I'm really enjoying both the content and presentation of the channel. The CRT TV graphic is such a great way to show videos in the old 4:3 ratio. These lists of failed shows spark long dormant memories. The rundowns of each show are the perfect combo of comprehensive yet to the point. And the additions of promotional commercials, show lead ins (the ABC Claymation ones hit the nostalgia bullseye), and other things of the era are the cherry on top. Keep up the great work.
@@zombiepicnic9683 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VJAVDbKEpUQ.html&ab_channel=BuddyBoy600alt-TheMarsupilamiMasterofRU-vid I have the episode of Raw Toonage The CRT TV graphic on my video is based on the Sampo Tri Screen Color TV (Model #9519).
@zombiepicnic9683 appreciate it yeah its impossible to find clips, not in 4:3 aspects, and zoomed in looks horrible, so it makes sense to do something nostalgic. Those ABC bumpers are something you never forget, especially the cowboy. The youtube ad breaks always seem harsh cut, so it made sense to add those. More to come, thank you.
In the third Simpsons Halloween Special during Dial Z for Zombies, we see tombstones for both Fish Police and Capitol Critters in the Springfield pet cemetery. There's also a tombstone for Family Dog, which was an animated series going through a very troubled production at that time.
I remember Family Dog. The dog doesn't talk, but we see his daily life from his point of view. Looking back on it, he didn't deserve to live with that family because they acted like they hated him! They always referred to him as "Stupid Dog!"
@@TobeyStarburst I agree. I loved the title character! I would adopt him in 10 seconds flat! ❤️ At least I would've given him lots of love and attention than the Binsfords!
I think The Plucky Duck Show only having one original episode was intentional and was partially a joke. Why else would the pilot be about him ditching his own spin off
haha I remember asking my parents why it was so hard to find the Get Along Gang on TV and they told me it was probably cancelled- I didn't realize shows ENDED.
Oh. My. God. Sir, you have NO idea how much you've blown my mind out of it's skull. I only remember one.... ONE episode once of Fievel's American Tails and it was the end of the episode and that was it. I don't remember anything else but that one moment. It was like, maybe 30 seconds. And I never saw it again, I didn't know if it was real or a fever dream. Then I clicked your video and saw, "Fievel's American Tails" and I exploded with a scream so loud it scared my dog.
As I understand, Bonkers was in development first and the producers decided that if Bonkers was to be a cartoon star, he need to have a collection of shorts to show him at work. So they developed the Bonkers segments and took advantage of the Marsupilami license and created Totally Tasteless Videos as well to round out the series so they could make a go of the series Raw Toonage while the Bonkers project was delayed by changing the premise with the male companion as opposed to Miranda Wright.
@@eddierascalhaskell4954 Of course it was. Disney obviously wanted Roger Rabbit without Spielberg's co-ownership. Too bad, the Bonkers series was such a mess, even with the Miranda Wright episodes.
As an avid 7 year old 1992 TV watcher, I very vaguely remember having watched Fish Police, My Little Pony Tales (highly objectionable as a boy…), the Fievel show, and the Super Dave show (mom thought it was stupid). Never heard of the rest of them. The “After these messages” clips brought a welcome wave of nostalgia.
I'm amazed there weren't proto-Bronies (Bronies that argue that the earlier MLP cartoons were better than MLP:FiM) back when My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic came out. The only interesting thing about FiM is the fandom that came from it and just how any piece of media can have weird and toxic followers to them, but also those who enjoy it and don't take it as seriously.
Amidst the twinkle of Christmas lights, Alex nervously handed Jake a carefully wrapped present. Jake's eyes lit up as he unwrapped the gift, revealing a vintage book of love poems. Moved, Jake pulled out a small box and shared, "I got you something too." Inside was a delicate silver ring. As they exchanged gifts, their hearts danced to a melody of acceptance and love. Later, under the mistletoe, they shared a tender kiss, celebrating not only the magic of the season but also the warmth of a love that transcends societal expectations. Christmas became a timeless chapter in their love story.
I was born in the 90s and never saw it but even I knew the theme song immediately. My older sister loved it. Surprising that this one was such a failure especially since the newer shows were a massive hit.
Might have been due to unfamiliarity with the characters....? The toys for the Tales characters were exclusive to Europe, and to this day are quite sought after, they also only made the main girls and none of the boys/secondary characters. @@purrfectscrapper
When it comes to this particular video, the only one I remember watching the most was the Plucky Duck show, and that's only because I absolutely love Tiny Tune Adventures. As a child of the 90s, we had it made when it comes to the amount of cartoons that was on TV.
