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open(SOLVED) Animated Show With Purple Shapeshifter Girl Western Animation
Hoo boy this is a tough one.
So, I'm looking for a 2D-animated TV show that has this one character with a purple color scheme, very distinctive green eyes, and shapeshifting abilities- she can turn into not just animals but inanimate objects as well (I specifically recall her transforming into a bowl of water and a gate for a stable). She kept her purple color scheme and her face- including her eye color- no matter what she turned into.
Does anyone know who I'm talking about, and what show she's from?
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenNo Title Western Animation
When I was in second grade I watched this video that featured many songs. There was a walking treasure chest, A stop-motion music video that went "set the sail and sail away" featuring a giant apple, and a song featuring a teddy bear in a cardboard box.
openAnimated scene in kitchen where a duck's bottom gets cooked (maybe Jemima Puddleduck) Western Animation
Kind of embarrassed to post this one, but its one that I’ve remembered for years now and have been dying to find it…
2d animation and seen in the 90s. Might have been a scene in a Peter Rabbit cartoon with Jemima Puddleduck? I liked those back then and had the plushies. A scene where a chef or farmer is in a kitchen or restaurant is preparing a dinner while singing.
A real live bird or duck (Jemima?) flies in and is sitting probably nesting in a pot I think? Like the duck makes a nest in a pot, like to lay eggs as if nesting?
The chef suddenly turns and sees the nesting duck, and the “camera” like zooms in on the duck’s wiggling plump fanny and tail as it gets comfy in the nest,
Chef gets idea seeing the duck’s plump rump.
Thinking its dinner the chef starts to get it ready for cooking while singing a song, I keep thinking it sounds like the chef song in Little Mermaid when the chef tries to cook Sebastian but NOT that.
Scene goes on for a while with maybe some other characters coming in…
But eventually the nesting duck’s rear end is fully plucked, like they show the duck’s bare bottom all pink and with that little tail stub. Duck still asleep and doesn’t know.
Chef is like salting or seasoning and slaps some on the duck’s bare bum, Big scream as duck finally wakes up and turns around and notices its bald cooked rear end and tail. Duck screaming and crying flies off the nest and is holding its roasted rump. Cant' remember the rest or if I even saw the rest! Dying to know what it was or how it ends.
Played for humor but might have been a caution story or moral? Any of this making sense? NOT Daffy like some people keep suggesting, more realistic, thinking this duck was white or yellow and probably a Mrs. duck or mother due to nest thing. Might have been Jemima Puddleduck.
Edited by SelmaAndLouiseopenNo Title Western Animation
This cartoon confused me as a child in the late Eighties/early Nineties, and my memory of it is still confusing. It was one of those home videos made up of cartoon shorts. Only some or all of the shorts on this tape ended in cliffhangers. And no, this wasn't a bunch of junk taped off of television, it was a "real" home video with a cover and everything. One short was the beginning of an animated Tom Sawyer.
The short I mainly remember had people in a jungle riding big flightless birds with reins and masks. It wasn't Wizards. It ended with the heroes running into a snake that looked like it was "big enough to eat an elephant." To add to the weirdness, the cover of the video (or maybe a title card?) had the characters and bird-mounts drawn to look very different from how they appeared in the cartoon. I think there was a reprise of this cartoon later in the video. Like I said, confusing.
Edited by FloydPinkertonopenChildren's TV Show Western Animation
Details are very fuzzy - bear with me.
Aired in the early 90's, possibly on BBC One or Two. One storyline involved the antagonists (possibly called Plutokians, or Blutokians??) using traffic light to change the moods of people. So red would be angry, amber, happy, and green was sad. I may be confusing this next part with another tv show The protagonist had some special ability in that they could travel to places instantly.
