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openThomas episode where Emily ate a pea Western Animation
I remember, when I was little, I was watching a Thomas music video and there was a snippet in it where a human gave Emily a pea and said, "Eat this pea." Emily chewed the pea with puffy cheeks and seemed not to know how to eat food. Thomas isn't really the type of show that has the engines trying human things, so it was strange.
openCard playing game show Western Animation
So there used to be a show where characters consciousnesses would be split in half, one which stayed in the real world and the other would go to a virtual world. The virtual world was where players would go to play a trading card game (like Yugioh). I know it was on Jetix, at least for a while. The characters were of a redhead teenager with glasses, a girl, another guy and the protagonist was mixed race(?), though I can't remember much else about the show.
openWhat kids tv show was this? Western Animation
I think i watched it in the early to mid 2000s in either cartoon network or Discovery kids.
It was a sci-fi ish (more like sci fantasy probably) show about a space crew and their adventures. The crew were different races which gave it a Farscape vibe.
I remember two of the characters. One was the captain or the elder, looked like a gnome with white beard. The other was a girl with butterfly like wings that could fly. I think she had purple hair.
It had a very distinct visual style. I think it was either stop motion or puppets. Im inclined to say it was stop motion and there was some CGI.
The tone was fairly light. Any ideas?
openChildren's animated 2D cartoon series with blueish color scheme Western Animation
I can't remember any names of the characters, however I do vaguely remember what some of the characters looked like. Most of them were clearly not human, but some did closely resemble one. (Not human, as in, having body features such as clean white faces, bean-like fingers and toes and strange but cute ears and noses.)
One of the characters, which I remember the clearest, was this white-faced kid with monkey ears, wearing a woolly hat. He wandered around dragging a red cart to which he collected invisible stones every now and then.
One was a small flying mixture of a cloud and a showman. This creature's name I think was like "Pom" or "Pou" or something like that and I remember the show's name being very close to the name of one of the characters. Not at all sure though.
Another was this large and tall, eggplant-shaped blueish "thing" with four feet and a cute face and large eyes who could reform their body at will. They also might have had some red and orange polygonal spots scattered around their body if I remember correctly. I also remember a small child who was obsessed with his wooden building blocks which I think there were 13 of them.
The color scheme I think was overall mostly blueish gray and orange.
I was pretty small when I first saw this so that might have affected my perception of everything but I remember the events of the show being very random, as well as the characters. Everyone did lots of weird things and no-one ever really questioned anything.
This aired in Finland and I watched it somewhere around 2004-2009 and I have absolutely no idea whether it was an originally Finnish cartoon or just dubbed.
openChildrens show on VHS Western Animation
So i just remembered this one cartoon i used to watch a lot on VHS when i was 4. The remember it being in Cgi with this cast of animal characters(i think one of them was a horse?).
I vaguely remember one of the episodes involving a character’s birthday Towards the end, there were elephants who sang “We love cake”
If i had to guess, it would probably be from between 1995-2002
I don’t really know anything else about this show as it wasn’t on any cable networks i knew of
Edited by MintyStarryNightsopenCartoon, three or four differently aged versions of a girl Western Animation
I remember watching this cartoon one time, I can't remember when or what channel, though I live in Canada, if that helps at all. It had this one episode where a girl was with two or three differently aged versions of herself. I'm certain one was a baby, and I vaguely remember one being a young girl and another being a teenager. Whatever it was, I think the main one was in the middle age wise. The other versions came to be from some sort of time machine or a time travelling spell, I just remember something about time travel. Also, if anyone does know the show, if they could post some sort of link to the actual episode, it would be much appreciated.
Edited by IHateMyselfAndWantToDieopenCartoon. Magic wands shaped like a wooden spoon and a star. Had to enter ‘password’ to use magic Western Animation
Help please. Have tried searching in vain for the name of an old cartoon. The story centres around this woman who has magical powers. She lives with her father. Her wand has a star at the tip and his is shaped like a wooden spoon. Both of them are ‘password protected’ in that you have to move the star or spoon bowl around in a certain combination in order to be able to cast any spells. The cartoon is about an evil wizard trying to steal both wands and their unlock codes in order to use them in a scheme. I also remember a scene where the daughter is in a shop and they sell these coloured balls which I think are supposed to be enchantments. She runs into a man and has a meet ute where they knock all these balls down and try to sort them out. Please help, can’t find anything throughout the google.
Edited by SantaryopenA girl and an Alien? Western Animation
All I mainly remember is the intro, which is an Alien slowly heading toward earth, where he meets a girl and they become friends. I think i remember some lyrics to the into too: ___(girls name) and ____(Aliens name) _______(idk) story! I remember the girl having orange hair and being short , but I could be wrong. I'm a 2000's kid and the animation wasn't that good when I saw it as a kid, so I'm assuming it came out in the 90's. I think the alien was short and green and had had two intenas. (Btw I'm from Canada, so idk if it was a Canadian show.)
openHidden Mickey Short sometimes played in commercial breaks in disney channel Western Animation
Sometimes back in the day when shows were on break Disney Channel would play some sort of a short where a guy shows Hidden Mickeys in Disney media such as Lilo and Stitch, Goofy Movie. I tried looking for it around the internet but no luck. I'd be really said if there were no recordings for this since the guy who narrated the show had a really funny voice and the way they presented it was pretty cool too. Reversing footage, slowing down and finally zooming in so we can actually see the hidden mickey.
