Cartoons That You Missed Out On When They Originally Aired.

I'm currently enjoying "Growing Up Creepie" on Discovery Kids Channel. The show has a unique premise, (a girl raised by bugs), and an even more unique main character; Creepie is one of the more interesting girls I have ever seen in the starring role to a cartoon. The series, according to Wikipedia, aired from 2006 to 2008, with only one DVD released. If your interested, reruns are plentiful on the Discovery Kids Channel. (It's technically an educational kids' show, but I still find it entertaining.)

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Thanks for the recommendation. I may give this one a try one of these days, when I find the exact channel number and schedule for it in my area.
 
Most of the cartoons I missed were usually because I didn't have the channel that aired them like Jimmy Two Shoes, Spliced!, and Making Fiends. When I was younger(Probably around 6 or 7), I wanted to watch The Wuzzles on the Disney Channel, however it was only on at 6am which was an awful time slot since I could never get up at that time especially when I was 6 years old...:sweat: I also missed out of the last season of Atomic Betty because Cartoon Network decided not to air it in the US...I missed out on Random! Cartoons because Nick made that boneheaded move to air it on Nicktoons Network a channel I didn't have. At least I was able to watch the Adventure Time pilot on Youtube.
 
The only show that I can think of for this topic is Disney's Gargoyles. I believe I heard of it or saw commercials for it during its initial run, but I don't think that I saw any episode until they were airing reruns on Disney Channel years ago. I thought it was cool, dark, the characters were interesting and some nice twists in the storyline. I had some fun times watching those reruns. I should try picking up the season one DVD set one of these days since it looked like a great show.
 
Count me in with those who didn't catch Avatar: The Last Airbender while it was airing. I didn't know much about it while it was airing outside of the fact it was anime-inspired and popular. However, when the first teasers for the (horrendous, as it turns out) live-action film came out, I was interested. I finally checked it out this past Christmas and burned through the entire series within about a week. I was completely hooked and glad to be caught up with everyone else :sweat:
 
It seems like a lot of us missed out on Avatar: The Last Airbender while it was in it's original run, did so many of us really write the show off before we even gave it a chance? Like I said before, that's a mistake I never plan to make again and I always give a show 3 airings before I make up my mind on it now, I'm going to call it the "Avatar Rule". :D

Unfortunately I missed out on much of Superman: The Animated Series while it was in it's original run, I caught the first 2 episodes and then I began doing stuff on Saturday mornings and wasn't around to watch many cartoons at that point in my life. I'm glad I purchased the DVD's of Superman: TAS because it's become one of my favorite DCAU shows, I also got to see a little bit of it on Toonami for the brief time it aired on the block.
 
I'd have to go with Sonic SatAM. I was born the year it was cancelled and I do faintly remember watching tapes of it at my old daycare center when I was about 4-ish.

I was about 9 or so when I got into the Sonic series, and I remembered the cartoon. So I looked it up online and found some episodes of it. Needless to say I was quite surprised! Enjoyed it so much I surscribed to Archie for a bit, but then the comic was boring so I quit after Sally slapped Sonic in 134 during that stupid love triangle going on with Sonic/Sally/Mina and Sally going emo. :shrug:

My second choice would be Danny Phantom. Now I'm not the biggest Butch Hartman fan in the world, but my first episode was a My Brother's Keeper rerun on Nicktoons, and that episode just blew me away. I've seen pretty much every episode from the 1st two seasons. :flapjack:
 
Your not the only one who enjoyed Sonic Underground, I remember it when it aired on saturday-then-sunday mornings. Years later they released a complete boxset!

*prepares for some funny looks aiming his way*

Horseland - a kids educational show about... kids who ride horses, :sweat: but its more then just that. Despite the dog having a terrible Sean Connery accent I found the kids quite likeable and found myself watching more and more.

I wasn't expecting to find it enjoyable but my mum certainly gives me some weird looks when its on TV. :sweat:

Its online at DIC/cookie jars OD site: http://www.jaroo.com/

On that site you can also find the excellent wizard of OZ anime from the 80's. :D Man, that brings back memories...
 
I missed out on pretty much every anime that aired on Toonami before 2005 when I got hooked to the block because of Dragonball GT Also I missed out on Justice league, Avatar:TLA, the Brak show, Home Movies, Cowboy Bebop, and Futurama.
 
I missed out on the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, when it originally aired.

I saw a few episodes of the series around 2003-2006, but I didn't really bother trying to watch it, though.

However, when I saw the TMNT movie, which I thought was great, in 2007, I decided to check out the 2003 series again. In January 2008, I got the DVD sets to Season 1 and Fast Forward, and greatly enjoyed the series.

I regret missing out on the series when it originally aired, but at least I now have a good amount of the series on DVD.

I have to thank the TMNT movie for making me a Ninja Turtles fan.
 
I missed out on Static Shock when it first came out. I saw a few episodes on Disney XD recently, and it's a pretty good show.

I also missed out on Justice League. While Boomerang shows Justice League: Unlimited like it's going out of style (whenever they show it), they never air the first series. I need to find it on DVD.
 
I never caught onto Justice League until the finale, "Starcrossed." I'd seen an ep or two at a friend's urging (mostly "The Savage Time" since he knows I'm such a World War II buff), but I didn't watch the series normally until it was rebranded under the JLU nomer. Thanks to DVDs and Boomerang, however, I've gone back and seen all of the other eps.



The whole series is available on DVD. Check a DVD store or Amazon.com.
 
I missed out on Total Drama Island when it first aired on Cartoon Network. I finally got into it when they aired the season finale Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island. The reason I started watching it was I started to watch 6teen around that time, and the promos said "from the creators of Total Drama Island", and that is when I watched a rerun and I started watching the show, because it was so funny. My liking toward Total Drama has gone down because Total Drama Action just disappointed me. Total Drama World Tour, is better than TDA, and is improving as it goes on, but still I prefer TDI over TDA and TDWT.
 
Aside from a few scattered eps on home video, i never got to see GI Joe until the USA Cartoon Express reaired it in 1993. I also somehow missed out on x-men evolution until catching the reruns on disney XD.
 
Add "The Critic" to my previous list. I missed its entire original run, then discovered it on DVD in 2005 and wasn't particularly enamored with it. Then I watched it again recently, and now that I know all the pop culture references, I finally realized how insanely funny this show is.
 
Freakazoid! is definitely a newer one for me. Completely missed this when it first came on. I recently watched a few episodes and got hooked. It's such a great show.
 
I pretty much missed the original run of Ducktales and Tiny Toon Adventures. My parents taped a few episodes off the TV for my sister and I, but we never watched beyond what was given to us. Nothing was ever in "real time"; we didn't rush home after school to catch an episode or anything. Except for the Ducktales Valentines Day Special, I believe.
 
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