The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
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-- 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.
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 '
Drawn Together
Invader Zim
Pop Team Epic (Poputepipikku)
Ren and stimpy
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
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!
That one episode where Stimpy births out a fart and has to raise it comes to mind.
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.
How on earth could you leave out the Emmy award winning phenomenon Courage the Cowardly Dog?
That show was unhinged
Arguably best cartoon ever made
It was fantastic
Still fantastic. I still watch it regularly before bed
Pretty sure if I saw that barber episode again I wouldn’t be able to sleep for a week. It was rather…naughty.
I’m more of a futurama sleeper myself lol
Yeah courage is still scary and disturbing. Brilliant stuff
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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.
This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!
Happy Tree Friends
This was a great show, I loved this in my early 20s.
Ren and Stimpy was already mentioned, and that one is pretty out there. Rocko's Modern Life would be a trailing second place imo. Plenty of innuendos and inappropriate storylines in that cartoon.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (though that one was a mix of cartoon and live action, still massively unhinged) and Big Mouth
That looks... uncomfortable.
Oh it is.
• 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.
Yeah sorry - I forgot that Angela Anaconda was cutouts or something like that.
But Ugly Martians haha
Ugly Americans, wish they wouldn't have cancelled it. Shit was great
Untalkative Bunny
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.
Happy Tree Friends ended up on TV? Damn, that's fucked up. It was never meant for children.
Am I tripping or is this Guernica?
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