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resolved Help me find this animated film from my childhood Western Animation
When I was a kid, I remember watching this Animesque-ish 2D animated cartoon movie on TV, but I don't remember the name. I have vague memories of the plot.
It takes place in a world where toys are secretly sentient. There's a new girl at school, she's a redhead with blue eyes. It turns out she's the queen of the toys or something. She ends up getting a bad first impression of the main character, thinks he's an asshole, and refuses to be his friend. When she reveals her identity, all of his toys come to life and defend him. They say he's a good dude who treats all his toys with care, so she should give him a chance. She continues to be a cold tsundere to him for the rest of the film until the last leg, where he earns her trust.
I don't remember much else except for an adult villain, and the fact that one of the toys was a red car.
Do you know what film this is? I've been looking for it for years.
Edited by deerhornsaresoprettyresolved Fables Mystery Mansion Cartoon Western Animation
I'm looking for a cartoon of some Fables, going to a party at a haunted mansion. One of the main characters is the Fox from Aesop's fables, depicted as a plus-size furry woman in a fancy dress. It was a low-budget special/movie or limited animated series and I think it aired on Cartoon Network.
I think the fox lady turned out to be the villain in the end, but I'm not entirely sure.
openSeries of animated shorts that aired on Nickelodeon/Nick Jr Western Animation
All I remember about the characters is one of them is a white monkey with a red face, other is a blue lion. The intro had the monkey character with his eyes popped out I think.
open2000s or Earler Dental Cartoon Western Animation
I remember in kindergarten watching this animated movie (this would have been in the 2000s but it could have been made earlier) about dental hygiene, and there were these kids who went on an adventure and there was a villain named Sorcerer dePlaqueula or something. There might have been a Captain Planet Expy too.
At one point the villain trapped the kids in a cave via magic and it made their teeth rot or something. I also remember at the end the kids sang a song, where the few lyrics where part of the chorus was "Visit the dentist regularly!"
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
resolved Movie with two flies inside a dog?? Western Animation
Can anyone help me find the name of a movie, only thing remembered is three dogs in a road, two flies are inside (literally) one of them, and one of the flies tells the other one to not go towards the light, probably a CGI animated movie
Edit: Found! It's Spirit of The Forest, and it was cats instead of dogs :)
Edited by AutisticStarmenopenShow with tribal animals Western Animation
Hello.
I am trying to remember some old show I remember seeing snippets of from Cartoon Network, mostly limited to scattered memories or from brief ads. Could perhaps be a Hanna-Barbera show given I seem to remember it being briefly shown in one ad for their other cartoons.
From what little I remember it was about some cartoon animals, maybe bears or some kind of dogs perhaps, that followed some kind of native American, tribal lifestyle.
Now I can't say for sure if this was a full show or just a minor part of another, but this is all I can really say that I know of it. It has bothered me for years and it would be nice to finally have it identified.
resolved Mickey Mouse cartoon dancing Western Animation
There's an old B&W Mickey Mouse cartoon where a load of characters are just dancing. One visual I particularly remember is a large pig that gets a small chair stuck to her backside.
openShow about (Mexican?) bugs living in a desert. Western Animation
I vaguely remember there was an animated show in the 90's about bugs living in the desert with a Tex-Mex feel. It is NOT Santo Bugito, because the colors used in the show were more neutral and natural and it didn't have singing in it. Does anyone else remember it?
resolved A Mon(?) animated series where the heroes explore a highly technological Ghost City Western Animation
This was back in Italy during the summer of 2009, the same time period I was watching Bakugan, Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, and even Mix Masters, the latter of which I rediscovered thanks to you people again. Well, it wasn't the only obscure Mon series that I almost forgot about, that I watched in 2009.
It was a Low Fantasy/Clock Punk-like setting; the characters had these Mons that they could summon from and store in dice-like items. These Mons could have been artificial in nature, and at least The Smart Guy's Mon looked like a robot. I remember it looked like Western animation (as in, it didn't look like an anime), not sure if American or European; it might even had 2D Visuals, 3D Effects.
