Samurai Pizza Cats

Category:	TV Series
Adult:	No
Native:	キャッ党忍伝てやんでえ
Romaji:	Cat Ninden Teyandee
Titles:	Legendary Ninja Cats SPC Los gatos samurái Samourai Pizza Cats החתולים הסמוראים Szamuráj Pizzacicák Samuraje z Pizza Kot Os Gatos Samurai Os Samurai Pizza Gatos История кошек-ниндзя Коты-Самураи Os Gatos Samurai Pizza
Runtime:	25 minutes
Aired:	Feb 1, 1990 [34 years 11 months ago]
Ended:	Feb 12, 1991 [33 years 11 months ago]
Language:	Japanese
Genres:	Action Comedy Science Fiction
Tags:	Slapstick Swordplay Parody Stereotypes Martial Arts Super Deformed Piloted Robot Anthropomorphism Cooking Medium Awareness Samurai Power Suit Ninja
Links:	ANIDB

The series is set in the mechanical city of Edoropolis (a portmanteau of "Edo" and "metropolis", called "Little Tokyo" in the dub) is a mechanical city which fuses feudal Japanese culture with 1990s culture and is populated by cybernetic anthropomorphic "animaloids", or animal androids. The city is notionally led by Shogun Iei-Iei Tokugawa ("Emperor Fred" in the dub), but as he is a doddering eccentric, the city's actual leadership lies in the hands of his daughter Tokugawa Usako (Princess Violet) and a council headed by the ambitious prime minister Kitsunezuka Ko'on-no-Kami (Seymour "The Big" Cheese; identified as a fox in the original, but a rat in the dub), who constantly plots to overthrow the Shogun with the help of his trusted advisor Karasu Gennarisai (Jerry Atric), and Karamaru (Bad Bird), the leader of an army of ninja crows. Unknown to the prime minister, council member Inuyama Wanko-no-Kami (Big Al Dente), the commander of the Palace Guard, learns of his designs on leadership, but is unable to prosecute him for treason because of the plausible deniability he maintains. Instead, Inuyama enlists the services of Yattarou (Speedy Cerviche), Pururun (Polly Esther), Sukashii (Guido Anchovy) and their operator Otama (Francine), four cyborg cat ninjas (samurai in the dub) who work in the city's pizzeria. Also known as the Nyankii, they are assigned to to stop Kitsunezuka Ko'on-no-Kami and his evil henchmen's plans to take over Edoropolis. Note: The story & concept shown in America was altered from the original Japanese. That happened due to the dubbing team not having any info, script or translations on the show, and decided to make up what they couldn't understand, simply from what they could figure out just by watching it.

