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open"The Tidys"? Western Animation
I vaguely remember a British children's TV show from at least the 1990s that I think was called "The Tidys". I could be wrong. Don't remember a thing about the show itself, but the theme song pops up in my head every now and then. The title came up in the song.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
open"Happy Family" Western Animation
I remember having a tape once of a show. I suspect it was American and probably from the late 1980s/early 1990s. It was about a family; white, two parents, two kids - a brown-haired boy and a blonde girl. It was very grounded in tone and the art style was sort of simple, nothing special, but I swear the characters had fairly simple faces.
I remember there were these musical interludes - only one stands out in my head: The kids are waiting for their grandmother to arrive at their house, which then cuts into a imagine spot where the grandmother is driving an old horse-drawn covered wagon while the song "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountains" is sung in the background as Grandma winds around roads on said mountains.
Hope that's enough to go on. Any help appreciated, thanks.
Edited by DoctorInkopenAstronaut Kid’s Show Western Animation
I remember watching this show when I was a kid about an astronaut living on a moon that I believe was called something like “moona Luna”. There were two episodes I remember. One where there was a magical stone that forced whoever held it to rhyme, the other with a worm that would only eat the parts of food that people throw away, like rimes and peeks, so they used it as a garbage disposal.
openA tv show that served as a proto-youtube Poop Western Animation
I only saw part of one episode in a hotel room, about 25 years ago, so details are going to be sketchy. I think it may have been on the Cartoon Network.
The show was spliced together from various cartoons and shows, in a style which we would nowadays call a youtube-poop, cutting rapidly between clips to set up silly jokes. Hannah Barbera cartoons, in particular The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, were used, but also clips from WCW wrestling. The episode I saw featured a clip of one wrestler mentioning the song "Rap is Crap", which puts it after 1999.
The episode featured Penelope Pitstop, tied up, being rushed backwards and forwards by the Ant Hill Mob who are simultaneously rescuing and endangering her. I can remember specific quotes:
"I have a plan that's fool proof!" [cut] "SO WHAT?!"
"I have a new song, it goes-" [cut] "-RAP IS CRAP!"
"The plan is called-" [cut] "RUNAWAY STEAMROLLER!"
etc
Edited by maninahatopenSpecific Phineas and Ferb quote Western Animation
On YMMV.Phineas And Ferb, under Accidental Innuendo, this quote is listed:
"Wow...Heinz Doofenshmirtz is way too hot, we should get out of him."
As someone who grew up with this show and probably saw just about every episode of it, I have no idea what episode this line came from. Does anyone know.
openWeird cartoon about a family and a cow Western Animation
This cartoon stars a human family with at least a mother and daughter, and a dad who is only heard on the phone. They also have a talking cow who likes orange juice. In one episode they meet a bunch of sentient orange juice who accidentally go down the drain and the cow is accused of drinking them. In another episode the girl gets a zit and tries to hide it by painting dots on her face and pretending she has pox, and the doctor comes and accidentally examines the cow instead, causing the family to think she's turning into a cow.
Edited by VTHU243openobscure CGI christian tv show Western Animation
Before I start this, I don't think many people would have been familiar with this show, it's pretty obscure and I think it only had a CD/DVD release.
I think this released around 2007-2013. I think it was Direct to DVD but also had a few C Ds? It was a kids show in CGI that was about the bible, and the characters were a girl, one of those friendly big "monster" characters you see in kids shows, and the girls parents. It was pretty run-of-the-mill, the only thing I remember from it is that it had a few songs, one of them was about grocery shopping.
The only proof I had of this shows existence was finding a DVD/CD of it a few years ago while cleaning (this was a show my younger sibling would see at bible study). If anyone could help me out it would be appreciated, thanks!
openOld animated shorts done in primitive 2D computer graphics? Western Animation
I remember a couple of these done in a similar distinctive (and slightly uncanny valley) 2D computer graphics style that aired on Nickelodeon back in the mists of history (would've been early '90s). They used a lot of color cycling effects, which looked really weird at high res/frame rate.
The one I remember the most clearly was one about an elephant who got an opportunity to wish she was a different color, but she waited too long to make up her mind and got stuck gray (though in the end she resolved to paint her toenails red). The thing I remember most clearly is the first line, something like "[morsala zaunt???] / was an elephant" but I have no idea how the name was spelled, only how it sounded (also, "elephant" got pronounced with a funny affectation to make it rhyme, like "ele-phaunt"; in fact, all the dialogue and narration in these rhymed).
There was one other about a girl daydreaming of how she'd change her look ("oh, it's fun to be a glamorous girl!") where her appearance kept changing to match her narration paper doll-style.
