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Ren and stimpy
Happy Tree Friends
This was a great show, I loved this in my early 20s.
Cow & Chicken / I M Weasel.
Yeah this show was so weird and off-putting. Watched it every day before school.
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.
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...
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
The Oblongs was fun.
Drawn Together was awful, but a trashy-yet-fascinating kind of awful, and definitely qualified as unhinged.
oh, and superjail, and squidbillies. 1000%, superjail and squidbillies, someone else should've mentioned these by now, I hate to this day that I can still remember them.
Shit, most of Adult Swim's lineup was either syndicated fox series, anime, or completely fucking duck tits insane.
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.
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Æonflux
Ren & Stimpy (especially the adult stuff)
Metalocalypse
Not a cartoon, but number 1 most unhinged kids' show has to be Boohbah. Everyone involved in the making of this show has to have been on drugs constantly, that's the only explanation I can think of for why this show exists.
Boobah is fr fucked, I have to rewatch it some day while high
Am I tripping or is this Guernica?
The Bullwinkle Show (1959-1963) is a riot and definitely should not have been around children. It's as much of a riot as an adult as I remember it being as a kid (though I only ever saw it on re-runs, I'm not quite that old.)
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
This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!
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.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk](You motherfuckers don't even know Rubik or the metric fucktonnes of 80's drugs that went into making it
What in the world LMAO.
I was like "Alright. It's about an inanimate (magical?) object to obviously sell a toy...WHY'S IT SPROUTING LIMBS AND A HEAD?!"
EDIT: THERE'S A PLAYLIST WITH FULL EPISODES
Why?! How?! LMAO
A lot of coke was snorted at Hasbro in the 80s. Transformers and Gi Joe made them a mint so they were desperate to milk any toy they already had with a cartoon series
I cannot stress how vapid and terrible every aspect of this cartoon is. From the fact that Rubik is an alien that does magic to the fact that the main villains of the show are a pair of inept petty thieves just provides nothing but agony
And I've probably seen every episode at least 7 times
If you had told child me that this cartoon was going to be something I was legit ashamed to have wasted time on, I would have called you a liar and refused to share any snacks from that point on.
• butt ugly martians
• lazy town
• Tex Avery show
• X-DuckX (one of my favorites - just found out that that’s a French cartoon)
• honorable adult mentions: drawn together, robot chicken, ren&stimpy
Is lazy town classified as a cartoon? It's certainly in fever dream territory, no argument there.
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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.
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