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These are two shows and I remember one better than the other. I think they played on ABC either on staurdays or weekday mornings
The first is about a bumbling detective whose name sounded like watermelon. I think they go back in time because the episode I remember they're visiting Louis Pasteur and the bad guys are trying to stop his discovery or something but the detective pasteurizes the milk anyway by accident. The animation style was similar to Flying Rhino Junior High.
The second one is about a mammoth that was found in a block of ice, was defrosted and lives with and archeologist and her son. The mammoth can talk and they're teaching him about the modern world.
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In the early '90s there was an animated TV special (too short to be a movie, but maybe a pilot that didn't get picked up) about a bunch of raccoons who hijack a futuristic garbage truck.
It all happens because the new trash collection system is so high-tech and efficient that they can't eat out of the humans' trash anymore and are going to starve to death if they don't do something. There was a montage of the raccoons stealing various human implements they needed to pull their heist (including, for no good reason, a hat).
Does this sound familiar at all? Everyone I talk to seems to think I imagined it.
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There was this show that starred a girl who had a pet cat that could talk and was an Egyptian god or something. I remember in one of the episodes they were trying to keep some kind of scepter from some creature. The cat was blue.
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I can't remember the name of a show that set in medieval times with anamorphic animals. There a live-action segment in it like Arthur where people give facts about the middle ages.
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This has been nagging me forever... I remember watching an awesome show that featured characters on rollerblades- I think skateboards and bikes too, I really can't remember. They basically saw the city as a playground, joined tournaments and whatnot... ugh, I really can't say anything more helpful. It does look Animesque, but it was so long ago I might be wrong.
Does it ring a bell to anyone?
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I am Thinking of a James Bond parity that has a kid hack into a spy network and get hired as a top spy. He has a black guy as his sidekick and techy guy to provide weird gizmos that are always needed. Also there where a bunch of famous silhouettes in charge, but all I can remember is the Elvis Presley silhouette.
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This was an old cartoon series I saw in Israel, don't know the original language... they were searching for some wizards (or ancient astronauts or something like that) there, the main characters were an owl (I think), a worm (in Israel, the cartoon was named after him), and a young man who was somehow connected to a giant diamond ( Much larger than a man. I didn't see the first episode, but I think he was born from that diamond. Toward the end, the main villain took that diamond, and some Ungoliant like servant of his was gradually corrupting it with its venom, IIRC. The man died four times from that).
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Did anyone remember Inside-Out Boy? I do. I watched it when I was a baby girl down at my grandma's. And when I was 11-years old, I see the reruns of Inside-Out Boy again during the dinner with my family. It was shown on Noggin. I believe Inside-Out Boy made a return on Teen Nick's The 90's Are All That block. It's about a small, cute and lucky kid who went on the swing after playing with his yo-yo. Then he swings so high that he went over bar on the swing set. Then his body turns inside-out! Dubbing himself as "Inside-Out Boy", he scares adults with his new look.
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The show (or perhaps show within a show) had the characters' bodies be black and white photos, but everything else on the show was colored. The main character was a young girl. One episode was about St patrick's day, where she couldn't figure out why she was being pinched.
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Not so much a show something to take up parts of commercial breaks. It was like a Toonami for the afterschool slot. It has a girl in a jumpsuit, an undewater club house, a bunch of aliens. It aired shows like Code lyoko and teenage mutant ninja turtles?
Any ideas?
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I'm trying to find two animated films. They are old but not ancient. I saw them several times on Cartoon Network international, in the late 90s, early 2000s, but they could be older.
The first one is about a boy and three/two anthropomorphic books. I don't remember much about that one but I believe it was an adventure. It started in a library and there might've been a creepy old guy.
The second one starts in live action. A giant gift appears in the living room of a boy. I think it was a car that drove him to this Wonderland-esque place. There was a talking dog. At one point, they think the dog died but he's okay.
