The "What the #%$*?" moments of animation

[Behonkiss]

What are some parts in cartoons where your jaw just dropped at what you were seeing not because of offensiveness, violence or a sudden plot twist, but something just plain bizarre? Mine:

- Satan talking to God in South Park. Mainly because of what God really looks like.(This is what actually gave me the idea for this thread.)

- An episode of Pokémon where Team Rocket blasts heliums into the air...AND EVERYONE STANDS AROUND TALKING LIKE CHIPMUNKS AND DOING BASICALLY NOTHING FOR 15 MINUTES.

- When Spongebob and Co. go to the surface in the episode "Pressure".

- Numerous scenes in Akira, but mainly Tetsuo's hallucinations, seeing the kids for the first time, and the finale.

- Whatever the first thing was in FLCL to make you realize that it was truly messed up.

- Practically all of Spirited Away.

- Space Ghost: Flipmode, with Busta Rhymes. Even for this show, logic was defied.

- Rejected: Uuuuuuh....

[Jackie Chun]

In the episode of SMBSS titled "Robo Koopa" Mario and Luigi are knocked out of their battle suit but Luigi's face is still visible in the lower half.

[DarthGonzo]

The bizarro episode of Sealab 2021

[TnAdct1]

A few animated moments that had me going "WTF?!?":

-Road Rovers: I'm not sure the best way to describe it. It happens in the episode "The Dog Who Knew Too Much", and it involves Colleen doing something that involves spinning herself on one leg four times while making a funny face.

-South Park: The sub-plot in which a gerbel goes on a Hobbit-like quest after Mr. Garrison shoves it up Mr. Slave's ass.

-The Brak Show: Brak's little video about Zorak killing his dad (with Zorak resembling Skeletor and other weird things).

-Azumanga Daioh: pretty much the first time I saw the first episode and the "first dream of the New Year" episode, especially considering the dream where Sakaki discovers that this weird yellow cat that appears throughout the show is the father of Chiyo-chan.

-Jungle Wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu: there's so many "WTF" moments in this series that it's hard to decide on just one.

[Xfox]

FLCL- The South Park-styled animation part

Family Guy- "Huh, how did those get up there?" (If you've seen the episode, you know what I'm talking about)

My Life As a Teenage Robot- XJ-9's dream sequences during the episode where she has a dream chip installed.

That's all I can think of at the moment...

[Toon Capone]

The episode of The Adventures Of Super Mario Bros 3, "The Beauty Of Kootie" in one scene for a brief second Kootie Pie Koopa's head was not attached to her body.:confused:

There were a lot of animation errors on that cartoon, but that was beyond weird.

[Elven Moon]

There are a lot of weird animation boo boos in Scooby Doo. I'm just too tired right now to think of examples.

[Fett One]

Family Guy- "Huh, how did those get up there?" (If you've seen the episode, you know what I'm talking about)
I thought that was funny when I first saw it.

There was that one episode of Jackie Chan Adventures when Viper's hair wasn't colored properly so it looked liked part of her hair was the same color as her skin.

[shogunthethird]

the last third or so of Evangelion....'nuff said

see also episode 26 of Big O

[Eddie G.]

Big O ep. 26 really wasn't a WTF? moment for me because I more or less understood what happened. However "Roger the Wanderer" had me saying WTF? for like an hour.

FLCL-the first manga sequence, the South Park stuff, the Lupin thing, and when Naota first got eaten

Excel Saga-the episode where they had the ahem little girl... and um well she wasn't so little.

Family Guy-the precise moment I knew I'd like Family Guy, episode 1 with the Kool Aid Guy. It's not so weird, but it was when I first saw FG and was the point I realized this show was different from other cartoons

[GL2k2]

Animaniacs: Where they switched all the characters around in their respective shorts. This was a WTF?! in a good way.

Some Invader Zim episodes

All of Teen Titans to the point of making me turn it off

Alot of Courage the Cowardly Dog, but it's still funny.

I'll agree with someone's mentioning of Spirited Away, but I was weirded out more by Princess Monoke.

[Peter Paltridge]

How about...the first Cowboy Bebop episode with Vicious; specifically the scene where Spike crashes out the cathedral window? For the next four minutes he falls down very slowly while a ton of unrelated images keep flashing and this sleepy song plays "People flying hiiiiigh, people flying hiiiiigh, people flying free, flying free, flying free...."
I was scratching my head for a looooong time. I think it was supposed to be symbolic of something, but if you're going to be symbolic, do it in a way that makes at least some sort of sense.

I remember a Muppet Babies episode where the Easter Bunny was among the cast for no explained reason.

Then there's that whole "Magic Meatball" cartoon with Ed Bighead on Rocko's Modern Life; it just BARELY made sense.

And how about that "Aladdin" cartoon....it's the only cartoon where I would tune in at the BEGINNING of an episode and feel like I missed something somehow. I remember a specific example where there were two weird-looking twin advisers in the Palace. Everybody was talking like they had always been there, but they were never seen in any other episode.

While we're talking about Disney cartoons, there's the fact that a villain has two origin episodes on "Legend of Tarzan," in both instances, Tarzan meets her for the first time.

[Jave]

"Previously on Animaniacs" 'nuff said.

[Master Moron]

How about...the first Cowboy Bebop episode with Vicious; specifically the scene where Spike crashes out the cathedral window? For the next four minutes he falls down very slowly while a ton of unrelated images keep flashing and this sleepy song plays "People flying hiiiiigh, people flying hiiiiigh, people flying free, flying free, flying free...."
I was scratching my head for a looooong time. I think it was supposed to be symbolic of something, but if you're going to be symbolic, do it in a way that makes at least some sort of sense.

Ummm...I thought it was pretty obvious that Spike's life was flashing before his eyes. That's what's supposed to happen when you have a near death experience. And the song's lyrics were nothing like that. It sounds like "Mary, Mantra, into the future, never growing green." But, I'm not sure if those are the exact lyrics. I actually thought that was the best moment in all of Bebop.

[Tash]

Lilo & Stitch the series... "Drowsey"...

Now that was screwed up. :confused: There was something really weird about that episode, but I can't put my finger on it

[Ickis]

whre I saw the Zalost tower I was shocked and I liked it,Johnny Dil. really knows cartooning,better than klasky csupo?:)

[Nin-Nin69]

Every episode of Scooby Doo and Captain Planet ever created have over 10 an episode.

The song in Johnny Bravo goes to Hollywood.

The ending of that Simpsons episode where Bart and Homer are Con Artists.

Toyman killing Superman in and Sinestro fighting with people out of his league in JL.

[Rover_Wow]

Well, there was this ep of Angry Beavers with a staring contest and a TV contest, and the crux of the story was that to see who won the TV contest, one of them would lose the staying contest. The WTF was that we never did find out who won or what the prize was.
And there was this ep of Weekenders where Carver was presenting this French cake in a food contest. OK, Tino was wrapping up things, and, well, it jsut faded out without telling if Carver won (and if Lor lost a talent contest earlier in the show even without making a mistake in her performance, Carver could well have lost too).
OK, not exactly WTFs, but they made me go "huh?"

[Carolina Red]

There are too many episodes of Family Guy and INvader Zim to mention that have these moments.

In Dilbert, when Dilbert invented the Tomeato, that was a little different because that's just a very unusual....I don't know if you want to call it a fruit or a vegetable. There was also another moment in that show where Dilbert and others had to compete against a gigantic computer voiced by Jerry Seinfeld.

The entire Ed Edd and Eddy episode "1+1=Ed" could definitely qualify. It's one of my favorites because it is so cool how they made the episode as unusual and absurb as it is.

[Chrono1995]

Bizarro Santa on the "Girl Hair" episode of Space Ghost.

The teddy bears hallucination in "Akira."

Bugs shooting the dog in the math in "Hare Ribbin'".

Just a few mentionables.

[wrenchien]

My Life As a Teenage Robot- XJ-9's dream sequences during the episode where she has a dream chip installed.


indeed.. that part where xj-9 saw the world as if dr seuss, and not rob renzetti, had been responsible for the designs.. was so otherworldly.

[Rover_Wow]

...but here we go:
1. My ultimate WTF would be when I saw Jem running across a minefield... and then it went to credits. Basically, I used to think of all shows as being done in one or two. This changed everything for me.
2. When Alex got 'napped at the end of an ep of Totally Spies (the one with the filmmaker), because all their previous stories had been done in one.
3. This probably fits best: Quite a few in The Weekenders' "Tish's Hair", but none more so than the ending.

[Mario500]

Another Muppet Babies "What The....":


Animal speaking with Gonzo's voice and then saying "Oke Doke" in his normal voice (both were dressed like "The Blues Brothers").

[Vyse]

My WTF moments:

-About 90% of FLCL was completely bizzare
-A good chunk of The Big O's second season was WTF worthy, from "Roger the Wanderer" to "The Show Must Go On" to anything that tries to make out a sensible reason as why "The City of Amnesia" exists.
-In Futurama, in which Fry and the gang went to Roswell circa 1950 and Fry makes out with his grandmother.
-In broadcasting WTF moments: when Kikaider switch from the 12-episode series to that short OVA. I wanted to know what happened to Jiro's creator's family and got nothing.
-All of Pearl Jam's "Do The Evolution" video. Cool, creepy, and WTF.

[CryptiniteDemon]

[QUOTE=KTF]FLCL- The South Park-styled animation part

Family Guy- "Huh, how did those get up there?" (If you've seen the episode, you know what I'm talking about)
[QUOTE]

Ohhh, I remember that. Freaking hilarious.:)

[Don_East]

The last episode of the Brak Show was just kooky. Dad had a arm for a head & his head was on his butt, Thunderclease became Penquinclease, Clerance blewup, & every one were penquins, wierd. :confused:

[J. B. Warner]

"The Simpsons" - the first scene in the episode "Marge v Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples, and Teens, and Gays" with a "Crocodile Hunter" parody (the guy gets ripped to shreds); the end of "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (the family is drugged and shipped off to the island Homer was trying to escape from throughout all of Act III in a poor sendup of "The Prisoner"); Bart dancing while being ingested by a snake in "Blame It On Lisa".

"Family Guy" - The bit in "Let's Go To the Hop" where Peter recalls his last drug experience getting "too real". Peter is then seen as a real person (or a real person in a freakish Peter mask).

"Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies" - "Hair Raising Hare", as Bugs struggles to keep Gossamer behind a closed door, his head disappears for one frame.

"Angry Beavers" - Pretty much anything from the final season (Daggett as Muscular Beaver writhing and screaming on the floor, Norbert's psychotic ear infection, the Father's Day episode where their dam collapses and they move back in with their parents, etc.)

"Invader Zim" - the whole "Battle-Dib" episode.

