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A [[Cartoon Network (Creator)|Cartoon Network]] original from back in 1999. The show's premise was that an urban girl named [[Tomboyish Name|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.
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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 Withwith Princesses]]: Lu definitely thinks so. Mike, not so much.
* [[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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* [[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".
* [[Not in Front of Thethe Parrot]]: "Repeat After Me".
* [[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]]: [[Kath Soucie (Creator)|Kath Soucie]] filled in for a few lines as Lu (normally voiced by [[Nancy Cartwright]]) in "Roller Madness".
* [[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 Senior!|Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior!]] Queeks
* [[Seldom-Seen Species]]: You don't see Wombats that much outside of Australian Media.
* [[Serious Business]]: Mike with baseball.
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