Animation / Lamput

Hey, look, it's Lamput! He may be small, but he's as clever as they come! He loves to hide and he's always on the go, so you have to be quick! Think you can keep up with him?

—Official trailer from Max America.

Lamput is a Cartoon Network India animated series created by Vaibhav Kumaresh. It began as a series of 15-second micro-shorts before it was expanded into longer 2-minute and 5-minute episodes.

When the creature Lamput escapes from a lab, Slim Doc and Fat Doc try to catch him. Thanks to Lamput's trickery and Voluntary Shapeshifting, the doctors always fail in the end, and Lamput always escapes.

The series premiered in 2017 in India, with numerous international premieres occurring at different points in time afterward. The series is available in the United States via Max as of 2022, with airings on the United States Cartoon Network broadcast station following not long after.

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Lamput provides examples of:

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• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The docs go into a noticeably roomy sewer in one episode to locate Lamput. They think they've caught him in their net, only to realize they've caught a sewer rat instead and have angered it and the other rats.
• Accidental Hand-Hold:
  • One episode has Fat Doc mistake Slim Doc for a woman when Lamput shapeshifts into a long hairdo on his head, and Fat Doc falls in love with "her". The two accidentally hold hands as they walk around a tree, and they roll onto the ground looking at each other romantically until Lamput leaves.
  • In "Date Night", Lamput purposefully makes Fat Doc and his date hold hands while they're not paying attention.
• Accidental Proposal: In "Date Night", Fat Doc's date is about to be ruined when he hurts Lamput and his date gets angry. Lamput morphs into a wedding ring at the last moment to make it look like Fat Doc is proposing to her. It works, much to Fat Doc's joy.
• Air-Vent Passageway: In "Lamput Meets Tuzki", Lamput and Tuzki travel through a ventilation passage in the laboratory as they try to escape from the docs. The docs use a hose to spray water through the vent to get them out.
• Alien Among Us: In "Alien Again", Slim Doc and an alien who looks a lot like him inadvertently switch places. The alien, after realizing he can mimic Slim's appearance easily, does a good enough job at blending in with the other docs that nobody notices he's an alien by the time he and the actual Slim return to their proper places.
• Alien Episode:
  • The episode "Alien" has Lamput and the docs accidentally find their way into a spaceship that an alien was trying to repair.
  • "Alien Again" has Slim Doc being mistaken for an alien, while an actual alien fills in for him after discovering they look similar enough.
• All There in the Script: As no dialogue is spoken in this show, the names "Fat Doc" and "Slim Doc" are only known through supporting materials such as the various international Cartoon Network websites (including the one for Southeast Asia, which instead calls them "Specs Doc" and "Skinny Doc" for some reason).
• Alliterative Title: The episodes "Diet Doc" and "Doc Dog".
• Ambulance Cut: In "Gym", Lamput makes the docs trip by setting up the treadmills they're on to go faster than they can run. The docs are sent flying to the other side of the room, and the scene cuts to an ambulance that is just arriving at the gym. The docs are brought into the gym in wheelchairs and with an impressive display of muscles from all that running.
• Animorphism: At the end of "Invisible Necklace", the magician whom the docs stole the invisibility necklace from finds them, takes the necklace back from them, and uses it to transform them and Lamput into bunnies. This, of course, does not stop the docs from going to chase Lamput when he hops off, as per usual.
• Attractive Bent Species: The episode "Doc Dog" has Lamput transforming himself into a cute female dog to get the Docs' attack dog off his back. This causes the dog to go after the Docs instead, and also brings the attraction of other dogs in the park as well.
• Audible Gleam: In "Rival Doc", Rival Doc's glasses and headset gleam with an audible effect, the former twice - once when he enters the laboratory for the first time, and again when he's looking for Lamput in a bunch of orange objects.
• Baby Morph Episode: "Memory Loss" is a mental variation. An accidental injury causes Fat Doc to think he's a baby, so Slim Doc and Lamput take it upon themselves to be his caretakers.
• Bag of Kidnapping: In "Houdini", this one of the methods the docs use to catch Lamput. Lamput morphs into a pair of scissors and cuts his way out of the bag.
• Balloonacy: In one episode, Slim Doc attempts to trade a big balloon for a smaller one a kid is holding, which is actually Lamput in disguise. Lamput inflates himself bigger, making the kid decline the offer and causing Slim Doc to return with a balloon that's so big that it makes him float into the air.
• Banana Peel: In "The Chase", Lamput morphs into a banana peel and makes Fat Doc and Slim Doc slip into some trash cans.
• Beach Episode: "Evolution" takes place on the beach, where Lamput tries to mold his body to look more appealing when a boy makes fun of his normal self's walking.
• Bears Are Bad News: In "Skinny Monster", Fat Doc tries to get the attention of a creature he thinks is Slim Doc as a monster. Slim Doc comes back a few seconds later and demonstrates his monster potion has worn off; the creature Fat Doc poked turns out to be a bear and chases the two for having pestered it.
• Beat: In "Fracture", Lamput goes off free and the docs chase him about a beat later.
• Bewitched Amphibians: "Witch" ends with the witch turning the docs and Lamput into frogs. That doesn't stop the docs from chasing after Lamput as usual when the latter starts to run off.
• Big Ball of Violence:
  • The episode "Carrot" has Fat Doc scour a patch of carrots on a farm to find Lamput. The farm's owner attacks Fat Doc for picking his carrots without permission, producing a cloud of smoke that obscures the two from sight.
  • In the episode "The Split", after too many issues catching Lamput cause the Docs to break their friendship, the two of them attack each other in a cloud of violence. Lamput finds it funny at first, but slowly grows concerned the longer it goes on.
• Bilingual Bonus: One of Fat Doc's lines of gibberish in "Martial Art" is accompanied by Chinese subtitles. The line means, "We're talking nonsense."
• Bindle Stick:
  • In "Dr. Lamput", Fat Doc and Slim Doc grab bindle sticks and carry them with them when they leave the lab after reporting they still don't have Lamput.
  • At the end of "Lamput Meets Tuzki", Lamput is seen carrying a bindle stick as he walks away from the school bus and the docs' van.
• Binocular Shot: A brief one appears in "The Chase" when the docs see Lamput through their binoculars.
