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S5.E1 ∙ Pitiful! Mother of Love and Banishment!?

Tue, Jul 26, 1983

A rare, philosophical, and fantastical look into the life and mind of Ataru's mother.

7.9 /10

S5.E2 ∙ The House of Mendou: Summer Xmas

Tue, Aug 02, 1983

Ryoko invites couples from all over town to attend the a summer Christmas party at the Mendou estate. The couples, chained together, must rappel up a huge Christmas tree in order to reach the banquet at the top. The first couple to make it to the top will receive a kiss from either Ryoko or Mendou, those who fail will plummet to their deaths!

8.4 /10

S5.E3 ∙ Panic in the Haunted Inn

Tue, Aug 09, 1983

Lum, Ataru, Mendou and Shinobu stay at a gloomy old inn that they later discover is haunted by a ghost. But the ghost in question isn't nearly as scary as the elderly couple who runs the inn.

7.6 /10

S5.E4 ∙ Oh! The Memories of Mother

Tue, Aug 16, 1983

Ryuunosuke demands that her father tell her what kind of person her mother was like, but getting a straight answer from him proves frustrating as he tells her one whopper after another.

7.5 /10

S5.E5 ∙ Full of Sunshine, Full of Amours

Tue, Aug 23, 1983

Ataru and friends spend the day at the beach, where they engage in different activities, including making sand clones of Sakura, and Lum temporarily turning a talking dolphin into a handsome man in order to make Ataru jealous.

7.3 /10

S5.E6 ∙ Big Battle! Ten vs. Ataru

Tue, Sep 06, 1983

Ten has gotten sick and tired of getting clobbered every morning by Ataru, so he devises ways to get back at him and win for a change.

6.7 /10

S5.E7 ∙ Terror! Attack of the Killer Potatoes!

Tue, Sep 13, 1983

At a Mendou-owned mountain retreat, Ataru, Lum, Mendou, and Shinobu find themselves in a bizarre 'revenge of nature' scenario as they are attacked by Tororo potatoes.

7.3 /10

S5.E8 ∙ Galactic Teacher CAO-2 Strikes Back!

Tue, Sep 20, 1983

Oyuki meets with Lum, Benten, and Ran to warn them that their old elementary school teacher, CAO-2, has escaped. CAO-2 was a huge, menacing robot teacher shaped like a huge chalkboard eraser. He ran his class with an iron fist, had zero-tolerance for all the pranks that Lum and Benten pulled on him, and often punished them by hurling himself at them. The girls managed to trap him on a stalactite on some remote planet after a chase through space, but now that he's escaped, he's looking for revenge!

7.1 /10

S5.E9 ∙ Outraged! Piteous Boy Shutaro!

Tue, Oct 11, 1983

Lum tries to help Mendou cure his phobias by traveling back to a point in time before he developed those fears. Soon after the gang arrives, they encounter a very bratty little Mendou.

7.8 /10

S5.E10 ∙ Wow! The Mysterious Matsutake Mushroom Soup!

Tue, Oct 25, 1983

Ataru's classroom has brought various vegetables for an autumn soup feast, and Cherry brought mushrooms which Ataru identifies as the highly prized Matsutake. Soon, everyone is feasting on the soup and acting extremely weird.

7.3 /10

S5.E11 ∙ Enraged Lum!

Tue, Nov 01, 1983

During another one of Ataru & Ten's fights, Ten accidentally burns the scarf that Lum had made for him, yet strangely Lum isn't upset with Ten. Ataru then tries to goad her to become angry with Ten, and later Lum practices disciplining him aboard her UFO. Meanwhile, Ten wanders around town trying to think of the proper way to apologize to her.

7.9 /10

S5.E12 ∙ Lum & Ataru: A Night Alone

Tue, Nov 08, 1983

Moroboshi's parents leave for a vacation, which means Lum and Ataru are alone in the house. Mendou, Megane and other classmates who're in lust with Lum are determined not to leave Ataru to spend the night alone with Lum.

7.6 /10

S5.E13 ∙ Lady Ryuunosuke!

Tue, Nov 22, 1983

Onsen-Mark takes Ryuunosuke under his wing and attempts to teach her how to be a woman.

7.6 /10

S5.E14 ∙ Document! Who'll Be Miss Tomobiki?

Tue, Nov 29, 1983

Tomobiki High Principal holds the first beauty pageant at the school. Lum, Shinobu, Ryuunosuke, Ran, and Sakura are the lead contenders; while Ataru is chosen to be the contest's supervisor.

