I am miffed.
Nov. 5th, 2006 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sessifetOh yes. I am totally and utterly miffed. And obsessed. All because my cries for help were not heard. Seriously, is it that hard to stop me from looking up old 80s cartoons? I think not. Instead, you all joined in! Which means that the floodgates of memory have been ripped off their hinges and I've spent most of this morning googling and wiki-ing for those hard-to-find shows I watched as kid.
Do you have any idea how bloody hard it is to find a cartoon when all you remember is a big purple whooping thing from the planet Zyrgnoff which shot pink mind-rays at people? (No, that wasn't an actual cartoon. That was what we call 'an example'. I hope. Oh, I hope to god it's an example and not a memory I'd hitherto suppressed...)
And to top it all off, I still have the bloody Seabert bloody theme song bloody stuck in my bloody head.
So...I decided to share with you the results of my (and #afp's) labours. So, sit back, relax and see how many of these shows you've watched. (Feel free to cringe, whimper and curse, by the way, but don't throw stuff at me. Unless it's more links...)
Alfred J. Kwak This was exported?! *glee*
Alvin and the Chipmunks This was so cool.
Animaniacs #It’s time for Animaniacs…
Around the World with Willy Fog Rings a very, very faint bell.
Bananaman O_O I watched this?
Beetlejuice
Biker Mice from Mars Yes. I did have a huge crush on one of the mice. I’m a sad, sad muppet. *ashamed*
Boes Known as Ox Tales in English.
Bucky O’Hare Ye gods, you mean I didn’t hallucinate a green bunny with a cape? Well, that really makes me feel so much better.
Candy Candy This was fun.
Captain N: The Game Master Yah. Wonderful. Oscar -winning material there.
Captain Planet Gni. Neep. Argh. *flails madly*
Care Bears The cute! It burnsss usss, precioussss! And yes, I watched every episode.
Chip ‘N Dale Ah. The Disney program on Saturday. I remember it well. I was only allowed telly on Saturday during the day if it was a) pissing with rain outside, or b) I was ill. I cherished those days.
C.O.P.S. Yeesh.
Count Duckula Count Duckula! So many kinds of awesome!
Darkwin Duck. Hmmm. No intro? Odd
Dangermouse Nope. Never seen it before in my life.
David de Kabouter Hmm. Must read the book again.
Dino-Riders
Doctor Snuggles Can’t say I ever saw this one. Looks cute, though.
Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds Oh. I missed that. Thank heavens for small mercies, I guess.
Ducktales I still sit and watch every episode I come across. So much fun.
Dungeons and Dragons Loved this.
Flashbic O_o Erm…okay. Weird.
Foofur Heh.
Fraggles This rocked like a very big rocking thing *nods sagely*.
Galaxy Rangers Dude! Mechanical horses! And flying buffalo type things. With skulls? Er. What?
Ghostbusters Slime!
GI Joe And, of course, when I searched for this, I typed GI Hoe. Something's wrong with me. Really.
Heathcliff *giggles*
He-Man By the power of Grabthar's Hammer, you shall be av...oh no, wait. Wrong show.
Inspector Gadget Yike.
James the Cat Ah. Memories.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors So…a bad guy turns into a large wheeled vehicle. What the hell were these people smoking?
Jem Oh. Dear. Christ.
Marine Boy Nope. Doesn’t ring a bell…
MASK I loved this show. Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Moomins They look horribly familiar. Can’t say I remember ever watching it, though.
My Little Pony Gah!
Nils Holgersson Ah, nostalgia. I still have the book somewhere.*wanders off in search for it*
Ovide en zijn Vrienden Ovide and his Gang. *sings* #Kijk uit, malloot, een kokosnoot#
Pac Man Eesh. *headdesk*. The voice of that bad gay is familiar somehow, though.
Pole Position (Eeeh...I got nothing except: erm…scraping the bottom of the barrel much?
Postman Pat I never understood why everyone drove on the wrong side of the road. Only figured that one out about 6 years ago. *looks shifty*. What? I'm sorry, I can be really dense when I set my mind to it.
Rainbow Brite Meep! The goggles, they do nothing!
Rambo. That was a bad, bad dream, surely? Because I can’t find an intro, yet I’m sure I watched the cartoon…
Rock ‘n Wrestling Oh. Look. You can strain your eyeballs by rolling them too hard.
Samurai Pizza Cats Whoo!
Seabert Augh! The bad voices! The inane plots! The PC-ness! The ‘we used to live in harmony with natchoooor!’ bullshit! The horrifically cute Seabert! That godsbedamned theme song!
Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea "I'm Spartakus! No! I'm Spartakus!" (Where's that from, anyway?)
Spiderman and his Amazing Friends
Story of a Fawn. Can’t find the intro. I remember being glued to the telly when this was on. Any cloggies remember it? It was called Jodie en het Hertenjong in Dutch. A cartoon version of The Yearling, IIRC.
Swiss Family Robinson
Taotao Cute!
Teddy Ruxpin Loathed it with the fiery passion of a thousand burning stars.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ickle turtles! With swords!
