Osomatsu-kun (1988)

Failing salesman Iyami tries robbing Osomatsu's house, but is foiled by the rambunctious sextuplets.

A fortune-teller tells Iyami that three terrible things are going to happen to him that day.

Iyami, a quack doctor in a small town, schemes to discredit his more successful rival.

Iyami's ballet school is putting on a performance in three days, but amid backstage turmoil, the prima ballerina keeps changing.Chibita falls in love with Dekapan's "daughter," Hanako, unaware that she's actually a pig

Chibita falls in love with Dekapan's "daughter," Hanako, unaware that she's actually a pig.

Iyami fakes his own death in order to collect consolation money.

Chibita secretly takes care of an abandoned baby.

Chibita gets a hat that turns him into a good boy when he wears it.

Iyami and Chibita are deceptive secondhand item dealers who are aiming for one big score.

A Shinigami enlists Iyami's help to hasten the death of a sickly Osomatsu.

Iyami and Chibita are handcuffed together and on the run from the law after breaking out of jail.

Iyami is a failed novelist who becomes popular when he starts writing outrageous lies about his neighbors.

When an Edo-era castle suddenly comes to town, the local citizens rebel against their would-be ruler, Chibita.

Aliens intent on invading Earth kidnap Osomatsu and Choromatsu, then replace them.

After Iyami saves Osomatsu's life, he demands constant, eternal gratitude.

Chibita uses a secret formula to shrink Osomatsu and his brothers as payback for mocking him.

Hatabou must summon courage to stand up for himself after being jailed for one of Iyami's misdeeds.

Chibita is a former safecracker who's trying to go straight, but a detective, Iyami, keeps hounding him.

Dr. Dekapan invents a liquid that causes people to switch psyches when they bump heads.

Iyami and Chibita build a watermelon bomb to get revenge against Osomatsu and his brothers.

Kindhearted newspaper delivery boy Chibita takes in a thieving cat and tries to rehabilitate it.

A mysterious gunslinger, Chibita, shows up at the Dekapan Ranch just in time to drive off six bullying brothers.

When Osomatsu and the gang are invited for dinner at Iyami's posh mansion, a mystery ensues.

Totoko becomes infected with personality-altering bacteria from Iyami's body.

Chibita is framed for stealing oden.

Dad struggles with quitting smoking after he nearly starts a fire in the house.

On Outie Island, Dekapan and Hatabou work hard to make offerings to a stone god, while Iyami and everyone else enjoys the good life.

When the sextuplets and Totoko go camping, they encounter Iyami, a wild man of the forest.

Iyami starts an insurance company, thinking he'll take people's money and run.

Chibita comes back to town seeking vengeance after training in the mountains to be a ninja.

The honest, hardworking Chibita is constantly targeted by the lazy thief, Iyami, but one day he finds a magical rose that changes his life.

When a pretty girl moves next door to Osomatsu and his brothers, Totoko is deposed as the neighborhood's number one idol.

Iyami and Chibita are best friends and trapeze artists at a third-rate circus, but Totoko, the ringmaster's daughter, comes between them.

Exhausted and feeling unloved by his six sons, Dad runs away from home and pledges to raise fellow runaway Chibita.

In the Edo era, Minister Iyami secretly plots to have Princess Totoko assassinated so his own son, Hatabou, can take the reins of power.

Oden Chibita X fights for love, justice and truth, but then Buck Teeth Man gets in on the act and steals his thunder.

Chibita sets off for adventure with his grandfather's treasure map in hand, but is soon captured by pirates.

Iyami and Chibita pose as a poor elderly couple in order to sponge off of Osomatsu's family.

After feudal lord Hatabou is forced into committing seppuku, his loyal retainers, led by Chibita, plot revenge against the power-hungry Iyami.

Osomatsu and his brothers are forced to babysit their dad's boss's violent, insomniac son.

Chibita is a bellboy working at the Dayon Hotel when he takes in Totoko, a poor girl who's lost her beautiful singing voice.

Chibita becomes apprentice to Iyami, a small-time con man, but their plans go awry when they swindle, Dayon, an off-duty police officer.

The usual gang competes in a wacky car race to sweep the wealthy Totoko off her feet.

French director Iyami and his cameraman Chibita travel to Japan to film a documentary on the "real Japan."

Pretending to be a ski instructor, Iyami goes to a resort with Osomatsu and his brothers, but runs afoul of Chibita, a former co-worker with a grudge.

Detective Chibita is transferred to a town where oden is prohibited, but is sold in a black market controlled by a shady character.

