Watching Weird Old Canadian Cartoons - Diamondbolt 

Every time I remember a cartoon I used to watch as a kid there is an 80% chance it's a Canadian cartoon

So much nostalgia for Grojband. Super cool transition to internet fame.

Grojband is crazy though. Imagine that the person who is literally trying to destroy you is actually your ghostwriter.

being an actual Canadian, our animated productions tend to be very hit or miss. and A LOT of animation snobs tend to look down at our animated productions

The craziest part of all of these is always when you recognize the footage but have absolutely no clue what show it's from, because it's been so long since you last saw it but you know you've DEFINITELY seen it before.

My favourite Canadian cartoon would honestly have to be Terrance and Philip

I loved watching Detentionare. It was like a cool mix of Gravity Falls but in a high school instead of a hick town. It never aired in the US, so I didn't see it until a few years ago and found it really intriguing.

On behalf Canadian animators and Canadian voice actors and more i want to thank you for giving us most of our childhood.

Your conquest to awaken the childhood memories of your entire audience continues to impress.

Grojband and Grossology were literally my childhood. I loved them so much

You got to love how so many Canada cartoon feel so PG-13 even though it target children. No cartoon show would ever feel like they in high school these day for parents thinking it too mature for kids when in reality, your children will grow up into teen few year later, having a cartoon that feel like for teens without swear words and/or mature context really make the kids excite for high school and get ready for what to come to them beside hard study...

never seen detentioners but damn the art style is amazing even the colors are so leveled, this wouldve made a perfect case of "netflix needs to pick this up"

It's nice to see these Canadian cartoons get covered, with Total Drama pretty much eclipsing all of them in popularity.

Detentionaire and Grojband are so underrated!! You guys have no idea how many good shows we had on Teletoon back in the early 2010's!!

Idk why, but Canadian cartoons are always bangers.

I swear I spent most of the YooHoo segment like “why does this remind me of Cow & Chicken?” and by the end I was like “oh guess that explains it”.

I wasn't exposed to Detentionaire back when it came out but discovered it as an adult and absolutely loved it. It's the exact kind of cartoon I would've loved as a teenager with its dark comedy, serialized mystery plot and memorable characters. I'm sad that it ended on a cliffhanger but it was such a fun ride that I'm just happy it exists.

Grossology always had this really slick art style. It's intro had the same vibe as the Incredibles with cool, minimalist character designs similar the jazzy music. The hallmark of the show was gross stuff but you can tell the creators went the extra mile to give the show unique visual identity with great art direction. That in addition to the educational aspect make Grossology a quality show.

FUN FACT: Did you know that the voice actors for Corey and Laney also voiced Jay and Mickey and Amy and Samey respectively?

8:02 suprised that Diamondbolt didn't point out that was Chris mcclain voice actor

Grojband is so nostalgic for me 😭😭

6teen, Stoked and Total Drama were the epitome of my childhood. Especially Stoked. I loved this show. Thank you for bringing back this amazing piece of history

Total Drama island series is the king of Canadian cartoons

Of this batch, Grossology is the one I remember the most. Was a fun little cartoon that used gross out humor and situations well.

Grossology had one of the most interesting bad guys. Kid Rot felt like he belonged in a completely different show.

For Detentionaire, the finale of Season 2 reveals the big mystery of who really pulled the prank. Seasons 3 and 4 got really weird, if that finale description didn't make it clear at all.

I loved Detentionare, Total Drama, 6teen and Grojband. Those were some bussin shows

Oh wow. Someone actually talking about the English... Dub(?) airing of Yoohoo and Friends. I was starting think that no one would. "Bat-shit" really does describe it well. And yeah, it kinda does feel like an abridged series. I feel... At peace, I think(?), now that I know that someone has not only talked about, but also mentioned the Korean-to-English/Cow and Chicken thing.

Now we just need a sequel where Bolt looks at Storm Hawks, Chaotic, Jimmy Two-Shoes, Wayside, World of Quest, Di-Gata Defenders, Team Galaxy and/or Spider Riders. Or just Spider Riders, we need him to see what letting Canada co-produce an anime looks like.

I don't CARE how many nostalgia based videos you make. I love remembering and discovering more cartoons ✨👄✨

Canada has to be based, they showed straight up boobs on total drama

Detentionaire was the best show I watched as a kid. I still rewatch it to this day

While Canada was never 100% amazing with animation, the occasional bangers they did make made up my childhood, and I must thank them. Also Can’t Miss Thursdays were legit the hypest shit as a kid.

FINALLY someone actually remembers Grojband! My brother and I were OBSESSED with that show when it used to air

Half of these shows I barely remember, but I definitely remember Detentionaire. 😊

Detentionaire RULES! My favorite thing on ABC 3 (Not that there was much competition some days 😆). I even recently rewatched it cause nostalgia, and the serialisation is INSANE! They set seeds that pay off SEASONS later! And it really is the epitome of the line "Well that escalated quickly". Still waiting for a resolution to The Lizard Invasion Of Earth! By the end of the series, you kind of forget it began with just some high schooler getting in trouble cause of a prank...AND I LOVE IT FOR THAT! 😂

I remember these cartoons. what a throw back

I didn't think you could find even more obscure cartoons but here we are lol

NO WAY YOOHOO AND FRIENDS?? That show was SO weird to me as a preteen, it was legitimately the most bizarre thing on ABC3, i still feel like half of the episodes i watched were fever dreams. Edit: I hate that you've reminded me of Grossology. I hope you get a pebble in your shoe on a long walk.

