(EDIT: Mystery solved! See this update for details!)
…that I know of, anyway. But maybe, you, dear reader, can help!
Today, I’m going to be showing a series of pics from a show that I have no idea what it’s name is. These aren’t all the pics I have from this show, I’m just showing a few sets today.
This involves a dog and mouse detective duo. It aired on RAK in the United Arab Emirates. This is all I know.
If you happen to know the name of this show, please either leave a comment here, or email me.
Today, we’re going to take a look at the Care Bears, which I’m sure need no introduction.
They’ve actually gone through various types of media, from cartoons to comics and even some video games. Today’s selections will all be from the cartoons, mostly from the Nelvana run that last from 1986-1988.
The first one is from Home Sweet Homeless, Part 2, where the Forest of Feelings, where the Care Bear Cousins (A subgroup of Care Bears that aren’t actually bears) hang out, gets flooded out by a fountain that doesn’t stop gushing water that was stealthily given to them by Noheart, the main villain of the series.
Problem was, for the villains, the water came from the cloud that covers Noheart’s castle, which would’ve left the villains without a home, apparently.
These leaves the heroes to connect giant hoses to send the water back to where it came from. First from the Forest side…
(Edit (Jan. 26th, 2024): Replaced with 1080p versions)
…and then going to the castle end.
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That fuzzball with the aviator cap here is Beastly, Noheart’s personal bit— I mean flunky.
Speaking of Beastly, he’s the star of this next series of pics. From ‘Brightheart’s Bad Day’, Beastly, after an embarrassing encounter with Champ Bear, spends the rest of the episode trying to get revenge on him as he tries to compete with Brightheart Raccoon in a series of contests. The second one involves paddling in an inner tube across a river… which for some reason has a damn whirlpool in it. Beastly’s schemes fail because he always assumes that Champ is in the lead, when it actually turns out to be Brightheart.
By the way, the sticky stuff on him is butterscotch taffy, which he ‘acquired’ from that initial encounter.
(Edit (Jan. 26th, 2024): Replaced with 1080p versions)
Because this is a kids’ show, Beastly never does elaborate what he was planning on doing to Champ after he got caught in the whirlpool. Our imaginations will have to suffice for that bit.
The last pic today comes from Adventures In Care-A-Lot, the 2007 revival. Specifically, this comes from the special ‘Down To Earth’.
This is what happens when one mistakes a Care Bear for a stuffed toy and throws it into the washing machine.
That’s all for this week, folks.
Come back in two weeks when I’ll make my next post. It’ll also be my birthday, incidentally (Which I honestly didn’t plan), so see you soon!
What the hell, let’s just show the rest of the pics I have from this show. Welcome back, everyone.
This is mostly going to be one other big set, with a couple of small sets thrown in.
From episode 132.
Small Fry is alone today… surely the weasels can’t screw this up… right?
Of course they can.
Yes, that is a damn BAZOOKA in Small Fry’s hands.
Looks like calamari pain is on the menu today. Yum Yum.
Cue the obligatory shark chase!
Also, Small Fry is clearly a hammerspace lord.
The rest of the complete, starring purple sea urchins! Ouch.
Well, that’s all from this cartoon! Hope at least some of you enjoyed the last few weeks!
Also, starting now, I will be posting every two weeks instead of weekly. This will extend the life of this blog, and give me some more time between posts. So the next post will be June 15th.
Welcome back, everyone! This week, I couldn’t really think of anything I really wanted to highlight this week, so I figured I may as well continue with Chicken Stew, the subject of last week’s post.
Only one episode’s pics this time, but this set is massive, trust me.
These are from episode 128.
We finally have something with the chickens! Who says they can’t swim?
So, place your bets on the weasels ever doing anything useful with those weapons.
At least the chickens are smart enough to stick together.
Clearly, air isn’t going to be an issue here if getting your foot stuck in a crevasse like that doesn’t induce more panic…
I have to wonder, how does Waddles’ legs support his body?
Slim and Glutton, that’s just sad.
Just showing the rest of the set here. We know the weasels are never going to actually succeed, but wow, the proverbial deck sure seemed stacked against them here.
Yes, that is a chicken dressed like he just stepped out of ‘Kill Bill: The Barnyard Edition’.
So now that we know who everyone is, let’s get to the pics.
OK, so I have been able to gather well over 300 pics from this show, so just know that they will not all be seen here. Eventually, I’ll post more in a part 2, part 3, whatever is needed.
This first set is from episode 125.
He just happened to have a shark head on him. Think about THAT for a bit.
From 181.
To end today, this is from 190. This is one of the really big sets from this show.