Edited by LoopzopenStarry Ballet Show? Western Animation
The show was heavily focused on dance/ballet. It aired on a channel that was availible, though not common, within England at some point around the 2010s: This channel had other shows focused on dance/ballet
The main character was a white girl. One major thing was that the main character could somehow go to a night-sky type realm. There was also a giant starry swan character, and potentially a similar black swan with a white beak and knob. There may have been other characters in the night-sky place
That's just about all I can recall of this show
P.S. I've remembered some more details on the show
The show rarely aired on the channel it was shown on. The channel was exclusively for children's shows, if I infer correctly
The swan(s) at least were rendered in CGI. The main character might have worn pigtails
P.P.S. Here are some more, less related details which could help find this
I'm quite sure that the show also featured a regular, physical realm in addition to the starry place
The channel on which I saw the show also aired a show involving anthropomorphic mice who did ballet. This other show was on more often, as far as I saw
I only saw this show at a friend's home, so it's possible that the starry ballet show aired earlier or later than is usual for play-dates/visits, rather than being shown less often
Edited by Sorporporopena show of the nineties like street sharks but with dinosaurs Western Animation
well that it, i remember i saw a show that had something like the premise of street sharks but with dinosaurs instead of fishes, i remember a character named t-bone or something like that who was a t-rex
openCartoon from early 90s (or 80s) with Troll Snowball? (maybe SOLVED) Western Animation
I vaguely remember seeing a cartoon at my babysitter's house long ago as a little kid in probably the early 90s. There were a bunch of hairy brown troll things that fall down a snowy hill and as they roll they become a huge snowball. The trolls/creatures looked a lot like ALF from the ALF show and cartoon. Maybe it was an episode of the ALF show?
Edited by SelmaAndLouiseopenEuropean cartoon about some woman oblivious to being pursued by admirers Western Animation
I remember coming across some random indie European (I think French, but I'm not certain of that) cartoon around 2 years while surfing on TV Tropes. The premise (and the basis of the gags) was about a young woman going about her daily life while being oblivious to all of the men lusting over her. No matter how aggressive and harassing those would be suitors were, it would always fly over her head. If my memory is serving me, I think it was also set in Paris, though it could've been in Venice or some other famous "romantic" European city.
From what little I can recall, the protagonist's design was essentially riffing on Jessica Rabbit (especially her red hair style and body form), with some Marilyn Monroe thrown in as well. The hand drawn animation was crude, and seemed to be essentially traced over live action backgrounds. I think it was made around the late 80s to early 90s.
There was also an episode featuring a mummy coming to life in a museum that the protagonist was visiting. That is all that I can remember from it.
Does any of this sound similar to anyone here? Any help would be appreciated, as I haven't been able to retrace my steps to find it again.
Edited by Jarl-of-the-woodsopenCartoon with bird teacher. Western Animation
A female bird teacher who was white and traveled around the world. Theme song mentioned Peru and other countries. Possibly aired on sprout.
Edited by s2003openSummer's On Western Animation
I was looking through my childhood drawings and found an illustrated lineup of shows I had for an idea for a kids' channel called Tall Pop, a 'big kid's' version of British channel Tiny Pop. The shows were mostly pretty well known; MLP, Thomas the Tank Engine, Horrid Henry, etc. - but there was one show that neither myself nor Google can seem to recall, titled 'Summer's On'. It was illustrated with the face of a boy who had a tuft of long hair at the back of his head. Here's my bad childhood drawing of him:
And if anyone's curious, 'The Acorn Show' was a spinoff of the Australian kids' show Play School that I wanted to make back then. Here's the wiki if you're interested.
https://the-acorn-show.wikia.com/wiki/The_Acorn_Show_Wiki
openBirds in an airship Western Animation
I have another one show I can not remember. It was about couple of birds, they were rescuers, the couple was made from an owl, a woodpecker, hummingbird and flamingo, but I am not sure, I think I have forgotten one or more members of the team. They travelled by airship, in one episode it was pierced and they covered the hole by non-edible cake/bread/whatever it was. In one other episode (or it was the same?) they met two hedgehogs, which were arguing if it is better to jump or be in the middle of a road if vehicle goes through. I think in one episode they got Sixth Ranger, but like with the original couple, I am not sure.
