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openTwo French cartoons Western Animation
There are two french cartoons I don't know the names of: one is am anthropomorphic lion who wears a red cape and has a tiny chihuahua as his best friend; the other is a white cat with a Smug Smile who loves to play pranks on others. My only knowledge from those shows was from a user called "Sibada The Toon Lord". Have any of you seen these shows before and do you know what they're called?
Edited by ToonAbbyopenAnimated show or game featuring a blue critter and a demon Western Animation
My sister apparently saw an animation of this description while it was trending on Tik Tok. She asked me about it while we were browsing shows to watch, but when she tried to pull up examples, she couldn't find any. The reason I say "show or game" is because she is not sure which medium it's from other than it's animated, though I think it's from a show.
From what she described, the protagonist is a blue critter with bunny ears and a wolf face. There was another character that my sister described as being tall, mostly black with horns, and wearing a tuxedo, similar to a demon. The show takes place in some demon world.
She also described two clips she saw. In one clip, the demon says that the blue critter must be here for his party, to which the critter says that they don't want to be at their "stupid party". In another clip, the blue critter is running away from the demon, who has apparently turned into some sort of wall creature and is singing.
I've never seen a show or game of this description before, but I am curious what it's actually about, if it has any sort of fandom, if it might be fun to watch, and most of all, what it is even called.
open3D children's show about a boy with the plan Western Animation
Each episode was themed around this grade-school or middle-school boy crafting a plan to circumvent a problem or reach a goal. The setting is Like Reality, Unless Noted, and his two friends are The Smart Guy and The Girl.
One problem he tries to solve is his mom cooking a gross lasagna dinner with broccoli. The methods he tries are changing the ingredients of the recipe sheet, and offering to cook dinner himself so that mom doesn't have to.
Another problem is that he fakes sickness to get out of school and stay home, but he winds up bored out of his mind, and so he has to sneak out of the house without being noticed. The episode ends with his mom telling him he's gonna stay at home and rest tomorrow, too, resulting in a Big "NO!" from him.
A third one that I can remember is his little sister making an immense racket around the living room with her new brass instrument. One of his methods is him pretending to have gone deaf from the noise.
That's about all I can remember off the top of my head. Anyone else remember this?
openChristian music TV show with a group of animated monster characters Western Animation
I remember years back I was flipping through channels and I stumbled across a Christian TV network playing this strange cartoon that starred these monster or ogre-like characters. I remember that, when I tuned in, a segment was ending, and the final joke of that segment was that one of them brought a bag of marshmallows, except it had some funny pun-based name (IIRC it might have been "smarshmallows"). In between the segments was live-action CCM music videos.
Does anybody might know what I am talking about?
openBug zapper Western Animation
From an animated program, not sure if Western or Anime: A bunch of characters are trekking through the dense jungle. They are annoyed by swarms of bugs, but press on. One of the characters, who had magic powers or energy powers or something of the like, snaps their fingers or does a similar gesture, and all the bugs around them briefly flash as they are hit with energy, before falling to the ground, dead.
openCrocdiles Teach Lessons Western Animation
The show takes place in the swamp where a boy is friends with a family of crocodiles.
The one episode I remember is them teaching the viewers how to brush your teeth.
open[SOLVED] Indian Version of Tom And Jerry Western Animation
I remember there being an Indian version of Tom and Jerry but with certain key differences that separated it from a direct Copy Cat. In the show, instead of a fight between a cat and a mouse, it was between two dogs and three mice. One of the dogs was beige/orange and the other was green. The show was in Hindi and was pretty popular back in The New '10s. Sometimes, a third military dog would appear who was either a dead father or grandfather of the two dogs. I am unsure if the Anglo-centric editor majority here can help but if anyone's got any clues, thank you in advance.
Edited by PiotrHeatopenEducational Short With Sheep Western Animation
There's an educational short film that I once watched at a shopping mall as a kid. At one point, the sheep who was narrating it said that the moon doesn't have the resources needed to live. At the very end, he somehow ended up on the moon and asked for help. Someone extended a ladder to the moon, but he decided to jump instead.
openpost-apocalyptic CGI short animation that traumatised me as a child (SOLVED!) Western Animation
We saw this short film in class and were going to write an essay on it, and I honestly can't believe they showed it to kids. I'm quite certain it is on a website called 'Literacy shed', but I haven't found it yet. I only remember sparce details about what was actually in it. I remember there was this young girl with a prosthetic leg with her caregiver, and they were in a small cramped space after coming back from a sandy wasteland wearing gas masks. At some point the girl leaves and comes across a playground where she has a vision that there are loads of other kids there, the world becomes brighter and there is a visual of her leg magically healing. She takes off her gas mask. All I remember after that is it pans to her being found by her caregiver in the wasteland playground with her mask off and her being dead, and that's how it ends. It traumatised the f*ck out of me.
