Liminal Spaces in CARTOONS🌌

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  • @AtariTheSkunk
    @AtariTheSkunk 9 месяцев назад +640

    I feel like gumball has a lot of liminal spaces.

    • @teoniflynn6588
      @teoniflynn6588 9 месяцев назад +11

      That’s what I said

    • @claraminerva3879
      @claraminerva3879 5 месяцев назад +30

      Yes, like for example Gumball s school. I live in Italiy so our schools are different than USA 's schools (for example we haven't lockers in corridors) , despite that , this cartoon has always given me a familiar sensation.
      Infact Gumball is my favourite cartoon.

    • @Terxin_tertin
      @Terxin_tertin 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@claraminerva3879 same It’s still my favorite today

    • @andreacaciorgna285
      @andreacaciorgna285 4 месяца назад

      Yeah

    • @claraminerva3879
      @claraminerva3879 4 месяца назад

      Currently I'm watching again "Adventure Time" and "Regular Show" because they are on Netflix. I 'm so happy!😃🙂🥰
      I Don 't know in USA but in Italy they aren't anymore in Cartoon Network!🥲😓

  • @hensm3468
    @hensm3468 Год назад +381

    I love how they can make you feel nostalgic, they have a special place in the back of my brain

  • @aceystar1478
    @aceystar1478 7 месяцев назад +38

    Spongebobs background used to scare me a bit as a kid. It was always voids or places that felt wrong. I feel like gravity falls was one of the first cartoons to really change that. Instead of feeling like characters on a drawn to look like theyre in the world the characters actually interacted with the world and felt like a part of it

  • @TheStarWarriorHorse
    @TheStarWarriorHorse Год назад +143

    I think liminal spaces are intentional, like they are created to make you feel something. For example, a cozy living room makes the audience feel a sense of nostalgia whereas a cryptic background instills a sense of dread. In this way, liminal spaces serve as a form of visual rhetoric. Pretty neat!

    • @Tiosedan
      @Tiosedan 7 месяцев назад +3

      Liminal spaces aren't designed to make you feel, they are the things that specifically make you feel this stuff.

  • @berrykoo812
    @berrykoo812 11 месяцев назад +73

    That one episode of spongebob where squidward uses a time machine... both the future and the past sceneries always felt very eerie to me

    • @Thai_mann
      @Thai_mann 2 месяца назад +3

      I miss spongebob

  • @The_Cool_Cat_
    @The_Cool_Cat_ Год назад +25

    for me, the most liminal cartoon place is of course, the house in the middle of nowhere in Courage the Cowardly Dog.

    • @The_Cool_Cat_
      @The_Cool_Cat_ Год назад +4

      I agree that there are lots of liminal spaces in SpongeBob and Gumball too.

  • @Shonen_edits.
    @Shonen_edits. 7 месяцев назад +15

    Dude courage the cowardly dog has always made me feel scared or panicked. That’s definitely the most BACKROOMS

  • @user-kx9sc7nz1s
    @user-kx9sc7nz1s 7 месяцев назад +20

    Mrs Puff’s never-ending portrait in Spongebob is so liminal too!

  • @destinyallen7435
    @destinyallen7435 11 месяцев назад +18

    My thought on liminal spaces is the thought of being by yourself but not being alone.

  • @jed4276
    @jed4276 9 месяцев назад +38

    Prismo from adventure time in the backrooms XD

  • @BillyTheKidOfficialYT
    @BillyTheKidOfficialYT Год назад +19

    The Tom and jerry living room shots hit me with a load of nostalgia, I had totally forgotten there were just these random shots In between of just a vacant older looking home

  • @p1nkvanila
    @p1nkvanila 10 месяцев назад +9

    Oggy and the cockroaches has great representations of liminal spaces, it's one of my fav cartoons too! 💙

  • @XTP_X_The_Penguin
    @XTP_X_The_Penguin 11 месяцев назад +49

    Oggy's house left the chat:

  • @improveyourself1895
    @improveyourself1895 10 месяцев назад +3

    Super Mario 64 too

  • @charlesmagpili1146
    @charlesmagpili1146 10 месяцев назад +3

    Same thoughts. I'm an animator and I noticed that most of the times I made liminal space backgrounds without the characters. And I realized that maybe we think that Liminal space photos (real image) are very nostalgic and we can't explain the feeling is because we can't go back to the time where we are so excited to roam that liminal space. For sure if we still a kid we will be running and jump/play on that places

  • @gillcaz
    @gillcaz 9 месяцев назад +6

    Liminal spaces definitely have that repetition that you see in looping background animations. But, for real origins, the rabbit hole goes way farther... like, ever seen Terry Gilliam's Brazil? It has some crazy dreamlike Brutalist architecture. And some Surrealists had some real limbo vibes too

  • @TECH097
    @TECH097 Год назад +42

    Yo CN city's silent bumpers DID have a liminal space vibe...

