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arconinternet · 6 months

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It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown (Video, 1988)

“I wanted this to be my ‘Citizen Kane,’ but it’s not.” - Charles M. Schulz. You can watch it here.

Here's an article, a podcast episode, and a 1988 review from the New York Times.

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tortillaspecter · 1 month

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#secret saturdays #doyle blackwell #cartoon network #obscure cartoons #fake comic cover #fanart #cartoon fanart #decided I will make 12 of them #i do have a story?#kind of #blackwell comic

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sillygayoscfan · 3 months

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need help finding a cartoon!!

okay so if anyone here knows how to find old shows PLEASE help me out here this has been bugging me for years!!!

so i vaguely remember watching this cartoon (it was on youtube, unsure if it aired on tv but if it did i believe it was foreign so not in america, or at least on the channels i watched). I believe it was around the 2010-2015 timeframe??? might’ve been earlier. the main character was this little girl, and her and the land around her all had this black and white color scheme iirc?? i believe it was like these rolling hills she lived in?? it was like 3d animation iirc. anyway she had these colored bracelets and anklets and maybe hair clips??? I believe they would light up with her emotions. the color I remember the most was red though. she might’ve (mIGHT’ve) had a colored animal?? maybe a bird?? (UNSURE) i know the show started with a z and it might’ve been the girl’s name aswell. i vaguely remember there being a toy of this show behind the others in a toy aisle, so it must’ve been a slightly large show if this memory is true. Nobody i’ve asked remembers this and i’ve searched everything to remember it!!! I KNOW it was real though. any leads at all are incredibly appreciated, i’ve been wondering about this forever

#cat needs help!!!#help finding a show #help please #help find a show #Cartoons #lost shows #old cartoons #sorry for the tags i need reach lmao #cat rambles #Obscure shows #Lost media #Lost cartoons #obscure cartoons

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rin-henricov · 9 months

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!DUPLICATE!

this guy's life is so hard that even the art with him has to endure a strenuous long build (ha-ha).

#spliced show #spliced #spliced cartoon #spliced fanart #fuzzy snuggums #cartoon #stuff #teletoon #my art #fanart #nelvana #obscure cartoons #2000s cartoons #qubo #cartoon style #art

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pizzathefox · 5 months

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100 CHARACTER CHALLENGE-

This challenge has been my #1 struggle for about a whole year. Originally started in March of this year, I kept scrapping the whole thing after getting frustrated which happened often. Finally, last month...I sat down and focused on nothing but this challenge. I am very pleased with the final result.... albeit I'm still very exhausted. Hope you all like it! Sorry about the blur. Just don't zoom in. You can see them better from the distance.

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nevertrustasealwoman · 11 months

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hi there! my name is sid (they/them, 25+) & this is my sideblog for the long-forgotten nick toon catscratch, which aired from 2005 to 2007! this blog is primarily dedicated to archiving old catscratch fanworks & sharing my own analysis, hcs & reboot ideas. i also sometimes post about gear, the 90s graphic novel that paved way for this silly little cartoon. have fun & feel free to boost this if you know anyone who might be interested! 🐈‍⬛ 💰 🐾

#sid.txt.#catscratch #nickelodeon #nostalgia #2000s #y2k #obscure media #nick toons #obscure cartoons

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punster-2319 · 30 days

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Produced by Tom Ruegger (Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Freakazoid!, etc.), Histeria! aired on Kids WB from 1998 to 2000, lasting 52 episodes.

#latest addition to my warner bros animation dvd collection #i vaguely remember this airing on kids wb back in the late-90s #i also watched a few episodes back in 2006 when aol was streaming it #histeria!#warner bros #kids wb #obscure cartoons #tom ruegger #dvd collections

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quiplasherror606 · 10 months

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my boy <33 (w.i.p)

#quipster’s wips #spliced #spliced cartoon #obscure cartoons #2000’s cartoons #spliced fanart #peri #failed experiment 13 #he is so precious

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ambientdoom · 10 months

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Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night Appreciation Thread

This was an absolute nightmare hellscape as a child and I love it

#Pinocchio and the emperor of the night #Pinocchio #underrated movies #animation #nostalgia #80s animation #cartoons #Obscure cartoons

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garr9988 · 6 months

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So I Watched "Monster Force"...

After watching Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys (which I seriously recommend, it's pretty charming and decently written), a friend and I decided to watch other old and somewhat obscure cartoons. In between episodes of Action Man (1995), I found Monster Force.

Monster Force was a 1994 cartoon based on the Universal Studios line of monster movies. Only getting one season, although all 13 episodes are known to exist, only 9 of them seem to have been saved and uploaded online to be watched.

First and foremost: it's not good. Or at least, it's not terrible. But it's absolutely not well-written. In 9 episodes, I could not tell you anything about most of the recurring cast.

The writing puts too much emphasis on the "job" of the story, or the progression of events themselves. It's hard to describe, but it's like there's no time to breathe, no opportunities taken to explore the characters in any way beyond their job. It uses the characters as extremely shallow chess pieces to give exposition and advance the plot with next to no personality. Most of the characters talk too similarly to each other or just talk very flatly and clinically, and all in sarcastic quips and jokes, to stand out on their own in any significant way.

