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It was about a group of thieves who stole stuff, but they were always the good guys stealing from bad guys.

I saw a few episodes and it was okay. Apparently it went on for 5 seasons though. I don't know how.

This doesn't belong in this topic, because it is a great show. Also didn't do that bad for TNT so that is why it has five seasons.
 
Three. It starred Julie Bowden from Modern family. I don't remember much about it and I can't find pictures images of it anywhere.
The plot of the show was centered around three thieves, who all participated in crimes that brought no legitimate suffering to others. They were captured by a secret agency that forced them to use their abilities on the agency's behalf to combat criminals who were a threat against the American way of life, under threat of going to prison themselves.
 
Daybreak. Wasn't average... it was amazing. Shame it got only 1 season. Basically an action version of Groundhog's Day. The acting was there, the premise too.

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Another cartoon that I used to like and don't know many people that know about is David the Gnome.


Really liked that the trolls turned to some if the sun light got to them. Remember it being a king of fun show, but I was only like four or five when I watched it.

I vividly remember hating this show so much. It just bored me so much as a kid on summer weekday mornings.
 
This thread is like a minefield of shows I dimly remember and a few that I missed (Sledge Hammer! WTF?).

Bruce Campbell was mentioned, but The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. wasn't that I saw. Legend has it Campbell got the part by performing a standing backflip when the script called for it in the audition.

Now yes, it is awesome much of the time, but when it doesn't focus on steampunk & humour, boy does it get boring. Not average, but all my straight average picks are taken lol (Captain Power, First Wave, etc)... wait.

FASTLANE. It was the most perfect FOX show ever created--guns, cars, beaches, and one liners--and was surprisingly fun. I still don't believe that it didn't blow up huge. That's when I knew alternate timelines were real.
 
A Canadian series shown in the U.S. on PBS called MythQuest.

I taped every episode, and watch them for years until my VCR died, and I had moved on to DVDs.

A brother and sister have a way to jump into their Dad's book on mythology, searching for him, and become characters in the myths. It just ended, no finale. I loved it.
 
100 Deeds of Eddie McDowd.

Disney show where some dude was turned into a dog and had to redeem himself.

The hilarious part is that the show was cancelled before he was even half way to 100 deeds.

So remember kids, ratings are more important than anything.
 
I would vote to "Greg the Bunny" or "Do Over" ... but they are way too well known so I go with

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Shasta Mcnasty.

So crap, yet so good.

There was a cartoon based on this mascot character of the '92 Olympic Games in Barcelona:

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Yes, they resurrected Picasso and forced him to create the ugliest creature he could imagine.

The cartoon was called Cobi Troupe and here in Holland it was broadcast very early in the morning, so even here barely anyone knows about it. And perhaps that's for the best.

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I can't imagine anyone outside Europe having seen this.

The intro theme was quite catchy, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYwpuPdMkHU

WOW !

I saw that !

It was on a brazilian tv channel that had some weird european like cartoons
 
Anyone remember the show Teen Angel? About a guy and his best friend who dies eating an old hamburger he found and becomes the guys guardian angel?

It was so dumb.

I loved it.

Edit: Mission Hill was awesome. I have the DVD set. Should watch it again.
 
Anyone remember the show Teen Angel? About a guy and his best friend who dies eating an old hamburger he found and becomes the guys guardian angel?

It was so dumb.

I loved it.

Edit: Mission Hill was awesome. I have the DVD set. Should watch it again.

Haha Teen Angel.

I just remember this woman in front of an elevator, asking the kid after he dies, "up or down? up? good choice."

Such a dumb show.
 
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It was about a group of thieves who stole stuff, but they were always the good guys stealing from bad guys.

I saw a few episodes and it was okay
. Apparently it went on for 5 seasons though. I don't know how.
There were some bad ones but more often than not it was good with a generous sprinkle of amazing. Myself i was hooked from the first episode.
 
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Robbery Homicide Division:

It was Heat the series, almost all the cops were played by the same guys from Heat. Add Michael Madsen as a cop and a theme by Deltron.
 
Back in the day when it seemed like any movie that was even remotely marketable to kids got a cartoon series

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I don't know if it was good or bad, but I remember catching a few episodes as a kid. I liked it, but the movie was one of my favorite films growing up, and again, I was a kid, so what did I know? It was kind of the opposite of the movie; instead of the jungle coming out, they would go into the jungle and do stuff there. Sort of makes the board game concept pointless, but...

Used to think it was a Klasky Csupo produced show 'cause it kind of had that look about it, but apparently it's not.

Ran for 3 seasons too, which strikes me as unusual for the average film-adapted cartoon.

Oh yeah, and Ashley Johnson (Ellie, TLoU) voiced one of the main characters.


Speaking of Klasky Csupo...


This was a real thing that existed for some bizarre reason. Didn't grow up with it though, just found out about it through the magic of the internet. Well... actually, I do have creepy memories of that horrible clown-dog creature from when I was very young. Not a tv show in the traditional sense, but it was a series of episodes, you just got them through McDonalds.

I fapped at this cat gal when I was a kid. True story.

So that's why it has a human face.
 
Pasadena:

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FOX prime time soap opera starring Dana Delany and Alison Lohman. Only 4 episode aired before FOX pulled the plug. But a full 13 had been filmed. About a powerful family with horrible secrets. I remember it being great. I watched all 4 of the aired episodes but I still have to watch the others.

