I was about 5 years old, and every Saturday morning I just HAD to watch The California Raisin Show. It was about these raisins who were a singing group and went on adventures. All of the characters were fruits and vegetables.
I grew up with all the strange ones from the late 90's early 2000's and loved them all; Rocko's Modern Life, Cow and Chicken, Catdog, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ahh! Real Monsters
That's what is making this hard for me. I liked almost all the weirdest ones. But everything was super weird, so maybe what I think is weird isn't even that weird. š¤£
While doing some research to determine if I hallucinated an Angry Beavers episode, I discovered that that show also features toenail clippings. Season 4 episode 8, Blacktop Beavers... "The beavers race a trucker (who is revealed to be Truckee in the end) to the world's largest pile of toenail clippings."
Probably Ren & Stimpy, if we're talking actual weirdness. I also liked KABLAM! a fair bit. My all-time favorite weird show (albeit not a cartoon) was Pee-Wee's Playhouse. I was raided on that shit. Had his suit and tie and everything.
When I was really young, there were some fairy tale cartoons on super early in the morning.
They were broadcast in very short segments, about 5 or 15 minutes each, but the animation was amazing.
Many decades later, I learned these were Soviet productions from the 1950s and 60s, and a lot of the human motions were rotoscoped, i.e. traced from actual moving human models.
Courage the cowardly dog. Has a great villain roster, good memories watching with mom, and some of its messages still live with me 20 years later. I think about the imperfection episode more often than I like to.
The opening theme still pops in my head every once in a while.
Like right now.
That one episode where one of their rich cousins or something has a pocket dimension literally in their pocket is the one that always stuck with me. While trying to figure out if I just hallucinated that, I found the list of episodes on Wikipedia, each with a one-line description of the plot, and they are just so funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Angry_Beavers_episodes
"Norb lives his dream of being a Lipizzaner stallion."
I can't find anything similar to what I'm thinking of, so maybe I just hallucinated it?
There were so many odd ones, but it was a great show.
I remember there being an episode where Norbert became really good at plastic surgery and went into a competition where he had to turn his subject into a photo-realistic platypus and even as a kid I was like āthis show is unhingedā.
GKR, pronouned Geeker, sometimes got up extra early on Saturdays to catch it. It was about a super powerful robot guy who was absolutely insane, voiced by Billy West. Best friends with a sentient T Rex and a mercenary cyborg lady with a gun arm. Totally oddball, kind of cyberpunk, I'm sure it was garbage
Ovide and the Gang - we had this one on tape and it was a touch of streaming without commercials decades before that happened. Animation was OK for its time but still had a lot of errors even a kid will notice. Something about it as a kid felt a little weird but the setting was refreshing.
Hammy Hamster - Grandma taped this one for us. If you like making dioramas and want your pet hamster, guinea pig, and other critters to be TV stars this laid the groundwork. Not a cartoon but it fits right in with them.
Wapos Bay - is also worth a mention. It's a more modern stop motion take on the Cree community in Saskatchewan. It has a unique brand of humor and that "way up north" feel to the setting and aboriginal community dynamics which makes for a good change of pace. It was almost like a cleaned up family friendly South Park.
All of these shows are Canadian in origin if that explains anything. Wapos Bay I didn't see until later in life but usually would drop everything if my dad told me it was on. First two I haven't thought of in so long I had to google them to make sure they were real and not my imagination. Truly weird TV shows are always worth the time because there's never anything like them.
It was animated on an amiga 2000. The titular character 'Purno' in his purple spandex suit has a couple of adventures that are very weird. In the linged cartoon he's searching for a princess hidden in 'de kiettelaars' grotto' where you must know that 'kietelaar' is a Dutch word that can mean 'the one who tickles' or 'the clitoris'. In this comic it is a weird looking guy that talks with an creole accent and is tickling Purno and himself in a rather well.. sexual manner. The 'grotto' or cave is a bit vulva-looking. He is rewarded byy the princess with many kisses. Purno reflects 'even though her beauty was stolen, shes a really good kisser'
This is no coincidence, there is plenty of overt sexual overtones, with Purno once entering the vagina of a giant naked lady.
To be fair, non of those sexual references register when watching it as a kid, but when you reflect on it later in life it is utterly bizarre that that was aired on regular televison in a kids' show.
I'm surprised I don't see Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo on here.
My brother and I used to watch it on on-demand when my parents were out of the house in the early 2000's. Absolute insanity. I tried to re-watch it a couple years back for nostalgia, and my more matured brain just couldn't comprehend it... That was before I started smoking weed, maybe I should give it another shot, it might make more sense if I'm zonked out of my gourd.
