I'm really enjoying both the content and presentation of the channel. The CRT TV graphic is such a great way to show videos in the old 4:3 ratio. These lists of failed shows spark long dormant memories. The rundowns of each show are the perfect combo of comprehensive yet to the point. And the additions of promotional commercials, show lead ins (the ABC Claymation ones hit the nostalgia bullseye), and other things of the era are the cherry on top. Keep up the great work.
@@zombiepicnic9683 ruclips.net/video/VJAVDbKEpUQ/видео.html&ab_channel=BuddyBoy600alt-TheMarsupilamiMasterofRUclips I have the episode of Raw Toonage The CRT TV graphic on my video is based on the Sampo Tri Screen Color TV (Model #9519).
@zombiepicnic9683 appreciate it yeah its impossible to find clips, not in 4:3 aspects, and zoomed in looks horrible, so it makes sense to do something nostalgic. Those ABC bumpers are something you never forget, especially the cowboy. The youtube ad breaks always seem harsh cut, so it made sense to add those. More to come, thank you.
In the third Simpsons Halloween Special during Dial Z for Zombies, we see tombstones for both Fish Police and Capitol Critters in the Springfield pet cemetery. There's also a tombstone for Family Dog, which was an animated series going through a very troubled production at that time.
I remember Family Dog. The dog doesn't talk, but we see his daily life from his point of view. Looking back on it, he didn't deserve to live with that family because they acted like they hated him! They always referred to him as "Stupid Dog!"
@@TobeyStarburst I agree. I loved the title character! I would adopt him in 10 seconds flat! ❤️ At least I would've given him lots of love and attention than the Binsfords!
haha I remember asking my parents why it was so hard to find the Get Along Gang on TV and they told me it was probably cancelled- I didn't realize shows ENDED.
Oh. My. God. Sir, you have NO idea how much you've blown my mind out of it's skull. I only remember one.... ONE episode once of Fievel's American Tails and it was the end of the episode and that was it. I don't remember anything else but that one moment. It was like, maybe 30 seconds. And I never saw it again, I didn't know if it was real or a fever dream. Then I clicked your video and saw, "Fievel's American Tails" and I exploded with a scream so loud it scared my dog.
I think The Plucky Duck Show only having one original episode was intentional and was partially a joke. Why else would the pilot be about him ditching his own spin off
I enjoyed this show for the brief time it was on, despite the recycling of Tiny Toons Episodes. I believe The Plucky Duck Show and Pinky and the Brain had all the potential to be decent spin offs of their respective shows, yet there were only a few episodes between the two, and then they were gone.
As I understand, Bonkers was in development first and the producers decided that if Bonkers was to be a cartoon star, he need to have a collection of shorts to show him at work. So they developed the Bonkers segments and took advantage of the Marsupilami license and created Totally Tasteless Videos as well to round out the series so they could make a go of the series Raw Toonage while the Bonkers project was delayed by changing the premise with the male companion as opposed to Miranda Wright.
@@eddierascalhaskell4954 Of course it was. Disney obviously wanted Roger Rabbit without Spielberg's co-ownership. Too bad, the Bonkers series was such a mess, even with the Miranda Wright episodes.
I was born in the 90s and never saw it but even I knew the theme song immediately. My older sister loved it. Surprising that this one was such a failure especially since the newer shows were a massive hit.
Might have been due to unfamiliarity with the characters....? The toys for the Tales characters were exclusive to Europe, and to this day are quite sought after, they also only made the main girls and none of the boys/secondary characters. @@purrfectscrapper
When it comes to this particular video, the only one I remember watching the most was the Plucky Duck show, and that's only because I absolutely love Tiny Tune Adventures. As a child of the 90s, we had it made when it comes to the amount of cartoons that was on TV.
@@keithtorgersen9664 yes you are correct. I did came across some of those videos on RUclips and it really was the golden age of cartoons on television. I was born in 1986 so I was right in the middle of all those cartoons that came on TV, especially throughout the 90s. I know there were a lot of cartoons before I was even born and I love those cartoons as well.
As an avid 7 year old 1992 TV watcher, I very vaguely remember having watched Fish Police, My Little Pony Tales (highly objectionable as a boy…), the Fievel show, and the Super Dave show (mom thought it was stupid). Never heard of the rest of them. The “After these messages” clips brought a welcome wave of nostalgia.
I'm amazed there weren't proto-Bronies (Bronies that argue that the earlier MLP cartoons were better than MLP:FiM) back when My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic came out. The only interesting thing about FiM is the fandom that came from it and just how any piece of media can have weird and toxic followers to them, but also those who enjoy it and don't take it as seriously.
Ironically, despite being 12 in '92, the two shows from this list I remember watching the most are Capitol Critters and Fish Police. I have no memory of Stunt Dawgs and this surprises me since it was the show before Beetlejuice(a show I liked a lot) - I guess there must have been a cartoon on a different channel I watched before switching over
I definitely remember the promos for Fish police it showed all the celebrities in the studio voicing their characters in a side by side screen in each commercial for it Tiny Toon adventures did a similar thing With Cree Summers, Danny Cooksy and Tress MacNille
I was 6yrs old when T-Rex came out and the only thing I loved more than dinosaurs at that time was cartoons. I LOVED THAT SHOW! The theme song still randomly pops into my brain.
Loved Family Dog as a kid, long before it was its own show, it was just an animated episode on Steven Spielberg's TV show Amazing Stories. They made such a hype that the episode would be fully animated, that my family recorded it, and I watched it over and over again. I still have that original airing on a VHS tape somewhere complete with the commercials. I was happy when it got made into a show, and sad it was cancelled so fast.
