A Cartoon Network original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named Mike (Nika Futterman) 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 (Dee Bradley Baker) and a princess (or so she says) named Lu (Nancy Cartwright) 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.
Accidental Public Confession: 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".
All Animals Are Dogs: Lu keeps Lancelot on a leash and makes yelping sounds when trying to communicate.
Amusing Injuries: Alfred getting squashed flat in "Fathers And Pies".
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.
Authority In Name Only: Nobody takes Wendell, the governor seriously, mostly because he really does not have any politics to do. Ditto for "Princess" Lu.
Berserk Button: Don't call Mike by her real name (Michelanne).
Big Eater: 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.
Bolt of Divine Retribution: 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".
Does Not Like Shoes: In one episode, a cargo box of shoes washes ashore. While Mike (who hates shoes) could care less, the islanders go nuts for them. It doesn't work out so well.
Freudian Couch: 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.).
Funny Animal: The goat, the pig, and the porcupine are rather fond of discussing philosophy.
Mythology Gag: 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".
A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: The island has a trio of pirates who are the shipwrecked descendants of the pirates who shipwrecked the island's other inhabitants.
Right Behind Me: In "Night Of The Living Ancestors", Lu is badmouthing her deceased Aunt Lulu, calling her a self-centered, old hag". Guess whose ghost was behind her.
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.
Strong Family Resemblance: 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.
Sudden Anatomy: 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"
Taken for Granite: While planning a party Lu gets coated with hard candy by Mike and Og (since they're sick of her 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.
The Tetris Effect: In-universe. Og creates a Game Boy out of Bamboo Technology and gets hooked on it to the point of playing it out during a hurricane and neglecting the island's defenses.
Theme Initials: Mike's former friends from New York are named Melissa and Max.
Vocal Dissonance: 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.
Wild Child: The Cuzzlewitz kids, Haggis and Baggis. Subverted with their sister, Hermione.
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