• explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”

    Based on a comic book, it follows the lives of four turtle brothers who were mutated by toxic ooze to become anthropomorphic crime-fighting ninjas. Absolutely wild stuff.

  • almost1337@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Dino Riders*

    Dinosaucers

    Denver the Last Dinosaur

    Star Com

    Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors*

    War Planets

    The Centurions

    Visionaries*

    * I had the toys for these ones

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “Favorite” is a stretch, but I liked Whatever happened to Robot Jones?. The art style was a rough sketch imitating Schoolhouse Rock and for the first season Robot Jones was voiced by an actual speech synth (Specifically the Fred TTS voice available on MacOS). I’m a bit of a connoisseur of vintage text to speech.

    EDIT: Some more I can think of:

    Cro: an edutainment show about a cro magnon boy living among neanderthals.

    Road Rovers: Like TMNT, 'cept with doggos.

    The Raccoons: about, well, raccoons. Forgot about this one until I saw the TV tropes article

    Hyper Man

    Tailspin: My personal fan theory is it’s a pre space age Star Fox.

    Reboot: The old CGI has a charm to it IMO. It also has a bit of that same “gee whiz aren’t these newfangled computers just the greatest” energy that the original Tron movie had.

    Earthworm Jim

    Freakazoid

  • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I used to love the Gummi Bears when I was a kid, but every time I’ve mentioned the show, no one sees to know what I’m talking about. 🤷‍♂️

    Edit:

    This one too. It was kinda like a mix of G.I. Joe & Transformers.

    • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Both the Gummi Bears and MASK were famous in France for some reason. MASK was weird but fun, they also made a ton of money by selling toys.

      • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, cartoons were all about selling toys, even back in the 80’s.

        Here’s another obscure show:

        Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

        I don’t remember much about the show, but I was all about the toys.

        I remember having this one:

        Drill Sergeant

    • lemonSqueezy@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That Gummy bears theme song was like crack. I tried rewatching it now, and it doesn’t have thst same magic anymore. Around that time Voltron was on and Go Bots was around too.

      • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, I tried rewatching it not too long ago and it definitely wasn’t as good as I remembered. Theme song was still dope though.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      A just saw a YouTube video about this, David the gnome, and the wuzzles. The absolute raw voice talent they had on those shows is something we will likely be privy to again.

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I used to love the Gummi Bears when I was a kid, but every time I’ve mentioned the show, no one sees to know what I’m talking about. 🤷‍♂️

      My dad actually liked that show more than we did I think. When Rugrats had Stu Pickles obsessed with the Dummy Bears cartoon it reminded me of my dad. My dad wasn’t that crazy about it but that bit of characterization made the show more endearing to me.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      Similar for me, Denver the Last Dinosaur

      Damned if I can remember any individual plot points but that theme song will be with me until I die.

      • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I loved Denver, but I remember that there was no plot in any episode. Bad guys were doing bad stuff I guess, then Denver and his friends won and celebrated somehow.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I loved Garfield. People still talk about it I guess.

    I remember renting videos of a show called rude dog that was pretty cool too.

    Super ted? That was a thing. Idk if it was good lol

  • rastacalavera@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fun thread.

    What I consider obscure:

    Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog

    Tales from the Cryptkeeper

    Big Bad Beetleborgs

    Beakmans world

    Muppet babies

    Darkwing Duck

    Not obscure:

    Pepper Ann

    Buzz light year of star command

    Guts

    Are you afraid of the dark

    Ghost writer

    Legend of the hidden temple

    What would you do

    All that

    Angry beavers

    Cat dog

    Invader zim

    Rockos modern life

    REN and stimpy

    Street sharks

    Biker mice from mars

    Batman beyond

    Digimon

    Johnny bravo

    Bear in the big blue house

    Recess

    Beast wars

    Beetle juice

    Animaniacs

    Reading rainbow

    Wishbone

    Big comfy couch

      • rastacalavera@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        This was probably my all time favorite as a kid. Tried to get my kids into it but it just didn’t land for them. I tried to go back and watch the muppet show a few times and I honestly think it’s be more inclined to watch a muppet babies over the muppet show lol. Maybe I’m try to find it in French or Spanish to practice

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Legend of the hidden temple

      Didn’t catch this when it first aired, but when we finally got cable in high school it was kinda fun to watch on teen nick or whatever the channel was called. It’s even the source of an inside joke in my circle of friends. One contestant answers a trivia question almost but not exactly correct, and Olmec says “That is close enough for Olmec”, which quickly became a catchphrase for us.

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Batman Beyond was my Blade runner. Everyone into comics/characters knows it, but they’re not all too common in my personal life.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Stellina.

    Trying to remember the plot as best as possible.

    It’s 1960s. Protagonist Stellina lost her mother in a circus accident but the workers there raised her as their own family.

    Later some social workers note this and take her to an abusive orphanage. She escapes there but is very much lost.

    This is the first few episodes, and rest is about Stellina trying to reunite with her wholesome circus family.

    I believe show was originally Italian or French? It was actually popular in Turkey but name is hard to remember for Turkish speakers, and show itself is forgotten pretty much everywhere else now.

  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Not really favorite, but I always thought the concept was fun. There was a cartoon called Evil Con Carne which I think shared a time slot with The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy?

    But the premise was that an evil supervillain died in an attempt to take over the world, but his brain was rescued and put in a jar. Every episode the evil brain hatches a scheme, but it always goes horribly awry

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      But the premise was that an evil supervillain died in an attempt to take over the world, but his brain was rescued and put in a jar. Every episode the evil brain hatches a scheme, but it always goes horribly awry

      Hector Con Carne. They saved his stomach, too. General Skarr ended up becoming a recurring character on Billy and Mandy.