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What was the craziest cartoon you saw whilst a kid?
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Captain Condom
The Last Unicorn
Adolar'e Fantastical Adventures
An old Hungarian cartoon about a boy who hides an inflatable rocket in his violin case. He uses it to fly to strange planets like a two dimensional one. Most vivid image I have in my mind is how the rocket stretches when it approaches light speed.
cow and chicken
One of the shows that taught me English. And Dexter's Lab taught me French.
Watership Down.
The old Nintendo cartoons, things like the Mario Super Show and the classic Sonic show. If you thought live action Mario and Luigi arguing with fungus people was weird, sometimes the people behind the cartoons would get so lazy that they wouldn't fully draw some of the frames or throw in a lazy scenario for the main characters like "what if Yoshi had a secret family he was hiding off-screen". Of note, people often ask me "why are you so relatively soft on the Zelda CDi games" and the answer relates to the deal of effort.
If puppet shows count, objectively it's Mr. Meaty.
The Brave Little Toaster. It's a bit endearing until the LSD trip goes bad.
I was 12 and just getting into Anime, fresh off seeing Akira and Ninja scroll and hungry for more, I was not ready for Wicked City.
Mid-90s, I used to stay up all night long on Fridays, watching weird cable access shows and infomercials. There was a Highlander: The Animated Series cartoon that came on around 4AM. No one ever believed me when I tried to describe it.
“The great mouse detective” had a fight scene at the end that freaked me out as a kid.
Watership Down.
Was visiting relatives and we rented movies from a tiny video store that didn't have a lot of options or kids, so we got that and Crocodile Dundee.
Dundee was fun. The bunnies were less so.
My husband is still scarred by that one.
Ren and Stimpy
Beavis and Butthead
Love B&B, still traumatized by the Ghost Fart from R&S
The most hauntingly memorable was a weird mid-century Donald Duck piece of math propaganda. We watched it in school.
Donald Duck in MathMagic Land. Not scary, but odd.
i loved that. should do a whole series through calculus.
What was the message it was trying to propagate?
I think they were just trying to promote math. I always thought about it later in life as I tried to drunkenly calculate pool angles at the bar.
"Dammit - Donald tried to explain this when I was 10! Why can't I remember the details?"
Do Saturday Night Live skits count?
The Ambiguously Gay Duo
I'll allow it
When I was like, 2? My parents were like "Hey! What's this new cartoon? Let's take the kid to the drive-in!"
Fritz the Cat:
How did they react afterwards ..?
I don't really remember, I was 2, but I'm told they kept pushing me down in the back seat. LOL.
In my mid-teens, after Saturday Night Live they showed Fantastic Planet on Night Flight. That was an experience.
I watched that on acid... Wow what an experience. Highly recommend
Check out Gandahar. Anyone who thinks Star Trek has the most messed up time travel plotlines needs to watch this.
Ugh Probably Teens Titans GO: Its episodes just go from Fart Jokes to how to pay Taxes.
The lord of the rings cartoon. I still don't know wtf it is.
That's just Ralph Bakshi movies. Try Wizards for some real wtf.
Wizards had the best ending of any movie I've seen to date. It just comes out of fucking nowhere.
I love Bakshi's LotR and Wizards but I think his best movie is American Pop. Not as WTF as Wizards, but it's so epic!
I saw a lot of Christian propaganda cartoons.
I remember there was a whole series where kids traveled through time to watch "historical" events.
What do you think of Veggie Tales? Actually wasnt mad imo
I think I was older when it came out so I thought it was lame, pushing annoying.
The Point!
From Wikipedia: The Point! is a fable that tells the story of a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in the Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything must have a point. Nilsson explained his inspiration for The Point!: "I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses [each] came to [a] point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's [still] a point to it.'"[4]
I’m pretty sure this is why I do drugs today.
Probably the Toxic Crusaders, but only after watching the movie it's based on.
The cartoon itself is just another knockoff TMNT, which was the style at the time. I have no idea how someone showed a board of directors the Toxic Avenger in the early 90s and said, we should take this and make it a cartoon for children.
I'm so glad all this shit got greenlighted tho, tv in the 90's was wild, especially for kidz
TV series:
- Johnny Test
- Teen Titans Go
- Uncle Grandpa
- The Amazing World of Gumball
- Regular Show
Movies:
- Coraline
Web series:
- SMG4
- asdfmovie
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2024
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