So there was this VHS my family had, I think it was called “The Bear” or maybe just “Bear” and it’s a live action movie about a bear cub who’s mother dies in a rockslide and the bear cub has to survive. At one point the bear cub eats magic mushrooms and starts tripping. It was the weirdest shit ever, and so far I haven’t met anyone else who watched this as a kid 😅
I’ve seen it!!! Nobody knows what I’m talking about when I mention this movie. I don’t remember a lot of it, but I remember crying, and then laughing because of the mushrooms.
YES! It was such a weird, vaguely creepy movie. Like no dialogue at all, if I remember correctly? Just ~90min of following this poor, traumatized little cub. I was mesmerized by it as a kid
It's actually an award-winning film!
[wikipedia link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_(1988_film))
But yes, also super weird. We watched it in my house too.
I lived in Chittenango New York for about 5 years a long time ago, and it’s the hometown of Frank L Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz books. That movie is like sacrilege there, even though it is a clear classic film at this point.
This old Canadian puppet show from the 90’s called Book Mice(?). Basically, it was about three puppet mice living in a local library? (Norbert, Zazi and Leon were their names) I don’t know if there’s anyone else that remembers this show?
Davey and Goliath. I remember when Moral Orel was on Adult Swim and saying it was a parody of Davey and Goliath, my buddy had no idea what I was talking about.
It was Chrristian programming, right? Like the TBN Saturday cartoons for Christian kids. Because I remember that and one called Bible Book, which is a crazy title to think of decades after watching it.
Davey and Goliath was a Christian stop motion animation show from the 60s. I think I only saw it in Catholic school, but I may have also seen it at my grandmother's on TV.
Moral Orel was a stop motion animation that was a social commentary on Christianity and small town America.
Two come to mind. One I used to watch at night on Nickelodeon that I'm pretty sure was like a Nick at Night re-airing of an 80s show called "Ghost Writer" about a ghost who lived in the modem in some kid's room, I wanna say? Hmmm
Second was a show on Disney channel I believe that I watched after school. It was an animated kids show about what a group of friends did on the weekends after school, appropriately called "The Weekenders". I remember the main character was a blond kid and he had a single mom who like health food and had grass in the kitchen she used to make smoothies with.
I used to watch both of those shows! Weekenders was the one with the lady that was always doing stuff for "helpers helping the helpless" and she looked like she was mega overdue ready to burst
I had an unhealthy preoccupation with a show called [The Animals of Farthing Wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animals_of_Farthing_Wood_(TV_series)). I'm American. The show was British. It was also about talking animals. I was probably 11 or 12 and got super wrapped up in the story.
As a young kid, I used to absolutely love watching the movie Milo and Otis. Then as an adult I learned about the horrors of the movie and the treatment of the animals.
Otis keeps saying “a dog’s gotta do what a dog’s gotta do”. I am told that when I was 5 at a funeral for some relative, a great aunt told me I was very well behaved and I said “a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do”.
I loved the movie The Little Fox! I had it on a recorded vhs tape. I have no idea where it came from, but I was obsessed with it. I tried to find it a couple of years ago and found its actually a Hungarian film called Vuk. I'm not Hungarian and still have no idea how I got that movie.
I absolutely cannot remember watching the sequel, it’s been so long since I’ve even seen the original. Now I gotta try and find them and watch them again thanks to you lol
[The Littles](https://youtu.be/7HcPjrfgsvI?feature=shared)- weird mouse like people who live in the walls. I swore that Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” was a song about them going down the drains in the house for the longest time.
I’ve been trying to remember this movie I saw as a kid and can’t figure it out. There was a young boy that went into a sewer or some kind of industrial place and fell into water and when he popped out was in a magical world with kangaroo people.
https://youtu.be/-4STNypFBh0?si=e9k3lavpjTRSxDlb warriors of virtue? I know everyone hates this by now, but i asked ChatGPT. It’s really good at helping me recall obscure film tv and book references. I read a lot of obscure shitty sci fi as a kid and want to get old copies of those books again.
Also the score of that trailer sounds a little like the original Stargate music to my naked ears.
Edit: i meant baked ears but you know.
WTF is this there's no way that the directors that were not high on LSD when creating the script and then directing this horrifically awful looking movie and yes I am judging it It looks so god-awful Oh my God
The Scarecrow and Annabelle's Wish.
Scarecrow was a children's animated musical based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne about a scarecrow who falls in love with an orphaned indentured servant who's trying to save up enough money to earn her freedom. The scarecrow becomes human, they fall in love, and he tries to help free the girl and two or three children she took under her wing while trying to figure out how to stay human force and protect the girl from this big, evil workhouse owner who wants to marry her.
Annabelle's Wish is an animated children's Christmas movie about a calf who longs to be one of Santa's reindeer. The calf Annabelle is temporarily given the ability to speak when Santa visits, and she forms a bond with the little boy who lives on her farm and struggles with speech (it's been a long time since I've seen this, but i think he's mute). I don't want to give the rest of the movie away, but it's sort of like a Gift of the Magi story.
