The Mystery of The Wire & Toonheads A Night of Independent Animation (Cartoon Network, 1996)

[@LSuperSonicQ]

UPDATE- Wow that was quick, but Aaron has seen everyone's messages and confirmed he's looking through his archive for The Wire! He hasn't watched it in over 20 years, so it might take some time to find. Also, since some people were asking for invites to the discord servers, Captain B Zarre's is here- discord.gg/G2PM7gn , and the Lost Media Wiki one can be found on the homepage of the site.

[@camdoesntknow4465]

That’s awesome!

[@TheDirtyMonkey]

LSuperSonicQ please find the nickelodeon game that would come in kleenex

[@amesstarline5482]

Congrats!

[@animationnerd7579]

Cant wait to watch it

[@chouts1]

WOOOO

[@hecatialapislazulli5426]

Mega Man: Lost Media Edition Featuring: Lost Man Crack Man Sponge Man Pinwheel Man Piper Man Clock Man Plug Man

[@junimoony]

Uri you just made my day.

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

Plug Man is already a robot master though..

[@FrijolesyQueso]

Dr guy that makes this lost

[@foreverpainful]

HAHAHA

[@stuffedanimalwars7692]

Kekcrocman

[@CaptainBZarre]

Always happy to help you out on the search for lost media my man. One day I hope to find the Night of Independent Animation special, but for now, I'm just happy to have confirmed it. Thanks for giving credit to me :]

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

Hey captain, how many episodes of Toonheads do you have from 1992-1998?

[@tavvyprods1275]

I am really hoping it’s found.

[@mechajay3358]

👍

[@JamesCalico]

Thanks for Helping me find this. It's been bothering me for a long time. I appreciate it.

[@CaptainBZarre]

@@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332 I have a few partial ones from 1998 (when they had Don Kennedy as the announcer) and I'm hoping to upload more soon.

[@gilition]

I find it ironic that the only released episode was "Toonheads the lost cartoons"

[@ubdrift5904]

LOL SO FUNNY

[@holychestermole485]

Toonheads was a compilation show with trivia. Only one Toonheads episode in full has ever been officially released. But a good chunk of the shorts within them have seen release in other collections. Someone in the nerdier LT area could probably give an adequate count of how many aren't.

[@rouletteyourlocalkitkat]

nope, pretty much the entire 2nd season is found, only one episode missing from the season.

[@gilition]

@@rouletteyourlocalkitkat I know that but I'm talking about the only official release.

[@rouletteyourlocalkitkat]

@@gilition wait, official release? where can i find that, i know where the episode is but where do i find this release.

[@d471d2]

Everytime I watch lost media videos I get this strange jitterness. It's so entertaining to watch these videos.

[@hananezumi]

Me too. I think the music, and LSSQ's way of building up anticipation with the way he tells the story, might have a lot to do with it.

[@shellyvision9693]

Same.

[@elijahsgameplay3047]

D471D I guess you could say you had the Jibblies

[@shadic3470]

Lost media videos... Give me spooky vibes... Idk most Lost media itself is kinda scary.... Also... DON'T RESEARCH THE 1993 BUILD OF SONIC 3D BLAST

[@JustinY.]

It's crazy that people remember obscure stuff like this.

[@themcpingu780]

Daddy

[@Notelu]

WHY ARE YOU HERE WHAT THE FUCK

[@oneofmanyalexs]

why are you in the comments of every video I watch

[@itzpeanut9904]

waddup

[@CaptainBZarre]

:]

[@hungrymanmanofsteelproduct2968]

Pinwheel honestly deserves a documentary. Not like a youtube documentary like Blameitonjorge's video. I mean a full story about how most of the show was not legally owned by the 2 creators and how the series can legally never be released. They should call it, "Pinwheel: The legally unreleased children's series."

[@MaxIThink]

Cool idea! I’d like a shorter title of Pinwheel: Legally Unreleased.

