Ringo Starr narrated the first two seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine. Later, George Carlin narrated the first two seasons (because there was a fear that American children would connect less with the show if the voices were British, because they would sound less familiar) and narrated additional seasons. When his tenure ended, Alec Baldwin took over.
None of them knowing the Winx club hurts me sooo much. Maybe it's more a European thing but it was so big in my childhood! When we were like four/five we were pretending to be the fairies in the playground at school!
In case you missed it, in the Masha and the Bear clip, the bear was frustrated because all he wanted to do was go fishing and after refusing all the food offered and making him late, Masha said that for breakfast she wanted... fish.
I feel like It's the problem with me being European, but i was really thrown off when none of them heard about Masha and the Bear and didn't know Asterix and Obelix. They were really nostalgic for me
The fact that Thomas the TANK ENGINE is a cartoon now instead of using actually model railways will always be one of life's biggest downgrades. Bar none.
I watched David the Gnome when I was younger. The version that was dubbed into English had Tom (Thomas) Bosley voice the lead character of David. He's most well known as portraying Howard Cunningham (Richie's dad in "Happy Days"). As well as in "Father Dowling investigates" where he again played the main character of Father Dowling.
All great shows! Father Dowling is one that it seems only the fans know about, I have run into a lot of people recently who say they have never heard of it before.
I was actually surprised to see Asterix in here! Both Asterix and Lucky Luke are my favorite Franco-Belgian comic book series and I watched the films and shows growing up!
Jaxon said something was Swiss just like the Smurfs. But the smurfs are Belgian im afraid. Made by Peyo. Another important read in the 70's in most of Europe.
The cartoon of David the Gnome was from Spain, but it was based on the Gnome book series that came from the Netherlands with drawings by Rien Poortvliet and texts by Wil Huygen.
If you're unaware the original narrator for Thomas the TANK Engine was none other than Ringo Starr. Referring to the comment of it being rather slow it was written in the early 1940s and was filmed in 1984, different worlds 🇬🇧
all of those that said Thomas the Train ARE COMPLETELY WRONG, the correct answer is Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. I grew up with the original show as in the original stop motion version from England
Everyone saying that Tom & Jerry is not violent. You have to think about the context of the time. When it first came out it was absolutely the most violent children’s cartoon out there, Steamboat Willie and other animations of the time did not have the same slapstick violence. It pushed the boundaries of what could be animated for kids and paved the way for more violence in cartoons.
The way I squealed when they showed Astrix and Obelix! ❤ I grew up with the OG comic books. Lil useless fun facts. It's set in a small village in Gaul but they travel all over the world (Spain, Egypt, Britian ect), in the books they sometimes use Latin phrases, and this particular village feared only one thing: the sky falling on their heads.
I also grew up with Asterix & Obelix. I never liked to read. But I simply loved the animated movies as a child. Especially the one with Cleopatra. Because I simply loved ancient Egypt as a child. We used to have it on VHS but I watched it so much that the ending scene was barely watchable. Because it was worn down.
Fun fact: In the show Bluey, Bluey and Bingo are no longer 6 and 4 respectively. By the release of episode Pass the Parcel in 2021, Bluey is now 7 and by the release of episode Handstand from 2020 Bingo is now 5.
Thomas the Train Engine was originally an actual railway model set that was filmed. It was owned by Ringo Starr (the drummer from the Beatles). The clip you showed was the cheap computar animation version.
Yup and I even did some quick checking on Google and the series name wasn't changed for American audiences which I'd wondered about. In America the story was still called "Thomas the Tank Engine" and then "Thomas and Friends". Pretty sure he was always called a tank engine within the show as well.
I’m not so surprised, that Asterix and Obelix is unknown in USA. They are one of the Big 4 in franco-belgian comics, “the smurfs”, “Tintin”, “Lucky Luke” and “Asterix”
Jaxon is 100% correct. Astro Boy was one of the first "Japanaminations," as they called them back then. My mom told me she watched at least some of the original show when she was younger. I haven't seen any of the original, but I have seen and own the 2003 reboot on DVD. The reboot is a fun show!
