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
Nu Pogodi is goated
Hokuto No Ken, not because it’s particularly unhinged but because in France it was programmed in the morning cartoon segment with dragon ball etc… it was so out of place that the dubbers had an obligation to tone it down in the translations and add jokes and puns.
It went about as well as you would expect, just a layer of absurdist humor on top of the ultra violence and gore…
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Venture Brothers beats them all.
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Now I know how Brock feels, having to do all the work while these lammos get top billing.
Sheeesh!
Whoops
IGNORE ME!
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.
Yes!
Cow & Chicken / I M Weasel.
Yeah this show was so weird and off-putting. Watched it every day before school.
Yeah this is the answer that I came here to see. These definitely belong in this list. Cow & Chicken could be particularly unhinged.
Cow’s tantrums and crying gets me every time
Ren and stimpy
That one episode where Stimpy births out a fart and has to raise it comes to mind.
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.
Was gonna say, some of those close-up shots are not for children
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!
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.
Happy Tree Friends
This was a great show, I loved this in my early 20s.
• 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
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.
I want a Pickles tattoo so bad!
I love them all but its like, how did this shit get on TV and then anywhere near children lmao.
The Brak Show was on Adult Swim along with a lot of other cartoons aimed at adults. I seriously doubt Happy Tree Friends was grouped into children’s programming, but I only know that from the internet.
Fairly Oddparents & Billy and Mandy both had stuff that might be heavy or scary if you think about it, but the surface level stuff had enough humor involved to make it less intense than it could have been. A lot of shows for kids have more complex stuff that goes over kid’s heads.
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…