[@FrozenUSA]

I never knew Pinwheel was a cartoon series. I always thought that was the name Nickelodeon had as a channel in their early days like late 70’s and early to mid 80’s. That being said, the whole “Toonheads” series seems very intriguing to me. I just found out about it because just saw the Tom and Jerry episode “A Cat Concerto” and I knew there was a rivalry between that short and the Looney Tunes short “Rhapsody Rabbit.” When I looked up more details about the controversy, I found out Toonheads did an entire episode devoted to it in 2001. I wanted to see the episode but I only found the intro to the episode. Now I know many specific episodes of Toonheads are hard to come by.

[@vireo2543]

I used to watch Toonheads so much as a kid for the Popeye shorts and enjoyed the series but I didn't know most of it was lost media now. Wish my parents taught me how to record on VHS when I was much younger so I could have recorded some of my favorite CN shorts and stuff.

[@UrlacherBears54]

Toon Heads was one of those shows I completely forgot about until this video. The intro immediately hit me with some memories.

[@RaccoonRevolution]

Holy shit. I forgot about Toon Heads. Which is a shame, cuz it was a big influence on my fascination with animation history.

[@connorbeith3232]

Yeah, we really need an educational show like that these days. Could get more kids into the animation business.

[@mikekazz5353]

I honestly thought everyone knew what toonheads was, but looking in the comments section a lot of people either forgot or never heard of it.

[@PetProjects2011]

@@mikekazz5353 I remember watching Toon Heads frequently on Cartoon Network back in the early 2000s. Toon Heads itself has several "lost" episodes too. Most of Season 1 (which featured a lot of Hanna-Barbera stuff) never re-aired, and I've never seen those episodes uploaded online.

[@thunderlina3237]

Yes! Finally! More LSSQ! I've missed you!

[@LSuperSonicQ]

jaxcheese's great original music was once again used in this video, so check out all of his music here- jaxcheese.bandcamp.com/

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

LSuperSonicQ I really hope you do that request of the Om Nom movie

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

LSuperSonicQ I remember a movie that aired on tv that was live action and started with two man fighting a monster it starts with the main character narrating pointing to one of the guys he said that wasn’t him and then to the monster pointed as not him until it reaches to him and then some opening credits happen and the character’s in bed and his wife jumps on him in her I think night gown,find it if you can

[@justauser283]

@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario sigh you just trying to make sonic make another vid

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

Brandon play's what?

[@smite6918]

Is the discord available to everyone? If so can I get the link

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

Toonheads had 2 incarnations, one that lasted anywere from 1992-1998(the dates on the episodes very wildly) and 1998-2003. The second incarnation is more well known, as most of the episodes do exist. I myself made a little hunt for the series about a year ago, but gave up because info for the first incarnation was too scarce, there are only about 2-3 episodes avalible online, and i think none of them are complete. There are promos avalible on youtube for episodes that are not seen on any episode guide online.

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

This lost media wiki forum documents my search: forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/2255/cartoon-networks-toonheads

[@holychestermole485]

Nice to see someone digging up the old TTTP forums over there. That's one of the best archives still standing on some of the stuff that was going down at CN in the early 2000s. I imagine there would be better documentation if some of the old host sites still were up. That an AIM backlogs and Cartoon Orbit.

[@officeroldir480]

Toonheads in it's first form was a bit more wide in subjects than towards the end. There's a little bit of a tension that some of the "classical animation" and "television animation" fans don't like each other. Towards the end of the run they were more often trying to cater to the classical one than the other. This was because of yet another thing that changed under CN's new leadership. Kellner and Samples cared more about raking up target demographics to make the advertisers pay more money. So Toonheads final seasons were more one way directed and their older reruns that went against that target market not often seen. Then in the end in 2003 CN gave GAK a pink slip and just ended the show for good.

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

@@officeroldir480 Based on my research, it would appear that "GAK" is none other than George A. Klein, correct? George had a Vimeo account, and he actually posted clean, higher quality versions of the intros to some episodes. He hasn't uploaded in quite a while though, but his other uploads seem to suggest that he is (or was) still working at Turner.

