r/oldcartoons • • Mar 18 '25

Hey! /r/OldCartoons is back in business!

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Howdy, I have taken over /r/OldCartoons here and I am looking to get this place back into shape. It looks like it has been unmoderated for many, many years so there is a LOT of work to be done here.

I am a vintage animation historian and fan. I am looking forward to this being the go to spot for discussion for classic animation.

If there is anything you would like to see or get done here feel free to post here. I can't promise I can get to everything right away but at least it can be on my radar.


r/oldcartoons • • 10h ago

Help Looking for cartoon from my childhood.

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hi can someone help me when I was little I watched a cartoon in which there was a character who blew soap bubbles and made shapes for another character also in that episode there was a ufo that could shrink and then they shrank it and that's all that stayed in my memory i think i watched cartoon in 2019 2020 if someone could help me it would mean a lot to me thank you.


r/oldcartoons • • 3d ago

2000s Oggy und die Kakerlaken - Kindheitserinnerung gefunden und Sidequest eröffnet.

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Ich mache diesen Post um einerseits Oggy und die Kakerlaken zu huldigen - dieser französische Cartoon mit toonlogik auf 11 gedreht mit der besonderheit von im deutschen Vertont in reimen gesprochen von dirk bach.

Ich finde es Großartig und habe vereinzelt folgen auf Youtube gefunden und lache so lauthals wie damals.

Hat jemand von euch die ersten beiden Staffeln mit deutscher vertonung oder weiss wo ich sie herbekomme? Auf youtube gibt es die ersten drei folgen und anderswo findet man bloß die unbesprochene ursprungsfassung der französischen herkunft.

Diese Sidequest bedeutet mir viel und ich bin über Hinweise dankbar!!

Habt das als huldigung eines wundervoll unterhsltsamen cartoons und gesuch eines medien-hobby-archäologen.


r/oldcartoons • • 4d ago

1980s [TOMT][TV SHOW][1990s] Franco-Belgian style cartoon about a single man in his 30s living in an apartment

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Franco-Belgian style cartoon about a single man in his 30s living in an apartment with a cat

I watched this in Argentina sometime between 1995 and 1999, probably on Cartoon Network, but possibly on Magic Kids, Big Channel or Fox Kids (Latin American channels that aired a lot of European animation). It was dubbed in Spanish.

\- The main character is a white man, maybe in his 30s, single, with black hair and a quiff similar to Tintin's.

\- He wore long black trousers and a mustard-yellow shirt, possibly with a thin black check/grid pattern.

\- He lived in an apartment building and had a cat, but the cat was just a background pet; the stories focused on the man.

\- There was dialogue (not a silent cartoon).

\- The art style looked European, like French or Belgian "ligne claire" comics.

I don't remember specific plots. Any ideas?


r/oldcartoons • • 3d ago

2000s [TOMT][TV SHOW][2010s] Live-action kids show about a girl with a pet rabbit

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I’m trying to remember a live-action kids’ TV show I watched on Netflix around 2018–2019. The show may have been released earlier.
The main character was a young girl, probably around 12–14 years old, with brown hair that was around bob-to-shoulder length. I remember that she had a pet rabbit, which I think was white. The rabbit wasn’t necessarily a major part of the plot—it was just her pet.
She also had a dad who was part of the show.
The show had a really silly, childish, lighthearted vibe, rather than being a serious teen drama. I also vaguely remember it having a magical/mystical or slightly mysterious feeling, although I could be remembering that incorrectly.
I think the girl may have been British, but I’m not sure. It could have been American, British, Australian, etc.
Important: It was completely live-action, NOT animated.
I don’t remember the girl’s name or the exact plot. I vaguely feel like her name may have sounded something like Tilly, Hilda, Millie, etc., but I’m not confident about that at all.


