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Terror! The Deserted Fossil Grounds Mystery
Urusei Yatsura - S1 - E70
Ataru, Lum, Mendo, Shinobu, and Jariten all go on a picnic to a remote part of Japan which has some fossils. A group of archaeologists are also exploring this area and using a lot of fancy tricks to make the exploration seem more dramatic than it is.
Urusei Yatsura: Season 1 - 101 Episode s
1x20 - Pitter-Patter Christmas Eve (2)
December 23, 1981
Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers set up a plot to embarrass Ataru and get Lum to leave him at the same time. They set up a date who will make a fool of Ataru, but Lum finds out and twists things around.
1x21 - Ataru Genji Goes to the Heian Capital (1)
January 6, 1982
First appearance of Mendo, the rich noble; but it is not until episode 27 that he really does anything. Mendo tells a tale about ancient Japan featuring the normal cast in a slightly different alien invasion story. The aliens this time, all look like a bunch odd barbarians, except for a pretty girl and her young boy cousin.
1x22 - Ataru Genji Goes to the Heian Capital (2)
January 6, 1982
First appearance of Mendo, the rich noble; but it is not until episode 27 that he really does anything. Mendo tells a tale about ancient Japan featuring the normal cast in a slightly different alien invasion story. The aliens this time, all look like a bunch odd barbarians, except for a pretty girl and her young boy cousin.
1x23 - Love Battle Royale
January 13, 1982
First appearance of Tsubame, Sakura's boy friend who has some magic abilities. Sakura invites Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Megane, Perm, Chibi, and Kakugari to a disco. Things later go haywire as Tsubame starts casting spells and all sorts of weird creatures appear, including Rei.
1x24 - Father, You Were Strong
January 13, 1982
Kurama takes Ataru back in time to help her father who appears to be afraid of women. Later Ataru and Kurama's father have to get past a guard on a bridge.
1x25 - Hawaiian Swimsuit Thief
January 20, 1982
Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Megane, Cherry, and others are staying at a beachside resort. During the day, an octopus is stealing peoples swimsuits, but it appears to look like Cherry is doing it. At the end, they find the octopus and beat him up.
1x26 - Full Course from Hell
January 20, 1982
Still at the resort, the group meets some maniac who is having an all-you-can-eat contest. Sakura reveals the secret of her figure to be a diet pill called "Beauty Foods". But we really know the real reason is Sakura can just plain eat like a whale, and we see her do so as she beats Ataru and Cherry in the contest and clean the maniac of all his food.
1x27 - Mendo Brings Trouble!
January 27, 1982
Mendo returns for a formal introduction on his first day at school. He and Ataru have a duel for presidency of the class which ends in a tie. So they have a duel with cannons, which Ataru wins with help from Lum.
1x28 - Constellation is Spinning
January 27, 1982
Lum's computer tells her that Mendo is really the best choice for her lover, so she brings a set of constellation scales to school and weight Ataru versus Mendo in a series of test in the scales. At the end, the scales break and we see the class as constellations.
1x29 - The Great Spring War
February 3, 1982
First appearance of Benten, Lum's best friend the goddess. Lum takes Ataru to another planet to help in a battle against Benten's family. The battle consists of catching stones in bowls on a giant set of scales. Ataru starts playing with Benten and ends up messing up the entire game.
1x30 - The Benten Gang's Return Match
February 3, 1982
Match Benten and her girl biker friends come to Earth for another round of fun. Ataru sides up with Benten again, and Lum recruits Jariten and some people dressed as demons.
1x31 - Oh, Lonely Teacher! Kuribayashi Sensei Appears
February 10, 1982
Ataru and Kuribayashi are enemies from the very start. Then Lum shows up and Kuribayashi falls in love. Finally Lum goes out with Kuribayashi in hopes on lightening his spirits.
1x32 - Terrifying Visiting Day
February 10, 1982
On a day when students mothers come to school, Mrs. Mendo and Lum's mother get into a dispute and Mrs. Moroboshi acts as judge by setting up a roulette game.
1x33 - Fourth Dimensional Camera
February 24, 1982
Mendo bring an antique camera to school that sends Ataru off into other worlds. Lum manages to find him through a class room window that had been stuck for years.
1x34 - Demonic Jogging
February 24, 1982
Every morning, Ataru goes jogging early to see girls. On the way to school, Ataru breaks the fall of an attempted suicide as he was grabbing for a 100-yen coin below her. Ataru and Mendo get into a dispute over who is more noble and end up playing a game of tennis.