[@officeroldir480]

GAK was indeed George A Klein. At the time he was a Cartoon Network person. He was very private but he was let go from his jobs at CN in 2003. He didn't even want that public, he asked Jerry Beck to take it down, which Jerry did but as Jerry said "it's still true". It's good to see though he managed to get work at other Turner networks. Because he was great at his job. If you are reading through older posts also if you see "bozo" that was Barry Mills, Producer of the Popeye Show. Multiple people from Cartoon Network used to lurk and some even posted on the Toonzone forums back then. It's where a lot of the stuff leaked out from. It's weird to see people on that site today not know some of the history that the site itself was involved with back in the day.

[@samuraifighterchick1456]

At least it has been found! If only Clockman had been found quicker...

[@SenshiSunPower]

It would have if we had checked page 4...

[@tavvyprods1275]

Very weird that Aaron Augenblick created this incredibly obscure animated short. He actually made this before Superjail, Golan The Insatiable and MAD for Cartoon Network. (Still waiting for The Adventures Of Drunky though)

[@cggcgg4612]

Let's add this to the list of lost media that LSSQ has found. -Kappa Mikey pilot -Jhonny Quazar short -

[@ubdrift5904]

-Clockman short???

[@ubdrift5904]

_Animal crossing spring ds

[@glitchinthesystem4798]

He didn’t find any of those expect for the fed and infant for clockmsn he didn’t help at all

[@ubdrift5904]

@@glitchinthesystem4798 Guess i say Plug man clip

[@MoeRon004]

I'm happy I just joined the Lost Media Discord because this topic looks incredibly interesting

[@SpaceLordLono]

Man, Toonheads is something Id like to see again. I last saw it around 2000, I enjoyed it, it showed toons and trivia. learned a lot about chuck jones. Hey I got something I saw weird once. It was on cartoon network 2000 early christmas morning. I remember the tv called it "Yule Toons"... in this cartoon, the world was completely ravaged by WWII (you see soldiers fighting with gas masks) and humanity is dead. A group of sentient animals find a bible in a church, and an owl notes "Looks like its filled with a set of rules those humans didnt follow" and ended on the note that we need peace on earth, goodwill towards man. Thats all I remember about it, I just remember it was weird and it was at 3am-430am

[@retrofish]

Yeah, that short was called peace on earth.

[@holychestermole485]

There's actually two versions. It was one that got a cinemascope remake. The first was "Peace on Earth. The second was "Good Will To Men". If it starts with bunnies it is the first version. If it starts with mice it is the second version.

[@JumpPanda]

I remember Toonheads as a kid! There was also shows like (I might be wrong on the names) The Chuck Jones show and Tex Avery show. O Canada used to freak me out as a kid but I would watch it all the time! I really like your videos and it makes me want to get into lost media searching.

[@holychestermole485]

Cartoon Network got three creator based shows off the ground then. The Tex Avery Show which focused on his work at WB and MGM. Sometimes it showed some ones not often seen in other blocks. The Bob Clampett Show which aired his WB stuff and for a real treat Beanie and Cecil licensed in from Clampett's widow. And The Chuck Jones show which mostly just aired Chuck Jones WB cartoons and eventually even aired a few Non Chuck Jones shorts for some weird reason.

[@zzcolby27]

God I love mysterious searches like this

[@imlonely7565]

Me too shigu lover me too

[@broder3294]

When this Sig PFP craze going to end?

[@zzcolby27]

@@broder3294 craze?

[@imlonely7565]

@@broder3294 us shigus group together. But when KZbin lets me change my profile I'll then change it

[@StrawHatLucas]

I loved Toon Heads and i remember this special, i was 4 when it aired but I was obsessed with this show. May actually have some old VHSs recorded of it. Makes me want to go check em and see if i have it

[@cadendwyer7465]

If there's an update on this, PLEASE make another video for it! This short sounds really interesting!

