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Peepoodo & The Super Fuck Friends
Extremely NSFW French cartoon that teaches sex education and is about a horny little hamster exploring the world (and a lot of people).
You will probably want to fuck the cat. It's okay, everyone wants to fuck the cat. The cat is hot.
The Oblongs was fun.
Drawn Together was awful, but a trashy-yet-fascinating kind of awful, and definitely qualified as unhinged.
oh, and superjail, and squidbillies. 1000%, superjail and squidbillies, someone else should've mentioned these by now, I hate to this day that I can still remember them.
Shit, most of Adult Swim's lineup was either syndicated fox series, anime, or completely fucking duck tits insane.
Æonflux
Ren & Stimpy (especially the adult stuff)
Metalocalypse
Not a cartoon, but number 1 most unhinged kids' show has to be Boohbah. Everyone involved in the making of this show has to have been on drugs constantly, that's the only explanation I can think of for why this show exists.
Boobah is fr fucked, I have to rewatch it some day while high
Ren and stimpy
Was gonna say, some of those close-up shots are not for children
It's wild how many episodes have been edited or removed from circulation due to their content.
https://renandstimpy.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_banned/censored_episodes
That one episode where Stimpy births out a fart and has to raise it comes to mind.
Before I’d go to school, at 6am the WB channel played what became my private Disney Afternoon equivalent, which rotated through four shows: Jumanji, Garfield, Sonic the Hedgehog, and— for whatever reason— Roughnecks, the animated Starship Troopers series.
It was rated PG, was produced by Paul Verhoeven, and people fucking died. No idea how it snuck in alongside the tamer stuff, but it very much felt unhinged at the time/someone didn’t vet it for kids.
That show was SO GOOD.
I also remember the intro is absolutely awesome, and only recently learned it was a Beethoven composition. There was a neat Microsoft ad that used it too, and I was like "THAT'S THE STARSHIP TROOPERS INTRO!" lol
I noticed watching the DVDs that it felt oddly toned down in some places and not others, even when the plot would get serious.
Often their rifles sound really silly-space-lasery and they're aiming weirdly upwards instead of at their targets, for example.
I loved those early CG shows like this though. Heavy Gear, Voltron (before the excellent Netflix one), Beast Wars...I wonder if Max Steele was any good because I never watched that one for some reason...
Drawn Together
That was real?? I thought it was some fever dream from when I had chickenpox.
I'm not going to count shows aimed at adult audiences because that feels like cheating (that also includes not listing anime aimed at adults because that doesn't seem like the spirit of the question). Of shows aimed at and easily accessible during their run to children I'm going to say Courage The Cowardly Dog and Invader Zim.
Courage had insane creepy visuals in almost every episode.
Zim wasn't consistently freaky to the point of being notable in every episode, but the ones that were, they were really out there. The show was from the mind of the creator of the Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (which I read as a kid thanks to my interest in Invader Zim) and the show's darker elements are obviously reigned in just enough to get on TV.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Rocko's Modern Life yet
-- Ren & Stimpy
-- Ed, Edd and Eddy
-- Cow & Chicken
-- Courage, the Cowardly Dog
-- Animaniacs
Venture Brothers beats them all.
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• butt ugly martians
• lazy town
• Tex Avery show
• X-DuckX (one of my favorites - just found out that that’s a French cartoon)
• honorable adult mentions: drawn together, robot chicken, ren&stimpy
Is lazy town classified as a cartoon? It's certainly in fever dream territory, no argument there.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (though that one was a mix of cartoon and live action, still massively unhinged) and Big Mouth
Ren and Stimpy Aeon Flux
This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!
Ugly Americans, wish they wouldn't have cancelled it. Shit was great
Freakazoid was unhinged and spastic in a way I haven't seen since
Anyone seen “Smiling Friends”, it’s a fever dream of an animated series. Also, Aeon Flux and Ren & Stimpy are two of my all time favorites.
I'm only aware of Brak as a character on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, but if he has his own show I'm gonna find it!
Also how about the Venture Bros, especially with Patrick Warburton's homicidal Brock Samson.
Duckman.
FL*CL, which is unhinged but not in a sick leaning manner, it's just really weird.
FL*CL
That was a bizarre one. My friend was obsessed with it and I was so freaking confused...
The airsoft episode was a really fun time though hahaha.
...oh geeze didn't his grandpa dress as a nazi for that one or something? Man this is going back like 15+ years I just remember guitars getting pulled out of foreheads and flying irons and a weird live-action moped PoV outro...
I always thought it would be so damn fun getting an entire neighborhood in on an airsoft game though.
But I only watched it when that friend was over, because I always had at least one parent home and didn't feel like trying to answer "what the heck are you watching?" LOL
Clone High was not for children, it was on MTV! And the Brak Show was on Adult Swim! also, I feel it should be distinct between 'unhinged but good' and 'unhinged but awful', and also perhaps 'unhinged and awful but wildly entertaining '
Ren and Stimpy was already mentioned, and that one is pretty out there. Rocko's Modern Life would be a trailing second place imo. Plenty of innuendos and inappropriate storylines in that cartoon.
Aeon Flux (the anime TV series, not the movie)
~~I want to say it was aired as part of the Def II, teenage audience program slot on BBC2 in the '90s, the original UK home of Ren and Stimpy and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, but the Wikipedia article for Def II doesn't mention it at all.~~
Edit: Nope, it was Liquid Television (see reply). Some but not all of MTV's weird programmes ended up on BBC2, sometimes even under the original parent name, like Liquid Television.
