Post by 1337gamer15 on Jan 8, 2020 3:35:52 GMT
I don't know what came across me, but for some reason I decided to write a document on my computer that details cartoons and other such media that I vaguely recall. I mainly wrote just loose descriptions on what I remember. I found quite a good amount of them (had some help from the people on the discord), some of them even being on Lost Media Wiki, which seems kind of begrudging considering I saw cartoons on TV that I will probably never be able to see again... I'll dump some of these descriptions from the document here.
Anyways, here's some descriptions on ones that still currently elude me. Few things first:
I was born in 1994, so many of these would be from around when I was only 4 or 5 years old. Circa 1999 per say. I grew up in Toronto and I remember and era where Canadian made cartoons weren’t all made in Toonboom or Flash and some were genuinely good.
I will be giving these shows temporary titles until fully identified.
Some of them I may have already found leads to, and will have links to such.
The information is bound to be inaccurate, I could be confusing content from different shows with one another.
Alright ready? Here we go:
Superhero Dog? (Found Wacky World of Tex Avery: Power Pooch)
I think I remember seeing some cartoon with my sadly deceased brother. It involved a superhero dog, but it wasn’t Underdog from what I remember. The art direction was a bit more Animaniacs looking than Rocky and Bullwinkle-like. I mean I’m not too familiar with Underdog, so maybe it could have just been him. I do remember the dog somewhat looking more like a Jack Russel Terrier rather than a generic white and black eared one. Anyways, this dog may have had some cat as his sidekick (Underdog didn’t have a sidekick as I recall). He also gained his superpowers temporarily by chewing on some boot. (Underdog only needed to change into his super form in secrecy, didn’t need a specific object to do it) Otherwise he became an ordinary dog (he could still speak). There was a part where he needed to stop some bad guy, but he could not find the boot that gave him his powers, so he was demanding his cat sidekick find it for him. FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wacky_World_of_Tex_Avery#Power_Pooch
Screaming Guy?
I remember some short 5-minute bumper show that often played in between shows. It involved this crazy haired guy going on adventures and doing stunts. It would always end with him screaming, as he found himself in a dangerous situation he could not escape from. It also started with him screaming. The art style somewhat made me think of Mike, Lu and Og or anything by Klasky Csupo (although I saw this show before that one). The only real episode I can recall is one where he took a rocket to the moon, and the moon was crescent shaped. His rocket ship was dangling hard to balance of the tip of the crescent. He then began screaming as the show ended.
Crystal Anime? (Found Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals)
I remember my deceased brother downloading some anime off the internet and showing it to me and my other brother. I think he said it had something to do with Final Fantasy, but I’m not sure. It was an English dub. All I can recall is there was this guy and girl, and the guy was helping her get somewhere. The girl had apparently absorbed some energy crystal directly into her abdomen and needed to be somewhere to remove the crystal or something. The guy would often ask if she was feeling ok, and all the time as I recall. Some part also spoofed the Metro Goldwyn Meyer Lion intro, but using a loopy rabbit instead of a lion. FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_Legend_of_the_Crystals
Kitchen Story? (Found The Babaloos)
Some show or movie involving living kitchenware. It was kind of like The Brave Little Toaster, but not quite (or maybe it was, don’t remember a toaster in it though). I remember some characters being a fork with red lips, who was a bit of a complainer. There was also this cloth guy who had a red hanging ring on him. He had a sort of bedsheet ghost dynamic to him. He was apparently the leader of the gang, and as such, always told them where to go. Also had some gray wintry brickwork town. Much like Toy Story, they had to remain still when humans came near. FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babaloos
Swear Bear? (Found Swear Bear)
My deceased brother had some thing on the internet called Swear Bear, that he refused to show me because I was too young to hear its profane language. I just remember some teddy bear on a blue background, and it said it was only for people 18 and older. From the glimpse I caught of it in action, I don’t really think it could have warranted an 18+ rating. There wasn’t anything NSFW about it. FOUND: www.thegreenhead.com/2008/02/swear-bear-cursing-plush-toy.php
Young Dragons? (Found Pocket Dragon Adventures)
Some show involving young dragons. It wasn’t Dragon Tales, because it didn’t feel as educational, and I think the dragons were all very small in comparison to humans. There was some episode involving and alien crash landing a ship, and he had some kind of shrink/enlarge ray. The dragons took the ray and used it on all sorts of stuff, until it ran out of power and then everything was stuck at improper size. The alien was very small too, and they enlarged his ship, so he had to pilot his ship back his home planet and put up with its large size. I think he dangled from a tether. Another episode involved them using transformation spells in order to impress someone they had to meet. One dragon was given some spell to make himself more charismatic, but all it did was make him dizzy. Some other one turns himself into a plush toy (woo deviantart) and it ends with some girl dragon using some “return everything to normal” spell to end the madness.
FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Dragon_Adventures
Circus Time? (Found It's Itsy Bitsy Time!)
Some sort of children’s show called the Circus or something. It was really just a compilation of shorter cartoons. The show had its own intro, and it was done in spooky 90s CGI. A ball bounces and two freaky looking seals show up. Each inner cartoon had to have it’s own intro song too. One I think was called Charlie and Mimo involving I think a sloth or whatever the hell he was, and some sentient teddy bear friend of his, who only made squeaking noises, and yet no one was freaked out by how there was a LIVING TOY. Another was some 64 Zoo Lane (64 was a big number to me as a kid, because NINTENDO 64! OH MY GOD!) about some girl visiting and talking to her next-door neighbor zoo animals. The elephant looked pretty strange. Also mentioned that snakes were slimy, the stupidest myth regarding snakes. Another involved some show of sentient toys, a big teddy bear, a musical monkey, and a zebra and giraffe. Played on Treehouse. The shows themselves were individual ones that could be found in their own releases, but there seemed to be this own show that brought them all together for one reason or another.
FOUND: lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_Itsy_Bitsy_Time!_(1999_TV_Show) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_and_Mimmo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64_Zoo_Lane
Details on LodgeNet's exclusive SNES games
I remember at some hotels, they had this service called LodgeNet, a real precursor to video on demand services. Or maybe it was called OnCommand, many different names. They had their own unique Super Nintendo controller connected to the TV (later ones had Nintendo 64 and Gamecube) where you could order a game to play for a limited time. I strangely remember that Donkey Kong Country was one of the games, but upon booting it up, it was actually Donkey Kong Country 2. It also skipped the file select screen and went straight to the world map after the title screen. This means there was no way to pick two player team or contest mode. You couldn’t save anyways. On this same service, there were these 2 games that were stated as “not available in stores” which were a Tic Tac Toe game, and a Hangman game. In the Tic Tac Toe game, you picked a turtle, cat, or owl character who represented the difficulty levels. There were 3 levels, a 3 in a row, 4 in a row, and 5 in a row. Really strange atmosphere to the game. In the hangman game, you had to just guess words, with pretty much no hint. Getting them wrong doodles the hanged man as usual. A later more difficult stage though started with some guy saying “water, water WATER!” and then you’re in a boxing ring. Instead of the hanging man counting your mistakes, your character would get more beat up as you got letters wrong.
PARTIALLY FOUND: www.unseen64.net/2008/04/14/naughts-crosses-snes-unreleased/
lostmediawiki.com/LodgeNet_in-room_video_game_ROMs_(lost_video_games_from_streaming_service;_mid-1990s_to_mid-2000s)
Wig Factory?
When I was moving into this new house, we spent some time looking at it. The previous family had lived there, and we were buying it from them. I went into the basement and saw the daughter of the family watching something on TV. It was some cartoon where people were singing. Wigs were being carried on some conveyor belt and grabbed by the old white glove factory cliché. Some kind of wig production factory. Had a sort of School House Rock vibe to it.
