I would have to say (in no particular order)

  • Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy+ Grimm & Evil
  • Angela Anaconda
  • Fairly Odd Parents
  • Brak Show
  • Ripping Friends
  • Whats with Andy
  • Mega Babies
  • Quads!
  • Clone High

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  • Happy Tree Friends

I love them all but its like, how did this shit get on TV and then anywhere near children lmao. Thank god they found their respective ways to us.

Edit: if its only one, try to post a thumbnail image so people can either try to recognize it or know if the animation style is for them

  • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • TheDeadlySquid@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    The Bullwinkle Show (1959-1963) is a riot and definitely should not have been around children. It’s as much of a riot as an adult as I remember it being as a kid (though I only ever saw it on re-runs, I’m not quite that old.)

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        A lot of coke was snorted at Hasbro in the 80s. Transformers and Gi Joe made them a mint so they were desperate to milk any toy they already had with a cartoon series

        I cannot stress how vapid and terrible every aspect of this cartoon is. From the fact that Rubik is an alien that does magic to the fact that the main villains of the show are a pair of inept petty thieves just provides nothing but agony

        And I’ve probably seen every episode at least 7 times

        If you had told child me that this cartoon was going to be something I was legit ashamed to have wasted time on, I would have called you a liar and refused to share any snacks from that point on.

  • polysexualstick@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    26·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      I always always wanted all the JTHM comics as a teen. My parents said absolutely not! What do I have with my adult money? All the comics.

      Jhonen apparently has hypnophobia so, that explains a lot.