak with clear American accents.
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* CallingYourAttacks: "Kierkegaard Kick!"
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* FantasticRacism: The Albonquetine and the Cuzzlewitz clans live on opposite sides of the island and have strong animosity.
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* FantasticRacism: The Albonquetine and the Cuzzlewitz clans live on opposite sides of the island and have strong animosity. Though it is implied it is just for show.
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* CreditsGag: Episodes from the second season credit the songs as being performed by the Albonquetine National Orchestra and Chorus.
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** Lu can be this too.
-->'''Mike:''' He's just coming here to deliver the mail. He'll be gone before you know it.
-->'''Lu:''' That's what they said about you.
-->'''Mike:''' He's just coming here to deliver the mail. He'll be gone before you know it.
-->'''Lu:''' That's what they said about you.
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Some articles state that Mike is from the Bronx instead of Manhattan.
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* {{SMURFING}}: When Mike starts hallucinating from lack of hot dogs. "We can get along just hot-dog without hot-dog."
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* AmusingInjuries: Alfred getting squashed flat in "Fathers And Pies".
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* AllBalloonsHaveHelium: In the opening sequence, Lu tries to blow up an Action Guy balloon, but the air shoots back into her, causing her to inflate.
* AmusingInjuries:Alfred getting squashed flat in "Fathers And Pies".Occaisionally.
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A Creator/CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. Set on a desert island, it revolved around the three titular characters : Mike, a foreign exchange student from Manhattan; Lu, a self-appointed princess; and Og, a boy genius. Secondary characters include the rest of the native tribe (who, perplexingly, speak with British accents) and Lu's long-suffering pet turtle, Lancelot.
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A Creator/CartoonNetwork original [[CartoonCartoons original]] from back in 1999. Set on a desert island, it revolved around the three titular characters : Mike, a foreign exchange student from Manhattan; Lu, a self-appointed princess; and Og, a boy genius. Secondary characters include the rest of the native tribe (who, perplexingly, speak with British accents) and Lu's long-suffering pet turtle, Lancelot.
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: "Give me my jujubombs OR THE TURTLE PAYS."
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* DerangedAnimation: ''"No room for you!"''
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* TheDeterminator: Floyd from "Scooba Doobie Doo"
* DerangedAnimation:''"No room for you!"''Lu's NightmareSequence from "The Three Amigas".
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* JustOneMoreLevel: In "A Boy's Game", Og creates a GameBoy out of BambooTechnology and gets hooked on it to the point of playing it out during a ''hurricane'' and neglecting the island's defenses.
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* MythologyGag: Co-creator Mikhail Aldahin's film "Poumse", the partial inspiration for the show, was about a saleman who came to sell his items to a group of island natives. Guess what was the plot of the episode "The King Of Curtains".
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* MythologyGag: Co-creator Mikhail Aldahin's film "Poumse", the partial inspiration for the show, was about a saleman who came to sell his items to a group of island natives. Guess what was the plot of the episode "The King Of Curtains".
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* RightBehindMe: In "Night Of The Living Ancestors", Lu is badmouthing her deceased Aunt Lulu, calling her a [[HypocriticalHumor self-centered, old hag".]] Guess whose ghost was behind her.
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* RightBehindMe: In "Night Of The Living Ancestors", Lu is badmouthing her deceased Aunt Lulu, calling her a [[HypocriticalHumor self-centered, "self-centered, old hag".]] Guess whose ghost was behind her.
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* TheTetrisEffect: In-universe. Og creates a GameBoy out of BambooTechnology and gets hooked on it to the point of playing it out during a ''hurricane'' and neglecting the island's defenses.
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* UseYourHead: When Lu tries to think of a plan to put her face on the island's new currency in "Money", she gets the idea to literally use her head and ram it into the money press.
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The show lasted for only one season, with 26 episodes created.
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** Sometimes, Mike's pigtails vary in size.
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A Creator/CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. Set on a desert island, it revolved around the three titular characters : [[TomboyishName Mike]], Mike, a foreign exchange student from Manhattan; Lu, a self-appointed princess; and Og, a boy genius. Secondary characters include the rest of the native tribe (who, perplexingly, speak with British accents) and Lu's long-suffering pet turtle, Lancelot.
