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
Unhinged you say?
• butt ugly martians
• lazy town
• Tex Avery show
• X-DuckX (one of my favorites lol)
• 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.
Yeah sorry - I forgot that Angela Anaconda was cutouts or something like that.
But Ugly Martians haha
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.
Isn’t this the show that gta4 made fun of on It’s ingame television?
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…
Happy Tree Friends ended up on TV? Damn, that’s fucked up. It was never meant for children.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Big Mouth
That looks… uncomfortable.
Oh it is.
Ren and stimpy
That one episode where Stimpy births out a fart and has to raise it comes to mind.
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
Where can we get the raw footage! Those episodes were awesome lol
The high seas.
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!
– Ren & Stimpy – Ed, Edd and Eddy – Cow Chicken – Courage, the Cowardly Dog – Animaniacs
Ren&Stimpy had some gruesome stuff. Courage was more on the horror side.
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.
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.
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 ’
And yet we found each other lol. I realize the waters are slightly muddy but just roll with it
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.)
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Rocko’s Modern Life yet
Nu Pogodi is goated
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
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.
As I recall, aeon flux started in the United States on mtv as part of its “liquid television” block in the early 90s. Back when the station was owned by viacomm, same as Nickelodeon. It shared several voice actors with Rugrats too
Ahh, Liquid Television. Thank you. The other block of odd programmes that ended up on BBC2. It’s been a long, long time, so I’m not surprised I mixed them up!
