For as much as I love talking about nostalgic lost media from Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network, it's also fun looking at super weird content that nobody is really talking about. Here are a few fascinating new pieces I came across!
No Me Moleste Mosquito looks really ugly but it has a certain charm to its early 2000s cg animation. its a shame the series is lost, it may of been terrible or a diamond in the rough but it deserves a place in history
the idea of crazy frog being a secret character in a video game is just funny to me. like he's a forbidden entity that can only be unleashed if you get every single jamstercoin or whatever.
I remember it being on ABC in Australia! The jagged, crooked way the ducks are drawn made them look like they were crushed by a truck, piano, other large object & I kept watching to see if they ever got better.
My channel appears at the end of your video, I'm very honored! The Brazilian lost media community has grown a lot in recent years, and this Gilberto Barros program about Yu Gi Oh is undoubtedly the biggest lost media we have. I'll take advantage of being here to present more information. The supposed image shown in the video is fake; it's a screenshot from another program. But this story is so ingrained in popular culture that for years we believed it to be true. Another point: on my channel, I interviewed one of the people who participated in the program, namely, a Yu Gi Oh tournament organizer from the city of São Paulo, who served as the counterpoint in the debate. The program addressed the Yu Gi Oh theme for 4 consecutive days, and this year, we gained access to Bandeirantes' official material to conduct research. Unfortunately, we don't have permission to disclose it due to contractual issues, but we are re-recording the entire program in animation to make it available to the community. Anyway, I love your content, and you are definitely an inspiration to me!
@@Lucasnautaobrigado Lucasnauta e todos que te ajudaram e participado no caso fico muito feliz por este caso ter ido tão longe e ter sido citado nesse canal isso é tão surpreendente
As a Uruguayan i was surprised my tiny country was mentioned in a lost media video lol. I've never heard about No me moleste, mosquito but the studio behind it made a bunch of tv commercials that i've seen millions of times growing up. I'll ask around and see if some older relatives remeber seeing the shorts because now i'm very curious and want to watch them lmao
The first one is wild to me because I grew up watching that music video but I never realized the animation came from a cartoon made in my country (I was 1 year old when it supposedly aired). Even wilder is that a semi-popular writer and musician over here (Roy Berocay) worked on it. I hope it gets found eventually since Uruguayan cartoons are almost non existent.
Sorry to hijack, but do you know what they’re singing at the end of the teaser episode uploaded onto the official Animalada Studios channel? I’m learning Spanish and it sounds like they’re saying “te ya matar” but I am pretty sure that’s not correct. I’m honestly just curious and it’s been bugging me lol
It is likely a modism of "te voy a matar" It is specially common with cumbia music or in highly informal speech to skip many letters from phrases and focus only on vocals.
Man I love the music videos but never knew it originated from a show.man I’ve been living a lie all along I thought it was just a band not a whole show itself
I grew up with XDuckX in Germany and the dub was insane with made up words and wild accents like "alte Kumpelette", J.T. Trash speaking with either an Austrian or Switzerland dialect and the whole series felt like dank memes before dank memes were even a thing °-°
If I had a nickel for every time this video talked about an obscure missing early-2000s non-English-language animated series about two annoying, exaggeratedly ugly anthropomorphic characters with a comically muscular human rival, I’d have two nickels, which is not a lot, but it’s weird that it happens twice, right?
@@qtips1719cringe is a feeling, do you feel cringed for someone being gay? That sounds like you love them and you're jealous for their lives, which means you're gay, checkmate
God, XDuckX really does have some "We have Spumco at home" vibe . Tho, Given how much of a run it had, they at least presumably were able to get episodes out on time...
That's just the artstyle of some French cartoons, notably Xilam, who produced this show. Xilam also did Space Goofs & Oggy And the Cockroaches. Cosmic Cowboys also had this kind of artstyle.
Technically speaking Spumco is just Warner Bros. at home, just because a cartoon has zany and expressive layouts doesn't mean it's ripping off Johnny Boy LuL
Bob Camp (from Ren&Stimpy) storyboarded some Space Goofs episodes. Ren&Stimpy was the creator of Oggy and Space Goofs Jean-Yves Raimbaud's fav cartoon.