I didn't see many episodes of it, but I remember one of them pretty well: it involved a city that locked its inhabitants in devices similar to the ones used to keep the Mons, and use them as Living Batteries. The result was a city that was way mote technologically advanced compared to the rest of the setting (it even had vending machines), but was completely empty. The episode ended with the Villain of the Week, that was responsible for the state of this Ghost City, being converted in one of these Living Batteries off-screen. Does that ring any bells to anybody?
Edited by TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomitresolved Brief anime scene in ''Luis and the Aliens'' Western Animation
If you have seen Luis and the Aliens, early into the movie there is a scene onboard the alien mothership where the aliens watch Earth tv broadcast and for a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" moment there is a scene from some anime*of a short-haired blonde girl takling on a cellphone while lying on her bed on the tv screen, before the aliens switch the channel. Anybody knows what anime is the screen from?
opendesert island, angry indigenous kid, and some kind of creature Western Animation
i was writing stuff and got reminded of this show i watched as a kid!
it was a short-form cartoon about a kid who lived with some kind of creature on a desert island. the kid might've looked like one of 'em Hollywood Natives and had dark skin and curly hair that went spiky whenever they got mad, while i don’t remember anything about the creature other than how the kid got mad at them often. characters were Speaking Simlish. i distinctly remember the kid yelling something that sounded like "hey! chobulay babulay!" at the creature in one episode bc it was a sort of inside joke among my family.
despite the similar theme of fantasy indigenous tribes, it isn't Qumi-Qumi
Edited by noodlesnookopenPuppet hero show? Western Animation
I’m sorry for doing this a second time in a row but… I also remember this show where a boy who was a fan of a hero that was now turned into a puppet.(through everyone [but the petty villain] before the events of the show) the boy found the puppet(I forgot when or where) and when he puts it on the puppet(/narcissistic hero) the puppet gains powers. The animation is 2d, no 3D asset(I’m pretty sure). I remember a lot more about the show than my first entry on here, I even remember what the boy, the puppet and the petty villain (which I’ve mentioned before) looks! I just need to remember the name of the show. (More about the petty villain, he wanted the here [who is now a puppet] sidekick but the hero didn’t want that so he turned the hero into a puppet).
Edited by Bugsnaxeater24openWeird alien-brain show Western Animation
The show starred a black boy and his crew, they were kids and they fought these brain aliens, (I think they were aliens) the children lived in a abandoned mall(I think). The story is that all the parents are gone so the children have to fend for themselves. The show was CGI. I also remember that the alien’s king was dumb.
resolved "My Little Pony"? ...Or was it? Western Animation
Back in the 90s when I was four years old my mom rented me a movie and said it was "My Little Pony", but... What I remembered was pretty different from My Little Pony.
For one, the horses had more realistic proportions, and the protagonist was a young human boy. There was a medieval European fantasy setting with thatched roof cottages, and the tone was not as cloying. I distinctly remember a black, shadowy horse, and a fire. Also flying horses, not pegasi, but sort of walking in the air like Santa's reindeer.
Now... It could very well have been My Little Pony and I just have bad memory/my mind playing tricks on me. I was only four afterall. I know the first gen cartoons can get surprisingly tense and maybe I mixed up Megan and Danny, but there is still the possibility it was a completely different movie.
But I don't know of any uh, animated fantasy horse movies from that era other than The Last Unicorn, which matches the proportions and setting I remember, but there isn't a young human boy in it or a shadow horse from what I know.
Sooo, is there some other 90s or earlier animated fantasy movie with horses I could have watched? Or was it indeed My Little Pony or The Last Unicorn and my memory just sucks?
Edited by ninjamitsuki2openRed, Green, Blue Flying Disc Weapon Western Animation
I've been searching every where. I believe this show was Western Animation or maybe Anime from the 80s or 90s.
