Cartoons you loved but nobody remembers

The Gummi Bears, Dungeons and Dragons, and a cartoon I cant remember the name of that involved the 7-Up Spot, Bigfoot (the monster truck), and a bunch of other crazy characters.
 
[quote name='acdog15']Wasn't there some WWF cartoon in the 80's?[/QUOTE]

Pretty sure Hulk Hogan had a cartoon.

edit:

Yep.

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[quote name='jaykrue']By using the media tag. It's in the advanced post screen. It's got a blue 'M' on the button. So your stuff would look like so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjTXjDm1AIM&search=snorkleshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M678PVOf5F0&search=captain powerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4bUXUF5l3U&search=maple town[/QUOTE]

So glad someone mentioned Captain Power. I loved that show, and would kill to see the complete series at some point. I have a VHS with two or three episodes that I really enjoy. The toy-selling gimmicks are kind of disconcerting, though quite creative. Very dark show, though. Thanks for the reminder. Now to dig out that VHS and find a VCR someplace.

EDIT: Just learned that 13 or so of the episodes were written by J. Michael Straczynski, who also did Babylon 5. Quite interesting. He also wrote for some other shows mentioned in this thread, including: Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, He-Man, and Real Ghostbusters. Kind of interesting.
 
There was a show about a kid and his imaginary bear. I can't remember the name, but jay jay and c bear sounds right. I never saw the show, but we found several of the stuff animals bears clearanced when I worked night crew at TRU. The voice of the bear was tone lock and the stuff animal had blood shot eyes with sunglasses and a trenchcoat. I swear the bear looked and sounded stone and was the funniest damn thing. One of the guys I worked with said it was a exactly like the bear in the cartoon...
 
[quote name='kjauburn']There was a show about a kid and his imaginary bear. I can't remember the name, but jay jay and c bear sounds right. I never saw the show, but we found several of the stuff animals bears clearanced when I worked night crew at TRU. The voice of the bear was tone lock and the stuff animal had blood shot eyes with sunglasses and a trenchcoat. I swear the bear looked and sounded stone and was the funniest damn thing. One of the guys I worked with said it was a exactly like the bear in the cartoon...[/quote]

The show in question is C-Bear and Jamal:

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4n7XPREW1Y[/MEDIA]
 
Whoa.

I watched the Mapletown episode sheik found. It's weird how a lot of early Nick cartoons were anime. You can clearly see the similarity, let alone characters who act/look entirely like anime icons (namely, Wild Wolf looks just like Lupin and makes the same expressions). And this is really strange because you'd think it would have hit popularity in America earlier than it did.

Also, I'm noticing that the cartoons are much more mature. The music is fleshed out and original (no guitar riffs or popular songs), the themes are deeper, and the voice acting is a little more original than stuff today. Compare it to something like Rugrats - there's absolutely no comparison. I mean, shit. The themes in this episode alone are broken promises, financial affairs in marriage, and jealousy. Characters insult each other openly. It's a complete mindfuck when you put it against today's always-feel-good shit.

The cop even uses brutality! ROFLMAO.

And Wild Wolf. Holy crap. Motherfucker is in a children's cartoon and he runs through town waving a sword around like a maniac? That's so goddamn hilarious I can't even integrate it into my mind these days.

The bunny mom's voice is the same person who did Doris Lang in the original Vampire Hunter D. I have something of an obsession with that particular movie, so I'd know those voices anywhere. Which makes me wonder if those people were running around doing other shows at the time...

The bear character might be Ash's voice. A little hard to tell. I'm sure I could IMDB all of this but I'm a little lazy.

Man. I am a sappy fucker. But I just love this stuff. Have no idea why. Bleh.
 
These aren't cartoons, but they are so worth mentioning: VR Troopers, Fraggle Rock, and Beetleborgs. Oh man, and The Dinosaurs!

This topic fucking rocks. So much nostalgia...
 
There was a crash test dummies cartoon on Saturday mornings briefly. I believe it was around '92 and probably was some of the first computer animated cartoons on TV...
 
