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openNo Title Western Animation
Around 2003, possibly 2002 on Playhouse Disney, the then name of the morning preschool block on Disney Channel, they were doing this thing that I assume involved an online contest to pick their next show. After the last show, Roly Poly Oly, they would are one of about half a dozen sneak peak, mini episodes for one of the two possible shows. And while Roly Poly Oly was still playing a character from one of the two shows would appear at the bottom of the screen, so you would know which show they would show a sneak peak of. One of the shows, which happened to be the one that won, was Higglytown Heros. The other show was either hand drawn or flash animated, and had cutesy, colorful cartoon animals. I remember the backgrounds were mostly white, and the characters had big black eyes. It might have possibly been anime. Does anyone know what it was called? Thanks.
openAn episode from an old bulldog, cat and mouse cartoon (Not Tom and jerry) (FOUND!!!) Western Animation
From what I remember, the episode goes like this:
There was this mouse and cat in a house fighting, and then the mouse challenges the cat to go stand up to the dog outside in the backyard. The cat accepts.
The dog is under his dog house chewing on a bone in a bowl, when the cat slowly approached the dog talking to him trying to confront him and act tough. The dog got mad once, and the cat ran away and climbed on top of the backyard door really quickly. The cat tried to confront the dog again, talking to him a second time and the dog scared the cat again and the cat, again, ran and climbed up on top of the backyard door.
When the cat tried to approach the dog a 3rd time, the cat accidentally slammed the bowl into the dog's face (the bowl had some sort of liquid in it that splashed into the dog's face). The dog (bulldog btw) got really mad, got up and was about to chase the cat. The backyard door that the cat used as refuge slammed shut from the wind and when the cat tried to run away again to climb on top of it, he got up in the air, noticed that the door was not there anymore, dropped down and then continued running into the house.
The dog ran after him and the nail that held his leash to the ground detached from the ground setting him free. The dog chased the cat into the house. During this part of the cartoon, the camera remains outside the house following the movements of the dog and the cat from behind the wall. Only the footsteps of the dog and cat can be heard from outside. They both run up the stairs and into a room until they reach a dead end where the dog eventually catches up to the cat and beats him up. I remember the dead end being a flat wall with a blue, opaque circular window on the side!
The cat, after being beaten up by the dog the first time, runs back from the dead end and towards it again. The dog beats up the cat again. Breaking glass and meowing can be heard as the dog is beating up the cat. The same thing happens a few more times before the scene fades out. Then, the camera shows the mouse sitting on a pillow chilling. The camera then zooms out to show the cat standing above the mouse with a few injuries, especially a rope holding his arm up from being broken. The cat was looking down at the mouse with an angered expression. The cat was resting his head on his hand when he was looking down at the mouse waiting before trying to attack the mouse for setting him up to get beaten up by the dog.
This is as far as I can remember.
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A few additional details from memory (could be wrong):
- I'm not too sure but I remember the mouse being sort of skinny. - Both the mouse and cat were talking. I vividly remember they had a texas accent and talked sort of slowly. The bulldog never spoke. He only growled and barked (especially when chasing the cat). - The animation wasn't as good as that of tom and jerry or loony toons. It was a pretty old cartoon. It wasn't a black and white cartoon though, not like betty boop (for example). - I remember the cat being either orange or black (no not Sylvester, again it was a not-so-well-known cartoon.) - I remember the entrance of the house that the dog and cat ran into had a very short flight of steps at the front door. - I remember the dog being close to the colors of beige or yellow. (I might be wrong) - I remember the walls of the house that the chase happened in were white. (Might be wrong)
I tried to ask Chat GPT to identify the episode, and he recommended some cartoons such as "Herman and Katnip", but I looked through most of their episodes and none of them were the ones I'm looking for. I even tried to ask Snapchat AI and even he didn't find it.
Please help me find this episode, I have been looking for it for ages desperate to know the name. If there are any questions, or any additional details you are trying to look for, please let me know. Will be forever grateful to the one that finds the name!
Edited by JustsomeuseropenMore Paperwork Than Expected Western Animation
Might've been the Simpsons or Futurama, but I'm not sure.