• Bland-Name Product: In "Diet Doc", Fat Doc gets fit and tries to avoid fried chicken since it'll ruin his diet, but Lamput manages to distract him into visiting a fried chicken restaurant anyway. The restaurant he visits is called "MFC", a reference to the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) chain of fast food restaurants.
• Body Horror: At the end of "Animal X", Lamput teases the docs, who he has trapped inside the creature-merging machine alongside a gorilla and a banana, by bait-and-switching them into believing he's going to press the button on the machine to merge them all together. Then the docs' winged cat falls on the button by accident, creating a doc monkey wearing a banana peel skirt. The docs and gorilla are not pleased with it at all.
• The Boxing Episode: In the episode "Boxing", the docs chase Lamput into a boxing arena. Lamput morphs into a pair of boxing gloves around Slim Doc's hands, dragging him into a boxing match with a much stronger boxer.
• Bullet Seed: In "Witch", as the docs ride the flying broomstick, Fat Doc scoops up some grapes from a bowl, eats them, and spits their seeds at Lamput.
• Bully Turned Buddy: "Origins" reveals that Fat Doc and Slim Doc originally had a rocky relationship when they first met in lab school, with the latter constantly tormenting the former for amusement. It isn't until both end up involved in an accident in the teacher's science experiment that they finally become friends.
• Burning Rubber: In "Arm Wrestling", the docs' boss arrives at the sight arm wrestling matches on his motorcycle, which he rides fast enough that it leaves a trail of flames behind it.
• Business of Generic Importance: The laboratory where the docs work doesn't seem to have a name at all, with its exterior sign simply saying "LAB" and all mentions of it in official materials calling it "the lab/laboratory". Likewise, the lab school in "Origins" has a sign on the outside that reads "LAB SCHOOL".
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: In "Cast Away", Lamput's and Fat Doc's eyeballs can be seen bouncing around the interior of the dark cargo crate as it floats away.
• Call-Back: Several quick clips from earlier episodes showing the docs catching Lamput play in quick succession at the beginning of "Fracture". All the times they caught him ultimately culminated in him fracturing a bone in his skeleton.
• Cartoon Juggling: In Season 3's "Reward", during the montage where the docs find different ways to earn money, Fat Doc is seen juggling balls in the "shower" fashion while riding a unicycle.
• Catapult Nightmare: In "Meet the Shrink", the docs have a dream where they're struggling to keep up with Lamput and jolt into an upright position when they wake up.
• Catapult to Glory: In the episode "Hilltop", Lamput escapes from the docs by stretching his arms around some nearby trees and catapulting himself back to the hilltop where he was relaxing before the docs appeared.
• Catching Some Z's: In a couple of the Season 3 episodes, sleeping characters have a trail of Z's near them.
• Character in the Logo: Lamput is in the show's logo. Specifically, he's the "T" in the word "Lamput".
• The Chase: Besides the overall plot of Lamput being chased by a pair of docs, the episode "Alien" has an alien take over the docs' car when the the three main characters enter its spaceship uninvited. The docs keep triggering buttons in the ship by accident, causing the UFO to shoot at the alien as it's driving.
• Chased Off into the Sunset: The episode "Fracture" ends with the docs chasing Lamput.
• Circling Birdies: In "Alien", when the alien accidentally destroys the control panel of his ship, it goes flying right up into space and bounces off of several planets. All of the planets except for Saturn get a visible ring of circling stars around them upon being hit, the joke being that Saturn already had a ring.
• Coincidental Accidental Disguise: In "Dr. Lamput", Lamput is covered in gray paint and is dragged to the docs' laboratory, being mistaken for one of the docs himself. This works out quite well for Lamput, who pretends to be one of them and even becomes the #1 doc in the lab.
• Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: In "Diet Doc", as Fat Doc is driving, he tries not to let nearby fast food restaurants ruin his diet. Lamput, in a move that only he would have seen coming, abuses this to his advantage by shapeshifting into a chicken drumstick. Sure enough, Fat Doc finds himself unable to resist some fried chicken seconds later.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: In one episode taking place at a dance club, Lamput pretends to be an outfit on Fat Doc and the clothes grab the attention of women who think it looks cool. The episode ends with Lamput escaping while Fat Doc is in the middle of dancing, revealing his underwear.
• Company Cross References:
  • In "Super Docs", Slim Doc mixes up his bag of clothes with someone else's at the laundromat. When he gets home, he and Fat Doc use the superhero outfits they find in the bag Slim Doc did bring with him to go after Lamput; Slim Doc wears a blue outfit with a red cape and triangle-shaped Chest Insignia clearly meant to be Superman's costume, and Fat Doc dons a black costume with little pointy ears at the top and a yellow belt, meant to be iconic getup of Batman (both franchises are owned by DC Comics, itself owned by WarnerMedia who also owns Lamput's broadcast channel Cartoon Network India).
  • In "Lamput Checks In", Slim Doc turns on the TV in the hotel room and watches a cartoon where a brown mouse is chased by a gray cat. This is likely a nod to Tom and Jerry, another WarnerMedia property.
• Concealing Canvas:
  • In "Boss'stache", the Boss keeps the recipe for his mustache-growing formula in a safe hidden behind a painting in his office at the lab.
  • In "Jamput", Fat Doc keeps his decoy of Lamput in a safe hidden behind a Lamput dartboard in his house.
• Concert Episode: "Rock Concert", as you'd probably expect from the title, is about Lamput and the docs happening upon a rock concert. The docs accidentally play the instruments and manage to entertain the audience enough that nobody can tell the difference between them and the actual band that was supposed to play there.
• Cranial Eruption:
  • In the episode "Flicker", Fat Doc hits Slim Doc on the head with the gun containing the color-changing serum when the latter accidentally squirts the former's eyes with it. The resulting bump on Slim Doc's head constantly changes color due to being hit with the serum.
  • Slim Doc gets a cranial bump again in "Alien Again". The bump looks like the aliens' antennae; that, combined with the rest of Slim's similar appearance, gets him mistaken for one of them.
• Crossover: "Lamput Meets Tuzki" is about Lamput meeting Tuzki, a Chinese character featured in emoticons, when they show up during a field trip to the lab.
• Cross-Popping Veins:
  • In "Martial Art", Lamput briefly gets a cross-popping vein on his face as he gets angry at the docs for destroying his popcorn.
  • In "Boss's Mom", the Boss has a vein when he yells at the docs for bringing the wrong women to the lab.