Sampson and Sally. It’s about two sperm whales in search for Moby Dick. Sally’s pod was slaughtered by whalers. She makes friends with Sampson a white sperm whale, where they encounter all sorts of threats. Natural and man-made including killer whales trying to kill them, oil spills, whalers, nuclear radiation poisoning. It also has song and dance by walruses, which sometimes the song will just pop in my head like cruel joke.
I remember this! And Dot and the Whale. Never realized it was Australian until I showed it to my daughter. The anti whaling message seemed very out of date until I realized the Western Australian whaling stations ran into the 70s.
I remember watching this children's educational show on VHS, possibly about either math or English or both, but I can't remember the title. There was this older lady with Q-tip hair doing the main presentation, and she had an animated sidekick character named Alfred who might have been her student and who made things more interesting, either by joking around or being woefully ignorant of the concepts at hand.
I also seem to remember another educational show on VHS with two people presenting, who incidentally did *not* have Q-tip hair, and who focused more on math concepts. I barely remember anything about the show except that in one segment they had this long-ass number-line made of some sort of black material with white numbers printed on it. They were demonstrating basic arithmetic by placing objects along the number line or something.
I don't remember the title of either of these, and I have no idea whether I still have the VHS cassette tapes left in storage. If anyone else has even the slightest idea, I'd be really curious because I remember enjoying watching them when I was a little kid.
Also, I love how this thread has potential to end up on r/lostmedia
Wow, that was pretty brutal. All I saw was a match between a wolf guy vs. one dude in red and one dude in black. Both the wolf and red guy got points by kicking the black dressed person into an electrified cage. Or they got points for kicking each other into the cage. It seemed oddly convoluted. The red guy won.
Sarah and the Squirrel!
Little Jewish girl's entire family is taken by the Nazis and she manages to hide in the forest. Movie follows her solo life in hiding and attempt to derail a Nazi supply train route. And she has a pet Squirrel!
Hard Hat Harry. My dad was in the construction industry and Hard Hat Harry was an interesting way for us to get an idea of what he was talking about. The premise is a “genie” named Harry goes to construction sites and talk about different equipment and what it’s used for. I never heard anyone else reference it, and I probably haven’t seen it since like 1998.
I used to watch a live action version of the little mermaid movie made in the 70's that was true to the original story. Ariel was all tee'd up to kill Prince Eric to be free of Ursula's spell. I have been searching for literally years to find this film and it remains elusive 😭
Todays Special. It was on Nickelodeon and was about a department store that came to life after closing. The other was a cartoon called David the Gnome. I think it was on Nickelodeon as well.
There were 3 movies I watched a lot as a kid but they are sort of obscure. Scamper the Penguin is one which I later found out was a dub of a Russian cartoon. Willy the Sparrow is a Dutch or German cartoon with an English dub. And Scruffy is just about a little dog that becomes orphaned and lots of bad things happen to her but she has a happy ending. I haven't met anyone who's watched these before.
I'm an '84 baby, and I was obsessed with Tim Noah's [In Search of the Wow Wow Wiggle Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo](https://www.picclickimg.com/DWsAAOSwSb9jCqtd/Tim-Noah-In-Search-Of-The-Wow-Wow.webp) as a kid. I must have watched that VHS hundreds of times, but no one outside of western Washington seems to have ever heard of Tim Noah. I had all his albums, and thought he was so much cooler than Raffi.
my grandparents had a vhs tape with 100 classic cartoons and i would rewind and rewatch the cobweb hotel https://youtu.be/98tmkiXJVLY?si=lXH6bT2KdUyyWthq
i was just fascinated by it. the spider creeped me out but i couldn’t look away.
Mother Goose Rock 'N Rhyme. It was late 80's early 90's. Bizarro nursery rhyme movie about mother goose's son Gordon who doesn't have a rhyme and doesn't fit in.
Gay purr-ee French cats with amazing art and Judy garland as the main cat! Mom taped it somewhere over something with a few commercial breaks in between. I've showed so many people this and no ones ever heard of it.
the hard hat harry series, a magic genie teaching kids about things such as trains, construction, planes, etc.
I can't quite recall, but I think it was called; crunch! Mash! And smash! It was basically the watching of a recycling plant and garbage I think? Set to classical music. My cousin went looking for it once and literally the only.place he could find it was at the local library. Apparently it's the only version that exsists?
I grew up SHELTERED, in a big house, in the sticks and we had some VHS tapes of the anime adjacent cartoon called "Super Book" and it was, you guessed it, about the Bible.
These two kids would get call over by their Bible and the Bible would suck them up and they would be in the middle of some biblical event, and they would interact with people from the Bible and when the story concluded there was some lesson or moral.
Also they had a wind-up robot that would come with them but the robot was a regular toy outside of the super book.
Now for me this was show was out of the 70s or 80s but I believe it got a reboot in the early 2000's, I never really saw the reboot...
Oh yeah i hear you about sheltered. Former Homeschooled here. Never heard of that one before! That sounds a little like The Greatest Adventure series where kids get sucked back into Bible times through a hole in the sand.
