martin mystery was the shit. the creators want to make a season 4.
i apparently remember alot more obscure nick shows than cn shows. probably because i mainly watched nicktoons over nickelodeon. i knew like half this list suprisingly.
(also yes[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD__XcT5Jd0"] kappa mikey's theme song is awesome[/URL])
Tak and the Power of Juju was not an obscure cartoon by any stretch???? I mean Tak was one of the faces of Nickelodeon between 2006-2008, and all the games were relatively popular. It might not have lasted long, but in the scheme of things that are and are not obscure, Tak doesn't count.
Man, I used to watch every one of these shows except the older ones.
I'm kind of disappointed that he didn't talk more about the show that inspired the username I've had since 2007.
I actually remember watching every single one of these shows.
Making Fiends reminded me of these weird little bumpers i remember seeing late at night on either Nick or CN. it was about these goth Tim Burton-esque twins (a brother and a sister) usually doing edgy subversive stuff, i think with the aim of messing up fairy tales and making them all Grimm-y. it was probably animated with flash but it's hazy. does anyone remember these?
[QUOTE=Cone;52236957]Making Fiends reminded me of these weird little bumpers i remember seeing late at night on either Nick or CN. it was about these goth Tim Burton-esque twins (a brother and a sister) usually doing edgy subversive stuff, i think with the aim of messing up fairy tales and making them all Grimm-y. it was probably animated with flash but it's hazy. does anyone remember these?[/QUOTE]
Edgar and Ellen. i remember that shit, at least I think that's it. It was about them in a cheery town doing stuff to mess with the happy residents, mostly falling victim to their own plans. It was supposed to be based around Edgar Allen Poe stuff, because I remember they had a pet simply called Pet (Edgar Ellen Pet, get it?) and they had a bust of Poe that took them on journeys or something? and their dad was fucking creepy, always smiling.
[B]EDIT:[/B] Also, does anybody remember Ricky Sprocket, Showbiz Boy or the Secret Show? I remember they were those shows that were on early in the morning or late at night. I don't think I've met somebody who does remember them, but I'd get up early in the morning and I watched that stuff on T.V.
Oh shit, when I was a kid there was this site called [URL="http://www.muffinfilms.com/"]Muffinfilms[/URL] that some friends and I stumbled on in 4th grade during Computer Lab. Much later in life I actually saw Making Fiends on Nicktoons and I remembered thinking to myself "Man that reminds me of that Muffinfilms thing" but I didn't think about it too much. After watching this and seeing Muffinfilms on Amy's page in the video I guess I was on to something. :v:
[QUOTE=Hey I'm Grump;52236960]Edgar and Ellen. i remember that shit, at least I think that's it. It was about them in a cheery town doing stuff to mess with the happy residents, mostly falling victim to their own plans. It was supposed to be based around Edgar Allen Poe stuff, because I remember they had a pet simply called Pet (Edgar Ellen Pet, get it?) and they had a bust of Poe that took them on journeys or something? and their dad was fucking creepy, always smiling.
[B]EDIT:[/B] Also, does anybody remember Ricky Sprocket, Showbiz Boy or the Secret Show? I remember they were those shows that were on early in the morning or late at night. I don't think I've met somebody who does remember them, but I'd get up early in the morning and I watched that stuff on T.V.[/QUOTE]
Secret show was the shit. I loved that show when I was a kid.
I actually really liked Kappa Mikey, and I'm not even that big of an anime fan either.
I freaking loved Kappa Mikey and Making Fiends as a kid. Speaking of Kappa Mikey imagine if another company picked it up and tried rebooting it, but used modern anime tropes :v:
I remember Yackkity Yak being ok, not great though.
The Yak and Pineapple reminded me of Cartman and Butters for some reason.
It must be because I'm french-canadian, but Martin Mystery was amazing and far from obscure. Everybody knew about it and the two other shows made by the same company: Totally Spies and Team Galaxy.
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Now that I look further into it, most of the obscure shows on the list that I remember well are actually co-production between Canada and France.
Kappa Mikey was the shit. I spent a lot of time flipping between Nicktoons & G4tv back in middle school.
I almost remember all this as Kid in mid to late-2000s after the creation of Nicktoons.
And I love both Martin Mystery* and Kappa Kid* are my 2 and 3 favorite nick shows, One was Avatar: The Last Airbender.
(French Gravity falls meets Totally Spies as Rebeltaxi put it with the Urban Sci-fantasy/Furry-theme atmosphere)
(Because of Japanophile/Pre-otaku trend I used to have before switching to other Subculture later in life because I worried this will become too mainstream with your generation)
I think the only show on the list I knew about was Martin Glenn DDS, though I was vaguely aware of the video game that the show at 8:35 was based off of.
Holy crap I didn't even watch nick much when I was younger and I remember watching every single one of these except fatherhood (and even then I remember it a bit, I just didn't really watch it) and Allen Strange (Too young for that I think). As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I'm amazed at the bare minimum "The Secret Show" wasn't on here. Pretty much every single time I woke up early I watched that.
[video=youtube;3ZB18qM7c2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZB18qM7c2w[/video]
Also, I played the shit out of Tak as a kid but I never realized the game came first. Always thought the show did.
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Also, holy crap DDS. Nick had some balls putting that shit on there.
Every time I enter a Rebel Taxi thread I start remembering things I completely forgot.
I actually really fucking liked The Xs
Yeah that first last one hit me with a curve ball, I was two when it aired and probably never even got to see re-runs of it. But everything else is pretty much a staple of trash shows or ones that never got too popular.
Making Fiend's intro and that blue girl going down the slide going "WHEEEE" over and over again brought back vivid flashbacks. Holy shit, I love when I remember stuff i've forgotten.
Also the X's was the shit.
I remember watching the pilot and I think it was about the punk sister's little brother getting a fart gadget to make her fart while she was on a date.
I only got to watch whatever they would have on YTV or Teletoon (the Canadian side of things), so from this video it was just The X's, Tak and the Power of Juju, Martin Mystery (which was the best tbh), Sherikin School, My Dad the Rockstar.
I was curious, so I decided to have a go at Google. The Tak video games sold 4.56 million copies across each platform. That is not obscure by any stretch of imagination. Let me put that into context for you: the original Ratchet & Clank game only sold 3.7 million copies. Now we're comparing a series to a single game, but the Tak games all came out within the same stretch of time.
Just because [i]you[/i] don't remember something, doesn't make it obscure or forgotten. I get the feeling that most people in this thread were either too old for Nick's cartoons in the mid-2000s, or they were too young and that's why they don't remember. As someone who subscribed to Nick Magazine for at least half a decade, Tak was featured in so many things it was crazy.
[QUOTE=FFStudios;52246047]I was curious, so I decided to have a go at Google. The Tak video games sold 4.56 million copies across each platform. That is not obscure by any stretch of imagination. Let me put that into context for you: the original Ratchet & Clank game only sold 3.7 million copies. Now we're comparing a series to a single game, but the Tak games all came out within the same stretch of time.
Just because [i]you[/i] don't remember something, doesn't make it obscure or forgotten. I get the feeling that most people in this thread were either too old for Nick's cartoons in the mid-2000s, or they were too young and that's why they don't remember. As someone who subscribed to Nick Magazine for at least half a decade, Tak was featured in so many things it was crazy.[/QUOTE]
Even though I didn't watch it aside from leaving it on in the background occasionally, I remember a solid 3 years where Tak and the Power of JuJu was being shown on Nick. I also remember the games being advertised everywhere even though no one I knew talked about them.
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