• Crush Blush: Fat Doc blushes in one episode as he is admiring a woman he sees who is actually Slim Doc with Lamput on his head morphed into the shape of long hair.
• Crying Critters:
  • In "Age Remote", Lamput and the docs are fighting over a remote the latter duo invented that can increase or decrease the age of any living thing. They keep firing it off in different directions, and one of the shots hits an egg in a bird's nest. The egg turns into a full-grown bird that flies away, and the bird's parent can be seen shedding a tear as it witnesses its child leaving.
  • In "Lamput & the Elephant", the baby elephant is constantly shedding tears because of how much it misses its mother.
• Cucumber Facial: When we first see the witch in "Witch", she is soaking up the moon's rays and has cucumber slices covering her eyes.
• Danger — Thin Ice: In "Snow", the combined weight of Fat Doc and half of Lamput causes the ice below them to start to crack. Lamput taunts Fat Doc by nearly letting the ice crack, but he goes away and a single leaf is what makes Fat Doc fall into the cold water below instead.
• Dartboard of Hate:
  • In "The Split", after the docs get in a fight, Fat Doc has used pictures of Slim Doc as dartboards, and the darts are there when the inside of his house is shown.
  • In "Dr. Lamput", the docs' laboratory has a dartboard of Lamput that the workers shoot darts at with toy guns.
• Delayed Reaction: In "Fracture", it takes a few seconds before the docs realize that they let Lamput get away.
• Delicious Distraction: In "Dr. Lamput", Lamput is posing as one of the many docs at the lab and, when he sees the others are coming up with a plan to catch him, proposes his own plan - just set up a trail of candy for Lamput to follow that leads to a jar to imprison him in.
• Depending on the Writer: The living situations of the Docs varies per episode, depending on what works for the episode proper. Some episodes have them living in separate houses, which also becomes inconsistent if the two of them are neighbors or not. Other times they're roommates living in the same house, which then becomes inconsistent if they have their own rooms or share one.
• Didn't Think This Through: The episode "Houdini" has the docs come up with various plans to catch Lamput and putting them to good use, only for all of them to fall flat. First, they place a cage over Lamput, who, being a little blob and all, can easily slide through the gaps and escape. Then they lock him in a chest, but he shapeshifts into a key to free himself. After that, they throw him into a sack, and he gets out by morphing into a pair of scissors and cutting through the sack. It's only after they trap him in a jar that they finally have him... but even then the jar doesn't have air holes, so Lamput seemingly dies of suffocation, thus getting the docs arrested for hurting someone. Though Lamput turns out perfectly fine seconds later after he's out of the jar, thankfully.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Lamput tends to whistle what little there is of a theme song on occasion. For one example, in "Origins", after Mr. Moustache gets the docs into his car to be arrested, Lamput walks away and whistles the theme song as if nothing happened.
• Diet Episode: "Diet Doc" is about Fat Doc getting fit and going on a diet.
• Dinner Deformation: In "Lamput & the Elephant", the baby elephant thinks a snake is its mother and gets eaten by the reptile, which has a large, bulging bump in its stomach afterwards. Lamput morphs into a cookie dough roller to push the elephant out of the snake.
• Dogs Love Fire Hydrants: In "Flicker", the docs keep finding Lamput trying to camouflage as different orange objects since their flicker serum is making him flash all sorts of colors besides his usual orange. Right before the docs find Lamput morphed into a fire hydrant, a dog is seen about to pee on him but gets scared by his color changing and runs away.
• Double Take: In "Zoom Oil", the docs find Lamput snacking. He opens his eyes, sees the docs, closes his eyes, then gasps a second later and runs.
• Dramatic Irony: In Season 3's "Wig", the audience is shown that Fat Doc's "crush" is just Slim Doc with Lamput for hair, while Fat Doc himself doesn't know and is legitimately frustrated when his love is seemingly nowhere to be seen.
• Dream Intro: "Meet the Shrink" begins with the docs having a dream where they're chasing after Lamput. The two have trouble catching up with him as usual and are distressed enough when they wake up to jolt themselves upright.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In "Dr. Lamput", this happens accidentally when Lamput gets drenched in gray paint, making him look like one of the scientists going after him. Surely enough, Slim Doc mistakes him for one of the scientists and drags him to the lab, where he runs with the accidental disguise and soon becomes the most popular doc in the lab.
• The Dog Bites Back: Literally. In "Doc Dog", Fat Doc and Slim Doc train a big dog to go after Lamput, which gets distracted when Lamput disguises himself as a female dog. Then the docs try to get his attention by grabbing his love interest, causing Lamput the "dog" to pretend to cry. The big dog gets angry at the docs for messing with his crush and chases after them for it.
• Eiffel Tower Effect: In "Zoom Oil", when Lamput steps aside to dodge the docs, the latter characters end up realizing too late that they've got too much of their speed potions on them and start running so fast that they reach different countries entirely. The most prominent features in each country as the docs completely lose control is the countries' most famous landmarks; they find their way to the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, the Eiffel Tower in France, the Statue of Liberty in the United States, the pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt, and the Taj Mahal in India before finally landing face first in a rice field in Japan.
• Everyone Went to School Together: The episode "Origins" reveals that Fat Doc and Slim Doc first met during their childhood at school, where their teacher would eventually become their current boss. Mr. Mustache also went to school with them, as the bully victim of the Docs, while the Docs were also responsible for accidentally creating Lamput.
• Everything Has Rhythm: In "Skinny's Dance Night", Slim Doc practices for a dance with his girlfriend by grooving to some music with a surrogate partner, a hat hanging pole with a picture of his crush placed on top.
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear: "Skinny Monster" ends with a bear getting angry at the docs for bothering him and chasing them into the distance.
• Expository Theme Tune: The opening, as short as it is, still visually conveys the most important information about the show. You see an orange blob who shapeshifts to avoid being captured by two scientists.
• Extremely Short Intro Sequence: The intro lasts about 3 seconds before the episode begins.
• Eyes Out of Sight: One of the soccer players in "Soccer Punch" has hair that goes over his eyes, preventing him from seeing and making it hard for him to play soccer. Eventually, Lamput pulls back his hair, and he can see again.
• Face Palm: In "Opera", the docs both do a face palm when Fat Doc spills his chloroform all over the opera's audience, sending them to sleep. Slim Doc has a tissue in his hand when he face palms, which wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that the tissue had some of the liquid on it.
