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resolved Children's CGI Show Western Animation
In my head popped up a vague memory of an all-CGI cartoon for a young age group — I believe it was kind of like shows such as Special Agent Oso where the main characters have a base and go on missions to help others, I foggily recall such a building being on water and having a giant exclamation mark. The intro song also names the characters, like what The Octonauts does, and I think the theme was the classic "they go on missions and save the day" (but I don't remember any of the lyrics). One other thing I remember is that the CGI wasn't detailed — I might even say poor, but more than likely it was really simple designs — and a lot of if not all the characters might have had beady eyes. They may have either been animals or made-up critters, and I distinctly remember the style being colorful.
Edited by Eggy0resolved Ghost hotel show Western Animation
Back when I was a little kid, my folks checked out a VHS of a cartoon about a group of ghosts (I think there were three of them, but it could have been four) that ran a hotel (or maybe a motel?) for other ghosts. There was a giant ghost named Crush or Crunch and a recurring antagonist in the form of a "ghost exterminator" named Sidney Merciless.
I was a little kid when I saw this, so it would have been 1994 or 1995 when my parents checked the tape out. This means the cartoon was created during the late 80s or the beginning of the 90s at the latest, though it may be older than that.
Does anyone know of a cartoon like this?
resolved Clay-mation Series/Short from late 90s/early 2000s starring little playdough creatures? Western Animation
My sibling and I are trying to come up with a clay-mation show that probably aired in the late 90s/early 2000s on TV when we were kids because it had a distinctive intro tune that still gets stuck in their head years later (and is now stuck in mine 😅). The best we can figure is that:
- The aforementioned time range that it probably aired.
- It might have been an interstitial short that either aired between shows on PBS Kids or Nick Jr. (or perhaps on Nickelodeon proper), or perhaps a back-up segment on Sesame Street.
- We've already ruled out Purple and Brown; my sibling didn't recognize it and I cannot recall watching it on TV.
- My sibling describes it as starring little playdough creatures that had no intelligible dialogue, recalling a specific scene of a purple playdough creature jumping into an orange playdough pool and then laughing afterward.
Does that sound like it might ring a bell for anyone else?
resolved Help me find this animated film from my childhood Western Animation
When I was a kid, I remember watching this Animesque-ish 2D animated cartoon movie on TV, but I don't remember the name. I have vague memories of the plot.
It takes place in a world where toys are secretly sentient. There's a new girl at school, she's a redhead with blue eyes. It turns out she's the queen of the toys or something. She ends up getting a bad first impression of the main character, thinks he's an asshole, and refuses to be his friend. When she reveals her identity, all of his toys come to life and defend him. They say he's a good dude who treats all his toys with care, so she should give him a chance. She continues to be a cold tsundere to him for the rest of the film until the last leg, where he earns her trust.
I don't remember much else except for an adult villain, and the fact that one of the toys was a red car.
Do you know what film this is? I've been looking for it for years.
Edited by deerhornsaresoprettyresolved Movie with two flies inside a dog?? Western Animation
Can anyone help me find the name of a movie, only thing remembered is three dogs in a road, two flies are inside (literally) one of them, and one of the flies tells the other one to not go towards the light, probably a CGI animated movie
Edit: Found! It's Spirit of The Forest, and it was cats instead of dogs :)
Edited by AutisticStarmenresolved Mickey Mouse cartoon dancing Western Animation
There's an old B&W Mickey Mouse cartoon where a load of characters are just dancing. One visual I particularly remember is a large pig that gets a small chair stuck to her backside.
resolved A Mon(?) animated series where the heroes explore a highly technological Ghost City Western Animation
This was back in Italy during the summer of 2009, the same time period I was watching Bakugan, Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, and even Mix Masters, the latter of which I rediscovered thanks to you people again. Well, it wasn't the only obscure Mon series that I almost forgot about, that I watched in 2009.
It was a Low Fantasy/Clock Punk-like setting; the characters had these Mons that they could summon from and store in dice-like items. These Mons could have been artificial in nature, and at least The Smart Guy's Mon looked like a robot. I remember it looked like Western animation (as in, it didn't look like an anime), not sure if American or European; it might even had 2D Visuals, 3D Effects.
I didn't see many episodes of it, but I remember one of them pretty well: it involved a city that locked its inhabitants in devices similar to the ones used to keep the Mons, and use them as Living Batteries. The result was a city that was way mote technologically advanced compared to the rest of the setting (it even had vending machines), but was completely empty. The episode ended with the Villain of the Week, that was responsible for the state of this Ghost City, being converted in one of these Living Batteries off-screen. Does that ring any bells to anybody?
