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I saw some 60s cartoons. One was about a crocodile running out of a zoo. Another had a hippo in a hot air balloon. The last one had a musketeer tortoise.
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Okay, this is going to be ridiculously vague, but it was somewhere around 1998. There was some sort of animated show on the Disney channel about dragons. All I really remember was that it had a quite catchy theme song.
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I saw a trippy Cartoon Network commercial in the 1990s. I think Dexter turned into a live-action guy driving a car. I'm 100% sure that Bugs Bunny turned into Wally Gator.
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Ok I'm definitely glad I found this site, Hopefully someone can help me. I'm trying to remember the title of a show that I don't think is that old, I'm pretty sure early 2000s but it MIGHT be late 90s. I'm sorry I don't have a lot of details. It was about a boy detective, he was young and small, and he had high-tech gadgets. He had a sidekick, who was like a big classic spy type guy with blond hair. It is possible that the kid was the sidekick. It was a fairly intelligent cartoon I recall, but those are really all the details I remember. It might have been supernatural...but I might be confusing it in my head with martin mystery. Help! Edit: I think they worked for the government, if that helps.
I'm adding more to this. Its possible the blond guy was the spy and this kid hung around, but he was super smart and solved the mysteries, i can't remember if they were supernatural or not, but i think there was robots with the gadgetry. i remember there being times when he was told to do his homework. man this description is awful haha. sorry. its not jimmy neutron! 2d.
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In Street Sharks, the characters had stupid puns like "Jawsome" or "Fintastic" but I also remember they had one that was kind of like a Last-Second Word Swap. I cannot remember what it was. It was similar to TMNT when they say, "What the shell?!"
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It's a children's animation movie from the 90s, similar to snow white, (there's dwarves in it) but it has some other name, and the main character, a girl, gets lost in a maze/labyrinth.
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An animated short, about people living in the world of sweets and candy. All I distinctly remember is a blonde girl who was the love interest of the (I think also blonde) male protagonist powdering her cheeks with marshmallow dust. Also it used music very heavily I think it was without dialogue. The animation was reminiscent of the Fleischer Brothers, especially their Superman.
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Sort of a pulp cartoon from probably the late 90s. The three main characters were a black-haired man (i think he was called "captain" or "commander" by the others), a blonde woman, and a large red-haired man. All three wore black shirts.
Some parts i remember involved a fog moving through a forest and killing whatever it touched, a Winged Humanoid being held by some people in a cave, and a robot with a flail destroying People Jars (and something about the woman's father).
Edit: I managed to find out half of what I was thinking of (see comments). However, I still don't know what series the killer fog, winged person (alien?), and also a scene in a Western-type town with the protagonists being subjected to Bullet Dancing was from.
Update: Having looked further, I've found out it was Bob Morane. I was wrong about the plot involving a killer fog, but I remembered the scene I was thinking of exactly.
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I need to know about an animated series about a dumb/super powerful robot who drools all the time. He's aided by a punk blonde woman and a dinosaur to scape from his creator who is some evil guy. sorry i can't remember anything else. Ah, he has orange hair and wears yellow t-shirt and pants
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What I'm looking for is a stop-motion animated short, made in the early or mid-90s. It tells a sort of a faux Japanese folk tale about a samurai who has to save a girl from a demon. The animation is the made to look as if we're watching a play, so the camera remains stationary, and instead of cutting from scene to another the props behind the characters change all the time. Also, since it's supposed to be a play, it has an on-stage narrator, an old guy with a white beard. I don't remember much about the story, except that the samurai beats the demon and gets the girl. The narrator then walks to the stage, takes of a mask he was wearing and reveals that he's not actually an old guy but the samurai of the story, who's then joined by the girl he saved. You'd think the story would end there, but all of a sudden the camera moves (for the first time in the film) much closer to the characters than previously, and we see the demon attack the samurai and the girl. The demon kills both the samurai and the girl in a rather gory manner, and the short ends with that. This is quite a Mood Whiplash, as the rest of the story was more like a classic children's fable. I think the short won some big price for short films, but I can't remember which one.
If it helps any, the short was made with stop-motion animated puppets, like Nightmare Before Christmas.
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There was a show on the European Fox Kids in 2002 or earlier. I can only remember there being a white dog standing on his hind legs. And no, this ISN'T Brian from Family Guy!
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This was a VHS I found at the local video store when I was a kid (circa 1993). It was basically a poor man's version of The Mind's Eye but still quite entertaining. I thought it was called More Dancing in Cyberspace and was a sequel to Dancing in Cyberspace which I never saw (the video store inexplicably had the sequel but not the original). I tried to track this down recently, but the title doesn't appear on the IMDB, nobody remembers it, and extensive searching found me nothing relevant (one of the hits was a porn site, somehow). It's as if I imagined it. Or, more likely, I'm remembering the title wrong and it's just really obscure.
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The show I'm trying to remember is from the 90s. I remember it being either animated or early 3d. My memory's pretty foggy.
All I really remember is that the hero was some sort of athlete/stunt man that was given the power to see patterns. The entire show revolved around him somehow seeing this pattern/combination of events at JUST the right time to save the day.
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My friend saw a show on Cartoon Network before 1998 at his aunt's house. He remembers their being fish detectives. And no, he said it isn't Fish Police.
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These are two shows and I remember one better than the other. I think they played on ABC either on staurdays or weekday mornings
The first is about a bumbling detective whose name sounded like watermelon. I think they go back in time because the episode I remember they're visiting Louis Pasteur and the bad guys are trying to stop his discovery or something but the detective pasteurizes the milk anyway by accident. The animation style was similar to Flying Rhino Junior High.
The second one is about a mammoth that was found in a block of ice, was defrosted and lives with and archeologist and her son. The mammoth can talk and they're teaching him about the modern world.
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In the early '90s there was an animated TV special (too short to be a movie, but maybe a pilot that didn't get picked up) about a bunch of raccoons who hijack a futuristic garbage truck.
It all happens because the new trash collection system is so high-tech and efficient that they can't eat out of the humans' trash anymore and are going to starve to death if they don't do something. There was a montage of the raccoons stealing various human implements they needed to pull their heist (including, for no good reason, a hat).
Does this sound familiar at all? Everyone I talk to seems to think I imagined it.
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There was this show that starred a girl who had a pet cat that could talk and was an Egyptian god or something. I remember in one of the episodes they were trying to keep some kind of scepter from some creature. The cat was blue.
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I can't remember the name of a show that set in medieval times with anamorphic animals. There a live-action segment in it like Arthur where people give facts about the middle ages.
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This has been nagging me forever... I remember watching an awesome show that featured characters on rollerblades- I think skateboards and bikes too, I really can't remember. They basically saw the city as a playground, joined tournaments and whatnot... ugh, I really can't say anything more helpful. It does look Animesque, but it was so long ago I might be wrong.
Does it ring a bell to anyone?

We watched this thing in math class when I was little with a king, about to die and with no sons, challenges his knights to find "the fraction right after 3/4" or something like that (the fraction was probably different but there was the definiteness of "right after" or "right before"). All of his knights, being Book Dumb, go out literally looking for it (under rocks, around trees, etc.) while his math-smart advisor keeps going and coming back with numbers like 7/8, 5/6, 13/16 before he finally realizes it goes to infinite levels and there is no such fraction/number and thus gets the rights to the throne, and says that when he becomes king he's making all of the knights list all of the numbers they can find after 3/4 and whoever gets the closest to 3/4 becomes king.
The proper google-fu can probably find this but I'm probably looking up the wrong words.