The adventures of Iyami, a con artist who's always looking for a quick buck, and Chibita, his short-statured kid partner-in-crime, as they make trouble for their town and constantly cause friction with the Matsuno sextuplets, a clan of rowdy identical 10-year-old brothers led by the eldest, Osomatsu.
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Air Date: 1988-02-13
The gaudy and untruthful Iyami comes to town, fashioning himself a salesman. After a botched robbery at the Matsuno h...
Air Date: 1988-02-20
After harassing Dayon the fortune-teller, Iyami awaits three bad things to befall him that day, as per Dayon's predic...
Air Date: 1988-02-27
Iyami runs a shady clinic, but is pushed into failure by Dekapan's much more ethical office. To get revenge, him and ...
Air Date: 1988-03-05
Chibita is training to become Prima Donna in Iyami's ballet studio's big show. When one thing leads to another and he...
Air Date: 1988-03-12
Dekapan visits the sextuplets with his daughter -- not a human, but a pig. Osomatsu and Choromatsu cook up a scheme t...
Air Date: 1988-03-19
After dining and dashing for the umpteenth time, Iyami plans a scheme to fake his death and use the grievance money t...
Air Date: 1988-03-26
Chibita finds an abandoned baby, but runs into financial difficulties alongside the discovery that the mother wants h...
Air Date: 1988-04-02
On his way to becoming a first-grader, Chibita is caught between the expectations of being a good boy or being a trou...
Air Date: 1988-04-09
Iyami and Chibita sell used junk, but when they buy a wooden cabinet from the Matsunos that's worth a fortune, a batt...
Air Date: 1988-04-23
A candle-watching shinigami comes to town, and Iyami enlists his help in culling Osomatsu, who has recently come down...
Air Date: 1988-04-30
Iyami and Chibita, prison inmates, make a grand escape from their sentence, but only one problem is in their way, asi...
Air Date: 1988-05-07
Iyami, an amateur author who lives in poverty, strikes it rich when he sends in manuscripts that expose the many stra...
Air Date: 1988-05-14
Lord Chibita, along with second-in-command Iyami, set up their Edo period-style headquarters in town, with the young ...
Air Date: 1988-05-21
Osomatsu and Choromatsu get kidnapped and replaced by aliens in a plot to take over the world, and it's up to the fam...
Air Date: 1988-05-28
After Iyami stops Osomatsu from being hit by a car, he mooches off the Matsunos' generosity under the overabused pret...
Air Date: 1988-06-04
Chibita, along with his scientist uncle, hatch a plan to shrink the sextuplets to flea-size so that he's no longer sh...
Air Date: 1988-06-11
After getting framed for one of Iyami's tricks, Hatabou tries to stand up for himself with the help of shrine god Dek...
Air Date: 1988-06-25
In a retelling of the O. Henry tale "A Retrieved Reformation", Chibita, a safecracker recently released from a three-...
Air Date: 1988-07-02
Dekapan invents a mysterious liquid that causes anyone doused with it and who bumps heads to switch minds, leading to...
Air Date: 1988-07-09
Iyami and Chibita mix up two fake watermelons: one full of valuables to give to the yakuza, and the other a bomb to g...
Air Date: 1988-07-23
Paperboy Chibita makes friends with a notorious thieving cat, but trouble arises when the kitty must learn to be on t...
Air Date: 1988-07-30
In this retelling of "Shane", Chibita, a wandering gunslinger in the Wild West, must protect the Dekapan Ranch from t...
Air Date: 1988-08-06
The ultra-rich Iyami's diamond dentures go missing, and it's up to Detective Hatabou to find the lost jewels and the ...
Air Date: 1988-08-13
Totoko becomes infected with personality-altering bacteria after Iyami sneezes on her, leading Osomatsu and Choromats...
Air Date: 1988-08-27
After Iyami steals all of an oden vendor's stock and pins it on oden-loving Chibita, the tortured boy sets his aim on...
Air Date: 1988-09-03
Because of their lower income and not enough family time, the Matsunos try to convince their tobacco-addicted patriar...
Air Date: 1988-09-10
Dekapan and Hatabou, two farmers on an island, make offerings to a stone god, and are shunned for being hard workers ...
Air Date: 1988-09-17
The brothers, Chibita, and Totoko go camping in the sticks, and run afoul of lecherous ascetic Iyami who will stop at...