Episode 1: Stop Dragon My Cat Around! Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-02-01 Speedy is serving a pizza to Lucille but then Guido pops up and steals the Pizza to deliver it for Lucille himself. 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 they two get into a brawl. Lucille stops them by blowing them up. Meanwhile, 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 2: If You Knew Sushi Like I Know Sushi Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-02-08 Lucille's brother, Wally, is captured by the Ninja Crows and hypnotized for being the driver of the giant Sushi making robot. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 3: Underground, Underwater, Undercooked Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-02-15 Bad Bird found a document which says that gold is hidden beneath the Little Tokyo castle. With the help of Ninja Crows he manages to hijack the train with the Lucille being one of the passengers. They are ordered to dig to find the gold. Meanwhile, Pizza Cats realized that Lucille hasn't returned home yet. Speedy suggests that she is aboard that hijacked train. Pizza Cats go to the tunnel to find her. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 4: The Great Golden Cluck Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-02-22 A huge golden statue which grants wishes, for a fee, is used by the bad guys as a Trojan Horse to get into a rich man's house. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 5: Let the Cellar Beware! Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-03-01 Princess Vi enlists Speedy to help search for a ghost in the palace Source: crunchyroll
Episode 6: Singing Samurai Sensai-tion Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-03-08 Polly Ester and Lucille become a hit in Little Tokyo as the singing group The Pointless Sisters. Little do they know that they are really a front for bad guys attempt of hypnotize the population. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 7: The Nuclear Potato Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-03-15 Little Tokyo becomes a dump for toxic potato peelings, in exchange the rich get richer. Meanwhile, the Big Cheese tries to steal a Nuclear Potato that is on the ship. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 8: Kind of a Drag Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-03-22 Guido meets a pretty girl, but Big Cheese has sent the Ninja Crows after her. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 9: Double Trouble for Princess Vi Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-03-29 Princess Vi puts on a disguise and sneaks out of the palace to attend the festival as a commoner. Pizza Cats are sent to protect her. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 10: Teyandee, This Is Nyankee Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-04-03 Clips and scenes from the first nine episodes. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 11: Hot and Kold Kitties Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-04-10 Speedy helps a kid search for his father, the inventor Prof. Ohm, who claimed to have invented something to increase the power of any kind of energy. The Big Cheese is holding him hostage to get him to apply his invention to their weather machine. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 12: Candid Kitty Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-04-17 The Bad Guys gather in a movie theater to watch their past mistakes and look for the Pizza Cats' weakness. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 13: The Pizza Cats Are Only Human (Part 1) Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-04-24 After 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 14: The Pizza Cats Are Only Human (Part 2) Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-05-01 The Pizza Cats turn to Guru Lou in hopes that he can help them to defeat the Rude Noise. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 15: Those Transformin' Felines Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-05-08 The 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 16: The Case of the Bogus Billionaire Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-05-15 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 17: The Big Cheese's I.Q. Corral Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-05-22 The Big Cheese is having scientists kidnapped to be forced to work on his secret weapon. Now the Ninja Crows are after Guru Lou. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 18: Field of Screwballs Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-05-29 The 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 19: Speedy's Double-Time Trick Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-06-05 Speedy 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 20: Samurai Charm School Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-06-12 Polly 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 hire some women warriors. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 21: Drummin' Up Trouble With a Big Bad Beat Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-06-19 Big Cheese builds a robot that can bang out a hypnotic drum beat, thus enslaving the town. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 22: Pizza Bird Delivers! Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-06-26 The 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. For the first time in his life Bad Bird knows real job satisfaction and is torn between his duty to live up to the evil legacy of his father and his desire to seek his own path to personal happiness. The episode foreshadows events to come in the series finale and Bad Bird and Speedy form a bond of friendship. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 23: Big Cheese Shows His Filmy Substance Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-07-03 Princess Vi wants to make a movie so the Big Cheese, Guido and Speedy run an obstacle course which will determine the male lead. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 24: Son of Big Cheese Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-07-10 A child becomes attached to the Big Cheese, so Princess Vi orders him to open a diaper cleaning service. The kid and the cleaning causes delays with his latest giant robot, the Samurai Stamper. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 25: Gender Bender Butterflies! Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-07-17 Francine's date with a deer name Bucky is ruined when the Bad Guys release a swarm of butterflies that can make people act like the opposite gender. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 26: Pizza Cat Performance Review Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-07-24 Emperor 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 27: Cold and Crabby in Little Tokyo Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-07-31 There is a flaw in the palace. The Pizza Cats are sent to find the architech, who has been banished to an island by Princess Vi, but the Ninja Crows are after him too. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 28: The Terror of Prisoner Island Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-08-07 Big 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 29: Destructo Robots at Popular Prices Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-08-14 The Rude Noise spy on the Pizza Cats to try and find a way to beat them. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 30: No Talent Guido Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-08-21 Guido 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 31: All You Need is Love Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-08-28 Big 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 32: Polly's Magical Flute Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-09-04 Big 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 33: Close Encounters of the Pig Kind Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-09-11 Speedy befriends a pig from space, but this pig's appetite is out of control. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 34: Big Cheese's High Definition TV Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-09-18 After reviewing their previous encounters with the Pizza Cats, the Big Cheese decides to combine the features from previous robots into one. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 35: Pizza Delivery of Doom! Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-09-25 Spritz disappears while making a delivery to a lakeside village, where mysterious creatures have been frightening the locals. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 36: Youth is for Exploding Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-10-02 The city is in terrorized by a group of exploding robot teens. And to make things worse, Guru Lou is testing his new formula. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 37: Bad Bird Uncaged (Part 1) Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-10-09 Bad Bird is back with powerful new weapons, and challenges Speedy to a battle. Can Speedy defeat him? Source: crunchyroll
Episode 38: Bad Bird Uncaged (Part 2) Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-10-16 Speedy goes to Guru Lou to learn the secret of the Pizza Cats' power. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 39: A Mission in Manhattan Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-10-23 The Pizza Cats travel to meet the New York Pizza Cats. The Big Cheese also goes to New York for a crime conference. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 40: Unidentified Flying Oddballs Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-10-30 A flying saucer appears, and kidnaps Princess Vi. The Pizza Cats have to rescue her. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 41: Princess Vi's Hippy-Dippy Mom Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-11-06 Princess Vi's mother returns, and gives Vi a jem that the Big Cheese needs for his latest robot. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 42: A Wet & Wild Weekend Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-11-13 The 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 43: Kung Fu Kitty Contest Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-11-20 Princess 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. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 44: Gone With the Ginzu Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-11-27 The bad guys steal the Speedy's magical Ginzu Sword and make a copy of it. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 45: A Little Bit'O Luck Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-12-04 Jerry and Bad Bird builds a robot that brings luck. It was supposed to be delivered to Big Cheese, but was lost to Speedy instead. While trying to get the robot back, they give the Bad Luck robot to the Big Cheese. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 46: Samurai Savings Time Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-12-11 The 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. Unbeknownst to him, the Pizza Cats are on their way to the palace to celebrate the anniversary of their formation. Big Cheese, Bad Bird, and the Cats accidentally get sent back in time with the robot and the Cats try to stop Big Cheese from meeting up with Jerry Atric and the Ninja Crows. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 47: Phoney Baloney Cat Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-12-18 Big Cheese, Jerry, and Bad Bird dress up like the Pizza Cats to ruin the cats' reputations. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 48: The Cheese Who Stole Christmas Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1990-12-25 Big Cheese is having a bad Christmas, so he dress up like Santa and gives kids masks that won't come off. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 49: Emperor Fred Does Hard Time Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1991-01-08 Speedy gives Princess Vi's pizza to Emperor Fred, who ruins it. The Princess has a temper tantrum and banishes both of them. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 50: Quake, Rattle, & Roll Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1991-01-15 The Ninja Crows build and earthquake creating robot, which terrifies Speedy, and Big Cheese. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 51: How Mortifying! Large Research of Big Cheese Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1991-01-22 A series of clips from the series. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 52: The Big Comet Caper (Part 1) Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1991-01-29 In a last desperate act the Big Cheese diverts a comet towards Little Tokyo and blackmails the city. Can the Pizza Cats stop the Big Cheese before he destroys Little Tokyo...? Source: crunchyroll
Episode 53: The Big Comet Caper (Part 2) Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1991-02-05 Speedy and Bad Bird join forces to save the world from the comet. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 54: The Cats Cop Cartoon Careers Runtime: 25 minutes Air Date: 1991-02-12 A look back at memorable moments from the series. Source: crunchyroll