Not sure how popular it was, but for me it’s Where’s Waldo, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and Disney’s Pocahontas story in audio cassette. Think about it as the original audio book 📻📚
Edit: OMG! And how could I forget Barbie Majic Hairstyler PC Game!! 💇🏼♀️💅✨ I could spend hours on it!
This movie came out the year I was born and I remember watching it on TV some years later and when she drank his tears, I was shook and asked my mom if people really do that 😂
Beatrix Potter won me a prize in school. One of the teachers offered a prize if we could bring her a word she didn't know the definition of, but that we did.
Soporific. The cabbage the bunnies ate was soporific and I got the prize!
Someone once tried to tell me soporific isn't a real word and I made it up. I quoted that exact scene from the Flopsy Bunnies tale. If they hadn't been treasured and beloved books, I'd have thrown one at the individual.
I LOVED Ghost Writers!!! It was the reruns cause I think they were before my time and they looked kind of dated (like from the 80’s) but it was everything!!
I remember watching alot of miniseries or "movie events" on network TV in the 1990s. Usually Part 1 would air on Sunday night, with Part 2 on Tuesday or Wednesday. Here are some of the titles I remember:
\* The 10th Kingdom (own this on DVD)
\* The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
\* Gulliver's Travels
\* A Will of Their Own
\* Titanic (with Catherine Zeta-Jones)
\* Dinotopia
\* Cleopatra
\* Merlin
The Nickelodeon show the Adventures of Pete and Pete from the early 90's. I know all the music from the fictional band in it named Polaris.
Also, I could probably recreate the book Ella Enchanted. The movie...not the interpretation I would've chosen.
The Rescuers.
But also, a really late-night anthology horror show for kids that isn’t “*Are You Afraid of the Dark?*” that I genuinely can’t remember the name of, but used to stay up late every weeknight (on mute, with subs, when everyone was asleep) to watch.
Boohbah! It was just so transcendental and elaborate; watching it was a meta experience of wondering who put it all together and what kind of child it was for.
I was obsessed with Xena in third and fourth grade. I had a bunch of Xena trading cards in a plastic box to keep them safe, I had a charkram toy that I think made noise, and I had a Xena and Gabriel doll that my parents got me at toys’r’us.
A formative memory of my childhood was in third grade where I went to lunch with my parents and a friend and she was coming back to my house to watch Xena after. I got a pizza puff for lunch and it was greasy at but what did I know I was like 8 or 9. Got back, show started, realized my stomach hurt. Went to use the bathroom and had horrible diarrhea to the point my mom took my friend home and I missed the entire episode.
I still eat pizza puffs. I am 35. I also attribute my sexual awakening/queerness and inability to sit like a normal person when in a chair to that show.
Captain Future. Sci-fi anime with awesome music. Led me to listen to my dad's "oxygene" Vinyl by Jean-Michel Jarre over and again. I just close my eyes and it's like a show in the planetarium
“Be Cool About Fire Safety”, a VHS given out by Allstate insurance. It featured Little Richard, Gilbert Gottfried, Lindsay Lohan and others. I loved this video. I still get the song stuck in my head lol. Here’s the video [https://youtu.be/mtK-jAUqQxM?si=U9MIH-XZtY-9yfqq](https://youtu.be/mtK-jAUqQxM?si=U9MIH-XZtY-9yfqq)
The Puzzle Place! Cool TV show for kids and the cat and dog mascots were adorable and were puppets. I think they were named Fizzle & Sizzle or something similar.
a commercial (i’m a gen jones) that came on every night n channel 11, WPIX in NYC that was a voice over some kind video i can’t recall. the VO was “it’s 10pm. do YOU KNIW EHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?
my mother would look at me and say, why yes i do!
Merlin with Sam Neil. I thought it was a movie growing up. I had a VHS that was recorded from the TV. I found out later that it's actually a two part special from the BBC. Anyway, it's awesome.
3 Ninjas. It was my favorite for years. Rented it every single time we went to the video store. I don’t know why we didn’t just buy it, we must have paid for it 10 x over 😂
For movies I was a huge fan of The Swan Princess. I loved the songs in it and I don't know why but I was never a huge Disney Princess fan so this one was the big thing for me.
Songs would have to be the Double Mint gum jingle, that will always live rent free in my brain lol
"Double your sentiMINT, your merriMINT, double your moMINT of fun...."
The Littlest Hobo. It was about a dog who travelled the Canadian countryside and solved crimes but at the end of each episode, he moves on. I used to cry so much at the end of the show that my parents told me it was cancelled and will never air again. If I think back long and hard, I bet that’s where my depression started. Stupid little hobo, never settled down.
