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There was this animation shown as part of the children's TV programming in Norway in the mid/late 80s early 90s. It had a dog (possibly black) in it, and cat or a mouse, I cannot fully remember. But the dog was inspired by/inspiration for Muttley in Stop The Pidgeon. I don't fully remember what the show was about, but I do remember that either the dog or the second character was showering in the opening sequence. Can anyone help me figure out which series this is, because it is driving me NUTS!
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I saw this show in the 90s, but it could be older. It began with a stop-motion sequence in an old theatre, where this creepy old man was going to show us a cartoon. He had a spider for a friend/pet. Then there was an animated cartoon, usually about a kid who was naughty and got punished for it in some insanely creepy way. One cartoon had a kid who stole the sun and kept it in a jar under his bed, but then his parents almost found out and he had to let it out. It burned him to a cinder. Another had a kid enter a shop where he was turned into a doll. I just can't remember the name of the show, and google is being unhelpful.
Also, a possibly related show (I think it had the same animation style) frequently featured the big bad wolf. Dunno if that helps or not.
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I remember this show from the early 2000s set in space. It's main characters were a plucky comic relief human guy, a deadpan snarker alien girl and their do-everything robot dog. They fought evil, I think. One episode in particular I remember had the guy and dog locked in a tank of sorts and had earwigs dumped on them. The guy had to get over his fear of them or something akin to that. Thanks!
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It was an animated TV series from the late 1960's or early 1970's. There were several characters with different attributes, but the one I remember was a man wearing harem pants who could change his shape by saying "size of a ..." and then becoming that creature.
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There was this animated show on MTV. When I was watching it (must have been the early 2000s) it came on after Daria. There was this group of teens or 20 year-olds and they went on about their lives. They also got into trouble a lot and the show was a bit dark at points, definitely the post watershed kind of show. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Stop-motion animated kids' show (or possibly just a short segment of another show). Aired in Canada in the early 90s I think, possibly on a Québec channel. The characters were these chubby little cars with faces. It's possible that they were designed to have big heads sticking up — not like the cars in Cars where the faces are more integrated and low to the ground. I remember them as being somewhat top-heavy (or at least one of them was).
Anyway, I think there was an opening sequence where you'd see the little cars driving around while a jaunty piano tune played. Any ideas?
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I seem to recall a cartoon from the 90's i watched (likely saturday mornings) when i was younger. It centered around a series of... i think power rangers/transformer like characters who all had pharoah or egypt-related motifs. They fought crime, i believe, and I know robots or robot armor was involved. Any ideas?
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I actually don't remember this one myself, but my dad does- he remembers me watching it when I was little. I'm in my teens, so don't go looking for something from the eighties or anything.
From what he can recall, there was a kid (male) with a dog and a fish(?), and he swears the fish was named Dennis. The dog looked kind of like a bulldog, and the fish could shapeshift or something. It might have been an animal-based show.
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It's an animated show that came on during Halloween around 2000 or so. It took place near a grave yard and I think each episode had a different main character. It was vary dark one episode a girl had a flower that would kill its owner if it died so she was going to give it to her teacher and another episode a talking black cat tries to get a girl to sell her soul but then the cat ended up her pet.
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A cartoon from around the late 90's to mid 00's. It was about a group of dogs who were spies (or something along those lines) but acted like non-sentient dogs when not solving crimes. There was one dog who was always strapped to a gurney or stretcher for being too violent.
I don't remember anything aside from that, but it's been bugging me for weeks now.
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I believe its western animation, possibly rotoscoped because I remember a slight ralph bakshi look to it. It was on syfy back in the 90's when they had all kinds of crazy cartoons on every sunday. It took place ina medieval/robin hood setting.
The only scene I recall is the protagonist being duped into performing trials and tribulations for possibly a witch/warlock. One of these trials is archery, shooting hay dummys. This is just a ruse, the hay dummies are actually his fair maiden and buddies, who have now bled out and died. Any takers?
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A movie about ants, that was not Antz or A Bug's Life. It involved a little brat who roasts ants with a magnifying glass, and then gets shrunk down to the size of a bug and has to live with the ants. The ants all had multifaceted, oval eyes with no pupils. I would have seen it in a theater probably several years ago.
