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openChristian music TV show with a group of animated monster characters Western Animation
I remember years back I was flipping through channels and I stumbled across a Christian TV network playing this strange cartoon that starred these monster or ogre-like characters. I remember that, when I tuned in, a segment was ending, and the final joke of that segment was that one of them brought a bag of marshmallows, except it had some funny pun-based name (IIRC it might have been "smarshmallows"). In between the segments was live-action CCM music videos.
Does anybody might know what I am talking about?
openBug zapper Western Animation
From an animated program, not sure if Western or Anime: A bunch of characters are trekking through the dense jungle. They are annoyed by swarms of bugs, but press on. One of the characters, who had magic powers or energy powers or something of the like, snaps their fingers or does a similar gesture, and all the bugs around them briefly flash as they are hit with energy, before falling to the ground, dead.
openCrocdiles Teach Lessons Western Animation
The show takes place in the swamp where a boy is friends with a family of crocodiles.
The one episode I remember is them teaching the viewers how to brush your teeth.
open[SOLVED] Indian Version of Tom And Jerry Western Animation
I remember there being an Indian version of Tom and Jerry but with certain key differences that separated it from a direct Copy Cat. In the show, instead of a fight between a cat and a mouse, it was between two dogs and three mice. One of the dogs was beige/orange and the other was green. The show was in Hindi and was pretty popular back in The New '10s. Sometimes, a third military dog would appear who was either a dead father or grandfather of the two dogs. I am unsure if the Anglo-centric editor majority here can help but if anyone's got any clues, thank you in advance.
Edited by PiotrHeatopenEducational Short With Sheep Western Animation
There's an educational short film that I once watched at a shopping mall as a kid. At one point, the sheep who was narrating it said that the moon doesn't have the resources needed to live. At the very end, he somehow ended up on the moon and asked for help. Someone extended a ladder to the moon, but he decided to jump instead.
openpost-apocalyptic CGI short animation that traumatised me as a child (SOLVED!) Western Animation
We saw this short film in class and were going to write an essay on it, and I honestly can't believe they showed it to kids. I'm quite certain it is on a website called 'Literacy shed', but I haven't found it yet. I only remember sparce details about what was actually in it. I remember there was this young girl with a prosthetic leg with her caregiver, and they were in a small cramped space after coming back from a sandy wasteland wearing gas masks. At some point the girl leaves and comes across a playground where she has a vision that there are loads of other kids there, the world becomes brighter and there is a visual of her leg magically healing. She takes off her gas mask. All I remember after that is it pans to her being found by her caregiver in the wasteland playground with her mask off and her being dead, and that's how it ends. It traumatised the f*ck out of me.
Main details like I said is it is likely somewhere on Literacy shed (although it may have been removed in the present), it is a short CGI-animated film that we had to talk about in class for some reason. Any ideas?
Edited by EllipsicleopenPlease Helpp!!! Western Animation
If someone can find me this show I’ll actually be so happy, 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 Riding Dragons before it was considered cool. Also fighting Orc-like bad guys. Western Animation
There was a classic-drawn fantasy animation set in sort of a post-apocalyptic world where humans rode dragons. They fought some sort of Orc-ish demons who also rode their own dragons. While it was mostly fantasy, there were a lot of technology elements, namely armors and some antagonist had something akin to a lava cannon. The show was brimming with tusked faces, skulls and bats. I vaguely remember a swarm of lizard-like critters with bat wings and one bad guy had a scouting pet in a form of one-eyed dark bat.
resolved Weird cartoon on DVD Western Animation
Basically my nan had dozens of DV Ds me and my siblings used to watch when I went over to her house. They were mostly from late 90s to mid 2000s (Sonic Underground, Ant bully, Digimon adventure). One of these shows I cannot remember the title of, and have not seen at all since. It was about a boy and a girl I think. I'm pretty sure they were brother and sister. I don't exactly remember what they look like, but they gave off raggedy Ann / Andy vibes (similar colour scheme). There was also a professor character, who had a white shirt, a red vest, a blue graduation cap (I think), with white air and a long, rectangular, postman-pat like head. We wore round glasses, and had a cylindrical nose. I think there may have also been some yellow on him, but I am unsure. There was also a 'mascot' character. The kind with a really simple design that pretty much spoke in gibberish. I think he just white, small and fluffy. With that cereal-mascot face. He had no interesting features. No ears or tail or anything. Just stubby arms and legs, and a face. There were probably other characters, but I have no clue what they look like. The only episode that I can remember was one where one of the siblings (the girl I think) wanted to grow some flowers, so the professor guy made a greenhouse for her, as well as some fertiliser. The mascot guy ate or like bathed in the fertiliser and ending up becoming a giant or something. I don't remember how this plot actually concluded.
