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Shows or movies YOU remember- but nobody else seems to

Does anyone remember Time Commanders?
It was a show where people would play historical battles in Rome: Total War and try to beat the AI. I loved it when I was a kid.
The participants usually weren't gamers so they'd have to learn everything from scratch. Command of the troops was also split between a general and two lieutenants. So the participants either spent the whole episode bickering and screwing up in hilarious ways, or they worked together and beat the snot out of the enemy.

There were also a bunch of military historians who commented on how the participants were doing and gave more information about the battle in history. So it was both insightful, hilarious and exciting.
 
I remember that one western animation. It seemed to be a post apokalyptic fantasy world, the maincharacter was a human with red hair and pointy ears, his mentor had black hair and a red cloak, and one episode had giant ants inside the futuristic HQ of the villains.
The main character was able to create some kind of powerfiel, but to do that he needs to sacrifce a sword or something.

God, I wish I could watch it again, just to understand what was going on.
 
Thanks Google for the Internet, I've since been able to dig up all the 80's (and earlier knowledge) that taunted me.

The shows I hunted down though were:

Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea


The Mysterious Cities of Gold

( both originally French, but I watched them on American cable, for the longest time I incorrectly recalled them as a single show )

The Christmas Toy


No one wanted to listen when I said toy Story was a total ripoff.

Bakshi's Rock and Rule

Villains who are a cross between Doctor Doom and David Bowie are awesome.

And Kidd Video

Which was even more psychedelic than it looked but not bad.
 
Just remembered a couple more.



I honestly don't remember ANYTHING about this series, save for this one moment in Season 2 where the youngest character participates in this chant that calls up a HUGE load of magic.



o.0 This one surprised me. I honestly forgot about this one altogether until I rewatched the intro and it was like 'Oh yeah, I watched like... every episode of this."



Now THIS I remember, and I always hated how The Fly never caught a single damn break.
 
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AKuz said:


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Goddamn this show was odd. Good, but odd ("Oh GhostKaiju, what're you watching?" "A cartoon about a crossdressing supergirl who's fighting an insao-nazi who makes giant momsters and has mindcontrolled her dead sibling, who now inhabits the body of a panther." "What.")

Also, for the longest time, I was convinced it was a really odd dubbed anime that Teletoon was somehow able to get the license on. In reality, it was apparently a Brazilian/Canadian show with little to no Asian influence (as in, nobody of asian descent or nationality worked on it—as far as I know, anyhows).

Wouldn't have guessed that, would you?
 
GhostKaiju said:
Goddamn this show was odd. Good, but odd ("Oh GhostKaiju, what're you watching?" "A cartoon about a crossdressing supergirl who's fighting an insao-nazi who makes giant momsters and has mindcontrolled her dead sibling, who now inhabits the body of a panther." "What.")
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Not to mention the biology teacher that invites her male persona out on dates, without knowing she's actually a woman in disguise and is her love interest later.
 
GhostKaiju said:
Also, for the longest time, I was convinced it was a really odd dubbed anime that Teletoon was somehow able to get the license on. In reality, it was apparently a Brazilian/Canadian show with little to no Asian influence (as in, nobody of asian descent or nationality worked on it—as far as I know, anyhows).
Wouldn't have guessed that, would you?
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Hmm, here's what I've heard about it;
The comic was made in Argentina. However, this show based on it was directed in the US, and animated in Japan. You can get it on DVD from an anime distribution company called Discotek Media (a company which has also released DVDs of the Monster Rancher anime in the US).
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There was this show called... John Doe? I think? I can't remember, and it was about this guy who woke up without any memory, but he also knew everything. I think he had the Internet in his head?

Uggggh, I remember really liking it.

I'm going to go Google more vigorously— brb.
 
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Not precisely unknown, though I think Malo Korrigan might have been deleted by its producers after its air run. Not even pirating lumpen proletariats can find the whole series.
 
Wendyp said:
There was this show called... John Doe? I think? I can't remember, and it was about this guy who woke up without any memory, but he also knew everything. I think he had the Internet in his head?

Uggggh, I remember really liking it.

I'm going to go Google more vigorously— brb.
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Found it! Yes, it was called John Doe. It was a weird Everyguy-Genius-Helps-the-Police-Solve-Crimes sort of show. It was cancelled after a season, though I remember really liking it.
 
Well, this is quite emberassing but an old show I watched as a kid that no one seems to know about was called "serendipity the pink dinosaur."

It was incredibly trippy, had very limited animation (but a beautiful opening) and paved the way for my love of animation.

Of course it doesn't really hold up now. But it was my "Andes Chucky" when I was a child.

 
Ok, this is a long shot.

I saw this in the Nineties when I was no more than ten, and I can only remember the first few minutes. The film opens with a group of federal agents or military advisers walking determinedly through a government office building (the Pentagon?) you can tell from the martial music that something serious is going on. The group of officials rounds a corner, whereupon they are faced with a group of Girl Scouts, who turn to them and chorus "Would you like a box of cookies?" Without breaking stride, they brush past the kids, knocking the cookies to the floor, the camera gives us a close up of the officials crushing the boxes underfoot and a shot of the girl scouts crying. A moment later, the long line of men enters an elevator without breaking stride, the first four ride up while the doors close causing the rest of the line to bump into each other in the corridor.

I'm relatively sure this was a comedy, but as a kid this scene of suits being mean to girl scouts horrified me.
 
VolantRedX said:
Not to mention the biology teacher that invites her male persona out on dates, without knowing she's actually a woman in disguise and is her love interest later.
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I remember being ten or eleven when I watched it and that always confused the shit out of me.

Anyway, did anyone here ever watch the Mighty Ducks cartoon? I haven't seen it in twenty years and I'm sure it's terrible but that one sticks out. And there were two other shows Teletoon used to play, I think probably around the same time as Cyber6, Mission Hill and the Oblongs.
 
Cartoon show, "Invasion America." Kid who's part alien has a glove that shows he's the heir to a leadership position, some aliens want to get him, and stuff.

Polokun said:
Speaking of Ralph Bakshi, one of his movies he's done, Wizards? I honestly haven't heard anyone online ever talk about it but it was SO GOOD, it's easily in my top five favorite movies of all time.
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I remember that one, it was fun :)

Polokun said:
Does anyone remember THIS?

Yeah when you get down to it, the show is basically a rip off of Power Rangers, but really? Having it set in medieval times was actually a helpful change up to the usual Power Rangers formula that makes it stand out somewhat. If anything I thought it was cool how each member had to actually EARN their power armor first before they could actually use it and was actually a plot thread.
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Yep, not a lot of detail, but I definitely watched some episodes.


Whiskey Golf said:
I think I am the only person on SB or SV who knows or still remembers this little series called Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. No animation, filmed using model trains, first series was narrated by Ringo Star. I had the videos at home, used to watch them all the time. Still have the books on a shelf, where they will not be given away. Except to maybe my children.
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Only Thomas I've seen.


Rakdos92 said:
YES!!! That one is it! Awesome! Back then, I was to young too have watched the movie, so I had no baggage regarding its accuracy.
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Hey, better than most of the sequels!
 
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