Samurai Pizza Cats (1990)
The setting is a Japanese looking village named "Little Tokyo" where the Pizza Cats run a pizza fast food business. Little Tokyo is populated by all kinds of animals. The official governor of the town is the Emperor, but since he has gone bananas a council takes care of the well-being of the village. One of the members of this council is called Seymour "Big" Cheese, who secretly wishes to take over control of the village. The pizza take away restaurant is merely a cover for their true job... Whenever evil is afoot, the Pizza Cats are launched towards the danger from the gun-lookalike clock tower that emerges from the top of their restaurant.
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Episode 1 - Stop Dragon My Cat Around!
Release Date: 1990-02-01Speedy is serving a pizza to Lucille but then Guido pops up and steals the Pizza to deliver it Lucille. As they continue to reach their destination, they continuously steal the pizza from each other. When Speedy gives it to Lucille, Guido says that Lucille and he are in love, and the two get into a brawl. Lucille stops them by blow them up. Bad Bird sends out a giant, robotic dragon and it wreaks havoc on Little Tokyo. Speedy and Guido notices Ninja Crows inside the Dragon and they decide to defeat this machine before it demolishes every structure in the city.
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Episode 2 - If You Knew Sushi Like I Know Sushi
Release Date: 1990-09-04Lucille's brother, a sushi-maker named Wally, is walking home with his eyes closed and is captured by the Ninja Crows.
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Episode 3 - Underground, Underwater, Undercooked
Release Date: 1990-09-05On her way to the mall, Lucille notices that the subway train she is on is comandeered by Bird Bird and the Ninja Crows.
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Episode 4 - The Great Golden Cluck
Release Date: 1990-09-06A flying demon emerges in Little Tokyo but is finally recognized as a giant gold chicken with Bad Bird as the pilot. He announces that his robot can tell the future and grant wishes - for a price.
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Episode 5 - Let The Cellar Beware
Release Date: 1990-09-07There have been reports of strange noises in the palace, and a nightwatchman has been hired to investigate and discovers a giant bug and runs in terror. Meanwhille, Princess Vi decides to quit school as Speedy has a slight cold. The Council Members believe that there is a ghost amongst them while Princess Vi is excited and wants to meet this spirit. Working on his latest scheme, Cheese wants his minions to create a giant carousol that would spin Little Tokyo. When the workers are tired, they order pizza and Francine wonders why the group wants so many pizzas and discovers that it is the Big Cheese. The Pizza cats decide this is a chance to investigate the cellar of the palace. When Speedy rushes into the palace, he bumps into Princess Vi and the two discover a robotic bug and try to escape. The robotic bug continues to find and attack them and it is finally destroyed in a room full of machines, and exposes Big Cheese's plan with the carousol.
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Episode 6 - Singing Samurai Sensai-tion
Release Date: 1990-09-10A man who calls himself Charlie Bird enters the Parlour, revealing he is a talent agent and thinks that Polly and Lucille could be big music stars.
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Episode 7 - The Nuclear Potato
Release Date: 1990-09-11Bad Bird's robots are attacking the city but are disposed by the Pizza Cats. Cheese successfully has Emperor Fred let his friends dump their toxic potato peelings in Little Tokyo.
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Episode 8 - Kind of a Drag
Release Date: 1990-09-12Big Cheese is embarrassed when walked in on, and he wants revenge.
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Episode 9 - Double Trouble For Princess Vi
Release Date: 1990-09-13The Pizza Cats are busy preparing for the Little Tokyo Arts Festival. When Al Dente receives a message that Princess Vi is going to the festival disguised, he asks the Pizza Cats to protect her.
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Episode 10 - Samurai Pizza Cats: The First 9 Episodes in 30 Minutes
Release Date: 1990-09-14A clip show with scenes from the first 9 episodes.
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Episode 11 - Hot and Kold Kitties
Release Date: 1990-09-17A dark cloud fires a ray that freezes a bunch of kids solid in ice. Seconds later, it melts them, and then flies off, unnoticed. At the Pizza Parlour, a bunch of kids are pushing Professor Ohm's son. A fight commences between Speedy and the kids but are interrupted by Francine. The boy explains that his father is out late and that his dad invented a device that can increase the power of any machine.
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Episode 12 - Candid Kitty
Release Date: 1990-09-18The Bad Guys gather in a movie theater to watch their past mistakes and look for the Pizza Cats' weakness.