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Anyone here remember "Spider and Fly"? They were some shorts shown on Nick in the early to mid 2000s. It was pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and it might have had a folk-style theme song. I also have vague memories of an episode where Fly dies. Anybody else?
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Two cartoon movies have been driving me insane: On Christmas Eve 2005 for sure I saw parts of this animated movie with a Christmas theme. I mostly only remember at the beginning there were these puppies with angel wings in Heaven, and this female adult angel dog was telling them a story about Christmas in modern times that I'm pretty sure involved anthropomorphic dogs. I think it was from the 80s or 90s and had a Disney esc style but wasn't Disney.
The other movie I'm more concerned about finding out. I'm sure I saw it on Toon Disney in 2002 or 2003 as part of a Friday night movie thing that would air a different cartoon movie every week and it usually didn't air Disney movies. This one also looked like it was from the 80s or 90s and had a Lion I think, and for sure had a red springy bear toy, and a living doll that had a pink dress and might have looked like Princess Peach or Little Bo Peep, there were few other weird characters they met I think. There was a scene where they ended up in a cottage where an old woman or something wanted to turn everyone who visited into a quilt square, and another scene where the bear told the doll she looked pretty in pink today, and she said she always dressed in pink. There might have been a living toy soldier or nutcracker who might have worked for the villain who might have lived in a big castle, and there might have been meremaids and a treasure of some kind. And the movie might have had diamonds or jewels in the name. This has been driving me insane for way too long. Do you have any idea what it might have been?
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Okay folks, here's one to strain your brains.
It was an animated film, shown on the UK Sci-Fi Channel, may have been Anime or western (I think Heavy Metal sort of style). I recall three of the main characters being 1) a Link lookalike, 2) a busty fairy in a skimpy dress and 3) a beardy dwarf-type who had so much beard you couldn't really see any of his face.
The bad guys were some sort of evil magician who also had access to hi-tech stuff like lasers and such. It was his hi-tech army versus a bunch of people like the aforementioned main characters (it went badly - laser beats wooden shield without any difficulty).
The Big Bad's genius idea was to project a giant film of Hitler (no really, stock archive footage and all!) which somehow caused all the good guys to be overcome with fear or depression etc.
There was also (I think) some kind of engineered soldier named "Peace" from the baddie's side who either defected or was captured before he could be programmed. Who the Link lookalike then kills with a thrown sword right before he was about to step up and stop the (quite impressively bloody for a cartoon) battle. I have no idea why, but it worked.
Any ideas?
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This troper's brother is convinced that he can remember a cartoon that involved anthromorphic apes in space and a villain with a removable brain, but can't remember any other details or the title. Please help because it is driving him nuts.
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Does anyone know the title of an animated movie about cats? In the begining scientists are experimenting on cats. The main character is a black and white cat who tries to find out why cats are disappearing. I think in the end the evil cat killed them with electricity because he tought only ugly cats should exist or something. This movie scared me a lot when I was a kid so I'd like to know what it was.
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I remember that I saw a movie that had a similar plot with " the little match girl"( I guess?) and a "Christmas carol" because it had Scrooge like villain and I think ( not sure) a Christmas theme
Tough the girl with the matches instead of dying became an angel/ revealed her self as an angel? and made thevillain that was an old rich guy to make a Heel–Face Turn. Has anybody seen it?
This one will be hard for sure...
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What episode of South Park from 2002 or before had a scene where a kid is in swim trunks or something and might be bald and is in a yard with a sprinkler or hose? I only saw a very brief scene.
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There's this educational VHS tape that somehow-well, at least now stands out in my mind. Saw it in my elementary days, dealt with a girl and her grandfather teaching her different cultures, then at one point; this girl has this stopmotion/claymation dream after she wishes everyone looked the or something. Then it cuts to these guys who look and sound the same.
Sorry, it's suddenly haunting me now. But anyone know the name of it really?

My friend saw a show on Cartoon Network before 1998 at his aunt's house. He remembers their being fish detectives. And no, he said it isn't Fish Police.