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openCartoon that aired in Arabic country Western Animation
a cartoon about weird animal things that curl into balls like an armadillo but they are not armadillos. aired in Tunisia (spacetoon, mbc3, other) cannot renember the network. there is this one scene (i believe in the intro) where they curl into balls and go on rails. might be Bakugan or zoobles but might be original aswell
I do not know if this is a Western Cartoon or an Anime
Animated with CGI 3D probably, aired around 2014-2021, main characters were not dinosaurs
Edited by XYLOproductionsresolved Someone please tell me! (SOLVED) Western Animation
There was this Martha Speaks episode and I have absolutely no idea which episode it was, but there was this really catchy song at the end of it that I absolutely loved and I can't find it on You Tube anywhere but I do remember the lyrics. It was comparing greed and generosity and the song was so good but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know what episode it was???
Edited by lunaloud45resolved That show with the ghost girl who's name is Sorry. Western Animation
It was a TV show where one of the characters was a ghost girl who's name was Sorry and she wore a bedsheet over her head. That's all I can remember about it.
resolved Promotional magazine cover for "The Simpsons Guy" Western Animation
Years back when the Family Guy / The Simpsons Crossover "The Simpsons Guy" was about to premiere and was being heavily hyped, I remember one magazine had a promotional cover for the episode that depicted Meg playing Lisa's saxophone while Lisa looked on in shock. The problem is I don't remember which magazine had that specific cover. Could anybody tell me which magazine it was?
openInfinite Monday Western Animation
I remember being told about a show on these two characters who live through the same monday every day and because of this, they know what and when everything will happen.
openIrish/Celtic mythology show? Western Animation
i distinctly remember watching this show back in the early 2010s. it centered around celtic mythology and looked like something made by cartoon saloon ( song of the sea, wolfwalkers, etc. ). not sure if it was made by them though, because i looked at all their works ( or the ones i could find, at least ) and couldn't find a match.
so anyways, here's the details i remember:
THE INTRO: the show was animated, but the intro was live-action. it was a bird's-eye view of some city at night. then, it zoomed into this roundabout and in the middle of the roundabout there were these three grassy mound things. golden swirl patterns began appearing on the mounds and they kept growing until there were these giant glowing portal-looking things on the mounds. then, it zooms into the portals and it all goes white. then the light fades and the episode starts.
THE EPISODES: i remember watching two episodes. i'll put both of them down here, in the order i watched them.
FIRST EPISODE:
- this one was surprisingly similar to the song of the sea. maybe it was, and i just got it mixed up with this show because they were about the same topic. or maybe it wasn't. i dunno.
- one of the sea gods was involved. can't remember whether it was lir or his son manannan mac lir, but one or the other. whoever it was, he looked like a typical human and had tanned skin and was either blonde or ginger. though early on in the story, he transformed into this giant, melty, dark blue fish monster thing. at the end, he turns back thanks to this weird seabird lady.
-the seabird lady was this slim black woman in a gray hood. i can't remember what kind of bird she was exactly, but either a seagull or puffin or something like that. also she was magical and had fae/otherworldly ancestry.
SECOND EPISODE
-everything in this episode has a warm color scheme. a lot of oranges and yellows.
- the first scene after the intro is of some red-headed kid running through a forest in autumn. at one point, they reach a clearing, where a stag is standing on a rock. upon seeing the kid, the stag runs deeper into the forest.
-a scene that's been stuck in my head for a long time is of a field on a sunny day. the field has tall grass with small red, orange, and white flowers everywhere. in the field, there is a stage platform. the platform is shaped like a semicircle and made of wood. the back part of the stage has a worn-looking curtain and a backdrop made of some woven material that looks like a bird's nest. there's a bunch of people who look like typical medieval bards taking turns to perform on that stage. then, the redhead kid i mentioned earlier goes on stage carrying this giant lute ( or psaltery? something like that ) that's like the size of their whole body.
-unlike the first one, i can't remember how this ends.
Edited by noodlesnookopenHad an action figure, trying to find the show Western Animation
I’m making an assumption here that the action figure is from an animated show from the 90s, but I could be wrong. I had an action figure that appeared to be from a martial arts show. The figure had red samurai armor and things that attached to his arms with three claws on each of them. The big distinguishing feature was that the figure had a long braid on top of his head (I mean, like the length of the full figure). Can anyone help me identify the show, or at least the figure?
openThat One Show About Talking Cars, with the Long as Sh*t Credits, Even for a Toddler Western Animation
It's a Preschool Show about talking automobiles or something. I remember there was little boy in the cast.
The show had quite a long credits sequence. Granted, this was aired on cable TV when I was a small kid, and by then I'd been accustomed to 5-to-10-second credits (maybe 15), which was the maximum length of a credits sequence. The credits consisted of a blue background with pictures of scenes from the show on top and white text on the bottom. The music played in the credits sounded awful lot like something coming out of a Casio keyboard.
Edited by OxyrhynchusopenCartoon with bug(?) swallowing a dog whole. Western Animation
I remember an indie cartoon where a cartoon dog was swallowed whole by some sort of bug or something. I can't remember for the life of me what the title was (I have an impossible time remembering names as well as titles), do you know what the title of the cartoon might be? Searching on google, even an advanced search, comes up with nothing because the stupid site tries to get me to look at if it's safe for dogs to eat bugs.
openSeal/Mermaids welcome family on boat to their cove/lagoon Western Animation
I only seen a trailer of this show on a rented VHS movie but I can't for the life of me recall what it is despite its vividness. A 2D animated cartoon where iirc kids and their parental guardian visit a cove/lagoon and meet colorful seal/mermaids that sing and dance, with some wearing outfits like hats, glasses, and mustaches. I think its animation style was around late 1990s-early 2000s and had crisp lines, solid colors. I think it has a "villain" of the same species as the cove/lagoon inhabitants which I think was purple and had "minions", but again I only seen the trailer so this part is just my interpretation from the trailer.
openNo Title Western Animation
Well, what I remember is that the movie was pretty similar to Skyland, because it happened in the future and characters lived on airships or floating islands, but it was a movie, not a series. The animation was also quite similar, but I'm pretty sure i saw this years before Skyland came out.
