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Right, this is going to be a toughie.
This was an animated short maybe 10 or 20 minutes long. Problem was I saw it on the 1998 UNICEF International Children's Day of Broadcasting, so I have no idea when it was actually made (probably in the late 80s or early 90s) or if it was ever aired again.
It was a kind of an Aesop type animal story about a wolf (or possibly jackal) and two mountain goats, a mother and a boy child. I think it was called 'Little (name of the child goat here)'. The name of was weird.. sounded kind of Russian?
There was also a porcupine who was a doctor, and the mother sent her child to go get a prescription from him, and the porcupine doctor signed it with his pawprint? But the wolf was out to get the child goat's mother I think, and tricked either the doctor or the baby goat in some way involving the prescription?
Not much to go on I know..
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I saw a preview for an episode of "My Gym Partner is a Monkey" a few years ago. I'm looking for a specific episode where the principal strips off his suit to reveal a swimsuit.
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A series consisting of various short stories from around the world. I only remember one episode containing two stories, which were animated via stop motion/clay motion. It aired on Latin-American Nickelodeon.
One of the stories had a girl outsmarting a tiger (trapping it inside a cave?).
Another one had the mayor of an island wanting to reach the moon, so he ordered everyone to build him a giant stair -which soon proved to be insufficient- and then a tower using everything and anything as materials, until no one had any furniture (or even houses!) left. He thought he was about to reach the moon when the tower collapsed. He finally learned that he was being foolish and hurting his people chasing a mad dream.
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What's the episode of The Simpsons where Homer (and Bart?) watch "Paint Your Wagon" and are horrified that it's a musical? And not a very good musical at that!
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There is a skateboarding hippy dude who has a dojo of child delivery workers. The main character has a flying skateboard, the pretty girl has a flying scooter. Main character is a boy, and we find out he has amnesia and was taken in by the dude. This is a very futuristic world, all roads are in the sky and all buildings are skyscrapers. When the characters fall their uniforms inflate and they bounce harmlessly around for a while. Aimed at the younger set, there is no graphic violence whatever and the emoting is rather blatant. A familiar scene is the kids gathered in the TV room watching movies. The particular style of minimalist CG animation is familiar to me from other shows I also can't remember the names of. No, I'm not that old - it's just that my DVR took care of that until it was stolen.
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I used to watch these two Cartoons R Fun tapes at my grandma's house, one had Old Mac Donald Had A Farm, and the other had Egghead's Hamateur Night and a cartoon about a hunting dog that couldn't sleep. What I want to know about is this cartoon that was the last on both of them, it had this grumpy looking man with a mustache, who had a fat goofy wife with a childish voice, and he was trying to get on a train with an operator who was this crazy old man with a long white beard. Does anyone know what this was called? I saw it as late as early 2008( when I was ten), but I can't remember the name or too much about it. Thanks.
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I have little information on this show but i seem to remeber it being only a mini series came on every afternoon for a week. I remember the main character carried a shield and i think in the last episode this magic shield opened somehow any thoughts?
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This one was an oddity: a girl living in Australia has what appears to be a (blue? boy) stuffed koala. In reality, however, the koala is alive and from a parallel world. The koala frequently takes the girl to the koala world despite it being forbidden, much to the distress of his pink sister. The boy koala was looking for crystals or something that had been lost in our world. I think the girls father or grandfather disappeared in the koala world. I seem to remember the show ending with the koala siblings using crystals t turn Ayers Rock into a spaceship or something like that? Seriously, this is driving nuts.
I remember watching it in the early 90s or late 80s. Help.
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Right, this one's been nagging me for a little while. I watched part of a series on VHS in the early to mid 90s, but it might have been much earlier than this.
The main character was a girl from the future who used a gun that worked in a similar way to Green Lantern's ring (ie, can do anything relevant to the plot). An enemy of hers goes back in time to attack her ancestors so she follows and ends up with a family in present time. The family definitely had a teenaged boy, young boy and possibly a girl in between. They all then used the guns and some belts to travel back in time (by standing in a circle and shooting the belts with the guns of course) to protect their ancestors as the enemy (cannot remember anything about them) was targeting them. I'm pretty certain it was set in America, so I'm guessing it's American.
Anyone got any ideas what this one is?
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Which episode of G.I. Joe had someone say "I think I've seen turtles go faster than this!"? It was in reference to substandard vehicles.
Don't ask me why I need to know this. It's a long story.