Iyami is stunned to find he's won a lottery jacpot on a ticket he made his pal Chibita purchase a year earlier, but only has one day left to collect.

Osomatsu and his brothers are sent to a zen temple to be straightened out by Iyami, a monk who's in it for the money.

Iyami is a crooked police officer who plays pachinko, steals fruit and tries to pick up women while he's on duty.

In the primitive age, Chibita is a cook at Iyami's dinosaur egg omelet restaurant when he finds a baby T-rex that he wants to keep as a pet.

Osomatsu and his family stay at a cheap inn while on vacation, but realize too late that it's actually an extrememly expensive place way beyond their budget.

Dr. Hatabou creates an explosive lie detector belt for inveterate liar Iyami, which painfully straightens out the con artist, but that causes even more chaos.

When Iyami and the sextuplets' father are both up for an important promotion, the president has his son, Chibita, decide who it'll be after playing golf with Iyami and Osomatsu

Poverty-stricken Iyami falls for a beautiful, wealthy young woman who feels the same way about him, except she has no idea just how poor he is.

Dad and the boys have major troubles when they encounter Iyami while on the road in their "new" decrepit used car.

Iyami has a hard time trying to change all the restaurants in town to oden joints in order to please the mega-rich Chibita.

Iyami pilots a rickety plane to Hawaii, but it gets hijacked en route.

Osomatsu is adopted by the wealthy Dekapan and his wife, but finds them to be overprotective, to say the least.

Presidential candidate Iyami hires hitman Jou Hatabou to take out his rival, Dayon.

Chibita and Iyami take revenge against the bullying Osomatsu and his brothers via remote-controlled model airplanes.

Chibita is smitten with Jajako, Hatabou's cousin, but she hates his favorite thing in the world, oden.

When Dad loses his bonus, suspicion quickly falls on Iyami, who's actually turned over a new leaf.

Osomatsu unwittingly makes a duplicate of himself in Dr. Iyami's three-dimensional copy machine.

The powerful, rambunctious Chibita Songoku is imprisoned under a rock for 500 years before being rescued by an ambitious monk, Iyami.

Iyami seeks to steal Totoko Buddha's sutras so he can kickstart his own religion, but they're alread held as collateral by moneylender and Chibita's former master, Hatabou.

Nasty teacher Iyami is tormented by Chibita, the one student who dotes on him.

Stifled by his royal burdens and constant handlers, Prince Chibiru slips the leash and finds action in a local department store as he gives chase to a pickpocket, Iyami.

Dad and the boys think they're getting a good deal by hanging out at Iyami's Beach House, but the owner and his assistant, Chibita, gouge their guests for everything they're worth.

Mom and Dad get to start their lives over again thanks to a magic wish that reverts them to teenagers.

Oden stand owner Chibita trains to fight the Akatsukadai boxing champion, Iyami.

It's a war between the parents when Dad becomes frustrated that Mom is a better salesperson than he is.

Honeybee Chibita is in search of his long-lost mother, but his quest is impeded by a trickster, Iyami Katydid, and the ravenous Dayon Spider.

Ridde Temple Master Dekapan gives monks Iyami and Chibita the challenge of stumping locals with riddles.

Inspector Chibita teams up with "great detective" Iyami to capture Phantom Thief Dayon.

30 years later, Osomatsu and his brothers are middle-aged salarymen scientists slaving away under their boss, Dekapan, and his demanding daughter, Totoko.

Iyami is driven mad by the desperate measures he takes to sell lousy camera film for his failing company.

Dekapan invents an artificially intelligent vaccum cleaner that goes out of control and threatens to destroy the country.

God (Dekapan) grants Chibita the power to make all of his wishes come true.

Chibita's mother comes back into his life by having him kidnapped away from Dekapan, the poor man who raised him.

With winter on its way, Iyami wants to be jailed for the sake of shelter and warm meals, but all of his attempted crimes turn into good deeds.

Would-be burglar Iyami is drafted into posing as the director of a hospital, a ruse that works until he's forced to treat a yakuza boss.

Iyami is haunted in his dreams by the spirit of a vengeful samurai, Chibita.

When Iyami's circus goes out of business, he gives the lion to the Matsuno family, which doesn't sit well with Chibita, the lion's only friend.

In ancient Japan, secret retired vice-shogun Hatabou and his companions go up against crooked magistrate Iyami.

To prepare for invading Earth, aliens abduct Iyami and sift through memories of his worst moments.

In the final episode, when everyone wants to beat up Iyami and Chibita, it seems their only escape is a long swim across the Pacific.