Original title
Tutenstein
Released
11/1/2003
Origin country
US
Genre
Animation
Production companies
PorchLight Entertainment
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
39
Tutenstein is an animated television series, produced by Porchlight Entertainment for Discovery Kids based on the comic by Jay Stephens which was published in Oni Press' JetCat Clubhouse. This cartoon also airs on Jetix in Europe and Maxi TV in Turkey. It began broadcasting on November 1, 2003. The half-hour series features young mummy Tutankhamen who is awakened about 3,000 years after his accidental death and now must face that his kingdom is gone. The series is based on an idea by Jay Stephens. The name is a portmanteau of Tutankhamun and Frankenstein. On October 11, 2008 a TV movie entitled Tutenstein: Clash of the Pharaohs aired on Discovery Kids. The production company, PorchLight Entertainment, which is based in Los Angeles, California, has won Emmys for the first and second seasons of the series. Irish TV production company Telegael, which is based in An Spidéal, Co Galway, also won an Emmy Award for the second season. The Hub aired the show after the closure of Discovery Kids.
When a museum is hit by lightning, Pharaoh Tut-ankh-en-set-Amun is arisen from the dead in the current world. A cat named, Luxor, becomes his aide and a girl named, Cleo Carter, becomes his friend.
The goddess, Ammut is released from the underworld by El Zabkar. Her job is to ruin Tutenstein. Can Luxor, King Tut, and Cleo put a stop to her plans before Tutenstein is hurt?
Trouble begins when Tutenstein is asked by Cleo to assist her in purging the museum. Not feeling like doing it, Tut brings his shabtis - wooden tomb helping statues, to life to do the duty in his place. Tutenstein must stop the shabtis because they are becoming uncontrollable.
King Tut misses the ancient Eygpt. He is becoming bothering by the ordinary world, so he decides to create the current world like the past life. This life is also hard - trying to control the ancient life, will he change the world back to the way it was, before he won't be able to at all.
Tut wishes viewing movies with one of his good friends, Cleo, would go on forever. The sun god, Ra, is summoned by Tutenstein, asking him to put off sunrise for a few more hours, so he can remain awake a little bit longer than usual. Ra is in trouble now, after time halts. It is up to King Tut to rescue Ra and fix the time.
Luxor, Tutenstein, and Cleo must end the lioness goddess, Sekhmet's upset fury towards civilization. She was awaken by King Tut and his bickering opposing the servants constructing his pyramid.
Tutenstein really likes Natasha, Cleo's best companion. In hope to gain her love, he awakens to god of children, Bes. Tutenstein is suprised by the conclusion of the spell, it is not what he imagined. Now, Tut doesn't know what to do, he has to choose and be certain of Natasha being his real love or a zombie affection.
There is a park known as the ""Kingland Amusement Park,"" that venerates a king, rather than King Tut, himself. Tutenstein doesn't like to see the people at the park dressed as kings, so he splits his soul in half, in hope to vie with them.
Cleo is a really good friend of Tut, but after he comes to live with her, she thinks she will never have the freedom she had before because of King Tut tries out of possessions & does some other stuff she doesn't seem to like very much.
The goddess, Isis and King Tut are competing in a game of Senet. She becomes angry with him, after he tries to slide through the game and not play fair. Tutenstein gets put in his place, when Isis brings about Nebka, the apparition, also a past companion of King Tut's.
Cleo has caught a cold, and Tutenstein becomes worried. He has never experienced this, so he thinks she is in a danger. King Tut's special doctor tries preserve Cleo, causing some trouble.
Two crooks steal the Crown of Geb, after Tutenstein accidently switches the alarm off in the display of the Geb, when he was disturbed in his sleep.
The Scepter of Was is taken away by demons after King Tut becomes disappointed over the ceremony of Coronation Day assembled by Luxor and Cleo.
King Tut is seeking a new companions. He finds some, but trouble ensues by the bad events they partake in.
There is a new interest at the museum, a fake mammoth. The guests are no longer paying attention to Tutenstein, so he uses magic to make the mammoth disappear.
