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openTales from the attic? Western Animation
A group of kids would go into a attic and a talking lizard would tell them stories that were African fables that sometimes taught them a lesson I remember one episodes was the snake prince I can’t remember the title and I can’t find it on the internet I remember it used to be on HBO Kids
openShazam, or not-Shazam Western Animation
When I was young I remember watching something that may or may not have been a shazam/captain marvel cartoon. I was really young, like eight or younger, but I recently started remembering it. It was about a kid who could turn into an adult superhero, and I think his outfit was white. Also, when he transformed, there would be a mess of slime. Like, the adult body would melt, revealing the kid inside. Kinda creepy now I think about it. These two differences from the comic shazam/captain marvel make me think it was a knockoff, but I remember sincerely enjoying it.
There was an episode that may have been a two-parter where the kid recruits all the heroes and warriors he's met to defeat some kind of dark lord, and one of them was a talking chimp who had retired from being a hero to live in a zoo. The kid talked him into joining his army, but the chimp fell in battle. At the very least, they prop his helmet (the chimp hero had like, a Greek helmet and armor) up on a stick at the end as if making a grave marker. Does anyone else remember this show or did I hallucinate the whole thing?
To top it all off, I distinctly remember that episode being in Spanish and watching it on vacation in Mexico. if it was a Mexico only show that might explain my difficulty in finding it, but I can swear I would watch it at home in English too. I definitely saw the episode I described in Mexico though.
Oh, one more thing I remember, the kid didn't like anchovies on his pizza, but there was one episode where he receives a pizza and opens the box to find some kind of rude message spelled out in anchovies.
openBaaaad? Goooood. Western Animation
Baaaad? Goooood.
An older cartoon, maybe early 70's. When the young boy hears the word "bad" he turns into a Mr. Hyde type character. And when the Hyde character hears the word "good" he turns back in to the boy. Anyone know this, and where I can view them?
openThis weird kids' show... Western Animation
This kid was like a superhero with a secret identity and his powers were shrinking into this kid that had two other weird friends like a brain boy and a weird emo girl who was a good virus and they had so-called "adventures" stopping "crime" in different human bodies and it was sort of educational in telling kids about different bodily functions idk it was really weird and i cant find out what it was anywhere i dont even know if they run it anymore on television but i know i saw it when i was younger this was about 7-8 years ago and i only saw it once. HELP??
openOld cartoon with girls Western Animation
It's an old cartoon about girls,they all look kinda like divas,they wear a lot of makeup,have really girly clothes and a Barbie-like figure (big breast,small waist,big butt) I think the girls are in highschool
opencan't remember Western Animation
The show was about these bracelets that the characters put stones that transformed/gave them powers that related to the creature on the stones (one was a dragon and another one was a snake) it showed on kix (now titled pop max) i watched when i was young (around 6 years old) so 2008-2010
openPokemon mixed with Power Rangers? Western Animation
It was a group of kids (I think) out fighting monsters and trapping them in small tubes or vials filled with liquid. The wielded a vacuum gun thing that could shrink the monsters. I remember a time when one of the monsters broke out of the tube and could talk. There was another time when the "heroes" were sucking up benches and whatnot around the city. The show was a cartoon.
openNo Title Western Animation
Not sure about the animation but the cartoon was like 3d clay like
-I remember in one episode to surprise someone, the characters gather all the zoo animals to help bake a cake but the cake doesn't rise and looks like a cookie.
-in another episode one kid gets stuck in a cloud with his pogo stick, and they invented shoes with springs to jump up and get him
openA small show... Western Animation
It was a really colo(u)rful show, and it was 3d. I remember this purple dude who never showed his eyes, this small pink girl, a tall blue girl, and an orange boy who wore goggles.
openTwo kids and an elf/pixie/brownie Western Animation
I remember watching an episode of a show featuring two kids (a boy and a girl) and a magical creature (elf, maybe?) who travelled around on a cloud (or maybe a flying contraption). In the episode I watched, the elf(?) fell off their cloud(?) in an accident and the two kids went down into the town below to look for their friend. None of the inhabitants of the town had seen their friend, but they all mention seeing a snowflake fall from the sky. At the end of the episode, the kids are reunited with their friend who tells them that he turned himself into a snowflake while falling.
