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  • For me it was probably The Head.

    I really liked Duckman as well.

    Also, the early Beavis and Butt-Head

    True classics, haha.

  • I was a kid in the 90's. It'd probably be easier to list the normalest cartoons. Like Doug.

    Freakazoid, possibly. Or Toxic Avenger. Though the latter is more insane that they turned the original concept into something for kids in the first place.

  • I thing Dutch people from my generation have you all beat:

    Purno de Purno (porn pun very much intended)

    A psychedelic cartoon about a funny guy in spandex that has a shitload of nudity (tits, penisses etc) to the point of him even crawling in the vagina of a giant lady in space. It has references to litaral drug use. Have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6MIJ7Iq1U doesn't matter if you know the language, just browse through. That episode is called 'In het hol van de kietelaar' which translates to 'In the clitoris' hole'

    This was on kids tv. Nobody got seriously harmed by it. It was funny and weird, but you don't really register exactltyy how weird it is untill you hear about sensitivities on US TV (nipplegate lol)

  • The old Nintendo cartoons, things like the Mario Super Show and the classic Sonic show. If you thought live action Mario and Luigi arguing with fungus people was weird, sometimes the people behind the cartoons would get so lazy that they wouldn't fully draw some of the frames or throw in a lazy scenario for the main characters like "what if Yoshi had a secret family he was hiding off-screen". Of note, people often ask me "why are you so relatively soft on the Zelda CDi games" and the answer relates to the deal of effort.

    If puppet shows count, objectively it's Mr. Meaty.

  • Ugh Probably Teens Titans GO: Its episodes just go from Fart Jokes to how to pay Taxes.

  • Adolar's Fantastical Adventures

    An old Hungarian cartoon about a boy who hides an inflatable rocket in his violin case. He uses it to fly to strange planets like a two dimensional one. Most vivid image I have in my mind is how the rocket stretches when it approaches light speed.

  • TV series:

    • Oggy and the Cockroaches
    • Johnny Test
    • Teen Titans Go
    • Uncle Grandpa
    • The Amazing World of Gumball
    • Regular Show

    Movies:

    • Coraline
    • Corpse Bride

    Web series:

    • SMG4
    • asdfmovie

  • “The great mouse detective” had a fight scene at the end that freaked me out as a kid.

  • If we're counting highschool as still a kid, the old Chinese cartoon Calabash Brothers. Still looking for ENG subs for the newer version that released in the 2010s, though.

    It's a cartoon where a snake and scorpion demon escape from a mountain and an elderly man has to grow a magic calabash seed that turns into 7 different calabashes that turn into little dieties when ripe in order to stop the demons.

    • Tamest Chinese fantasy.

      • Compared to other Chinese donghua I've seen in the past, the show definitely feels a little more unhinged. Most things I see today are a lot more average, in my opinion.

  • It’s a very generational question. Like, many of the cartoons I watched as a kid would definitely be considered crazy today (and racist, misogynistic, murderous, etc.) but at the time were typical.

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