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openAnimated series with mystery and detective animals Western Animation
Hi everyone!
I can't remember too much but this series was on Fox Kids or maybe on Jetix. It had a pretty evil and mysterious villain hiding in an underground cave and I remember something about ravens. The good guys were detectives, I think animals maybe. The main conflict was between the detectives and the villain. It was slightly creepy at least for me when I was young, the plots of the episodes had always something mysterious or supernatural in them. The intro had a very catchy but a little wierd music.
If any of you remembers this I would be extremely grateful! I've been looking for this series for a year now.
openAnimated Short about a stuffed animal Western Animation
Okay so this probably would have been 80s or early 90s at the latest. Possibly on Nickelodeon before they started making their own content. In the short, there was a kid and his stuffed blue dog (may have been a different animal. Bear? Rabbit? Pretty sure it was blue, though). The toy came to life and they had some whimsical adventures. There was no dialog but there was music. At the end, I THINK one of the toy's button eyes falls off, and the kid abandons him to play with a new toy. The short closes on a shot of the stuffed toy, back in "toy mode," slumped on the ground with its button eye hanging off. This short DESTROYED ME as a child. (it was NOT the Velveteen Rabbit, which is acting as a red herring and throwing off all my searches)
Other info: It was definitely 2D animation and not puppets or stop motion (ruling out Old Bear and Friends and The Christmas Toy). I seem to recall it being rather minimalist, with a mostly white background, but that could be just gaps in my memory. I also recall that the animal (dog?) had floppy ears but no tail.
So far all the luck I've had is dredging up a bunch of other shows about abandoned toys that make me tear up while searching for this one (I'm lookin at you "The Mouse and His Child")
openDisney cartoon about a dog and a bunny Western Animation
I'll just cut to the chase: it was a show about this golden retriever(?) named Bianca or Becky and she's a trendy, I think rich dog who gets trapped in a jungle with this rabbit that is her complete opposite. I remember watching it before and I don't know what it's called. It was on Disney, I don't think XD. 2008-10ish I think.
openHanna Barbera Teen Dance Incidental Music Western Animation
Frequently on 60's Hanna-Barbera cartoons, especially The Flintstones, whenever teens would dance to what passed for rock and roll on the show, they would use an image of the boy and girl dancing back and forth to a bouncy-sounding repetitive theme that I obviously have a hard time ID'ing here but it went like—doo-doo/doo-doo-doo-doo—ad infinitum. Assuming this piece even had a title, can anyone help?
openCGI cartoon Western Animation
Hi! I was wondering if maybe tropers could help me figure out this one work I recall seeing somewhere.
It was a CGI cartoon, I don't remember if it was a movie or a tv series.
I think it was from France? I'm not sure though; I looked through the French cartoons list on Wikipedia and nothing rang a bell.
What I do recall is two characters designs. One was an adult woman with a bobcat haircut, black-rimmed glasses, black suit, white shirt, black pants and black fingerless gloves; maybe a beauty mark too, I'm not sure. She was one of the bad guys, I think; not sure about that either. The other was a small child, pink shirt, long sleeves, brown hair and a pink hat; I think it was a beret. She was one of the main characters or a one shot character.
As for the show, I think it involves aliens? Again, my memory is fuzzy. I drew a terrible doodle of them if it helps. http://imgur.com/a/y7NLx
openanimated song Western Animation
I'm looking for this animated song I saw on youtube I think around 2010. I remember that in the start this woman somehow brings a palm tree to life and there is a bit about a baboon and a raccoon dating and there might have been something with monkey hand puppets, I don't think it had anything with a show but I'm not sure
openCrocodile Detective. Western Animation
My friend swears they remember a show that was partly live action about an alligator who was a private eye/detective with a trench coat. He was accompanied by children and spoke directly to the viewer. The alligator would teach the viewer about science and my friend mainly remembers an episode about Magnetism.
openJust a kid's show... Western Animation
I remember watching this show on C Beebies. It was a mix of CGI and live action, and was about racing with futuristic vehicles (or something like that). There were 3 contestants with color-coded suits that reminded me of printer ink colors (one was a girl with magenta outfit, another one a boy with a cyan outfit and the last one a girl with a yellow outfit). All of them had these (probably) robotic pets. The spectators for the race were live action kids, and the others are basically CGI. In between the races there were mini-games involving a clock and a purple hippo (or something like that?)