"Tiny Toon Adventures" - As good as "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" was, it had a lot of head-scratching moments (Road Runner being run over by the mail truck, Fowlmouth being thrown into the "Skunkophobia" movie, Buster and Babs outrunning every antagonist from the movie in the final scene and still taking a stop at the mall, then falling through a plot hole and landing back in Acme Acres, the final song, etc.)

[Dr. Daedalus]

The bizarro episode of Sealab 2021 Yeah, it was WTF at first, but after 5 minutes it dissolved into annoying.
The ending of that Simpsons episode where Bart and Homer are Con Artists. The Great Money Caper. When I saw the episode on its initial airing, I DID wonder what the writers were smoking with that abrupt surfing ending. Strangely enough, though, it all made sense the second time around and it ended up being one of my favorite season 12 episodes, just for how goofy it was.
Bizarro Santa on the "Girl Hair" episode of Space Ghost. That was probably the biggest use of original animation in the series to date! ;) I agree, that was messed up.

As for my original choice, the entire Brak Show episode "We Ski In Peace". That episode had WTF written ALL OVER IT.

[wrenchien]

another one i recall, in spongebob, was during the one where sandy challenged them all to go above water.. i was surprised that they went 'live action' with stick puppets.. especially when sandy wasn't wearing her divesuit-spacesuit thing :eek:

and then the seagulls being cooked at episodes's end.. a big surprise, too.

really strange, that show is. i hope after the movie, they put out a few more episodes devoted to some of the earlier hijinks and those characters second-string not quite having a tale to be told...

after all, if it's not plankton in the crabby patties then what is it?

[Anime 51]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Cartoon All-Stars. (bonus points if you know what I'm talking about)

[Dr. Daedalus]

another one i recall, in spongebob, was during the one where sandy challenged them all to go above water.. i was surprised that they went 'live action' with stick puppets.. especially when sandy wasn't wearing her divesuit-spacesuit thing :eek: "Pressure", one of my favorite SB episodes of all time. The whole stick puppets thing was so purposefully bad it was funny. Patrick was especially funny- "Hey, I lost my trunks! Hi, SpongeBob!" I think it was mentioned earlier in this thread, though.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Cartoon All-Stars. (bonus points if you know what I'm talking about) Cartoon propaganda!!! Just say no to drugs and stop polluting the environment! Yeah, I remember when they showed that to us in 5th grade. Even back then, I knew something was corny about that one...

[SirLemming]

The last episode of the Brak Show was just kooky. Dad had a arm for a head & his head was on his bed, Thunderclease became Penquinclease, Clerance blewup, & every one were penquins, wierd. :confused:Don't you mean his head was on his butt?

[Xfox]

indeed.. that part where xj-9 saw the world as if dr seuss, and not rob renzetti, had been responsible for the designs.. was so otherworldly.
Actually those parts were really cool. I was thinking more about her earlier ones. "The banana is larger than soup!" "I know what can stop the Kraken! Onion doughnuts!" I liked the design in those episodes too, but the things that were happening was pure WTF.

[Dudley]

Another Muppet Babies "What The....":


Animal speaking with Gonzo's voice and then saying "Oke Doke" in his normal voice (both were dressed like "The Blues Brothers").
OMG! I remember that!

I would say Otto Rocket from Rocket Power for his extreme (and annoying)immaturity.

A Nudnik episode, where his pants got filled with water, which made him float up into the air as if it was helium.

[GCFyouthcamper]

I remember a Muppet Babies episode where the Easter Bunny was among the cast for no explained reason.


That was Bean Bunny, a real muppet character from the Jim henson hour

[GCFyouthcamper]

i remember another time on muppet babies when that happened. It was the episode where Fozzie thought he had bad luck. Gonzo took him to the wood weirdos. then he says in Fozzie's voice, "What are wood weirdos, Gonzo?" Then he answers in his normal voice, "There goes one!"

[Eric B]

Slowing down the tape for "the Great Piggy Bank Robbery", when Daffy shoots all the villains, and you see a bunch of these other characters. I have to try to record it to DVD where I can view frame by frame, and I would also like to get Kitty Kornered, because of all the wild reactions, but it seems they don't play pre-48's as much as they used to.

[Bones Justice]

KT Slayer outracing Magic Man in a mutant off-road race:

They are racing side-by-side in two huge monster trucks with open cabs. KT Slayer pulls out a crossbow and fires it at Magic Man. The arrow is actually a clamp on the end with a rope. The clamp attaches to Magic Man's head and KT Slayer gives a yank of the rope line, ripping Magic Man's head off completely!

Okay, that was violent but that's not the WTF? moment, bear with me. :D

So then KT Slayer pulls the line back all the way until he's holding Magic Man's severed head. He quips, "You're outta the race, Magic Man!". And then Magic Man's severed head starts laughing maniacally as KT Slayer tosses it overboard! Not exactly the reaction you would expect from a severed head, is it? :p

[Bones Justice]

Another one I always thought was odd:

In the gone, but not forgotten, ALF The Animated Series, there was one time where they shot a Melmacian air-to-air missile at another aircraft. This missile was not explosive, rather it contained automated tools that literally disassembled the enemy in mid-air!

So anyways, they use the missile. During the "explosion" of parts flying everywhere, I noticed something a bit odd. Slowing to frame-by-frame, there is one frame in the middle where they are flying an American flag! WTF? :confused:

[DaphHime]

FLCL: The whole series. And then realizeing I liked it for that reason.

Excel Saga: Read above

The Simpsons: Alot of the newer episodes made me stcrach my head. But the one that did that the most is the episode where Snowball II dies and any other cat that Lisa gets after that dies.

[MJC]

The second season of Big O was one big "WTF!?".

[robert]

A true WTF moment from South Park can be best described in two words.....crab people....crab people....crab people...

[CryptiniteDemon]

In Rocko's modern life when some guy knocks on the door and Rocko answers. In the background there is a board game with a monkey's ass up in the air, and a guy with a paddle. Get it?

[Andrew M.]

What are some parts in cartoons where your jaw just dropped at what you were seeing not because of offensiveness, violence or a sudden plot twist, but something just plain bizarre?
The episode of Inspector Gadget where Dr. Claw sprayed all the gold in town with stink spray.

The Pinky and the Brain episode with Larry.

The episode of South Park from the most recent season where Rob Reiner was filled with green goo.

An episode of Mighty Max where they went around squishing all these weird slimy bugs.

Many episodes of Angry Beavers and Rocko's Modern Life.

[GL2k2]

An episode of Mighty Max where they went around squishing all these weird slimy bugs.
I have to disagree, I think there's two Mighty Max episodes that made me feel worse than that. The one with the freakish circus clown that turned Virgil, Norm, and Max into freaks, and the one set in russia or someplace where they fought that bubblegum looking blob that ate children. Now if that didn't make you go WTF, I don't know what could.

[Fone Bone]

-Fred Flintstone picking a hair out of the camera lens in "The Flintstones".

-Homer3 in Simpsons Treehouse of Horror espescially at the end where Homer gets zapped into our world and enters an erotic bakery while Phillip Glass music plays over the credits.

-All of the weird Tom and Jerry cartoons from the sixties espescially "Dickie Mo" and the one with the calypso music. Freaky.

-From Mighty Mouse, Mighty is in Hollywood fighting a giant wig. He quips "I haven't seen this much hair since Brooke Shields trimmed her eyebrows." He subdues the wig with a giant comb and delivers it to the set of Star Trek, puts it on William Shatner's head and says "There you go, Bill. Next time keep that thing nailed down!":D

[Peter Paltridge]

The Pinky and the Brain episode with Larry.
That one was actually a jab at Warner executives, who were beginning to make plans to revamp the series by adding a new character. Infamously, it turned out to be Elmyra.

[Dudley]

-All of the weird Tom and Jerry cartoons from the sixties espescially "Dickie Mo" and the one with the calypso music. Freaky.
:D
Ahh, the ones made in the Czech Republic.

Those were horrible.:mad:

[Jave]

- The berry-picking scene in "Rocko's Modern Life".

Plus, two Popeye cartoons that definitely deserve mention:

"Me Musical Nephews" The ending where Popeye walks to the other side of the iris and closes it in a final attempt to escape (unsuccesfully) from his nephews.

"The Hungry Goat" The whole cartoon is one big "Huh?!", as we see a goat trying to eat a steel warship Popeye is taking care of, since the Captain is off to the movies. Popeye chases the goat throughout the ship, featuring scenes with limited animation (one frame per second!) and people at the movies watching the actual cartoon! One kid in the audience wonders: "Why won't Popeye eat his spinach and sock him one?", at that point I was wondering the exact same thing!

[Howard Fein]

MIGHTY MOUSE: THE NEW ADVENTURES: In 1987 and 1988, the use of dark, moody pseudo-serious scenes and 'gross-out' humor really hadn't taken hold yet; show co-producer John K would pioneer those elements several years later in REN & STIMPY. But they were a regular presence in MM:TNA to the point where it's amazing how much Ralph Bakshi, the show's acknowledged creator, managed to sneak past the CBS censors.

The misleadingly-titled first season episode "Mighty's Benefit Plan", which was a vicious parody of Ross Bagdasarian and the Chipmunks. The three tree weasels- Elwey, Goobie and Thickie- are scared to death of their human 'father', Sandy Bottomfeeder ("Anything you say, man. Just don't make any sudden moves."), who's drawn and voiced very similarly to Dave Seville. Sandy comes off as something bordering a pedophile. ("Now, boys, I want to you wear these clothes. Now sing. Now sing real fast.") The whole episode is framed as a flashback narrated by a typical animated run-over dog returned to life- flattened 2-D, scuff marks, wide tire treads across body.

The second half-season of original episodes brought the cult classic "Don't Touch That Dial", which systematically destroyed THE FLINTSTONES, THE JETSONS, SCOOBY-DOO, ROCKY & BULLWINKLE and DIC's GHOSTBUSTERS by having the Mouse 'visit' each 'show' due to a boy flipping the dial too fast. The impact is that of a ton of bricks because we have no idea it's coming; the episode starts as a typical Mighty Mouse rescue sequence. Since then, cartoons parodying other specific cartoons has become commonplace to the point of cliche. GARFIELD, THE SIMPSONS, BOBBY'S WORLD, TINY TOONS, ANIMANIACS, THE CRITIC, FREAKAZOID and DEXTER'S LAB are but some of the series that have done this, with varying degrees of humor and accuracy.

The other MM episode that shocked me was "The Ice Goose Returneth", guest-starring fellow Terrytoon Gandy Goose. This also pretty much pioneered the practice of cameos or guest appearances of one classic character on a revival series of another. (See DEXTER'S LAB or SYLVESTER & TWEETY MYSTERIES.) The eternally popular- and revived- Mouse takes Gandy, who hasn't been seen in any new material since his fifties' theatrical retirement, into his house. Their relationship takes on an- er, 'ambiguous' angle when Mighty comes home from work and dresses down homebound Gandy for botched domestic chores. The Mouse's extended slow-burn and rant, in a similar tone to Jack Nicholson, followed by Gandy pouting ("Now you're cross with me!") and departing, followed by Mighty sobbing and pounding the table, is downright chilling.