Original Thomas Tank engine is not a cartoon, its a trainset that gets filmed. Secondly it is NOT north western railway, it is set on the Island of Sodor.
12:18 The World of David the Gnome (1985-1986) was on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block from 1988-1995. (wikipedia) Since Nickelodeon, the world's first channel for kids, was trying out a lot of different things we were able to see a lot of things being established. "Eureeka's Castle was the first original series that Nickelodeon made for the block." (wikipedia) Actually, the most famous person that I share a birthdate with (Sara Bareilles) is from Eureka, California.
80s and 90s kid here, and that was not the Thomas show I knew as a kid, it was not animated that way it was more like some sort of stop motion animation and the train faces creeped me the F out. I also feel like at least some of the voices were British and the train mouths didn't move for speaking, though they did change expression.
I think you should do a geography quiz because some have noooo clue. Scandinavia isn't a country. And do Americans understand that cartoons are dubbed in every countrys individual language?
Back in my World of Warcraft days, we had a guy called Tom who was often the tank in our raid and dungeon groups and we'd all hum the Thomas The Tank Engine (Thomas and Friends in America) down our mics to him, much to his irritation lmao!
@@guillermoae7038 im american and me & everyone i know personally have always called it thomas the train. its not that serious in the mf slightest why tf is everyone getting so offended😭
I've never seen it, but after hearing Australia I figured it was a blue heeler/Australian cattle dog. They're super cute but I would need acreage to let them run all they wanted lol.
For anyone that might be interested in watching "The World of David The Gnome", it's available IN FULL here on RUclips in English. I use to watch the show when I was a kid. It aired on Nick Jr. from 1988 until 1995. It's a definite classic of a show and a swift watch overall with 26 total episodes each at about 20 - 25 mins in length. Highly recommend. It was narrated by Christopher Plummer and featured Tom Bosley (the dad from Happy Days) as David the Gnome.
Thank you for the heads up! I used to watch the show with my dad and he's recently passed away. Now I can share a part of my dad and childhood with my kids.
OHHH my poor French heart bleeding for the disrespect on Asterix 😅 1 attraction parcs : Parc Astérix 39 adventure books published with over 380 million copies sold in over a 110 different languages 5 movies and 10 animated movies over 30 video games from the Atari 2600 to the PS4/Switch/XboxOne era plus a plethora of other stuff around that hero and that's the respect you get !!!!! Ouiiiiiillllllleeeeee
I knew it was Tom and Jerry because (1) Scratchy and Itchy is a parody of it and it is beyond wild what they do in that show, (2) fairly odd parents’ channel chasers commented on how violent it was
I can't believe there was a photo of Zidane in the Algerian Inspector cartoon. I preferred the original Thomas and friends with Ringo Starr doing storytelling
Little Bluey fun fact Steve Irwin's son Robert Irwin voice acted in one episode of Bluey as a character named Alfie oh yeah and Natalie Portman voice acted in one episode as a Whale Documentary Narrator and Lin-Manuel Miranda voice acted in one episode as a talking horse named Major Tom
@@valwntinarios5733 especially at my grandmas when we went to visit her in Mexico, or my aunts as I would always be so happy to watch the live action and animated version.
Ringo Starr narrated the first two seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine.
Later, George Carlin narrated the first two seasons (because there was a fear that American children would connect less with the show if the voices were British, because they would sound less familiar) and narrated additional seasons. When his tenure ended, Alec Baldwin took over.
None of them knowing the Winx club hurts me sooo much. Maybe it's more a European thing but it was so big in my childhood! When we were like four/five we were pretending to be the fairies in the playground at school!
