DefunctTV: The History of Dragon Tales 

that had to hurt

This show was weird

Yo same. When those dragons peeled off the wall I just :O

I actually forget about this show before this video.

Same

Rose Erin I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO CRIED WATCHING THIS

@@amandawilliams8433 same..tears

Way to gut me right at the end

I cried and I’m not afraid to admit it!

Man, I almost cried when they said the rhyme.

Watching mine play fight right now, I can see why he used them as inspiration hahahah

Get a grip. The show was trying to teach y’all to manage emotions not pander them

@@CoercedJab and clearly you learned nothing

@@N.S0 emotions are a powerful thing, both good and bad. They can be easily swayed, both by yourself and others. What you do with said emotions is up to you.

@@CoercedJab I hope whatever made you this cold and unfeeling changes I wish you the best in your life and hope you can find joy in the little things like we do have a good day

cbc bunny ears? did u have bunny ears? cable is a luxury

Contrary to what you believe. Cable use to be free for all the same channels you could get with bunny ears. It wasn't until the tv industry became monopolized that you had to pay for cable and they made it so you couldn't use bunny ears. They they first started charging money for cable it wasn't contract only like now and it was very low. So poor families could afford it. Now they have jacked the prices up. I only have DVDs because the cost of tv is so much. I have my phone though. It is prepaid and you can get smartphones now for extremely cheap as well as second hand (which is what I did). Most people including poor people can have access to fee entertainment (Thanks for RU-vid, free apps and more.) Without having to pay for tv now. Soon people will no longer have TVs as our phones take their place just like satellite TV took cable's place which too the place of bunny ears. Also, keep in mind that back when this show was made. Our money had more value and things cost less. They were made to last and the economy was all about making things affordable to everyone regardless of their financial situation. By the way, being poor doesn't mean you have no money. It means you don't make as much as low class, who doesn't make as much as middle class who doesn't make as much as first class. Anyone who makes less that 30k a year is considered poor. You should read up on how things actually work. It might surprise you, but the poor image you are picturing in your head is not realistic and you most likely got that image from (ironically) TV and movies. In short you can afford anything even while poor if you take care to pay attention to the valu6of money and budget and save according.

Channel 6 for PBS. Channel 3 for the N64.

Oh, same. We loved, loved, loved this show. I’ll STILL watch it with children if I can manage to get THEM to watch it hahah. My little sister said it was “too old”

Quba CBS kids PBS EspanolA 😢suck sweet memories

Im in this and i dont like it

+theodd1sout

Bruh PBS is all I ever watched

David Boucard aye that was me never had cable till I was 12 but by then i was put on Netflix and hulu and amazon so there wasn’t no need for cable

Shout out to channel 18

That's actually not a bad selection of influences on a kid.

I'm 25 I watched those as a kid

Rachel Hart *right in the nostalgia*

Rachel Hart and Between the Lions!!!

Oh no I forgot about cyberchase😩 I loved that show

Shenaldrac omg I know! I’m tearing up a little remembering. Especially the dragon badges.

Don't forget the: Thank You!

I remember playing with the VHS boxes

@@TreeBranchStudios GOD. It's in my head now too.

So true

PBS be hosting weather advisory’s 😢

Ikr

That's a childhood trauma for me LowKey. Nostalgic, yet terrifying to relive. Was always eerie because it felt that voice was watching mE and my sister 💀👀👀. I was a weird kid 👍👍

Right? Soooo nostalgic

I felt so bad I couldn't contribute even though I was 7 years old 😔

At the time I thought I was the only 12 years old on Earth who liked the show.

Well, I was 11 when they turned up on PBS-but I didn't get into the show until a few months later while we visiting my grandparents (on Dad's side) outside Washington, D.C.

I didn’t see the original run, but my mom worked at Ikea and whenever we ate lunch there the kids area always had dragon tales running on the little tv embedded in the wall. I watched it constantly every time we visited her at work.

I watched it from around 5 to 8. 8 was when I felt myself getting too old for it.

I'm 24 and I'd still watch it.

Lol

Lazy C lmao fr! I used to watch it when they added shows like Martha Speaks and that dinosaur show

@@Lostinmyhead23 martha speaks was the shit

Preach dude!

Lazy C it was a really good show.

Holyshit I forgot about that, but as soon as i read your comment i remember that sceen clear as day.