Quintuplets:

Andy Richter plays the father of quintuplets (thus setting up a series of jokes on Arrested Development). Decently funny, but I remember it more for the crazy amount of girls my 18 year old self had crushes on. Two of the quints were April Matson and Sarah Wright. Women who guest starred on the show:

Adrienne Palicki
Odette Annable
Kaylee Defer
Tiffany Thornton
Sara Paxton
Jenna Dewan Tatum
Vanessa Hudgens
 
WMAC Masters
I remember it being Saturday or Sunday mornings before Baywatch or American Gladiators, but after Saved by the Bell. Something like that. It was like wwf for ninjas, with more background between fights on the inner workings of the clans. Teen pseudo drama type.
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Dinosaucers, Weird Science, Duckman, The Invisible Man, Hercules, Herman's Head.... God I could go all day on mediocre shows I loved growing up.

Edit: I almost forgot Working with Fred Savage.
 
WMAC would play like early early morning IIRC. I remember the thing with guy doing the "jump up into the air and pull his legs together" head crush attack.

So Weird on Disney. Had a thing for the lead.

 
This doesn't belong in this topic, because it is a great show. Also didn't do that bad for TNT so that is why it has five seasons.

Was it? I just honestly have never hear anybody else ever mention the show besides my dad.

Daybreak. Wasn't average... it was amazing. Shame it got only 1 season. Basically an action version of Groundhog's Day. The acting was there, the premise too.

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This show was pretty cool, but it pissed me off when they pulled it after a few episodes and I never saw how it ended. Looking it up now, apparently they put the rest of the episodes up on their website, but I had no idea at the time. So now there's probably no legal way to watch it anymore.
 
Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure got two TV show spinoffs. Neither did very well, probably because neither were very good.

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The live action one only had 7 episodes produced. The cartoon had 21. Interestingly, the cartoon also had Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and George Carlin reprise their rolls.
 
You guys remember watching a show that's not particularly good but isn't so offensively bad, so you won't see people talking about them unless you bring the topic out?

One thing I remember.

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(the show based on the card game, not the Danish card game itself)

It left me an impression because it, well, kinda panders to my interests (hint: avatar). It came out when a bunch of European-based card games were suddenly a thing and shows based on them were plentiful.

It wasn't bad but it leaves little to memory. With that said, despite being your average "cartoon based on card game", it was pretty decent and unique for what it was. To start, It had none of the "card games are serious business" stuff a lot of similar shows have - it literally is just playing for fun. The "serious business" side had nothing to do with cards but instead is about an alternate dimension where the cards were based from - so while you have humans playing with creatures in some holodeck-like machine, there is an actual political warfare in the parallel universe.

And speaking of which, I find how they handled their play time unique. Apparently the people who play in the cartoon receive some touchscreen device which stores card data, and whenever they want to play they simply access it. They then travel to a hub of sorts, all while leaving their "physical" body in the real world. It's weird.

The characters themselves are okay. The humans are your typical card game characters though I find it nice that the girl of the group likes the bug-themed deck. The creatures themselves are fun.

With that said the first season has some shitty flash animation. It got better though and has a decent arc.

I still have a near perfect condition starter deck for that game. The shiow was awesome.

Boy Meets World.

Now that the "sequel" is airing, I see that more people talk about it. But still, not a popular show I guess.

Boy meets world is still insanely popular.



EDIT: For me it's the show 'KaBlam!'. I seem to be the only person I know personally who remembers this show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaBlam!
 
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I really liked the show while it was airing here in the US. I didn't even know it was from the UK! Unfortunately the DVD set is only available in region 2 last I checked.
 
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Today's Special. I guess it was a Canadian show, but I saw it on Nickelodeon.

THAT'S what it was called?! For years and years when I was little, I tried describing to my friends a show that started with an escalator and a guy and manikin went up (which is apparently a big puppet clown). I think they taught viewers French words, too?

It's weird because I NEVER recall them using the title for the show, unless they aired it differently when I saw it, because I always felt like it was paired with another show.
 
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Show about mutants, co created by Marvel. From wikipedia

Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Avi Arad, and it centers on Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects in a series of covert government experiments. The mission of Mutant X is to seek out and protect their fellow New Mutants. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

I remember watching it when I was younger and loving it.
 
I was going to mention Cleopatra 2525 but then I remembered that show was awesome.

Here, read this summary from IMDB:
An exotic dancer, cryogenically frozen in the year 2001, is accidentally thawed out in 2525 by two female warriors who are fighting against evil robots which have taken over the world. The three join forces and try to escape the underground caverns to which humanity has been banished, meeting up with all sorts of strange creatures along the way.
 
This was advertised as "Steven Spielbergs Earth2", right? I think I remember something along the lines.

In Germany both Earth 2 and SeaQuest were associated with Spielberg, but I am not sure, if he actually had any involvement, besides the shows being produced by Amblin Television. So I came to the conlusion, that Spielberg's involvement was overplayed or even invented by the German broadcaster
 
Throb, an U.S.-sitcom that aired like 20 years ago in Germany at like 5 am in the morning (maybe that was actually a repeat). Sometmes I could catch it before school. I remember the Theme song, and the a key scene of one episode, but that's it.

Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DcagdINsuI

EDIT: and now I see, that it actually starred Jane Leeves, and a very young Paul Walker
 
Daybreak. Wasn't average... it was amazing. Shame it got only 1 season. Basically an action version of Groundhog's Day. The acting was there, the premise too.

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I remember it too, and it was amazing.

I'm so salty it was canceled so early in its life.
 
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