Oggy and the Cockroaches () is an animated television series created by Jean-Yves Raimbaud and produced by Gaumont Multimedia for season 1 and Xilam Animation for seasons 2–8 (in co-production with Les Productions Coquerelles for season 2). It chronicles the comedic exploits and burlesque adventures of a rotund, blue cat named Oggy, whose days are always ruined by three cockroaches – Joey, Marky, and Dee Dee respectively – who regularly cause mischief at his home. The show employs the use of silent comedy, with characters not speaking and using unintelligible gibberish vocalizations, gestures, facial expressions, sound effects and sardonic laughter to communicate. Complex sequences (presenting a scene or context) are illustrated with images, sometimes in written text, speech balloons, or pictograms. In India, however, the series is notably aired on some television channels with voice-acted dialogue in Hindi and other languages.
The series premiered in September 1999 on France 3, and was licensed internationally in over 190 territories. It ended in January 2019, having released seven seasons and 169 half-hour episodes (501 seven-to-fourteen-minute segments) in over two decades to date. The cartoon relies on slapstick humour, much like its inspiration Tom and Jerry; although traditional slapstick cartoon characters prefer dropping anvils and pianos on each other, Oggy and the Cockroaches sometimes uses atomic bombs or submarines.
In September 2020, an eighth season, which acted as a reboot series, was announced, entitled Oggy and the Cockroaches: Next Generation, in which Oggy takes care of Piya, a young elephant from India. It was released worldwide on Netflix on 28 July 2022. In 2021, a spin-off, Oggy Oggy, was released, focusing on the adventures of a kitten version of Oggy without the cockroaches. On March 10, 2026, it was announced that a ninth season was in production and it is slated to be released sometime around late 2027 to early 2028.
Premise Oggy, an anthropomorphic cat, spends his days watching television, lounging around, and eating, but is continually pestered and annoyed by three cockroaches (Joey, Marky, and Dee Dee) in his house, whose endgoal is to obtain absolute control of Oggy's house through any means. The roaches' slapstick mischief ranges from mostly plundering Oggy's refrigerator, to hijacking the train he just boarded. In many situations, Oggy is also helped by his cousin, Jack, who is more violent and short-tempered than him and is also annoyed by the cockroaches. Other recurring characters include Bob, Oggy's short-tempered bulldog neighbor; and Olivia, a female cat who becomes Oggy's love interest.
The fifth season loosely utilises ideas from Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie which covers the adventures of Oggy, cockroaches, Jack, Bob and Olivia throughout various time periods. In no particular order, each series has a topic, based on an important place and time in history (e.g. Episode 1 covers Ancient Egypt and Episode 5 covers the Middle Ages) or a story with historical significance (e.g. Episode 23 focuses on the Greek epic poem Odyssey by Homer and Episode 26 focuses on the legend of King Arthur).
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Characters
Main Oggy is a placid, solitary, and unlucky blue cat. When he is not dealing with the cockroaches, he usually spends his time at home, watching TV, doing housework, gardening, cooking, eating, or trying to woo over Olivia. He is very passionate about food, and is quite sentimental and easily sympathizes with creatures in distress. Oggy has a love–hate relationship with the cockroaches, having lived with them for a long time. When he finds himself alone in his house, he begins to miss the roaches along with their pranks. According to executive producer Marc du Pontavice and France Info, Oggy was named after punk rock musician Iggy Pop, and the rock album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972). The Cockroaches are a trio of cockroaches who love antagonizing, playing tricks on, harassing, tormenting and mangling Oggy and Jack and using extreme measures to put an end to them, and indulge in their passionately destructive mayhem without visible remorse. The cockroaches are named after the members of the Ramones. Joey is a short, aggressive purple and pink cockroach. Even though he is the shortest in the group, he is the leader, and the most intelligent, always being the brains for their plans – but is sometimes rejected and forced to go alone, because Marky and Dee Dee often think that his ideas are stupid. He also loves money, but his efforts always fall short, usually ending with him getting swatted or beaten up. He often drags his friends into shady dealings, hatching plans to serve his goals or to get himself out of a sticky situation, and has a bit of a dictator mentality. He is named after Joey Ramone. Marky is a tall, green and grey cockroach. Although he originally used to love mischief, pranks and annoying Oggy in pretty much every possible way (just like Dee Dee and Joey), he has grown to be more laid-back as the series progressed. He sometimes is a hopeless romantic-type (as seen in "Jealousy" and "Baby Doll"/"Doll Idol"), his hobbies consist of dating puppets, parties and reading. He is named after Marky Ramone. Dee Dee is the youngest orange and dark-blue cockroach. He is always hungry, and his gluttonous appetite often reaches outrageous proportions, often resulting in the consumption of larger animals or other things that would otherwise be inedible. He is named after Dee Dee Ramone.
