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open(SOLVED: Wobots) Low-Budget CGI Film About Robots, Possibly Christmassy Western Animation
So, I was talking to my friend, and she mentioned a short film she'd seen but can't recall the title of.
It was in CGI, and though it was pretty clear the animation budget was low you could still tell that, unlike every other low-budget kids' film, actual effort had been put into the character and set designs.
My friend couldn't recall much about the plot of the short, but there were robots who potentially saved something, a little kid with Elmuh Fudd Syndwome, and possibly a Green Aesop about trash/recycling. The movie was also set in the wintertime, and might've been a Christmas cartoon.
As for format/possible other details, she mentioned it being like a DVD extra attached to another, possibly unrelated, film.
And that's really all I know about it.
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenCharlie Brown "I'm Toast" Scene Western Animation
This is a bit of a weird question, but do any of the Charlie Brown animated specials have a scene where Charlie Brown says "I'm toast" and then has an Imagine Spot where he turns into a slice of toast?
(And NO, I am NOT thinking of the toaster sequence from the Thanksgiving special.)
openShow involving puppets (SOLVED) Western Animation
The video below is the leader of the defunct Dutch childrens' channel Kindernet, showing a variety of clips from shows that aired in the year 2000. I know most of these, but for the life of me I can't figure out what the puppets at the very end are from. Does anybody have a clue?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9tONmSkuls
open(SOLVED) Animated Show With Purple Shapeshifter Girl Western Animation
Hoo boy this is a tough one.
So, I'm looking for a 2D-animated TV show that has this one character with a purple color scheme, very distinctive green eyes, and shapeshifting abilities- she can turn into not just animals but inanimate objects as well (I specifically recall her transforming into a bowl of water and a gate for a stable). She kept her purple color scheme and her face- including her eye color- no matter what she turned into.
Does anyone know who I'm talking about, and what show she's from?
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenFake Mustache Tear-Off Gag Western Animation
This isn't about finding a show in particular, this is about a specific gag from something:
A character who was in disguise (paper-thin, of course) using a fake mustache rips it off to reveal that the fake mustache was covering an identical-looking real mustache.
Does anyone have a clue what this gag was from? Just throw any show you know has one of these gags into the replies; it might be the one I'm looking for.
openThat One Show About Talking Cars, with the Long as Sh*t Credits, Even for a Toddler Western Animation
It's a Preschool Show about talking automobiles or something. I remember there was little boy in the cast.
The show had quite a long credits sequence. Granted, this was aired on cable TV when I was a small kid, and by then I'd been accustomed to 5-to-10-second credits (maybe 15), which was the maximum length of a credits sequence. The credits consisted of a blue background with pictures of scenes from the show on top and white text on the bottom. The music played in the credits sounded awful lot like something coming out of a Casio keyboard.
Edited by OxyrhynchusopenNo Title Western Animation
When I was in second grade I watched this video that featured many songs. There was a walking treasure chest, A stop-motion music video that went "set the sail and sail away" featuring a giant apple, and a song featuring a teddy bear in a cardboard box.
openAnimated scene in kitchen where a duck's bottom gets cooked (maybe Jemima Puddleduck) Western Animation
Kind of embarrassed to post this one, but its one that I’ve remembered for years now and have been dying to find it…
2d animation and seen in the 90s. Might have been a scene in a Peter Rabbit cartoon with Jemima Puddleduck? I liked those back then and had the plushies. A scene where a chef or farmer is in a kitchen or restaurant is preparing a dinner while singing.
A real live bird or duck (Jemima?) flies in and is sitting probably nesting in a pot I think? Like the duck makes a nest in a pot, like to lay eggs as if nesting?
The chef suddenly turns and sees the nesting duck, and the “camera” like zooms in on the duck’s wiggling plump fanny and tail as it gets comfy in the nest,
Chef gets idea seeing the duck’s plump rump.
Thinking its dinner the chef starts to get it ready for cooking while singing a song, I keep thinking it sounds like the chef song in Little Mermaid when the chef tries to cook Sebastian but NOT that.
Scene goes on for a while with maybe some other characters coming in…
But eventually the nesting duck’s rear end is fully plucked, like they show the duck’s bare bottom all pink and with that little tail stub. Duck still asleep and doesn’t know.