[@Jacob-vi7mn]

Did he ever update this? This video was found, it's right here on KZbin. It's called The Wire - 1996

[@pamka6913]

Another short was found today. It sadly was not "plug man". Also, "buy my film" is a masterpiece

[@cornbettle]

Pamka link?

[@CaptainBZarre]

Yup, Buy My Film was also one of the shorts that aired during that special... I'm assuming you saw the same comment that I did?

[@pamka6913]

vimeo.com/275636783

[@pamka6913]

@@CaptainBZarre also no. I have not seen your coment

[@Amphibian42]

all of the films he mentions in buy my movie are on his vimeo, grim is amazing

[@colefitzpatrick8431]

I hope the full thing is found because God dang that's an interesting premise

[@kandigloss6438]

Did you try his animation studios twitter page? Even if he himself doesn't check it, some one that knows about the film or could get in touch with him might.

[@SenshiSunPower]

This is absolutely the way to go.

[@kandigloss6438]

@@SenshiSunPower I wouldn't say it's a sure fire way. Since it's a more corporate account and may only be used for promotional purposes, but I think it would be worth a shot at least if he hasn't tried already.

[@meh6722]

I got in contact with them. They mentioned that it might not exist anywhere, though they are digging through their archive and keep us posted.

[@kandigloss6438]

@@meh6722 Neat.

[@VashStarwind]

What about calling the studio? Is that too creepy? Lol. He could call and be like I am making a documentary for my youtube page, and would love to ask you a few questions. A guy that made those old shorts shirly doesn't want them to be lost. Or I guess maybe he does.

[@sakurakitsunestar]

Talk about nostalgia I didn’t remember this show until you mentioned it

[@Heriarka]

I *instantly* thought of those Canadian shorts as this was being described, having grown up with them in Canada. They were so ridiculously strange and creepy. I didn't know there was a similar American showcase! It's cool to see pieces of history being dug up like that.

[@megaspit]

O Canada creeped me out so bad as a kid.

[@ubdrift5904]

Hope you are ok?

[@UrlacherBears54]

Dude seriously... my heart dropped a bit when I saw the intro in this video. For some reason, I always remembered a cartoon where a wife and husband were talking and the husband somehow lost his pants. Then a leaf floats down the screen to cover his junk. Weird, but I remember it vividly.

[@megaspit]

@@ubdrift5904 It took 20 years of therapy but I'm alright now. Thanks for your concern.

[@ubdrift5904]

@@megaspit WOW that show is crazy also i remember what creeped me out as a kid... One time i had a dream where the spongebob opening has a black and white frame with a skull replacing the captain then it bites alot and i woke up at i think 4? Idk this happened when i was 4 i was scared to death

[@JamesCalico]

@@UrlacherBears54 That one actually won awards around the world, and it appeared on day 1 comedy central programming when the channel first launched.

[@CalaveraCandy]

I only had cable for a short period of time in the late 90s. Most of my childhood mysteries come from shareware floppy diskettes, The Box, Night Flight, and weird shit my cousin would tape for my siblings and I. An early CGI short about little spiders living inside a computer, a live action shot film about arresting a coke dealer all narrated in rhyme, and a video game featuring a balloon floating through Vincent VanGogh paintings come to mind. I realize I'm significantly older and come from a very different upbringing than most lost media hunters so I seem to be questioning the void.

[@jujucatjuca]

These mysteries always keep me on the edge of my seat. Lost media is such a fascinating topic. Thank you for all the research and effort you put into these searches! It is thanks to people like you that we can preserve the media we have today.

[@Crysto]

I was literally the FIRST person to help the original commenter help find this short. Glad to be part of this search and it is found.

[@stu8348]

I find old media so cool, especially animation! The other day when we were cleaning out our backyard, we found 2 whole boxes of VHS tapes going back to the 80s. Some of it obscure, entirely miscellaneous, and I'm excited at the abundance of it. Of course this is coming from a 2000s kid who's beginning to crave nostalgia, but who knows, I cleaned some up and with a VHS player, there could be things that haven't been seen in a while.