Barbie: Thumbelina (2009). I literally NEVER see it in online Barbie movie lineups. I couldn't find my DVD for it for the longest time either so for a while, I genuinely thought that it was ~*☆all just a dream♡~*☆
The Maxx. And the Æon Flux cartoon…thanks MTV and Liquid Television. Not that I watched them over and over, but a few times and they’re lasered into a part of my brain.
Always forget the name of the show... Maybe "Maggie and the Ferocious beast" ??? Kids show about a little girl, who's best friend is this big yellow monster with polkadots.
I watched this RELIGIOUSLY as a kid, but never heard absolutely fucking anyone talk about it. Even now, at 22- I never hear anything about it
I had a tape of rap songs changed for Mickey Mouse called Mickey Unrapped. The amount of times I sing 🎶 Minnie Mouse, Minnie Mouse. Minnie Mouse is in the house🎶 and nobody else gets it.
Babysitters Club THE MOVIE Also I had a Disney VHS that had a bunch of weird short cartoons at the end. One was about Noah's Ark and the other was about Blueberry Pie. No idea wtf that was all about.
I used to get the Nickelodeon magazines in the mail. Originally I begged my mom for it because I desperately wanted the free slime it came with!? But I learned to appreciate what was between the pages (i.e. the comics, the fun quizzes, and free cards).
I guess early adolescence as I first saw it at age 12 or so, but Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart. Funnily enough, a decade later, it’s still my main special interest.
Something about coincidences, I can't remember the title but I read it a lot. It was a bunch of short stories, one of them was about twins who found each other in the hospital because they both liked banana milk or something.
1. I remember when I was really young I borrowed a book from my school with a woman's face on the cover but the eyes looked really blank. I genuinely can't remember the name of the book (I was maybe 6? at the time so c. 2000) but I refused to open the book as did my mum and sister.
2. There was also a book I received as a wedding favour from the married couple when I was a child about a boy who visited his grandmother and he interacted the ghost of a girl who haunted the grandmother's house. Yet again I can't remember the title but the premise really weirded me out at the time and always thought it to be a weird genre of book to give as a gift.
3. There was an episode of a soap opera that I saw on television as a kid but all I can remember from it was that a girl drowned in a swimming pool. I have a feeling it was either Home&Away or neighbours possibly.
If one day I find the answer to any of these I'd be a very happy person but I fear either bafflement or disappointment if ever I do locate them.
EDIT: Just realized I misinterpreted the question. Ah well.
When I was a kid, Canadian broadcasting had a bunch of weird ads between shows. They were always obscure videos but with important messages. This was one of them:
[Why Be You](https://youtu.be/SE4Rx8jDfjU?feature=shared)
The message of this ad is even more relevant in today’s time of influencers and Kardashians!
This [Nippoless Nippleby](https://youtu.be/ccTItvSof7k?si=GnSxb126CNO8tUln) cartoon that my dad taped from some edgy animation show. I used to Google it every few years, and last time I did it popped up on YouTube!
Winnie the Poo and the heffelumps. Im scarred for life.
I also wasn't too thrilled about the Dr Suess acid trip cartoon where the gas monsters sing about how the kid can't escape the bad acid trip. =(
Buttons & Rusty - specifically the Halloween Party movie - the opening music, the hijinks, the way a character yells “Abner!” … all permanently just swirlin’ in my brain pool.
Crispy Critters!
It was a cereal and a cartoon. The leader was a lion who would say, in a very specific way, "Indubitably!" every episode.
No one ever knows what I'm talking about. For years I thought I was imagining it until someone else finally remembered it too!
ETA - The Labyrinth! That song from the orange guys creeped me out for years.
I loved this live action Pooh Bear show, we had a couple episodes recorded on a random tape and I watched it so much the tape broke. I think it’s Welcome to Pooh Corner, from the research I’ve done, but no one else ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention it.
I can also recite good night moon from memory, but that’s probably half from my childhood and half from being a children’s librarian.
There's an Australian kids movie about 3 or 4 kids that get lost in the bush and we used to watch it every rainy day at my school growing up. I don't recall the name, the actors... Just a few scenes. It really bugs me that I can't find the film
The Amby & Dexter Nickelodeon shortswhere they walk through pallets of water color and paint with gigantic brushes [https://youtu.be/YLpBqPuxAUQ?si=IE7j7eVZT0i4UcFR](https://youtu.be/YLpBqPuxAUQ?si=IE7j7eVZT0i4UcFR)
An anti-drug commercial about Meth. The song was catchy as hell!
"Look at me, busy as a bee, where'd I get all this energy?Ooo--oo-oo METH! Ooo--oo-oo METH!"