56 Comments
TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 1y
Ren and Stimpy was doing some wild things back in the day
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
Space Madness!
zabadoh@ani.social · 3 pts · 1y
All kids love log!
Laser@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
I'm not sure I really watched it as a kid. Loved it as a young adult. It was also really hit or miss.
I'm not even sure I'd call it a show for kids. But it's hard to top its weirdness
NondescriptHonesty@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 1y
I was about 5 years old, and every Saturday morning I just HAD to watch The California Raisin Show. It was about these raisins who were a singing group and went on adventures. All of the characters were fruits and vegetables.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz · 23 pts · 1y
I grew up with all the strange ones from the late 90's early 2000's and loved them all; Rocko's Modern Life, Cow and Chicken, Catdog, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ahh! Real Monsters
NondescriptHonesty@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y
I still have weird dreams of stuff I saw watching Courage. That live action human head guy inhabits my nightmares.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
What is the live action human head
NondescriptHonesty@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y
The spirit of the harvest moon. I couldn't think of his name. Just the image is embedded in my memory.
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website · 16 pts · 1y
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
The 90s had lots of weird cartoons, but this one was one of the more wholesome of the word ones
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 1y
That's what is making this hard for me. I liked almost all the weirdest ones. But everything was super weird, so maybe what I think is weird isn't even that weird. š¤£
lemmyng@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
The one episode that I firmly remember is when one of them strikes it rich by finding a bag of toenail clippings.
Bags@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1y
While doing some research to determine if I hallucinated an Angry Beavers episode, I discovered that that show also features toenail clippings. Season 4 episode 8, Blacktop Beavers... "The beavers race a trucker (who is revealed to be Truckee in the end) to the world's largest pile of toenail clippings."
Just thought this was funny.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1y
Probably Ren & Stimpy, if we're talking actual weirdness. I also liked KABLAM! a fair bit. My all-time favorite weird show (albeit not a cartoon) was Pee-Wee's Playhouse. I was raided on that shit. Had his suit and tie and everything.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
KABLAM was the shit. Prometheus and Bob have always been some of my favorite short skits.
Bags@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1y
Melt Man! With the power to... MELT!
Damn I loved Action League Now.
Wytch@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 1y
Aeon Flux
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y
Was going to go with that and The Maxx.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
The Head from MTV back in the day
NondescriptHonesty@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y
Are you talking about Max Headroom? My dad and I watched that together. We loved it!
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
No this was just called the head
The Head https://g.co/kgs/WTzvXVQ
NondescriptHonesty@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1y
I'm gonna look this up and watch it. It looks wild.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
You def should it is very wild.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
Invader Zim
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
The Dark Harvest episode
Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
YEEEEAAHHHHH ULTRA PEEPI
bunkyprewster@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
H.R. Puffenstuff,
You can't do a little, cause you can't do enough
Davel23@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
Pretty much anything from Sid and Marty Krofft qualifies.
nailingjello@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y
Ugly Americans was pretty wild, but Drawn Together was a whole different level of wacky.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 1y
oh my god i completely forgot about Drawn Together. Most memorable moment is the Pikachu ripoff tearing apart the Betty Boop ripoff lmfao
nailingjello@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Fun times.
ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
Not sure if it counts as a cartoon, but 'The Oblongs' still lives rent-free in my head after seeing it on Adult Swim years and years ago.
grue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
It counts as a cartoon, but I sure hope you weren't watching it "as a kid."
ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
I think I was watching it when I was like 11? But I was also watching shit like Archer, South Park, and Futurama at that point as well haha.
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y
I don't know why, but I think of the Oblongs every time I see Steven Miller's head. Like Milo grew up to be him or something lol
sprite0@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
zabadoh@ani.social · 8 pts · 1y
When I was really young, there were some fairy tale cartoons on super early in the morning.
They were broadcast in very short segments, about 5 or 15 minutes each, but the animation was amazing.
Many decades later, I learned these were Soviet productions from the 1950s and 60s, and a lot of the human motions were rotoscoped, i.e. traced from actual moving human models.
The Frog Princess, dubbed in English (more in the YT user's account): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6sI3muOjc
The Snow Queen, dubbed in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaF6oqHZ-GM
The Fisherman and the Fish, in Russian with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHuSqNuv9Ng
Pazintach@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
So beautifully doneā¦ You opened a door to me.
