Do you remember a series that was on Mtv at the same time called The Brothers Grunt? I don't remember all that much, but it was pretty weird. Made by Danny Antonucci who later created Ed, Edd n Eddy.
I remember "Problem Child", especially because they got Gilbert Gottfried to reprise his role as Mr. Peabody. I knew "Free Willy" and "Beethoven" existed, but never actually watched those cartoons.
A fun fact about the Battletech series: It's canonically been folded into the greater BT Universe as a thing that happened, in Battletech itself. In lore, it was a propaganda cartoon made to drum up support for the FedCom-Kurita alliance's campaign to dislodge the Clans from Rasalhague Republic space and push them out of the Inner Sphere. The actual, in-universe Adam Steiner thought it was stupid, but he conceded it was at least worth it because the toy line raised a lot of war funds. Now THAT'S how you do canon.
The cartoon even got shown in Clan Space. Especially by those clans who didn't like Clan Jade Falcon. It did a number on the reputation of the in-universe Nicolai Malthus, though.
Another great detail is that Nicholai Malthus tried to sue the showrunners over his portrayal on the show, and when the judge threw the case away, Nicholai tried to Batchal him.
It would have worked better if it was PG-13 and not in a "Kid"s time slot I think. I saw it and went "O-o'" It just... felt like something that was too dark for kids TV.
They have it on Tubi. Still great if you can look past the budget issues. Jean Chalopin did a great job making classic Conan stories accessible to kids.
It was stylized as 80s Japanese anime. Watched it as a kid and it was awesome and found the entire series on a DVD at the library and it was actually still awesome to watch as an adult. Would suggest
Kinda sad how a lot of these didn’t gain much success due to factors like bad timeslots. Under different circumstances, I can see a lot of these series doing very well.
I've always viewed the 8:00 am and the 11:30 am timeslot as the death slot. Well for kids WB anyway. Those slots always seemed to have shows that they didn't have too much faith in or their season was about to be up and they were ready to move on. There was only one show that survived the 11:30 am slot without being kicked off the block and that was Yu-gi-Oh.
@@TheReviewStudios Skeleton warriors had a neat concept, but... just... a concept many people would see as gross. A lot of the others were just too silly, and nonsensical... then you have one that's just a bit... boring (Battletech).
@@Toonamp were you in central time cause it was 7am on the east coast which why was freakazoid failed only pokemon and yugioh would wake me up.that early and even then it was rough.
Fun fact about the Battletech cartoon. They wrote it into cannon as an in-universe propaganda cartoon aired to the Inner Sphere during the Clan Invasion. So while the events of the cartoon aren't cannon, the cartoon itself is.
Some events were canon, but they said exggerated. The jade falcon guy turned out canonical was a giant man child, the woman who was his protégé loved the rep she got from the show. The dragonconise guy ended up ascending to the throne, etc.
@otakuryoga 0 seconds ago huh.. that must have come way later all i remember at the time was every BT fan hating it for the way the Falcons just ignored Clan Warfare Rules so much and the big retcons they had to do about how there was suddenly always a 2nd planet that had been freed from the clans behind the Tukayyid line
I loved the 1990s toons either it has darker images even adult innuendos written by the best writers. I missed my original childhood cartoons but rewatching them should be a real treat. Much better of some bad cartoons if they examine the old cartoons we grow up with. Great vid, man. 😊
I'm STILL upset SatAM ended on a fucking cliffhanger dude, there's some folks called Team S3ason here working on a third season and it looks promising, but still gonna be a while I'm sure. I'm in the discord.
I definitely remember Marsupilami just from the character design alone. And I also remember the Skeleton Warriors intro but I never really watched either show as a kid. But they both have such strong design those little memories stuck with me.
I remember Marsupilami, both the Disney version and the French animated series that one is popular in Europe. The original creators weren’t happy with Disney’s Marsupilami, that they sued Disney from producing and distributing anymore episodes. And it’s why Marsupilami and Raw Toonage aren’t available on streaming services.