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A Creator/CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named [[TomboyishName Mike]] (NikaFutterman) through a student exchange program, winds up on a tropical island, and had to fit in with the island life. The oddity of the island was that while the residents look like natives, they acted more like upper class Brits (Their ancestors wound up shipwrecked on the island. But didn't bother trying to leave it or attempt rescue). The other title characters were a young yet smart boy named Og (DeeBradleyBaker) and a princess (or so she says) named Lu (NancyCartwright) who really is the spoiled daughter of the island's governor who is used to getting her own way. Along with the island's other quirky characters. The show was mostly about the culture clash of Mike's urban city ways and the islanders' oddball customs and the hilarity that result from it.
The least successful of CN's original 8, It lasted at least two seasons before ending.
The least successful of CN's original 8, It lasted at least two seasons before ending.
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->''Ain't no burger stands, ain't no disco bands, on the island where nobody goes.''
-->-- Opening theme
A Creator/CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999.
The show
The least successful of CN's original 8, It
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--->'''Lu:''' There are no other kids in this class! And if there were other kids, and I'm not saying that there are, they would not be Cuzzlewitz. ''[[FantasticRacism Because no one in their right mind would be caught dead with a Cuzzlewitz!]]''
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** Plus Lu and Herminoe are dressed in modern pajamas in "The Three Amigas"...on an island where all clothing is made of grass or fur.
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* AndIMustScream: Lu being encased in hard candy mold at the end of "Jujubombs". [[ITasteDelicious Not that she didn't like it.]]
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* GilliganCut: In "A Freudian Split", Og urges Mike to dress up as Sigmund Freud to settle Goat and Pig's feud, but she says there's no way she'll "wear a fake beard and mustache to talk to a goat and a pig". No points for guessing what happens in the next scene.
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* TheOtherDarrin: KathSoucie filled in for a few lines as Lu (normally voiced by NancyCartwright) in "Roller Madness".
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A CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named [[TomboyishName Mike]] (NikaFutterman) through a student exchange program, winds up on a tropical island, and had to fit in with the island life. The oddity of the island was that while the residents look like natives, they acted more like upper class Brits (Their ancestors wound up shipwrecked on the island. But didn't bother trying to leave it or attempt rescue). The other title characters were a young yet smart boy named Og (DeeBradleyBaker) and a princess (or so she says) named Lu (NancyCartwright) who really is the spoiled daughter of the island's governor who is used to getting her own way. Along with the island's other quirky characters. The show was mostly about the culture clash of Mike's urban city ways and the islanders' oddball customs and the hilarity that result from it.
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A CartoonNetwork Creator/CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named [[TomboyishName Mike]] (NikaFutterman) through a student exchange program, winds up on a tropical island, and had to fit in with the island life. The oddity of the island was that while the residents look like natives, they acted more like upper class Brits (Their ancestors wound up shipwrecked on the island. But didn't bother trying to leave it or attempt rescue). The other title characters were a young yet smart boy named Og (DeeBradleyBaker) and a princess (or so she says) named Lu (NancyCartwright) who really is the spoiled daughter of the island's governor who is used to getting her own way. Along with the island's other quirky characters. The show was mostly about the culture clash of Mike's urban city ways and the islanders' oddball customs and the hilarity that result from it.
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that is most certainly not canon. dear lord that\'s wmg at best.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: There ''are'' only six people on the island.
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A CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named [[TomboyishName Mike]] (NikaFutterman)through (NikaFutterman) through a student exchange program, winds up on a tropical island, and had to fit in with the island life. The oddity of the island was that while the residents look like natives, they acted more like upper class Brits (Their ancestors wound up shipwrecked on the island. But didn't bother trying to leave it or attempt rescue). The other title characters were a young yet smart boy named Og (DeeBradleyBaker) and a princess (or so she says) named Lu (NancyCartwright) who really is the spoiled daughter of the island's governor who is used to getting her own way. Along with the island's other quirky characters. The show was mostly about the culture clash of Mike's urban city ways and the islanders' oddball customs and the hilarity that result from it.