Im a Canadian! I grew up with Grossology and it has a lot of cool science facts! They had an episode where carnivorous plants got mutated. After that I spent more time with my grandma doing gardening and taking care of my own carnivorous plants! Good times

I thought YooHoo and Friends was just a fever dream, so seeing this was like a jumpscare in the best way possible.

I remember doing 5 marathons of Grojband back before 2020. I used to know everything about the lore and dynamics.

The Grojband BO song has been embedded in my head for 8 years now and I still can't get it out

The story behind YooHoo & Friends sounds like a mixture of Power Rangers and Ghost Stories

12:35 I think that's the most hilarious cartoon whispering I've ever heard 🤣 "Woosa, woosa, woosa, woosa!"

i've seen stoked, detentionnaire and grojband. i've had a visceral reaction to yoohoo because i've never seen the fluffballs but i've seen father time and the business people, and i've seen nothing. grojband was definitely early in my era of abc3 (now called abcme)

Slugterra was what I always loved to watch. It had a really good plot and was always entertaining

I'm an Aussie and the most nostalgic year for me was 2009-2014 it was on the channel ABC3. Thank you for this video, for reminding me about my childhood that I miss plenty of and all of and the memories I've had with these cartoons with my bro and sis NOSTALGIA😊

I don't remember the dragon one, but the rest of these are still some of my favourite shows. The yoohoo and friends theme song is literally a verbal stim for me. Also when I saw the post for this episode I looked at the picture and my first thought was "Huh, Lyon Smith was in 3 of these." Which I think speaks about how much Canadian cartoons I watch. That man is in way too many of my favorite cartoons.

13:27 Bro turned into Godzilla 😂😂

12:22 Dude's confidence is so high he's defying the laws of physics !

Back when Grojband aired I was 12 and heavily obsessed to where i ran blogs, decided i wanted to be an animator, and am still friends with Corey's VA, he also now teaches at my uni. Grojband also propelled me to study what i do! It also made me love Canadian animation for its weird charm, tho VERY HIT OR MISS, some of them really suck but i think thats the beauty of it

14:47 god i loved this show growing up, a pal of mine didn't have the stomach for some facts

This has woken memories in me that I did not realise I had. The nostalgia is palpable.

11:09 I like how it looks like he's that

Randomly throughout the day I’ll just have a grojband song get stuck in my head for days at a time.. it’s great, loved that show

Grojband just gave me a massive hit of nostalgia

Lanay in Grojband looks pretty much like Kim in Scott Pilgrim

I remember watching Grojband back in the summer of 2013 when I was 10 years old. Even though I didn't get to experience the full series at that time, it wasn't until I rediscovered it in October 2023 where I would watch the entire series and I fell in love with it again, not to mention it had a few Halloween-related episodes in which I picked the perfect time of year to rewatch it. While I'm quick to notice a few coincidental similarities to Phineas and Ferb (i.e. the genius, cunning main protagonist has an antagonistic older sister, main protagonist's best friend has a crush on him to which he's clueless, the older sister has a crush on the laid-back, popular, dreamy boy, songs in every episode, etc.)-another show I also love, I did enjoy the show for its overall humor, writing, characters, messages, and songs. Even the animation looks smooth and brand new despite the show being over a decade old. Now I'm 21, and not only does this show inspire me to pursue music, but I'm also holding out for Cartoon Network or another more merciful channel to air reruns of this show so it could get revived for a second season-one more focused on fleshing out the characters and expanding upon the story. Nevertheless, Grojband will always have a special place in my heart and I can safely say it's a wicked million times BETTER than Teen Titans Go, which can go bite Bender's shiny metal ass. (Funny that I made a Futurama reference at the end because that show and Family Guy were revived thanks in part to CN for airing reruns of the show on Adult Swim after Fox canceled them back in the early 2000's.)

9:24 I can't be the only one that has Vietnam flashbacks from that sound

Grojband was my childhood

Canada: **Leads the charge into Beijing during world war 3, Cures HIV and successfully makes a Hex girls cartoon** DiamondBolt: Nope still not forgiving you for Angela Anaconda.

Grojband is best described as "Guy uses his sister's trauma dumping for his music"

This isn't a cartoon, but you need to include My Babysitter's a Vampire one day, it's a Canadian show that was produced by the same production company that produced Total Drama (so even the live action Canadian shows somehow link back to Total Drama)

Grojband is a show no one forgets after having seen it before!

