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openChristmas Teddy Bear Film Western Animation
2D Animated special. A Teddy Bear is lost in the snowy woods. He befriends some animals and plays hockey with ducks. They all leave and he’s buried in a snowstorm only to be rescued by Santa who brings him back to his owner.
openAnimated short for kids Western Animation
I came in about halfway through and I haven't been able to find anything that indicates a title. What I saw was a yellow monster that looked kind of like Jake from Adventure Time (but not, obviously) staring at what looked like giant bear prints in a forest, and then it rained and the yellow monster took shelter in a hollow tree and looked really sad. Then the short switched to a pink monster that seemed to be a very young child. The pink monster went outside its home, ignoring a sign that told it not to go outside, and then explored the forest and encountered the yellow monster. The two embraced, and then the pink monster smelt smoke and looked up, only to find that the yellow monster's 'eyes' were actually its nostrils. The yellow monster gave it a terrifying smile, and then the short ended. (My friend said that just after it there was some kind of quote about the benefit of obedience, but I don't remember that.)
openAnimated film involving pizza and a lava monster Western Animation
I remember seeing snippets of an animated film, but I have no idea what is was called or what the plot even was. I saw it sometime between 2006 and 2012. What I remember is:
- What I saw was set in a town, which looked European to me;
- One scene involved characters baking pizzas in old-fashioned stone ovens;
- There may have been small semi-antropomorphic mice involved, like Jaq and Gus from Disney's Cinderella;
- One scene had some kind of lava monster flowing through the town. The monster was Conspicuous CGI.
openVHS-Era (Spanish?) Animated Movie Western Animation
So my memories of the context around my viewings of this are significantly stronger than my memories of the movie itself, but I feel like they could be useful: back in elementary school, we had mandatory Spanish lessons (it was a K-12 “Lab School” for the local state university that had lots of programs like that) but our instructor was lazy as sin and frequently just put on this Spanish-language animated movie for us to watch while sitting there reading or whatever. They also put on an English dub of it once or twice, I can only assume as an excuse to say they were actually teaching us.
This all happened in the early 2000s, I’d say from 2000-2002, but I feel like the movie was old at the time, potentially going back decades from that. It was definitely on VHS, at least. I don’t remember anything in the way of plot and barely recall anything character-wise, sadly, but I’ll try: it was medieval themed, taking place in a castle. The animation wasn’t that impressive I don’t think; on the level of like, classic Tom & Jerry and the like. It was a comedy that either focused on a romance, or had a major romantic subplot? There was a king, a princess, I think a gardener? Maybe some kind of scrawny knight guy? Like I said these are old memories. It might have been legit edutainment but I feel like it was just a kids movie.
I’ll also add the obvious caveat that while my memory strongly associates this movie with Spanish and it’s Spanish dub, I honestly can’t say for certain whether this was a Spanish/Latin American movie or an American one with a Spanish dub, though I’m pretty sure it was the former.
Edited by Dirtyblue929openspongebob Western Animation
theres like this scary spongebob episode where hes writing smth nd he started tripping like everything around him was either an object turning to smth w life or just some weird creepy stuff. idk what else happened or the story but it's one of the things i remembered the most from spongebob i just dont rmb what ep it was.
openPerspective-flipped Pac-man Western Animation
I remember watching this cartoon in the 80s. It had strong Pac-Man references so unlikely to be older. Dialog was in English, but there's a chance it was a dubbed Anime. I don't remember any names, but years later I encountered Pac-Man and realised the cartoon must have been a parody.
The main characters were basically Pac-Man ghosts. I think the Big Bad was humanoid, but it could have been Pac-Man himself. I think he had some henchmen. When a ghost was caught, it lost most of its body and became a little pair of eyes that flew quickly back to a giant wardrobe where there was a supply of new ghost bodies hanging on coat hangers.
They didn't like being caught but never seemed to run out of new bodies.
Two scenes I remember:
- the Big Bad caught a pair of eyes as it was flying around, and gleefully commented on it while holding the eyes between thumb and forefinger.
