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open"Junior" CGI TV animation Western Animation
A CGI series of gag-based comedy shorts (and I mean SUPER short) from around 1999/2000. I suspect these were French in origin, based on the feel of them, though I could be wrong.
I believe the main character was "Junior"; this Rayman-like guy: Blonde hair, freckles, big eyes, red hoodie, blue sneakers. He had a friend with buck teeth, a blue beanie and a green and white shirt. There was also a girl character with red hair in two bunches at the top of her head and a pink shirt.
If I have the name of this wrong, it could be where I'm missing the mark.
openBlonde Villian vs kids ensemble Western Animation
My friend told me about a show he thinks aired on Disney XD around the early 2010's
It was a about and an enssemble of kids with superpowers that fought against a blonde woman who really liked to wear pink and didn't have superpowers but used technology and machines to her advantage. She also had a minion who was strong but apparently clumsy.
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?
openArthur 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."
openAn animation I watched in school. Western Animation
There is this animation I remember watching in school in either late 2021 or early 2022 that was on DVD that was about these kids learning about the history of American immigration where they travelled back in time to Ellis Island when the island was still used as an inspection and processing station for new immigrants and then when they comeback to class they find that their teacher doesn't exist anymore so they go back in time again to reunite their teacher's ancestors.
Some other things I remember
It was animated with really bad CGI.
One of the main characters is an African American girl and another one was a Chinese boy who mentioned that his family came to the USA during the gold rush but these weren't the only main characters.
Their teacher is somehow related to Benjamin Franklin.
A boy who is one of the main characters (not the aforementioned Chinese boy) lost his hat and as a result caused the ancestors of his teacher to never meet.
One of the main characters might've had a tablet.
openNo Title Western Animation
I vaguely remember it but it was an animation about a little boy (maybe 10) and it was often set in school where his principal treated him like sh*t and his parents also weren't very good but I think he also had a best friends ( or maybe even two).
I watched it when I was really young I think around 2010-2015 and it played on either KIKA, RIC, TOGGO or Nickelodeon
I honestly don't remember much about it except that I used to get nightmares about it, especially about the stairway in their house/apartment and the hallway of their school.
I also think it was a similar animation style to fairly god parents
Edited by Chase235openClarence Episode Where He Kisses His Butt On Fire Western Animation
The show Clarence had an episode with a scene where his butt was on fire and he kissed it. What is the episode's name?
openA jungle cartoon Western Animation
I remember a cartoon that I watched back when I was little on Boomerang (I think?) about a group of talking animals living in a jungle of some sorts, all I ever remember is a ThirdPersonPerson gorilla who ate his boogers one time.
Edited by TypewriteropenA show about a girl in space that focuses somewhat on emotions Western Animation
It was one of my childhood shows, and I wanted to see if I could introduce it to my niece if I found it again. I first saw it on Youtube in like 2015-2017? I believe it was a TV aired series, though.
The show was a cartoon about a girl who landed on some type of planet I believe. She was short and had gray hair, clothes, and antennas, which I believed changed colors depending on her emotion. On the planet was also several (Around 10) tiny creatures, each were colored to represent an emotion, and they also had the same emotion they represented. In one of the episodes that I vaguely remember, I'm pretty sure the tiny pink creature got stuck in some type of sandpit that slowly pulled her into it. Eventually she was discovered by the rest of the gang and they pulled her out, it was a very odd episode from what I remember.
If it helps at all, the show is not 'Mysticons' or 'Space POP' as I was recommended those two a lot.
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 Storygirl000openA cartoon series about a bear who tries to renovate his house with disastrous results Western Animation
- Cartoon was aired during 1990s.
- Likely was a Universal Studios cartoon, but I might be wrong.
- The main character was a bear with a family.
The typical plot went along the lines of:
- Wife wants repairs done/additions made to the house.
- The bear balks at the price tag and declares he will do it himself.
- A chain of increasingly disastrous failures ensue.
