• CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    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!

  • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    20·
    3 days ago

    Anyone else remember “The Pirates of Dark Water”?

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

  • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 days 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
    6·
    2 days 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

  • DopeWeasel@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    The Herculoids from Space Stars… which included Space Ghost and Astro. Also Captain Caaaaavemaaaan! Also of course loved Inspector Gadget and Thundercats.

    • Apeman42@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      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?

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Ahh… Always felt like that was a parody or callback, and never figured it out!

      • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days ago

        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).

  • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    3 days 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.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 days 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.

    • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      3 days 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
        3·
        3 days 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
      3·
      3 days 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
        2·
        3 days 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.

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days 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.

  • Nusm@peachpie.theatl.socialEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    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.