What's your favorite childhood cartoon that everyone else seems to have forgotten about?
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I really loved Gargoyles as a kid
Keith. Mother. Fucking. David.
Also Evil Will Riker and Evil Deanna Troi.
Desdamona. Raawwwrr
Given how extensive its TV Tropes page is I'd say it's hardly forgotten.
Oh yeah!
Theme song goes so hard
Me too!
I used to love the Gummi Bears when I was a kid, but every time I've mentioned the show, no one sees to know what I'm talking about. 🤷♂️
Edit:
This one too. It was kinda like a mix of G.I. Joe & Transformers.
A just saw a YouTube video about this, David the gnome, and the wuzzles. The absolute raw voice talent they had on those shows is something we will likely be privy to again.
Aww man! I forgot about The Wuzzles!
I used to watch that one too.
I still have an Ele-roo stuffed toy in good condition.
Nice! I think I had that one as a kid. I'm pretty sure my brother had a bumblelion.
Same: Little brother got Bumblelion. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure it got destroyed by a dog at some point.
Both the Gummi Bears and MASK were famous in France for some reason. MASK was weird but fun, they also made a ton of money by selling toys.
Yeah, cartoons were all about selling toys, even back in the 80's.
Here's another obscure show:
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
I don't remember much about the show, but I was all about the toys.
I remember having this one:
Drill Sergeant
I can still sing the Gummi Bears theme song lol
baller theme song too! M-m-m-m-MASK!
I still randomly sing the theme song, but substitute my wife’s name in for “gummy”.
That Gummy bears theme song was like crack. I tried rewatching it now, and it doesn't have thst same magic anymore. Around that time Voltron was on and Go Bots was around too.
Yeah, I tried rewatching it not too long ago and it definitely wasn't as good as I remembered. Theme song was still dope though.
I used to love the Gummi Bears when I was a kid, but every time I’ve mentioned the show, no one sees to know what I’m talking about. 🤷♂️
My dad actually liked that show more than we did I think. When Rugrats had Stu Pickles obsessed with the Dummy Bears cartoon it reminded me of my dad. My dad wasn't that crazy about it but that bit of characterization made the show more endearing to me.
I used to watch it every Saturday morning!
When we first saw Mask someone thought T-bob's name was Cheeseball, so forever would it be amongst us kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snorks
This unlocked something
Underwater smurfs was your awakening? I mean more power to ya. Mines was Roger rabbit.
I preferred Jessica rabbit but you do you boo
Eek! The Cat
I still sometimes use the phrase "Let the archeologists sort 'em out!" from the Terrible Thunderlizards part of the show.
Thunderlizards Rule!
I loved that jolly little purple fuck!
I can still sing: We're the squishy bears and we're right over there. We're the squishiest bears you know!
If my cat is in a bitey mood I call her Sharky. Pronounced the Eek way of course.
I still quote this show, and no one in my life outside of family remembers it.
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
David the Gnome https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283721/
Eureeka's Castle https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220895/
The big comfy couch https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0136634
And the more popular sesame street, mister Rodgers neighborhood, Thomas the tank engine, hey dude, guts, legends of the hidden temple, etc...
Eureeka’s Castle
"I meant to do that!"
Actually based off of RL Stein's kid.
Also yeah he wrote that show.
Those first 2 were my JAM growing up! If we're going with that era (and Eureka's Castle being more puppets), what about Today's Special https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198253/
Almost all of those are not cartoons.
Are you going to report me to the Lemmy authorities?
The fun police is on its way to arrest that other guy.
I don't remember the couch one, but those first two were mandatory weekend morning watches!
Anyone else remember "The Pirates of Dark Water"?
I think someone else mentioned it already, but Swat Kats was also great
I was opening the thread intending to say just this. I don't remember either show very well, but I remember loving them.
Yes! I loved that show and it was gone too soon for my liking.
I'm gonna say ThunderCats, because the rights for it are basically up in the air. It should have gotten a film adaptation or a franchise like Masters of the Universe or Transformers, but nobody can figure out who owns it, so they can't make a movie without some rando suing them... so they don't.