[@FaithTheZombieWolf]

Were you able to find anything cool?

[@Tamago-xe4eb]

Great video lssq I've been watching you since 2015 and on boy you have changed a lot since those Saturday live streams

[@KylaTea]

I used to love toon heads growing up back in the day. May be why I love animation history now, but wow I hope finding this short can lead to more of Toon Heads being found. Great work! EDIT: Hey I was just checking the wiki and Aaron found the VHS. That's amazing!

[@freal]

This is cool that you guys get into something that i've looked into before (Toon Heads).

[@PeiceofNick]

I remember Toonheads from my Childhood.

[@ChiralSpirals]

You just un locked a pandoras box of memories for me.!..I cant tell you how long I was trying to remember Oh Canada.

[@LordEgilYGO]

You know, the mention of the DBZ hunt reminds me, I'm pretty sure there's a lost Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai. Episode 98, "Peace for the Future! The Spirit of Goku Is Forever!" It was apparently delayed in Japan because of an earthquake, and it supposedly aired in the US on February 8, 2013, but I remember that day being a rerun of episode 1. All that we have now in terms of the dub is the preview from episode 97. Funny thing is, it's not on any streaming service I could find, nor was it part of a home relrase. There is a full description of the changes of the episode on the DBZ wikia, though I'm unsure of how they'd get that.

[@MeganKoumori]

I loved "Toonheads." It was probably the start of my fascination with animation history.

[@meh2385]

Damn, I remember RebelTaxi talking about ToonHeads, but I didn't think it would turn up any lost media

[@Jdylanable]

Love these videos, I honestly don’t think i’ve ever seen a channel as captivating as this one.

[@Crysto]

I was directly involved in this search. I was the first person to bring this up to the lost media wiki as I found this guy talk about the short on a youtube comment and I told him to upload it to the lost media wiki and he did. I also searched for over an hour to find that it was on the night of Independent Animations on the Lost Media Wiki Discord. I literally think I was with you in the Discord search.

[@UntitledNameGangIsTouringAmmos]

Also you reminded me that I shouted you out in my description for an instrumental I did "Temporex Nexus Remixes" because I used the Clockman and Cracks lost media shorts as the visuals for it! And you're one of the biggest reasons why I got incredibly invested In lost Media in the first place! That's all. Thank you.

[@fordc.2831]

Hey LSSQ, I’ve been following this search on the LMW discord and wiki. Loved the video and I’m very eager to see where this search goes.

[@KichiMiangra]

The minute I saw that thumbnail I knew exactly what short you were talking about and what block it was from before even reading the title! I wouldn't say that I was 'raised by television' but if it aired on Cartoon Network or Nickolodean in the 90s chances are I saw it, though the earlier back you go the vague-er the memories are. (I would have been 5 at the time this aired so Vague as hell but on just the description alone I could have drawn this 'Plugman' from memory and got really close!)

[@nathanielscott1654]

ITS FOUND!!!! It’s somewhat low quality but at least we know that it does indeed exist. You can find it by just searching “the wire toonheads” on KZbin and looking for the remastered version. There is also a full rip (without ads) that it seemed like the wire post was take from.

[@kanesmith8271]

There's going to be a lot of lost media when KZbin shuts down

[@Allison-je9pt]

What if it's the same case of Clockman, where it was hiding in plain sight

[@lolithajoseph3555]

From the only commercial of the special. "Human eyes were never meant to see what we were about to unveil. A night of independent animated films. Its bizarre its outrages and its only on cartoon network."

[@jordanpeterson5038]

I remember O Canada. A late night show that had the strangest cartoon shorts. The only short I can remember from that was called Cactus Swing, a cartoon short about a man in the middle of the grand canyon (I think) who witnessed a whole bunch of Cactus dancing .

