Exo Squad.
One of the first (to young me) serial cartoons that had an ongoing plot week to week.
Battletech! Started a long running love affair with giant robots that lasts to this day!
Pirates of Dark Water
Samurai Pizza Cats
I thought I was the only one.
Well met fellow internet stranger!
gargoyles of couse,
How about Sinbad Jr.
An obscure one (I think) that I always enjoyed when it was on was Oggy and the Cockroaches. For a few years there I had forgotten the title and had a hell of a time finding it again.
Exo Squad
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Recess
Reboot
“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.
The nes underwater level was pretty tough.
X-Duckx, it’s a French cartoon about two ducks doing extreme sports, there is a German dubbed version that’s pretty legendary even though it only ran for a couple years on German TV
Not too sure about it being a favourite, but there was this absolute fever dream of a cartoon called Fat Dog Mendoza that only aired occasionally at like 2am on Cartoon Network UK, usually after the Adult Swim block.
Oh, also, Ned’s Newt. Loved that show.
Oh, also, also, I fucking hated The Cramp Twins.
Well since I never saw it mentioned here:
Chalkzone
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.
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.
Tenkai Knights. Their world was a cube.
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