Ren and Stimpy Aeon Flux
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Calabash Brothers ( the original from either the 70s or 80s, can't remember which decade ). Still looking for the series that came after ( and also the 2010s version ) with ENG subtitles just to see how insane they are in comparison.
Original contains death in a couple different ways at least, and some weird scenes like one of the characters losing their powers by essentially having magic strike his eyes or 2 characters that look like minors ( but probably aren't ) getting drunk and passing out off of magically conjured wine.
Courage the Cowardly Dog is crazy
Venture Brothers beats them all.
Those guys are hilarious. Everyone should buy their DVDs/BluRays and enjoy their commentary (but not on first viewing).
I'm only aware of Brak as a character on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, but if he has his own show I'm gonna find it!
Also how about the Venture Bros, especially with Patrick Warburton's homicidal Brock Samson.
Freakazoid was unhinged and spastic in a way I haven't seen since
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Rocko's Modern Life yet
Nu Pogodi is goated
Drawn Together
That was real?? I thought it was some fever dream from when I had chickenpox.
Duckman.
FL*CL, which is unhinged but not in a sick leaning manner, it's just really weird.
Ren and stimpy
Was gonna say, some of those close-up shots are not for children
It's wild how many episodes have been edited or removed from circulation due to their content.
https://renandstimpy.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_banned/censored_episodes
Where can we get the raw footage! Those episodes were awesome lol
The high seas.
Oh, my beloved ice cream bar! How I love to lick your creamy center!
[talking to a bar of soap]
You're not like the others. You like the same things I do. Wax paper... boiled football leather... dog breath!
We're not hitchhiking anymore! We're riding!
That one episode where Stimpy births out a fart and has to raise it comes to mind.
Aeon Flux (the anime TV series, not the movie)
~~I want to say it was aired as part of the Def II, teenage audience program slot on BBC2 in the '90s, the original UK home of Ren and Stimpy and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, but the Wikipedia article for Def II doesn't mention it at all.~~
Edit: Nope, it was Liquid Television (see reply). Some but not all of MTV's weird programmes ended up on BBC2, sometimes even under the original parent name, like Liquid Television.
As I recall, aeon flux started in the United States on mtv as part of its "liquid television" block in the early 90s. Back when the station was owned by viacomm, same as Nickelodeon. It shared several voice actors with Rugrats too
Ahh, Liquid Television. Thank you. The other block of odd programmes that ended up on BBC2. It's been a long, long time, so I'm not surprised I mixed them up!
-- Ren & Stimpy
-- Ed, Edd and Eddy
-- Cow & Chicken
-- Courage, the Cowardly Dog
-- Animaniacs
Ren&Stimpy had some gruesome stuff. Courage was more on the horror side.
Clone High was not for children, it was on MTV! And the Brak Show was on Adult Swim! also, I feel it should be distinct between 'unhinged but good' and 'unhinged but awful', and also perhaps 'unhinged and awful but wildly entertaining '
And yet we found each other lol. I realize the waters are slightly muddy but just roll with it
I'm not going to count shows aimed at adult audiences because that feels like cheating (that also includes not listing anime aimed at adults because that doesn't seem like the spirit of the question). Of shows aimed at and easily accessible during their run to children I'm going to say Courage The Cowardly Dog and Invader Zim.
Courage had insane creepy visuals in almost every episode.
Zim wasn't consistently freaky to the point of being notable in every episode, but the ones that were, they were really out there. The show was from the mind of the creator of the Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (which I read as a kid thanks to my interest in Invader Zim) and the show's darker elements are obviously reigned in just enough to get on TV.
Before I’d go to school, at 6am the WB channel played what became my private Disney Afternoon equivalent, which rotated through four shows: Jumanji, Garfield, Sonic the Hedgehog, and— for whatever reason— Roughnecks, the animated Starship Troopers series.
It was rated PG, was produced by Paul Verhoeven, and people fucking died. No idea how it snuck in alongside the tamer stuff, but it very much felt unhinged at the time/someone didn’t vet it for kids.
Isn't this the show that gta4 made fun of on It's ingame television?
Hokuto No Ken, not because it's particularly unhinged but because in France it was programmed in the morning cartoon segment with dragon ball etc... it was so out of place that the dubbers had an obligation to tone it down in the translations and add jokes and puns.
It went about as well as you would expect, just a layer of absurdist humor on top of the ultra violence and gore...
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!
Pop Team Epic (Poputepipikku)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (though that one was a mix of cartoon and live action, still massively unhinged) and Big Mouth
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How on earth could you leave out the Emmy award winning phenomenon Courage the Cowardly Dog?
That show was unhinged
Return the slab…
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• butt ugly martians
• lazy town
• Tex Avery show
• X-DuckX (one of my favorites - just found out that that’s a French cartoon)
• honorable adult mentions: drawn together, robot chicken, ren&stimpy
Is lazy town classified as a cartoon? It's certainly in fever dream territory, no argument there.
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Ren and Stimpy was already mentioned, and that one is pretty out there. Rocko's Modern Life would be a trailing second place imo. Plenty of innuendos and inappropriate storylines in that cartoon.
Ugly Americans, wish they wouldn't have cancelled it. Shit was great
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