- Some (all?) of the ghosts were at the wardrobe getting new bodies. One of them exclaimed, "This one fits me like a glove!" and one of the others pointed out that it was, in fact, a glove. The camera shifted to reveal a big (yellow?) glove with a pair of eyes somewhere on the palm.
resolved 1992 Canadian elf/dwarf thing (SOLVED) Western Animation
This could be a cartoon, a movie, or a commercial. This image
was taken in Canada in 1992, and no one has been able to find out just what it is. All we have is a single screenshot of an elf/dwarf thing. Can any tropers help out?
The things that have been ruled out include The Littles, the Teen Wolf cartoon, Blackstar, The Magician’s Hat, Dreamstone, The Smurfs, Rock and Rule, Ferngully, the Jetsons Movie, Black Cauldron, Flight of Dragons, Princess and the Goblin, Care Bears Nutcracker Suite, Magic Voyage, Freddie the Frog, Hans and the Silver Skates, Nilus the Sandman, Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer, Herself the Elf, Elm-chanted Forest, Magic Riddle, Gremlins, Lady Lovely Locks, An American Tail, Felix the Cat, Princess Starla, Star Fairies, Thumbelina, the Town Santa Forgot, the Wish That Changed Christmas, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Edited by sudrictoonopenFake Mustache Tear-Off Gag Western Animation
This isn't about finding a show in particular, this is about a specific gag from something:
A character who was in disguise (paper-thin, of course) using a fake mustache rips it off to reveal that the fake mustache was covering an identical-looking real mustache.
Does anyone have a clue what this gag was from? Just throw any show you know has one of these gags into the replies; it might be the one I'm looking for.
resolved Children's Show Where Everyone is a Blob Western Animation
I just saw a glimpse of this show on Nick Jr. Asia but didn't get the title. It's a British Slice of Life cartoon where everyone is a colored anthro-ish blob, with the orange one kinda looking like Arthur. In the glimpse of the episode I just saw, the main characters turn into moles and dig around the world, but I don't know if it was an Imagine Spot or if they're shapeshifters.
openExperimental, Surreal (Possibly Korean) CGI Film Western Animation
So, a couple years ago I went to an art exhibition at the college where my father works at, and among the pieces there was this rather confusing "experimental" CGI film- it was playing on what appeared to be infinite loop on a TV screen, and due to the fact that it was composed of various vignettes with no real sense of plot or order.
The vignettes were all focused on a vaguely Asian-looking woman in a clean, sterile, Ascetic Aesthetic sci-fi-y place as she did different things. I remember clearly that she exercised by running on a treadmill with a screen in front of her showing a forest path- this was our only glimpse of a "natural" outdoors environment. Each and every vignette seemed to possess a theme of the woman breaking through the place she was in and revealing something bizarre and impossible- once she broke through the wall to reveal motionless copies of herself standing in some kind of void room, and once she did... something that I don't remember... and ended up creating a floating, perfectly spherical blob of water about half her height. She never seemed to recall the events of any previous vignette, and also never spoke aloud.
There was a little plaque on the wall next to the TV screen that explained a few things, although not what was actually going on in there- it just said that the title (which was some word in an Asian language, possibly Korean) meant something like "Time Travel" or "breaking through" or "transcendence".
(I suppose the fact that this seems to be a Korean project means that I should list this as "Asian Animation" or "Anime", but that would give the totally wrong impression as to what the film it was like- it was, above all, bizarre, surreal, and pretty confusing)
openRejected pilot for a show about a caveman who was a Hardboiled Detective Western Animation
I'm trying to find an animated short from the mid-late 1990s that centers around a caveman which is a Hardboiled Detective. If memory serves his name (also the title of the short) was a pun on Magnum, P.I.. I'm pretty sure it aired on Cartoon Network or Disney Channel, but not certain.
resolved [Solved] Cartoon mixed with live action elements at the start and end Western Animation
I remember seeing this cartoon, I presume it was a movie since it. The main character is a brown haired boy and I only remember one other character in the cartoon part, which was a dog who had a clock in his. The boy is trying to get back to the real world which he does by the end and gets a call from his friend who finds the same thing that he went through in the beginning (I think it was some kind of tent/booth? The details on this are fuzzy) he then goes playing outside and enjoying life.