@@keithtorgersen9664 yes you are correct. I did came across some of those videos on RU-vid and it really was the golden age of cartoons on television. I was born in 1986 so I was right in the middle of all those cartoons that came on TV, especially throughout the 90s. I know there were a lot of cartoons before I was even born and I love those cartoons as well.
Ironically, despite being 12 in '92, the two shows from this list I remember watching the most are Capitol Critters and Fish Police. I have no memory of Stunt Dawgs and this surprises me since it was the show before Beetlejuice(a show I liked a lot) - I guess there must have been a cartoon on a different channel I watched before switching over
I definitely remember the promos for Fish police it showed all the celebrities in the studio voicing their characters in a side by side screen in each commercial for it Tiny Toon adventures did a similar thing With Cree Summers, Danny Cooksy and Tress MacNille
I was 6yrs old when T-Rex came out and the only thing I loved more than dinosaurs at that time was cartoons. I LOVED THAT SHOW! The theme song still randomly pops into my brain.
Fish Police and Capitol Critters were both created following the success of The Simpsons, but neither of them lasted very long, to the point where the Treehouse of Horror III episode segment, "Dial Z For Zombies" had both of those names, along with Family Dog, on gravestones in the Springfield Pet Cemetery.
Loved Family Dog as a kid, long before it was its own show, it was just an animated episode on Steven Spielberg's TV show Amazing Stories. They made such a hype that the episode would be fully animated, that my family recorded it, and I watched it over and over again. I still have that original airing on a VHS tape somewhere complete with the commercials. I was happy when it got made into a show, and sad it was cancelled so fast.
If I remember Family Dog was completed in 1991 but they were so disappointed in it they didn’t show it for another 2 years and burned it off over the summer as they knew there would be no more. It explains why the video game came out when it did
They should have had one of the family members be nice and loving and close to the dog, going with all of the family being truly awful made the show something that was just deeply unpleasant
About the Marsupilami, I'm Belgian and we were very disappointed by poor treatment to one of our iconic cartoons. Franquin (his creator) was so angry he sued Disney and won the argument. Disney went until the bitter end. Franquin died of old age but Disney lost anyways. The anime picturing Marsupilami aired in 2000 was way more faithful to the cartoon. Disney really wasted his homework, lied to Marsu productions and showed it's ugliest face. A great piece of art turned into a rubbish scrapbook. Marsupilami is still popular and Franquin is a legend. Not bad!
I was amazed at all the Belgian comic books you get while there on holiday. I thought they had gone away as they have in the UK, with no comics in shops at all here now outside of Beano. I used to love Belgian comic series as a kid.
I'm definitely just being dumb here, but after thinking about this for ten minutes.... I do not get the joke. At all. Can you explain it ? I'm definitely just being an idiot and missing something obvious.
@@medes5597 I guess the brown splatter of mushed beans is like the color of a bat, and the cheese is like veins. It's the kind of dumb joke my childhood self would think is funny.
I remember "Capitol Critters" from the Kenner toy catalog that I spent much of 1992 leafing through. It stuck in my mind because all the other action figures in there came from popular franchises but then there was this page of little animals with weapons that was utterly foreign to me. That was all I ever saw or heard about "Capitol Critters" besides a brief mention on "The Simpsons."
The Adventures of T-Rex was one of my favorites. Would watch it every morning before school. Super Dave being another favorite of mine and awesome to watch. It really made me laugh every Saturday morning. I remember the live action stuntman actor making an appearance at In Living Color one day as their guest DJ.
Super Dave had a cult following among teenage boys and college stoners in the mid/late 80s and some of us younger kids were aware of him and had probably snuck a look at it during a free trial weekend of HBO. This kind of unintended crossover from adult humor to children's isn't all that new.
So, last night, your 10 Failed TV Show from 1992 popped up on my RU-vid recommended next video, so I gave it shot, liked it, and subscribed. Watched through several of your other videos along the same lines. Now even though I wasn't even born yet, a few I knew about due to VHS Recordings dad had, this video, not so much, but some of them do actually sounds like it could have been an interesting watch. In closing I'll like to say thank you for these videos, and keep up the good work.
Jessica Rabbit has got nothing on that fish lady. If anyone thinks that My Little Pony Tales was just for little girls, you obviously never saw "Rescue from Midnight Castle" which was extremely dark for a kid's movie. Dom DeLuise still voiced his cat character from American Tail.
