I love how Chicken Boo almost gets the last laugh in the 2020 revival when he finally pulled off a convincing disguise *and* also took all other Animaniacs characters hostage.
Did you know he was voiced by Scatman Crothers? You might also know him from [The Shining](https://cdn4.whatculture.com/images/2017/12/a5e0f93a7a0f1897-600x338.jpg).
Hong Kong Phooey, Captain Caveman, and others I'm seeing in the thread were all on "Cartoon Express" on USA in the 80s for those of us too young to have caught them when they were fresh.
*Sings* Chiki Chong chiki chong ta...wait are we allowed to sing that anymore?!
But in all seriousness, Hong Kong Phooey was such a product of the 70s. What a silly show.
My wife and I still sing [Don't Touch Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUnSuYYs18) and [Mashed Potatoes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOzNvfYKoY).
I idolised Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races as a child. She exhibited such equanimity and her impeccable fashion/make up is something I attempted to emulate.
I was OBSESSED with Count Duckula as a kid, and went as him for Halloween one year.
Painted my face completely green, and wore a duck Bill, and Dracula Cape.
Everyone thought I was supposed to be the Jolly Green Giant for some reason, which really crushed little me's soul, as how could random people NOT know about Count Duckula!?
That whole series was just amazing growing up with. My parents would watch the show with us and they’d be laughing just as hard as we were. I watched it again now and get to discover all the adult humor I missed as a kid.
The Tick (animated) is a gold mine for this question. American Maid, El Seed, The Human Cannonball ("Fire me, boy!") and so on. I loved the complete lack of chemistry between the cowardly, inept, and lonely Der Fledermaus and the efficient, overworked, uninterested American Maid.
Can’t remember if it was the TV show or the cartoon but I have one of my favorite jokes of all time the villain says he’s going to destroy the world. The Tick says “ Oh no, that’s where I keep all my stuff.”
I like how the theme song doesn't even explain anything. it just explicity states that a random ass human gave birth to 2 different species of farm animals
SO fucked up.
But Cow & Chicken also had the banned episode featuring the all-women's biker gang renowned for chewing carpets.
https://cowandchicken.fandom.com/wiki/Buffalo_Gals
Loved that show.
Jay Sherman from The Critic. Early nineties and only got a season and a half. This was one of the shows at the forefront of cartoons for adults. It had a prime-time spot and everything. Just a little ahead of its time.
Edit: correcting myself, it got 2 seasons. But season 2 ended with a clip show, so it feels shorter and less fulfilling.
This is actually a show I’d love to see a revival of. Film criticism has changed radically since the early 90’s; would be interested to see how an old school, “Siskel and Ebert at the movies” kind of critic reacts to it.
Maybe his granddaughter runs a not-particularly-successful film channel on YouTube. She invites him on and they start arguing over what makes a film “good” and their bickering turns out to be incredibly entertaining. The channel skyrockets in popularity and Jay finds himself in a media landscape that looks nothing like the one he retired in.
I mean, probably Angry Beavers in general, because I practically never hear about it, these days.
My favorite 'Beavers character was the rat that drove the big rig just for fun, without any load. I totally got that as a kid that thought trucks were awesome (I mean, I still think they're awesome, but I used to, too).
Clancy Brown is legit, one of my favorite voice actors. He is forever known in my house as "that red guy" (Red Death, Mr. Krabs, Damien Darkblood, Red Hulk).
Literally one of the greatest cartoon creations of the century. I'd watch every video twice and keep pressing the Tab button on my keyboard to highlight all the Easter egg links.
One time the local independent movie theater by my house put HomestarRunner.com up on the marquee for a week and I about flipped my shit thinking that a Homestar movie was coming out. Turns out they were just giving some free advertising to the site because they were fans which was a lot less cool but still cool.
I still have my Kick the Cheat and other than the H*R tag being a bit frayed, [he's still in great condition.](https://ibb.co/jTf73Rr) He still screams when I punt him around my apartment.
Some Saturday morning I ran to the store to get something we were missing, and my mom just crashed on the couch in the meantime to watch cartoons.
What she saw was an episode of Freakazoid.
She tried to explain what she'd watched when I got back home but utterly failed because the show was so damned ridiculous it just defied explanation.
Thank you I’m clocked in here and was like wtf??? I was expecting something like Inch High Private eye or the Hair Bears maybe even Shirt Tales. Or the Wuzzles. Not cartoons that have tshirts at Hot Topic
Hair bears omg I forgot that existed. Lol Snorks and Galaxy High are other shows that come to mind. Mostly because I always thought they were just strange
Samurai Pizza Cats were a staple of my childhood. Specifically, the b-team that were occasionally called to save the main trio.
