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WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#1: Sep 4th 2012 at 5:10:47 PM

A thread about Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Cartoon shows that you have watched which have turned out to be really rare or unknown. I'll start with some of my own.

  • Sherm!: A (German?) cartoon about a teenager who lives in a house with his Mad Scientist grandpa and a bunch of germs who have grown big due to the grandpa's wacky inventions. This has got to be pretty much the rarest show ever: The only proof of it's existance is three images I found on the internet and literally nothing more (Here they are by the way). A shame, really, because IIRC it was a rather funny show.

  • Moby Dick and the Secret of Mu: A French cartoon with a somewhat cracky plot about a 12-year-old kid, his female friend, and a parrot thingie called Shu who can teleport, who have the mission to collect 24 sacred stone tablets, all the while being aided by Moby Dick and fighting off Captain Ahab and his crew (which consists of a scrawny old guy and a guy with a red moustache). You can find five episodes of it in French on Youtube (starting here) and a few images, but nothing more.

  • Mission Odyssey: An adaptation of the Odyssey with a somewhat animesque animation style which characterizes Ulysses' ship crew a tad more than we see in the books: There's a cowardly bard, a guy who resembles a stereotypical dwarf, a spunky teen girl who can see the future and is sort of the main character, and (for some reason) a blue guy with horns. Athenea's pet owl also comes for the ride as the Team Pet. Other than that, it's quite faithful to the original story. You can watch the opening here, and in the related videos bar are a bunch of episodes in Spanish and what I think is Russian, but overall, it's pretty damn obscure.

  • Ooohhh Asis: An Slapstick show consisting of 2-minute shorts about a fox, a vulture, and a hyena endlessly pursuing a chicken through a desert. There's also a lizard who's not into the chase and who's only purpose is getting hurt. The whole series can be watched in Youtube (starting here) but it's nonetheless extremely obscure AFAIK.

And you? Do you know about any other obscure cartoons that we should know about?

"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#2: Sep 4th 2012 at 5:32:38 PM

As I've said countless times, The Brothers Flub. I just don't know how anything that was on Nick in the 90s could have completely escaped anyone's memory. I've talked to dozens of people over the years, and almost no one seems to even remember it. I have fond memories of watching it, and nostalgia aside, I see nothing bad about it.

Also, Birdz, a short-lived CBS show from 1998. It had an obscure time slot and it seems that, though many people remember many of the other late 90s Saturday morning toons — even obscurities like Flying Rhino Junior High — Birdz slipped through the cracks. It's a shame too, since it's one of the few I've ever seen that can deliver an Aesop per episode and not seem hamfisted or forced about it.

Speaking of Flying Rhino, its creator made a cartoon for the kids' clubs at Mills Corporation shopping malls in the early 2000s. It's called Get Muggsy. I have it and I've even uploaded it on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s09avWvkx4

Finally, I found something called "Li'l Creepers" at a thrift shop once. There's a small clip of it on You Tube, but beyond that I can barely find any info on it at all.

Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#3: Sep 4th 2012 at 9:58:39 PM

I remember the Brothers Flub...or think I do, anyway. Were they all named after Rat Pack members?

Anyone else remember Calamity Jane?

edited 4th Sep '12 9:59:15 PM by Robbery

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#5: Sep 5th 2012 at 3:47:59 AM

[up][up]No. The Brothers Flub (which I created the page on both here and at Wikipedia — it had 3 prior wikipedia articles, but they were all vandalism) had characters named Guapo, Fraz, Tarara Boomdeyay, Valerina and I think Squish. Guapo and Fraz were alien brothers who worked as intergalactic couriers. Guapo was sort of a Fat Idiot who loved eating guacamole, and Fraz was more of a panicky type who said "doom" a lot.

Psi001 Since: Oct, 2010
#6: Sep 5th 2012 at 6:00:37 AM

Oohh Asis sounds familiar. Was it released as a 3DS download as Oscar's Oasis? That was pretty decent.

