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open(Solved: it is Aliens Next Door) Cartoon about a married couple from Earth moving to another planet Western Animation
I saw this one-shot cartoon once or maybe two times on TV in the early 90's, only one episode (like the pilot of a series that didn't make it) and the plot was about a married couple from Earth who moved to live in another planet (something about his work) and had an alien couple as neighbors and found they were not so different in personalities at all at the end.
The animation and comedy style was kinda reminiscing of The Flinstones, like if Nelvana were trying Hannah-Barbera style (not sure if it was produced by Nelvana).
Don't recall any more details but have been looking for info about this for a long time.
Thanks in advance.
Edited by tvinsomneopenA cartoon network shorts about a jetpack guy (Solved. Show's name: Rocket Jo) Western Animation
Basically, if I recall correctly on the cartoon network channel, there's this jetpack inventor who's the Cosmic Plaything of his show via almost every flight attempt failing.
Some shorts had the following:
- The guy tried to use solar power to power his jetpack but the sky rained so it didn't work for long.
- Tried to use hie jetpack just for the world to flush him away in a flood he summoned somehow.
- Managed to take off into the sky using a giant jet turbine. However, when the in-flight allowed the removal of his seatbelt, he followed it and promptly fell from high up in the sky.
- He somehow cloned himself when he tried to start his jetpack.
- Tried to use electricity as his power source. It worked but because it was wired, it couldn't fly up more than a few meters in the air.
- I think he once got sucked into another jet turbine jetpack of his and was pooped out as an egg much to the surprise of the turbine.
open??? Western Animation
The main characters have 4 jets with RYGB colours each and the jet have some sort of transformation, I don't remember what it's about
- One of the episodes had 3 antagonist who are performers and they also have transforming jets.
- The Villain is an old man who found out the red persons identity but is frozen at the end.
openMore Paperwork Than Expected Western Animation
Might've been the Simpsons or Futurama, but I'm not sure.
A character tries to apply for something and is handed a huge stack of paperwork. When they ask, annoyed, if that's all, the bureaucrat tells them, "Oh, no, that's just the paperwork for handing in your paperwork. That is the paperwork you need to actually fill out." They gesture to six stacks of paperwork four feet tall.
openHad an action figure, trying to find the show Western Animation
I’m making an assumption here that the action figure is from an animated show from the 90s, but I could be wrong. I had an action figure that appeared to be from a martial arts show. The figure had red samurai armor and things that attached to his arms with three claws on each of them. The big distinguishing feature was that the figure had a long braid on top of his head (I mean, like the length of the full figure). Can anyone help me identify the show, or at least the figure?
openNo idea, but it was on showtime cable back in the late 1980s Western Animation
I cannot remember the name of the show for the wife of me. All I can recall about it is the beginning was live action at an amusement park, with a young girl and older man who started to tell her a story, leading into transition to animation. From what little I recall, the story was set in the outback of Australia, during and after its colonization by the British other than that I can’t really get more specific. and at the end, it was the same amusement park, but all the characters that were animated were appearing as their live action counterparts on a merry go round. One other thing, I remember, is the girl that the stories being told to ask really surprised when she sees the live action version of a main male character, and says his name, and for the life of me, I can’t remember that either it might be Toby or something.
Edit - never mind, I found it. The little convict or Toby and the koala
Edited by pc1971resolved Hungarian animated series about goofy family Western Animation
Somewhere around late 80's of last century there was this animated series made in Hungary. It was about a goofy family which was either travelling around the world and made havoc when clashing with different cultures, or they were contacting their successor in the future, who sent them various gimmicky contraptions, or their teenage son was exploring space using inflatable spaceships.
Does this ring any bells?
openPowerpuff Girls outro or something Western Animation
There were some Powerpuff Girls episodes where the outro wasn't the usual ending theme with the white credits on black background, but something else. It was like clips of the show alongside with credits, and the song was different; it was an instrumental and it featured mostly percussion instruments. It kinda sounded like Mucha Lucha's intro? Also it kinda feels like they showed this outro specifically at the end of episodes where Bubbles was more proactive or badass. I'm looking for that specific outro.