YESSSS
the funny thing is that it was huge in Brasil too 😅 everybody my age knows the opening song
but even I didn't know it wasn't an american cartoon 😢
In case you missed it, in the Masha and the Bear clip, the bear was frustrated because all he wanted to do was go fishing and after refusing all the food offered and making him late, Masha said that for breakfast she wanted... fish.
She wanted something sweet, not fish.
@@callymose1074 My mistake, not as funny though.
I hate that they call it Thomas the train. It's clearly Thomas the Tank Engine.
Yeah :).
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Huh it's clearly a train
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@@GeorgiosAlektoridis-dq8edno Thomas is a tank engine. Trains are what he pulls
I feel like It's the problem with me being European, but i was really thrown off when none of them heard about Masha and the Bear and didn't know Asterix and Obelix. They were really nostalgic for me
and they don’t seem to know the stereotype lol
I always thought it was called mash and bear, but It didn’t show on Netflix until 2016 ish
I mean Ive heard of the bear but not the other 2.
14:59 Jaxon's accent when he said Argentina 🫶🏻
The fact that Thomas the TANK ENGINE is a cartoon now instead of using actually model railways will always be one of life's biggest downgrades.
Bar none.
100% agree!
13:15 this cartoon was my infancy. I remember being 8 and crying at the very last episode. He became a flower alongside his wife 😢
Samee, I remember spending the whole morning crying because of that episode and my parents didn't understand me because I was only 4yo. 😞
I watched David the Gnome when I was younger. The version that was dubbed into English had Tom (Thomas) Bosley voice the lead character of David. He's most well known as portraying Howard Cunningham (Richie's dad in "Happy Days"). As well as in "Father Dowling investigates" where he again played the main character of Father Dowling.
My three favorite Tom Bosley shows. He also played a priest in one of the Perry Mason movies from the 80s/90s
All great shows!
Father Dowling is one that it seems only the fans know about, I have run into a lot of people recently who say they have never heard of it before.
It's 'Thomas the TANK Engine'....NOT TRAIN!!!!!
That's exactly what I thought too😂😂 but Hey you gotta love the dumb American cause they gotta do everything different from everyone else 🤣🤣
What casuals
Portuguese and Italian I believe are both based off of Latin along with Spanish and French. So it makes sense that they might sound similar at times.
I was actually surprised to see Asterix in here! Both Asterix and Lucky Luke are my favorite Franco-Belgian comic book series and I watched the films and shows growing up!
N'oublier-pas Tintin!
Tom & Jerry were the inspiration for Itchy and Scratchy, 'nuff said about cartoon violence.
Jaxon said something was Swiss just like the Smurfs. But the smurfs are Belgian im afraid. Made by Peyo. Another important read in the 70's in most of Europe.
The cartoon of David the Gnome was from Spain, but it was based on the Gnome book series that came from the Netherlands with drawings by Rien Poortvliet and texts by Wil Huygen.
As a Brit I don't think you have fully grasped our well known show It's Thomas the Tank Engine !
LOVE seeing Bluey, and Asterix and Obelix included in this video!!
blonde isn't a common hair color in albania lmaooo
So Tom and Jerry is known for some of the most violent cartoon gags ever devised in animation...
Haven't you seen Happy Tree Friends???
Or just South Park? They killed Kenny so many times..
Happy Tree Friends was unhinged. Couldn’t stop watching the show though
I had thought of Simpsons for some odd reason 😂.
If you're unaware the original narrator for Thomas the TANK Engine was none other than Ringo Starr. Referring to the comment of it being rather slow it was written in the early 1940s and was filmed in 1984, different worlds 🇬🇧
Don’t ever compare a great show like Bluey to garbage like Peppa Pig.
And I’m British.
what is Bluey
David the gnome unlocked hidden childhood memories. Loved this show!
I am *shocked* that they didn't recognise Asterix & Obelix. Was it not popular in the States?
all of those that said Thomas the Train ARE COMPLETELY WRONG, the correct answer is Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. I grew up with the original show as in the original stop motion version from England
I loved David the gnome ; they used to air it on Nickelodeon back in the 90’s.