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There were this cartoon on Fox Kids with a witch girl, an elf boy, a little wizard guy and this old talking book that actually was the witch's grandfather or something, and I can't remember the name. They traveled back in time a one point. It was before 2000, I think.. The little wizard guy had a magicians wand and the witch's was made of wood. The lived in a school, kinda like Hogwarts, but it was before. Also, in the opening they slide down a secret tunnel or something.
It was an Anime or Western Animation. I'm thinking the last one, but I'm not sure.
I'd be very grateful if anyone could tell me what show it is :)
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I saw this show on VHS in the late 90s/early 2000s. It's an All-CGI Cartoon about talking insects and plants that live in a swamp/forest. One of the protagonists is a small, green bug with a cap; one of the villains is a fat, blue mosquito with purple warts and a top hat. The CGI is very crude, worse than anything Video Brinquedo put out (at least, as far as I remember), and it looks as though it was made to cash-in on A Bug's Life. Thus, it may be a direct-to-video release. I also distinctly remember there being a British narrator. Any ideas? I've searched and searched but can't find the title.
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Okay, here's three queries in one.
1. A kid's cartoon from the late 80s or early 90s that had a bunch of kids in a dream world where they had powers. One of the kids had rollerblade feet.
2. A show from the 90s the featured a special police unit formed to deal with super-criminals. I think that one of the policemen was a dog handler and that one of the villains was called Brainstorm.
3. A show about a black guy with magical talking dance shoes.
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Two animated series:
1. I wanna say it was on BBC America, but I don't recall British accents, but I could be mistaking, I think it was meant for adults but I don't remember what was adult in it, this was around 2005 to 2008, really not sure, it was probably cgi, maybe claymation. It flipped between different talking animals and they would just talk about stuff. Does anyone know what this was?
2. This next one I remember less about and it could be more obscure. It was sometime between 2000 and 2003 on PBS, it only aired on weekends, maybe only Saturdays, maybe only Sundays, at the time it was on it was the only kid's show on PBS on weekends around here. It featured small woodland creatures like mice I believe, and it might have been a continuing story, and it had detailed art and the animals wore clothes like elves maybe. Does this ring a bell to anyone? I'm starting to wonder if I really saw this one.
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This was a computer game for kids, probably late 90, early 00s. All I can remember is the goal was to get to some sort of golden city thing, and you had to complete tasks along the way. Each task took you through a gate. I remember one task about snails racing, another about a marching band made up of ants underground in an ant hive thingy. I have a vague memory of a toucan and/or a monkey. I think it might have been an educational game.
Another computer game from the same era: you were a scuba diver. That is all I remember. It was very slow-paced...I think you had to get to a submarine at the end.
Any help is appreciated.
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Memory don't fail me now. All I remember is a rabbit with friends, and another who messed things up. prolly around 1999-2000 ish.
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I'm trying to remember a cartoon with a recurring character that was a mummy who was abused by those around him, partially because he was entirely unintelligible. Gags include being painted by children, left out of a party, etc. One of the characters may have been a werewolf, another a little blue boy that constantly swore. The animation style was reminiscent of something on Adult Swim, but I can't remember if that's where I saw it. It would have aired around mid to late 2000s. Sound familiar to anyone? It would be much appreciated.
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I'm looking for some specific episodes of certain cartoons. For the life of me, I don't remember the episode names.
1. Timon And Pumbaa: Timon eats a bug, then gets turned into one, then Pumbaa eats Timon. ("Beetle Romania")
2. Camp Lazlo: The scout master rides a unicycle in his underwear. ("Lumpus vs. the Volcano")
3. My Gym Partners A Monkey: The principal wears a purple swimsuit. ("Lie, Cheetah, Steal", found this on my own.)
4. Rugrats: Cynthia gets flushed down the toilet. ("Down the Drain")
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I'm trying to find the name of a show from the late 90s or early 00s about a teenage girl living with her mother, grandmother and her grandmother's dog in the UK (I'm pretty sure). She had 2 friends - 1 who had pink hair, or perhaps that was her mother? Her grandmother was always cranky.

I seem to recall a scene I saw multiple times in a Spongebob episode from 2003 or before, in the scene Spongebob had drawn a smiley face on each finger on one hand and was saying they were his only friends. I'm sure I've seen ever episode from the first three seasons numerous times from 2005 to now, but I haven't seen this scene which I saw quite a few times before then. I could be misremembering the scene from "Wormy" where he has finger puppets of the friends "the monster ate", but I don't think I am. Was this a real scene I remember?