If I remember Family Dog was completed in 1991 but they were so disappointed in it they didn’t show it for another 2 years and burned it off over the summer as they knew there would be no more. It explains why the video game came out when it did
They should have had one of the family members be nice and loving and close to the dog, going with all of the family being truly awful made the show something that was just deeply unpleasant
So, last night, your 10 Failed TV Show from 1992 popped up on my RUclips recommended next video, so I gave it shot, liked it, and subscribed. Watched through several of your other videos along the same lines. Now even though I wasn't even born yet, a few I knew about due to VHS Recordings dad had, this video, not so much, but some of them do actually sounds like it could have been an interesting watch. In closing I'll like to say thank you for these videos, and keep up the good work.
I remember "Capitol Critters" from the Kenner toy catalog that I spent much of 1992 leafing through. It stuck in my mind because all the other action figures in there came from popular franchises but then there was this page of little animals with weapons that was utterly foreign to me. That was all I ever saw or heard about "Capitol Critters" besides a brief mention on "The Simpsons."
Fish Police and Capitol Critters were both created following the success of The Simpsons, but neither of them lasted very long, to the point where the Treehouse of Horror III episode segment, "Dial Z For Zombies" had both of those names, along with Family Dog, on gravestones in the Springfield Pet Cemetery.
Amidst the twinkle of Christmas lights, Alex nervously handed Jake a carefully wrapped present. Jake's eyes lit up as he unwrapped the gift, revealing a vintage book of love poems. Moved, Jake pulled out a small box and shared, "I got you something too." Inside was a delicate silver ring. As they exchanged gifts, their hearts danced to a melody of acceptance and love. Later, under the mistletoe, they shared a tender kiss, celebrating not only the magic of the season but also the warmth of a love that transcends societal expectations. Christmas became a timeless chapter in their love story.
The Adventures of T-Rex was one of my favorites. Would watch it every morning before school. Super Dave being another favorite of mine and awesome to watch. It really made me laugh every Saturday morning. I remember the live action stuntman actor making an appearance at In Living Color one day as their guest DJ.
Hey there! New to the channel. I love it! Very nostalgic for my wife and I. We were both kids during this era. Our kids will never know or understand, that network television, was all we had. I completely forgot about a good chunk of these failed shows. So, it’s a constant, “ OH YEAH! I forgot about this one!!! “ Love it! Keep em coming!
I'm definitely just being dumb here, but after thinking about this for ten minutes.... I do not get the joke. At all. Can you explain it ? I'm definitely just being an idiot and missing something obvious.
@@medes5597 I guess the brown splatter of mushed beans is like the color of a bat, and the cheese is like veins. It's the kind of dumb joke my childhood self would think is funny.
Super Dave had a cult following among teenage boys and college stoners in the mid/late 80s and some of us younger kids were aware of him and had probably snuck a look at it during a free trial weekend of HBO. This kind of unintended crossover from adult humor to children's isn't all that new.
About the Marsupilami, I'm Belgian and we were very disappointed by poor treatment to one of our iconic cartoons. Franquin (his creator) was so angry he sued Disney and won the argument. Disney went until the bitter end. Franquin died of old age but Disney lost anyways. The anime picturing Marsupilami aired in 2000 was way more faithful to the cartoon. Disney really wasted his homework, lied to Marsu productions and showed it's ugliest face. A great piece of art turned into a rubbish scrapbook. Marsupilami is still popular and Franquin is a legend. Not bad!
I was amazed at all the Belgian comic books you get while there on holiday. I thought they had gone away as they have in the UK, with no comics in shops at all here now outside of Beano. I used to love Belgian comic series as a kid.
Jessica Rabbit has got nothing on that fish lady. If anyone thinks that My Little Pony Tales was just for little girls, you obviously never saw "Rescue from Midnight Castle" which was extremely dark for a kid's movie. Dom DeLuise still voiced his cat character from American Tail.
I'll definitely take Jessica Rabbit over that fish lady any day of the week. No offense, Dom Deluise is perfect for Tiger the cat, or the small dog from All Dogs Go To Heaven, or the homeless guy from Oliver And Company, Stanley the troll from A Troll In Central Park was his worst role for sure
I remember almost all of these from my childhood with the exceptions of T-Rex and Twinkle. I've actually got pretty fond memories of Capitol Critters, though my positive impressions of Fish Police and Stunt Dawgs might not survive going back and rewatching them. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, either way, though!
Just watched a bunch of your videos. That's it you got a sub right here. Great content. Ill be 41 in December. I remember alot of this stuff if not thoroughly at least images in my head about em.
I actully remember Fish Police airing randomly one time on Cartoon Network in the early nineties, ca. 1997-1998. I imagine it was one of those foreign produced shows Cartoon Network UK got as part of some licensing deal (like Fat Dog Mendoza or Tabaluga) that they legally HAD to air, but which they only aired when most kids would be on their way to school, or would still be asleep. The kind of shows you only caught if you had one school day per week start an hour early for some reason, or if you are staying home sick.
Wait, one day a week where school would start an hour early? What kind of cruel practice is that? Is it exclusively a UK thing? We had what they called a minimum day on mondays, where school would get out an hour early though
Little Pony Tales is a show my sister, even as an adult, can vent about passionately. The original series was much like the modern FIM series that was so popular, set in a magical fantasy land, where as MLP tales was a slice of life show about the same mundane dramas as any other tween girls show, homework, crushes on boys, and so on, set in a big city.
Except for the fact that magic secretly exists in Tales (as seen by the appearance of the Glow 'n Show Ponies), hinting that it exists parallel to (or perhaps in the future of?) the world seen in MLP & Friends ;)
Stunt Dawgs was a guilty pleasure of mine when I was young. It came on in this weird after school block followed up by Sky Surfers Strike Force and Superhuman Samurai, two more guilty pleasures for me. This video reminded just how I liked Raw Toonage. So much so, that I closely followed Bonkers and Marsupilami when they got their solo shows. Bonkers especially, considering I was the kid that grew wanting to be a cop. All things remotely related to the police had my attention.