Edited by TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomitresolved "My Little Pony"? ...Or was it? Western Animation
Back in the 90s when I was four years old my mom rented me a movie and said it was "My Little Pony", but... What I remembered was pretty different from My Little Pony.
For one, the horses had more realistic proportions, and the protagonist was a young human boy. There was a medieval European fantasy setting with thatched roof cottages, and the tone was not as cloying. I distinctly remember a black, shadowy horse, and a fire. Also flying horses, not pegasi, but sort of walking in the air like Santa's reindeer.
Now... It could very well have been My Little Pony and I just have bad memory/my mind playing tricks on me. I was only four afterall. I know the first gen cartoons can get surprisingly tense and maybe I mixed up Megan and Danny, but there is still the possibility it was a completely different movie.
But I don't know of any uh, animated fantasy horse movies from that era other than The Last Unicorn, which matches the proportions and setting I remember, but there isn't a young human boy in it or a shadow horse from what I know.
Sooo, is there some other 90s or earlier animated fantasy movie with horses I could have watched? Or was it indeed My Little Pony or The Last Unicorn and my memory just sucks?
Edited by ninjamitsuki2resolved Brief anime scene in ''Luis and the Aliens'' Western Animation
If you have seen Luis and the Aliens, early into the movie there is a scene onboard the alien mothership where the aliens watch Earth tv broadcast and for a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" moment there is a scene from some anime*of a short-haired blonde girl takling on a cellphone while lying on her bed on the tv screen, before the aliens switch the channel. Anybody knows what anime is the screen from?
resolved FunnyAnimals with magic shields? Western Animation
Thanks to the Media Finder, I think I finally found the identity of an Animesque Mon show I saw when I was a young lad (Mix-Masters).
Then I remembered I also had to find another cartoon I saw sometimes when I was a kid. As in, back when I was less than 9 years old. So a looooooooot of time ago.
I think it was a Western animated show from the 80s or 90s, looking back, but there's always the possibility that I couldn't distinguish between styles from different decades at such a young age, or that it was 2000s cartoon made with outdated technology.
Anyway, it was at least broadcasted in Italy during the early 2000s, between 2004 and 2006 for certain.
I remember it being a French animation, or European at least. I don't know why. Maybe it was the names of the characters or shown in the credits that looked French to me, even if I was a stupid lil baby AND I didn't actually memorize the names themselves; but I still think that it could've been something France would make.
As for the setting: it's a World of Funny Animals, the two main characters are two wolf-like Funny Animals, and they have a sidekick that's like a young girl; I remember them being pilots of some kinds in their daily lives (either racecars or spaceships).
The premise was built around two or three magical shields: one red, one blue and one green (maybe), and they possibly could merge. I don't remember what powers they had exactly, but they looked like that they were pretty powerful nonetheless. And the main characters had to search all these magical shields.
The main antagonist was a villainess, possibly a reptile or amphibian; once again, I have a very nonsensically specific memory of one of the scenes, where she was taking a bath and singing, and her singing was SO horrible that they flushed her down the tub so they didn't have to listen to her.
I feel like this will be harder to find than Mix-Master, since this was probably a more obscure show, which I watched back when I was even younger, and I fear some of the things I said are incorrect and just make it harder to identify the show.
But I'm confident that the premise of Funny Animals with magic shields is unique enough it could help, and that I could add it to my Special Ability Shield one day.
resolved flash animated belgian cartoon about a girl and a firefighter Western Animation
There was this old show I used to watch as a kid about a girl whose cat gets stuck on the roof of a church and she tries to get it back down with the help of a firefighter (I think his name was Bob?). After a series of mishaps they end up in a different country and the rest of the episodes in the series involve them traveling all over the world just trying to find a way back to Waterloo, Belgium. It was an edutainment series, each episode presented you with a problem and you had to choose the correct solution to the problem out of 3 options. The firefighter was fat and had a stubble I think, and the girl had red hair in pigtails.
Edited by Helix-Supremeresolved An adult swim cartoon about a married couple with a baby. Western Animation
This is the most recent one I came across. Let me give the hint of the episode: Basically it focused on a married couple (The guy had orange hair and glasses while his wife's hair was black and curly) with a baby. The episode had the married guy attend a mall arcade where there was a birthday stripogram and the episode ended with a kid using an arcade gun and being mistaken for a hostage taker which caused the police cars and helicopter to surround the mall?
resolved Cartoon about a caterpillar Western Animation
I'm doing a trope single definition page and I'm trying to find a source for this cartoon. Do any of you know?

