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The show centers around Ataru Moroboshi, an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who happens to be both the unluckiest and most perverted man in the world, possibly the entire universe. He is chosen by lot to challenge a band of alien invaders in a game of tag to decide the fate of the Earth. His opponent: the lovely [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess Lum]], daughter of the invaders' leader, Mister Invader. After several false starts, it takes a promise of marriage by his long-suffering girlfriend and [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|childhood companion]] Shinobu to bolster him to victory. Unfortunately, after his triumphant declaration of "Now I can get married!", Lum thinks Ataru wants to marry ''her'', falls ''instantly'' in love with him... and the rest is history. Lum moves in with her "Darling" Ataru, and before long, the district of Tomobiki has become a hotbed for intergalactic weirdness involving Lum's friends and relatives, with Ataru stuck in the middle.

 

 

If ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' is the first [[Pretty Freeloaders]]-style comedy, UY is one of the earliest tongue-in-cheek [[Harem Comedy|harem comedies]], combining its outlandish premise to spice up deceptively typical plots, as well as parody the genre nearly a decade ''before'' the fact. It even manages to invert the genre it helped create (instead of one low-key guy being chased by every girl in sight and in the end choosing one, it's about a perverted guy who chases every girl in sight... except for the one girl in the universe who can actually stand to be around him).

The manga ran weekly from 1978 to 1987. It spawned an TV anime that aired 196 episodes between 1981 and 1986, as well as 6 theatrical movies (4 produced during the anime's run, one shortly after it ended, and a tenth-anniversary movie, the unusually offbeat ''Always My Darling''), and a dozen OVA's on top of that. The anime is notable for being the first major project helmed by acclaimed director [[Mamoru Oshii]]; indeed, the second film in this franchise, ''Beautiful Dreamer'', is considered by many fans to be one of his finest.

 

 

* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: A lot of Sakura's off duty outfits, also a feature of the outfit Oyuki wears under her winter Kimono.

* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Ryoko on Tobimaro.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Mr Fujinami and Ran's mother.

* [[Alien Invasion]]: The main premise of the series. At first.

* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: The chapter where Lum gets hit in the head and loses her memory of Japanese and can only speak the oni language is a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when Ataru: allowing the tears to flow freely for the first time: embraces her and begs her to remember it.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Ataru, in spades. In the 10th anniversary movie ''Always My Darling'', Princess Lupika's computer pinpoints him as the most lecherous man in the universe.

** Hell, ''every'' teenager in the series (and Ten) is a pervert except Inaba, Rei, Tobimaro, {{spoiler|Nagisa}} and certain one-shot characters.

* [[Animation Bump]]: There's a noticeable bump between season one and two, especially if you look at the chase scenes.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Ataru.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Ran seems to like it on Earth when being a kawaiiko student, seeing as she still attends Tomobiki High even after she mostly gives up on her revenge against Lum. Mostly being the keyword. In a subversion, she's still bitter, shrewish and violent on the inside.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: A strange case in that the show itself is not an example, but rather the reason ''for the trope coming into existence'' (for anime, anyway)! [[Rumiko Takahashi]] intended for the [[Official Couple]] to be Ataru and Shinobu... until the [[Executive Meddling|editor]] and [[Ensemble Darkhorse|the general public]] made it known to her that they preferred Lum to Shinobu. While Takahashi herself has stated her great liking for Lum since, and has no ill-feelings towards the Lum & Ataru pairing, she created the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] in every manga since to prevent any fan/editor hijacking of her romantic interests (ironically, though, [[Maison Ikkoku|every]] [[One Pound Gospel|intended]] [[Ranma ½|couple]] [[Inuyasha|since]] has been the favorite of fans and editors anyway, so one has to wonder if there's really a need at all for her to do this, and if she just didn't realize the storytelling gold she had with Ataru and Lum at the beginning).

* [[Berserk Button]]: In the "Kotaru the haunted kotatsu" storyline, information from Mendou is required. He arrives, in full samurai garb, katana at the ready, 0.1 second after Ataru yells out, [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken|"MENDOU YOU SISSY!!!"]]

** Do ''NOT'' spill the principal's tea.

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Shinobu and Lum.

** And Rei, especially when [[Stealth Pun|he gets big]].

* [[Big Fancy House]]: Complete with ''multiple'' [[The Thing That Goes Doink|things that go doink]]

* [[Biker Babe]]: Benten

* [[Biological Mashup]]: Ataru and a notebook. Seriously.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Parodied with Asuka, who would likely be the one to break anyone in half. Now, if only her nemesis wasn't Ataru...