Other than a several-week replacement on FOX's Saturday AM schedule in fall 1992, THE NEW ADVENTURES has never seen the light of day again, except on bootleg video. That's how I saw it, and unlike other cartoons that seemed very cutting-edge when first viewed, this one hasn't lost its ability to shock, convulse and perplex the adult viewer- let alone kids.

[tucsoncoyote]

perhaps my oddest WTF moment came from all places... Ed Edd and Eddy...(Guess I was Bored that day waiting for some other quality stuff to come on..)

Eddy (The ultimate moron who has nothing brighter to say was speaking).
"Huh huh I got a Jar on my Butt...." (aand sure enough.. there it was..)

Okay........ Way over the Weird Limit...


:coyote:

[Trogdor]

FLCL- The South Park-styled animation part
Geez, I had no idea WTF was going on at that moment, or throughout the entire series for that matter, but that was so funny how they did that :D I still can't believe that happened. WTF were they talking about anyway? I mean, I though the eyebrow dude was in a van watching what's-his-name? (What is the main character's name, anyway?), and then he's getting a hair cut. I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT AT ALL!!!

[Fone Bone]

MIGHTY MOUSE: THE NEW ADVENTURES: In 1987 and 1988, the use of dark, moody pseudo-serious scenes and 'gross-out' humor really hadn't taken hold yet; show co-producer John K would pioneer those elements several years later in REN & STIMPY. But they were a regular presence in MM:TNA to the point where it's amazing how much Ralph Bakshi, the show's acknowledged creator, managed to sneak past the CBS censors.

The misleadingly-titled first season episode "Mighty's Benefit Plan", which was a vicious parody of Ross Bagdasarian and the Chipmunks. The three tree weasels- Elwey, Goobie and Thickie- are scared to death of their human 'father', Sandy Bottomfeeder ("Anything you say, man. Just don't make any sudden moves."), who's drawn and voiced very similarly to Dave Seville. Sandy comes off as something bordering a pedophile. ("Now, boys, I want to you wear these clothes. Now sing. Now sing real fast.") The whole episode is framed as a flashback narrated by a typical animated run-over dog returned to life- flattened 2-D, scuff marks, wide tire treads across body.Ah, Mashie the Pup! Now we're talking! And yeah, Sandy was one sick S.O.B. I loved how he was always spitting out Cheerios (or Ohoorids in the Bakshiverse). And if you think Sandy's a perv look at the look of enraptured joy on Mighty's face when Little Orphan Scrappy jumps on his back and gives him a big hug.



The second half-season of original episodes brought the cult classic "Don't Touch That Dial", which systematically destroyed THE FLINTSTONES, THE JETSONS, SCOOBY-DOO, ROCKY & BULLWINKLE and DIC's GHOSTBUSTERS by having the Mouse 'visit' each 'show' due to a boy flipping the dial too fast. The impact is that of a ton of bricks because we have no idea it's coming; the episode starts as a typical Mighty Mouse rescue sequence. Since then, cartoons parodying other specific cartoons has become commonplace to the point of cliche. GARFIELD, THE SIMPSONS, BOBBY'S WORLD, TINY TOONS, ANIMANIACS, THE CRITIC, FREAKAZOID and DEXTER'S LAB are but some of the series that have done this, with varying degrees of humor and accuracy.
My favorite line from the Jetstones song parody was "Here comes Proto the One-celled Ameoba!" Bakshi and company were obsessed with single-celled organisms. This was also the cartoon where you learned Mighty wears a toupee. (It was revealed in "Mundane Voyage" that he wears contact lenses.



The other MM episode that shocked me was "The Ice Goose Returneth", guest-starring fellow Terrytoon Gandy Goose. This also pretty much pioneered the practice of cameos or guest appearances of one classic character on a revival series of another. (See DEXTER'S LAB or SYLVESTER & TWEETY MYSTERIES.) The eternally popular- and revived- Mouse takes Gandy, who hasn't been seen in any new material since his fifties' theatrical retirement, into his house. Their relationship takes on an- er, 'ambiguous' angle when Mighty comes home from work and dresses down homebound Gandy for botched domestic chores. The Mouse's extended slow-burn and rant, in a similar tone to Jack Nicholson, followed by Gandy pouting ("Now you're cross with me!") and departing, followed by Mighty sobbing and pounding the table, is downright chilling. I love the look in Mighty's eyes when he rolls the sandwich across the table and calmly says "What did you put in the Sandwich, Gandy?" And if you thought this ep was rough, check out "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy" and the scene with Gandy and Sourpuss taking a shower together. "Shaddup and gimme back da soap!" This episode featured a "Cautionary tale" of Mighty and Pearl Pureheart's wedding day complete with a Honeymooner's parody where it's revealed The Cow fathered Pearl's kid and a killer ending: When Mighty is asked if he'll take Pearl's hand in marriage (by Reverand Deputy Dawg) the scene cuts to live-action of an animator crying "I can't go through with it! I can't marry him off!" If someone tells you that all cartoons have morals tell 'em you saw this one and know better.



Other than a several-week replacement on FOX's Saturday AM schedule in fall 1992, THE NEW ADVENTURES has never seen the light of day again, except on bootleg video. That's how I saw it, and unlike other cartoons that seemed very cutting-edge when first viewed, this one hasn't lost its ability to shock, convulse and perplex the adult viewer- let alone kids.Agreed. Out of all the cartoons of the eighties (and almost all of them are pretty bad) this was one of the few outstanding one's. People say the early-nineties renaissance of animation started with the Simpsons. They're wrong. This was the launching ground for such up-and-coming animators as John K., Tom Minton, Jim Reardon, Kent Butterworth, Eddie Fitzgerald, and Bruce W. Timm. This is the cartoon from that era that screams for a deluxe boxed set DVD release. It was truly outstanding.

[Mr. Pedro]

Whooboy, where do I begin?
Damn near everything on South Park.

The Mad Mod episode of TT.

Green Jelly's music video for "Three little pigs".

The first time I saw the Strongbad "Dragon" email.

Earthworm Jim : The animated series.

Any episode of the Tick

I gotta stop now. There's just so much.

[Samurai Karasu]

Any animated scenes in Monty Python and the Holy grail. Especialy the monster dwelling in the cave.

[catwoman]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Gargoyles yet.
The Gathering Part II: Owen's Revealation.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Episode Seven and the Akio Arch Revealtions. Also Anthy's little trips to her brother and Juri's crush. All the incest too! The whole series was one big "What the censored ?"

[tucsoncoyote]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Gargoyles yet.
The Gathering Part II: Owen's Revealation.

Oh yeah I remember that one..

Owen Burnett: Hi! I'm PUCK the trickester! I look like an Elf but Sound Like Commander Data From Star Trek :the Next Generation! That's why I carry the American Express Credit Card. Don't Leave Home Without it!:D

Ba-dum-Dum!

:coyote:

[Rover_Wow]

"Me Musical Nephews" The ending where Popeye walks to the other side of the iris and closes it in a final attempt to escape (unsuccesfully) from his nephews.

And Paramount remade this story, as Rascals in Rhythm, even retaining said ending! :)



"The Hungry Goat" (...) One kid in the audience wonders: "Why won't Popeye eat his spinach and sock him one?", at that point I was wondering the exact same thing!

And speaking of no spinach: Spree Lunch, where it simply fades out from Wimpy eating while the others are brawling (Wimpy placing a ketchup bottle back into said brawl is also slightly WTF).

[Howard Fein]

More bizarre moments in cartoons I've noticed:

THE BEATLES: The first season (1965) opening title, set to "Can't Buy Me Love" has the Fabs being chased by screaming teenage girls as usual. At one point, Ringo hides in a garbage can, then emerges from it wearing the lid on his head. He makes with the 'slanted' eyes and buck teeth and successfully points the girls in the other direction. Rare revivals of the series in syndication or basic cable excise this intro, probably for time and quite possibly for this bit of ethnic stereotyping. Reruns of second and third-season episodes are usually preceded by the "And Your Bird Can Sing" intro.

While Afro-American gags (blackface due to explosion, cowardly et al) disappeared from theatrical cartoons in the fifties, it was still perfectly all right to make fun of American Indians and Chinese well into the sixties. The Beatle episode "Little Child", which is set in the American West, features a typical Big Chief confiding to the camera "I really speak like this [a refiined Rhode Scholar inflection], but I don't want to disappoint them." before reverted back to the standard Heap Big Injunspeak. Viewing this as an adult on bootleg video, I was blown away at the ironic context-busting- especially given the fact this was 1965. (The show's original ABC run occurred while I was in elementary school, at which time I was more observant of Ringo's antics and the chase sequences than political incorrectness.)

In keeping with the premise of a rock group traveling around the world, most BEATLE episodes had them getting in trouble in one foreign country or another. This made for abundant ethnic stereotyping, especially blatant for episodes set in Hawaii (half-naked natives slobbering over canned pineapple) or Japan. "I'll Cry Instead", set in the latter, even has Paul mocking the local accent and speech pattern: when George is somehow pitted against a crazed Samurai, Mr. McCartney 'slants' his eyes and admonishes Mr. Harrison, "You must save face and honol serf in name of Beatres." Now, Paul oughta know better than that!

BEETLE BAILEY: A ten-episode Rhino video contains the episode "Lucky Beetle", which opens in a Chinese restaurant. In the establishing shot, a Chinese woman in standard cartoon Chinese woman garb roams the floor hawking "Firecrackers- Lichee nuts". (A parody of the then-popular 'cigarette girls' that populated nightclubs.) What responsible dining establishment would peddle explosives, even back in the early sixties?!

CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Narrator and screenwriter Earl Hamner wraps up the happy ending in which, among other things, Templeton has had a litter of baby rats during the summer. Paul Lynde (an H-B semi-regular a few years earlier in 1969-70) performed Templeton as comic relief in the otherwise dead serious film. He follows the parade of his offspring and gives a trademark Lynde throaty snicker to the camera, as if to say "Look what I did!" The inclusion of a rather racy joke, especially when combined with Lynde's famous- shall we say, fussy- comic personna, makes this doubly jarring.

DARKWING DUCK: Flipping channels on a Saturday morning in fall 1991, I passed by ABC to see my first glimpse of Darkwing. He was charred and smoldering, having just been blasted by a villian's cannon. All I could think was "Well, whaddaya know? Comic violence is back on The Big Three!" Explosions, flattenings and other such mayhem were pretty much banned from TV cartoons in 1970, although they made somewhat of a comeback in the flood of syndicated first-run shows (especially INSPECTOR GADGET) and Fox's Saturday AM lineup that premiered in 1990 (TOM & JERRY KIDS, TAZ-MANIA, SUPER DAVE, EEK! THE CAT). In the nineties, several Disney TV cartoons aired new episodes simultaneously on a Saturday AM network schedule and weekday syndication. The ABC DARKWING episodes were in no way 'toned down' from the syndicated ones. In either venue, he could get zapped, sharpened like a pencil, struck by missiles or fall from great heights leaving a crater in the ground.

