I would have to say (in no particular order)
- Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy+ Grimm & Evil
- Angela Anaconda
- Fairly Odd Parents
- Brak Show
- Ripping Friends
- Whats with Andy
- Mega Babies
- Quads!
- Clone High
Check out list
- Happy Tree Friends
I love them all but its like, how did this shit get on TV and then anywhere near children lmao. Thank god they found their respective ways to us.
Edit: if its only one, try to post a thumbnail image so people can either try to recognize it or know if the animation style is for them
Ren and stimpy
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.
Cow & Chicken / I M Weasel.
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.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (though that one was a mix of cartoon and live action, still massively unhinged) and Big Mouth
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Rocko’s Modern Life yet
• 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
But Ugly Martians haha
This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!
Ren and Stimpy Aeon Flux
Am I tripping or is this Guernica?
Ugly Americans, wish they wouldn’t have cancelled it. Shit was great
Freakazoid was unhinged and spastic in a way I haven’t seen since
I love them all but its like, how did this shit get on TV and then anywhere near children lmao.
The Brak Show was on Adult Swim along with a lot of other cartoons aimed at adults. I seriously doubt Happy Tree Friends was grouped into children’s programming, but I only know that from the internet.
Fairly Oddparents & Billy and Mandy both had stuff that might be heavy or scary if you think about it, but the surface level stuff had enough humor involved to make it less intense than it could have been. A lot of shows for kids have more complex stuff that goes over kid’s heads.
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
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
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.