There might have been more than these two; I'm not sure? I feel like the elephant got more than one cartoon, to be sure, but again, my memories are foggy.
openBlonde Villian vs kids ensemble Western Animation
My friend told me about a show he thinks aired on Disney XD around the early 2010's
It was a about and an enssemble of kids with superpowers that fought against a blonde woman who really liked to wear pink and didn't have superpowers but used technology and machines to her advantage. She also had a minion who was strong but apparently clumsy.
openMalicious jester steals gold from king and frames the street organ player Western Animation
There was this animated series somewhere around 90's of the last century.
One episode was about a medieval fair taking place on a stone bridge. The king himself attended the fair and had some bags of gold hidden behind his throne. The jester stole one bag and hid it in the street organ. When the guards searched for the culprit, they found the gold in said street organ and accused the organ player, who in turn cursed the entire fair using said organ. before finishing the score, he tore the punch sheet and let it go off into the wind. The stone bridge collapses and everybody disappears.
Years later in modern day a young boy finds said organ in his grandfather's cellar (who was a descendant of accused player) and tries cranking it. The score being played rematerializes the bridge and enables the malicious jester to escape into reality. He then goes onto causing rampages all over the town. The boy must chase after him and get back the rest of the torn score sheet. In which he ultimately succeeds and breaks the curse by finishing the score allowing the cursed people to pass on peacefully.
Does this ring any bells?
openArthur 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."
openAn animation I watched in school. Western Animation
There is this animation I remember watching in school in either late 2021 or early 2022 that was on DVD that was about these kids learning about the history of American immigration where they travelled back in time to Ellis Island when the island was still used as an inspection and processing station for new immigrants and then when they comeback to class they find that their teacher doesn't exist anymore so they go back in time again to reunite their teacher's ancestors.
Some other things I remember
It was animated with really bad CGI.
One of the main characters is an African American girl and another one was a Chinese boy who mentioned that his family came to the USA during the gold rush but these weren't the only main characters.
Their teacher is somehow related to Benjamin Franklin.
A boy who is one of the main characters (not the aforementioned Chinese boy) lost his hat and as a result caused the ancestors of his teacher to never meet.
One of the main characters might've had a tablet.
openNo Title Western Animation
I vaguely remember it but it was an animation about a little boy (maybe 10) and it was often set in school where his principal treated him like sh*t and his parents also weren't very good but I think he also had a best friends ( or maybe even two).
I watched it when I was really young I think around 2010-2015 and it played on either KIKA, RIC, TOGGO or Nickelodeon
I honestly don't remember much about it except that I used to get nightmares about it, especially about the stairway in their house/apartment and the hallway of their school.
I also think it was a similar animation style to fairly god parents
Edited by Chase235openA jungle cartoon Western Animation
I remember a cartoon that I watched back when I was little on Boomerang (I think?) about a group of talking animals living in a jungle of some sorts, all I ever remember is a Third-Person Person gorilla who ate his boogers one time.
Edited by TypewriteropenA show about a girl in space that focuses somewhat on emotions Western Animation
It was one of my childhood shows, and I wanted to see if I could introduce it to my niece if I found it again. I first saw it on Youtube in like 2015-2017? I believe it was a TV aired series, though.
The show was a cartoon about a girl who landed on some type of planet I believe. She was short and had gray hair, clothes, and antennas, which I believed changed colors depending on her emotion. On the planet was also several (Around 10) tiny creatures, each were colored to represent an emotion, and they also had the same emotion they represented. In one of the episodes that I vaguely remember, I'm pretty sure the tiny pink creature got stuck in some type of sandpit that slowly pulled her into it. Eventually she was discovered by the rest of the gang and they pulled her out, it was a very odd episode from what I remember.
If it helps at all, the show is not 'Mysticons' or 'Space POP' as I was recommended those two a lot.
openNick 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 Storygirl000openA cartoon series about a bear who tries to renovate his house with disastrous results Western Animation
- Cartoon was aired during 1990s.
- Likely was a Universal Studios cartoon, but I might be wrong.
- The main character was a bear with a family.
The typical plot went along the lines of:
- Wife wants repairs done/additions made to the house.
- The bear balks at the price tag and declares he will do it himself.
- A chain of increasingly disastrous failures ensue.
Edited by VindicaropenAnimated 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”
openSimpsons Episode Where Lisa Sits On A Woman's Lap In A Car Western Animation
What was that episode where Lisa is in a car and a woman asks for her to sit on her lap?

Circa 1986 at a Christmas party, I saw a short stop-motion animated film that looked like it could have been made in Eastern Europe (similar in style to the work of the Polish Se-ma-for studio). It was about a little girl who had a set of watercolors, but was very messy in using them. So to teach her a lesson, each cake from the watercolor set absorbed its respective color from the world around and then they ran away. When the girl came out, she found that the entire world had turned black and white. She eventually found the watercolors dancing around a rainbow, and they restored color to the world. What was this?