I'll definitely take Jessica Rabbit over that fish lady any day of the week. No offense, Dom Deluise is perfect for Tiger the cat, or the small dog from All Dogs Go To Heaven, or the homeless guy from Oliver And Company, Stanley the troll from A Troll In Central Park was his worst role for sure
Little Pony Tales is a show my sister, even as an adult, can vent about passionately. The original series was much like the modern FIM series that was so popular, set in a magical fantasy land, where as MLP tales was a slice of life show about the same mundane dramas as any other tween girls show, homework, crushes on boys, and so on, set in a big city.
Except for the fact that magic secretly exists in Tales (as seen by the appearance of the Glow 'n Show Ponies), hinting that it exists parallel to (or perhaps in the future of?) the world seen in MLP & Friends ;)
Stunt Dawgs was a guilty pleasure of mine when I was young. It came on in this weird after school block followed up by Sky Surfers Strike Force and Superhuman Samurai, two more guilty pleasures for me. This video reminded just how I liked Raw Toonage. So much so, that I closely followed Bonkers and Marsupilami when they got their solo shows. Bonkers especially, considering I was the kid that grew wanting to be a cop. All things remotely related to the police had my attention.
I had capital critter toys. They were made out of foam and I think there was wire underneath. I had a couple mice a rat and a roach with a striped shirt. Think maybe 5 all together. Over time the foam kind of disintegrated and they fell apart in places. May been because of handling them broke down the foam. I played the heck out of them.
@@TheReviewStudios S'alright; Though in the TV Series, Gerrit Graham was voicing Cat R. Waul, not John Cleese; I will say Gerrit does a convincing John Cleese impression more than Jeff Bennett.
I actully remember Fish Police airing randomly one time on Cartoon Network in the early nineties, ca. 1997-1998. I imagine it was one of those foreign produced shows Cartoon Network UK got as part of some licensing deal (like Fat Dog Mendoza or Tabaluga) that they legally HAD to air, but which they only aired when most kids would be on their way to school, or would still be asleep. The kind of shows you only caught if you had one school day per week start an hour early for some reason, or if you are staying home sick.
Wait, one day a week where school would start an hour early? What kind of cruel practice is that? Is it exclusively a UK thing? We had what they called a minimum day on mondays, where school would get out an hour early though
I actually really liked the Super Dave Osborne cartoon. I used to watch it every week when it was on. The Plucky Duck Show, on the other hand, was something I was really looking forward to until I realized all but the first segment was recycled stuff that was already shown on Tiny Toons. I remember that being the first time I was insulted by a show and mad at the absolute laziness of the shows creators. The rest of these shows I don't remember at all except for Family Dog which was briefly mentioned. I remember watching one episode at the time and thinking it was pretty decent.
I remember almost all of these from my childhood with the exceptions of T-Rex and Twinkle. I've actually got pretty fond memories of Capitol Critters, though my positive impressions of Fish Police and Stunt Dawgs might not survive going back and rewatching them. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, either way, though!
I remember wqatching the American tale cartoon. From what I remember it was good and I always wondered why it was so short lived but that was the norm for a ton of cartoons back then.
Hey there! New to the channel. I love it! Very nostalgic for my wife and I. We were both kids during this era. Our kids will never know or understand, that network television, was all we had. I completely forgot about a good chunk of these failed shows. So, it’s a constant, “ OH YEAH! I forgot about this one!!! “ Love it! Keep em coming!
That’s crazy I remembered watching “Raw Toonage” after school but always thought it was Disneys “Marsupil” as the title. Thanks for clearing that mystery up for me 😅
Found this video because I recently found Capitol Critters and was searching for content about it. Such a strange but interesting show that I never ran into back in 92. Plucky Duck has got to be one of the laziest shows ever made, just a rehash of Tiny Toons episodes already made disguised as an actual new show. My Little Pony Tales was actually kind of strangely mean spirited at times.
Just watched a bunch of your videos. That's it you got a sub right here. Great content. Ill be 41 in December. I remember alot of this stuff if not thoroughly at least images in my head about em.
Of all of these, I only recognize and remember (fondly) Adventures of T-Rex and Fievel's American Tails, but that's one of the prices you pay for being a rural Aussie kid in the 90s.
It's pretty uncommon to recall some of these shows, even here in the US. I have never met another adult where I live that remembers T-Rex, and when I bring up the jazz angle, they assume I'm making it up.
I remember quite liking T-Rex. I also remember that Fish Police happened, though always thought it was a fever dream or that I got it mixed up with Dog City.
I do remember the "Fievel's American Tales" one due to having some of the movies & also because it aired between Disney's The Little Mermaid TV series & Garfield & Friends, 2 TV shows that I also watched at the time.
