Do you remember a series that was on Mtv at the same time called The Brothers Grunt? I don't remember all that much, but it was pretty weird. Made by Danny Antonucci who later created Ed, Edd n Eddy.
I remember "Problem Child", especially because they got Gilbert Gottfried to reprise his role as Mr. Peabody. I knew "Free Willy" and "Beethoven" existed, but never actually watched those cartoons.
They have it on Tubi. Still great if you can look past the budget issues. Jean Chalopin did a great job making classic Conan stories accessible to kids.
It would have worked better if it was PG-13 and not in a "Kid"s time slot I think. I saw it and went "O-o'" It just... felt like something that was too dark for kids TV.
It was stylized as 80s Japanese anime. Watched it as a kid and it was awesome and found the entire series on a DVD at the library and it was actually still awesome to watch as an adult. Would suggest
I loved the 1990s toons either it has darker images even adult innuendos written by the best writers. I missed my original childhood cartoons but rewatching them should be a real treat. Much better of some bad cartoons if they examine the old cartoons we grow up with. Great vid, man. 😊
A fun fact about the Battletech series: It's canonically been folded into the greater BT Universe as a thing that happened, in Battletech itself. In lore, it was a propaganda cartoon made to drum up support for the FedCom-Kurita alliance's campaign to dislodge the Clans from Rasalhague Republic space and push them out of the Inner Sphere. The actual, in-universe Adam Steiner thought it was stupid, but he conceded it was at least worth it because the toy line raised a lot of war funds. Now THAT'S how you do canon.
The cartoon even got shown in Clan Space. Especially by those clans who didn't like Clan Jade Falcon. It did a number on the reputation of the in-universe Nicolai Malthus, though.
Another great detail is that Nicholai Malthus tried to sue the showrunners over his portrayal on the show, and when the judge threw the case away, Nicholai tried to Batchal him.
Kinda sad how a lot of these didn’t gain much success due to factors like bad timeslots. Under different circumstances, I can see a lot of these series doing very well.
I've always viewed the 8:00 am and the 11:30 am timeslot as the death slot. Well for kids WB anyway. Those slots always seemed to have shows that they didn't have too much faith in or their season was about to be up and they were ready to move on. There was only one show that survived the 11:30 am slot without being kicked off the block and that was Yu-gi-Oh.
@@TheReviewStudios Skeleton warriors had a neat concept, but... just... a concept many people would see as gross. A lot of the others were just too silly, and nonsensical... then you have one that's just a bit... boring (Battletech).
@@Toonamp were you in central time cause it was 7am on the east coast which why was freakazoid failed only pokemon and yugioh would wake me up.that early and even then it was rough.
Fun fact about the Battletech cartoon. They wrote it into cannon as an in-universe propaganda cartoon aired to the Inner Sphere during the Clan Invasion. So while the events of the cartoon aren't cannon, the cartoon itself is.
Some events were canon, but they said exggerated. The jade falcon guy turned out canonical was a giant man child, the woman who was his protégé loved the rep she got from the show. The dragonconise guy ended up ascending to the throne, etc.
@otakuryoga 0 seconds ago huh.. that must have come way later all i remember at the time was every BT fan hating it for the way the Falcons just ignored Clan Warfare Rules so much and the big retcons they had to do about how there was suddenly always a 2nd planet that had been freed from the clans behind the Tukayyid line
Attention, Somerset. I am Star Colonel Nikolai Malthus of the Jade Falcon Clan. A full Trinary stands ready to conquer your planet. What forces dare oppose us?
I definitely remember Marsupilami just from the character design alone. And I also remember the Skeleton Warriors intro but I never really watched either show as a kid. But they both have such strong design those little memories stuck with me.
I remember Marsupilami, both the Disney version and the French animated series that one is popular in Europe. The original creators weren’t happy with Disney’s Marsupilami, that they sued Disney from producing and distributing anymore episodes. And it’s why Marsupilami and Raw Toonage aren’t available on streaming services.
@@Ani8900 "As of 2002, this program is no longer shown following a lawsuit filed against Disney for the breach of contract with use of the character Marsupilami in 1997 as the rights were handed back to Marsu Productions few years later." lol I wasn't sure, either
I remember being impressed by the Skeleton Warriors figures when a kid brought them in to school. Unfortunately, I read that they only released the villian action figures which made it harder to sell without any heroes in the toyline.
@@cooperminion825 They thought the gimmick of the titular characters would be enough to fly off shelves. Problem is those weren't the characters kids were rooting for
@@Scallywag96 ikr. Plus, the villains were probably the most expensive to make since they were literal skeletons. So they really lost a bunch of money with those toys
I am familiar with Marsupilami, Beethoven, Problem Child, and The Head. The rest, I've never heard of, but that Monster Force does indeed sound interesting, and looks like the first 9 of the 13 are on RUclips. Totally got to check them out. Thank you so much for this, did enjoy it.
As a child, I was lucky to see the entire Skeleton Warriors series, thanks to VHS tapes with good dubbing. I don't know who could not fall in love with this series after the intro starts. 🤩
I have the Skeleton Warriors on complete dvd set and I think I even have one of the action figures as well. Never saw the Conan and the kids show but I did love the Conan Adventurer show. What a fun show that was.