A character tries to apply for something and is handed a huge stack of paperwork. When they ask, annoyed, if that's all, the bureaucrat tells them, "Oh, no, that's just the paperwork for handing in your paperwork. That is the paperwork you need to actually fill out." They gesture to six stacks of paperwork four feet tall.
open??? Western Animation
The main characters have 4 jets with RYGB colours each and the jet have some sort of transformation, I don't remember what it's about
- One of the episodes had 3 antagonist who are performers and they also have transforming jets.
- The Villain is an old man who found out the red persons identity but is frozen at the end.
open(Solved: it is Aliens Next Door) Cartoon about a married couple from Earth moving to another planet Western Animation
I saw this one-shot cartoon once or maybe two times on TV in the early 90's, only one episode (like the pilot of a series that didn't make it) and the plot was about a married couple from Earth who moved to live in another planet (something about his work) and had an alien couple as neighbors and found they were not so different in personalities at all at the end.
The animation and comedy style was kinda reminiscing of The Flinstones, like if Nelvana were trying Hannah-Barbera style (not sure if it was produced by Nelvana).
Don't recall any more details but have been looking for info about this for a long time.
Thanks in advance.
Edited by tvinsomneopenA cartoon network shorts about a jetpack guy (Solved. Show's name: Rocket Jo) Western Animation
Basically, if I recall correctly on the cartoon network channel, there's this jetpack inventor who's the Cosmic Plaything of his show via almost every flight attempt failing.
Some shorts had the following:
- The guy tried to use solar power to power his jetpack but the sky rained so it didn't work for long.
- Tried to use hie jetpack just for the world to flush him away in a flood he summoned somehow.
- Managed to take off into the sky using a giant jet turbine. However, when the in-flight allowed the removal of his seatbelt, he followed it and promptly fell from high up in the sky.
- He somehow cloned himself when he tried to start his jetpack.
- Tried to use electricity as his power source. It worked but because it was wired, it couldn't fly up more than a few meters in the air.
- I think he once got sucked into another jet turbine jetpack of his and was pooped out as an egg much to the surprise of the turbine.
opencartoon about squirrel Western Animation
this cartoon was educational. was about two squirrels who moved to different places using a portal in a hollow. in one episode, the chipmunks landed on a farm owned by an elf. all the animals on the farm had their voices messed up by the magic storm. in another episode, the characters found themselves in a land inhabited mainly by birds. i'm from poland.in my country, this cartoon was on a CD that came with a parenting magazine. I'm pretty sure this animation was in English with a Polish voiceover. i'm sorry for my english.
open3D animated children's show (Team Unizoomi) Western Animation
The show had three tiny kids in a miniature orange car that drove out of a fountain every episode, and I think the three kids had green, blue, and pink clothing, with each kid using mainly one color for their clothes.
Edited by OffAndSphereresolved somebody help? Western Animation
So, I need help finding a show. I remember watching it in the early-to-mid 2010s. It was animated sort of like Winx Club, and there were schools for angels and demons. I remember the angel high school was called the Golden School. The protagonist (an angel) had kind of a thing with a demon and their romance could apparently cause calamity. Said demon also appeared on the same human's shoulders with the protag. Also, there were pets. One of the demon love interest's pets was a snake. Somebody help, please?
Edited by MintySkiesopenIntense animated trailer Western Animation
Back when I saw The LEGO Movie at the time it was still new, there was this trailer for an animated movie I don't remember the name of that played before it. I mostly remember it because it was intense and frightening to my family. All I remember from it is that it had humans as the characters, and was either 2D animated or 3D in a way that doesn't resemble most animated films. The start of it involved someone talking about people and if I remember right, was talking about how good they were in video games, with levels in games they got up to.