Here we have the other Koala show from old-school Nick Jr.:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywsBpfG4Zvc[/media]
And how could we forget everybody's favorite coverband:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2MgUP3Bn5I[/media]
 
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ju75XsCO4o[/media]

Kicks the shit out of "Baby Looney Toons" and makes it cry for mercy
 
[quote name='kjauburn']There was a crash test dummies cartoon on Saturday mornings briefly. I believe it was around '92 and probably was some of the first computer animated cartoons on TV...[/quote]

There was some show that was sorta like Tron that was like that as well. I cant remember the name of it though. I wanna say "VR" was in the title somewhere but I dont remember.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Why isn't Cartoon Network getting any of the rights to these awesome cartoons, and showing them on CN or at the very least, Boomerang?

If you go to CN's website, you'll see Boomerang shows the same shit day after day, which is like 100 Daxter's Laboratory re-runs.

CN fails, because all the keep bringing us is Japanese shit and their own cartoons (which are very hit or miss, most of them suck).

Damn it, I want to turn on CN and watch some of these shows, instead I can watch Ed Edd And Eddy or some stupid show about a monkey in gym class.[/QUOTE]

THe problem is that a lot of these shows came and went really fast and don't offer mcuh of a syndication package. A complete series DVD would have a lot of room to spare. Cartoon Network is pretty much the only place you could hope to see thembut the trick is catching them before something else is put in its place. It used to be like that with SciFi Channel, too. They'd get the rights to every skiffy show that every barely lasted a season but it didnt take very long in a weekdaily timeslot before nobody could stand the sight of it anymore and it would pulled off for a few months.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Becuase CN is run by fools who are so enamored with their own "wit" that they can't look past shit ass Mike Lazzo toons. Lazzo was good at first (SGC2C) but he jumped the shark years ago.

And the bastard prevented season 3 of Big O.

[/QUOTE]

How could he have done that? The most recent of the mangas I've come across had about the same WTF? ending as Season 2. My impression is that the original author had no idea where to go with it. He set up a great premise but didn't actually know any answers to the big mysteries. The amount of internal contradictions he put in place don't seem likely to produce any satisfactory continuation. So they resorted to the bullshit of doing a big CNTL-ALT-DEL on the universe and leaving it at that.

Kind of like the Wachowski Brothers.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']There was some show that was sorta like Tron that was like that as well. I cant remember the name of it though. I wanna say "VR" was in the title somewhere but I dont remember.[/QUOTE]

It's either VR Troopers or Reboot?
 
[quote name='lockarm']Back in 1984, when the world was coming off of Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, there was a new movie that was considered the next big thing: Ghostbusters. The next few years, there were two cartoons that practically shared the same name. So to differentiate from the other, one Ghostbusters cartoon (which was actually based of the film) was called "The REAL Ghostbusters, which was the superior version.

This is the crappy knockoff version of "Ghostbusters" (similar in name only).

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh88TLzu7g4&search[/url]



Then there's the true, badass version "Ghostbusters".

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjtGzSANxHI[/url]

Now you tell me which one you'd rather watch....

SIDE NOTE: I nominate this the CAG SOCIAL TOPIC OF THE YEAR!!![/QUOTE]

You cannot be a knockoff when you're ahead by nearly a decade.

That Ghostbusters cartoon was on a few months before Saturday Night Live made the Ghostbusters movie cast familar faces. (The Bill Murray role was originally ritten for John Belushi.) When Ghostbusters the movie was put together they failed to do a decent copy right search. The could have acquired the rights to the existing cartoon for pocket change just to keep it from resurfacing. When the name 'Ghostbusters' suddenly became valuable there was nothing they could do to prevent the existing show from being resurrected.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0072505/

For those old enough to remember 'F-Troop' it was especially odd since it reunited the two main characters of that sitcom as voice actors. I think they even got some cameos out of other F-Troop alumni.