I was in jr high when Stunt Dawgs came out. Over 30 years later, I am still quoting Richard Fungus and Airball. Best part is that no one remembers that show, so no know gets the references so they think I am oddly original.
I had capital critter toys. They were made out of foam and I think there was wire underneath. I had a couple mice a rat and a roach with a striped shirt. Think maybe 5 all together. Over time the foam kind of disintegrated and they fell apart in places. May been because of handling them broke down the foam. I played the heck out of them.
Not sure I would completely call The Adventures of T-Rex a failure. Back in those days there used to be 52/65 episode cartoons created to blitz syndication right off the bat. They were not designed or expected to get more than that. I would even say they won out in the end, since I doubt several of those cartoons would have gotten anywhere near that episode count if they had gone for the traditional 13 episode per season route.
I remember wqatching the American tale cartoon. From what I remember it was good and I always wondered why it was so short lived but that was the norm for a ton of cartoons back then.
@@TheReviewStudios S'alright; Though in the TV Series, Gerrit Graham was voicing Cat R. Waul, not John Cleese; I will say Gerrit does a convincing John Cleese impression more than Jeff Bennett.
I actually really liked the Super Dave Osborne cartoon. I used to watch it every week when it was on. The Plucky Duck Show, on the other hand, was something I was really looking forward to until I realized all but the first segment was recycled stuff that was already shown on Tiny Toons. I remember that being the first time I was insulted by a show and mad at the absolute laziness of the shows creators. The rest of these shows I don't remember at all except for Family Dog which was briefly mentioned. I remember watching one episode at the time and thinking it was pretty decent.
@TheReviewStudios The video timestamps are in the wrong order starting with Number 6 where Captiol Criiters is shown but My Little Pony Tales is listed and continues where Number1 Twinkle The Dream Being is shown but Super Dave is listed.
I do remember the "Fievel's American Tales" one due to having some of the movies & also because it aired between Disney's The Little Mermaid TV series & Garfield & Friends, 2 TV shows that I also watched at the time.
I only watched have known about half of these. The Adventures of T-Rex to me was way fun. Would absolutely buy the show on DVD if they'd ever release it. Last one I got was Denver the Last Dinosaur. EDIT: I just remembered, I actually have two episodes on VHS. I need to get out our old tape recorder and see if I can connect that to my PC to make sure they are secured whenever I have time off.
That’s crazy I remembered watching “Raw Toonage” after school but always thought it was Disneys “Marsupil” as the title. Thanks for clearing that mystery up for me 😅
Omg, I searched years for Raw Toonage to no avail. That theme song just randomly gets stuck in my head a few times a year and has since childhood. I just couldn't remember what it was called. I gave up on finding it. Then this video just pops up on my recommend. You sir are a legend. 😭
I remember Super Dave!!! I can't remember much of the show, but I do remember watching the live-action stunts at the end of each episode. But an animated series based on Fievel Goes West?! I had no idea. Other than those two, the rest I have never heard of.
Was 12 in 92 and Capital Critters and Fish Police are what I remember best. I remember Little Pony Tales, the Plucky Duck Show, and Super Dave, but most of the rest of these I don't recall at all.
Found this video because I recently found Capitol Critters and was searching for content about it. Such a strange but interesting show that I never ran into back in 92. Plucky Duck has got to be one of the laziest shows ever made, just a rehash of Tiny Toons episodes already made disguised as an actual new show. My Little Pony Tales was actually kind of strangely mean spirited at times.
Wow, I think The Adventures of T-Rex was buried somewhere in my subconscious, and popped out only when I watched this. I wonder what else is hiding in my brain somewhere, lol? Thanks for this trip down memory lane. Oh, and I remember my mom liked Fish Police. It...wasn't my favorite, though.
Holy carp Fish police! The memories of this show has been living rent free in my head for decades. I thought my memory of seeing it on TV one evening as a kid was something that may not have been real. Its good to know that animated film noir fish was actually a thing that happened.
I remember quite liking T-Rex. I also remember that Fish Police happened, though always thought it was a fever dream or that I got it mixed up with Dog City.
Fish Police has taught us that if you’re looking for media featuring anthropomorphic sea creatures…you’re better off just playing Splatoon. Thanks for the video!
Of all of these, I only recognize and remember (fondly) Adventures of T-Rex and Fievel's American Tails, but that's one of the prices you pay for being a rural Aussie kid in the 90s.
It's pretty uncommon to recall some of these shows, even here in the US. I have never met another adult where I live that remembers T-Rex, and when I bring up the jazz angle, they assume I'm making it up.
All i remembered from Fish Police was watching the opening as a toddler, it was so long ago i thought it was something i imagined but seeing it here now it's definitely going on my watch list
2 seasons of 13 episodes and we were trying to stick with single season picks still for 92. We've since widened the criteria a bit. So if we journey back through for honorable mentions of titles that got passed over King Arthur will definitely make a list. Thanks for asking!
Oh all these shows I can only remember watching Super Dave as a kid and later seeing the first episode of Capital Critters as a teen on Cartoon network. I thought Super Dave was OK and was indifferent to Critters. I vaguely remember Raw Toonage for some reason after seeing this but barely, as in the opening feels like its something I might have seen. I can remember the theme song for the Plucky Duck show but since it was later reused I can't remember if I saw it on the original show first.
I only saw some of these cartoons that I enjoyed growing up like: Fievel's American Tails, Plucky Duck, My Little Pony Tales, Raw Toonage and Capital Critters.
I do remember all but one, Twinkle. Got some of the Burger King toys for Capitol Critters you had mentioned along with a few figures that I got off Ebay about 15 years ago.
Stunt Dawgs had a pretty good theme tune, I used to end up watching it because it was on before a show I wanted to watch so I recall it well. Lot of these shows I remember being around but never really saw much of them.
Around number five, I was starting to think that these were the less obscure entries, since I remembered all of them. Then you hit number one; I’d never even heard of it until this video😂
Oh man I literally forgot a lotta and I'm not absolutely familar with some of those shows except for that Plucky Ducky spinoff which I only watched once lol.
