Can You Guess The Country From The Cartoon Character?!

[@FutureBereaAlumn]

Ringo Starr narrated the first two seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine. Later, George Carlin narrated the first two seasons (because there was a fear that American children would connect less with the show if the voices were British, because they would sound less familiar) and narrated additional seasons. When his tenure ended, Alec Baldwin took over.

[@sophielem59]

None of them knowing the Winx club hurts me sooo much. Maybe it's more a European thing but it was so big in my childhood! When we were like four/five we were pretending to be the fairies in the playground at school!

[@iravanwayenberge8278]

YESSSS

[@anab359]

the funny thing is that it was huge in Brasil too 😅 everybody my age knows the opening song but even I didn't know it wasn't an american cartoon 😢

[@The_Rising_Ape]

In case you missed it, in the Masha and the Bear clip, the bear was frustrated because all he wanted to do was go fishing and after refusing all the food offered and making him late, Masha said that for breakfast she wanted... fish.

[@callymose1074]

She wanted something sweet, not fish.

[@The_Rising_Ape]

@@callymose1074 My mistake, not as funny though.

[@EthanDolan61101]

I hate that they call it Thomas the train. It's clearly Thomas the Tank Engine.

[@KyleWillLivingston]

Yeah :).

[@asiaroberson3442]

Fr

[@GeorgiosAlektoridis-dq8ed]

Huh it's clearly a train

[@helluvabosslover2009]

Ong

[@helluvabosslover2009]

@@GeorgiosAlektoridis-dq8edno Thomas is a tank engine. Trains are what he pulls

[@misameo]

I feel like It's the problem with me being European, but i was really thrown off when none of them heard about Masha and the Bear and didn't know Asterix and Obelix. They were really nostalgic for me

[@Cassxowary]

and they don’t seem to know the stereotype lol

[@JiminBTS2]

I always thought it was called mash and bear, but It didn’t show on Netflix until 2016 ish

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

I mean Ive heard of the bear but not the other 2.

[@fpspwny995]

The fact that Thomas the TANK ENGINE is a cartoon now instead of using actually model railways will always be one of life's biggest downgrades. Bar none.

[@dragotale89]

100% agree!

[@candeeyapura8614]

14:59 Jaxon's accent when he said Argentina 🫶🏻

[@Loulizabeth]

I watched David the Gnome when I was younger. The version that was dubbed into English had Tom (Thomas) Bosley voice the lead character of David. He's most well known as portraying Howard Cunningham (Richie's dad in "Happy Days"). As well as in "Father Dowling investigates" where he again played the main character of Father Dowling.

[@Devnet94]

My three favorite Tom Bosley shows. He also played a priest in one of the Perry Mason movies from the 80s/90s

[@btetschner]

All great shows! Father Dowling is one that it seems only the fans know about, I have run into a lot of people recently who say they have never heard of it before.

[@DaltonFan28]

I was actually surprised to see Asterix in here! Both Asterix and Lucky Luke are my favorite Franco-Belgian comic book series and I watched the films and shows growing up!

[@mitchelltyler5972]

N'oublier-pas Tintin!

[@janeandre9846]

13:15 this cartoon was my infancy. I remember being 8 and crying at the very last episode. He became a flower alongside his wife 😢

[@lapatata_0145]

Samee, I remember spending the whole morning crying because of that episode and my parents didn't understand me because I was only 4yo. 😞

[@ebbhead20]

Jaxon said something was Swiss just like the Smurfs. But the smurfs are Belgian im afraid. Made by Peyo. Another important read in the 70's in most of Europe.

[@SpinX522]

Portuguese and Italian I believe are both based off of Latin along with Spanish and French. So it makes sense that they might sound similar at times.

[@AncientBriton1948]

If you're unaware the original narrator for Thomas the TANK Engine was none other than Ringo Starr. Referring to the comment of it being rather slow it was written in the early 1940s and was filmed in 1984, different worlds 🇬🇧

[@marktegrotenhuis]

The cartoon of David the Gnome was from Spain, but it was based on the Gnome book series that came from the Netherlands with drawings by Rien Poortvliet and texts by Wil Huygen.

[@theresaalison1621]

As a Brit I don't think you have fully grasped our well known show It's Thomas the Tank Engine !