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Subversion: the extremely sheltered Asuka fears all men except her "big brother" ("a special kind of man who is just like you!"). She considers Mendou (her fiance due to a family agreement) her brother because she heard Ryoko refer to him as such once and Ryuunosuke, since she was wearing her sarashi that matched her actual brother Tobimaro's. Guess which "brother" has to endure rib-crushing hugs in his bed or bath? Hint: he's rather terrified of this and their mother blames it on ''him''.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Ataru, Ran, Tobimaro, Onsen-Mark, Sugar, Ginger and Pepper. To a lesser extent, Mendou, Ryuunosuke and Cherry.

** [[Iron Butt Monkey]]: Poor Ataru.

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Ryuunosuke, [[Beyond the Impossible|several]] times a day.

* [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]]: Ataru, partly because Lum would likely consider as his submission to their "marriage".

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Ataru.

{{quote|'''Ataru''': "Ojooooou-chan! Let's go on a date! / What's your address and phone number?"

'''Lum''': "DAAAAAAAAAHHHHHLING!" "DIVINE RETRIBUTION!" ''(while zapping Ataru)''

** Ataru might also qualify, given his ability to survive crushing, severe beatings and sundry other trauma, and of course Lum's electric shocks, as well as performing some epic gymnastic feats to avoid them.

* [[Chew Toy]]: Ataru.

** Also [[Even the Girls Want Her|Ryunnosuke]]. [[Bifauxnen|Being female]] is evidently no obstacle in becoming the school's most desired [[Bishonen]].

{{quote|'''Girl:''' Gorgeous!

'''Guy:''' Uh...you know that's a ''girl'', right?

'''Girl:''' Oh, we know. She's dreamy, isn't she? }}

** And the plot of the first movie, ''Only You'', where a six year old Ataru plays shadow tag with Elle, who he later learns comes from a planet where stepping on someone's shadow is considered a marriage proposal.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Mr Hanawa.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Both Lum and Shinobu, to Ataru and Mendou, respectively, though Shinobu starts out as one to Ataru.

* [[Closet Sublet]]: Lum, at first.

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Everybody that shows up on screen. ''Everybody''.

** Except maybe Kitsune. ''Maybe''.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Sakura, when she feels like it. Ten seems to consider Lum his Cool Big Cousin.

* [[Cool Bike]]: Benten's rocket cycle.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Lum nearly always carries around some kid of weird alien device is useful to the situation at hand (and usually it makes the trouble one hundred times worse). It is also lampshaded: during one Christmas party in Mendo's manor, Ryoko -Shutaro's little sister- has planted several dozen of bombs around the place (in revenge for not getting invited to the party by her brother). Lum says she has an explosive detector, and Ataru asks if she always carries one around.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Ataru. Seriously, this guy has groped pretty much ''every'' female character in the series, mostly against their will. [[Super Strength|Given]] [[Bare-Fisted Monk|what]] [[Shock and Awe|they]] [[An Ice Person|can]] [[Badass|do]], that's an impressive feat.

* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Yes, Ataru, I'm sure it ''totally sucks'' to have a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Green Haired Space Babe]] girlfriend.

** [[Blessed with Suck]]: ...Who can fly, is a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]], and has a built-in taser that she uses repeatedly on him if he so much as ''looks'' at another girl. Shit, they can't even sleep in the same bed together without him getting electrocuted every few seconds (accidentally, for once).

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Ran and Ryoko are definitely this.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Subverted with Shinobu, who can juggle desks easily, but believes herself to be a [[Yamato Nadeshiko|fragile sweet little schoolgirl]].

** Also one of the Spice Girls tried highlight Ataru as a potential "Weak point" of Lum by throwing a dart at a board with pictures of Lum, Oyuki, Benten, plus Ataru on it. The dart of course missed forcing her to walk over to the dartboard and move it over.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Ataru forms one entirely by ''accident'' with a repeated running pattern matching a demon's personal crest for 13 days and a [["V" Sign]], if you'll believe that.

* [[Deliberately Cute Child]] : Ten.

* [[Depraved Dentist]]: {{spoiler|Lum (not really a spoiler, just funny)}}

* [[The Ditz]]: Tsubame and Rei.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Inaba starts out as a decidedly non-threatening version of this towards {{spoiler|Shinobu}}. She eventually reciprocates. Rupa in the 5th movie is a much more aggressive version towards Lum.

* [[Dork Horse Candidate]]: Ataru

* [[Double Standard]]: Really messed with in some of the Ryuunosuke/Nagisa bits: Culminating in the fight between Ryu (Girl raised as a boy, and looking really masculine) and Nagisa (Boy raised as a girl wearing a dress and looking feminine in it).