    • @knotsgaming3653
      @knotsgaming3653 11 месяцев назад

      Not a cartoon but the neighborhood in the cat in the cat movie always had that feel to me

    • @TECH097
      @TECH097 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@knotsgaming3653 It is eerily perfect tbh, unsettlingly ideal...(Guessing you meant Cat in the Hat)

    • @knotsgaming3653
      @knotsgaming3653 11 месяцев назад +1

      @TECH097 yeah sorry, autocorrect got me, was too lazy to go back and edit, the neighborhood was in the middle of nowhere too if I remember right. Like this perfect slice of suburbia, without an actual city.

    • @andreas.2494
      @andreas.2494 10 месяцев назад +1

      Thank God I'm not the only one who remembers those! Those bumpers always frightened the heck out of me.

  • @GKnotfound
    @GKnotfound Месяц назад +3

    Da most one that has liminal spaces is gumball

  • @wwg2005
    @wwg2005 11 месяцев назад +13

    You Should do out Oggy and The Cockroaches (especially it's early seasons) it's the perfect example of liminal space. The vast, sometimes almost empty backgrounds feel so surreal and sometimes the wait of the music adds to that mysteriousness.
    It's a French Cartoon that aired on Guli France & Boomerang in Europe, Middle Eas, Africa and Australia/NZ.

  • @ChrissyThePooh
    @ChrissyThePooh Год назад +19

    Wow this is so cool, I never even thought about this!

  • @BOX_corporation.
    @BOX_corporation. Год назад +4

    For example Oggy and the cockroaches

  • @thewalkingwalking1111
    @thewalkingwalking1111 9 месяцев назад +5

    The pink room in SpongeBob when squidward was stuck in time was probably the best IMO or when Patrick is in a blank room with just a vending machine

  • @Aeduo
    @Aeduo 8 месяцев назад +3

    It makes sense from even a potentially technical standpoint that shots of spaces in cartoons with no characters have that look. They tend to be a bit abstract/exaggerated/weird to begin with, but the backgrounds themselves are likely designed to specifically feel vacant when nothing else is on screen, specifically intending to be filled with characters and props, leaving them lonely and without purpose when empty.

  • @topazbutterfly1853
    @topazbutterfly1853 Месяц назад +1

    Not necessarily Tom and Jerry, but certainly the rest. The thing is, they weren’t even intended. People just didn’t have the time, money and means to animate the background like nowadays. And these images become that much more nostalgic when we associate them with our childhood and happiness.

  • @card.b0_rd293
    @card.b0_rd293 10 месяцев назад +1

    I was planning on commenting about courage the cowardly dog before you mentioned it lol I agree completely

  • @GuremaManaba
    @GuremaManaba Месяц назад +2

    Only comes in my head is Oggy's house of Oggy and the Cockroaches, my personal favorite

  • @Hello-ie1pm
    @Hello-ie1pm Месяц назад

    I love how Courage is just sitting there while he’s being filmed. The first time my guy had the most chillest moments of his lifetime.

  • @retro5005
    @retro5005 9 месяцев назад +9

    Most liminal spaces give me 80s-90s vibes for some reason even tho I wasn’t even born during those times it still makes feel like if I’ve been there and makes me wanna go back there

    • @spoopyvirgil4944
      @spoopyvirgil4944 5 месяцев назад

      Anemoia. "Nostalgia for a time or place one has never known"

  • @markmiranda9461
    @markmiranda9461 2 месяца назад

    I think unconsciously I knew I loved these spaces. My favorites were Ed, Edd, and Eddy, courage the cowardly dog, SpongeBob, old Tom and Jerry, and anything that had abnormalities to it. I loved watership down as a kid. Despite it being violent, creepy, it gave me (as a kid) nostalgia, and this empty exploration feeling. I also loved never ending story, willow, and any old movie with creepy practical effects/ movie makeup. I love Kane pixels work and I’m so happy liminal spaces are popular and I have a name to feelings I’ve always had.