Air Date: 1988-10-01
Iyami, who starts an insurance company with the intention of frauding his unlucky customers out of their money, has h...
Air Date: 1988-10-08
Chibita, having been picked on by the sextuplets one too many times, learns ninjutsu from Dekapan up in the mountains...
Air Date: 1988-10-15
In a secluded mountain village in old Japan, a poverty-stricken Chibita is graced by the presence of the spirit of a ...
Air Date: 1988-10-22
New girl Kumiko (a parody of idol singer Kumiko Goto) moves in next-door to the sextuplets, and spurs jealousy in Tot...
Air Date: 1988-10-29
At a circus, Iyami and Chibita are death-defying trapeze artists. Ringmaster Dekapan stirs up trouble between them, w...
Air Date: 1988-11-05
Mr. Matsuno calls it quits as the father to his six rambunctious sons, thinking that he's been mistreated. In his mis...
Air Date: 1988-11-12
Iyamitarou, the scheming minister of Emperor Dekapan, attempts to assassinate ruling Princess Totoko so that his next...
Air Date: 1988-11-19
Chibita becomes the masked vigilante Chibita Oden X, with Iyami wanting to get into the hero game for purely reputati...
Air Date: 1988-11-26
In a retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Chibita takes on the role of Jimsy as he boards a ship searc...
Air Date: 1988-12-03
Iyami and Chibita, after seeing how elderly people are treated with respect, pretend to be a poor old couple to take ...
Air Date: 1988-12-10
In a retelling of the tale of the 47 Ronin, Chibitanosuke gets revenge on Iyaminosuke for the death of his Lord Hatab...
Air Date: 1988-12-17
The sextuplets, under the threat of their dad losing his job, must watch his boss' violent sleep-deprived son, but th...
Air Date: 1988-12-24
Chibita, a New York bellboy working at the Dayon Hotel, encounters the lovely yet suicidal singer Totoko and tries to...
Air Date: 1989-01-14
Scammer Iyami takes apprentice swindler Chibita under his wing to teach him the ins and outs of getting people to buy...
Air Date: 1989-01-21
A turn-of-the-century auto race unfolds in a newly-westernized Japan, with the grand prize being Totoko of the Yotsui...
Air Date: 1989-01-28
French director Iyami and his cameraman Chibita travel to Japan to film a documentary. However, Iyami's orientalist a...
Air Date: 1989-02-04
The sextuplets, Iyami, and Chibita go skiing and get caught up in adventures involving a black bear and her cub, a ra...
Air Date: 1989-02-11
In a parody of prohibition-era gangster films, Detective Chibita is sent to destroy an illegal oden trade operation, ...
Air Date: 1989-02-18
Iyami, having remembered that he made Chibita purchase a lottery ticket a year ago, learns that he has a winner on hi...
Air Date: 1989-02-25
After their dad decides it's time for them to learn some manners, the sextuplets are sent off to do zen training at M...
Air Date: 1989-03-04
Iyami is a police officer who is not very good at his job, instead opting to take advantage of his role as the long a...
Air Date: 1989-03-11
During the stone age, Chibita finds a baby dinosaur that he wants to keep as a pet. But one thing leads to another, a...
Air Date: 1989-03-18
After the Matsunos accidentally stay at a ¥10,000 per person inn thinking it was for one zero less, they feign a life...
Air Date: 1989-03-25
After Iyami's dishonesty spurs trouble for Dekapan's Restaurant, the Hatabou Research Institute creates an explosive ...
Air Date: 1989-04-01
Chibita, the son of Iyami and Mr. Matsuno's boss, must decide on which of the two will get a promotion to Section Chi...
Air Date: 1989-04-08
A wealthy woman becomes engaged to dirt-poor Iyami, who's asked about where he lives. Ashamed to say he lives in a sh...
Air Date: 1989-04-15
After a failed auto robbery on a rickety bridge totals Mr. Matsuno's recently-acquired lemon and Iyami's expensive Fr...
Air Date: 1989-04-22
Chibita, a fantastically rich young man, orders the infrastructure and economy of the town to suit his whims. When he...
Air Date: 1989-04-29
Iyami, flying as captain of a shoddy commercial jet with the promise of inheriting the airline, must avert a hijackin...