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A CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named [[TomboyishName Mike]] through (NikaFutterman)through a student exchange program, winds up on a tropical island, and had to fit in with the island life. The oddity of the island was that while the residents look like natives, they acted more like upper class Brits (Their ancestors wound up shipwrecked on the island. But didn't bother trying to leave it or attempt rescue). The other title characters were a young yet smart boy named Og (DeeBradleyBaker) and a princess (or so she says) named Lu (NancyCartwright) who really is the spoiled daughter of the island's governor who is used to getting her own way. Along with the island's other quirky characters. The show was mostly about the culture clash of Mike's urban city ways and the islanders' oddball customs and the hilarity that result from it.
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A CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named [[TomboyishName Mike]] through a student exchange program, winds up on a tropical island, and had to fit in with the island life. The oddity of the island was that while the residents look like natives, they acted more like upper class Brits (Their ancestors wound up shipwrecked on the island. But didn't bother trying to leave it or attempt rescue). The other title characters were a young yet smart boy named Og (DeeBradleyBaker) and a princess (or so she says) named Lu (NancyCartwright) who really is the spoiled daughter of the island's governor who is used to getting her own way. Along with the island's other quirky characters. The show was mostly about the culture clash of Mike's urban city ways and the islanders' oddball customs and the hilarity that result from it.
The least successful of CN's original 8, It lasted at least two seasons before ending.
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Lu purposely spread a cold to the islanders that Mike caught in a plot to get her blamed and kicked off the island. However, when Og created a cure for the cold, she lost her temper and accidentally revealed that she spread the cold.
--> "There wouldn't have been a cure if I hadn't spread the cold".
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Lu keeps Lancelot on a leash and makes yelping sounds when trying to communicate.
* AmusingInjuries: Alfred getting squashed flat in "Fathers And Pies".
* AnachronismStew: Invoked. Og creates many modern necessities at Mike's request...with BambooTechnology of course.
** Plus Lu and Herminoe are dressed in modern pajamas in "The Three Amigas"...on an island where all clothing is made of grass or fur.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Nobody takes Wendell, the governor seriously, mostly because he really does not have any politics to do. Ditto for "Princess" Lu.
* BambooTechnology: Og's inventions.
* BareYourMidriff
* BerserkButton: Don't call Mike by her real name (Michelanne).
* BigEater: Wendel. In one episode when he excercised and developed a buff phisique, he gorged on chocolates and went back to his old self in a matter of hours.
** Lu eats at least 5 candies each about the size of her head. What's more, she swallows them whole.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: in "Nobody's Nose", Mike, thanks to Queeks, is chased by a thundercloud until she fufils her durty as the "nose" of the First Day Of Spring Festival.
** Queeks himself revieves one at the end of "Flustering Footwear Flotsam".
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of "Giant Steps"
-->'''Mike:''' You didn't expect a happy ending, did you?
** Also in the WhatACartoon pilot, where a {{Narrator}} introduces us to the kids. Mike then remarks "Is he talking about us?"
* BumblingDad: Alfred and Wendell.
* CaveBehindTheFalls: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "Brave Sir Lancelot"
-->'''Og:''' Why does it always have to be behind the waterfall?
* ChildProdigy: Og.
* CloudCuckooLander: Everyone sans Mike.
* CompanionCube: Petey (a palm tree) from "Palm Pet".
* CoolBigSis: Hermione of the Cuzzlewit clan is notably smarter and saner than her two brothers.
* CultureClash
* DeadpanSnarker: Mike to a T.
* DerangedAnimation: ''"No room for you!"''
** Look at the [[http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.12/3.12pages/3.12television.php3 original concept art]] and tell me it's not one of the ugliest things you've ever seen.
* ADogNamedDog: Goat and Pig.
** Averted with Spiney (a porcupine).
* DoesNotLikeShoes: In one episode, a cargo box of shoes washes ashore. While Mike (who hates shoes) could care less, the islanders go nuts for them. [[spoiler: It doesn't work out so well.]]
* EldritchAbomination: The germ monster from "Sneeze Please".
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Alfred. Bonus points for the fact he's a hunter.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Lu definitely thinks so. Mike, not so much.
* {{Expy}}: The designs of the characters were based on co-creator Mikhail Aldashin's shorts by Pilot Moscow in the early 90s ("Poumse" and "The Hunter").
