The BEST episodes of Those Obnoxious Aliens
Every episode of Those Obnoxious Aliens ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Those Obnoxious Aliens!
Ataru Moroboshi is possibly the most unfaithful, unlucky and lecherous idiot to have ever been born. Lum, a tigerskin-bikini clad alien of sex appeal, jealousy and electricity has fallen for him. The series chronicles the misadventures of these two stubborn teenagers along with a veritable entourage of super-weird characters.
#1 - Goblin in Distress, Yearning for People
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/30/1982
#2 - Mr. Hanawa Arrives! It's the Springtime of Youth
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/23/1982
#3 - The Coming of the Mysterious Red Mantle!
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 7/28/1982
#4 - Steal Darling! The Copy Operation!!
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 8/4/1982
#5 - Space Mail Arrival of Ten-chan! / Mrs. Swallow and Mrs. Penguin
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/21/1981
2-1. Space Mail Arrival of Ten-chan! This is the first episode with Jariten, Lum's cousin. Jariten arrives in a giant peach and he and Ataru are enemies at once. 2-2. Mrs. Swallow and Mrs. Penguin This episode opens with Lum putting on makeup to go meet Darling at school. A swallow swallows some food Jariten gives it and it grows such that it looks like a penguin. It's appearance in school is just the start of a full day of panic.
#6 - Princess Kurama - A New Challenge!
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 11/10/1982
#7 - Gimme Back My Horn!
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 6/9/1982
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.
#8 - Shocking Library - Quiet Please!
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 6/16/1982
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.
#9 - What a Dracula!
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/12/1982
Dracula arrives in town and sets his sights on Lum as his next victim.
#10 - Lum's Education Lecture Course for Boys
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/19/1982
Lum travels back in time in order to meet a younger Ataru and cure his libido.
#11 - From the Gardenia, with Love
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/26/1982
Ataru and Ten compete for the attention of the pretty female proprietor of a flower shop.
#12 - A Beautiful Girl Brings Rain
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/2/1982
The gang meets Tsuyuko, a girl who seems to bring rain wherever she goes.
#13 - I'm Lum the Notorious! / It's Raining Oil All Over Town
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1981
1-1. I'm Lum the Notorious! This episode opens with a baseball game and Ataru getting hit with a left field flyball. Ataru is soon escorted home and discovers he's been chosen to fight an invading alien force's champion in a 10-day game of tag. If he loses, the aliens will invade. But if he wins, the aliens will go home. Ataru isn't at all willing to play tag until he sees the alien's champion: the beautiful Lum. 1-2. It's Raining Oil All Over Town This episode opens with Ataru friends Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers at school who are watching films of the tag game. In this episode, a space taxi gives Ataru a ride home by accident and the fee is...too much. Since Ataru cannot pay, the space Taxi Collection Agency starts stealing all the oil in the world.
#14 - Love Triangle Black Hole / Hey Hey, It's a Little Demon
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1981
6-1. Love Triangle Black Hole Ataru is phoning Shinobu in order to make plans for a date, when Lum interrupts and get's Shinobu mad at Ataru. Ataru throws Lum out and spends the rest of the episode trying to contact Shinobu. But Lum is persistent and uses a ray to jam the phone lines. But this ray also has the side affect of making a plane and a helicopter vanish. 6-2. Hey Hey, It's a Little Demon Walking home from school, Ataru is assaulted by a group of black cats and gets a nasty bump on the head. At midnight, he is using two mirrors to look at the bump, when a little demon pops out of the mirror. The demon proves to be too much for Ataru and Mr. Moroboshi, so they get Cherry to exorcise it.
#15 - Sleeping in Class on a Wonderful Spring Day / Peach Blossom Poetry Contest
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1982
20-1. Sleeping in Class on a Wonderful Spring Day 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. 20-2. Peach Blossom Poetry Contest 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.
#16 - The Mysterious Seductive Beauty Sakura / Tormenting Virus
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1981
5-1. The Mysterious Seductive Beauty Sakura First appearance of Sakura, The Shinto maiden. Ataru can no longer endure Lum, so he has gone undercover. Unfortunately, at a restaurant, the appearance of Lum, Ataru parents, Shinobu, and Cherry blows his cover; and a mob chases after him. He manages to duck them and bumps into Sakura, who takes him home for exorcising. 5-2. Tormenting Virus Arriving at school one morning, Ataru is greeted by all boys in the school who are waiting for the new nurse, Sakura, arriving at school today. Ataru appears to be sick, but in reality he is possessed; and Sakura performs the exorcism.
#17 - Diary of Sorrowful Tomorrows / Whose is this Child?
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1982
19-1. Diary of Sorrowful Tomorrows 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. 19-2. Whose is this Child? 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.
#18 - Panic in a Typhoon!
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 9/1/1982
#19 - Drunkard's Boogie
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 9/8/1982
#20 - The Terror of Meow
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 9/22/1982
#21 - After You've Gone
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 10/13/1982
#22 - Rei Returns! The Big Study Hall Panic!!
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 7/21/1982
#23 - Darling's Had it This Time!
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 7/14/1982
#24 - Sleeping Beauty Princess Kurama / Athletic Woman Hell!
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/1981
9-1. Sleeping Beauty Princess Kurama First episode with Kurama, the karas-tengu princess. On a field trip, Ataru and friends accidentally meet a karas-tengu who takes Ataru to marry Kurama. Kurama then tries to reform Ataru to be her perfect husband. 9-2 Athletic Woman Hell! Kurama uses a weird dimensional door to try and cure Ataru of his lechery. Inside the door, Ataru faces hostile versions of the girls he loves.