Rodent Town? (Found Tales of Little Grey Rabbit)
Some show involving rodent families. Some rat is apparently a local asshole, so a squirrel ties his tail in a knot, a sort of symbol that he is a thief. He consults some wise owl, who tells him in order to get the knot untied, he has to “turn over a new leaf”. He then proceeds to do good deeds in order to redeem himself. As he does them, the knot on his tail begins to magically untie. He does good deeds until the knot is fully untied.
FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Grey_Rabbit
Knights or Journey to the West?
Some Medieval town show thing, Either King Arthur type thing or maybe it had something to do with the Chinese tale of Journey to the West. I do remember some show like that, but Sun Wukong wasn’t a monkey, and there was this pig guy called Pigsy or something, supposed to be Zhu Bajie, who was demented and apparently could breathe underwater. Maybe I’m getting shows mixed up and maybe the medieval part wasn’t anything to do with it. Either way, some episode involved everyone in the village being turned into animals that reflect them. The hero guy was given some flower. The hero confronts some other guy who is presumably the sorcerer responsible for the animal transformations. He tells the hero “You are as clever as a fox…” The hero begins to turn into a fox (lmao furry) and uses the flower given to him to prevent the transformation from happening. I can’t find anything that details the episodes.
PARTIALLY FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West_%E2%80%93_Legends_of_the_Monkey_King
Around the world with 2 Inuit Sisters?
Some TV movie involving two Inuit girls going around the world in 80 days, not exactly the Jules Verne novel. They had to collect objects of the different colors of the world, and upon returning, their father or village elder uses them to create a rainbow. There is also some part they met some Doug Dimmadome-like guy and rode in his vehicle and asked him to turn the AC on full blast, since they come presumably from a cold place like Nunavut. They were relieved by the cold temperature and the man driving was freezing uncomfortably. There was also some point where they made it to Australia and complained of the heat. Some beach girls said the sun hadn’t set in ages. Made it back to “home” only to see penguins and realize they went to Antarctica instead as the younger girl examined penguins. Another part had them trying to take a gem eye out of a statue (probably a Moai Head) because they wanted the red color, but some guy denied them, and he dove underwater instead and got a piece of coral as an alternative. A bear gave them a piece of solidified honey as the color of honey. Also, I think the girls had British sounding voices, and probably weren’t voiced by actual Inuit people (though I’m willing to bet the dad or elder was). Had a real flatty art style, very round like a children’s cartoon. The colors were pretty prismatic and contrastive, no saturating or desaturating to establish tone. Like colors of Crayola markers. I think it had the simple title of Around the World in 80 days too, and there have been so many adaptations of that book that it’d be pretty lost. Let alone, I don’t think any media I’ve seen regarding that book involved Inuit people at all. Didn’t involve anything else from the original book besides the idea of using any means of travel to get around the entire planet. Didn’t take place in Victorian times either. I may have seen it on BBC kids, can’t remember the channel.
Gonzo's Ark?
I remember seeing some kind of telling of Noah’s Ark with I think Muppet characters. All I can remember really is that it may have cast Gonzo (or a character that looked like him) as Noah, and there was this talking book (likely a bible) that teleported him places to show and tell him things, likely his task to herd two of every animal onto the ark. The book was tilted sideways flapping its pages like a mouth with googly eyes on top. POSSIBLY FOUND: www.youtube.com/watch?v=isLesjrz3Jk
Color Town? (Found Wee Sing in Sillyville)
I’ve only ever heard one other guy tell me he saw this too, but I remember some weird puppet musical where two kids were sucked into a coloring book or something. They went in because their dog went in as well, he appeared as a character on the coloring book page upon being sucked in. Inside the coloring book realm, they meet this strange woman who wore some weird clothes similar to Koko the Clown but didn’t have a hat. I think she had black permed hair and really gave the impression of being like a kindergarten teacher or something. She told them she has lost the colors to her clothes or something, and they need to go somewhere to get them back. They meet all sorts of puppet characters that sing songs. The only one I can remember was some acorn singing. At the end, the get this woman’s colors back, and they return to the real world. It may have been made by the same studio that made Iris, The Happy Professor, because the puppets used in it had similar vibes, and I think an episode of that show started playing after the movie was done. I think it was released on VHS so it’s not likely lost.
FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Sing#Wee_Sing_in_Sillyville_(1989)[4]
Phone Quiz? (Found Mattel See N' Say Phone)
I remember seeing some thing that was on VHS that came with a toy phone and buttons to push. On there was some puppet guy whose name I think was Seymour. With him were these 2 begins that were I think sentient server computers, or refrigerators, I don’t know. Big rectangles with faces. One male and one female. The female one kind of made me think of that wardrobe character from Beauty and the Beast. Periodically, they’d ask you questions, one pertaining to which animal was a horse’s mother, and you’d push the buttons on the toy phone to answer. There was no syncing or software on this thing, so there wasn’t any way for them to know you got it wrong. Hell, it would make the buzzing sound as it said the correct answer when listing your choices. There was also some part where the male fridge was afraid of dinosaurs, and the female fridge told him that they’re extinct. FOUND: www.youtube.com/watch?v=29vX6iss5ms
Joker's Wild?
My brothers were watching on their laptop during the blackout of 2003, Some anime involving a guy who challenged people to a card game to pick the card that isn’t a joker. He was very crafty and rigged the game by placing 2 jokers sneakily after showing one card was not a joker beforehand. Some lady was talking about how he rigged the game and told to watch his body language as you moved your hand towards a winning or losing card. Eventually she wins the game and the guy remarks that he was sure he slipped a joker in there.
Pirate Captain? (Found Mad Jack the Pirate)
Some cartoon involving some human pirate captain, and his sidekick, presumably his first mate, a rat. He may have been the only member of his crew besides him. His limbs were apparently prosthetic but not wooden, so he would find his limbs being stolen often. I remember his feet being stolen and being nearly cooked by islanders. The rat would often warn him of things. The only episode I remember prominently was one where he and the rat went to a theme park. Apparently, you had to go on a coaster to get into the theme park itself. There may have been a part where he and rat ride another coaster, which rises so high, it goes into outer space, then zooms all the way down. I can’t remember fully, although I think the captain didn’t enjoy the park much, but the rat did. The captain at least screamed on the big drop coaster with the rat having fun. I think I saw this on tv around the '98-'99 era
FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Jack_the_Pirate
Anyways, here's some descriptions on ones that still currently elude me. Few things first:
I was born in 1994, so many of these would be from around when I was only 4 or 5 years old. Circa 1999 per say. I grew up in Toronto and I remember and era where Canadian made cartoons weren’t all made in Toonboom or Flash and some were genuinely good.
I will be giving these shows temporary titles until fully identified.
Some of them I may have already found leads to, and will have links to such.
The information is bound to be inaccurate, I could be confusing content from different shows with one another.
Alright ready? Here we go:
Superhero Dog? (Found Wacky World of Tex Avery: Power Pooch)
I think I remember seeing some cartoon with my sadly deceased brother. It involved a superhero dog, but it wasn’t Underdog from what I remember. The art direction was a bit more Animaniacs looking than Rocky and Bullwinkle-like. I mean I’m not too familiar with Underdog, so maybe it could have just been him. I do remember the dog somewhat looking more like a Jack Russel Terrier rather than a generic white and black eared one. Anyways, this dog may have had some cat as his sidekick (Underdog didn’t have a sidekick as I recall). He also gained his superpowers temporarily by chewing on some boot. (Underdog only needed to change into his super form in secrecy, didn’t need a specific object to do it) Otherwise he became an ordinary dog (he could still speak). There was a part where he needed to stop some bad guy, but he could not find the boot that gave him his powers, so he was demanding his cat sidekick find it for him. FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wacky_World_of_Tex_Avery#Power_Pooch
Screaming Guy?
I remember some short 5-minute bumper show that often played in between shows. It involved this crazy haired guy going on adventures and doing stunts. It would always end with him screaming, as he found himself in a dangerous situation he could not escape from. It also started with him screaming. The art style somewhat made me think of Mike, Lu and Og or anything by Klasky Csupo (although I saw this show before that one). The only real episode I can recall is one where he took a rocket to the moon, and the moon was crescent shaped. His rocket ship was dangling hard to balance of the tip of the crescent. He then began screaming as the show ended.