T-Rex was pretty good. It was one of those Sunday morning syndicated cartoons in my area. Raw Toonage was okay too but it seems like Disney kept reworking the anthology gimmick over and over again since it begat Mickey Mouse Works then House of Mouse
Fish Police, in my opinion, was way ahead of its time. I thought it was a bad idea for Hanna Barbera given the idea of a mature-themed animated series would seem like a good idea (up until South Park entered the picture in 1997) in a era where The Simpsons were all the rage and became a cult phenomenon on FOX and some short-lived shows failed to adapt and copy the humor and pop culture formula of what made Bart Simpson the inventor of 90’s cool characters. But Fish Police have a great solid cast including Tim Curry, John Ritter (RIP), Jonathan Winters, Ed Asner, Frank Welker, Buddy Hackett and guest characters voiced by the great Rob Paulson (Yakko from “Animaniacs” and Pinky from “Pinky and the Brain”) and Phil “The Phone Patrol” Hartman.
I think it was a bad idea to make a show/comic book about fish. Jim Henson's Dog City is basically the same concept but superior for the simple reason that people like dogs. Dogs are cute. Fish are not cute, fish are ugly. It's unappealing for the same reason Shark Tale was unappealing. It's the same reason people love dog videos and dogs are all over social media. No one makes fish videos.
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Richard, Don't call me Dick, Fungus.
That name had to opposed off a couple moms
I'm really enjoying both the content and presentation of the channel. The CRT TV graphic is such a great way to show videos in the old 4:3 ratio. These lists of failed shows spark long dormant memories. The rundowns of each show are the perfect combo of comprehensive yet to the point. And the additions of promotional commercials, show lead ins (the ABC Claymation ones hit the nostalgia bullseye), and other things of the era are the cherry on top. Keep up the great work.
@@zombiepicnic9683 ruclips.net/video/VJAVDbKEpUQ/видео.html&ab_channel=BuddyBoy600alt-TheMarsupilamiMasterofRUclips I have the episode of Raw Toonage The CRT TV graphic on my video is based on the Sampo Tri Screen Color TV (Model #9519).
@zombiepicnic9683 appreciate it yeah its impossible to find clips, not in 4:3 aspects, and zoomed in looks horrible, so it makes sense to do something nostalgic. Those ABC bumpers are something you never forget, especially the cowboy. The youtube ad breaks always seem harsh cut, so it made sense to add those. More to come, thank you.
@@TheReviewStudios Actually, It was on NBC. Not ABC.
In the third Simpsons Halloween Special during Dial Z for Zombies, we see tombstones for both Fish Police and Capitol Critters in the Springfield pet cemetery. There's also a tombstone for Family Dog, which was an animated series going through a very troubled production at that time.
Awesome thanks
I think I remember those shows more because of those tombstones than I do from actually remembering the shows themselves.
I remember Family Dog. The dog doesn't talk, but we see his daily life from his point of view. Looking back on it, he didn't deserve to live with that family because they acted like they hated him! They always referred to him as "Stupid Dog!"
@@melissacooper8724Family Dog was great
@@TobeyStarburst I agree. I loved the title character! I would adopt him in 10 seconds flat! ❤️ At least I would've given him lots of love and attention than the Binsfords!
I do remember catching a few of these shows back in the day. As a kid you never know if a show got cancelled or if you're just never catching it.
haha I remember asking my parents why it was so hard to find the Get Along Gang on TV and they told me it was probably cancelled- I didn't realize shows ENDED.
😂 I never remember SHOWS gettin canceled either.... probably because the 90's always had somethin NEW around the corner!
Oh. My. God. Sir, you have NO idea how much you've blown my mind out of it's skull. I only remember one.... ONE episode once of Fievel's American Tails and it was the end of the episode and that was it. I don't remember anything else but that one moment. It was like, maybe 30 seconds. And I never saw it again, I didn't know if it was real or a fever dream. Then I clicked your video and saw, "Fievel's American Tails" and I exploded with a scream so loud it scared my dog.
awesome
I think The Plucky Duck Show only having one original episode was intentional and was partially a joke. Why else would the pilot be about him ditching his own spin off
I enjoyed this show for the brief time it was on, despite the recycling of Tiny Toons Episodes. I believe The Plucky Duck Show and Pinky and the Brain had all the potential to be decent spin offs of their respective shows, yet there were only a few episodes between the two, and then they were gone.
Fun Fact: Lenore Zann - best known for voicing Rogue in X-Men TAS - also provided the voice of Sizzle in Stunt Dawgs.
I remember stunt dawgs
And Harvey Atkins-better know for voicing King Bowser Koopa on the Super Mario Bros cartoons- was the voice of Bad Year and Half A Mind.
That's a fun fact?
I thought you said it was fun... 😔
And Bunny in Sonic the Hedgehog
Up until about 4 years ago, I genuinely thought T-Rex was a fever dream I had.
I thought I had imagined that show...😮
@@LegitHarpyHunterI never even heard of this show until today.
Me too. I've been trying to find what it was called until today
As I understand, Bonkers was in development first and the producers decided that if Bonkers was to be a cartoon star, he need to have a collection of shorts to show him at work.
So they developed the Bonkers segments and took advantage of the Marsupilami license and created Totally Tasteless Videos as well to round out the series so they could make a go of the series Raw Toonage while the Bonkers project was delayed by changing the premise with the male companion as opposed to Miranda Wright.
Bonkers was basically a Roger Rabbit proxy.
Interesting thanks
@@eddierascalhaskell4954 Of course it was. Disney obviously wanted Roger Rabbit without Spielberg's co-ownership. Too bad, the Bonkers series was such a mess, even with the Miranda Wright episodes.
