¡Mucha Lucha!

¡Mucha Lucha! is the first animated TV series created with Flash, the program usually used for Internet cartoons. It was created by Eddie Mort and Lili Chin, and premiered on Kids WB on August 17, 2002. As of 2004, it can also be seen on Cartoon Network.

Episode List

Season 1

1. Back to School / How Rikochet Got His Move Back
2. The Fantastic Backpack / The Naked and the Masked
3. Weight Gaining / Heart of Lucha (a.k.a. Big Bad Flea)
4. Woulda Coulda Hasbeena / The Anger of Cindy Slam
5. The Curse of the Masked Toilet / The Mummy with the Golden Mask
6. Pinball Wizard (a.k.a. Pinball Problems) / Not So Buena Girl (a.k.a. The Fortune Donut)
7. Bring Your Dad to Lucha Day / Our Founder
8. Tooth or Dare / The Mask Mitzvah
9. Flea's Fighting Fish (a.k.a. A Little Fishy) / La Flamencita (a.k.a. Dance Disaster)
10. Will the Real El Rey Please Stand Up? / The Musica Man
11. Timmy of a Thousand Masks / All Creatures Masked and Small (a.k.a. Doggone It)
12. Honor Thy Lucha (a.k.a. Trading Card Trouble) / Chinche
13. 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.

Season 2

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

Video Movie: The Return of El Malefico

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.

Season 3

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

Note: At this season, the series was retitled ¡Mucha Lucha! Gigante.

Comic Book Mini-Series

During summer 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.

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

See also

• List of characters from ¡Mucha Lucha!

External links

• Official Kids WB! ¡Mucha Lucha! Website
• Official Cartoon Network ¡Mucha Lucha! Website
• TV Tome – ¡Mucha Lucha!