[@JesamyPorter]

I'm 32 and when I was a kid my idea of a great time was staying up all night watching Cartoon Network. I remember that commercial!! I remember the night in question although, I don't remember specific details but at least for once I was a part of something.

[@KingLaneCreations]

This is a great video, I would love to see more Cartoon Network related lost media!

[@c.jewelvlogs]

Omg, toon heads was THE SHOW that got me into animation and cartooning as much as i am today. I remember it so fondly and staying up as a kid to watch and learn alot. I now do art and know so much from plenty of other sources now, but toon heads fed me the interest in the first place.

[@konvoi]

Toon heads was such a great block

[@LochNessHamster]

I remember seeing O'Canada late at night and early in the morning when I was really young. Like four years old. I saw it a few times, and it always really freaked me the fuck out. I specifically really remembered the intro, going through all the different style animations. And that creepy eye logo was burned into my memory. I would periodically try to search for it online like "Cartoon Network late night eye show" or something like that to no avail. I started thinking that I just hallucinated it until a random video I watched about lost media offhandedly mentioned it. Usually when I find stuff like that from my past it's never as cool or mysterious as I remembered it, but... nah, O'Canada is really goddamn weird. I was not disappointed.

[@ryancarless7921]

I love learning more animation. Toon Heads was pretty obscure. This needs more DVDs

[@theotherky]

That's really interesting. TM Revolution (Japanese singer) made a music video with a similar plot to this cartoon. I never knew that that might have been based on this.

[@cgnsnewsreviews1912]

I kinda think that I may have seen this on TV in the early 2000’s… Looks SO familiar - particularly the animation style & character design…

[@teamboobooseth1]

According to a KZbin search, this. Has. Been. FOUND! Not the best quality, but it’s seemingly the full short.

[@egpmh2891]

I miss O, Canada, old school Toonami, Toonheads, Cartoon Cartoon, and Late Night Black & White; golden age of Cartoon Network

[@nerdystuff1793]

Well thank goodness that he saw the message and posted the short on his KZbin channel

[@tydiez7867]

I remember seeing it on boomerang late at night in the early 2000’s

[@holychestermole485]

How early though? I'd be surprised if it was after 2001. I wouldn't think the licenses would still be good. Mind you unless Boomerang autopilot aired it when they shouldn't have lol.

[@cgnsnewsreviews1912]

I was kinda low-key thinking that too… I thought from seeing the thumbnail then watching this that this animation / character designs look VERY familiar - like something I saw once many years ago. I’m not really familiar with any other animations with this character design either. And there’s a far greater chance that I would’ve seen it on Boomerang than Cartoon Network.

[@YusukeKnight]

I loved watching ToonHeads as a kid growing up on Cartoon Network

[@mikekazz5353]

This and O Canada was my favorite shows back then.

[@UntitledNameGangIsTouringAmmos]

I comment alot of jokes all over youtube, but I've never been as serious as this in a youtube Comment section. Thank you so much for making this video!! Some things I remember from my childhood and never hear about again and I think it was some weird fever dream or something. This is the first time something like this has been debunked for me! It's a neat feeling. Hella nostalgic. Please keep continue to make some of the most niche videos like this and I'll never stop being a fan yo

[@abbygiroux9097]

you should make a series called forgotalk, it could be about forgotten shows, forgotten games, and other stuff

[@nigelcraft6002]

I also recall a show on cartoon Network in the late 90s, specifically something about award winning animated shorts, one in particular featured a cgi robot cleaner, in a museum I think...

[@holychestermole485]

The CGI robot cartoon was one of the What a cartoon shorts. It was a rarity in daring to use CGI at the time. It was called "Strange Things". CN aired multiple versions of special compilations for award winning cartoons at various times in it's early days. Sometimes on just winners or somethings including ones that got nominated. There was a also a block on the 50th Greatest Cartoons that was one of the time CN aired some rarer shorts in the daytime.

