What's the weirdest cartoon you loved as a kid?
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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.
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It counts as a cartoon, but I sure hope you weren't watching it "as a kid."
I think I was watching it when I was like 11? But I was also watching shit like Archer, South Park, and Futurama at that point as well haha.
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Invader Zim
The Dark Harvest episode
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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.
KABLAM was the shit. Prometheus and Bob have always been some of my favorite short skits.
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Vacalactica.
Ah! We seem to have an MTV Latino watcher from the 90s in da house!
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The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Animaniacs
Invader Zim
Ed Edd n Eddy
The Mighty Bee (this came out while i was a teenager but felt like a fever dream)
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Angry Beavers
The opening theme still pops in my head every once in a while.
Like right now.
That one episode where one of their rich cousins or something has a pocket dimension literally in their pocket is the one that always stuck with me. While trying to figure out if I just hallucinated that, I found the list of episodes on Wikipedia, each with a one-line description of the plot, and they are just so funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Angry_Beavers_episodes
"Norb lives his dream of being a Lipizzaner stallion."
I can't find anything similar to what I'm thinking of, so maybe I just hallucinated it?
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KABLAM was the shit. Prometheus and Bob have always been some of my favorite short skits.
Melt Man! With the power to... MELT!
Damn I loved Action League Now.
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The one episode that I firmly remember is when one of them strikes it rich by finding a bag of toenail clippings.
While doing some research to determine if I hallucinated an Angry Beavers episode, I discovered that that show also features toenail clippings. Season 4 episode 8, Blacktop Beavers... "The beavers race a trucker (who is revealed to be Truckee in the end) to the world's largest pile of toenail clippings."
Just thought this was funny.
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I'm surprised I don't see Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo on here.
My brother and I used to watch it on on-demand when my parents were out of the house in the early 2000's. Absolute insanity. I tried to re-watch it a couple years back for nostalgia, and my more matured brain just couldn't comprehend it... That was before I started smoking weed, maybe I should give it another shot, it might make more sense if I'm zonked out of my gourd.
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Courage the cowardly dog. Has a great villain roster, good memories watching with mom, and some of its messages still live with me 20 years later. I think about the imperfection episode more often than I like to.
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A bunch of Doctor Snuggles episodes I liked turned out to have been written by Douglass Adams
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Rocket Robin Hood and Hercules and Friends
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I'm going for the extremely weird angle, not a particular love angle as I found the show a bit lame as a kid:
The Dutch cartoon Purno de Purno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6MIJ7Iq1U
It was animated on an amiga 2000. The titular character 'Purno' in his purple spandex suit has a couple of adventures that are very weird. In the linged cartoon he's searching for a princess hidden in 'de kiettelaars' grotto' where you must know that 'kietelaar' is a Dutch word that can mean 'the one who tickles' or 'the clitoris'. In this comic it is a weird looking guy that talks with an creole accent and is tickling Purno and himself in a rather well.. sexual manner. The 'grotto' or cave is a bit vulva-looking. He is rewarded byy the princess with many kisses. Purno reflects 'even though her beauty was stolen, shes a really good kisser'
This is no coincidence, there is plenty of overt sexual overtones, with Purno once entering the vagina of a giant naked lady.
To be fair, non of those sexual references register when watching it as a kid, but when you reflect on it later in life it is utterly bizarre that that was aired on regular televison in a kids' show.
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Rockadooodle deserves a mention.
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I'm going for the extremely weird angle, not a particular love angle as I found the show a bit lame as a kid:
The Dutch cartoon Purno de Purno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6MIJ7Iq1U
It was animated on an amiga 2000. The titular character 'Purno' in his purple spandex suit has a couple of adventures that are very weird. In the linged cartoon he's searching for a princess hidden in 'de kiettelaars' grotto' where you must know that 'kietelaar' is a Dutch word that can mean 'the one who tickles' or 'the clitoris'. In this comic it is a weird looking guy that talks with an creole accent and is tickling Purno and himself in a rather well.. sexual manner. The 'grotto' or cave is a bit vulva-looking. He is rewarded byy the princess with many kisses. Purno reflects 'even though her beauty was stolen, shes a really good kisser'
This is no coincidence, there is plenty of overt sexual overtones, with Purno once entering the vagina of a giant naked lady.
To be fair, non of those sexual references register when watching it as a kid, but when you reflect on it later in life it is utterly bizarre that that was aired on regular televison in a kids' show.
What the fuck was that
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Sport Billy had a weird premise. Monchhichi was another weird one. Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea was really trippy.
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The opening theme still pops in my head every once in a while.
Like right now.
That one episode where one of their rich cousins or something has a pocket dimension literally in their pocket is the one that always stuck with me. While trying to figure out if I just hallucinated that, I found the list of episodes on Wikipedia, each with a one-line description of the plot, and they are just so funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Angry_Beavers_episodes
"Norb lives his dream of being a Lipizzaner stallion."
I can't find anything similar to what I'm thinking of, so maybe I just hallucinated it?
There were so many odd ones, but it was a great show.
I remember there being an episode where Norbert became really good at plastic surgery and went into a competition where he had to turn his subject into a photo-realistic platypus and even as a kid I was like “this show is unhinged”.
