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FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
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#26: Sep 10th 2012 at 6:41:19 PM

Count me in as another Rupert lover. One of my favorite adventure 'toons, it is.

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Psi001 Since: Oct, 2010
#27: Sep 11th 2012 at 7:38:33 AM

I remember Stickin' Around. I think there were at least three Rupert shows (the last of which kind of looks like a Bob The Builder/Noddy type puppet animation).

Anyone remember something called Twinkle The Dream Being, a kinda edutainment type show from the nineties in which the main character granted wishes to other characters, most of them with terrible Hilarity Ensues consequences. Notable for it's rather saccharine alien universe and having Twinkle voiced by Tress Macnelle in her 'Mr Fiend' voice.

A few others that have just sprung to mind are TUGS (basically Thomas And Friends with boats) and the Wheres Waldo/Wally cartoon (that the UK version even took the effort to rerecord every instance of Waldo's name to fit with their incarnation).

edited 11th Sep '12 7:44:56 AM by Psi001

FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
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#28: Sep 11th 2012 at 9:21:02 AM

There are three I know of: One is from the 70's, and it's more of an "animated storybook" that relies mostly on still images with embellishments, coupled with narration. The 90's one that we all remember, and a recent one circa... 2004 I believe? that is stop-motiony and makes a couple fairly dramatic changes (such as changing Rupert from white to yellow and making Pong Ping into a girl, among others).

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Psi001 Since: Oct, 2010
#29: Sep 11th 2012 at 11:09:45 AM

[up]Wasn't he yellow in some of the original book illustrations?

I only have memories of the first two shows, though I do kind of like the chibi design style of the third one, if only because I've never been a big fan of 'humanoid bodies with animal heads' proportion style.

edited 11th Sep '12 11:10:00 AM by Psi001

Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#30: Sep 11th 2012 at 9:26:12 PM

I suppose this isn't really a cartoon, but when I was a little little kid (this would be in the early '80's) there was a show which essentially read comic books to you...it would show the individual panels on screen and have voice actors read the narration, dialogue, etc. I specifically remember them doing an Adam Strange story, and a Kid Flash story (the Kid Flash story involved a heavy-set kid who bragged to his schoolmates that he was as fast as Kid Flash; when they picked on him about it, Kid Flash decided to make his boast real). I've never met or spoken to anyone else who's even heard of this show.

Surenity Since: Aug, 2009
#31: Sep 13th 2012 at 3:17:44 AM

Anyone else remember Maya the Bee or The Littl' Bits?

Someone on the first page mentioned Valley of the Dinosaurs, I think I remember watching that on Cartoon Network back in the mid-90's.

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WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#32: Sep 13th 2012 at 5:42:05 AM

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.

You mean this? It's relatively popular over here, though outside Europe it seems to be mostly unknown.

I also remember UBOS and Cubix. They were okay, but both were pretty short lived. I specially remember a Cubix episode where a kid is too short to enter an amusement park, so he gets a Humongous Mecha and goes all berserk over the whole place.

[up] Maya the Bee was popular over here too.

As for some other unknown cartoons, Walter Melon and Sharky & George anyone?

edited 13th Sep '12 12:18:45 PM by WackyPancake

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NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#33: Sep 13th 2012 at 6:52:43 AM

[up]Hey, Las Tres Mellizas. They had quite a long run over here, too.

I liked Walter Melon. They showed it back to back with the Iznogoud The Vizier cartoon, but sadly it had a very short time in the local TV, and too early in the morning.

edited 13th Sep '12 6:54:33 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

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#34: Sep 13th 2012 at 8:32:31 AM

Funky Cops.

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#35: Sep 13th 2012 at 9:01:01 AM

You mean this?

Oh thank you man. I vaguely remember watching it as a child and tried to find the name since a while.


Can't be the only one to have traumatic memories of Teletoon's various abortive attempt at making "adult" comedies. Anyone remember Tripping The Rift, Bromwell High, The Wrong Coast, Punch! (ARGH)-& all?

edited 13th Sep '12 9:02:47 AM by Glowsquid

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#36: Sep 19th 2012 at 9:23:13 PM

[up][up][up][up]Glad I'm not the only one who remembers Walter Melon. I remember really enjoying that show when I was younger.

By the way, has anyone here heard of Miss BG, 3-2-1 Penguins?, or Animal Crackers?

edited 19th Sep '12 9:24:23 PM by MrYoshbert

Eh.
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#37: Sep 19th 2012 at 11:09:35 PM

I've heard of the first two.

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#40: Sep 20th 2012 at 2:23:20 PM

I know that 3-2-1 Penguins is a thing solely because I got sucked into playing a Chu Chu Rocket-style flash game based on in one day, and I remember that hour or so of ridiculous addiction oddly well.

Speaking of CGI stuff, anyone here remember a kiddie show called The Save Ums?

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#41: Sep 20th 2012 at 3:40:31 PM

That show's theme tune immediately started playing in my head after seeing that title.

edited 20th Sep '12 3:40:43 PM by MrYoshbert

Eh.
FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
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#42: Sep 20th 2012 at 8:03:32 PM

"We use our heart, we use our head, and we belieeeve! Brave is beauutiful! Small is powwwerful!"

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#43: Sep 23rd 2012 at 2:49:20 PM

[up]x3 I remember the penguin thing. I think my family owned a few of the videos at one point.

KingNerd Can-I-Bus from Suburbia. Since: Dec, 1969
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#44: Oct 4th 2012 at 11:38:44 AM

I remember a show about a boy and his sister who had to train for a magical bracelet/gauntlet (Can't remember which) only for the boy to finish training first, making the girl a villain for the rest of the series.

edited 4th Oct '12 11:47:19 AM by KingNerd

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#45: Oct 4th 2012 at 1:55:20 PM

[up] Sounds like Legend of the Golden Dragon to me.

edited 4th Oct '12 1:55:31 PM by vedjf

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KingNerd Can-I-Bus from Suburbia. Since: Dec, 1969
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#46: Oct 5th 2012 at 7:53:11 AM

^Yep, forgot the name since I haven't seen it in so long.

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#47: Oct 5th 2012 at 8:45:10 AM

Was that that oriental-themed show where people could turn into animal forms and the comic relief guy who could turn into a monkey somehow got stuck like that? If it is, I think I know it too.

edited 5th Oct '12 8:45:31 AM by WackyPancake

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#48: Oct 6th 2012 at 11:42:10 AM

[up]Possibly, I remember very little about the series.

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MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#49: Oct 8th 2012 at 6:57:23 PM

The Buzz on Maggie was a short lived Cartoon along with American Dragon, Jake Long which only lasted 2 years. There's also Cat Dog, Pelswick, and a few others....

FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
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#50: Oct 8th 2012 at 11:32:40 PM

I remember Maggie, if only for its massive Ear Worm of a theme song.

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