[@tnielsen1992]

Theres a tape i had as a kid. That was about a group of puppet animals who work in a news station? They reported on a oil spill. I dont remember much after that. I believe it was from the late 80-early 90s but i cant find anything about it. Anywhere. One noteable scene i remember is between a monkey and a racoon. In chich they were talking about the monkey being the racoons side kick. But the monkey misunderstands what "sidekick" means so he kicks him in the shin. It was hilarious to me. Which is why i remember that scene most. But if you can find this that Would be Dope!

[@romantisanon4647]

Excellent work. Always a good day when you upload.

[@lordsquid6652]

I remember watching toon heads back in 2007 and I believe that was the last time it was aired, it was an episode where it was about private snafu after that toon heads just disappeared from boomerang

[@VashStarwind]

I remember toon heads, on that ad there was like kids vioces that would be like "TOOOON HEEEAADS" I remember mostly old cartoons being played on it.

[@CallMeFreakFujiko]

The short's been uploaded like, twenty days after this video. The audio is horrendous, unfortunately.

[@thema1998]

This was the first time I watched any of your videos in months. This was interesting. I had *heard* of O Canada and Toon Heads but knew nothing about those shows. 🤓 Also, I hope that "The Wire" is found soon. I want to see it.

[@tigerlillystar6143]

I used to love watching toon heads! I learned so much about cartoons for it.

[@PetProjects2011]

Speaking of Toon Heads, if anyone has Season 1 episodes of that series (which featured a lot of the Hanna-Barbera stuff), please give a heads up! Those episodes are super rare!

[@shareelewis3327]

Woah ! You dug deep into my brain ! I forgot about O Canada !

[@Mike_Dubo]

Does anyone remember an animated music video that played on Cartoon Network, that had a dude with a lightbulb on his head, another dude carrying an old-fashioned wall phone, and a pigeon that spoke in warbles?

[@SirBlackReeds]

I hope in the future you'll tackle the mystery of the uncut dub of Yu-Gi-Oh, particularly volumes 4 and 5. They have Amazon listings but whether anyone was actually able to purchase them before they went unavailable is a mystery. Plus, there's the rumor floating around that 4Kids actually had completed recording a full uncut before they axed it.

[@lordthexii]

This cartoon looks interesting, I wish I could help you out but the only vhs of Cartoon Network I have it's from 2002. Good luck on the search!

[@chrisrig7169]

While we 90’s kids are talking about the obscure early aspects of Cartoon Networks history, does anybody remember those weird promos that were on 4 to 7 AM? I remember one being a weird clay animation or early CGI of faces distorting. Another with doors opening to trees. This was definitely before Adult Swim was a thing and happened around the same time (95 to 97). I remembered them only because as a kid I left my TV on to fall asleep to and wake up to see creepy imagery.

[@holychestermole485]

Back in it's early days Cartoon Network had a lot of weirder designed bumps using different types of animation. They used to air frequently across the whole day at times. Other times segregated to the night. When I last saw Adult Swim they had some weird bumps like those being used. It may in fact be some of the same people responsible.

[@BeuyobIsHere]

Glad to have tried to find this short. If you need any help in the future, i will try to help. I will also keep my eyes peeled for the short. I am CNEdits by the way.

[@chayden153]

I wish Toon Heads was more well known, they did a special about the WWII cartoons and it's so interesting to watch

[@mrtyrell571]

Toonheads and stuff like it only got more obscure because too much of the CN online fandom decided to devote years to revising the actual history of the channel to the point it annoyed the living hell out of nearly everyone that actually lived through it. You can only stand so much of that nonsense. Plenty of us who lived in that time watched and loved toonheads. You wouldn't know that in forums populated by people who thought no one cared or watched CN while it was a 'rerun' channel until the powerhouse era made it important. Though i admit having talks with people in real life usually go much better, but that's just a reality of how people can use the internet to distort narratives when the other side is around. To them Toonheads was some obscure show they barely saw. To us it was a regular part of the lineup. We gotta work together to bridge gaps like that.