@@kchishol1970 I was juss throwing it out there...wasnt sure the details needed to be specific🙄
I liked Bonkers
@@kchishol1970
Legitimately loved My Little Pony Tales and, to this day, get that theme song stuck in my head.
I didn't care for it as a kid, missing the fantasy. As an adult, ironically, I can enjoy it for what it's actually trying to be.
I was born in the 90s and never saw it but even I knew the theme song immediately. My older sister loved it. Surprising that this one was such a failure especially since the newer shows were a massive hit.
Might have been due to unfamiliarity with the characters....?
The toys for the Tales characters were exclusive to Europe, and to this day are quite sought after, they also only made the main girls and none of the boys/secondary characters.
@@purrfectscrapper
NGL...I know this was a girly cartoon... but I enjoyed watching it when I was home for school
*MLP: FiM and Equestria Girls were better*
But I like some of the old ones... I guess.
Raw Toonage was one of my favorite Saturday morning shows.
And thanks to Dupuis we won't ever see those anymore, if not legally mandated I don't doubt Disney destroyed the masters on their own volition
I don't remember it, but I was very surprised to see Webbigail was apparently popular enough to be on it.
When it comes to this particular video, the only one I remember watching the most was the Plucky Duck show, and that's only because I absolutely love Tiny Tune Adventures. As a child of the 90s, we had it made when it comes to the amount of cartoons that was on TV.
Well said!
@@kalgrove6426 thanks, much appreciate it. So many childhood memories watching a bunch of cartoons.
@jajuangordy4394, there are some videos on youtube that talk about how late 80s and 90s cartoons were like a golden age of tv animation
@@keithtorgersen9664 yes you are correct. I did came across some of those videos on RUclips and it really was the golden age of cartoons on television. I was born in 1986 so I was right in the middle of all those cartoons that came on TV, especially throughout the 90s. I know there were a lot of cartoons before I was even born and I love those cartoons as well.
@jajuangordy4394, same here, what a time to be a kid
As an avid 7 year old 1992 TV watcher, I very vaguely remember having watched Fish Police, My Little Pony Tales (highly objectionable as a boy…), the Fievel show, and the Super Dave show (mom thought it was stupid). Never heard of the rest of them. The “After these messages” clips brought a welcome wave of nostalgia.
I agreed with your mom
I'm amazed there weren't proto-Bronies (Bronies that argue that the earlier MLP cartoons were better than MLP:FiM) back when My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic came out. The only interesting thing about FiM is the fandom that came from it and just how any piece of media can have weird and toxic followers to them, but also those who enjoy it and don't take it as seriously.
Ironically, despite being 12 in '92, the two shows from this list I remember watching the most are Capitol Critters and Fish Police. I have no memory of Stunt Dawgs and this surprises me since it was the show before Beetlejuice(a show I liked a lot) - I guess there must have been a cartoon on a different channel I watched before switching over
I definitely remember the promos for Fish police it showed all the celebrities in the studio voicing their characters in a side by side screen in each commercial for it
Tiny Toon adventures did a similar thing With Cree Summers, Danny Cooksy and Tress MacNille
I only recall watching Capital Critters. Which I loved!
I was 6yrs old when T-Rex came out and the only thing I loved more than dinosaurs at that time was cartoons. I LOVED THAT SHOW! The theme song still randomly pops into my brain.
You must have enjoyed the dinosaurs series. I really liked dinos growing up as well.
"That's the kind of culture that needs treatin' with a strong antibiotic!"
Loved Family Dog as a kid, long before it was its own show, it was just an animated episode on Steven Spielberg's TV show
Amazing Stories. They made such a hype that the episode would be fully animated, that my family recorded it, and I watched it over and
over again. I still have that original airing on a VHS tape somewhere complete with the commercials. I was happy when it got made into a show, and
sad it was cancelled so fast.
If I remember Family Dog was completed in 1991 but they were so disappointed in it they didn’t show it for another 2 years and burned it off over the summer as they knew there would be no more. It explains why the video game came out when it did
Interesting thanks
Wow. The series is on RUclips. The pilot is one of the worst things I've ever seen. Truly awful.
They should have had one of the family members be nice and loving and close to the dog, going with all of the family being truly awful made the show something that was just deeply unpleasant
So, last night, your 10 Failed TV Show from 1992 popped up on my RUclips recommended next video, so I gave it shot, liked it, and subscribed. Watched through several of your other videos along the same lines. Now even though I wasn't even born yet, a few I knew about due to VHS Recordings dad had, this video, not so much, but some of them do actually sounds like it could have been an interesting watch. In closing I'll like to say thank you for these videos, and keep up the good work.
I truly appreciate that. Thank you for taking the time to share.
I remember "Capitol Critters" from the Kenner toy catalog that I spent much of 1992 leafing through. It stuck in my mind because all the other action figures in there came from popular franchises but then there was this page of little animals with weapons that was utterly foreign to me. That was all I ever saw or heard about "Capitol Critters" besides a brief mention on "The Simpsons."
I remember the strong comparisons to the Simpsons in the entertainment tonight coverage of Capitol Critters
I remember capitol critters....and fish police
I think that I remember that catalog!
Fish Police and Capitol Critters were both created following the success of The Simpsons, but neither of them lasted very long, to the point where the Treehouse of Horror III episode segment, "Dial Z For Zombies" had both of those names, along with Family Dog, on gravestones in the Springfield Pet Cemetery.
That’s f***ed up😂😂😂
Capitol Critters ran for 7 episodes (out of 13 produced). The remaining 6 eventually aired a few years later on Cartoon Network.
depends on your point of view, they gave those toons a funeral, whereas the rest of the world pretty much just cast them away.@@mr.uncleg5307
@@mr.uncleg5307 lol they definitely reveled in the deaths of their copycats and competitors.
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The Adventures of T-Rex was one of my favorites. Would watch it every morning before school. Super Dave being another favorite of mine and awesome to watch. It really made me laugh every Saturday morning. I remember the live action stuntman actor making an appearance at In Living Color one day as their guest DJ.