It honestly feels like my brain just made this up, but this memory is distinct in my mind, especially because my family had dread when it showed up again before another movie, though if memory serves me right, it didn't play in full that time.
openScooby Doo with Moving Floors Western Animation
Around 2003-2004, I saw a Scooby-Doo episode (I believe on videotape) where a major feature of the “haunted” location was moving floors. They functioned like conveyor belts, so the culprit could chase characters without them actually moving. “Moving floors” was the specific terminology used to describe them though, and I believe the culprit had a moment where he gloated over his plan and how the floors would help him. The moment I remember most clearly is that Scooby and Shaggy were once caught on the floors being chased by the culprit, and Shaggy said something along the lines of “Zoinks, Scoob! The floors are moving, but we sure aren’t!” I don’t remember which other characters were in the episode, if any.
openDream warriors dream fighters maybe I'm not really sure Western Animation
Basically it's a computer animated show about a brother and a sister fighting dream monsters regular monsters can't really remember the idea is they're both twins.
open1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon Western Animation
Who's this Frankenstein-like character, and what Hanna-Barbera cartoon is it from:
He made a cameo in Johnny Bravo episode "Johnny Makeover" which parodied Retooling of shows.
resolved Creepy frog monster Western Animation
It had a pure nightmare fuel frog (claymation I think) that had a long wooden spatula scoop thing that I think it was using to torture someone with
I thought it was a nightmare for the longest time till a friend recently said she remembers it too but couldn’t remember what show or movie it was from either
openSome show i saw in Serbia Western Animation
This was a super long time ago so my memories of this are pretty vague but the show starred a cast of kids, the only one i could remember clearly had a muscular body and i kinda think he didnt wear a shirt, im not really sure. There were also these guys wearing red cloaks with hoods thatvpartially covered their faces, i dont know if they were cultists or anything like that. The only episode i could remember was where these cultists, if thats what they were had this bronze robot( i dont know if they built it or they turned one of their members into it) and the only scene i remembered where the main characters where sitting at a table with this robot, eating, while the rest of the cultists where eating at a seperate table. Thats all i can recall, hope someone amswers
openi dont remember it Western Animation
I remember a cartoon or anime serie with a scene. about a dark cloud or dark smoke with a head and there is a boy flying on a animal. and then there are little white clouds with spirits on it and then they blow wind to the dark cloud and he cant forwards and then he want forwards but then he lose his head that falls on the ground.
Edited by guud234openNo Title Western Animation
This is at least 10-12 years ago now, but there was this odd short movie thing that I had on Dv D(?) I don't remember very many details other than there was a part where the main character is a cheerleader on a soccer field, and she's got pink or purple colors for her uniform, and gets made fun of and judged for not having the other color.
I think there may have been a camping part too? Or maybe that was something else.
I know it's not much, but again this was forever ago.
openideabox show from wisconitite channel (solved) Western Animation
i remember this show from my trip to Wisconsin dells in the early 2000's it was on the same channel as an iSpy show and also i remember it being matchbox (it was in a lunchbox probably) or something and one of the segments had riddles of the "two fathers and two sons catch one fish each and eat all three fish" type and i think theer was a segment about a famous scientist's brain listing what they did(?) and also maybe a murder mystery segment or something to that effect
Edited by Wild-Starfishopenanimated film where two walruses in an abandoned ship engage in a BLAM-y musical number (solved) Western Animation
This was a clip I thought I saw linked to as an entry on the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment page, but if it was, it doesn't seem to be there anymore (I checked both western animation and animated film pages). I think the actual plot may have had an environmentalist theme, the main characters were animals, and it might have even been set After the End (with remnants of human civilization still around but no living humans present). In the BLAM scene in question, the main characters encounter a pair of walruses living in an abandoned (or possibly sunken) ship, maybe an oil tanker - the walruses go into a song where the lyrics are nonsensical scatting, though the way it's sung and they way they behave while singing makes it seem like it's some kind of argument. The main characters leave the ship after the song is done, the walruses are never seen again (I think they actually die at the end of the song) and the plot moves along like nothing happened.
Edited by MikeK

I have a memory of once watching a TV show as a child, where the main premise was that there was this goose (who may or may not have been named Jenny), who basically had a hotline (but instead of numbers it was animal sounds) for solving small problems. I think in the episodes I watched she was counselling some kind of animal about not making it onto the baseball team, and also helping a baby bear get over his fear of the dark. Idk if anyone recognises this premise, I saw it once, and never again.