Series synopsis
Megas XLR is an American animation action & adventure comedy sci-fi & fantasy kids television series that premiered on Cartoon Network on May 1, 2004. It ended on January 15, 2005. It was created by George Krstic, Jody Schaeffer. It stars Steve Blum and David DeLuise.
Megas XLR is a series about an overweight couch potato named Coop who stumbles across a giant robot in a junkyard. He soon discovers that the robot was sent from the future when a woman named Kiva returns to the past to claim what is rightfully hers, though Coop made so many modification to the machine so he's the only one who can fully operate it. Things also heat up when Coop learns that an alien race called the Glorft are also after his MEGAS robot, so he teams up with Kiva and his best frien ...
Premise
Megas XLR is a series about an overweight couch potato named Coop who stumbles across a giant robot in a junkyard. He soon discovers that the robot was sent from the future when a woman named Kiva returns to the past to claim what is rightfully hers, though Coop made so many modification to the machine so he's the only one who can fully operate it. Things also heat up when Coop learns that an alien race called the Glorft are also after his MEGAS robot, so he teams up with Kiva and his best friend Jamie to fight them off, though mostly so he can keep his new toy.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Steve Blum as Jamie (voice)
- David DeLuise as Coop (voice)
Guest cast
- Wendee Lee as Kiva Andru (voice)
- Scot Rienecker as Goat (voice)
- Clancy Brown as Gorrath (voice)
- Bruce Campbell as Magnanimous (voice)
- Tia Carrere as Darklos (voice)
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Glorft Commander (voice)
- Phil LaMarr as Rob / R.E.C.R. (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 26 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 13 | May 1, 2004 | September 4, 2004 |
| Season 2 | 13 | October 16, 2004 | January 15, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Test Drive Coop finds an alien robot in a Jersey City junkyard, and decides to soup it up with hot-rod parts and flame decals. What happens when the original owner of this robot sees Coop's improvements? |
May 1, 2004 |
| 2 |
Battle Royal A floating alien head invites Coop to participate in a tournament; Coop is asked to take a dive during one of his fights for a windfall. |
May 8, 2004 |
| 3 |
All I Wanted Was a Slushie Coop quests for a slushie on a hot day in the city; however, every store he visits gets destroyed before he can get his frozen treat. |
May 15, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Ultra Chicks In an effort to impress some Sailor Senshi-style space girls, known as the Ultra-Cadets, Jamie poses as Coop and is taken to their planet, where he learns the Ultra Cadets' city is in trouble from a giant fire monster. Armed only with an age-old, feminine robot, Jamie "fights" the monster and defeats it the way Coop always does: sheer luck. However, Coop arrives with Megas to save Jamie and gets into a fight with the mechanized Ultra Cadets. |
October 16, 2004 |
| 2 |
The Return It's 5:01 and a video is due back at the rental store by 5:30, and Coop has to get it there on time to keep his membership from being revoked. However, Magnanimous appears and challenges Coop to protect his title against several robots, including one resembling Mr. T. Coop manages to beat the robots, but inadvertently challenges the entire galaxy to fight him - and the galaxy takes him up on the offer. |
October 23, 2004 |
| 3 |
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Coop Coop inadvertently frees the Glorft from no-space, allowing Gorrath to start his revenge. The only thing Coop is worried about, however, is babysitting cousin Skippy, who is easily bored and hates everything about Coop's house. In an effort to get him to shut up, Coop takes Skippy to the moon in Megas. (Incredibly, he is still bored.) There he discovers the Glorft is plotting to smash the moon into the Earth. Coop has to fight off the Glorft while making sure Skippy doesn't end up Glorft fodder. |
October 30, 2004 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Cartoon Network |
|---|---|
| First aired | May 1, 2004 |
| Last aired | January 15, 2005 |
| Runtime | 26 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Thursday at 18:00:00 |