List of Kappa Mikey episodes
This is a list of the episodes of the show Kappa Mikey.
Episodes are in the order of airing. Aired dates correspond to the Nicktoons Network, unless otherwise stated.
Season 1 (2006)
Episode 1 - The Switch
Original Airdate: February 25, 2006 and September 10, 2006 on Nickelodeon
Due to inability to find an apartment in Tokyo, Mikey (who had previously been staying in a capsule hotel) seeks one in LilyMu Towers, where his friends all live - but, nobody has moved out of the building for years. Ozu presents a solution - Mikey will move into the apartment shared by Lily, who despises the situation, and Mitsuki, who is overjoyed. In the subplot, Guano, whose collapsible box tower is repeatedly destroyed, is slowly losing his grip on sanity, subsequently leading to Gonard handcuffing himself and Guano together so he can keep an eye on him-- but they end up losing the key.
Episode 2 - Mikey Impossible
Original Airdate: February 25, 2006 and September 17, 2006 on Nickelodeon
Ozu decides to take a vacation- his first in several decades. Before going, he reads off a long list of rules, most importantly, not to harm his prized 500-year-old Bonsai tree or his samurai sword. Of course, even before he reads this, Mikey accidentally sets the tree aflame with Ozu's samurai sword. Now, Mikey and most of the gang (excluding Lily, who is their temporary boss, and doing all she can to keep them busy) must work to replace the Bonsai before Ozu gets back from his unusually short vacation. There is no real subplot in this episode.
Episode 3 - Ship Of Fools
Original Airdate: March 4, 2006 and September 24, 2006 on Nickelodeon
After hearing of the release of his new video game, Mikey tries desperately to get his hands on it - but at the release, fans carry away every available copy. After many unsuccessful attempts at obtaining a copy, he is forced to 'pirate' a copy - that is, get it from actual pirates. He does get the game, but the pirates take something from him in exchange - Gonard! Now, Mikey must save his friend, even if it endangers his life, and the game. In the subplot, in Mikey's absence, Lily is getting swept into the charm of Suave Mikey, a Mikey look-alike, whom they mistake for the real Mikey .
Episode 4 - Saving Face
Original Airdate: March 11, 2006, and October 1, 2006 on Nickelodeon
After being licked by a pig repeatedly, Mikey develops a large pimple. He makes every effort he can to hide the pimple, until an evil tabloid publisher snaps a picture, and threatens to publish the pimple if Mikey does not give him embarrassing secrets about his friends. In the subplot, Lily is outraged over her replacement as spokesperson for Hitoshi Beauty Cream. Her replacement? Socky, a sock puppet popculture idol. She works to beat him out for Teen Trend's 50 Most Beautiful List, a feat that could be helped discretely by Mikey.
Episode 5 - The Fugi-Kid.
Original Airdate: March 18, 2006, and October 8, 2006 on Nickelodeon
LilyMu has a prop on loan from the government: a hi-tech invisibility jacket. Naturally, Mikey goes and fools with it, leading to its theft by a 'one armed-man'. Mikey is framed, convicted, and nearly goes to jail - but, he escapes from the officer holding him, and finds himself on the lam. In order to clear his name, he must catch the man who stole the coat and prove himself innocent. There is no subplot.
Episode 6 - Mikey Likes It (Garbage)
Original Airdate: March 25, 2006 and November 12, 2006 on Nickelodeon
Mikey can't figure out Japan's recycling system, until Mitsuki and Guano explain it to him using a show tune. Of course, then, he is obsessed with it, and begins throwing out personal belongings, including Mitsuki's beloved photo album. He recovers the album, but as he picks it up, all the pictures get sucked out of the book through an air vent. Now, he must attempt to recreate the pictures before Mitsuki notices. When a news journalist who discovered the embarrassing photos shows them on the news, Mitsuki gets mad at Mikey for losing her pictures. Mikey tries to explain, but only makes Mitsuki even madder, not just because she has been humiliated all over Tokyo, but mostly because she thought Mikey wanted to spent time with her as a friend, but instead, only hanging out with her to get replacement photos and not showing much affection for her. In the subplot, Gonard and Lily are tricked into a sham romance to stir publicity by Ozu.