And BTW, the whole premise slightly reminded me of a mix of Overwatch and Mario Kart. (On the topic of the former, the competitors' outfits reminded me of Tracer's outfit.)
openAnimesque TV show about kids/teens in space (Art style ~= Martin Mystery/Totally Spies...) Western Animation
To any Canadians, or people who got Teletoon and Y-TV, does anyone remember this show? I asked a friend of mine, but they said they couldn't tell if I was kidding. Anywho, it was an interesting show, from what vague recollections I have.... the most prominent thing that stands out in my mind, was the main cast visiting a water planet; and from a different episode, the teen male lead meets a alien chick whose parents are, like, anglerfish-parasite'd onto her neck.
openExtreme Hungry Hippos Western Animation
I remember a scene from a cartoon aired between 2000 and 2006 where the characters played a scaled-up version of the board game Hungry Hippos with some variations. In this case large balls would be released into a maze and the characters would then have to navigate the hippo heads to them and collect as many as possible.
openChildren's show Western Animation
I can't remember the name of a children's show I used to watch quite a long time ago. Early 2000s but it may have been made a bit earlier. Not a lot though, because of the art style. I remember it was about characters being able to transform into mechanical animals, using little phone-like things. Main characters were kids but I'm pretty sure there were adults too.
openAnthropomorphic Cat Police officer? Western Animation
The show would always start with a normal, non-anthro cat living with a normal family, before they- the voice was pretty androgynous- would go to sleep and the majority of the show would be the cat's dream sequence. The Police Commissioner/boss was a teddy bear that I think he had as a toy in real life. I remember that he once spent the whole episode moaning about not getting a cuppa, and when he was finally able to, the water was shut off thanks to some maintenance workers. When the show ended, the cat would wake up again. Any ideas?
open'90 Cartoon in Solar System Western Animation
There's a cartoon I watched in early '90 I think and from time to time I try to recall its name but fail completely. I remember only few things:
1. it was a sci-fi cartoon and it took place in close future in Solar System and protagonists were using starfighter type spaceships. 2. I think that enemies were using two distinct colors on their spacefighters - one group had white starfighters and the other - black. 3. in one episode two antagonistic groups were stranded on Mercury and I think they had to work together to survive or rising Sun would kill them all.
So far I only found that there was a "Exosquad" cartoon taking place in near-future Solar System, but I think that's not it.
openOld mystery cartoon from around 2002-2007 Western Animation
I'm looking for an old cartoon that was aired somewhere between 2002 and 2007. It was about 3 friends who would investigate "supernatural mysteries" in their town (most of the time it was just misunderstandings). The main character was short and had bluish skin, the other two was a boy and girl. The one episode I remember was when they found a big toe in jar and that led to assumptions and they decided to investigate etc. In the end it belonged to an ordinary guy (looked like cliche office clerk) who had lost it in the past and liked to keep it in his breast pocket. The episode ended with the big toe crawling into a volcano.
Any help appreciated. Thanks
openOld VHS cartoon (burning buildings and harmless viruses included.) Western Animation
I am having a lot of trouble finding an old VHS cartoon from my childhood. I cannot find the original tape and I have no idea what it was called. I do have a pretty good memory of some pretty big plot point from the movie itself so that's what I shall be listing after I describe some important details mainly about one of the main characters.
1. He wore opaque glasses that hid his eyes. 2. Besides the glasses, he was your average nerdy looking student who seemed to be part of some kind of university. 3. He was lanky and had brown hair.