Clearly, Slim and Glutton fancy themselves sand sharks.
Like I said, this show will be back at some point, so if you liked these, there’s plenty more to come.
For next week, though, we’ll check out something else, so I hope to see you then. Cheers!
Two weeks ago, I spotlighted Goofy, so this week I’ll show off a few pics of his best friend and frontman for the entire Disney empire, Mickey Mouse.
I’m not going to get too into the history of Mickey, but he came about as a result when Walt Disney was forced to stop Oswald the Rabbit cartoons due to a rights issue.
Also, while Steamboat Willie was the first Mickey cartoon to see distribution, Mickey was in another cartoon before that called ‘Plane Crazy’. It was shown to a theatre test audience, but didn’t pick up distribution.
I’ve shown the Walt Disney World scuba costume pics I have of Mickey before, so those won’t be seen here. Please see this post for those.
Mickey doesn’t have a lot of scuba in animation, but we’ll start with something very recent. Mickey and the Roadster Racers episode ‘Hot Dog Daze Afternoon’ yields these…
You know, logically speaking, you’d think Donald would be the one to do something like this, but whatever. Also, that must be some strong rope. And I doubt that whale would be flushed out that garage door. Guess they have a new pet!
From France, this is 1955’s ‘Mickey et Pluto Chassuers Sous-Marins’.
Well, this fishing trip could’ve gone better, eh?
From the current Mickey Mouse series of cartoon, these are from ‘Gasp!’.
Some coloring pages, for the artists among you.
Finally, here’s a group of miscellany…
That’s all for this week, folks. There’s a LOT more where this came from, so expect more Mickey-centric posts in the future.
Now, a couple of announcements.
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Today we’re going to be looking at guinea pigs. Yes, guinea pigs. The pet you buy your kids when a fish won’t cut it, but they’re in no way ready for a dog or cat, so that they’ll shut up for two hours.
By the way, contrary to popular belief, guinea pigs CAN swim. One just shouldn’t, you know, force them to.
OK, first off, we’re looking at a Disney film from 2009 called G-Force, which is about a team of Mission Impossible style CGI guinea pigs (and a mole and housefly) trying to take down a billionaire with a world takeover plan.
The movie was largely pretty bad. The most memorable line from the whole thing, (Well, the only one I remember, anyway) was the pet store guinea pigs chanting ‘poop in his hand, poop in his hand!’.
In this scene from the beginning of the movie, Blaster and Juarez infiltrate the target’s mansion sub-aqua. Also, there’s a few pics from the movie’s extras highlighting the gear used in this scene.
(Edit (Feb. 4th, 2022): Replaced movie pics with 1080p versions)
OK, this next one is from Linny the Guinea Pig, which stars the title character in a few shorts before she went on to fame in the ‘Wonder Pets’.
Ride that seahorse, Linny…. to VICTORY.
Or, you know, at least not drowning.
Alrighty, from the Wonder Pets episode ‘Save the Dolphin’…
There ARE more out there, but the thing is, with the type of photo-puppetry animation that was used in this show, things start looking the same a lot, so this is all I’ll show here from this cartoon.
Finally, we’re going to dip into the PBS Kids world and look at Hooper.
Hooper was the PBS Kids Preschool Block mascot starting in 2006, first appearing in segments with Miss Lori (Lori Holton Nash), and in 2009, she was replaced by Miss Rosa (Jennifer Pena, not the singer), who incorporated Spanish into the mix.
Hooper would also have a few series’ of segments on his own, including DJ Hooper, Coach Hooper, and Where in the World Is Hooper.
This is from the ‘Scuba Samba Dance’ segment.
The next set is from the ‘Beach’ segment in the ‘Where In the World Is Hooper’ series.
From an unknown segment…
He calls himself ‘Sea Explorer Hooper’ here and declares that he’s in search of underwater pirates. May I ask what he plans on doing after he finds them? Ask real nicely to stop?! Or is Hooper some kind of secret bad-ass or something? I guess we’ll never know…
From ‘The Amazing Oceans’ segment. Apologies for the extremely poor quality of the pictures here, it was all that was available from the source material. If anyone can hook me up with a better quality version of this, it’d be appreciated. Also, it’s the only set where he’s not wearing his glasses under his mask. Oversight by the animators, maybe? Or maybe he just happened to have a prescription mask that day.
Finally, this is a coloring page from an older JetBlue Soar With Reading book.
For a mascot, Hooper is surprisingly prolific, and I suspect that there is more, but this is all I have right now.
However, it should be noted that Hooper was quietly retired in December 2017 by PBS, and there will be no more new segments produced.
