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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm still not sure whether "Angela Anaconda" was real or a collective fever dream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago

Amazing show!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 48 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Captain Condom

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

The Last Unicorn

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

One of the shows that taught me English. And Dexter's Lab taught me French.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Omelette du fromage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Watership Down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

The Brave Little Toaster. It's a bit endearing until the LSD trip goes bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_City_(1987_film)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 46 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

My husband is still scarred by that one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Ren and Stimpy

Beavis and Butthead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Love B&B, still traumatized by the Ghost Fart from R&S

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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:

https://youtu.be/T34GGPaPnrk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How did they react afterwards ..?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't really remember, I was 2, but I'm told they kept pushing me down in the back seat. LOL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

Wait, so that means they stayed and watched it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Once you're in the Drive In, you're kind of stuck...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

“The great mouse detective” had a fight scene at the end that freaked me out as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Do Saturday Night Live skits count?

The Ambiguously Gay Duo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I'll allow it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In my mid-teens, after Saturday Night Live they showed Fantastic Planet on Night Flight. That was an experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I watched that on acid... Wow what an experience. Highly recommend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Check out Gandahar. Anyone who thinks Star Trek has the most messed up time travel plotlines needs to watch this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BqnN72OlqA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

i loved that. should do a whole series through calculus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What was the message it was trying to propagate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Ugh Probably Teens Titans GO: Its episodes just go from Fart Jokes to how to pay Taxes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The lord of the rings cartoon. I still don't know wtf it is.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's just Ralph Bakshi movies. Try Wizards for some real wtf.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wizards had the best ending of any movie I've seen to date. It just comes out of fucking nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I saw a lot of Christian propaganda cartoons.

I remember there was a whole series where kids traveled through time to watch "historical" events.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5090166/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think of Veggie Tales? Actually wasnt mad imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I think I was older when it came out so I thought it was lame, pushing annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I'm so glad all this shit got greenlighted tho, tv in the 90's was wild, especially for kidz

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

TV series:

  • Johnny Test
  • Teen Titans Go
  • Uncle Grandpa
  • The Amazing World of Gumball
  • Regular Show

Movies:

  • Coraline

Web series:

  • SMG4
  • asdfmovie