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openPink hair girl in a bamboo forest Western Animation
If someone can find me this show I’ll actually be so happy, it’s been bothering me for over a decade, not knowing what it is keeps me up some nights. I remember very little about it
3d animated Main character might’ve had pink hair and space buns She had a small companion The villain of the show were white haired twins I remember a gong being at the main characters house or something so possibly china themes, as well as a bamboo forest being where she lives
resolved An adventure animated show from the 2000s-early 2010s with Mons and very specific backstory Western Animation
I watched it on TV back in the late 2000s-mid-2010s and for the long time I was the only of the family to remember the title and now my power is lost. Please help me, collective brain of the TV Tropes community!
The first episode told the backstory in the intro, it went like this: some sort of a calamity happened on Earth, so some humans moved underground, and the others escaped in the space. The main characters, a boy and a girl, are the undergrounders and for the reasons I don't remember (but it has something to do with saving their underground city, I guess?) they are sent on Earth to collect [[Mons]] one per episode. The kids were assisted of some weird creature, probably a Mon or a robot: it provided them with information. Meanwhile, an evil man from space comes to collect them too for some greedy motives and they obviously were trying to stop him. The finale had them return to the city and save it, obviously. That's all I can recall.
(I mark it as Western Animation but there is a slight chance to it being anime)
Edited by TaurusVoidopenThat Short About Making the Most out of Life Western Animation
I'm trying to remember a short that aired before a full-length film, where a guy worries about taking risks in life (surfing, too much bacon, etc.) because he'll die, only to realize that dying after living his whole life as a White Collar Worker is much worse. The company/building was called Boring Boring (not the complete name).
Edited by FruitzieopenEpisode of a cartoon show with a volcano Western Animation
I remember part of seeing some episode of a tv show in The '90s that involved two groups of soldiers (or something) fighting near the mouth of a volcano. The good guys were afraid that the bad guys might throw a grenade or something in the volcano, which would set it off (?) I can't remember anything else but I assume they didn't succeed in setting off the volcano. I also remember the scene had some scary background music that I think sounded a little like this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6uP0wIQ9aY
but with no words.
openA McDonalds(?) Advertisement with fruit Western Animation
This Mc Donalds advertisement had animated fruits riding in the back of a truck and there were talking for a bit. About escaping. Then the watermelon has enough and jumps out the back yelling about freedom. Then he gets run over. One of the other fruits yells 'wait, we can still save him,' then multiple cars run over the remains of the watermelon. And the fruits are kind of there, stunned.
I saw this cartoon circa 2009-2012 in a Mc Donalds restaurant, which is why a remember this as a Mc Donalds cartoon. It might not be.
openDavy Crockett cartoon? Western Animation
I'm remembering from when I was a kid a cartoon featuring Davy Crockett as an Anthropomorphic Animal (not sure which one exactly, maybe a moose) with a coonskin hat that was actually a live raccoon... Did I dream that? Does it have an actual page?
openWhat SpongeBob episode is this clip from? Western Animation
A few years back, I was at a gas station, and these two kids were watching a SpongeBob SquarePants episode with this scene
on a drop-down TV. The problem is, I don't know which episode it's from...
resolved Cartoon shows where there's scenes where a character is held in a giant gloved hand Western Animation
Hey there so I would like to know if there are cartoon shows where there's scenes where a character gets caught and held in a giant gloved hand either open palm or closed fist, any western animation cartoon would do.
resolved Cartoon with a music number called something like "I like myself" Western Animation
When I was little (this would be early to mid 90s) there was some cartoon (I'm pretty sure it was a movie or special, and not a series, as I remember it being more than 30 minutes, and don't remember any other episodes) where there is a music number where one character gets the protagonist to sing a song about how he likes himself (he did this due to the protagonist having really low self-esteem). I seem to remember each line of the song started with "I like my (something about himself)". I'm also pretty sure the characters were talking humanoid animals, and I think the protagonist was a duck. Unfortunately, I can't remember anything else about it, including any other scenes or even what animal the person singing the song with him was, although I'm pretty sure he wasn't also a duck.
openNo Title Western Animation
Has a scene where a girl named “Skye” or “Sky” has to get over test anxiety to save her brother from crashing into a rollercoaster that is going to hit him while he is in another roller coaster heading toward him (about to crash) Most of the movie takes place in a “Dia De Los Muertos” themed amusement park The brother and sister are transported there from their rooms The movie is also 2D animated (probably in flash) (similar to Wordgirl) (made in 2010s)
resolved Short about guys with hand puppets? Western Animation
I once saw this animated short on Nickelodeon where these kids who kind of looked like rappers were hanging out in an alleyway, and then suddenly this kid comes along who’s much younger than they are, and they decide to duck behind a box and to put on a hand-puppet show for him. I think it ends with the little kid getting freaked out and running away. There wasn’t actually any dialog, just a lot of grunting and gasping. The short itself was stop-motion I'm pretty sure, but I've looked at all of Nick's anthology series and just can't frickin find this anywhere. It's driving me nuts!
Edited by Loopytires55open"I'm coming after you!" Western Animation
There was this commercial for this show in The '90s I never actually watched but am curious about for some reason. It was either a cartoon or CGI and the characters were some kind of monsters or mutants or the like. I remember in the commercial one of the characters said something like "if you don't watch (show name) I'm coming after you!" That is all I can remember
Edited by Bootlebatresolved Series of mid-to-late 2000’s cartoon shorts Western Animation
Back in the day, Cartoon Network aired shorts under a “Wedgies” branding. One of these shorts was about anthropomorphic animals in a garage band. Each character was color coded, and I remember there being an orange dog, (I think he did vocals?) a purple cat on guitar (I remember her name being something obviously feminine, like “Katie,” but I don’t know the exact name), and a green chicken on drums who I distinctly remember was named Tanner. I want to say there was a fourth member who was blue, but I can’t for the life of me remember who or what they were, if they even existed.
