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[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 20 hours ago

Danger Mouse - I think the consistent 4th wall breaking, kidnapping narrators, and sense of humour as a whole had an effect on my from a formative age.

Monkey Dust - the cartoon that made it clear to me that cartoons weren't not at all nesseccarily safe for kids. I was too young to appreciate it at the time, it was too disturbing for tween me.

Sealab 2021 and Excel Saga both crazy animations that I found easier to digest about that time, too.

Watership Down, other folks have already mentioned.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I think for me it was Robot Chicken that would play late at night

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I have no idea when I first saw it but I loved it right away! I definitely loved it when Family guy would do anything claymation or with action figures like Dwayne Johnson showing Peter and Lois "having sex"

[–] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Grave of fireflies

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't believe no one has said it... Looney tunes.

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

You have a point. In this thread, we're biased towards relatively more obscure cartoons, yet Looney Tunes practically invented the hyperactive uber-crazy cartoon.

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 8 points 1 day ago

Did anyone watch Liquid Television?

[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Invader Zim

[–] raker@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Ren & Stimpy

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I thing Dutch people from my generation have you all beat:

Purno de Purno (porn pun very much intended)

A psychedelic cartoon about a funny guy in spandex that has a shitload of nudity (tits, penisses etc) to the point of him even crawling in the vagina of a giant lady in space. It has references to litaral drug use. Have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6MIJ7Iq1U doesn't matter if you know the language, just browse through. That episode is called 'In het hol van de kietelaar' which translates to 'In the clitoris' lair (hole)'

This was on kids tv. Nobody got seriously harmed by it. It was funny and weird, but you don't really register exactltyy how weird it is untill you hear about sensitivities on US TV (nipplegate lol)

a stll, much more to find

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

looks like it was animated on an Amiga

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 1 day ago

Yup it was made on a Amiga 2000

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we're counting highschool as still a kid, the old Chinese cartoon Calabash Brothers. Still looking for ENG subs for the newer version that released in the 2010s, though.

It's a cartoon where a snake and scorpion demon escape from a mountain and an elderly man has to grow a magic calabash seed that turns into 7 different calabashes that turn into little dieties when ripe in order to stop the demons.

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

Compared to other Chinese donghua I've seen in the past, the show definitely feels a little more unhinged. Most things I see today are a lot more average, in my opinion.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Well there's many mentions so I'll add one I have yet to see listed, The Adventures of Mark Twain is always an unsettling classic.

[–] Kryptkravler@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

For me it was probably The Head.

I really liked Duckman as well.

Also, the early Beavis and Butt-Head

True classics, haha.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gantz, Watership Down, Animal Farm, Super Jail, and Urslua looks like my father's mother, whom I hated, so I freaked the fuck out when my mom brought that VHS he.

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You mean from the Disney Little Mermaid movie?

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yup, that's the one.

[–] Mushroomm@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

The oblongs, ripping friends, Ren n Stimpy, I r baboon were some of the best. Drawn together was a gem too that came out when i was a teen

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Rocko’s Modern Life was a helluva ride

[–] Marighost@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Rock was a favorite of mine. The nude beach episode really stuck out to me.

And his dog's name was Spunky, ffs.

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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Duckman, though that was not for kids.

Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life both had stuff that was bizarre and only allowed in a kid's show because it was over their heads.

Batman TAS and Gargoyles both had some heavy shit. The latter also had a guy die by having fire erupt from behind his eyeballs, and a scene where a surgeon explains a gunshot wound in visceral detail. God I love that show.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Stern@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

cartoon porn is still a cartoon.

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

can't argue with that.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 25 points 2 days ago (7 children)
[–] ritchie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Catdog is quite similar in terms of "aesthetics" and craziness.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I worked for the company that made that. Crazy shit

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Watership Down.

Was visiting relatives and we rented movies from a tiny video store that didn't have a lot of options or kids, so we got that and Crocodile Dundee.

Dundee was fun. The bunnies were less so.

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[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Was Attack of the Killer Tomatoes real or did I dream that?

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Pretty much any British children's animation from the seventies.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The original sonic cartoon is like a chili dog induced fever dream

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was a kid in the 90's. It'd probably be easier to list the normalest cartoons. Like Doug.

Freakazoid, possibly. Or Toxic Avenger. Though the latter is more insane that they turned the original concept into something for kids in the first place.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do Saturday Night Live skits count?

The Ambiguously Gay Duo

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[–] krazzyk@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Ren and Stimpy

Beavis and Butthead

[–] ritchie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Here they aired it at night, when not much else was there to watch. In my teenage years I was always hoping for some kind of erotic scene, but I was only left with confusion and switched the channel.

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[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm still not sure whether "Angela Anaconda" was real or a collective fever dream.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"hey what if we made a cartoon entirely about the revenge fantasies of a 12 year old girl?"

"Sounds great, make it papercraft too, just to make it extra unsettling"

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