Chef is like salting or seasoning and slaps some on the duck’s bare bum, Big scream as duck finally wakes up and turns around and notices its bald cooked rear end and tail. Duck screaming and crying flies off the nest and is holding its roasted rump. Cant' remember the rest or if I even saw the rest! Dying to know what it was or how it ends.
Played for humor but might have been a caution story or moral? Any of this making sense? NOT Daffy like some people keep suggesting, more realistic, thinking this duck was white or yellow and probably a Mrs. duck or mother due to nest thing. Might have been Jemima Puddleduck.
Edited by SelmaAndLouiseopenStarry Ballet Show? Western Animation
The show was heavily focused on dance/ballet. It aired on a channel that was availible, though not common, within England at some point around the 2010s: This channel had other shows focused on dance/ballet
The main character was a white girl. One major thing was that the main character could somehow go to a night-sky type realm. There was also a giant starry swan character, and potentially a similar black swan with a white beak and knob. There may have been other characters in the night-sky place
That's just about all I can recall of this show
P.S. I've remembered some more details on the show
The show rarely aired on the channel it was shown on. The channel was exclusively for children's shows, if I infer correctly
The swan(s) at least were rendered in CGI. The main character might have worn pigtails
P.P.S. Here are some more, less related details which could help find this
I'm quite sure that the show also featured a regular, physical realm in addition to the starry place
The channel on which I saw the show also aired a show involving anthropomorphic mice who did ballet. This other show was on more often, as far as I saw
I only saw this show at a friend's home, so it's possible that the starry ballet show aired earlier or later than is usual for play-dates/visits, rather than being shown less often
Edited by SorporporopenCartoon from early 90s (or 80s) with Troll Snowball? (maybe SOLVED) Western Animation
I vaguely remember seeing a cartoon at my babysitter's house long ago as a little kid in probably the early 90s. There were a bunch of hairy brown troll things that fall down a snowy hill and as they roll they become a huge snowball. The trolls/creatures looked a lot like ALF from the ALF show and cartoon. Maybe it was an episode of the ALF show?
Edited by SelmaAndLouiseopenEuropean cartoon about some woman oblivious to being pursued by admirers Western Animation
I remember coming across some random indie European (I think French, but I'm not certain of that) cartoon around 2 years while surfing on TV Tropes. The premise (and the basis of the gags) was about a young woman going about her daily life while being oblivious to all of the men lusting over her. No matter how aggressive and harassing those would be suitors were, it would always fly over her head. If my memory is serving me, I think it was also set in Paris, though it could've been in Venice or some other famous "romantic" European city.
From what little I can recall, the protagonist's design was essentially riffing on Jessica Rabbit (especially her red hair style and body form), with some Marilyn Monroe thrown in as well. The hand drawn animation was crude, and seemed to be essentially traced over live action backgrounds. I think it was made around the late 80s to early 90s.
There was also an episode featuring a mummy coming to life in a museum that the protagonist was visiting. That is all that I can remember from it.
Does any of this sound similar to anyone here? Any help would be appreciated, as I haven't been able to retrace my steps to find it again.
Edited by Jarl-of-the-woodsopen"Shake the cloud, Nanny" Western Animation
Unfortunately don't have much to go off of, but it was a 2000s young children's show that aired in Australia featuring a narrator that would roughly once an episode talk to this (I think) non-human side character that could float in the sky or piloted something that could fly. The character was called Nanny and the narrator would always say "shake the cloud, Nanny", then Nanny would repeat its name like a pokemon and shake the cloud for some forgotten reason.
This has been racking mine and my dad's brains for over a decade now
openCartoon with bird teacher. Western Animation
A female bird teacher who was white and traveled around the world. Theme song mentioned Peru and other countries. Possibly aired on sprout.
Edited by s2003openA show that was on flow on demand (I'm from TT) Western Animation
The only things I remember from the show are the plots of the show's episodes
1: There is an episode where one of the main characters stole a watch from somebody's changing room and gave it to the other main character and it turns out the watch could control time. Hijinxing ensue and the first main character gets trapped back in time until the dude who got the watch stolen from finds the main character and resets time before the hijinks happened.