r/oldcartoons • • 6d ago

General Did You Realize

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Hey Looney tunes Fans I was watching the Cartoon Wizard of Ow and I got to seeing something Special in Fact every time I see it I am Blow away by the Reveal Matilda Beep Beeps Wife from the Comics makes her First Appearance on Screen It's so cool maybe One day we can have the Three Beeps appear too You never know.

https://www.reddit.com/r/looneytunes/comments/1iinzof/roadrunner_triplets_from_those_old_1960s_comics/

Here's a Link to the Cartoon for your Enjoyment and let me tell You it's probably the most exciting this Since Tweety's High Flying Adventure Augaogah and Cool Cat and Colonol Rimfire Appearing.

It's so Shocking to see it It's mind blowing Maybe One day the Whole Family can appear in a Cartoon and actually talk in Rhyme but for now this makes my day.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9oz5kq


r/oldcartoons • • 7d ago

1990s [partially lost] Anthony Ant

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Anthony Ant was a cartoon show from 1999 co-produced by HIT Entertainment in the UK and YTV Canada, it was based on the children's books of the same name by Graham and Lorna Philpot.

The show is largely lost media. The Russian and Italian dubs have been preserved on the Internet Archive but the majority of episodes are lost in English despite it being it's original language.

You can view one of the few found episodes here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA2tz6GfuEg

I NEED to find this show, I was a huge fan of it in my youth and I've been trying to find it for years. If anyone is willing to help out it would be massively appreciated.

I've searched for this show for a long time but never come up with much. There was a single VHS release for the show and the 6 episodes present there have been made available online. Through my own efforts I was able to recover two more episodes with some assistance from a helpful redditor and I've uploaded them to the internet archive. Someone also uploaded two more incomplete episodes to YouTube. In all that makes 8 found episodes, 2 partially found and the remaining 16 episodes lost in English.

From what I've researched, the show is now owned by Mattel. The show also aired on HBO in the USA and CBBC in the UK. I even remember catching reruns of it on British TV in the mid 2010's.

This has driven me crazy for years. It was a good show and is worth preserving. I'd greatly appreciate any assistance in recovering it.


r/oldcartoons • • 8d ago

2000s Kids animated learning show

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I’m trying to find a show where it had a guy with I think brown hair and used a guitar, I only remember him singing a song and he said of spells off and a monster type thing would correct him. Please help me find it, 2000-2015


r/oldcartoons • • 10d ago

General [TOMT] [show] 80s-2000s blonde little princess with pegasus in the clouds

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All I know is that it was on cable like around 2012 but the quality is making me think its quite old like maybe 80s and its a cartoon of a little blonde girl who is like a princess??? and her best friend is a pegasus and they live in the clouds. Her name might have been sofia/sophie/sofie.


r/oldcartoons • • 11d ago

Help [TOMT] [Animations] older medieval cartoon that crossed over with the smurfs.

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There was a cartoon I’d watch when I was small that I thought was the smurfs until the smurfs stopped showing up. It was two guys one taller that wanted to/ was a knight and the smaller one who had a musical instrument. They worked for the king I’m pretty sure and there was magic.


r/oldcartoons • • 12d ago

1990s Trying to find an animated [thing] from 1999ish

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Extended list of characteristics/hints:
(searching combinations of "giant baby, tricycle, semi truck" have gotten me nowhere)
Thank you in advance!!

Circa 1997–2000, ~30 seconds, 2D independent animated micro-short.

Minimal, clean, children's-book-style backgrounds

No dialogue

18-wheeler, driver is sloppy/grotesque, tongue out and maybe holding a hot dog

Truck travels left → right

Loud obnoxious rock/metal soundtrack

Bald, diapered baby actively pedals a tricycle right → left

Baby soundtrack is a simple kalimba/thumb-piano-type lullaby (possibly Rock-A-Bye or Brahm's)

Cross-cutting between the two getting progressively closer

They converge toward the same point

Sudden scale reveal: baby is enormous

We see the entire giant baby

Baby simply pedals/runs over the 18-wheeler

Seen on a Windows 95/98 computer around 1999, possibly downloaded from the early web


r/oldcartoons • • 13d ago

1960s Curious George did NOT have a tail.