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Reading through all of these threads has drudged up an old memory of a cartoon I used to watch when I was dropped off at my babysitter's house early in the morning. I dont know what channel it was on. But I remember there being a young boy as one of the lead characters, and he would visit a house of some sort that would travel through time and let the characters observe what I believe were old bible story events. Any ideas?
Edit: Timeframe would have been mid to late 80's
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Okay, so there was this cartoon that I watched when I was about 5 (would have been around '94, but the show (or movie) was on VHS, so no telling how old it was), and I cannot remember the name of it. It involved gnomes? Or really short people? On a boat...in space, maybe? I seem to remember them having magic or technology of some sort. I'm sorry that this is so vague, but this has been bothering me for YEARS so if anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated. It might even be that I'm juxtaposing two shows together or something, but I just have to know! Also, I don't know if this helps, but we watched it in conjunction with the trollies sing-along movie.
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I'm looking for a cartoon about a king who turned into a bird after drinking a potion given to him by an old man.
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I remember I had this VHS tape of a kid's cartoon show, It was about a green dragon, and some younger dragons or kids or something in a fantasy land, I think there was a lollipop theme going on in it too. Any ideas?
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I think this should be a simple one. It was a cartoon, one of the ecologically-aware ones about some kind of ocean research facility. The main character was a remarkably ripped scientist who drowned in the first episode and was turned into an orca-human hybrid thing so he could breathe underwater by a rather annoying underwater merman child, who looked just like a sea monkey. I recall he would turn into the orca thing whenever he came into contact with water, whether he wanted to or not, and there were probably some evil polluting corporate types as well.
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a tv animated series. don't think it was running for long. each episode depicted a different classic fairytale but with a different idea/fresh take on characters etc. I remember the story of cindarella being set in space/futuristic (i.e., I think the characters - cindarella,the prince,stepfamily were robots/androids/cyborgs and in the final scene the prince and cindarella -possibly with robot names- rode off into the distance on his hoverscooter??).
another episode featured the story of bluebeard. I think in this version Bluebeard married the youngest curious sister of some family.
Each episode didn't run for very long - 5 or 10 minutes. The style was more like a story told by an unseen narrator narrating the story with the aid of visuals- more drawn/painted/"artworky" animation rather than typical animation. and due to the retelling of the story with the fresh look - the Narrator ended each episode with a moral with a new twist.
The description is vague but it's bugging me. any suggestions are appreciated.
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No "fanfic" option, but since these were both (IIRC) based off of the cartoon...
The first one was Flash centric fic, and the title was something like "Beginning/End", but with fancier language. There's a beginning section, and an end section, but no "middle" section (surprise surprise XP)
In the beginning, Flash and the rest are going on a mission, and the Flash has packed snacks for everyone. I know that one of the snacks was juiceboxes, and I'm pretty sure that they were grape.
The end spoiler was Flash doing somethign heroically suicidal, and everyone calling him to get him to not be suicidal. Instead, he opens a juicebox and starts drinking it as the Javelin he's on goes down. After that it's an Author's Note saying "...and then Batman went in with a boom tube and saved him" or something like that. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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The other story was also Flash centric, sort of. Flash was missing, and so Batman and Superman were trying to get volunteers to go look for him. That was it, except it was also about the way the Flash managed to touch everyone in the JL, and what he meant to the different people.
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Okay, this one is really hazy and far back in my memory, but I know for a fact that I saw it. It was either an animated film or an episode of a TV series (though the former seems more likely to me) that aired in the mid-to-late 90s. All I remember is that there was a noble family with a palace that had an irremovable blood spot left on the floor from the murder of the old Lord's wife or something like that. I SPECIFICALLY remember that she fell down the stairs and broke her neck (and it was explicitly stated so in the narration), and I believe she was named Lady Elgin (although that might be something else mixed in there). I can't remember the plot, but I think it involved a group of mystery investigators trying to solve a case. I also remember that the blood spot changed colours after each night which made the investigators think it was a fake. One final detail I remember is that they eventually found the Lady's decayed skeletal body hidden in the wall, with her blonde hair still attached to the skull, which really freaked me out when I saw it as a kid. I know this sounds really weird, but I know for sure that I saw it. Any Ideas at all?