The Switch (Kappa Mikey)

The first season of the animated television series '' Kappa Mikey'', created by Larry Schwarz, originally aired on the Nicktoons Network channel in the United States.

Plot

The series focuses on a self-centered, cocky adolescent American actor named Mikey who wins a starring role in the popular Japanese television series ''LilyMu'', centering on a team of crime-fighters with personalities based around typical anime characters. He becomes acquainted with his co-stars, including Gonard, a tall, husky, sweet, rather dimwitted young man who portrays the primary antagonist of the ''LilyMu'' series, Lily, the spoiled, heartless portrayer of the otherwise ingenuous and sweet damsel-in-distress of ''LilyMu'' who contempts Mikey for having overtaken her limelight, Mitsuki, a sweet-natured actress infatuated with Mikey who plays a much tougher character in the series than in reality, and Guano, a small, fuzzy purple creature with many insecurities, responsibilities, strange habits and tendencies. The program in which the actors are featured is run by a tyrannical, strict, and loud boss named Ozu, noted for his sour demeanor yet mentoring guide and constant infuriation with Mikey, aided by "Yes-Man," his dedicated and trustworthy assistant who loyally upholds him and agrees with any decision that he makes. The series centers on the actors' daily lives aside from filming the television program and the predicaments in which they may entangle themselves at the hands of their own cockiness, incompetence, or celebrity status, and episodes usually feature sub-plots following the lives of whichever characters are not being primarily featured in that particular episode. The series relies heavily on gags and other things for comedy.

Cast

Main

* Michael Sinterniklaas as Mikey Simon
* Sean Schemmel as Gonard
*Gary Mack as Guano
* Kether Donohue as Lily
* Carrie Keranen as Mitsuki
*Stephen Moverly as Ozu
*Jesse Adams as Yes Man

Episodes

Note: All episodes of the series were directed by Sergei Aniskov.