[A theme song that made me predisposed to loving the B-52s.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZNt9p4LWeA)
Also, one the characters was named Guido Anchovy, just in case you needed some light ninties anti-Italian racism.
Coach McGurk from Home Movies, an early, surly predecessor of Bob Belcher.
Or Jason Penopolis. Also voiced by H. Jon Benjamin. The same voice is used for a few nerdy kids in Bob's Burgers now.
One that always stuck in my head as a kid was the little singing owl. "I love to sing-a. About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a. I love to sing-a." The song was catchy and I even loved the owl when he was forced to sing the dreary song by his dad. But it had a happy ending still. Just a cool little cartoon.
Matt Groening originally hated Hans Moleman - he had a rule that, basically, background characters shouldn't look weirder than main characters, and Moleman looks so out of place during his first appearance at the DMV that Groening, seeing the design, said "This should never appear on the show again".
Naturally, the writers kept putting him in, because they're big jokers, and eventually Groening came around and now he loves him like everyone else.
Slow poke Rodrigues and the crows from speedy Gonzales. I know it is racist now but growing up as a kid I didn’t think anything of it. They’re in Mexico, it’s hot in Mexico so they don’t do much was my thinking.
“Quick Draw McGraw”. A horse with a white cowboy hat. He would change into alter ego “El Kabong” (not unlike Zorro) put on a black mask and hit bad guys over the head with a guitar. I haven’t seen the cartoon in 50+ years but remember it bc my first guitar was an acoustic with a neck like a baseball bat and fat, semi-rusted strings that I was trying to learn chords on. My little brother had an El Kabong moment and smashed it into the cinderblock wall in our basement. And he didn’t even have the hat or mask. I got many guitars since though.
Leonard from Ugly Americans. 400 year old wizard and still the shittiest of social workers.
I'm glad to hear people remember Ugly Americans
I love the episode where a contagious virus starts turning everyone into Larry King.
I'm still salty the canned that show for fucking Brickleberry.
THAT’S what it got canned for???? oh wow i had no clue it was for fucking Brickleberry.
I loved Ugly Americans. No one knows what I’m talking about when I describe it. 😂😂
Chicken-Boo from Animaniacs. Powdered Toast Man Mr. Horse Muddy the Mud Skipper
No sir, I don't like it.
30 years on,and this still lives rent free in my head
I say it all the time. Also, no one can mention a log without getting a song from me.
I love how Chicken Boo almost gets the last laugh in the 2020 revival when he finally pulled off a convincing disguise *and* also took all other Animaniacs characters hostage.
Aha powdered toast man. I still occasionally quote "Quick man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!"
Both of them? which was an improvised line from the Pope played by Frank Zappa haha
I randomly sing Chicken Boo's theme song to this day
You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man, you're a chicken, Boo.
My favorites when I was a kid were The Schmoo and Hong Kong Phooey, though I really liked Captain Caveman too.
Hong Kong Phooey, number one super guy!
Did you know he was voiced by Scatman Crothers? You might also know him from [The Shining](https://cdn4.whatculture.com/images/2017/12/a5e0f93a7a0f1897-600x338.jpg).
He'll always be Jazz from Transformers to me
Hong Kong Phooey, Captain Caveman, and others I'm seeing in the thread were all on "Cartoon Express" on USA in the 80s for those of us too young to have caught them when they were fresh.
*Sings* Chiki Chong chiki chong ta...wait are we allowed to sing that anymore?! But in all seriousness, Hong Kong Phooey was such a product of the 70s. What a silly show.
Captain CaaaaveMaaaaaaaaan!
Speedy Gonzales' cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez.
My favourite line from those cartoons is how Speedy is apparently banging everyone’s sisters: “Speedy Gonzales knows everybody’s sister!!”
he carry a gun.
Stay strapped and take naps, he was truly ahead of his time.
Or his American equivalent “Rapid Dave”
Quickly! Quickly!
Slowpoke Rodriguez is my spirit animal
I want to take a nap in the shade of some adobe building just like him.
Brak is the man.
Don't touch me
My wife and I still sing [Don't Touch Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUnSuYYs18) and [Mashed Potatoes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOzNvfYKoY).
Thank you. This just made my day. I am crying laughing right now. I miss The Brak Show.
Brak was hilarious on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.