* FanGirl: Mike with [[CaptainErsatz Action Guy.]] She even dresses up as him and ''lip-synchs to audio tapes'' to ward off the pirates!
* FantasticRacism: The Albonquetine and the Cuzzlewitz clans live on opposite sides of the island and have strong animosity.
* FishOutOfWater: Mike.
* FlashBack: In "Flustrering Footwear Flotsam", Mike relates to the [[FauxHorrific horrors]] of shoe shopping when she lived in New York told through still pictures. There is even [[SameClothesDifferentYear a picture of her as a toddler crying.]]
--> MOMMY!!! JUST LET ME GO HOME!!!
* FootFocus: There's plenty to go around, folks!
* FourFingeredHands
* FreudianCouch: In "Flustering Footwear Flotsam", everyone came to Queeks when their new shoes started disrupting their lives (Alfred feels he has no purpose after catching the wombat, Margery obsessed with creating "shoe portraits", etc.).
* FunnyAnimal: The goat, the pig, and the porcupine are rather fond of discussing philosophy.
* GRatedDrug: Lu with Jujubombs.
** Also in "Hot Dog" where evryone got addicted to hot dogs. There was even an [[TropaholicsAnonymous A.A.-esque meeting]] about their problems.
* GrumpyOldMan: Queeks
* HumansAreCthulhu: In "Losing Lancelot", while Lu is running, we're treated to a closeup of her feet to see ants running away screaming.
* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: Lu when it comes to a new modern fad. Take "Jujubombs" for example.
** And from "Hot Dog"
-->'''Lu:''' ''(eats hot dog)'' It stinks! ''(eats the rest of it)'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Give me more of this stuff that stinks!]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The pirates
* IntellectualAnimal: The goat, the pig, and the porcupine
* {{Jerkass}}: Lu
* [[KickTheDog Kick The Turtle]]: Lu does this ''a lot''.
* LimitedWardrobe: At one point, Mike is shown to own several identical pairs of red sneakers - the kind she wears all the time.
** Ditto her red t-shirt:
--->'''Mike''': ''[Holding two identical shirts]'' Which of these do you think looks best?
--->'''Lu''': ''[beat]'' The red one.
* MissingEpisode: The ''WhatACartoon'' pilot.
* MultiCharacterTitle
* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: "Repeat After Me".
* TheOneWhoWearsShoes: Mike. Possibly the ONLY human example!
* OffModel: Sometimes, Mike is drawn with buck teeth like the other islanders. Other times a character's eyebrows may be thicker for one shot.
** The animation in the pilot short was a little choppier than the series.
* OnlySaneMan: Mike
** Og, Queeks, and the animals to a lesser extent.
* TheOtherDarrin: KathSoucie filled in for a few lines as Lu (normally voiced by NancyCartwright) in "Roller Madness".
* APirate400YearsTooLate: The island has a trio of pirates who are the shipwrecked descendants of the pirates who shipwrecked the island's other inhabitants.
* RightBehindMe: In "Night Of The Living Ancestors", Lu is badmouthing her deceased Aunt Lulu, calling her a [[HypocriticalHumor self-centered, old hag".]] Guess whose ghost was behind her.
* RoyalBrat: Lu, oh sweet god, Lu.
* SayMyName: LANCELOOOOOOOOT!!!!
* SanitySlippage: Mike in "Sultans Of Swat"
** Og in "Hot Dog".
* [[{{ptitleef829e6819f4}} Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior!]] Queeks
* SeldomSeenSpecies: You don't see Wombats that much outside of Australian Media.
* SeriousBusiness: Mike with baseball.
--->'''Og''': Hey, it's only a game.
--->'''Mike''': Only a game? ONLY A GAME?!? Baseball is not only a game! Baseball is THE game!
* ShaggyDogStory: "Giant Steps".
