I have a friend who got hold of some of these somehow - we only vaguely remembered the show. They have to save the planet from eco-terrorists. It's hilariously awful.
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90's? How about Swamp Thing? In retrospect I can see why the cartoon series was VERY short lived.
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Captain Planet was given such a huge media push by Ted Turner (broadcast on -all- his networks) that I don't think it counts as obscure, yeah. Love how the smarmy Russian chick is always the one who calmly and coldly explains to the silly, scaredy-cat, overly sensitive other Planeteers the moral of the episode and exactly the right thing to do!
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I hated Ren and Stimpy, and I wouldn't call it obscure either.
I watched, very, very little Captain Simian.
Mine were a mix of 80's and 90's shows.
Bucky O'Hare
Centurions
Visionaries
Mighty Max
Conan The Adventurer
Less or not at all obscure shows that I watched include:
Double Dragon, GI Joe, Transformers, Sonic the Hedgehod.
And I have no idea where Under the Umbrella Tree, Dumbo Circus (when I was REALLY young), Little Bits and David the Gnome fall. Those were all when I was in the single digits in the 80's and early 90's.
And I don't know where this falls either, but The Tick is definetely in my top three of best cartoon shows ever. Hysterical show.
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Oh, I loved Mighty Max, Lyrhawn. Particularly the last couple episodes (the little 2 or 3 part arc that ended the series). So good. I miss it. Too bad the toy line was just Polly Pocket for guys. Posts: 1960 | Registered: May 2005
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I'll second mysterious cities of gold. I used to love it. I actually downloaded the whole series a few years back. never actually finished watching them but they're all sitting on my computer somewhere.
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I love and cherish Exo-Squad based purely on my memories. I had some of the toys - I recently checked eBay to see if I could get them again, and they're now upwards of $70 a piece. Posts: 4313 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Fantastically obscure: A saturday morning cartoon I adored called...wait for it...
"The Cowboys of Moo Mesa"
Who were, in fact...all cows.
They were named after states: Texas, Colorado who was the young hot-head, and then Dakota who was the older, wiser one. I can't quite remember Texas' personality. edit: thinking about it, i think he was sort of the leader, just more level-headed. Sort of like Leonardo, of TMNT fame.
I don't think it was on very long, but i remember the intro sequence vividly.
further edit: Oh my gosh! After a little research I've discovered that the show was actually MADE by the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! C.O.W.boys of Moo Mesa That is so weird that i randomly made that comparison!
Also, i was mis-remembering the characters...I thought Texas was the leader, turns out his name was Montana! oh my gosh, this show ran for longer than i thought...five seasons! I am really in shock. It was an utterly bizarre premise.
Also, I totally thought that blonde chick from Captain Planet was from Holland or something...I think when they showed them like, "Oh look. All of these stereotypes from all over the world!" she was surrounded by windmills.
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Only windmills because her power was Wind. But her name was Linka, and the accent was pretty pronounced.
I watched a bit of Cowboys of Moo Mesa when I was younger, but I missed most of it. What is even on Saturday morning cartoons anymore? When I was young it was like, pre-teen variety shows basically, like Animaniacs and Tiny Toons. And there's a show I can't remember the name of, but whenever a commercial would come on they'd sing "After theeese messages...we'll be riiight back!" But I can never remember the name of the show.
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That sounds so so familiar, Lyrhawn...were there a group of them, singing harmony? Possibly...puppets? *trying to remember*
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I think Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors was a little before hte 90's. As was Silver Hawks.
And Zelda (and the Super Mario Bros Super Show), Captain N: the Game Master, Pirates of Dark Water, M.A.S.K., Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Where's Waldo, the Back to the Future cartoon...
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I still sometimes get the Where's Waldo theme song stuck in my head... that and the Carmen Sandiego theme.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: And I have no idea where Under the Umbrella Tree, Dumbo Circus (when I was REALLY young), Little Bits and David the Gnome fall. Those were all when I was in the single digits in the 80's and early 90's.
