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  • Stunt Dawgs on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#1) Stunt Dawgs

    Though its title suggests this show is all about a group of stunt-performing canines, it is actually about a group of stunt performers, who are sadly human. They do have a bulldog alongside them on their adventures, and his name is "Human," which sort of works to poke fun at the series title. The series is based on a comic book of the same name.

    The show held together for two years, and managed to put out 40 episodes in Canada and the United States. It's somewhat like Scooby-Doo in that it features a group of youngish people going about solving problems heroically. The twist revolves around the fact that they are all stunt performers - but other than that and a catchy theme song, there isn't much that is noteworthy about the show.

  • Dumb and Dumber on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#2) Dumb and Dumber

    • Tom Kenny, Kath Soucie, Bronson Pinchot, Matt Frewer, Bill Fagerbakke

    It didn't take long for Hanna-Barbera to produce a television series based on the wildly popular film of the same name. In less than a year, the company dropped 13 episodes of a series called Dumb and Dumber: The Animated Series on ABC. While the film managed to capture a wide audience with its gross-out humor and madcap antics, the series did not. It was canceled after one season.

    The show revolves around Lloyd and Harry's misadventures after they reacquire their custom van, which is called the Shag-n-Wagon in the film but goes by the less offensive "Otto" in the series. The show also features a new female character named Kitty, a purple pet beaver who is smarter than the two human protagonists.

  • DarkStalkers on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#3) DarkStalkers

    • Cree Summer, Kathleen Barr, Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil, Michael Donovan, Ian James Corlett, Lee Tockar, Saffron Henderson, Bill Switzer, Lisa Ann Beley

    Created in 1994, Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors was a popular 2D fighting game that spawned further games, comic books, and an anime miniseries. It also led to 1995's Darkstalkers, a forgotten cartoon of the mid-'90s.

    Based on the first game, the cartoon consisted of 13 episodes that aired between September and December 1995. It was made for a young audience, which meant the action and racy nature of the games was sanded down to make it palatable for an American audience. Massive changes were made to the many complex subplots of the original story, and the show suffered as a result. 

  • Fish Police on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#4) Fish Police

    • Edward Asner, Georgia Brown, Tim Curry

    CBS released an animated series called Fish Police in 1992, which proved to be horribly unpopular. The series was based on the comics of the same name, and was canceled after only three of its six episodes made it to air. CBS execs apparently hoped the show could compete with Fox's The Simpsons, which was a ratings giant at the time.

    The series was mature for an animated show of its era, and perhaps that was its downfall. Was there ever an audience for Fish Police's brand of mild profanity and innuendo? The show was based around Inspector Gil, a private detective who acted and looked much like the ones depicted during the film noir period.

    Despite its modern-day obscurity, the show included an impressive cast of vocal talent, including Ed Asner, Tim Curry, Buddy Hackett, Megan Mulally, JoBeth Williams, Jonathan Winters, and the ubiquitous Frank Welker.

  • Mega Babies on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#5) Mega Babies

    • Sonja Ball, Jaclyn Linetsky

    Mega Babies is one of the more recent series on this list - in the sense that it first aired in 1999. The show was produced as a joint Canadian/American series, and consisted of 52 episodes. It managed to run for two seasons, which is a rarity on this list.

    The series follows the adventures of three babies who battle monsters and aliens. The kid's names are Meg, Buck, and Derrick, and they are cared for by Nurse Lazlo as they fight their battles in Your City, USA. The babies have super strength, heightened IQs, and other superpowers, so it isn't about a group of normal babies battling enemies... which might have been a bit more interesting.

  • The Brothers Grunt on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#6) The Brothers Grunt

    • Doug Parker, Danny Antonucci, Julie Faye

    MTV had a lot of animated series airing on the network in the '90s, most of which were aimed at young adults, and some of which were pretty awful. The worst of the bunch was probably The Brothers Grunt, which premiered in 1994 and was canceled the following year. Only 12 episodes were ever made, and there aren't many people who remember this strange series.

