“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.
I thought mine was Torchy the Battery Boy, but it turns out it was a puppet show. A very weird puppet show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchy_the_Battery_Boy
So, I’d plump for Rupert the Bear. Our family didn’t have spare cash for frivolities like comics, but when we moved house one time the previous family had left behind a Rupert album. The covers had been torn off, but I loved that book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Bear
It seems Rupert isn’t forgotten…
https://followersofrupertbear.co.uk/
Buried in that site: “In 1985 the first of what has become a series of facsimiles was introduced. For reasons of political correctness, there are several years for which no facsimile has been produced and the 1970 annual was the last one for which a facsimile was produced.”
Rupert the Racist Bear, I’m guessing… oh dear. Back to watching Bluey.
The Secret Show - this old British cartoon about secret agents that would go on exciting missions and such! I swear that oversimplified corporate art style took inspiration from The Secret Show!
Exo Squad
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Recess
Reboot
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin had surprisingly good animation and writing.
In the early 80s there was a weird cartoon called Pandamonium, about three pandas who could merge together to make some kind of superpanda. They traveled the world with a couple of humans trying to protect it from an evil alien called Montragor. It was an early production of Marvel Animation and little of it survives online now.
Saturday Supercade adapted arcade games (and also Pitfall) into short cartoon episodes. It featured the first cartoon version of Mario and Donkey Kong, long before any others. Pitfall’s supporting characters Rhonda and Quickclaw made appearances in the Pitfall II: Lost Caverns game.
The Real Ghostbusters wasn’t really obscure, but J. Michael Straczynski wrote for it, and he wrote an episode involving Cthulhu. (He also was story editor on He-Man, and penned the episode it was revealed that Teela was The Sorceress’s daughter.)
There are a number of cartoons that Cartoon Network hyped up then just kind of forgot about: Mike, Lu and Og, Sheep in the Big City and Whatever Happened to Robot Jones are three in particular.
Oh, and the Earthworm Jim cartoon was really funny! It kind of rests these days in the shadow of the much more popular Freakazoid and The Tick, but it deserves to be rewatched now.
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Mighty Ducks, Brave Starr and Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs come to mind.
Ulysses 31
Samurai Pizza Cats
I thought I was the only one.
Well met fellow internet stranger!
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.
Battletech! Started a long running love affair with giant robots that lasts to this day!
I love dark humor and sarcasm so Daria was my jam…
I use to watch this before school.
Pirates of Dark Water
Tenkai Knights. Their world was a cube.
The Herculoids from Space Stars… which included Space Ghost and Astro. Also Captain Caaaaavemaaaan! Also of course loved Inspector Gadget and Thundercats.
gargoyles of couse,