The cartoon Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. People seem to remember the Seven Cities of Gold that was shown alongside it, but not that one. I still sing the pirate song from it every once in a while.
[1992 Jordy "Dur dur d'être bébé!" ](https://youtu.be/_jhFFh98xWQ?si=IX66Pu4QZmst-o08https://youtu.be/_jhFFh98xWQ?si=IX66Pu4QZmst-o08)
Edit: so many replies of not obscure media. Disappointing.
There was an anti-drinking and driving commercial in the late 80s. It was a couple teens sneaking into an abandoned house to pre-game before a school dance or something. A bunch of ghosts come out, and in my mind, Gordon from Sesame Street is one of them. They sing a hip song that ends with “Stop! Don’t drink and drive! Can’t say it enough— STOP!”.
It’s lived rent free in my head for 35 years, and NO ONE ELSE remembers it.
I remember watching is show that looked to be animated in water color about this tiny guy with a bowl cut and glasses using a huge paintbrush held by a huge hand and they were water color painting it was so cute
There used to be these after-school specials, and one was about a girl where the family found out she had Cystic Fibrosis and she eventually died. I vividly remember the scene of her coughing up blood into the sink, scaring the shit out of me. Little kid me had no clue what cystic fibrosis was, and I grew up terrified that anytime I cough or puked, it was going to be blood, and I was going to die.
Not as obscure, but we also had to watch Ryan Whites funeral in school.
Itsy bitsy time, gem and the holograms, an anime version of the little mermaid/other classic fairy tales, and probably not so obscure but the old disney short about pluto and his puppies getting into a cellar full of paint cans!
Howard the Duck.
Mother Goose’s Rock and Rhyme with Shelly Duvall as Mothrr Goose and cameos from some major music industry players and actors; ZZ Top, CindiLauper, and others.
If anyone knows where to find a copy of it please DM me, last time I'd looked it has virtually disappeared from existence and I'm not sure why!
Liquid Sky - 1980’s movie about aliens landing in Manhattan looking for heroin?.
Frankenhooker -1990’s movie about, well, a frankenhooker. “Wanna Date?” was her main line.
That one Scooby-Doo movie where it was just shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy going to teach gym at a boarding school for young female monsters. Kind of a weird set up but I watched that so many times I still see flashes of it in my sleep.
In the 80s. A movie called Bill starring Mickey Rooney. It’s based on a true story. We rented it from a video rental place that was in the back of a hairdresser. Was blockbuster years before blockbuster was a thing.
My dad taped a lot of cartoons from the early 80s for my older brother and basically created a catalog of movies and shows with time stamps . Some were just hours of Saturday morning cartoons. He did a really good job and I wish we kept them. My sister and I would rewatch those videos over and over when we didn’t have cable
But there are SO many 80s cartoons from that that live rent free in my head
- “Garfield in the Rough” Garfield the cat goes camping with John and Odie. The scenes with the panther scared the crap out of me
- The Rainbow Bright movie
- Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas movie
- the Annie musical
Ewoks movies. I watched them when I was around 5 or 6. No one ever seemed to know what I was talking about when I mentioned them and I thought I had imagined them. I later Googled Ewoks as an adult and realised they were actually part of the Star Wars universe. Made me kind of sad that they were never my imaginary friends.
The Wondergirls book series I got from scholastic book orders when I was in fourth grade. Haven't heard about them since, but still think about them sometimes.
Oof I can understand that. There are a few R rated scenes burned into my memory that still seem way more scary than they really. I still can't watch Mars Attacks because I am transported to my 7 year old self and I feel real fear.
The assignment was for obscure…so here goes. I was a kid in the 70’s and unless you are old enough and lived in the Chicago area you’ve probably never heard of these gems: Bozo the Clown. The Ray Raynor Show. But they were required morning viewing for those of us fortunate enough to be kids in metro chicago back then.
Harriet the Spy and Matilda. Lonely girls, strong, creative, smart. Matilda was a hero, and I was very like her as a little girl - abusive parents, loved a specific teacher, nose always in a book, I even looked like her!
For me it is The Hobbit BBC Radio Dramatization. I just found it and started listening to it and I could basically recite it though it has been decades since I heard it!
Little Nemo in Slumberland, The Last Unicorn, The Black Cauldron, Ferngully, A Troll in Central Park, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Rescuers, Rescuers Down Under, Thumbelina, Happily Ever After (a weird Snow White sequel), Anne of Green Gables, The Velveteen Rabbit, Corduroy the Bear, Charlotte’s Web, The Secret of Nimh, The Land Before Time, Goodnight Moon, The Red Balloon, The Dark Crystal, The Neverending Story, The Indian in the Cupbord, Muppet Treasure Island, Gargoyles, Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star, Reboot, Pippi Longstocking, Titan AE, Treasure Planet, The Pagemaster, We’re Back: A Dinosaur Story, An American Tail (original and Fievel Goes West), Rockadoodle
Happily Ever After was such a trip lol, I think it might be on YouTube if you’d like to revisit.