  • @SB-dh1gx
    @SB-dh1gx 4 месяца назад

    There’s so many in the Simpsons too.
    I watch it now as an adult and I’m amazed by some of the beautiful melancholic backgrounds, makes me sad and happy and nostalgic for the past all at once ❤️

  • @DillPhobia
    @DillPhobia Месяц назад

    Agree 100%. Also before video games we're all sandbox/open world, you'd see areas you weren't able to access. It would make me seriously study the area and long to be able to explore beyond the limit. I feel like a lot of that was liminal too.

  • @graceanimates
    @graceanimates 3 месяца назад

    YES! I can't believe somebody else noticed it! I've always gotten a weird vibe from the backgrounds of cartoons but I've never seen someone else talk about it

  • @pixieandpumpkin
    @pixieandpumpkin 4 месяца назад +1

    Ed Edd n eddy has heavy liminal space vibes

  • @Levi43243
    @Levi43243 5 месяцев назад +1

    Gumball is full of liminal spaces.I live in romania.The houses, schools, parks are different but they seem familiar to me
    But as Paul Dadrian said (These spaces are comfortable and unsettling at the same time bringing into play the most common fear {fear of the unknown})

  • @cuchusurf
    @cuchusurf День назад +1

    Before we had Garry's Mod, as a casual gmod player i can confirm liminal spaces were ideated in this game.

  • @Kyubeyisbestboy
    @Kyubeyisbestboy 10 месяцев назад +1

    Imo theyre fine. They make good desktop wallpapers. Now liminal space in old video games, especially early 2000s 3d video games on pc? Those are liminal

  • @Adamcult
    @Adamcult 5 дней назад +1

    i feel that it was those Minecraft ps4 maps where i was like adventure time themed and you would look for the characters and feel like you where alone cause you couldn’t find them

  • @omegaterminal
    @omegaterminal 5 месяцев назад

    Tom and Jerry definitely. It’s background can make you feel that in certain circumstances

  • @MultiFandomStayTiny
    @MultiFandomStayTiny 3 месяца назад

    This is true cause if you just look at the background with the characters it already feels different

  • @zazaholicc
    @zazaholicc 8 месяцев назад +1

    Even in cartoons such as Batman TAS & Superman Animated Series too , as well as JL & JL: Unlimited. They tend to have empty backgrounds which remind me of liminal spaces as well.

  • @2knownxxx
    @2knownxxx 5 месяцев назад

    The cat and the hat has always creeped me out and I didn’t know why until liminal spaces were introduced. I feel like there’s just something about it and the backgrounds.

  • @toastedtoast335
    @toastedtoast335 2 месяца назад

    Liminal spaces contain a heavy element known as kenopsia which is where you take a regularly busy area and take out all the people and action happening in it to where the emptiness frees really unnerving. This is what Stanley Kubrick tried to achieve in his movie “The Shining” where in the first few minutes of the movie, the hotel is full of people but for the rest of the movie except for the scenes such as the Gold Room party, the hotel is empty with the exception of Wendy, Jack, Danny, and the Ghosts, which give the hotel not just an eerie feeling because it’s haunted, but also because it was at one point a busy hotel with tons of people in it but became an empty hotel with only 3 living people inside it. Kubrick was genius with that part

  • @hellhound_haunt
    @hellhound_haunt 8 месяцев назад +1

    Liminal spaces have always been around. People just didn't really know what they were until the Backrooms was brought into light. I think liminal speces are oddly intriguing. Especially those pictures of empty grocery stores with an occasional shopping basket in the background

  • @8BITcomputer
    @8BITcomputer 8 месяцев назад +1

    I agree, Its like cartoons are connected to liminal spaces

  • @Nitrunner_
    @Nitrunner_ 8 месяцев назад +1

    I always thought that i was the only one who thought that cartoons could have liminal spaces. Glad to see its not just me