Is this a hallucination? Was it just a Latin American thing?
resolved That show with the ghost girl who's name is Sorry. Western Animation
It was a TV show where one of the characters was a ghost girl who's name was Sorry and she wore a bedsheet over her head. That's all I can remember about it.
opencat superhero short Western Animation
A series of shorts from something like oh yeah cartoons about a girl who has a cat themed alter ego who doesn't have a tail but a cap. she also has a male friend who tries to find the secret identity of the superhero not know that his friend is the superhero. 1 episode she transforms in front of him and she just gaslights him into believing that he was just seeing things.
openSeal/Mermaids welcome family on boat to their cove/lagoon Western Animation
I only seen a trailer of this show on a rented VHS movie but I can't for the life of me recall what it is despite its vividness. A 2D animated cartoon where iirc kids and their parental guardian visit a cove/lagoon and meet colorful seal/mermaids that sing and dance, with some wearing outfits like hats, glasses, and mustaches. I think its animation style was around late 1990s-early 2000s and had crisp lines, solid colors. I think it has a "villain" of the same species as the cove/lagoon inhabitants which I think was purple and had "minions", but again I only seen the trailer so this part is just my interpretation from the trailer.
openCartoon with bug(?) swallowing a dog whole. Western Animation
I remember an indie cartoon where a cartoon dog was swallowed whole by some sort of bug or something. I can't remember for the life of me what the title was (I have an impossible time remembering names as well as titles), do you know what the title of the cartoon might be? Searching on google, even an advanced search, comes up with nothing because the stupid site tries to get me to look at if it's safe for dogs to eat bugs.
openMagical show about a brownie(the fey kind) girl Western Animation
The proaganist was a brownier, a furry fey who are notable for cleaning houses. She acted as a magical guardian/representative been the world of faeries and the human world. As I recall she could switch between a more humanesque form and a furrier form. I unfortunately recall little else
Edited by laetraresolved Promotional magazine cover for "The Simpsons Guy" Western Animation
Years back when the Family Guy / The Simpsons Crossover "The Simpsons Guy" was about to premiere and was being heavily hyped, I remember one magazine had a promotional cover for the episode that depicted Meg playing Lisa's saxophone while Lisa looked on in shock. The problem is I don't remember which magazine had that specific cover. Could anybody tell me which magazine it was?
openBoy with superpowers from eating jelly beans Western Animation
Stop motion from the 90s or early 00s about boy who would transform into a hero by swinging around on a hills hoist and gained powers from eating jelly beans with different colours giving him different powers.
He wore various pouches containing the different types of jelly beans. There's a bit when he is Strapped to a Rocket and has get a jelly bean out whilst his arms are bound.
Pretty sure it's Australian
Nothing to do with A Boy and His Blob
resolved Someone please tell me! (SOLVED) Western Animation
There was this Martha Speaks episode and I have absolutely no idea which episode it was, but there was this really catchy song at the end of it that I absolutely loved and I can't find it on You Tube anywhere but I do remember the lyrics. It was comparing greed and generosity and the song was so good but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know what episode it was???
Edited by lunaloud45openCartoon that aired in Arabic country Western Animation
a cartoon about weird animal things that curl into balls like an armadillo but they are not armadillos. aired in Tunisia (spacetoon, mbc3, other) cannot renember the network. there is this one scene (i believe in the intro) where they curl into balls and go on rails. might be Bakugan or zoobles but might be original aswell
I do not know if this is a Western Cartoon or an Anime
Animated with CGI 3D probably, aired around 2014-2021, main characters were not dinosaurs
Edited by XYLOproductionsresolved Does anyone know this cartoon character? Western Animation
There's a cartoon that I used to watch, but I don't quite remember the character's name.
The character was a brown dog(?) who wore a pink bathrobe most of the time.
He is not Hong Kong Phooey.
SOLVED! I just found my answer: It was Master Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987). And apparently he's a rat, not a dog.
Edited by ReconDecon

this cartoon was educational. was about two squirrels who moved to different places using a portal in a hollow. in one episode, the chipmunks landed on a farm owned by an elf. all the animals on the farm had their voices messed up by the magic storm. in another episode, the characters found themselves in a land inhabited mainly by birds. i'm from poland.in my country, this cartoon was on a CD that came with a parenting magazine. I'm pretty sure this animation was in English with a Polish voiceover. i'm sorry for my english.