Weirdest cartoons you remember?

[JPC]

Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. I would get up at the crack of dawn to watch it and was too young to understand what was even going on. I was just fascinated by how weird it was.

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There was an animated film that I saw on PBS several times that I can't recall the name of. There's an alien girl and her coming of age story is concurrent with the story of the humans who are inches tall (or maybe the aliens are giants?) and they are treated horribly. It was really weird.

''Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea''. It's french and it's called ''Les mondes engloutis'' in France. One of the first cartoons I ever saw.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I'm a bit confused as to why this thread was merged with the regional cartoons one, but I ain't complaining.

 

[GVSE]

I'm a bit confused as to why this thread was merged with the regional cartoons one, but I ain't complaining.

In the end a very regional cartoon can be very weird for foreigners, right? ...But actually the reason is that i wanted to avoid having two similar threads open. The discussion could be strengthened if we combined the two into one, more concise space. I wish i could preserve your post as the first one and then just insert the ones from the previous thread in sequence, but the forum system operates from the chronology and everything, so i tried to compensate that by changing the text of my OP, to make it aligned with yours. Your proposal was more interesting and capable of encompassing my previous thread. Sorry for the confusion! :p

Trying to continue the Weirdest Cartoons discussion... i just unlocked this cursed memory i have of this one:

I'm watching it now and man.... i remember feeling FEAR of watching it, because of their bodies...... and i'm feeling fear now of watching it and the script being a shitshow HAHAHAH

 

[It's Thinking 2]

ATHF

 

[Bonkers225]

Ren and Stimpy. I never got it, and still don't. Not funny whatsoever, just nightmarish and plain gross. Also throwing out Angry Boy the clay-animation series from the UK. Creeped the hell out of me.

 

[RetroLaw]

Prostars was weird but pretty cool

 

[Ikagura]

In the end a very regional cartoon can be very weird for foreigners, right? ...But actually the reason is that i wanted to avoid having two similar threads open. The discussion could be strengthened if we combined the two into one, more concise space. I wish i could preserve your post as the first one and then just insert the ones from the previous thread in sequence, but the forum system operates from the chronology and everything, so i tried to compensate that by changing the text of my OP, to make it aligned with yours. Your proposal was more interesting and capable of encompassing my previous thread. Sorry for the confusion! :p

Trying to continue the Weirdest Cartoons discussion... i just unlocked this cursed memory i have of this one:

I'm watching it now and man.... i remember feeling FEAR of watching it, because of their bodies...... and i'm feeling fear now of watching it and the script being a shitshow HAHAHAH

I discovered this show because of fan arts of that goth character... Don't judge me.

 

[coleboo]

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One weird stuff I remember seeing when i was a kid, is this movie fom Turma Da Mônica, where she interacts with humans in a "space jam" style, you know. There is a creepy moment where she goes out of the drawing world and it's all just white, a big void... then there's also a parte of the story where Cebolinha and Cascão literally go to hell????????

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Maybe we could make this thread a little exhibition and nostalgic reunion of the weirdest cartoons we remember!

[Adapted and merged to Waffle's "weirdest cartoons" thread]

Monster allergy
I don't know anything about this cartoon just that the dragon episode is in permanent storage in my head for some reason and it took me a lot of research to find it

It's free on YouTube to watch if any one is interested

 

[Rayfox-Ryan]

I remember watch a cartoon from the 1980 called Camp Candy may those who grew in the 80's either heard of that show or not

 

[DanCalibur]

I mean, this springs to mind for me...

Is that Moebius for kids??

 

[McWiggles]

The Missing Link; I found this in a video store near Sydney as a kid; it was 1988 and I was eight years old. this film is most definitely not for kids. It was rated a less-prohibitive "M" in Australia (kind of like a PG-13 in USA), and managed to be able to rent it. It was kind of a compromise due to the fact that I really wanted to rent Fritz the Cat; I was absolutely blown away that a cartoon could be "R" rated.

This was released in two dubs; The Missing Link is the superior dub, that is a straight translation.
BC Rock, is an adaptation where they changed a lot of of the dialogue, and made it a bit more "frat-boy" in its humour.

I think both The Missing Link and BC Rock are out there on Archive.org, but I released a sub of the original French version and tried to tidy up the abysmal video where I could with an upscale. I'm usually not a big fan of upscales; they're seldom done well, but I just wanted to do anything to improve the video. There's a DDL link to the movie here:

Le Chaînon manquant / The Missing Link (1980)

Picha (Jean-Paul Walravens), is a Belgian comic artist and animator. After the international cult success of Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle, an animated adaptation of his adult comic, Le Chaînon manq…

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[Ikagura]

I mean, this springs to mind for me...