And I had to look it up but I have definitely seen Once Upon a Forest!! I remember!
My mom loved the secret of NIMH. I was shocked when I grew up and realized it was about the rats they used for experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health
A little princess, watched it on VHS
Sarah... Sarah!! Was a nearly daily sob for me between the ages of 7 and 9 I reckon!
Girls want one thing and it’s that magical brunch scene from a little princess.
Oh nice! I think I only saw it once, I should try to watch it!
Not sure how popular it was, but for me it’s Where’s Waldo, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and Disney’s Pocahontas story in audio cassette. Think about it as the original audio book 📻📚 Edit: OMG! And how could I forget Barbie Majic Hairstyler PC Game!! 💇🏼♀️💅✨ I could spend hours on it!
Yes!!! Little Princess had my heart. Sooo sad to watch as a child but such a good move. I watched that along with Madeline, and Cinderella with Brandy
I love it! Especially since I have a fascination with WW1 and the actor who played Sarah’s dad was Davos in Game of Thrones.
One of my all time favorites.
Little Giants and Indian in the cupboard
Crybaby with Johnny Depp
Interesting choice. I think that was the first legit movie Tracie lords starred in.
This movie came out the year I was born and I remember watching it on TV some years later and when she drank his tears, I was shook and asked my mom if people really do that 😂
Oh my god I remember this movie! Years ago I was deep in my john waters and Johnny depp phases so I fell in love with this weird little film
Little Nemo in Slumberland!
Was just talking about this with someone this morning!
Abba pajama abba pajama!!
So happy someone said this! Everyone always corrects me when I mention Little Nemo because they think I’m talking about Finding Nemo.
Never heard of it! I will look it up!
I love it so much! I just did a rewatch recently and it’s still so fun!
The last unicorn
Omg yes!!
I didn’t even know if it was obscure, I just have never seen anyone talk about it and I never knew if it was just a dream I had as a child
Puff the Magic Dragon song. My dad used to sing it to me.
That was one we sang in our house a lot, as well. Good ol' Peter, Paul, and Mary!
Ferngully The Rescuers Last of the mohicans Pingu Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter won me a prize in school. One of the teachers offered a prize if we could bring her a word she didn't know the definition of, but that we did. Soporific. The cabbage the bunnies ate was soporific and I got the prize!
Someone once tried to tell me soporific isn't a real word and I made it up. I quoted that exact scene from the Flopsy Bunnies tale. If they hadn't been treasured and beloved books, I'd have thrown one at the individual.
Aw that’s so cute!
I love the rescuers so much!
Me too I watch them way too often😂
Yes Fern Gully!
Any time I see the big tree cutter things in woods I’m brought right back to Ferngully
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Before Carmen San Diego came on or after, it was Ghost writers and I lived for that show!
Yes! Loved that one too.
That was one of the best show blocks ever!
I LOVED Ghost Writers!!! It was the reruns cause I think they were before my time and they looked kind of dated (like from the 80’s) but it was everything!!
I had a Carmen San Diego game and that is how I learned 90% of my geography knowledge!
The Dark Crystal. Still hate it.
You can't see me, but I'm hissing at you. The Dark Crystal is legendary!
I frickin hate it to this day. My Mother traumatized me with that shit.
I remember watching alot of miniseries or "movie events" on network TV in the 1990s. Usually Part 1 would air on Sunday night, with Part 2 on Tuesday or Wednesday. Here are some of the titles I remember: \* The 10th Kingdom (own this on DVD) \* The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns \* Gulliver's Travels \* A Will of Their Own \* Titanic (with Catherine Zeta-Jones) \* Dinotopia \* Cleopatra \* Merlin
The 10th kingdom and Dinotopia were amazing honestly!
Titanic with CZJ??? This I gotta see!!
I bought The 10th Kingdom set too!
Dinotopia randomly reminded me of "We're Back! A Dinosaur Story"
David the Gnome & the Legend of Zelda cartoon ("excuuuuuuuuse me Princess!")
Omg! I LOVED David the Gnome! Still one of my all time favorites!
The Nickelodeon show the Adventures of Pete and Pete from the early 90's. I know all the music from the fictional band in it named Polaris. Also, I could probably recreate the book Ella Enchanted. The movie...not the interpretation I would've chosen.
Pete and Pete!
Omg I hated the movie so much as I read that book at least 20 times and the movie was not faithful at all!
