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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. Many episodes followed a similar formula, with Mike lamenting the absence of a modern luxury or convenience, prompting Og to build it out of [[Bamboo Technology|whatever materials he has to hand]]. From there, the invention would either be exploited by Lu, or cause massive disruption to island life, and in either event will end up getting destroyed.
The least successful of CN's original 8, It lasted at least two seasons before ending.
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* [[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.
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* [[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".
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Invoked. Og creates many modern necessities at Mike's request...with [[Bamboo Technology]] of course.
** Plus Lu and Herminoe are dressed in modern
* [[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.
* [[Bamboo Technology]]: Og's inventions.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't call Mike by her real name (Michelanne).
* [[Big Eater]]: Wendel. In one episode when he
** 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
** Queeks himself
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: At the end of "Giant Steps"
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** Also in the [[What a Cartoon]] pilot, where a [[Narrator]] introduces us to the kids. Mike then remarks "Is he talking about us?"
* [[Bumbling Dad]]: Alfred and Wendell.
* [[Cave Behind the Falls]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in "Brave Sir Lancelot"
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* [[Child Prodigy]]: Og.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Everyone sans Mike.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mike to a T.
* [[Deranged Animation]]: ''"No room for you!"''
** Look at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20050219210048/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.
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]: Goat and Pig.
** Averted with Spiney (a porcupine).
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The germ monster from "Sneeze Please".
* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: Alfred. Bonus points for the fact he's a hunter.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]] : Everyone at the end of "Repeat After Me".
* [[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").
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* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Mike.
* [[Flash Back]]: In "Flustrering Footwear Flotsam", Mike relates to the [[Faux Horrific|horrors]] of shoe shopping when she lived in New York told through still pictures. There is even [[Same Clothes, Different Year|a picture of her as a toddler crying.]]
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* [[Foot Focus]]: There's plenty to go around, folks!
* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]
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* [[Funny Animal]]: The goat, the pig, and the porcupine are rather fond of discussing philosophy.
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: Lu with Jujubombs.
** Also in "Hot Dog" where
* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Queeks
* [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: In "Losing Lancelot", while Lu is running, we're treated to a closeup of her feet to see ants running away screaming.
* [[I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham]]: Lu when it comes to a new modern fad. Take "Jujubombs" for example.
** And from "Hot Dog"
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* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: The pirates
* [[Intellectual Animal]]: The goat, the pig, and the porcupine
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* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: 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:
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'''Lu''': ''[beat]'' The red one. }}
* [[Missing Episode]]: The ''[[What a Cartoon]]'' pilot.
* [[Multi Character Title]]
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Co-creator Mikhail Aldahin's film "Poumse", the partial inspiration for the show, was about a
* [[Not in Front of
* [[The One Who Wears Shoes]]: Mike. Possibly the ONLY human example!
* [[Off-Model]]: Sometimes, Mike is drawn with buck teeth like the other islanders. Other times a character's eyebrows may be thicker for one shot.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Mike
** Og, Queeks, and the animals to a lesser extent.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: [[
* [[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 [[Hypocritical Humor|self-centered, old hag".]] Guess whose ghost was behind her.
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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Mike in "Sultans Of Swat"
** Og in "Hot Dog".
* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a
* [[Seldom-Seen Species]]: You don't see Wombats that much outside of Australian Media.
* [[Serious Business]]: Mike with baseball.
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'''Mike''': Only a game? ONLY A GAME?!? Baseball is not only a game! Baseball is THE game! }}
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: "Giant Steps".
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** Same goes for Lu when she told Mike to trim her toenails in "To Serve Lu"
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]:
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* [[Taken for Granite]]: While planning a party Lu gets coated with hard candy by Mike and Og (since they're sick of her [[G-Rated Drug|jujubomb addiction]]), and becomes her own
** A nice aspect is that she doesn't really mind, licking her own lips to taste all the candy she wants.
* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
* [[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
* [[Theme Initials]]: Mike's {{spoiler|former}} friends from New York are named Melissa and Max.
* [[Through a Face Full of Fur]]: Og's face turns bright red with anger in "Hot Dog".
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