Childhood TV Shows That You Barely Remember

Now I'm all depressed :(
Yeah. The beginning was pretty hardcore for a kids series since it implies that millions have died. I think it was meant to be a Conan the Barbarian show that got retooled into its own original IP. (Unless I'm confusing it with He-Man.)

If you like Thundarr the Barbarian, you'll probably like the 1982 Flash Gordon cartoon that came out around the same time. Here's a decent version of the pilot movie:


The spaceship animation is pretty impressive when you consider they didn't have widespread CG then...
 
Round the Twist.

I think it was either Australian or New Zealandish... Zealandian... Zealander...? Huh, what is the actual form for something that is from New Zealand? New Zealander is correct for people but not for products and things. Weird.

Anyway, I really enjoyed it as a kid. I also had a crush on the sister who I mainly remember as being blond and doing Judo. And an episode where there were two of her and another where she was possessed by a clown. Oh, gods! The clown scarecrow. That was terrifying to a tiny me. Each time you see it it's changed position while nobody was looking.

Magic underpants, a machine that can make a copy of you, animate scarecrows and I think I remember an episode where their TV remote got struck by lightning and started affecting the real world. Was probably my favourite show as a kid. I can hear the theme tune even now.
 

I remember this catchy theme song from when they showed it during the early days of Cartoon Network, but I don't remember anything else about the show. Not that I would have understood the jokes back then anyway, because it's very much a product of the 70's and seems like it paved the way for Married with Children and Family Guy.
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-lKeifVz3b8
I remember this catchy theme song from when they showed it during the early days of Cartoon Network, but I don't remember anything else about the show. Not that I would have understood the jokes back then anyway, because it's very much a product of the 70's and seems like it paved the way for Married with Children and Family Guy.
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is a show I've always been curious about in that it's an animated sitcom that lasted on prime time television for three seasons, meaning it wasn't a huge ratings hit but it wasn't a total failure either, and, with 48 episodes total, it was the longest-running prime time animated show on American television in the decades between The Flintstones and The Simpsons, yet it gets very little nostalgia and seems to be a historical footnote at best for animation fans.

I feel like that there must be something about the show that fails to connect with anyone who didn't grow up with it.
 
Bunnytown was a cute little show that I honestly thought I hallucinated. It was around in 2007, so I was too old to watch Disney Junior but I ended up catching an episode while waiting for something else to come on. The puppets are very cute, but not very expressive so they end up waggling the bunnies around a lot to help express emotion. It has a sense of humor akin to The Muppets, but more for young children.

 
There was this kids's gameshow called Fun House. The only thing I remember about it is that it had twin cheerleaders that gave me a pubescent boner.

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Round the Twist.

I think it was either Australian

It was Australian. I remember from that an episode where a cat was a hat or something? There was an episode where there was some water spirit and they were having a competition at how high their urine streams could go. Then another episode where there was a remote control for people and a spaghetti eating competition.

I just googled that last one, it's on youtube

On Australian shows, I remember one called Spellbinder.

It was about a teenage guy who some how stumbled into an alternate dimension. Which was a medieval type world ruled by people who had some steam punkish??? type technology. Flying ships, and other such stuff. Yet they lived in castles and peasants. Not sure what really happened. Then when he got back to Sydney, some of them followed him and then were using some of the technology to be villains there.
 
Round the Twist.

I think it was either Australian or New Zealandish... Zealandian... Zealander...? Huh, what is the actual form for something that is from New Zealand? New Zealander is correct for people but not for products and things. Weird.

Anyway, I really enjoyed it as a kid. I also had a crush on the sister who I mainly remember as being blond and doing Judo. And an episode where there were two of her and another where she was possessed by a clown. Oh, gods! The clown scarecrow. That was terrifying to a tiny me. Each time you see it it's changed position while nobody was looking.

Magic underpants, a machine that can make a copy of you, animate scarecrows and I think I remember an episode where their TV remote got struck by lightning and started affecting the real world. Was probably my favourite show as a kid. I can hear the theme tune even now.
It's Australian. That Murder She Wrote channel did a retrospective on it. All I remembered was an episode with a pee contest.

Also, beaten.
 
Project Geeker was pretty good, but nobody seems to remember it.
I'm not "nobody!" ;)

I only ever saw this show once. I was staying at a friend's house and my friend (unlike me) was into trying new things, so he kept it on Channel 7 when I would've switched over to Channel 16 or something... and we wound up seeing this. I only ever saw the one episode, but it stayed in my mind.

Particularly one line I can never forget. They're escaping from bad guys in a vehicle, and the dinosaur dude asks "Does anyone have any ideas?"

Geeker suddenly says "I have an idea for a TV show! It's about this guy, and he's allergic to floors!"

I think the same episode involved him fighting an evil Geeker, and there's a fake-out where it looks like the good one lost and the woman of the team gets really mad... but then it turns out its the good one that survived.