DEXTER'S LAB: There are two episodes that stand out. In "Chubby Cheese", we're subjected to a kiddy restaurant 'floor show': a flock of Country Bear-style 'marionettes' that happen to be H-B characters from the sixties and seventies! There are some relative obscurities: Peter Potamus, Squiddly Diddley, Mushmouse, Hair Bear and Grape Ape. By this time, cameos of old characters drawn in the 'modern' style of the show in which they were guesting was old hat. But to see them presented as robots- albeit drawn in standard 2D- is a bit strange. Most modern CN viewers wouldn't even recognize them anyway. My kid didn't.

The other DEXTER episode, "Sun, Surf and Science" lacks Dexter altogether, instead starring Mandark, who's entering a surfing contest to impress Dee-Dee. Naturally his weapons of destruction backfire on him, requiring him to be rescued by a kewl blond, long-haired surfer Dude (who you'd swear was a girl but for his bare chest). The next-to-last scene has the revived Mandark and his lifesaver face-to-face on the sand while tender music is heard on the soundtrack. The last scene has them walking into the sunset to Mandark's house (to try his labmade waves) with arms around each other!! To further add to the strangeness of this episode, Dee-Dee's dialogue is teenage Valley Girl rather than the engaging hyperactive pre-'tween ditz we love.

A supporting DEXTER segment is JUSTICE FRIENDS, a very funny superhero/sitcom parody (with delberately obnoxious laughtrack). In "Valhallen's Room", their pet goat William appears to put himself in peril. Major Glory cries out "Billy, don't be a hero!" Who above the age of 40 would get that?! The other supporting segment, DIAL M FOR MONKEY, co-stars the diminutive title simian with a Diana Rigg-esque martial arts expert/superwoman type. At the beginning of one episode, it appears as if Monkey and Agent Honeydew are in a romantic relationship! He goes to her apartment, she's 'out of uniform' (in a rather slinky black dress) and cradling his head in her lap as he eats grapes. If the Chief didn't call, who knows what would happen next? And between a woman and monkey, yet!

ED, EDD & EDDY: There's lots of off-the-wall gags and comic violence in this show, which seems quite unusual considering all the characters are supposed to be typical suburban 'tweens- as opposed to talking humanized animals. What really got me was one episode in which someone (Kevin? Sara? Nazz? The Kankers?) angrily throw the three Eds out of the house. We only see Eddy hit the dirt- then Ed and Edd's heads emerge from his mouth like a cash register drawer! I seem to recall another instance in which a horrible offscreen beating left one character with another one stuck through his head, as in one ear and out the other.

FAT ALBERT: Filmation's fabled low animation budget is somewhat muted in this show due to a great 'funky' music score and funny dialogue- at least the original CBS Saturday AM run. In one of the last CBS episodes, made in 1980, Albert runs into a phone booth to report a lost dog. When the police answer, the sped-up gibberish usually heard issuing from the other side of a cartoon phone is not heard. Instead, one hears the sped-up 'Chinese' gibberish that was the sole dialogue of Ping and Pong the Pandas from Filmation's BRADY KIDS (a bizarre series in its own right), made back in 1972- coincidentally, the year ALBERT premiered. Don't you think Schiemer and Prescott could've at least found a different sound effect for phone gibberish? When viewing this for the first time as an early-morning syndicated rerun, I sleepily wondered (a) how Channel 5 suddenly switched to THE BRADY KIDS without warning; and (b) when Albert learned to speak Chinese! It must've been the strain of the lost dog that did it.

In 1984, a whole new series of new FAT ALBERTs were made for syndication. Already lacking the rough charm, humor and junkyard music of the CBS episodes, these were not subject to network standards and practices. So you had an episode concerning gang wars in which a kid (not a regular) trying to protect his older brother from being shot, is himself shot and killed onscreen, in slow motion yet. Neither his face or any blood is seen (The older brother is cradling his body against his own), but this is certainly strong stuff for a cartoon, not to mention an overtly humorous one. Needless to say, the laugh track was not heard for the rest of the episode.

FREAKAZOID: The title character and the laconic cop Mike Cosgrove (an affectionate caraceture of Ed Asner voiced by same) are usually seen as all buddy-buddy. This is apparently addressed to excess in one episode in which 'Cozzie' politely turns down Freak's numerous requests to accompany him to a comedy show (apparently Gallagher or his ilk, based on the dialogue). Freak is emotionally devastated by this rejection to the point that one would think he- well, you do the math!

JOHNNY BRAVO: In the second pilot, a comely Amazon proclaims the need to sacrifice a virgin to a volcano. She's looking right at Johnny, who raises an eyebrow and asides indignantly to the camera, "Virgin?" Who'd expect that word in that context to be used in a cartoon! Future BRAVO episodes would contain somewhat milder innuendo. Notable is guest star's Farrah Fawcett's classic line "I can't remember the last time I was blindfolded. Oh yes, I think I can!" Supposedly the 'virgin' line has been edited for reruns.

SHE'S A GOOD SKATE, CHARLIE BROWN: For fourteen years, the rule that adults in Peanuts specials could never speak was shattered in 1980. Peppermint Patty's exasperated teacher is heard speaking in [i]perfect English in a realistic fashion! Maybe Schulz and Mendelsohn felt the situation called for the viewer knowing what the teacher was actually saying, rather than the usual muted trumpet. But this was akin to the Coyote catching the Roadrunner. It's just not supposed to happen! Later that year, in the theatrical BON VOYAGE CHARLIE BROWN- AND DON'T COME BACK, the gang interacts with an elderly French woman on screen! That she's the same size as them doesn't make this spectacle any more acceptable. It may not be a coincidence that this was the last Peanuts feature film. As animated characters, they work much better back home with invisible, inarticulate authority figures.

SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? As previously mentioned, Orientals were fair game for comedy well into the TV cartoon age. But it's amazing that in 1970, the CBS censors allowed the Great Dane and hippie to thwart two villians by dressing as Chinese waiters ("Mystery Mask Mix-up" is set in San Francisco) and assuming the expected sleight of eyes and teeth. It's ironic that Casey Kasem, defender of his Arab heritage, would read lines in such an appropriately ludicrous manner: "Wercome to Scoob and Shag's haunted Chinese lestaulant whele ghosts eat the most. Speciarty of the house is spale lib chop suey a ra mode with chocorate sauce." At least the episode's villian, a Chinese smuggler, is drawn and voiced (by veteran character actor Vic Perrin) in a realistically menacing manner.

I didn't really start watching WB cartoons in depth until age 18 or 19. To me they were all scored by Carl Stalling or Milt Franklyn- although I certainly didn't know their names. One Saturday morning, in the midst of a typical college hangover (which we tended to by watching THE BUGS BUNNY-ROAD RUNNER SHOW), the 1958 Bugs short PRE-HYSTERICAL HARE came on. I figured it must've been the afteraffects of the previous night that was making me hear Hanna-Barbera music score under a Warners cartoon. The name John Seely meant nothing to me at the time, or the musician's strike, or the fact that the background music of the early Huck Hound, Yogi Bear and Meece cartoons (which I had watched virtually since birth) was actually public domain- and hence could be used anywhere. Since then, I've learned all anyone can possibly learn about WB animation (thanks to the neighboring message board) and still have a pervese fascination for the 'Seely Six'. True, PRE-HYSTERICAL HARE would be a weird short anyway (Bugs and Elmer as cavemen, Elmer being voiced by Dave Barry instead of an ailing Arthur Bryan), even if scored by Franklyn. But the other five cartoons have surreal qualities of their own- especially the Roadrunner short HOOK LINE AND STINKER, which uses Seely/Capital score from both old H-B cartoons and Screen Gems' DENNIS THE MENACE sitcom which would premiere a year later.

[Eddy]

Super Mario Bros. Super Show:

- both Mario and Luigi's hats were red

- Luigi's mouth was moving but Toadstool's voice was coming out

- a Koopa Troopa's mouth was moving but Mario's was coming out

- Koopa's mouth was moving but Hooded Robin's was coming out (I'd be surprised if anyone of you know what I'm walking about)

- Mario's mouth moved and it had Luigi's voice, than Luigi's mouth moved and he had Mario's voice

- Koopa's mouth was moving and... TOAD's voice was coming out. O_o

And there is a lot more SMB Super Show ones where THOSE came from.

[Dr. Daedalus]

Speaking of voice flubs, in the Bonkers episode "Toon With No Name", there's a scene where Bonkers's mouth opens and Fall Apart's voice comes out.

[purplehairedwonder]

Well, this wasn't in a show, but during a Toonami bumper last summer: They had a scene from YYH where Kuwabara was supposed to be saying "Wow, I've never seen something so impressive in my life" but instead they had Kenshin's voice saying "Why don't you give up. You can't beat me." And the funny thing was, Kuwabara's mouth movements fit perefectly with the voice:anime: :sweat:

[aquila]

Just about anything Homer Simpson does these days make me cringe and go WTF???

[ClockStomper]

How about...the first Cowboy Bebop episode with Vicious; specifically the scene where Spike crashes out the cathedral window? For the next four minutes he falls down very slowly while a ton of unrelated images keep flashing and this sleepy song plays "People flying hiiiiigh, people flying hiiiiigh, people flying free, flying free, flying free...."

You just gave me a WTF moment. What's with your hearing??? "Green Bird" isn't in english.

[Jade_GL]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Gargoyles yet.
The Gathering Part II: Owen's Revealation.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Episode Seven and the Akio Arch Revealtions. Also Anthy's little trips to her brother and Juri's crush. All the incest too! The whole series was one big "What the censored ?"
Thank goodness someone else mentioned Revolutionary Girl Utena. This series has some serious WTF moments. I can think of three right off the top of my head. The episode entitled *The Cowbell of Happiness* which has a kooky title and just goes straight to WTF-ville after that. Then there was the ending of the Black Rose Arc, which made my friends and I completely go nuts. Oh, and then there was the ending, which was my favorite ending of ANY anime, but still really hard to rap my head around, especially with the iced drinks, flying swords, and carousels....

Oh, and the whole Utena movie was WTF. The whole thing. Everything from the strange flash backs to the last 20 minutes.... Oh, and any Utena music is completely messed up, but great!

THere was also an episode of Rocko where his cow buddy dies. He choked on a bucket of chicken. I can't remember it much, but it actually freaked me out. And I wasn't a small kid either. Just so weird.