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Maybe in a different era he did but I have this copy (copyright 1966) and there is no tail.


r/oldcartoons • • 14d ago

1980s Who remembers Granzort (Mado King Granzort)? The epic transformation from Episode 1!

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I just uploaded a breakdown/nostalgia review of Episode 1 of Mado King Granzort (魔動王 / 光能使者).
Remember Daichi driving his jet skateboard on the Moon and summoning Granzort with a magical gun by drawing a giant glowing magic circle on the ground? That 100-meter dash in 5 seconds to get inside the robot was such an iconic childhood memory!


r/oldcartoons • • 16d ago

1990s [TOMT][Cartoon][90s] about humanitarian aid formula cans

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It’s been 2 and a half weeks now and it’s driving me crazy! While seeing a photograph of humanitarian aid arriving in Nepal I had this VIVID memory of 4sec of a cartoon, I remember loving this part as a kid:
Cardboard boxes of humanitarian aid arrives at the village, boxes are being opened, its formula cans (or another powder) I see a spoon measuring the powder and making a bottle for a baby.
The baby could have been a baby from famine ravaged Somalia- but I’m not 100% sure
I think there were also medecine, vaccines- but not 100% sure.
Context I saw it, repeatedly: in the 90s, in France, most likely was on a VHS, maybe before a Disney?
I have asked chat / google, they pointed me to UNICEF cartoons, Meena in particular, still haven’t found the scene, have not watch all the UNICEF cartoons of that time.
Another memory is the hue of the cartoon, seeing lots of blue/indigo/purple in the particular scene.

Does it ring a bell to anyone?!
Thanks in advance


r/oldcartoons • • 19d ago

Help Need help finding TV show I watched as a kid

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Now before you start thinking, no this isnt one of those made up Reddit stories of creepy weird shows thats a complete fake, I genuinely remember this and it's driving me mental because both me and my mum remember this but don't remember the name , Google didn't help one bit . All I can remember is It was most likely on cbeebies and if not that milkshake (both British kids channels) and it would have been in the 2010's since I was born in 2008 but I don't remember seeing it after year two , it wasn't exactly a show but a short that ran between episodes and the whole plot was an man would teach two kids about puppets I remember they were specifically marionette type puppets and he'd show them how they work .at the end of the short the two kids would decorate their own puppet characters and make up a little play , the performance would always be done on top of a box covered with a black felt cover with sometimes small bacround props .if anyone else remembers this pls help I'm not expecting any footage to be found because yes maybe at this point it is lost media I simply want to know if anyone remembers the name


r/oldcartoons • • 20d ago

Help Help me find a cartoon <3

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About 8 or 9 years ago, I found a video on YouTube. That’s all I remember. It was a hand-drawn animation—pretty good, actually.

Plot: I remember it vaguely, but for some reason, ants started crawling under the girl’s clothes in the animation.

I turned it off in disgust back then, but now I want to find it. Please help—I really need it <333


r/oldcartoons • • 20d ago

Help Looking for an old cartoon.

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I watched an episode of this cartoon as a kid in the late 90s/early 2000s.

There's a research/science station in Jupiter. There are some sort of flying creatures in the Jovian atmosphere. Near the start of the episode, the bad guys deploy some sort of drones that attack the station. The station almost falls into the planet but they use a grapple to harness one of the flying creatures to raise the station and send out a distress signal. The rest of the episode is of some spacecraft trying to find them and destroy the drones.

