¡Mucha Lucha!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

¡Mucha Lucha!
Flea, Rikochet, and Buena Girl, The Three Mascaritas
Genre	animated television series
Creator(s)	Eddie Mort & Lili Chin
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Kids WB!
Original run	August 17, 2002 – February 26, 2005

¡Mucha Lucha! is an animated television series which premiered on Kids WB on August 17, 2002. In the UK the show airs on CITV. It was created by Eddie Mort and Lili Chin. It is one of the first animated television series created with Macromedia Flash, a program usually used for Internet cartoons.

The show is set in a town centered around Lucha Libre (nearly everyone in the town has a mask and costume and a signature move) and is essentially about the adventures of three children, Rikochet, Buena Girl, and The Flea, as they struggle through the world-famous school of wrestling they study in.

1 Main characters
2 Season list
3 Spin-off merchandise
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Main characters

Characters in ¡Mucha Lucha!

Main article: List of ¡Mucha Lucha! characters

Rikochet: The brave leader of the group.
The Flea: The filthy and disgusting boy.
Buena Girl: The wholesome and righteous girl.

[edit] Season list

[edit] Season 1: 2002-2003

Back to School / How Rikochet Got His Move Back
The Fantastic Backpack / The Naked and the Masked (got a little bit of obscene)
Weight Gaining / Heart of Lucha (also known as Big Bad Flea)
Woulda Coulda Hasbeena / The Anger of Cindy Slam
The Curse of the Masked Toilet / The Mummy with the Golden Mask
Pinball Wizard (also known as Pinball Problems) / Not So Buena Girl (also known as The Fortune Donut)
Bring Your Dad to Lucha Day / Our Founder
Tooth or Dare / The Mask Mitzvah
Flea's Fighting Fish (also known as A Little Fishy) / La Flamencita (also known as Dance Disaster)
Will the Real El Rey Please Stand Up? / The Musica Man
Timmy of a Thousand Masks / All Creatures Masked and Small (also known as Doggone It)
Honor Thy Lucha (also known as Trading Card Trouble) / Chinche
Mask Away

Note: "How Rikochet Got His Move Back" was originally intended to be shown with "Back to School", but ended up being paired with "Heart of Lucha" (while "Back to School" is shown with "Weight Gaining") for reasons unknown. Several episodes from this season were adaptated into children's storybooks, most of them being given titles different from the episodes themselves.

[edit] Season 2: 2003-2004

Lone Stars / The Littlest Luchadora
The Man from M.A.S.K. / The Flea's Bueno Twin
Nightmare on Lucha Street / Revenge of the Masked Toilet
Calling All Monsters / Pig Out
Thrills and Skills / Party Animal
Dancing with Bugs / Chain of Fools
You Look Radishing (also known as Thief of Radishes) / Lucha, Rinse and Repeat
War of the Donuts / Show Me the Funny
French Twisted / Hungry Like Los Lobos (also known as Los Lobos De Lucha)
Big Buena Sellout / Laying in Ruins
Getting Ahead / Los Fabulosos
Meet the Muertos / Mask Maker
Undercover Flea / Kid Wombat
Churro Overload / Mini Mercado of Doom
La Bruja / El Niño Loco
The Collector
The Brat in the Hat (also known as Los Pantalones) / Election Daze
Late Night Lucha / Flea at Last
Flea's Personal Demons / Virtual Luchadores
Cinco De Piñata (also known as Day of the Piñata) / Poocha Lucha
Run, Lucha, Run / An Epic Tale Of Heroes And Donuts
Attack Of The Luchabots
My Hairy Knuckles / Brains Meets Brawn
Asphalt of Doom / Hot Hot Hot
I was a Pre-Teen Chupacabra / Carnival of Masked Terror
Getting His Goat / 10 Rounds of Trouble

Video Movie: ¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Maléfico

Note: The theme song was slightly changed this season. The last four episodes of this season were held over and ended up airing during season 3.

[edit] Season 3: 2004-2005

Buena Basura / Shamrock and Roll
Spider and the Flea / The Incredible Penny Plutonium
Dare to Lucha / Monkey Business
Dawn of the Donuts / Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Horchata
Big Worm / Medico Mayhem
Banditos de los Muertos / Field of Screams
Slamazon and On... / Buena on Wheels
A Whole Lot of El Rey / Doomien
The Match Before Christmas (also known as A Mucha Mucha Christmas)
Call of the Mild
Niko Sushi's Happy Battle Funtime Dome 3000 / Smarticus
Mars Madness / Fears of a Clown
The Magnificent Three

[edit] Spin-off merchandise

A toy line based on the show was released by Jakks Pacific in 2003. In this toy line included "Mix-a-Lot" action figures; these had removable body parts that could be placed on the bodies of other action figures in the series. "Signature Move" action figures were also put out, along with a toy wrestling ring. Unfortunately, the second series of the toy line was cancelled.

During summer of 2003, DC Comics published a three-issue mini-series of comic books based on ¡Mucha Lucha! All three of the stories featured in these comic books were written by Eddie Mort, and have even been occasionally referenced in the TV series.

El Rey, Come Home!
It's All Buena!
Limbo of the Lost Luchadores!

The show was licensed for a Game Boy Advance video game in late 2003 - Mascaritas of the Lost Code, and also a Sony Playstation 2 video game was slated for release but was cancelled around 2004 - Mysterioso Grande.

Also Sabritas had two "tazos" collections of Mucha Lucha in Mexico, where due to the show's Mexican style, it raised a fever pitch. A card game was released in Mexico in early January 2006, however the card game was released on some Mexican states during late 2005.