Everyone saying that Tom & Jerry is not violent. You have to think about the context of the time. When it first came out it was absolutely the most violent children’s cartoon out there, Steamboat Willie and other animations of the time did not have the same slapstick violence. It pushed the boundaries of what could be animated for kids and paved the way for more violence in cartoons.
As a Brit hearing Thomas with an American accent is so weird and them calling him Thomas the Train instead of Thomas the Tank Engine 😆
Girl, you may have some Italian ancestors but you are not Italian...
Do Americans really call it "Thomas the train"?
It's Thomas the Tank Engine.
I'm Italian and I call it thomas the train
Ι don't want to play games like these with Jaxon. He knows everything. Even his instinct is correct. 😂
I love that Jaxon got like all of them right
It’s Thomas the Tank Engine!🚂
The way I squealed when they showed Astrix and Obelix! ❤ I grew up with the OG comic books. Lil useless fun facts. It's set in a small village in Gaul but they travel all over the world (Spain, Egypt, Britian ect), in the books they sometimes use Latin phrases, and this particular village feared only one thing: the sky falling on their heads.
I also grew up with Asterix & Obelix. I never liked to read. But I simply loved the animated movies as a child. Especially the one with Cleopatra. Because I simply loved ancient Egypt as a child. We used to have it on VHS but I watched it so much that the ending scene was barely watchable. Because it was worn down.
Fun fact: In the show Bluey, Bluey and Bingo are no longer 6 and 4 respectively.
By the release of episode Pass the Parcel in 2021, Bluey is now 7 and by the release of episode Handstand from 2020 Bingo is now 5.
Winx Club was really fun. Comical thing was that 4kids ended up having their license to dub it revoked permantly due to how badly they swapped stuff.
Thomas the Train Engine was originally an actual railway model set that was filmed. It was owned by Ringo Starr (the drummer from the Beatles).
The clip you showed was the cheap computar animation version.
Yeah the inferior version.
It's actually Thomas the Tank Engine....
Definitely!! I was shouting that!!
It's not "Thomas The Train"! It's
THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE!
Yup and I even did some quick checking on Google and the series name wasn't changed for American audiences which I'd wondered about. In America the story was still called "Thomas the Tank Engine" and then "Thomas and Friends". Pretty sure he was always called a tank engine within the show as well.
I’m not so surprised, that Asterix and Obelix is unknown in USA.
They are one of the Big 4 in franco-belgian comics, “the smurfs”, “Tintin”, “Lucky Luke” and “Asterix”
THOMAS. THE. TANK. ENGINE. Please…
Thomas the Train
Thomas the DANK engine
the way that i already knew which country winx club was from before they even showed the clip... like i would have exceeded their expectations
Jaxon is 100% correct. Astro Boy was one of the first "Japanaminations," as they called them back then. My mom told me she watched at least some of the original show when she was younger. I haven't seen any of the original, but I have seen and own the 2003 reboot on DVD. The reboot is a fun show!
Atomu or The Mighty Atom.. Hes from the 50s. Born out of the whole atomic age just like Gojira.. Godzilla.
Ryker and Vivienne look like siblings a lot 😂
Train Engine? It is Tank Engine! I also knew Asterix because I have been to Parc Asterix, the theme park that is in France
I was going to comment that when I saw it.
I've been to Parc Asterix too... brilliant place but I hated the fully rotating pirate ship as a kid.
I already know from the title of this vid that Jaxon will ace this. Cause your boy loves to watch cartoons/anime/animated series. Hahaha. 😂😂
people that don't know winx club, that hurts
And Masha was undoubtedly the antaganist with the heart of gold in that cartoon.
It's Thomas the Tank Engine FYI. POKEMON Winx Club and Tom and Jerry are my all time favorites
I love David the Gnome!
