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resolved Brief anime scene in ''Luis and the Aliens'' Western Animation
If you have seen Luis and the Aliens, early into the movie there is a scene onboard the alien mothership where the aliens watch Earth tv broadcast and for a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" moment there is a scene from some anime*of a short-haired blonde girl takling on a cellphone while lying on her bed on the tv screen, before the aliens switch the channel. Anybody knows what anime is the screen from?
opendesert island, angry indigenous kid, and some kind of creature Western Animation
i was writing stuff and got reminded of this show i watched as a kid!
it was a short-form cartoon about a kid who lived with some kind of creature on a desert island. the kid might've looked like one of 'em Hollywood Natives and had dark skin and curly hair that went spiky whenever they got mad, while i don’t remember anything about the creature other than how the kid got mad at them often. characters were Speaking Simlish. i distinctly remember the kid yelling something that sounded like "hey! chobulay babulay!" at the creature in one episode bc it was a sort of inside joke among my family.
despite the similar theme of fantasy indigenous tribes, it isn't Qumi-Qumi
Edited by noodlesnookopenPuppet hero show? Western Animation
I’m sorry for doing this a second time in a row but… I also remember this show where a boy who was a fan of a hero that was now turned into a puppet.(through everyone [but the petty villain] before the events of the show) the boy found the puppet(I forgot when or where) and when he puts it on the puppet(/narcissistic hero) the puppet gains powers. The animation is 2d, no 3D asset(I’m pretty sure). I remember a lot more about the show than my first entry on here, I even remember what the boy, the puppet and the petty villain (which I’ve mentioned before) looks! I just need to remember the name of the show. (More about the petty villain, he wanted the here [who is now a puppet] sidekick but the hero didn’t want that so he turned the hero into a puppet).
Edited by Bugsnaxeater24openWeird alien-brain show Western Animation
The show starred a black boy and his crew, they were kids and they fought these brain aliens, (I think they were aliens) the children lived in a abandoned mall(I think). The story is that all the parents are gone so the children have to fend for themselves. The show was CGI. I also remember that the alien’s king was dumb.
resolved "My Little Pony"? ...Or was it? Western Animation
Back in the 90s when I was four years old my mom rented me a movie and said it was "My Little Pony", but... What I remembered was pretty different from My Little Pony.
For one, the horses had more realistic proportions, and the protagonist was a young human boy. There was a medieval European fantasy setting with thatched roof cottages, and the tone was not as cloying. I distinctly remember a black, shadowy horse, and a fire. Also flying horses, not pegasi, but sort of walking in the air like Santa's reindeer.
Now... It could very well have been My Little Pony and I just have bad memory/my mind playing tricks on me. I was only four afterall. I know the first gen cartoons can get surprisingly tense and maybe I mixed up Megan and Danny, but there is still the possibility it was a completely different movie.
But I don't know of any uh, animated fantasy horse movies from that era other than The Last Unicorn, which matches the proportions and setting I remember, but there isn't a young human boy in it or a shadow horse from what I know.
Sooo, is there some other 90s or earlier animated fantasy movie with horses I could have watched? Or was it indeed My Little Pony or The Last Unicorn and my memory just sucks?
Edited by ninjamitsuki2openRed, Green, Blue Flying Disc Weapon Western Animation
I've been searching every where. I believe this show was Western Animation or maybe Anime from the 80s or 90s.
I don't really remember much about it, but one of the characters had a very unique weapon... I want to say it was a red/green/blue 3-colored disc, and I want to say he could fly or hover on it. Additionally, the red/green/blue parts could separate and basically become 3 different boomerang-shaped weapons, and I believe that each other might have had its own ability..
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm starting to feel like I dreamed it up?
openFunnyAnimals with magic shields? Western Animation
Thanks to the Media Finder, I think I finally found the identity of an Animesque Mon show I saw when I was a young lad (Mix-Masters).
Then I remembered I also had to find another cartoon I saw sometimes when I was a kid. As in, back when I was less than 9 years old. So a looooooooot of time ago.
I think it was a Western animated show from the 80s or 90s, looking back, but there's always the possibility that I couldn't distinguish between styles from different decades at such a young age, or that it was 2000s cartoon made with outdated technology.
Anyway, it was at least broadcasted in Italy during the early 2000s, between 2004 and 2006 for certain.
