I would have to say (in no particular order)
- Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy+ Grimm & Evil
- Angela Anaconda
- Fairly Odd Parents
- Brak Show
- Ripping Friends
- Whats with Andy
- Mega Babies
- Quads!
- Clone High
Check out list
- Happy Tree Friends
I love them all but its like, how did this shit get on TV and then anywhere near children lmao. Thank god they found their respective ways to us.
Edit: if its only one, try to post a thumbnail image so people can either try to recognize it or know if the animation style is for them
Ren and stimpy
Was gonna say, some of those close-up shots are not for children
Oh, my beloved ice cream bar! How I love to lick your creamy center!
[talking to a bar of soap]
You’re not like the others. You like the same things I do. Wax paper… boiled football leather… dog breath!
We’re not hitchhiking anymore! We’re riding!
It’s wild how many episodes have been edited or removed from circulation due to their content.
https://renandstimpy.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_banned/censored_episodes
Where can we get the raw footage! Those episodes were awesome lol
The high seas.
That one episode where Stimpy births out a fart and has to raise it comes to mind.
Peepoodo & The Super Fuck Friends
Extremely NSFW French cartoon that teaches sex education and is about a horny little hamster exploring the world (and a lot of people).
You will probably want to fuck the cat. It’s okay, everyone wants to fuck the cat. The cat is hot.
Cow & Chicken / I M Weasel.
Yeah this is the answer that I came here to see. These definitely belong in this list. Cow & Chicken could be particularly unhinged.
Cow’s tantrums and crying gets me every time
Yeah this show was so weird and off-putting. Watched it every day before school.
Happy Tree Friends
This was a great show, I loved this in my early 20s.
Drawn Together
That was real?? I thought it was some fever dream from when I had chickenpox.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Rocko’s Modern Life yet
I’m not going to count shows aimed at adult audiences because that feels like cheating (that also includes not listing anime aimed at adults because that doesn’t seem like the spirit of the question). Of shows aimed at and easily accessible during their run to children I’m going to say Courage The Cowardly Dog and Invader Zim.
Courage had insane creepy visuals in almost every episode.
Zim wasn’t consistently freaky to the point of being notable in every episode, but the ones that were, they were really out there. The show was from the mind of the creator of the Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (which I read as a kid thanks to my interest in Invader Zim) and the show’s darker elements are obviously reigned in just enough to get on TV.
I always always wanted all the JTHM comics as a teen. My parents said absolutely not! What do I have with my adult money? All the comics.
Jhonen apparently has hypnophobia so, that explains a lot.
Anyone seen “Smiling Friends”, it’s a fever dream of an animated series. Also, Aeon Flux and Ren & Stimpy are two of my all time favorites.
Before I’d go to school, at 6am the WB channel played what became my private Disney Afternoon equivalent, which rotated through four shows: Jumanji, Garfield, Sonic the Hedgehog, and— for whatever reason— Roughnecks, the animated Starship Troopers series.
It was rated PG, was produced by Paul Verhoeven, and people fucking died. No idea how it snuck in alongside the tamer stuff, but it very much felt unhinged at the time/someone didn’t vet it for kids.
That show was SO GOOD.
I also remember the intro is absolutely awesome, and only recently learned it was a Beethoven composition. There was a neat Microsoft ad that used it too, and I was like “THAT’S THE STARSHIP TROOPERS INTRO!” lol
I noticed watching the DVDs that it felt oddly toned down in some places and not others, even when the plot would get serious.
Often their rifles sound really silly-space-lasery and they’re aiming weirdly upwards instead of at their targets, for example.
I loved those early CG shows like this though. Heavy Gear, Voltron (before the excellent Netflix one), Beast Wars…I wonder if Max Steele was any good because I never watched that one for some reason…
Isn’t this the show that gta4 made fun of on It’s ingame television?
Invader Zim
Not TV but you could absolutely see how much the creators mental health was struggling if you read through his comic series, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
More organs means more human!
Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to find this one
Ren and Stimpy Aeon Flux
– Ren & Stimpy
– Ed, Edd and Eddy
– Cow & Chicken
– Courage, the Cowardly Dog
– Animaniacs
I want a Pickles tattoo so bad!
Salad Fingers https://youtu.be/OWBFKL6H7rI
The fact that I just had a 12 year old tell me they like rusty spoons last week really messed with my head. She was indeed quoting salad fingers.
Courage the Cowardly Dog is crazy
I most vividly remember the villains, of course.
- The big purple foot fungus mobsters. “eyyeah, see?”
- The evil barber “Nauuughtyyyyy”
- And of course, Rameses. “Returrrrn the slaaab”
- Special mention: Eustice. “Stupid dog!”
Such a good show though. The things he did for love.
I loved that show’s premise and core message about confronting fear. He was always terrified and saved the day anyway.
I just wanted him to finally get a happy little dog existence lol…
