I really loved Gargoyles as a kid
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Keith. Mother. Fucking. David.
Given how extensive its TV Tropes page is I'd say it's hardly forgotten.
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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. 🤷♂️
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This unlocked something
Underwater smurfs was your awakening? I mean more power to ya. Mines was Roger rabbit.
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The workings of the human body explained by animated characters.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/plotsummary?item=po2160513
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Anyone else remember "The Pirates of Dark Water"?
I think someone else mentioned it already, but Swat Kats was also great
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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...
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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?
I loved Thundercats as a kid, so when I heard Cartoon Network would start playing original episodes in 2003ish, I got my roommate and girlfriend all pumped up to watch the first episode with me.
Ten minutes in and I apologized. It's SOOOO much worse than you remember. 😂 It's amazing the crap we like when we're kids. SNARF!
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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.
Catdog was amazing, I loved that as a kid. The physics of that creature is wild though, how does it work?!
Captain Caveman
I've actually done the "Captain Caaaavemaaaaaan!!!" yell around people in my age group and just got blank stares.
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Many I would mention are already here, so I’m throwing in Reboot!
Finally, a current discussion about Reboot to bring this up in.
Okay, so Matrix from the later seasons was absolutely just a parody of Cable from X-Men, right? With the gun, and the sleeveless armor, and the gold eye?
Yeah, it’s been a while so I looked up the character’s arc and it does seem that he is inspired from Cable and/or Solid Snake (who actually debuted in Metal Gear in 1987).
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KABLAM! Where cartoons and comics collide!
Meltman!
With the power to… MELT!
Oh Prometheus and Bob...
There's three that I consistently have people who grew up at the same time don't remember:
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.
Mighty Max was pretty cool.
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Bucky OHare and the Toad Wars! Although, IT was called something completely different in German
Also: Samurai Pizza Cats!
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Ulysses 31 was amazing but nobody seems to have heard of it.
And I'm still pissed Dungeons and Dragons was cancelled
Ulysses 31 is a French–Japanese–Luxembourgian anime series based on the Greek mythology of Odysseus, set in the 31st century.
This is not a sentence I expected to read ever.
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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.
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.
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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
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Pirates of Dark Water
Exo Squad.
One of the first (to young me) serial cartoons that had an ongoing plot week to week.
"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
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The Super Mario Bros Super Show (probably explains my love of YouTube Poop)
Captain N
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Fun thread.
What I consider obscure:
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
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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.
Batman Beyond was my Blade runner. Everyone into comics/characters knows it, but they're not all too common in my personal life.
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