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.
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Ren and Stimpy was doing some wild things back in the day
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
Space Madness!
All kids love log!
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.
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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
I still have weird dreams of stuff I saw watching Courage. That live action human head guy inhabits my nightmares.
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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.
KABLAM was the shit. Prometheus and Bob have always been some of my favorite short skits.
Melt Man! With the power to... MELT!
Damn I loved Action League Now.
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
The 90s had lots of weird cartoons, but this one was one of the more wholesome of the word ones
The 90s had lots of weird cartoons
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. 🤣
The one episode that I firmly remember is when one of them strikes it rich by finding a bag of toenail clippings.
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.
Invader Zim
The Dark Harvest episode
YEEEEAAHHHHH ULTRA PEEPI
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.
What the fuck was that
Nails the 'weird ' brief, does it not?
Aeon Flux
Was going to go with that and The Maxx.
Ugly Americans was pretty wild, but Drawn Together was a whole different level of wacky.
oh my god i completely forgot about Drawn Together. Most memorable moment is the Pikachu ripoff tearing apart the Betty Boop ripoff lmfao
Fun times.
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
So beautifully done… You opened a door to me.
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.
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
It counts as a cartoon, but I sure hope you weren't watching it "as a kid."
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.
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)
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.
Snorks were pretty weird. Like aqua smurfs sort of.
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Angry Beavers
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 “this show is unhinged”.
Sport Billy had a weird premise. Monchhichi was another weird one. Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea was really trippy.
Rockadooodle deserves a mention.
Rocket Robin Hood and Hercules and Friends
A bunch of Doctor Snuggles episodes I liked turned out to have been written by Douglass Adams
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
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.
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