Edited by VindicaropenAnimated 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”
openSimpsons Episode Where Lisa Sits On A Woman's Lap In A Car Western Animation
What was that episode where Lisa is in a car and a woman asks for her to sit on her lap?
openStop-motion snow Western Animation
I have vague memories of something I watched while I was in the hospital as a kid. I think it was stop-motion, and it involved a bunch of little robots (all toys based on WALL•E, I think) going to watch falling snowflakes, with a chunk of the runtime dedicated to showing those intricately-detailed snowflakes fall up close.
openBoy with superpowers from eating jelly beans Western Animation
Stop motion from the 90s or early 00s about boy who would transform into a hero by swinging around on a hills hoist and gained powers from eating jelly beans with different colours giving him different powers.
He wore various pouches containing the different types of jelly beans. There's a bit when he is Strapped to a Rocket and has get a jelly bean out whilst his arms are bound.
Pretty sure it's Australian
Nothing to do with A Boy and His Blob
openAnimated black and white Retraux commercial with a spaceship Western Animation
Several years ago (early 2010s) I remember seeing this black and white animated commercial .I think it was a commercial for insurance. It was animated in a style similar to Popeye or Bendy and throughout the commerical the characters were singing.
The commercial ended with the characters flying in a rocketship to the moon (or whatever).
Can someone please tell me the name of the commercial?
Edited by monkeyheroineopenNo Title Western Animation
A cartoon that was on TV; going by how long I remember it being it must have been a TV show rather than a movie, but if it was a series then I only ever saw one episode. Could even have been just a short. In terms of timeframe, it must have been in the late 90s: I had it taped along with the Christmas Episode of X Men, if that helps. The cartoon I'm looking for might also have been Christmassy.
The one thing I'm absolutely certain of is the plot: it was really snowy and a character left the house for a walk and fell through some ice into the cold water, the other characters rescued them by all co-operating to pull them out.
More uncertain: I think it was something similar to The Brave Little Toaster, because I have kind of conflated it with that movie in my memories. I think the characters were household appliances like in that movie, and the hero was a torch (edited to clarify: I mean an electronic torch; Americans would call it a flashlight). Or maybe they just had a torch, but I'm pretty sure a torch figured, as did its batteries. The torch might have been used to reach down to the person in the water.
This one has been bothering me for a long time; any help would be much appreciated.
Edited by IfOnlyopen(Late 2000s-Early 2010s?) Flash cartoon in school setting Western Animation
I have a memory from long ago of a cartoon (almost certainly a Flash-animated one) on TV (no idea what channel). I remember almost none of it, but I do clearly remember one specific bit: the main character and possibly one of his friends are being chased around by a bully character inside of a school on go-karts or something similar. The main character’s nerdy friend is serving as a Voice with an Internet Connection, and sets off the fire sprinklers to slow down the bully. We then see a shot of the two karts making a turn around a round room, entering from the left, as the sprinklers go off. I could provide a visual reference if needed.
Edited by jandn2014open"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 datadoggieein
I remember a couple of these done in a similar distinctive (and slightly uncanny valley) 2D computer graphics style that aired on Nickelodeon back in the mists of history (would've been early '90s). They used a lot of color cycling effects, which looked really weird at high res/frame rate.
The one I remember the most clearly was one about an elephant who got an opportunity to wish she was a different color, but she waited too long to make up her mind and got stuck gray (though in the end she resolved to paint her toenails red). The thing I remember most clearly is the first line, something like "[morsala zaunt???] / was an elephant" but I have no idea how the name was spelled, only how it sounded (also, "elephant" got pronounced with a funny affectation to make it rhyme, like "ele-phaunt"; in fact, all the dialogue and narration in these rhymed).
There was one other about a girl daydreaming of how she'd change her look ("oh, it's fun to be a glamorous girl!") where her appearance kept changing to match her narration paper doll-style.
There might have been more than these two; I'm not sure? I feel like the elephant got more than one cartoon, to be sure, but again, my memories are foggy.