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Episode 13 - The Pizza Cats Are Only Human (1)
Release Date: 1990-09-19After discovering the Pizza Cats are solar powered the Big Cheese has a satellite launched that will block out the sun. The Pizza Cats try to stop the launch but come up against the Rude Noise.
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Episode 14 - The Pizza Cats Are Only Human (2)
Release Date: 1990-09-20The Pizza Cats turn to Guru Lou in hopes that he can help them to defeat the Rude Noise.
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Episode 15 - Those Transformin' Felines
Release Date: 1990-09-21The Pizza Cats have been getting a big reputation in Little Tokyo. The Big Cheese, now jealous, decides to build his reputation by sending a robot out to attack, but make the Big Cheese look like the hero instead of the Cats.
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Episode 16 - The Case of the Bogus Billionaire
Release Date:The Big Cheese gets a picture of a potato farmer who looks mysteriously like Emperor Fred. Al Dente then sends the Pizza Cats to find the nanny that raised the Emperor, in hopes that she can identify the true Emperor. However, Big Cheese knows of the plan and sends the Ninja Crows and the Rude Noise to get her first.
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Episode 17 - The Big Cheese's I.Q. Corral
Release Date: 1990-09-25The Big Cheese is having scientists kidnapped to be forced to work on his secret weapon. Now the Ninja Crows are after Guru Lou.
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Episode 18 - Field of Screwballs
Release Date: 1990-09-26The Bad Guys use a mind controlling robot on a popular baseball player Princess Vi has a crush on. To impress her, they challenge the Pizza Cats to a baseball game.
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Episode 19 - Speedy's Double-Time Trick
Release Date: 1990-09-27Speedy makes a date with Lucille but he forgets that he also made a date with Polly to run some low level missions. He decides to zip back and forth between his engagements. Between dates he uncovers the Big Cheese's plan to attack Little Tokyo with a giant Hot Tub robot.
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Episode 20 - Samurai Charm School
Release Date: 1990-09-28Polly decides she needs to be less temperamental so she goes to a model school, which is really a front for the Big Cheese's plan to hire some women warriors.
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Episode 21 - Drummin' Up Trouble With a Big Bad Beat
Release Date: 1990-10-01Big Cheese builds a robot that can bang out a hypnotic drum beat, thus enslaving the town.
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Episode 22 - Pizza Bird Delivers!
Release Date: 1990-10-02The Big Cheese is short on cash and can no longer afford to pay his minions. As a result, the Ninja Crows have to go find day jobs. Bad Bird takes a job at the Pizza Cat pizzeria.
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Episode 23 - Big Cheese Shows His Filmy Substance
Release Date: 1990-10-03Princess Vi wants to make a movie so the Big Cheese, Guido and Speedy run an obstacle course which will determine the male lead.
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Episode 24 - Son of Big Cheese
Release Date: 1990-10-04Francine is in love with a deer named Bucky, but her responsibilities with the Pizza Cats cause problems with the relationship.
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Episode 25 - Gender Bender Butterflies!
Release Date: 1990-10-05Francine's date with a deer named Bucky is ruined when the Bad Guys release a swarm of butterflies that can make people act like the opposite gender.
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Episode 26 - Pizza Cat Performance Review
Release Date: 1990-10-08Big Al isn't satisfied with the Pizza Cats' work, so he sends them to the suburbs, while the Rescue Team Cats take over the main shop.
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Episode 27 - Cold and Crabby in Little Tokyo
Release Date: 1990-10-09Emperor Fred comes down with a bad cold. Big Al Dente summons the Pizza Cats to go to Mount Coochie to bring back the CooCoo bird which will restore Emperor Fred's insanity and cure his cold. But the Big Cheese also has a cold and he sends Bad Bird to get the CooCoo bird first.
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Episode 28 - The Terror of Prisoner Island
Release Date: 1990-10-10There is a flaw in the palace. The Pizza Cats are sent to find the architect, who has been banished to an island by Princess Vi, but the Ninja Crows are after him too.
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Episode 29 - Destructo Robots at Popular Prices
Release Date: 1990-10-11The Rude Noise spy on the Pizza Cats to try to find a way to beat them.
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Episode 30 - No Talent Guido
Release Date: 1990-10-12Guido feels left out when Polly, Lucille, and even Speedy become music stars. But now it's up to him to save the city from Big Cheese's singing.