1x35 - Girls' Day! Introducing Ran-chan
March 3, 1982
First appearance of Ran, Lum's childhood friend. During a small celebration at the Moroboshi house, a little doll enchants Ataru to follow it to Ran. Ran tries to kiss Ataru to drain his youth, but Lum shows up.
1x36 - Ran-chan's Invitation
March 3, 1982
Ran invites Lum, Ataru, and Ten over for cookies and tea, but her real plot is to suck Ataru's youth. Ran makes a double of Ataru and tries switching them, but she gets confused and loses the real Ataru.
1x37 - The Tearful Diary of Tomorrow
March 10, 1982
Lum acquire's Ataru's diary that has written in events that will happen throughout the day. Ataru tries to use it to his advantage, but the records in the diary are not quite how they first read; making use of puns or ambiguous statements.
1x38 - Whose Kid Is This?
March 10, 1982
Mendo finds an alien child in his locker and goes through great lengths to hide it from everyone. Later after everyone has found out, a whole mob of these alien children arrive, just for Mendo.
1x39 - Sleepy Serene Springtime Classroom
March 17, 1982
During math class, Kuribayashi and all the students fall asleep, save for Ataru and Mendo. Lum arrives and finds out that a tiny old man and girl are responsible for this magic. The tiny girl then uses some more magic to have a party with Lum, Ataru, and Mendo; until the principal arrives with some parents.
1x40 - Peach Blossom Poetry Contest
March 17, 1982
Lum, Mendo, Shinobu, Ran, Ten, Sakura, and Cherry all are in a blossom orchard for some traditional reason. Ataru is in the blossom orchard for a picnic. Cherry's chanting summons some sort of woman spirit, whom Ataru runs off and meets with a giant.
1x41 - Duel! Ataru vs. Ataru
March 24, 1982
Ataru eats a lollipop Lum gave him and gets a mouth burn. Running off, he finds Cherry and a weird melon, which Ataru eats to cool his mouth. The melon causes Ataru to split into two Ataru's, one polite and the other casual. The two continue to fight all day.
1x42 - Wake up to a Nightmare
March 24, 1982
Sleeping in class, Ataru has weird dreams which he relates a little of as he occasionally talks in his sleep. Annoyed, his classmates wake him and a dream demon comes out from Ataru's sleep.
1x43 - Great Space Matchmaking Operation (1)
April 7, 1982
Lum returns to her home planet unaware that her father is throwing her a matchmaking party. Ataru (who knows about the party) and Ten follow her.
1x44 - Great Space Matchmaking Operation (2)
April 7, 1982
Lum returns to her home planet unaware that her father is throwing her a matchmaking party. Ataru (who knows about the party) and Ten follow her.
1x45 - Big Springtime Picnic Uproar! (1)
April 14, 1982
On a class field trip, Ataru journeys to an underwater kingdom; and Ataru, Lum, Shinobu and Mendou get lost in a cave (exposing Mendou's legendary fear of the dark).
1x46 - Big Springtime Picnic Uproar! (2)
April 14, 1982
On a class field trip, Ataru journeys to an underwater kingdom; and Ataru, Lum, Shinobu and Mendou get lost in a cave (exposing Mendou's legendary fear of the dark).
1x47 - Beware the Earmuffs!
April 21, 1982
Ataru and Ten switch bodies after wearing some kind of special earmuffs.
1x48 - Fly Imo-chan!
April 28, 1982
Ataru becomes the owner of a white caterpillar that Lum's Stormtroopers gave him as it eats a lot more than ordinary caterpillars.
1x49 - Ten-chan's Love
May 5, 1982
Ten has an unrequited crush on Sakura.
1x50 - What a Dracula
May 12, 1982
Dracula wants to suck the blood of a beautiful young girl and his target is Lum.
1x51 - Lum's Education Lecture Course for Boys
May 19, 1982
Lum travels back in time in order to meet a younger Ataru and cure his libido.
1x52 - From the Gardenia with Love
May 26, 1982
Ataru and Ten compete for the attention of the pretty female proprietor of a flower shop.
1x53 - A Beautiful Girl Brings Rain
June 2, 1982
The gang meet Tsuyuko, a girl who seems to bring rain wherever she goes.
1x54 - Gimme Back My Horn!
June 9, 1982
Ten's horn falls off during a fight with Ataru, leaving him weak and unable to breathe fire. Ataru wastes no time in taking advantage of the situation.
1x55 - Shock Library - Quiet Please!
June 16, 1982
Chaos ensues at the library after the characters in the books start coming to life. Wendy Darling (from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan novel) enlists Ataru and Lum's help in restoring order.