• Failed a Spot Check: One episode has Fat Doc pop a balloon decoy set up by Lamput, which leads him to believe he's accidentally killed him. Lamput himself appears to give the crying Fat Doc a handkerchief, but Fat Doc fails to notice who gives it to him.
• Faint in Shock:
  • Slim Doc faints upon seeing a muscular Fat Doc in "Diet Doc".
  • At the end of "Sleepwalking", Slim Doc and Lamput both faint after seeing a fainted Fat Doc with a drink resembling blood spilled all over him.
• Fairy Tale Episode: "Robinput" has Lamput tell the docs the story of Robin Hood, casting him, Fat Doc, and Slim Doc as Robin Hood and his merry men and explaining how they stole treasure from an evil king.
• False Camera Effects: The montage in the beginning of "Fracture" uses film grain.
• Fashion Show: Naturally, this is the setting of "Fashion Show", where the docs chase Lamput into a fashion show and are forced into participating.
• Fast as Lightning: In "Zoom Oil", the docs creating lightning bolts around themselves as they move extremely fast after applying their zoom oil.
• Feud Episode: "The Split" is about Fat Doc and Slim Doc getting into a tiff after they unintentionally hurt each other trying to catch Lamput, with the two going their separate ways and ignoring each other as Lamput tries to get them to make up. When Lamput annoys them too much, they unite once more to go after him.
• Fishing for Sole: In "Everyone Needs Friends", a fisherman is seen fishing a boot out of the water. Lamput tries to cheer him up by having his monster friend give him a bunch of fishes.
• Flowers of Romance:
  • In one episode, Lamput morphs into a flower while he is held by Slim Doc, who is standing right next to a pretty woman. The woman thinks Slim Doc is offering the flower out of an affection for her and accepts the gift.
  • In "Date Night", Lamput morphs into a bouquet of flowers again, this time to help Fat Doc impress a woman he's gone out for a romantic dinner with.
• Flying Broomstick: The docs find one in the castle in "Witch" and fly around on it to aid in their pursuit of Lamput.
• Flying Saucer:
  • Lamput and the scientists find themselves in one in "Alien".
  • Slim Doc is trapped in another saucer in "Alien Again".
• Formerly Fat: "Origins" reveals that the round boy that the Docs constantly tormented in their childhood eventually grew up to be the tall and muscular Mr. Mustache.
• Fortune Teller: A palm-reading fortune teller is important to the plot of "Future Tense". Slim Doc has him tell his fortune before Lamput passes by, and the doc chases after him, with the fortune teller predicting various misfortunes aimed at Slim by reading his palm-prints (such as an imprint of his hand in cement and a print of his hand in a foggy window) and coming to rescue him.
• Four-Legged Insect: The spider in "Lamput & The Spider" has six legs instead of the eight that real-life arachnids have.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: In "Transfer Gun", the Boss invents a ray gun with this effect. The Boss and Lamput get hit by shots from the gun by accident, and the Boss in Lamput's body initially has trouble getting the docs to believe he's not actually Lamput.
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Lamput meets one in "Lamput and the Spider". It has trouble making its own web and Lamput helps by improvising one himself, and the spider later defends Lamput (who has gone to sleep) from a swarm of mosquitos who want to suck his blood.
• Full Moon Silhouette: In "Sleepwalking", Slim Doc's silhouette is seen in front of the moon for a second after Lamput flings him back onto the balcony of the house.
• Funny Phone Misunderstanding: In "Love Chat", Fat Doc is talking to his girlfriend on the phone, with Lamput being grabbed by him by accident. Fat Doc shouts at Lamput, but his girlfriend thinks he's shouting at her, creating unnecessary, comedic drama between them as Fat Doc struggles to convince her that yelling wasn't directed at her.
• Fuzzball Spider: The spider in "Lamput and the Spider" is a simple sphere shape with six legs.
• Gasp!: In "Fracture", the docs gasp after they realize they let Lamput go off free.
• Getting the Boot:
  • In "Rival Doc", Rival Doc is kicked out of the laboratory at the end of the episode when the docs "capture" Lamput so that they can get their jobs back.
  • At the end of "Fashion Show", a security guard catches up with the docs, who ignored a "no entry" sign on the door, and proceeds to kick them out the way they came.
• Giant Spider: Among Lamput's transformations in "Shape Shift" is a giant spider. The docs turn into a fly swatter afterwards to squash him.
• Glasses of Aging: In the episode "Age Remote", when Lamput is changed to a senior citizen by the age remote, he spontaneously gains glasses.
• Goofy Print Underwear: In "Airport", one of the items in the docs' suitcase is a pair of underwear with a heart-pattern print on them.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: One of Fat Doc's lines of gibberish in "Martial Art" is accompanied by Chinese subtitles.
• Gray Rain of Depression: In "The Split", it starts to rain after Fat Doc and Slim Doc decide to leave each other as a result of their feud. There's also sad music playing in the background as this is happening.
• Green Around the Gills: In "Alien Again", Slim Doc's reaction to the taste of alien food is nausea, green face included.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: In "Robinput", the evil king uses his assistant, who happens to have the right shape, as a boomerang as a way to attack Robin Hood Lamput's merry men while defending from a barrage of arrows. It hits them both, and they fall off the platfornm where Robin Hood Lamput's execution is taking place.
• Grocery Store Episode: The episode "Superstore" takes place in a supermarket and is about Fat Doc trying to purchase a bottle of fuel, which is Lamput in disguise. Lamput keeps making himself bigger to amp up his price and eventually cause Fat Doc to not have enough money to buy him.
• Hands Play In Theater: Type B - the "character X wraps their arm around character Y" variant - appears in Season 3's "Wig", where Fat Doc is at a movie theater and tries to wrap his arm around Slim Doc, whom he thinks is a woman. Slim sees him moving, and the two stare at each other awkwardly for a few seconds before Slim happily grabs Fat in his own arm (out of platonic friendship, in his case).
• Haunted House: The docs go to a haunted house on their search for Lamput in the appropriately-titled episode "Haunted House". Lamput creeps out the docs by making several ominous distractions to keep with the theme of the location, such as making fake walking sounds to make it sound like someone else is in the house with them.
• Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: In "Lamput Checks In", the docs see a Hawaiian-shirted tourist entering a fancy hotel they've been denied entry to. This gives Fat Doc the idea to pretend to be a tourist himself - complete with Hawaiian flower short - and carry Slim Doc in his bag, which works.
• Heart Beats out of Chest: In Season 3's "Wig", at one point Fat Doc's heart reaches all the way to Slim Doc (whom he thinks is a woman) and the rest of his body is brought to that spot.
• Hidden Eyes: In "Sleepwalking", Fat Doc gets angry at Slim Doc for making noise while he's trying to watch a movie. Fat Doc's mad face is tinted red and does not have his eyes visible.
• Human Snowman: At the end of "Snow", Fat Doc and Slim Doc are each on the top of a snowy hill, with their hills right next to each other. The two decide to roll to the bottom of the hills as snowballs to catch up with Lamput, but when they collide they end up forming a snowman instead. Lamput comes back and places a carrot nose on the snowman's head.
• Humanoid Aliens: In "Alien Again", the blue-gray-skinned aliens in white clothing look remarkably like the scientists after Lamput, leading to one assuming Slim Doc should be with them. However, the extraterrestrials also have only one eye, as well as an antenna on their heads.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Despite being a Blob Monster, Lamput doesn't cause trouble and goes out of his way to help others. This makes the human scientists seem like jerks trying to capture him, even when they're only capturing him as part of their job.
• Hypno Pendulum:
  • In the episode "Hypnosis", Fat Doc sees a hypnotist use a swinging pocket watch to hypnotize someone in a TV show, and he and Slim Doc use this idea to hypnotize Lamput into doing their bidding.
  • In "Meet the Shrink", the shrink resorts to hypnotizing Lamput, Fat Doc, and Slim Doc via a pocketwatch to deal with the latter two's nightmares about chasing Lamput.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: The sea monster in "Everyone Needs Friends" can't make many friends besides Lamput due to everyone else being scared by him. It isn't until the end of the episode, when the sea monster saves the townspeople from sinking on a boat, that he proves his worth as an ally.
• Idea Bulb:
  • In "Houdini", a light bulb appears next to Slim Doc when he comes up with an idea on how to capture Lamput.
  • Lamput briefly morphs into a light bulb in "The Chase" when he gets an idea while being chased by the docs.
  • In "Dr. Lamput", Lamput gets a normal idea bulb when he has an idea on what to draw on the chalkboard the scientists are using to map out a plan to capture him.
• Imagine Spotting: In "Boss'stache", the Boss remembers he made a secret formula to grow his mustache and that it's at the laboratory. Lamput sees the lab in the Boss's thought bubble and confirms if that's where he wants to go.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: In "Shrunk Doc", the docs use a shrink ray to make Lamput tiny. A bump during the drive back to the lab causes the ray to shrink their vehicle; Lamput is still inside the car and drives it to evade his pursuers.
• Infernal Background: In "Martial Art", Lamput gets angry at Fat Doc and Slim Doc after his bag of popcorn is destroyed. As he gives a yell at them, both the hero from the martial arts movie the theater room is playing and a bunch of flames appear in the background.
• Injury Bookend: The plot of "Memory Loss" starts with Fat Doc accidentally getting himself whacked with his net, giving him amnesia and making him act like a baby. The problem is reversed when baby Fat Doc causes a book to fall on himself.
• Instant Wristwatch:
  • In "Airport", Fat Doc looks at his watch along with Slim Doc while both are on the airplane. The watch appears out of nowhere since Fat Doc typically has nothing around his arms.
  • In "Lamput & the Elephant", while the docs are waiting for Lamput to fall into their pitfall, a watch once again spontaneously appears on Fat Doc's arm so he can check the time.
  • In "Animal X", a wristwatch appears on Fat Doc's arm out of nowhere as he waits for Slim Doc to stop struggling to lure the gorilla out of the cage.
• Instrumental Theme Tune: The short theme song has no vocals.

Tropes J-Z

• Jaw Drop: In "Rival Doc", this is Fat Doc and Slim Doc's reaction to the rival doc actually managing to capture Lamput by getting him to climb into his suitcase with minimal effort. The stunned scientists promptly push each other's jaws back into place.
• Lampshade Hanging: One of Fat Doc's lines of gibberish in "Martial Art" is accompanied by Chinese subtitles. The line means, "We're talking nonsense." This lampshades how all of their dialogue is Speaking Simlish.
• The Last Straw: In "Snow", Fat Doc lands on a patch of thin ice while holding one half of Lamput. The added weight of Lamput causes the ice to start cracking, and Fat Doc throw him to the side and tries to convince him against pressing on the cracking ice. After Lamput leaves, a leaf falls onto the ice patch and makes it break completely, causing Fat Doc to fall into the water below.
• Little Green Men: The alien in the episode "Alien" is a light green, one-eyed alien who owns a Flying Saucer.
• Logo Joke: One episode has a joke about Lamput hiding in the logo in the intro. Fat Doc tries to find Lamput, but he destroys everything but the creature.
• Long Pants: Thanks to the lineless style of the show, the uniform that all the scientists wear appear as a full white jumpsuit. However, multiple episodes show that they're actually a separate top and bottom.
• Meadow Run: "Boss's Mom" has a scene in the laboratory where the Boss and his mother happily run towards each other to share a hug. The scene cuts to a flashback of a baby Boss and his younger mother approaching each other in the same way, but in a field of flowers.
• Medium Awareness: In "The Split", Lamput's attempts to get the docs to get together again involve him going back and forth to each of them on a split-screen shot. He resorts to getting rid of the line splitting the screen so that the docs are right next to one another.
• Medium Blending: The horror film Fat Doc watches in "Sleepwalking" is live-action footage of animated puppets interacting with each other, in contrast to the rest of the show being 2D animation.
• Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: No actual dialogue besides Speaking Simlish.
• Mistaken for Aliens: In "Alien Again", Slim Doc is blue-gray and wears white clothes just like the extraterrestrial visitors. One of those visitors immediately thinks Slim is one of their group, leading to him being trapped in their spaceship.
• Mistaken for Dog: The plot of "Pup Mix" revolves around Lamput and the docs winding up in an old lady's house, where the lady keeps mistaking all three of them for her dog and treats them as if they were her dog.
• Mistaken for Exhibit:
  • In "Art Gallery", Fat Doc and Slim Doc, while at an art gallery, are compressed into each other and land in a room full of visitors in this state. The visitors immediately take a liking to their abstract shape and snap pictures of them.
