Shows You're Surprised Were Made

Loonatics was kind of an odd surprise for me. I mean , I was nurtured on Bugs Bunny...making an extreme version sort of...ew. EW! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!

*frantically washing eyeballs*

Wayside was actually a pleasant surprise because I always liked the books as a kid.
 
yeah, I'm surprised why it took so darn long.. since it doesn't follow Kronk's Groove.. but oh well..

not really surpised about the Land Before Time series.. just surprised at how long it took for them to realise that was a better option than the sequels.. *shrugs*..

and Watership Down.. even though the violence was toned down.. not something I'd instantly come up with as an idea for a series..
 
Why would you think that? It's not like Bruce Timm created Batman or anything, nor was he proclaimed the one and only guy who was permitted to work on Batman by the president of DC Comics.

That's like saying nobody should ever try to play Superman now that Christopher Reeve has already done it. Alexander Graham Bell already invented the telephone, so there's no point in anyone else trying to improve upon it or invent their own variation of the device.

The DC superheroes on TV didn't begin with the DCAU, and they shouldn't end there.
 
Pro Stars-cartoon versions of Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretsky and Bo Jackson are pro-sports stars who double as crime stoppers, who employ their respective game equipment (hockey sticks and pucks, footballs, baseballs and bats, basketballs, MJ's tongue and Bo's catchprase of "Bo knows *fill in the blank*" repeated over and over) against the forces of evil.

Rick Moranis in Gravedale High-wasn't everybody in America dying to see the Canadian-born comedian and star of SCTV and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids get his own cartoon show, in which he played the sole human teacher in a high school for movie monsters and ghouls? Thankfully, the cathode gods answered our prayers.

Hammerman-rapper MC Hammer stars as a superhero whose powers come from magical talking dancing shoes, in a Saturday morning cartoon with an animation budget of about five bucks.
 
Spongebob.

I just wish I could've seen the pitch meeting for that one, where Stephen Hillenburg does this elaborate rundown of this toon he's come up with, finishes his pitch, and a network exec says, "Hang on a sec, you lost me at 'sponge.'"
 
Amen to that. Avatar is happily devoid of many of the weaknesses present in too many TV toons. It has logical storytelling, believable character development, real imagination, wonderful world-building, heart, respect for the viewers' intelligence, and a female character who's bold, strong, gifted, intelligent and yet is no Mary Sue - no, wait, there are TWO such characters, and a great female villian, and her henchmen (henchgirls) aren't slouches either. As you say, Avatar is a freaking miracle, and am I glad it happened.
 
Sons of Butcher was pretty strange. Fat butchers singing heavy metal and swearing at the end of every sentence ? BTW it sucked.
I was surprised when I saw the Mr.Bean cartoon like Itchy said. But it was pretty good.
And Chop Socky Chooks... That show is very bad. I liked lots of Teletoon original shows but Chop Socky Chooks is just terrible.
The french dub is even worse than the english dub.
 
Any of those ninja turtle knockoffs from the early 90s. Biker Mice from mars, street sharks, stone protectors, dinosquad. Im not surprised they made them, but they all came out around 93 when ninja turtles were seriously going downhill popularity-wise. Why try to rip off something thats no longer all that popular?
 
I was going to list a lot of old bad cartoons, but when I look back a few decades to how horrible everything was, I guess I shouldn't be surprised they were made. They would greenlight anything back then.



Don't forget "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" and "Swamp Thing" were turned into kids' shows during this period.
 
Don't forget one of the darkest hours in 90's animation ever: Creepy Crawlers! Making yet another lame superhero TMNT knockoff is one thing, but basing it off a toyline that was used to make the typical "scare your kid sister with fake bugs" junk is just bizarre.

And to jump on naming the Celebrity = Cartoon bandwagon, anyone remember the Super Dave Osborne cartoon, Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire? I doubt anyone was honestly expecting that one!
 
There was also Little Shop of Horrors, because, you know, a movie about a blood thirsty plant just screamed 'Kid's cartoon'.

Going back celeb based cartoons: Little Rosie.

LITTLE ROSIE.

Who- WHO- decided that a cartoon based on the childhood adventures of a loudmouthed comedian would be a hit with the kids?
 
I'm actually pretty suprised that Robot Jones was made, if I had not stated this in the thread already. It gained third place in the contest it was entered, yet Cartoon Network gave that show a chance, instead of the toon that garnered second place. Makes no sense if you ask me. It's not like Robot Jones was a bad show, I just don't see why it would be produced in the first place.
 
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