[Bubblegum Girl]

The ninja star getting stuck in Butter's eye! It was both funny and sad at the same time! :D

[Terri]

Here is another WTF moment from Revolutionary Girl Utena, a baseball game going on during a student council meeting. The members didn't realize there was a game going on. I had to laugh when the baseball whized pass Miki's head a few times.

[Hurricane V1]

When Patrick Star told Mr. Krabs he was going to miss out on the panty raid with him and Spongebob.

[Scythemantis]

An episode of Mighty Max where they went around squishing all these weird slimy bugs.

The mind-controlling "zomboids?" I didn't find that very shocking...splattering weird creatures is pretty common in cartoons (the less human, the more they're allowed to get away with, which I always found silly)

Naw, I think the most shocking mighty max scene (shocking for being allowed... I personally find nothing gross about it for reasons mentioned above) was in the "vampire" episode.

Max and co. track down a vampire and discover that real vampires not only lack every traditional weakness (even sunlight is harmless to them) but pertain to insects, not bats. Their vampiress feeds through her tongue and can transform into a giant fly. The "WTF?!" occurs when they're in her lair and wander into the chamber where she keeps her children - MILLIONS of maggots, feeding from pools of human blood! (With delicious closeups of them drinking) - and are pursued by a tidal wave of the things. Beautiful.

[candy17]

"Family Guy" - The bit in "Let's Go To the Hop" where Peter recalls his last drug experience getting "too real". Peter is then seen as a real person (or a real person in a freakish Peter mask).
Every moment on FG--from the first episode with the Kool-Aid man bursting into court to the last one with the nuns beating up Chris, Peter, and Lois for converting to Judaism--is a WTF moment (in good ways and bad), but the one that got me on Family Guy was Peter finding the Breakfast Club--which turned out to be cereal characters talking about their problems instead of the Brat Pack because it was so unexpected. Also it was funny hearing Tony complain about his dad giving him cigarettes.


"Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies" - "Hair Raising Hare", as Bugs struggles to keep Gossamer behind a closed door, his head disappears for one frame.Gotta love those frame-by-frame mistakes. Not necessarily a WTF, but there's this one Pepe Le Pew cartoon where Pepe's feet disappear for one frame.


"Invader Zim" - the whole "Battle-Dib" episode.Everything about Invader Zim is WTF (in a good way).

I saw a deleted scene on the King of the Hill DVD set where two mistakes (WTF moments happened):

-In Hank's Unmentionable Problem (the one where Hank is constipated), there is a deleted scene where after Peg wakes up from her dream of Hank's funeral (which had a WTF moment when the Surgeon General asked everyone for their algebra homework), she rushes into the bathroom (while Hank is on the toilet) and tells him that she doesn't want Hank to die. The twisted part was that after it cut to Hank saying "Peg, you're not supposed to see this", the bathroom setting changed to the kitchen while the characters remained the same.

-In another deleted scene (I don't know the episode it's from), there is one minor mistake where Hank's eyeball is drawn vertically:eek: . And I thought lazy eyes were hard to watch...no puns.

Another WTF part that I'm obsessed over is the sequence from The Mask: TAS episode "Flight as a Feather" with the black female stripper/terrorist and how The Mask removed the dynamite bikini off her. I don't care if you like the show or not (or never heard of it), that was gutsy, considering that the episode in question was one for network TV in syndication.

[Peter Paltridge]

Here's something from Pinky and the Brain that I never got. It's from a scene where they're playing the roles of a weary house couple for comedic effect:
"Oh, is that so? No one wants to hear about MY day! We get to hear about YOUR day, but WHAT ABOUT MINE??"
Brain sighs. "All right, Pinky...what did you do today?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Not a thing."
Brain pauses for a moment, then says "Now I know how American Gladiators stays on the air."

I really, really didn't get it. What did any of that have to do with American Gladiators? And besides that, the show was cancelled shortly after the cartoon first ran!

[lostrune]

Here's something from Pinky and the Brain that I never got. It's from a scene where they're playing the roles of a weary house couple for comedic effect:
"Oh, is that so? No one wants to hear about MY day! We get to hear about YOUR day, but WHAT ABOUT MINE??"
Brain sighs. "All right, Pinky...what did you do today?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Not a thing."
Brain pauses for a moment, then says "Now I know how American Gladiators stays on the air."

I really, really didn't get it. What did any of that have to do with American Gladiators? And besides that, the show was cancelled shortly after the cartoon first ran!

Maybe Pinky watched American Gladiators all day, like all other people doing nothing the whole day?

[Lucky Bob]

Here's something from Pinky and the Brain that I never got. It's from a scene where they're playing the roles of a weary house couple for comedic effect:
"Oh, is that so? No one wants to hear about MY day! We get to hear about YOUR day, but WHAT ABOUT MINE??"
Brain sighs. "All right, Pinky...what did you do today?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Not a thing."
Brain pauses for a moment, then says "Now I know how American Gladiators stays on the air."

I really, really didn't get it. What did any of that have to do with American Gladiators? And besides that, the show was cancelled shortly after the cartoon first ran!
Now I know how American Gladiators stays on the air.

[ClockStomper]

Explanation of a simple joke:

Pinky's stupidity on wanting to tell about his day when he did nothing all day is evidence to the fact that there is such stupidity in the world, therefore American Gladiators must stay on the air because there's stupid people out there to watch such a stupid show. And Bob just reversed it onto you, implying that your post was proof of the same thing.

Joker: A joke not funny if you have to explain it!!!!!

Whacks you out the window, where you lie bleeding to death while you mumble "My fault...I didn't get the joke..."

BTAS refrences rule, especially Harley ones.

[Eddy]

Here's another one...

I tuned in to watch Hamtaro and the theme song played, after the theme song Kenshin came on.

[Frank White]

Explanation of a simple joke:

Pinky's stupidity on wanting to tell about his day when he did nothing all day is evidence to the fact that there is such stupidity in the world, therefore American Gladiators must stay on the air because there's stupid people out there to watch such a stupid show. And Bob just reversed it onto you, implying that your post was proof of the same thing.

Joker: A joke not funny if you have to explain it!!!!!

Whacks you out the window, where you lie bleeding to death while you mumble "My fault...I didn't get the joke..."

BTAS refrences rule, especially Harley ones.
woah woah woah... it's "If you have to explain a joke, there is no joke!"

[Ghostbuster Man]

Lets see:
All EPs of the Simpsons
All eps of FLCL
The first two eps of the new Ren & Stimpy toon (HATED IT!!!!:mad: )
Shrek
That whole Majin Buu thing in DBZ
Gary The Rat
The "Only Human" ep of the Transformers
The whole Cobra-La thing in the G.I Joe Movie
Unicron
The Man Spider in the 90's Spidey toon.
Clerks
The PeopleBusters (RGB)
Broly (DBZ)
Dragon's Lair 3-D (WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?!??!?!)
Mega Babies
That drunken E.T. in the Critic

[Superperson]

Probably I was little shocked in the episode of Invader ZIM, the episodes, Dark Harvest and the The Bestest Friend episode. Their hadn't been any cartoons pushing the limit for kids since Rocko and Stimpy, but it was the part when in Drak Harvest when ZIM was taking organs of coarse the whole episode :D And in bestest friends when he took out Kieths eyeballs and replaced them with the new ones that made him think a squirrl was zim...good stuff :D

Also there were of coarse lots of Ren and Stimpy stuff, like when Ren's cousin was over and he acted just like Stimpy and they were in the kitty litter in a closet and then look at the screen and said: "This is private!" Then close the closet door.

And in the teen titans episode "Switched" when all the titans are taking there puppets out and looking at them one them says they got everyone right on the puppets to according to the way they look, but beast boy says: "Not everything" while he's looking into his puppets pants.

[StarScream64]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Gargoyles yet.
The Gathering Part II: Owen's Revealation.
Oh yeah, definitely a WTF moment. I saw it and went "Rrrr???" :D

[Mek]

Zoda's 'dance' in episode 12 of 'F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu'. I knew Zoda was insane, but that moment made me go 'WTF?'
Also, pretty much all of episode 21 was bizzare. I wouldn't be suprised if 4Kids skipped that episode completley.

And in 'The Wacky Wabbit', when Elmer ran off after Bugs said 'Boo' and all that was left was his outline... LMAOWTF? XO

Oh yeah and this: "Flipmode" from SGC2C. I thought that show was weird before, but that took the cake. Same with the episode 'Girl Hair', if anything for the ending.

[ToOn~g@l]

There was this one episode of Family Guy where Peter decided to make Lois jelous for hanging out with an old boyfriend from school. He went to one of his old girlfriends house and found that she was fat, smoked and already had two children but what was really WTF about it was a few seconds later when you hear a plop and the sound of a baby crying.

"Hey Rickey, you were right I was pregnant." :eek:

[Conekiller]

Invader ZIM: Battle fo the Planets, Mars and Mercury piloted by ZIM and Dib (respectively) fly around the solar system LITERALLY doing battle with each other.

.hack//SIGN: Unison (ep 28) Silver Knight , Tsukasa and Sora dancing like monkeys. no really, I kid you not!

Ren and Stimpy: most notably the "I now have controll of your TV set, are you receiving me?" voice and the animation that went along with it.

[Fone Bone]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Gargoyles yet.
The Gathering Part II: Owen's Revealation.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to be a copycat and second that one as well. The finest moment in the best episode of the series. You were like "Whoooaaaaa!!!"

[Mek]

Ren and Stimpy: most notably the "I now have controll of your TV set, are you receiving me?" voice and the animation that went along with it.
OMG, that was hillarious. Scary when I was a kid, but still funny. XD

[lostrune]

How about at the climax of the Tezuka film Metropolis and that song suddenly starts playing.... :D

[skite]

invader zim when gir tells his side of the story and he talks about the giant squirrel flying into space to fight the bad guys

forgot what the episode was called

[Kesh]

New TMNT - Junklantis - Mikey starts singing but doesn't know the words.

Trigun - The first time Vash has his special gun activated. :eek:

Cowboy Bebop - The fridge-monster. *shudder*

Tenchi Muyo - "C'mon Tenchi, have some tea!" "Yes, Tenchi! Tea is good for you!" :rolleyes: I love how the VA's overemphasized the word, so it was obvious you were listening to a rediculous edit.

Road Rovers - Upon hearing that one of the villains is named 'Parvo'.

Samurai Pizza Cats - Just... seeing it. The first time. And liking it. :sweat:

Teen Titains - Just... seeing it. The first time. And loathing it. :moon: :moon2:

SGC2C - "Flipmode" - One of the best damn moments on TV. ;)

Sealab 2021 - "Stimutacs" - So wrong... "Marduk commands it!" :D And just in general, all the sexual innuendo with Debbie.

Gundam Wing - Seeing the Wing Zero for the first time, and realizing who the pilot is... and just how insane he's become. :(

Perfect Blue - Thinking I just saw the finale of the movie... only to have things 'snap back' about 10 minutes, to find the character going through the same scene with new dialogue that shows what really happened. The first time was all in her head.