  • In "Thief in the Museum", after being kicked out too many times from an ancient Egyptian museum while trying to catch Lamput, the docs eventually disguise themselves as mummies to get in. Once they catch Lamput, he disguises himself as a piece of jewelry, causing the three of them to be mistaken for an exhibit, being put under a glass case until the museum closes.
• Mistaken for Thief: At the beginning of "Origins", Lamput shapeshifts into a crown and hides behind the window of a jewelry store. The docs go into the store and grab him, only for the window glass to break and make the docs look like they just tried to rob that shop. Cue police car.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: In "Animal X", the docs invoke this trope by testing their creature-merging machine using a cat and a bird, creating a winged feline. Fat Doc then uses the machine to merge himself with a multitude of animals that he captures, so that he can get past certain obstacles preventing him from catching Lamput.
• Monochrome Past: The episode "Origins" is a Whole Episode Flashback where the flashback parts are presented in a much more muted color scheme than usual.
• Movie-Theater Episode:
  • The episode "Martial Art" is about Slim Doc and Fat Doc encountering Lamput in a theater while he's watching a martial arts film. He ends up fighting the two docs in the same style as the film.
  • An earlier 15-second episode features the docs watching a film at a movie theater. Lamput surprises them by mimicking the spooky sounds made in the film, causing Fat Doc to scream and get shushed by the other theatergoers.
• Mummy: In "Thief in the Museum", the docs disguise as mummies to get back into the ancient Egyptian museum after they are thrown out due to being mistaken for thieves. When the two catch Lamput, he turns into a piece of jewelry, and the museum official assumes they are part of the exhibit and puts them on display.
• Mundane Utility: In "Super Docs", the first things the docs do after they find superhero costumes is to use their respective abilities to do household things like use the one outfit's magnet shoes to collect and throw away some pieces of paper and use the other costume's laser vision to toast a piece of bread.
• Musical Episode: One early 15-second episode is a non-dialogue variant where the docs (unintentionally) create a drum solo with some trash cans in their endeavor to catch Lamput. The episode ends with the docs being carried by some people who heard the drumming and loved it.
• Mustache Vandalism: In "The Split", Slim Doc has scribbled a mustache on Fat Doc in a picture of both of them he has in his house.
• Near-Villain Victory: One episode has Fat Doc in the laboratory, storing the newly-captured Lamput away in a room that's mostly empty save for the presence of a cardboard box. Lamput hides himself by sticking to Fat Doc's bottom as he walks away, thus narrowly escaping from losing to the docs.
• No-Neck Chump: None of the scientists at the lab have visible necks, with their heads seemingly melded with their bodies.
• No Ontological Inertia: In "Transfer Gun", the body-swapping gun being destroyed is what reverses its effect, returning everyone to their original bodies.
• Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: Played with. In one episode, Lamput creates a decoy of himself using a balloon that Fat Doc accidentally pops, and he thinks he accidentally killed Lamput and starts crying. Lamput himself shows up to give him a handkerchief to use; Fat Doc is too busy mourning his "death" to notice who gave him the handkerchief.
• Numbered Sequels: "Glasses" has a follow-up called "Glasses 2" which has a similar setup - Lamput takes off Fat Doc's glasses, but this time he puts them on Slim Doc to distract him, whereas he simply took them on and off of Fat Doc multiple times in the previous episode (Slim Doc doesn't appear in "Glasses").
• Offscreen Teleportation: In "Boxing", after the boxing match, Slim Doc waves to the arena spectators and the frame cuts to a closer shot of him, causing his hand to go off-screen. When his hand is on-screen again, Lamput, who was shaped as boxing gloves on his hands, has already disappeared; he's at the arena's exit.
• One-Word Title: Lamput is only one word.
• Opaque Lenses: The thief from the episode "Thief" wears glasses with lenses that completely obscure his eyes.
• Opening Shout-Out: One of the Season 1 episodes takes place within the series intro, where Lamput blends in with the series logo to avoid the docs. Fat Doc reappears and double-checks the "t" that Lamput morphs into, only to destroy the rest of the logo in the process.
• Origins Episode: The Season 3 episode "Origins" has the docs reminisce about how they met when they find a picture of themselves when they were younger in Slim Doc's shirt while stuck in a police car. The flashback reveals several important details about their past and those of others they knew:
  • Slim Doc was quite a bully to Fat Doc when he arrived at the school Fat Doc went to, only making friends with him after an incident where they accidentally ruined a science experiment their teacher was working on. That experiment being ruined is what caused Lamput to form.
  • That round kid Fat Doc and Slim Doc bullied upon making friends with each other? He grew up to be Mr. Moustache, the policeman who makes recurring appearances throughout the series and often tries to arrest or beat up the docs. He's held a grudge on the docs ever since they bullied him as a kid.
• "Pachelbel's Canon" Progression: Music noticeably resembling the Trope Namer can be heard in "Boss's Mom" during the scene where a young Boss and his mom run towards each other.
• Paper People: In "Shape Shift", Lamput gets the docs to transform into a flat sheet resembling a crosswalk, getting them walked on by multiple people crossing the street at once. A few seconds later, it skips to nighttime where they shapeshift out of that form, revealing those people left them flattened.
• Parasol Parachute: In "Opera", Fat Doc tries to scoop up Lamput from below him using an umbrella. He accidentally drops the umbrella, which opens while Lamput is clinging to it and floats slowly towards the audience below until Mr. Moustache grabs it.
• Pass the Popcorn: In "Animal X", as the docs have trouble getting their captured gorilla to calm down, Lamput sits back and watches the chaos, eating some popcorn with the winged feline the docs created earlier.
• Pinball Gag: In "Alien", the alien spacecraft launches into space and ricochets off the planets of the solar system, with pinball sounds as it does so. All the planets it hits end up with rings of stars circling around them (except for Saturn, the one planet it doesn't hit - it had a ring already).
• Portmantitle:
  • S1E7, "Vegetrouble" = "vegetable" and "trouble". The episode is about Fat Doc thinking Lamput is hidden in some pumpkins, a kind of vegetable.
  • S3E37, "Jamput" = "Lamput" and "jam". The episode is about Fat Doc taking a jar of orange jam, sticking fake eyeballs into it, and claiming it's Lamput.
