Most obscure cartoon that you like

I'm not sure if "like" is really appropriate, but I'm sorta enamored with this really obscure one called Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus.

Haven't actually seen it in English yet, only a few episodes of the Greek dub a few years back. It's kinda fun in that bad '90s sort of way, like a bootleg Disney Afternoon show or something. Plus, I gotta say Venus' design is pretty darn cute.

edited 2nd Jan '13 8:59:16 PM by TheGunheart

Mike Lu And Og

I wouldn't call that entirely obscure. It's still remembered as a CN show, and characters made a few appearances in their 20th Anniversary TV spots.

edited 9th Jan '13 7:20:58 AM by kyun

I... do not believe I have seen anything quite so odd as The Bluffers in a while.

The Lyrical Dissonance theme song along made me "WTF," but the show itself...

It's one of those show's that's completely hilarious, but you're left wondering whether it's for any of the stuff that was deliberate or if it's just an extreme case of So Bad, It's Good.

edited 9th Jan '13 8:36:28 PM by Psi001

I once saw this brilliant cartoon called "Captain Z and the Zee Zone". British made, concerned the "Dream Police" who got into kids' dreams to keep the nightmares out. Brilliantly funny. But it dissappeared. Never seen it since!

I warmed up to The Brothers Flub before it was unceremoniously canned.

edited 9th Mar '13 4:14:53 PM by Shota

Finally, someone else who liked it! I was forever sure that I'd be the only one. The Brothers Flub, one B. You can watch the whole thing on Kidobi now.

I found another tape of the Bluffers the other day.

It seems that Insektors is remembered by very few people. Granted, it's (very crude, early-90s era) CGI rather than classic cel animation, but it should still count.

edited 11th Mar '13 10:20:00 AM by TAPETRVE

I've only seen two episodes of Jane And The Dragon as of this posting (but there are a lot of episodes up on youtube), but I like what I have seen. The digital animation is incredibly smooth for a television series, although YMMV on how creepy or not creepy the whole digitally animated Noodle People thing is. It is probably the most mature (and not in that way) and compelling story-telling you will ever find that is geared towards young children (like "junior" level), in a medieval fantasy setting, and it's funny. Though it may not be all that obscure, seeing as how the episodes up on Youtube all have many tens of thousands of views.

Well, I guess you could kind of say it's like Sofia The First for girls who don't want to be princesses, but it came sooner. And it has way more appeal for boys as well since, um, yeah.

edited 11th Mar '13 5:44:28 PM by Ruise

I kinda liked Santo Bugito, from what I can remember of it. There was also this cartoon named Fennec, and does anyone else remember Oz Kids? It was done by the team behind The Brave Little Toaster, AFAIK (Toasty and pals even made cameos in an episode).

How about Xcalibur? I caught this on the satellite years ago. It was pretty entertaining to watch. Sure, it was a little formulaic and the series finale wrapped up a number of things in a totally out-of-the-blue manner, but I enjoyed it anyway!

Let me tell you, I had a hard time finding this cartoon on Google, and that was because I didn't know what the title was, and I didn't find out until just today that it's "Excalibur" with the "e" removed! There was just no way I could have guessed that!

Twinkle the Dream Being. It doesn't even have a trope page!

Hey, what about the Sam And Max Freelance Police cartoon? It was very short lived, but hilarious.

edited 12th Mar '13 10:37:42 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

Wunschpunsch.

Also Wolves, Witches and Giants, or whatever it was named. I fondly remember the fact that the wolf owned a blue sports car.

edited 12th Mar '13 12:11:34 PM by PhantomDusclops92

Never too late to make one. From what I remember of it there's probably some interesting stuff to list on it as well.

edited 14th Mar '13 8:37:48 PM by Psi001

Spliced. It's a Canadian cartoon centered around a bunch of genetically modified animals living on a deserted island. Next to no-one watched it, and it only got 1 season.

Yay, another Spliced fan! I'm a big fan of Mix-and-Match Critters, so that won me over instantly.

It got some good coverage on free-to-air over here, but I only know 1 person who likes it as much as me. Incidentally, he's a stoner.

edited 15th Mar '13 10:14:40 PM by MrMallard

Saw a couple of episodes, it wasn't that bad really. Very bizarre show though.

edited 16th Mar '13 5:31:32 AM by Psi001

I think you mean very Canadian show.

Anyone remember this one?

Britain had this sort of 'thing' for puppet animations with catchy themes. Though you'll hardly hear anyone talk of it now, it did acheive at least some amount of fame in the 90s due to Charlie becoming the mascot for several Brewers kids playgrounds.

It was created by Ivor Wood, who made The Magic Roundabout worked on several other stop motions such as The Herbs and The Wombles.

Okay, maybe this one isn't so much "obscure" as it is "niche", but does anyone remember those cartoons that Nicktoons (and maybe Nick, I can't remember if they did though) used to air between shows? Of course there were ones that plenty of people might remember like Prometheus And Bob, but I mean those shorts people made for the Nicktoons Animated Film Festival, which I know they at least ran from 2007-2009 and don't know if they ever ran again. I assume it wasn't successful, which is a shame, because it brought about many original, and at times just quirky, shorts. If I recall correctly, that's where "The Naive Man from Lolliland" (aka the origin of Pops from Regular Show) first got exposure.

Here's another, more polished short from the series:

Re: Jane and the Dragon - I remember it mostly for its catchy theme song. Couldn't really get into the series all that much myself. I believe it still airs in the U.S., though, for those that get Qubo.