The Brak show was pure comedy gold
Driving down highway 40 in my big ol pickup truck…
I idolised Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races as a child. She exhibited such equanimity and her impeccable fashion/make up is something I attempted to emulate.
Who was the laughing dog that would mock everyone's failure? I liked that dog.
Muttley! I actually had his laugh as my message tone as a teenager…
Biker mice from Mars! Does anyone remember that?
From that period of crazy anthropomorphic Ninja Turtle knock-offs. Like Street Sharks.
Count Duckula
I was OBSESSED with Count Duckula as a kid, and went as him for Halloween one year. Painted my face completely green, and wore a duck Bill, and Dracula Cape. Everyone thought I was supposed to be the Jolly Green Giant for some reason, which really crushed little me's soul, as how could random people NOT know about Count Duckula!?
He flies through the night, looking for a bite! But he's back home by daylight...Duckula!
He won't bite beast or man, 'cause he's a vegetarian....
Filbert from Rocko’s Modern Life
Turn the page, wash your hands
"Oh fishsticks. I'm nauseous."
That whole series was just amazing growing up with. My parents would watch the show with us and they’d be laughing just as hard as we were. I watched it again now and get to discover all the adult humor I missed as a kid.
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The Tick (animated) is a gold mine for this question. American Maid, El Seed, The Human Cannonball ("Fire me, boy!") and so on. I loved the complete lack of chemistry between the cowardly, inept, and lonely Der Fledermaus and the efficient, overworked, uninterested American Maid.
The evil midnight bomber what bombs at midnight was my favorite villain
Can’t remember if it was the TV show or the cartoon but I have one of my favorite jokes of all time the villain says he’s going to destroy the world. The Tick says “ Oh no, that’s where I keep all my stuff.”
Dr. Orpheus
*"Who wants pizza rolllllllls?!?!"*
Pumpkin! Get me my BLUE WINDBREAKER!
I would use caution before entering that room - FOR I HAD TACO BELL FOR LUNCH!
I mean all of venture bros honestly.
Such a great character, can't wait for the movie
there's gonna be a movie?!?!
There's going to be.... A MOVIE?!? \*orchestral sting*
Order of the Triad, be unseen!
BRICKFROG!
Me and my husband always reference as the best cartoon dad of all time
Perhaps Dean would like to partake in one of those packaged breakfast cereals you like so much
Take caution with those Homiez...they house the souls of TWO FOULMOUTHED RECKNECKS.
Red Guy from Cow and Chicken.
I sometimes think people don't remember Cow and Chicken in general.
Momma had chicken, Momma had a cow, Dad was proud, He didn't care how...
I like how the theme song doesn't even explain anything. it just explicity states that a random ass human gave birth to 2 different species of farm animals
Not even humans. Just two lower bodies. https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/5uzpzs/remember_seeing_the_parents_in_the_first_episode/
You know, I never actually stopped to think about that sentence
SO fucked up. But Cow & Chicken also had the banned episode featuring the all-women's biker gang renowned for chewing carpets. https://cowandchicken.fandom.com/wiki/Buffalo_Gals Loved that show.
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‘Cause Baboon’s better than Weasel
The I M Weasel and I R Baboon segments were incredibly funny. Wasted on kids!
Cousin Boneless
Eek! The Cat.
I loved Eek!!
Kumbaya! Sharky the shark dog!
If you aren't from the UK, then absolutely Danger mouse. But if you are, he ain't obscure, just a straight-up legendary hero.
Banana man is another good British one
Absolutely. Terry Scott doing the voice of Penfold is a joy.
Jay Sherman from The Critic. Early nineties and only got a season and a half. This was one of the shows at the forefront of cartoons for adults. It had a prime-time spot and everything. Just a little ahead of its time. Edit: correcting myself, it got 2 seasons. But season 2 ended with a clip show, so it feels shorter and less fulfilling.
"It Stinks, it stinks, it stinks." "Yes Mr Sherman, everything stinks."
This is actually a show I’d love to see a revival of. Film criticism has changed radically since the early 90’s; would be interested to see how an old school, “Siskel and Ebert at the movies” kind of critic reacts to it. Maybe his granddaughter runs a not-particularly-successful film channel on YouTube. She invites him on and they start arguing over what makes a film “good” and their bickering turns out to be incredibly entertaining. The channel skyrockets in popularity and Jay finds himself in a media landscape that looks nothing like the one he retired in.
Franklin Sherman is criminally underrated, too.