Oh wow! I was just talking to my boyfriend yesterday about David the Gnome. He's the only person I met who remembers it (though he insists that at 21 years old, I should be too young to know it.) I kept thinking about Under the Umbrella Tree and Dumbo's Circus, but couldn't remember their names.
As for me, I got bored last weekend and downloaded "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest." I was about ten or eleven at the time, but my younger brothers watched it so I used "sibling bonding time" as an excuse to watch cartoons without my mother teasing me. Ten years later and I still love cartoons. This post has only increased my desire to track down my favorites.
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Now Carmen was the best. I don't think i have ever gotten so worked up about anything since i used to watch those nitwits run around the US or World maps trying to find Georgia or Russia. "It's the big one!! The one taking up most of freakin' Asia!!!!" *shouts at screen*
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Which Carmen Sandiego theme, FlyingCow? Since you're in the cartoon thread, I'd assume the cartoon one, but of course many people are more familiar with the live action trivia show one (both Where in the World and Where in Time).
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Oh, after you mentioning them, I have all of them stuck in my head. The Rockapella one, the cartoon one, and the Waldo theme. It's very odd to have three songs playing at once in your mind.
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I'm 27 and loved David the Gnome. Though I was probably a bit old when I was watching it.
I completely forgot about Captain N: The Game Master. I used to watch that.
Also, I don't know if I'd call M.A.S.K obscure, but maybe it just didn't seem obscure in my 12 year old world.
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Cartoon Planet! I think it counts as obscure because it was totally overshadowed by Spaceghost Coast to Coast, which is pretty funny, but no Brak.
Also, not a cartoon, but does anyone remember Muppets Tonight? The Disney Channel 90's version of The Muppet Show. REALLY funny. Especially the episodes with Cindy Crawford, Sandra Bullock, and Garth Brooks.
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Under the Umbrella Tree had three puppet characters, Jacob (a bluejay) Gloria (a gopher) and...crap I can't think of the third, and they lived in a house with some lady who had an Umbrella Tree in the house, and they lived underneath it. Dumbo's Circus was, I think, about people in giant costumes dressed up as the characters from Dumbo. It was horrible, in retrospect, but I liked it for some reason at the time.
I still say "fiddlesticks" all the time like David did. I'm 22, so 21 is definetely not too young to know what DtG is.
Is the Real Adventures of Johnny Quest the more recent one? There's an older one, and a more recent one with better animation. I used to watch the more recent one all the time, but it was a short lived series.
I never watched a Carmen Sandiego cartoon, but I LOVED the game show. It's probably the best gameshow of all time. I also really liked Bozo's Circus when I was a kid, and that video game game show, where they had to uncover a picture one block at a time and answer really easy questions and at the end the kids had to do like a virtual reality "Inside the video game" green screen challenge thing. And Legends of the Hidden Temple.
And I was JUST talking about Muppets Tonight the other day with a friend. When are they going to have that out on DVD? So far as I can remember, this is my favorite scene. I wish I could have seen the Moulin Rouge parody version.
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Hells yeah. I watched quite a bit of that show back in the day, and the wierd thing is, I don't ever remember seeing them run anywhere. They always kinda glided around. Really bizarre and lazy.
Also, I was rather fond of Eek the cat (and his girlfriend Anabelle).
Gargoyles should have lasted much longer than it did. If I recall correctly, it had a really bad time slot.
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From the links underneath Wiki's Spartakus entry (funny that I remember Spartakus but not MCoG) I loved the Little Prince, Little Koala, Count Duckula (He won't bite beast or man/Cause he's a vegetarian/Duckula) and DtG. I watch Happy Days just because I love Tom Bosley. I really miss the Father Dowling Mysteries that he was in, too.
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i remember Space monkeys and EXO squad. i only saw a couple eps of Space MOnkeys, but i know i saw a few more of EXO Squad. there was that whole discrimination thing going on against the uh.. Neo Humans?
Captain N was ok.
i was all about some Pirates of Dark Water. i loved how that had that one phrase, for which im about to butcher and try to spell it... "Noi Getat!" i think Ren was the main char's name.
