What's the weirdest cartoon you loved as a kid?
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Snorks were pretty weird. Like aqua smurfs sort of.
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Not sure if it counts as a cartoon, but 'The Oblongs' still lives rent-free in my head after seeing it on Adult Swim years and years ago.
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Ovide and the Gang - we had this one on tape and it was a touch of streaming without commercials decades before that happened. Animation was OK for its time but still had a lot of errors even a kid will notice. Something about it as a kid felt a little weird but the setting was refreshing.
Hammy Hamster - Grandma taped this one for us. If you like making dioramas and want your pet hamster, guinea pig, and other critters to be TV stars this laid the groundwork. Not a cartoon but it fits right in with them.
Wapos Bay - is also worth a mention. It's a more modern stop motion take on the Cree community in Saskatchewan. It has a unique brand of humor and that "way up north" feel to the setting and aboriginal community dynamics which makes for a good change of pace. It was almost like a cleaned up family friendly South Park.
All of these shows are Canadian in origin if that explains anything. Wapos Bay I didn't see until later in life but usually would drop everything if my dad told me it was on. First two I haven't thought of in so long I had to google them to make sure they were real and not my imagination. Truly weird TV shows are always worth the time because there's never anything like them.
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No this was just called the head
The Head https://g.co/kgs/WTzvXVQ
I'm gonna look this up and watch it. It looks wild.
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I'm gonna look this up and watch it. It looks wild.
You def should it is very wild.
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Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
The 90s had lots of weird cartoons, but this one was one of the more wholesome of the word ones
The one episode that I firmly remember is when one of them strikes it rich by finding a bag of toenail clippings.
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Vacalactica.
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Ugly Americans was pretty wild, but Drawn Together was a whole different level of wacky.
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Ugly Americans was pretty wild, but Drawn Together was a whole different level of wacky.
oh my god i completely forgot about Drawn Together. Most memorable moment is the Pikachu ripoff tearing apart the Betty Boop ripoff lmfao
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oh my god i completely forgot about Drawn Together. Most memorable moment is the Pikachu ripoff tearing apart the Betty Boop ripoff lmfao
Fun times.
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Invader Zim
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I still have weird dreams of stuff I saw watching Courage. That live action human head guy inhabits my nightmares.
What is the live action human head
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Ren and Stimpy was doing some wild things back in the day
All kids love log!
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Angry Beavers
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What is the live action human head
The spirit of the harvest moon. I couldn't think of his name. Just the image is embedded in my memory.
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When I was really young, there were some fairy tale cartoons on super early in the morning.
They were broadcast in very short segments, about 5 or 15 minutes each, but the animation was amazing.
Many decades later, I learned these were Soviet productions from the 1950s and 60s, and a lot of the human motions were rotoscoped, i.e. traced from actual moving human models.
The Frog Princess, dubbed in English (more in the YT user's account): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6sI3muOjc
The Snow Queen, dubbed in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaF6oqHZ-GM
The Fisherman and the Fish, in Russian with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHuSqNuv9Ng
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Probably Ren & Stimpy, if we're talking actual weirdness. I also liked KABLAM! a fair bit. My all-time favorite weird show (albeit not a cartoon) was Pee-Wee's Playhouse. I was raided on that shit. Had his suit and tie and everything.
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Not sure if it counts as a cartoon, but 'The Oblongs' still lives rent-free in my head after seeing it on Adult Swim years and years ago.
It counts as a cartoon, but I sure hope you weren't watching it "as a kid."
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GKR, pronouned Geeker, sometimes got up extra early on Saturdays to catch it. It was about a super powerful robot guy who was absolutely insane, voiced by Billy West. Best friends with a sentient T Rex and a mercenary cyborg lady with a gun arm. Totally oddball, kind of cyberpunk, I'm sure it was garbage
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When I was really young, there were some fairy tale cartoons on super early in the morning.
They were broadcast in very short segments, about 5 or 15 minutes each, but the animation was amazing.
Many decades later, I learned these were Soviet productions from the 1950s and 60s, and a lot of the human motions were rotoscoped, i.e. traced from actual moving human models.
The Frog Princess, dubbed in English (more in the YT user's account): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6sI3muOjc
The Snow Queen, dubbed in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaF6oqHZ-GM
The Fisherman and the Fish, in Russian with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHuSqNuv9Ng
So beautifully done… You opened a door to me.