Same here!
Hey there! New to the channel. I love it! Very nostalgic for my wife and I. We were both kids during this era. Our kids will never know or understand, that network television, was all we had. I completely forgot about a good chunk of these failed shows. So, it’s a constant, “ OH YEAH! I forgot about this one!!! “ Love it! Keep em coming!
Thanks, yeah, even the singing cowboy bumper is nostalgic for me. I'm glad you both enjoyed it.
I remember T-Rex being played in European syndication for years on end. It was an unique concept for that time and always worth the 30 minutes
Wow. Never seen it before in the UK
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Capital Critters should never be canceled in the first place. 😀👍🐭
Oh wow. I totally thought that Plucky Duck show was like a special of Tiny Toons. I had no idea it was a full blown show.
I can distinctly remember watching T-Rex and Stunt Dawgs as a kid.
They were at least effective distractions for my young mind.
Haha I remember that “after these messages, we’ll be right back” bumper that played before commercial breaks!!!!
Not only do I remember Stunt Dawgs, I remember this one funny line from the villain "I hate bats! They look like the inside of a burrito."
I'm definitely just being dumb here, but after thinking about this for ten minutes.... I do not get the joke. At all. Can you explain it ?
I'm definitely just being an idiot and missing something obvious.
@@medes5597 I guess the brown splatter of mushed beans is like the color of a bat, and the cheese is like veins. It's the kind of dumb joke my childhood self would think is funny.
I remember the opening song from Stunt Dogs, and that one of the characters was named Sizzle. Other than that, I can't remember too much about it.
@@co81385 there was a comic for this one as well.
"I despise you!"
Super Dave had a cult following among teenage boys and college stoners in the mid/late 80s and some of us younger kids were aware of him and had probably snuck a look at it during a free trial weekend of HBO. This kind of unintended crossover from adult humor to children's isn't all that new.
Man these one hit wonder cartoons gave a certain charm. I miss the Saturday mornings.
I loved watching Super Dave!
Rip Dave Osborne
C.O.P.S was an AMAZING series! I remember the policeman who had magic handcuffs that automatically went for bad guys wrists lol
It’s on RUclips
@hatednyc its crime fighting time lol
I remember The adventures of T-Rex constantly got the time slot and days changed which irritated me as I enjoyed the show 😂😂😂
@@hatednycTUBI had all the old school cartoons.
I believe it's Tubi and you're right that was a really amazing show it was one of the early Saturday morning cartoons I used to watch
Stunt Dawgz had the best themetune of any cartoon. Still sing it to myself from time to time 32 years later.
About the Marsupilami, I'm Belgian and we were very disappointed by poor treatment to one of our iconic cartoons. Franquin (his creator) was so angry he sued Disney and won the argument. Disney went until the bitter end. Franquin died of old age but Disney lost anyways.
The anime picturing Marsupilami aired in 2000 was way more faithful to the cartoon.
Disney really wasted his homework, lied to Marsu productions and showed it's ugliest face.
A great piece of art turned into a rubbish scrapbook.
Marsupilami is still popular and Franquin is a legend. Not bad!
Thank you for this bit of information. I need to check out the original.
That 2000 "anime" was a French show done by Marathon Media of Totally Spies! fame.
I was amazed at all the Belgian comic books you get while there on holiday. I thought they had gone away as they have in the UK, with no comics in shops at all here now outside of Beano. I used to love Belgian comic series as a kid.
@@ExtremeWreckTotally Spies was awesome. Used to watch it a lot when it was on POP on UK Freeview a few years back.
That explains why the show (and, by proxy, Raw Toonage) is not on Disney Plus. There's some kind of court order or lawsuit forbidding it.
Jessica Rabbit has got nothing on that fish lady.
If anyone thinks that My Little Pony Tales was just for little girls, you obviously never saw "Rescue from Midnight Castle" which was extremely dark for a kid's movie.
Dom DeLuise still voiced his cat character from American Tail.
_Rescue at Midnight Castle_ was part of the original 1984 show, not _My Little Pony Tales_
@DickTracy30, didn’t know that.
P3d0s alert
I'll definitely take Jessica Rabbit over that fish lady any day of the week. No offense, Dom Deluise is perfect for Tiger the cat, or the small dog from All Dogs Go To Heaven, or the homeless guy from Oliver And Company, Stanley the troll from A Troll In Central Park was his worst role for sure
You have a thing for fish
I’m fully convinced staff on Adventures of T-Rex later worked on the Kirby Right back at you dub
I remember almost all of these from my childhood with the exceptions of T-Rex and Twinkle. I've actually got pretty fond memories of Capitol Critters, though my positive impressions of Fish Police and Stunt Dawgs might not survive going back and rewatching them. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, either way, though!
Just watched a bunch of your videos. That's it you got a sub right here. Great content. Ill be 41 in December. I remember alot of this stuff if not thoroughly at least images in my head about em.
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I actully remember Fish Police airing randomly one time on Cartoon Network in the early nineties, ca. 1997-1998. I imagine it was one of those foreign produced shows Cartoon Network UK got as part of some licensing deal (like Fat Dog Mendoza or Tabaluga) that they legally HAD to air, but which they only aired when most kids would be on their way to school, or would still be asleep.
The kind of shows you only caught if you had one school day per week start an hour early for some reason, or if you are staying home sick.
Wait, one day a week where school would start an hour early? What kind of cruel practice is that? Is it exclusively a UK thing? We had what they called a minimum day on mondays, where school would get out an hour early though
@@Jigardo I'm not from the UK, but we had that once a week, yeah.
Little Pony Tales is a show my sister, even as an adult, can vent about passionately. The original series was much like the modern FIM series that was so popular, set in a magical fantasy land, where as MLP tales was a slice of life show about the same mundane dramas as any other tween girls show, homework, crushes on boys, and so on, set in a big city.