I remember it being a French animation, or European at least. I don't know why. Maybe it was the names of the characters or shown in the credits that looked French to me, even if I was a stupid lil baby AND I didn't actually memorize the names themselves; but I still think that it could've been something France would make.
As for the setting: it's a World of Funny Animals, the two main characters are two wolf-like Funny Animals, and they have a sidekick that's like a young girl; I remember them being pilots of some kinds in their daily lives (either racecars or spaceships).
The premise was built around two or three magical shields: one red, one blue and one green (maybe), and they possibly could merge. I don't remember what powers they had exactly, but they looked like that they were pretty powerful nonetheless. And the main characters had to search all these magical shields.
The main antagonist was a villainess, possibly a reptile or amphibian; once again, I have a very nonsensically specific memory of one of the scenes, where she was taking a bath and singing, and her singing was SO horrible that they flushed her down the tub so they didn't have to listen to her.
I feel like this will be harder to find than Mix-Master, since this was probably a more obscure show, which I watched back when I was even younger, and I fear some of the things I said are incorrect and just make it harder to identify the show.
But I'm confident that the premise of Funny Animals with magic shields is unique enough it could help, and that I could add it to my Special Ability Shield one day.
openA British narrated rhyming stop-motion fairytale series where the figures had monkey-like faces Western Animation
Back in the 80s, there were these shorts on TV Ontario's children's programming lineup that were from the UK (they were narrated in a British voice) and were short, rhymed interpretations of fair tales. That were stop-motion, but actually as I recall not much movement happened, they were mostly just screenshots of the characters. The funny thing was that all the figures had grotesque, somewhat monkey-like faces. I only clearly remember one of the fairytales, it was called "The Barber of Hairina (?)" and was a different take on the story about King Midas' donkey's ears. On the whole a rather odd series. What could this have been?
openStop-motion animation about girl whose watercolors took away all the color from the world around her Western Animation
Circa 1986 at a Christmas party, I saw a short stop-motion animated film that looked like it could have been made in Eastern Europe (similar in style to the work of the Polish Se-ma-for studio). It was about a little girl who had a set of watercolors, but was very messy in using them. So to teach her a lesson, each cake from the watercolor set absorbed its respective color from the world around and then they ran away. When the girl came out, she found that the entire world had turned black and white. She eventually found the watercolors dancing around a rainbow, and they restored color to the world. What was this?
open"SpongeBob SquarePants'' dubbed song Western Animation
Oh, they changed the name of You Know That Show.
Years ago, I found a dubbed version of the SpongeBob SquarePants song "This Grill is Not a Home" from the episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket". This dubbed song is... unique in that instead of simply dubbing the song, it replaces it entirely with an incoherent collection of music and Stock Sound Effects, with the music being the stock music they use for the show. And yes, it's an official dub (or at least one that aired on television). They don't even change the visuals or anything, just the song into... whatever you call music and sounds cobbled together like that.
I don't even remember what dub it is. Can anybody find me that version of the song? Thanks.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperopen"The Tidys"? Western Animation
I vaguely remember a British children's TV show from at least the 1990s that I think was called "The Tidys". I could be wrong. Don't remember a thing about the show itself, but the theme song pops up in my head every now and then. The title came up in the song.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
open"Happy Family" Western Animation
I remember having a tape once of a show. I suspect it was American and probably from the late 1980s/early 1990s. It was about a family; white, two parents, two kids - a brown-haired boy and a blonde girl. It was very grounded in tone and the art style was sort of simple, nothing special, but I swear the characters had fairly simple faces.
I remember there were these musical interludes - only one stands out in my head: The kids are waiting for their grandmother to arrive at their house, which then cuts into a imagine spot where the grandmother is driving an old horse-drawn covered wagon while the song "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountains" is sung in the background as Grandma winds around roads on said mountains.
Hope that's enough to go on. Any help appreciated, thanks.
Edited by DoctorInkopenAstronaut Kid’s Show Western Animation
I remember watching this show when I was a kid about an astronaut living on a moon that I believe was called something like “moona Luna”. There were two episodes I remember. One where there was a magical stone that forced whoever held it to rhyme, the other with a worm that would only eat the parts of food that people throw away, like rimes and peeks, so they used it as a garbage disposal.
resolved Girl and Boy on a Train Western Animation
Children's cartoon, possibly of UK origin, circa the late 1990s.