[@GeminiWolfstarGaming]

Jaxon is 100% correct. Astro Boy was one of the first "Japanaminations," as they called them back then. My mom told me she watched at least some of the original show when she was younger. I haven't seen any of the original, but I have seen and own the 2003 reboot on DVD. The reboot is a fun show!

[@ebbhead20]

Atomu or The Mighty Atom.. Hes from the 50s. Born out of the whole atomic age just like Gojira.. Godzilla.

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

Tom & Jerry were the inspiration for Itchy and Scratchy, 'nuff said about cartoon violence.

[@nperk1]

I loved David the gnome ; they used to air it on Nickelodeon back in the 90’s.

[@sveinunglidsheim5828]

Thomas the Train Engine was originally an actual railway model set that was filmed. It was owned by Ringo Starr (the drummer from the Beatles). The clip you showed was the cheap computar animation version.

[@sopcannon]

Yeah the inferior version.

[@celestialyssa96]

Everyone saying that Tom & Jerry is not violent. You have to think about the context of the time. When it first came out it was absolutely the most violent children’s cartoon out there, Steamboat Willie and other animations of the time did not have the same slapstick violence. It pushed the boundaries of what could be animated for kids and paved the way for more violence in cartoons.

[@stevedubya]

David the gnome unlocked hidden childhood memories. Loved this show!

[@marktegrotenhuis]

So Tom and Jerry is known for some of the most violent cartoon gags ever devised in animation... Haven't you seen Happy Tree Friends???

[@banzaikawa]

Or just South Park? They killed Kenny so many times..

[@jarrodserwa7305]

Happy Tree Friends was unhinged. Couldn’t stop watching the show though

[@kevinstull8552]

I had thought of Simpsons for some odd reason 😂.

[@Elizabeth9694]

LOVE seeing Bluey, and Asterix and Obelix included in this video!!

[@SlytherinReviews]

all of those that said Thomas the Train ARE COMPLETELY WRONG, the correct answer is Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. I grew up with the original show as in the original stop motion version from England

[@warriorbard]

I am *shocked* that they didn't recognise Asterix & Obelix. Was it not popular in the States?

[@firemanshadow8577]

16:55 That version of Thomas the “TANK” Engine scarred me. I grew up with the live action version, the one Ringo Starr voiced

[@corktreeluvr]

the way that i already knew which country winx club was from before they even showed the clip... like i would have exceeded their expectations

[@pheeao4898]

The way I squealed when they showed Astrix and Obelix! ❤ I grew up with the OG comic books. Lil useless fun facts. It's set in a small village in Gaul but they travel all over the world (Spain, Egypt, Britian ect), in the books they sometimes use Latin phrases, and this particular village feared only one thing: the sky falling on their heads.

[@NAMEEMAN-m7v]

I also grew up with Asterix & Obelix. I never liked to read. But I simply loved the animated movies as a child. Especially the one with Cleopatra. Because I simply loved ancient Egypt as a child. We used to have it on VHS but I watched it so much that the ending scene was barely watchable. Because it was worn down.

[@MsKaz1000]

As a Brit hearing Thomas with an American accent is so weird and them calling him Thomas the Train instead of Thomas the Tank Engine 😆

[@Geddn]

Winx Club was really fun. Comical thing was that 4kids ended up having their license to dub it revoked permantly due to how badly they swapped stuff.

[@jaceelliott2551]

It's 'Thomas the TANK Engine'....NOT TRAIN!!!!!

[@djdazzydeaf7568]

That's exactly what I thought too😂😂 but Hey you gotta love the dumb American cause they gotta do everything different from everyone else 🤣🤣

[@fadedeels9568]

What casuals

[@btetschner]

12:18 The World of David the Gnome (1985-1986) was on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block from 1988-1995. (wikipedia) Since Nickelodeon, the world's first channel for kids, was trying out a lot of different things we were able to see a lot of things being established. "Eureeka's Castle was the first original series that Nickelodeon made for the block." (wikipedia) Actually, the most famous person that I share a birthdate with (Sara Bareilles) is from Eureka, California.