Oh and Lyrhawn, the "after these messages, we'll be riiight back!" was from way back in the day when cable just came out. it was on ABC for their saturday morning cartoons. they also had those "in a minute" things, if anyone remembers those.
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Ah, MTV's precursor to Adult Swim. I never got Aeon Fluxx, but I loved the Maxx. (I especially loved the Gen 13 comic where Grunge thought he was the Maxx. So perfect.)
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I never really watched obscure cartoons; more of a populist, I guess.
Dungeons & Dragons Captain Planet Captain N GI Joe He-Man She-Ra Voltron Thunder Cats Smurfs
Shows I only remembered watching every Saturday after browsing this 80s cartoon site BraveStarr Captain Caveman Dragon's Lair Hulk Hogan's Rockin' Wrestling Pole Position Q*Bert Real Ghostbusters
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THANK YOU, I haven't seen those in more than a decade. I used to spend the night over at my grandma's house most friday nights. She'd make me one of those crappy Jeno's thin and crispy frozen pizzas, and in the morning I'd get up early, watch the cartoons on ABC, and she'd make me some mini lender's bagels with strawberry cream cheese.
You just brought back a very, very happy memory for me.
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Most of the shows shown on Finnish TV when I was a kid seem to have been either Japanese or European, so I've never even heard of most of the shows here...
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Again, not too obscure, but TailSpin (from The Disney Afternoon explicitly excluded in the OP). I had forgotten that.
quote:Several of the characters are loosely based on characters from Disney's animated film version of The Jungle Book: in particular Baloo, the hot-shot pilot hero of the series; Louie, the owner of Baloo's favorite bar; and Shere Khan, a business tycoon who appears in many episodes.
quote:Originally posted by Scott R: Captain Planet sucked rocks.
Dude had a mullet-- 'nuff said.
He had a straight up, sticks out of the back of your hockey helmet mullet. Totally lame.
I watched the whole run of Ronin Warriors, a translation of a Japanese Anime. I actually need to watch that again. I also watched Dinosaucers, mostly because the timeslot it was in had no other decent shows.
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I loved the TailSpin theme music. I also forgot totally about Q*bert, which was very obscure but fun - same with Rockin' Wrestling.
I also really liked The Centurions, which I feel falls under the "obscure" heading, but was also from the 80s.
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Does anyone remember the name of a Nickalodeon show that featured two little koalas? There was a pink and blue one, and they drew little circles in the air and jumped through them to get to other places, and ate eucalytus leaves all day. I can't remember the name of it.
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Don't forget Dino-Riders, either. I loved those toys.
I loved my Centurion toys, too.
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Oh! And Sectaurs! Those guys with the blue eyes and antennae that rode on giant bugs! Those toys were awesome.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: I watched a bit of Cowboys of Moo Mesa when I was younger, but I missed most of it. What is even on Saturday morning cartoons anymore? When I was young it was like, pre-teen variety shows basically, like Animaniacs and Tiny Toons. And there's a show I can't remember the name of, but whenever a commercial would come on they'd sing "After theeese messages...we'll be riiight back!" But I can never remember the name of the show.
The little jingle actually occurred several times during a given Saturday morning block, I don't think it was attached to a particular show.
I get my 90s and 80s cartoons mixed up (even though I was 14 in 1990 , I was a bit immature for my age) My most obscure Saturday morning show was a live-action drawing show shown only in the metro Boston market called "Captain Bob's Drawing Show". It took place in the eponymous sailor's sea shanty. As for cartoons, I saw so many (though somehow missed Robotech!) that I don't know which ones are obscure, and which ones are popular (I've heard of most of the cartoons listed here, but the further into the 90s, the less likely I would know them).
I kinda liked Pac-Man' cartoon, even if it was just a knock-off of any number of Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the time, with a lot of the same voice actors, even! The Monchichis were pretty swell too.
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I was a big fan of the Snorks. Was that 80s or 90s?
Also, though though they weren't cartoons, every time someone says "in a minute" I have to repeat the phrase four times in my head in different funny high pitched voices. What were those all about? Anyone remember? They weren't really commercials but came on between cartoons on Sat mornings.
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