Captain Caveman
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 one too. It was kinda like a mix of G.I. Joe & Transformers.
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
I watched a lot of PBS growing up and was always fond of Cyberchase, but I think that show has something of a cult following (plus it’s somehow still running). I have yet to meet anyone else who remembers my all time favorite George Shrinks though- childhood me was fascinated by the idea of being able to experience the world from the perspective of being 3in tall (probably something to do with being small enough to literally live in a palace made of lego lol).
I don’t remember anything about this but i remember liking it:
I knew this existed, but never watched it because their big heads and tiny face creeped me out.
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
Batman Beyond was my Blade runner. Everyone into comics/characters knows it, but they’re not all too common in my personal life.
The Noozles from the '80s. Magical koalas.
“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
I really loved Gargoyles as a kid
Keith. Mother. Fucking. David.
Also Evil Will Riker and Evil Deanna Troi.
Given how extensive its TV Tropes page is I’d say it’s hardly forgotten.
Oh yeah!
Me too!
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
I had absolutely no idea MechWarrior had a Saturday morning cartoon.
It was cleaned up a bit recently by fans. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHjfvGVxWpxqAFlAst8h56N-dlQJ9R6n
“Thing Ring, do your thing!”
He’s even been incorporated into Canon, being from Earth 700974!
Mummies Alive
Reboot
Ronin Warriors
Beetlejuice
(Not truly a favorite list exactly, but definitely big impact, I think forgotten, and not already seen listed.)
Ronin Warriors
It was an anime that predated the mainstreaming of anime in the Anglosphere. It, along with Dragon Ball, were one of the few shows that I was able to catch without cable. Can’t say I loved it, but I did watch it.
If you spoke Spanish, you could watch DBZ on over the air TV as well, but I’m not sure if it was available prior to the English dub on Cartoon Network.
I only know of it being available in the states through Toonami at first. And VHS. I had a floor to ceiling stack of DBZ VHS, and that was just through the Frieza saga + some movies.
I remember being shocked how many tapes it took just for the actual fighting Frieza part and deciding that’s why DBZ was awesome. Time spent chasing the MacGuffins paled in comparison to time spent punching the bad guy.
Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel show. It feels like the spiritual precursor to Dexter’s Lab, which is also a favorite but imo much less obscure.
Sweet baby Jesus! Secret Squirrel was the first that came to mind, but I didn’t mention it because i thought people would find it too obscure!
Not favorite overall but among the forgotten, I’d say Exosquad
I have a ton of the toys from childhood. I tried to get my kids interested but they did not get into it. I’m too lazy to eBay them.