** To elaborate, Wendell told everyone that a giant is on an annual rampage and Queeks gets Mike to fetch three things (a shark's tooth, a spider web, and and egg shell) to keep the "giant" away. However, it turned out that the giant story was metaphorical for the rainy season and that Margery had the objects the whole time, revealing that Mike had to go get those things for nothing.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Lu
* SpringtimeForHitler: In "For The Love Of Mike", the Cuzzlewitz boys [[AbhorrentAdmirer go crazy for Mike]] and her attempts to drive them away get them even more attracted to her. And that included cooking terrible food and covering herself with ''[[{{Squick}} bat guano!]]'' She finally gets them away by [[TastesLikeDiabetes wearing a dress and putting on perfume.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The Ablonquetines (sans Margery) all have buck teeth. Likewise, the Cuzzlewitz have buck teeth from the bottom set.
** The ghosts from "Night Of The Living Ancestors" looks like older versions of the islanders.
* SuddenAnatomy: In "The Three Amigas", Mike suggests that she, Lu, and Hermione paint their nails. In the next scene, they suddenly have visible and painted nails.
** Same goes for Lu when she told Mike to trim her toenails in "To Serve Lu"
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
--->'''Lu:''' There are no other kids in this class! And if there were other kids, and I'm not saying that there are, they would not be Cuzzlewitz. ''[[FantasticRacism Because no one in their right mind would be caught dead with a Cuzzlewitz!]]''
* TakenForGranite: While planning a party Lu gets coated with hard candy by Mike and Og (since they're sick of her [[GRatedDrug jujubomb addiction]]), and becomes her own centerpiece.
** A nice aspect is that she doesn't really mind, licking her own lips to taste all the candy she wants.
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* TheTetrisEffect: In-universe. Og creates a GameBoy out of BambooTechnology and gets hooked on it to the point of playing it out during a ''hurricane'' and neglecting the island's defenses.
* ThemeInitials: Mike's [[spoiler:former]] friends from New York are named Melissa and Max.
* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: Og's face turns bright red with anger in "Hot Dog".
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mike and Lu.
* UnstoppableMailman: Floyd from "Scuba Doobie Doo", [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass despite being]] [[TheDitz a ditz.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Alfred and the wombat have their moments.
* VocalDissonance: The Albonquetines dress in faux-Polynesian attire, but speak in proper British accents. Justified, as their ancestors were British. Strangely, Lu and Og speak with more American dialects.
** Averted with most of the Cuzzlewit clan.
* WildChild: The Cuzzlewitz kids, Haggis and Baggis. Subverted with their sister, Hermione.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Mike says the TropeNamer phrase at the end of "Scuba Doobie Doo".
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A CartoonNetwork original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named [[TomboyishName Mike]] through a student exchange program, winds up on a tropical island, and had to fit in with the island life. The oddity of the island was that while the residents look like natives, they acted more like upper class Brits (Their ancestors wound up shipwrecked on the island. But didn't bother trying to leave it or attempt rescue). The other title characters were a young yet smart boy named Og (DeeBradleyBaker) and a princess (or so she says) named Lu (NancyCartwright) who really is the spoiled daughter of the island's governor who is used to getting her own way. Along with the island's other quirky characters. The show was mostly about the culture clash of Mike's urban city ways and the islanders' oddball customs and the hilarity that result from it.
The least successful of CN's original 8, It lasted at least two seasons before ending.
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!!''MikeLuAndOg'' provides examples of:
* AccidentalPublicConfession: Lu purposely spread a cold to the islanders that Mike caught in a plot to get her blamed and kicked off the island. However, when Og created a cure for the cold, she lost her temper and accidentally revealed that she spread the cold.
--> "There wouldn't have been a cure if I hadn't spread the cold".
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Lu keeps Lancelot on a leash and makes yelping sounds when trying to communicate.
* AmusingInjuries: Alfred getting squashed flat in "Fathers And Pies".
* AnachronismStew: Invoked. Og creates many modern necessities at Mike's request...with BambooTechnology of course.
** Plus Lu and Herminoe are dressed in modern pajamas in "The Three Amigas"...on an island where all clothing is made of grass or fur.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Nobody takes Wendell, the governor seriously, mostly because he really does not have any politics to do. Ditto for "Princess" Lu.
* BambooTechnology: Og's inventions.
* BareYourMidriff
* BerserkButton: Don't call Mike by her real name (Michelanne).
* BigEater: Wendel. In one episode when he excercised and developed a buff phisique, he gorged on chocolates and went back to his old self in a matter of hours.
