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openpoorly animated short series about an angry man that looks like it's from the early to mid 2000s Western Animation
What I can remember is there was a large angry man who always had an open mouth ready to yell or argue, he had a super energetic son who bounced on a trampoline indoors and got hurt, his wife mumbles constantly. I believe he had a neighbor who was a duck and he hated him but I honestly can't remember much. it was a mini series, Like 6 episodes or something, all in Black and White. looked like it was drawn on an old school Windows computer.
openThis one Preschool Show Western Animation
It was about a person doing a craft show, and in each chapter he bring one of four paper animals to help him, he decided who he wanted and the animals wents from being made of paper to being CGI, while the host and the animal do the show there is a b plot about one of the non-selected animals dealing with a trouble together with their friends animated in a paper style in their habitat, I remember that there was a snowy mountain and a farm plus 2 more places that I don't remember.
open2 living toys move from a bedroom to the outdoors. Western Animation
My memories of this series are really hazy, but I know it aired in 2015 on TV Al-Hijrah (for any other Malaysian tropers out there), and I watched The Fixies on that channel around that time too. Fixies was my fave to watch there, next to this show.
3D-animated series, unknown origin (even if I marked Western) and I forgot everyone's names.
The 2 main characters are Living Toys, one's a tall guy made of wooden cube blocks and the other is much smaller, I think she was a talking cat? Where they live, there are young kids (shorter than block guy) and other friends (of maybe less human-like appearance?) as side-characters.
As for the setting, I have reason to believe that the toys used to live in a blue bedroom but left and ended up in the bright green outdoors where most of the episodes occur. Maybe it was hinted to in the theme sequence, because when I finally saw an episode of the 2 in a blue bedroom, I figured "oh, so this is the first episode." I forgot why they left, but I think they flew out the open window via toy plane.
In later episodes, block guy and the cat do appear to have their own house which is much more their size (compared to the gigantic bedroom). The kids also appear to have their own house(s?). There was a centre-area without paths, much more flora and fauna, though there might have been a performing stage there.
My memories of episodes are little, but here's what I've got:
- There's one episode where one of the young kids refused to eat carrots/carrot soup, because he thought that it's gross to eat things that grow underground. At the end, he eventually comes to enjoy his 🥕 soup (supposedly after learning they're healthy).
- There's another episode where the 2 toys are on the trail of a supposed stranger/monster who keeps leaving square-shaped mud tracks everywhere that the block guy had been. Turns out, block guy didn't notice that he stepped in mud and was following his own tracks.
- There was probably a Sick Episode that ended with everyone getting better... only for the cat to start sneezing.
Any help is appreciated, thank you for your time.
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenA real animated short or not? Western Animation
In the tropes Bungled Suicide and Happily Failed Suicide, there's a mention on the Western Animation folders that there's an 80's Eastern-European short about "a despondent man trying to kill himself, but when he's faced by robbers, he gives away all of his posession, clothes included, and ends up happy and appreciating life after being spared". I can't find anything about this short on the web, and a twitter account stated that this short is probably non-existant. Anybody knows what the short is called?
openCreepy Fairy Villain Animation Western Animation
I am searching from a show probably from the 90s or 80s. It has a villain pinning the fairies and keeping them in jars like butterflies. It's not anything Tinkerbell, but it could have been on Disney channel.
openAnimation with Dwindling Party of Bats Western Animation
I'm trying to find a cartoon with some anthropomorphic bats in a cave where they slowly start disappearing, but after the last one disappears, it turns out they're all fine. And then they're at a river with a beaver in the end.
Edited by WoolooShepherdG-00openRejected pilot for a show about a caveman who was a Hardboiled Detective Western Animation
I'm trying to find an animated short from the mid-late 1990s that centers around a caveman which is a Hardboiled Detective. If memory serves his name (also the title of the short) was a pun on Magnum, P.I.. I'm pretty sure it aired on Cartoon Network or Disney Channel, but not certain.
open2 Teletoon Shows Western Animation
The first time I got my teeth cleaned at the dentist building I still go to today, I saw a cartoon on Teletoon that featured the theme song lyric, "Dream a dream that makes you happy," which was sang twice.
Another time, when I was in my grandparents’ spare room in late 2004 or January 2005, I managed to catch three glimpses of an episode of another cartoon. It showed some people on some kind of amusement park ride, and a young boy excitedly said that they were going "to the next level" as they entered another room of the ride. (This inspired me to use the word "level" repeatedly when my dad filmed our house for insurance purposes in January 2005.) After the ride, (I assume) the same boy and a man (who I assume was his dad) were telling someone else about the ride. The man was talking nervously, but the boy was talking enthusiastically.
openA probably gory scene with totally gory implications Western Animation
I believe it to be a western animation show, but it could be an anime as well. The show had a scene where a female character is being sentenced to die by dismemberment, immediately-ish followed by her panick, sedation by drugs and a scene where two executors, one of them male, nonchalantly discuss something along the lines of on of them doing a cranium disassembly for the first time.
openFantasy cartoon? that aired on ABC kids Western Animation
There was this edutainment type of show for young children that aired on ABC kids (Australian) around 2013-2015 when I was too young to remember good details and I never heard anybody on the internet talk about it. It was 3D animated and it had a fantasy theme? The main character wasn't human and it taught kids how to spell. I can't find it anywhere on the internet, this is not the site for lost media hunts so I hope it's out there somewhere.
openDream warriors dream fighters maybe I'm not really sure Western Animation
Basically it's a computer animated show about a brother and a sister fighting dream monsters regular monsters can't really remember the idea is they're both twins.
openExperimental, Surreal (Possibly Korean) CGI Film Western Animation
So, a couple years ago I went to an art exhibition at the college where my father works at, and among the pieces there was this rather confusing "experimental" CGI film- it was playing on what appeared to be infinite loop on a TV screen, and due to the fact that it was composed of various vignettes with no real sense of plot or order.