Yooo Brazil mentioned!! I was not at all expecting to see the "Boa Noite Brasil" broadcast about Yu Gi Oh to be talked about here lol. Gotta love how when Brazil is talked about internationally it's almost always because of weird stuff like that. That's sure a national lost media rabbit hole that i hope gets found someday.
There‘s actually two Xduckx dubs completely found as far as I know. The one you mentioned, and the german dub. Didn’t know about the russian dub until your video though. Edit:nevermind, you did mention the german dub. Although i do believe all the episodes are found, and not some missing Nevermind #2, some have been deleted, and I just hadn‘t looked through the playlist yet. This does mean that all of them were found at one point
Hi, I'm German and watched a lot of X-DuckX on TV as a kid, so randomly getting a video with this thumbnail recommended was quite surprising! (aired on SuperRTL) Also DuckTales, Darkwing Duck (I think on Kabel1, alongside Gargoyles), a Sitting Ducks show, which I only recently remembered, and most importantly Alfred J. Kwak (on Kika iirc) which is probably my favourite show that had a pretty big impact on me, Winnie Wana being probably my first crush. ^^ There's been a surprisingly large amount of duck stuff in my young years, not even mentioning the hundreds of Disney duckverse comics [the LTB/Mammut Comics/Carl Barks stuff etc.] that are a (in my experience) massive cultural thing here, cause even my father already read them back in his childhood, and I have a bunch of vintage originals. So if I see something duck related, I click. :P Also I had 'It Burns, Burns, Burns' earworm back into my head a few weeks ago, it also being a very classic memory. I knew those mosquitoes seemed familiar! Good stuff.
What I want to know is the band's connection to the No me moleste mosquito. Why did the studio behind the show decide to turn their show into a cartoon novelty act in the same vein as crazy frog?
tom kenny once said that he got the idea for spongebob's voice from casting auditions with a bunch of elves - at least as far as i remember. i often wonder if elf bowling was the movie they were auditioning for.
I remember catching an episode of Canards Extremes (XDuckX) on French-Canadian TV one time and thought it looked interesting. Looking it up led me down a rabbit hole where I found out that a lot of French/European animation have English dubs made that rarely see the light of day... at least not here in North America.
Obscure English dubs of international cartoons seems to be a fairly common practice. In anime, the producer TMS Entertainment has had a history of making English versions of shows - often with ridiculous Americanizations of names - for appealing to western distributors and for use as a pivot language since it'd be more convenient for someone to go from English to Spanish / French / whatever than Japanese.
There is a quite interesting game which recently became lost media. It's name is Deo and supposedly was still buyable a couple of month ago, but now the website you could buy it is no longer in use and it seems very unlikly that the developer will ever release it again. I feel like there is a point to be made, how some things only become interesting, after they get lost.
Dang, XDuckX just unlocked a memory. I had completely forgotten I watched that show as a kid, but seems the latin america dub is just as lost as the english one.
Woha, I completely forgot about X-DuckX. I remember how strange I found the series even as a child. And to No me moleste, mosquito, I'm sure I saw at least one episode as a kid on Nick Germany or Super RTL besides the music videos. It was shown as a kind of bumper, as the episode was only a few minutes long and had little to no dialog. I tend to think it was Nickelodeon though, because at the time they were still sharing a slot with VIVA, who showed a ton of Jamba commercials.
Seeing Loco Loco in a lost media video really made me excited as I've always wanted this topic to be covered at some point because from what I've seen nobody else did. Frankly I've enjoyed listening to Loco Loco's music on their YT channel aside from Mosquito and It Burns Burns Burns and they were unironically great to listen to :3
5:20 German here; I grew up watching xDucks lol; really disgusting humor but I remember enjoying it as a kid, and the dub was really good to be fair haha
The segment of Dragon Ball where a villain controls Gohan and makes him attack his dad must be that part in the third DBZ movie where Tullece forces Gohan to transform into a giant ape
Actually, I can remember one other time a villain forced Gohan to attack his father, when Baby possessed his body in Dragon Ball GT. Goku looked like a kid there though so I'm not sure they would have used that.