Supporting Jack is a green cat who is Oggy's cousin. In contrast to Oggy, he is more short-tempered, violent and arrogant than him. He can be seen as greedy, shown in a few episodes where he goes against or teams up with Oggy for money, or satiating his own pathological egomania. He often finds himself inventing and building huge machinery, such as roach-catching contraptions. He is also fond of boisterous activities: war games, skiing, and powerful machines. He is also very enterprising, self-assured, prideful and doesn't hesitate to show off his own delusions of grandeur. Despite his differing personality causing him and Oggy to sometimes clash and quarrel, they have a loving relationship, and Jack is willing to help his cousin out any way he can, while also simply enjoying hanging out with him. Bob is an unfriendly, large brown bulldog who enjoys quiet and refined hobbies (gardening and ballet). He has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which often makes him the victim of numerous mishaps throughout the show and leads him to react rather brutally. When Oggy, Jack or the cockroaches accidentally irritate him (crushing him, shaving his fur and destroying his home), he usually pummels Oggy or Jack offscreen, invariably emerging victorious from his battles. Despite this, depending on the circumstances, he can be an ally of Oggy and Jack; he gets along fairly well with them and Olivia in seasons 4 and 5. Olivia is a white cat who first appears in the fourth season as Oggy's love interest, having settled in a house near him, Jack and Bob. She is happy-go-lucky and polite, being fond of nature and finding any sort of opportunity for fun. In spite of her outlook, she is aware of the cockroaches' mischief, so she sometimes stops them when they are around by using aggressive methods. However, she is also friends with the cockroaches. In one episode, Olivia and Oggy marry. However, their life after said marriage is not frequently shown later in the series.
Other Oggy's Grandma is a blue cat and Oggy's grandmother. In "Granny's Day", she decides to actually kill the roaches, but eventually spares the cockroaches at the end after seeing Dee Dee's despair with the situation. She is then attacked by them in "Oggy's Grandma", once getting her head flattened by the lid of Oggy's toilet. Monica is Oggy's twin sister and Jack's love interest, the latter of whom she has a child with in "Don't Rock the Cradle!"/"Oggy the Babysitter". She debuted in the season 2 episode "Love & Kisses", where she accidentally kisses Jack and he falls in love with her. Jack's attempts to propose to Monica are always stopped by the cockroaches' pranks. Lady K is a light-yellow female cockroach who debuted in the episode of the same name as the cockroaches' new love interest (mainly Joey's) – to which she takes advantage of. K frequently attempts to use the cockroaches as her pawns to get what she wants or her job done. Pit is a gray dog living in the same neighborhood as Oggy, who debuted in the fourth season. Like Bob, he is also strong. Bobette is Bob's daughter who debuted in the fifth season. She is Jack's love interest, as seen in the episodes "Marky's Tournament" (where Marky also had a crush on her) and "Jackromeo and Bobette". She is seen in the episode "Emperor for a Day" as Napoleon's love interest. The Policeman is an unnamed human policeman who is normally seen in traffic, or sometimes wherever Oggy has traveled to. Sometimes Oggy or Jack accidentally annoy him, due to the cockroaches' mischief. The Doctor is an unnamed human doctor who sometimes visits Oggy's house when Oggy gets sick, or in other cases, when another character (like Jack) assumes Oggy has gone mad. He sometimes wears a nurse's outfit. The Witch is an unnamed female human witch who has a black coat, dress and magic hat who appears as a minor character in several seasons 3 and 4 episodes, like the episode "Inside Out", in which her magical telescope falls into Oggy's house, and also in "The Magic Pen" (in which her magical pencil falls into Oggy's house yard) and "Back to the Past!" (in which she turns Oggy, Jack and Bob into babies after the cockroaches blame them accidentally destroying her hat on them). She is bald, has gray hair and always lives with an attitude. In season 7, the witch gets a redesign, which reuses Miss Cleo the Witch Impersonator's design from Space Goofs. Oggy's Ex-Girlfriend is an unnamed human female character who debuted in the season 1 episode "Jealousy" and was Oggy's first love before Olivia. She is shown to be dating another guy in the episode "Oggy's Night Out"/"What's on the Menu?"; however, she briefly gets back together with Oggy in the season 2 episode "The Joker Joked".
Some of the characters cameo in Xilam's other series, such as Zig & Sharko and The Daltons (in Joe's dream in "The Secret Passage" and a cameo in "Fort Dalton"), and in the film Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007). The eponymous characters make their debut in the Space Goofs episode "Venus Junior", where they are seen on the aliens' television (before the pilot episode was officially posted online, in 2016). In the second season, the episode "Space Sailors" has a gag where the roaches greet Etno (in the aliens' now-flooded house) as they row by. Oggy, the roaches and Jack appear as drawings in "Doodle", Oggy can be seen on a page of a book during "Madame Zelza", a minor character (a large, fat woman with a bobcut) and her pet poodle appear in the episode "Get Off My Couch!". and Oggy and Monica make a cameo in the episode "The Alien Show".
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