Of the embarrassingly forgettable recurring cast, only 3 stood out to my friend and I in a positive way:

Luke Talbot, descendant of Larry Talbot (aka The Wolfman), and one of the only two monsters on Monster Force (along with Frank, aka Frankenstein's Monster). His whole thing is that he's trying to find the werewolf that bit his grandfather Larry, with the intent of killing him so as to end his curse of lycanthropy.

Outside of his built-in plot device goal, Luke has little personality, just like most of the cast. And given he uses his lycanthropy so much, his textual loathing for his curse comes off as forced and without depth. The only reason my friend and I like him is because we find his werewolf form hot.

Like come on. If this show were more popular and better I feel like this image would be on a lot of backgrounds and edits.

Count Dracula was absolutely a stand-out character. His voice performance by Robert Bockstael was likewise a stand-out in a show full of phoned-in, flat acting from everyone else. He's got drama, charisma, cruelty, and an accent. And similarly, unlike everyone else's ugly and overdesigned dieselpunk mechsuit (EMACS) designs, his was actually simple, yet well-made, pleasing and dramatic.

Aside from those crazy side-goatees??? Granted, they look like spider pincers, which may be intentional, so I guess that's cool?

The very first episode had him try to force Luke to embrace his lycanthropy and join his forces of evil as a full monster (which we enjoyed bc Gayyyy). He also tries to recruit Frank and other actually evil monsters to his cause, but in the 9 episodes was never successful.

Commander Honor Santiago, a security officer working for Hyper-Gen. She mostly stood out because she was sooooo butch lesbian-coded. Strong square face, short & slicked hair, earrings in one(?) ear, and she seemed torn between her duty to recapture the escaped Bride of Frankenstein('s Monster) (who had escaped the facility she worked for) and being disturbed by her mistreatment at the hands of her superior, Dr. Ducaine.

Honestly, I feel like there was a lot of potential for Honor and The Bride to get together, but of course The Bride ends up rejecting both Frank (and other monsters) and humans alike in favor of living alone, and Honor ends up as a love interest for de facto male lead Reed Crawley (the guy she's looking at). I have no clue if this was intentional coding that got comphet'd because it was the 90s, or just a bunch of coincidences. But if more young girls saw her, I'm sure she'd have been lots of girls' awakening.

Of the 9 extant episodes, there were only 3 episodes I could decidedly call "character-focus episodes" - episodes that focus on one character of the cast in particular. Which is funny, you'd think they'd do that for every main character at least once (there are 6 main characters, so there should be room). Of those 3, two of them are only ostensibly in this category because they still didn't feel focused enough, and only one of them I "liked" - because it focused on Luke going after the source of his curse, and so there were lots of nice Werewolf Time.

The one episode my friend and I regard fairly positively is not among those 3 focus episodes: Episode 7, "Dark City"

After 6 shallow, empty episodes, this one (written by Mary Crawford and Alan Templeton) was actually pretty interesting and freaky! The premise of the episode is that the gang are stuck in a living town that's a grotesque monster (the whole thing!) that every so often pops out of the aether to lure entire nearby populations into itself to eat.

The episode doesn't really explore that premise in a way other cartoons would/it should have (i.e. the gang falling under its allures for more than 2 minutes, or spending more time investigating recent disappearances, or the strangeness of the town longer before it reveals itself... y'know, things you'd do in competent writing). Where it excels is purely in the visual execution of its concept.

The background/environmental artists for this episode did a really nice job of making this place so gnarly and disturbing in its monstrousness. A living city with eyes, teeth, horns and tentacles built into buildings and walls, how normal environments can transform into something horrifying and organic in the blink of an eye (like this stairwell). It's awesome, and calls to mind Queensland from Alice: Madness Returns.

Now, of course, this show was among the litany of cartoons made toys-first and everything else came afterwards as a glorified commercial. It just wasn't successful at making an attractive commercial of itself at all. It's rather baffling and embarrassing how a crew of people being paid to write managed to do so poorly, even if they must have had very little time to write and review/update drafts.

To cap off a slew of mediocre with some inside jokes:

"You better not be a Cunty Frankenstein when I get there!"

"They pick her up like the fútbol."

#monster force #obscure cartoons #obscure animation #90s cartoons #90s #universal studios #universal monsters #original #obscure cartoon reviews #adventures into obscurity

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tooternart444 · 2 months

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Krazy Kat in his Harrison-Gould form

#art #drawings #anthro #procreate #krazy kat #fanart #krazy kat fanart #digital art #obscure cartoons

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arconinternet · 1 month

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Dinosaucers (Videos, 1987)

You can watch the entire extremely 80's animated series here.

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randomuser678 · 1 year

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You have no idea how hard it is to be a fan of something you only vaguely remember from childhood and the only place you can find eps in is a random korean channel and you don't speak korean

This is screaming for help

#fish n chips #fish n' chips #obscure cartoons #my shit

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abbinurmel · 10 months

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GUYS GUYS GUYS, you guys, who wants to share and discuss old obscure kids cartoon shows with me, huh huh huh??