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Episode 31 - All You Need is Love
Release Date: 1990-10-15Big Cheese decides to marry his way up, so the Bad Guys make a cupid robot to make Princess Vi fall in love with him, but things don't go as planned.
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Episode 32 - Polly's Magical Flute
Release Date: 1990-10-16Big Cheese discovers a legend about a flute that can be used to find a treasure, so he collects all the flutes in the city, including Polly's.
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Episode 33 - Close Encounters of the Pig Kind
Release Date: 1990-10-17Speedy befriends a pig from space, but this pig's appetite is out of control.
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Episode 34 - Big Cheese's High Definition TV
Release Date: 1990-10-18After reviewing their previous encounters with the Pizza Cats, the Big Cheese decides to combine the features from previous robots into one.
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Episode 35 - Pizza Delivery of Doom!
Release Date: 1990-10-19Spritz disappears while making a delivery to a lakeside village, where mysterious creatures have been frightening the locals.
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Episode 36 - Youth is for Exploding
Release Date: 1990-10-22The city is in terrorized by a group of exploding robot teens. And to make things worse, Guru Lou is testing his new formula.
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Episode 37 - Bad Bird Uncaged (1)
Release Date: 1990-10-23Bad Bird is back with powerful new weapons, and challenges Speedy to a battle. Can Speedy defeat him?
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Episode 38 - Bad Bird Uncaged (2)
Release Date: 1990-10-24Speedy goes to Guru Lou to learn the secret of the Pizza Cats' power.
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Episode 39 - A Mission in Manhattan
Release Date: 1990-10-25The Pizza Cats travel to meet the New York Pizza Cats. The Big Cheese also goes to New York for a crime conference.
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Episode 40 - Unidentified Flying Oddballs
Release Date: 1990-10-26A flying saucer appears, and kidnaps Princess Vi. The Pizza Cats have to rescue her.
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Episode 41 - Princess Vi's Hippy-Dippy Mom
Release Date: 1990-10-29Princess Vi's mother returns, and gives Vi a gem that the Big Cheese needs for his latest robot.
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Episode 42 - A Wet & Wild Weekend
Release Date: 1990-10-30The Pizza Cats go to a spa to protect Emperor Fred and Princess Vi, but Big Cheese and the Ninja Crows are there too, trying to get some rest and relaxation.
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Episode 43 - Kung Fu Kitty Contest
Release Date: 1990-10-31Princess Vi holds a martial arts fighting contest to see who is the top fighter in the city. The Pizza Cats, Lucille, Bad Bird and one of Big Cheese's robots are among the entrants into battle.
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Episode 44 - Gone With the Ginzu
Release Date: 1990-11-01The bad guys steal the Speedy's magical Ginzu Sword and make a copy of it.
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Episode 45 - A Little Bit'O Luck
Release Date: 1990-11-02Jerry and Bad Bird builds a robot that brings luck. It was supposed to be delivered to Big Cheese, but was lost to Speedy instead.
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Episode 46 - Samurai Savings Time
Release Date: 1990-11-05The Big Cheese builds a robot that can travel through time. His plan is to travel back in time to stop the Pizza Cats from being formed.
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Episode 47 - Phoney Baloney Cat
Release Date: 1990-11-06Big Cheese, Jerry, and Bad Bird dress up like the Pizza Cats to ruin the cats' reputations.
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Episode 48 - The Cheese Who Stole Christmas
Release Date: 1990-11-07Big Cheese is having a bad Christmas, so he dress up like Santa and gives kids masks that won't come off.
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Episode 49 - Emperor Fred Does Hard Time
Release Date: 1990-11-08Speedy gives Princess Vi's pizza to Emperor Fred, who ruins it. The Princess has a temper tantrum and banishes both of them.
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Episode 50 - Quake, Rattle, & Roll
Release Date: 1990-11-09The Ninja Crows build an earthquake creating robot, which terrifies Speedy, and Big Cheese.
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Episode 51 - The very best of Big Cheese's failures
Release Date: 1990-11-12A recap on the Big Cheese's greatest failures
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Episode 52 - The Big Comet Caper (1)
Release Date: 1990-11-13In a last desperate act the Big Cheese diverts a comet towards Little Tokyo and blackmails the city.
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Episode 53 - The Big Comet Caper (2)
Release Date: 1991-02-05Speedy and Bad Bird join forces to save the world from the comet.
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Episode 54 - The Cats Cop Cartoon Careers
Release Date: 1991-02-12A look back at some of the character's best moments in the series.