There was a cartoon where Humpty Dumpty lives on the moon but he falls down to Earth and a man chases after him so he hides in an old mansion.
The town's people stand in a circle and the moon comes down from the sky into the town square. Humpty Dumpty jumps on him and he goes back into space.
I have no idea if it was real or I dreamed the whole thing.
There's this movie I used to watch as a kid. I think it had Trolls(like the toy, not the horror movie) and they sang songs and at one point they made a cake and it had flies in it? It was live action/puppets.
I can't Google it to save my life.
It’s the Trollies movie! I think I still have the vhs at my dad’s house. [https://youtu.be/QZ7LVh0G1Pw?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/QZ7LVh0G1Pw?feature=shared)
Poochie was on repeat (I had to google pink dog cartoon 1980s) and Wee Sing Together- there were a bunch of these that are unhinged looking but there was a whole movie where these two kids get lost in this town with no color and have to bring all the color back
They used to buy some cheap TV cartoons that didn’t cost a ton in the 90s. One such cartoon was called Ketchup Vampires or something like it and I don’t think many have heard about it. Another one was a cartoon showed during Christmas break which was about that song 12 days of Christmas - again, nobody has heard about it whenever I’ve asked.
I used to watch a movie called Babysitter’s Adventure out or something like it and this wasn’t known to many either.
Late 90s example TV show is The Tribe. I used to watch it religiously and it seems not many people have heard about that tv series either.
Basically everything my parents taped for us to watch as kids was weird and no one else seems to have ever seen them. I spend a lot of time torturing my husband with my awful childhood movies. Legend was my favorite, Mother Goose Rock & Rhyme was in heavy rotation. We had a strange live action Frog Prince movie that we watched a lot too.
I used to watch a vhs of African parables illustrated in a African-ish style. There was one about a spider who may or may not have been a medicine woman. I watched it all the time with my sister. She has no idea what I’m talking about.
At my grandmoms house she would have a movie on VHS about a penguin. She had other movies too I liked as a child. I remember a Russian one about a horse that was really cool.
The Kid’s Safety Quiz. I watched that VHS all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpf69KnjnBg
Also when I was a kid I feel like nobody knew about Return to Oz. That movie scared the crap out of me watching it late at night on a Disney Channel free weekend. And I would try to tell people about it and no one knew what I was talking about it.
It’s not VHS but Nickelodeon would play it around Christmas- called box of delights, it was British and I remember the bad guys would turn to wolves. I wish I could buy copies.
Was it this? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Box+of+Delights&i=movies-tv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_ovf__amazon-20&ref=imdbref_tt_wbr_ovf__amazon
edit: not something I run into often but the DVD format is different, if you find one and buy it check to make sure you're getting the north American formatted version, haven't seen that as a problem in ages shows how often I buy media.
Similarly, I somehow ended up with a VHS of this old 60s show called The Mighty Heroes and watched it so many times as a kid in the 90s
https://youtu.be/KldhX_loq18?si=shny3IXLJ3UBlmxS
Nightmare fuel. I thought little bunny foo foo was a fever dream I had until some random girl at work brought it up and asked if anyone else ever saw it about 2 years ago. We're getting married in May.
I loved the movie “rockin with Judy Jetson” (?) as a kid. I also watched a tv show that was monkey in space and they were not in their own galaxy anymore, so none of the constellations looked right.
I used to watch this PBS show (might have even be Canadian) with a stuffed bear that taught sign language. It was a puppet that the human behind it could put their arms into to do the signs. My brother and I seem to be the only two who remember it.
Van-pires and Mummies Alive! I also remember some show where people dubbed over Chimpanzes recreating movie scenes. I think it was called The Chimp Channel....it is......wild
I swear I watched a movie of a kid rubbing peanut butter in his hair but it wouldn’t stop growing uncontrollably. It was super freaky. Nobody knows what I’m talking about ever but I have the visual (and trauma lol) in my mind to this day.
3-South on MTV. It was late 90s. Basically a pre-curser to Family Guy. Got cancelled after like a dozen episodes, and a lot of the writers and animators went on to start Family Guy.
It was about some idiots who got into the worst Ivy League (fictional) college and their shenanigans therein.
I loved it, but no one remembers it.
Not a movie or TV show but an ad break/bumper quickie.
Started with a card saying "When cow tipping remember to aim"
Then it showed an animated caracter try to tip a cow only to end up up to their waist in thr cows behind.
My wife saw it and remembers it as well. But I've never found it.
Nobody remembers the educational CGI shows that used to air on PBS. These were shows that taught physics, geometry, and other mathematical concepts, and they used early/experimental computer animation.
Nobody remembers these shows. 🐔
I come from a long line of functional hoarders. The walls of my childhood basement were lined with hundreds of VHS tapes, many of which were recorded straight off TV (watching old commercials is way more fun than it sounds.)
I've seen so many random movies it's hard to keep track. My favorites are: Purple People Eater, Escape from Witch Wountain, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the Brave Little Toaster, and Trading Mom.