1:24 stroked 3:21 yoohoo and friends 6:32 detentionaire 10:14 grojband 12:53 dragon booster 14:42 grossoligy

Detentionaire had some the craziest lore and story that I’ve ever seen in a kids show. Blew my mind as a 12 year old. I rewatched it again recently for fun with some friends as a 21 year old and I’ve gotta say it’s aged very well!

I literally ended up watching, loving, and getting hyperfixated on the entirety of YooHoo and Friends thanks to a friend of mine showing me it in this very video. So in a roundabout way I have this video to thank for that

The thumbnail seeing the Grojband kid unclogged a memory of mine. never rlly liked it, but seeing it took me back

I used to love watching grojband on kix back in the day ( the uk version of boomerang or abc3 ) thanks for finally talking about it. If you are gonna make another one of these can you please cover pirate express. I promise you won't regret it.

For me personally like half of these are certified hood classics

Omg That yoohoo and friends unlocked a core memory! I can’t believe I forgot all about that absolutely insane show! I don’t think I’ve seen or heard about it since I was like 9, what the heck

So a few corrections about YooHoo and Friends, apparently the original version eventually got a much more faithful english dub for Amazon Prime Video in 2011. And that "3rd season that was never dubbed" mentioned in 6:15 was actually for the original show, not the David Feiss version (which has its own separate wikipedia page.) The David Feiss version was released in 2012, a year earlier than season 2 of the original show. So it only "followed" the events of the very first season. And one more thing: the English cast for YooHoo to the Rescue includes, I kid you not: Kira Buckland (who did Jolyne Cujoh), Bryce Papenbrook (who did Eren Jaegar) and Kyle Herbert (who did Escanor). And that's just the US cast. Yes, this show has *another* English cast for the UK.

it’s been at least 12 years since i last watched an episode of yoohoo and friends but i Still know all the words to the theme song and it Still gets randomly stuck in my head to this day

I used to watch Grojband so much

Woohoo and friends is a cinematic masterpice.

15:54 I remember watching that episode as a kid and found it unsettling and somewhat disturbing

I watched Stoked on TV when I was younger, and the episode mentioned the two boys having a "bromance". I then proceeded to ask my gay uncle and his husband if they had a bromance, to which they cackled

Grojband was one of my absolute faves

CANANDA NUMBER 1 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Adam calls Angela Anaconda "Angelina Anaconda" at 0:40. 😂😂😂😂

POGGERS 12:43

Holy fucking shit IT’S TIME FOR A NEW DIAMONDBOLT VIDEO ABOUT OLD VIDEOS I REPEAT IT IS TIME

Oh yoohoo, I remember being so cult obsessed with the cruder Canadian version. I still remember Pamee's voice

I recently rewatched all of Detentionaire in order, and its actually so damn good and I hate that it ended on a cliffhanger that was never resolved, I would be so damn excited if they were to revive it for another season or two

As an Aussie about your age, man is this bringing back memories! Detentionnaire really got ended on a cliffhanger, huh?

Very rare but always welcome to see someone acknowledge Grossology. Not to see Grossology. Just to see that someone else liked it.

Vids like these bring back memories of watching YTV and Teletoon in the 2010s! I remember seeing lots Detentionaire reruns late at night, really loved the character designs and background art on that show. Always cool to see youtubers watching them!

Fun Fact: Grojband is being made by the same people who made the Total Drama Series, 6teen, Stoked and Camp Lakebottom.

I vividly remember seeing YooHoo and Friends when I was younger and…..kinda liking it? Glad to see that it’s as weird as I remembered it to be

I remember detentionaire was my favourite show when it first premiered on Teletoon, I kept up with it for a long time then randomly stopped watching it

Thank you for talking about Grojband i loved that cartoon

I found out recently that so many cartoon shows I used to watch when I was younger were all technically Canadian because they were made by Nelvana Edit: Two of the shows in this video are from that studio

Grossology and Detentionaire are my favorites, especially their theme songs.

In detentionair i honestly thought the budget was pretty high because of how the animation looked.

I was gonna say that the animation on Father Time and the Execs in YooHoo and friends looked a hell of a lot like Cow and Chicken, an art style I personally love, so yeah it makes total sense.

Grojband was my shit! And it’s still my shit up to this day. I love this show because not only do we get a song in every episode but also because it gave us the Corey and Laney kiss before the show ended.

I think there may have been an episode of Stoked I watched as a kid which really scared me. It took place in a dark and creepy boiler room with the characters having to find a fuse box or something while they were hunted by the shark mascot of the resort. Either that or I had some subconscious fear of dark and creepy boiler rooms which manifested as a dream featuring the cast of Stoked so I might be wrong, but either way, I’ve held a grudge against Stoked for years now because of it.

Fun fact about YooHoo To The Rescue. While not originally the case the actors for this series has several anime dub voice actors. YooHoo was voiced by Kira Buckland, Pamme was Ryan Bartley, Lemmee was Bryce Papenbrook, Rodee was Lucien Dodge and Chewoo was Cassandra Lee Morris. Pretty crazy isn’t it.

I watched these on ABC3 TOO!!! Dententionaire was my Older brothers and I's Jam!!!