Asterix and Obelisc is just as much Belgian as French
How could you not know Asterix and Obelix 😭
The Franco-Belgian comic strip is amazing, Americans should look up to it more, we have a lot of good things!!
Original Thomas Tank engine is not a cartoon, its a trainset that gets filmed. Secondly it is NOT north western railway, it is set on the Island of Sodor.
It's a shame that they don't know the real name of Thomas the Tank Engine
It's not that important either way
Bluey was also mad with the intention of being a show for parents, especially new ones as well
So happy to see both Thomas the Tank Engine and Asterix on this list!!
12:18 The World of David the Gnome (1985-1986) was on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block from 1988-1995. (wikipedia)
Since Nickelodeon, the world's first channel for kids, was trying out a lot of different things we were able to see a lot of things being established.
"Eureeka's Castle was the first original series that Nickelodeon made for the block." (wikipedia)
Actually, the most famous person that I share a birthdate with (Sara Bareilles) is from Eureka, California.
I'm extremely disappointed that they didn't use the stop motion version of Thomas from the 80's because that's what I grew up watching.
Jackson it's not Thomas the "train" engine. It's Thomas the tank engine 🫤🫤
yahh and it’s not Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles it’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
I love when Haley and Jay are paired!
16:55 That version of Thomas the “TANK” Engine scarred me. I grew up with the live action version, the one Ringo Starr voiced
80s and 90s kid here, and that was not the Thomas show I knew as a kid, it was not animated that way it was more like some sort of stop motion animation and the train faces creeped me the F out. I also feel like at least some of the voices were British and the train mouths didn't move for speaking, though they did change expression.
I wasn't freaked out by it but same. I also watched David the Gnome.
Started out as stories on the show Shining Time Station and you're right it was it was real models and stop motion animation
Thats the thomas I remember.
Bluey is like Steven universe for recovering/young adults, they're the same energy In animation
Tom and Jerry were basically slapstick physical comedy just like the live action-comedy slapstick in the three stooges' movies.
Fun Fact: the guy who does the voice of Tom’s screaming was one of the creators of Tom & Jerry, William Hanna. 😅
Aight, putting him in the "based cartoon creators" box, right along the creator of Phineas and Ferb
The non cgi Thomas the Tank Engine was much better.
The model era in the 80s and 90s is what I grew up with. I going to find some of those episodes and watch them now.
I love Bluey. The adults all play and interact with the kids
Hi! greetings from Finland
I think you should do a geography quiz because some have noooo clue. Scandinavia isn't a country. And do Americans understand that cartoons are dubbed in every countrys individual language?
Tom & Jerry is my all time favorite cartoon.
Tom and Jerry, Thomas the Train, Winx Club and Bluey are some of my favorite cartoons!
David the gnome was a Spanis production but it was based on books by Dutch illustrator Rien Poortvliet and Dutch writer Wil Huygen
David the Gnome had completely escaped my memory til now. Caught it in Nick Jr in the early 90s. Talk about a hit of nostalgia.
Jaxon is nailing these questions!
Back in my World of Warcraft days, we had a guy called Tom who was often the tank in our raid and dungeon groups and we'd all hum the Thomas The Tank Engine (Thomas and Friends in America) down our mics to him, much to his irritation lmao!
okay but I’m american and I’ve always called it Thomas the Tank Engine. never heard this Thomas the TRAIN thing
Because thats its fuckin name, what uneducated troglodyte calls it thomas the train
Cool Baron's shirt Jay!
Reminds me of the Barons from the tv series Into The Badlands (2015-2019)...and also from all the Red Baron pizzas I eat!
I knew winx was Italian because with the newer seasons the italian dubb would always come out first
This, I think, is only the second time. The only other I remember was almost 2 years ago
It's Thomas the Tank Engine!
Exactly, I don't know why they got the name wrong
@@antoniomarin9061because they say the american version title probs
@@guillermoae7038 im american and me & everyone i know personally have always called it thomas the train. its not that serious in the mf slightest why tf is everyone getting so offended😭
@@randomaccount3574 hahaha, i don't know, i'm not ofended just saying that is american version title.