I'm STILL upset SatAM ended on a fucking cliffhanger dude, there's some folks called Team S3ason here working on a third season and it looks promising, but still gonna be a while I'm sure. I'm in the discord.
The Disney Marsupilami being set in Africa was a HUGE pet peeve of mine as a fan of the character, and also how cowardly he was when the actual Marsupilami is an absolute beasts who beats up jaguar, eats piranhas for lunch and will beat up humans with ease. In 2000 the French made their own animated adaptation which restored the rest of the Marsupilami's lore, including the setting and the Marsupilami's more animal nature (he doesn't talk for exemple), his mate and their kids, and the villainous hunter Bring M'Backalive. Most of it inspired by the Marsupilami solo adventure comics (Marsupilami first appeared in 1952 in a Spirou & Fantasio story). That version lasted 5 season and 130 episodes. There is also a live action movie that was released in 2012, one of the biggest hit of French cinema.
Oh yeah. Marsupilami is dynamite. My grandparents had a bunch of the old comics, and I remember how the little guy would get mad and wreck shit. Wrapped his tail into a ball and swung it around like a fist.
The Tick was pretty short lived too. It lasted longer than these but still, it only got 3 seasons when it should have lasted longer with how great it was.
I freaking LOVED Skeleton Warriors! I wish we'd gotten more of it, considering all the potential it had. I was a huge WildC.A.T.s fan too. I'd played some of the Battletech games, so I got really excited when the animated series started. I think it was a little much for people who didn't know anything about the world. Monster Force was one of my FAVORITE cartoons in the 90s. I loved the concept. I also watched Conan and the Young Warriors every week. And its predecessor, for that matter. It was just really fun, and there wasn't a lot for us fantasy fans.
The Head was like an amazing fever dream as a kid. I got to watch a few episodes at my eventual step brother's place, since they had cable. I was super into it, but then it disappeared. The only release it ever had was a few episodes on VHS. Otherwise you had to buy a bootleg set. Luckily, probably 10 years ago now, the original creator actually started making his own DVD sets to sell from his website. I bought one, watched it with a friend, and absolutely loved it.
I will give them that. The only thing I remember about 1990s-early 2000s MTV were the cartoons it had, like Beavis and Butthead, Daria (which, if you can believe it, was a spinoff to B&B), that clay cartoon where celebrities fight each other, Cartoon Sushi, Liquid Television, the original Clone High (which looked a lot like this short-lived Cartoon Network show Time Squad), and 3 South (made by Mark Hentamenn, who also worked on Family Guy back when it was just "The Simpsons" with random humor and made this short-lived 2016 cartoon called Bordertown).
@@canaisyoung3601Your thinking of celebrity death match lol n Daria was kinda a spin off of B&B but Mike Judge had nothing to do with it idk y i guess he just didn't care to work on the show but gave the creator permission to give Daria her own show
I remember wathcing a lot of these.. because they were on, not because I liked them, Marsupliami, Beethoven, Free Willy, Problem child. Skeleton warriors had a great theme song, Though I watched it and battle tech, Conan, long after the original release. The only one of these I watched at the time and liked was The Head, The Maxx was the best though
I guess I'm the only french dude here so I'll explain the Marsupilami thing. The Marsupilami was a beloved European comics created in the 50s! I guess the logic for the cartoon was: "The Smurfs" worked so let's try this. BTW Marsupilami was spined off from "Spirou" a HUGE comics in Europe, as big as Tintin. Voilà les amis !
I definitely remember MTV's Oddities show. Maxx was an Image comic book series. I loved this time in animation, as more shows were aimed at Teens and Young Adults. Was 15/16 yrs old in '94. I knew I would Never stop watching cartoons. 😅
I was definitely in the target demographic for these shows in 1994 and the only things I remember from this are the "after these messages well be right back" interstitials
I was 16 in 94, and i loved that head show. I remember thinking it looked terrible, and i was probably smoking something one night and it popped on and i was hooked. Same thing with Conan Obrien. I couldn't stand his face, and everyone loved him . Then, the same situation. But the 90s were odd.
I was 9 and I fucking LOVED The Head. I had cool parents, dad and I would always sit down with popcorn and watch all the "adult" animation liquid television had to offer. One of the best times of my life.
Monster Squad as a kid: This is so cool! Monster Squad as an adult: This ain’t for kids!! (I was surprised at the level of profanity for a kids’ film.)
I remember quite a few of these. I loved The Head for it's strangle premise and that is was a bit more grounded then The Maxx. The Conan series was a massive disappointment as it abandoned all the characters and elements of the good series. Free Willy felt like a low budget filler show. I mainly knew about it because it was set between Cro, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Reboot. But after an incident I couldn't watch Marsupilami. It was still on Raw Toonage and between how much chewed food was falling out of the gorilla's mouth, the constant mention of "A sweaty monkey," and a hard case of stomach flu. I felt like the show had caused me to be sick as much as the virus did.
Skeleton Warriors was an absolutely dope show. The toys were amazing as well and always wished for more seasons and toys. Also Mutant League was a fun show and the Hockey game for Sega was my favorite hockey game of all time.