Agreed. Tales would've worked just as well with human protagonists.
Except for the fact that magic secretly exists in Tales (as seen by the appearance of the Glow 'n Show Ponies), hinting that it exists parallel to (or perhaps in the future of?) the world seen in MLP & Friends ;)
Stunt Dawgs was a guilty pleasure of mine when I was young. It came on in this weird after school block followed up by Sky Surfers Strike Force and Superhuman Samurai, two more guilty pleasures for me.
This video reminded just how I liked Raw Toonage. So much so, that I closely followed Bonkers and Marsupilami when they got their solo shows. Bonkers especially, considering I was the kid that grew wanting to be a cop. All things remotely related to the police had my attention.
Sky surfer has a bit if history though. It was ruby spears final show
Did you become a cop?
@@DC4LHO33 Military and civilian.
I was in jr high when Stunt Dawgs came out. Over 30 years later, I am still quoting Richard Fungus and Airball. Best part is that no one remembers that show, so no know gets the references so they think I am oddly original.
I had capital critter toys. They were made out of foam and I think there was wire underneath. I had a couple mice a rat and a roach with a striped shirt. Think maybe 5 all together. Over time the foam kind of disintegrated and they fell apart in places. May been because of handling them broke down the foam.
I played the heck out of them.
I had those toys also and absolutely loved them (and the show as well actually)
Nice series, I was a teenager in the 90's and had gotten a lil too old for cartoons at that point. I hadn't even heard of a bunch of these. :D
I’ll never forget seeing the Bonkers Short in the Hollywood Theatre in Mattydale NY. A core memory for sure!
I remember Capitol Critters. I watched it very often around 2000. Didn't know there was only 7 episodes.
Not sure I would completely call The Adventures of T-Rex a failure. Back in those days there used to be 52/65 episode cartoons created to blitz syndication right off the bat. They were not designed or expected to get more than that. I would even say they won out in the end, since I doubt several of those cartoons would have gotten anywhere near that episode count if they had gone for the traditional 13 episode per season route.
I remember wqatching the American tale cartoon. From what I remember it was good and I always wondered why it was so short lived but that was the norm for a ton of cartoons back then.
That wasn’t John Cleese as the cat it was Dom DeLuise
Yeah, I definitely screwed that up. I was talking about Cat R Waul and showed a clip of Tiger. Sorry about that.
@@TheReviewStudios S'alright; Though in the TV Series, Gerrit Graham was voicing Cat R. Waul, not John Cleese; I will say Gerrit does a convincing John Cleese impression more than Jeff Bennett.
I remember one episode of capital critters, where a rodent gets a squirrel high on drugs, I also remember watching raw Toonage
I actually really liked the Super Dave Osborne cartoon. I used to watch it every week when it was on. The Plucky Duck Show, on the other hand, was something I was really looking forward to until I realized all but the first segment was recycled stuff that was already shown on Tiny Toons. I remember that being the first time I was insulted by a show and mad at the absolute laziness of the shows creators. The rest of these shows I don't remember at all except for Family Dog which was briefly mentioned. I remember watching one episode at the time and thinking it was pretty decent.
Such a letdown, thanks for watching
@TheReviewStudios The video timestamps are in the wrong order starting with Number 6 where Captiol Criiters is shown but My Little Pony Tales is listed and continues where Number1 Twinkle The Dream Being is shown but Super Dave is listed.
Thanks for the heads up! And thank you for watching too!
A villain called Dick Fungus? The stuff that they could get away with in the 90's was incredible.
I do remember the "Fievel's American Tales" one due to having some of the movies & also because it aired between Disney's The Little Mermaid TV series & Garfield & Friends, 2 TV shows that I also watched at the time.
Watched capitol critters as a european child and had no idea what was going on
somehow the theme songs are still kicking around my brain 30 years later (age 8 in 1992) but I can't bring up any detail from most of these shows haha
I make sure to add each theme song because that's what triggers the memories for me. It's amazing how that works.
Thank you for the video 🎉n Happy New Year 🎉
You're welcome, happy new year
I only watched have known about half of these. The Adventures of T-Rex to me was way fun. Would absolutely buy the show on DVD if they'd ever release it. Last one I got was Denver the Last Dinosaur.
EDIT: I just remembered, I actually have two episodes on VHS. I need to get out our old tape recorder and see if I can connect that to my PC to make sure they are secured whenever I have time off.
That’s crazy I remembered watching “Raw Toonage” after school but always thought it was Disneys “Marsupil” as the title. Thanks for clearing that mystery up for me 😅
no problem, I loved Marsupilami I still remember the theme song
Omg, I searched years for Raw Toonage to no avail. That theme song just randomly gets stuck in my head a few times a year and has since childhood. I just couldn't remember what it was called. I gave up on finding it. Then this video just pops up on my recommend.
You sir are a legend. 😭
I remember Super Dave!!! I can't remember much of the show, but I do remember watching the live-action stunts at the end of each episode. But an animated series based on Fievel Goes West?! I had no idea. Other than those two, the rest I have never heard of.
Was 12 in 92 and Capital Critters and Fish Police are what I remember best. I remember Little Pony Tales, the Plucky Duck Show, and Super Dave, but most of the rest of these I don't recall at all.
Fish Police had some cast. I've never seen any of these, so thanks!
Yes, it's a pretty amazing cast. Thanks for watching.
Ive been trying to remember the name of capitol criters for years. Like 20ish tbh. Thank you for existing.
Found this video because I recently found Capitol Critters and was searching for content about it. Such a strange but interesting show that I never ran into back in 92. Plucky Duck has got to be one of the laziest shows ever made, just a rehash of Tiny Toons episodes already made disguised as an actual new show. My Little Pony Tales was actually kind of strangely mean spirited at times.
Hey, thanks for checking out the video and sharing.
Only one I ever remember seeing was Capitol Critters. The first episode aired in prime time in my area and then I never saw it again.
