The Last Unicorn. Runner up, The Rats of Nymn.
The original sonic cartoon is like a chili dog induced fever dream
You mean Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog? I love Robotnik in that show!
Yeah that's the one, with the surreal desert backgrounds like krazy kat comics
I'll have to take a look at Krazy Kat
Will check out
I was a kid in the 90's. It'd probably be easier to list the normalest cartoons. Like Doug.
Freakazoid, possibly. Or Toxic Avenger. Though the latter is more insane that they turned the original concept into something for kids in the first place.
Rocko’s Modern Life was a helluva ride
I was amazed at the shit they were allowed to play in the after school block on Nick/CN sometimes. Rocco might take the cake with the ~~masterbation~~ milking episode
It wasn't originally designed for kids, and it really shows with the pilot episode. It had swearing in it and most of the jokes would go over kids' heads. Certainly went over mine until I re-watched it as an adult.
Just stare into Really Really Big Man's Nipples of the Future.
The crazy stuff on Liquid Television
Aeon Flux is still super weird 30 years later
Zap Comix #3
I'm still not sure whether "Angela Anaconda" was real or a collective fever dream.
"hey what if we made a cartoon entirely about the revenge fantasies of a 12 year old girl?"
"Sounds great, make it papercraft too, just to make it extra unsettling"
"How about everything is in color except the peoples skin."
"Brilliant."
Amazing show!
The first one that comes to mind is this one from probably the early 90s. From what I remember it was a group of kids and one of them is sick or something and the other kids try to save him? In the end they each sacrifice a year of their life so that the sick friend can live. I wanna say Steven Spielberg was a producer.
There was also that one crossover movie where a bunch of cartoon characters from whatever was popular in the 80s did an anti-drug movie.
cow and chicken
One of the shows that taught me English. And Dexter's Lab taught me French.
Omelette du fromage
That's all you can say!
Oh, man, when I was a kid around 1990 I was in France (maybe? Pretty sure it was somewhere in Europe), and they had this subtitled cartoon (I didn't know either language) that "starred" a villain named something like Amin Tumani ("I'm in to money", but made into a name) that was a stereotypical middle easterner. And to add to the crazy I'm 99.9% sure he died at the end of every episode.
If anyone knows anything about this cartoon, LMK.
Iznogoud maybe..?
The Brave Little Toaster. It's a bit endearing until the LSD trip goes bad.
The Last Unicorn
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.
That moment when Shigeru Miyamoto made Mario because he couldn't get the rights to Popeye, yet DiC has the power to make Inspector Gadget a part of Mario canon. Chad move.
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.
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.
Watership Down.
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:
In my mid-teens, after Saturday Night Live they showed Fantastic Planet on Night Flight. That was an experience.
Captain Condom
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.
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.
There's another animated Hobbit besides Bakshi, which isn't bad. Not scary though.
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.
Ugh Probably Teens Titans GO: Its episodes just go from Fart Jokes to how to pay Taxes.
“The great mouse detective” had a fight scene at the end that freaked me out as a kid.
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