Mike, Lu & Og is an American animated television series created by Mikhail Shindel, Mikhail Aldashin, and Charles Swenson for Cartoon Network, and the 7th of the network's Cartoon Cartoons. The series follows a foreign exchange student from Manhattan named Mike, a self-appointed island princess named Lu, and a boy-genius named Og. The trio take part in various adventures as Mike and the island's natives share their customs with each other.
Before its cancellation, fifty-two eleven-minute episodes were produced by Mikhail Shindel's Kinofilm Animation in Los Angeles and animated by Mikhail Aldashin at Studio Pilot in Russia, featuring two stories per episode. The series features voice actors Nika Futterman as Mike, Nancy Cartwright as Lu, and Dee Bradley Baker as Og. Its distinctive visual style is similar to that of shows animated by Klasky Csupo, such as Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Duckman, and early seasons of The Simpsons, due to its crudely drawn look; Swenson worked on Rugrats and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters prior to creating this series.
Reruns were broadcast on Boomerang from 2006 to 2011. On November 6, 2017, the series was added to Cartoon Network on Demand. as well as on Max in some regions.
Characters
thumb|left|From left to right: Lu, Mike, and Og.
- (voiced by Nika Futterman) is an 11-year-old Manhattan-born girl who enjoys the features of the tropical island, but misses the life she had in New York and, as revealed in a particular instance, her school. Fortunately, Og is able to recreate many of the things that Mike misses most about the United States, at one instance creating a television.
- (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is a 10-year-old self-proclaimed princess of the island, Og's cousin and Alfred and Margery's niece. She is characterized by her loud and arrogant nature, and continually exploits Mike, Og, and her pet turtle, Lancelot. Og, being sagacious to a fault, frequently obliges to her will, even at the cost of her own well-being. Though she has a habit of tormenting everyone, she usually learns a lesson in humility by the end of each episode. Lu's unruly behavior is most likely a result of poor parenting on the part of her father, Wendell.
- Lancelot is Lu's long-suffering pet land turtle. She dresses him up in gaudy outfits, forces him to perform weird and dangerous stunts, and often makes him carry Lu on her back. For this reason, Lancelot is always running away from Lu, which is why she keeps him on a leash. Despite this abuse, Lancelot tends to be the savior of Mike and the Islanders (especially Lu) when they are in trouble. Like the other animals on the island, Lancelot tends to exercise more common sense than the humans. Unlike the members of the Philosophical Society, he does not speak (except for a "squeaky" scream when Lancelot is in danger or a snickering laugh and in "Night of the Living Relatives" where he shouted "BOO" to scare Lu).
- (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) is a 7-year-old In January 1999, Cartoon Network announced that three new original series would premiere on the network: Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and Mike, Lu & Og. Mike, Lu & Og was set to premiere in November of that year with 13 episodes. According to Animation World Magazine, the series premiere date was set for November 12, 1999, and would be produced simultaneously at Pilot Studio in Moscow and Kinofilm in Los Angeles. Previews for Mike, Lu & Og were shown in American movie theaters before Pokémon: The First Movie. The series ran on Cartoon Network from November 12, 1999, to May 27, 2001, airing 26 half-hour episodes in total. A video game deal between Cartoon Network and Majesco Entertainment featuring characters from the series was announced for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance handheld console in May 2002 but ultimately never released.
Series overview
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Episodes
This is a list of episodes from the animated series Mike, Lu & Og. The show ran for two seasons consisting of 13 episodes, each with two 11-minute segments.