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open Kids show I watched as a toddler(I think) in early 2000 Western Animation
It's a little long and I'm sorry for that. But this is everything I remember and it bothers me immensely that I don't remember what the show was for some reason. The rest of this is a copy paste from a rather long text message I sent to a group chat with my friends because I'm tired and don't want to type it all out. They don't know anything either, probably because they all live in different areas than I do and I'm sure that this was a local station.
The TV I had in my room was a very small box TV. I think it had "bunny ears" as some people called them, but basically the antennae that were used to get signal or something along those lines. I rarely moved those I think, since I never used the tv to watch live television. Which brings me to how I wonder.... I would have my vcr/DVD player hooked up to it, obviously, because I have always needed light and noise to sleep for some reason. So I would put in one of my DV Ds of a movie or an episode of Angelina Ballerina (I watched that all the time back then) and I would press the repeat button on the remote to the player so it would repeat the whole thing on loop all night. But sometimes when I would wake up early on Sunday (or maybe Saturday, but I'm sure it was Sunday) mornings(like 6 am early) it would be playing this stop motion(I think) cartoon with animals and it had a male narrator who sounded like the same on on every other cartoon I watched. I can't remember if the animals had voices outside of random noises. I remember that the animation and film was low quality, even for early 2000s(more like especially for early 2000s). I checked— these didn't seem to be a part of any of the DV Ds I owned. I never caught the name of the show. My mom doesn't remember it at all, it seems. She remembers me having the TV (which I kept for about a year. I don't remember why we got rid of it, but I wanna say it stopped working since it was rather old) I also remember one morning I finally woke up and it was on again (for some reason I remember it only coming on every once in a while but it felt like forever back then) and I went to dragged my mom into my room so she could tell me the name of the show but it wasn't on anymore when we came back. Which might be a stretch, but I remember it that way, oddly. It's possible that that was one of the days she didn't want to get out of bed and took too long, so the show that had very short episodes was over. But I remember the TV being off or... something.
Okay I'm going to add something here because I don't wanna go through what I just pasted to see if I forgot or not. The show was stop motion/claymation. I think. Or it was extremely bad(especially for early 2000s) 3D animation. It depicted animals. I don't remember them talking, but there was a male narrator. I wanna say he was English, but that I'm not sure. The only specific scene/episode I remember is one where a character, who I think was an elephant, wanted to be special or was boring with who he was, or maybe he was only trying to find a talent for himself... yeah that's it I think. Anyway, he started talking to his friends about their talents and I don't remember all of them but I do remember him talking to a beaver then going home and putting mustard and/or ketchup on a tree and trying to eat the bark off of it, like the beaver does. And he got sad when it didn't go the way he planned. That's all I have, a few things in my memory might be fuzzy(like the story about the TV show seemingly just being off when I finally got my nana into the room, I could easily remember that one wrong) it I think I got the details of the show correct. I only described the TV because I think this channel was local or something. I grew up in Bullard, Texas. I want to say I was between 4-7 years old, but most likely 4 or 5 (2005-2006 area most likely.)
openFake Watchmen cartoon page Western Animation
So, I was looking at the Watch Men page, and on the sugar wiki, it talks about a Watchmen cartoon that was supposedly made, with a bunch of tropes listed. But here’s the thing: I can’t find *any* of the episodes mentioned on the page anywhere. I can only find the theme song, which makes me think that someone made the page as a fake, and there aren’t actually any episodes of this supposed tv show. If so, I think we should delete the page, because it’ll just confuse people. UPDATE: I don’t think we should delete the page, please ignore this.
Edited by Loopytires55open Kids show Western Animation
So I was born in New Zealand and I can remember watching this show when I was quite young, maybe 8? I get flashes of memories every so often, but I can never remember the name. It was about a girl and her sidekick, who traveled through magical doors using her magical bracelet. Through each door was a problem, and she had to solve it with the power of her bracelet. One I can remember is behind the door was a giant baby I think? And it wanted a bottle. She used the bracelet to create a never ending bottle. I can remember the doors came up from the ground, having transformed form a spiral. I’m pretty sure she had blue hair. Can anybody help??
open Cartoon show Western Animation
I remeber this show with a guy has a sport car and the intro im pretty sure it was like " goooooo speeeeed go " and i tried to search that but i always end up getting speed racer which is not what im looking for
open CHILDHOOD CARTOON Western Animation
I have tried to search for this cartoon for 4 years now and google has nothing of what information I provide so here goes nothing. I'm looking for a cartoon that could be set in space but i know for a fact that they jump into these "big tubes" that transports them to the persons room who they are trying to see. There are multiple colours. But there is one that is purple and he has long ears somewhat like a sausage dog and has white spots and then there is another character that looks more like a bear with "normal cartoon bear" ears that also has white spots. All help appreciated. Thank you :)
open What do we call this? Western Animation
I'm having trouble finding the trope-name for a thing that happens often in western cartoons, if it's even documented.
