Ren and stimpy
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Was gonna say, some of those close-up shots are not for children
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
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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.
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.
Drawn Together
That was real?? I thought it was some fever dream from when I had chickenpox.
Venture Brothers beats them all.
Those guys are hilarious. Everyone should buy their DVDs/BluRays and enjoy their commentary (but not on first viewing).
Wandering off topic, but if you can find it, watch the special edition DVD of Buckaroo Banzai.
There's a special on screen commentary track that makes the movie even funnier. At the start, Buckaroo carries a briefcase into the JetCar. The commentary lets us know that he's got a tunafish sandwich and Einstein's brain with him.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Rocko's Modern Life yet
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.
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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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-- Ren & Stimpy
-- Ed, Edd and Eddy
-- Cow & Chicken
-- Courage, the Cowardly Dog
-- Animaniacs
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Ren and Stimpy Aeon Flux
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...
• 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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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (though that one was a mix of cartoon and live action, still massively unhinged) and Big Mouth
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Freakazoid was unhinged and spastic in a way I haven't seen since
This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!
Duckman.
FL*CL, which is unhinged but not in a sick leaning manner, it's just really weird.
FL*CL
That was a bizarre one. My friend was obsessed with it and I was so freaking confused...
The airsoft episode was a really fun time though hahaha.
...oh geeze didn't his grandpa dress as a nazi for that one or something? Man this is going back like 15+ years I just remember guitars getting pulled out of foreheads and flying irons and a weird live-action moped PoV outro...
I always thought it would be so damn fun getting an entire neighborhood in on an airsoft game though.
But I only watched it when that friend was over, because I always had at least one parent home and didn't feel like trying to answer "what the heck are you watching?" LOL
Ugly Americans, wish they wouldn't have cancelled it. Shit was great
Æonflux
Ren & Stimpy (especially the adult stuff)
Metalocalypse
I'm only aware of Brak as a character on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, but if he has his own show I'm gonna find it!
Also how about the Venture Bros, especially with Patrick Warburton's homicidal Brock Samson.
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
Aeon Flux (the anime TV series, not the movie)
~~I want to say it was aired as part of the Def II, teenage audience program slot on BBC2 in the '90s, the original UK home of Ren and Stimpy and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, but the Wikipedia article for Def II doesn't mention it at all.~~
Edit: Nope, it was Liquid Television (see reply). Some but not all of MTV's weird programmes ended up on BBC2, sometimes even under the original parent name, like Liquid Television.
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[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.
adventure time
Clone High was not for children, it was on MTV! And the Brak Show was on Adult Swim! also, I feel it should be distinct between 'unhinged but good' and 'unhinged but awful', and also perhaps 'unhinged and awful but wildly entertaining '
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