    The show revolves around a group of rubbery, yellow-eyed humanoids named Frank, Tony, Bing, Dean, and Sammy. They only ever wear underpants, eat cheese as their favorite meal, and live in a monastery in the wilderness. Ostensibly, the show was about the Grunts searching for their lost brother, Perry.

    The show was met with negative reviews and has since been forgotten by most who suffered through watching it.

  • The Wacky World of Tex Avery on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#7) The Wacky World of Tex Avery

    • Billy West, Cree Summer, Maurice LaMarche, Kathleen Barr, Scott McNeil, Ian James Corlett, Lee Tockar, Terry Klassen, Phil Hayes

    Created as an homage to celebrated animator Tex Avery and the cartoons of his era, The Wacky World of Tex Avery aired 65 episodes consisting of 195 individual segments between September and December 1997. However, the show had nothing to do with Avery's actual cartoon creations, which include most of the classic Looney Tunes roster.

    Wacky World's segments are based on seven different shorts following the exploits of Freddy the Fly, Power Pooch, Maurice and Mooch, Ghengis and Khannie, Einstone, Pompeii Pete, and a cowboy named "Tex Avery." Unlike Avery's creations, these characters have since faded into obscurity.

  • Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#8) Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys

    • Malcolm McDowell, James Avery, Michael Dorn, Jeff Bennett, Maurice LaMarche, Dom Irrera, Jerry Doyle, Karen Maruyama

    Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys may be an awesome name for a television show, but it wasn't enough to save the series from cancellation after two years and 26 episodes. Developed as a comedy/sci-fi action series for children, it was intended to capitalize on its success with an accompanying toy line.

    Inspired by the monkey-manned spaceflights the United States launched in the 1960s, Captain Simian speculates on what might havehappened if a rocket veered off course and into outer space. Discovered years later by a race of beings whose name is so complicated it can't be written or pronounced (it's just said in silence on the show), Charlie the chimp is granted intelligence - and an arsenal - to help protect the universe from the evil Lord Nebula. He then recruits a team of Earth simians to help him out, and the series follows their adventures.

  • Skeleton Warriors on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#9) Skeleton Warriors

    • Kevin Michael Richardson, Jim Cummings, Tony Jay, Jeff Bennett, Jennifer Hale, Jeannie Elias, Gary Owens, Danny Mann, Earl Boen, Linda Gary Howerton, Rodney Saulsberry, Kevin Schon, Michael Corbett, Philip L. Clarke

    CBS aired this interesting animated series back in 1994, but it only remained on the network for its first season of 13 episodes. Skeleton Warriors was developed in the hope that it would spawn a franchise of related merchandise, and it did result in the release of a line of action figures from Playmates Toys, a comic book series from Marvel Comics, and a video game released on the Sega Saturn and PlayStation.

    The show takes place on a planet called Luminaire, which is embroiled in conflict around an artifact called the Lightstar Crystal. When half the crystal is taken, the evil Baron Dark is transformed into a skeleton. He also gains the power to turn anyone with a dark heart into a skeleton to fight against the Legion of Light. Basically, it's a good-versus-evil show, with the bad guys depicted as skeletons in case their allegiances are ever in question.

  • Road Rovers on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#10) Road Rovers

    • Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Kevin Michael Richardson

    Road Rovers is pretty much what it sounds like: a series based on the adventures of a team of superpowered crimefighting anthropomorphic dogs. The group of five were known as "cano-sapiens," and the series was released on Kids' WB back in 1996 for a single season consisting of 13 episodes.

    The series is set in Socorro, New Mexico, where a scientist selects five dogs to mutate into helpful heroes. He uses his "transdogmifier" on them, which results in the advancement of their intelligence, physique, and skills. They remain the pets of five world leaders, and whenever they are needed, they are called into action as the Road Rovers.

  • Samurai Pizza Cats on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#11) Samurai Pizza Cats

    • Walter Massey, Dean Hagopian, Rick Jones

    Samurai Pizza Cats was an American adaptation of a far more successful Japanese anime called Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee. The series ran for one year and consisted of 52 episodes. While there aren't many people who remember this series, it did pop up on Crunchyroll and Amazon Prime in the last few years.