Now that's out of the way, let's get to the plot points
1. The nerdy student at one point finds about some kind of virus living in his system. Later in the movie it turns out it was a harmless insect/plant virus that wouldn't have killed him. 2. He and some other scientist seemed to be able to look around in his blood with a tiny submarine. 3. Later on in the film, a robber holds up a building and it's staff with a bomb that turns out to just be fireworks. The fireworks themselves end up setting the building on fire where... 4. The nerdy student has ended up on a window wiper's platform and is lamenting his inevitable death. One of the scientists contacts him and tells him about how the virus is actually harmless. The last thing the student says to him before panicking is "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!" 5. Finally, the student manages to escape on a helicopter and the rest is a blank from there.
If you have anything, thanks.
openCartoon about monsters in amulets and such? Western Animation
Hi everyone. This is really bothering me, because I remember this cartoon with vivid details but just can't remember the name. It was a show about people searching for monsters inside amulets which they can later use to call and battle. The first episode I remember this kid getting an amulet from his dead father or something and him trying to figure out what it is, then he finds a man who is either his uncle or a good friend of his father. He's I think an archeologist and goes around the world searching for new and stronger monsters, possibly even legendary ones, not just because of himself, but so that some evil dudes don't get them first. I also remember something about monsters battling each other and the winner gets the losers monster? Something like that. Please help me find this show, it's killing me...
openObscure Halloween Special Western Animation
The cartoon I'm trying to remember is a series of maybe 20 minute long episodes that I'm pretty sure went straight to vhs. All I can remember is that it takes place around halloween, with the cast consisting of two normal kids and the stereotypical spooks of halloween like mummies and dracula, as children. I remember the strangest thing about them was that the animation looked liked something that was made in flash, but I'm pretty sure flash didn't exist yet. Any ideas?
openA DC animated series Western Animation
I'm looking for a DC animated series which I think is not part of DCAU, going by the art style (kinda... animesque?). Unfortunately, I've only glimpsed one brief scene from it. It goes like this:
Aquaman, in an orange vest and with a stubble, is looking into an aquarium with a lobster in it when a huge guy with sailor beard pulls the lobster out. Aquaman looks at the guy and goes "Leave him alone! We were... talking."
openClassic cartoon short about airplanes Western Animation
There's this cartoon I remember watching as a kid on TV, in the same local timeslot that aired Bugs Bunny shorts, but there were no recognizable characters in it (and I even doubt it was a Warner Bros cartoon, not sure). It was probably from the 40s-60s, very colorful and narrated like a documentary, a bit reminiscent of those "world of Goofies" cartoons, It started with an establishing shot of an airport where all kinds of wacky flying contraptions were flying about, the voiceover guy talking something about aviation enthusiasts and how the field has advanced so much over the years, or something. Then it segued into a series of skits, such as:
- A massive high-wing passenger plane whose wings were almost entirely covered with propeller engines (curiously I don't remember any jet plane in this), after some build up for its launch, only the wing took off, leaving the rest of the plane (and its surprised passengers) behind.
- The narrator goes "Planes without instruments have to rely on ground roads for navigation" or something like that, while showing the top-down vision of a plane's shadow doing a silly car impression, following the road as if it was driving on it, stopping at road signs, taking the wrong turn then having to back up to take the right one, stuff like that.
- A pilot in his cockpit flying at night during a heavy rain, there are no windshield wipers, so he has to stick his hand up a hole on the console so he can wipe the windshield manually himself.
- And torwards the end there's this one about "blind landing", which of course, ends up with the airplane, as soon as it gets close to the runway, stopping in mid air so the pilot will cover up the canopy with a convertible car roof-like thing then open a hatch on the plane's belly to poke around the ground with a walking stick like a blind person.

A few days ago my mom asked me if I knew the name of a show that was on PBS years ago. She said that all she can remember is cats and something to do with Asia. If you know the name can you please tell me?