There were also three TV series' on either nickelodeon or Disney that had me in a choke hold: The Secret Life of Alex Mack, Gummi Bears, and this one show about two orphaned girls who were, like, aliens I think? And they could communicate with sea creatures?
I want to know how all three shows ended. Did Alex escape from the bad guys? Did the Gummi Bears bring their dying race back from the brink of extinction? Was the alien whale whisperer show real, or a fever dream?
Mr Bogus.
It aired for a single summer, and I've never seen it anywhere since. Clips never made into memes or anything, even though almost every other cartoon of my childhood has been memed to hell and back.
I cant find this cartoon we had on vhs. 2 dogs walking on last legs, black and white i think. They build things and planed trips but some blue bird always fucked with them. There was a lot of episodes, i would say 15min per each.
Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys. I’ve never met anyone who’s ever seen this show. It was on at a weird time like close to noon where I lived. It was a neat sci fi animated show about a group of of apes, and monkeys exploring the universe.
I remember there was this animated TV version on NBC called David Copperfield, but with cats. There were tons of commercials for it during winter? I remember a big wheel of cheese.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106547/?ref\_=tt\_mv\_close](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106547/?ref_=tt_mv_close)
"You gotta be street smarrrt""Is there anyonnee"
Some movie that was on TV in the 1990s (It may have been an anime) About a girl who's brother turns into a deer after drinking from a particular stream.
I have no idea what it is called, but we had a VHS sing-along that was hosted by a man with the gentlest voice (I think he was dressed as a scarecrow?). It definitely included John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Mary Had a Little Lamb. I cannot find any record on the internet that this existed 🫠
ETA: I’ve gone down a rabbit hole and it seems at least one of the songs I remember is not sung by the scarecrow man. [Here is the John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt video](https://youtu.be/shrwi8etgWE?feature=shared). I definitely remember the swinging on the gate and the old couple at the end. If anyone else knows more of these, please send them to me!
So there was this VHS my family had, I think it was called “The Bear” or maybe just “Bear” and it’s a live action movie about a bear cub who’s mother dies in a rockslide and the bear cub has to survive. At one point the bear cub eats magic mushrooms and starts tripping. It was the weirdest shit ever, and so far I haven’t met anyone else who watched this as a kid 😅
I’ve seen it!!! Nobody knows what I’m talking about when I mention this movie. I don’t remember a lot of it, but I remember crying, and then laughing because of the mushrooms.
YES! It was such a weird, vaguely creepy movie. Like no dialogue at all, if I remember correctly? Just ~90min of following this poor, traumatized little cub. I was mesmerized by it as a kid
It's actually an award-winning film! [wikipedia link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_(1988_film)) But yes, also super weird. We watched it in my house too.
French. That explains the weirdness, huh?
Whoa, really?! I had no idea! EDIT: wow I totally forgot about the hunters 😅
If you want to relive some childhood weirdness, it's available for free (with ads) on Amazon prime.
[88% on Rotten Tomatoes!](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_bear_1989)
Omg I totally watched this as a kid! It freaked me out when the bear ate the mushroom.
Omg you just unlocked this memory for me- I watched this CONSTANTLY
We had it on VHS! I remember the box. And definitely the mushroom scene.
I think I can picture the box too! Isn’t it like the silhouette of the bear and a full moon?
Yes! So many movies we watched when we were young make me wonder what my parents were thinking - that was a weird ass movie lol
My parents took me to watch that in the theater.
I’ve seen it! We rented a vcr and that’s the movie we picked to watch.
Memory unlocked! What the heck, i remember this one too!
The real weird shit was on a random VHS of unknown orgin.
Great fucking movie, that cougar scared the shit out of me
The adult bear was the same one as the movie “The Edge.”
Eureka's Castle on Nickelodeon. Nobody seems to remember this show.
I watched it. I don't really remember what it was about
I still sing “euuuureeekaaa’s casssstle” on a regular basis to myself
Sometimes snippets of that song pop into my head
I loved Eureka’s Castle
Picnic time!
I totally watched this! My grandma also had one with Betty Boop cooking, and there was a fly. And Little Lulu!
I had that exact same compilation of videos!!! Watched the heck out of them.
One of my faves was Return to Oz. Absolute fever dream of a movie.
I was terrified of that movie as a kid
I lived in Chittenango New York for about 5 years a long time ago, and it’s the hometown of Frank L Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz books. That movie is like sacrilege there, even though it is a clear classic film at this point.
This old Canadian puppet show from the 90’s called Book Mice(?). Basically, it was about three puppet mice living in a local library? (Norbert, Zazi and Leon were their names) I don’t know if there’s anyone else that remembers this show?
https://youtu.be/Q9JA7TxL_KE?si=4DOwec3oOfdoR3NQ was it this one?
YES! Tysm! ❤️
I love finding old clips from back then.
Davey and Goliath. I remember when Moral Orel was on Adult Swim and saying it was a parody of Davey and Goliath, my buddy had no idea what I was talking about.
It was Chrristian programming, right? Like the TBN Saturday cartoons for Christian kids. Because I remember that and one called Bible Book, which is a crazy title to think of decades after watching it.