I remember watching Fievel and Super Dave. Both were fun.
Wow, I think The Adventures of T-Rex was buried somewhere in my subconscious, and popped out only when I watched this. I wonder what else is hiding in my brain somewhere, lol? Thanks for this trip down memory lane.
Oh, and I remember my mom liked Fish Police. It...wasn't my favorite, though.
Holy carp Fish police! The memories of this show has been living rent free in my head for decades. I thought my memory of seeing it on TV one evening as a kid was something that may not have been real. Its good to know that animated film noir fish was actually a thing that happened.
Yes!
I remember quite liking T-Rex. I also remember that Fish Police happened, though always thought it was a fever dream or that I got it mixed up with Dog City.
“You athletically trained woman of the 90s” is something I have to start calling my friends.
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Fish Police has taught us that if you’re looking for media featuring anthropomorphic sea creatures…you’re better off just playing Splatoon.
Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching.
Of all of these, I only recognize and remember (fondly) Adventures of T-Rex and Fievel's American Tails, but that's one of the prices you pay for being a rural Aussie kid in the 90s.
It's pretty uncommon to recall some of these shows, even here in the US. I have never met another adult where I live that remembers T-Rex, and when I bring up the jazz angle, they assume I'm making it up.
You don't like that music from the opening of 'American Tales'? I was thinking how good it was.
Stunt Dawgs was the morning cartoon i akways wonder if I'm the only one who remembers!
Thank you!
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I loved Super Dave, and I was thrilled by his guest spot on Arrested Development years later.
All i remembered from Fish Police was watching the opening as a toddler, it was so long ago i thought it was something i imagined but seeing it here now it's definitely going on my watch list
I had to look it up and it aired in 92. No King Arthur and the knights of justice?
2 seasons of 13 episodes and we were trying to stick with single season picks still for 92. We've since widened the criteria a bit. So if we journey back through for honorable mentions of titles that got passed over King Arthur will definitely make a list. Thanks for asking!
The ones I remember were the Fievel and Super Dave cartoons. I didn’t really watch either.
Oh all these shows I can only remember watching Super Dave as a kid and later seeing the first episode of Capital Critters as a teen on Cartoon network. I thought Super Dave was OK and was indifferent to Critters.
I vaguely remember Raw Toonage for some reason after seeing this but barely, as in the opening feels like its something I might have seen. I can remember the theme song for the Plucky Duck show but since it was later reused I can't remember if I saw it on the original show first.
Out of all these the one I actually remember best of all was T-Rex, I used to love watching that one.
I only saw some of these cartoons that I enjoyed growing up like: Fievel's American Tails, Plucky Duck, My Little Pony Tales, Raw Toonage and Capital Critters.
Wow i remember almost all these but The Adventures of Trex missed me completely
I do remember all but one, Twinkle. Got some of the Burger King toys for Capitol Critters you had mentioned along with a few figures that I got off Ebay about 15 years ago.
yeah I didn't remember Twinkle either
I loved Stunt Dawgs. Thanks for the video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks
I remember watching Fievel's American Tails and Raw Toonage.
Adventures of T-Rex was real!?! Just brought me back!
Stunt Dawgs had a pretty good theme tune, I used to end up watching it because it was on before a show I wanted to watch so I recall it well. Lot of these shows I remember being around but never really saw much of them.
I loved Stunt Dawgs but it always seemed to be on too early for me to easily watch it. The theme song is easily in the Top 5 of 90s cartoon shows.
The Adventures of T-Rex was one my favorites! I had completely forgotten about it until I watched this video!
I used to love watching T-Rex and Capitol Critters (Mäuse an die Macht (Mice to Power) in Germany)
Around number five, I was starting to think that these were the less obscure entries, since I remembered all of them. Then you hit number one; I’d never even heard of it until this video😂
I remember most of these... especially family dog, fish police, capital critters, and the plucky duck show!
Glad to see someone, anyone, remembering Stunt Dawgs besides myself.
thats so cool I saw all of these. Life with no internet was hard and filled with so many reruns. Fawn Deer was hot.
I remember Stunt Dawgs and Super Dave, I heard of My Little Pony Tales and Twinkle the Dream Being.
Oh man I literally forgot a lotta and I'm not absolutely familar with some of those shows except for that Plucky Ducky spinoff which I only watched once lol.
Out of all these, i only remember Super Dave, & Capitol Critters.
T-Rex was pretty good. It was one of those Sunday morning syndicated cartoons in my area.
Raw Toonage was okay too but it seems like Disney kept reworking the anthology gimmick over and over again since it begat Mickey Mouse Works then House of Mouse
Fish Police, in my opinion, was way ahead of its time. I thought it was a bad idea for Hanna Barbera given the idea of a mature-themed animated series would seem like a good idea (up until South Park entered the picture in 1997) in a era where The Simpsons were all the rage and became a cult phenomenon on FOX and some short-lived shows failed to adapt and copy the humor and pop culture formula of what made Bart Simpson the inventor of 90’s cool characters. But Fish Police have a great solid cast including Tim Curry, John Ritter (RIP), Jonathan Winters, Ed Asner, Frank Welker, Buddy Hackett and guest characters voiced by the great Rob Paulson (Yakko from “Animaniacs” and Pinky from “Pinky and the Brain”) and Phil “The Phone Patrol” Hartman.
Fish Police was definitely before it's time. It's still funny now, and such an amazing voice cast.
@KadeemG61, don’t forget about King of the Hill.
I think it was a bad idea to make a show/comic book about fish. Jim Henson's Dog City is basically the same concept but superior for the simple reason that people like dogs. Dogs are cute. Fish are not cute, fish are ugly. It's unappealing for the same reason Shark Tale was unappealing. It's the same reason people love dog videos and dogs are all over social media. No one makes fish videos.
@@matane2465there are some funny fish videos out there on RUclips.