The OG came out in 1985 and ran for something like 150 episodes, later divided into four seasons. But back then it just came on TV, it wasn't numbered or divided in any way (aside from multi-part episodes). They did a remake in 2011 on Cartoon Network that was pretty cool, but they couldn't get the legal stuff in order to get a second season — it was absolutely popular enough.
15 years later, I don't think anything's been done with it outside of, maybe, fan fiction and fan art.
Going back even older... Mysterious Cities of Gold. That's never been remade or adapted... however... while Tomb Raider was basically "we want to make a video game of Indiana Jones but we can't get the rights, so let's make it a girl with big tits," for some reason, they wanted to swing it back the other way and say "let's make Tomb Raider but have it be a hot guy instead and keep it exclusive to the PlayStation because at this point the concept is just so watered down, we'd lose money if we ported it to PC/Xbox" and called it Uncharted. Then they said fuck it and made an actual Indiana Jones game. Le sigh. But anyway, I wanna say one of the Uncharted games leaned into Mysterious Cities of Gold territory... but I'm not really sure. Anyway, it was about three Mexican kids (I think, as in born & raised in Mexico) who seek out the eponymous golden cities. IIRC they do find the ruins of the city they were looking for, but they expected the cities to be actually made of gold. And maybe they found some gold but not like they thought. But they had a plane and I think they had some cool adventures, so they broke even I suppose?
I loved Thundercats as a kid, so when I heard Cartoon Network would start playing original episodes in 2003ish, I got my roommate and girlfriend all pumped up to watch the first episode with me.
Ten minutes in and I apologized. It's SOOOO much worse than you remember. 😂 It's amazing the crap we like when we're kids. SNARF!
Facts. ThunderCats had a lot of good ideas but it was poorly executed and not very well acted. Everything's just a bit too extra.
Snarf is fine. Snarfer was annoying AF. Snarfer was the younger snarf on the second crew, with Lynx-O and Bengali and the others. No kids on that crew, I think it was just the old blind man, the alt-palette Tygra, and a woman I can only vaguely remember. And Snarfer. No one liked him. Or Mumm-Ra's dog, for that matter... "Ma-Mutt"? Though Mumm-Ra himself was awesome, in either form.
The show has aged like milk, though the 2011 series fixed some of the cringe. It added some of its own, but didn't add up to what the 1985 series reached.
I still think Grune the Destroyer, Tower of Traps, the Trials (where Lion-O had to best each of the other adults, and then beat Mumm-Ra unarmed), the time machine episode, and Book of Omens were mostly good. Maybe a couple others.
I remember the trials as being a step up and it was nice the way it showcased the young siblings ability. It reminded me a bit of the legion of superheroes where the wonder twins go off to defend their planet and actually show themselves pretty powerful and competent.
The twins (or whatever they were) were always top tier for child characters. The voice acting wasn't the greatest with them sounding a bit whiny, but they were solid.
You gotta figure, Lion-O was "one of them" before the trip... assuming they're siblings (not sure if they said), Lion-O could have been a potential mate for Kit, if they were all allowed to grow up together. So with him being aged up all of a sudden, it's like he's still their bro/friend/playmate/peer/whatever but now he's kind of like their king ("Lord of the ThunderCats") they wanna help him get better. And of course their thing is underhanded/sneaky tactics and devices (kinda like Q in James Bond), they always have a trick up their sleeves.
The Japanese animation style of Thundercats was miles ahead of other Saturday morning cartoons at the time which did a ton of heavily lifting for popularity.
was it its own thing or was it like the xmen where the opening was super cool and then it was the same cartoon outside of that.
Going back even older... Mysterious Cities of Gold. That's never been remade or adapted...
They actually resumed the story directly in a sequel series in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold_(2012_TV_series)
Thanks, I had no idea.
I was in my local comic shop today, being free comic book day, and saw a Thunder Cats x Silver Hawks comic.