18:31 All of this reminds me of Josué Yrion, an evangelist who’s also Brazilian (but speaks in Spanish) and satanized Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Nintendo as a whole
Honestly, I have NEVER heard of Schnuffel Bunny and Moley before, but Sweety the Chick was IMMEDIATELY recognizable to me. When it comes to Jamster/Jamba, Crazy Frog and Sweety were probably the most wellknown mascots to me. Interesting that there used to be a whole action platformer for the Jamba/Jamster mascots in the works. Guess that Crazy Frog raging game isn't so bizarre now.
God I just got a flashback from seeing that XDuckX show, I remember sitting in front of the TV watching that show and thinking, "What is this?" first thing I saw as a kid were I really didn't like it
Omg I remember finding No me moleste Mosquito completly randomly, just searching up the lyrics to The Mosquito by the band The Doors. Apparently that song became quite popular in other countries
seeing X-duckX unlocked some ancient memories for me omfg-- growing up canadian meant I saw all these weird french, british, american, AND canadian cartoons on either ytv or teletoon. wish i was more into recording vhs tapes and burning cds back in the day considering how much of the stuff i used to watch religiously is now missing orz
I remember watching several episodes of X-DuckX on SuperRTL (iirc it was known as X-DuckX Extrem abgefahren) as a kid. It featured that well known Xilam slapstick (Oggy, Space Goofs) so I quite enjoyed it. Found out later these also got a Polish dub (Ekstremalne Kaczory), airing around here sometime between 2001-2006.
Hey sonic, can you cover Audrey and Friends on your next video? It was a British animated kids TV Series that had 26 episodes and ran on channel 5 milkshakes' Impossible Television from August 2002 to February 2003. So far, only the pilot of the series has been found and released.
5:58 first time i ever even heard about that show was through rebel taxi's Review on it many years back lol who knew this show would be brought up again
When I was researching "No Me Moleste Mosquito" I found a Villains Wiki article of the mosquitoes. I wouldn't be surprised if there is gay shipping art of the two.
So some time between 2013-2019, I watched a movie (don't remember which) and a commercial before the movie popped up. It was of this cyborg-like horse rider on the moon. Picture the Polo Ralph Lauren logo but a cyborg. The horse rider was dressed similar to some 1700s British soldier but wasn't wearing a hat, he had black or dark hair. The horse might have been a cyborg, robot, or normal horse. The cyborg's mouth unhinges open and his face plates open up like some FNAF animatronic. And he like explodes apart or something, with the moon gravity and stuff. The commercial was in a comic book type art style. The ad freaked me out when I was younger and first saw it. It's been haunting me for years. I think it was either in an AMC or Regal theater. I hope this is enough info to find it.
Question: do you remember any about the movie you were watching? Because if so you might be able to find some obscure ad compilations that might have the ad that played before the movie
The X Duck X show was only really on the ABC on school holidays when they had an extended kids slot. I remember it being called “Extreme Ducks” or maybe “Xtreme Ducks”, I don’t remember it being popular and they often played the same episodes for the 6 or so weeks of summer holidays. This may also explain only 6 episodes in English being available? I could be wrong but you never know. Anyway I used to like it because it was a little edgier than the regular shows ABC showed and funnily enough, the ABC would usually show obscure dub shows during summer holidays like The Baskervilles or this one that I vaguely remember being a CGI short about Santa’s reindeer getting lost on a beach or something…it was a weird time
Request: I made this request before and I'll type it here for everyone to see, so I apologize if I repeated myself. There's an educational Math-tutoring game for the Apple II computer called Math Jam released in 1985. What makes this game special is that it was the first game made by Naughty Dog (Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter, Uncharted and Last of Us), then known as JAM Software. It was made by the founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin when they were still high school students. They made it for a friend who struggled to teach children math. They made multiple copies for the school they attended and originally they intended to sell it but they couldn't so they gave the copies to the school for free. Only thing exist is the cover art. No ROMs or copies online or even video footage.
You helped me find the Schnuffel Bunny commercial. I've wanted to watch that again for years, but I had no idea what it was called. It wasn't exactly lost media, but thanks for helping me find it.