resolved Animated Movie I Watched In The 2010's That To One Knows About Western Animation
There was this animated movie I watched with my dad sometime during the 2010s. All of the characters were anthropomorphic animals. The main character was an orphan, he grew up with a dog girl who was also an orphan (they were both still kids during the movie) They were raised by an old cat.
The main character's mom used to be evil and she had a magical black/purple orb. His dad was good and he had a magical white/gold orb. They fought for centuries(?) before they ended up falling in love and she turned good.
But even though she wasn't evil anymore the people of MC's dad's kingdom still didn't trust her.
One day when MC was a baby, her orb started freaking out and doing some weird storm magic(???) when she tried to get it under control, the guards thought she was trying to use the orb to destroy the kingdom so they attacked her. Which made the orb even crazier. MC's dad sacrificed himself to save her but she had to run away since people still thought everything was her fault.
She told MC about all of this and told him she needed his help to resurrect his father. But she didn't tell him that they would need to sacrifice 100 (maybe 1000??) souls. There was this big event happening on a big arena and they would do the ritual there since pretty much everyone in the kingdom would be there. MC and his friends were trying to stop her and all of them except MC had their souls taken and turned to stone (everyone whose soul was taken would go back to normal if they managed to stop the ritual before it was completed. They sacrificed themselves because they believed he would succeed).
As the ritual progressed MC's dad was slowly gaining consciousness and the whole time he was just helplessly looking around as he watched his people turn to stone. MC was about to stop the ritual but his mother didn't let him.
Then there was this scene where the ritual was almost complete. She looked at her husband and saw how upset he was. And he just looked at her and smiled sadly, silently begging her to let him go. She sacrificed herself to stop the ritual and give everyone their souls back.
I can't find this movie ANYWHERE but I KNOW it exists, I know I didn't just make it up. I REALLY want to watch it again so if you could find it it would mean the world to me <3
Edited by Cupid23resolved Adult cartoon Western Animation
I dont remember about this cartoon. Just that it was a parody.
I remember there was a scene with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. And the protagonist ended in their kids' room, one of them turned to be a samurai baby or something like that.
resolved Girl and Boy on a Train Western Animation
Children's cartoon, possibly of UK origin, circa the late 1990s.
The setting felt Victorian/Turn-of-the-Century and focused of two characters: A little girl with dark hair, pale skin and a red dress and a young boy (who I think was poorer) with red hair, pale skin and a brown waistcoat suit. There may have been an older character who was a relative of the little girl who minded them.
The tone was grounded, don't really recall the story, but they went from place to place, I think. The art style, if I recall correctly, felt sort of like moving storybook illustrations. Sketchy, colourful, looked like colouring pencils and watercolour.
I definitely watched this a few times when I was very young, but all I really remember is the intro: the girl and the boy are on a train, with the carriage windows down. I think they go through an tunnel and the boy's face gets covered in soot.
resolved Weird Netflix show with 3D animated bears Western Animation
Around 2009-2010 there was a show on Netflix revolving around a family of bears.
The main character, an older sister, was hyped about the trip to the amusement park with her family.
Suddenly, her younger sister becomes completely sick and the trip is forced to be cancelled.
She wishes how she didn't have a sister to worry about anymore. Some sort of being comes to her and tells her how much she'd miss having a sister.
They go over some sorta flashback of all the times she's loved her sister.
Eventually, she gets over not being able to go on the trip and it ends with a happy ending.
resolved Show about a dog organization Western Animation
There was this show I remember as a kid (late 90s early 00s), where there was this underground base where dogs did stuff. I remember one had to do with water being wasted.
The main dog could also communicate with the big boss via the toilet.
Found it The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs
Edited by LadyJuseresolved That one 3D animal superhero show? Western Animation
All I remember is that the leader of that superhero group was a wolf (his name probably starting with the letter L). In one scene, the gang are in his old town/city, and he starts howling from nostalgia. I don't remember where it aired on either, but I think it was on either CN, Disney, or Netflix...

I’m trying to think of a South Park episode that I heard about that featured these 2 dark green alien like creatures that needed to repopulate and prevent their species extinction, but they ended up overpopulating the town with their offspring. The only other things I remember about it is that 1: the birth scene was very Squicky, and 2: it was an episode from one of the first few seasons.