Ren and stimpy
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Was gonna say, some of those close-up shots are not for children
It's wild how many episodes have been edited or removed from circulation due to their content.
https://renandstimpy.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_banned/censored_episodes
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That one episode where Stimpy births out a fart and has to raise it comes to mind.
Cow & Chicken / I M Weasel.
Yeah this is the answer that I came here to see. These definitely belong in this list. Cow & Chicken could be particularly unhinged.
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Yeah this show was so weird and off-putting. Watched it every day before school.
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.
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Drawn Together
That was real?? I thought it was some fever dream from when I had chickenpox.
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.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Rocko's Modern Life yet
-- Ren & Stimpy
-- Ed, Edd and Eddy
-- Cow & Chicken
-- Courage, the Cowardly Dog
-- Animaniacs
Ren&Stimpy had some gruesome stuff. Courage was more on the horror side.
Invader Zim
More organs means more human!
Can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find this one
Not TV but you could absolutely see how much the creators mental health was struggling if you read through his comic series, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
Venture Brothers beats them all.
Those guys are hilarious. Everyone should buy their DVDs/BluRays and enjoy their commentary (but not on first viewing).
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• butt ugly martians
• lazy town
• Tex Avery show
• X-DuckX (one of my favorites - just found out that that’s a French cartoon)
• honorable adult mentions: drawn together, robot chicken, ren&stimpy
Is lazy town classified as a cartoon? It's certainly in fever dream territory, no argument there.
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But Ugly Martians haha
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (though that one was a mix of cartoon and live action, still massively unhinged) and Big Mouth
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Ren and Stimpy Aeon Flux
This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!
Ugly Americans, wish they wouldn't have cancelled it. Shit was great
Freakazoid was unhinged and spastic in a way I haven't seen since
Duckman.
FL*CL, which is unhinged but not in a sick leaning manner, it's just really weird.
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I'm only aware of Brak as a character on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, but if he has his own show I'm gonna find it!
Also how about the Venture Bros, especially with Patrick Warburton's homicidal Brock Samson.
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.
Ren and Stimpy was already mentioned, and that one is pretty out there. Rocko's Modern Life would be a trailing second place imo. Plenty of innuendos and inappropriate storylines in that cartoon.
Aeon Flux (the anime TV series, not the movie)
~~I want to say it was aired as part of the Def II, teenage audience program slot on BBC2 in the '90s, the original UK home of Ren and Stimpy and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, but the Wikipedia article for Def II doesn't mention it at all.~~
Edit: Nope, it was Liquid Television (see reply). Some but not all of MTV's weird programmes ended up on BBC2, sometimes even under the original parent name, like Liquid Television.
As I recall, aeon flux started in the United States on mtv as part of its "liquid television" block in the early 90s. Back when the station was owned by viacomm, same as Nickelodeon. It shared several voice actors with Rugrats too
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Clone High was not for children, it was on MTV! And the Brak Show was on Adult Swim! also, I feel it should be distinct between 'unhinged but good' and 'unhinged but awful', and also perhaps 'unhinged and awful but wildly entertaining '
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Happy Tree Friends ended up on TV? Damn, that's fucked up. It was never meant for children.
I love them all but its like, how did this shit get on TV and then anywhere near children lmao.
The Brak Show was on Adult Swim along with a lot of other cartoons aimed at adults. I seriously doubt Happy Tree Friends was grouped into children's programming, but I only know that from the internet.
Fairly Oddparents & Billy and Mandy both had stuff that might be heavy or scary if you think about it, but the surface level stuff had enough humor involved to make it less intense than it could have been. A lot of shows for kids have more complex stuff that goes over kid's heads.
Hokuto No Ken, not because it's particularly unhinged but because in France it was programmed in the morning cartoon segment with dragon ball etc... it was so out of place that the dubbers had an obligation to tone it down in the translations and add jokes and puns.
It went about as well as you would expect, just a layer of absurdist humor on top of the ultra violence and gore...
Untalkative Bunny
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