[@wtbtbvom]

Ι don't want to play games like these with Jaxon. He knows everything. Even his instinct is correct. 😂

[@StevenQ74]

David the gnome was a Spanis production but it was based on books by Dutch illustrator Rien Poortvliet and Dutch writer Wil Huygen

[@SirStoneyOfBow]

Don’t ever compare a great show like Bluey to garbage like Peppa Pig. And I’m British.

[@stressedhaish69420]

what is Bluey

[@debralazarus1809]

I love that Jaxon got like all of them right

[@johnnyysince]

I already know from the title of this vid that Jaxon will ace this. Cause your boy loves to watch cartoons/anime/animated series. Hahaha. 😂😂

[@JScotty4Reel]

David the Gnome had completely escaped my memory til now. Caught it in Nick Jr in the early 90s. Talk about a hit of nostalgia.

[@yetiyarnworks6578]

80s and 90s kid here, and that was not the Thomas show I knew as a kid, it was not animated that way it was more like some sort of stop motion animation and the train faces creeped me the F out. I also feel like at least some of the voices were British and the train mouths didn't move for speaking, though they did change expression.

[@Devnet94]

I wasn't freaked out by it but same. I also watched David the Gnome.

[@spike3082]

Started out as stories on the show Shining Time Station and you're right it was it was real models and stop motion animation

[@daydreamer4407]

Thats the thomas I remember.

[@belindaclemons6897]

It's Thomas the Tank Engine FYI. POKEMON Winx Club and Tom and Jerry are my all time favorites

[@MinecrafterPictures]

Fun fact: In the show Bluey, Bluey and Bingo are no longer 6 and 4 respectively. By the release of episode Pass the Parcel in 2021, Bluey is now 7 and by the release of episode Handstand from 2020 Bingo is now 5.

[@nicholasbalingit9049]

Tom and Jerry, Thomas the Train, Winx Club and Bluey are some of my favorite cartoons!

[@liamevans9815]

Back in my World of Warcraft days, we had a guy called Tom who was often the tank in our raid and dungeon groups and we'd all hum the Thomas The Tank Engine (Thomas and Friends in America) down our mics to him, much to his irritation lmao!

[@katstorm13]

I've never seen it, but after hearing Australia I figured it was a blue heeler/Australian cattle dog. They're super cute but I would need acreage to let them run all they wanted lol.

[@timsamanthony]

Train Engine? It is Tank Engine! I also knew Asterix because I have been to Parc Asterix, the theme park that is in France

[@Liz_Lizille]

I was going to comment that when I saw it.

[@The_Rising_Ape]

I've been to Parc Asterix too... brilliant place but I hated the fully rotating pirate ship as a kid.

[@kristenihde2308]

I'm extremely disappointed that they didn't use the stop motion version of Thomas from the 80's because that's what I grew up watching.

[@kyanothesacredfoo222]

Bluey is like Steven universe for recovering/young adults, they're the same energy In animation

[@valwntinarios5733]

6:38 El chavo del 8, one of my favorite shows, Og and animated from Chespirito. Legend 😢

[@roberto9787_]

Frrrrr!! It would always be that show you watch when coming home from school “eso eso eso”

[@valwntinarios5733]

@@roberto9787_ Yeah, same

[@roberto9787_]

@@valwntinarios5733 especially at my grandmas when we went to visit her in Mexico, or my aunts as I would always be so happy to watch the live action and animated version.

[@theawesomecatmom8315]

I love David the Gnome!

[@btetschner]

Cool Baron's shirt Jay! Reminds me of the Barons from the tv series Into The Badlands (2015-2019)...and also from all the Red Baron pizzas I eat!

[@heyrobwest3908]

Tom and Jerry were basically slapstick physical comedy just like the live action-comedy slapstick in the three stooges' movies.

[@btetschner]

0:38 Tom and Jerry has been a popular cartoon for a very long time!

[@ZandrousVT]

For anyone that might be interested in watching "The World of David The Gnome", it's available IN FULL here on KZbin in English. I use to watch the show when I was a kid. It aired on Nick Jr. from 1988 until 1995. It's a definite classic of a show and a swift watch overall with 26 total episodes each at about 20 - 25 mins in length. Highly recommend. It was narrated by Christopher Plummer and featured Tom Bosley (the dad from Happy Days) as David the Gnome.

[@Heresythegreat]

Thank you for the heads up! I used to watch the show with my dad and he's recently passed away. Now I can share a part of my dad and childhood with my kids.