Smokeydope@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Courage the cowardly dog. Has a great villain roster, good memories watching with mom, and some of its messages still live with me 20 years later. I think about the imperfection episode more often than I like to.
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y
Angry Beavers
Bags@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1y
The opening theme still pops in my head every once in a while.
Like right now.
That one episode where one of their rich cousins or something has a pocket dimension literally in their pocket is the one that always stuck with me. While trying to figure out if I just hallucinated that, I found the list of episodes on Wikipedia, each with a one-line description of the plot, and they are just so funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Angry_Beavers_episodes
"Norb lives his dream of being a Lipizzaner stallion."
I can't find anything similar to what I'm thinking of, so maybe I just hallucinated it?
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
There were so many odd ones, but it was a great show. I remember there being an episode where Norbert became really good at plastic surgery and went into a competition where he had to turn his subject into a photo-realistic platypus and even as a kid I was like āthis show is unhingedā.
dwemthy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
GKR, pronouned Geeker, sometimes got up extra early on Saturdays to catch it. It was about a super powerful robot guy who was absolutely insane, voiced by Billy West. Best friends with a sentient T Rex and a mercenary cyborg lady with a gun arm. Totally oddball, kind of cyberpunk, I'm sure it was garbage
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ovide and the Gang - we had this one on tape and it was a touch of streaming without commercials decades before that happened. Animation was OK for its time but still had a lot of errors even a kid will notice. Something about it as a kid felt a little weird but the setting was refreshing.
Hammy Hamster - Grandma taped this one for us. If you like making dioramas and want your pet hamster, guinea pig, and other critters to be TV stars this laid the groundwork. Not a cartoon but it fits right in with them.
Wapos Bay - is also worth a mention. It's a more modern stop motion take on the Cree community in Saskatchewan. It has a unique brand of humor and that "way up north" feel to the setting and aboriginal community dynamics which makes for a good change of pace. It was almost like a cleaned up family friendly South Park.
All of these shows are Canadian in origin if that explains anything. Wapos Bay I didn't see until later in life but usually would drop everything if my dad told me it was on. First two I haven't thought of in so long I had to google them to make sure they were real and not my imagination. Truly weird TV shows are always worth the time because there's never anything like them.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Animaniacs
Invader Zim
Ed Edd n Eddy
The Mighty Bee (this came out while i was a teenager but felt like a fever dream)
rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com · 3 pts · 1y
For me it's Mr Bogus! I'm not sure how well I remember it but I loved catching it on some channel 30 or so years ago. Claymation and good stuff.
Shawdow194@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
Courage the Cowardly Dog
lemmyng@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Vacalactica.
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Ah! We seem to have an MTV Latino watcher from the 90s in da house!
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
I'm going for the extremely weird angle, not a particular love angle as I found the show a bit lame as a kid:
The Dutch cartoon Purno de Purno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6MIJ7Iq1U
It was animated on an amiga 2000. The titular character 'Purno' in his purple spandex suit has a couple of adventures that are very weird. In the linged cartoon he's searching for a princess hidden in 'de kiettelaars' grotto' where you must know that 'kietelaar' is a Dutch word that can mean 'the one who tickles' or 'the clitoris'. In this comic it is a weird looking guy that talks with an creole accent and is tickling Purno and himself in a rather well.. sexual manner. The 'grotto' or cave is a bit vulva-looking. He is rewarded byy the princess with many kisses. Purno reflects 'even though her beauty was stolen, shes a really good kisser'
This is no coincidence, there is plenty of overt sexual overtones, with Purno once entering the vagina of a giant naked lady.
To be fair, non of those sexual references register when watching it as a kid, but when you reflect on it later in life it is utterly bizarre that that was aired on regular televison in a kids' show.
cornshark@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
What the fuck was that
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y
Nails the 'weird ' brief, does it not?
Bags@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y
I'm surprised I don't see Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo on here.
My brother and I used to watch it on on-demand when my parents were out of the house in the early 2000's. Absolute insanity. I tried to re-watch it a couple years back for nostalgia, and my more matured brain just couldn't comprehend it... That was before I started smoking weed, maybe I should give it another shot, it might make more sense if I'm zonked out of my gourd.
lunarul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Sport Billy had a weird premise. Monchhichi was another weird one. Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea was really trippy.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
A bunch of Doctor Snuggles episodes I liked turned out to have been written by Douglass Adams
Inucune@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Rockadooodle deserves a mention.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Rocket Robin Hood and Hercules and Friends