Main details like I said is it is likely somewhere on Literacy shed (although it may have been removed in the present), it is a short CGI-animated film that we had to talk about in class for some reason. Any ideas?
Edited by EllipsicleopenPlease Helpp!!! Western Animation
If someone can find me this show I’ll actually be so happy, not knowing what it is keeps me up some nights. I remember very little about it
3d animated Main character might’ve had pink hair and space buns She had a small companion The villain of the show were white haired twins I remember a gong being at the main characters house or something so possibly china themes, as well as a bamboo forest being where she lives
openAnimated sitcom cutaway Western Animation
A game show contentist gets a question wrong and all of the other contentists chase after his with the host scream “cut up/off his blank”
openNick Jr show? Western Animation
I vaguely remember this show that I'm pretty sure was on Nick Jr., but the only thing I remember from it is that it had a Flash game or two on the Nick Jr. website. It was space-themed, and the main character was a young boy with blonde hair and a blue spacesuit; he rode around in a flying saucer, I think? Also, it was 2D-animated.
Edited by Storygirl000openArthur Headscratchers Forum Western Animation
There is an Arthur PBS Kids forum online where users post confusing things that happened in the show.
One of them that I remember in particular is how Mrs. Mc Grady didn't notice that the quarters were in the brownies as seen in "Arthur Accused."
open"SpongeBob SquarePants'' dubbed song Western Animation
Oh, they changed the name of You Know That Show.
Years ago, I found a dubbed version of the SpongeBob SquarePants song "This Grill is Not a Home" from the episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket". This dubbed song is... unique in that instead of simply dubbing the song, it replaces it entirely with an incoherent collection of music and Stock Sound Effects, with the music being the stock music they use for the show. And yes, it's an official dub (or at least one that aired on television). They don't even change the visuals or anything, just the song into... whatever you call music and sounds cobbled together like that.
I don't even remember what dub it is. Can anybody find me that version of the song? Thanks.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperopenUK 90s cartoon, talking tree Western Animation
A 2D animated TV show made in the UK circa the 1990s. There was a character who was a wise, old, talking tree. Other characters could have been talking animals, I don't remember. I remember a vague plot of an episode where the characters want to do something nice for the tree, like send it on a holiday somewhere, but they can't find something perfect for it.
The punchline at the end of the episode being the Tree saying "Trees don't go on holiday."
Any ideas?
openWhat SpongeBob episode is this clip from? Western Animation
A few years back, I was at a gas station, and these two kids were watching a SpongeBob SquarePants episode with this scene
on a drop-down TV. The problem is, I don't know which episode it's from...
openThe Man Western Animation
As a kid I had a plushy whose name I could never remember (I just called him “the man”) but he was a cartoon character. I believe he was a giant with blonde hair with a big, Jay Leno-esque chin and a big, fat belly. He wore a dark green jacket and tights with a pouch around his neck and I think he wore brown shoes. I may still have him. If I can find him, I’ll post a picture. Please help!
openLooking for a British or Australian made cartoon from the '90s with a cast of elementary kids Western Animation
I don't know if this show was made in the 1990s but that's the time I remember watching it as a kid. Memory's vague but the art style somewhat reminded me of Peanuts and I recall a few of the main characters consisting of a tall black boy wearing a red sweater, a rather sassy girl in a wheelchair wearing a purple dress, and a young, bespectacled blonde woman who was their teacher. I can barely recall most of it but I remember this one episode where one of the hyper-imaginative kids got so into the idea that he's some kind of superhero that other kids started to follow suit, and the opposing kids forming their own "anti-superhero" team by dressing up as humanoid mutant alligators. They almost get into a rough playground fight until their teacher dresses herself as an amalgamation of a superhero and a mutant alligator, calls herself their "god", and essentially gets them all to calm down by imparting a lesson about getting along and settling differences peacefully.
I don't recall their accents but it was definitely not American, sounding either British or Australian. Asking here because I tried to google it based on these few memories and had no luck so far.
Edited by 9thOutworldsMan

I have a memory of once watching a TV show as a child, where the main premise was that there was this goose (who may or may not have been named Jenny), who basically had a hotline (but instead of numbers it was animal sounds) for solving small problems. I think in the episodes I watched she was counselling some kind of animal about not making it onto the baseball team, and also helping a baby bear get over his fear of the dark. Idk if anyone recognises this premise, I saw it once, and never again.