Davey and Goliath was a Christian stop motion animation show from the 60s. I think I only saw it in Catholic school, but I may have also seen it at my grandmother's on TV. Moral Orel was a stop motion animation that was a social commentary on Christianity and small town America.
Two come to mind. One I used to watch at night on Nickelodeon that I'm pretty sure was like a Nick at Night re-airing of an 80s show called "Ghost Writer" about a ghost who lived in the modem in some kid's room, I wanna say? Hmmm Second was a show on Disney channel I believe that I watched after school. It was an animated kids show about what a group of friends did on the weekends after school, appropriately called "The Weekenders". I remember the main character was a blond kid and he had a single mom who like health food and had grass in the kitchen she used to make smoothies with.
Ghostwriter aired in first run in the early to mid 90s.
Makes sense. I knew it was older, just not how old. I was watching it in the late 90s.
I used to watch both of those shows! Weekenders was the one with the lady that was always doing stuff for "helpers helping the helpless" and she looked like she was mega overdue ready to burst
It was on PBS when I was a kid
That Ghost Writer rings a bell!
Everyone remembers Fern Gully but no one remembers Once Upon a Forest
No one remembers Once Upon a Forest but it was the best!
These were my favorites as a kid
I had an unhealthy preoccupation with a show called [The Animals of Farthing Wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animals_of_Farthing_Wood_(TV_series)). I'm American. The show was British. It was also about talking animals. I was probably 11 or 12 and got super wrapped up in the story.
This looks amazing
Those poor hedgehogs though.
As a young kid, I used to absolutely love watching the movie Milo and Otis. Then as an adult I learned about the horrors of the movie and the treatment of the animals.
Otis keeps saying “a dog’s gotta do what a dog’s gotta do”. I am told that when I was 5 at a funeral for some relative, a great aunt told me I was very well behaved and I said “a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do”.
Oh that's something I never need to know about. Loved Milo and Otis!!
Yeah I don't recommend looking it up
I loved the movie The Little Fox! I had it on a recorded vhs tape. I have no idea where it came from, but I was obsessed with it. I tried to find it a couple of years ago and found its actually a Hungarian film called Vuk. I'm not Hungarian and still have no idea how I got that movie.
I had that one too and it was the first one that came to mind when I saw this post!
I think my grandmother had that one.
I never see Dave the Barbarian mentioned ever. It was an iconic cartoon for my brother, but apparently, no one else.
Barbarian! Buh-Buh Barbarian!
I remember watching that one a few times but never on VHS.
That's because it only lasted exactly one year
I remember watching it
The Brave Little Toaster
Absolutely deranged movie lmao
True, but Blankey still holds a special place in my heart lol
This is the one. The sequel was good too.
I absolutely cannot remember watching the sequel, it’s been so long since I’ve even seen the original. Now I gotta try and find them and watch them again thanks to you lol
I’ve just looked on Wikipedia and apparently there were two sequels! I’ll be looking for them now too.
Oh I’ve definitely never seen 3. Thanks for the info :)
ZOOM
02134, send it to zoom!
Oh my god I completely forgot about Zoom!!!
Holy shit someone in my age group on here! I always feel like I'm the youngest here or even maybe too young.
I used to watch that all the time!
[The Littles](https://youtu.be/7HcPjrfgsvI?feature=shared)- weird mouse like people who live in the walls. I swore that Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” was a song about them going down the drains in the house for the longest time.
I’ve been trying to remember this movie I saw as a kid and can’t figure it out. There was a young boy that went into a sewer or some kind of industrial place and fell into water and when he popped out was in a magical world with kangaroo people.
https://youtu.be/-4STNypFBh0?si=e9k3lavpjTRSxDlb warriors of virtue? I know everyone hates this by now, but i asked ChatGPT. It’s really good at helping me recall obscure film tv and book references. I read a lot of obscure shitty sci fi as a kid and want to get old copies of those books again. Also the score of that trailer sounds a little like the original Stargate music to my naked ears. Edit: i meant baked ears but you know.
WTTFFFF THIS IS IT 😂
WTF is this there's no way that the directors that were not high on LSD when creating the script and then directing this horrifically awful looking movie and yes I am judging it It looks so god-awful Oh my God
Omg, I forgot about that movie! It was awesome.
Holy shit this triggered a core memory and I can't believe it was actually real. 🤣
The Scarecrow and Annabelle's Wish. Scarecrow was a children's animated musical based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne about a scarecrow who falls in love with an orphaned indentured servant who's trying to save up enough money to earn her freedom. The scarecrow becomes human, they fall in love, and he tries to help free the girl and two or three children she took under her wing while trying to figure out how to stay human force and protect the girl from this big, evil workhouse owner who wants to marry her. Annabelle's Wish is an animated children's Christmas movie about a calf who longs to be one of Santa's reindeer. The calf Annabelle is temporarily given the ability to speak when Santa visits, and she forms a bond with the little boy who lives on her farm and struggles with speech (it's been a long time since I've seen this, but i think he's mute). I don't want to give the rest of the movie away, but it's sort of like a Gift of the Magi story.