** Lu eats at least 5 candies each about the size of her head. What's more, she swallows them whole.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: in "Nobody's Nose", Mike, thanks to Queeks, is chased by a thundercloud until she fufils her durty as the "nose" of the First Day Of Spring Festival.
** Queeks himself revieves one at the end of "Flustering Footwear Flotsam".
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of "Giant Steps"
-->'''Mike:''' You didn't expect a happy ending, did you?
** Also in the WhatACartoon pilot, where a {{Narrator}} introduces us to the kids. Mike then remarks "Is he talking about us?"
* BumblingDad: Alfred and Wendell.
* CaveBehindTheFalls: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "Brave Sir Lancelot"
-->'''Og:''' Why does it always have to be behind the waterfall?
* ChildProdigy: Og.
* CloudCuckooLander: Everyone sans Mike.
* CompanionCube: Petey (a palm tree) from "Palm Pet".
* CoolBigSis: Hermione of the Cuzzlewit clan is notably smarter and saner than her two brothers.
* CultureClash
* DeadpanSnarker: Mike to a T.
* DerangedAnimation: ''"No room for you!"''
** Look at the [[http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.12/3.12pages/3.12television.php3 original concept art]] and tell me it's not one of the ugliest things you've ever seen.
* ADogNamedDog: Goat and Pig.
** Averted with Spiney (a porcupine).
* DoesNotLikeShoes: In one episode, a cargo box of shoes washes ashore. While Mike (who hates shoes) could care less, the islanders go nuts for them. [[spoiler: It doesn't work out so well.]]
* EldritchAbomination: The germ monster from "Sneeze Please".
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Alfred. Bonus points for the fact he's a hunter.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Lu definitely thinks so. Mike, not so much.
* {{Expy}}: The designs of the characters were based on co-creator Mikhail Aldashin's shorts by Pilot Moscow in the early 90s ("Poumse" and "The Hunter").
* FanGirl: Mike with [[CaptainErsatz Action Guy.]] She even dresses up as him and ''lip-synchs to audio tapes'' to ward off the pirates!
* FantasticRacism: The Albonquetine and the Cuzzlewitz clans live on opposite sides of the island and have strong animosity.
* FishOutOfWater: Mike.
* FlashBack: In "Flustrering Footwear Flotsam", Mike relates to the [[FauxHorrific horrors]] of shoe shopping when she lived in New York told through still pictures. There is even [[SameClothesDifferentYear a picture of her as a toddler crying.]]
--> MOMMY!!! JUST LET ME GO HOME!!!
* FootFocus: There's plenty to go around, folks!
* FourFingeredHands
* FreudianCouch: In "Flustering Footwear Flotsam", everyone came to Queeks when their new shoes started disrupting their lives (Alfred feels he has no purpose after catching the wombat, Margery obsessed with creating "shoe portraits", etc.).
* FunnyAnimal: The goat, the pig, and the porcupine are rather fond of discussing philosophy.
* GRatedDrug: Lu with Jujubombs.
** Also in "Hot Dog" where evryone got addicted to hot dogs. There was even an [[TropaholicsAnonymous A.A.-esque meeting]] about their problems.
* GrumpyOldMan: Queeks
* HumansAreCthulhu: In "Losing Lancelot", while Lu is running, we're treated to a closeup of her feet to see ants running away screaming.
* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: Lu when it comes to a new modern fad. Take "Jujubombs" for example.
** And from "Hot Dog"
-->'''Lu:''' ''(eats hot dog)'' It stinks! ''(eats the rest of it)'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Give me more of this stuff that stinks!]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The pirates
* IntellectualAnimal: The goat, the pig, and the porcupine
* {{Jerkass}}: Lu
* [[KickTheDog Kick The Turtle]]: Lu does this ''a lot''.
* LimitedWardrobe: At one point, Mike is shown to own several identical pairs of red sneakers - the kind she wears all the time.
** Ditto her red t-shirt:
--->'''Mike''': ''[Holding two identical shirts]'' Which of these do you think looks best?
--->'''Lu''': ''[beat]'' The red one.
* MissingEpisode: The ''WhatACartoon'' pilot.
* MultiCharacterTitle
* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: "Repeat After Me".