• Primal Chest-Pound:
  • Fat Doc and Slim Doc pound their chest while morphed into a gorilla in "Shape Shift".
  • In "Animal X", the gorilla in the cage Fat Doc brings to the lab pounds his chest at one point.
• Prison Episode: "Doc & The Thief" has Fat Doc mistaken for a thief and arrested.
• Prisoner's Work: In "Doc & The Thief", an arrested Fat Doc is made to chip big rocks with several other prisoners. Fat Doc misses Slim Doc and Lamput so much that he shapes his rock to look like them.
• Protagonist Title: The show's title refers to the main character, Lamput.
• Pun-Based Title: The episode title "Soccer Punch" is a pun on "sucker punch". The episode itself is about Lamput messing up a game of soccer that the docs are playing in.
• Rake Take: In "Sleepwalking", a sleepwalking Slim Doc steps towards a rake on the ground. Lamput shapeshifts into a helmet to protect Slim Doc, leading to Lamput getting hurt by the rake when it's stepped on.
• Recycled Title: Seasons 1 and 3 both have episodes called "Reward" and "Wig".
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: In "Signs", when Mr. Moustache has finally had enough of Fat Doc and Slim Doc disregarding the "no [whatever]" signs they come across one too many times, his eyes turn red.
• Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: In "Diet Doc", when the alarm clock rings the morning Fat Doc goes to exercise and get fit, he crushes the clock with his fist.
• Robinsonade: In "Cast Away", Fat Doc and Lamput accidentally end up in a cargo crate that floats away from the boat that was carrying it during a storm, while Slim Doc remains where they all were. Fat Doc is stranded on an island with Lamput and works with him to survive as Slim Doc realizes what's going on and looks for the two.
• Road Runner vs. Coyote: The docs constantly chase after and attempt to catch Lamput, only to fail every time.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: In "Diet Doc", Slim Doc's reaction to seeing a muscular Fat Doc is to let out a high-pitched girl shriek and faint.
• Sea Monster: In "Everyone Needs Friends", Lamput helps a four-eyed, vaguely octopus-like sea monster to make friends, but everything he does backfires since the monster only scares everybody he tries to be friends with.
• Sequel Escalation: The expanded element is the length, in this case. Season 1 has 15-second microshorts, season 2 introduces 2-minute episodes, and season 3 introduces 5-minute episodes.
• Series Goal: The docs' goal is to capture Lamput and return him to the lab.
• Shapeshifter Showdown: In "Shape Shift", the docs give themselves the ability to shapeshift and do their best to outmatch Lamput in his transformations. A downplayed example as no physical combat is involved.
• Shapeshifting Failure:
  • The episode "Flicker" has Lamput doused in a chemical that causes him to flip through every color except his trademark orange, thus leaving his transformations utterly worthless. He eventually finds himself in a city street loaded with neon signs and flashy street performers, letting him blend in until the serum wears off.
  • The episode "Evolution" has Lamput growing ashamed of his pudgy body after being mocked for it while at the beach. Seeing others with different body styles causes him to piece-by-piece morph his body to conform to others. Eventually, giving himself a muscular form wears himself out too much, leaving him immobile.
• Shout-Out:
  • The episode "Fracture" features a song which sounds extremely similar to "Eye of the Tiger" during the montage where the docs help get the fractured Lamput back into good condition.
  • M.C. Escher is referenced in "Art Gallery", where Fat Doc and Slim Doc chase Lamput into a room of the museum with gravity-defying and logic-bending staircases resembling the artist's famous "Relativity" work.
  • The rock concert in "Rock Concert" is for a musical group named AB/CD.
  • "Alien Again" features the Boss on a cover for TIME Magazine.
  • Season 3's "Wig" features a musical cue that sounds exactly like the beginning of Marvin Gaye's song "Let's Get It On". The cue plays three times, first when Fat Doc initially sees Slim Doc with a woman's hair, again when Slim Doc grabs Fat Doc's hand as they prepare to go get some ice cream, and once more after Lamput repositions himself to look like Slim Doc's hair.
• Shrink Ray: The docs invent one in "Shrunk Doc" and use it to shrink Lamput, whom they stick into a vial to prevent him from escaping.
• Sleepwalking: "Sleepwalking" is actually the name of a Season 3 episode. Fittingly, it's about Lamput watching over a sleepwalking Slim Doc while Fat Doc, who watched a scary film earlier, worries about the sounds his friend is making.
• Sliding Scale of Visuals Versus Dialogue: Far on the "visuals" side. The show purposefully does not have the characters speaking coherently and focuses its attention on their actions.
• Slipping a Mickey: In "Shrunk Doc", the docs find their shrunken van in their boss's mustache. To keep the boss from scolding them for not catching Lamput (who is in the tiny car), Fat Doc laces the boss's drink with a sleeping serum.
• Slow-Motion Drop: In "Boss'stache", the Boss accidentally shaves off his mustache, leading to a slow-motion scene where he and Lamput react in shock and the Boss drops his razor, which falls slowly to the floor.
• Speaking Simlish: Used in a few episodes as opposed to a real language.
• Speedy Snail: Invoked by the docs in "Zoom Oil"; a snail is the test subject for their speed potion, and it works, causing the snail to zoom into the distance and hit a radio tower.
• Splash of Color: The clips from earlier episodes shown at the beginning of "Fracture" are all presented in black and white, save for Lamput who is still orange as well as all other objects that were originally orange in those episodes.
• Split-Screen Phone Call: In "Arm Wrestling", Fat Doc calls the boss of the laboratory on the phone about Lamput posing as a trophy for a arm wrestling competition, with the doc and the boss being on a split screen.
• Status Quo is God: "Fracture" has the docs outright help Lamput when he gets a fracture and can't shapeshift properly. Any compassion the docs have for Lamput is gone by the end of the episode and they go back to chasing him.
• Stock Femur Bone: Lamput morphs into the shape of a stock femur bone in one episode while he is being held by Fat Doc right next to a dog. Predictably, the dog starts to chase after Fat Doc thinking Lamput is a real bone.
• Stocking Mask: In Season 3's "Reward", the docs resort to robbing bank to earn money to give to the lady asking for a reward for capturing Lamput. The docs wear black socks as masks with holes cut in them and find another crook wearing the same kind of mask.
• Super-Speed: In "Zoom Oil", the docs concoct a liquid that lets them run super fast.