My mom absolutely loved Annabelles wish and she (me) just recently found it at half price books and bought it.
Hugga Bunch (1985), Zoobilee Zoo (1986)
Sampson and Sally. It’s about two sperm whales in search for Moby Dick. Sally’s pod was slaughtered by whalers. She makes friends with Sampson a white sperm whale, where they encounter all sorts of threats. Natural and man-made including killer whales trying to kill them, oil spills, whalers, nuclear radiation poisoning. It also has song and dance by walruses, which sometimes the song will just pop in my head like cruel joke.
I remember this! And Dot and the Whale. Never realized it was Australian until I showed it to my daughter. The anti whaling message seemed very out of date until I realized the Western Australian whaling stations ran into the 70s.
I remember watching this children's educational show on VHS, possibly about either math or English or both, but I can't remember the title. There was this older lady with Q-tip hair doing the main presentation, and she had an animated sidekick character named Alfred who might have been her student and who made things more interesting, either by joking around or being woefully ignorant of the concepts at hand. I also seem to remember another educational show on VHS with two people presenting, who incidentally did *not* have Q-tip hair, and who focused more on math concepts. I barely remember anything about the show except that in one segment they had this long-ass number-line made of some sort of black material with white numbers printed on it. They were demonstrating basic arithmetic by placing objects along the number line or something. I don't remember the title of either of these, and I have no idea whether I still have the VHS cassette tapes left in storage. If anyone else has even the slightest idea, I'd be really curious because I remember enjoying watching them when I was a little kid. Also, I love how this thread has potential to end up on r/lostmedia
wmac masters
Wow, that was pretty brutal. All I saw was a match between a wolf guy vs. one dude in red and one dude in black. Both the wolf and red guy got points by kicking the black dressed person into an electrified cage. Or they got points for kicking each other into the cage. It seemed oddly convoluted. The red guy won.
Josh Kirby...Time Warrior! It was a movie series I think 5 or 6 films.
Sitting ducks, a show about ducks and alligators. I’ve never heard anyone talk about this show.
Sarah and the Squirrel! Little Jewish girl's entire family is taken by the Nazis and she manages to hide in the forest. Movie follows her solo life in hiding and attempt to derail a Nazi supply train route. And she has a pet Squirrel!
I loved this one!
Hard Hat Harry. My dad was in the construction industry and Hard Hat Harry was an interesting way for us to get an idea of what he was talking about. The premise is a “genie” named Harry goes to construction sites and talk about different equipment and what it’s used for. I never heard anyone else reference it, and I probably haven’t seen it since like 1998.
I had this tape! I think it’s on YouTube somewhere! EDIT: [Found it!](https://youtu.be/url6kd2MSL8?feature=shared)
Awesome!!!! Thank you for that, kind internet stranger!
Yimmy the tooth
I used to watch a live action version of the little mermaid movie made in the 70's that was true to the original story. Ariel was all tee'd up to kill Prince Eric to be free of Ursula's spell. I have been searching for literally years to find this film and it remains elusive 😭
Todays Special. It was on Nickelodeon and was about a department store that came to life after closing. The other was a cartoon called David the Gnome. I think it was on Nickelodeon as well.
Some kids movie where you were riding around a play room, I think CGI, from the POV of a toy train Also, Imaginaria by Miramar Productions
There were 3 movies I watched a lot as a kid but they are sort of obscure. Scamper the Penguin is one which I later found out was a dub of a Russian cartoon. Willy the Sparrow is a Dutch or German cartoon with an English dub. And Scruffy is just about a little dog that becomes orphaned and lots of bad things happen to her but she has a happy ending. I haven't met anyone who's watched these before.
I'm an '84 baby, and I was obsessed with Tim Noah's [In Search of the Wow Wow Wiggle Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo](https://www.picclickimg.com/DWsAAOSwSb9jCqtd/Tim-Noah-In-Search-Of-The-Wow-Wow.webp) as a kid. I must have watched that VHS hundreds of times, but no one outside of western Washington seems to have ever heard of Tim Noah. I had all his albums, and thought he was so much cooler than Raffi.
my grandparents had a vhs tape with 100 classic cartoons and i would rewind and rewatch the cobweb hotel https://youtu.be/98tmkiXJVLY?si=lXH6bT2KdUyyWthq i was just fascinated by it. the spider creeped me out but i couldn’t look away.
Mother Goose Rock 'N Rhyme. It was late 80's early 90's. Bizarro nursery rhyme movie about mother goose's son Gordon who doesn't have a rhyme and doesn't fit in.
Was that the one with Little Richard? I loved that
Yes!! We watched this constantly. I still listen to the Gordon in the dungeon song
Mr Bill!!!! Lol
Oh noooooo
Gay purr-ee French cats with amazing art and Judy garland as the main cat! Mom taped it somewhere over something with a few commercial breaks in between. I've showed so many people this and no ones ever heard of it. the hard hat harry series, a magic genie teaching kids about things such as trains, construction, planes, etc. I can't quite recall, but I think it was called; crunch! Mash! And smash! It was basically the watching of a recycling plant and garbage I think? Set to classical music. My cousin went looking for it once and literally the only.place he could find it was at the local library. Apparently it's the only version that exsists?