* [[Dude Magnet]]: The male population of Tomobiki High School would all give an arm and a leg to have a chance with Lum, not counting her various alien suitors.

* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]: Kurama

** Not to mention how the tradition of her people even started.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Rei

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Where to even ''start''? Of course, it's all [[Played for Laughs]].

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: "[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|My name is Shutaro Mendou and I will soon become a regular character on this show.]]"

* [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]]

* [[The Eighties]]: Even if the manga was started in [[The Seventies]], the anime smacks of this. Just watch the second opening; it's Lum and the gang ''disco-dancing''.

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: One episode transports Lum, Ataru and Ten into the past, where a dinosaur mistakes Ten for its hatched egg and the egg believes Lum to be its mom.

* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: The second episode involves the neighborhood being overrun with them.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Aside from Lum, Oyuki and Benten qualify as queen and goddess.

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Nearly every character is in love/obsessed with one of the other characters, and their actions are usually driven by this. But no one is ever, ever allowed to get together with the object of their affections, since that would kill their motivations. Hints may be dropped, and there may even be temporary romances, but no one ever "officially" gets together, and any attempts at doing so will result in a breakup by the end of a given episode.

** {{spoiler|Applies most heavily to Lum's eternal quest to get Ataru to admit he loves her. The very last story in the entire series ends with an angry mob threatening to beat Ataru senseless if he doesn't say it. Ataru chooses the beating.}}

* [[Fan Girl]]: Mendou has a formal organization of fangirls following his every move, ready to punish Ataru for any perceived infraction against him.

** [[Fan Boy]]: Lum has much the same. The subtitles refer to them as Lum's Stormtroopers, a term that also caught on with the fandom.

*** Both groups are equally horrified when it seems that Lum and Mendou are going to get together; they actually turn to Ataru for help, because a) Lum is the one girl Mendou shows serious interest in throughout the whole story (in the Destiny Production Bureau Arc, one future shows him and Lum happily married, with Ataru as their retainer) and b) outwardly, Mendou is close to perfection in looks, intelligence, and money, making it harder to constantly point out how unsuitable he is for Lum. Again, this proved to be [[Not What It Looks Like|a misunderstanding]].

* [[Four-Girl Ensemble]]: Starring Lum, Oyuki, Benten and Ran.

* [[Franchise Zombie]]: A rarity for a Takahashi series, which are usually ''far'' more likely to be [[Cut Short]] after [[Overtook the Manga|catching up to the source material]] and devolving into [[Filler]]. This show has the biggest episode count of any Takahashi series to date (196 episodes) and ended about the same time as the manga did. OVA's continued to be produced for years after the series ended, as were two more movies.

* [[Fur Bikini]]: Lum's outfit, based on the legends of oni wearing tiger skins.

* [[Gag Dub]]: [[The BBC]] made one in 1998 called ''Lum the Invader Girl''. Only two episodes are known to exist.

* [[Generic Cuteness]]: Shinobu.

* [[The Generic Guy]]: Kosuke in the manga.

* [[Gonk]]: Cherry, especially emphasized by his sudden entrances and close-ups. Sakura's mom, who looks like Cherry with hair. And, of course, Shinobu's highly persistent suitor, Soban from Busumetsu High, who raises this trope [[Up to Eleven]].

** And in just about every theme song: "Dancing, dancing star"; "You are watching me, I am watching you"; etc. Some of the theme songs are sung partially or entirely in English (i.e. "Rock the Planet").

* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: In one manga chapter, Ataru rushed out of his home through the nearest exit. Instants later he noticed: that exit was not a door but a window; and he could not fly. After he has hit the ground, Lum floats down to him and states: "For one second I believed you had learnt to fly."

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Ran, Ran and have I mentioned Ran?

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Though rich, popular and good looking, Mendou is just as big a pervert as Ataru.

* [[Harem Anime]]: Well, sort of. Ataru wants one, but none of the girls want to be in one. Could be considered the [[Unbuilt Trope]] version where ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]!'' was the [[Trope Codifier|Codifier]].

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Tobimaro, complete with [[Hotblooded Sideburns]] even. He's an utter [[Butt Monkey]], however.

* [[Human Aliens]]: Averted with every alien aside from the important characters. Most aliens look nothing humanoid: see the omiai chapter/episode and take a good look at Lum's would-be suitors aside from Uni and the Prince of the Underground.

* [[An Ice Person]]: [[Meaningful Name|Oyuki]], the Queen of Neptune.

