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mopsmirror
Since: Mar, 2016
mopsmirror
Since: Mar, 2016
Veesjan
Since: Feb, 2018
mopsmirror
Since: Mar, 2016

I'm posting this under Western Animation since there's a good chance this series is an import, though it may not be...I remember browsing the Japanese Cartoon Network site in 2005 or 2006 and scrolling through the menu of show icons across the top. Because the site lists not only series currently airing but numerous individual specials and movies, this menu goes on for an incredibly long time, and several series/characters showed up in multiple icons as I scrolled. One such group of characters were a bunch (maybe as many as ten within the frame after I clicked through) of incredibly bizarre-looking, almost frightening CGI household objects with facial features. I'm almost certain they were all electrical appliances, and one (maybe a TV) was decidedly larger than the rest. All of them had sprawling, creepy, open-mouthed smiles. I wasn't able to view any clips, just the stills; but I could tell the CGI wasn't very polished and the characters looked more like renders than a final product. It was absolutely nothing close to A Little Curious — these characters nearly looked like they wanted to hurt you (think much more along the lines of the "It's a B-Movie" sequence in The Brave Little Toaster). Apparently this bunch starred in more than one feature: maybe a series and a special, or multiple specials (and as stated earlier, it's likely this was an acquired property since many other oddballs were, and still are, part of their program list). Would love to finally know their identity after over a decade of being haunted...
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