Do somebody know this one? It is bugging me, that I know something, but do not know, what it is:/ Thank you for help:)
openkids' show about spotting the difference? Western Animation
the only voice in the show was the narrator's. feminine. scottish accent. in fact, i’m pretty sure the show was scottish, or at least from some gaelic-speaking country, but i don’t remember the narrator speaking gaelic or scots at any point. or maybe she did, but it wasn’t in the episodes i watched. the animation was pretty simple, bold shapes and colors and all that. also the characters were stylized anthropomorphic animals ( i remember one was a zebra, but i’m at a loss for the other one(s) ) and they didn’t speak. it had an interactive component, where two pictures would appear on-screen and the audience was given time to find the differences between the two. after the time was up, the differences would be pointed out and the animals would do a cute little dance. then the narrator would say a rhyme, which i don’t remember, but it ended with “you just found an opposite!” or something.
openA show that was on flow on demand (I'm from TT) Western Animation
The only things I remember from the show are the plots of the show's episodes
1: There is an episode where one of the main characters stole a watch from somebody's changing room and gave it to the other main character and it turns out the watch could control time. Hijinxing ensue and the first main character gets trapped back in time until the dude who got the watch stolen from finds the main character and resets time before the hijinks happened.
2: There was an episode where one character in the show was super unlucky and because of him being unlucky others were lucky and when he got something that made him lucky everybody else got bad luck. He gave up the good luck and everybody went back to normal and they liked the character because he gave up the luck.
3. There was an episode where three (or more) teenage girls wished on a shooting star for their moms to be cool. It worked but the moms were super obnoxious. It turns out it was a dream and the teenage girls love their moms because they were boring again. The episode ends with one of the teenage girls' dad getting up from the couch putting on a backwards cap and saying "yo let's go to the mall" (I think) and the girl screams (I think)
4: One of the main characters get something that makes them super good at sports but makes them a jerk. They try to take the thing and give it back to the guy who originally had it (who was dead at the time) so they went into his grave and try to give it to that corpse and the main character goes back to normal in the end.
5: there was an episode where a rich kid got some sort of doll for their birthday and threw it away. Turns out the doll was the source of their families wealth and when the spoiled brat threw away the toy their family started to lose their wealth then a flashback states that the family had it for generations and they had this quote saying "take care of the doll the doll will take care of you" and I remember one of the main characters saying: "more like take care of the doll... or else" I think he was narrating it to the audience. And there was a b plot with a cashier or fried cook getting the doll and their life starting to turn around for the better. The episode ends with the rich kid getting put into the real world and the cashier or fried cook getting adopted by the Rich family of the spoiled brat.
6: there was an episode where one of the main character's got an guardian angel, he pisses the guardian angel off so he tried to get back together with the guardian angel. It worked too good and now they were dating turns out the guardian angel already had a boyfriend but they broke up with that boyfriend, so her boyfriend was trying to kill the main character. some hijinks ensue and the ex-boyfriend gets back together with the guardian angel and the main character gets a new Guardian angel at the end of the episode.
The intro of the shows had a beating heart at the end of the intro.
openchildren series with superpower to calculate 90/00 Western Animation
kids tv series in the 90s or 2000s
the kid had the super power of calculating: in action scenes the action stopped and he calculated how to fight best and formulas where written all over the screen.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? It is hard to find through google because there are hundreds of kids series and the word calculating isnt helpful.
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.
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 Dirtyblue929openNo Title Western Animation
2d animated show. Fantasy parody tv series.
The villain was this blue fuzzy guy who always wore a cloak to disguise how he looked, because he wanted to be feared and no one was afraid of him naturally because he looked too cuddly and soft. He had a minion who was this goth fairy chick with a crush on the main character, who was a Wizards apprentice.
It was set in a fantasy universe, and I'm fairly sure the title was something like "middle earth", but can't Google that cause only tolkien stuff came up. Also I'm pretty sure this is a British cartoon.
That's all I remember any help would be greatly appreciated.
openEarly 00's kids movie with caffeine patches Western Animation
All I know is that the movie has some frogs who are jazz singers, there's a science fair, and there's a scientist who has invented caffeine patches. The main character is a blond kid (who might have glasses). There also might have been time travel.
Edited by indigoJay

So, a while ago I saw a cartoon with a weird... rocket girl? She had a blue-purplish body, I think with little "rocket windows" on her. She also had absurdly red hair, shaped in a way that just kinda reminded me of a paintbrush (you know the look).
I saw this cartoon when I was in kindergarten or 1st grade, and for the longest time I used to think that she was Interplanet Janet, but when I was in 5th grade or so I went and watched IJ and realized this was a different character.
Does anyone know what cartoon this is?