Purchased immediately!
I always wanted Panthros tank when I was a kid. It was awesome. ThinderTank goooo
I had the actual ThunderTank play set when I was a kid. I think it was about a foot long? The back opened up. I have a Hot Wheels (or maybe it's Matchbox) of the ThunderTank (so it's like 2" long). Haven't looked at it that close, it's still sealed in the blister pack.
The Runabout shuttles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine remind me of the ThunderTank so much. You got the two-seater cockpit up front and like a cargo area behind it. There's a bit more to the Runabout than that, but it still reminds me of the ThunderTank. Also, the Mako tank on Mass Effect, and the similar one in Mass Effect 4 (it had another name but I already forgot, that game was so half-baked but still fun).
Niceee!!!. I got this awesome comic book cover prints at new york comicon last year.i
They should make a play of that series.
Thundercats: The musical
Honestly even the title song fits.
Catdog
It's not the most obscure, but I remember loving it so much and as an adult (with friends that watch plenty of cartoons) it doesn't ever come up.
Catdog was amazing, I loved that as a kid. The physics of that creature is wild though, how does it work?!
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!
Captain Caveman
I've actually done the "Captain Caaaavemaaaaaan!!!" yell around people in my age group and just got blank stares.
…And son?
And the whole Laugh Olympics crew!
I had a sick captain caveman shirt when I was in highschool
Ren & Stimpy!
Or even better: the Sam & Max cartoon!
I love that the first episode of Sam and Max starts with a "previously on". 😆
Bucky OHare and the Toad Wars! Although, IT was called something completely different in German
Also: Samurai Pizza Cats!
If your Righteous Indignation has suffered a hit.
And your photon accelerator's broken a bit.
And you're losing your mind, and you're having a fit.
Who's the funky fresh rabbit who can take care of it!
Samurai Pizza Cats <3
Loved that show
I always seem to want to conflate Bucky O'Hare and Jazz Jackrabbit. Like, if I had a nickle for every gun-toting green animated space rabbit in the 90s, I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I always accidentally conflate him with Usagi Yojimbo from TMNT
I'd completely forgotten about Bucky until I read your comment! "Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare! He goes where no ordinary rabbit would dare"
Bucky was great!
Samurai pizza cats :D. Now THAT's an anime I wouldn't mind watching again. I guess it was an early example of a gag dub, early for me anyway.
The Pirates of Darkwater!
Fuck yeah, I love this one too. Niddler was the best, and I had early crushes on Ren and Tula.
And they never finished the story. Are there maybe comic books or something?
KABLAM! Where cartoons and comics collide!
Meltman!
With the power to… MELT!
Oh Prometheus and Bob...
Many I would mention are already here, so I’m throwing in Reboot!
Finally, a current discussion about Reboot to bring this up in.
Okay, so Matrix from the later seasons was absolutely just a parody of Cable from X-Men, right? With the gun, and the sleeveless armor, and the gold eye?
Yeah, it’s been a while so I looked up the character’s arc and it does seem that he is inspired from Cable and/or Solid Snake (who actually debuted in Metal Gear in 1987).
Ahh... Always felt like that was a parody or callback, and never figured it out!
There's three that I consistently have people who grew up at the same time don't remember:
Exosquad I watched religiously, and I don't think they ever finished it. Mighty Max was on every day before I went to school, so it was my breakfast watch.
Mighty Max was pretty cool.
oh man, Exosquad was great! i actually had several toys.
Denver the last dinosaur was my friend and a whole lot more...
I only have the vaguest recollection of the Mighty Max show, but I definitely had a couple of the mini-diorama toys. I distinctly remember a skull island one. They were like Polly Pockets but marketed to boys.
Denver always reminds me of stephen baldwin ( young riders era)
I loved Exo-Squad. Had all the toys
I don't remember anything about this but i remember liking it:
I knew this existed, but never watched it because their big heads and tiny face creeped me out.