• Superhero Episode: "Super Docs" is about Fat Doc and Slim Doc discovering the latter inadvertently brought superhero clothes home from the laundromat by mistake and using their abilities to aid in their chase after Lamput.
• Sweetie Graffiti: In "Cat", the building in the background has a heart symbol containing the text "T + M" etched into it. The people it refers to are unknown.
• Tally Marks on the Prison Wall:
  • In the Season 1 episode "Bank Robbery", Fat Doc is thrown into a prison cell whose back wall has tally marks scrawled onto it.
  • Two episodes later in "Prison Cell", the cell Lamput is put in has various writings from him on the wall, including tally marks indicating his number of near-escapes.
• Technicolor Science: The various potions and serums that are created and used by the docs and their fellow lab workers come in vivid colors.
• That Cloud Looks Like...: In Season 3's "Wig", the docs watch clouds together. Slim Doc thinks one cloud looks like Lamput, while Fat Doc thinks it looks like a heart.
• Thief Bag: The robber the docs find in the Season 3 episode "Reward" stashes a big bag of cash into his van (actually the docs' van; the docs reluctantly let him have the vehicle in exchange for some money earlier).
• Third-Party Peacekeeper: In the episode "The Split", Fat Doc and Slim Doc become irritated over how many times they've failed to catch Lamput and officially end their friendship, leaving Lamput himself to find a way to bring them back together. He tries to remind the docs how much they love each other, to no avail until they're stranded on an island by Lamput's antics.
• Three-Point Landing:
  • In "Martial Art", Lamput lands on both of his legs and an arm after he jumps behind the movie theater screen from the ceiling fan to grab his popcorn.
  • In "Diet Doc", Fat Doc lands this way when he puts his stronger muscles to good use chasing Lamput.
• Throat-Slitting Gesture: In "Basketball", Fat Doc makes this gesture at Mr. Moustache and his friend to say "you're going down" when Mr. Moustache challenges them to a basketball match.
• Tickle Torture: In "Martial Art", Lamput tickles Slim Doc's armpit to fend him off as the former is fighting the latter and Fat Doc martial arts-style.
• Time-Passage Beard: In "Cast Away", Slim Doc grows a beard as he spends time looking for the island where Fat Doc and Lamput are stranded.
• Title Theme Drop: The melody of what little there is of a theme song shows up as background music in a few episodes, usually at the end of the episode.
• Trademark Favorite Food: It's implied that fried chicken is Fat Doc's favorite food. In "Diet Doc", he resists the temptation to eat fried chicken to avoid ruining his diet before caving in, and in "Cast Away", one of the photos he carries with him shows him with a big bucket of fried chicken.
• Training Montage: Much of "Fracture" is built around the docs training Lamput back into health when he gets a fracture, which is presented as a montage complete with a song that sounds like "Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background.
• Trapped in a Sinking Car: The episode "Water", which mostly takes place in the docs' car with Lamput in the back, eventually has the car fall into the ocean. The docs are stuck with Lamput as the back of their vehicle fills with water, which a thirsty Lamput is quick to consume; the docs follow suit and the car soon surfaces to the top of the sea, where Lamput and the scientists continue their chase swimming.
• Trash-Can Band: One episode consists almost entirely of the docs banging on trash cans in a music-like rhythm trying to catch Lamput.
• Treadmill Trauma: In "Gym", Lamput is grabbed by the docs, who are both standing on treadmills. When Lamput turns the treadmills on and then amps up their speed, the docs can't keep up and are flung to the other side of the room.
• Trip Trap:
  • In one episode, Lamput stretches himself into a shape similar to a rope or tripwire to make Fat Doc trip.
  • In "Zoom Oil", Lamput uses his tripwire shape to stop the docs from catching him, causing them to roll as they lose control of themselves while their speed potions are at work.
• Twinkle Smile: One of the 15-second episodes has Fat Doc's mouth twinkling when he smiles as he is walking across a dance floor with some ladies who are impressed by his clothing (which is actually Lamput in disguise).
• Underwear Swimsuit: The episode "Skinny at the Pool" features an accidental version of this trope. Slim Doc, yet again attempting to catch Lamput, leaps over the wall of a barbed-wire topped pool wall, accidentally ripping off his uniform. This causes him to look like he's wearing a speedo, thus getting him mistaken for a contestant at a swimming race.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Lamput encounters a monster hiding in a coffin in "Haunted House". He's scared of it, but the docs are too busy searching for him to even notice and be scared as well.
• Villainous Gold Tooth: The recurring glasses-wearing thief, in his first appearance in "Rifle", has a gold tooth. He doesn't have one later on.
• Visible Invisibility: Zigzagged. In "Invisible Necklace", the docs steal a special necklace from a magician to turn themselves invisible. As they each take a turn wearing the necklace, they alternate between being visible as white dotted lines and being just plain invisible. When Lamput winds up with the magic item himself, though, he stays more consistently portrayed with white dotted lines.
• Voices Are Mental: In "Transfer Gun", the Boss and Lamput get their bodies swapped, and Lamput gains the Boss's deep-pitched gibberish speech while the Boss gets Lamput's higher-pitched voice.
• Volumetric Mouth: At the beginning of "Thief", when the thief steals Ms. Lipstick's purse, she screams and her mouth covers her entire face.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting:
  • Lamput can change the shape of his body to escape from the scientists.
  • The scientists themselves create and use a liquid that gives them this same shapeshifting ability in the episode "Shape Shift".
• "Wanted!" Poster: Several episodes feature Lamput on a wanted poster. In one episode, Lamput writes "REWARD $$$" on the bottom of one of these posters and causes Fat Doc and Slim Doc to fight over who should get the money for turning him in.
• Whole Episode Flashback: The episode "Origins" consists primarily of a flashback showing how the docs met when they were young.
• Wingding Eyes:
  • In one episode, Fat Doc's eyes become X's when Slim Doc hits him with a bat, mistaking him for Lamput since he accidentally covered himself in orange paint.
  • In another episode, Lamput's eyes are represented as heart shapes as he is admiring a woman sitting in front of him on the bus.
• Work Off the Debt: At the end of "Lamput Checks In", Lamput escapes from the docs once more, but the docs themselves, who are in a hotel diner, are held off by hotel officials who notice they had ordered a chicken and ask them to pay. The docs don't have any money, so they're forced to wash dishes to pay off the debt.

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