I remember Skeleton Warriors, and I have some of the toys. I remember grabbing them up when K B Toys had them on clearance! I was hoping to see "Highlander : The Animated Series" that debuted in 1994 as well.
Thank you so much for doing this, I keep trying to explain to my son that kids' cartoons in the '90s had characters with giant nipple spikes and he looks at me like he's already picking out my nursing home for dementia. I don't dare tell him my high school had a student smoking area, too... 😂
Multi player battle tech to this day is one of the best Multi player games I've ever played. You could join one of the 6 houses and war with the other 5.
Skeleton Warriors is the definition of a cult show- too obscure for a big following, too good to be forgotten. (Shame there wasn't a comic continuation.) Speaking of comics, The Maxx is an underappreciated masterpiece. I wish I could explain it, but it gave a Generation X feel I never really got anywhere else. The Head was overhated. It was its own weird thing and that should be respected. I still like the guy with a lawnmower blade in his face.
Skeleton Warriors I remember. I also remember Battletech; finally finished watching the series here on YT. That cartoon introduced me to the franchise.
Only 1 of these caught me off guard. Conan and the Young Warriors. I followed the original show and I had no idea this spinoff even existed. Thanks man.
Some of these shows were poorly animated. Some stories and characters were the same thing you could see in other shows. Also, it was in the 90's that anime slowly began to become more popular around the world overshadowing US animated series.
Conan and the Young Adventurers as well as Skeleton Warriors showed up at a time where kids were done with sword and sorcery cartoons. Conan was lucky to have completed the story of the previous show. As far as the cartoons based off movies I can think of several more from the 80s and 90s that didn't fair so well including Ace Ventura and The Mask.
I think the difference in the Conan series was the first one ran in syndication and had a set 65 episode run while Conan and the Young Warriors is one of those make or break network deals, I remember it ran on CBS.
80s & 90s cartoons were the best. i loved all of the semi-pointless cartoons and video games that literally followed the coat-tails of whatever movies came out at the time. i loved LiquidTV, & Mtv's Oddities. The MaxXx, Aeon FLux, especially The Head that was a favorite. the awesome animation, the unique concepts just cant be replicated.
Oh man, I remember _all of these._ I was a little older than the probably intended audience (I was 13 in 1994...still a hardcore Saturday morning cartoon junkie, though!), and I was absolutely crazy for Monster Force. Skeleton Warriors was also a pretty good way to give me some of the old-school vibe (my childhood was back in the heyday of He-Man and She-Ra, and the like...Skeleton Warriors was a reasonable throwback with a darker edge to He-Man), but Monster Force was right up my alley as a spooky weirdo. And yeah, it kind of did have a feel of "Monster Squad meets sci-fi action" that hit the spot, seeing as I loved the heck out of that movie (one of my earliest forays into scary movies as a kid!).
Conan, Wildcats, X-men, Ultraforce, Mighty Maxx, Toxic Crusaders, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, Ronin Warriors, BTAS, Darkstalkers, and Spiderman were my favorites then. Still, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Skeleton Warriors, and Monster Force were a fun part of my 2nd phase of childhood cartons. My 1st phase was the best though G.I. Joe, TMNT, Transformers, Scooby Doo, Ducktales, Tailspin, Heathcliff, Ghostbuster and the Criminally underrated Dinosaucers, C.o.p.s & dino Riders that had awesome toys..
Skeleton Warriors and Conan I remember seeing sometimes on weekends on my local CBS out of Louisville Kentuck. I know my brothers watched them and the seasons of TMNT (that where still airing) but I couldn't tell you when they aired. Battletech and Monster Force aired Sundays on UPN as part of their Sunday Morning. It was a sister Channel to the local Fox which aired wrestling and infomercials Sunday mornings. Those channels being UPN Big 58 and Fox 41 out of Louisville Kentucky. I remember taping those because their aired when my family was at church.
Battletech had such promise but FASA(those who owned BattleTech) made a HUGE mistake announcing that what happened in the show was canon w/o being able to say NO if they didn't like where the show took things among others: it was well established in game that only one planet had resisted the invasion and was still sphere controlled behind the line of advance suddenly they had to retcon and there were two
1. Kind of? The character looks familiar. 2. No 3. No guts, no galaxy! Hell yeah. Fun Fact: BattleTech is a sprawling franchise across virtually every form of media. In the canon lore of this setting, this cartoon actually exists! It's anti-Clanner propaganda put out by Tharkan Media Associates in the Lyran Commonwealth. 4. No. 5. Now that you mentioned, I remember it existed. Not much beyond that though. 6. No. 7. No. 8. Sort of. See #5. 9. No. 10. I remember it. Hated it, was weird as all hell. But I remember it.
If I remember the mid 90s correctly, as a young teen, it seemed that the young people who were into Sci-fi gravitated towards anime, which was becoming more accessible via affordable DVDs at that time. It's no wonder these shows flopped, as many of them were also sci-fi but didn't have the quality and plot lines that the high quality anime movies did at that time. If a kid wanted "edgy funny" animation, cable TV offered South Park and Beavis n Butthead, which was more appealing.. these major non-cable networks couldn't have the same kind of edgy plot lines and gory animation, so they couldn't compete.