Crystal Anime? (Found Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals)
I remember my deceased brother downloading some anime off the internet and showing it to me and my other brother. I think he said it had something to do with Final Fantasy, but I’m not sure. It was an English dub. All I can recall is there was this guy and girl, and the guy was helping her get somewhere. The girl had apparently absorbed some energy crystal directly into her abdomen and needed to be somewhere to remove the crystal or something. The guy would often ask if she was feeling ok, and all the time as I recall. Some part also spoofed the Metro Goldwyn Meyer Lion intro, but using a loopy rabbit instead of a lion. FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_Legend_of_the_Crystals
Kitchen Story? (Found The Babaloos)
Some show or movie involving living kitchenware. It was kind of like The Brave Little Toaster, but not quite (or maybe it was, don’t remember a toaster in it though). I remember some characters being a fork with red lips, who was a bit of a complainer. There was also this cloth guy who had a red hanging ring on him. He had a sort of bedsheet ghost dynamic to him. He was apparently the leader of the gang, and as such, always told them where to go. Also had some gray wintry brickwork town. Much like Toy Story, they had to remain still when humans came near. FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babaloos
Swear Bear? (Found Swear Bear)
My deceased brother had some thing on the internet called Swear Bear, that he refused to show me because I was too young to hear its profane language. I just remember some teddy bear on a blue background, and it said it was only for people 18 and older. From the glimpse I caught of it in action, I don’t really think it could have warranted an 18+ rating. There wasn’t anything NSFW about it. FOUND: www.thegreenhead.com/2008/02/swear-bear-cursing-plush-toy.php
Young Dragons? (Found Pocket Dragon Adventures)
Some show involving young dragons. It wasn’t Dragon Tales, because it didn’t feel as educational, and I think the dragons were all very small in comparison to humans. There was some episode involving and alien crash landing a ship, and he had some kind of shrink/enlarge ray. The dragons took the ray and used it on all sorts of stuff, until it ran out of power and then everything was stuck at improper size. The alien was very small too, and they enlarged his ship, so he had to pilot his ship back his home planet and put up with its large size. I think he dangled from a tether. Another episode involved them using transformation spells in order to impress someone they had to meet. One dragon was given some spell to make himself more charismatic, but all it did was make him dizzy. Some other one turns himself into a plush toy (woo deviantart) and it ends with some girl dragon using some “return everything to normal” spell to end the madness.
FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Dragon_Adventures
Circus Time? (Found It's Itsy Bitsy Time!)
Some sort of children’s show called the Circus or something. It was really just a compilation of shorter cartoons. The show had its own intro, and it was done in spooky 90s CGI. A ball bounces and two freaky looking seals show up. Each inner cartoon had to have it’s own intro song too. One I think was called Charlie and Mimo involving I think a sloth or whatever the hell he was, and some sentient teddy bear friend of his, who only made squeaking noises, and yet no one was freaked out by how there was a LIVING TOY. Another was some 64 Zoo Lane (64 was a big number to me as a kid, because NINTENDO 64! OH MY GOD!) about some girl visiting and talking to her next-door neighbor zoo animals. The elephant looked pretty strange. Also mentioned that snakes were slimy, the stupidest myth regarding snakes. Another involved some show of sentient toys, a big teddy bear, a musical monkey, and a zebra and giraffe. Played on Treehouse. The shows themselves were individual ones that could be found in their own releases, but there seemed to be this own show that brought them all together for one reason or another.