When it comes to the plot, I can recall that it centered on teenagers (around 14 years old) that were aboard a giant airship (maybe a zeppelin)that acted as some sort of military school, and, a scene that I remember pretty well consisted on the main character and his best friend being ordered to control some turrets and defend their base. The protagonist is really nervous but ends up doing perfect and even taking down a few enemy ships while his friend is killed in the attack. And, later on in the movie, the protagonist falls in love with a girl and everything goes well between them. He ends up turning into a pilot (to become a pilot was really important to those kids).
The rest I can't remember. I believe it had the word "Sky" on the title, but I'm not really sure. Any help would be really appreciated
Edited by luiscerdaopencat superhero short Western Animation
A series of shorts from something like oh yeah cartoons about a girl who has a cat themed alter ego who doesn't have a tail but a cap. she also has a male friend who tries to find the secret identity of the superhero not know that his friend is the superhero. 1 episode she transforms in front of him and she just gaslights him into believing that he was just seeing things.
resolved Hungarian animated series about goofy family Western Animation
Somewhere around late 80's of last century there was this animated series made in Hungary. It was about a goofy family which was either travelling around the world and made havoc when clashing with different cultures, or they were contacting their successor in the future, who sent them various gimmicky contraptions, or their teenage son was exploring space using inflatable spaceships.
Does this ring any bells?
openPowerpuff Girls outro or something Western Animation
There were some Powerpuff Girls episodes where the outro wasn't the usual ending theme with the white credits on black background, but something else. It was like clips of the show alongside with credits, and the song was different; it was an instrumental and it featured mostly percussion instruments. It kinda sounded like Mucha Lucha's intro? Also it kinda feels like they showed this outro specifically at the end of episodes where Bubbles was more proactive or badass. I'm looking for that specific outro.
Is this a hallucination? Was it just a Latin American thing?
openCollection of old cartoons on DVD or VHS (SOLVED) Western Animation
I distinctly remember watching old cartoons on a DVD player when I was a kid. It could've been a VHS tape instead, or hell, it could've been pirated, but I swear I remember it having a DVD menu.
I found some of the old cartoons, but the wiki pages don't say anything about being released in a cartoon collection. Again, this could be pirated, I don't know.
Here's what I remember:
- Little Audrey: Tarts and Flowers
- The colored rerelease of The Daffy Duckaroo
- Fifth Column Mouse
- The 1936 Felix the Cat short Old King Cole
- The Popeye short The Umpire Strikes Back
- The Looney Tunes short Crowing Pains
I remember there also being a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but I can't really remember what happened in it. While I've found most of these myself, I'd like to find the actual DVD/VHS itself.
Edited by RainbowPumpqueenopenBoy who goes to an unknown planet Western Animation
I remembered an 2d animated show I used to watch a lot on TV, but I can't remember the name and I couldn't find anything about it on the internet. The show was about an African American boy (If I remember correctly his name was Marcos) who while going to school somehow (I don't remember how) ended up on an unknown planet, there he meets an older boy that I can't remember the name, but that it befriends him and keeps him hidden from the other creatures that inhabit the planet. I also remember some of the secondary characters, there was the school principal who used a floating chair, also two other boys who antagonized the characters in most episodes, and Marcos' sister.
openNo Title Western Animation
Jelly fish that can erase memories, later on a princess that comes from a golden dimension that has to live with the Mc on earth for a while and she makes herself look like someone from a magazine and Mc tells her that toilets are thrones and she drags one over to his table at lunch and everyone has their phones out and he gets mad at her.
Sorry this is super weird but I remember I really liked this show when I was younger and wanted to watch it again but I can’t remember the characters’ names or the name of the show!!!
Edited by KatieQueensopenNo idea, but it was on showtime cable back in the late 1980s Western Animation
I cannot remember the name of the show for the wife of me. All I can recall about it is the beginning was live action at an amusement park, with a young girl and older man who started to tell her a story, leading into transition to animation. From what little I recall, the story was set in the outback of Australia, during and after its colonization by the British other than that I can’t really get more specific. and at the end, it was the same amusement park, but all the characters that were animated were appearing as their live action counterparts on a merry go round. One other thing, I remember, is the girl that the stories being told to ask really surprised when she sees the live action version of a main male character, and says his name, and for the life of me, I can’t remember that either it might be Toby or something.
Edit - never mind, I found it. The little convict or Toby and the koala
Edited by pc1971

My sister apparently saw an animation of this description while it was trending on Tik Tok. She asked me about it while we were browsing shows to watch, but when she tried to pull up examples, she couldn't find any. The reason I say "show or game" is because she is not sure which medium it's from other than it's animated, though I think it's from a show.
From what she described, the protagonist is a blue critter with bunny ears and a wolf face. There was another character that my sister described as being tall, mostly black with horns, and wearing a tuxedo, similar to a demon. The show takes place in some demon world.
She also described two clips she saw. In one clip, the demon says that the blue critter must be here for his party, to which the critter says that they don't want to be at their "stupid party". In another clip, the blue critter is running away from the demon, who has apparently turned into some sort of wall creature and is singing.
I've never seen a show or game of this description before, but I am curious what it's actually about, if it has any sort of fandom, if it might be fun to watch, and most of all, what it is even called.