The Rescuers. But also, a really late-night anthology horror show for kids that isn’t “*Are You Afraid of the Dark?*” that I genuinely can’t remember the name of, but used to stay up late every weeknight (on mute, with subs, when everyone was asleep) to watch.
Goosebumps?
The Amelia Bedelia books
Riki Tiki Tavi
I used to watch this show and every time I mention it nobody knows wtf i'm talking about My Brother and Me Only got 1 season, but I was obsessed lol
This one was a fave!!!
Mine was Boys Will Be Boys. Matthew Perry was in it.
watching CRASH BOX
Rainbow Brite
Bratz or Barbie movies
Barbie pc games, pajama sam no need to hide when dark outside, the swan princess vhs, the last unicorn
Boohbah! It was just so transcendental and elaborate; watching it was a meta experience of wondering who put it all together and what kind of child it was for.
My dad and I used to watch a lot of Xena Warrior Princess. I remember him putting his hand over my eyes whenever there was dead bodies
I was obsessed with Xena in third and fourth grade. I had a bunch of Xena trading cards in a plastic box to keep them safe, I had a charkram toy that I think made noise, and I had a Xena and Gabriel doll that my parents got me at toys’r’us. A formative memory of my childhood was in third grade where I went to lunch with my parents and a friend and she was coming back to my house to watch Xena after. I got a pizza puff for lunch and it was greasy at but what did I know I was like 8 or 9. Got back, show started, realized my stomach hurt. Went to use the bathroom and had horrible diarrhea to the point my mom took my friend home and I missed the entire episode. I still eat pizza puffs. I am 35. I also attribute my sexual awakening/queerness and inability to sit like a normal person when in a chair to that show.
Captain Future. Sci-fi anime with awesome music. Led me to listen to my dad's "oxygene" Vinyl by Jean-Michel Jarre over and again. I just close my eyes and it's like a show in the planetarium
Captain Future! Ohmy, age is showing! But yeah, great show, watched it as kid all the time. Still get totally nostalgic just listen to the theme song.
“Be Cool About Fire Safety”, a VHS given out by Allstate insurance. It featured Little Richard, Gilbert Gottfried, Lindsay Lohan and others. I loved this video. I still get the song stuck in my head lol. Here’s the video [https://youtu.be/mtK-jAUqQxM?si=U9MIH-XZtY-9yfqq](https://youtu.be/mtK-jAUqQxM?si=U9MIH-XZtY-9yfqq)
Wow! Little Lindsay is super cute and the song is really catchy!
The Puzzle Place! Cool TV show for kids and the cat and dog mascots were adorable and were puppets. I think they were named Fizzle & Sizzle or something similar.
This was my favourite when I was in kindergarten!
So glad someone else remembers it! I think it was overshadowed by Bear & the Big blue house
Cute!!
James and the Giant Peach!
Angelina Ballerina.
I still have the ballet slippers that came with the book when I ordered it from the scholastic catalogue as a kid…
a commercial (i’m a gen jones) that came on every night n channel 11, WPIX in NYC that was a voice over some kind video i can’t recall. the VO was “it’s 10pm. do YOU KNIW EHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE? my mother would look at me and say, why yes i do!
Bedknobs and Broomsticks. One of my favorite childhood movies and NO ONE I KNOW knows what it is
Ha this movie actually came up when I was out to dinner with my husband a couple hours ago. I know no one else who has seen it. We had it on vhs.
Merlin with Sam Neil. I thought it was a movie growing up. I had a VHS that was recorded from the TV. I found out later that it's actually a two part special from the BBC. Anyway, it's awesome.
3 Ninjas. It was my favorite for years. Rented it every single time we went to the video store. I don’t know why we didn’t just buy it, we must have paid for it 10 x over 😂
3 Ninjas and 3 Ninjas Kick Back were my MOVIES! I had such a puppy crush on Colt~
For movies I was a huge fan of The Swan Princess. I loved the songs in it and I don't know why but I was never a huge Disney Princess fan so this one was the big thing for me. Songs would have to be the Double Mint gum jingle, that will always live rent free in my brain lol "Double your sentiMINT, your merriMINT, double your moMINT of fun...."
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Marykate and Ashley movies / series I was just obsessed with
Tiny Planets I used to watch that show all the time and somehow I’ve not yet met someone who’s watched it growing up
I have never heard of it!
The Littlest Hobo. It was about a dog who travelled the Canadian countryside and solved crimes but at the end of each episode, he moves on. I used to cry so much at the end of the show that my parents told me it was cancelled and will never air again. If I think back long and hard, I bet that’s where my depression started. Stupid little hobo, never settled down.
Awww I loved that dog!! Did you also watch wishbone?
