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I really loved Gargoyles as a kid

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. 🤷‍♂️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snorks

Eek! The Cat

The workings of the human body explained by animated characters.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/plotsummary?item=po2160513

David the Gnome https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283721/

Eureeka's Castle https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220895/

The big comfy couch https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0136634

And the more popular sesame street, mister Rodgers neighborhood, Thomas the tank engine, hey dude, guts, legends of the hidden temple, etc...

Anyone else remember "The Pirates of Dark Water"?

I think someone else mentioned it already, but Swat Kats was also great

I'm gonna say ThunderCats, because the rights for it are basically up in the air. It should have gotten a film adaptation or a franchise like Masters of the Universe or Transformers, but nobody can figure out who owns it, so they can't make a movie without some rando suing them... so they don't.

The OG came out in 1985 and ran for something like 150 episodes, later divided into four seasons. But back then it just came on TV, it wasn't numbered or divided in any way (aside from multi-part episodes). They did a remake in 2011 on Cartoon Network that was pretty cool, but they couldn't get the legal stuff in order to get a second season — it was absolutely popular enough.

15 years later, I don't think anything's been done with it outside of, maybe, fan fiction and fan art.

Going back even older... Mysterious Cities of Gold. That's never been remade or adapted... however... while Tomb Raider was basically "we want to make a video game of Indiana Jones but we can't get the rights, so let's make it a girl with big tits," for some reason, they wanted to swing it back the other way and say "let's make Tomb Raider but have it be a hot guy instead and keep it exclusive to the PlayStation because at this point the concept is just so watered down, we'd lose money if we ported it to PC/Xbox" and called it Uncharted. Then they said fuck it and made an actual Indiana Jones game. Le sigh. But anyway, I wanna say one of the Uncharted games leaned into Mysterious Cities of Gold territory... but I'm not really sure. Anyway, it was about three Mexican kids (I think, as in born & raised in Mexico) who seek out the eponymous golden cities. IIRC they do find the ruins of the city they were looking for, but they expected the cities to be actually made of gold. And maybe they found some gold but not like they thought. But they had a plane and I think they had some cool adventures, so they broke even I suppose?

Catdog

It's not the most obscure, but I remember loving it so much and as an adult (with friends that watch plenty of cartoons) it doesn't ever come up.

Captain Caveman

2 Stupid Dogs

Many I would mention are already here, so I’m throwing in Reboot!

There's three that I consistently have people who grew up at the same time don't remember:

Denver the Last Dinosaur

Mighty Max

Exosquad.

Exosquad I watched religiously, and I don't think they ever finished it. Mighty Max was on every day before I went to school, so it was my breakfast watch.

The Pirates of Darkwater!

Ren & Stimpy!

Or even better: the Sam & Max cartoon!

KABLAM! Where cartoons and comics collide!

Bucky OHare and the Toad Wars! Although, IT was called something completely different in German

Also: Samurai Pizza Cats!

I don't remember anything about this but i remember liking it:

Bullwinkle and Rocky

I fuckin loved Cro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUvB34jEwQ

It's kindof a sad premise looking at it now, but I'll be damned if that theme song doesn't live rent-free in my head forever.

Ulysses 31 was amazing but nobody seems to have heard of it.

And I'm still pissed Dungeons and Dragons was cancelled

Samurai Pizza Cats

Don't hear much about Count Duckula or The Raccoons anymore.

Swat Kats! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwN8pqdtg8

Battletech! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmwe5Y5xjo Activate Enhanced Imaging!

Rocko's Modern Life is occasionally mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFxJDFodce4

Silverhawks

Wikipedia

Ralph Bakshi’s version of Mighty Mouse from the ‘80s. Was super cool and a little subversive, but a stupid controversy killed it after two seasons. He crushed up a flower and sniffed it into his nose, and someone decided MM was sniffing cocaine. CBS was chicken and pulled it.

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

Pirates of Dark Water

Exo Squad.

One of the first (to young me) serial cartoons that had an ongoing plot week to week.

Mummies Alive

Reboot

Ronin Warriors

Beetlejuice

(Not truly a favorite list exactly, but definitely big impact, I think forgotten, and not already seen listed.)

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