February 13, 1988 • 24m
The gaudy and untruthful Iyami comes to town, fashioning himself a salesman. After a botched robbery at the Matsuno house, he inad...Read more
February 20, 1988 • 24m
After harassing Dayon the fortune-teller, Iyami awaits three bad things to befall him that day, as per Dayon's prediction.
February 27, 1988 • 24m
Iyami runs a shady clinic, but is pushed into failure by Dekapan's much more ethical office. To get revenge, him and Chibita cook ...Read more
March 5, 1988 • 24m
Chibita is training to become Prima Donna in Iyami's ballet studio's big show. When one thing leads to another and he's ousted fro...Read more
March 12, 1988 • 24m
Dekapan visits the sextuplets with his daughter -- not a human, but a pig. Osomatsu and Choromatsu cook up a scheme to trick Chibi...Read more
March 19, 1988 • 24m
After dining and dashing for the umpteenth time, Iyami plans a scheme to fake his death and use the grievance money to skip town.
March 26, 1988 • 24m
Chibita finds an abandoned baby, but runs into financial difficulties alongside the discovery that the mother wants her baby back.
April 2, 1988 • 24m
After he graduates, Chibita is caught between the expectations of being a good boy or being a troublemaker. With the help of Iyami...Read more
April 9, 1988 • 24m
Iyami and Chibita sell used junk, but when they buy a wooden cabinet from the Matsunos that's worth a fortune, a battle ensues for...Read more
April 23, 1988 • 24m
A candle-watching shinigami comes to town, and Iyami enlists his help in culling Osomatsu, who has recently come down with a life-threatening illness.
April 30, 1988 • 24m
Iyami and Chibita, prison inmates, make a grand escape from their sentence, but only one problem is in their way, aside from the p...Read more
May 7, 1988 • 24m
Iyami, an amateur author who lives in poverty, strikes it rich when he sends in manuscripts that expose the many strange things ab...Read more
May 14, 1988 • 24m
Lord Chibita, along with second-in-command Iyami, set up their Edo period-style headquarters in town, with the young Lord falling ...Read more
May 21, 1988 • 24m
Osomatsu and Choromatsu get kidnapped and replaced by aliens in a plot to take over the world, and it's up to the family to find o...Read more
May 28, 1988 • 24m
After Iyami stops Osomatsu from being hit by a car, he mooches off the Matsunos' generosity under the overabused pretense that he ...Read more
June 4, 1988 • 24m
Chibita, along with his scientist uncle, hatch a plan to shrink the sextuplets to flea-size so that he's no longer shorter and can...Read more
June 11, 1988 • 24m
After getting framed for one of Iyami's tricks, Hatabou tries to stand up for himself with the help of shrine god Dekapan's courage-fortified water.
June 25, 1988 • 24m
In a retelling of the O. Henry tale "A Retrieved Reformation", Chibita, a safecracker recently released from a three-year-sentence...Read more
July 2, 1988 • 24m
Dekapan invents a mysterious liquid that causes anyone doused with it and who bumps heads to switch minds, leading to all sorts of...Read more
July 9, 1988 • 24m
Iyami and Chibita mix up two fake watermelons: one full of valuables to give to the yakuza, and the other a bomb to give to the Ma...Read more
July 23, 1988 • 24m
Paperboy Chibita makes friends with a notorious thieving cat, but trouble arises when the kitty must learn to be on the straight-a...Read more
July 30, 1988 • 24m
In this retelling of "Shane", Chibita, a wandering gunslinger in the Wild West, must protect the Dekapan Ranch from the marauding ...Read more
August 6, 1988 • 24m
The ultra-rich Iyami's diamond dentures go missing, and it's up to Detective Hatabou to find the lost jewels and the culprit behind the thieving.