It's one of those series I never really got into because the 3D CGI looked grotesque and gave the world of Lyoko this uncanny valley feeling.
CGI has advanced by leaps and bounds since Code Lyoko aired, and I'd hope that if it ever got remade, they'd switch entirely to a toon shaded CGI style that looks hand-drawn.
Such an underated show, honestly if someone rebooted this one I'd be okay with that. Even better if the reboot just redid the 3d cgi with a good budget and left the rest.
I CAME TO COMMENT THE SAME THING
A fan game on it is nearly finished after being worked on for over 10 years I think
Such a cool show honestly. Still can hear the theme song in my head.
Bullwinkle and Rocky
They had a modernish movie though, for some reason lol
And an offshoot with Brendan Fraser as Dudley Do-Right which was a fun movie
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.
He's my friend and a whole lot more!
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.
Samurai Pizza Cats
I thought I was the only one.
Well met fellow internet stranger!
Ulysses 31 was amazing but nobody seems to have heard of it.
And I'm still pissed Dungeons and Dragons was cancelled
Ulysses 31 is a French–Japanese–Luxembourgian anime series based on the Greek mythology of Odysseus, set in the 31st century.
This is not a sentence I expected to read ever.
It's like Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century on cocaine by description alone
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Now that's an obscure cartoon.
The only thing I can remember from that show is one episode had a giant python get loose/stolen from a zoo. The only reason I remember it is that they named the python Monty.
Obscure maybe but the theme is a banger
I loved Ulysses 31, although I never really knew what was going on. It just looked amazing.
Yep!
They wrote the script for the final episode of Dungeons and Dragons, but never made it.
You can read the script here: https://thescriptsavant.com/tv/Dungeons_&Dragons_3x99-_Requiem.pdf
And see a fan remake of it (with the original voice actor for Sheila) here: https://youtu.be/m1_6SeRRflo
OMG mate!!! Thank you so much!!
I think I would have watched Dungeons & Dragons regardless of other factors, but I had already started down that particular path (carried my Players Handbook and Dungeon Masters Guide for casual reading).
What a cheezy fun show!
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
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.
I had absolutely no idea MechWarrior had a Saturday morning cartoon.
It was cleaned up a bit recently by fans. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHjfvGVxWpxqAFlAst8h56N-dlQJ9R6n
Silverhawks
Yes! Outer space Thundercats!
It was so good!
Don't hear much about Count Duckula or The Raccoons anymore.
Both of those had theme songs which went really hard.
Yup! I was watching this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPbKIXoEsI
Made me think of it.
I have seen them do this live in concert, it was entirely amazing!
Excuse me?
Haha! Beg your pardon. Eat any good broccoli sandwiches recently?
Nanny makes some killer food.
Oh yea, I remember my Duckula casette tapes!
"Favorite" is a stretch, but I liked Whatever happened to Robot Jones?. The art style was a rough sketch imitating Schoolhouse Rock and for the first season Robot Jones was voiced by an actual speech synth (Specifically the Fred TTS voice available on MacOS). I'm a bit of a connoisseur of vintage text to speech.
EDIT: Some more I can think of:
Cro: an edutainment show about a cro magnon boy living among neanderthals.
Road Rovers: Like TMNT, 'cept with doggos.
The Raccoons: about, well, raccoons. Forgot about this one until I saw the TV tropes article
Hyper Man
Tailspin: My personal fan theory is it's a pre space age Star Fox.
Reboot: The old CGI has a charm to it IMO. It also has a bit of that same "gee whiz aren't these newfangled computers just the greatest" energy that the original Tron movie had.
Earthworm Jim
Freakazoid
EDIT 2:
The Super Mario Bros Super Show (probably explains my love of YouTube Poop)
Captain N
Freakazoid
Freakazoid was a classic
Fun thread.
