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openCartoon involving sheep and wolves Western Animation
I think the sheep were the main characters, and the wolves were villains. It was on DVD, and had singing in it.
openPrincess(?) in tower wakes up trolls in eggs by singing to them Western Animation
That's about the only part I can remember about it. Story was something along the lines of: Dark ruler forces magical trolls to sleep and transforms them into eggs, Princess is locked up in tower as she has the magical power (song) to break the spell, Eggs find their way to said princess, she sings and eggs hatch. I guess it has to be early 90's
openAnimated short film about a boy who gets trapped by Old Man Winter after neglecting his brother...? Western Animation
I remember watching this animated movie/short about this boy whose parents leave him home alone to look after his little brother, Junior. The boy doesn't keep his promise to look after him, and somehow ends up becoming a servant/slave of this man who I'm going to call Old Man Winter due to the fact that he keeps the boy in a room made of ice. I remember that the boy was sitting in the ice cave/room with a bunch of frozen animals around him. He strikes a match and the animals are revived by the warmth. The man is angry that the boy did that, and roars, "Isn't this what you wanted?!" And the boy yells, "No!" and runs outside into the snowy forest, where he finds his brother's frozen body curled up under a log or something. He tries to warm up his brother in his house, but it doesn't seem to work. And then his parents come home. I assume it was a happy ending in the end, but I don't remember. Anyone remember this?
openNo Title Western Animation
I remember watching an animated version of The Three Little Pigs... probably made some time in the 90s? It was definitely not the Disney version.
It was on a compilation tape with teasers for a bunch of other kids videos (I think it was probably a direct-to-video thing) so I only saw the beginning. I remember it started by introducing the characters via a brief clip of each one against a white background while the narrator described them - the cast had been expanded considerably beyond the three pigs and the wolf but the only character I remember was a fox who seemed to be a secondary antagonist.
The only specific part I really remember is that the section on the video ended with one of the pigs (possibly?) commenting that 'he who laughs last laughs longest' followed by a shot of either the fox or the wolf watching from the trees and repeating the line.
One of the other shorts on the video was a Barney short so it might have been made by the same company. Imdb lists a couple of versions of The Three Little Pigs that came out in the 90s but none of them have any useful information. It might be the 1996 full-length version since it seemed quite expanded but I'm honestly not sure.
openNo Title Western Animation
There's this show that I saw on /co/ once about these girls doing girly things with magic and stuff. Apparently it's a pretty big deal, but I don't have any screenshots of it.
openNo Title Western Animation
I remember my math teacher used to make my class watch some educational cartoon that was on tape. The art style was similar to Ed, Edd, and Eddy with messy lines and extremely stylized characters. It took place in a somewhat fantastic, modern urban setting as I remember there used to be these killer robots with long, pointy noses dressed in black robes that inhabited downtown. The protagonist was a kid that looked a lot like Eddy with no neck and a flat head. He would come up with word problems based on what he saw and the teacher would pause the video until the class came up with the right answer. The last word problem I remember was based on how close the show's bully was sitting next to his girlfriend at the bus stop, or something. And the last thing I remember happening in the show was the protagonist being cornered by a killer robot and ending on a cliff hanger.
openNo Title Western Animation
A British cartoon aimed at adults that they used to air on Comedy Central sometimes - it was a Slice of Life comedy about a middle-aged married couple. I don't know if it was established that they were childless or had children who were grown up and living on their own, but the couple in question were the only main characters - we never really meet anyone in their social circle or family or anything, though sometimes they'd briefly interact with strangers. A typical episode would be just the two of them doing something mundane together, like going to a beach or a grocery store, and getting into mishaps or just awkward situations.
A couple of particular scenes I remember:
In the grocery store one, one of them goes to what they think is one of the staff for help, only for it to turn out that she's just a customer who is wearing an outfit that happens to look remarkably like an ugly grocery store uniform.
In the beach one, the wife is complaining about topless sunbathers - the husband turns around and says something about it not being so bad, and it's revealed he's been looking around with binoculars and he actually has tan lines around his eyes because he's been using them so much. I might be slightly misremembering the situation, but the "binocular-shaped tan lines from spying on topless sunbathers" gag was definitely in there.
openNo Title Western Animation
Okay, this was a cartoon (60s, maybe?) about a detective who somewhat resembled Gaston Lagaffe (short, round head, jug ears) He had a pushbroom moustache, a bowler hat and (I think) a blue trenchcoat, and his eyes were always shut.
I recall three events from one of the cartoons (actually both from the same episode) - the first, while tailing the criminal who was on a flight somewhere, he was calmly sat on top of the plane by the tail fin, and a hand on a very long arm came out of a hatch to give him a cup of tea and some sugar ("Two lumps, please. Thank you.").
The criminal boards the "Cloak and Dagger Express - For Spies". He reads off the passenger list, "Card sharps, [long list of undesirables]. Ah, my kind of people!"
