![]() When Denver hatched, he just happened to speak English, love skateboarding, and enjoys jamming out on an ax. What kid wouldn’t want an awesome dinosaur? Denver, the Last Dinosaur capitalized on the dinosaur craze propelled by The Land Before Time, and introduced a loveable character who made friends with a group of young California teens. I remember watching this show with my brother on weekends at our Dad’s house, and the memory is about to leave tears on my keyboard. ![]() The show inspired adventure and a sense of wonder as David revealed a hidden world of tiny gnomes that spoke with birds, rode on foxes, and feared trolls. The World of David the Gnome is a Spanish cartoon that originated in 1985, but came to the US in 1987. This just took me back to another place, y’all. Few shows cultivated a sense of adventure and the happiness of being a kid like Adventures of Little Koala. The show takes place in a zoo in Australia and follows Roobear, Laura, and all their friends and they learn to play new games and enjoy their utopian village. That didn’t stop Heathcliff from being a fun show though, with one of the catchiest theme songs you’d ever hear.Īdventures of Little Koala is a Japanese anime that was dubbed in several different languages and aired across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Heathcliff was to Garfield what the Snorks were to the Smurfs – simply too similar to coexist equally, one would have to fall back. Snorks rode out in the shadows of television cartoons for 5 long years.Ī clever street cat that loved getting into fights, Heathcliff would do anything for two things: food, and to impress the love of his life, Sonja. Cut to modern day, where the Snorks have evolved much like humans, living in similar houses and eating similar foods.” –TV.com After reaching the surface, the rescued captain shared his story of Snorks with a disbelieving world, while underneath the waves an excited Snork by the name of Uncle Galeo was spreading the word about the surface dwellers. “In 1643, the captain of a ship under pirate attack discovered a tiny race of beings that lived underwater. While the show seems rather shallow on the surface – smurfs that live underwater – the premise was actually rather complicated: The longest-running show on this list, Snorks had only marginal success by being so overshadowed by the Smurfs. It’s all the better I thought they were one and the same – now I tell myself Go-Bots are the movies by Michael Bay. There are bigger differences between McDonald’s and Burger King’s French fries than the premises of Go-Bots and Transformers. Each episode features new attempts by the Renegades to seize power from the Go-Bots.” –TV.com There are two factions: the good Go-Bots and the evil Renegades. “A race of intelligent robots is hiding on Earth, disguising themselves as ordinary cars and motorcycles. I was a child, how could I be expected to discern the two?! Just listen to the show’s description: But that didn’t matter because the visuals were stunning and we were just kids. The US version of the show was highly edited from the original Japanese one to have a rather generic, easy-to-understand premise: a band of heroes were fighting an evil organization. Come bond with me on this journey.Īctually older than Voltron, Macron 1 was one of the earlier mech-warrior animes to gain traction in the US. If you unrolled tin foil to attach to your antennae on a Sunday morning, this is a dedication. If you were yelled at for neglecting nutrition and homework between the hours of 3-5, this is for you. If your mom came to wake you up for school only to find you already in front of the TV at 6am, this is for you. But what about those lesser-known cartoons? That’s where the real bonding comes in. Even your not-so-nerdy friends watched Tiny Toons or Tailspin, it just came with the territory of being a socially aware 5th-grader. Pepper Ann was known to most, and chances are you were saturated with Pokemon whether you liked it or not. Now everyone’s seen Animaniacs and Sailor Moon. These are the things that make them your friends. Is there anything more validating than bonding with a friend over something obscure? Some of the best friendships began with phrases like “You watch that?!” or “You do that, too?!” Half the reason you love your favorite cousin or sibling so much is that grandma threw the same slipper at both of you or you remember that time you both snuck into the baptism pool after Week of Prayer or you both know that same Sisqo track by heart, because Dru Hill was the illest and Unleash the Dragon was so much more than the Thong Song.
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