Edited by agatorgoeropenCartoon. Talking animals. Frog that only says ruby Western Animation
Been looking for a show last few days about talking cats or dogs (puppies maybe) and they had a little green frog friend that only ever said "ruby" its name in a weird voice and they would hang around a playground. I can't remember when i watched it
openCartoon "Begee"? Western Animation
Main character is named begee, she's got 2 guy friends and she has a little brother and a tree house
openPink Monster Crying Western Animation
Hi! I'm looking for a cartoon I possibly watched in elementary school. I remember a young boy comforting a crying pink monster. The cartoon looked to be from the 80's or 90's, maybe even the 70's. Can you please help me?
openCartoon about animals in a forest Western Animation
I have a vague memory of a cartoon that I saw when I was a kid (early 2000s). I think it was about anthropomorphic animals living in a forest. The only episode I remember was something about one of them finding gold in the river(?) and gold fever spreading throughout the forest. I think it was British, but I could be wrong there.
openCartoon Vegetable Beauty Pageant Western Animation
I saw this in Europe in 1998-1999, it seemed like an episode of a cartoon series. The good guys and bad guys staged a beauty pageant where the contestants were anthropomorphic vegetables. The bag guys contestants (especially a beautiful, dolled-up eggplant) seemed to be winning. On the good guys team is "Ms. Onion" who everyone looks at her and laughs. She then goes off and cries on a bridge somewhere (maybe she going to jump off?) when someone (I think it was a carrot in a trenchcoat) comes along and tells her to snap out of it. They return to the beauty pageant where she goes up against Ms. Eggplant (seems like its a one-on-one contest). At some point the bright lights (or maybe some sort of bomb set off by the bad guys to sabotage her) make her onion skin peel away and everyone gasps and says "She's become even more beautiful." I guess she and the good guys win then. Has anyone seen this? I can't find information on it everywhere. As I said, it seemed like it was one episode of a series.
Edited by TMIMeegopenNeed help finding Anime-style Western cartoon Western Animation
I saw this cartoon over 10 years ago in spanish in Argentina. I don't know what channel it aired on or who worked on it or what the name of it was. It's a mystery that's plagued me ever since, and I'm hoping somebody hear can help me find it. From what I remember, the story was about the world's population being turned completely into stone except for some people. There was an overweight guy with a guy and an Asian woman who was blindfolded with a sword. The cause of all of humanity turning into stone were these singers who had Medusa like powers, where everything that looked in their eyes turned into stone. Even cameras and shit. For some reason, they even had vampire fangs. The cartoon ends with the guy and the Asian lady teaming up to kill the Medusa singer, but they ultimately failed. Even though she was blindfolded, the Asian girl is turned into stone and cracks after one of the Medusa singers screamed in her ear. The guy is also turned into stone, with the cartoon cutting to black after his head falls on the floor and breaks. The animation style was definitely anime-inspired, with of Western comics-style inking. Something like Aeon Flux. This is all I can remember. If anybody knows what I'm talking about, please tell me. I've tried for years to find it, and it's a mystery that occasionally pops up in my head every so often. Thanks.
open"Token Human" in a cartoon Western Animation
this is something that belongs in Token Human . The actual protagonist is a kid of a race with green skin and trumpet-like ears. He lives on a space station his mother commands. His father is dead. One of his friends at school is the only human in the cast, but he's just there.
open2000s Cartoon Western Animation
So there was this cartoon I watched years ago It was about a boy who can see monsters or evil spirits and lives in a house full of them and he’d go hunting monsters and stuff I also remember his neighbor it was this girl his age I think she was supposed to be his girlfriend or something? I really can’t remember I don’t remember the exact year but it definitely was a 2000s show also it was a bit more darker than usual cartoons and it had a lot of action It wasn’t really popular Any ideas? (Sorry for my bad english)
openseries about stomach? Western Animation
So I'm looking for an animated series from which I remember the following things: The opening shows a house and lightning, a cook/chef walks in. The boy who lives in the house won't eat anything and the people are looking for someone who can cook for him. The series is basically three creatures in his stomach who try to eat the food but can't. The ending shows the butler kicking the cook/chef out the door. It might have been on cartoon network but I'm not sure.
openHelp😂 Western Animation
I cannot remember for the life of me this CGI cartoon.I watched it when I was younger and all I remember is that there are three main characters (2 boys 1 girl I think) and that they upload themselves to an online world or something.I can remember that one of the boys can multiply himself in the online world and he's like a ninja kind of thing can anyone help it's bugging me 😂

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