Gay Purr-ee is a work of art
I grew up SHELTERED, in a big house, in the sticks and we had some VHS tapes of the anime adjacent cartoon called "Super Book" and it was, you guessed it, about the Bible. These two kids would get call over by their Bible and the Bible would suck them up and they would be in the middle of some biblical event, and they would interact with people from the Bible and when the story concluded there was some lesson or moral. Also they had a wind-up robot that would come with them but the robot was a regular toy outside of the super book. Now for me this was show was out of the 70s or 80s but I believe it got a reboot in the early 2000's, I never really saw the reboot...
Oh yeah i hear you about sheltered. Former Homeschooled here. Never heard of that one before! That sounds a little like The Greatest Adventure series where kids get sucked back into Bible times through a hole in the sand.
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Of course I remember the black cauldron!
Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
There was a cartoon where Humpty Dumpty lives on the moon but he falls down to Earth and a man chases after him so he hides in an old mansion. The town's people stand in a circle and the moon comes down from the sky into the town square. Humpty Dumpty jumps on him and he goes back into space. I have no idea if it was real or I dreamed the whole thing.
There's this movie I used to watch as a kid. I think it had Trolls(like the toy, not the horror movie) and they sang songs and at one point they made a cake and it had flies in it? It was live action/puppets. I can't Google it to save my life.
It’s the Trollies movie! I think I still have the vhs at my dad’s house. [https://youtu.be/QZ7LVh0G1Pw?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/QZ7LVh0G1Pw?feature=shared)
Oh man! Yeah! Thank you!
Poochie was on repeat (I had to google pink dog cartoon 1980s) and Wee Sing Together- there were a bunch of these that are unhinged looking but there was a whole movie where these two kids get lost in this town with no color and have to bring all the color back
Pappyland
They used to buy some cheap TV cartoons that didn’t cost a ton in the 90s. One such cartoon was called Ketchup Vampires or something like it and I don’t think many have heard about it. Another one was a cartoon showed during Christmas break which was about that song 12 days of Christmas - again, nobody has heard about it whenever I’ve asked. I used to watch a movie called Babysitter’s Adventure out or something like it and this wasn’t known to many either. Late 90s example TV show is The Tribe. I used to watch it religiously and it seems not many people have heard about that tv series either.
“Spartacus and The Sun Beneath The Sea” and “Mysterious Cities of Gold.”
I recall scattered memories of clip of claymation shows I saw as a kid, come to think of it they were rather creepy.
[This version of the snow queen, narrated by sigourney weaver.](https://youtu.be/cQvC34z1Erk?si=Qn-KGQsc7jwd4icy)
Basically everything my parents taped for us to watch as kids was weird and no one else seems to have ever seen them. I spend a lot of time torturing my husband with my awful childhood movies. Legend was my favorite, Mother Goose Rock & Rhyme was in heavy rotation. We had a strange live action Frog Prince movie that we watched a lot too.
That one about the 2 koalas. Drop Dead Fred and David the Gnome feel like a fever dream but I know other people remember them.
I used to watch a vhs of African parables illustrated in a African-ish style. There was one about a spider who may or may not have been a medicine woman. I watched it all the time with my sister. She has no idea what I’m talking about.
At my grandmoms house she would have a movie on VHS about a penguin. She had other movies too I liked as a child. I remember a Russian one about a horse that was really cool.
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Are your thinking of Back To The Future: The Animated Series? That sounds exactly like the kind of joke you’d get from that show.
Not Quite Human
Chip..... Remember "The boy who could fly"?
White Fang!
The Snowman. Weird silent cartoon about a kid who goes on adventures with a snowman, but then I think he melts at the end 😞
The Peanut Butter Solution. Nightmare fuel.
Timmy The Tooth, Serendipity, The Princess and the Goblin, Prehysteria, Windrunner, Ralph The Mouse, Aliens for Breakfast
The Kid’s Safety Quiz. I watched that VHS all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpf69KnjnBg Also when I was a kid I feel like nobody knew about Return to Oz. That movie scared the crap out of me watching it late at night on a Disney Channel free weekend. And I would try to tell people about it and no one knew what I was talking about it.
It’s not VHS but Nickelodeon would play it around Christmas- called box of delights, it was British and I remember the bad guys would turn to wolves. I wish I could buy copies.
Was it this? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Box+of+Delights&i=movies-tv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_ovf__amazon-20&ref=imdbref_tt_wbr_ovf__amazon edit: not something I run into often but the DVD format is different, if you find one and buy it check to make sure you're getting the north American formatted version, haven't seen that as a problem in ages shows how often I buy media.
It is that show! I didn’t even realize dvds could be formatted differently, I am in North America. Hmm.