opensome weird stop motion thing Western Animation
here's what I remember about it: the animation wasn't exactly stop motion. it was more like someone was manipulating the dolls (they looked like they were supposed to be oriental?) like a puppet. there was no effort to make it seem like they were actually talking, but it looked like someone was holding the legs of the dolls off-screen and was moving them to empathize what was being said and making them 'walk'. I think the theme song kept saying 'we are wind warriors'. and the only real scene I remember was this: character a: *says something about legendary warriors becoming immortalized in the stars* character b: am I one of those warriors? (something like that) character a: you most certainly are not! I saw it at night when I was like 8 or 9. I've been looking for it for years and I cant find anything about it. pleeeeeease let me know if you've seen something like this before. thanks!
openTitle Unknown Western Animation
When I was living on a military base overseas in the early '80s, we got one English channel that was a mishmesh of various t.v. shows picked for us. There was one cartoon I remember vaguely about a wizard riding a train through space and a young man he brought along on the trip having lost his shoes on one of the worlds they visited. Unfortunately, I was four at the time, and don't remember much more than that.
openOld CG Animated Series, First Person Perspective Western Animation
Looking for a series that was posted on You Tube years ago, and I may not be recalling everything correctly, it was a CGI video on You Tube somewhere a few years ago had to be before 2014 (not sure if it's on there now) and it featured a story from first person perspective of a man who's car broke down and he went to a nearby hotel/motel to stay there, the hotel owner was this small green guy, there was an episode about a telephone, I know there was something about a subplot with his wife. Each episode featured a new monster/character. Also each episode was only a few minutes long. The whole thing had a creepy/dark humor vibe.
openkids show with orange animal Western Animation
i remember it was a cartoon for very young children, but i barely remember anything but an orange weasel/cat type animal. there was some sort of song at the end of an episode at one point and he would sleep in a sort of curled up position. it had thick lines as if it was animated in flash. i don't remember anything else or if it was on a specific channel. there might have been more animals as i think there mightve been a blue creature or something sleeping next to him
openIdk Western Animation
It’s a kids cartoon from the early 2000’s. Someone would like press a button or pull something on a mechanic switch panel and you’d go into a new scene. I think some were Halloween themed?
Edited by sarahthespinachopenCartoon show Western Animation
I want to say that it was on Adult Swim. I remember very little, I think I only saw one episode. One of the female characters had put out an ad to give massage therapy, but started getting creepy guys because her ad used the word “release” instead of “relief”. I have vague memories of the show taking place in an apartment building, with shades of blue being very prominent. Help, it’s driving me crazy.
openNo Title Western Animation
A blonde girl wore a heart necklace, she lived with here dad and had a golden retriever puppy. She could talk to her dog and travel to an alternate dog universe where she talks with all the dogs there.
openThomas and Friends episode where Emily tries a pea Western Animation
When I was younger, I saw part of an episode of Thomas and Friends where a man told Emily to try a pea and she did. There's a clip of her chewing the pea here at 0:36. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S3TuwFniygw
open2000's show from cartoon netwok or nickelodeon Western Animation
I asked about this show before in January, so I'm going to try again and attempt to be more specific about the show - or rather episode.
Okay, so I'm pretty sure it was a kids show, but it could have been an anime. It also could have been one of those shows they broadcast only after a certain time (because it's only for "older kids", ya know?).
It's only a single episode I remember, but during the episode a character (boy) is stuck in this universe, different from the one the show is set in. In this universe, there are these giant spider-like monsters. But the spider-monsters have human (woman??) faces and are actually people stuck in the spider body. (or something like that). Also, the monsters can teleport??
I remember the color scheme of the universe being mostly white and black, but there might have been some color. Also, the style of the show was similar to the original Teen Titans. (I swear if this is just an episode of Teen Titans that I'm vaguely remembering I will weep)
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I remember watching it some time in the mid 00's, so around 05 give or take. In terms of design, it wasn't great, the animation was average and the characters looked alright for what they were. The setting of the show was a fantasy fuedal japan where some villian was trying to take over and the water elemental had to gather the others to beat him. in one episode a building was burned down and the water elemental had to escape, I think that was thw very first episode. And there was a monkey metal elemental who eventually tuened into a golden monkey, a girl that turned to wood. The fire elemental started off on the villians side but i think he may have swapped sides mid show. There may have been one or two other elemental characters I'm forgetting. I also remember the landscape being fairly lacking in terms of being interesting. To elaborate a bit on each of the four characters i mentioned. Water guy looked like a blue kid with a raindrop for a head. Fire guy aas juat a red kid wkth a flaming head. The monkey was just a talking monkey who turned to gold. And the girl i dont remember too much about other than she eventually turned to wood,but was still part of the team.