cheese_greaterWhat was the craziest cartoon you saw whilst a kid?
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 have a soft spot for Bakshi movies but I haven’t seen this one. I will have to check it out.
I think my favorite is Heavy Traffic. It feels like they figured out most of the production problems with Fritz by the time they made it, but still haven’t run entirely out of money like with Wizards.
There’s another animated Hobbit besides Bakshi, which isn’t bad. Not scary though.
Do Saturday Night Live skits count?
The Ambiguously Gay Duo
I’ll allow it
mayhairJohnny Test, Teen Titans Go
[deleted] in lemmyWatership 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.
HarmoniousWatership Down was what traumatized me on seeing blood in cartoons. Cartoons and blood just…dont mix.
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
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.
tacosanonymousI 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.
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.
jordanlundWhen 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:
Fritz The Cat (1972) Trailer
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.
Wait, so that means they stayed and watched it?
Once you’re in the Drive In, you’re kind of stuck…
That was the maybe original. Always loved how the cops were actual pigs
Ren and Stimpy
Beavis and Butthead
Love B&B
ritchieHere they aired it at night, when not much else was there to watch. In my teenage years I was always hoping for some kind of erotic scene, but I was only left with confusion and switched the channel.
sagUgh Probably Teens Titans GO: Its episodes just go from Fart Jokes to how to pay Taxes.
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.
Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (HD)
What was the message it was trying to propagate?
i loved that. should do a whole series through calculus.
RobotToastercow and chicken
BjörnOne of the shows that taught me English. And Dexter’s Lab taught me French.
Omelette du fromage
gnomesaiyanThat’s all you can say!
Say it again!
Dexter’s Lab was dope shit. Deedee was such a a great antagonist
I worked for the company that made that. Crazy shit
Catdog is quite similar in terms of “aesthetics” and craziness.
I was 8 and just getting into Anime, fresh off seeing Akira and Ninja scroll and hungry for more, I was not ready for Wicked City.
BroBot9000“The great mouse detective” had a fight scene at the end that freaked me out as a kid.
lemmyngVacalactica: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF7tKWzkzi4
Vacaláctica - Tetas Invasoras - Super Nutritivo
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.
Highlander The Animated Series S01E01 A Taste of Betrayal
Call me Lenny/LeniThe 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.
Elaine Cortez
Inspector Gadget MARIO DVD Menu with James Rolfe and Mike Matei
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.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! - Treasure of the Sierra Brooklyn (ENGLISH RESTORED) - Episode 162
WrenWatership Down.
owenfromcanadaThe Brave Little Toaster. It’s a bit endearing until the LSD trip goes bad.
Adolar’s 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.
Adolars phantastische Abenteuer 01 - Die zweite Dimension
psychOdelic she/herOH MY GOD! I used to LOVE this as a kid, and recently remembered it. Nobody knows this amazing work.
Captain Condom
Oh, man, when I was a kid around 1990 I was in France, maybe? 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…?
Yeah, that art style looks very familiar. I’ll have to look into it more, since I’m starting to doubt some of the other details I provided. Oh, and the wiki says the animated series started airing on Canal+ in 1996. Maybe it aired elsewhere before?
But yeah, I think this is it 👍.
P.S. Iznogoud, like “is no good”. I must have misremembered his name, cuz that makes sense!
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.
I’m still not sure whether “Angela Anaconda” was real or a collective fever dream.
Amazing show!