August 13, 1988 • 24m
Totoko becomes infected with personality-altering bacteria after Iyami sneezes on her, leading Osomatsu and Choromatsu, along with...Read more
August 27, 1988 • 24m
After Iyami steals all of an oden vendor's stock and pins it on oden-loving Chibita, the tortured boy sets his aim on the sextuple...Read more
September 3, 1988 • 24m
Because of their lower income and not enough family time, the Matsunos try to convince their tobacco-addicted patriarch to quit sm...Read more
September 10, 1988 • 24m
Dekapan and Hatabou, two farmers on an island, make offerings to a stone god, and are shunned for being hard workers by the rest o...Read more
September 17, 1988 • 24m
The brothers, Chibita, and Totoko go camping in the sticks, and run afoul of lecherous ascetic Iyami who will stop at nothing to b...Read more
October 1, 1988 • 24m
Iyami, who starts an insurance company with the intention of frauding his unlucky customers out of their money, has his scheme put...Read more
October 8, 1988 • 24m
Chibita, having been picked on by the sextuplets one too many times, learns ninjutsu from Dekapan up in the mountains. But when Iy...Read more
October 15, 1988 • 24m
In a secluded mountain village in old Japan, a poverty-stricken Chibita is graced by the presence of the spirit of a rose in a gar...Read more
October 22, 1988 • 24m
New girl Kumiko (a parody of idol singer Kumiko Goto) moves in next-door to the sextuplets, and spurs jealousy in Totoko for takin...Read more
October 29, 1988 • 24m
At a circus, Iyami and Chibita are death-defying trapeze artists. Ringmaster Dekapan stirs up trouble between them, with his daugh...Read more
November 5, 1988 • 24m
Mr. Matsuno calls it quits as the father to his six rambunctious sons, thinking that he's been mistreated. In his misplaced sorrow...Read more
November 12, 1988 • 24m
Iyamitarou, the scheming minister of Emperor Dekapan, attempts to assassinate ruling Princess Totoko so that his next-in-line Prin...Read more
November 19, 1988 • 24m
Chibita becomes the masked vigilante Chibita Oden X, with Iyami wanting to get into the hero game for purely reputation-based reas...Read more
November 26, 1988 • 24m
In a retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Chibita takes on the role of Jimsy as he boards a ship searching for Trea...Read more
December 3, 1988 • 24m
Iyami and Chibita, after seeing how elderly people are treated with respect, pretend to be a poor old couple to take advantage of ...Read more
December 10, 1988 • 24m
In a retelling of the tale of the 47 Ronin, Chibitanosuke gets revenge on Iyaminosuke for the death of his Lord Hatabou and the fa...Read more
December 17, 1988 • 24m
The sextuplets, under the threat of their dad losing his job, must watch his boss' violent sleep-deprived son, but the infamous Bu...Read more
December 24, 1988 • 24m
Chibita, a New York bellboy working at the Dayon Hotel, encounters the lovely yet suicidal singer Totoko and tries to convince her...Read more
January 14, 1989 • 24m
Scammer Iyami takes apprentice swindler Chibita under his wing to teach him the ins and outs of getting people to buy fraudulent g...Read more
January 21, 1989 • 24m
A turn-of-the-century auto race unfolds in a newly-westernized Japan, with the grand prize being Totoko of the Yotsui Conglomerate...Read more
January 28, 1989 • 24m
French director Iyami and his cameraman Chibita travel to Japan to film a documentary. However, Iyami's orientalist and otherwise ...Read more
February 4, 1989 • 24m
The sextuplets, Iyami, and Chibita go skiing and get caught up in adventures involving a black bear and her cub, a race to impress...Read more
February 11, 1989 • 24m
In a parody of prohibition-era gangster films, Detective Chibita is sent to destroy an illegal oden trade operation, and uncovers ...Read more
February 18, 1989 • 24m
Iyami, having remembered that he made Chibita purchase a lottery ticket a year ago, learns that he has a winner on his hands. When...Read more
February 25, 1989 • 24m
After their dad decides it's time for them to learn some manners, the sextuplets are sent off to do zen training at Monk Iyami's t...Read more
March 4, 1989 • 24m
Iyami is a police officer who is not very good at his job, instead opting to take advantage of his role as the long arm of the law...Read more
March 11, 1989 • 24m
During the stone age, Chibita finds a baby dinosaur that he wants to keep as a pet. But one thing leads to another, and he sends i...Read more
March 18, 1989 • 24m
After the Matsunos accidentally stay at a ¥10,000 per person inn thinking it was for one zero less, they feign a lifestyle of the ...Read more
March 25, 1989 • 24m
After Iyami's dishonesty spurs trouble for Dekapan's Restaurant, the Hatabou Research Institute creates an explosive lie-detector ...Read more
April 1, 1989 • 24m
Chibita, the son of Iyami and Mr. Matsuno's boss, must decide on which of the two will get a promotion to Section Chief through a ...Read more
April 8, 1989 • 24m
A wealthy woman becomes engaged to dirt-poor Iyami, who's asked about where he lives. Ashamed to say he lives in a shack under the...Read more
April 15, 1989 • 24m