Episode 7 - Easy Come, Easy Gonard
Original Airdate: May 27, 2006 and October 22, 2006 on Nickelodeon
Mikey is elated upon receiving his first paycheck from LilyMu Studios (after the initial shock that he is paid for acting), so he's naturally eager to spend it. He ends up buying off a younger crowd of fans by promising them to pay for merchandise in his likeness from Tatami Megastore. However, the owner of Tatami Megastore, Mr. Tatami, informs him he owes 20 million in yen (approximately $173,000) for the toys he bought, and he has to get the money in 24 hours or face certain doom in The Tatami Room. His plans for raising money backfire, as does his friendship with Gonard in the resulting fight. Mikey and Gonard are sent to the Tatami Room to pay off the debt and Lily, Mitsuki and Guano were sent to the Tatami Room for shoplifting. Mikey calls Guano, then Mikey and Gonard send a letter to Ozu to help them. Nearing the end of the episode, when Mr. Tatami recaptures the LilyMu cast, Ozu shows up and tells Mr. Tatami that he now owns Tatami Megastore.
In the subplot, Mitsuki and Lily attempt to rescue a scared-witless Guano from the two spoiled sons of Mr. Tatami, who think that Guano is a toy. Note:In this episode,Mitsuki's breasts were moving up and down when she was running.
Episode 8 - Lily Meow
- or LilyMeow as the opening theme would call it
Original Airdate: June 3, 2006, Nicktoons Network
Mikey adopts a lost kitten named Kello to gain popularity, but instead the cat gains more popularity than the entire LilyMu franchise. After the platform that Kello the kitten was on from above comes crashing down, he gets injured, Ozu blames the LilyMu team (except Guano) and fires them. They then hire the same coat crook from the 'Fugi-Kid' to steal the kitten, but little do they know, the coat crook eats cats. They're able to stop him (despite the fact that it was them who hired the bandit to steal the cat in the first place). The fans then celebrate team Lilymu's victory and they get the most attention again (plus, Ozu re-hires them until he can remember why he fired them in the first place). In the subplot, Lily and Mitsuki have a spat over the placement of their characters' mannequins in a LilyMu store.
- This episode reveals that Mitsuki has only one kidney, because she donated one to Lily.
Episode 9 - Splashomon
Original Airdate: August 27, 2006, Nickelodeon
Ozu's new prize Jade Tigerfish is stolen so they start a crime scene investigation on who took the Jade Tigerfish. Guano says Gonard took it.Gonard says Lily took it and Lily says Mikey did it. Then Mikey says he took it, only to tell a story, but after he does Mitsuki admits she took it because she was afraid Ozu was going to kill it. Ozu actually intends to make it the centerpiece of his new aquarium. The whole episode is a spoof on the story formula utilized in the Japanese film Rashomon. There is no subplot in this episode.
- Yes Man says, "I haven't eaten in weeks!" but just before he said that he and Gonard were eating popcorn.
Episode 10 - The Good, The Bad, The Mikey
Original Airdate: July 8, 2006 Nicktoons Network
Mikey, Gonard and Guano catch The Dum Dum Show in the Tatami Megastore. However, the embarrassing antics of the actor who played Mikey's favorite superhero "Captain Impressive" embarrass Mikey. Not wanting to wind up with the same fate, Mikey turns himself into a bad boy and becomes a bad role model for Tokyo's child audience. In the subplot, Lily teaches Mitsuki all about dating, something she thought she could reconsider when she finds out that's Mitsuki's secret love is Mikey.
Episode 11 - The Sumo Of All Fears
Unable to lift a heavy prop, Mikey goes to the gym. There, he gets a new rival in the shape of a Yokozuna, which challenges him. He and Guano get trained by a janitor. Mikey inexplicably beats the Yokozuna by tickling him, but once he does, he becomes the new Yokozuna, and everyone he encounters wants to fight him as well! Ozu calls Mikey to congratulate him- in the middle of a fight- and tells him that in some of life's situations, you are your own worse enemy. Mikey forms a solution from this advice by simultaneously being the Yokozuna and the opponent in his next match, thereby, erasing the current Yokozuna once he changes back to himself. In the subplot, Gonard pretends he was beaten up to get the girls to pamper him.