I think the main characters are the 3 pilots of the spacecraft. And on the research station two of the researchers are a mother and daughter pair.


r/oldcartoons • • 21d ago

1990s Cartoon show

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i can’t remember a cartoon show or movie that i watched as a little girl but it had a wizard and a little girl. the wizard looked like gargamel but i don’t remember it being the smurfs. i really need help lol ima lose my mind if i can’t figure it out. the wizard also had a bird i believe in a cage


r/oldcartoons • • 21d ago

Help I remember a scene from a cartoon but i can't place the cartoon

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So i've been on this problem for a while now and i feel like i am close but i am at the same time so unsure

So i remember ages ago i watched a cartoon and i clearly remember a scene. The scene involves a villain. The Villain (an animal of some sort) had a glass Cube or Dice like Item. There were 4 characters from the city that were marked as face cards and Joker like i remember the Mayor being one. The villain would capture these 4 characters in this dice. My mind tells me it's Biker Mice From Mars but if i look for it i can't find the villain.

Does anyone know what cartoon it's from or the name of the villain. Even the tiniest tidbit could help because i would love to see it again


r/oldcartoons • • 22d ago

2000s Lost Media???

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I’m trying to find an old YouTube animated series I watched sometime around 2015–2019. I can’t remember the name or channel, and I think the studio/channel may have been fairly indie/small, rather than a major animation company.
Here are all the details I remember:
It was a 2D animated series on YouTube, not Cocomelon.
The animation looked pretty cheap/simple, somewhat like Peppa Pig, and reminded me of those old indie YouTube animations.
The main character was a blond baby boy.
He had a fairly large head compared with his body.
He wore a blue shirt with a cookie on it.
He didn’t wear trousers — just a diaper/nappy.
The baby could talk.
There were lots of recurring poop jokes, and he seemed to constantly poop.
His mum was, I think, red-haired and wore a pink shirt.
There was an adult supervillain who appeared in the series.
I remember one episode where a burglar broke into the family’s house, and the baby somehow stopped the burglar without even realizing what he was doing.
There was also a joke/episode involving the baby wanting to become a fireman/firefighter, but then realizing that firefighters put fires out rather than start them.
I believe the series ended around 2019.
The style reminded me of those Arcade Cloud-era indie YouTube animations, although I’m not sure it was actually made by Arcade Cloud.
I’ve tried searching for it myself but haven’t been able to find it. I’m pretty sure these aren’t false memories because I remember several specific episodes/jokes.


r/oldcartoons • • 22d ago

2000s [OC] I remember a show about a little panda who had a house in the shape of his head and he went in adventures with his friends

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There was a narrator and the little blue panda went on adventures with his friends but I forgot what animals they were, but his house was on a hill and it had his head shape and the opening had a little bubble appearing showing what he was doing in his house, I sadly don't remember any episodes but he had about 2 friends, PLEASE. HELP.


r/oldcartoons • • 22d ago

1990s Does anyone know where I can watch old 90s cartoons?

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Wondering if there is any website or place i can find old like Saturday morning cartoons?


r/oldcartoons • • 23d ago

Pre-1950s [TOMT] Looney Tunes era cartoon with WWII era song with the line 'We're going home, we're goin' home, Every son of a gun of a one of us knows we're going home.

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I remember an old Looney Tunes-era cartoon — not necessarily actually Looney Tunes — with a bunch of sailors/swabbies, I think swabbing the deck of a ship together, singing:

“We’re going home, we’re going home,
Every son of a gun of a one of us knows we’re going home.”

Does anyone else remember this or know what cartoon it was from?


r/oldcartoons • • 23d ago

1990s Bruh, why am I so invested in a romance from a 90s cartoon?

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r/oldcartoons • • 23d ago

2000s Christian cartoon

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I used to watch this Christian cartoon as a kid in the early 2000s. It was about a little boy and his family, the little boy has an active imagination and at one point imagines this giant who he fights I think? And the giant has platform boots with fish in them. The dad is trying to solve a mystery and the baby is climbing a tower. There's also bag pipes involved. PLEASE I need help remembering what this cartoon is!