FOUND: lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_Itsy_Bitsy_Time!_(1999_TV_Show) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_and_Mimmo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64_Zoo_Lane
Details on LodgeNet's exclusive SNES games
I remember at some hotels, they had this service called LodgeNet, a real precursor to video on demand services. Or maybe it was called OnCommand, many different names. They had their own unique Super Nintendo controller connected to the TV (later ones had Nintendo 64 and Gamecube) where you could order a game to play for a limited time. I strangely remember that Donkey Kong Country was one of the games, but upon booting it up, it was actually Donkey Kong Country 2. It also skipped the file select screen and went straight to the world map after the title screen. This means there was no way to pick two player team or contest mode. You couldn’t save anyways. On this same service, there were these 2 games that were stated as “not available in stores” which were a Tic Tac Toe game, and a Hangman game. In the Tic Tac Toe game, you picked a turtle, cat, or owl character who represented the difficulty levels. There were 3 levels, a 3 in a row, 4 in a row, and 5 in a row. Really strange atmosphere to the game. In the hangman game, you had to just guess words, with pretty much no hint. Getting them wrong doodles the hanged man as usual. A later more difficult stage though started with some guy saying “water, water WATER!” and then you’re in a boxing ring. Instead of the hanging man counting your mistakes, your character would get more beat up as you got letters wrong.
PARTIALLY FOUND: www.unseen64.net/2008/04/14/naughts-crosses-snes-unreleased/
lostmediawiki.com/LodgeNet_in-room_video_game_ROMs_(lost_video_games_from_streaming_service;_mid-1990s_to_mid-2000s)
Wig Factory?
When I was moving into this new house, we spent some time looking at it. The previous family had lived there, and we were buying it from them. I went into the basement and saw the daughter of the family watching something on TV. It was some cartoon where people were singing. Wigs were being carried on some conveyor belt and grabbed by the old white glove factory cliché. Some kind of wig production factory. Had a sort of School House Rock vibe to it.
Rodent Town? (Found Tales of Little Grey Rabbit)
Some show involving rodent families. Some rat is apparently a local asshole, so a squirrel ties his tail in a knot, a sort of symbol that he is a thief. He consults some wise owl, who tells him in order to get the knot untied, he has to “turn over a new leaf”. He then proceeds to do good deeds in order to redeem himself. As he does them, the knot on his tail begins to magically untie. He does good deeds until the knot is fully untied.
FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Grey_Rabbit
Knights or Journey to the West?
Some Medieval town show thing, Either King Arthur type thing or maybe it had something to do with the Chinese tale of Journey to the West. I do remember some show like that, but Sun Wukong wasn’t a monkey, and there was this pig guy called Pigsy or something, supposed to be Zhu Bajie, who was demented and apparently could breathe underwater. Maybe I’m getting shows mixed up and maybe the medieval part wasn’t anything to do with it. Either way, some episode involved everyone in the village being turned into animals that reflect them. The hero guy was given some flower. The hero confronts some other guy who is presumably the sorcerer responsible for the animal transformations. He tells the hero “You are as clever as a fox…” The hero begins to turn into a fox (lmao furry) and uses the flower given to him to prevent the transformation from happening. I can’t find anything that details the episodes.
PARTIALLY FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West_%E2%80%93_Legends_of_the_Monkey_King
Around the world with 2 Inuit Sisters?
Some TV movie involving two Inuit girls going around the world in 80 days, not exactly the Jules Verne novel. They had to collect objects of the different colors of the world, and upon returning, their father or village elder uses them to create a rainbow. There is also some part they met some Doug Dimmadome-like guy and rode in his vehicle and asked him to turn the AC on full blast, since they come presumably from a cold place like Nunavut. They were relieved by the cold temperature and the man driving was freezing uncomfortably. There was also some point where they made it to Australia and complained of the heat. Some beach girls said the sun hadn’t set in ages. Made it back to “home” only to see penguins and realize they went to Antarctica instead as the younger girl examined penguins. Another part had them trying to take a gem eye out of a statue (probably a Moai Head) because they wanted the red color, but some guy denied them, and he dove underwater instead and got a piece of coral as an alternative. A bear gave them a piece of solidified honey as the color of honey. Also, I think the girls had British sounding voices, and probably weren’t voiced by actual Inuit people (though I’m willing to bet the dad or elder was). Had a real flatty art style, very round like a children’s cartoon. The colors were pretty prismatic and contrastive, no saturating or desaturating to establish tone. Like colors of Crayola markers. I think it had the simple title of Around the World in 80 days too, and there have been so many adaptations of that book that it’d be pretty lost. Let alone, I don’t think any media I’ve seen regarding that book involved Inuit people at all. Didn’t involve anything else from the original book besides the idea of using any means of travel to get around the entire planet. Didn’t take place in Victorian times either. I may have seen it on BBC kids, can’t remember the channel.