The other was the criminal disguised himself as a sweet old lady and fed the detective loads of poisoned sweets. We then got to see an x-ray showing how an "alarm" went off inside him and slammed a trapdoor shut to stop the poison reaching his stomach (and yes, that makes about as much sense as it sounds)
openNo Title Western Animation
A lollipop goes into a restaurant. The lollipop orders something and when its time to pay, the lollipop attempts to pay with candy. The owner gets angry and the lollipop doesn't understand why he wont take it. The lollipop gets beaten up, he leaves the restaurant, gets into a car I think and flies away leaving skid marks in the sky. It was done in pencil and was dark.
It was a Nickelodeon short of some kind.
Edited by SurgationopenNo Title Western Animation
Some really bizarre psychedelic opera thing I watched on TV yesterday. There was a man with a bird beak mask wearing a vest with these fluffy pants and this woman and they were in a tree and every time they sang, they would have these babies in a nest and all the girl babies had puffy hair while all the boy babies wore pirate hats. Eventually, the nest became a hot air balloon and they floated off with their babies. I think a flute was also involved.
openNo Title Western Animation
I saw this on the Cartoon Network website sometime between the years of 1999 and 2003. It was an animated short that started in a land of multi-coloured rabbits. I think the flowers and/or sun might have had a face as well. Partway through, the rabbits get attacked by jackass lawnmowers with faces who empty garbage cans over the rabbits' heads and eat their lunches. Then the lawnmowers drive off and end up in the land of the rising sun. This land scares the lawnmowers and they drive away. The End.
EDIT: They might have been motorcycles and not lawnmowers, if this makes any difference.
Does this ring any bells?
Edited by FoxGriffinopen(SOLVED) Ice queen but not The Snow Queen Western Animation
I'm looking for an animated film or short about two children rescuing their parents (I think) from an Ice Queen. Early in the cartoon, they met a Big Good in a sleigh who was NOT Santa Claus (and I am 100% sure it was NOT Narnia). I think the guy was the Sun. He gave them two fire arrows before leaving.
At one point the boy uses Improbable Aiming Skills to build a bridge out of ordinary arrows.
Edit: I FOUND IT! It's a russian animation named В яранге горит огонь (1956, Soyuzmultfilmnote The same studio would make The Snow Queen (1957) the next year), imported in France in 1995
openNo Title Western Animation
This was a Christmas show, a miniseries I believe. It used to air every Christmas in Costa Rica when I was a kid (early to mid 90s). It was about Santa's elves; they were a town, and everybody had to work for Christmas. The show was focused on the kids being kids, there was a pretty blond girl, a fat boy and some other kids.
I don't know where it was from, but I think it was Scandinavian or Finnish or something like that.
Edited by MakiPopenNo Title Western Animation
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to be asking this, but is there anywhere that I can watch full mouse of mouse episodes? I'm only finding clips and I remebr it being a really good show.
openNo Title Western Animation
What is the Japanese name of the anime that appears during the first fifteen seconds of this video?
openNo Title Western Animation
Hi, I've been wondering about this for about 10 years (literally!). It was a British children's TV series, very low-budget and frankly weird. It was about these tanks/vehicles (which were models - it was stop-motionin the sense that there was a set, and they moved these toy vehicles around) which had been sent from another planet to Earth or to the Moon or something. There was a voice-over describing it all, a deep British voice. They were trying to get back to their home planet or something, I thinkaaaaaa please tell me I'm not making it up. I'd say its era was late 80s, very early 90s, but it could have been earlier than that. It definitely came out on VCR, and the case for that may have been yellow and red but I'm not entirely sure. Please let me know if you have any idea. Thank you!
openNo Title Western Animation
This movie has been bugging me for years now. I'm from Hungary, so I don't know when or on which channel it was aired originally, but I saw it in the mid 90s (I'm 100% sure it was before 1998). My memories are very vague: I'm not certain whether the whole movie was animated or just parts of it (but probably the latter). It started with a boat sailing at night, and the story was about a kid who somehow gained entry into a fantasy world/dreamworld, but the more time he/she spent there, the more things sneaked into the real world. I remember specifically a creepy dark boat which resembled a bit to the one in All Dogs Go to Heaven (when Charlie experiences Hell), and that the water level was rising in the kid's room in the real world. As you can see, it's a very dark movie, but I loved it as a kid, and I hope you can help me finding it again.
openNo Title Western Animation
I remember seeing a cartoon once were a guy is desperately trying to get a hamburger and ends up late for work. Once he arrives at work he is fired for being late, with it cutting to him on the streets holding up a sign saying "will work for burgers". At that point a rich couple walk past him saying something along the lines of "the nerve of some people" while not looking straight at him. My mind indirectly associates it with Madeline even though I highly doubt that it was form Madeline.
openNo Title Western Animation
I used to watch a cartoon in the early 90's that had three main character, a blue man, a green woman, and a green kid. It was all early computer graphics and I remember a storyline where the blue guy and green woman are about to get married when another blue guy comes bursting into the church claiming that the groom is a fake. des that ring any bells with anyone?

I'm trying to find one of those merch-driven 1980s cartoons. It took place in a distant future where technology had stopped working and the world had reverted to a sort of knights of the round table style fantasy England deal. The heroes and villains received magical powers from a wizard or dragon or something. Some of the characters had these battle standards that could give them a specific superpower after they received some long winded catchphrase, the others could activate derelict technological artifacts.