* [[Idiots Cannot Catch Colds]]: Ataru.

* [[Innocent Bystander]]: Subverted, Ryoko often poses as one.

* [[Instant Fanclub]]: Lum, naturally.

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Uber-bishonen [[Chick Magnet|Rei]] turns into an ''ushitora'' (a very large, goofy and stupid-looking cross between a tiger and a bull) whenever excited. And that means whenever lots of food is in front of him. Or, early on, whenever his ex-fiancee, Lum, spurns him. The only girl it doesn't bother at all is Ran... and even the girls who see both of his forms still aren't entirely against the prospect of romancing him.

* [[Jerkass]]: Pretty much everyone in the series at some point.

* [[Kidanova]]: Ten charms lots of girls with his cuteness. Also, one of his dreams is marrying Sakura.

* [[Kid Samurai]]: Mendou, who keeps a katana in his locker and Tobimaro, who leads a hermit lifestyle in the mountains and always wears a ragged samurai robe.

* [[Kiss of Death]]: Ran

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Mr Fujinami, Oyuki, and Ryoko. Heck, everyone had this at some point.

* [[Mega Neko]]: Kotatsu-neko

* [[The Men in Black]]: Pretty much everyone at the Mendou estate aside from the family themselves. (the men in black glasses and the kuroko).

* [[Miko]]: Sakura

* [[Milholland Relationship Moment]]

** Some letters that Ryuunosuke finds imply that Masako died in childbirth. It's never revealed if those letters were valid or not though.

* [[Miyamoto Musashi]]: The Heian Era segments reenact this, with Onsen-Mark as Musashi, Ataru as a [[Big Eater]] and petty criminal posing as Musashi and Mendou as Kojiro.

* [[Morphic Resonance]]: Kitsune transforms into the other characters by essentially becoming slightly more human-like, losing the tail and putting on the same outfit and hairstyle as the person he wants to turn into. It never fools anyone, but everyone plays along since he's so cute.

* [[The Movie]]: Six of them (the most of any Takahashi series to date).

** Well most of the alien girls like outfits that are very swimsuit like: Ran occasionally dons a pink bikini outfit, Oyuki has a crystal surfaced one with [[Absolute Cleavage]] (though she usually wears a kimono), and Kurama a black one piece front laced corset type outfit.

* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Ran's default reaction to anyone who gets within ten feet of Rei.

** One musical cue for the series resembles the chorus of [[The Beatles]]' "Your Mother Should Know" quite closely.

** Another musical cue used in mood-establishing shots beginning around halfway through the series is pretty much a slow piano rendition of [[The Beatles]]' "Fool On The Hill".

* [[Not So Harmless]]: The [[Big Bad]] of the second film, [[Meaningful Name|Mujaki]]. Once revealed about three-quarters of the way through the movie, he comes across as an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] who is only trying to do good (his character design reflects this, as he's drawn as a shrunken old man). However, he tricks [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Sakura]] and [[The Rival|Mendou]] through this act (trapping them in an ''[[And I Must Scream|aquarium]]''), though he ends up cornered by ''[[Chivalrous Pervert|Ataru]]'' of all people. He proceeds to put Ataru through a series of increasingly cruel [[Mind Rape]] scenarios, culminating in a threat that he will ''never'' allow him to leave the dream world. He's only defeated when he decides that keeping up with [[The Power of Love|Lum and Ataru]] is too much trouble, and leaves of his own accord.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Several. One of the most memorable being Megane when he sees Oyuki's yeti friend in episode 8.

* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: The [[Big Bad]] of the second movie, ''Beautiful Dreamer'', is explicitly stated to be a demon (and it's implied by Sakura that he might be [[Satan|The Devil]] himself), though his powers and attitude are more reminiscent of [[The Fair Folk]].

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Well, they have the same drink-blood mentality, powers, and weaknesses, but they are far more pathetic than most people are used to...

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Ataru's parents ''wish'' they could invoke this trope, but really the best example would have to be Jariten, whose mother briefly shows up in just one early episode and then is never seen again. We also never get to see Shinobu's parents (unique among the four leads).

* [[Playboy Bunny]]: The standard uniform for female employees of the Destiny Production Bureau. Males get slightly frumpy rabbit suits.

* [[Playing with Fire]]: Ten

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Ataru and Mendou; Benten and Oyuki.

* [[Red String of Fate]]: Ataru has one on each of his fingers.

* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: Though he has no hat, Tsubame always wears his wizard cape.

* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Rupa in the 5th movie, once Lum finally gives Ataru the ultimatum to say he loves her or she's staying on the World of Darkness. In a subversion, she obviously doesn't like him as anything more than a casual friend, and that's after he stops trying to force her into marriage. In a twist, Lum is actually his Romantic False Lead as well.

* [[Say My Name]]: All together now! "DAAAAAAAAARLIIIIING!!!" "AAAAAAATARUUUUUU!!!" "MOROBOSHIIIIIIIIII!!!" "LUM-SAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!" "MASAKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" <s>"I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT! LOUD NOISES!!!"</s>

* [[School Festival]]: The events of ''Beautiful Dreamer'' are framed by one.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Mendou, plus his sister Ryoko on occasion.

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: The crow-tengus set a few for Ryuunosuke, since they're looking for a groom for Kurama who has good character in addition to looks. She passes. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** For Tobimaro, playing baseball is serious business, seeing as he lives in the mountains and practices... to no avail... well, he gains the ability to eat plenty of balls, but that's it.

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Lum

** [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET]] and the [[Alien (franchise)|xenomorph]] both appear at Ryoko's masquerade ball.

** Megane's room has a poster of Spock from [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Wrath of Khan]] (plus about a dozen posters of Lum, naturally).

** In the first film, when Lum arrives at the church to stop Ataru and Elle getting married, her pounding on the glass and yelling out "Darling!" numerous times is very much like the climatic scene from ''[[The Graduate]]''.

* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tTnQbecpE What Ataru does to Lum at the end of the seventh ending theme.]

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Benten

* [[Snap Back]]: What do you ''expect'' from a long-running Takahashi romantic comedy?

* [[Snow Means Cold]]: Oyuki's mere presence will always cool a room down.

* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]: Lum

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Mendo/Mendou.

* [[Talking Animal]]: Kitsune

* [[Terrible Trio]]: Sugar, Ginger and Pepper.

* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: Ataru is unlucky but he wins the presidency of his class against Mendo and once he is kissed by Rin (the kiss is supposed to be bad for him, but it doesn't work).

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Benten and Oyuki.

** And a transforming Rei [[Incredibly Lame Pun|just for grins]].

* [[Tsundere]]: Shinobu "MEN BE DAMNED!!!" Miyake ''and'' Lum.

* [[Two-Teacher School]]: The only regular teacher we regularly see is Onsen-Mark. Beyond him, the only school staff we see are the headmaster and Sakura.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Lum's parents, although in one flashback it was shown that before they were married, Mister Invader [[I Was Quite a Looker|wasn't bad-looking]]. Ataru's mom seems to think this about her marriage, with her melodramatic soliloquy about her wasting her life on "an idiot son and a good-for-nothing husband" when Rei came along...

* [[Unbuilt Trope]]: particularly for [[Magical Girlfriend]] (and maybe for [[Harem Anime]] if you think the show counts as one)

* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: Ataru, though this might be a bit of a subversion, considering his superior running-away skills and indestructibility.

* [[Winter Royal Lady]]: Oyuki

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Mr Fujinami, but only his 'boy' Ryuunosuke.

** In the anime, well really Movie 4, Ataru really doesn't want to hit anybody. In the manga, he somehow managed to KO ''himself'' from preventing himself from hitting Lum.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Ataru's name, the series name (which is a multi-layered pun), etc. The series as a whole is full of them. Most characters have a [[Meaningful Name]], too.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Oyuki is a highly cunning and calculative variant.

* [[You All Look Familiar]]: The series as a whole loves to introduce several characters that are only the focus of one episode, but those characters often make token cameos in large crowd scenes in later episodes. This even includes characters from the first three movies appearing in TV episodes.

** Several characters from popular series at the time are also snuck in from time-to-time: [[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro]], [[Dirty Pair|Kei and Yuri]], [[Ultraman]]'s lobster rival, and [[Maison Ikkoku|Kyoko]] - and that's just in one episode!

** The 2008 OVA continues the tradition as, at the end, Ataru is hitting on Kagome and Akane.

* [[You Didn't Ask]]: In one manga chapter, Ataru, Lum and several of their friends went camping. Lum was making lunch and everyone were happy... but Ataru. He adamantly refused to eat. [[Big Eater|Keep in mind this is a guy who usually eats ANYTHING and EVERYTHING he can get his hands on]]. His friends nagged him about rudely rejecting Lum's food... and then they tried it. Right away they dragged Ataru away and asked him why he had not warned them Lum's food is ''very'' spicy. His answer? They did not ask (and he did not want to warn them).

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Lum had an [[Adaptation Dye Job]] in the anime, since iridescent hair would have been ''extremely'' difficult to color in 1981.

 

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