1x56 - Teacher Hanawa Arrives! It's the Youth
June 23, 1982
Mr. Hanawa found employment in Ataru's school and at the same time, Lum gets enlisted into it.
1x57 - Goblin in Distress - Wonderful People
June 30, 1982
A goblin who is living in Mendo's private pool has been shooed out and is trying to find a new home.
1x58 - Darling had It This Time!
July 14, 1982
Remembering how Lum always got her in trouble when they were younger, Ran devises a new scheme to suck away Ataru's youth.
1x59 - Rei Returns! The Big Study Hall Uproar!
July 21, 1982
Rei appears and causes an uproar by eating everyone's lunch, and Ran tries her best to win him back.
1x60 - The Coming of The Phantom Red Mantle!
July 28, 1982
On a cool evening disco dance held by the students at Tomobiki High School during summer break, a mysterious man comes to stalk the girls.
1x61 - Steal Darling! Copy Operation!
August 4, 1982
Things go wrong when Lum tries to make copies of Ataru in order to protect him from Ran's vengeance.
1x62 - Thrilling Summer Date
August 11, 1982
Lum and Ataru go on their first date together after Lum watches a television program that makes her realize her relationship with Ataru is abnormal. Ataru, although hesitant at first, shows that he does actually have feelings for Lum, but feels uncomfortable expressing them.
1x63 - So long Byebye Summer Days
August 18, 1982
Lum, Ataru, Shinobu and Mendo spend their summer vacation at the seaside. First they provoke the wrath of a watermelon god, then they are visited by a crying yōkai.
1x64 - Panic in Typhoon!
September 1, 1982
A typhoon strikes Tomobiki and floods the Moroboshi household, but Lum has some inventive ways of helping her Darling and his parents cope with the flood waters.
1x65 - Drunkard's Boogie
September 8, 1982
Lum and Ten get drunk from eating umeboshi, and Lum begins flying around terrorizing Ataru's classmates in order to get more umeboshi.
1x66 - The Terror of Meow
September 22, 1982
During one of the cats' mating season, Ataru, Lum and Ten meet a beautiful female cat-like humanoid.
1x67 - After You've Gone
October 13, 1982
Lum's Stormtroopers throw Lum a party, but Ataru spoils it by yelling at Lum and accusing her of ruining his life. Lum leaves for her home planet, and when she doesn't return, Ataru, believing she has gone for good, begins to miss her and tearfully wishes she would return. However, it turns out Lum merely left to renew her passport.
1x68 - Lum-chan's Class Reunion
October 20, 1982
Lum's friends from outer space plan a surprise class-reunion party for her, but an unaware Lum can't understand why her friends are avoiding her and is hurt.
1x69 - Those Buy-Eaters Gather Round!
October 27, 1982
Lum, Ataru, Shinobu and the rest of the Tomobiki student body - except for Mendo and his small gang of "good kids" - fight a new school rule which forbids students to leave the campus to eat lunch at fast-food joints.
1x70 - Terror! The Deserted Fossil Grounds Mystery
November 3, 1982
Ataru, Lum, Mendo, Shinobu, and Jariten all go on a picnic to a remote part of Japan which has some fossils. A group of archaeologists are also exploring this area and using a lot of fancy tricks to make the exploration seem more dramatic than it is.
1x71 - Princess Kurama - A New Challenge!
November 10, 1982
Kurama has her subjects place her in suspended sleep again in the hopes that some prince may awaken her.
1x72 - The Terrifying Cavity WARS!
November 17, 1982
Ten has gotten cavities. However, these cavities can be cured by biting 10 people and spreading the cavities to others. To relieve himself, he pays Ataru's class a visit.
1x73 - The Mendo Siblings!
November 24, 1982
Mendo's manipulative and dangerous younger sister, Ryoko, is introduced.
1x74 - A Cat with a Grudge on the Stairs
December 1, 1982
Kotatsu-neko is introduced.
1x75 - Can a Raccoon Repay a Favor!?
December 8, 1982
Ataru helps a wounded bird who transforms itself into a raccoon and moves in to repay the service to Ataru.
1x76 - The Suicide Subspace Parttime Job
December 15, 1982
Ataru finds the perfect part-time job - a washing attendant at a bathhouse - which he excitedly anticipates as being an opportunity to ogle and grope naked women. However, it doesn't turn out the way he expected.
1x77 - The Big Year-End Party that Lum-chan Organized!
December 22, 1982
When Lum plans the class's end-of-year party, Ataru explains that New Year's is when you forget who you are. He's a bit worried she took it a bit literally...
1x78 - Badboy Musashi - A Success Story
January 5, 1983
The normal cast is again put into an ancient Japanese story with Ataru as a food thief with Onsen-Mark and Cherry as his occasional companions.
