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Bum Bill Bee
01-20-2013, 11:52 AM
Broggling Harmwarts, am feeling such a wonderful nostalgia high right now. And seeing how I’m a 90’s child I’ve taken it upon myself to talk like Emily the Strange in this post. Good Stuff!

Anyhoozles, the said Nostalgia high comes from my almost simutaneously getting DVD collections of my three favorite short lived underrated TV shows, the Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Due South and Pirates of Dark Water. A list of each of the show’s highlights are as follows:

Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
1. Was practically the only cowboy show around in the 90s
2. Was the last thing to ever use the old Laramie Street Backlot, which had been used in tons of older movies and stuff.
3. Has Bruce Campbell in the leading role as a lwayer turned bouty hunter avenging father‘s death, he did well with the shows tongue and cheek humor, and this is actually the main thing I remeber him from
4. Sidekick is a 6’5” African-Native American bounty hunter who’s all surly and mouthy and can come up with flabberfarking hilarious banter. Is also a super tracker, ex-military, and once wrestled a bear.
5. One of Lord Bowler’s guns got reused in the show Firefly
6. Has kickass theme music that was reused by the Olympics
7. Bruce’s horse was played by 5 different horses, each one with a specific skill set (one only reared up, one only did chase scenes, one talked, ect.)
8. Big theme is “the coming thing” and we see steampunkish prototypes of things like tanks, motorcycles, drive thrus, denim jeans, rockets, ect.
9. Had a big cast of distinct crazy kooky villains, like Pete Hutter who was gay on his firearm. YOU TOUCHED PETE’S PIECE!
10. Almost all the women characters on the show were tough and independent types.
11. Had a weird “violence controversy” which was pressed on only by Senator Byron Dorgan
12. In spite of weird violence controversy, the actual gun fighting is sparse, villains are usually just jailed or die a Disney-death, so really its good for the whole family to watch.
13. The resident butt-monkey is a guy with glasses. Its good to show those nerd types whose boss and put them in their place. Serves ‘em right for ruining our proud traditions with their logic and intelligence and money.

Due South
1. About a Mountie Benton Frasier from the Northwest territories coming to Chicago and staying there for a while.
2. Why in Chicago? Well in nearly every episode he explains to random strangers that he:
“first came to Chicago on the trail of the killers of my father and, for reasons which don't need exploring at this juncture, I have remained, attached as liaison to the Canadian consulate.”
3. Has a cute deaf wolf named Diefenbaker who gets addicted to city junk food. Like Brisco’s horse, Diefenbaker also has a way of taking part in conversations.
4. Benton is skilled and knowledgeable in a zillion different things, dirt never clings to him, he’s naïve to city ways in a humorous context, and overly polite.
5. Sidekick is a balding Italian American cop who embodies a bunch of self-deprecating American stereotypes. Is obsessed with driving just 1971 Buick Rivieras.
6. The ghost of Benton’s father frequently appears, to give guidance or humor.
7. Benton can track, sniff, or taste his way to any clue.
8. Groups of men may burst into song for no reason.
9. Part of Benton’s job is to stand statue-still in front of the Canadian Liaison building.
10. A funny thing in the filming sets, in which Chicago scenes are filmed in Toronto and Toronto scenes are filmed in Chicago
11. Benton is a Brittling crazy chick magnet both among characters and fans. But he’s always humble and honest, and lives in a crudbath apartment, which only helps it further.
12. Benton never carries a gun in the states but the one time he uses it in Canada, he’s an insanely good marksman
13. Was cancelled, then uncancelled twice.

