- Ozzy and Drix
- Quads
- Johnny Bravo
- Angela anaconda
- Super jail
- Brak Show
- Bromwell High
- My dad the rockstar
- mega babies
- Ripping Friends
cow and chicken
I worked for the company that made that. Crazy shit
One of the shows that taught me English. And Dexter’s Lab taught me French.
Omelette du fromage
Say it again!
That’s all you can say!
Dexter’s Lab was dope shit. Deedee was such a a great antagonist
Catdog is quite similar in terms of “aesthetics” and craziness.
I’m still not sure whether “Angela Anaconda” was real or a collective fever dream.
Amazing show!
“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.”
If we’re counting highschool as still a kid, the old Chinese cartoon Calabash Brothers. Still looking for ENG subs for the newer version that released in the 2010s, though.
It’s a cartoon where a snake and scorpion demon escape from a mountain and an elderly man has to grow a magic calabash seed that turns into 7 different calabashes that turn into little dieties when ripe in order to stop the demons.
Tamest Chinese fantasy.
Compared to other Chinese donghua I’ve seen in the past, the show definitely feels a little more unhinged. Most things I see today are a lot more average, in my opinion.
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.
OH MY GOD! I used to LOVE this as a kid, and recently remembered it. Nobody knows this amazing work.
Ren & Stimpy
TV series:
- Oggy and the Cockroaches
- Johnny Test
- Teen Titans Go
- Uncle Grandpa
- The Amazing World of Gumball
- Regular Show
Movies:
- Coraline
- Corpse Bride
Web series:
- SMG4
- asdfmovie
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.
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.
The oblongs, ripping friends, Ren n Stimpy, I r baboon were some of the best. Drawn together was a gem too that came out when i was a teen
Ugh Probably Teens Titans GO: Its episodes just go from Fart Jokes to how to pay Taxes.
Do Saturday Night Live skits count?
The Ambiguously Gay Duo
I’ll allow it
Duckman, though that was not for kids.
Ren and Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life both had stuff that was bizarre and only allowed in a kid’s show because it was over their heads.
Batman TAS and Gargoyles both had some heavy shit. The latter also had a guy die by having fire erupt from behind his eyeballs, and a scene where a surgeon explains a gunshot wound in visceral detail. God I love that show.
If you like weird old SF books, the guy who wrote TAS and Gargoyles (RIP J. Michael Reaves) did a space-noir called Darkworld Detective, it’s pretty good. Obviously unrelated to Batman though.
I thing Dutch people from my generation have you all beat:
Purno de Purno (porn pun very much intended)
A psychedelic cartoon about a funny guy in spandex that has a shitload of nudity (tits, penisses etc) to the point of him even crawling in the vagina of a giant lady in space. It has references to litaral drug use. Have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6MIJ7Iq1U doesn’t matter if you know the language, just browse through. That episode is called ‘In het hol van de kietelaar’ which translates to ‘In the clitoris’ lair (hole)’
This was on kids tv. Nobody got seriously harmed by it. It was funny and weird, but you don’t really register exactltyy how weird it is untill you hear about sensitivities on US TV (nipplegate lol)
looks like it was animated on an Amiga
Yup it was made on a Amiga 2000
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.
What was the message it was trying to propagate?
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?”
i loved that. should do a whole series through calculus.
Watership Down.