The vignettes were all focused on a vaguely Asian-looking woman in a clean, sterile, Ascetic Aesthetic sci-fi-y place as she did different things. I remember clearly that she exercised by running on a treadmill with a screen in front of her showing a forest path- this was our only glimpse of a "natural" outdoors environment. Each and every vignette seemed to possess a theme of the woman breaking through the place she was in and revealing something bizarre and impossible- once she broke through the wall to reveal motionless copies of herself standing in some kind of void room, and once she did... something that I don't remember... and ended up creating a floating, perfectly spherical blob of water about half her height. She never seemed to recall the events of any previous vignette, and also never spoke aloud.
There was a little plaque on the wall next to the TV screen that explained a few things, although not what was actually going on in there- it just said that the title (which was some word in an Asian language, possibly Korean) meant something like "Time Travel" or "breaking through" or "transcendence".
(I suppose the fact that this seems to be a Korean project means that I should list this as "Asian Animation" or "Anime", but that would give the totally wrong impression as to what the film it was like- it was, above all, bizarre, surreal, and pretty confusing)
openAnimation about an Indian Girl with a pet Parrot Western Animation
I keep having this memory about this animation on You Tube I found in the 2010's, it was of a young Indian Girl with a pet Parrot, who lives in a village with other Indians, I remember there being an episode where the village has a flood, and the girl befriends another girl who was being targeted by these two male creeps before the authorities got to the men.
Does anybody know the name of the show?
openBritish kids show about a grey donkey Western Animation
I saw the intro on You Tube the other day. It looked like it was from around the 80s, and I think the donkey had a name starting with D. I think his sidekick was a bear or a gorilla, and the theme song didn't seem to actually mention anything directly related to the show, it just had a message along the lines of 'just keep trying' or 'friends are always there for each other'. I think there was one scene where the donkey and his sidekick lay down under a tree.
openSome show i saw in Serbia Western Animation
This was a super long time ago so my memories of this are pretty vague but the show starred a cast of kids, the only one i could remember clearly had a muscular body and i kinda think he didnt wear a shirt, im not really sure. There were also these guys wearing red cloaks with hoods thatvpartially covered their faces, i dont know if they were cultists or anything like that. The only episode i could remember was where these cultists, if thats what they were had this bronze robot( i dont know if they built it or they turned one of their members into it) and the only scene i remembered where the main characters where sitting at a table with this robot, eating, while the rest of the cultists where eating at a seperate table. Thats all i can recall, hope someone amswers
openAn animation I watched in school. Western Animation
There is this animation I remember watching in school in either late 2021 or early 2022 that was on DVD that was about these kids learning about the history of American immigration where they travelled back in time to Ellis Island when the island was still used as an inspection and processing station for new immigrants and then when they comeback to class they find that their teacher doesn't exist anymore so they go back in time again to reunite their teacher's ancestors.
Some other things I remember
It was animated with really bad CGI.
One of the main characters is an African American girl and another one was a Chinese boy who mentioned that his family came to the USA during the gold rush but these weren't the only main characters.
Their teacher is somehow related to Benjamin Franklin.
A boy who is one of the main characters (not the aforementioned Chinese boy) lost his hat and as a result caused the ancestors of his teacher to never meet.
One of the main characters might've had a tablet.
openNo Title Western Animation
I vaguely remember it but it was an animation about a little boy (maybe 10) and it was often set in school where his principal treated him like sh*t and his parents also weren't very good but I think he also had a best friends ( or maybe even two).
I watched it when I was really young I think around 2010-2015 and it played on either KIKA, RIC, TOGGO or Nickelodeon
I honestly don't remember much about it except that I used to get nightmares about it, especially about the stairway in their house/apartment and the hallway of their school.
I also think it was a similar animation style to fairly god parents
Edited by Chase235openPSA where Soviet missile shoots down Santa Claus Western Animation
There was an infamous Cold War PSA where Sants Claus is depicted as being shot doen by Soviet air defense. It starts out eith Santa's sleigh flying over the Kremlin, and the narrator says something to the effect of "This year, the soviets are dreaming of a red Christmas", after which a russian missile destroys Santa's sleigh.

I remember part of seeing some episode of a tv show in The '90s that involved two groups of soldiers (or something) fighting near the mouth of a volcano. The good guys were afraid that the bad guys might throw a grenade or something in the volcano, which would set it off (?) I can't remember anything else but I assume they didn't succeed in setting off the volcano. I also remember the scene had some scary background music that I think sounded a little like this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6uP0wIQ9aY
but with no words.
Edited by Bootlebat