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Recently remembered this one, and trying to pull out details from my memory is like catching trout barehanded.
Animated series from late 80's or early 90's, featuring a preteen/early-teen kid who could become a big manly superhero by covering himself in some sort of goo. I remember the goo because one of the villains, a ghost or vampire, I think, once got to sample some of it and drew power from it.
The superhero was a variant on the Flying Brick, but I don't remember too much on that; I do remember that he was keeping his identity as a kid from his teammates; there was a funny scene where he was gorging himself on junk food and disguising his voice over the communicator, and barely managed to get his... ecto-suit up and going before they teleported him in.
Any ideas?
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It was a show I saw when I was very young so bear with me. I recall it being about dragons. I remeber several wizards who were kinda color coded, and each one had a dragon. The main good wizard was green and the bad one was red. I think the main character was sucked into this fantasy world. I think I saw dice so maybe it was a dungeons and dragons cartoon.
And this is the only scene I remember clearly...ish. A red head strangter dressed a bit like robin hood appears. There's a short conversation and he takes of his hat, and there's a bunch of sparkles as a bunch of red hair cascades down and we see he is a she. Maybe I was the only one confused as to her gender but I think the character(s) who saw this had the same samus is a girl reaction as me.
Thinking back the art style kinda reminds me of the Last Unicorn and the old animated Lord of the Rings Movies. Am I just lumping a bunch of shows together or was this real?
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This is an old cartoon. And I mean OLD. I can't place the time-frame exactly, but I'd hazard a guess at the 30s or 40s. It could be later, I'm not sure. It's about a spider who opens up a hotel in order to trap flies. Two flies stay at the hotel and end up assaulting the spider with fountain-pen tips. It's all done in a style reminiscent of an old Disney or Merry Melodies cartoon. My grandmother had it on a video that featured either old Superman cartoons, or Little Lulu. Or those could be completely unrelated, but I think they might be involved. Anyone know what it's called? I'd try to find it myself, but a severe phobia of spiders basically prevents me from nonspecifically googling them.
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Sorry to ask this again but where does this come from?◊ (I can't find the original You Know That Show that I posted)
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I'm looking for a film in which a a teen (possibly blond) boy heads in to a strange big pink box. somehow the pink box transforms him into a cartoon when he goes though and transports him to an odd world. soon he comes to a swamp full of green ghostly things who want him to be supremly lazy and stop breathing altogether. he gets recuced by a talking dog who takes him to a view of two kingdoms ruled by 2 brothers; one beliving letters are most important, the other numbers. he firstgoes in to the letter kingdom. it is highly populated and apples are replaced by the letter a. here he meets an anphomoric blue wolf here, and the boy heads number kingdom. it is less populated but has a lot of technology the king asks the blue wolf whats the highest number he can think of and the king keeps adding 1 to it. my mind blanks out till the ending in which the boy meets the godess of this world and is returned to his home. somehow the kingdoms are reunited (with the dog and 2 kings) against fireworks. the boy watches as the pink box disapears, and as he talks to his friend on the phone, the pink box apears in his friend house... anyone have a title with a better plot summary?
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I remember my younger sister had a tape with multiple animated shorts on it, and the one I'm thinking of was about a jungle animal (possibly a lion cub) who often said "Ooh, my body" when he was hurt. That's pretty much the only thing I can remember about it, although I'm pretty sure it wasn't Disney related, and it might have been a hand-me-down from her dad.
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I remember that there was a TV show I watched sometimes when I was really little...all I remember of the show is that the theme song had an old gnome/dwarf couple (not sure which but they had pointy hats) run to each other and give each other Eskimo kisses. I heard the name a few months ago but I can't think of it now and it's driving me nuts. Can anybody help?
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A black and white short film about a guy with elf ears going to something like a zoo/freak show where he sees a family of snowmen and an accordian playing robot behind cages
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I KNOW I saw this cartoon in school once, around the early 90s/late 80s. It was about a girl who found a parrot (who I think was simply called "Parrot") in a floating box at the beach, and went on adventures with him. Along the way they met a sea monster with a hearing horn that was friends with the parrot, and some frog-creature who was good at imitation. (Maybe through the use of paper thin disguises, or actual magic; I can't remember much on that.)
I know that there was also a werewolf they had to trick at some point, and the big bads were some sort of giant-bird-THINGS that had taken something Parrot needed to get back. And somewhere in the final battle there were unicorns and a dragon.
Pretty sure this was also a one-shot film, and not a series. I'm wracking my brain for more, but that's all I can come up with. Sound familiar to anyone?
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I think I remember this show (I'm pretty sure it was an animated short film) that had no talking in it, just music. It seemed pretty old when I saw it seven years ago. The characters were a female violin and a male...other musical instrument (maybe a percussion?). The violin was somewhat coquettish and the male was in love with her (I'm not sure if it was returned. He was a Dogged Nice Guy). Their own "families" of instruments were at war with each other, so their own pieces conflicted. When the male's father (who might have been a tuba) discovered his son's feelings, he got very angry. I think he tried to lock him away somewhere.
That's all I remember. If anyone can help out, I'd be very appreciative.
