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There was a cartoon from the late 90s or the early 2000s that was about a bunch of inanimate objects that came to life at night. The hero was a pencil and his girlfriend was a pink toothbrush. This has been bugging me for ages, so any help is greatly appreciated!
Also, I have vague recollections of a show about a girl and a pirate who had a talking ship and went on adventures, they often battled a creepy skeleton and another pirate. The ship often said something along the lines of "You have...to go...INSIDE!" It was really cheaply made and pretty weird.
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No "fanfic" option, but since these were both (IIRC) based off of the cartoon...
The first one was Flash centric fic, and the title was something like "Beginning/End", but with fancier language. There's a beginning section, and an end section, but no "middle" section (surprise surprise XP)
In the beginning, Flash and the rest are going on a mission, and the Flash has packed snacks for everyone. I know that one of the snacks was juiceboxes, and I'm pretty sure that they were grape.
The end spoiler was Flash doing somethign heroically suicidal, and everyone calling him to get him to not be suicidal. Instead, he opens a juicebox and starts drinking it as the Javelin he's on goes down. After that it's an Author's Note saying "...and then Batman went in with a boom tube and saved him" or something like that. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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The other story was also Flash centric, sort of. Flash was missing, and so Batman and Superman were trying to get volunteers to go look for him. That was it, except it was also about the way the Flash managed to touch everyone in the JL, and what he meant to the different people.
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I remember this show from the early 2000s set in space. It's main characters were a plucky comic relief human guy, a deadpan snarker alien girl and their do-everything robot dog. They fought evil, I think. One episode in particular I remember had the guy and dog locked in a tank of sorts and had earwigs dumped on them. The guy had to get over his fear of them or something akin to that. Thanks!
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I think this should be a simple one. It was a cartoon, one of the ecologically-aware ones about some kind of ocean research facility. The main character was a remarkably ripped scientist who drowned in the first episode and was turned into an orca-human hybrid thing so he could breathe underwater by a rather annoying underwater merman child, who looked just like a sea monkey. I recall he would turn into the orca thing whenever he came into contact with water, whether he wanted to or not, and there were probably some evil polluting corporate types as well.
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I saw this show in the 90s, but it could be older. It began with a stop-motion sequence in an old theatre, where this creepy old man was going to show us a cartoon. He had a spider for a friend/pet. Then there was an animated cartoon, usually about a kid who was naughty and got punished for it in some insanely creepy way. One cartoon had a kid who stole the sun and kept it in a jar under his bed, but then his parents almost found out and he had to let it out. It burned him to a cinder. Another had a kid enter a shop where he was turned into a doll. I just can't remember the name of the show, and google is being unhelpful.
Also, a possibly related show (I think it had the same animation style) frequently featured the big bad wolf. Dunno if that helps or not.
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There was this animation shown as part of the children's TV programming in Norway in the mid/late 80s early 90s. It had a dog (possibly black) in it, and cat or a mouse, I cannot fully remember. But the dog was inspired by/inspiration for Muttley in Stop The Pidgeon. I don't fully remember what the show was about, but I do remember that either the dog or the second character was showering in the opening sequence. Can anyone help me figure out which series this is, because it is driving me NUTS!
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Reading through all of these threads has drudged up an old memory of a cartoon I used to watch when I was dropped off at my babysitter's house early in the morning. I dont know what channel it was on. But I remember there being a young boy as one of the lead characters, and he would visit a house of some sort that would travel through time and let the characters observe what I believe were old bible story events. Any ideas?
Edit: Timeframe would have been mid to late 80's
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Some years ago I catched a glimpse of a cartoon, I thought it was a animated movie, not a cartoon series. I remember there was this man and he was talking to an old man (I may be recalling it wrong, but I think the old man was drawn in a more humoreous style than the rest of the characters, kind of like Mr. Magoo), they were in a construction site. I remember the old man gets trapped inside a portable toilet, and gets thrown down a hill. When the old man gets out he says something like "Oh, the most terrible thing! I'm covered with human feces!". I changed channel at that moment, because I did not thought it was funny, but catched it again later when the old man takes the man to a gym where there are some other guys playing basketball. The old man comes with a boy (I thing he was redhead), he is taking care of him while his mother is out (or something). The old man starts ranting about how the man can't play basketball because alcohol has destroyed his body (at this point I was like "What kind of cartoon is this?"). The man plays basketball anyway, and he convinces the boy to play with him against the other guys. Shirts versus Skins. I remember the boy starts being very shy and insecure but the man is able to motivate him and they win. The other guys are forced to eat the shorts of a fat man (because they lost the game). I remember that during the game, the mother of the boy appears and seems very happy to see him playing, but after they win, the man encourage the boy to make fun of the other guys... I don't remember what he screams, but it really shocks the mother, and gets angry to both the man and the old man.
That's all I can recall, I really disliked it, but it bugs me. I think I watched it in cartoon network (Latinamerican), and it was still too early for adult cartoons, that's the reason it got me so intrigued in the first place.
