Mike, Lu & Og

Mike, Lu & Og was a Russian/American animated television series produced created by Chuck Swenson and produced by Kinofilm Studios that ran on Cartoon Network. The show was the seventh Cartoon Cartoon, and was based on a Cartoon Cartoon short that premiered on November 6, 1998. The series premiered on November 12, 1999 (along with Courage the Cowardly Dog) and 26 half-hour episodes were produced, featuring two stories per episode. The final episode aired on May 27th, 2001, and the series was not picked up for a third season, making it the first Cartoon Cartoon series to end its production.
Reruns of the show aired from 2001-2003 on Cartoon Network. Reruns of Mike, Lu, and Og also aired on Boomerang beginning from June 5th, 2006, though eventually stopped airing in March 2011.
== Plot ==
The show follows a girl named Mike, a foreign exchange student from Manhattan; a stuck up island princess named Lu; and a native boy and gifted inventor named Og. The trio takes part in a variety of adventures as Mike and the island's natives share their customs with each other.
Mike applied as a foreign exchange student, and on a lark asked to be sent to a tropical island (which has the strange capability to sink and pop up "like a cork" a few moments later every "few hundred years or so"). She found herself dumped on a forgotten, barely mapped island populated by descendants of a British shipwreck (which is why Lu and Og, and their parents, speak perfect English). This island may be based on the real-life Pitcairn Island. The Castaways have "gone native" and are trying to behave like Polynesians, with varying degrees of success.
== Characters ==
*Mike (voiced by Nika Futterman)
*Lu (voiced by Nancy Cartwright)
*Lancelot (silent)
*Og (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker)
*Goat (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker)
*Pig (voiced by Kath Soucie)
*Spiney (voiced by Martin Rayner)
*Wendell (voiced by S. Scott Bullock)
*Alfred (voiced by Martin Rayner)
*Margery (voiced by Kath Soucie)
*Wombat (silent)
*Old Queeks (voiced by Corey Burton)
*Pirates
**Captain (voiced by Brian George)
**First Mate (voiced by Martin Rayner)
**Bos’n (voiced by Corey Burton)
*Cuzzlewits
**Hermione (voiced by Alison Larkin)
**Haggis & Baggis (voiced by Brian George and S. Scott Bullock)
== Series Overview ==
Series Overview 
Pilot	Pilot	premiere: 	finale:
1 	13 	November 12th, 1999	April 21st, 2000
2 	13 	January 7th, 2001 	May 29th, 2001
Season 1 (1999-2000)
number 
in series;	number 
in season:	Name: 	original airdate:
1 	1 	Sultans of Swat/Tea for Three 	November 12th, 1999
2 	2 	The Tube/Roller Madness 	November 19th, 1999
3 	3 	Losing Lancelot/Buzz Cut 	November 26th, 1999
4 	4 	Elephant Walk/Palm Pet 	December 3rd, 1999
5 	5 	Yo, Ho, Who?/A Boy's Game 	December 10th, 1999
6 	6 	Whole Lotta Shakin’/The Mother of All
Marathons	December 17th, 1999
7 	7 	Hot Couture/Opposites Attack 	January 7th, 2000
8 	8 	Scopin' Out/The Good Ship Bad 	January 14th, 2000
9 	9 	High Rise/The Great Snipe Hunt 	January 21st, 2000
10	10	Nobody's Nose/Scuba Doobie Doo 	January 24th, 2000
11	11	Jujubombs/Turtle Soup 	January 28th, 2000
12	12	A Bicycle Built for Me/Crowded House	April 14th, 2000
13	13	High Camp/Sneeze, Please 	April 21st, 2000
Season 2 (2001)
number in
series:	number in
season:	name: 	original airdate:
14	1 	A Learning Experience/We the People 	January 7th, 2001
15	2 	Money/Repeat After Me 	January 14th, 2001
16	3 	Thanks, but No Thanks/Hot Dog 	January 21st, 2001
17	4 	That Sinking Feeling/Father’s Day 	February 4th, 2001
18	5 	Giant Steps/Night of the Living Ancestors 	February 18th, 2001
19	6 	For the Love of Mike/Sparks 	March 4th, 2001
20	7 	Brave Sir Lancelot/The Big Game 	April 29th, 2001
21	8 	Flustering Footwear Flotsam/Fathers and Pies 	May 6th, 2001
22	9 	Queeks, Queeks, Who’s Got the Queeks?/Alfred, Lord of the Jungle	May 13th, 2001
23	10	The King of Curtains/Margery the Duck 	May 20th, 2001
24	11	A Freudian Split/Fitness Fever 	May 20th, 2001
25	12	The Hunter and the Hunted/To Serve Lu 	May 27th, 2001
26	13	The Three Amigas/Sleeping Ugly 	May 27th, 2001
== Appearances in other media ==
Og made a small cameo in Cartoon Network's 20th anniversary birthday party bumper, where he is seen dancing.
Lu made a cameo appearance in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus, where she appears as one of the Cartoon Network heroes that were summoned and defeated by Strike, the episode's main antagonist.
== Home Media ==
Mike, Lu & Og spawned a DVD volume containing 3 episodes in the UK.
The series was re-released on Demand in 2017 and later on HBO Max in Latin America on March 2022.
== Broadcast History ==
Cartoon Network (original run: 1999-2001; re-runs: 2001-2003)
Boomerang (re-runs: 2006-2011)
== Gallery ==
Mike, Lu and Og UK DVD.jpg|UK DVD release
Mike, Lu and Og on Demand cover.jpg|On demand cover
IMG 6461.jpg|Lu as stone in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus
4ee7326ea2dd421246787ba2449293fc.jpg|The scrapped Mike, Lu and Og cereal which is made by Kellog's
Mlo05.jpg|Lu's model sheet
Dgsfgdf.jpg|Mike's model sheet
Gdgdg.jpg|Mike's turn around model sheet
Mlo04.jpg|Mike's construction model sheet
Char1.jpg|Mike as seen in a character page from the former Cartoon Network Department of Cartoons character page for the series
File:Mike, Lu & Og HBO Max vertical.jpg|HBO Max cover
File:Mike, Lu & Og HBO Max horizontal image.jpg|horizontal version of the HBO Max cover
File:Mike,Lu,andOgproductioncel.jpeg
File:AnotherMikeLuandOgproductioncel.jpeg
File:MikeLuandOgOctober5th2001airing.jpeg|an airing of Jujubombs/Turtle Stew on October 5th, 2001
File:MikeLuandOgUpnextbumperfromTooncast.jpeg|Coming Up Next bumper from Tooncast
File:MikeLuandOgJanuary12th2003airing.jpeg|An airing of Whole Lotta Shakin'/The Mother of All Marathons on January 12th, 2003
== Trivia ==
* Mike, Lu, & Og was one of the first two original Cartoon Network Shows to be added to the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays block line-up, the other show being Courage the Cowardly Dog (which aired right after Mike, Lu & Og).
* Mike, Lu & Og was the second-to last original Cartoon Network program to premiere in the 1990's (the last one being Courage the Cowardly Dog).
* It's also the fourth Cartoon Network Original Series that was never made by Cartoon Network Studios, the first three being Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Big Bag, and Ed, Edd n Eddy.
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