Skeleton Warriors was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I always had a hard time catching it on TV, so I never got to see the entire series until recently. Most of the other shows I either never heard of or only saw an episode of before moving on to other shows. Might check out Monster Force, if it's on RUclips.
Bonkers by Disney was a show that also had a troubled production that ultimately caused it to fail. Used to love it but I admittedly was confused by there being two different shows with the same character
Do you remember any of these ?
Do you remember a series that was on Mtv at the same time called The Brothers Grunt? I don't remember all that much, but it was pretty weird. Made by Danny Antonucci who later created Ed, Edd n Eddy.
The Head was awesome!
"Gork was a punk ass!"
I have a marsupilami vhs from it's very short run! I didn't realize it didn't last long, so it's odd they actually released cassettes of the series
Several of them yes.
I remember "Problem Child", especially because they got Gilbert Gottfried to reprise his role as Mr. Peabody. I knew "Free Willy" and "Beethoven" existed, but never actually watched those cartoons.
"Conan The adventurer" was not a failure; "Conan and the young warriors" was a fail.
Yeah, he literally said that in the video.
Great cartoon
Conan the adventurer was so awesome my goodness .
@@r.hughes5737it’s on TUBI
They have it on Tubi. Still great if you can look past the budget issues. Jean Chalopin did a great job making classic Conan stories accessible to kids.
Little kid me would've loved skeleton warriors. They look like they just stepped out of an iron maiden album cover
It would have worked better if it was PG-13 and not in a "Kid"s time slot I think. I saw it and went "O-o'" It just... felt like something that was too dark for kids TV.
This one has the skeleton waifu.
Great, Now how you're suppossed to smash her?!.
What if an Iron Mauden album cover was He-Man and the masters of the universe was it's theme.
Dude skeleton warriors was badass back in the day. He used to come on after pirates of dark water
One of the action figures has been immortalized in the movie Indian in the cupboard.
Skeleton Warriors looks metal af.
It was.
The toys were awesome
It was stylized as 80s Japanese anime. Watched it as a kid and it was awesome and found the entire series on a DVD at the library and it was actually still awesome to watch as an adult. Would suggest
Skeleton Warriors was actually vastly better then it ever had any right to be. Anyone who can watch the show should do it
That was a fun show
I loved the 1990s toons either it has darker images even adult innuendos written by the best writers. I missed my original childhood cartoons but rewatching them should be a real treat. Much better of some bad cartoons if they examine the old cartoons we grow up with. Great vid, man. 😊
Exo squad was great
I remember seeing Marsupilami stuff on TV, likes the character design but I don’t think I ever watched a single episode!
Check out the original comic character design
Did watch. Recall is absolutely zero. I don't remember a thing about the show's world or events.
@@Babbleplay Animal or person hunts him, he tricks them or the gorilla beats them, rinse and repeat
I thought he was bonkers I was super confused
Nobody watched it.
A fun fact about the Battletech series: It's canonically been folded into the greater BT Universe as a thing that happened, in Battletech itself. In lore, it was a propaganda cartoon made to drum up support for the FedCom-Kurita alliance's campaign to dislodge the Clans from Rasalhague Republic space and push them out of the Inner Sphere. The actual, in-universe Adam Steiner thought it was stupid, but he conceded it was at least worth it because the toy line raised a lot of war funds.
Now THAT'S how you do canon.
The cartoon even got shown in Clan Space. Especially by those clans who didn't like Clan Jade Falcon.
It did a number on the reputation of the in-universe Nicolai Malthus, though.
That is awesome
That may be the most insane instance of something being canon that I've ever heard.
I hope someone takes a 2nd crack at Battletech and includes a reference to the Clan kids show "Clan Spaniel"
Another great detail is that Nicholai Malthus tried to sue the showrunners over his portrayal on the show, and when the judge threw the case away, Nicholai tried to Batchal him.
Kinda sad how a lot of these didn’t gain much success due to factors like bad timeslots. Under different circumstances, I can see a lot of these series doing very well.
Definitely
I've always viewed the 8:00 am and the 11:30 am timeslot as the death slot. Well for kids WB anyway. Those slots always seemed to have shows that they didn't have too much faith in or their season was about to be up and they were ready to move on. There was only one show that survived the 11:30 am slot without being kicked off the block and that was Yu-gi-Oh.
@@TheReviewStudios Skeleton warriors had a neat concept, but... just... a concept many people would see as gross. A lot of the others were just too silly, and nonsensical... then you have one that's just a bit... boring (Battletech).
@@Toonamp were you in central time cause it was 7am on the east coast which why was freakazoid failed only pokemon and yugioh would wake me up.that early and even then it was rough.
Power rangers was too dominant in the UK in terms of air time and merchandise
Fun fact about the Battletech cartoon. They wrote it into cannon as an in-universe propaganda cartoon aired to the Inner Sphere during the Clan Invasion. So while the events of the cartoon aren't cannon, the cartoon itself is.
I didn't know that! And I'm now so, so happy I do. That's awesome!
Some events were canon, but they said exggerated.
The jade falcon guy turned out canonical was a giant man child, the woman who was his protégé loved the rep she got from the show. The dragonconise guy ended up ascending to the throne, etc.
