“Thing Ring, do your thing!”
He’s even been incorporated into Canon, being from Earth 700974!
Dragon Tales!
2 Stupid Dogs
Well isn’t that cute…
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve had to explain this line I’d have like 10 nickels.
BUT IT’S WRONG!
Maya The Bee. You never hear anything about Maya The Bee.
That show is refreshed and on a constant rerun here!
My wife loves Maya, I tolerate that cartoon. But it was cute.
The workings of the human body explained by animated characters.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/plotsummary?item=po2160513
The art on this looks cool
I fuckin loved Cro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUvB34jEwQ
It’s kindof a sad premise looking at it now, but I’ll be damned if that theme song doesn’t live rent-free in my head forever.
Similar for me, Denver the Last Dinosaur
Damned if I can remember any individual plot points but that theme song will be with me until I die.
I loved Denver, but I remember that there was no plot in any episode. Bad guys were doing bad stuff I guess, then Denver and his friends won and celebrated somehow.
He’s my friend and a whole lot more!
- Underdog
- Batfink and Karate
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
Based on a comic book, it follows the lives of four turtle brothers who were mutated by toxic ooze to become anthropomorphic crime-fighting ninjas. Absolutely wild stuff.
The nes underwater level was pretty tough.
Mummies Alive
Reboot
Ronin Warriors
Beetlejuice
(Not truly a favorite list exactly, but definitely big impact, I think forgotten, and not already seen listed.)
Ronin Warriors
It was an anime that predated the mainstreaming of anime in the Anglosphere. It, along with Dragon Ball, were one of the few shows that I was able to catch without cable. Can’t say I loved it, but I did watch it.
If you spoke Spanish, you could watch DBZ on over the air TV as well, but I’m not sure if it was available prior to the English dub on Cartoon Network.
I only know of it being available in the states through Toonami at first. And VHS. I had a floor to ceiling stack of DBZ VHS, and that was just through the Frieza saga + some movies.
I remember being shocked how many tapes it took just for the actual fighting Frieza part and deciding that’s why DBZ was awesome. Time spent chasing the MacGuffins paled in comparison to time spent punching the bad guy.
Q: How many Saiyans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Only one, but it takes five episodes.
Captain Future. Chevalier du Zodiaque (Saint Seiya), Inspector Gadget, maybe M.A.S.K.? Doctor Snuggles? :D
I hate these questions, i might as well just write my exact birthday on public internet. :)
French of the 80s? I hated the haircut of “Capitaine Flam” ;)
Ur mom
goddem
Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel show. I feels like the spiritual precursor to Dexter’s Lab, which is also a favorite but imo much less obscure.
Sweet baby Jesus! Secret Squirrel was the first that came to mind, but I didn’t mention it because i thought people would find it too obscure!
I almost mentioned The Justice Friends but that’s kind of a meta “show-in-a-show” levels of obscure lmao arguably Secret Squirrel qualifies as well, but it at least got title credit.
Trying to remember the plot as best as possible.
It’s 1960s. Protagonist Stellina lost her mother in a circus accident but the workers there raised her as their own family.
Later some social workers note this and take her to an abusive orphanage. She escapes there but is very much lost.
This is the first few episodes, and rest is about Stellina trying to reunite with her wholesome circus family.
I believe show was originally Italian or French? It was actually popular in Turkey but name is hard to remember for Turkish speakers, and show itself is forgotten pretty much everywhere else now.
Swat Kats! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwN8pqdtg8
Battletech! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmwe5Y5xjo Activate Enhanced Imaging!
Rocko’s Modern Life is occasionally mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFxJDFodce4
I had absolutely no idea MechWarrior had a Saturday morning cartoon.
Rocko’s Modern Life
I think that show pushed the envelope on what they could get away with on a kids show even more than Ren and Stimpy did.
Half of old Nickelodeon as basically that. Like how did Invader Zim get greelit when Johnny The Homicidal Maniac was Jhonen’s prior work?
The episode Dark Harvest was disturbing even though I first saw it in college. Zim burping up a bunch of intestine and slurping it back into his mouth like spaghetti is permanently seared into my brain.
The Secret Show - this old British cartoon about secret agents that would go on exciting missions and such! I swear that oversimplified corporate art style took inspiration from The Secret Show!