Bible Black - Just... don't ask. :o

[Skeeter]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Gargoyles yet.
The Gathering Part II: Owen's Revealation.
Oh, darn right. I believe my jaw plummetted to the floor when I first saw that episode.

Other Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moments of mine include:

Pretty much the entire Pierrot Le Fou episode of Cowboy Bebop, especially at the end when the big, laughing, maniacal murderer regresses emotionally to a toddler throwing a tantrum and is stepped on by a 50-foot tall Goofy lookalike. Also the fact that he bounced, and got very good altitude considering his size. Maybe the writers were inspired by Disney's Gummi Bears...

Ben Dixon's death in Robotech. Definately not expected, especially so soon after Roy Fokker was killed off.

TMNT Return to New York, Part 3 - The return and re-return and re-re-return, etc. of Baxter Stockman. Just when you thought he was gone, he'd be back again and still running his mouth.

TMNT Return to New York, Part 3 - Shredder's body getting up after Leo had decapitated him, picking up his head and walking into the flames. Very impressive and shocking, but of course only if you don't know that ol' Saki's really an Utrom criminal in disguise.

And finally, one more from Cowboy Bebop - that Spike managed to take out a good chunk - if not all or nearly all - of the Red Dragon Syndicate pretty much BY HIMSELF.

And Spike dying. Can't forget that.

[Steve Carras]

More bizarre moments in cartoons I've noticed:

THE BEATLES: The first season (1965) opening title, set to "Can't Buy Me Love" has the Fabs being chased by screaming teenage girls as usual. At one point, Ringo hides in a garbage can, then emerges from it wearing the lid on his head. He makes with the 'slanted' eyes and buck teeth and successfully points the girls in the other direction. Rare revivals of the series in syndication or basic cable excise this intro, probably for time and quite possibly for this bit of ethnic stereotyping. Reruns of second and third-season episodes are usually preceded by the "And Your Bird Can Sing" intro.

While Afro-American gags (blackface due to explosion, cowardly et al) disappeared from theatrical cartoons in the fifties, it was still perfectly all right to make fun of American Indians and Chinese well into the sixties. The Beatle episode "Little Child", which is set in the American West, features a typical Big Chief confiding to the camera "I really speak like this [a refiined Rhode Scholar inflection], but I don't want to disappoint them." before reverted back to the standard Heap Big Injunspeak. Viewing this as an adult on bootleg video, I was blown away at the ironic context-busting- especially given the fact this was 1965. (The show's original ABC run occurred while I was in elementary school, at which time I was more observant of Ringo's antics and the chase sequences than political incorrectness.)

In keeping with the premise of a rock group traveling around the world, most BEATLE episodes had them getting in trouble in one foreign country or another. This made for abundant ethnic stereotyping, especially blatant for episodes set in Hawaii (half-naked natives slobbering over canned pineapple) or Japan. "I'll Cry Instead", set in the latter, even has Paul mocking the local accent and speech pattern: when George is somehow pitted against a crazed Samurai, Mr. McCartney 'slants' his eyes and admonishes Mr. Harrison, "You must save face and honol serf in name of Beatres." Now, Paul oughta know better than that!

BEETLE BAILEY: A ten-episode Rhino video contains the episode "Lucky Beetle", which opens in a Chinese restaurant. In the establishing shot, a Chinese woman in standard cartoon Chinese woman garb roams the floor hawking "Firecrackers- Lichee nuts". (A parody of the then-popular 'cigarette girls' that populated nightclubs.) What responsible dining establishment would peddle explosives, even back in the early sixties?!

CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Narrator and screenwriter Earl Hamner wraps up the happy ending in which, among other things, Templeton has had a litter of baby rats during the summer. Paul Lynde (an H-B semi-regular a few years earlier in 1969-70) performed Templeton as comic relief in the otherwise dead serious film. He follows the parade of his offspring and gives a trademark Lynde throaty snicker to the camera, as if to say "Look what I did!" The inclusion of a rather racy joke, especially when combined with Lynde's famous- shall we say, fussy- comic personna, makes this doubly jarring.

DARKWING DUCK: Flipping channels on a Saturday morning in fall 1991, I passed by ABC to see my first glimpse of Darkwing. He was charred and smoldering, having just been blasted by a villian's cannon. All I could think was "Well, whaddaya know? Comic violence is back on The Big Three!" Explosions, flattenings and other such mayhem were pretty much banned from TV cartoons in 1970, although they made somewhat of a comeback in the flood of syndicated first-run shows (especially INSPECTOR GADGET) and Fox's Saturday AM lineup that premiered in 1990 (TOM & JERRY KIDS, TAZ-MANIA, SUPER DAVE, EEK! THE CAT). In the nineties, several Disney TV cartoons aired new episodes simultaneously on a Saturday AM network schedule and weekday syndication. The ABC DARKWING episodes were in no way 'toned down' from the syndicated ones. In either venue, he could get zapped, sharpened like a pencil, struck by missiles or fall from great heights leaving a crater in the ground.

DEXTER'S LAB: There are two episodes that stand out. In "Chubby Cheese", we're subjected to a kiddy restaurant 'floor show': a flock of Country Bear-style 'marionettes' that happen to be H-B characters from the sixties and seventies! There are some relative obscurities: Peter Potamus, Squiddly Diddley, Mushmouse, Hair Bear and Grape Ape. By this time, cameos of old characters drawn in the 'modern' style of the show in which they were guesting was old hat. But to see them presented as robots- albeit drawn in standard 2D- is a bit strange. Most modern CN viewers wouldn't even recognize them anyway. My kid didn't.

The other DEXTER episode, "Sun, Surf and Science" lacks Dexter altogether, instead starring Mandark, who's entering a surfing contest to impress Dee-Dee. Naturally his weapons of destruction backfire on him, requiring him to be rescued by a kewl blond, long-haired surfer Dude (who you'd swear was a girl but for his bare chest). The next-to-last scene has the revived Mandark and his lifesaver face-to-face on the sand while tender music is heard on the soundtrack. The last scene has them walking into the sunset to Mandark's house (to try his labmade waves) with arms around each other!! To further add to the strangeness of this episode, Dee-Dee's dialogue is teenage Valley Girl rather than the engaging hyperactive pre-'tween ditz we love.

A supporting DEXTER segment is JUSTICE FRIENDS, a very funny superhero/sitcom parody (with delberately obnoxious laughtrack). In "Valhallen's Room", their pet goat William appears to put himself in peril. Major Glory cries out "Billy, don't be a hero!" Who above the age of 40 would get that?! The other supporting segment, DIAL M FOR MONKEY, co-stars the diminutive title simian with a Diana Rigg-esque martial arts expert/superwoman type. At the beginning of one episode, it appears as if Monkey and Agent Honeydew are in a romantic relationship! He goes to her apartment, she's 'out of uniform' (in a rather slinky black dress) and cradling his head in her lap as he eats grapes. If the Chief didn't call, who knows what would happen next? And between a woman and monkey, yet!

ED, EDD & EDDY: There's lots of off-the-wall gags and comic violence in this show, which seems quite unusual considering all the characters are supposed to be typical suburban 'tweens- as opposed to talking humanized animals. What really got me was one episode in which someone (Kevin? Sara? Nazz? The Kankers?) angrily throw the three Eds out of the house. We only see Eddy hit the dirt- then Ed and Edd's heads emerge from his mouth like a cash register drawer! I seem to recall another instance in which a horrible offscreen beating left one character with another one stuck through his head, as in one ear and out the other.

FAT ALBERT: Filmation's fabled low animation budget is somewhat muted in this show due to a great 'funky' music score and funny dialogue- at least the original CBS Saturday AM run. In one of the last CBS episodes, made in 1980, Albert runs into a phone booth to report a lost dog. When the police answer, the sped-up gibberish usually heard issuing from the other side of a cartoon phone is not heard. Instead, one hears the sped-up 'Chinese' gibberish that was the sole dialogue of Ping and Pong the Pandas from Filmation's BRADY KIDS (a bizarre series in its own right), made back in 1972- coincidentally, the year ALBERT premiered. Don't you think Schiemer and Prescott could've at least found a different sound effect for phone gibberish? When viewing this for the first time as an early-morning syndicated rerun, I sleepily wondered (a) how Channel 5 suddenly switched to THE BRADY KIDS without warning; and (b) when Albert learned to speak Chinese! It must've been the strain of the lost dog that did it.

In 1984, a whole new series of new FAT ALBERTs were made for syndication. Already lacking the rough charm, humor and junkyard music of the CBS episodes, these were not subject to network standards and practices. So you had an episode concerning gang wars in which a kid (not a regular) trying to protect his older brother from being shot, is himself shot and killed onscreen, in slow motion yet. Neither his face or any blood is seen (The older brother is cradling his body against his own), but this is certainly strong stuff for a cartoon, not to mention an overtly humorous one. Needless to say, the laugh track was not heard for the rest of the episode.

FREAKAZOID: The title character and the laconic cop Mike Cosgrove (an affectionate caraceture of Ed Asner voiced by same) are usually seen as all buddy-buddy. This is apparently addressed to excess in one episode in which 'Cozzie' politely turns down Freak's numerous requests to accompany him to a comedy show (apparently Gallagher or his ilk, based on the dialogue). Freak is emotionally devastated by this rejection to the point that one would think he- well, you do the math!

JOHNNY BRAVO: In the second pilot, a comely Amazon proclaims the need to sacrifice a virgin to a volcano. She's looking right at Johnny, who raises an eyebrow and asides indignantly to the camera, "Virgin?" Who'd expect that word in that context to be used in a cartoon! Future BRAVO episodes would contain somewhat milder innuendo. Notable is guest star's Farrah Fawcett's classic line "I can't remember the last time I was blindfolded. Oh yes, I think I can!" Supposedly the 'virgin' line has been edited for reruns.

SHE'S A GOOD SKATE, CHARLIE BROWN: For fourteen years, the rule that adults in Peanuts specials could never speak was shattered in 1980. Peppermint Patty's exasperated teacher is heard speaking in [i]perfect English in a realistic fashion! Maybe Schulz and Mendelsohn felt the situation called for the viewer knowing what the teacher was actually saying, rather than the usual muted trumpet. But this was akin to the Coyote catching the Roadrunner. It's just not supposed to happen! Later that year, in the theatrical BON VOYAGE CHARLIE BROWN- AND DON'T COME BACK, the gang interacts with an elderly French woman on screen! That she's the same size as them doesn't make this spectacle any more acceptable. It may not be a coincidence that this was the last Peanuts feature film. As animated characters, they work much better back home with invisible, inarticulate authority figures.

SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? As previously mentioned, Orientals were fair game for comedy well into the TV cartoon age. But it's amazing that in 1970, the CBS censors allowed the Great Dane and hippie to thwart two villians by dressing as Chinese waiters ("Mystery Mask Mix-up" is set in San Francisco) and assuming the expected sleight of eyes and teeth. It's ironic that Casey Kasem, defender of his Arab heritage, would read lines in such an appropriately ludicrous manner: "Wercome to Scoob and Shag's haunted Chinese lestaulant whele ghosts eat the most. Speciarty of the house is spale lib chop suey a ra mode with chocorate sauce." At least the episode's villian, a Chinese smuggler, is drawn and voiced (by veteran character actor Vic Perrin) in a realistically menacing manner.

I didn't really start watching WB cartoons in depth until age 18 or 19. To me they were all scored by Carl Stalling or Milt Franklyn- although I certainly didn't know their names. One Saturday morning, in the midst of a typical college hangover (which we tended to by watching THE BUGS BUNNY-ROAD RUNNER SHOW), the 1958 Bugs short PRE-HYSTERICAL HARE came on. I figured it must've been the afteraffects of the previous night that was making me hear Hanna-Barbera music score under a Warners cartoon. The name John Seely meant nothing to me at the time, or the musician's strike, or the fact that the background music of the early Huck Hound, Yogi Bear and Meece cartoons (which I had watched virtually since birth) was actually public domain- and hence could be used anywhere. Since then, I've learned all anyone can possibly learn about WB animation (thanks to the neighboring message board) and still have a pervese fascination for the 'Seely Six'. True, PRE-HYSTERICAL HARE would be a weird short anyway (Bugs and Elmer as cavemen, Elmer being voiced by Dave Barry instead of an ailing Arthur Bryan), even if scored by Franklyn. But the other five cartoons have surreal qualities of their own- especially the Roadrunner short HOOK LINE AND STINKER, which uses Seely/Capital score from both old H-B cartoons and Screen Gems' DENNIS THE MENACE sitcom which would premiere a year later.
Bakc on those days QUITe a lot pf shows used that music outside Collumbia-Scren Gems and the animated properties mentioned..

And of course, UPA's TV series under Henry G.Saperstein using a quie odd mix of Hanna-Barbera and Joe SIracusa/Jay Ward sound effects.

I have often wondered how shows like TINY TOONS, and ANIMANIACS were able to get away with celeb impersonations given what I call the "Bullwinkle affair"( the historic true story of Red Skelton suing Ward over Bill Scott's Bullwinkle voice--though back then of course no one then publicly knew Bill was credited since at his own request he went anonymous as did Charles Ruggles and Daws Butler, who had his own share of lawsuits from celebrities.)

Chuck Jones did a 1952 short MOUSE-WARMING with a teen-boy mouse being turned on by a cute girl mouse. (with petunia-like pigtials, bobbysocks,etc.the whole works). I know she's got it goin' on (like that song Stacy;'s mom) but his hairs standing on end...in a "cute" Jones short?

Tex Avery, also, in 1936, in DON"T LOOK NOW has the devil himelf bribing two schoolchildren (played by animals) to break up a marriage!( Joe Adamson made a good comment aboiut that in 1975's TEX AVERY: THEKING OF CARTOONS).

Regarding Paul Lynde and CHARLOTTE'S WEB (1973), the thought of a "prissy" (read: "gay") comic like Paul Lynde plyaing a rat (Templeotn) who's just got "married" does sound ironic..

Then there is the series of dark-humor Jones Warnr Bros.short sof the 1940s (the THREE BEARS series, the Hubie, bertie, Claude Cat, ones, and FRESH AIREDALE nd CHOW HOUND to name a few) that mix humor and "danger" caused by some hothead character (Moe Howard, atch out), gone beserk--whther it's pa Bear or the "Chow Hound" (and THIS time, REMEMBER the gravy).

[DarthGonzo]

Also there were of coarse lots of Ren and Stimpy stuff, like when Ren's cousin was over and he acted just like Stimpy and they were in the kitty litter in a closet and then look at the screen and said: "This is private!" Then close the closet door.


Wanna know what's even more WTF? The fact that this scene was supposed to go on even longer, with Stimpy and Sven's voices being heard from inside the closest.

They decide to play circus.

Sven: I yam a bearded lady!
Stimpy: And I'm a sword swallower. (we hear him take something into his mouth and then he swallows something) Whoops! (Sven giggles)

I kid you not!

[Peter Paltridge]

I have often wondered how shows like TINY TOONS, and ANIMANIACS were able to get away with celeb impersonations given what I call the "Bullwinkle affair"( the historic true story of Red Skelton suing Ward over Bill Scott's Bullwinkle voice--though back then of course no one then publicly knew Bill was credited since at his own request he went anonymous as did Charles Ruggles and Daws Butler, who had his own share of lawsuits from celebrities.)

Well, one of the things I noticed was that all the popular celebrity caricatures that had speaking roles on those shows were older people. I guess the thought was that the older the celebrity had been around, the more relaxed he/she would be toward being lampooned on a kids' show. You know, "By now I've seen it all, go ahead."

[tucsoncoyote]

I think my WTF moment was when on Animaniacs, you had of all things...


BARNEY!:eek:

No no Not Barney Rubble (Of The Flintstones) , but Barney the overbloated purple Dinosaur singing his twist on "I love you, you love me," to Wakko ,Yakko, and Dot..

of course The Retaliation was funnier..


LET'S SING THE ANVIL SONG!:D

KLUNK! THUD! SQUASH! KILL BARNEY! PLEASE! It's Inhuman, It Can't Die, It's BARNEY!!!! NOOOOOOOO! OH THE HUMANITY! Don't Make it STOP! KILL HIM! KILL HIM! Oh GOD ! It's NOT Human! It's...... It's...... INHUMAN! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!:evil:


Okay I'm done..:D

:coyote:

[candy17]

Wanna know what's even more WTF? The fact that this scene was supposed to go on even longer, with Stimpy and Sven's voices being heard from inside the closest.

They decide to play circus.

Sven: I yam a bearded lady!
Stimpy: And I'm a sword swallower. (we hear him take something into his mouth and then he swallows something) Whoops! (Sven giggles)

I kid you not!
I believe you in that the Nickelodeon version shortened the part with Sven and Stimpy in the closet. My main question is "Did SpikeTV ever show that part uncut?"


Supposedly the 'virgin' line has been edited for reruns.
No, it hasn't. I've seen that Johnny Bravo episode and it hasn't been cut...unless this is another cut that I don't know about...


Chuck Jones did a 1952 short MOUSE-WARMING with a teen-boy mouse being turned on by a cute girl mouse. (with petunia-like pigtials, bobbysocks,etc.the whole works). I know she's got it goin' on (like that song Stacy;'s mom) but his hairs standing on end...in a "cute" Jones short?

I've heard of that cartoon and I have noticed that part. There are a lot of WTF moments in Jones cartoons, mostly they're WTF because they got away with things that were inappropriate for its time.

Case in point: the Pepe Le Pew cartoons. Even though the innuendo in them isn't as blatant as it is in today's cartoons (be they for children or adults), it's still amazing that Chuck Jones's only conflict with the higher-ups about these cartoons is that the producer (Ed Selzer) didn't think a French skunk would be funny (until For Scent-imental Reasons Won Best Animated Short in 1949) as opposed to having the censors breathe down his neck (and when you take into context the correlation between Pepe mostly chasing after cats and a certain derogatory slang word used today to mean a woman or an intimate part of a woman's body, it becomes clearer), but I digress.



FAT ALBERT: Filmation's fabled low animation budget is somewhat muted in this show due to a great 'funky' music score and funny dialogue- at least the original CBS Saturday AM run. In one of the last CBS episodes, made in 1980, Albert runs into a phone booth to report a lost dog. When the police answer, the sped-up gibberish usually heard issuing from the other side of a cartoon phone is not heard. Instead, one hears the sped-up 'Chinese' gibberish that was the sole dialogue of Ping and Pong the Pandas from Filmation's BRADY KIDS (a bizarre series in its own right), made back in 1972- coincidentally, the year ALBERT premiered. Don't you think Schiemer and Prescott could've at least found a different sound effect for phone gibberish? When viewing this for the first time as an early-morning syndicated rerun, I sleepily wondered (a) how Channel 5 suddenly switched to THE BRADY KIDS without warning; and (b) when Albert learned to speak Chinese! It must've been the strain of the lost dog that did it.


Ah, yes, Fat Albert. I seem to remember an episode where he went to jail. Can anyone confirm this?

[Hurricane V1]

I don't really watch the Grim Adventures of uh, those two kids on CN, but I loved the one When Harry Met Sally parody the Grim Reaper and the goth chick did. "So you can tell when people are faking?"

[candy17]

I don't really watch the Grim Adventures of uh, those two kids on CN
It's The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.


but I loved the one When Harry Met Sally parody the Grim Reaper and the goth chick did. "So you can tell when people are faking?"
Yeah, I'm not the only one who caught that!:D

[Eric B]

The big scandal of this 1984 season of Fat Albert was an episode where someone uttered "Bastard" or something like that. You can see that mentioned on the louscheimerproductions.com and filmationarchives.com sites.

I don't even remember a 1984 season. I remember the new episodes in 1979 (with the Brown Hornet), and then a few more added in 1980 and 1982. In 1984, I remember old episodes syndicated, but with a remake of the original opening and closing segments (Scheimer's signature at beginning, Scheimer/Prescott circle removed from end, new Filmation logo ad beginning and end, Bill Cosby with new, less scruffy look with nice black T shirt, shorter, neater afro). Also IIRC, Cosby's segments during the show were redone.
I often wonder if these 1984 episodes were 1982, but that was still on the network, and people are saying that the restrictions were lessened by it being off the network.

[Dr. Daedalus]

Here's one that has been perplexing me for years, on Rocko's Modern Life:
In the episode "Teed Off", there's a scene where one of Mr. Dupet's lizard henchmen is talking to the Darth Vader character through a TV screen. During Vader's speech, the lizardman keeps hacking and coughing, like he's choking, and finally he spews out some kind of brown phlegm. Within a matter of seconds, both go on like nothing unusual happened. WTF?!?! Don't get me wrong, it's hilarious, but it came out of nowhere, with no explanation for what happened, and it's puzzling what it means.

Another WTF sequence is in another Rocko episode, "Cabin Fever"- Ed Bighead's hallucination when knocked unconscious with shovels is strange. Rocko, Bev, and Heffer turn into devils, then a flower blooms, with Ed's head as the pistil, and the camera zooms into his screaming mouth to his uvula, which turns into Heffer's head. All to the tune of bizarre music.

[J. B. Warner]

Hey, RML was known for being totally random. As for Ed's hallucination, well, wouldn't you start to see crazy things if you'd been in a cabin that long?