@@Ani8900 "As of 2002, this program is no longer shown following a lawsuit filed against Disney for the breach of contract with use of the character Marsupilami in 1997 as the rights were handed back to Marsu Productions few years later." lol I wasn't sure, either
As a child, I was lucky to see the entire Skeleton Warriors series, thanks to VHS tapes with good dubbing. I don't know who could not fall in love with this series after the intro starts. 🤩
The Disney Marsupilami being set in Africa was a HUGE pet peeve of mine as a fan of the character, and also how cowardly he was when the actual Marsupilami is an absolute beasts who beats up jaguar, eats piranhas for lunch and will beat up humans with ease. In 2000 the French made their own animated adaptation which restored the rest of the Marsupilami's lore, including the setting and the Marsupilami's more animal nature (he doesn't talk for exemple), his mate and their kids, and the villainous hunter Bring M'Backalive. Most of it inspired by the Marsupilami solo adventure comics (Marsupilami first appeared in 1952 in a Spirou & Fantasio story). That version lasted 5 season and 130 episodes. There is also a live action movie that was released in 2012, one of the biggest hit of French cinema.
Oh yeah. Marsupilami is dynamite. My grandparents had a bunch of the old comics, and I remember how the little guy would get mad and wreck shit. Wrapped his tail into a ball and swung it around like a fist.
I am familiar with Marsupilami, Beethoven, Problem Child, and The Head. The rest, I've never heard of, but that Monster Force does indeed sound interesting, and looks like the first 9 of the 13 are on RU-vid. Totally got to check them out. Thank you so much for this, did enjoy it.
I guess I'm the only french dude here so I'll explain the Marsupilami thing. The Marsupilami was a beloved European comics created in the 50s! I guess the logic for the cartoon was: "The Smurfs" worked so let's try this. BTW Marsupilami was spined off from "Spirou" a HUGE comics in Europe, as big as Tintin. Voilà les amis !
Skeleton Warriors must have used the same animation studio as the contemporary series X-men: The Animated Series. The art designs are almost identical.
I have the Skeleton Warriors on complete dvd set and I think I even have one of the action figures as well. Never saw the Conan and the kids show but I did love the Conan Adventurer show. What a fun show that was.
The Head was like an amazing fever dream as a kid. I got to watch a few episodes at my eventual step brother's place, since they had cable. I was super into it, but then it disappeared. The only release it ever had was a few episodes on VHS. Otherwise you had to buy a bootleg set. Luckily, probably 10 years ago now, the original creator actually started making his own DVD sets to sell from his website. I bought one, watched it with a friend, and absolutely loved it.
I was 16 in 94, and i loved that head show. I remember thinking it looked terrible, and i was probably smoking something one night and it popped on and i was hooked. Same thing with Conan Obrien. I couldn't stand his face, and everyone loved him . Then, the same situation. But the 90s were odd.
I was 9 and I fucking LOVED The Head. I had cool parents, dad and I would always sit down with popcorn and watch all the "adult" animation liquid television had to offer. One of the best times of my life.
Attention, Somerset. I am Star Colonel Nikolai Malthus of the Jade Falcon Clan. A full Trinary stands ready to conquer your planet. What forces dare oppose us?
I will give them that. The only thing I remember about 1990s-early 2000s MTV were the cartoons it had, like Beavis and Butthead, Daria (which, if you can believe it, was a spinoff to B&B), that clay cartoon where celebrities fight each other, Cartoon Sushi, Liquid Television, the original Clone High (which looked a lot like this short-lived Cartoon Network show Time Squad), and 3 South (made by Mark Hentamenn, who also worked on Family Guy back when it was just "The Simpsons" with random humor and made this short-lived 2016 cartoon called Bordertown).
I remember wathcing a lot of these.. because they were on, not because I liked them, Marsupliami, Beethoven, Free Willy, Problem child. Skeleton warriors had a great theme song, Though I watched it and battle tech, Conan, long after the original release. The only one of these I watched at the time and liked was The Head, The Maxx was the best though
I was definitely in the target demographic for these shows in 1994 and the only things I remember from this are the "after these messages well be right back" interstitials
I definitely remember MTV's Oddities show. Maxx was an Image comic book series. I loved this time in animation, as more shows were aimed at Teens and Young Adults. Was 15/16 yrs old in '94. I knew I would Never stop watching cartoons. 😅
The Tick was pretty short lived too. It lasted longer than these but still, it only got 3 seasons when it should have lasted longer with how great it was.