    The show revolves around Speedy Cerviche, Polly Esther, and Guido Anchovy, three samurai cats/cyborgs who work at the city pizzeria. Their job isn't just to serve pizza; it's also to stop Big Cheese and his henchmen from trying to take over the city of Little Tokyo.

  • King Arthur & the Knights of Justice on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#12) King Arthur & the Knights of Justice

    • Kathleen Barr, Jim Byrnes, Garry Chalk

    King Arthur and the Knights of Justice was created with the help of Avi Arad, the man who would go on to found Marvel Studios. The series was released in Canada and the United States back in 1992, but only ran for 13 episodes. 

    As the series' name suggests, it's about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, except the original knights are trapped by the evil Queen Morgana in the Cave of Glass. Conveniently, Merlin is able to find some replacement heroes; less conveniently, they're a football team located way down the timestream in modern-day New York. No worries, though. Merlin transports them back in time and gives them some magical armor and summonable mounts. The New York Knights (yes, that is the name of their football team) are tasked with obtaining 12 keys of truth, with which they can free the original King Arthur and his gallant comrades.

    Unique for its time, King Arthur had a sequential story that maintained continuity as the knights obtained the various keys. Sadly, the Knights never got to complete their quest, and the final episode aired in December 1993.

  • New Kids on the Block on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#13) New Kids on the Block

    • Donnie Wahlberg, Joey McIntyre, Jordan Knight, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Danny Wood, Jonathan Knight, Scott Menville, Loren Lester, David Coburn

    These days, boy bands from Korea are considered to be some of the most popular groups around, but back in the 1980s and early '90s, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn't know who New Kids on the Block were. The band was so popular, a plethora of merchandise sprung up around them, which included an animated series simply called New Kids on the Block.

    The cartoon focuses on the group as they get into various antics alongside their real-world manager, Maurice Starr. Fifteen episodes aired before it was canceled just four months after it premiered on ABC.

  • Little Shop on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#14) Little Shop

    • Mark Ryan, Harvey Atkin, Jennie Kwan

    Roger Corman's 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors was turned into a musical in 1982, and then remade into a much more popular film starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin in 1986. The '86 film reinvigorated interest in the property, which is why the world got an animated series based on a plant that eats people in 1991. The show, Little Shop, was a French/American cartoon that lasted for one season of 13 episodes.

    The show was tweaked a bit to make it more appealing to a younger audience, which is why Seymour Krelborn was reimagined as a teenager and his plant, though carnivorous, abstains from eating humans. In a nod to the franchise's musical roots, the plant - named "Junior" in this version - occasionally raps. It was the '90s.

  • Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#15) Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars

    • Long John Baldry, Jay Brazeau, Garry Chalk

    Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars was a French/American animated series based on the Bucky O'Hare comic book. The series debuted in 1991 and only ran for 13 episodes before it was canceled. There was a toy line associated with the comics and series, and many of the figures now sell for a ton of cash on sites like eBay.

    The story took a lot of its material from the comics, but differed in a few areas. For the most part, the show follows Bucky and his crew members, who belong to the SPACE organization. SPACE is an acronym for Sentient Protoplasm Against Colonial Encroachment. Oh yeah, and the theme song included the words "righteous indignation."

  • Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#16) Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm

    • Clancy Brown, Olivia d'Abo, Dorian Harewood

    After the original Mortal Kombat game hit arcades, Midway grew the franchise with multiple sequels, spin-offs, cross-company collaborations, feature films, and television series. The franchise is going strong to this day, but not everything produced for the Mortal Kombat brand has done well.

    Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm was launched in 1996, and the show only lasted for 13 episodes between September and December of that year. The series focuses on a group of fighters under the leadership and direction of Rayden. Their mission is to protect Earthrealm from invaders coming through portals from other dimensions.

  • Street Sharks on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#17) Street Sharks

    • Andrew Rannells, Matt Hill, Lee Tockar

    Just as in the 1980s, many cartoons of the '90s were basically half-hour commercials to get kids to buy toys. Street Sharks, a blatant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle clone, was one such series. Created to promote a line of toys from Mattel, the show debuted in 1994. Two years later, it was retooled to become part of another series, Dino Vengers, and became Dino Vengers Featuring Street Sharks. It was canceled the following year.