That's like the only episode I remember super clearly

@@freshcupofangst I don't remember exactly how it happened but it's literally the only episode I remember. This was one of my favorite shows when I was really little

@@leahtheanimationfan40 The only episode I remember is when they have to cartwheel across a bridge

@@leahtheanimationfan40 I think they were building like a...music themed playground? With a slide that may or may not have been a xylophone that like, led to two bouncy drum looking things? Idk

Me and my sister did the same thing😊

I tried to do that too,.but with a big stone.

That’s so cute 🥺

That is absolutely adorable.

My mom made me a “dragon scale” out of cardboard, and some glue and glitter

Indeed, it does. RIP Ron. Your contribution to so many people's childhoods will never be forgotten.

That line actually made be cry.....

@@Kafj302 it came out of fucking no where and i started tearing up lmfao

that shit BROUGHT ME BACK

And here i am just 😭😭

it was a full blown freight train for me...…..

Don’t forget the awesome background pictures in the credits. Those I remember quite vividly.

*ROAD ROLLA DA!*

Same

Didnt evem remember the theme til i watched this. great kids show but its obvious why i forgot the theme. Its completely forgettable

That's amazing. The animation industry is so fascinating to me, but surprisingly I never bothered with it. I did watch the Jumanji show and it's nostalgic to hear about it again.

@@Juichi Thanks for commenting Juichi. I loved animation from the time I was very small and I always wanted to work in that industry. Stop-motion was always my big thing, but those are hard gigs to get.

You did good. You really did

Thank you for those parts of my childhood.

Wow! I know this is weird, but I have a very good memory and I remember seeing your name in the credits. Thanks for your work!

He drew good but the show was awful

He passed away with a small legacy, AND was able to make something of himself after his near death experience. He did a great job with what opportunities he had.

How dare you say such blasphemy!!!!!

*Agreed..!* 💜

Yup

A surprise, to be sure, but an outdated meme can't express how welcome it is.

Same

I will always remember the one that went “Get up on your feet, and to everyone you meet, say hello, hello, hello, hello”

i started tearing up :'0

it's weird...that song is the only one I remember

This is exactly what happened to me too!!

90 is a blessed age to make it to.

Dang a day before my birthday.

damn....at least he didn't die in the dark days of 2020 or they would've blame dhis death on Covid

Yeah…..

F

I’m so happy you are okay

❤

Dang. In America? How much was the bill?

@@alecwhatshisname5170 i paid nothing. Disability covers everything.

@@loverlei79 thank the lord. Glad you got a little silver lining. Have a good life. 🤜

It just raises some questions. Like, is he from real world Mexico? Or does Dragonland have its own Mexico?

K T "Si, soy de México." I think in Dragon Tales, there is an alerternative version of the world where he United States colonizes everything. The United States then forces American accents and English down everyone's throats. Also, they make robotic dragons to maintain children, as everyone's parents died.

@@StarlightPrism I thought the same thing!

He’s named after an Aztec dragon , that’s why 😅

@@sinfulrose1822 I didn't know that, what a great fact!

And viewers like you thank you

It would be a lot worse if he just went "THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS! IF YOU DOWNLOAD NOW YOU WILL GET 10000 FREE SILVER AND A NEW CHAMPION, whatever that means HAAZUUUUUU!!!!!". XD

I read this only a minute before it happened...Now I'm cry-laughing and very confused x,D

There's 20 year olds that still watch it...

lol I never got a chance to watch it until well after I graduated high school because it was only ever on when I was in school. I recall loving it as a kid(the 2-3 episodes I saw in the dentists office), when I was finally an adult and watched a few episodes all I could think was "fuck I wish I could have watched it when I was younger.... oh well" and changed the channel lol

I watched it from like 4-11

Same here! I never knew or cared that it was for preschoolers. I was a simple tween, it had dragons, I'm watching :=)

Likewise haha.

bruh moment

Same here as well, stranger from the past

A year later... that finishing line clobbered my ice cold heart to pieces.

Same here *Ohh good lord*

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Iris I love that they showed that even with dragons not all of them can fly, like Zak and Weezy, and not all of them could walk too

The fact that it’s never focused on is really nice, because typically when I go out my wheelchair/brace seems to be what everyone sees first, then me. It can make you feel terrible. Sometimes it makes you feel so horrible you almost feel less than human. But the fact that there are people willing to look past the braces and the wheelchairs and the medical equipment and to the person that is inside is really comforting.

