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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 FruitzieopenA 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...
openCartoon 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 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.
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 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.
resolved 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 Eggy0openUK 90s cartoon, talking tree Western Animation
A 2D animated TV show made in the UK circa the 1990s. There was a character who was a wise, old, talking tree. Other characters could have been talking animals, I don't remember. I remember a vague plot of an episode where the characters want to do something nice for the tree, like send it on a holiday somewhere, but they can't find something perfect for it.
The punchline at the end of the episode being the Tree saying "Trees don't go on holiday."
Any ideas?
resolved 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?
resolved Clay-mation Series/Short from late 90s/early 2000s starring little playdough creatures? Western Animation
My sibling and I are trying to come up with a clay-mation show that probably aired in the late 90s/early 2000s on TV when we were kids because it had a distinctive intro tune that still gets stuck in their head years later (and is now stuck in mine 😅). The best we can figure is that:
- The aforementioned time range that it probably aired.
- It might have been an interstitial short that either aired between shows on PBS Kids or Nick Jr. (or perhaps on Nickelodeon proper), or perhaps a back-up segment on Sesame Street.
- We've already ruled out Purple and Brown; my sibling didn't recognize it and I cannot recall watching it on TV.
- My sibling describes it as starring little playdough creatures that had no intelligible dialogue, recalling a specific scene of a purple playdough creature jumping into an orange playdough pool and then laughing afterward.
Does that sound like it might ring a bell for anyone else?

This may have been a one-off or maybe a part of an anthology, I'm not sure.
Two boys - brothers, I think - end up in the castle of an ice wizard with an icicle beard. One of the boys asks the wizard does he have a fire to get warm, to which the wizard offers him a cold, blue flame to heat himself up.
Any help on this is appreciated. Thanks.