Pirates of Dark Water
1. Most of the cast is distinctly not white looking
2. Alien planet with medieval level of technology, and freaking insane monsters and races.
3. MONKEY BIRDS!
4. Main villain has a Godzilla sized ship that’s big enough to have its own sewer system
5. Jim Cummings voice acting!
6. Noy Jitat! There’s a hekuvalot fantastic swearing in this show. We should be concerned about the kids in the audience.
7. “Ecomancer”….ah, the 90s and its creative ways of introducing environmentalism to kiddies.
8. The male 17 year-old protagonist does NOT have and explicitly romantic relationship with the first girl he meets. Your mind. It is blown.
9. Unfinished! Only 8 of 13 magic treasures were collected WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?
10. Supposedly had toys, comics, and videogames made from it. Well wait, I guess that last one isn’t too surprising, since the 90s had games made of freaking every cartoon every made in that decade.
11. Unaired episodes were taped over by scenes of a kitten. NOOOOOOOOOO!
12. It was fairly dark and serious for a kids show, at least in the early episodes. Some guys actually died, none of that “trapped in another dimension” crap that other shows used.
13. Sea animals can get used as projectiles, whips, oxygen masks and all sorts of weird cool stuff.

AHAHAHAHAHHH!

Soooooo, what are some 90s obscure treasure shows that you’d like to share? Mind you, the triple B definition of “obscure treasure” is anything that lasted from 1-3 seasons. Anything that did not last an entire season will be ignored to death and you won't be invited to our grunge-beanie baby-furby-genesis arcade. Anything lasting more than three seasons and you'll be eaten by anthropomorphic ninja mummy dinosaurs with jetpacks.
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Professor Smarmiarty
01-20-2013, 11:59 AM
Why would you watch this shit when you could be watching Saved by the Bell- literally the greatest tv show ever. You are dumb.

Bum Bill Bee
01-20-2013, 12:09 PM
Anthropomorphic ninja mummy dinosaurs with jetpacks ATTACK!

Lumenskir
01-20-2013, 12:23 PM
Seinfeld was pretty good. I think it might have started in '89 though.

Grandmaster_Skweeb
01-20-2013, 12:32 PM
Street Sharks. Now that shit was downright jawesome.

Magus
01-20-2013, 01:54 PM
Seinfeld was pretty good. I think it might have started in '89 though.

I was going to say Drew Carey Show as well, though half of it extended into the 2000s. But it did manage to start in 1995.

EDIT: Aha! NewsRadio! The eminent '90s sitcom!

Remember when Phil Hartmann died and they also killed his character off and had the characters highly depressed for a few episodes and talking about his life? Surreal as hell.

Professor Smarmiarty
01-20-2013, 01:59 PM
Do you remember that time when they were going to drill for oil in Bayside but then Zack stopped it? That was sweet.

And then Jeff the college guy came and stole Kelly from Zak. My childhood died that day.

Magus
01-20-2013, 02:01 PM
Do you remember that time when they were going to drill for oil in Bayside but then Zack stopped it? That was sweet.

And then Jeff the college guy came and stole Kelly from Zak. My childhood died that day.

I'm so excited! I'm so scared!

Professor Smarmiarty
01-20-2013, 02:05 PM
FUCK YOU

Amake
01-20-2013, 02:40 PM
You may comfortably ignore this show called White Dwarf. A show so obscure, only one episode was ever made, and it's a bitch to try and get your hands on, by piracy or used VHS tapes on Amazon. It had horse carriages and spaceships some ten years before Firefly did, although you never actually see the spaceships.

What it's about is mostly this fantasy world in the shape of an alien planet called Rusta, and its many odd features. There's a night side and a day side that are almost completely cut off from each other, an ocean of blood and a prison that may or may not abuse the immortality powers of some space elves to keep people alive and in chains for hundreds of years. There's also a young doctor who's new to the place and gets to ride around and look at stuff so we get an excuse to see it and have it explained to us, but for an audience substitute he gets into some pretty intriguing relationships.

The thing I found takes it from slightly interesting to haunting is the director's decision to shoot the entire show as a dream sequence. You know how in movies you can tell a scene is going to turn out to be a dream because of one or more of a variety of camera tricks and special effects to induce a surreal sensation, like slightly off colors or lighting or camera angles? I'd think there's a range of more subtle variations that I don't tend to pay attention to, involving pacing or maybe some small variations in characters' mannerisms or appearance. Well, White Dwarf does something like that in every single scene. For some reason. Might just have been an attempt to give the night and day hemispheres different interesting light conditions. But anyway the result is groovy.

Bum Bill Bee
01-20-2013, 04:39 PM
the White Dwarf television movie that was directed by Peter Markle?