* TheOneWhoWearsShoes: Mike. Possibly the ONLY human example!
* OffModel: Sometimes, Mike is drawn with buck teeth like the other islanders. Other times a character's eyebrows may be thicker for one shot.
** The animation in the pilot short was a little choppier than the series.
* OnlySaneMan: Mike
** Og, Queeks, and the animals to a lesser extent.
* TheOtherDarrin: KathSoucie filled in for a few lines as Lu (normally voiced by NancyCartwright) in "Roller Madness".
* APirate400YearsTooLate: The island has a trio of pirates who are the shipwrecked descendants of the pirates who shipwrecked the island's other inhabitants.
* RightBehindMe: In "Night Of The Living Ancestors", Lu is badmouthing her deceased Aunt Lulu, calling her a [[HypocriticalHumor self-centered, old hag".]] Guess whose ghost was behind her.
* RoyalBrat: Lu, oh sweet god, Lu.
* SayMyName: LANCELOOOOOOOOT!!!!
* SanitySlippage: Mike in "Sultans Of Swat"
** Og in "Hot Dog".
* [[{{ptitleef829e6819f4}} Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior!]] Queeks
* SeldomSeenSpecies: You don't see Wombats that much outside of Australian Media.
* SeriousBusiness: Mike with baseball.
--->'''Og''': Hey, it's only a game.
--->'''Mike''': Only a game? ONLY A GAME?!? Baseball is not only a game! Baseball is THE game!
* ShaggyDogStory: "Giant Steps".
** To elaborate, Wendell told everyone that a giant is on an annual rampage and Queeks gets Mike to fetch three things (a shark's tooth, a spider web, and and egg shell) to keep the "giant" away. However, it turned out that the giant story was metaphorical for the rainy season and that Margery had the objects the whole time, revealing that Mike had to go get those things for nothing.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Lu
* SpringtimeForHitler: In "For The Love Of Mike", the Cuzzlewitz boys [[AbhorrentAdmirer go crazy for Mike]] and her attempts to drive them away get them even more attracted to her. And that included cooking terrible food and covering herself with ''[[{{Squick}} bat guano!]]'' She finally gets them away by [[TastesLikeDiabetes wearing a dress and putting on perfume.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The Ablonquetines (sans Margery) all have buck teeth. Likewise, the Cuzzlewitz have buck teeth from the bottom set.
** The ghosts from "Night Of The Living Ancestors" looks like older versions of the islanders.
* SuddenAnatomy: In "The Three Amigas", Mike suggests that she, Lu, and Hermione paint their nails. In the next scene, they suddenly have visible and painted nails.
** Same goes for Lu when she told Mike to trim her toenails in "To Serve Lu"
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
--->'''Lu:''' There are no other kids in this class! And if there were other kids, and I'm not saying that there are, they would not be Cuzzlewitz. ''[[FantasticRacism Because no one in their right mind would be caught dead with a Cuzzlewitz!]]''
* TakenForGranite: While planning a party Lu gets coated with hard candy by Mike and Og (since they're sick of her [[GRatedDrug jujubomb addiction]]), and becomes her own centerpiece.
** A nice aspect is that she doesn't really mind, licking her own lips to taste all the candy she wants.
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* TheTetrisEffect: In-universe. Og creates a GameBoy out of BambooTechnology and gets hooked on it to the point of playing it out during a ''hurricane'' and neglecting the island's defenses.
* ThemeInitials: Mike's [[spoiler:former]] friends from New York are named Melissa and Max.
* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: Og's face turns bright red with anger in "Hot Dog".
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mike and Lu.
* UnstoppableMailman: Floyd from "Scuba Doobie Doo", [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass despite being]] [[TheDitz a ditz.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Alfred and the wombat have their moments.
* VocalDissonance: The Albonquetines dress in faux-Polynesian attire, but speak in proper British accents. Justified, as their ancestors were British. Strangely, Lu and Og speak with more American dialects.
** Averted with most of the Cuzzlewit clan.
* WildChild: The Cuzzlewitz kids, Haggis and Baggis. Subverted with their sister, Hermione.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Mike says the TropeNamer phrase at the end of "Scuba Doobie Doo".
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