Episode 12 - Lost In Transportation
Original Airdate: August 20, 2006 and October 8, 2006 (episode appeared out of natural order)
Because he doesn't fit in the LilyMu battle wagon, the stubborn Mikey wanders off looking for acceptance and falls in with a biker gang called The Chums. This is bad, because the rest of the gang is at the birthday party of their biggest sponsor's son-and he wants Mikey.
- It was also Mitsuki's birthday, but it seems that everyone forgot about her.
Episode 13 - Big Trouble in Little Tokyo
Original Airdate: September 3, 2006 on Nickelodeon
Guano is tired of the LilyMu cast ignoring him. Mikey doesn't even listen to him when he tells him not to go to the secret floor in LilyMu tower. When they get to the floor, they meet a mad scientist who made all the monster movies. But when everyone started bossing him around, he confined himself to the secret floor. Mikey, in an attempt to free Guano, supersizes Gonard,, who starts to attack the city. His friends finally listening to him, Guano supersizes himself and defeats Gonard, turning him back to normal. In the subplot, Ozu has Yes Man perform dangerous comical bloopers.
- This is the thirteenth episode, keeping within the theme of the number 13 (It was the number of the secret room and considered an unlucky number).
Episode 14 - The Phantom of the Soundstage
Original Airdate: October 28, 2006
When Mikey discovers a book on good pranking, he immediately pulls "innocent" pranks on the rest of the cast. Lily and Mikey hear that the soundstage is haunted by the Phantom of the Soundstage, who is Ozu's janitor by day, and whose soul purpose is to punish anyone who dare pull a prank. Lily is fed up with Mikey's pranks, so she aligns herself to the Phantom to get revenge with the biggest prank ever. In the subplot, Guano's costume gets covered in yellow-green paint due to Mikey's ruckus, and he must face his fear of possibly living outside his suit, with Gonard and Mistuki giving him advice.
- This is the first time where it is revealed that Guano is NOT actually a purple creature, but a guy in a costume.
Episode 15 - Battle of the Band
Original Airdate: November 4, 2006 and November 26, 2006 on Nickelodeon
The gang discovers unused musical instruments in the soundbooth and decides to form a band! The catch: they are all terrible at it. Ozu mistakes the ringtone on Mikey's cell phone for the real thing, and immediately seeing the money rolling in, spends millions on ads for a very special LilyMu musical episode! The band must keep their cover by pretending to play, in sync with Mikey's ringtones. When they become bigger than ever, things get complicated when a rival musical group named Ori and Yori challenge them to a rock duel. There is no subplot in this episode.
- This episode features rock songs written and composed just for this show.
- This episode has a spoof of Yu-gi-oh! character Yami Yugi as a similar character with over sized hair.
- Ori and Yori are a direct spoof of PuffyAmiYumi from the HiHi PuffyAmiYumi Show
Episode 16 - La Cage Aux Mikey
Original Airdate: November 19, 2006 on Nickelodeon
When a reporter from Cleveland visits the set to do a story on Mikey, Mikey lies about his friends to make himself sound more important. When his parents read the story and announce that they’re coming to visit, Mikey must get his friends to play along with his outrageous lies. In the subplot, Ozu torments Yes Man once again but making him the guinea pig for his new weather-controlling invention when his golf game is rained out. This episode spoofs the storyline of the classic French play La Cage Aux Folles, and subsequently, the 1996 film The Birdcage.
Episode 17 - Reality Bites
Original Airdate: December 3, 2006 on Nickelodeon
Guano gets writer's block and can't come up with scripts anymore, so Ozu turns LilyMu into a reality show about the stars' lives in order to fill airtime. Soon, the cast realizes they don't want their pivacy intruded upon, so they must find a way to dodge the cameras, cure Guano's writer's block, and convince Ozu to turn the show back into the way it was. There is no subplot in this episode.