Thanks for checking this out, and I’ll see you next week!
The first pair of sets today will be from Mickey Mouse Works, and later on Mickey’s House of Mouse, an awesome show from 2001-2003 that focused on Mickey owning a club and being helped in various roles by other characters. Donald was the doorman, for instance, and Goofy was the head waiter.
The first set is from one of the ‘Goofy’s Extreme Sports’ segments in the ‘Gone Goofy’ episode, titled Shark-Feeding, in which Goofy, you guessed it, tries to feed a shark. In a somewhat controversial ending, he actually succeeds… by getting eaten by the shark.
(Edit (Feb. 4th, 2022): Added 720p versions)
Goofy does let out a ‘He-yuk!’ from inside the shark just before the final wipe, so I guess that gives just enough plausible deniability that Goofy didn’t actually snuff it, but he still never actually exits the shark, so it’s still a bit more disturbing than one expects.
From ‘Max’s Embarrassing Date’, the ‘How to Ride A Bicycle’ short gave us this quick shot…
The last two sets today come from ‘Mickey and the Roadster Racers’, a CGI based cartoon where Mickey and friends race about in their own custom racers.
This set is from ‘Mickey’s Wild Tire’. In the car with Goofy here is Jiminy Johnson, a one shot character voiced by Jimmie Johnson of NASCAR fame.
This second set is from ‘Guru Goofy’.
Gotta love Donald’s ‘I WILL rip that snorkel out and hold your head underwater until you stop struggling, I’LL DO IT!’ face.
That’s all for this week, everyone! Hope you all enjoyed it, and I’ll see you next week!
Gonna take it easy this week by having another Random Day, where I post some sets of characters/shows that don’t have enough pics to merit their own posts or don’t fit neatly into any themes I have planned.
First, let’s start with Shaun the Sheep. I actually have very little for this, despite it running for 150 episodes to date, and having a special, not to mention generating a spin off, Timmy Time, which follows the flock’s lamb on his preschool outings.
This is from ‘Championsheeps – Swimming’.
And here’s a standalone shot…
Baa to you too, sheepy.
Next up, let’s check out Slylock Fox. Slylock Fox & Comics For Kids has been running in newspapers since 1987 and was created by Bob Weber Jr. It’s currently published in over 400 papers worldwide.
You know, in that last one, Max totally just needs to swim over the cut that ape’s hose at the base, cut out the guesswork.
Alright, to end off this week, we’ll take a look at some stuff from Little Critter, Mercer Mayer’s signature children’s books.
These two are from ‘Just Grandma and Me’.
John: Fish dont speak shit-
And these are from the computer edutainment game based on the same book.
‘At the Beach With Dad’
‘Little Critter Going to the Sea Park’
‘Good For Me and You’
John: Mouse: This will kill him *bottle caps his snorkle*
Little Critter outswimming Gator? Even with the flippers, that’s some BS right there.
‘Beach Day’
‘ABCs’
‘We All Need Forgiveness’
‘Just So Thankful’ (Spanish edition)
Not sure where this is from. Will update when I find out.
‘Colors’
The app version of ‘The Trip’.
From some Little Critter themed workbooks.
Well, that’s going to be all for this week! See you all next week!
To end off the Easter special, let’s take a look at TV Guide’s #1 cartoon character of all time!
Little factoid before we start: While a character that was kind of a draft for Bugs appeared in 1938s Porky’s Wild Hare Hunt, the Bugs we know today debuted in 1940 in the Tex Avery directed ‘A Wild Hare’.
Let’s get started. I actually don’t have a ton of Bugs when compared to many other famous cartoon characters, but I do have enough to make a post. Here are some coloring pages…
No prizes for guessing how this ends.
OK, from the newer Looney Tunes Show, we have ‘The Black Widow’, and in this scene, Bugs is trying to find Lola’s mother’s bracelet.
Now, some comics. I don’t know where any of these are from, unfortunately.
(EDIT (Mar. 28th, 2023): The fourth through sixth images here are from Dell’s Bugs Bunny #71)
Now, here’s 1955’s Something Fishy.
I’m sure no-one ever thought Bugs would be full of it…
Next, we have a few sets from Baby Looney Tunes. First is Duck’s Reflucks…
(Edit (Feb. 5th 2022): Replaced next three sets with 1080p versions)
Petunia the Piggy Bank…
The Littlest Tweety
Finally, here are the rest of what I have, including comic covers, shirts, and various other things.
Well, this is all I have of Bugs solo shots. There’s a few more with him with other characters, but that’s for another day.
Have a great Easter, folks, and see you next week!
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