Liminal Spaces in CARTOONS🌌

#shorts #cartoon #liminalspace #backrooms #fyp

[@AtariTheSkunk]

I feel like gumball has a lot of liminal spaces.

[@teoniflynn6588]

That’s what I said

[@claraminerva3879]

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]

@@claraminerva3879 same It’s still my favorite today

[@andreacaciorgna285]

Yeah

[@claraminerva3879]

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]

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

[@TheBigBadRaven]

And in my heart

[@rat._crustzz]

@@TheBigBadRaven🥺🥺

[@donthidefrommeh5374]

I wanna cry I wanna go back

[@berrykoo812]

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]

I miss spongebob

[@aceystar1478]

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

[@Shonen_edits.]

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

[@TheStarWarriorHorse]

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]

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

[@The_Cool_Cat_]

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_]

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

[@user-kx9sc7nz1s]

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

[@destinyallen7435]

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

[@jed4276]

Prismo from adventure time in the backrooms XD

[@BillyTheKidOfficialYT]

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]

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

[@ChrissyThePooh]

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

[@TECH097]

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

[@knotsgaming3653]

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

[@TECH097]

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

[@knotsgaming3653]

@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]

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

[@XTP_X_The_Penguin]

Oggy's house left the chat:

[@Jack_Scavenger]

His neighbourhood is more liminal space to me

[@XTP_X_The_Penguin]

@@Jack_Scavenger true

[@gillcaz]

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

[@charlesmagpili1146]

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

[@thewalkingwalking1111]

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

[@improveyourself1895]

Super Mario 64 too

[@wwg2005]

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.

[@GKnotfound]

Da most one that has liminal spaces is gumball

[@BOX_corporation.]

For example Oggy and the cockroaches

[@Aeduo]

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]

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]

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

[@GuremaManaba]

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

[@pixieandpumpkin]

Ed Edd n eddy has heavy liminal space vibes

[@Hello-ie1pm]

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.

[@Kyubeyisbestboy]

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

[@retro5005]

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]

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

[@8BITcomputer]

I agree, Its like cartoons are connected to liminal spaces

[@hellhound_haunt]

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

[@graceanimates]

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

[@Adamcult]

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

[@Levi43243]

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})

[@markmiranda9461]

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]

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 ❤️

[@Nitrunner_]

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

[@RachelDaniels-fn2ul]

I luv liminal spaces

[@DillPhobia]

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.

[@zazaholicc]

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.

[@MultiFandomStayTiny]

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

[@omegaterminal]

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

[@pablo1835rigel]

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

[@ImmaheadOut71]

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

[@2knownxxx]

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.

[@Rock_Lill2009]

Courage and Gumball had the most for me

[@wa0187]

Catdogs house location always had these liminal space vibes

[@borntoclimb7116]

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

[@lordskebii]

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

[@alexandermankhaev9754]

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

[@Lightningsupporter]

TAWOG and Spongebob are probably the best exmaples of linimal spaces

[@blabber_offical]

Liminesque

[@InterdimensionalBeing]

Oggy and the cockroaches house was literally the definition of backrooms

[@teoniflynn6588]

Tawog is another good example of a liminal space

Also in Powerpuff Girls

[@justiceformattlabbe8021]

Wallace and Gromit was the original liminal spaces compilation

[@newwalkermask]

Just like gumball

[@adrienne9757]

Interesting. I never thought about it that deeply

[@nilaraung9507]

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

[@apexMX125]

TAWOG was literally a Weirdcore/Dreamcore series...

[@VoidKill]

I feel like the Teletubbies has a lot of Liminal Spaces

[@JoJiX09]

The feel of nostalgia

[@0keyd0kei]

I almost screamed when I saw the thumbnail for the short

[@Gaylord87]

Not the prismo jumpscare😭

[@Stranger_Femboy]

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.

[@toastedtoast335]

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

[@John32-zi6bb]

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

[@upstepprep]

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

[@Methio22]

Gumball have soo much liminal space

[@radix_is_rad]

NINJAGO BACKGROUNDS ISTG THE OLD ONES LOOK SO LIMINAL

[@ultragalacticgamer7195]

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

[@TheLonelyGamer_17]

*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?*

[@Thebreadman271]

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

[@frydemwingz]

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

[@UnU_XDD]

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

[@charli8815]

The Simpsons is another good example.

[@plainoolong]

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

[@TrishDaFrog]

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.

[@XavierF6557]

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

[@_Moons_Forest_]

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

[@lostzlyrics4629]

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

[@murrayvation]

hisohka-school rooftop

[@iitz.abiigaiil]

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

[@SeaSlushi]

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

[@CUBETechie]

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

[@Bruh_98979]

Bro made me question reality

[@radix_is_rad]

Jay is awesome

[@susanmarr6251]

I always think of Gumby

[@Jordan61112]

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

[@LUISBOI_NOT_HERE]

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

[@JoshSarceno-in4wc]

Dude the Dora background only is kinda scary

[@K1DD0_L13]

Dont forget Prismo's time room!

[@atestdummy]

what about the amazing world of gumball

[@G0ne_on_da_track_]

in bob the builder the Backgrounds are also really liminal

[@KazPlayZz]

So true-

[@abstract5249]

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?

[@YeyoBGaming]

Before the backrooms we had ten front room

[@Flora_Dawn]

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

[@user-ts4mr8vy5b]

I stopped watching cartoons after i had that feeling.

[@Rain_chain__]

When I think of cartoon liminal space I think of Gumballs School room backyard & neighborhood