The Beatles Er...okay.
The Gophers This was such a great show. I wonder if it's available on DVD.
The Gummi Bears All together now! #Gummi Bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere, high adventure that’s beyond compare!#
The Mysterious Cities of Gold Never seen it before in my life. Exceedingly groovy theme song, though. *bops*
The Other Ghostbusters Come on! It’s got a gorilla in it. It’s great!
The Raccoons Never saw that one, actually. Looks like fun.
The Snorks Ohgodsohgodsohgods.
The Wuzzles *fuzzles the Wuzzles*
Thundarr the Barbarian Coo. That’s some seriously fast lava.
Thundercats A one-eyed sword. Which grows. Oy vey, the subtext...*ponders the mechanics of Thundercats pr0n*...*stabs eyes out with spork*
Transformers I had a tiny Optimus Prime toy. I used to dress him up in my doll’s clothing.
Voltron Oh. Oh dear. I remember this! Now...how do I forget again?
Vrouwtje Theelepel Apparently Mrs Pepperpot in English.
ETA:
Super Mario Brothers Blame![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
st_lemur for that one.
Paulus de Boskabouter
De Tovenaar van Oz
De Bereboot
Bravestarr Ah. That's where the image of the flying buffalo skulls came from...
Centurions
Visionaries
Ulysses 31 Oh. This is familiar
Super Ted Hee.
The Flumps Look! Ambulatory potatoes!
Mr Benn
Do you have any idea how bloody hard it is to find a cartoon when all you remember is a big purple whooping thing from the planet Zyrgnoff which shot pink mind-rays at people? (No, that wasn't an actual cartoon. That was what we call 'an example'. I hope. Oh, I hope to god it's an example and not a memory I'd hitherto suppressed...)
And to top it all off, I still have the bloody Seabert bloody theme song bloody stuck in my bloody head.
So...I decided to share with you the results of my (and #afp's) labours. So, sit back, relax and see how many of these shows you've watched. (Feel free to cringe, whimper and curse, by the way, but don't throw stuff at me. Unless it's more links...)
Alfred J. Kwak This was exported?! *glee*
Alvin and the Chipmunks This was so cool.
Animaniacs #It’s time for Animaniacs…
Around the World with Willy Fog Rings a very, very faint bell.
Bananaman O_O I watched this?
Beetlejuice
Biker Mice from Mars Yes. I did have a huge crush on one of the mice. I’m a sad, sad muppet. *ashamed*
Boes Known as Ox Tales in English.
Bucky O’Hare Ye gods, you mean I didn’t hallucinate a green bunny with a cape? Well, that really makes me feel so much better.
Candy Candy This was fun.
Captain N: The Game Master Yah. Wonderful. Oscar -winning material there.
Captain Planet Gni. Neep. Argh. *flails madly*
Care Bears The cute! It burnsss usss, precioussss! And yes, I watched every episode.
Chip ‘N Dale Ah. The Disney program on Saturday. I remember it well. I was only allowed telly on Saturday during the day if it was a) pissing with rain outside, or b) I was ill. I cherished those days.
C.O.P.S. Yeesh.
Count Duckula Count Duckula! So many kinds of awesome!
Darkwin Duck. Hmmm. No intro? Odd
Dangermouse Nope. Never seen it before in my life.
David de Kabouter Hmm. Must read the book again.
Dino-Riders
Doctor Snuggles Can’t say I ever saw this one. Looks cute, though.
Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds Oh. I missed that. Thank heavens for small mercies, I guess.
Ducktales I still sit and watch every episode I come across. So much fun.
Dungeons and Dragons Loved this.
Flashbic O_o Erm…okay. Weird.
Foofur Heh.
Fraggles This rocked like a very big rocking thing *nods sagely*.
Galaxy Rangers Dude! Mechanical horses! And flying buffalo type things. With skulls? Er. What?
Ghostbusters Slime!
GI Joe And, of course, when I searched for this, I typed GI Hoe. Something's wrong with me. Really.
Heathcliff *giggles*
He-Man By the power of Grabthar's Hammer, you shall be av...oh no, wait. Wrong show.
Inspector Gadget Yike.
James the Cat Ah. Memories.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors So…a bad guy turns into a large wheeled vehicle. What the hell were these people smoking?
Jem Oh. Dear. Christ.
Marine Boy Nope. Doesn’t ring a bell…
MASK I loved this show. Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Moomins They look horribly familiar. Can’t say I remember ever watching it, though.
My Little Pony Gah!
Nils Holgersson Ah, nostalgia. I still have the book somewhere.*wanders off in search for it*
Ovide en zijn Vrienden Ovide and his Gang. *sings* #Kijk uit, malloot, een kokosnoot#
Pac Man Eesh. *headdesk*. The voice of that bad gay is familiar somehow, though.
Pole Position (Eeeh...I got nothing except: erm…scraping the bottom of the barrel much?
Postman Pat I never understood why everyone drove on the wrong side of the road. Only figured that one out about 6 years ago. *looks shifty*. What? I'm sorry, I can be really dense when I set my mind to it.