Thanks Amake, you made it sound super cool and interesting, I'll have to check that out. :)

Flarecobra
01-20-2013, 05:31 PM
Let's see...

Anyone remember the show "Secret World of Alex Mack?"

Professor Smarmiarty
01-20-2013, 05:33 PM
Is that the episode where they went to the remote mansion and Zack had to become a detective to solve the spooky crime?

RobinStarwing
01-20-2013, 05:43 PM
Let's see...

Anyone remember the show "Secret World of Alex Mack?"

I do. :D

Aerozord
01-20-2013, 05:56 PM
Let's see...

Anyone remember the show "Secret World of Alex Mack?"

yup, I liked it, but towards the end it seemed the writers no longer knew what to do with it.

Also not too many nickelodeon shows that would have a naked teenage girl in the pilot

Nique
01-20-2013, 06:11 PM
Is that the episode where they went to the remote mansion and Zack had to become a detective to solve the spooky crime?

Man, Saved By The Bell is a show that needs to just rest comfortably in the grave of nostalgia in my mind. I got a glimpse of it for a few minutes recently and, oh boy, it's hard to watch. Yet, it's still kind of the best thing?

But I could probably stand to watch something like Boy Meets World again. That show gave 0 fucks about continuity or consistent characterization, and I'm pretty sure it was better for it because instead of 1 really long boring show, we got 3 or 4 different pretty good shows!

Professor Smarmiarty
01-20-2013, 06:27 PM
Man you would like Boy Meets World. Boy meets world was all about living in a bubble, thinking you are all enlightened because you go after the geeky chick rather than the cheerleader, and sometimes you skip buying the most expensive shoes in a laughable effort to prove you are not a ruinous consumer.
Saved by the bell had episodes on people who have to steal to live, homeless people, the ruinous practices of big business, post-colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia- Zack Morris crusaded for all these issues even though it threatened to make him uncool. Cory Matthews was nice to his teacher once.

Lumenskir
01-20-2013, 07:01 PM
Let's see...

Anyone remember the show "Secret World of Alex Mack?"
Relevant. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/the-secret-world-of-alex-mack-retrospective-larisa-oleynik_n_2155359.html) I like that she still has the hats.

Kyanbu The Legend
01-20-2013, 07:54 PM
Who here remembers Road Rovers?

Ah I use to love that show as a kid.

Now I can't even sit through the opening without gagging from the very cheesy theme song.


SwatKats however will always be my #1 childhood fav. I still watch it to this day.

Arcanum
01-20-2013, 08:05 PM
Street Sharks and Mummies Alive.

/thread

Magus
01-20-2013, 10:14 PM
Does anyone else remember the Earthworm Jim cartoon or was I hallucinating that?

The Sam & Max: Freelance Police cartoon was also balls to the wall (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVoSylY5M_4).

synkr0nized
01-20-2013, 10:32 PM
Does anyone else remember the Earthworm Jim cartoon or was I hallucinating that?

I was very pumped for it to be as good as the first game, but then it wasn't.

Aerozord
01-20-2013, 11:00 PM
just gonna group these all together

The various Power Ranger copy cats*, Super Human Samurai was my favorite, still got the toys stashed somewhere

*I know the shows they were based on weren't copy cats cause in japan thats a whole genre, but the american versions were just trying to jump on the band wagon

Kyanbu The Legend
01-20-2013, 11:14 PM
Does anyone else remember the Earthworm Jim cartoon or was I hallucinating that?

.

I only saw a few episodes of it as a kid. Never really did care for it much as I got older.

rpgdemon
01-20-2013, 11:49 PM
Okay, does anyone remember TUMEG on Nickolodian? Totally Underground Master of Electronic Gaming?

Like, it wasn't a TV show, but it was a filler bit during commercials, I think. But I can't find ANY evidence that this thing actually ever existed.

shiney
01-21-2013, 12:10 AM
Holy shit okay Adventures of Brisco County Jr. was literally a fantastic show.

Also I want to say Captain N but I think that was an 80s show actually, when Nintendo Fever was ruining America and enriching our japanese entertainment overlords.