This is the first time I actually watched lost media as a kid. X duck x used to be televised in german all the time and growing up my dad actually had one or two recorded in english, since I grew up bilingual in germany
6:56 with super RTL being a spinoff of RTL which itself has a sequels called RTL II (2 in Roman numerals) and an entire streaming service called RTL plus and super RTL also spawned another kids channel TOGGO which itself spawned a morning Block Similar to Cartoonito called toggolino which has a cow AS a mascot and right now RTL IS celebrating 50 years of TV goodness
9:02 to 13:27 is the jamster section. The elephant is Jambo elephant. The other name was Elli Fant (i like Elli Fant better). The special feature was shockwave jump for Jambo. Not much else I can say except for the 2 songs were ABC and Eierschlem. Also it's kinda hilarious reading the screenshot from the website "the characters can make more ringtones!" after Jambo was retired after 2 videos, sweety was killed off during a "Vogelgrippe" video series. Sweety's final video was d3@d sweety with an alarm playing saying "PoLoNiUm AlArM" and cackling. Nessie was retired a year or 2 before the game's production, and Mad Dawgz was given the boot after ONE RINGTONE. Ok, back to the characters. Sweety made many ringtones such as a funky town remix and a nice lil whistle tune known by 3 names, Sweety's Summertime, Sweety Siffle, and La ballade de Sweety. Though in early 2007, with Jamba Deutsch klingeltön "Vogelgrippe", sweety was officially on the verge of d3@th. I mentioned the final sweety vid above. Nessie had only a few songs (which were catchy) and a plush. However, Nessie had no buildup to being retired like sweety. The special abillty for Nessie was fire breath. Now finally, since I didn't look into Mad Dawgz, I can't say much but the playable character was No.1, and their first (and last) ringtone was "Where my Dawgz at". Big thanks for covering some jamster lost media LSSQ. P.S. crazy frog seems like a final boss, schnuffel was made in 2008 and moley came out in 2009. Right on with schnuffel & moley.
I swear I've seen guilberto from "Boa tarde Brasil" I'd guess that was the original title since you translated it, probably kind of likely because I did watch a lot of news when I was little like "Fantastico" and that kind of stuff, though I was born after 2003. ALSO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THE WAY AMERICANS PRONOUNCE PORTOGUSE WORDS KILLS ME IF I HEAR ONE MORE PERSON SAY "Brie ki dough" WHEN THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT STUDIO BRINQUEDO MY BRASILIAN SOUL WILL DIE 😭
When it comes to X-DuckX: I found almost of the episodes in polish dub, however they are in very low quality. So I'm genuinly surprised that its so elusive because I remember watching it as a teenager.
I will never not find it weird that crazy frog just has his junk hanging out. For the most part, they got away with it too. It's one of those weird examples of artistic nudity just not bothering that many people, whereas if you did it on any other character it probably would.
bro really unlocked a memory with the extreme ducks. tbh no wonder full series are available only in russian they really loved to dub everything in 00s
I remember that X Duckx cartoon, here in Latin America it was on Fox Kids and called Los Patos Extemos (extreme ducks) , and dubbed in Venezuela by the same team that dubbed the Sponge Bob cartoon,
i remember dragon ball z trading cards (they were mostly bootlegs or licensed) being a huge thing in argentina and a kid at church had a lot of them until one day they made him burn all of them at church because the huge "this thing is satanic" panic going on in south america
not gonna lie this xduckx cartoon got me interest, man a lot of interesting stuff was cancelled/lost in 2007, speaking of brazilian lost media some lost woody woodpecker episodes were discovered by brazilian dubbed episodes that also had the english audio in the archives of the video/episodes
Wow. I haven't heard of XDuckX since the Top 10 Xtreme cartons video Rebeltaxi did on this day years ago. To me the Cartoon feels like France's answer to 90s Attitude era cartoons like Nickelodeon's SLAM block or some of the late 90s Cartoon Network shows. No idea if anyone had enough interest in that show to even find the lost English dub. Also Sabersparks covered that Elf Bowling cartoon. It's just as bad as it looks. No idea a sequel for it was planned however.
You should look into the lost media cartoon Cupido. Its a French cartoon from 1991 and had 24 episodes. It aired on TCC in English, but it's impossible to find now. RU-vid has 3 in 1 episode uploaded but not in English.