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A cartoon from around the late 90's to mid 00's. It was about a group of dogs who were spies (or something along those lines) but acted like non-sentient dogs when not solving crimes. There was one dog who was always strapped to a gurney or stretcher for being too violent.
I don't remember anything aside from that, but it's been bugging me for weeks now.
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A movie about ants, that was not Antz or A Bug's Life. It involved a little brat who roasts ants with a magnifying glass, and then gets shrunk down to the size of a bug and has to live with the ants. The ants all had multifaceted, oval eyes with no pupils. I would have seen it in a theater probably several years ago.
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It's an animation show that aired around 2003/2005, probably in Nickelodeon. It was set in a boarding school for magic/school were magical stuff happened; but it didn't feel(too much)like a Harry Potter rip-off. I believe it centered around a group of "normal" students having to deal with this fantastic world. The principal/main teacher was a witch who may have had some sort of weird looking flying pet. Among the main children, there was a blonde rather whiny girl(she also had a weird-looking nose) who had to share the room with a "goth" student (Her hair was black and quite big) who had rapidly adapted to the school. Some of the other students and teachers might have been trolls or different kinds of supernatural creatures. Episodes I remember centered around a student messing with magic they don't understand to deal with a regular problem and learning some sort of lesson. There was an episode in which they were putting up a play and the got possessed by the characters until they finished the play. The opening sequence, as I remember it, showed the characters being dropped off at school, encountering weird stuff, trying to escape while the theme tune narrated the facts and may have said something about these students being mistakenly sent to the school. The show was probably American or Canadian, was traditionally animated and may have been named after the school.
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I actually don't remember this one myself, but my dad does- he remembers me watching it when I was little. I'm in my teens, so don't go looking for something from the eighties or anything.
From what he can recall, there was a kid (male) with a dog and a fish(?), and he swears the fish was named Dennis. The dog looked kind of like a bulldog, and the fish could shapeshift or something. It might have been an animal-based show.
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This wasn't actually a cartoon but a fanfiction for Avatar, the Last Airbender (I noticed there wasn't a fanfic category). It was an AU fic set in the late 1930s in East Asia, starting with Sokka and Katara as Mongolian vilagers, Aang as a recently-thawed Tibetan monk, and Zuko as a disgraced member of the Japanese Imperial family and colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army. I left off when they wound up in China due to Aang learing to use one of his powers and meet Suki and her band of resistance fighters. Sokka was a big fan of swing music, Appa was a motorcycle, and Momo is a real-life rodent. Azula is in charge of Unit 731, and is a rival to Zhou. Aang had some spritual visions which I'm half-sure were premonitions of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Very well-written and mature. Can anyone help me out?
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Okay, this one is really hazy and far back in my memory, but I know for a fact that I saw it. It was either an animated film or an episode of a TV series (though the former seems more likely to me) that aired in the mid-to-late 90s. All I remember is that there was a noble family with a palace that had an irremovable blood spot left on the floor from the murder of the old Lord's wife or something like that. I SPECIFICALLY remember that she fell down the stairs and broke her neck (and it was explicitly stated so in the narration), and I believe she was named Lady Elgin (although that might be something else mixed in there). I can't remember the plot, but I think it involved a group of mystery investigators trying to solve a case. I also remember that the blood spot changed colours after each night which made the investigators think it was a fake. One final detail I remember is that they eventually found the Lady's decayed skeletal body hidden in the wall, with her blonde hair still attached to the skull, which really freaked me out when I saw it as a kid. I know this sounds really weird, but I know for sure that I saw it. Any Ideas at all?
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It was an animated TV series from the late 1960's or early 1970's. There were several characters with different attributes, but the one I remember was a man wearing harem pants who could change his shape by saying "size of a ..." and then becoming that creature.
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I seem to recall a cartoon from the 90's i watched (likely saturday mornings) when i was younger. It centered around a series of... i think power rangers/transformer like characters who all had pharoah or egypt-related motifs. They fought crime, i believe, and I know robots or robot armor was involved. Any ideas?
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There was this animated show on MTV. When I was watching it (must have been the early 2000s) it came on after Daria. There was this group of teens or 20 year-olds and they went on about their lives. They also got into trouble a lot and the show was a bit dark at points, definitely the post watershed kind of show. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Cartoon about three monsters: walking jack-o-lantern with monster-themed gadgets inside him, skeleton who could turn into different objects like table or draft and dog vampire.
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I'm trying to remember this show, but no such luck. I'm from Mexico so it used to air in Latin America on Fox Kids.
Anyways all I can vaguely remember about the show was that it was about some kind of showdowns between two teams of people that piloted robots. All I can remember is one team had a green motif and the other a red motif, and of course all the good tropes for a western CGI show. (The Hero, Action Girl, Techno Geek, The Muscle, etc)
Like I said that's all I can remember, hopefully someone can remember it from such a vague explanation.