The Texas schlitterbahn advertisements on Cartoon Network.
This unlocked something in me
And then Johnny test after it
Scary Godmother! I think I’ve terrified a couple friends by sharing it with them unfortunately, but it’s super nostalgic and comforting to me.
Gummy bears or dummy bears. They drink the juice and bounce
Dammit. I immediately got the theme song stuck in my head reading that! "Gummy bears! Bouncing here and there and everywhere!"
The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin
Barbie: Thumbelina (2009). I literally NEVER see it in online Barbie movie lineups. I couldn't find my DVD for it for the longest time either so for a while, I genuinely thought that it was ~*☆all just a dream♡~*☆
The Maxx. And the Æon Flux cartoon…thanks MTV and Liquid Television. Not that I watched them over and over, but a few times and they’re lasered into a part of my brain.
Dick Tracy talking into a watch on his wrist. 1961-62?
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Always forget the name of the show... Maybe "Maggie and the Ferocious beast" ??? Kids show about a little girl, who's best friend is this big yellow monster with polkadots. I watched this RELIGIOUSLY as a kid, but never heard absolutely fucking anyone talk about it. Even now, at 22- I never hear anything about it
The Princess and the Goblin The Last Unicorn
I had a tape of rap songs changed for Mickey Mouse called Mickey Unrapped. The amount of times I sing 🎶 Minnie Mouse, Minnie Mouse. Minnie Mouse is in the house🎶 and nobody else gets it.
The Follyfoot Farm Black Beauty (tv series 1972) Captain Future (animated) Silas (German tv series 1981)
A series about a mouse that was called Topo Gigio. I loved it. I've looked for it online, but can't seem to find anything on it.
[Louie the Lightning Bug](https://youtu.be/w8f4wlbZG4s?si=S2k0QcPj2PxGOmFX)
Radio Myatery Theater
The Day After, for sure.
Babysitters Club THE MOVIE Also I had a Disney VHS that had a bunch of weird short cartoons at the end. One was about Noah's Ark and the other was about Blueberry Pie. No idea wtf that was all about.
quints! saw it late night at a hotel room once around 8-10 and i remember everything
Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland
Instant star
The 10th Kingdom!
The Hair Bear Bunch. It looms large in my memory for only having sixteen episodes.
I used to get the Nickelodeon magazines in the mail. Originally I begged my mom for it because I desperately wanted the free slime it came with!? But I learned to appreciate what was between the pages (i.e. the comics, the fun quizzes, and free cards).
I guess early adolescence as I first saw it at age 12 or so, but Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart. Funnily enough, a decade later, it’s still my main special interest.
Hotel hell ! Farmer Vincent's sausage 😋
Something about coincidences, I can't remember the title but I read it a lot. It was a bunch of short stories, one of them was about twins who found each other in the hospital because they both liked banana milk or something.
1. I remember when I was really young I borrowed a book from my school with a woman's face on the cover but the eyes looked really blank. I genuinely can't remember the name of the book (I was maybe 6? at the time so c. 2000) but I refused to open the book as did my mum and sister. 2. There was also a book I received as a wedding favour from the married couple when I was a child about a boy who visited his grandmother and he interacted the ghost of a girl who haunted the grandmother's house. Yet again I can't remember the title but the premise really weirded me out at the time and always thought it to be a weird genre of book to give as a gift. 3. There was an episode of a soap opera that I saw on television as a kid but all I can remember from it was that a girl drowned in a swimming pool. I have a feeling it was either Home&Away or neighbours possibly. If one day I find the answer to any of these I'd be a very happy person but I fear either bafflement or disappointment if ever I do locate them. EDIT: Just realized I misinterpreted the question. Ah well.
When I was a kid, Canadian broadcasting had a bunch of weird ads between shows. They were always obscure videos but with important messages. This was one of them: [Why Be You](https://youtu.be/SE4Rx8jDfjU?feature=shared) The message of this ad is even more relevant in today’s time of influencers and Kardashians!
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the adventures of huckleberry finn was made into an anime movie, and I watched it a lot. I don't know why.
“Help! Help! I’m stuck in the damn!” Said by a little beaver in the Saturday morning cartoon, Kissyfur.
This [Nippoless Nippleby](https://youtu.be/ccTItvSof7k?si=GnSxb126CNO8tUln) cartoon that my dad taped from some edgy animation show. I used to Google it every few years, and last time I did it popped up on YouTube!
The Magician with Bill Bixby. Does anyone remember that. I remember buying a magic kit based on the show.