One thing to add is that this DVD was likely made in the UK, but it's possible it never aired on TV, since I can't find any promos for it.
I hope that I can actually find out what show this is one day. So, if anyone on here can help me find it, that'd be great :)
All the best
resolved Animated black and white Retraux commercial with a spaceship Western Animation
Several years ago (early 2010s) I remember seeing this black and white animated commercial .I think it was a commercial for insurance. It was animated in a style similar to Popeye or Bendy and throughout the commerical the characters were singing.
The commercial ended with the characters flying in a rocketship to the moon (or whatever).
Can someone please tell me the name of the commercial?
Edited by monkeyheroineopenAnimated sitcom cutaway Western Animation
A game show contentist gets a question wrong and all of the other contentists chase after his with the host scream “cut up/off his blank”
resolved Fox Kids - Lab Monkey Shorts Western Animation
Around the late 1990s/early 2000s, the UK version of Fox Kids had these 1 minute shorts in between shows. They were 2D animations about this talking, orange-haired monkey who was a former laboratory test subject. He escapes and befriends these two kids and lives with them. The shorts were sort of focused around gross-out humour.
Edited by DoctorInkopenNick Jr show? Western Animation
I vaguely remember this show that I'm pretty sure was on Nick Jr., but the only thing I remember from it is that it had a Flash game or two on the Nick Jr. website. It was space-themed, and the main character was a young boy with blonde hair and a blue spacesuit; he rode around in a flying saucer, I think? Also, it was 2D-animated.
Edited by Storygirl000openArthur Headscratchers Forum Western Animation
There is an Arthur PBS Kids forum online where users post confusing things that happened in the show.
One of them that I remember in particular is how Mrs. Mc Grady didn't notice that the quarters were in the brownies as seen in "Arthur Accused."
resolved Weird Netflix show with 3D animated bears Western Animation
Around 2009-2010 there was a show on Netflix revolving around a family of bears.
The main character, an older sister, was hyped about the trip to the amusement park with her family.
Suddenly, her younger sister becomes completely sick and the trip is forced to be cancelled.
She wishes how she didn't have a sister to worry about anymore. Some sort of being comes to her and tells her how much she'd miss having a sister.
They go over some sorta flashback of all the times she's loved her sister.
Eventually, she gets over not being able to go on the trip and it ends with a happy ending.
resolved Adult cartoon Western Animation
I dont remember about this cartoon. Just that it was a parody.
I remember there was a scene with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. And the protagonist ended in their kids' room, one of them turned to be a samurai baby or something like that.
open"SpongeBob SquarePants'' dubbed song Western Animation
Oh, they changed the name of You Know That Show.
Years ago, I found a dubbed version of the SpongeBob SquarePants song "This Grill is Not a Home" from the episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket". This dubbed song is... unique in that instead of simply dubbing the song, it replaces it entirely with an incoherent collection of music and Stock Sound Effects, with the music being the stock music they use for the show. And yes, it's an official dub (or at least one that aired on television). They don't even change the visuals or anything, just the song into... whatever you call music and sounds cobbled together like that.
I don't even remember what dub it is. Can anybody find me that version of the song? Thanks.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperresolved 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?
openUK 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?

Each episode was themed around this grade-school or middle-school boy crafting a plan to circumvent a problem or reach a goal. The setting is Like Reality, Unless Noted, and his two friends are The Smart Guy and The Girl.
One problem he tries to solve is his mom cooking a gross lasagna dinner with broccoli. The methods he tries are changing the ingredients of the recipe sheet, and offering to cook dinner himself so that mom doesn't have to.
Another problem is that he fakes sickness to get out of school and stay home, but he winds up bored out of his mind, and so he has to sneak out of the house without being noticed. The episode ends with his mom telling him he's gonna stay at home and rest tomorrow, too, resulting in a Big "NO!" from him.
A third one that I can remember is his little sister making an immense racket around the living room with her new brass instrument. One of his methods is him pretending to have gone deaf from the noise.
That's about all I can remember off the top of my head. Anyone else remember this?