  • @upstepprep
    @upstepprep 4 месяца назад

    dude as a huge adventure time fan, there was this really creepy episode and i still dont understand how it was aired on kids tv, its called "a glitch is a glitch" and the episode itself is TERRIFYING and scared me so much when i was younger, but the 3d backgrounds made it look.. wrong? they were so much more desolate than the normal 2d backgrounds and i was genuinely creeped out and i still get kinda freaked out by it, years later

  • @RachelDaniels-fn2ul
    @RachelDaniels-fn2ul 3 месяца назад +1

    I luv liminal spaces

  • @Rock_Lill2009
    @Rock_Lill2009 2 месяца назад

    Courage and Gumball had the most for me

  • @lordskebii
    @lordskebii 6 месяцев назад

    This is the exact reason I never watched cartoons. I could never place it but something about each one felt so eerie so I couldn’t ever watch them

  • @borntoclimb7116
    @borntoclimb7116 8 месяцев назад

    Spaces in cartoons are nice but the feeling from real liminal spaces is intense

  • @wa0187
    @wa0187 6 месяцев назад

    Catdogs house location always had these liminal space vibes

  •  8 месяцев назад +1

    Also in Powerpuff Girls

  • @alexandermankhaev9754
    @alexandermankhaev9754 5 дней назад +1

    I feel like peppa pig's house is a liminal space (like the outside) 😅

  • @justiceformattlabbe8021
    @justiceformattlabbe8021 8 месяцев назад

    Wallace and Gromit was the original liminal spaces compilation

  • @InterdimensionalBeing
    @InterdimensionalBeing Месяц назад

    Oggy and the cockroaches house was literally the definition of backrooms

  • @pablo1835rigel
    @pablo1835rigel 3 месяца назад

    I love the ones seen in Tom & Jerry and the Looney Tunes.

  • @Lightningsupporter
    @Lightningsupporter 3 месяца назад

    TAWOG and Spongebob are probably the best exmaples of linimal spaces

  • @nilaraung9507
    @nilaraung9507 21 день назад

    Not gonna lie gumball has the most liminal spaces out of every cartoon due to the fact that it is taken place in real life

  • @ImmaheadOut71
    @ImmaheadOut71 9 месяцев назад +1

    That one episode in SpongeBob where squidward is “AlOnE” was creepy too me

  • @teoniflynn6588
    @teoniflynn6588 9 месяцев назад

    Tawog is another good example of a liminal space

  • @VoidKill
    @VoidKill Месяц назад

    I feel like the Teletubbies has a lot of Liminal Spaces

  • @newwalkermask
    @newwalkermask 11 месяцев назад +1

    Just like gumball

  • @Stranger_Femboy
    @Stranger_Femboy 5 месяцев назад

    I recently re-watched Edward Scissorhands and one of the most recognizable liminal space photos you see today came from the movie. Also, Edward Scissorhands fr traumatized ten year old me.

  • @TrishDaFrog
    @TrishDaFrog 4 месяца назад

    Ok so, I used to really love Darkwing Duck, not my era, but I really enjoyed it. There was this one set of frames, in an episode in the first season, I think the episode was "Toys Czar Us," I don't remember the episode, it had childlike toys, and odd lighting, I found it interesting.

  • @frydemwingz
    @frydemwingz 6 месяцев назад

    before backrooms, we had pictures of liminal spaces on 4chan and all over the internet. it just wasnt called that. It was "creepy empty pics" or whatever

  • @TheLonelyGamer_17
    @TheLonelyGamer_17 4 месяца назад

    *Hey Broogli, you should make a community post asking your fans if they think there are more good or bad backrooms levels. The backrooms seem to have so many good and bad levels. You know what I’m saying?*

  • @JoJiX09
    @JoJiX09 2 месяца назад

    The feel of nostalgia

  • @plainoolong
    @plainoolong 21 день назад

    I can't explain it but when I think too hard about it it feels kind of creepy to think about these universes that are literally just drawings and not real

  • @iitz.abiigaiil
    @iitz.abiigaiil 4 месяца назад

    For me is Megamind. There is just something about all of those buildings and knowing no one is in them..The animators didn't put people in there it's all empty... The only people you see is the crowds outside

  • @ultragalacticgamer7195
    @ultragalacticgamer7195 3 месяца назад

    Liminal spaces been around since the 90s lmfao backrooms is just the first to get popular

  • @apexMX125
    @apexMX125 10 месяцев назад +1

    TAWOG was literally a Weirdcore/Dreamcore series...