And then there's a third approach with Extreme Ghostbusters, make the disabled guy a jerk jock.

Idk why this made me smile..:,)

@Robbie Morgan Well... you should see how Sesame Street did their representation of autism with Julia.

The name quetzal is from Nahuatl quetzalli [keˈt͡salːi], "large brilliant tail feather" (American Audubon Dictionary) or "tail coverts of the quetzal" (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary), from the Nahuatl root quetz = "stand up" used to refer to an upstanding plume of feathers. The word entered English through Spanish. The word quetzal was originally used for just the resplendent quetzal, the long-tailed quetzal of Guatemala,

(Stunned Silence...) "ITS BRILLIANT"

DUDE same

Yup! As a child coming from Aztec and Mayan descendants and my mother and grandma speaks Nahuatl this was a joy. Little things like this made me feel safe from the hardships of public schools.

@@hzzzzz1 That’s wonderful to hear! While I’m FAR from any expert, I did have a phase in grade school where I was passionately learning about Mesoamerican history/culture (was one of my autistic interests). I found out the Maya from an adventure game based on Nancy Drew, got to go to the ruins of Uxmal in summer vacation, and even built a diorama of the city for a grade school project. Those were good, fun times. ^-^

The ending really got me too. It's amazing how deeply connected and special someone's art can be to others.

Ngl, I teared up by the end of the video I miss this show

Same 😭

"...Dragons can engender fear and hopelessness. Or challenge growth and risk" His friend met death with child-like enthusiasm.

Same, did not expect it but still loved it.

Same. That’s my childhood right there.

well, that is the function of DefunctTV

This used to be the stuff growing up for me as a kid!

OW! Right in the childhood feels!

It hurts so good I'm crying just came from Mr. Rogers video

Weird thinking the same shows from when we were kids dont play anymore

@@natedog69420 yeah but some of them get cool reboots like she-ra!

Bro what about coco melon 😳 lmaoooo

Helluva boss might prove to break the mold

@@afkfromawake hopefully!! Love that little demon show

😂😂😂😂😂😂

here comes kevin back at it with the grim endings

it didnt seem very ominous it seemed very sad honestly

I think he was referring to people's childhoods :(

Somebody's gonna die.....

I am proud to admit that for me it has been the former for most of my life until now :D I am unconventional, I better start going for the latter though.

y❤nL😊

honestly! i completely forgot that character was disabled until watching this video, same for the hispanic culture. but now that i look back, it definitely changed my perspective as a kid

I didn't even know that character was a girl! I always assumed she was a boy. xD

@@kellieangotti1049 Yeah, I'm also like "Dorcas was a GIRL?!?!?"

Much like another Columbia/Tri-Star show airing in the late '90's, _Extreme Ghostbusters_ (the character of Garret was wheelchair bound, but what he was wheelchair bound for was never a factor, and he even used to play basketball sometimes.)

Honestly, how could they do it so well in the early 2000s yet people act like it's hard nowadays?

When I was a kid I always thought that it was "in a land of heart"

Close.

Cooper Minion me too.

is it bad i want to see a parody of this show?

Cooper Minion I like your version better 😁

This is why I want him to do a video on wishbone! Lol

I know. I grew up with Playhouse Disney, so I would love to see "Out of the Box" or "Rolie Polie Ollie". Those were my childhood.

@@zachdavis5854 What about Zoom?

@@davidbosco652 YES PLEASE!!!

That is one of the most wholesome things I've ever heard

Awww!!!

That would be really cool

why doesn't he do all the PBS Kids cartoons from the late 90s to early 2000s while we wait for season 3 then?

Just in time for the reboot.

I know a live action movie is coming but I didn't know a CtBRD reboot was coming.

Ans Barney and Friends

Sam Hyde Same

Sam Hyde Indeed!~

Same here

Hear, hear!

Hyde, the bomb you planted in my daughter's elementary school was not a fantasy.

Me too 😂

That's the great thing about target demographics... the content may be *designed* to appeal to a certain group, but anyone else can still enjoy it!

I watched it well into my early teens. I think it was just my obsession with anything that had dragons in general that helped keep my interest, lol.

I just turned 18 and I binged watch it a few days ago 😂😂😂

I still watch the episodes I find here on RU-vid lol

Beautiful comment, brought tears to my eyes

Don't think he could've asked for a better legacy.