[@yannstgeorges1488]

OHHH my poor French heart bleeding for the disrespect on Asterix 😅 1 attraction parcs : Parc Astérix 39 adventure books published with over 380 million copies sold in over a 110 different languages 5 movies and 10 animated movies over 30 video games from the Atari 2600 to the PS4/Switch/XboxOne era plus a plethora of other stuff around that hero and that's the respect you get !!!!! Ouiiiiiillllllleeeeee

[@sophielem59]

And only one good live action movie thanks to the amazing Alain Chabat 😌 Quoique, contre César était pas vraiment mauvais. Mais les autres... 😮‍💨

[@yannstgeorges1488]

@@sophielem59 c'est toujours pareil plus ça va plus les suivants deviennent mauvais, je préfère largement les derniers animés

[@cyber-thundr_]

Fun Fact: the guy who does the voice of Tom’s screaming was one of the creators of Tom & Jerry, William Hanna. 😅

[@clemente3966]

Aight, putting him in the "based cartoon creators" box, right along the creator of Phineas and Ferb

[@nightgoddess9]

I knew it was Tom and Jerry because (1) Scratchy and Itchy is a parody of it and it is beyond wild what they do in that show, (2) fairly odd parents’ channel chasers commented on how violent it was

[@L0X4]

i"m from Belgium and we had a Dutch translation of David the gnome in the 90s, the Smurfs and Tintin are well known cartoons from Belgium

[@lumi8825]

blonde isn't a common hair color in albania lmaooo

[@twichmcvey6065]

I love Bluey. The adults all play and interact with the kids

[@GamingManMike]

What a throwback of an episode. Thomas The Tank Engine, and Asterix and Obelisx specifically. I'm surprised REACT didn't show Babar.

[@TraumaMomma]

It's actually Thomas the Tank Engine....

[@eleanorlyndon865]

Definitely!! I was shouting that!!

[@Sylvieboy72]

6:03 "Its giving me Peppa Pig Vibes" Me: ..i need to vomit, where's the Trash Can??😫😫

[@timisme8360]

And Masha was undoubtedly the antaganist with the heart of gold in that cartoon.

[@Bumpiekins]

THOMAS. THE. TANK. ENGINE. Please…

[@DrizzFizzlebeatz]

Thomas the Train

[@cloud1016861]

Thomas the DANK engine

[@egogiirl]

I think you should do a geography quiz because some have noooo clue. Scandinavia isn't a country. And do Americans understand that cartoons are dubbed in every countrys individual language?

[@JK50with10]

Original Thomas Tank engine is not a cartoon, its a trainset that gets filmed. Secondly it is NOT north western railway, it is set on the Island of Sodor.

[@dragotale89]

So happy to see both Thomas the Tank Engine and Asterix on this list!!

[@justynaaugustyn5047]

I knew winx was Italian because with the newer seasons the italian dubb would always come out first

[@DrizzFizzlebeatz]

This, I think, is only the second time. The only other I remember was almost 2 years ago

[@alexispetro7703]

Winx club, horseland and sabrina were my childhood. I miss those shows

[@antoniomarin9061]

It's a shame that they don't know the real name of Thomas the Tank Engine

[@mylove_0777]

It's not that important either way

[@jackson857]

Do Americans really call it "Thomas the train"? It's Thomas the Tank Engine.

[@mylove_0777]

I'm Italian and I call it thomas the train

[@ajpringle03]

Bluey was also mad with the intention of being a show for parents, especially new ones as well

[@MyJaiminho]

The Castlevania one is a bit confuse, because the Show ins't made by japonese Studios, but is based on a Japonese Game e Art style.

[@kleine.5438]

LOOOOVE the Winx club, also JAY for Tom and Jerry what's worse than bees in your mouth is the very last episode where they're sitting in front of a train waiting to die because both of their girlfriends cheat on them. we will definitely be hoping for eventual part 2 please?

[@martinconnors5195]

I can't believe there was a photo of Zidane in the Algerian Inspector cartoon. I preferred the original Thomas and friends with Ringo Starr doing storytelling

[@jrbogdany]

8:03 Algeria’s not shying away from famous musical cues

[@btetschner]

10:42 We did not have many Nintendo (NES) games growing up, but we did have Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987).