The Dreamstone seems to be one that only brings up dim memories at best with others here. Though it makes sense since it wasn't imported much outside the UK, and even there has been more or less forgotten about. It's companies successor Bimble's Bucket is probably even less known.

edited 5th Sep '12 6:06:58 AM by Psi001

maxwellelvis Mad Scientist Wannabe from undisclosed location Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: In my bunk
Mad Scientist Wannabe
#7: Sep 5th 2012 at 6:31:28 AM

I've got one

Zixx. It was one of those live-action/animated hybrid shows, sort of like what Code Lyoko: Evolution's gonna do. It was this weird plot of an alien cop chasing bad guys to Earth, and there was this weird parallel reality that was like a videogame (Apparently, the first season it WAS, or more technically a machinima). Also, the second and third seasons had animation by Mainframe, so it counts. Right?

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
truteal animation elitist from the great southern land Since: Sep, 2009
animation elitist
#8: Sep 5th 2012 at 12:07:08 PM

Too many to mention (who would've guessed?) here are just a few

Revolver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPPtxyubCoI

Skywhales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ6qw1nh0tA

Chambre 217 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_7MCD_brpk

Masks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFF2ote0Sj8

Grasshoppers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj2Z-secyqQ

The Saint Inspector https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkqsrDOV-U0

Dancing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYDUXWwQcoI

Dada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z31wg9zUG0k

Shhh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS18FYZ0VpE

More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd0ol25uUVU

The Glass Harmonica Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3E3Tle24c

The Glass Harmonica Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxVGI9Fsz80

Lupo the Butcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOMUw2QOkLE

Snack Attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7euL85HAg

Xenomycology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMR6Cx-hWQ

Atlas Gets a Drink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3dN88b-RI

Keep in a dry place and away from the children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDQQK9qGy0o

Donald and the Big game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1XsQAcxzrk

Ani Jam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8kGOD1O_7o

Pink Komkommer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8oZDPhoG7E

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3YKBOkfmbU

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRI6rdUXf2s

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUCCn1v5Vk

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSkwVyw9Eec

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb Part 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfJ6qGelODk

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb Part 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ZEpLQjyOA

Rubicon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ROdRgRRsY

The Creation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljg_EgXMjO0

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#9: Sep 5th 2012 at 2:00:15 PM

Valley of the Dinosaurs.

Really old one about humans from the 20th century booted back to the time of the big scaly things.

Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#10: Sep 5th 2012 at 2:07:21 PM

[up] Is this the original Land of the Lost (which your description also fits) under a different name, or is it something else?

Explosivo25 How fleeting... from Beach City Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
How fleeting...
#11: Sep 6th 2012 at 5:14:13 PM

Oliver's Adventures.

i'd put in world of quest too but 1) i didn't make the page for it, and 2) i've mentioned it shitloads of times already.

I don’t even know anymore.
FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
Responsible adult
#12: Sep 6th 2012 at 6:52:23 PM

Will Kwak Kwak. It's a Welsh cartoon, apparently, but I mostly know it because it was my favorite freakin' thing ever when I was like four. But it doesn't even have a page here, and nobody else ever seems to remember it.

I also rented a lot of weird stuff from the video store down the street when I was a wee one, and it ended up introducing me to a lot of strange and obscure things. One that always stuck with me was A Journey Through Fairyland. I think it was a French-Japan production, so it's all Animesque. It's got some seriously trippy, music-based imagry, kind of like a more... plot-y Fantasia.

Also—it's Korean, so it doesn't quite fit here or the Anime board, but Michel. I made the page for it and populated it almost single-handedly. Although the English dub is kind of awkward, it has some good episodes that genuinely give the feels, and awesome monster designs.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
Psi001 Since: Oct, 2010
#13: Sep 6th 2012 at 8:00:51 PM

[up]I remember Will Kwak Kwak, but only from one episode of it on a "Children's Favorites" VHS I played endlessly as a toddler. Had other now obscure UK stuff like James The Cat and The Shoe People on it too.

edited 6th Sep '12 8:01:32 PM by Psi001

KingNerd Can-I-Bus from Suburbia. Since: Dec, 1969
Can-I-Bus
#14: Sep 8th 2012 at 1:04:18 PM

The Action Man CGI cartoon.