Air Date: 1989-05-06
The Matsunos are in the red, and decide to take up an offer from billionaire Dekapan to sell off Osomatsu to cover th...
Air Date: 1989-05-13
An upcoming election between Dayon and Iyami looks like it's over before it's even begun, with Iyami hiring hitman Jo...
Air Date: 1989-05-20
Chibita gets into R/C model planes after seeing the sextuplets' new expensive toy bomber. However, he's barred from t...
Air Date: 1989-05-27
Chibita falls head-over-heels in love with Hatabou's cousin Jajako, but likes way too many of the things she hates, i...
Air Date: 1989-06-03
Mr. Matsuno loses his big bonus from work, and all suspicions point to Iyami, who has seemingly turned over a new lea...
Air Date: 1989-06-17
Professor Iyami and his lab assistant Chibita cook up a 3D color-copy machine (otherwise known as a cloning machine f...
Air Date: 1989-06-24
In the first part of this intergalactic parody of "Journey to the West", Chibita-Son Goku causes havoc in the heavens...
Air Date: 1989-07-01
In the second part of this intergalactic parody of "Journey to the West", Iyami-Sanzou sets off with his band of weir...
Air Date: 1989-07-15
This animated tale is an investigation into the true meaning of education. What lies forth is the complicated relatio...
Air Date: 1989-07-22
Prince Chibiru, the young ruler of the Kingdom of Odenwanker, comes to Japan as part of a political trip. When his ro...
Air Date: 1989-07-29
Mr. Matsuno and the sextuplets suffer pratfall after pratfall when they take up Iyami and Chibita's purportedly-cheap...
Air Date: 1989-08-19
Mr. and Mrs. Matsuno take advantage of de-aging magic that turns them back into teenagers, but neither of them know e...
Air Date: 1989-08-26
In this parody of the classic boxing manga "Ashita no Joe", oden vendor Chibita takes up a career in boxing, with his...
Air Date: 1989-09-02
A mom-and-pop sales-off begins for Mr. and Mrs. Matsuno, when the family learns about Mrs. Matsuno's success in door-...
Air Date: 1989-09-09
In a parody of "Honeybee Hutch" and various Aesop bug fables, honeybee Chibita is searching for his lost mother, but ...
Air Date: 1989-09-16
Monks of Dekapan's Riddle Temple, Iyami and Chibita, go about town stumping the locals with riddles, with an incorrec...
Air Date: 1989-09-23
Inspector Chibita, on the hunt for Phantom Thief Dayon, teams up with the supposed "great detective" Iyami and his Ju...
Air Date: 1989-10-14
40 years in the future, the sextuplets are 50-year-old salarymen working for Dekapan's pharmaceutical company. When t...
Air Date: 1989-10-21
The Dekapan Film Company is losing sales to companies with much higher-quality stock than what they supply. Salesman ...
Air Date: 1989-10-28
A robot vacuum invented by Dekapan that serves to identify and "eat" trash has its wires crossed, leading to its AI a...
Air Date: 1989-11-04
God (Dekapan) comes to Earth to see how his creations are doing. In the mood for some action, he gives Chibita a myst...
Air Date: 1989-11-11
In a retelling of "The Kid", Chibita, a foundling raised by the poor Dekapan, is visited by a woman who claims to be ...
Air Date: 1989-11-18
Chibita, taking up vigilantism as Batman (that's what the "B" on his mask stands for), observes Iyami, who's trying ...
Air Date: 1989-11-25
Osomatsu is sent to the capitalistic and hotel-like Dayon Hospital for an apple in his throat, but gets into trouble ...
Air Date: 1989-12-02
Iyami, having accidentally awoken the spirit of vengeful samurai Chibita Juurozaemon Mitsutomo in a formerly-peaceful...
Air Date: 1989-12-09
Iyami, the scummy ringmaster of a failing circus, gives away lion Tama to the Matsunos as part of a fake lottery. Whe...
Air Date: 1989-12-16
In a parody of the long-running period drama based on the life of the titular historical figure, Hatabou, taking the ...
Air Date: 1989-12-23
In a clip-show episode, the Nanmaiders return for a full-scale invasion, but need a human as a judge of character. Iy...
Air Date: 1989-12-30
Former Diet members Iyami and Chibita are suffering through poverty, with a slim chance of getting re-elected. When r...