Episode 18 - A Christmas Mikey
Original Airdate: December 7, 2006 on Nickelodeon and December 9, 2006 on Nicktoons Network
Mikey tries to get Ozu to renew his contract, but Ozu, in the midst of his annual holiday angst, shouts out that Mikey was hired on the show because he won a contest, and that he is not a great actor. Crushed, Mikey is about to leave for Ohio. He bumps into Laurence, his guardian angel, who shows him what things would've been like if he had NOT won the contest, similar to the classic film It's A Wonderful Life. In the subplot, shortly after the meeting, Ozu is confronted with the Ghosts of Japanese Christmas Past, Present, and Future, to make him understand where his holiday depression came from, like A Christmas Carol.
- It is revealed that Guano is Ozu's son. Whether or not this is canonical remains to be seen.
- In the order of the series, this episode is supposed to be the first Season finale, the 26th, as Mikey's expiring contract reflects. It is shown, instead, as the 18th to air, in time for Christmas 2006.
- In the iO Digital Cable guide, the episode is incorrectly given the summary that Mikey is leaving because he gets a role in Hamlet. Curiously, this is the summary that almost ALL the cable listings have used, as opposed to Ozu's depression, which is what really pushes the story forward.
- The first episode in which the cast of LilyMu gets through the scene on the first take, therefore, this is the only episode thus far that does not end with the LilyMu team "getting it right".
Episode 19 - The Lost Pilot (Techinally Episode 1)
Original Airdate: January 6,2007 on Nicktoons Network
In the United States, Michael Alexander Simon fails to land a role in Hamlet The Christmas Giraffe, after the instructor tells him he can't act, but by chance, he wins a scratch card contest to fly to Tokyo, Japan and become the star of a failing anime show, Lilymu, where he meets the main cast. His new friends give him a tour of Japan, and Ozu officially announces the new star to the public. But fame gets to Mikey's head, and after Lily shouts at him, saying the exact same thing the instructor said, Mikey must determine whether or not going to Japan was the right choice. There is no subplot in this episode.
- This episode reveals that Mikey graduated High School before looking for an acting job.
- Lily is known for her "OMG" line. Since this episode is the first in the story line, it reveals the Mitsuki was really the first person in the show that we hear say it.
Episode 20 - With Fans Like These...
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Episode 21 - The Man Who Would Be Mikey
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Episode 22 - Like Ozu, Like Son
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Episode 23 - Le Femme Mitsuki
Mitsuki is discovered to have led a life of espionage when a mysterious stranger trys to convince her to return to her past life.
- Becuase this episode is about Mitsuki, it is likely she'll what Mikey to led the past people with her, or she'll forget about Mikey and out of all the cast members, Mikey will have to be the one to convence her to stay in Japan. "Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight, get down tonight."
Episode 24 - The Order of the Oni
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Episode 25 - Big Brozu
Ozu's twin brother and rap guru Brozu shows up unexpectedly and wants to change the Lilymu company. He fires Ozu and decides to hire Mikey as the new producer of Lilymu show. Mikey thinks it will be an easy job, but turns out to be terrible at it. This causes Lily, Mitsuki, Guano and Gonard to quit the show and go on strike. Brozu also moves to Lilymu towers and starts holding parties every night... right above his brother's penthouse apartment. Everything seems hopeless until they discover a loophole in Brozu's contract. There is no subplot in this episode.
Episode 26 - Uh Oh Guano
Ozu announces the Lilymu show will be shown internationally. The first country they release outside of Japan is Buttstonia, where it has been edited to the point of being ridiculous. Mikey is appalled to discover that the United States has retitled it as "Go Go Guano" and reedits it to make Guano the star. Guano, however, has fears of people with cameras and begs Mikey to make him unpopular. In the subplot, Gonard, Lily and Mitsuki hire a Buttstonian servant named Sergu who will do everything they want if they pay him in his nation's currency.