2: There was an episode where one character in the show was super unlucky and because of him being unlucky others were lucky and when he got something that made him lucky everybody else got bad luck. He gave up the good luck and everybody went back to normal and they liked the character because he gave up the luck.
3. There was an episode where three (or more) teenage girls wished on a shooting star for their moms to be cool. It worked but the moms were super obnoxious. It turns out it was a dream and the teenage girls love their moms because they were boring again. The episode ends with one of the teenage girls' dad getting up from the couch putting on a backwards cap and saying "yo let's go to the mall" (I think) and the girl screams (I think)
4: One of the main characters get something that makes them super good at sports but makes them a jerk. They try to take the thing and give it back to the guy who originally had it (who was dead at the time) so they went into his grave and try to give it to that corpse and the main character goes back to normal in the end.
5: there was an episode where a rich kid got some sort of doll for their birthday and threw it away. Turns out the doll was the source of their families wealth and when the spoiled brat threw away the toy their family started to lose their wealth then a flashback states that the family had it for generations and they had this quote saying "take care of the doll the doll will take care of you" and I remember one of the main characters saying: "more like take care of the doll... or else" I think he was narrating it to the audience. And there was a b plot with a cashier or fried cook getting the doll and their life starting to turn around for the better. The episode ends with the rich kid getting put into the real world and the cashier or fried cook getting adopted by the Rich family of the spoiled brat.
6: there was an episode where one of the main character's got an guardian angel, he pisses the guardian angel off so he tried to get back together with the guardian angel. It worked too good and now they were dating turns out the guardian angel already had a boyfriend but they broke up with that boyfriend, so her boyfriend was trying to kill the main character. some hijinks ensue and the ex-boyfriend gets back together with the guardian angel and the main character gets a new Guardian angel at the end of the episode.
The intro of the shows had a beating heart at the end of the intro.
openchildren series with superpower to calculate 90/00 Western Animation
kids tv series in the 90s or 2000s
the kid had the super power of calculating: in action scenes the action stopped and he calculated how to fight best and formulas where written all over the screen.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? It is hard to find through google because there are hundreds of kids series and the word calculating isnt helpful.
openNo Title Western Animation
2d animated show. Fantasy parody tv series.
The villain was this blue fuzzy guy who always wore a cloak to disguise how he looked, because he wanted to be feared and no one was afraid of him naturally because he looked too cuddly and soft. He had a minion who was this goth fairy chick with a crush on the main character, who was a Wizards apprentice.
It was set in a fantasy universe, and I'm fairly sure the title was something like "middle earth", but can't Google that cause only tolkien stuff came up. Also I'm pretty sure this is a British cartoon.
That's all I remember any help would be greatly appreciated.
openEarly 00's kids movie with caffeine patches Western Animation
All I know is that the movie has some frogs who are jazz singers, there's a science fair, and there's a scientist who has invented caffeine patches. The main character is a blond kid (who might have glasses). There also might have been time travel.
Edited by indigoJayopenTeddy Bear gets rejected by assembly line and gets given powers by mother nature (solved on own) Western Animation
This was a cartoon I saw on YouTube back in the 2000's, He was on an airship, I think he had a dragon sidekicknote I might just be conflating it with the cinnamon bear
though and the only episode I remember is a what if episode where he wasn't defective
Edit: It's SuperTed I found it by looking through what's related to the Mother Nature trope
openweird space show from my childhood (solved on own) Western Animation
I remember an educational kids show from the 2000's on a maybe local channel from xfinity in the chicago area like qubo maybe about space where the main characters were multicolored aliens patrolling the solar system i think and i also think the main villain had a toupee that was alive and spider-likenote this might have been another show that looked similar and in one episode the earth was alive and decided to leave the Goldilocks zone for some reason and also in another they shrunk down to be the size single celled organismsnote this also might have been another show that looked similar or they might have switched premise halfway through like Western Animation/Cyberchase did to help a determine which one of the split politicians should be in charge and everyone else split to vote for both of them
Edited by Wild-Starfish

I'm trying to remember a cartoon I saw when I was young. All I remember was that there were two French cops, one of whom kept saying "Sí" the Spanish word for "Yes", and the other one told him "Don't say 'Sí'; say 'Oui'."