The setting felt Victorian/Turn-of-the-Century and focused of two characters: A little girl with dark hair, pale skin and a red dress and a young boy (who I think was poorer) with red hair, pale skin and a brown waistcoat suit. There may have been an older character who was a relative of the little girl who minded them.
The tone was grounded, don't really recall the story, but they went from place to place, I think. The art style, if I recall correctly, felt sort of like moving storybook illustrations. Sketchy, colourful, looked like colouring pencils and watercolour.
I definitely watched this a few times when I was very young, but all I really remember is the intro: the girl and the boy are on a train, with the carriage windows down. I think they go through an tunnel and the boy's face gets covered in soot.
openA tv show that served as a proto-youtube Poop Western Animation
I only saw part of one episode in a hotel room, about 25 years ago, so details are going to be sketchy. I think it may have been on the Cartoon Network.
The show was spliced together from various cartoons and shows, in a style which we would nowadays call a youtube-poop, cutting rapidly between clips to set up silly jokes. Hannah Barbera cartoons, in particular The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, were used, but also clips from WCW wrestling. The episode I saw featured a clip of one wrestler mentioning the song "Rap is Crap", which puts it after 1999.
The episode featured Penelope Pitstop, tied up, being rushed backwards and forwards by the Ant Hill Mob who are simultaneously rescuing and endangering her. I can remember specific quotes:
"I have a plan that's fool proof!" [cut] "SO WHAT?!"
"I have a new song, it goes-" [cut] "-RAP IS CRAP!"
"The plan is called-" [cut] "RUNAWAY STEAMROLLER!"
etc
Edited by maninahatresolved flash animated belgian cartoon about a girl and a firefighter Western Animation
There was this old show I used to watch as a kid about a girl whose cat gets stuck on the roof of a church and she tries to get it back down with the help of a firefighter (I think his name was Bob?). After a series of mishaps they end up in a different country and the rest of the episodes in the series involve them traveling all over the world just trying to find a way back to Waterloo, Belgium. It was an edutainment series, each episode presented you with a problem and you had to choose the correct solution to the problem out of 3 options. The firefighter was fat and had a stubble I think, and the girl had red hair in pigtails.
Edited by Helix-Supremeresolved Merlin + Potions Western Animation
my little sister has been trying to find this show/movie/short forever, but she doesn't remember a lot:
it's about merlin, she thinks, or a wizard/warlock dude who looks like merlin, and he has a wall of potions. she is pretty sure he had the classic blue robe/hat with stars
it's not shrek 3 or sword and the stone, would've had to have been mid-2000s or earlier
any ideas?
- cantremember
Edited by cantrememberopenSpecific Phineas and Ferb quote Western Animation
On YMMV.Phineas And Ferb, under Accidental Innuendo, this quote is listed:
"Wow...Heinz Doofenshmirtz is way too hot, we should get out of him."
As someone who grew up with this show and probably saw just about every episode of it, I have no idea what episode this line came from. Does anyone know.
resolved An adult swim cartoon about a married couple with a baby. Western Animation
This is the most recent one I came across. Let me give the hint of the episode: Basically it focused on a married couple (The guy had orange hair and glasses while his wife's hair was black and curly) with a baby. The episode had the married guy attend a mall arcade where there was a birthday stripogram and the episode ended with a kid using an arcade gun and being mistaken for a hostage taker which caused the police cars and helicopter to surround the mall?
This was back in Italy during the summer of 2009, the same time period I was watching Bakugan, Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, and even Mix Masters, the latter of which I rediscovered thanks to you people again. Well, it wasn't the only obscure Mon series that I almost forgot about, that I watched in 2009.
It was a Low Fantasy/Clock Punk-like setting; the characters had these Mons that they could summon from and store in dice-like items. These Mons could have been artificial in nature, and at least The Smart Guy's Mon looked like a robot. I remember it looked like Western animation (as in, it didn't look like an anime), not sure if American or European; it might even had 2D Visuals, 3D Effects.
I didn't see many episodes of it, but I remember one of them pretty well: it involved a city that locked its inhabitants in devices similar to the ones used to keep the Mons, and use them as Living Batteries. The result was a city that was way mote technologically advanced compared to the rest of the setting (it even had vending machines), but was completely empty. The episode ended with the Villain of the Week, that was responsible for the state of this Ghost City, being converted in one of these Living Batteries off-screen. Does that ring any bells to anybody?
Edited by TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomit