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I remember this show from (I think) a few years ago, and I believe it might have been on Cartoon Network. I remember it centered around a music teacher and kids that might have been his class. I remember a line from the theme song: "Washington DC, that's where life becomes a sitcom; if you ain't got no rhythm we're gonna show you how to get sommmeeee YEAH!". I also remember one episode where the kids were imagining a world without music. One kid said:"If there was no music, we wouldn't have hearts because there'd be no beat" or something like that. Thanks!
openNo Title Western Animation
Kids catoon that I saw on Australian Nickelodeon (no idea if it was on US Nick as well or not) in the mid-90's. Set somewhere in Africa, main character was a teenage boy (dressed in an orange shift thing), accompanied by a neurotic rabbit-man and a girl who was human at night and a gazelle during he day. They were on some sort of quest, guided by two water spirits/deities (a male and female, spoke in unison, appeared in rivers as humanoids with bodies made of water and orange/yellow/red masks) against an evil fire spirit/deity.
openNo Title Western Animation
An animated show, say eighties or early nineties (that when I did see this, could have been older of course). I only remember the intro, were the premise of the show is told:
We see the Big Bad climbing a very high tower or mountain under a star sky, in order to get the MacGuffin (I think it was some crystal thing), which rests at the peak of the tower (or mountain). He can almost reach it, but then for some reason it shatters into many tiny pieces, which somehow disperse into every corner of the galaxy/universe/whatever. Now, the protagonists (normal humans from Earth???) are on a quest to gather all the Mac Guffin pieces, before the Big Bad can get them into his hands]].
My memories are very vague, so I might have misremembered a thing or two, but I thing I have successfully pinned down the essentials of this
openNo Title Western Animation
Okay, so for some reason I suddenly remembered a part of this cartoon I used to watched when I was little, so like mid/late 90's. All I can remember was there was this round green monster who kinda looked like Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. and I think there was human but I'm not sure what gender. There were also these wolves who were blue and greyish striped and I'm pretty sure they were the bad guys and they looked a tiny bit like one of the Digimon monsters. I remember vaguely a part of an episode where the green monster had a sort of necklace thing which the wolves wanted so he hid it in his mouth. A wolf kept asking him to show him the under and over side of his tounge "under, over, under, over.." to catch the monster out and get the necklace from him, while other wolves searched the human for it, but then they found it in the green monster's mouth. I'm sure there were other characters, but apart from that I can't remember anthing, not the theme song or what channel it was on, but I think maybe Fox Kids or Nickelodeon?
openNo Title Western Animation
An animated detective show set in the roaring Twenties with Anthropomorphic dogs instead of humans. The protaganist was a cab driver who had to step up when his superior, named Casey, befell a Once an Episode Amusing Injury.
openNo Title Western Animation
This isn't a lot to go on but I've been trying to figure out if this movie actually exists or not. I'm pretty sure it was western animation, probably a movie, and would have been from the 90s, maybe early 80s. There's this little girl, I think she's the main character, and she's trying to fight the evil bad guy in a forest or swampy area. It involved magic and I think she says some cheesy lines about "happiness is infinite, we can make as much as we want!" or something similar. I've tried googling it but so far no luck. Any help?
Edited by kagenomichiopenNo Title Western Animation
I'm not sure it's western animation rather than anime, but i have a dim memory of this cartoon which involved a girl and i think the devil, and some relative of the girl coming back from the dead.
The only thing I really remember is a representation of hell as a yellow and red spinning whirlpool (in which said relative was descending, i think), which gave me nightmares when I was a little kid.
Edited by TyphonopenNo Title Western Animation
Remember a show from around 2004/2005 shown on nickelodeon set in a school..they possibly all had magical powers or their was something strange and magical about the town where the kids lived? think the main character was a girl with red hair and had a friend with blonde hair
Can remember one episode about a vegetarian!
Hope someone knows!
openNo Title Western Animation
Okay, this is twofold.
One is about a French pirate and his Hyper-Competent Sidekick rat first mate (who has some lower class British accent I can't identify).
The other is about secret agent dogs and their neverending struggle against dog stuff like fleas and cats. No,it's not Cats And Dogs.
Both of them aired on FOX on Saturday mornings in the late 90s, but as far as I can tell they didn't last very long. Any ideas?
openNo Title Western Animation
So, it was a show on PBS in the early 2000's. It was about a boy who was an inch tall. The show was in an art-deco-y style, I think. He had a little brother that was normal-sized. What else..... I remember this one episode where he was baby-sitting a bonsai tree or something. Does that make any sense to anyone?
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I remember that this show was on Kids WB, and appeared on Saturday Mornings. It featured four teens, who I think had superpowers. One MAY have had the ability to transform into creatures....
And it was also animated in stop-motion/claymation.
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It's an animation show that aired around 2003/2005, probably in Nickelodeon. It was set in a boarding school for magic/school were magical stuff happened; but it didn't feel(too much)like a Harry Potter rip-off. I believe it centered around a group of "normal" students having to deal with this fantastic world. The principal/main teacher was a witch who may have had some sort of weird looking flying pet. Among the main children, there was a blonde rather whiny girl(she also had a weird-looking nose) who had to share the room with a "goth" student (Her hair was black and quite big) who had rapidly adapted to the school. Some of the other students and teachers might have been trolls or different kinds of supernatural creatures. Episodes I remember centered around a student messing with magic they don't understand to deal with a regular problem and learning some sort of lesson. There was an episode in which they were putting up a play and the got possessed by the characters until they finished the play. The opening sequence, as I remember it, showed the characters being dropped off at school, encountering weird stuff, trying to escape while the theme tune narrated the facts and may have said something about these students being mistakenly sent to the school. The show was probably American or Canadian, was traditionally animated and may have been named after the school.
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TV show possibly shown on Nickelodeon around 2003-ish.
Only saw the first episode, about a boy who is accepted into a space station/school from a rural background. I remember him going through a training programme when some bullies open an air lock. A girl is sucked out and he flies through an asteroid field to rescue her wearing some special space suit that was behind a glass screen before. Remember him having some generic non-human/nerd friends too, even though it was the first day.
Animation style along the lines of Danny Phantom.
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I think this was an animated film, it involved some animals that live under a tree or something and then their little animal village is gassed or something and one of their friends gets sick saving their parents and the other animals have to go looking for a cure, pretty sure one of the characters was a badger and there was a scene with diggers at one point though I could be mistaken, saw it when I was very young (so during the 90's) could have been released before then.
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An educational action cartoon I saw about 2 years ago. It involved 4-5 teenagers who were heroes and morphed into dinosaurs. One teen was a punk rocker boy who turned into a pterodactyl and there was a black girl who turned into either a triceratops or parasaurolophus. In the episode I saw, I remember there was a creepy old lady who lived alone in a haunted house or something. A lawn party was also involved. It was not Dinosaur King or Dinosaucers. More like Animorphs but with dinosaurs and it was a cartoon.
openNo Title Western Animation
Cartoon about three monsters: walking jack-o-lantern with monster-themed gadgets inside him, skeleton who could turn into different objects like table or draft and dog vampire.
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I asked about this on the old YKTS, but I don't think it was ever answered. I remember quite a bit about it, but can't find any evidence that it actually even exists. It was a short film (maybe 15 minutes, maybe a half-hour) shown in a grade school assembly in the late 1970s, as an educational film about mathematics (probability, specifically), with extremely stylized animation. It involves a nebbishy guy rescuing a little man (might have been a leprechaun, might have been a wizard, but he was definitely magical).
The little man gives him a magical amulet (a circle that's half-red, half-blue, on a chain) which will grant his fondest wishes... 50% of the time. His wish involves becoming a superhero, and when he first uses it (and the blue side lights up), he becomes Probability Man, a large and deep-voiced Flying Brick with the man's face. Other times, the red side lights up, and he turns into something random. (Either way, it was for a limited duration, and he changed back on his own after a while)
The part I remember best is when his would-be girlfriend (who knows his secret identity) arranges to have him rescue her from a burning building when she jumps from a high window, while news crews record the rescue so he can become famous, but the red side lights up, and he turns into a (talking) bed instead of Probability Man. She chides him and walks away, while he (still as a bed) moans "awwww", and crumples.
The little man adjusts the probability a few times during the short (at one point reducing it to 33% blue/67% red, IIRC). At the very end, he raises it to a 90% (again, IIRC - my memory could be off on any of these percentages) chance of the blue side working, and it ends with narration along the lines of "But even 90% isn't a certainty, so every now and then..." as the red side lights up, the nebbish turns into a dog, blinks at the camera, and runs away. Any ideas? Does anyone but me remember this film at all? Google gives me nothing.
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OK, this one's for a specific character. I could be hallucinating, or this could be from another medium, so keep that in mind. There's this character in The Simpsons who's a very bad doctor, seedy. And every time he appears, he says "Hi everybody!", and they all say "Hi, dr. [his name]!"