Does anyone remember Santo Bugito? The most obscure Klasky Csupo show.
Unfortunately I do remember. As a kid I had an instinctual dislike of it just from the commercials which made it seem like it relied on gross-out humor.
probably Bobby's world and Eek! The Cat, the latter I owned an snes cart of. I think it was aired and cancelled quickly.
My memory is that Eek lasted too fucking long and kept getting all these damn spinoffs attached to it like The Terrible Thunderlizards. It was one of those cartoons I watched just out of habit as a kid but I don't recall liking it.
I was really little when I watched it, but I recall liking one cartoon on Nickelodeon in the late 80s/early 90s about elves (not tolkien styled elves) or gnomes or something to that effect and their society. I know it wasn't David the Gnome, but it had a similar premise.
Could you be thinking of The Little Bits?
I vaguely remember a cartoon where everyone are dogs and they were dressed like it was a 50s crime drama.

Edit: I may be misremembering but I think parts of it were in live action with puppets.
Dog City. In my area this aired on Fox 16 on Saturdays. One memory I have is that it felt like most episodes involved the main detective (Ace Hart) being framed, very similar to the NES game Deja Vu.
Have you ever seen Blinky Bill?
I unfortunately have. This is one of those shows where the theme song gets stuck in your head. "This is the story of Blinky Bill and Flap and Mugsy too..."

I hated it, but it was a case of "there's nothing better on and besides, Dragonball Z comes on later" so I bore with it. It was part of a Sunday morning block in my area.

I think the same block also played the Mega Man cartoon, and a thing called Skysurfer Strike Force which is one of the most underrated shows out there.... that's one I remember hating at the time because I thought the premise was stupid, but I got a few episodes on DVD later and was like "why did I hate this, again?"

there was an anime Cartoon Network used to air in the mid 90s late at night I’d watch. I remember it had a bird motif, all the main characters had suits based on various birds. It was a space battle kind of anime but I can’t remember the name of it. It was an older anime, probably mid to late 70s

edit: G-Force Guardians of Space. That was the one
Just so you know, it could also have been Battle of the Planets. Both it and G-Force are actually American versions of an anime called Gatchaman. Yes one anime has two different Americanized dubs. I recall Boomerang playing Battle of the Planets once myself.

There was also a show called Eagle Riders which was actually based off Gatchaman II, but I think the dub tries to write around the fact that its a sequel. Weirdly enough, Eagle Riders came out in the early 1990s despite being based on a show from the 1970s. I remember my friend seeing it and thinking it was a ripoff of Voltron... which is hilarious now that I know Voltron came later.
I remember some random ass shows from Fox Kids like Dog City, Mr. Bogus, Piggsburg Pigs, and the fucking Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon.

They stick out to me because I feel like I am the only one that remembers them.
You're not, except for that Pigs thing.

Killer Tomatoes is one of those shows I keep hoping gets a DVD or streaming release (it and Peter Pan and the Pirates are my personal wish list for shows I wish would get a quality release).

Mr. Bogus I remember because one of my friends told me about a local controversy--apparently he wasn't allowed to talk about the show in school because one of the villains (an evil version of Mr. Bogus) is called Badus, which you can imagine what a teacher thinks a kid is saying when she hears that.

.............. Yeah, this post is a testament to my Autism Superpower: If I've ever seen a cartoon, I CAN NOT forget it.

That said, my expertise would be in the 1980s and 1990s. I largely stopped caring about western animation during the 2000s and mostly watched Boomerang at that time.
 
It's Australian. That Murder She Wrote channel did a retrospective on it. All I remembered was an episode with a pee contest.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0IET-JRlNls
Also, beaten.

That's the one. Watching that video brings back a bunch of memories. I remember the underpants episode (fun fact: drying your underpants in the microwave doesn't work AT ALL. I have tried it.) And Good Lord that scarecrow was creepy. I never knew there was a second season.

skykiii dijo:
Killer Tomatoes is one of those shows I keep hoping gets a DVD or streaming release (it and Peter Pan and the Pirates are my personal wish list for shows I wish would get a quality release).
@skykiii

Ha! I remember that show. I think I was around six years old at the time. I could sing the entire theme tune and I remember having a crush on Tara Tomato.

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A little embarrassing now but at least unlike some people who had cartoon crushes it hasn't left me with any weird fetishes about women turning into vegetables or anything. Just a mild liking for women who wear their hair in ponytails.
 
@Overly Serious Funny thing is that in the movie Return of the Killer Tomatoes (which the cartoon is loosely based on) its made clear Tara was created basically to be kind of a sex slave and a lot of her personality revolves around knowing how to please men.

(Before you think that sounds skeevy... in the movie Chad and Tara are both adults. The cartoon made them kids while also axing the sexual angles).

And at least Tara is just a human with what could vaguely be considered a Ranma 1/2-style curse. Crushing on her is better than all the people who crush on Gadget from Rescue Rangers, or Princess Sally.
 
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is a show I've always been curious about in that it's an animated sitcom that lasted on prime time television for three seasons, meaning it wasn't a huge ratings hit but it wasn't a total failure either, and, with 48 episodes total, it was the longest-running prime time animated show on American television in the decades between The Flintstones and The Simpsons, yet it gets very little nostalgia and seems to be a historical footnote at best for animation fans.

I feel like that there must be something about the show that fails to connect with anyone who didn't grow up with it.
I think it gambled on the popularity of "All in the Family" and the series might have lived longer if it wasn't for Tom Bosley (who voiced Harry Doyle) starring as Howard Cunningham in Happy Days. I saw another clip who was the pilot episode aired during the show "Love, American Style".

Then Harry's neighbor Ralph was probably where Mike Judge get the inspiration for the character of Dale in King of the Hill.
 
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