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open[Resolved] Bécassine le trésor viking Western Animation
There's this VHS animated film that I need to know the name of. Even though I almost memorized the summary, IMDB search and forum was of no help. It has no fantastical elements, not very comedic and had art quality of 90's Disney.
In a british/french city, starting with a scene of family taking a photo at the autumn park, the parent leave somewhere and leave their two children to a hired maid.
Soon two bandits go for the kids, and nanny KO them using an umbrella like spring from the stairs. Then they decided to go look for the parents and thugs follow them.
There's this scene on the train where the girl's foot hurts, so the nanny suggests putting a piece of newspaper into the shoe.
The co arrives in a snowy region. They go through the forest and nanny says "you'll freeze sooner if you go slowly". They find a circus, rent a hot air balloon and descend into an ice cave where the parents were.
Edited by AmonimusopenSome oddball time-travel episode of a possibly 3D-animated show in a video game world? Western Animation
Probably the only episode I saw of that show, encountered it on a local channel once and never saw it again. At most that could have been 5+ years ago. The episode started with what appeared to be a frog activating a catapult in the distance, then we see these two (maybe both male) characters about to walk on a drawbridge leading to an open-air area in what looked like a castle/castle walls on the outside. These two engaged in casual banter until, unfortunately, the stone shot by the frog earlier fell on top of one of them, the impact made a hole in the drawbridge and killed off that character. - He regenerates, finding himself behind a long queue of waiting people who refused to let him pass/cut in front of them although he tried explaining that he was on/was from a higher level. So the gist of this show, I'm guessing, happens in a video game setting of a world. The guy figures going back in time to stop the mishap from happening. Somehow, he goes through a portal which gains him access to a an electric-blue room, the key attraction in it were these large monitors which displayed the setting/area he was in before he died. In that room, he had the ability to rewind the footage to the time he was still alive and let it play from there. The first rewind resulted in the stone landing before he and his friend arrived at the drawbridge but he fell into the hole and died anyway. Ouch. - The episode is centered around his multiple attempts to prevent his in-game? death while avoiding his past selves that have the same idea. When he made it past the drawbridge, an obstacle in the castle walls killed him off instead, then it was the next obstacle, so on so forth. Then a female, who possibly knew the two male characters already, got caught in the mix when she appeared in the footage walking the path to the drawbridge a while before he and his friend got there. I forget who made the catapult, but the guy did attempt to use it to eliminate her, and failed. Then when he returned to the monitor room, her incensed face was all up on a screen. - The episode ended with her punishing the male character by magically turning him into a frog and putting/trapping him on the trigger of the catapult, setting off the rock that killed him in the first place. It is then that we get a better look of the frog, it was wearing the same hat as that male character. The frog lets out a regretful ribbit and we hear him say in his head "Uncool." I'm aware how random this sounds, I really hope I'm not making this up lol.
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenAnimated house fire told by mom or grandma? Western Animation
So like 2004-2006 I remember watching this animated kids show about animals and they were on a camping trip or something and the mom or grandma who took them told a story about how her house burnt down? I vividly remember seeing it but I can't place it in my head someone please help.
openWeird name's, believe them to be Cadet and Zolski? Western Animation
It was a short cartoon that I believed aired on Nickelodeon. Short episodes, was two people who were space explorers. One being tall and slender, other being short and round. Tall one with a blonde head and lines for eyes, and the short one having a red head and full eyes but visible teeth. I can remember details about what they did in the show, other than it was in space and they had a spaceship. Would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me, used to watch it at my grandfather's before he passed.
open80's dragon animation Western Animation
Back in the late 1980's, I remember watching this show that I want to say used stop-motion animation. The only thing I remember about this show was that there were these two kids (a boy and girl I think) that had set a book down in the middle of a suburban street. For some reason, an enormous dragon appears from the book, and that's literally all I remember. If anyone has any recollection of this, please let me know. Whether it was a series, one-time special or a segment from some other show I have no idea, but I remember seeing the scene on TV more than once. I live in Ontario, so this may have been something that didn't air in the US.
openChildren's TV Show Western Animation
Details are very fuzzy - bear with me.
Aired in the early 90's, possibly on BBC One or Two. One storyline involved the antagonists (possibly called Plutokians, or Blutokians??) using traffic light to change the moods of people. So red would be angry, amber, happy, and green was sad. I may be confusing this next part with another tv show The protagonist had some special ability in that they could travel to places instantly.