Fish Police, in my opinion, was way ahead of its time. I thought it was a bad idea for Hanna Barbera given the idea of a mature-themed animated series would seem like a good idea (up until South Park entered the picture in 1997) in a era where The Simpsons were all the rage and became a cult phenomenon on FOX and some short-lived shows failed to adapt and copy the humor and pop culture formula of what made Bart Simpson the inventor of 90’s cool characters. But Fish Police have a great solid cast including Tim Curry, John Ritter (RIP), Jonathan Winters, Ed Asner, Frank Welker, Buddy Hackett and guest characters voiced by the great Rob Paulson (Yakko from “Animaniacs” and Pinky from “Pinky and the Brain”) and Phil “The Phone Patrol” Hartman.
I think it was a bad idea to make a show/comic book about fish. Jim Henson's Dog City is basically the same concept but superior for the simple reason that people like dogs. Dogs are cute. Fish are not cute, fish are ugly. It's unappealing for the same reason Shark Tale was unappealing. It's the same reason people love dog videos and dogs are all over social media. No one makes fish videos.
Holy carp Fish police! The memories of this show has been living rent free in my head for decades. I thought my memory of seeing it on TV one evening as a kid was something that may not have been real. Its good to know that animated film noir fish was actually a thing that happened.
Omg, I searched years for Raw Toonage to no avail. That theme song just randomly gets stuck in my head a few times a year and has since childhood. I just couldn't remember what it was called. I gave up on finding it. Then this video just pops up on my recommend. You sir are a legend. 😭
I was in jr high when Stunt Dawgs came out. Over 30 years later, I am still quoting Richard Fungus and Airball. Best part is that no one remembers that show, so no know gets the references so they think I am oddly original.
Was 12 in 92 and Capital Critters and Fish Police are what I remember best. I remember Little Pony Tales, the Plucky Duck Show, and Super Dave, but most of the rest of these I don't recall at all.
Fish Police has taught us that if you’re looking for media featuring anthropomorphic sea creatures…you’re better off just playing Splatoon. Thanks for the video!
Oh man I literally forgot a lotta and I'm not absolutely familar with some of those shows except for that Plucky Ducky spinoff which I only watched once lol.
All i remembered from Fish Police was watching the opening as a toddler, it was so long ago i thought it was something i imagined but seeing it here now it's definitely going on my watch list
I only saw some of these cartoons that I enjoyed growing up like: Fievel's American Tails, Plucky Duck, My Little Pony Tales, Raw Toonage and Capital Critters.
Dick Fungus? Really? I LOVED My Little Pony Tales! I also remember Fifel not being great. I very much remember not liking Rae Tunage. I wasn’t into Super Dave, but it may have been on at the same time as something I liked.
T-Rex was pretty good. It was one of those Sunday morning syndicated cartoons in my area. Raw Toonage was okay too but it seems like Disney kept reworking the anthology gimmick over and over again since it begat Mickey Mouse Works then House of Mouse
I remember watching "My Little Pony Tales" on Disney Channel; and being disappointed that it replaced the original "My Little Pony". (Mostly because Megan wasn't there; nor ANY humans.) And, sadly, I only ever saw 1 episode of "Fievel's American Tails". (The one where Fievel and Tiger babysit Fievel's baby sister; forgot her name.)
I use to watch My Little Pony Tales lots of times on Disney Channel both new and original, I watch lost of Fievel's American Tails. But I still liked the movie better. P.S. The baby's name is Yasha.
The show, "Stunt Dawgs", was a little like, "Looney Tunes" mixing up with "Wacky Races." Still, I loved it-it was really funny! And the voices are the same ones also heard in "Captain N: The Game Master," and "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3". Like, the voice of Badyear, is same one who voiced King Koopa. 😊
Wow, I think The Adventures of T-Rex was buried somewhere in my subconscious, and popped out only when I watched this. I wonder what else is hiding in my brain somewhere, lol? Thanks for this trip down memory lane. Oh, and I remember my mom liked Fish Police. It...wasn't my favorite, though.
I remember there being young Plucky Duck segments where he was a baby on Animaniacs. I wonder if they had originally been meant for The Plucky Duck Show. They always seemed like an odd addition.
Fish Police also broadcast in New Zealand in 1992 or 1993, but at 6pm - most kids were probably having dinner then and the news was on the other two of what was then only 3 local channels! T-Rex I remember.
Stunt Dawgs had a pretty good theme tune, I used to end up watching it because it was on before a show I wanted to watch so I recall it well. Lot of these shows I remember being around but never really saw much of them.
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