Episode
Miami Ink: Kat & Ami Tattoo the Troops
Overview
Ami creates a large tattoo on a man's back to represent significant turning points in his life, including his father's suicide and his coming out as gay. Kat creates an image of fifties pinup Bettie Page. Another man gets a design symbolizing the good and bad things of his life.
Details
- Series
- Miami Ink
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2006-10-17
Episode context
Kat & Ami Tattoo the Troops is Episode 12 in Season 2 of Miami Ink. It aired on 2006-10-17.
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Episode 11: Lloyd Banks and the Rotten Apple
Lloyd Banks of G-Unit gets a tattoo to mark his new album, "Rotten Apple," from Chris Garver.
Episode 13: Bye-Bye Bridgette
Garver uses a local pinup model to get inspiration for Roger's tattoo. Philip memorializes his dad's battle against cancer. Kat celebrates a full 10 years as a tattoo artist with a design by Corey Miller.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: Kat's Niche
One woman gets a tattoo with her grandfather's favorite Latin saying, another gets a blue-ringed octopus tattoo from Ami, and a third gets an image of her favorite band, Guns N Roses.
Episode 14: Sink or Swim
Carver works on a novel design to celebrate a woman's brother, who died in Iraq. Ami has a morale dilemma with a client and may refuse the tattoo. Nunez and Ami do some charity work for "Amigos for Kids" and tech them how to draw.
Episode 9: Ami's Bad Side
Ami gets in an argument with Darren's wife. Darren designs a koi fish tattoo for a man to celebrate his losing 100 pounds. Applicant Lee is chosen as the new shop manager.
Episode 15: The Jeep
Garver draws a "Day of the Dead" skull to memorialize a legal battle. Ami creates a hot rod design to help a client reconcile with his father.
Episode 8: Kat: A Fish out of Water
The "Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Lady" gets a tattoo of her namesake sandwich image from Kat. Ami gives two people matching star tattoos. Yoji's daughter goes to the beach with Ami.
Episode 16: History of the Circus Sideshow
Circus sideshow workers get tattoos of a rubber-chicken prop and the Coney Island Wonder Wheel ride.
Episode 7: Garver's Ultimatum
Garver's back problems flare and may jeopardize his career. Meanwhile, the crew tests another applicant in their quest to find a new manager for the shop.
Episode 17: A Disgruntled Yoji
A man in medical school honors those who helped him; a woman pays tribute to her mother with a special pinup tattoo.
Episode 6: Kat the Party Machine
Garver does a tattoo of a Spanish skull for one woman. Another gets an image of an Asian woman. But newcomer Kat is feeling left out.
Episode 18: Von D Family Bonding
A rapper gets the words "forgive us" inked; Darren designs a tattoo for a line of custom choppers.