[@patkaiersonkapeimberg4543]

I love when Haley and Jay are paired!

[@broowa]

Rien Poortvliet, the Dutch writer and illustrator behind 'David the Gnome', would like to have a word with you, I think. ;)

[@HopAlongKris]

Tom & Jerry is my all time favorite cartoon.

[@NZArchie]

Did you know Thomas the Train is Thomas the Tank Engine in the UK? We all know Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is also the Philosopher's Stone. But, what other title's have changed between translation or countries?

[@leahb9983]

I'm American but I didnt know it was Thomas the Train here. I thought it was Tank Engine.

[@nightgoddess9]

@@leahb9983I thought it was Thomas the Train.

[@stewydoo]

I don't think it's ever been called Thomas the Train in the US. Thomas and Friends, yes but never that.

[@waffumetz]

Tom and Jerry has the most violent cartoon gags? Looks like Happy Tree Friends has been kept way under the radar in the US.

[@bren2000]

THAT'S EXACTLY THE SHOW I WAS THINKING ABOUT, as soon as they said "violent," I was like, "It's gotta be Happy Three Friends"

[@jijitters]

No... No it hasn't 😭 That show took over Hot Topic for years.

[@aggu5477]

people that don't know winx club, that hurts

[@CrisSelene]

I love it when things Joe mentioned on SourceFed pop up because I become the Dicaprio meme. That's how long I've been a Joe fan on these here interwebs

[@eragon400]

David the Gnome is sad af. The whole show is him and his wife traveling to this open plain to die. He and his wife are both 399 yrs old, and they have to make it there before they turn 400. That's not even the weir part. When they die, they become a tree together

[@Liz_Lizille]

It's not "Thomas The Train"! It's THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE!

[@Loulizabeth]

Yup and I even did some quick checking on Google and the series name wasn't changed for American audiences which I'd wondered about. In America the story was still called "Thomas the Tank Engine" and then "Thomas and Friends". Pretty sure he was always called a tank engine within the show as well.

[@brucewayne33497]

Little Bluey fun fact Steve Irwin's son Robert Irwin voice acted in one episode of Bluey as a character named Alfie oh yeah and Natalie Portman voice acted in one episode as a Whale Documentary Narrator and Lin-Manuel Miranda voice acted in one episode as a talking horse named Major Tom

[@harrisonchr]

The non cgi Thomas the Tank Engine was much better.

[@caseymcclure9683]

The model era in the 80s and 90s is what I grew up with. I going to find some of those episodes and watch them now.

[@Lapinporokoira]

Quite a bit of nostalgia for me with David the Gnome (saw as a child) and Asterix (actually owned some of the books) Also think you missed out not mentioning Ringo Starr narrated Thomas

[@tobiopdebeeck1153]

Asterix and Obelisc is just as much Belgian as French

[@stevegerber1944]

I watched David the Gnome when I was a kid. The ending is a sad, but necessary lesson for children.

[@btetschner]

7:53 Choose Your Own Adventure was released in 1979. The first book was called The Cave of Time.

[@PeterLiuIsBeast]

Castlevania is kind of a sneaky answer. The franchise started as Japanese made games but the tv show is American made.

[@nataliedunn5239]

My personal favourite cartoon that I grew up with here in Britain was DangerMouse! Even the remake was pretty good!

[@brianstites3761]

Out of all those are like Tom and Jerry the best. Play to me the greatest cartoon ever made in any country in any decade iS Scooby-Doo

[@ghaziadel4530]

Hello from algeria, that cartoon is awesome xP SUPER FUNNY TOO ! thx for including us in this episode ^_^

[@bbcseriesfan]

Jaxon, for once, I'm gonna get angry with you. 1. The Smurfs was created by Peyo who was BELGIAN (stop thinking we're French DAMN); 2. Astérix et Obélix is French and spawned the BEST adaptations EVER.

[@aaahhhaaaaaahhh]

The Japanese are like so quiet and proper irl and then in animations like aggretsuko; it feels like they’re taking it all out 😂😂

[@MikeRomulus]

3:17 Oh hell no! Hell no! Learn geography, god damn it!

[@dennis2966]

For the first one, I was thinking it would be The Roadrunner and Wylie Coyote.