Tommy & Oscar

Tommy & Oscar, they're just like you and me Tommy & Oscar, they're who you'd like to be Tommy & Oscar, the best of all your friends Tommy & Oscar, you'll always win with them —The chorus of the show's theme song.

Tommy & Oscar (Tommy e Oscar in Italian) was an Italian-Spanish, adventure, comic science fiction, children's, family, animated television series that originally aired on Rai 1 in Italy. It was co-created by Max Alessandrini and Iginio Straffi, the latter of whom also produced and directed. Co-production was amongst Cromosoma TV Productions, Rai Fiction, and Rainbow S.r.I./S.p.A. It ran for a couple seasons from 1999-2001 for 52 episodes. In Italy, it premiered on October 10, 1999.

The series follows the adventures of a boy named Tommy and a shapeshifting alien named Oscar who feeds on musical notes. Tommy is the nephew of Professor Leonard, a wacky scientist whose inventions have random results. But they still prove to be useful to Tommy, as he uses them to his advantage to defend the world from an insatiable businessman named Caesar, who they sometimes encounter. At times, the former three are accompanied by a Japanese girl named Yukari, who assists them with her martial arts skills as well as an Afro-Italian music store owner and musician named Peter. Caesar is constantly trying to find more and more ways to get richer, but he fails to realize the consequences of his schemes.

Tropes used in Tommy & Oscar include:

• Action Girl: Yukari.
• Aliens Speaking English: Oscar reveals this to Tommy later in "A Concert for Oscar". Other members of his species are capable of doing this also.
• All Asians Know Martial Arts: Yukari.
• All Just a Dream: In "Oscar's Dream", the episode's title character dreams that he, Tommy, and Yukari are in a land where they save several enslaved kids. The book he was reading earlier, Alice in Wonderland, is the possible cause of this.
• Animorphism: Oscar can turn into various animals.
• Beach Episode: "Two Whales to Tango", part of "Tommy & Oscar Show, and" part of "Yukari in Distress".
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Tommy does this towards the end of "Saving the Fairy Tales". He reminds the viewers that "the good guys always win and the villains get what's coming to them".
  • Tommy in "Arctic Mystery". He looks at the viewers, embarrassed he's caught in his undershorts after Oscar accidentally removes them after attempting to cling to him and avoid falling in a river. In response, Tommy shyly says, "Oh, my".
• Cardiovascular Love: Tommy in "The Phantom Manor" when Yukari kisses him, but that was more out of joy about the trip that she and the others are going to take to a manor, and where they"ll stay, than any actual infatuation or real feelings for him.
• Christmas Episode: "The Joke Factory" and "The King of Toys".
• Color Failure: Near the end of "Oscar Kidnapped", Caesar's skin goes pallor with fear as, while underwater, he floats towards a shark.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: Professor Leonard in "The Pioneer's Come Back" when he accidentally causes his Roman attire to slip off his body, leaving him in his print boxers.
  • Tommy in "Arctic Mystery". He's revealed to wear vertical, striped undershorts when Oscar accidentally pulls off the outer shorts as part of his scout uniform while trying to cling to him desperately and not fall in a river.
• Cool Shades: Caesar's henchmen, Ork and Dork, often wear these.
• Disguised in Drag: Ork and Dork are dressed as female apes in "The Abominable Orang Utan" to distract a couple male apes for Casear and get them to become infatuated with them.
• Eye Pop: Oscar has this reaction in "Internetland" when he sees a picture of Tommy's principal in the web world when Oscar and his friends are in the school's website, and he is alarmed.
• Fantastic Diet Requirement: Oscar always eats nothing but floating musical notes whenever there's music playing.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Yukari in "The Phantom Manor" as her panties are flashed briefly and quickly when she goes enters a mirror and falls.
• Girlish Pigtails: Yukiko from "The Hunt for Treasure". Unlike the rest of her hair, they're the only part that are purple.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: In "The Tommy and Oscar Show", Yukari wears a one-piece swimsuit that's pastel purple and purplish blue. Then, she wears a formal dress and hair bow in the shades of pastel purple, luxury purple, and lilac at a party.
  • Yukari's cousin, Yukiko, from "The Hunt for Treasure". Part of Yukiko's seifuku (or sailor school uniform) consists of a mainly purple, sailor collar and a pleated skirt the same color. Her pigtails are also this color.
• Greed: Caesar is constantly looking for ways to get richer, as he's never satisfied with the wealth he already has.
• Half-Hearted Henchmen: Ork and Dork.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Tommy.
• Invisible Parents: Yukari's mom and dad. Prof. Leonard mentioned them once in "Yukari in Distress", but they're never seen.
• Iris Out: Many of the episodes end with his, usually in a circle. But there's an alternate shape instead occasionally.
  • As "The Abominable Orang Utan" ends, there's a heart-shaped iris out as it closes on the scene of Ork and Dork, who are in drag, being smooched upon by a couple of amorous male apes.
• Luminescent Blush: Tommy and Yukari in "Two Whales to Tango". Their cheeks get rosy when they share a pair of headphones put on them and they bump into each other as they're brought together.
  • In "Futuregame", Yukari's cheeks get rosy after she sees what Tommy is thinking while he wears an advanced video game, virtual helmet on his head and the screen shows the two kissing each other on the lips.
  • In "Space Wars", Oscar's entire body glows bright red when he is kissed by Loona. Due to Tommy and Yukari grabbing his feet as it happens, they're affected by this and turn the same color too.
  • Jade from "The Rite of the Seventh Sun" gets the rosy cheeks when Tommy takes her hand and thanks her for rescuing him, his uncle, and Oscar.
  • Tommy in "Arctic Mystery". His cheeks become rosy after Oscar accidentally removes the shorts as part of his scout outfit while clinging to him before falling in a river and he's left in his undershorts. Tommy quickly tries to cover the front of them with his hands modestly before he falls in the river himself.
• Mad Scientist: Professor Leonard.
• Nephewism: Tommy lives with his uncle, Prof. Leonard, but the whereabouts of his parents are never mentioned.
• Pajama-Clad Hero: In "The Phantom Manor", Tommy, Oscar, Yukari, Peter, and Prof. Leonard all wear nightgowns while they spend their night in the episode's titular manor.
• Panty Shot: Yukari in "The Phantom Manor". There's a quick bliss-or-miss shot of this when she leans on a mirror to listen to the sound more closely and she goes through it, falling down on the other side. She wears light pink panties with lace-trimming under her matching nightgown.
• Pink Means Feminine: The nightdress with matching panties Yukari wears in "The Phantom Manor", a rare color of clothing for her to wear.
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone: At the beginning "The Hunt for Treasure", Tommy has a dream that while he and Oscar are partaking in the race for said treasure, Oscar goes mad and turns on him, trying to attack him.
• The Reveal: Towards the end of "The King of Toys", the orphaned kids turn into their true forms: The various, holiday figures who appeared earlier in the episode.
• Sailor Fuku: Yukari's cousin, Yukiko, wears this.
• Shapeshifting: Oscar has this special ability that can be useful to his and others' advantage.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Caesar.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Prof. Leonard.
• Starfish Language: Oscar originally speaks this in "A Concert for Oscar" before he reveals to Tommy that he can speak normal English as well.
• Stronger Than They Look: Yukari has demonstrated her super strength several times.
• Talking Animal: Caesar's two, blue ape cronies, Ork and Dork.
  • The anthropomorphic dinosaurs in "The Mystery of Bluewater Lake".
  • The whales in "Two Whales to Tango".
• Tomboy: Yukari.
• True-Blue Femininity: Yukari's pants. She wears blue slippers in "The Phantom Manor".
• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: This series is mainly traditionally animated, but there are those occasional episodes that incorporated CGI, such as the Internet world where Tommy and his friends enter in "Internetland".
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Yukari's cousin, Yukiko, who appears in "The Hunt for Treasure". She looks just like Yukari, except she wears her hair in ponytails along with her bob.
• Unknown Character: Yukari's parents are mentioned once in "Yukari in Distress", by Prof. Leonard when he lets her know that he called them to let them know she's staying with him, Tommy, and Oscar overnight, but they never appear.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Oscar.
• Welcome Episode: Oscar in "A Concert for Oscar" in which he meets and befriends Tommy, his uncle, his dog, Buck, and their friends after arriving on Earth in Rainbow City.
• Wingding Eyes: Sometimes this occurs with Oscar whenever he gets dazed by something. Either the pupil in one eye is normal and the other is a swirl, or one pupil is a swirl and the other is a star, so this varies.
  • In "Love Is Blind, Caesar", Caesar's eyes turn into hearts whenever he thinks and talks about his love interest, Betty Boom.
  • In "Ghosts In The Mine", Tommy has yellow dollar signs in his eyes when he thinks he and Oscar have come across a goldmine.
  • In "An Adventure in Tune Town", Oscar gets hearts in his eyes in infatuation over Tommy and Yukari's music teacher.
  • In "Operation Sunflower", Caesar has the heart eyes at one point while gazing at Daisy.