@@trapsaltnburn In universe the main antagonist of the show Nicolai Malthus tried to sue the producers of the show for defamation
Battletech was a good show reminded me of exo squad as the heros didn't always win at the end of each episode. I had the axeman suit it was a fun toy.
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huh.. that must have come way later
all i remember at the time was every BT fan hating it for the way the Falcons just ignored Clan Warfare Rules so much and the big retcons they had to do about how there was suddenly always a 2nd planet that had been freed from the clans behind the Tukayyid line
Mtv The Head is a work of art 🎨. 😀👍
It sure is!
It does like Beavis and Butthead.
The Head would have gotten a lot less viewers if it wasn't on MTV.
I love that series Roy was favorite character I used to watch that series along with the maxx
100% loved the show as a kid
Attention, Somerset. I am Star Colonel Nikolai Malthus of the Jade Falcon Clan. A full Trinary stands ready to conquer your planet. What forces dare oppose us?
Monster Force was awesome. Truly a forgotten cartoon gem.
It reminded me of The Drac Pack from the 1980s
I definitely remember Marsupilami just from the character design alone. And I also remember the Skeleton Warriors intro but I never really watched either show as a kid. But they both have such strong design those little memories stuck with me.
Definitely
I liked this cartoon, for me, Marsupilami was very fun.
Disney's Marsupilami was a bad adaptation anyway...
I remember Marsupilami, both the Disney version and the French animated series that one is popular in Europe. The original creators weren’t happy with Disney’s Marsupilami, that they sued Disney from producing and distributing anymore episodes. And it’s why Marsupilami and Raw Toonage aren’t available on streaming services.
Riiiiiight
@@Ani8900 go look it up, Disney can’t legally release those cartoons!
@@Ani8900 "As of 2002, this program is no longer shown following a lawsuit filed against Disney for the breach of contract with use of the character Marsupilami in 1997 as the rights were handed back to Marsu Productions few years later." lol I wasn't sure, either
@@Morboeatspeople due to the fact that there is a way to see the Disney version, certain sides, and Disney+ scenes to show a little bit of it… I think
I remember being impressed by the Skeleton Warriors figures when a kid brought them in to school. Unfortunately, I read that they only released the villian action figures which made it harder to sell without any heroes in the toyline.
That was a very stupid move on the company's part. How can the kids have epic battles if they only have one side of the battle?
@@cooperminion825 They thought the gimmick of the titular characters would be enough to fly off shelves. Problem is those weren't the characters kids were rooting for
@@Scallywag96 ikr. Plus, the villains were probably the most expensive to make since they were literal skeletons. So they really lost a bunch of money with those toys
They made the three men on the team but never made a Talyn figure
The villains were the coolest looking though.
I am familiar with Marsupilami, Beethoven, Problem Child, and The Head. The rest, I've never heard of, but that Monster Force does indeed sound interesting, and looks like the first 9 of the 13 are on RUclips. Totally got to check them out. Thank you so much for this, did enjoy it.
Thanks for sharing and, you're very welcome
As a child, I was lucky to see the entire Skeleton Warriors series, thanks to VHS tapes with good dubbing. I don't know who could not fall in love with this series after the intro starts. 🤩
I have the Skeleton Warriors on complete dvd set and I think I even have one of the action figures as well. Never saw the Conan and the kids show but I did love the Conan Adventurer show. What a fun show that was.
Awesome
I'm glad Duck Man lasted a little longer than these shows and Duck Man also debuted in 1994!
Duckman is the animated version of Married with Chilldren
I miss duckman
I need to go back and watch it again. I kinda/sorta liked it, but couldn’t really relate. I’d probably like it more now.
Finally woke up in time to catch the final episode of Sonic SatAM and instead it was Free Willy.
I'm STILL upset SatAM ended on a fucking cliffhanger dude, there's some folks called Team S3ason here working on a third season and it looks promising, but still gonna be a while I'm sure. I'm in the discord.
I'm so sorry.
I remember all of these but The Head was ahead of its time!
For sure
pun intended?
Definitely was
The Head was a fantastic show. Well worth watching
NGL, I think The Maxx was, too
The Disney Marsupilami being set in Africa was a HUGE pet peeve of mine as a fan of the character, and also how cowardly he was when the actual Marsupilami is an absolute beasts who beats up jaguar, eats piranhas for lunch and will beat up humans with ease. In 2000 the French made their own animated adaptation which restored the rest of the Marsupilami's lore, including the setting and the Marsupilami's more animal nature (he doesn't talk for exemple), his mate and their kids, and the villainous hunter Bring M'Backalive. Most of it inspired by the Marsupilami solo adventure comics (Marsupilami first appeared in 1952 in a Spirou & Fantasio story). That version lasted 5 season and 130 episodes. There is also a live action movie that was released in 2012, one of the biggest hit of French cinema.
Oh yeah. Marsupilami is dynamite. My grandparents had a bunch of the old comics, and I remember how the little guy would get mad and wreck shit. Wrapped his tail into a ball and swung it around like a fist.
The only thing I know about Skeleton Warriors was that there was a Sega Saturn game developed by Neversoft, makers of Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero games.
they had toys too. But the IP owner buried it for reasons I suspect were Ted Turner's decision.