What I consider obscure:
Not obscure:
Pepper Ann
Buzz light year of star command
Guts
Are you afraid of the dark
Ghost writer
Legend of the hidden temple
What would you do
All that
Angry beavers
Cat dog
Invader zim
Rockos modern life
REN and stimpy
Street sharks
Biker mice from mars
Batman beyond
Digimon
Johnny bravo
Bear in the big blue house
Recess
Beast wars
Beetle juice
Animaniacs
Reading rainbow
Wishbone
Big comfy couch
Legend of the hidden temple
Didn't catch this when it first aired, but when we finally got cable in high school it was kinda fun to watch on teen nick or whatever the channel was called. It's even the source of an inside joke in my circle of friends. One contestant answers a trivia question almost but not exactly correct, and Olmec says "That is close enough for Olmec", which quickly became a catchphrase for us.
The Muppet Babies were on French TV too. It was awesome.
This was probably my all time favorite as a kid. Tried to get my kids into it but it just didn’t land for them. I tried to go back and watch the muppet show a few times and I honestly think it’s be more inclined to watch a muppet babies over the muppet show lol. Maybe I’m try to find it in French or Spanish to practice
Batman Beyond was my Blade runner. Everyone into comics/characters knows it, but they're not all too common in my personal life.
Ralph Bakshi’s version of Mighty Mouse from the ‘80s. Was super cool and a little subversive, but a stupid controversy killed it after two seasons. He crushed up a flower and sniffed it into his nose, and someone decided MM was sniffing cocaine. CBS was chicken and pulled it.
Exo Squad.
One of the first (to young me) serial cartoons that had an ongoing plot week to week.
Dino Riders*
Dinosaucers
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Star Com
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors*
War Planets
The Centurions
Visionaries*
* I had the toys for these ones
I adored Denver the last dinosaur when I was little. That and Danger Mouse were two of my favorites.
Not really favorite, but I always thought the concept was fun. There was a cartoon called Evil Con Carne which I think shared a time slot with The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy?
But the premise was that an evil supervillain died in an attempt to take over the world, but his brain was rescued and put in a jar. Every episode the evil brain hatches a scheme, but it always goes horribly awry
But the premise was that an evil supervillain died in an attempt to take over the world, but his brain was rescued and put in a jar. Every episode the evil brain hatches a scheme, but it always goes horribly awry
Hector Con Carne. They saved his stomach, too. General Skarr ended up becoming a recurring character on Billy and Mandy.
Maya The Bee. You never hear anything about Maya The Bee.
That show is refreshed and on a constant rerun here!
The 3D cgi shit?
Thats kinda creepy though
Sry but only the classic is king
Where is "here?"
My wife loves Maya, I tolerate that cartoon. But it was cute.
I remember very little about it, I think the last I saw of it was in 1990 and I haven't heard a single word about it since. I had to look it up to make sure I didn't hallucinate that show. I've heard people mention other shows I remember from that time, like David the Gnome and such, but not Maya.
I'll start to sing the original theme song if I want to torment my adult aged sons....
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" ;)
French of the 80s? I hated the haircut of “Capitaine Flam” ;)
Meh. but the rest of the outfit style was pretty cool.
Danger Mouse is the only thing I can remember that might qualify. Everything else that was my "favorite" is still quite well known and popular even today.
Then again, there are so many one season cartoons from the 90s that were hella good and largely unknown even when they were running. Street Sharks, Mighty Max, Mummies Alive, King Arthur's Knights of the Roundtable, Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber, etc...
Yay! Someone else remembers Danger Mouse! I had my mom make me a danger mouse costume for Halloween. It was my favorite Halloween costume I'd worm as a kid.
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.
Pirates of Dark Water
Not favorite overall but among the forgotten, I'd say Exosquad
I have a ton of the toys from childhood. I tried to get my kids interested but they did not get into it. I'm too lazy to eBay them.
Dragon Tales!
https://c7.alamy.com/comp/HD2R84/dick-dastardly-muttley-augie-doggie-doggie-daddy-date-unknown-HD2R84.jpg
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!
The Mister T cartoon. I can still hear the intro song in my head 44 years later.