Nathaniel Foga me

Me

I did

I did! Such a good show. So many happy memories from just watching it.

Me

And helped me get interested in dragons 🐉.

Exactly

Yep it sure was was especially when I by myself not wit my sibs

Yep I teared up a little 😪

Yeah, I was not ready for that wave of nostalgia and feels.

Whatever happened to him.

@@disneyboy3030 according to Google he is still alive, just retired.

I was genuinely bracing myself for the part in the video where the corporation took control of his idea and muscled him out of it. I'm thanking God right now that it was the opposite of that and he's had positive things that came out of making a beloved preschool show with his beautiful and comforting artwork.

YOU'RE RIGHT!

”This video is sponsored by nordvpn”

@@KairuSan1 For when you want your journey to the other side to be protected from judgment. 😉

There's mexican mythology involving dragons, most notably quetzel's namesake, the Aztec deity quetzelcoatl

@@alexiscervantes5774 Who in Aztec culture was the patron of learning and the arts and apparently one of the oldest gods in that mythos, so.... Quetzal surprisingly lore accurate.

Been to Mexico numerous amounts of time. And can confirm that Mexico is indeed the homeland of the dragons however they were all forced out when the Dragonborn returned which explains why only the oldest dragon knows Spanish. : p

@@alexiscervantes5774 Technically, Quetzalcoatl isn't a dragon.

I find it funny that quetzal and Lucoa from Miss Kobayashi’s dragon maid we’re inspired by the same being from mythology

Aspen Karch YES YES

It’s actually coming back this fall! (Granted in a reboot but still exciting!)

This show is coming back as a reboot of it.

@@1Soniccool Guess I better set my DVR then because you are never too old for nostalgia.

Emily-Elizabeth was getting it from her dog

You right about that..besides Dora the explorer...Dragon tales was one of the few cartoons that had Latinos in it.I'm Mexicano and I remember I could connect more to this show because of it

That ending had me tearing up and I didn’t even know of the guy until this video. Bless his kind soul 😭😭😭

The friend saying he was fading into that picture choked me up as well.

Reverse fusion

Lol ikr

Yep

watching this show on Acid is amazing

I remember this episode vividly

Yeah that hit me hard as well, just kinda the acceptance of death is beautiful in a way.

It was beatiful...i was left pondering...but suddenly got interrupted by the Nord VPN ad... damn sponsored content! (Still very touching)

Fetch was one of my shows when I was younger!!!! Yessss

Was going to comment the same thing!! I wanted to go on the show so badly as a kid 😂

I actually think PBS Kids still airs re-runs of Fetch, or maybe still new seasons?

finally taste

I see you are a man of culture..

OMG hahah yes definitely same

So that’s where I got that habit…. At 22 I finally know why 😂👏🏻

I did and it annoyed tf outta me back then lol

My sister and i are 30 and we still say "Me first!" In that weird characters voice

omg i say definitely! to almost everything still and i’m 20 loll you made me remember a lost memory

Can’t. Hold. On. Much. *LONGER!*

Oh yeah. My favorite was that hippie-ass dad lion

God, I remember Between the Lions! Augh, so many memories... ;w;

Ugh

@Jack Black I had a idea where Heath finds a girlfriend they get married and Have a baby

I had a similar experience

I think the dragons originate from the different lands but live in dragonland.

quetzal is a Quetzalcoatl a Aztec dragon

😂

He's from MEXICAN dragon land....the one we see in the show is american dragon land

@@purplehorseneigh So there was a dragon land for each country? O.O That's amazecrazeballs.

YES OMG

Yes.

I *LOVED* SAGWA!

YOU'VE UNLOCKED A FORBIDDEN MEMORY

I’m not familiar with Sagwa but anyone remember Zoboomafoo?

If they can't bring it back in good taste I'd rather it stay as a nice childhood memory.

@@KawaiiBabyTragon By "in some way" I actually mean "either bring it back in a GOOD way or air reruns of it." Honestly, I'd go with the latter.

It'd actually be neat if it was a next generation sort of thing. They're grown up, and their kids go to Dragon Land.

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! SAGWA FOR THE WIN!!!!!

Apparently Cinar is planning on doing a revival for Sagwa in the future.

Same o.o

But There Is No Mexico In Dragon Land

@@sydneyhamilton2575 or is there 👀?

