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This is an animated movie that I saw in the early/mid 90's on one Saturday afternoon, probably some kind of ABC special. I didn't watch the whole thing, but from what I remember:
The protagonist was a young girl and the antagonist was an old lady that was likely some kind of cyborg or gynoid — she had Hypnotic Eyes that she used to pass herself off to people as their Aunt (name forgotten), after which they would immediately act as though they knew her. She didn't hypnotize the girl, but she did hypnotize the girl's parents.
Later, the girl and the "Aunt" are at a grocery store. The girl talks about not knowing what the prizes are in cereal boxes, so the Aunt starts opening the boxes in the aisle. When a worker comes by to intervene, she hypnotizes him into doing the same.
The last scene I remember involves the girl spying on the Aunt from above (in a treehouse?) The Aunt is investigating a cactus, gets some needles stuck in her hand/arm, and then deposits them in a hidden compartment also in her arm.
Edited by UltramarineAlizarinresolved No Title Western Animation
I saw an episode of this cartoon once, probably in the 90's. It was about insects, and the main characters were skateboarding insect teenagers. In the episode I saw, the insect kids' elderly neighbour or grandfather or something had accidentally gotten sick from poison. It made him change colors. Oh, and I think he might have been an absent-minded professor type, I'm not sure. Anyway, the kids go to a weevil lady for help, and she makes them go collect ingredients for an antidote. One was a tooth from a Venus flytrap, one was a petal from some flower, and one I forget but I think they ended up running away from a bird after getting it. The weevil lady makes the antidote and gives it to them in a bottle, but while they're skateboarding back to deliver it, they accidentally drop it and it breaks. They go back to the weevil lady and she offers to heal him herself, but for a price that she doesn't name yet. She returns with them to the guy, and she kisses him on the nose or the forehead, drawing the poison out. In the end of the show, the kids are teaching her to skateboard, and as she pushes off, they wonder why she asked for this in return for her help. Cue the weevil lady chasing after the professor-guy on the skateboard and teasing him, saying "How about another kiss?"
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This was a stop motion show that was on Teletoon in the early 00's. It was on before Futurama, I think. It was a fake news show that parodied all kinds of things. The two news anchors were a brown-haired man with an ordinary, simple name, and a blonde woman with a long name/lots of middle names/hyphenated last name. Her first name was Debbie Sue, I'm pretty sure.
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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?
It was on probably in the late 90s or early 00s. There was this one normal guy, and everyone else was some kind of monster or creature. The only thing I remember happening in it was the guy talking about aglets. That sticks in my head because that cartoon was the only reason I knew what an aglet was.
I'm fairly certain it was a series. But for all I know it may have been a movie.