Favorite of all time. Exosquad. Mech armor, space warfare, synthetic humans, space pirates, insurgency, spies, politics, slavery and freedom from it, reproductive rights, clones and resurrection- yes this was all in a kid's cartoon and it was awesome. That was two seasons. Sadly they canceled it before season 3 where they were hinting at ALIENS.
didn't they cross over with battletech or robotech? was too old by the time it came out but recall seeing some stuff..
Not as far as I know, but I'm willing to be wrong. I only ever knew about the TV show.
apparently it was robotech, but the toy lines, not the series; I was a huge robotech fan as a kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosquad
The toys were often compared to the popular Robotech franchise, and Playmates acquired the license to Robotech to produce both toy lines under the same label, spawning rumors of a possible crossover.[13][unreliable source?] This possibility was considered by the authors but later abandoned. Today the Exosquad toys are considered highly collectible along with their boxes.
Fraggle Rock
Care Bears
Rainbow Brite
Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel show. It 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.
gargoyles of couse,
How about Sinbad Jr.
Watership down. Everyone knows the movie (which is incredible) but not many people remember the show, which was one of the very few kids' shows on TV at the time that weren't comedies.
God I don't think I've ever heard that, I'd have loved that as a kid
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin had surprisingly good animation and writing.
In the early 80s there was a weird cartoon called Pandamonium, about three pandas who could merge together to make some kind of superpanda. They traveled the world with a couple of humans trying to protect it from an evil alien called Montragor. It was an early production of Marvel Animation and little of it survives online now.
Saturday Supercade adapted arcade games (and also Pitfall) into short cartoon episodes. It featured the first cartoon version of Mario and Donkey Kong, long before any others. Pitfall's supporting characters Rhonda and Quickclaw made appearances in the Pitfall II: Lost Caverns game.
The Real Ghostbusters wasn't really obscure, but J. Michael Straczynski wrote for it, and he wrote an episode involving Cthulhu. (He also was story editor on He-Man, and penned the episode it was revealed that Teela was The Sorceress's daughter.)
There are a number of cartoons that Cartoon Network hyped up then just kind of forgot about: Mike, Lu and Og, Sheep in the Big City and Whatever Happened to Robot Jones are three in particular.
Oh, and the Earthworm Jim cartoon was really funny! It kind of rests these days in the shadow of the much more popular Freakazoid and The Tick, but it deserves to be rewatched now.
Robotech. I don’t remember much anymore, but I loved the different modes their robots can transform. Oh and YuYu Hakusho. The predecessor of green-clothed protagonists in anime.
Formative anime for me. If you rewatch, watch Macross instead. Minmei is much more tolerable.
For context if anyone doesn't know, Robotech is a rewrite of Macross.
But Robotech has a cooler soundtrack.
I used to get up at 4:30am just to watch it on TBS. From the west coast via my parents comically oversized satellite dish.
I'm not particular enamored with anime as a genre, but I LOVED that show.
oh man the best thing about jetfire was he was a veritech fighter and then the cyclone motrocycle suites were awesome.
Poor kids may know pepper ann and dragon tales
Tabaluga. It never really caught on outside of Germany but I definitely remember watching a decent cartoon series of it in the late 90's.
The Herculoids from Space Stars... which included Space Ghost and Astro. Also Captain Caaaaavemaaaan! Also of course loved Inspector Gadget and Thundercats.
Spaceship Sagittarius
BraveStarr
Ohh :D I forgot about that :D
I knew it as Dommel, but the English version appears to be called Wowser.
The little chalk drawing kid
Had cable growing up in Norway and DJ Cat Show and Fun Factory showed most of these.
Think I have randomly sung the Denver the last Dinosaur song at least once a week since 1988
Stunt Dawgs
Roadrunner
The Noozles from the '80s. Magical koalas.
I was visiting my grandparents for a week and got sick. They had cable and I feel like Nickelodeon had a marathon of this because watching The Noozles is the only thing I remember from the trip.
It got pretty epic with the main character endlessly searching for her father in Koala-walla land.