Thank you so much for doing this, I keep trying to explain to my son that kids' cartoons in the '90s had characters with giant nipple spikes and he looks at me like he's already picking out my nursing home for dementia. I don't dare tell him my high school had a student smoking area, too... 😂
80s & 90s cartoons were the best. i loved all of the semi-pointless cartoons and video games that literally followed the coat-tails of whatever movies came out at the time. i loved LiquidTV, & Mtv's Oddities. The MaxXx, Aeon FLux, especially The Head that was a favorite. the awesome animation, the unique concepts just cant be replicated.
Multi player battle tech to this day is one of the best Multi player games I've ever played. You could join one of the 6 houses and war with the other 5.
I can’t recall if I watched Skeleton Warriors as a kid or if I just watched a lot of Skeleton Warriors clips on RU-vid. That opening song is a banger though.
The only one I definitely remember watching as a kid was “Problem Child”. I cannot recall any of the content, but I know I watched it back then (and never again after, lol).
Conan, Wildcats, X-men, Ultraforce, Mighty Maxx, Toxic Crusaders, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, Ronin Warriors, BTAS, Darkstalkers, and Spiderman were my favorites then. Still, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Skeleton Warriors, and Monster Force were a fun part of my 2nd phase of childhood cartons. My 1st phase was the best though G.I. Joe, TMNT, Transformers, Scooby Doo, Ducktales, Tailspin, Heathcliff, Ghostbuster and the Criminally underrated Dinosaucers, C.o.p.s & dino Riders that had awesome toys..
I freaking LOVED Skeleton Warriors! I wish we'd gotten more of it, considering all the potential it had. I was a huge WildC.A.T.s fan too. I'd played some of the Battletech games, so I got really excited when the animated series started. I think it was a little much for people who didn't know anything about the world. Monster Force was one of my FAVORITE cartoons in the 90s. I loved the concept. I also watched Conan and the Young Warriors every week. And its predecessor, for that matter. It was just really fun, and there wasn't a lot for us fantasy fans.
I remember Skeleton Warriors, and I have some of the toys. I remember grabbing them up when K B Toys had them on clearance! I was hoping to see "Highlander : The Animated Series" that debuted in 1994 as well.
I remember in the 90s. An animated series was broadcast about an elite on Earth who dedicated themselves to hunting aliens infiltrated as humans. One of the members of this squadron had the ability to mimic his arms in the same style as the T 1000. If anyone remembers it and knows the name it would be very helpful.
Only 1 of these caught me off guard. Conan and the Young Warriors. I followed the original show and I had no idea this spinoff even existed. Thanks man.
I've heard of skeleton warriors (mainly because of the toys and I got scared by them as a kid), but I LOVED battletech. I remember the ending and wondering when we were going to get new episodes.
Marsupilami and skeleton warriors i used to have action figures of, they are saved in my archive to show to any kids or grandkids i get. jinjin was the only new one to me.
I will say this about Problem Child: it was either the first or second show famed voice actor, Ben Diskin (yes, THAT Ben Diskin) was in, so we have this for jump starting his voice acting career.
Skeleton Warriors was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I always had a hard time catching it on TV, so I never got to see the entire series until recently. Most of the other shows I either never heard of or only saw an episode of before moving on to other shows. Might check out Monster Force, if it's on RU-vid.
Skeleton Warriors was an absolutely dope show. The toys were amazing as well and always wished for more seasons and toys. Also Mutant League was a fun show and the Hockey game for Sega was my favorite hockey game of all time.
Skeleton Warriors I remember. I also remember Battletech; finally finished watching the series here on YT. That cartoon introduced me to the franchise.
Oh man, I remember _all of these._ I was a little older than the probably intended audience (I was 13 in 1994...still a hardcore Saturday morning cartoon junkie, though!), and I was absolutely crazy for Monster Force. Skeleton Warriors was also a pretty good way to give me some of the old-school vibe (my childhood was back in the heyday of He-Man and She-Ra, and the like...Skeleton Warriors was a reasonable throwback with a darker edge to He-Man), but Monster Force was right up my alley as a spooky weirdo. And yeah, it kind of did have a feel of "Monster Squad meets sci-fi action" that hit the spot, seeing as I loved the heck out of that movie (one of my earliest forays into scary movies as a kid!).