@@marhawkman303 sounds like something Turner would do
I’m amazed you keep finding shows I’ve never heard of!
That's good, though, right
@@TheReviewStudios Very good! I figured I’d seen everything there was to see. I’m glad to be wrong! :D
Ah the nostalgia. A lot of these didn't reach Ireland. Thank you
Is it annoying that I don't specify the country of origin?
Skeleton warriors looked promising and it should've never gotten canceled as it looked as though it couldve lasted for a good while.
Yes I agree
@@TheReviewStudios I think it was a victim of the purge of "violent" cartoons.
BATTLETECH! I will never call this a failed cartoon. I love Battletech.
The Tick was pretty short lived too. It lasted longer than these but still, it only got 3 seasons when it should have lasted longer with how great it was.
I freaking LOVED Skeleton Warriors! I wish we'd gotten more of it, considering all the potential it had. I was a huge WildC.A.T.s fan too.
I'd played some of the Battletech games, so I got really excited when the animated series started. I think it was a little much for people who didn't know anything about the world.
Monster Force was one of my FAVORITE cartoons in the 90s. I loved the concept. I also watched Conan and the Young Warriors every week. And its predecessor, for that matter. It was just really fun, and there wasn't a lot for us fantasy fans.
I'm glad I never saw "Skeleton Warriors." I had a bad fear of skeletons as little kid and this would have scared the sh*t out of me.
No doubt, thanks for sharing
Still, it was a pretty badass action cartoon, and the Skeleton Warriors were great villains.
You might wanna stay away from James Stephanie Sterling's channel then. They use the opening theme song to Skeleton Warriors as a running joke.
@Falcovsleon21 there's a name I haven't heard in a while.
@Falcovsleon21 I grew out of it eventually, but thanks for the warning. :)
Failed cartoons were what we lived on during the 90's.
The Head was like an amazing fever dream as a kid. I got to watch a few episodes at my eventual step brother's place, since they had cable. I was super into it, but then it disappeared. The only release it ever had was a few episodes on VHS. Otherwise you had to buy a bootleg set. Luckily, probably 10 years ago now, the original creator actually started making his own DVD sets to sell from his website. I bought one, watched it with a friend, and absolutely loved it.
Soon after it was canceled I remember coming across a graphic novel with a conclusionary story at a Borders bookstore.
@@t.p.3456 Wow, awesome!
One of the best channels on RUclips! Love these!
Glad you love them! Appreciate the feedback thank you
How did I never watch Monster Force. It was pretty much written for me lol
A classic
I loved The Head! It was actually a really good show with an original plot. MTV had some pretty good content back then.
yeah I miss old MTV
I will give them that. The only thing I remember about 1990s-early 2000s MTV were the cartoons it had, like Beavis and Butthead, Daria (which, if you can believe it, was a spinoff to B&B), that clay cartoon where celebrities fight each other, Cartoon Sushi, Liquid Television, the original Clone High (which looked a lot like this short-lived Cartoon Network show Time Squad), and 3 South (made by Mark Hentamenn, who also worked on Family Guy back when it was just "The Simpsons" with random humor and made this short-lived 2016 cartoon called Bordertown).
@@canaisyoung3601Your thinking of celebrity death match lol n Daria was kinda a spin off of B&B but Mike Judge had nothing to do with it idk y i guess he just didn't care to work on the show but gave the creator permission to give Daria her own show
I remember wathcing a lot of these.. because they were on, not because I liked them, Marsupliami, Beethoven, Free Willy, Problem child.
Skeleton warriors had a great theme song, Though I watched it and battle tech, Conan, long after the original release.
The only one of these I watched at the time and liked was The Head, The Maxx was the best though
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for posting another nostalgic video I was 12 when these first aired@@TheReviewStudios
I guess I'm the only french dude here so I'll explain the Marsupilami thing. The Marsupilami was a beloved European comics created in the 50s! I guess the logic for the cartoon was: "The Smurfs" worked so let's try this. BTW Marsupilami was spined off from "Spirou" a HUGE comics in Europe, as big as Tintin. Voilà les amis !
Thank you
Marsupilami is originally a French BD character, where I knew it from
Yeah a lot of people hated the "Americanized" watered down version
Those bumpers between the show are the best!
I remember them between the cartoon shows we used to watch!
I definitely remember MTV's Oddities show. Maxx was an Image comic book series. I loved this time in animation, as more shows were aimed at Teens and Young Adults. Was 15/16 yrs old in '94. I knew I would Never stop watching cartoons. 😅
I was definitely in the target demographic for these shows in 1994 and the only things I remember from this are the "after these messages well be right back" interstitials
Yeah those ABC bumpers are iconic they immediately bring me back to the era.
I was 16 in 94, and i loved that head show. I remember thinking it looked terrible, and i was probably smoking something one night and it popped on and i was hooked.
Same thing with Conan Obrien.
I couldn't stand his face, and everyone loved him . Then, the same situation.
But the 90s were odd.
That's hilarious 😂 thank you
I was 9 and I fucking LOVED The Head. I had cool parents, dad and I would always sit down with popcorn and watch all the "adult" animation liquid television had to offer. One of the best times of my life.
I just barely crawled out of the womb at that time, the animated medium peaked in the 90s.
