The animation was pretty weird, too. I never thought it was a bad show, though.

At one point or another I loved every show on that list except for the bird baseball one and Yakkity Yak. Yakkity Yak was fucking trash and even I knew it at 11.

Who remembers Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?


I remember this show piloting like 3 times before they showed more than 2 episodes in a row over the course of a few years. I remember really disliking it for some reason, but I still watched it a lot. The opening is pretty egregious. The art has a Recess-reminiscent 'everyone is fucking hideous' style, but it's still pretty energetic. I really wanted a toy version of him and his parents, but the show was 8 flavours of failure.

The first season of Robot Jones is really great. It was a big steaming pile of shit after they changed his voice.

I remember it existing, and being a show, but I have no recollection of actually watching it.

Anyone remember Pingu? I bet Mac does. that show scared the piss outta me once.

Great. You mentioned Pingu. Now Oddjob is never going to shut up about it. That's like his version of ponies.

Hey, how about we DON'T have Pingu avatar trend?

What? Pingu's the shit.

I can't remember doing more than briefly mentioning Pingu after watching some with my nephew or something like that. I must have dementia or something.

I'd have to get .gif privileges so mine could be Pingu pissing all over his house. Otherwise no dice.


I remember nothing but a single scene of the show itself, but I do remember being completely obsessed with it. I loved me some Bucky O'hare.

Also Captain Star

I watched this when I was 9-12 because nobody else liked it and it let me have the space to myself. It's a pretty great show, but I didn't really get it when I was a kid.

Filmore was amazing. So many references to awesome films

I only had one Pingu video, so I've seen the same five episodes about twenty times.

There's one where he has to look after someone's egg; a scary one where his mum gets trapped in a snowdrift; one where he meets Robby the Seal; one where he tries to go skiing; and another scary one where he loses his little sister in the middle of the Antarctic wilderness.

I have that video.

This. Without the text-to-speech style voiced, it immediately lost all of it's appeal. Amazing how the quality of a show in it's entirety can be hinged on such a seemingly insignificant nugget of originality. Once it was gone, the show was worthless.

Loved the "Schoolhouse Rock" style artwork in it though. The style was retrograded so perfectly, you would have trouble believing it was a show produced in the late 90's.

I remember this promo fondly

I fondly remember Pingu from when I was little. I loved the one where Pingu and his friend argue about building an igloo. I think it was the building montages. That was back when I was addicted to Lego. On topic, I love Tom and Jerry, and have distant memories of Wacky Races, Johnny Bravo and a bunch of other cartoons that I watched on cartoon network.

This episode is somewhat notorious for scaring hundreds of young children. By the time I was old enough to remember Pingu they'd stopped airing it.

This was my one of my nephew's favourites.

Yep, that's the one that scared the piss out of me as a kid. That walrus is downright disturbing.

I find all claymation animations a little disturbing, maybe it's because of the jittery movements.


That's scary as fuck anyway.

That clip is from The Adventures of Mark Twain, one of my childhood favorites and easily Will Vinton's best work. It got famous on youtube for being touted as "BANNED FROM TV", even though it wasn't. In fact, TV was the only place you could see it when it first came out.

I know, I first watched that clip years ago but I've not seen the whole thing.

Did anyone here watch Reboot?

Yes.

I suppose it was innovative at the time.

I remember Reboot, back in the Moltar days of Toonami. I have no idea how I'd feel about that show now. My quality control as a kid could be summed up as "animated = good. no exception". I do remember that Tony Jay voiced Megabyte, so at the very least it would give me some voice actor boners.

I remember I used to watch A Pup Named Scooby Doo. I do not have fond memories.

Reboot and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest are amongst the beloved gems of my childhood, along more lighthearted fares such as Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls (<3<3<3) and Courage.

I don't remember much about Reboot, other than great animation (for its time) and Megabyte being one cool mofo.

Was Reboot originally in English? It's Canadian, right? The reason I ask is because I have vivid memories of their lips never matching the words coming out of their mouths, and I always wondered if it was dubbed or something.

Courage used to scare the shit outta me, saying that, so did the Teletubbies. Probably because of the lion and the bear. Fucking terrifying.

Beast Wars was my favourite show when I was younger. I had a shit ton of the action figures, too.

I was a cool kid.

I actually forced Joe to watch it not too long ago.

He didn't hate it.

That show made my childhood. Only Beast Wars was angry enough to announce itself three times in its own titles.

I know a show which announces itself 5 times in the titles.

Beast Wars was the absolute best. I was always mad jealous of the kid who had the Optimal Optimus figure (the one that was an ape that turned into a robot that turned into a tie fighter that turned into a car.) Waspinator and Inferno were cool toyz.
Beast Machines not so much.

I loved how the "real" adventures of Jonny quest were not only entirely fictional but were very often entirely virtual within the show.

I still have that Optimus. I remember the day I learned to transform into all of the forms, it was great.Unfortunately now he only has half a head and dozens of scratches. But I still love him.

The Inferno and Dinobot toys were always my favourites.

I have the wasp guy with the annoying voice. He had a little button that made his wing casings spin.

Actually, it's in the chest this computer's sitting on.

It's not just the wasp guy...it's WAZZZPINATOR! Jeez.

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He loves Beast Wars. Especially Asspinator.

I never got into Transformers, but I remember reading somewhere that kids who play with Transformers are three times more likely to become drag queens.

That's just imitation of a nearby role model.

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