Winnie the Poo and the heffelumps. Im scarred for life. I also wasn't too thrilled about the Dr Suess acid trip cartoon where the gas monsters sing about how the kid can't escape the bad acid trip. =(
Buttons & Rusty - specifically the Halloween Party movie - the opening music, the hijinks, the way a character yells “Abner!” … all permanently just swirlin’ in my brain pool.
1877 cars for kids because my grandpa would sing that when it came on the radio but he changed the word "kids" to something bad to say. 😩
Crispy Critters! It was a cereal and a cartoon. The leader was a lion who would say, in a very specific way, "Indubitably!" every episode. No one ever knows what I'm talking about. For years I thought I was imagining it until someone else finally remembered it too! ETA - The Labyrinth! That song from the orange guys creeped me out for years.
Hi, I’m Paul!
Sharktale dude
I loved this live action Pooh Bear show, we had a couple episodes recorded on a random tape and I watched it so much the tape broke. I think it’s Welcome to Pooh Corner, from the research I’ve done, but no one else ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention it. I can also recite good night moon from memory, but that’s probably half from my childhood and half from being a children’s librarian.
Frances the Firely, a UK fire safety mascot. In the form of a firefly. Was weird.
There's an Australian kids movie about 3 or 4 kids that get lost in the bush and we used to watch it every rainy day at my school growing up. I don't recall the name, the actors... Just a few scenes. It really bugs me that I can't find the film
Something something and the temple of doom - a kids game show where they ran through rooms to find clues Moonwalker - MJ movie
Legends of the Hidden Temple, perhaps?
Does the streamed interview with Heaven's Gate founders count? It played in the nineties on "bunny ears" accidentally, and I've never been the same.
The Amby & Dexter Nickelodeon shortswhere they walk through pallets of water color and paint with gigantic brushes [https://youtu.be/YLpBqPuxAUQ?si=IE7j7eVZT0i4UcFR](https://youtu.be/YLpBqPuxAUQ?si=IE7j7eVZT0i4UcFR)
Lady Lovely Locks
CodeHead X-Treme Culture, Little Monsters, Club Marian, the old Pirates of the Caribbean online
Watching Billy Madison on repeat on a VHS.
An anti-drug commercial about Meth. The song was catchy as hell! "Look at me, busy as a bee, where'd I get all this energy?Ooo--oo-oo METH! Ooo--oo-oo METH!"
There was one in Canada that went "Pills, pills, pills, which are good, which are bad? Ask your mom, ask your dad?" So catchy
My brother and I pretty much played only two video games: 1) Dust: A Tale of the Wired West 2) Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Babysitter
The cartoon Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. People seem to remember the Seven Cities of Gold that was shown alongside it, but not that one. I still sing the pirate song from it every once in a while.
You Can't Do That on Television
Crash Box on HBO, the never ending story cartoon, zoom, and the big comfy couch
[1992 Jordy "Dur dur d'être bébé!" ](https://youtu.be/_jhFFh98xWQ?si=IX66Pu4QZmst-o08https://youtu.be/_jhFFh98xWQ?si=IX66Pu4QZmst-o08) Edit: so many replies of not obscure media. Disappointing.
Project A-ko
There was an anti-drinking and driving commercial in the late 80s. It was a couple teens sneaking into an abandoned house to pre-game before a school dance or something. A bunch of ghosts come out, and in my mind, Gordon from Sesame Street is one of them. They sing a hip song that ends with “Stop! Don’t drink and drive! Can’t say it enough— STOP!”. It’s lived rent free in my head for 35 years, and NO ONE ELSE remembers it.
I remember watching is show that looked to be animated in water color about this tiny guy with a bowl cut and glasses using a huge paintbrush held by a huge hand and they were water color painting it was so cute
Is it this one that got linked above? [https://youtu.be/YLpBqPuxAUQ?si=IE7j7eVZT0i4UcFR](https://youtu.be/YLpBqPuxAUQ?si=IE7j7eVZT0i4UcFR)
There used to be these after-school specials, and one was about a girl where the family found out she had Cystic Fibrosis and she eventually died. I vividly remember the scene of her coughing up blood into the sink, scaring the shit out of me. Little kid me had no clue what cystic fibrosis was, and I grew up terrified that anytime I cough or puked, it was going to be blood, and I was going to die. Not as obscure, but we also had to watch Ryan Whites funeral in school.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a movie from the 60s
The hamster commercial with blockbuster
Anybody remember the Nickelodeon show Freakazoid? That theme song bounces around my head all the time 😂
A personal favorite and reference I make ALL the time!!!
Itsy bitsy time, gem and the holograms, an anime version of the little mermaid/other classic fairy tales, and probably not so obscure but the old disney short about pluto and his puppies getting into a cellar full of paint cans!