If I were to watch 10 seconds of obrien, I'd rather watch whole jinjin panda cartoon.
I remember most of (not all) these cartoons.
Nice
Monster Squad as a kid: This is so cool!
Monster Squad as an adult: This ain’t for kids!!
(I was surprised at the level of profanity for a kids’ film.)
Wolfman got balls will never leave my head
The head was great! Prime 90s cartoon TV!
I had no idea Battletech had its own cartoon, and I was in the target demographic at the time
"The more you know" thanks for watching.
The cartoon has been remastered and released on RUclips so you can go watch it now. ruclips.net/video/PLJM4vjMdhc/видео.html
I played the Ps1 games... there were a few.
I was disappointed when BattleTech was canceled after one season. I would like to see this done again with current CGI. That would be AWESOME!!!
Thanks for the memories!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching
Conan was awesome. I still sing the theme song sometimes and do The Sign of Jhebbal Sag. Good times :)
I watched Beethoven and Problem Child. Those were good shows.
Awesome thanks for watching
I remember the theme song to marsupilami and shitty sega game more than I remember a single episode
Praise the algorithm! This channel seems cool. Subscribed.
Cool! Thank you!!!
I remember quite a few of these. I loved The Head for it's strangle premise and that is was a bit more grounded then The Maxx. The Conan series was a massive disappointment as it abandoned all the characters and elements of the good series. Free Willy felt like a low budget filler show. I mainly knew about it because it was set between Cro, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Reboot.
But after an incident I couldn't watch Marsupilami. It was still on Raw Toonage and between how much chewed food was falling out of the gorilla's mouth, the constant mention of "A sweaty monkey," and a hard case of stomach flu. I felt like the show had caused me to be sick as much as the virus did.
Skeleton Wars animation was top notch.
Skeleton Warriors was an absolutely dope show. The toys were amazing as well and always wished for more seasons and toys. Also Mutant League was a fun show and the Hockey game for Sega was my favorite hockey game of all time.
With Monster Force, you achieved the inusual result of educate me about a cartoon of the nienties I've neard of! Thanks a lot!
Monster Force was Universal's early attempt to put their monsters together before The Dark Universe.
I remember Skeleton Warriors, and I have some of the toys. I remember grabbing them up when K B Toys had them on clearance!
I was hoping to see "Highlander : The Animated Series" that debuted in 1994 as well.
Skeleton Warriors should never been canceled in the first place. 😀👍
pretty sure it was a victim of the purge of "violent" cartoons.
LOVED the Skeleton Warriors!! Had the action figures my dad used them in the aquarium we had it looked AWESOME!!!
Why not do a failed 2000's cartoons? Oh wait, that is pretty much ALL of them.
Exactly the 2000s just ran off the residual excellence of the 90s
A+ video!
LOVE IT! So great to see all these cartoon series!
Thank you
They were fairly great cartoons when they still made real cartoons.🇺🇲📺📺🇺🇲
I used to love the head! This was soooo underated!😢😢😢😢
I love Marsupilami!! ❤ My brothers and I used to have two episodes on VHS.
Wow, I remember The Head and a little bit of Problem Child 😅 the mid-90s was a WEIRD time.
Wow, memory unlocked with The Head, I only vaguely remembered The Maxx.
Thank you so much for doing this, I keep trying to explain to my son that kids' cartoons in the '90s had characters with giant nipple spikes and he looks at me like he's already picking out my nursing home for dementia. I don't dare tell him my high school had a student smoking area, too... 😂
I remember being angry when I discovered Battletech was cancelled, awesome show, Axman for life.
Miss watching this shows
I absolutely loved The Head! I still have the VHS somewhere.
they may not have all been winners, but at least there was variety.
Multi player battle tech to this day is one of the best Multi player games I've ever played. You could join one of the 6 houses and war with the other 5.
James Stephanie Stirling has a thing for Skeleton Warriors. They use them a lot in their videos.
Yes, usually when they're about to say the "c" word
I grow up watching almost all of these great cartoons.
❤I grew up loving Beethoven 😂the reaso why I begged my parents to get the family a pet Guinea Pig. Thankfully they caved 🥰
Mr.Huggs 😊
Nice thanks for sharing
Skeleton Warriors is the definition of a cult show- too obscure for a big following, too good to be forgotten. (Shame there wasn't a comic continuation.)
Speaking of comics, The Maxx is an underappreciated masterpiece. I wish I could explain it, but it gave a Generation X feel I never really got anywhere else.
The Head was overhated. It was its own weird thing and that should be respected. I still like the guy with a lawnmower blade in his face.
Skeleton Warriors I remember. I also remember Battletech; finally finished watching the series here on YT. That cartoon introduced me to the franchise.
Both The Head and The Maxx are childhood nostalgia!
Only 1 of these caught me off guard. Conan and the Young Warriors. I followed the original show and I had no idea this spinoff even existed. Thanks man.
No problem
Maaaaan
I always got marsupalami song stuck in my head!!
Loved his gorilla pal Maurice
Some of these shows were poorly animated. Some stories and characters were the same thing you could see in other shows. Also, it was in the 90's that anime slowly began to become more popular around the world overshadowing US animated series.