@@itspricila Dragonland Mexico is Méxifuego :trole:

a 9-to-11 page essay

Dragon fire can't melt steel beams...

I mean Sony did edit out the twin towers for the DVD cover of the Spider-Man movie. I'm sure that could thrown into the conspiracy mix.

I give it a 9 out of 11.

Coincidence? I think NOT!

You mean Quetzal? Nice!

To be perfectly honest with you I thought the kids were Asian

He's Quetzalcoatl.

The kids were Mexican right? I loved that part of the show. I grew up in a farming community so it was nice seeing the Hispanic eliment.

I remembered him, but forgot he was Mexican lmao

Same. Those two were my favs

Gawains word!

The chicken Jane part was my favourite of between the lion lol.

Omg yes!!!!!

I LOVED IN BETWEEN THE LIONS!

I'm 17 and still fucking love this show

I’m 26 annnnnddd.. yea

I'm 29 and yes lol

where do you watch it?

I'm 36 and I'd still gladly watch Dragon Tales over most of the stuff on TV now

I'm a seamstress and designer. I had a client in Australia who commissioned a couple big-dollar gowns from me. She ended up with cancer, and commissioned her burial gown from me. It hits hard and feels like a huge responsibility when you're a positive part of someone's death, and it hits hard.

Yeah!!

Yes😂😂😂

I'm not even old enough to have beer in the US and I feel ancient compared to teenagers nowadays. It's amazing how much difference a single decade makes.

If it makes you feel better, I watched all of these shows and I’m only 18

I remember when Cyber Chase had a plot

Singing ... “it’s c-y-b-e-r chase...”

why were you me

OMG SAME!!!!!!

Me too.

Yessss

Mine too and I remember the first season of it.

Same but I'll admit it lost steam after Season 3. But I would say that was because the early seasons had really memorable kids.

COME ON AND ZOOM

Quetzal always reminded me of my uncle. I think it's really nice they included the character.

So he's an Aztec dragon.

All these years later I realize Quetzal, the school teacher dragon, was based on the Aztec dragon god Quetzalcoatl who was the patron god of knowledge and learning. That's a real nice touch...

@@jg708257 ooooh, that's why he's so old

Me too too also!

🎶🎵 Cliffhanger, hanging from a cliff and that's why he's called Cliffhanger

CAN'T. HOLD. ON. MUCH. LONGERRRRR

Yeah when I learned about Quetzalcoatl that blew my mind.

it's kinda funny to think that if you took somebody from the myan empire and plonked them down in front of a tv, showed them that dragon, and said "quetzalcoatl," they might get the reference

Yeah I did that too when he got to the part about Quetzal.

@@Flowtail Um not Mayan, its Aztecan, you can tell as Quetzalcoatl has the distinctive -tl, which is a very common ending in Nahuatl (the language).

Dragontales skin for Smite needed NOW!

There's Ord he's the biggest not so brave of heart

There's Cassie so shy, also very smart.

There Zak and Weesie and the tails of fun cause you know two heads are better than one

@@samdance7388 Dragon tales, Dragon Tales.

Ricardo Saucedo I wish, I wish with all my heart, to fly with dragons in a land apart!~😄😄😄💙💖💚💜

Holy shit memories

Darkness Kingsized 🎵 It's Maya!~& Miguel!~ (Maya & Miguel!) What they will do next, you never can tell!~)😁😁😁 Eso es!~

@@violetthebat8810 Brother and sister and best friends as well!

¡ESO ES!

"Brother and sister and best friends as well!!"

I never stopped until our antenna quit.

Do you have the tism?

The Ramen King bruh, it’s literally the most known educational station. Public Broadcasting Station.

@@Eric-Truong True but nobody really talks about any of the shows that came on it. At least not to the degree the shows on Disney channel, Nickelodeon,and cartoon network are talked about

What about Kids CBC?

idk why this sentiment hits so hard but it does, especially when it's a relative who's passed

Omg,soo true🥺..that nostalgia hits hard, cuz when you think of it as a relative, and all the good times you had as a kid wit them..but years go by, you grow up & you haven't seen them in a long time..til recently you just randomly thinking about them,and how much they meant to you growing up..only to find out they already passed away 🥲🙏🏻🕊

Same I thought I imagined this whole show that was on pbs bout dragons when I was a kid😂

I remember being sad when I couldn’t find any airings of Dragon Tales when I was younger.