    The show revolves around a group of four brothers who become human-shark hybrids after they're exposed to a machine called a "gene-slammer." They solve mysteries and their archnemesis is a scientist whose head transforms into a piranha when he's angry. Essentially, it's a series about monsters who were created to stop monsters - and every monster has their own marketable gimmick.

  • Toxic Crusaders on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#18) Toxic Crusaders

    • Kath Soucie, Rodger Bumpass, Michael J. Pollard, Chuck McCann, Susan Blu, Gregg Berger, Ed Gilbert, Paul Eiding, Susan Silo, Hal Rayle, John Mariano, Patric Zimmerman

    In 1991, a series based on Troma's The Toxic Avenger was made to capitalize on the success of shows like The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The series was called Toxic Crusaders, and it survived long enough to air the 13 episodes created for the first season. There wasn't a second.

    Naturally, the show depicts the Toxic Avenger in a much more child-friendly way than the R-rated movies. However, without the over-the-top innuendo and general mayhem of its namesake franchise, Toxic Crusaders is remembered as nothing more than a generic also-ran in the pantheon of kids' programming.

  • Yo Yogi! (1991) on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#19) Yo Yogi! (1991)

    Yogi Bear was a popular cartoon character created in the early days of Hanna-Barbera. He starred in no less than nine of the studios' animated series between the 1950s and '90s. His last real series began and ended in 1991. Yo Yogi! was an effort to bring Yogi Bear to a new generation of viewers, but the series only aired 20 episodes and was subsequently canceled to make way for more teen-centric series.

    Yo Yogi! takes place in Jellystone Town and features many of the characters seen in previous Yogi Bear/Hanna-Barbera shows. The characters work as mall detectives who attempt to solve the mysteries of the lost and found... meaning they try to figure out who left their stuff in the mall. It's not an awful show, but it wasn't around long enough to build up much of a following.

    Viewers wouldn't see a new Yogi series until 1999, when Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi unleashed a bizarre two-episode reboot on Cartoon Network.

  • Extreme Ghostbusters on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#20) Extreme Ghostbusters

    • Maurice LaMarche, Tara Strong, Pat Musick

    In an attempt to revitalize the franchise and springboard off the success of The Real Ghostbusters animated series from the late '80s, Columbia TriStar Television put together a newer, edgier version called Extreme Ghostbusters. The series wasn't as well-received as its predecessor, and only lasted 40 episodes before getting the ax.

    The show takes place in the same universe/canon as the previous outing, but is set several years in the future. With no supernatural activity in New York to "bust," the Ghostbusters have effectively put themselves out of business. The original members go their separate ways, but when the ghosts return, it's up to a new "extreme" generation to take on the threat and form a new team.

  • Attack of the Killer Tomatoes on Random Cartoons From '90s You Completely Forgot Existed

    (#21) Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

    • John Astin, Christian Guzek, Kath Soucie

    Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was a strangely successful parody movie that came out in 1978. It wasn't the sort of film you would expect to launch a franchise, but it got a sequel, a toy line, and a Saturday morning cartoon

    The cartoon takes place five years after the so-called Great Tomato War, and features a world in which tomatoes are banned. Unfortunately, a mad scientist continues to experiment with the ornery fruit and even manages to turn a tomato into a human.

    The show was just as silly as the movies, which may have led to its downfall. Kids didn't get the joke, and the show didn't get more than 23 episodes before Fox canceled it.

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How many of you remember the cartoons that you watched when you came home from school in the 1990s? The cartoon shows in the 1990s were the best, but now, which old cartoons do you remember? All the wonderful cartoon shows that accompany you to grow up have shaped you into a TV fan, some of which have long since ended and gradually disappeared in your memory.

The 90s is the best time that many adults want to go back. There are Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney, and other channels that bring us the best childhood memories. The random tool lists 21 cartoons of the 1990s you may forget.

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