Conan and the Young Adventurers as well as Skeleton Warriors showed up at a time where kids were done with sword and sorcery cartoons. Conan was lucky to have completed the story of the previous show.
As far as the cartoons based off movies I can think of several more from the 80s and 90s that didn't fair so well including Ace Ventura and The Mask.
I think the difference in the Conan series was the first one ran in syndication and had a set 65 episode run while Conan and the Young Warriors is one of those make or break network deals, I remember it ran on CBS.
80s & 90s cartoons were the best. i loved all of the semi-pointless cartoons and video games that literally followed the coat-tails of whatever movies came out at the time. i loved LiquidTV, & Mtv's Oddities. The MaxXx, Aeon FLux, especially The Head that was a favorite. the awesome animation, the unique concepts just cant be replicated.
I had a bunch of the Skeleton Warriors toys as a kid, but I don't think I ever caught the show.
Oh man, I remember _all of these._ I was a little older than the probably intended audience (I was 13 in 1994...still a hardcore Saturday morning cartoon junkie, though!), and I was absolutely crazy for Monster Force. Skeleton Warriors was also a pretty good way to give me some of the old-school vibe (my childhood was back in the heyday of He-Man and She-Ra, and the like...Skeleton Warriors was a reasonable throwback with a darker edge to He-Man), but Monster Force was right up my alley as a spooky weirdo. And yeah, it kind of did have a feel of "Monster Squad meets sci-fi action" that hit the spot, seeing as I loved the heck out of that movie (one of my earliest forays into scary movies as a kid!).
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I remember pretty much all of them except for “The Head” but I did remember watching “The Maxx”. I was 4 or 5 years old in 1994
Conan, Wildcats, X-men, Ultraforce, Mighty Maxx, Toxic Crusaders, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, Ronin Warriors, BTAS, Darkstalkers, and Spiderman were my favorites then. Still, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Skeleton Warriors, and Monster Force were a fun part of my 2nd phase of childhood cartons. My 1st phase was the best though G.I. Joe, TMNT, Transformers, Scooby Doo, Ducktales, Tailspin, Heathcliff, Ghostbuster and the Criminally underrated Dinosaucers, C.o.p.s & dino Riders that had awesome toys..
Skeleton Warriors and Conan I remember seeing sometimes on weekends on my local CBS out of Louisville Kentuck. I know my brothers watched them and the seasons of TMNT (that where still airing) but I couldn't tell you when they aired.
Battletech and Monster Force aired Sundays on UPN as part of their Sunday Morning. It was a sister Channel to the local Fox which aired wrestling and infomercials Sunday mornings. Those channels being UPN Big 58 and Fox 41 out of Louisville Kentucky. I remember taping those because their aired when my family was at church.
Battletech had such promise
but FASA(those who owned BattleTech) made a HUGE mistake announcing that what happened in the show was canon w/o being able to say NO if they didn't like where the show took things
among others:
it was well established in game that only one planet had resisted the invasion and was still sphere controlled behind the line of advance
suddenly they had to retcon and there were two
The Maxx was so good it made The Head look like diarrhea
It was just like the comic books.
1. Kind of? The character looks familiar.
2. No
3. No guts, no galaxy! Hell yeah. Fun Fact: BattleTech is a sprawling franchise across virtually every form of media. In the canon lore of this setting, this cartoon actually exists! It's anti-Clanner propaganda put out by Tharkan Media Associates in the Lyran Commonwealth.
4. No.
5. Now that you mentioned, I remember it existed. Not much beyond that though.
6. No.
7. No.
8. Sort of. See #5.
9. No.
10. I remember it. Hated it, was weird as all hell. But I remember it.
If I remember the mid 90s correctly, as a young teen, it seemed that the young people who were into Sci-fi gravitated towards anime, which was becoming more accessible via affordable DVDs at that time. It's no wonder these shows flopped, as many of them were also sci-fi but didn't have the quality and plot lines that the high quality anime movies did at that time.
If a kid wanted "edgy funny" animation, cable TV offered South Park and Beavis n Butthead, which was more appealing.. these major non-cable networks couldn't have the same kind of edgy plot lines and gory animation, so they couldn't compete.
As a fan of the Drac Pack, I think that i would have loved Monster Force. And Skeleton Warriors too.
I remember Skeleton Warriors had a pretty cool backstory. It was very much a throwback to the sword and sorcery cartoons of the 80s.
How do you mention the Battle Tech board game, but ignore the dozens of novels? And The Head actually did get a 2nd season
Battle tech was one of my favourite cartoons of all time. I also loved the toys, and I didn't even realise they are what led to my mech warrior games!
Yeah, the games definitely outlived the cartoon.
Loved Marsupilami, still do
Skeleton Warriors was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I always had a hard time catching it on TV, so I never got to see the entire series until recently. Most of the other shows I either never heard of or only saw an episode of before moving on to other shows. Might check out Monster Force, if it's on RUclips.
It's possible the entire series is still up still, and decent quality too. Thanks for watching!
Bonkers by Disney was a show that also had a troubled production that ultimately caused it to fail. Used to love it but I admittedly was confused by there being two different shows with the same character
I wish marsupilami was on Disney plus it was such a fun underrated cartoon