The smartest idiot you will ever meet.
Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#15: Sep 8th 2012 at 6:10:37 PM

I recall the show Pinwheel from the early days of Nickelodeon; it had a number of animated elements on it, one of which was a stop-motion affair where everyone was an anthropomorphic hat, the lead character of which was a sombrero whose sidekick was a donkey named Carrots. It had another cartoon about a little boy whose chalkboard drawings inhabited a world of their own, the first installment of which had them kidnapping him to their world 'cuz he had a habit of leaving his drawings unfinished (so you had folks walking around without arms, legs, heads, etc). The much more recent Chalk Zone had a similar premise, but this one was from the early '80's and, I think, was of English origin.

GiantRobots ELBOW ROCKET ENGAGED from Victoria Harbour Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
ELBOW ROCKET ENGAGED
#16: Sep 9th 2012 at 4:17:15 AM

Cubix?/Kubix?.

SapphireBlue Since: Jan, 2001
#17: Sep 9th 2012 at 6:51:51 AM

[up] I remember that thing. I never watched it, but I remember it.

Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#18: Sep 9th 2012 at 2:51:34 PM

Cubix: Robots for Everyone? I remember that show as being visually appealing, but not much else about it. I also remember seeing some (leftover?) merchandising for it well after it had vanished from the air in my area, which always seems a little sad to me. It's like when you see some fast-food chain using licensed characters from a show you know isn't terribly popular for their kids meals. You just feel a little bit embarrassed for them...

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#19: Sep 9th 2012 at 5:16:06 PM

[up]Like Hardee's doing The Brothers Flub toys. I also remember seeing Time Squad toys at Subway once, and I think other CN properties too.

GreatGodPan Gimmie the sit-rep. from The Woods. Where else? Since: Jan, 2011
Gimmie the sit-rep.
#20: Sep 9th 2012 at 5:18:39 PM

When I was a kid I used to watch this Superhero show called Enigma, where the main character was a girl who transformed into some kind of superhero detective by putting on a pair of Ballerina Shoes. Good luck finding ANYTHING about it on the internet.

Spooky.
Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#21: Sep 9th 2012 at 6:32:12 PM

[up]Okay, I have to mention this, since it involves your name, and it's even tangentially related to this thread. When I was in grade school, we watched an animated film strip once about Greek mythological figures, and the one I remember best was about Pan, mostly because of the song that played during it, which had the line "Great God Pan/ One half goat, the other half ma-an."

Psi001 Since: Oct, 2010
#22: Sep 9th 2012 at 6:35:40 PM

I remember seeing an episode of this UK cartoon about witches. They are threatened by some obnoxious witch hunter, until one eventually curses her to turn into a chicken everytime she mentions the word "stake". This one sound familiar to anyone?

TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Just a simple hero
#23: Sep 9th 2012 at 9:47:05 PM

They had Time Squad toys at Subway?!?

Anyway, I remember Cubix. I even used to have a racing game for it on the PS1.

The New Age of Awesome is here! Not even the sky is the limit!
Sovisrae Double Rainbow from Canada Since: Oct, 2010
Double Rainbow
#24: Sep 10th 2012 at 3:49:49 PM

(Oh my god! I remember 'Birdz' and I loved 'Flying Rhino Junior High'! 'Zixx' was also awesome!)

As for shows I don't think anyone has heard of remembers:

'Delta State', 'Redwall', 'Creepschool', 'Skydancers', 'Ultimate Book of Spells', 'Eckhart','Stickin' Around', 'Monster By Mistake', 'Captain Star' and 'Rupert'.

(there was also a small show called 'Three Little Sisters'/'Les Trois Petites Soeurs' that I loved as a little kid, but I can only find the opening in French.)

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#25: Sep 10th 2012 at 3:58:13 PM

I remember seeing Rupert on Nick Jr. in the late 90s.


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