Reminds me of Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea a bit

I love Moebius inspired art styles.


When I was a wee lad I had old VCRs from my parents and I still remember how space Chapi Chapo was. Two being in an endless white void with various shapes and they played with them (like a toy box with wooden shapes you'd build stuff with).

More recently (well, from 25 years ago) there's also Fly Tales which had some charm.

 

[McWiggles]

Oh my goodness, the memories came flooding back when I heard that song; I had actually forgotten this show existed. I remember this being titled "The Enchanted World" in English. Kind of a boring title in retrospect.

 

[newageretrohippie]

It's hard to beat "we are the strange" for weird

 

[Bakuma1997]

As someone who grew with access to Canal 22 in open TV, i saw a lot of random crab
this one was a total hit

This confusing mess also was great

But the cake is taken by this drek that my "Gremlins turn off the fridge's light" mind unironically loved as a kid...now if you excuse me i need to baptize my eyes and mind for remembering it

 

[Zerpina]

InHumanoids and Rubik, the Amazing Cube, Lazer Tag Academy, Spiral Zone

 

[Cris_Agev]

Here in Argentina when I was a kid the National TV Network called "ATC"(Argentina Televisora Color) which later will be "Canal 7" , used to have a weird program in the afternoons called "Caloi en su tinta". This program was dedicated to the diffusion of the best animation art through history; for me at that age all this "cartoons" were so weird! sometimes almost frightening but despite all that I still wanted to watch it, allured to something that I cannot describe yet what was it.
Here are some, don't mind the presenter neither the language since the animations has barely any dialogues in it, pure expressionism through the drawing, music, sounds and animation.

Father & daughter.

La Tartelette(Dark humor)

Devoción(Argentinian work)

Palabras(Words)

I will also mention that thanks to this program I got to know about Wallace & Gromit in their first animation short films.

 

[DanCalibur]

Here in Argentina when I was a kid the National TV Network called "ATC"(Argentina Televisora Color) which later will be "Canal 7" , used to have a weird program in the afternoons called "Caloi en su tinta". This program was dedicated to the diffusion of the best animation art through history; for me at that age all this "cartoons" were so weird! sometimes almost frightening but despite all that I still wanted to watch it, allured to something that I cannot describe yet what was it.
Here are some, don't mind the presenter neither the language since the animations has barely any dialogues in it, pure expressionism through the drawing, music, sounds and animation.

Father & daughter.

La Tartelette(Dark humor)

Devoción(Argentinian work)

Palabras(Words)

I will also mention that thanks to this program I got to know about Wallace & Gromit in their first animation short films.

The guy that made Father and Daughter made a movie with Studio Ghibli a few years ago. And it's still weird.

 

[Cris_Agev]

The guy that made Father and Daughter made a movie with Studio Ghibli a few years ago. And it's still weird.

I didn't know this, and certainly it looks weird but so interesting, I can see some same elements like the traveling through a big sea searching for someone and the circle of life. I'm gonna watch that movie, thanks!

 

[jon2]

I also remember MTV's liquid animation having a bunch of weird cartoons like the one with the guy with the big head. I think it was just called Head. And the precursors to what would become known as Adult Swim like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. They basically took cells from old 70's cartoons that were kind of crappy and recontextualized them into a talk show and a comedic show about a Lawyer.

Not to mention Saw Boy Buck that aired sporadically

 

[Skeetos]

Cow and Chicken for sure. I love slapstick cartoons like Ren & Stimpy and Looney Tunes, so you would think I'd like it. But I just never got it as a kid and I think it's just a terrible show. I remember also a Disney cartoon called Brandy and Mr. Whiskers. That show was strange too. It was like Bonkers but ugly lol.

 

[Yousef]

Anyone that went to see the Digimon movie was subjected to an abomination before it launched. I can't even speak it's name, anyone that's curious look it up and despair. I loathe that I'm even mentioning, I feel like it's some lovecraftian curse.

Omg. I know exactly what that was.

 

[YuriSukiSan]

NOO, I just deleted it! NOOOO!!

 

[Yousef]

NOO, I just deleted it! NOOOO!!

How did you do that?! It’s hard to delete stuff by accident xD

 

[YuriSukiSan]

How did you do that?! It’s hard to delete stuff by accident xD

No, you don't understand! It wasn't an accident! I was trying to hide it! Now we're cursed!