Flarecobra
01-21-2013, 12:33 AM
Captain N ran from late 1989 to 1991. Totally counts there Shiney.

Arcanum
01-21-2013, 12:43 AM
just gonna group these all together

The various Power Ranger copy cats*, Super Human Samurai was my favorite, still got the toys stashed somewhere

*I know the shows they were based on weren't copy cats cause in japan thats a whole genre, but the american versions were just trying to jump on the band wagon

Oh fuck you just reminded me of Beetleborgs. That show was absolutely amazing.

Nique
01-21-2013, 12:53 AM
Man you would like Boy Meets World. Boy meets world was all about living in a bubble, thinking you are all enlightened because you go after the geeky chick rather than the cheerleader, and sometimes you skip buying the most expensive shoes in a laughable effort to prove you are not a ruinous consumer.
Saved by the bell had episodes on people who have to steal to live, homeless people, the ruinous practices of big business, post-colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia- Zack Morris crusaded for all these issues even though it threatened to make him uncool. Cory Matthews was nice to his teacher once.

::V:::V:::V:

Whomper
01-21-2013, 01:17 AM
Swat Kats. /shot

The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk
01-21-2013, 06:16 AM
Everyone here seems to have forgotten about Gargoyles.

All prior arguments are invalid.

Flarecobra
01-21-2013, 10:23 AM
*Points to the thread title*

Gargoyles is hardly obscure.

Kyanbu The Legend
01-21-2013, 10:45 AM
Swat Kats. /shot

No, no shot, this awesome show needs to be remembered throughout history.


: Draws his sword and chases after the gunman:

Magus
01-21-2013, 11:22 AM
If someone could explain to me just exactly what the hell the point of VR Troopers was I would be pleased.

The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk
01-21-2013, 11:36 AM
*Points to the thread title*

Gargoyles is hardly obscure.

Neither is half the other stuff in this thread. I guess it's a matter of perspective or something

Nique
01-21-2013, 11:51 AM
idk how obscure you would consider Sonic The Hedgehog SatAM but that was pretty good. It came out on DVD a while back and so I bought that.

That show could probably do pretty good in a reboot with some better animation and also more than two seasons.

Professor Smarmiarty
01-21-2013, 01:20 PM
Was that the one where robotnik builds a robotic utopia and then Sonic destroys it all simply because he is jealous of robotnik's superior intelligence?

Nique
01-21-2013, 02:17 PM
In any case, it's not the one where Robotnik is a barely competent mechanic in a world of random craziness.

Professor Smarmiarty
01-21-2013, 02:19 PM
That one was heaps better

Nique
01-21-2013, 02:21 PM
Professor Smariarty, laides and gentlemen.

Professor Smarmiarty
01-21-2013, 02:23 PM
It still wans't very good but it was different.

Kyanbu The Legend
01-21-2013, 02:26 PM
idk how obscure you would consider Sonic The Hedgehog SatAM but that was pretty good. It came out on DVD a while back and so I bought that.

That show could probably do pretty good in a reboot with some better animation and also more than two seasons.

Not obscure, it's actually quite well known thanks to the on going comic series.

Kinda of a good thing it lost it's timeslot to powerrangers seeing as since the cartoon mirrored the comic, we would have to sit through 50 to 100 episodes of Archie Sonic's worst arc. And dear god was it awful. Thankfully it was recconded out of exsistance.

Bum Bill Bee
01-21-2013, 05:20 PM
It still wans't very good but it was different.

I'm sure an animation budget that was higher than $12 might've helped. Still, it left us all with good memories more or less.

Oh and I loved the Earthworm Jim cartoon as well Magus. Rediscovered it on youtube, some months ago :)

Nique
01-21-2013, 05:45 PM
If you were really hungry for Sonic related media I guess it made half an effort but if you wanted to see a rodent give you significant glances from behind a fake mustache you could just wait for Bugs Bunny to appear and do that schtick way better.

Magus
01-21-2013, 09:31 PM
The only thing I remember from Sonic were the PSAs that were like "IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TOUCH YOU IN A PRIVATE PLACE, THAT'S NO GOOD!"

CcrtkiLEGbE

Also Robotnik's robot flunkies were fucking worthless at anything.