I don't really remember much about it, but one of the characters had a very unique weapon... I want to say it was a red/green/blue 3-colored disc, and I want to say he could fly or hover on it. Additionally, the red/green/blue parts could separate and basically become 3 different boomerang-shaped weapons, and I believe that each other might have had its own ability..
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm starting to feel like I dreamed it up?
resolved FunnyAnimals with magic shields? Western Animation
Thanks to the Media Finder, I think I finally found the identity of an Animesque Mon show I saw when I was a young lad (Mix-Masters).
Then I remembered I also had to find another cartoon I saw sometimes when I was a kid. As in, back when I was less than 9 years old. So a looooooooot of time ago.
I think it was a Western animated show from the 80s or 90s, looking back, but there's always the possibility that I couldn't distinguish between styles from different decades at such a young age, or that it was 2000s cartoon made with outdated technology.
Anyway, it was at least broadcasted in Italy during the early 2000s, between 2004 and 2006 for certain.
I remember it being a French animation, or European at least. I don't know why. Maybe it was the names of the characters or shown in the credits that looked French to me, even if I was a stupid lil baby AND I didn't actually memorize the names themselves; but I still think that it could've been something France would make.
As for the setting: it's a World of Funny Animals, the two main characters are two wolf-like Funny Animals, and they have a sidekick that's like a young girl; I remember them being pilots of some kinds in their daily lives (either racecars or spaceships).
The premise was built around two or three magical shields: one red, one blue and one green (maybe), and they possibly could merge. I don't remember what powers they had exactly, but they looked like that they were pretty powerful nonetheless. And the main characters had to search all these magical shields.
The main antagonist was a villainess, possibly a reptile or amphibian; once again, I have a very nonsensically specific memory of one of the scenes, where she was taking a bath and singing, and her singing was SO horrible that they flushed her down the tub so they didn't have to listen to her.
I feel like this will be harder to find than Mix-Master, since this was probably a more obscure show, which I watched back when I was even younger, and I fear some of the things I said are incorrect and just make it harder to identify the show.
But I'm confident that the premise of Funny Animals with magic shields is unique enough it could help, and that I could add it to my Special Ability Shield one day.
openA British narrated rhyming stop-motion fairytale series where the figures had monkey-like faces Western Animation
Back in the 80s, there were these shorts on TV Ontario's children's programming lineup that were from the UK (they were narrated in a British voice) and were short, rhymed interpretations of fair tales. That were stop-motion, but actually as I recall not much movement happened, they were mostly just screenshots of the characters. The funny thing was that all the figures had grotesque, somewhat monkey-like faces. I only clearly remember one of the fairytales, it was called "The Barber of Hairina (?)" and was a different take on the story about King Midas' donkey's ears. On the whole a rather odd series. What could this have been?
openStop-motion animation about girl whose watercolors took away all the color from the world around her Western Animation
Circa 1986 at a Christmas party, I saw a short stop-motion animated film that looked like it could have been made in Eastern Europe (similar in style to the work of the Polish Se-ma-for studio). It was about a little girl who had a set of watercolors, but was very messy in using them. So to teach her a lesson, each cake from the watercolor set absorbed its respective color from the world around and then they ran away. When the girl came out, she found that the entire world had turned black and white. She eventually found the watercolors dancing around a rainbow, and they restored color to the world. What was this?
open"The Tidys"? Western Animation
I vaguely remember a British children's TV show from at least the 1990s that I think was called "The Tidys". I could be wrong. Don't remember a thing about the show itself, but the theme song pops up in my head every now and then. The title came up in the song.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Oh, they changed the name of You Know That Show.
Years ago, I found a dubbed version of the SpongeBob SquarePants song "This Grill is Not a Home" from the episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket". This dubbed song is... unique in that instead of simply dubbing the song, it replaces it entirely with an incoherent collection of music and Stock Sound Effects, with the music being the stock music they use for the show. And yes, it's an official dub (or at least one that aired on television). They don't even change the visuals or anything, just the song into... whatever you call music and sounds cobbled together like that.
I don't even remember what dub it is. Can anybody find me that version of the song? Thanks.
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