Some trouble comes about when King Tut's shadow comes alive through magic. His shadow has its own mind.
Tut convinces Cleo that he is responsible enough to watch her little cousin Thomas; and then loses him.
A fresh servant has seemed to taken Luxor's place. This makes Luxor feel sad. He decides to go somewhere else because he thinks his service is no longer needed. Some harm comes about to Tutenstein and his helper after Luxor left.
King Tut doesn't think anyone listens to him, even though he is a pharaoh. With this in mind, Tutenstein decides to raise his powers, in to a god-like authority. How will Luxor & Cleo react to this?
Tutenstein becomes aggravated, so he decides to change his appearance to look older, even though he is over 3000 years old because he can't get into adult movies and clubs.
Luxor switches his mind with Cleo's, while attempting to divide himself in two, so he has an equal amount of duration with Tutenstein and Cleo.
The Scepter of Was is still at King Tut's coffin, but he isn't there. Luxor and Cleo realize he was captured by a god, so now Cleo must learn to use the Scepter and rescue Tut along with Luxor by her side.
When Tut learns about Halloween. He wants to go Trick or Treating.
Tut decides that skateboarding is more important than completing the Ancient Egyptian Sed Festival. If Cleo doesn't find Tut in time and get him to go to the festival, he could lose all his power.
Tut feels guilty for almost getting Walter fired by Bedhety. To make up for it, Tut uses the magic Scroll of Thoth and grants Walter intelligence. Unfortunately, Thoth isn't happy that the secret scrolls were used.
Tut's desire to be human again leads him to carelessly cast a spell without giving thought to the entire process. The spell backfires, bringing a T-Rex skeleton back to flesh-and-blood life, and giving Set a chance to possess the Scepter of Was.
Tut's tendency to be blunt insults the Ancient Egyptian gods, who cut him off from their protection and his own powers, and leave him vulnerable to the evil serpent Apep.
Tut neglects the Scepter of Was and misplaces it. Unfortunately, Walter finds it, and thinks it's a promotional toy, leaving Walter fair game for an attack by Set and his demons.
Tut wants to do too much at once, so he divides up his body to let his separate pieces enjoy different activities all at the same time. Set orders a hippo demon to hide Tut's pieces, just as Set did to his own brother Osiris in real Egyptian mythology.
Tut wants to be a great military leader like his father, but when he brings two museum statues of Viking warriors to life to do battle with him, Tut finds that it's harder to emulate his father than he thought it would be.
Cleo really wants to be liked by Jake, but involving Tut in her problem only leads to chaos, as Tut orders the goddess Hathor to cast a love spell on Cleo and make her irresistible... with disastrous results.
Tut tries to prove he is fearless by taking on more and more dangerous tasks until he descends into the Underworld where he finds more fearsome danger than he bargained for.
Tut gets a pet snake named Fang to keep him company and help him sleep. But the snake becomes possessed by Denwen, a demon snake god, sent by Set to steal the Scepter of Was. When Cleo becomes suspicious, Denwen tries to turn Tut against her.
Cleo plans an all-girls slumber party and she doesn't invite Tut. Tut can't stand being left out and decides to crash the party. When Cleo dresses Tut up like a girl, to sneak him in, Tut ends up humiliated and storms off vowing to throw a rival all-boy party.
Set uses his scorpion minion to possess Dr. Vanderwheele into discrediting Tut's Pharaoh title. Cleo struggles to support her friend Tut and find a way to prove his identity, despite having doubts herself about his validity as Pharaoh.
Fed up with being short, Tut unleashes a spell to increase his size but, when it backfires, Tut first becomes a giant and then dangerously small. Tut learns to accept who he is - just because his height is small doesn't mean he's lacking.
Tut becomes jealous of Cleo's life beyond the museum and Cleo's new friend Kara. He decides that spying on them is the obvious answer to his problems of feeling left out and enlists "the wandering eye" to spy on Cleo.
The Mirror of Isis whisks our heroes back to Ancient Egypt, where Tut discovers things weren't quite as perfect as he remembered them. Meanwhile, Cleo is led on a wild goose chase for her missing father by Set and his minions.
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