Besides, if you want the real original Ghost Busters, Mickey , Donald, and Goofy had it covered back in 1937. I'm pretty sure Dan Ackroyd, who got the ball rolling on the movie, had seen that one more than a few times growing up.
 
[quote name='Strell']Ok, this is going to be an odd request, but let's see if what I'm thinking of actually existed.

I swear one night I was watching tv, and some sort of strange cartoon was on. Like an artistic thing. It wasn't a cartoon series or anything, it was a one-shot piece done against some orchestrated music. I.e., something you might see on PBS or whatnot. I am pretty sure it was a foreign film/cartoon.

In any case, it had this anthropromorphic mouse running around. He was dressed kind of like an old European jester - black shoes, white tights, puffy green or purple shorts, etc.

All I remember about it is that he walked around and danced and such inside a house. It's night time, and around him on a table, slumped in a chair, is some woman with incredibly long hair. At some point, I think she falls into a deep sleep, and it's meant to convey she's died. The mouse at this point becomes incredibly sad, and he starts crying. The screen shows her silhouette on the left, and his face on the right, with tears falling down.

It seemed like it was in charcoal or possibly paint. I realize those are radically opposite but I can't be sure.

Sometimes I swear I've dreamed this, but I remember distinctly at the time I watched it, that I thought "Haven't I seen this before?"

If anyone has any idea of what I might be rambling about, let me know. I honestly am not sure if I am making it up or not.[/QUOTE]

It might have been the Italian answer to Fantasia, Allegro non Troppo

http://imdb.com/title/tt0074121/

It had a bunch of segments in different styles set to well known classical music pieces. The best know is probably the peiece where life evolves from the remanants at the bottom of a Coke bottle, set to Ravel's Bolero.

But could be a lot of things. Back in the 70's PBS ran a CBC show just for one-shot animation pieces. My all-time favorite was one about a mosquito civilization.
 
OK, time to jump in the way back machine. I'm so old I can remember when just about every old HB show referenced on Adult Swim was on for the first time. What was hard to come by were the very strange but often much cooler shows from Japan.

This was before the term 'anime' was used by anyone in the US. On regular TV you could find horrible stuff like the MST3K-worthy Speed Racer but had to search the UHF range for the good stuff.

One favorite was on Channel 52, which divided its schedule between stuff that would be on cable access today and shows from Japan with English subtitles, was Getter Robo and UFO Dai Apolon

Getter Robo search results:
http://youtube.com/results?search=getter+robo&search_type=search_videos

It's really hard to find UFO Dai Apollon images online in English. Outside of Japan it mostly played in non-English speaking countries. It was big in Italy and Spain, for instance.
http://blogdeyuri.blogspot.com/2006/05/ufo-dai-apolon.html

Both of these are descendents of Gigantor (Go Nagai also created Getter Robo) and forebears of the Transformers, Voltron and much else. Getter Robo is the earliest show I've seen where a giant robot is formed from smaller fighter ships. They could form three different mechs depending on the order in which the ships were assembled. UFO Dai Apollon had three big robots coming together to form one big mother of a mech that was a cross between an NFL player and a gladiator. American Football was a running theme in that show.

One of the cooler aspects of UFO Dai Apollon was that it dealt with the issue of controlling a giant robot. The main character could only fight so well using the levers and pedals, so when things got rough he activated a mode that mapped his nervous system directly to the mech so he would be more effective fighting. This couldn't be used too much because there was a risk he'd become permanently attached if he did it too much.

Some of you might remember the Shogun Warrior toys and a Marvel Comics series during the 80s that drew from several anime series. The Red Dragon toy was from Getter Robo.

There was a Getter Robo revival series a while back that put a nasty apocalyptic edge on things. I'd long resisted buying the DVD set because of the prie but recently came across the first 3 (of 4) discs at a blowout sale for $2.50 each. I was very pleased until I discovered the disc #1 and disc #2 have identical content. THe artwork on disc #2 is correct but it's the same episodes as #1. Heartbreaking.
http://animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/981.php
 
This thread is so great. I had completely forgotten about Swat Kats, C.O.P.S. and some others.