Edited by Loopzopencreepy Japanese(?) CGI inanimate objects Western Animation
I'm posting this under Western Animation since there's a good chance this series is an import, though it may not be...I remember browsing the Japanese Cartoon Network site in 2005 or 2006 and scrolling through the menu of show icons across the top. Because the site lists not only series currently airing but numerous individual specials and movies, this menu goes on for an incredibly long time, and several series/characters showed up in multiple icons as I scrolled. One such group of characters were a bunch (maybe as many as ten within the frame after I clicked through) of incredibly bizarre-looking, almost frightening CGI household objects with facial features. I'm almost certain they were all electrical appliances, and one (maybe a TV) was decidedly larger than the rest. All of them had sprawling, creepy, open-mouthed smiles. I wasn't able to view any clips, just the stills; but I could tell the CGI wasn't very polished and the characters looked more like renders than a final product. It was absolutely nothing close to A Little Curious — these characters nearly looked like they wanted to hurt you (think much more along the lines of the "It's a B-Movie" sequence in The Brave Little Toaster). Apparently this bunch starred in more than one feature: maybe a series and a special, or multiple specials (and as stated earlier, it's likely this was an acquired property since many other oddballs were, and still are, part of their program list). Would love to finally know their identity after over a decade of being haunted...
Edited by mopsmirroropenWeird old kids show from around the 2000´s ? Western Animation
So as a kid, probably around 2003-2005 or something along those lines. I remember watching a really creepy kids show. Now i only remember one episode in pretty great detail and some other small things. So i'll go ahead and post everything i know.
Anyways, there was this episode, where a kid checked an abandoned locker in his school, (apparantly a kid got locked inside there and died of starvation or something). But in this locker was a set of weird crap. I remember there was these xray glasses and a toy magazine. The kid who found these glasses used them to cheat on some competition with bottle caps, where he would see through em and always pick the winning bottle at the store.
About the magazine, he bought some really creepy toys from it. Such as a piggie bank, that was a zombie hand that took the money and put it inside its own coffin. Also a set of sentient plastic soldiers (the green ones). After having ordered so many of these toys, the head of the previous kid who owned teh magazine shows up at his doorstep, as one of those dried up severed heads. A chase begins and the kid gets trapped in an alley way and gets killed/turned into a toy himself.
There was also another episode where mayans worhsiped a doorknob, and the intro for the series had a small "terminator" similar part in it. I believe the show aired on Nickelodeon, as one of the more "scetchy" late shows. This is just what i think tho.
I also remember the animation style being similar to that of rugrats/rocket power. But i could be completely wrong on that part, since memories get twisted with time.
Edited by ZacherinoopenAPP Timmy time Western Animation
It’s a show about Timmy, Shaun’s nephew and his baby animal friends
openEastern-European cartoon about a sucicidal man. 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?
openMalicious jester steals gold from king and frames the street organ player Western Animation
There was this animated series somewhere around 90's of the last century.
One episode was about a medieval fair taking place on a stone bridge. The king himself attended the fair and had some bags of gold hidden behind his throne. The jester stole one bag and hid it in the street organ. When the guards searched for the culprit, they found the gold in said street organ and accused the organ player, who in turn cursed the entire fair using said organ. before finishing the score, he tore the punch sheet and let it go off into the wind. The stone bridge collapses and everybody disappears.
Years later in modern day a young boy finds said organ in his grandfather's cellar (who was a descendant of accused player) and tries cranking it. The score being played rematerializes the bridge and enables the malicious jester to escape into reality. He then goes onto causing rampages all over the town. The boy must chase after him and get back the rest of the torn score sheet. In which he ultimately succeeds and breaks the curse by finishing the score allowing the cursed people to pass on peacefully.
Does this ring any bells?
openOld Animated Short Western Animation
For a friend: “there was also a cartoon short that DEVESTATED me and ive never been able to find it since. It was about a little boy who used a cardboard paper towel tube as a telescope and hed look at the stars, and imagine it was a real telescope, then one day his father brought him home a really HUGE shipping tube and he was imagining himself as an astronomer with an obsevatory etc and how close the stars were. then he dropped it out the window of their apartment building and it landed in the street below and a truck ran over it. and it ended with him looking thru his old cardboard tube again and smiling iirc”
Might be a 321 contact or a Sesame Street short from the 70s or 80s or something.
open"Huge Traffic" from How it's Made Western Animation
Looking for a animated short film featured in this segment from How It's Made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRzQMMKTAOw
I'm not sure if "Huge Traffic" is the film's name, or just that scene's.
Edited by datadoggieeinopenCartoon with emotional cloud Western Animation
I remember seeing a clip from a show in which a character, who was a cloud, was upset and rain started pouring from her to represent crying. When she got angry, she turned into a storm cloud. It's unlikely to be Masami Yoshida, as I watched a few clips and didn't ring a bell. It's also not Cloudy Jay, as the cloud was a regular floating cloud.
openI'm starting to think I made it up Western Animation
There are kids, maybe teenagers, who go into a world under their bed where things are scary (it is not the movie Little Monsters). There is maybe a roller coaster involved. It's not Little Nemo either. I've found a few things close, but they all came out after 2000. I watched it sometime around 1985-92. I know this sounds like it's definitely Little Monsters, but I've watched it since this has been bugging me and it's definitely not what I'm thinking of here.
openAnimation about a princess that ran away from arranged marriage Western Animation
The animation starts with the older sister riding back to her palace on a horse, and her father told her to quickly wear a dress because two princes that he arranged for her and her younger sister are coming. The princes arrive and the younger sister is happy and will get marry to the prince but the older sister ran away from the palace while the princes are there because she didn't like it that her father decides for her. The prince she's suppused to marry followed her and she wanted him to go away but they end up going through adventures and eventually falling in love. Also, there's a witch lady with a *fuggy crystal ball that has a red heart* in it. The witch always tried to make them break up and hurting them. In the red heart that's inside the crystal ball there was a crack that grew bigger every time she succeed until it'll tore apart
openAnimated short about an Earthworm. Western Animation
I faintly remember this short. I saw it in maybe third, fourth, or even the first grade, our library teacher showed it to us, as she would normally give us books to read while watching movies. This one stood out in particular for me. From my memory, it was about an Earthworm, you know, the casual pink, fleshy, ground snake that everyone is familiar with, albeit it wore a hat, and was (presumably) of young age. I don't remember much about the episode/short, but the worm repeatedly ate the soil in his bedroom, and kept mentioning something about him eating too much so he had to see a doctor for a stomach ache (who I believe was a Mole or Cricket) His dad took him, and the aforementioned doctor made him laugh by saying things about him being a 'big boy', you know, the usual shit that doctors always tease us with when we're young. This is all I remember besides little me not liking the short at all, and not wanting the teacher to play it again. It was animated in your traditional 2D style with watercolor backgrounds. I've been trying to find this short for a few days now in my spare time, so any help will be appreciated.
And no, I'm not mistaking it for the book 'Diary Of A Worm', although it may have relations to it.
Edited by RehydratedFortuneopenkids' show about spotting the difference? Western Animation
the only voice in the show was the narrator's. feminine. scottish accent. in fact, i’m pretty sure the show was scottish, or at least from some gaelic-speaking country, but i don’t remember the narrator speaking gaelic or scots at any point. or maybe she did, but it wasn’t in the episodes i watched. the animation was pretty simple, bold shapes and colors and all that. also the characters were stylized anthropomorphic animals ( i remember one was a zebra, but i’m at a loss for the other one(s) ) and they didn’t speak. it had an interactive component, where two pictures would appear on-screen and the audience was given time to find the differences between the two. after the time was up, the differences would be pointed out and the animals would do a cute little dance. then the narrator would say a rhyme, which i don’t remember, but it ended with “you just found an opposite!” or something.
openIrish/Celtic mythology show? Western Animation
i distinctly remember watching this show back in the early 2010s. it centered around celtic mythology and looked like something made by cartoon saloon ( song of the sea, wolfwalkers, etc. ). not sure if it was made by them though, because i looked at all their works ( or the ones i could find, at least ) and couldn't find a match.
so anyways, here's the details i remember:
THE INTRO: the show was animated, but the intro was live-action. it was a bird's-eye view of some city at night. then, it zoomed into this roundabout and in the middle of the roundabout there were these three grassy mound things. golden swirl patterns began appearing on the mounds and they kept growing until there were these giant glowing portal-looking things on the mounds. then, it zooms into the portals and it all goes white. then the light fades and the episode starts.
THE EPISODES: i remember watching two episodes. i'll put both of them down here, in the order i watched them.
FIRST EPISODE:
- this one was surprisingly similar to the song of the sea. maybe it was, and i just got it mixed up with this show because they were about the same topic. or maybe it wasn't. i dunno.
- one of the sea gods was involved. can't remember whether it was lir or his son manannan mac lir, but one or the other. whoever it was, he looked like a typical human and had tanned skin and was either blonde or ginger. though early on in the story, he transformed into this giant, melty, dark blue fish monster thing. at the end, he turns back thanks to this weird seabird lady.
-the seabird lady was this slim black woman in a gray hood. i can't remember what kind of bird she was exactly, but either a seagull or puffin or something like that. also she was magical and had fae/otherworldly ancestry.
SECOND EPISODE
-everything in this episode has a warm color scheme. a lot of oranges and yellows.
- the first scene after the intro is of some red-headed kid running through a forest in autumn. at one point, they reach a clearing, where a stag is standing on a rock. upon seeing the kid, the stag runs deeper into the forest.
-a scene that's been stuck in my head for a long time is of a field on a sunny day. the field has tall grass with small red, orange, and white flowers everywhere. in the field, there is a stage platform. the platform is shaped like a semicircle and made of wood. the back part of the stage has a worn-looking curtain and a backdrop made of some woven material that looks like a bird's nest. there's a bunch of people who look like typical medieval bards taking turns to perform on that stage. then, the redhead kid i mentioned earlier goes on stage carrying this giant lute ( or psaltery? something like that ) that's like the size of their whole body.
-unlike the first one, i can't remember how this ends.
Edited by noodlesnook

What’s the name of the “Looney Tunes” cartoon where Daffy accidentally rips a tag off of a junked mattress, runs, checks into a motel, and ends up sharing a room with a bank robber. I’ve looked everywhere. The cartoon is described on the “Mattress Tag Gag” page but the name of the cartoon is not listed. I’m beginning to think it’s not Daffy and that it’s actually Donald, but I’m not for sure. I’ve looked through every Daffy, Donald, and Porky cartoon, but no information.