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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.
Writing:
- Fuji Mineo
Release Date:
Thu, Feb 01, 1990
Country: JP
Language: Ja
Runtime: 25
Country: JP
Language: Ja
Runtime: 25
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Ai Orikasa
Pururun
Jurota Kosugi
Sukashii
Satomi Korogi
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Yuko Mizutani
Omitsu
Kenyu Horiuchi
Tokugawa Iei Iei
Maria Kawamura
Usa-hima
Kenichi Ogata
Nekomata Reikainosuke
Chieko Honda
Okara
Yuko Mizutani
Itsumono Oya
Ryo Horikawa
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Hiromi Tsuru
Madonna
Show Hayami
Prince
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Naoki Tatsuta
Karasu Gennarisai
Yasunori Matsumoto
Zankaa
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Koichi Yamadera
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Kiyoyuki Yanada
Rikinoshin
Michael O'Reilly
Wally and The Professor (voix)
Season 1:
Speedy 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.
Lucille's brother, a sushi-maker named Wally, is walking home with his eyes closed and is captured by the Ninja Crows.
On her way to the mall, Lucille notices that the subway train she is on is comandeered by Bird Bird and the Ninja Crows.
A 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.
There 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.
A 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.
Bad 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.
Big Cheese is embarrassed when walked in on, and he wants revenge.
The 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.
A clip show with scenes from the first 9 episodes.
A 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.
The Bad Guys gather in a movie theater to watch their past mistakes and look for the Pizza Cats' weakness.
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.
The Pizza Cats turn to Guru Lou in hopes that he can help them to defeat the Rude Noise.
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.
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.
The Big Cheese is having scientists kidnapped to be forced to work on his secret weapon. Now the Ninja Crows are after Guru Lou.
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.
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.
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 to hire some women warriors.
Big Cheese builds a robot that can bang out a hypnotic drum beat, thus enslaving the town.
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.
Princess Vi wants to make a movie so the Big Cheese, Guido and Speedy run an obstacle course which will determine the male lead.
Francine is in love with a deer named Bucky, but her responsibilities with the Pizza Cats cause problems with the relationship.
Francine'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.
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.
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.
There 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.
The Rude Noise spy on the Pizza Cats to try to find a way to beat them.
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.
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.
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.
Speedy befriends a pig from space, but this pig's appetite is out of control.
After reviewing their previous encounters with the Pizza Cats, the Big Cheese decides to combine the features from previous robots into one.
Spritz disappears while making a delivery to a lakeside village, where mysterious creatures have been frightening the locals.
The city is in terrorized by a group of exploding robot teens. And to make things worse, Guru Lou is testing his new formula.
Bad Bird is back with powerful new weapons, and challenges Speedy to a battle. Can Speedy defeat him?
Speedy goes to Guru Lou to learn the secret of the Pizza Cats' power.
The Pizza Cats travel to meet the New York Pizza Cats. The Big Cheese also goes to New York for a crime conference.
A flying saucer appears, and kidnaps Princess Vi. The Pizza Cats have to rescue her.
Princess Vi's mother returns, and gives Vi a gem that the Big Cheese needs for his latest robot.
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.
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.
The bad guys steal the Speedy's magical Ginzu Sword and make a copy of it.
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.
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.
Big Cheese, Jerry, and Bad Bird dress up like the Pizza Cats to ruin the cats' reputations.
Big Cheese is having a bad Christmas, so he dress up like Santa and gives kids masks that won't come off.
Speedy gives Princess Vi's pizza to Emperor Fred, who ruins it. The Princess has a temper tantrum and banishes both of them.
The Ninja Crows build an earthquake creating robot, which terrifies Speedy, and Big Cheese.
A recap on the Big Cheese's greatest failures
In a last desperate act the Big Cheese diverts a comet towards Little Tokyo and blackmails the city.
Speedy and Bad Bird join forces to save the world from the comet.
A look back at some of the character's best moments in the series.