1x79 - We'll Risk Our Lives During Classtime!
January 12, 1983
After he's pelted by snowballs by Ataru and his friends, an annoyed Ten plans revenge on Ataru during class after Onsen-Mark threatens the class should any of them make noise.
1x80 - Domestic Quarrel – To Eat or Be Eaten?!
January 26, 1983
Lum's mother boots father out of the house, so he comes to stay with Lum.
1x81 - Steal the Kiss of Miss Snow Queen!
February 2, 1983
Lum gets Ataru to go on a ski trip with her, but Mendo, Shinobu, and Lum's guards find out and tail along to cause static, Ataru enters a ski contest.
1x82 - St Valentine Day Horror
February 16, 1983
Ten becomes the new Ataru when he mistakenly gets another girl to marry him, but tries to escape so he could see other older women.
1x83 - Love Love Catchball!
February 23, 1983
Ten orders two special balls called Love-Love Catchballs that supposedly show a person's future love, one for each gender. When Ataru finds the one for guys that show their future wives, things quickly get chaotic.
1x84 - The Mendo Family... Masquerade War
March 2, 1983
Ryoko plans a masquerade "party" (which is actually a tournament of sorts) to get closer to Ataru, but her brother Shutaro is dead-fast against this, hiring all of Ataru's rivals to fight him.
1x85 - Space Cold Panic!
March 9, 1983
Lum catches a cold from her father, which soon spreads across the entire male student body at Tomobiki High.
1x86 - Ryunosuke Arrives! I Love the Sea!
March 16, 1983
After their beach shop is ruined by their fighting due to Ataru and co.'s interference, a father and his "son" Ryunosuke move into Tomobiki High and set up a shop in-school.
1x87 - Goodbye Season
March 23, 1983
Ataru talks to Megane one day about handing over a "position", which Shinobu overhears, thinking that he's planning to give up on Lum. Not wanting to lose Mendou, she takes manners into her own hands..
1x88 - Ran-chan's Great Date Plan!
April 13, 1983
Admiring Ran's feminine beauty, Ryunosuke goes out with her in an attempt to become more feminine, but everyone else except Ran (who doesn't know Ryunosuke's true gender and thinks she's going on a date with a guy) thinks this means she's interested in girls when she claims she has no interest in boys. Lum and Ataru decide to intervene with Ran and Ryunosuke's "date".
1x89 - Happy Birthday My Darling
April 20, 1983
When Ataru flips out over Lum for forgetting his upcoming birthday, she goes absent from school for days and only comes home late at night. This causes both Ataru and Lum to become upset, as well as separately confine in Miss Sakura.
1x90 - Seeing Togenkyo as a Hell Camp!
April 27, 1983
After enduring Lum's ultra-spicy dinner on a camping trip, Ataru, Mendou, Megane, and Perm head off to find food (with Lum and Ten not far behind). They eventually end up fighting against the Evil Peach after they're tipped off by Cherry of a village that produces giant peaches, wanting to save a beautiful girl from being sacrificed.
1x91 - The Muco Flower's Name is Ryunosuke
May 11, 1983
Ataru is changed into a girl by Kurama's tengu henchmen after they try to use a cannon to change Ryunosuke into a man for their princess. NOTE: There is no appearance of Shinobu in this episode.
1x92 - Bottled Letter Seashore Mystery!
May 25, 1983
After Ataru, Ten, and Mendo fall for a beautiful woman's love letters - which end up luring them (along with Lum and Shinobu) to the inn she works in - they stay at a creepy inn, where the residents quite literally want them for dinner.
1x93 - Dramatic Appearance! Mizunokoji Ton-chan!!
June 1, 1983
Mendo's rival Tobimaro Mizunokoji returns, and the two decide to settle their baseball rivalry once and for all.
1x94 - Shinobu's Cinderella Story
June 8, 1983
Shinobu gets involved with the rich Kobayakawa family's youngest son, the adopted Makoto, whose father recently died. But his older siblings want to bump him off so that they don't have to share their late father's wealth with him.
1x95 - Lum-chan the Ruthless Rebel
June 15, 1983
Ataru is the producer/director of a film for school. At first it only involves him, Lum, and the Stormtroopers, but it soon involves most of the student body after Ataru gets funding by Mendo.
1x96 - Big Showdown! Sakura vs Sakuranbo!!
June 22, 1983
Ataru and Lum are left home alone when his parents leave for three days, and Lum locks Ataru inside of his own house! When a botched-up meal causes planes and tanks to appear instead of food, it attracts the attention of Sakura and Sakuranbo, who try to fight them off..but end up fighting against each other's summoned creatures instead!