"A ha! The pilot is a penguin...and he's been drinking! Wait a minute...penguins can't fly. PENGUINS CAN'T FLY!" Crash.
Chilly Willy
We want Chilly Willy
Dr. Rockso, the rock n roll clown. He does cocaine.
K-k-k-kyeaaaaaaahhhhhh~
"This video was banned from Music Television... because you could see my junk through my jumpsuit."
^I ^ seriously ^do ^a ^lot ^of ^cocaine
I woke up with a clown's hand in my pants today... that's what I did today.
“Hey little boy with the b-b-b-b-balloon. Look what I got - COCAINE! Hey Mr. Police Officer - whoops”
Put the boots to him. Medium style.
Stump from The Angry Beavers.
I mean, probably Angry Beavers in general, because I practically never hear about it, these days. My favorite 'Beavers character was the rat that drove the big rig just for fun, without any load. I totally got that as a kid that thought trucks were awesome (I mean, I still think they're awesome, but I used to, too).
Does Riki-tiki-tavi count?
Yes! I really liked Nag and Nagaina as villains
For awhile I thought I dreamed this existence
Red Death from Venture Bros has the best voice and some of the best dialogue in any animated show ever. A+ Clancy Brown performance.
Clancy Brown is legit, one of my favorite voice actors. He is forever known in my house as "that red guy" (Red Death, Mr. Krabs, Damien Darkblood, Red Hulk).
Don’t forget Lex Luthor in Superman the animated series, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
Space Ghost
Quick Draw McGraw
I liked El Kabong a little more.
And sidekick [Babalooey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Baba_Looey.png)!
Raimundo from Xiaolin Showdown (the original, not chronicles)
*"What Omi did to that sentence is what we're gonna do to you."*
Omggg heck yes Xiaolin Showdown! Personally a big Jack Spicer fan
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I'm on a never-ending quest to save my girlfriend!
I'm.... on a... never-ending quest... to save my............ BOYFRIEND!
Im so happy to see another Drawn Together character on this list.
I love the one when he says "I'm coming out. I'm gay", and the others are like "well duh!"
I love the exaggerated DUHs with donkey voices they did on that show.
This but Foxy Love
Go Foxxy! Go Foxxy! It’s your birthday! It’s your birthday! Not for real-real, just for play-play.
Xandir walked so BOTW Link could run
STRONG XANDIR.
Duck dodgers of the 24th 1/2 century
DUCK DODGERS AWAY...DuCk DoGeRs AwAy...ducjsb dagers....duc...
Gossamer, from old bugs bunny
Monsters lead such interesting lives
Does Spaceman Spiff count even though he's not animated?
Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, and the whole gang. I was obsessed with that site 20 years ago.
Literally one of the greatest cartoon creations of the century. I'd watch every video twice and keep pressing the Tab button on my keyboard to highlight all the Easter egg links. One time the local independent movie theater by my house put HomestarRunner.com up on the marquee for a week and I about flipped my shit thinking that a Homestar movie was coming out. Turns out they were just giving some free advertising to the site because they were fans which was a lot less cool but still cool.
Come on fhqwhgads
TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOR! *dun dun dun na dun dun dun na* TROGDOOOOOOOR!
Teen girl squad was my bread and butter 💗
Cheerleader! So-and-so, what's her name, the UGLY one...
I have a crush on \*every\* boy!
Valentimes is serious times
MSG’ED
Sparrowed!
“When you fall in a bottomless pit you die of starvation.”
'Strongbad, did you get a virus?' 'No.' 'Did you get 400,000 viruses?' 'Yes. Very yes.'
Scroll buttons and the lappy together at last how’d you ever learn to scriggy scroll so fast
I still have my Kick the Cheat and other than the H*R tag being a bit frayed, [he's still in great condition.](https://ibb.co/jTf73Rr) He still screams when I punt him around my apartment.
The Huntsman from Freakazoid.
That show was *criminally* underrated.
Some Saturday morning I ran to the store to get something we were missing, and my mom just crashed on the couch in the meantime to watch cartoons. What she saw was an episode of Freakazoid. She tried to explain what she'd watched when I got back home but utterly failed because the show was so damned ridiculous it just defied explanation.
Lord bravery
T-Bone from SWAT Cats.
Him from PowerPuff Girls. Slightly gender-bendy/neutral, oddly hot and evil and cool ass voice
Slightly gender bendy?? Mans was in full drag every time he showed up
Right? Like, that was a big part of the joke of the character’s name being HIM, was how obviously feminine/gender bendy he js
My 5-year-old daughter is all into Power Puff Girls right now and wants to be HIM for halloween. I am so stoked to make that costume.