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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=1
, EpisodeNumber2=1
, Title=The Lost Pilot
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Larry Schwarz
, Aux2=Stuart Yellin
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2007, 1, 6
, ProdCode=101
, ShortSummary= Mikey wins a scratch off contest and moves to Tokyo to become the new star of LilyMu, but is given a hard time by Lily and the others, but they decide to give him one more chance. There is no subplot in this episode as this was the first episode in the series.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=2
, EpisodeNumber2=2
, Title=The Switch
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Leila Strachan
, Aux2=Stuart Yellin
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 2, 25
, ProdCode=102
, ShortSummary= Mikey moves in with Lily and Mitsuki. But Ozu then kicks Lily and Mitsuki out, and into a gross apartment with no window, but Mikey trades apartments with them. In the subplot, Guano has trouble with the box tower on the set, and is handcuffed by Gonard and the two try to unlock the cuffs.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=3
, EpisodeNumber2=3
, Title=Mikey Impossible
, WrittenBy= Colin Jost &
Chris Reisig
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 2, 25
, ProdCode=103
, ShortSummary= Mikey destroys Ozu's bonsai tree and tries to replace it. There is no subplot in this episode.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=4
, EpisodeNumber2=4
, Title=Ship of Fools
, WrittenBy=Rob Dubbin,
Colin Jost &
Chris Reisig
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon,
Scott Crockett &
Dave Simons
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 3, 4
, ProdCode=104
, ShortSummary= Mikey trades Gonard to pirates for an illegal version of the new LilyMu video game, but they rescue him with the Super Gonard Balloon that he lost early in the episode. In the subplot, another Mikey blows into town, and Lily falls in love with him, while Mitsuki does not.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=5
, EpisodeNumber2=5
, Title=Saving Face
, WrittenBy=Steve Lookner
Conrad Klein &
Leila Strachan
, Aux2=Scott Crockett &
Sangjun Chon
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 3, 11
, ProdCode=105
, ShortSummary= Mikey panics when he gets a pimple, and to keep it from becoming public, he trades a photo of him for embarrassing photos of his castmates, but confesses it all in the end. In the subplot, Lily tries to beat Socky in Tokyo Trend's top 50 Beautiful People List.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=6
, EpisodeNumber2=6
, Title=The Fugi-Kid
, WrittenBy=Len Wein,
Colin Jost &
Chris Reisig
, Aux2=Stuart Yellin,
Sangjun Chon,
Scott Crockett &
Dave Simons
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 3, 18
, ProdCode=106
, ShortSummary=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 in this episode.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=7
, EpisodeNumber2=7
, Title=Mikey Likes It
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Leila Strachan
, Aux2=Dave Simons &
Sangjun Chon
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 3, 25
, ProdCode=107
, ShortSummary= Mikey accidentally throws out Mitsuki's photo album when he gets carried away with recycling. In the subplot, Ozu stages a romance between Gonard and Lily.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=8
, EpisodeNumber2=8
, Title=Easy Come, Easy Gonard
, WrittenBy=Chris Reisig
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon,
Scott Crockett &
Dave Simons
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 5, 27
, ProdCode=108
, ShortSummary=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 the fans bought, and he has to get the money in 24 hours or face certain doom in The Tatami Room. 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 doll.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=9
, EpisodeNumber2=9
, Title=Lily Meow
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Leila Strachan
, Aux2=Stuart Yellin,
Sangjun Chon,
Scott Crockett &
Dave Simons
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 6, 3
, ProdCode=109
, ShortSummary=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 Cat Burglar from ''The Fugi-Kid'' to steal the kitten, but little do they know, the coat crook eats cats. In the subplot, Lily and Mitsuki argue over the placement of their characters' mannequins in a LilyMu store.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=10
, EpisodeNumber2=10
, Title=Splashomon
, WrittenBy=Colin Jost &
Chris Reisig
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon,
Scott Crockett &
Dave Simons
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 8, 27
, ProdCode=110
, ShortSummary=Ozu puts the cast of LilyMu in charge of watching one of his prized items only to come back and find it missing. Now it's up to Mikey and the gang to tell their side of the story of what really happened, only to make matters worse than what they really are. There is no subplot in this episode.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=11
, EpisodeNumber2=11
, Title=The Good, the Bad, and the Mikey
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Mike Yank
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 7, 8
, ProdCode=111
, ShortSummary= Mikey goes to the dark side after learning that the USA hero, Captain Impressive, was canned for being too Goody Goody. In the subplot, Lily finds out that Mitsuki has a crush on Mikey.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=12
, EpisodeNumber2=12
, Title=The Sumo Of All Fears
, WrittenBy=Colin Jost
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon,
Scott Crockett &
Dave Simons
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 8, 5
, ProdCode=112
, ShortSummary=Unable to lift a prop that others can easily, Mikey is determined to get in shape and he and Guano go to the gym. There, he gets a new rival in the shape of a Yokozuna whom he accidentally challenges. Mikey and Guano get trained by a janitor who makes them do his job, among other things. Mikey inexplicably beats the Yokozuna by tickling him, but once he does, he becomes Yokozuna, and everyone he encounters wants to challenge him as well! In the subplot, Gonard is hit by a tennis ball machine and exaggerates the injury to get the girls to pamper him.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=13
, EpisodeNumber2=13
, Title=Lost in Transportation
, WrittenBy= Gerry Duggan,
Conrad Klein &
Leila Strachan
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 8, 20
, ProdCode=113
, ShortSummary=Because he doesn't fit in the LilyMu battle wagon or Lily's car, and feeling left out by his friends lately, a stubborn Mikey wanders off and falls in with a biker gang called The Chums ("Chum it up! sssssssssssssssss.). This is bad, because the rest of the gang is at the birthday party of their biggest sponsor's son- and he wants to see Mikey most of all. There is no subplot in this episode.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=14
, EpisodeNumber2=14
, Title=Big Trouble in Little Tokyo
, WrittenBy=Colin Jost &
Chris Reisig
, Aux2=Scott Crockett
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 9, 3
, ProdCode=114
, ShortSummary=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 Towers. When they get to the floor, they meet a mad scientist who made all the monster movies. But after going back to retrieve an item for Mikey, Guano gets confined 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.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=15
, EpisodeNumber2=15