I've never seen it, but after hearing Australia I figured it was a blue heeler/Australian cattle dog. They're super cute but I would need acreage to let them run all they wanted lol.
Don't know why I was expecting "Chota Bheem" 😂
Hello from algeria, that cartoon is awesome xP SUPER FUNNY TOO ! thx for including us in this episode ^_^
What a throwback of an episode. Thomas The Tank Engine, and Asterix and Obelisx specifically. I'm surprised REACT didn't show Babar.
For anyone that might be interested in watching "The World of David The Gnome", it's available IN FULL here on RUclips in English. I use to watch the show when I was a kid. It aired on Nick Jr. from 1988 until 1995. It's a definite classic of a show and a swift watch overall with 26 total episodes each at about 20 - 25 mins in length. Highly recommend.
It was narrated by Christopher Plummer and featured Tom Bosley (the dad from Happy Days) as David the Gnome.
Thank you for the heads up! I used to watch the show with my dad and he's recently passed away. Now I can share a part of my dad and childhood with my kids.
OHHH my poor French heart bleeding for the disrespect on Asterix 😅
1 attraction parcs : Parc Astérix
39 adventure books published with over 380 million copies sold in over a 110 different languages
5 movies and 10 animated movies
over 30 video games from the Atari 2600 to the PS4/Switch/XboxOne era
plus a plethora of other stuff around that hero
and that's the respect you get !!!!! Ouiiiiiillllllleeeeee
And only one good live action movie thanks to the amazing Alain Chabat 😌
Quoique, contre César était pas vraiment mauvais. Mais les autres... 😮💨
@@sophielem59 c'est toujours pareil plus ça va plus les suivants deviennent mauvais, je préfère largement les derniers animés
I knew it was Tom and Jerry because (1) Scratchy and Itchy is a parody of it and it is beyond wild what they do in that show, (2) fairly odd parents’ channel chasers commented on how violent it was
Tom & Jerry violence is equal to Looney Tunes in my opinion.
i"m from Belgium and we had a Dutch translation of David the gnome in the 90s, the Smurfs and Tintin are well known cartoons from Belgium
watching u seeeing an algerian cattoon makes me so happy thank u
0:38 Tom and Jerry has been a popular cartoon for a very long time!
The Japanese are like so quiet and proper irl and then in animations like aggretsuko; it feels like they’re taking it all out 😂😂
Rien Poortvliet, the Dutch writer and illustrator behind 'David the Gnome', would like to have a word with you, I think. ;)
For the first one, I was thinking it would be The Roadrunner and Wylie Coyote.
The Castlevania one is a bit confuse, because the Show ins't made by japonese Studios, but is based on a Japonese Game e Art style.
I can't believe there was a photo of Zidane in the Algerian Inspector cartoon. I preferred the original Thomas and friends with Ringo Starr doing storytelling
Out of all those are like Tom and Jerry the best. Play to me the greatest cartoon ever made in any country in any decade iS Scooby-Doo
Wiley Coyote was THE most iconic dangerous cartoon.
should have shown Thomas the Tank Engine original episodes from the 80s, not the CGI version
Little Bluey fun fact Steve Irwin's son Robert Irwin voice acted in one episode of Bluey as a character named Alfie oh yeah and Natalie Portman voice acted in one episode as a Whale Documentary Narrator and Lin-Manuel Miranda voice acted in one episode as a talking horse named Major Tom
Real Thomas fans remember what the show was like before CGI
6:38 El chavo del 8, one of my favorite shows, Og and animated from Chespirito. Legend 😢
Frrrrr!! It would always be that show you watch when coming home from school “eso eso eso”
@@roberto9787_ Yeah, same
@@valwntinarios5733 especially at my grandmas when we went to visit her in Mexico, or my aunts as I would always be so happy to watch the live action and animated version.