- One short centered around the cat getting called on her phone in the middle of a session, and this (somehow, maybe it was better explained in the short) led to Tanner realizing she’s a girl. This changes basically his entire perception about her, while everyone else thought this was really obvious, and didn’t know how Tanner could be so clueless.
- Another I remember had a musical number that involved dialect differences between the United States and other parts of the world, and I remember they mention the “soccer vs football” thing. There was a running joke of Tanner misnaming food, to which the dog corrected him. (The joke that ended off the short was the dog saying “Crumpet, Tanner. Crumpet.”)
- The last one I remember was when Tanner’s dad Pete showed up. He’d made snacks and was talking to the other band members, and the orange dog mentioned writing the lyrics to the song they were playing. Pete starts reminiscing about his days as a drummer when he was probably somewhere around Tanner’s age, prompting Tanner to give Pete the drumsticks so that he could play.
resolved South Park episode about an alien species needing to reproduce to save their species from extinctio. Western Animation
I’m trying to think of a South Park episode that I heard about that featured these 2 dark green alien like creatures that needed to repopulate and prevent their species extinction, but they ended up overpopulating the town with their offspring. The only other things I remember about it is that 1: the birth scene was very Squicky, and 2: it was an episode from one of the first few seasons.
openCGI cartoon, tiny beings emerge from computer to fight a war Western Animation
First, I know this is not Reboot. It was an all CGI cartoon but definitely before Reboot. The concept was more similar to Micronauts mixed with Transformers: It featured very small humanoids, that almost looked like robots, coming out of computers to fight. One side was good, one side was bad (obviously to sell toys). It was Transformers inspired because the humanoids looked like robots but I think they were wearing mech body suits. I remember they flew around on things that looked like mechanical paper airplanes or gliders. They would use electrical outlets (I think) to fast transport themselves and could also go into computers, where there main battles took place. Them entering the "real world" was a huge revelation for them.
openMuscular Bugs Bunny Western Animation
Just found this pic of a jacked Bugs Bunny. Can’t find a source anywhere for it. If anyone knows, that would be appreciated.
openBart Simpson electrocuted? Western Animation
Before I watched The Simpsons, I once saw a very brief snippet on my living room TV. It appeared to show Bart getting electrocuted while saying, "YOOOOOWWW!!!", and I thought I heard a Laugh Track during this. This made me think that the show actually used a laugh track.
Just to be clear, I am not talking about the "Bart v. Cupcakes" scene, which was all I could find from searching "Bart gets electrocuted" on YouTube.
resolved Children's CGI Show Western Animation
In my head popped up a vague memory of an all-CGI cartoon for a young age group — I believe it was kind of like shows such as Special Agent Oso where the main characters have a base and go on missions to help others, I foggily recall such a building being on water and having a giant exclamation mark. The intro song also names the characters, like what The Octonauts does, and I think the theme was the classic "they go on missions and save the day" (but I don't remember any of the lyrics). One other thing I remember is that the CGI wasn't detailed — I might even say poor, but more than likely it was really simple designs — and a lot of if not all the characters might have had beady eyes. They may have either been animals or made-up critters, and I distinctly remember the style being colorful.
Edited by Eggy0resolved Ghost hotel show Western Animation
Back when I was a little kid, my folks checked out a VHS of a cartoon about a group of ghosts (I think there were three of them, but it could have been four) that ran a hotel (or maybe a motel?) for other ghosts. There was a giant ghost named Crush or Crunch and a recurring antagonist in the form of a "ghost exterminator" named Sidney Merciless.
I was a little kid when I saw this, so it would have been 1994 or 1995 when my parents checked the tape out. This means the cartoon was created during the late 80s or the beginning of the 90s at the latest, though it may be older than that.
Does anyone know of a cartoon like this?

There was this animated movie I watched with my dad sometime during the 2010s. All of the characters were anthropomorphic animals. The main character was an orphan, he grew up with a dog girl who was also an orphan (they were both still kids during the movie) They were raised by an old cat.
The main character's mom used to be evil and she had a magical black/purple orb. His dad was good and he had a magical white/gold orb. They fought for centuries(?) before they ended up falling in love and she turned good.
But even though she wasn't evil anymore the people of MC's dad's kingdom still didn't trust her.
One day when MC was a baby, her orb started freaking out and doing some weird storm magic(???) when she tried to get it under control, the guards thought she was trying to use the orb to destroy the kingdom so they attacked her. Which made the orb even crazier. MC's dad sacrificed himself to save her but she had to run away since people still thought everything was her fault.
She told MC about all of this and told him she needed his help to resurrect his father. But she didn't tell him that they would need to sacrifice 100 (maybe 1000??) souls. There was this big event happening on a big arena and they would do the ritual there since pretty much everyone in the kingdom would be there. MC and his friends were trying to stop her and all of them except MC had their souls taken and turned to stone (everyone whose soul was taken would go back to normal if they managed to stop the ritual before it was completed. They sacrificed themselves because they believed he would succeed).
As the ritual progressed MC's dad was slowly gaining consciousness and the whole time he was just helplessly looking around as he watched his people turn to stone. MC was about to stop the ritual but his mother didn't let him.
Then there was this scene where the ritual was almost complete. She looked at her husband and saw how upset he was. And he just looked at her and smiled sadly, silently begging her to let him go. She sacrificed herself to stop the ritual and give everyone their souls back.
I can't find this movie ANYWHERE but I KNOW it exists, I know I didn't just make it up. I REALLY want to watch it again so if you could find it it would mean the world to me <3
Edited by Cupid23