1x97 - Ghost Story! Old Man Willow!
June 29, 1983
Onsen-Mark tells the class a story of a cursed willow tree, which Ataru finds a load of fluff and ends up releasing an old man after Mendou after he carved his company's symbol with a knife on said tree. The old man drops a map to a possible treasure, while Mendou plans to see him at midnight to settle a score regarding the mockery of his company logo Ataru carved on the back of his robe. Meanwhile, Onsen-Mark is forced to do guard duty across the school by himself at night.
1x98 - And Then There was Nobody!?
July 6, 1983
Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo, Onsen-Mark, Sakura, Cherry, and the Stormtroopers have a stay at a mansion, where they are slowly picked off one by one in a manner similar to the nursery rhyme Cock Robin.
1x99 - Firefighter Mama Visits!
July 13, 1983
Ten's mother, a firefighter, comes to visit her son on Earth. Ten must keep his fire-breathing a secret from his mother as she hates pyromaniacs and will send all those who are to Hell. Unfortunately for him, Ataru - taking full advantage of Ten's mother's position - isn't going to make it easy on him.
1x100 - Darling's Dying!?
July 20, 1983
When Ataru gets poisoned by one of Ran's cupcakes, Lum rushes into a magical world to find an antidote for him before he dies.
1x101 - Pitiful! Mother of Love and Banishment!?
July 27, 1983
An accident at the mall causes Ataru's mother to become unconscious. During this time she begins to have nightmares.
1x102 - Mendo Family - Summer Christmas
August 3, 1983
Ryoko holds a "Summer Xmas" party, where everyone must come in male-female pairs. And the main attraction is a gigantic Christmas tree, which they must climb in order to get to the dance floor above. The male winner will receive a kiss from Ryoko, and the female Mendou.
1x103 - Panic in the Haunted Inn
August 10, 1983
Ataru, Lum, Mendo, and Shinobu stay at an inn and meet Otama, a scaredy-cat ghost who tries (and fails) to out-scare an old couple each year around the summer. But the old couple are far scarier than she is (though not on purpose).
1x104 - Ah The Eyelid of Mother
August 17, 1983
Ryunosuke tries to recall what her mother was like, and her father doesn't help her at all in this endeavor. A new eyecatch featuring Lum and Ataru is introduced this episode.
1x105 - Full of Sunshine - Full of Amours
August 24, 1983
Thanks to Ten's Core technology, he, Ataru, and Mendo make three Sakura sand dolls come to life. Frustrated, Lum goes out with another guy to make Ataru jealous.
1x106 - Big Clash! Ten VS Ataru
September 7, 1983
Tired of being defeated recently by Ataru, Ten goes into training with the help of Cherry and Lum to defeat his arch-nemesis.
1x107 - Terror! Tororo has Come to Attack!!
September 14, 1983
On holiday at Mendo's family's mountain lodge, Lum, Shinobu, Ataru and Mendou are attacked by crazed Tororo yam filling (torojiru).
1x108 - Galactic Teacher CAO-2's Revenge
September 21, 1983
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.
1x109 - Outraged! Piteous Kid Shutaro!!
October 12, 1983
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.
1x110 - Grand! The Mysterious Matsutake Pot!!
October 26, 1983
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.
1x111 - Enraged Lum-chan!
November 2, 1983
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.
1x112 - Lum and Ataru – A Night only for Two
November 9, 1983
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.
1x113 - Lady Ryunosuke!
November 23, 1983
Onsen-Mark is given the task of making "a woman" out of Ryuunosuke.
1x114 - Document - Who Will Be Miss Tomobiki!?
November 30, 1983
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.
1x115 - Bizarre! The Medicine of Selflessness!!
December 7, 1983
Ataru has a literal out-of-body experience when he eats a strange potion shaped like a fish cookie from Cherry.
1x116 - Shutaro - Jinxed Morning
December 14, 1983
Mendo talks to Sakuranbo about Ataru's possible weaknesses in this clip show episode.
1x117 - The Story of a Traveling Snow Dharma
December 21, 1983
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.
1x118 - Lum-chan's Ancient Japanese Fairytales
January 11, 1984
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".
1x119 - Shine! The Blessed Bra!
January 18, 1984
Ryunosuke is blackmailed into going on a date with Shinobu to obtain a bra, which she's always wanted to wear.
1x120 - Duel! Benten VS the Three Daughters
January 25, 1984
A trio of middle-school space girls steal Benten's chain and then challenge her, Lum, and Oyuki to fight them.