7.8 /10

S5.E15 ∙ Bizarre! The Medicine of Selflessness!

Tue, Dec 06, 1983

Ataru unknowingly consumes an experimental potion concocted by Cherry and he falls into a deep slumber. While asleep, his ethereal self which's a manifestation of all his desires, flys around and spies on beautiful women.

7.5 /10

S5.E16 ∙ Shutaro's Jinxed Morning

Sun, Dec 11, 1983

A mostly recap episode disguised as Cherry reporting to Shutaro Mendou about his arch rival Ataru and his weird physical feats and activities throughout the previous episodes.

6.3 /10

S5.E17 ∙ The Story of a Traveling Snowman

Tue, Dec 20, 1983

A magical Snowman falls from space and takes a liking to Ataru, so he appears as different girls and classmates to Ataru, who completely falls for it.

7.1 /10

S5.E18 ∙ Lum-chan's Ancient Japanese Fairytales

Tue, Dec 27, 1983

Ataru doesn't want Ten to go out with him and Lum to spend the New Year allowance money, so he gets Cherry to convince Ten that he should stay at home, Cherry then proceeds to tell him a story.

6.4 /10

S5.E19 ∙ Shine! The Blessed Bra!!

Tue, Jan 17, 1984

Ryuunosuke wants to buy her first ever bra but money is tight, so in order to get a free bra, she has to pretend to be Shinobu's boyfriend to repel a gangster who wants to date her.

7.4 /10

S5.E20 ∙ Challenge! Benten VS. The Girl Trio!!

Tue, Jan 24, 1984

A trio of middle school-aged girls, who fancy themselves as a gang, steal Benten's chain. They also challenge her, Lum, and Oyuki to a showdown on top of Tomobiki HS for the chain.

7.6 /10

S5.E21 ∙ Plenty of Lum-chan's!

Tue, Jan 31, 1984

Ran kidnaps Lum and clones her so she can control her and orders her to break up with Ataru. The first clone fails so she keeps making new clones until they all break free and become a nuisance.

8.2 /10

S5.E22 ∙ Certain Death! Stand-Up Eating Contest

Tue, Feb 07, 1984

Mendou's corporation is opening a new food and shopping center, and hires competitive eaters to run small eateries in the area out of business, but Ataru and friends counter with hiring their own pro eaters, and it becomes a competition.

7.5 /10

S5.E23 ∙ The Great Vault! Courageous Survival!

Tue, Feb 14, 1984

Mendou takes Ataru on a tour of his vast warehouse collections, but once they enter the great vault they become trapped, with no one coming to their rescue.

7.4 /10

S5.E24 ∙ Operation: Peek in the Woman's Bath

Tue, Feb 21, 1984

Ataru overhears Lum planning a girls bathhouse party, so he goes there pretending to have a bath, but determined to peep on the women's section from the men's section. He's soon followed by Megane, Mendou and other lecherous classmates.

8.6 /10

S5.E25 ∙ Sakura, Sad Years of Youth

Tue, Feb 28, 1984

Cherry slips a special tablet into Sakura's breakfast that makes her daydreams of her sad childhood years, which somehow physically brings her child self into the present, and everyone at school thinks Sakura has a secret daughter.

7.4 /10

S5.E26 ∙ Burning Ran's Emotional Video Mail

Tue, Mar 06, 1984

Mostly a recap episode about Ran receiving video tapes in which her childhood embarrassing moments with Lum are depicted, along with other unfair incidents involving Ataru and Lum at school.

6.9 /10

S5.E27 ∙ Sakura-san of my youth!

Tue, Mar 13, 1984

Another recap episode featuring Ataru and Sakura's various past interactions and incidents.

6.2 /10

S5.E28 ∙ Scramble! To the Rescue of Lum!

Tue, Mar 20, 1984

After a fight with Ataru one night, Lum goes up to her UFO. As she sleeps, her ship crashes on Mendou's estate, and she has lost her memory. Mendou later tells Ataru that Lum is now staying with him, and will fight to keep her there.

7.9 /10

S5.E29 ∙ A Fight to the Death! Ataru vs. the Mendou Brigade!

Tue, Mar 27, 1984

Ataru, and Lum's Stormtroopers infiltrate the Mendou estate to rescue Lum, but with Mendou's massive private army standing in their way, their mission to save her could end up a suicide mission.

8 /10