After a failed auto robbery on a rickety bridge totals Mr. Matsuno's recently-acquired lemon and Iyami's expensive French import, ...Read more
April 22, 1989 • 24m
Chibita, a fantastically rich young man, orders the infrastructure and economy of the town to suit his whims. When he can't force ...Read more
April 29, 1989 • 24m
Iyami, flying as captain of a shoddy commercial jet with the promise of inheriting the airline, must avert a hijacking and keep al...Read more
May 6, 1989 • 24m
The Matsunos are in the red, and decide to take up an offer from billionaire Dekapan to sell off Osomatsu to cover their debts. Ho...Read more
May 13, 1989 • 24m
An upcoming election between Dayon and Iyami looks like it's over before it's even begun, with Iyami hiring hitman Joe Hatabou to ...Read more
May 20, 1989 • 24m
Chibita gets into R/C model planes after seeing the sextuplets' new expensive toy bomber. However, he's barred from the model shop...Read more
May 27, 1989 • 24m
Chibita falls head-over-heels in love with Hatabou's cousin Jajako, but likes way too many of the things she hates, including oden...Read more
June 3, 1989 • 24m
Mr. Matsuno loses his big bonus from work, and all suspicions point to Iyami, who has seemingly turned over a new leaf. The sextup...Read more
June 17, 1989 • 24m
Professor Iyami and his lab assistant Chibita cook up a 3D color-copy machine (otherwise known as a cloning machine for you geeks)...Read more
June 24, 1989 • 24m
In the first part of this intergalactic parody of "Journey to the West", Chibita-Son Goku causes havoc in the heavens as a means t...Read more
July 1, 1989 • 24m
In the second part of this intergalactic parody of "Journey to the West", Iyami-Sanzou sets off with his band of weirdos to steal ...Read more
July 15, 1989 • 24m
This animated tale is an investigation into the true meaning of education. What lies forth is the complicated relationship between...Read more
July 22, 1989 • 24m
Prince Chibiru, the young ruler of the Kingdom of Odenwanker, comes to Japan as part of a political trip. When his royal duties ar...Read more
July 29, 1989 • 24m
Mr. Matsuno and the sextuplets suffer pratfall after pratfall when they take up Iyami and Chibita's purportedly-cheap beach house ...Read more
August 19, 1989 • 24m
Mr. and Mrs. Matsuno take advantage of de-aging magic that turns them back into teenagers, but neither of them know each other's s...Read more
August 26, 1989 • 24m
In this parody of the classic boxing manga "Ashita no Joe", oden vendor Chibita takes up a career in boxing, with his anticipated ...Read more
September 2, 1989 • 24m
A mom-and-pop sales-off begins for Mr. and Mrs. Matsuno, when the family learns about Mrs. Matsuno's success in door-to-door sales...Read more
September 9, 1989 • 24m
In a parody of "Honeybee Hutch" and various Aesop bug fables, honeybee Chibita is searching for his lost mother, but encounters th...Read more
September 16, 1989 • 24m
Monks of Dekapan's Riddle Temple, Iyami and Chibita, go about town stumping the locals with riddles, with an incorrect answer resu...Read more
September 23, 1989 • 24m
Inspector Chibita, on the hunt for Phantom Thief Dayon, teams up with the supposed "great detective" Iyami and his Junior Detectiv...Read more
October 14, 1989 • 24m
40 years in the future, the sextuplets are 50-year-old salarymen working for Dekapan's pharmaceutical company. When their boss put...Read more
October 21, 1989 • 24m
The Dekapan Film Company is losing sales to companies with much higher-quality stock than what they supply. Salesman Iyami is hire...Read more
October 28, 1989 • 24m
A robot vacuum invented by Dekapan that serves to identify and "eat" trash has its wires crossed, leading to its AI assuming anyth...Read more
November 4, 1989 • 24m
God (Dekapan) comes to Earth to see how his creations are doing. In the mood for some action, he gives Chibita a mysterious phone ...Read more
November 11, 1989 • 24m
In a retelling of "The Kid", Chibita, a foundling raised by the poor Dekapan, is visited by a woman who claims to be his mother du...Read more
November 18, 1989 • 24m
Chibita, taking up vigilantism as Batman (that's what the "B" on his mask stands for), observes Iyami, who's trying to get into p...Read more
November 25, 1989 • 24m
Osomatsu is sent to the capitalistic and hotel-like Dayon Hospital for an apple in his throat, but gets into trouble with the nurs...Read more
December 2, 1989 • 24m
Iyami, having accidentally awoken the spirit of vengeful samurai Chibita Juurozaemon Mitsutomo in a formerly-peaceful good night's...Read more
December 9, 1989 • 24m
Iyami, the scummy ringmaster of a failing circus, gives away lion Tama to the Matsunos as part of a fake lottery. When the big cat...Read more
December 16, 1989 • 24m
In a parody of the long-running period drama based on the life of the titular historical figure, Hatabou, taking the role of Tokug...Read more
December 23, 1989 • 24m
In a clip-show episode, the Nanmaiders return for a full-scale invasion, but need a human as a judge of character. Iyami is abduct...Read more
December 30, 1989 • 23m
Former Diet members Iyami and Chibita are suffering through poverty, with a slim chance of getting re-elected. When regular campai...Read more