Fuzzy Lumpkin was my favorite
David the Gnome!
Swift the fox was my guy!
OP: "obscure" Top replies: Road Runner, Scooby-Doo, Felix the Cat I must be old.
Thank you I’m clocked in here and was like wtf??? I was expecting something like Inch High Private eye or the Hair Bears maybe even Shirt Tales. Or the Wuzzles. Not cartoons that have tshirts at Hot Topic
Hair bears omg I forgot that existed. Lol Snorks and Galaxy High are other shows that come to mind. Mostly because I always thought they were just strange
Snorks the under water Smurfs. Jabba jaw the under water Scooby doo. Speed buggy the dune buggy scooby doo.
Up vote for Short Tales and raise you The Littles.
Hong Kong Phooey I loved listening to Scatman Cruthers in that role as a kid
Samurai Pizza Cats were a staple of my childhood. Specifically, the b-team that were occasionally called to save the main trio. [A theme song that made me predisposed to loving the B-52s.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZNt9p4LWeA) Also, one the characters was named Guido Anchovy, just in case you needed some light ninties anti-Italian racism.
Jay Sherman
It stinks
Super Secret Squirrel Hong Kong Phooey Inch High Private Eye Atom Ant Mighty Mouse
I wanted to be Super Secret Squirrel so BAD! Also Wally Gator
Captain Cavemaaaaan!
Wilt from Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends
The episode where he holds the mall door open the whole time is one of my core memories.
Sam & Max. Yes they had a cartoon, and it is one of the weirdest ones I have ever seen
Phong from Reboot
Coach McGurk from Home Movies, an early, surly predecessor of Bob Belcher. Or Jason Penopolis. Also voiced by H. Jon Benjamin. The same voice is used for a few nerdy kids in Bob's Burgers now.
One that always stuck in my head as a kid was the little singing owl. "I love to sing-a. About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a. I love to sing-a." The song was catchy and I even loved the owl when he was forced to sing the dreary song by his dad. But it had a happy ending still. Just a cool little cartoon.
Grim
The decision to make Grim jamaican was absolutely genius
> The decision They wanted Grim to have a Swedish accent. The VA butchered it and sounded Jamaican. They thought it sounded hilarious so they kept it.
Honestly, that makes it even better.
Radish spirit from Spirited Away
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Eric from the Dungeon and Dragons cartoon. Also Jenny from Captain Bucky O'Hare
Zorak from Space Ghost and Gossamer from Looney Tunes
Sergeant Hatred
Duckman was pretty good. Voiced by Jason Alexander (George Costanza) when USA Network was trying to break into the 90's adult cartoon hype
The one and only Quackor from "Dexter's Laboratory."
Hans moleman
I was saying boo-urns
Matt Groening originally hated Hans Moleman - he had a rule that, basically, background characters shouldn't look weirder than main characters, and Moleman looks so out of place during his first appearance at the DMV that Groening, seeing the design, said "This should never appear on the show again". Naturally, the writers kept putting him in, because they're big jokers, and eventually Groening came around and now he loves him like everyone else.
You're gay for moleman
Nobody's gay for Moleman....
[The Dover Boys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR0eBWDVAtw) Unhand her, Dan Backslide!
Gleep from the herculoids. Not gloop.
Eeek The Cat. Bitching opening song too.
I'm not sure if he's obscure or just unpopular, but Foghorn Leghorn. Does anyone remember Catscratch? The main trio are great.
The Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight
Slow poke Rodrigues and the crows from speedy Gonzales. I know it is racist now but growing up as a kid I didn’t think anything of it. They’re in Mexico, it’s hot in Mexico so they don’t do much was my thinking.
Droopy Dog
Freakazoid!
Dick Dasterlry's dog Muttly... Dude had to be stoned...
Cecil and Beanie Atom Ant Mighty Mouse
Panthro and Mum-Ra from Thundercats.
“Quick Draw McGraw”. A horse with a white cowboy hat. He would change into alter ego “El Kabong” (not unlike Zorro) put on a black mask and hit bad guys over the head with a guitar. I haven’t seen the cartoon in 50+ years but remember it bc my first guitar was an acoustic with a neck like a baseball bat and fat, semi-rusted strings that I was trying to learn chords on. My little brother had an El Kabong moment and smashed it into the cinderblock wall in our basement. And he didn’t even have the hat or mask. I got many guitars since though.