Dino Babies. I am hyperfixated right now on old obscure cartoons and right now my brain is shouting "DINO BABIES. HEY YOU REMEMBER THAT SHOW. DO YOU LOT ALL REMEMBER """DINO BABIES?""" IF YOU DO NOT I HAD BETTER TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT. BECAUSE WHATEVER ELSE HAVE YOU GOT TO DO?? PLAN FOR A WEDDING? PAY THE BILLS, FIND A NEW JOB?

PbffFt.

😃DINO BABIES!!!😃

While this was just another obvious Rugrats/Muppet Babies rip-off, for what it's worth, this show was HUGE to me and my baby sister. We played pretend more so as these guys than their better well known far more original predecessors yet even other kids during the 90s didn't much care about this show. It's too bad they lacked merch at least in the US cos if they had any I would have bought it all. I dunno why this mediocre cartoon was so big a deal but I guess we can chalk it up to us simply being into all things dinosaur across the board.

Overall the writing was neither amazing nor terrible, just average for a wholesome kids show, but the entire thing's appeal hinged around one tiny aspect:

This guy! ...LOOK at this guy! Such a cute lil bastard! He's PRECIOUS! ❤️He's gonna go cruelly concuss some little children with coconuts just for fun from high above, FOR NO REASON, yes he is, YETH HE IIIZ! 😘

This red eyed fiend was called Dak, who was the only antagonist ever on the show, and basically a male Angelica; constantly teasing and pulling tricks purely to get food he could already more easily reach and hoard, or just giggle over suffering. He played things like witches and vampires/ other villains in any retelling of fairy tales and I found him so cool cos pterosaurs were almost always among my favorite dinos, but they didn't quite as often show up. 99% of the time, at least in media up til this point, any evil/mischievous dino, even ones that were not feral just 'playground bullies' or 'rude neighbor' sort of guys, the species chosen for such was always a velociraptor or T-rex, usually portrayed as big, slovenly dumb and older brash teenagers or stupid adult stereotypes.

Sometimes you'd get fictional non-descript looking Bowsers or kaijus. Pterosaurs and pterodactyls meanwhile always got the shaft. You had that one segment of Fantasia, and Don Bluth's Petri, and that was it. Subconsciously even to this day it seems we still have relegated nearly ALL flying dinos to only cowardly sidekicks or filler roles, if not simply outright mindless mounts or 'birds' or five second 'sentient Flintstone-tool' gags. Which is crazy, because if we read up on them, these beasts were literal some of the top apex predators, *nightmare dragons* with private plane wingspan at their mightiest worst, the nastiest and shittiest of cassowary or Canada geese at the lowest end. Which is quite possibly lots worse for us humans to deal with if you dwell on it. Have you ever fucked around with angry swan or Canadian goose? Do NOT TRY.

Dak meanwhile, was not only a pterosaur, he wasn't even any bigger or older than the other babies on the show. He was cunning, mean and extremely agile and literally had the exact same personality and voice of a tamed Zorak from "Space Ghost Coast2Coast"...which is hilarious because nobody else in the show sounds like that. Can you imagine having a friend group like this, I mean in actual real life?...Everyone else has your typical 90's child voice, or at least voices attempting at sounding *kinda* like a child, and everyone else has fairly normal human names like Franklin and Marshall. ...All except this one weird guy who is only called DAK and is clearly AN ADULT and screeching like he was the unholy spawn between Mrs. Bighead and one of the Dark Crystal's Skeksis. You got for no reason this one crackhead or irl Invader Zim character hanging around and constantly harassing you and you can't make him go away so you begrudgingly accept him as your friend AND HE CAN FLY.

...Maybe it's just me? There's just something really kinda funny about having a bunch of normal kids standing around, and then there is THAT guy; the one guy who for no reason hangs out just to be a pest and has fucking bloodshot red eyes, and speaks like Gollum except he eats cigarette butts from the trash cans every day. I can't explain, I just... love it.

#Dino babies #animated #old cartoons #90s cartoons #90s nostalgia #dinosaurs #kids shows #la brea #Marshall #Truman #Franklin #Whatever that last one was #obscure cartoons #dark crystal #skeksis #pterosaur #pterodactyl #bogleech #cartoons

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rin-henricov · 8 months

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i recently turned 19, and now idk what to do with it

#spliced #spliced show #spliced fanart #spliced cartoon #spliced peri #spliced entree #nelvana #teletoon #cartoon #cartoon style #stuff #my art #qubo #2000s cartoons #obscure cartoons

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dragon-dress-128 · 11 months

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Double from Mega Man X4 be like

Also Stain and Handsome Stain, if you know what and who this is

I just thought it’d be neat to draw him as a more menacing looking demon. It could fit as a super form for his Chinchikurin counterpart

#obscure anime #fanart #chinchikurin #boron marcos #boron makuroshi #digital drawing #digital aritst #anime and manga #anime art #mega man #mega man x #mega man x4 #gaming memes #obscure cartoons #random af artwork because why the hell not #megaman #megaman x #megaman x4

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