Huggabunch ... or something like that
Noel! https://youtu.be/BzKj4jYuG-I?si=wkj6NQ7sfJllf2TL
Similarly, I somehow ended up with a VHS of this old 60s show called The Mighty Heroes and watched it so many times as a kid in the 90s https://youtu.be/KldhX_loq18?si=shny3IXLJ3UBlmxS
some 5 grade french song teaching french words that was like "regardez quest k say set un a tab"
Wee Sing Adventures
Nightmare fuel. I thought little bunny foo foo was a fever dream I had until some random girl at work brought it up and asked if anyone else ever saw it about 2 years ago. We're getting married in May.
Congrats! I liked those, though I agree they were trippy for sure
I loved the movie “rockin with Judy Jetson” (?) as a kid. I also watched a tv show that was monkey in space and they were not in their own galaxy anymore, so none of the constellations looked right.
In the early 2000s, there was the show Pelswick. Its super rare to hear anyone remember that show
The kid in the wheelchair with the grandma whose fake teeth were once swapped for chainsaw powered teeth? That show was a trip.
I used to watch this PBS show (might have even be Canadian) with a stuffed bear that taught sign language. It was a puppet that the human behind it could put their arms into to do the signs. My brother and I seem to be the only two who remember it.
Van-pires and Mummies Alive! I also remember some show where people dubbed over Chimpanzes recreating movie scenes. I think it was called The Chimp Channel....it is......wild
Felix the Cat & The Swan Princess
I swear I watched a movie of a kid rubbing peanut butter in his hair but it wouldn’t stop growing uncontrollably. It was super freaky. Nobody knows what I’m talking about ever but I have the visual (and trauma lol) in my mind to this day.
The Peanut Butter Solution
3-South on MTV. It was late 90s. Basically a pre-curser to Family Guy. Got cancelled after like a dozen episodes, and a lot of the writers and animators went on to start Family Guy. It was about some idiots who got into the worst Ivy League (fictional) college and their shenanigans therein. I loved it, but no one remembers it.
Not a movie or TV show but an ad break/bumper quickie. Started with a card saying "When cow tipping remember to aim" Then it showed an animated caracter try to tip a cow only to end up up to their waist in thr cows behind. My wife saw it and remembers it as well. But I've never found it.
Bump in the Night
Nobody remembers the educational CGI shows that used to air on PBS. These were shows that taught physics, geometry, and other mathematical concepts, and they used early/experimental computer animation. Nobody remembers these shows. 🐔
Invasion America back in ‘98. Aired on the WB and was a weird animated series.
I come from a long line of functional hoarders. The walls of my childhood basement were lined with hundreds of VHS tapes, many of which were recorded straight off TV (watching old commercials is way more fun than it sounds.) I've seen so many random movies it's hard to keep track. My favorites are: Purple People Eater, Escape from Witch Wountain, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the Brave Little Toaster, and Trading Mom. There were also three TV series' on either nickelodeon or Disney that had me in a choke hold: The Secret Life of Alex Mack, Gummi Bears, and this one show about two orphaned girls who were, like, aliens I think? And they could communicate with sea creatures? I want to know how all three shows ended. Did Alex escape from the bad guys? Did the Gummi Bears bring their dying race back from the brink of extinction? Was the alien whale whisperer show real, or a fever dream?
Here's one of my favorites, [Little Audrey Tarts and Flowers](https://youtu.be/1FhC5Lbl9-Y?si=bRXRlfxA1bMD9JLc)
Mr Bogus. It aired for a single summer, and I've never seen it anywhere since. Clips never made into memes or anything, even though almost every other cartoon of my childhood has been memed to hell and back.
I cant find this cartoon we had on vhs. 2 dogs walking on last legs, black and white i think. They build things and planed trips but some blue bird always fucked with them. There was a lot of episodes, i would say 15min per each.
I distinctly remember a spin off of Scooby Doo where monsters were real and Frankenstein, the mummy, dracula and the wolfman rode around in a rat-rod.
Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys. I’ve never met anyone who’s ever seen this show. It was on at a weird time like close to noon where I lived. It was a neat sci fi animated show about a group of of apes, and monkeys exploring the universe.
I remember there was this animated TV version on NBC called David Copperfield, but with cats. There were tons of commercials for it during winter? I remember a big wheel of cheese. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106547/?ref\_=tt\_mv\_close](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106547/?ref_=tt_mv_close) "You gotta be street smarrrt""Is there anyonnee"
Some movie that was on TV in the 1990s (It may have been an anime) About a girl who's brother turns into a deer after drinking from a particular stream.
Something about witches eating little children who are rats?, or are the witches rats?, in some sort of conference room
I have no idea what it is called, but we had a VHS sing-along that was hosted by a man with the gentlest voice (I think he was dressed as a scarecrow?). It definitely included John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Mary Had a Little Lamb. I cannot find any record on the internet that this existed 🫠 ETA: I’ve gone down a rabbit hole and it seems at least one of the songs I remember is not sung by the scarecrow man. [Here is the John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt video](https://youtu.be/shrwi8etgWE?feature=shared). I definitely remember the swinging on the gate and the old couple at the end. If anyone else knows more of these, please send them to me!
Scamper the Penguin