RobinStarwing
01-21-2013, 11:16 PM
So, curious...do any of us remember Dink: The Little Dinosaur or Tiny Toons?

Flarecobra
01-22-2013, 12:37 AM
I remember Tiny Toons.

Aerozord
01-22-2013, 12:41 AM
Not sure if its obscure enough to count, but

Might Max

was so freakin 90's

Bum Bill Bee
01-22-2013, 01:15 PM
Can't say I remember Dink off hand, but I do remember the 90's having more Dinosaur shows and films than any other decade ever. I could make a list if you wanted.

Does anyone happen to recall the name of that one show that had a group of mummies as protagonists? I'm trying to remember.

RobinStarwing
01-22-2013, 01:40 PM
Dear god...I remember how horrible Mighty Max was...

And I noticed Sonic got mentioned!

i03ftHMdy58

Flarecobra
01-22-2013, 01:46 PM
How about the old Megaman cartoon?

akJygsSXcjw

Lumenskir
01-22-2013, 05:09 PM
Does anyone happen to recall the name of that one show that had a group of mummies as protagonists? I'm trying to remember.
Mummies Alive
Cmon guy, at least read your own thread.

I mean, I'd be willing to give you a pass if the name didn't explicitly have Mummies in the title, but as is...

Magus
01-22-2013, 05:41 PM
How about the old Megaman cartoon?

akJygsSXcjw

I used to watch this religiously as a kid. Definitely my favorite.

Too bad only like, six of the episodes stand up nowadays, most of them are pretty terrible.

EDIT: I apologize--there are a total of eight episodes which stand up nowadays.

Kyanbu The Legend
01-22-2013, 05:51 PM
Oddly enough, like Swatkats, this show was canceled dispite being it's network's highest rated show.

Krylo
01-22-2013, 05:54 PM
I apologize--there are a total of eight episodes which stand up nowadays.

The same number as there are Robot Masters.

Coincidence. . . or Conspiracy?

Magus
01-22-2013, 06:01 PM
Oddly enough, like Swatkats, this show was canceled dispite being it's network's highest rated show.

Apparently it was for budgetary reasons. Which is odd because many of the episodes had terrible animation to begin with, so it couldn't have been the animation budget...

EDIT: Good theory on Wikipedia: "The decision to end the cartoon was handed down from Capcom, most likely due to merchandising pressures from toy-partner Bandai, which cut several other popular toy lines at the time short due to not meeting sales expectations (including The Tick, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball)"

Which is weird because I actually owned Megaman toys. Like that was one of the few name-brand toys I owned.

Apparently it's true what they say, a lot of these shows existed only to sell toys.

Kyanbu The Legend
01-22-2013, 06:10 PM
And sadly a lot of great shows end up dieing because they can't get a good toy sale. Simbionic Titan being a prime victim.

Lucky for Generator Rex, it ended before this could happen to it. As for Ben 10, well now it's more or less being milked into the ground at this point. Don't get me wrong I love Omniverse so far but it just seems like the show is grasping at straws for plot now.

Magus
01-22-2013, 08:55 PM
I don't understand anything you just said so I'm going to assume those were 2000s TV shows WHICH SHALL NE'ER BE SPOKEN OF INFIDEL

Aerozord
01-22-2013, 11:28 PM
EDIT: Good theory on Wikipedia: "The decision to end the cartoon was handed down from Capcom, most likely due to merchandising pressures from toy-partner Bandai, which cut several other popular toy lines at the time short due to not meeting sales expectations (including The Tick, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball)"

How could I forget the Tick, that show was awesome

Kyanbu The Legend
01-22-2013, 11:50 PM
I don't understand anything you just said so I'm going to assume those were 2000s TV shows WHICH SHALL NE'ER BE SPOKEN OF INFIDEL

Eh more like late 2000s. Nearly all of the old shows were on the air up till 2005.

Granted they are back on the air now, but they only air during friday nights.

Simbionic Titan was Creig's (the guy who made Dexter's lab, Samurai Jack, and Powerpuff girls) last show for good old CN. After they backstabed him and canned his show. He basicly gave them the finger and left to do other things.