That, and Mya (sic?) the Bee were my first exposure to anime, or at least things that were adapted from Japanese animation.
I feel like I'm the only person in the world who remembers The Secret Show.
Shhh
im not sure I would say my favorite but I don't see many comments around battle of the planets outside of anime circles, then thundar the barbarian, isis, the old marvel hulk, thor, ironman, captain america, jayce and the wheeled warriors, and mask.
An obscure one (I think) that I always enjoyed when it was on was Oggy and the Cockroaches. For a few years there I had forgotten the title and had a hell of a time finding it again.
I still remember that theme song thing!!
Paw Paw Bears
What's With Andy?
Pelswick
I loved Garfield. People still talk about it I guess.
I remember renting videos of a show called rude dog that was pretty cool too.
Super ted? That was a thing. Idk if it was good lol
Battletech! Started a long running love affair with giant robots that lasts to this day!
Not too sure about it being a favourite, but there was this absolute fever dream of a cartoon called Fat Dog Mendoza that only aired occasionally at like 2am on Cartoon Network UK, usually after the Adult Swim block.
Oh, also, Ned's Newt. Loved that show.
Oh, also, also, I fucking hated The Cramp Twins.
Danny Phantom, he was cool af.
((He's a phantom))
((danny phantom))
Wait does it just say his name? Have I been hearing it wrong all this time? It would track for me, I never hear lyrics right.
I still see porn of this randomly, I don't think people forgot about it
Ulysses 31
Star Blazers:
https://youtu.be/Bo-fNwdQ_J0
Ur mom
goddem
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.
"Thing Ring, do your thing!"
He's even been incorporated into Canon, being from Earth 700974!
I watched a lot of PBS growing up and was always fond of Cyberchase, but I think that show has something of a cult following (plus it's somehow still running). I have yet to meet anyone else who remembers my all time favorite George Shrinks though- childhood me was fascinated by the idea of being able to experience the world from the perspective of being 3in tall (probably something to do with being small enough to literally live in a palace made of lego lol).
Tenkai Knights. Their world was a cube.
Well since I never saw it mentioned here:
Chalkzone
I love dark humor and sarcasm so Daria was my jam…
I use to watch this before school.
(GER)
Mighty Ducks, Brave Starr and Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs come to mind.
X-Duckx, it's a French cartoon about two ducks doing extreme sports, there is a German dubbed version that's pretty legendary even though it only ran for a couple years on German TV
- Underdog
- Batfink and Karate
Mucha lucha
Wicked!
Monster by mistake
Turbo Teen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Teen
I remember watching that show. Didn't remember the name though.
I knew I had seen that "Morty turns into a car" thing played straight somewhere before.
THAT'S what that show was called.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMAVtSrkIhI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers
I thought mine was Torchy the Battery Boy, but it turns out it was a puppet show. A very weird puppet show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchy_the_Battery_Boy
So, I'd plump for Rupert the Bear. Our family didn't have spare cash for frivolities like comics, but when we moved house one time the previous family had left behind a Rupert album. The covers had been torn off, but I loved that book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Bear
It seems Rupert isn't forgotten...
https://followersofrupertbear.co.uk/
Buried in that site: "In 1985 the first of what has become a series of facsimiles was introduced. For reasons of political correctness, there are several years for which no facsimile has been produced and the 1970 annual was the last one for which a facsimile was produced."
Rupert the Racist Bear, I'm guessing... oh dear. Back to watching Bluey.
Exo Squad. I was obsessed with this show. How could you not love E-frames? (Mechs in space basically)
It really does look like battletech; the yellow one to the right looks kinda like a Stormcrow, and the grey one kind of like an Elemental battle suit.
"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.
Blue streak Speeds by
Silverwing was a show that used to come on Disney XD at like 2:00am. I remember watching it on nights I couldn't sleep. I remember nothing about it other than it being pretty good, at least better than anything else on at that time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverwing_(TV_series)
Exo Squad
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Recess
Reboot