I would have to say (in no particular order)

  • Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy+ Grimm & Evil
  • Angela Anaconda
  • Fairly Odd Parents
  • Brak Show
  • Ripping Friends
  • Whats with Andy
  • Mega Babies
  • Quads!
  • Clone High

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  • Happy Tree Friends

I love them all but its like, how did this shit get on TV and then anywhere near children lmao. Thank god they found their respective ways to us.

Edit: if its only one, try to post a thumbnail image so people can either try to recognize it or know if the animation style is for them

  • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    Peepoodo & The Super Fuck Friends

    Extremely NSFW French cartoon that teaches sex education and is about a horny little hamster exploring the world (and a lot of people).

    You will probably want to fuck the cat. It’s okay, everyone wants to fuck the cat. The cat is hot.

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    The Oblongs was fun.

    Drawn Together was awful, but a trashy-yet-fascinating kind of awful, and definitely qualified as unhinged.

    oh, and superjail, and squidbillies. 1000%, superjail and squidbillies, someone else should’ve mentioned these by now, I hate to this day that I can still remember them.

    Shit, most of Adult Swim’s lineup was either syndicated fox series, anime, or completely fucking duck tits insane.

  • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    The Bullwinkle Show (1959-1963) is a riot and definitely should not have been around children. It’s as much of a riot as an adult as I remember it being as a kid (though I only ever saw it on re-runs, I’m not quite that old.)

  • TheDeadlySquid@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Anyone seen “Smiling Friends”, it’s a fever dream of an animated series. Also, Aeon Flux and Ren & Stimpy are two of my all time favorites.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
    21·
    4 days ago

    – Ren & Stimpy

    – Ed, Edd and Eddy

    – Cow & Chicken

    – Courage, the Cowardly Dog

    – Animaniacs

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    26·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I always always wanted all the JTHM comics as a teen. My parents said absolutely not! What do I have with my adult money? All the comics.

      Jhonen apparently has hypnophobia so, that explains a lot.

  • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
    26·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      2·
      3 days ago

      That show was SO GOOD.

      I also remember the intro is absolutely awesome, and only recently learned it was a Beethoven composition. There was a neat Microsoft ad that used it too, and I was like “THAT’S THE STARSHIP TROOPERS INTRO!” lol

      I noticed watching the DVDs that it felt oddly toned down in some places and not others, even when the plot would get serious.

      Often their rifles sound really silly-space-lasery and they’re aiming weirdly upwards instead of at their targets, for example.

      I loved those early CG shows like this though. Heavy Gear, Voltron (before the excellent Netflix one), Beast Wars…I wonder if Max Steele was any good because I never watched that one for some reason…