Seasons & episodes
S1 · E106Big Clash! Ten VS Ataru 1983-09-07 · 26 min
Tired of being defeated recently by Ataru, Ten goes into training with the help of Cherry and Lum to defeat his arch-nemesis.
S1 · E107Terror! Tororo has Come to Attack!! 1983-09-14 · 26 min
On holiday at Mendo's family's mountain lodge, Lum, Shinobu, Ataru and Mendou are attacked by crazed Tororo yam filling (torojiru).
S1 · E108Galactic Teacher CAO-2's Revenge 1983-09-21 · 26 min
Lum, Ran, Benten, and Oyuki find out that their old teacher, a giant, robot chalkboard eraser named CAO-2, has come to Earth after being trapped on a deserted planet for years. And the former three are not pleased with the news.
S1 · E109Outraged! Piteous Kid Shutaro!! 1983-10-12 · 26 min
Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo, and Ryunosuke go back in time to when Mendou was an obnoxious, violent kid to cure him of both his nyctophobia and claustrophobia.
S1 · E110Grand! The Mysterious Matsutake Pot!! 1983-10-26 · 26 min
A batch of matsutake mushrooms from Cherry turn the Tomobiki High student body and staff alike (except Lum and Cherry himself) into a bunch of high weirdos desperate for entertainment.
S1 · E111Enraged Lum-chan! 1983-11-02 · 26 min
After Ten burns Lum's scarf she made especially for Ataru, he's forced to do something he's never really done before - apologize. And Ataru is making sure to drag this out as much as possible, even convincing Lum to get angry at him.
S1 · E112Lum and Ataru – A Night only for Two 1983-11-09 · 26 min
Ataru's parents head away for an overnight trip to Atami, leaving Lum and Ataru in the house together. Ataru dreads the prospect of a Lum-cooked dinner, while a horrified Mendo and Lum's Stormtroopers storm the Moroboshi home to protect Lum from Ataru. Ataru tries to kiss her at the last moment, but as a precaution, puts an armor that prevents electricity, in the last frames...he begins to cry.
S1 · E113Lady Ryunosuke! 1983-11-23 · 26 min
Onsen-Mark is given the task of making "a woman" out of Ryuunosuke.
S1 · E114Document - Who Will Be Miss Tomobiki!? 1983-11-30 · 26 min
A contest is held in Tomobiki for Miss Tomobiki, with a reward of 150,000 yen for the winner. Candidates include Lum, Shinobu, Ran, Sakura, and Ryunosuke.
S1 · E115Bizarre! The Medicine of Selflessness!! 1983-12-07 · 26 min
Ataru has a literal out-of-body experience when he eats a strange potion shaped like a fish cookie from Cherry.
S1 · E116Shutaro - Jinxed Morning 1983-12-14 · 26 min
Mendo talks to Sakuranbo about Ataru's possible weaknesses in this clip show episode.
S1 · E117The Story of a Traveling Snow Dharma 1983-12-21 · 26 min
After saving its life three times from Ten's antics, a snowman spirit awards Ataru with a late night dinner, taking the form of a cute pink-haired girl that only he can see.
S1 · E118Lum-chan's Ancient Japanese Fairytales 1984-01-11 · 26 min
Cherry tells Ten a fairytale that's basically a giant mishmash of Japanese children's stories, featuring Ataru and Lum as an old couple and Ten as their "son".
S1 · E119Shine! The Blessed Bra! 1984-01-18 · 26 min
Ryunosuke is blackmailed into going on a date with Shinobu to obtain a bra, which she's always wanted to wear.
S1 · E120Duel! Benten VS the Three Daughters 1984-01-25 · 26 min
A trio of middle-school space girls steal Benten's chain and then challenge her, Lum, and Oyuki to fight them.
S1 · E121Lum-chan is Full! 1984-02-01 · 26 min
Ran tries to clone Lum to get revenge on her, but it doesn't work quite as planned.
S1 · E122Deadly! Standup Eating Wars!! 1984-02-08 · 26 min
Megane deals with a tough, fast-eating "fast-food costumer dragon" named Ryuu at the noodle shop he works at, who criticizes others' inferior foods and eats for free if not satisfied. But soon other fast-food fighters start hitting the scene in Tomobiki, and Megane only worries even more. Turns out that Mendou, who's thinking of opening a supermarket in town in an attempt to bankrupt the small-time family restaurants, is the cause of this, starting a contest between Ataru and co. and the fast-food fighters to determine if Tomobiki gets the supermarket.
S1 · E123Great Vault! Courageous Survival! 1984-02-15 · 26 min
Ataru and Mendou get locked in the latter's giant safe, where they slowly go mad when the place starts flooding and they try to out-survive each other.
S1 · E124Operation - Peek in the Woman's Bath 1984-02-22 · 26 min
Ataru takes a bath at an old-fashioned sento (along with Cherry), where he tries to peek on the girls' side, where Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Ran, Ryoko, Ryunosuke, Benten, and Oyuki are having a private party. But soon the Stormtroopers and even Mendo find out about Ataru's plan.
S1 · E125Sakura - Melancholy of a Youth Time 1984-02-29 · 26 min
Sakura literally re-meets her childhood when Cherry slips her a pill that makes her childhood self appear, who wants to play. But everyone else thinks it's her illegitimate child.
S1 · E126Burning Ran's Emotional Video Mail 1984-03-07 · 26 min
In the series' second clip show, Ran gets video tapes "highlighting" her unhappy childhood, as well as previous episodes' events.
S1 · E127Sakura-san is My Youth! 1984-03-14 · 26 min
Ataru recounts how he met Sakura, and how she ended up as the school nurse of his school. This is intermixed with clips from previous episodes.
S1 · E128Scramble! Recapture Lum! 1984-03-21 · 26 min
Episode 1 of a 2-episode serial. Ataru and Lum get into an argument, with Lum going to her UFO to sleep that night. But in her sleep it crashes on Mendou's property, with Lum losing her memory in the process. Mendou, disgusted by Ataru's lack of sympathy about Lum's missing, informs Ataru that she's on his property. He also tells him that if he wants her back, he'll have to go on his property and deal with him and his army. After some nudging by Lum's Stormtroopers, Ataru works together with them to save her.
S1 · E129Deathmatch! Ataru VS Mendo Brigade! 1984-03-28 · 26 min
Episode 2 of a 2-episode serial. Despite their best efforts, all of Lum's Stroomtroopers except Megane have been kidnapped. Ataru is saved from captivity by Mendou's little sister Ryoko, who gives him supplies and even a motorcycle to save Lum with.