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I watched a cartoon when I was a kid that had...a fairy that granted wishes? But she needed a helper or something and so she (made a wish? asked a...mountain genie? it's vague in my memory) for one that had all these traits "sugar, spice, sweetness, whatever" and ended up getting one helper that represented each. Hi-jinks ensued as they went to earth to grant wishes.
I think it was a stand-alone movie thing, but I might be wrong. I rented a bunch of random stuff from the family area when I was a kid.
Any ideas?
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I watched a cartoon years ago set around Baker Street. It was centered around a group of street urchins, two in particular (a boy and girl) who lived in a boat moored to a dock. They went around solving some crimes or other peoples troubles. They caught and sold rats for some money. It had a catchy theme song. (something about "How do they munch?/How do they munch?/How./do./they./munch?") - word might be different it was years ago. Any ideas?
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I remember watching a cartoon when I was little that I think was on the Disney Channel at one point. It was about two cars (or something like that), an little which I think was red, and a bigger car that I don't remember the colour. All I can remember was that the little car wasn't allowed to play near the train tracks. At one point the little car decides to rebel, dons a raccoon-skinned cap and drives off to the tracks. I think he ends up getting hit by a train, because the next scene I remember was about the little car being in hospital.
I'm not sure whether this was a real cartoon or just a weird dream that I remember, but I think it was an old Disney Cartoon.
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Okay, TV Tropes. I have never called on you before, but this is my Holy Grail.
I can not accurately give a time frame, but if I had to guess I would say most likely late 90's. Some time in the past, either I believe Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon held a sweepstakes. The prize was a personalized cartoon. The winner, a young girl, was drawn by whoever was running the sweepstakes into a cartoon character. She was then placed into a sort of duel with a pig character. I think his name was Piggly Wiggly. Most if not all of the cartoon was a back and forth between the two characters, the girl claiming "This is my cartoon!" and the pig claiming "This is the Piggly Wiggly show!" as they fought to out-do each other. It aired probably once.
As you can see, I've already got most of the details. What I am looking for is validation. I have been unable to find any information relating to this cartoon on the internet, and I have been unable to find it on You Tube. I can't find a scrap of documentation on this thing. Any acknowledgement or proof that this show exists (It must!) would be a great peace of mind. Please tell me I am not crazy.
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which donald duck cartoon did this screencap come from http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/07/25/donald-duck-suicide/
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I used to watch this show that somehow involved banished royalty, it involved an Evil Chancellor somehow. The main character was the royalty and he got a chick with him at some point. There was some kind of magical McGuffin that was inside a large rocky place, but it was flooded while he was retrieving it and he had to leave it to escape. I think. That was an early episode, and the rest also involved getting some kind of powerful magic so that he could return home.
Oh, also it was on Nickelodeon, quite late at night.
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Some years ago I catched a glimpse of a cartoon, I thought it was a animated movie, not a cartoon series. I remember there was this man and he was talking to an old man (I may be recalling it wrong, but I think the old man was drawn in a more humoreous style than the rest of the characters, kind of like Mr. Magoo), they were in a construction site. I remember the old man gets trapped inside a portable toilet, and gets thrown down a hill. When the old man gets out he says something like "Oh, the most terrible thing! I'm covered with human feces!". I changed channel at that moment, because I did not thought it was funny, but catched it again later when the old man takes the man to a gym where there are some other guys playing basketball. The old man comes with a boy (I thing he was redhead), he is taking care of him while his mother is out (or something). The old man starts ranting about how the man can't play basketball because alcohol has destroyed his body (at this point I was like "What kind of cartoon is this?"). The man plays basketball anyway, and he convinces the boy to play with him against the other guys. Shirts versus Skins. I remember the boy starts being very shy and insecure but the man is able to motivate him and they win. The other guys are forced to eat the shorts of a fat man (because they lost the game). I remember that during the game, the mother of the boy appears and seems very happy to see him playing, but after they win, the man encourage the boy to make fun of the other guys... I don't remember what he screams, but it really shocks the mother, and gets angry to both the man and the old man.
That's all I can recall, I really disliked it, but it bugs me. I think I watched it in cartoon network (Latinamerican), and it was still too early for adult cartoons, that's the reason it got me so intrigued in the first place.
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This might be a little too vague, but I'll try: The main character goes on a guided tour through some caverns... only the tour guide is just driving in circles, going through the same cavern over and over again, and calling it something else each time, and the main character never catches on. I'm unsure if this was part of a regular show or just a one-off short, but I kind of suspect the latter. I remember the animation style was pretty simplistic, with little in the way of backgrounds, and it may not have even used any colors other than black and white. I saw it as a kid, so it's probably not from any time later than the early 90's.
A very hazy memory from my distant youth, so it could be a total fabrication, but it was an animated film, or possibly series, which featured an anthropomorphic mouse, who I think might have been some kind of noir-ish detective. The one distinguishing feature I recall is that he had some kind of compartment in his chest that he stored things in, possibly clues, despite being wholly organic. That's the part that stuck in my brain anyway. Was it all just some strange fever-dream?