Here's a few that I don't think have been posted yet.

The New adventures of Mighty Mouse
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlfvHjbZQjc[/MEDIA]

The Pound Puppies
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJejHRB1S-8[/MEDIA]

The Snorks
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuCq0aZiPT0[/MEDIA]

Captain Caveman... and son!
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOZzY3ejc68[/MEDIA]

Police Academy
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRLA9hjixJA[/MEDIA]

The Ghostbusters
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo0FVs9KvrQ[/MEDIA]
 
Ugh, I 've been trying to remember the name of this cartoon, but I jusr can't. Could someone help me out? All I can remember is that there was a worm and he had an apple on wheels and he'd ride around in it like a car... The name, I think, was something along the lines of Little Big World. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
 
[quote name='thespillcanvas']Ugh, I 've been trying to remember the name of this cartoon, but I jusr can't. Could someone help me out? All I can remember is that there was a worm and he had an apple on wheels and he'd ride around in it like a car... The name, I think, was something along the lines of Little Big World. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?[/quote]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Busy_World_of_Richard_Scarry


It was based on the books illustrated and written by Richard Scarry.
I loved that show, and the books.


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6k6VFFVT7Q[/media]
 
[quote name='epobirs']How could he have done that? The most recent of the mangas I've come across had about the same WTF? ending as Season 2. My impression is that the original author had no idea where to go with it. He set up a great premise but didn't actually know any answers to the big mysteries. The amount of internal contradictions he put in place don't seem likely to produce any satisfactory continuation. So they resorted to the bullshit of doing a big CNTL-ALT-DEL on the universe and leaving it at that.

Kind of like the Wachowski Brothers.[/quote]

I have seen several comments on Big O message boards that a third season was imminent...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_O#Uncertain_ending

Lazzo has the most influence in regards to Adult Swim programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lazzo

Lazzo has occasionally been referred to by his detractors as the "Rick Berman" of Adult Swim as a result of their belief that he might have been responsible for the decision to discontinue The Big O and not air Excel Saga.
Click to expand...

Also, the handling of "The Big O incident" was VERY insulting to the fans.

http://www.freewebs.com/seebach/#occident

That leads me to believe that someone really had issue with the show.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']

Lazzo has the most influence in regards to Adult Swim programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lazzo
[/quote]

Overall in the cartoon network is trying to start showing cartoons they own the rights or they created. I read a interesting article stating teen titans and JL Unlimited were canceled because they could make more money off shows they create like Ed, Ed, Eddy and Ben 10. Basically the licensing money from outside revenues is what they are concerned with now, not what the audience likes or what is good programming...
 
[quote name='kjauburn']Overall in the cartoon network is trying to start showing cartoons they own the rights or they created. I read a interesting article stating teen titans and JL Unlimited were canceled because they could make more money off shows they create like Ed, Ed, Eddy and Ben 10. Basically the licensing money from outside revenues is what they are concerned with now, not what the audience likes or what is good programming...[/QUOTE]

But isn't DC and CN under the same ownership? Time-Warner?
 
[quote name='WeaponX2099']But isn't DC and CN under the same ownership? Time-Warner?[/QUOTE]

You would be correct. I just don't understand how their original programming isn't making more money than other programs. Maybe producing the show itself is expensive but what about all the money they can make off of licensing? I mean look at Teen Titans, their crap is EVERYWHERE. Its all the usual suspects, video games, toys, lunch boxes, etc. That stuff has to be making a lot of money for them...
 
[quote name='WeaponX2099']But isn't DC and CN under the same ownership? Time-Warner?[/quote]

Same parent company yes, but they aren't the same entity. CN pays DC a license fee to make the Teen Titans/JLU cartoons, but then DC makes the royalities of toys, lunchboxes, t-shirts, etc. If CN owns creates the characters it gets the royalities and keeps the money in the division. Basically creating new programming is what is the best way for the to increase the revenue streams, but may not be the best thing for good television or the sister companies...
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']I have seen several comments on Big O message boards that a third season was imminent...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_O#Uncertain_ending

Lazzo has the most influence in regards to Adult Swim programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lazzo



Also, the handling of "The Big O incident" was VERY insulting to the fans.

http://www.freewebs.com/seebach/#occident

That leads me to believe that someone really had issue with the show.[/QUOTE]

Oh please, talk about much ado about nothing. The writer on that page makes it sound like a national event that dominated water cooler conversations the next day. If ABC pulled something like that with Lost it woul dmake the papers. Stuff involving Big O makes news on a handful of obsessive web sites.

I think the only issue they had with the show was the growing understanding that nothing remotely like a satisfactory explanation for this stuff was going to turn up. Instead of ever explaining anything they just kept complicating things and making them more contradictory.

I liked the show but it became apparent this was going to end as a lost cause. Adult Swim itself displayed a fair amount of enthusiasm for the series, especially the financing of the second season, which is extraordinary considering how much material they can license for broadcast with far less effort and risk on their part. I think they are as disappointed as anyone. After all, they were the ones who found an obscure series that had just one season with no closure and not only brought it to a far larger audience but restarted production.

The financing of the second season gave them an ownership position on the resulting package and every motivation to keep going if they thought there was going to be a decent product instead of something that would only serve to further piss off the viewers.

As for Lazzo's influence, is Big O classified as comedy? Lazzo's job doesn't involve the anime side of things by and large. People are desparate for a villain but don't want to blame the Big O writers for creating an insoluble mess.

And this incident, again, please. Who gives a damn if the kind of person who cares what was going out on a webcam got insulted. Gee, the comedy guys don't care for the anime stuff. Whoop de fricking do. What a shocking revelation that guys who compete for their budgets with imported material tend to have a certain bias. There was a big WTF moment when they ran a repeat instead of the expected episode but if anyone is still bearing a grudge over that they probably need to have their bedtime enforced better or grow the fuck up. Besides, the fake-out the following week was pretty funny.
 
[quote name='ZForce']All these pages and nobody mentioned that Mutant League cartoon that was on in the 90's?[/QUOTE]

i did.....i mentioned it on page 2 or 3 and another cag actually has the VHS...im so jealous
 
[quote name='epobirs']As for Lazzo's influence, is Big O classified as comedy? Lazzo's job doesn't involve the anime side of things by and large. People are desparate for a villain but don't want to blame the Big O writers for creating an insoluble mess.

And this incident, again, please. Who gives a damn if the kind of person who cares what was going out on a webcam got insulted. Gee, the comedy guys don't care for the anime stuff. Whoop de fricking do. What a shocking revelation that guys who compete for their budgets with imported material tend to have a certain bias. There was a big WTF moment when they ran a repeat instead of the expected episode but if anyone is still bearing a grudge over that they probably need to have their bedtime enforced better or grow the fuck up. Besides, the fake-out the following week was pretty funny.[/quote]

Which is why the rumors about Lazzo persist.

The fake out was far from humorous, especially considering it was the conclusion of a season. And it isn't a matter of bearing a grudge. I find it humorous that anyone who bears "a grudge" in this situation needs to grow up. I would think that that the people who played a juvenile joke with loyal fans of a show would need to do that. When you make a "mistake" you try to fix it as best as possible, not use it as an avenue for humor. For example, imagine the backlash if Fox did that with 24? Call it apples and oranges if you want, they are still both fruit.
 
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re2vt2_XQMU[/media]

This was only 4 years ago...how the hell could CN lose so much sense so quickly? At least Nick has been crap for a while now.

Crap that's easy for markerting toys/video games towards children > Quality writing and entertainment enjoyable by all ages

I forgot that that's world works in the end. Hell, they even fucked up Ed, Edd n Eddy which was an ok show, now its absolute crap since they went to school. wtf were they thinking? wtf is the point when they're the only ones there? That, and I now see countless EEnE shirts, bands, videogames and shit. It has been perverted. Perverted, I say!
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Which is why the rumors about Lazzo persist.

The fake out was far from humorous, especially considering it was the conclusion of a season. And it isn't a matter of bearing a grudge. I find it humorous that anyone who bears "a grudge" in this situation needs to grow up. I would think that that the people who played a juvenile joke with loyal fans of a show would need to do that. When you make a "mistake" you try to fix it as best as possible, not use it as an avenue for humor. For example, imagine the backlash if Fox did that with 24? Call it apples and oranges if you want, they are still both fruit.[/QUOTE]

Dude, I was there, I was watching. If I think it was humorous, it was. That is a statement of my feelings about the incident since no declaration of humor can be universal. What were those 'loyal fans' going to do? Stop watching 'Big O?' It was over!

Perhaps you didn't notice but I earlier mentioned this wasn't on the scale of big network show missing its schedule. I used 'Lost' rather than '24' but same thing. We're taking about a dinky audience for a little anime show that most viewers had never heard of before Adult Swim picked it up, not a major network showed with an audience valued in the millions per minute of ad time during the broadcast of a new episode.

In the same situation I would never have passed up the opportunity to pull that gag, whether the previous week was a mistake or not. It was hilarious and after just a minute the show went on as scheduled. It was a little moment of anxiety, not hearts are broken and the bad guys win.

If you want a lousy choice by Adult Swim, how about running the original broken Neon Genesis Evangelion package with no airing of the completed movie version scheduled. Viewers who were seeing it for the first time and were deeply absorbed in the story got to experience great disapointment with the 'we're canceled, let's do a feelgood episode that does nothing to resolve any plot threads' (which was very reminiscent of some wrap ups to canceled Marvel Comics series in the 70s, especially Steve Gerber's navel gazing in Man-Thing) last episode. Yet, this was a DECADE old. It was pretty damn funny to see the reaction by viewers who had avoided any spoilers and to who this came as a complete surprise. In acruel way, that is.

I find that far more evil than anything that happened with 'Big O.' AS knew this was coming before they had negotiated for the US broadcast rights. I had the DVDs before AS existed. With 'Big O' they were already committed when it became apparent the writers were off in Lala Land and had nothing like a real ending or even a season denouement in mind.

Despite liking the show I never expected much from it since nearly every element was shoplifted from somewhere else. The archetype for the universal amnesia idea came from a old Robert Silverberg story and used as a plot device in at leat two earlier anime works I've seen. That so much of the music was sholifted made it that much worse.

The problem is that this creative team had a great sense of style but there was nobody in charge demanding that it all make sense in the end.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Which is why the rumors about Lazzo persist.

The fake out was far from humorous, especially considering it was the conclusion of a season. And it isn't a matter of bearing a grudge. I find it humorous that anyone who bears "a grudge" in this situation needs to grow up. I would think that that the people who played a juvenile joke with loyal fans of a show would need to do that. When you make a "mistake" you try to fix it as best as possible, not use it as an avenue for humor. For example, imagine the backlash if Fox did that with 24? Call it apples and oranges if you want, they are still both fruit.[/QUOTE]

As I mentioned before, it does not make sense that Lazzo would have killed 'Big O.' People really jump to conclusions without thinking things through. AS stood to lose a lot more from dumping continued 'Big O' production than in the case of most shows they merely broadcast. Since they were the primary financers of the second season, continuing growth of the syndication package would only serve to improve their return on investment, especially when being offered to venues outside CN. This was a rare chance for CN to actually get a serious piece of the action from DVD sales and syndication of an anime action series. Those revenues mean that new shows that need time to build an audience have more freedom to continue without nervously scanning the rating every week.

Some jackass working on Squid Billies may bitch that he doesn't get paid enough but I greatly doubt that means the guy has the power to get the network to cancel a series with substantially greater investment and potential ROI than the typical broadcast lease. Unless that series had severe problems of its own that creatively had painted itself into a corner.
 
[quote name='SMMM']
I forgot that that's world works in the end. Hell, they even fucked up Ed, Edd n Eddy which was an ok show, now its absolute crap since they went to school. wtf were they thinking? wtf is the point when they're the only ones there? That, and I now see countless EEnE shirts, bands, videogames and shit. It has been perverted. Perverted, I say![/QUOTE]

Holy fuck, AGREED. AGREED I say!

The whole essence to EEnE was that they lived in that idyllic always-summer time you enjoyed as a kid when you had absolutely no cares in the world. It's magical, something that you cannot enjoy or have as an adult. Everytime I watch it, I always think back to hot suns, swimming pools, treks in the woods, etc. All the crazy things I used to do and have happen to me. When I ate peanut butter sandwhiches for lunch and drank milk from a plastic cup.

EEnE functions so perfectly as that kind of surreal lost childhood that we all have, so I was heartbroken (in a sense) when I saw them in a school. It made no sense at all and I agree completely with your assessment.

That was the point of EEnE originally - to simply be a cartoon manifestation of summer, of childhood, of all the memories you had that you can't relive. Kind of like how Calvin and Hobbes rotated around the idea of a pure fantasy of summer days, back when every waking hour was an adventure.

*sniff*

I'm getting too sentimental in this thread. :(
 
HOLY SHIT PURPLE FLAMES.

I can't believe you found that!

I haven't seen it in YEARS!

Weren't there other shorts? Finally evidence that I didn't dream this one up!
 
question there was another one i cant remember....it was like power rangers and VR troopers except is starred Matthew Lawrence and i think the girl who played felicity...does anyone rmember that show? thats all i remember.
 
[quote name='integralsmatic']question there was another one i cant remember....it was like power rangers and VR troopers except is starred Matthew Lawrence and i think the girl who played felicity...does anyone rmember that show? thats all i remember.[/QUOTE]
Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad[/quote]

LEEEET'S SAMURAIZE GUYS!!!

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lw6oLdqUb0[/MEDIA]

And then there was the God-awful Tatooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills:

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_keJc8EqU0[/MEDIA]
 
Ok, I haven't watched the stuff from the first cartoon I was looking for, so let's see if anyone knows about this other one.

Fortunately, I have the VHS to this, but towards the middle it loses a few seconds, so I'm trying to find a copy on the 'net for download. Also, they did some other stuff that I'd like to track down.

Anyway, the show I'm referring to was a computer generated cartoon to Edward Lear's poem "The Owl and the Pussycat." It wasn't 3D, but 2D, and it was "generated in real time." That's not the greatest way to describe it. FOr example, if you were to play King's Quest 2, each scene sort of "drew itself" before your eyes. For example, if you walked to the ocean, first yellow would show up on the screen drawing the shore. Then blue for the ocean, and a lighter blue for the sky. Then various details - a tree is constructed, leaves are added, pebbles are put in the sand, etc.

Anyway, as I said, it was "The Owl and the Pussycat," and it basically told the backstory of those characters from the poem. It added, essentially, an introduction of how they met, told how they sailed away (for a year and a day), and then illustrated various scenes of their courtship (they get married in the poem).

During this, a lot of the poem's lines and imagery are put into folk song like instrumentations, complete with lyrics and guitar and such. I can still remember a lot of the songs. Some of them sound very sad, a few are upbeat, etc. The voices for the characters were good as well - some real characterization was done with the voice work.

At any rate, it was very much a part of my childhood and I want to know if anyone else saw it/owns it. Additionally, if anyone knows about the other work the studio did. I tried to google them, but I don't know their name offhand so I'll have to find the video and watch it and get back on that.

Just curious if anyone else knows what I'm talking about.

Edit: I found one on Youtube, but it's not the one I'm thinking about. Still amusing though, considering some of the similarities.
 
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