[Scythemantis]

Actually, the animaniac's Barney spoof was named Baloney. :)

[Dudley]

In Pokemon: the Movie when that guy called his Pidgeot a Pidgeotto.

[Yuss]

Invader ZIM, Bestest Friend.

I think a lot of people exaggerate how messed up ZIM was. "Bestest Friend" and "Dark Harvest" were the only really weird ones. Everything else was, you know, weird but not shockingly weird. Keef getting his eyeballs ripped out and then being killed by a squirrel was the one moment when I really knew this was a show I needed to watch. "Germs" clinched it, though, not for the messed-uppedness, but for the writing.

A lot of the sight gags on Ed, Edd n Eddy.

There's too many to list, but one of my favorites was Eddy sticking his arm through Ed's head (through his ears) and just hanging their casually while talking to him.

Rejected

Absolutely nothing that needs to be said about that.

~B+:

[Dr. Daedalus]

Hey, RML was known for being totally random. As for Ed's hallucination, well, wouldn't you start to see crazy things if you'd been in a cabin that long? About the only thing I can think of that the choking scene could POSSIBLY be parodying is Darth Vader choking insubordinates without touching them. Otherwise, I'm in the dark.

[Pic1360]

There are a lot of weird animation boo boos in Scooby Doo. I'm just too tired right now to think of examples.
Here's one: In the "Miner Fourty-Niner" episode, close-ups of both Daphine and Velma are both horribly animated wearing lipstick! Ugh!

[John Pannozzi]

Futurama:

The "Insane in the Mainframe" ep. was just really wierd IMHO.

The first time time skipped in "Time Keeps on Slippin'" it felt like a wierd dream.

Fry not knowing what a video game was in "A Byclops built for 2" when video games are things from the 20th century he loves the most.

That "The Tale of 2 Santas" got hold over for a year, when it's one of the nicer Futurama eps.



Aqua Teen Hunger Force:

When :moon: flipped the bird. How in the sam hill did that get by the censors?

[the Amanda]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force:

When :moon: flipped the bird. How in the sam hill did that get by the censors?
Because it's just a pixel on top of three other pixels, not really a finger at all.

[Tobias]

Biggest ATHF WTF moment:

When :moon2: did a full frontal to counter the Plutonian's mooning gesture.

[Viceroy]

Since the thread's been resurrected, I'll throw in another one:


The "2 Stupid Dogs" ep where the geeky little kid has asked the dogs to be his show and tell project. At one point, he grabs the Little Dog by the hind legs, pulls them apart and says "He's a boy dog, see?" Cut to:

A male student saying "Eew!"
Another male student saying "Eew"!
A female student saying "Ooh!" in a "I'm fascinated" tone of voice

And the Brady Bunch spoof where the Greg and Marsha equivalents quarrel and their mom tells them to kiss and make up. Their "making up" promptly turns to "making out".

[Master Moron]

Perfect Blue - Thinking I just saw the finale of the movie... only to have things 'snap back' about 10 minutes, to find the character going through the same scene with new dialogue that shows what really happened. The first time was all in her head.


Ummm...which scene are you talking about? I'm confused.

[sag_2002]

As mentioned in another thread, the Superfriends had quite a lot of WTF moments.

Also, Cartoon Network's dub of Duel Masters is worthy of this list, on account of its spoofy nature.

[TnAdct1]

Ummm...which scene are you talking about? I'm confused.STUPID AOL!!! I TRIED TO TYPE THIS MESSAGE TWICE, AND IT ENDS UP UNEXPECTEDLY QUITTING!

The scene that Kesh is referring to the scene where Mima (the film's main character) films the final scene of the TV drama that she appears in. When the scene is first played out in the film, it makes it appear as if Mima actually did commit all those real life killings due to her urge to return to her previous career as an idol singer. However, when the scene is played a second time, it is revealed that it is really the filming of the TV drama's final scene, with all the bits about Mima killing people in real life actually being what Mima was thinking about when that scene was being filmed.

[DSRGirl]

Fry not knowing what a video game was in "A Byclops built for 2" when video games are things from the 20th century he loves the most.
Fry knew what a Video Game was. He just pretended he didn't in order to surprise the others so he could have an advantage in the game they had. You could tell in the sly way he said for them to "explain" what a video game is to him.


That "The Tale of 2 Santas" got hold over for a year, when it's one of the nicer Futurama eps.
Fox felt "Tale Of Two Santas" was far too violent (among other things) a Christmas special to show, so they held it back a year, and then showed it at a later time slot. Same goes for the Family Guy Christmas special.

[lostrune]

Fry knew what a Video Game was. He just pretended he didn't in order to surprise the others so he could have an advantage in the game they had. You could tell in the sly way he said for them to "explain" what a video game is to him.

Yeah, the term for that is a "hustler." :)

[John Pannozzi]

Fry knew what a Video Game was. He just pretended he didn't in order to surprise the others so he could have an advantage in the game they had. You could tell in the sly way he said for them to "explain" what a video game is to him.
I doubt Fry has the intelligence to do that.



Fox felt "Tale Of Two Santas" was far too violent (among other things) a Christmas special to show, so they held it back a year, and then showed it at a later time slot. Same goes for the Family Guy Christmas special.
I know that, I just think that Ato2S is rather tame (esp. by FOX standards).

[DSRGirl]

I doubt Fry has the intelligence to do that.
Believe it or not, Fry's not dumb all the time. He has his moments of perceptiveness, espically when it comes to Video Games. You could tell by the sly (and almost sarcastic) way he said for them to explain to him what Video Games meant, and one scene later he was kicking all they're butts at it.


I know that, I just think that Ato2S is rather tame (esp. by FOX standards).
Well, then you also must know that FOX had something against Futurama's more dark and emotional style (compared to what they wanted. A "Simpsons In The Future") and were always at odds with Matt Groening on the show until it was finally cancelled. That's why they gave it the crappy 7PM timelsot (where it was frequentley delayed by Football games) and after a while, zero promotion for any new episodes coming out. Pushing back "A Tale Of Two Santas" was just another way for the executives to get back at Groening.

[MJC]

I doubt Fry has the intelligence to do that.
I always thought Fry was smarter than the other characters gave him credit for...

Anyways, I thought it was pretty obvious Fry was just pretending not to know what videogames were.

Other WTF moments:

X-men:TAS: Beast said hell in one episode (he was quoting an author, though). Also, the two Nightcrawler episodes, I was a little surprised they let those in.

DBZ: When Fat Buu morphed into a man and asked some woman if he was sexy or something... :eek: Also, Frieza's voice...

[G. Wen]

Gargoyles- In the end of the episode "Protection", Elisa is wearing her normal clothes at 1 moment, than wearing her undercover clothes at another moment, than wearing her normal clothes again.

Gargoyles- In the episode "Grief", Elisa talks but her mouth doesn't move.

S:TAS- When I 1st saw Legacy, the network screwed up the airing so parts of the episode was aired out of order and other parts were reaired over and over again.

[Rover_Wow]

1. The Weekenders, "Tish's Hair": Cree Summer says to Tish: "That is the worst hair I've ever seen"... Tish not only hears it as "That is the worst shirt I've ever seen", she thinks that was meant for Carver.
2. TW, "Croquembouche": So Tino is wrapping up the story, while Carver is presenting the titular bun cake at a contest. My expectation was that after the wrap up, we'd see the final result... instead, it just fades out from the wrap up.
3. When I first saw the new Johnny Quest cartoon take its first ad break after just 3 minutes. When I saw Johnny being chased by a madman guy, I was wondering, "What's the rush? The ad break's not for another 4 minutes..." and then it just went to an ad break.

Sort of WTF:
Hey Arnold!, "Eugene's Birthday": Arnold tells Sid and Stinky, quite clearly I might add, to invite everyone to the aquarium. No chance of them screwing it up, right? Nope, they're all the skating rink, while Arnold and Gerald are left waiting alone for them.

[Obi]

Here's one that has been perplexing me for years, on Rocko's Modern Life:
In the episode "Teed Off", there's a scene where one of Mr. Dupet's lizard henchmen is talking to the Darth Vader character through a TV screen. During Vader's speech, the lizardman keeps hacking and coughing, like he's choking, and finally he spews out some kind of brown phlegm. Within a matter of seconds, both go on like nothing unusual happened. WTF?!?! Don't get me wrong, it's hilarious, but it came out of nowhere, with no explanation for what happened, and it's puzzling what it means.
It was a parody of Darth Vader often Force-choking his crewmen to death. They made it look like the DV lookalike was using the Force out of anger to kill Mr. Noway (I think that was his name), but then it just turned out he had some phlegm in his throat.

[g_UnIt_GaNsTa]

Too many goofs on Scooby Doo to post in one day. I'll find time to put them all down.

[John Pannozzi]

The recent ad for Futurama is SO wrong IMHO, it makes the show look weird and perverted. (I'm glad that it included Morgan's "Dirty Boy" line, though)

[NeoSerenity]

Any newer episode of "The Simpsons" makes me yell out WTF! in anger.:mad: Take for instance the "Mr. X" episode, or the episode where we find out all horse jockeys are elves or whatever... It's really sad I LOVE every Simpsons up until the Spin-Off episode.:sad:

If you ask me they need to get Conan O'Brian back as a producer/writer.

[EddieTheEditor]

The part of the opening in "Triplets of Belleville" in which an african-american dancer is assaluted by a bunch of rich white guys who have turned into monkeys. That... that had me freaking out for a while.

[Baltofan]

The Who Are You? song in Balto II

The animated shorts before the Pokemon movies

The part of Triplets Of Belleveille where the triplets play on their weird instruments, as Bruno the dog has that bizarre dream.

[Rover_Wow]

"Bart Star": When Homer's dad interrupts his gymnastics routine, and then reprimands him for falling on the mat during said routine. I was half-expecting Homer to go "But dad..." :confused:

[John Pannozzi]

Saw the Futurama ep. "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" last night, my main reaction is What the (censored)?

[John Pannozzi]

The Fairly OddParents ep. "The Big Superhero Wish".

[Kurtman]

It was really messed up in the Teen Titans "Mad Mod" episode where Mad Mod chased the teen titans to that beeboppy japanese song. It was very cool,but messed up as well!

[Kurama]

The episode od Teen Titans with Larry. In the opening I didn't know what was going on. I believe my exact words were "WTF" :D

[capsgm2002]

I watched the Simpsons the other night and it was the episode "Dead Putting Society"... Ned Flanders writes right-handed. A year later in "When Flanders Failed" he opens the Leftorium.

[John Pannozzi]

In Futurama "Less than Hero", when Leela is in her Clobberella outfit, her hair has a self ink-line.

[Ickis]

Alot of Rocko episodes and Games Ren and Stimpys make me think WTF?Espicialy the episode were Heffer admits he love Rocko,and Rocko looks at him without backing away,I'd back away if a guy said I love you to me,unless he was my father or grandfather.