, Title=The Phantom of the Soundstage
, WrittenBy=Chris Reisig
, Aux2=Ray Alma &
Scott Crockett
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 10, 28
, ProdCode=115
, ShortSummary=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 gets covered in yellow-green paint due to Mikey's antics and has to deal with his fear of possibly losing his "suit" with Gonard's help.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=16
, EpisodeNumber2=16
, Title=Battle of the Bands
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Mike Yank
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon,
Scott Crockett &
Dave Simons
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 11, 4
, ProdCode=116
, ShortSummary=The gang discovers unused musical instruments in the soundbooth and decides to form the LilyMu band! The catch: they are all terrible at it. While they are practicing at Mikey's apartment, Ozu, from the hallway, mistakes the ringtone on Mikey's cell phone for the real thing (them playing the instruments). Immediately seeing the money rolling in, Ozu 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 accuse them of being phonies, leading Mikey to foolishly challenge them to a showdown. There is no subplot in this episode.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=17
, EpisodeNumber2=17
, Title=La Cage Aux Mikey
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein,
Mike Yank &
Alan Yang
, Aux2=Rami Efal
, OriginalAirDate= {{Start date, 2006, 11, 19
, ProdCode=117
, ShortSummary=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 all his outrageous lies. In the subplot, Ozu torments Yes Man once again by making him the guinea pig for his new weather-controlling invention when his golf game is rained out.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=18
, EpisodeNumber2=18
, Title=Reality Bites
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Mike Yank
, Aux2=Scott Crockett
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 12, 3
, ProdCode=118
, ShortSummary= Ozu makes LilyMu into a reality show, and the gang tries to convince Ozu to change it back.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=19
, EpisodeNumber2=19
, Title=A Christmas Mikey
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein,
Mike Yank &
Larry Schwartz
, Aux2=Rami Efal
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2006, 12, 7
, ProdCode=119
, ShortSummary= After being turned down a new contract by Ozu (which is later given to him at the end), Mikey wishes he never came to Tokyo, but is convinced otherwise by his Guardian Angel. In the subplot, Ozu hates Christmas because his family ditched him, but he learns to love it from the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, the latter of whom says it will be a Christmas when he sees his son again.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=20
, EpisodeNumber2=20
, Title=With Fans Like These
, WrittenBy=Leila Strachan
, Aux2=Travis Cowsill,
Scott Crockett &
Ray Alma
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2007, 2, 17
, ProdCode=120
, ShortSummary=Mikey is kidnapped by well-meaning but confused fans who want to protect him from Gonard, thinking he is a real-life villain. In the subplot, Guano is forced to use subliminal advertising to make people give gifts to Gonard and Lily.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=21
, EpisodeNumber2=21
, Title=Big Brozu
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein,
Colin Jost &
Mike Yank
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon,
Scott Crockett &
Stuart Yellin
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2007, 2, 19
, ProdCode=121
, ShortSummary=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. 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.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=22
, EpisodeNumber2=22
, Title=The Man Who Would Be Mikey
, WrittenBy=Guiseppe Ziplovia
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2007, 3, 3
, ProdCode=122
, ShortSummary=After Mikey sells a LilyMu prop, he has to find a replacement for them to finish a shoot. He finds a sword stuck in a rock called "The Dragon's Spike". When he shows off its powers, his friends (except Mitsuki) start hanging out with him just to enjoy the sword's magic, and they start to fight over his friendship. The gang soon finds out that the sword is actually a real spike from a dragon's tail, and the dragon now wants to eat Mikey for waking him up from his thousand year nap.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=23
, EpisodeNumber2=23
, Title=Uh Oh Guano
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Mike Yank
, Aux2=Rami Efal
, OriginalAirDate={{Start date, 2007, 3, 24
, ProdCode=123
, ShortSummary=Ozu announces the LilyMu show will be shown internationally. The first country they release it outside Japan is Buttstonia, where it has been edited to the point of being ridiculous. They get paid though, unfortunately, it is in the nation's currency which can't be exchanged into other currency, making it completely worthless everywhere else. Mikey is appalled to discover that the United States has retitled it as "Mighty Go Go Guano" and reedits it to make Guano the star, due to cliches, American cultures and the beginning of the whole LilyMu show. 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.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=24
, EpisodeNumber2=24
, Title=Like Ozu Like Son
, WrittenBy= Ryan Koh
, Aux2=Rami Efal
, OriginalAirDate= {{Start date, 2007, 4, 7
, ProdCode=124
, ShortSummary=Nobody remembers that it is Mikey's birthday, so to cheer him up, the gang throws a surprise party for him, but to no avail (which Lily relishes). Ozu, who realizes that Mikey doesn't have a father figure in Japan, proposes that he be his son for a weekend, and they go on a boating trip that immediately goes awry, stranding them in the middle of an ocean. In the subplot, Gonard and Guano discover a lost baby bird, and experience parental difficulties as they try to teach it to fly.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=25
, EpisodeNumber2=25
, Title=La Femme Mitsuki
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Mike Yank
, Aux2=Travis Cowsill &
Ray Alma
, OriginalAirDate= {{Start date, 2007, 4, 21
, ProdCode=125
, ShortSummary=Mitsuki is discovered to have led a life of espionage before her days on LilyMu when a mysterious stranger (who, in possible reference to Get Smart's Agent 13, is stuck in a mailbox suit) tries to convince her to return to her past life. Now they come back to finish the plan, but it means putting Mikey in the thick of danger as well. In the subplot, Gonard meets an "Earthie" (hippie, really), who inspires him to become one himself after Lily thinks it will be fun watching him make a fool of himself, that is until Gonard and the "Earthie" start living with her.
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{{Episode list/sublist, Kappa Mikey (season 1)
, EpisodeNumber=26
, EpisodeNumber2=26
, Title=The Oni Express
, WrittenBy=Conrad Klein &
Mike Yank
, Aux2=Sangjun Chon
, OriginalAirDate= {{Start date, 2007, 4, 28
, ProdCode=126
, ShortSummary=Mikey discovers a secret society called the Order of the Oni, a cult that Yoshi, and later, the rest of the cast, join. Mikey wants in, but has to fulfill three initiation tasks, and has trouble keeping everything about the Order a secret from non-members. In the subplot, Yes Man goes missing, so Ozu calls on Guano to be his temporary Yes Man until he finds the original one.
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2006 American television seasons
2007 American television seasons
Kappa Mikey