If I had a nickel for every lost 1990s animated show starring a cupid, I would have two which is not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
I grew up (well, I was in my teens) watching XDuckX. Here in Chile they showed it on UCV-TV, a kinda low-budget channel that broadcasted cartoons at night to fill space on the programming grid. The show wasn't that bad, it was very similar in style and humor to shows like Dave the Barbarian or Cow and Chicken, but with the two protagonists being very obnoxious and stupid. Obviously I saw it with the Latin-Spanish dub, here titled as "dos patos extremos". One thing I remember was that the show was a little ruder than your typical American cartoon, for example in one episode one of the ducks says "tengo que hacer caca" (i have to take a dump) which doesn't sound that bad, but it's something you don't hear every day in a cartoon. Also almost all of the extra characters were dubbed by the same voice actor as SpongeBob, so it was at least entertaining to hear slightly more naughty dialogue from his voice.
HOLY SHIT WHAT A WAY TO REMIND ME OF SOMETHING, man i just clicked the video cuz of the duck on the right.... ON FUCKING GOD I USED TO WATCH THIS AS A KID, but i dont remember in what year and what age.... (south american Cartoon network probably, if not boomerang... if not disney XD). But it probably was a rerun... cuz i was born in 2004. And what is crazier is that you dont even mention an spanish dub... Is there one in the first place? i can hear one of the ducks voice in my head, but idk about latinamerican VAs so i couldnt tell who was one of the protag VAs, but definetly a VA that worked on various Nickelodeon shows arround 2000-2010s
DUDE! I used to watch XDuckX when I was a kid!!! Im pretty sure they were on Fox Kids. I watched the Latin American dub growing up , which called them "Patos Extremos" (Extreme Ducks).
The only lost media I remember was that there was a pilot and a episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that are missing or lost. Mostly it's from when the show first aired on KTMA and only episode 3 was missing and a high quality version of the pilot was missing (besides the recording from the convention)
there was this dinosaur song video on youtube i use to watch as a little kid and i could never find it, it was an animated video about the dinosaurs and i remember vividly the video singing about the continents splitting apart and right after sang about the asteroid killing them all, idk it’s prolly on youtube somewhere but i’ve tried looking and couldn’t find it and it’s been like 10 or so years since i watched it
I always wondered why the Christian groups never attacked Yu-Gi-Oh like they did Pokemon, since that series always had 10 times more "occult" elements to it than Pokemon ever had, to the point where it always came off as a sort of "response" to the Satanic Panic of the 70's where Dungeons & Dragons was targeted. Well apparently it WAS targeted by Christians, just not here in the US, considering by the time YGO came over here, the Christian moms had already shifted focus to wanting video games banned for allegedly causing real life violence.
true but much more mature themes than yg death/violence narutos harem jutsu jiraya spying on people with naruto at the bath house wasn't exactly as clean as 4kids yugioh @@SlapstickGenius23
As for a 2000's kid, this video reminded me how wild was the media back then. 😂 I find the mosquito clips kinda familiar, can't confirm that I actually saw them, but there was a handful of wacky CGI animations all over TV and RU-vid back then, so there's a possibility that I stumbled upon them as well. Definitely remember the duck cartoon, it was called along the lines of "Daft Ducks" in my country, but I have absolutely no memory of what was actually going on in those series, always assumed it's just an ordinary "idiot friends creating various shenanigans" case with no extra twists, maybe sort of like family-friendly version of Beavis and Butthead. My country's local channels broadcasted a lot of cartoons more or less obscure by worldwide standards, the few I can name are Ketchup Vampires, Wombat City, Digswell and this one ghost cartoon that I can't make out the name of, but it's basically Casper if the ghost uncles were nicer and the leader was replaced with an aged up Casper. Speaking of ringtones, of course Crazy Frog was a big thing back then, the adorable clip of Schnuffel Bunny's Snuggle Song was played on music channels as well, but I always saw those two more as cool music/animation hybrid projects like Gorillaz, Gliuk'Oza or Ilona Mitrecey, than ringtone mascots, maybe because I don't remember there being any ringtone ads with Frog or Bunny in our country. Instead we had two farting monkeys, and a lonely dragon Tony that later made friends with a dragon girl Mya and encouraged the viewers to "be their friends too" by downloading them on the phone. Crazy times. 😂
That mosquito thing looks like some sort of tacky wannabe Oggy and the Cockroaches, but somehow for adults. I saw that Burns Burns Burns music video and it's funny in that way where it's so lowbrow you know you shouldn't be able to laugh at it, but somehow you do anyway.