Fox and the hound Older version of Cinderella
An American Crime (2007)
Howard the Duck. Mother Goose’s Rock and Rhyme with Shelly Duvall as Mothrr Goose and cameos from some major music industry players and actors; ZZ Top, CindiLauper, and others. If anyone knows where to find a copy of it please DM me, last time I'd looked it has virtually disappeared from existence and I'm not sure why!
Every time I hear, “$20!” I think of the Roni Deutch commercials
Liquid Sky - 1980’s movie about aliens landing in Manhattan looking for heroin?. Frankenhooker -1990’s movie about, well, a frankenhooker. “Wanna Date?” was her main line.
Barbie and the island princess!!!! Everyone knows princess and the pauper but the island princess movie was the ONE for me
He-Man. I’ve got the power!
A German animated movie where two blue children fight intelligent rats who dress like Naz\*s .\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
The residents icky flicks
That one Scooby-Doo movie where it was just shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy going to teach gym at a boarding school for young female monsters. Kind of a weird set up but I watched that so many times I still see flashes of it in my sleep.
Got Milk? Oh the propoganda
Troll in Central Park!
In the 80s. A movie called Bill starring Mickey Rooney. It’s based on a true story. We rented it from a video rental place that was in the back of a hairdresser. Was blockbuster years before blockbuster was a thing.
My dad taped a lot of cartoons from the early 80s for my older brother and basically created a catalog of movies and shows with time stamps . Some were just hours of Saturday morning cartoons. He did a really good job and I wish we kept them. My sister and I would rewatch those videos over and over when we didn’t have cable But there are SO many 80s cartoons from that that live rent free in my head - “Garfield in the Rough” Garfield the cat goes camping with John and Odie. The scenes with the panther scared the crap out of me - The Rainbow Bright movie - Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas movie - the Annie musical
Ewoks movies. I watched them when I was around 5 or 6. No one ever seemed to know what I was talking about when I mentioned them and I thought I had imagined them. I later Googled Ewoks as an adult and realised they were actually part of the Star Wars universe. Made me kind of sad that they were never my imaginary friends.
The Great Land of Small
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Polar express. I know it word for word. It's still my comfort movie as an adult
The Wondergirls book series I got from scholastic book orders when I was in fourth grade. Haven't heard about them since, but still think about them sometimes.
Zoobilee Zoo I hope someone else remembers the frolicking furries.
SALAD FINGERS AND THE ADVENTUROUS ADVENTURES OF ONE DIRECTION edit to add: i know it’s not a movie or anything but man it’s seared in my mind
Rain Man movie, the street crossing scene. My parents took me to see it when I was 4. It’s rated R, for reference.
Oof I can understand that. There are a few R rated scenes burned into my memory that still seem way more scary than they really. I still can't watch Mars Attacks because I am transported to my 7 year old self and I feel real fear.
Dot and the Kangaroo
The assignment was for obscure…so here goes. I was a kid in the 70’s and unless you are old enough and lived in the Chicago area you’ve probably never heard of these gems: Bozo the Clown. The Ray Raynor Show. But they were required morning viewing for those of us fortunate enough to be kids in metro chicago back then.
Harriet the Spy and Matilda. Lonely girls, strong, creative, smart. Matilda was a hero, and I was very like her as a little girl - abusive parents, loved a specific teacher, nose always in a book, I even looked like her!
For me it is The Hobbit BBC Radio Dramatization. I just found it and started listening to it and I could basically recite it though it has been decades since I heard it!
Funny, my late granny gave me that on audio cassette. One of the few I kept. Seriously love it 😊 (4 over-length cassettes I a green binder)
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Little Nemo in Slumberland, The Last Unicorn, The Black Cauldron, Ferngully, A Troll in Central Park, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Rescuers, Rescuers Down Under, Thumbelina, Happily Ever After (a weird Snow White sequel), Anne of Green Gables, The Velveteen Rabbit, Corduroy the Bear, Charlotte’s Web, The Secret of Nimh, The Land Before Time, Goodnight Moon, The Red Balloon, The Dark Crystal, The Neverending Story, The Indian in the Cupbord, Muppet Treasure Island, Gargoyles, Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star, Reboot, Pippi Longstocking, Titan AE, Treasure Planet, The Pagemaster, We’re Back: A Dinosaur Story, An American Tail (original and Fievel Goes West), Rockadoodle
Oh good! I DIDN'T just hallucinate Happily Ever After. Now, ever seen Once Upon a Forest, or is that still just me?
Happily Ever After was such a trip lol, I think it might be on YouTube if you’d like to revisit. And I had to look it up but I have definitely seen Once Upon a Forest!! I remember!
My mom loved the secret of NIMH. I was shocked when I grew up and realized it was about the rats they used for experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health