Like, think of any Tom and Jerry cartoon where the chase is on and then suddenly Jerry puts his hand out to signal a STOP, and Tom just STOPS (for comedic effect, instead of ignoring Jerry's signal and snatching him up).
Surely there's a trope name for that?
open Animated cartoon about fairies Western Animation
Okay so I can’t think of this show and it’s driving me crazy. It’s about 4-5 girls who becomes fairies and fight like evil creatures (goblins, etc) and meet a boy their age (all teens) from a rebel group and they fight together. One of the girls has long blonde hair and her wings were purple and I remember this because they were popular enough for I think it was Mc Donald’s to make toy keychains of them and that one was what I had. I want to say early 2000’s
openAbout the Ladybug non-canon funny page Western Animation
I get why it was cut. Don't agree, but understand it. I'd like to know how to get back the entries of that page to put them in the Western Animation Fanfics page, as they would fit there.
Edited by EDPopenMissing Western Animation Section for "The Cheerleader" Western Animation
Was this taken out during the purge? It seems weird that it's missing for a completely unknown reason?
openCare Bears Western Animation
You know the Care Bears character page? Can you please add folders for characters like Wendy, Linda, Melanie, Susie, Kara, Sandra, Millie, Carl, Mary, Elaine, Sally, Sarah, Aiden, Clem, Hayden, Penny, Phoebe, and Zack?
open Animated kids movie, animals climb in totem form to put fire in sky or steal fire, Western Animation
Back in late 80’s or early 90’s we watched an animated film which had multiple stories in it, one not related to the other. The opening scene had a realistic talking robot, I believe. I recall an animated tgirl crying and she almost looked like an Eric Carle illustration, then I recall animals, a beaver, a coyote and others climbing to steal fire from the sky or maybe put fire in the sky. We have been trying to figure this one out for years!
Edited by Mamaof3open Storybook express? Western Animation
Trying to remember the name of an animated feature that was comprised of a number of animated (picture book style) stories. I remember it featured the elves and the shoemaker, the princess and the pea, the little gingerbread man, and possibly Casey at the bat? Between the stories the female narrator was an engineer on a train I believe. I thought it was called the storybook express, but I can't find any proof of it's existence. Likely made pre 1986
openClarence Character Page Western Animation
Can somebody fix the Clarence Character Page? I think it needs some cleanup.
Edited by Ninamarie124open Please Help Me Find This Cartoon!! Western Animation
When I was younger I saw a cartoon and I can’t find it anywhere so I’ll explain what I remember here and hopefully one of you people can help me out.
The story or this 80s/90s cartoon follows 2 plots. One of them is 2 kids a boy and a girls that run from home and pack food but realize that they can’t make it out on their own without their parents. During their journey their ice cream melts and they can’t tell if the berries in the woods are poisonous and admit their dad would know. The second plot I vaguely remember as a purple creature that loses his chest of gold in a river due to his temper/greed. He sends a team to look for it in the river but never finds it.
Sorry if the description is vague but if anyone helps me out I would appreciate it kindly, thanks!
openThe Lion King Trivia Western Animation
Trivia.The Lion King has an entry for End of an Era, even though that Trope's page doesn't refer to it as Trivia. Where should the information go instead? It looks too meta for Disney.The Lion King.
openA creator page Western Animation
Hello, I would like to create a creator page that is about an British actress named Olivia d'Abo, but I am unable to do so due to the fact that her surname has a quotation mark in it and it will create an error on the page. Does anyone know about what I should do?

so there was this cartoon that came on super early on Saturday morning like 5:00 am it was about a man and a frog that ride a roller coaster through town and make stops and each stops has a different thing one of the stops you learn how to draw using basic shapes and at the end it gives you a certificate saying you learned and it gave you a website so you could go print the certificate