  • @radix_is_rad
    @radix_is_rad Месяц назад

    NINJAGO BACKGROUNDS ISTG THE OLD ONES LOOK SO LIMINAL

  • @adrienne9757
    @adrienne9757 5 месяцев назад

    Interesting. I never thought about it that deeply

  • @John32-zi6bb
    @John32-zi6bb 4 месяца назад

    Bro every time I watched SpongeBob when I was younger I never realized

  • @Methio22
    @Methio22 6 месяцев назад

    Gumball have soo much liminal space

  • @CUBETechie
    @CUBETechie 4 месяца назад

    I think my personal experience is
    Gasometer as the namd sugest 3 huge brick buildings working as gasometer they got turned into a mall and it feels strange also the Hollywood megaplex (thats the name of the cinema / Movie theater) the building itself was strange.
    My neighbourhood there exist an area around a modern church me and my mother don't like the area or feel uncomfortable

  • @UnU_XDD
    @UnU_XDD 3 месяца назад

    ★The incredible world of Gumball is a place that, without objects, is seen as a liminal space★

  • @0keyd0kei
    @0keyd0kei 3 месяца назад

    I almost screamed when I saw the thumbnail for the short

  • @dilanesqueda4764
    @dilanesqueda4764 2 месяца назад

    The background music is called ON TOP

  • @yoda-hu1cc
    @yoda-hu1cc 10 часов назад

    It's not a cartoon but peaches Castle is just a big liminal space

  • @XavierF6557
    @XavierF6557 28 дней назад

    I just realized ed Edd and eddy’s block looks like grove street

  • @Gaylord87
    @Gaylord87 7 месяцев назад

    Not the prismo jumpscare😭

  • @sixbat282
    @sixbat282 5 месяцев назад

    Backrooms are real, in the 90s I had a local indoor amusement park called Mackys world, rooms of ball pits and slides. Power wheels with tracks for kids, painted clouds on the walls. It was our uptick in society that was captured.

  • @charli8815
    @charli8815 8 месяцев назад +1

    The Simpsons is another good example.

  • @_Moons_Forest_
    @_Moons_Forest_ 2 месяца назад

    Adventure time, prismos wish room or whatever it is. Yk js prismos room. Scary fr

  • @Thebreadman271
    @Thebreadman271 10 месяцев назад

    It mqkkes me feel alone like if you were the last one on earth

  • @blabber_offical
    @blabber_offical 10 месяцев назад +2

    Liminesque

  • @abstract5249
    @abstract5249 8 дней назад

    I wonder what represented liminal spaces to premodern people. Did they even have this feeling or is it something that only developed in the 20th/21st century?

  • @Bruh_98979
    @Bruh_98979 9 дней назад

    Bro made me question reality

  • @G0ne_on_da_track_
    @G0ne_on_da_track_ 8 месяцев назад

    in bob the builder the Backgrounds are also really liminal

  • @Jordan61112
    @Jordan61112 9 месяцев назад

    The amazing world of gumball backgrounds give me such an odd feeling…

  • @Flora_Dawn
    @Flora_Dawn 3 месяца назад

    Definitely knd had some liminal spaces too. KND in the tree house, numbuh 4s backyard numbuh 3s room.

  • @JoshSarceno-in4wc
    @JoshSarceno-in4wc Месяц назад

    Dude the Dora background only is kinda scary

  • @user-ts4mr8vy5b
    @user-ts4mr8vy5b 4 месяца назад

    I stopped watching cartoons after i had that feeling.

  • @lostzlyrics4629
    @lostzlyrics4629 9 месяцев назад +1

    What's the song name? Is so nostalgic mixed with liminal spaces 😢

  • @LUISBOI_NOT_HERE
    @LUISBOI_NOT_HERE 18 дней назад

    Weirdcore/dreamcore:am i a joke to you?!?

  • @susanmarr6251
    @susanmarr6251 Месяц назад

    I always think of Gumby

  • @atestdummy
    @atestdummy Год назад +1

    what about the amazing world of gumball

  • @SeaSlushi
    @SeaSlushi 2 месяца назад

    When I saw the fourth image thingy at the start I thought of prismo

  • @K1DD0_L13
    @K1DD0_L13 6 месяцев назад

    Dont forget Prismo's time room!