Gonzo's Ark?
I remember seeing some kind of telling of Noah’s Ark with I think Muppet characters. All I can remember really is that it may have cast Gonzo (or a character that looked like him) as Noah, and there was this talking book (likely a bible) that teleported him places to show and tell him things, likely his task to herd two of every animal onto the ark. The book was tilted sideways flapping its pages like a mouth with googly eyes on top. POSSIBLY FOUND: www.youtube.com/watch?v=isLesjrz3Jk
Color Town? (Found Wee Sing in Sillyville)
I’ve only ever heard one other guy tell me he saw this too, but I remember some weird puppet musical where two kids were sucked into a coloring book or something. They went in because their dog went in as well, he appeared as a character on the coloring book page upon being sucked in. Inside the coloring book realm, they meet this strange woman who wore some weird clothes similar to Koko the Clown but didn’t have a hat. I think she had black permed hair and really gave the impression of being like a kindergarten teacher or something. She told them she has lost the colors to her clothes or something, and they need to go somewhere to get them back. They meet all sorts of puppet characters that sing songs. The only one I can remember was some acorn singing. At the end, the get this woman’s colors back, and they return to the real world. It may have been made by the same studio that made Iris, The Happy Professor, because the puppets used in it had similar vibes, and I think an episode of that show started playing after the movie was done. I think it was released on VHS so it’s not likely lost.
FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Sing#Wee_Sing_in_Sillyville_(1989)[4]
Phone Quiz? (Found Mattel See N' Say Phone)
I remember seeing some thing that was on VHS that came with a toy phone and buttons to push. On there was some puppet guy whose name I think was Seymour. With him were these 2 begins that were I think sentient server computers, or refrigerators, I don’t know. Big rectangles with faces. One male and one female. The female one kind of made me think of that wardrobe character from Beauty and the Beast. Periodically, they’d ask you questions, one pertaining to which animal was a horse’s mother, and you’d push the buttons on the toy phone to answer. There was no syncing or software on this thing, so there wasn’t any way for them to know you got it wrong. Hell, it would make the buzzing sound as it said the correct answer when listing your choices. There was also some part where the male fridge was afraid of dinosaurs, and the female fridge told him that they’re extinct. FOUND: www.youtube.com/watch?v=29vX6iss5ms
Joker's Wild?
My brothers were watching on their laptop during the blackout of 2003, Some anime involving a guy who challenged people to a card game to pick the card that isn’t a joker. He was very crafty and rigged the game by placing 2 jokers sneakily after showing one card was not a joker beforehand. Some lady was talking about how he rigged the game and told to watch his body language as you moved your hand towards a winning or losing card. Eventually she wins the game and the guy remarks that he was sure he slipped a joker in there.
Pirate Captain? (Found Mad Jack the Pirate)
Some cartoon involving some human pirate captain, and his sidekick, presumably his first mate, a rat. He may have been the only member of his crew besides him. His limbs were apparently prosthetic but not wooden, so he would find his limbs being stolen often. I remember his feet being stolen and being nearly cooked by islanders. The rat would often warn him of things. The only episode I remember prominently was one where he and the rat went to a theme park. Apparently, you had to go on a coaster to get into the theme park itself. There may have been a part where he and rat ride another coaster, which rises so high, it goes into outer space, then zooms all the way down. I can’t remember fully, although I think the captain didn’t enjoy the park much, but the rat did. The captain at least screamed on the big drop coaster with the rat having fun. I think I saw this on tv around the '98-'99 era
FOUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Jack_the_Pirate