Edited by AnimaltameropenCreepy Fairy Villain Animation Western Animation
I am searching from a show probably from the 90s or 80s. It has a villain pinning the fairies and keeping them in jars like butterflies. It's not anything Tinkerbell, but it could have been on Disney channel.
openideabox show from wisconitite channel (solved) Western Animation
i remember this show from my trip to Wisconsin dells in the early 2000's it was on the same channel as an iSpy show and also i remember it being matchbox (it was in a lunchbox probably) or something and one of the segments had riddles of the "two fathers and two sons catch one fish each and eat all three fish" type and i think theer was a segment about a famous scientist's brain listing what they did(?) and also maybe a murder mystery segment or something to that effect
Edited by Wild-StarfishopenCollection of old cartoons on DVD or VHS (SOLVED) Western Animation
I distinctly remember watching old cartoons on a DVD player when I was a kid. It could've been a VHS tape instead, or hell, it could've been pirated, but I swear I remember it having a DVD menu.
I found some of the old cartoons, but the wiki pages don't say anything about being released in a cartoon collection. Again, this could be pirated, I don't know.
Here's what I remember:
- Little Audrey: Tarts and Flowers
- The colored rerelease of The Daffy Duckaroo
- Fifth Column Mouse
- The 1936 Felix the Cat short Old King Cole
- The Popeye short The Umpire Strikes Back
- The Looney Tunes short Crowing Pains
I remember there also being a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but I can't really remember what happened in it. While I've found most of these myself, I'd like to find the actual DVD/VHS itself.
Edited by RainbowPumpqueenopenInfinite Monday Western Animation
I remember being told about a show on these two characters who live through the same monday every day and because of this, they know what and when everything will happen.
openChildren's TV Show With A Goose Western Animation
I have a memory of once watching a TV show as a child, where the main premise was that there was this goose (who may or may not have been named Jenny), who basically had a hotline (but instead of numbers it was animal sounds) for solving small problems. I think in the episodes I watched she was counselling some kind of animal about not making it onto the baseball team, and also helping a baby bear get over his fear of the dark. Idk if anyone recognises this premise, I saw it once, and never again.
openTwo French cartoons Western Animation
There are two french cartoons I don't know the names of: one is am anthropomorphic lion who wears a red cape and has a tiny chihuahua as his best friend; the other is a white cat with a Smug Smile who loves to play pranks on others. My only knowledge from those shows was from a user called "Sibada The Toon Lord". Have any of you seen these shows before and do you know what they're called?
Edited by ToonAbbyopenAnimated show or game featuring a blue critter and a demon Western Animation
My sister apparently saw an animation of this description while it was trending on Tik Tok. She asked me about it while we were browsing shows to watch, but when she tried to pull up examples, she couldn't find any. The reason I say "show or game" is because she is not sure which medium it's from other than it's animated, though I think it's from a show.
From what she described, the protagonist is a blue critter with bunny ears and a wolf face. There was another character that my sister described as being tall, mostly black with horns, and wearing a tuxedo, similar to a demon. The show takes place in some demon world.
She also described two clips she saw. In one clip, the demon says that the blue critter must be here for his party, to which the critter says that they don't want to be at their "stupid party". In another clip, the blue critter is running away from the demon, who has apparently turned into some sort of wall creature and is singing.
I've never seen a show or game of this description before, but I am curious what it's actually about, if it has any sort of fandom, if it might be fun to watch, and most of all, what it is even called.

This show was a cartoon, its style was similar to “totally spies” mixed with some "scooby-doo",and "Winx Club" I watched this in Portugal in 2013, during the afternoon. It was on the same channel as “tutenstein” and "marco e Gina". The show was about a group of teens/tweens girls, who I think solved mysteries. One of them has curly big red hair. I also remember that I think one of the teens used to jump or climb out of her window. All of the girls had pretty colourful clothes. The main villain of this show was an old man , I am pretty sure he has grey hair, and it was in a ponytail. He had two talking dogs, they were doberman. They used to do all of his dirty work. One doberman was smart and the other was pretty dumb.
I asked my siblings if they remember this show which they don't. I've been looking for it for years. If you remember a bit of it at all that would be really helpful. Thank You!
Edited by leacal