Rainbow Brite Meep! The goggles, they do nothing!
Rambo. That was a bad, bad dream, surely? Because I can’t find an intro, yet I’m sure I watched the cartoon…
Rock ‘n Wrestling Oh. Look. You can strain your eyeballs by rolling them too hard.
Samurai Pizza Cats Whoo!
Seabert Augh! The bad voices! The inane plots! The PC-ness! The ‘we used to live in harmony with natchoooor!’ bullshit! The horrifically cute Seabert! That godsbedamned theme song!
Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea "I'm Spartakus! No! I'm Spartakus!" (Where's that from, anyway?)
Spiderman and his Amazing Friends
Story of a Fawn. Can’t find the intro. I remember being glued to the telly when this was on. Any cloggies remember it? It was called Jodie en het Hertenjong in Dutch. A cartoon version of The Yearling, IIRC.
Swiss Family Robinson
Taotao Cute!
Teddy Ruxpin Loathed it with the fiery passion of a thousand burning stars.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ickle turtles! With swords!
The Beatles Er...okay.
The Gophers This was such a great show. I wonder if it's available on DVD.
The Gummi Bears All together now! #Gummi Bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere, high adventure that’s beyond compare!#
The Mysterious Cities of Gold Never seen it before in my life. Exceedingly groovy theme song, though. *bops*
The Other Ghostbusters Come on! It’s got a gorilla in it. It’s great!
The Raccoons Never saw that one, actually. Looks like fun.
The Snorks Ohgodsohgodsohgods.
The Wuzzles *fuzzles the Wuzzles*
Thundarr the Barbarian Coo. That’s some seriously fast lava.
Thundercats A one-eyed sword. Which grows. Oy vey, the subtext...*ponders the mechanics of Thundercats pr0n*...*stabs eyes out with spork*
Transformers I had a tiny Optimus Prime toy. I used to dress him up in my doll’s clothing.
Voltron Oh. Oh dear. I remember this! Now...how do I forget again?
Vrouwtje Theelepel Apparently Mrs Pepperpot in English.
ETA:
Super Mario Brothers Blame
st_lemur for that one.Paulus de Boskabouter
De Tovenaar van Oz
De Bereboot
Bravestarr Ah. That's where the image of the flying buffalo skulls came from...
Centurions
Visionaries
Ulysses 31 Oh. This is familiar
Super Ted Hee.
The Flumps Look! Ambulatory potatoes!
Mr Benn
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Date: 2006-11-05 02:41 pm (UTC)Umm - would you believe Spartacus? ('cos it was)
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Date: 2006-11-05 02:45 pm (UTC)Of course. I know this. That's it. No more cartoons for me. They rot my brain.
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Date: 2006-11-05 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-05 03:00 pm (UTC)(Mentioned that one on #afp but you must have missed it. Oh deary me did we find too many videos...)
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Date: 2006-11-05 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-05 03:58 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbay4HHlqwQ She-Ra, Princess of Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWzk3LO_r4g Mr T, the cartoon series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA9_bGUW_Qc Hammerman (MC Hammer, the cartoon series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3FQGaqFJ7U Shirt Tales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky8QUm8HfXg Garfield and Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPHXMWhRtl8 Heathcliff and Marmaduke, a cartoon based on two of the most boring strips on the comics page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGkvaIbcbkI Galaxy High
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMdrTaIyQao Muppet Babies
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9t1G2f9oA Little Muppet Monsters (which they cancelled too fast)
I can't find "The Three Robotic Stooges" but I swear it existed.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/1548/spinoff.html
There were also two ALF animated series -- one set on Melmac, and one called ALFTales in which the characters from the ALF cartoon appeared in fairy tales & such.
I'm surprised we haven't delved into the huge, huge catalog of Hanna-Barbera series. There were like a hundred...I swear they were cranking out a cheaply-animated episode every 30 minutes for a while.
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Date: 2006-11-05 05:01 pm (UTC)Then again I watched very little television as I grew up...
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Date: 2006-11-05 06:01 pm (UTC)Of the other TV meme that's been doing the rounds recently (see, for example,
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Date: 2006-11-05 08:24 pm (UTC)Well another part of my childhood ruined there.
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Date: 2006-11-05 08:34 pm (UTC)I was an equal opportunity kid, really. My (faux) Barbie dolls used to join GI Joe on heroic rescue mission. I fashioned heroic clothes from scraps of cloth wot I pinched from mum's stash.
And all my dolls were conscripted when I went through my Greek phase. Mum got really upset when I pinched a 'scrap' of silk she'd been planning to use and cut it up to make robes for all my dolls.
So, my toys all got equal cross-dressing time. I don't know if this meant I was a very healthy child or a freak, to be honest. :)
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Date: 2009-07-25 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-05 08:25 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pUCSsAo638
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Date: 2006-11-05 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-05 09:49 pm (UTC)Ah, 70's and 80's British kids TV.. nothing quite like it..
Liz A.
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Date: 2006-11-06 08:43 am (UTC)(Somehow, I was frighteningly exited to see the intro to Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Good to see it didn't just existed in my brain)