So yeah, television cartoons can be strange.
I'm surprised I'm as healthy an adult as I am.
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I'm surprised I'm as healthy an adult as I am.
Your turn.
Strangest shows you watched as a kid
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Mama had a chicken,
Mama had a cow,
Dad was proud
He didn't care how!~
Cartoons in my childhood didn't get more ridiculous than this show.
Mama had a cow,
Dad was proud
He didn't care how!~
Cartoons in my childhood didn't get more ridiculous than this show.
Strange you say?
Ren and Stimpy and Rocko' Modern Life.
Those were beyond strange for kids viewing and I love it!!
Shows that weren't kid shows that I wished but were strange?
Sliders and Lost World. I fucking loved those shows. God, they were awful but I love the cheese.
Ren and Stimpy and Rocko' Modern Life.
Those were beyond strange for kids viewing and I love it!!
Shows that weren't kid shows that I wished but were strange?
Sliders and Lost World. I fucking loved those shows. God, they were awful but I love the cheese.
So....in Greece we had an odd Program which showed different kind of Short Animations of any kind you may think.
However..........one day while I was watching the Program, it was a very specific short animation I saw:
The Short started by sawing the normal life of modern city, but seeing some people caring an wearing many different kind of cloths, which I never saw before. These cloths was related with Japan, but I was very young back then so it was normal to not know....
Anyway, the short was nice. It saw different moments of people doing their daily jobs and children play and a mother take care her baby.
Then.....THEY DROP A BOMB!!!!!
No, I am serious. It seems the short animation was related with time which the Americans dropped the bombs in Japan. But it didn't end here. It showed literally how the bomb killed every single people I saw before when they were happy.......
I saw the poeple becoming a mess of flesh and bones with very very creepy well made animation.
This continue and it was the moment how the mother would die: At first the sonic wave of the explosion rip off all her cloths while she was holding her bady close to her. She is naked now. Real naked with boobs and all. But then she started herself melting to a mass of gore and bones while the baby get also burned to his back. THANK GOD this screen get cut before see the baby melt as well.
In other word It was the only animation I remember from the show. Because it was I think the first shocking thing I ever saw in my life....
EDIT:
oh my god i just search it and I found it.
I am not lying but i my hand is heavy from typing because I remember it. oh my god.
warning, it will trigger you if you are sensitive to this stuffs.
I feel a pain in my chest also.
However..........one day while I was watching the Program, it was a very specific short animation I saw:
The Short started by sawing the normal life of modern city, but seeing some people caring an wearing many different kind of cloths, which I never saw before. These cloths was related with Japan, but I was very young back then so it was normal to not know....
Anyway, the short was nice. It saw different moments of people doing their daily jobs and children play and a mother take care her baby.
Then.....THEY DROP A BOMB!!!!!
No, I am serious. It seems the short animation was related with time which the Americans dropped the bombs in Japan. But it didn't end here. It showed literally how the bomb killed every single people I saw before when they were happy.......
I saw the poeple becoming a mess of flesh and bones with very very creepy well made animation.
This continue and it was the moment how the mother would die: At first the sonic wave of the explosion rip off all her cloths while she was holding her bady close to her. She is naked now. Real naked with boobs and all. But then she started herself melting to a mass of gore and bones while the baby get also burned to his back. THANK GOD this screen get cut before see the baby melt as well.
In other word It was the only animation I remember from the show. Because it was I think the first shocking thing I ever saw in my life....
EDIT:
oh my god i just search it and I found it.
I am not lying but i my hand is heavy from typing because I remember it. oh my god.
warning, it will trigger you if you are sensitive to this stuffs.
I feel a pain in my chest also.
I feel a lot of people are gonna say the same thing...which technically means they aren't actually weird to watch, so I'm gonna go with a show about 3 multicolored hedgehog siblings all voices by a nasally black guy with medallions that summoned musical instruments to help them partake in an -underground- resistance against an egg-shaped man.
OP hasn't really specified what sort of weird/strange.
So, my offering is Invader Zim.
And a second offering is Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.
There's probably more, but out of everything I remember which hasn't already been said, these stand out most.
So, my offering is Invader Zim.
And a second offering is Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.
There's probably more, but out of everything I remember which hasn't already been said, these stand out most.
a lot of people have watched the french animation series "Once upon a human". it was funny and educational at the same time. however the less known series from the same creators was called "Once upon a life" and was trying to teach human anatomy and biology as opposed to history. it was extremely strange and i only watched a little bit. the narrative was very strange compared to "Once upon a human" and the physical representation of biology by way of sci-fi made the whole thing completely surreal
There was one show that I cannot remember the name of, but it was stop motion claymation about a rabbit and his friends living near a marshy creek.
Unfortunately, most of the shows I watched as a KID - meaning the 80s or early 90s - were not as strange as some of the stuff you might list here, excepting of course some of the ones that are already listed. I should probably consider anything that had a steady plot not strange enough. Weird things would happen, but I don't think anything in Transformers, The Real Ghostbusters, GIJOE, and so on...are necessarily as priceless as Ren and Stimpy imploding. My randomosity level, up until the 90s was pretty much Looney Tune era stuff. Although...some of those gems were...
Some cartoons were great reality-breakers back then.
Some cartoons were great reality-breakers back then.
Ranma 1/2 was the weirdest. Other shows could be grotesque and whatnot (Ren & Stimpy, Rocko) but Ranma was downright weird.
Since most people watched the same cartoons as I did back in the day, I guess I'll just have to back a bit further to my early childhood. Who here watched Fantastic Max? If you don't remember that name, let me try and jog that memory of yours. Fantastic Max was a Hannah-Barbera cartoon which aired 24 episodes from September of 1988 until about January of 1990 (December if you were in the UK). The show follows the misadventures of a talking baby and his ***** sister as he go on fantastic space adventures and she (the sister) tries to keep him out of harms way. She also tries busting him Pheneas & Ferb style but of course, she's never successful. The late 80's/ early 90's Saturday morning cartoon scene was oddly filled with shows based around babies or children but I recall Fantastic Max being one of the few original ones (other shows that ran with this concept included Muppet Babies, Flintstone Kids, a Pup Named Scooby Doo and, Tom and Jerry Kids, those being derivatives of established properties). There was also Rugrats but that show stayed in production for well over a decade (in fact that could have been the longest running Nicktoon before Spongebob).
Anyway! Fantastic Max:
Yeah, this is the best I could find...Geeze...If you want to watch these in full-screen there's a youtuber who posts German episodes. Anyway this was one of the acid-trips I would be exposed to from infancy until about age 6. Couple this with The Rugrats and it suddenly makes a whole lot of sense why I still to this day have trouble with pronunciation and turning phrases...
Another show I used to love that wasn't really strange or nightmare inducing was Eureka's Castle. It was a children's show utilizing Jim Henson's workshop and muppets who you straight-up don't see any more and it played out as a fantasy-themed, Nick-based rival to Sesame Street.
Anyway! Fantastic Max:
Yeah, this is the best I could find...Geeze...If you want to watch these in full-screen there's a youtuber who posts German episodes. Anyway this was one of the acid-trips I would be exposed to from infancy until about age 6. Couple this with The Rugrats and it suddenly makes a whole lot of sense why I still to this day have trouble with pronunciation and turning phrases...
Another show I used to love that wasn't really strange or nightmare inducing was Eureka's Castle. It was a children's show utilizing Jim Henson's workshop and muppets who you straight-up don't see any more and it played out as a fantasy-themed, Nick-based rival to Sesame Street.
There was one I remember distinctly whose name I can't remember about a group of superheroes who work for their mother or something. Their main thing was that they were all grotesquely muscled to the point where it looked incredibly unhealthy. The selling point, as far as I know, was the liberal use of veins whenever the heroes did anything at all. The only episode that I watched was about an evil chicken taking the world's cows hostage (Which were only about three of the things, I'm not kidding) and forcing everyone to eat eggs for breakfast instead of... whatever beef people ate for breakfast. Anyways, the hero pops by, saves the day by ripping open a cloud and hypnotizing the even chicken, and the cows thank him by sawing off part of their flank and giving it to him as a raw T-Bone. That's all I remember. It was really weird.
Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life... basically shows that were surreal and pushed the boundaries of what could be shown on TV. But at least they were subtle about it, unlike nowadays... *cough*FamilyGuy*cough*
Growing up, I remember watching a show called Ned's Newt. It was about a kid and his pet newt who transformed into a six foot tall, talking newt with shapeshifting and reality warping powers whenever he was fed some kind of special newt food, like a crappier version of the Mask or the Genie from Aladdin. Probably not the most bizarre premise in the world (and the show itself was pretty mediocre), but I still get a sense of "I used to watch that?!" whenever I think back on it.
Yeah, I'll third Ren and Stimpy. Man, I love that show.
So what DOES qualify as weird? 'Cuz the visual style for something like Doug was weird but it was a normal show about school and... other assorted boring stuff.
So what DOES qualify as weird? 'Cuz the visual style for something like Doug was weird but it was a normal show about school and... other assorted boring stuff.
Probably Bump in the Night.
I don't even think I've met anyone else (In real life) who even knows what this is.
I don't even think I've met anyone else (In real life) who even knows what this is.
Seriously?
Seriously, you're going to ask a child of the 80's about weird shows? Really?
Ok, I'll play your game.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
The Snorks (A Smurf rip off)
Zoobilee Zoo
Get on my level, youngins.
Seriously, you're going to ask a child of the 80's about weird shows? Really?
Ok, I'll play your game.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
The Snorks (A Smurf rip off)
Zoobilee Zoo
Get on my level, youngins.
Well there's Aaahh!! Real Monsters!, that was pretty strange, also it was Monsters Inc. before Monsters Inc. was even a thing. Kinda funny, Pixar is known for their originality, here they patently stole an idea,