[@CalaveraCandy]

There was a short animation on The Disney Channel sometime in the late 80s or early 90s featuring little computer animated bugs living inside a computer. It was kind of like Reboot in that they sort of interacted with the person using the computer but they were all little robotic bugs instead of colorful humanoids and geometric shapes. I'd like to find it again but I don't even know how to search for it.

[@embajadacereza717]

When I was a little kid, (like between 2007 to 2010 maybe ) I remember seeing a thing on Cartoon Network that I want to know if anyone else remembers and you could possibly do a video on. I can remember what show was on at the time but I remember it happened after the end credits. It was some kind of logo thing or thing to pad out unused commercial time. So it was like a claymation alley way at night and the moon was in the sky. Then the camera panned down past like apartment windows with the curtains closed and there were like silhouettes (not 100% sure about that though). Then on the ground there was a dumpster and a kind of Frankenstein or zombie man standing next to it. This is when my memory gets foggy. I think something happened where he looked in a window or in the dumpster, something like that (I kind of remember a lady screening or something, but this might be something else I’m thinking of). Now I’m pretty sure that it ended with something based around the man with bloody teeth and him smiling. Then it ended with the camera zooming in on a old tv with like rabbit ear antenna (the tv may have been in a garbage pile, I can’t remember and I don’t know if it matters) then the tv showed the Cartoon Network logo amongst static in the tv. Then whatever cartoon on next started. Whatever it was that’s all I can remember and I did know that it scared the shit out of me. I hope this can be found because I’ve been looking for it for ages. I really hope other people remember this creep ass short.

[@BIGALrz053]

Check out Lee Hardcastle. He's done a lot of excellent claymaation work and has done bumpers for Adult Swim before. Seeing as it was so long ago, maybe theres a chance you hadnt noticed when CN transitioned to AS?

[@embajadacereza717]

@@BIGALrz053 I am aware of Lee's stuff and it does sound like something he would do but I remember it being on around when I got home from school so that's like 3pm

[@whitegemgames]

Stuff like this really makes me want to get any VHS recordings I can find and see if anything on it is lost. But who has the time to do that.

[@RobTheWonderful]

I distinctly remember this one. The ending freaked me out.

[@heidysotomedina]

I love these types of videos,there so interesting and satisfying at the end!!And i hope you do more videos like this!!

[@Julayla]

Gasp, I remember these. I looked all over for some of these shows at the time

[@mrmario1283]

ITS BEEN FOUND ALREADY LSuperSonicQ!

[@ethansloan]

Toonheads is considered obscure? I loved that show as a kid. Used to watch it with my dad and see all the really obscure old cartoons. The trivia/background info was awesome. I remember they would do like a whole episode on WW2 propaganda cartoons, or one was just about a really obscure Looney Tunes character that never took off (it was a sarcastic flea that caused hell for a dog). I got the impression it was one of Cartoon Networks more prestigious shows; before Adult Swim, it had the most "mature" tone of anything they broadcast.

[@mrtyrell571]

II'd say it's actually well known among those who grew up in the original CN era. But too much of the CN online fandom doesn't care much for a lot of that and consider the powerhouse era the thing that made CN important. Which opinion is one thing, in terms of actual history that's insane. But this is the tale of two eras that is really visible online vs offline. Go offline to people who were kids then, you'll get a lot of praise for it. Go to some of the CN forums and watch them have only the vaguest clue what is was.

[@DelRio1991]

I really hope someone finds toon heads I loved that show as a kid. It really solidified my love of animation and animation trivia.

[@ThatBluDude]

I remember a short I saw as a kid on Nick that freaked me the heck out. All I remember was that some teenage girl was babysitting a kid who acted like an animal, literally! I remember him shooting his tongue out like a lizard, and I think there was a point where he was crawling up the walls. Does anyone know more about this? I'd really like to know.

[@iminsideyourwaIls]

You should post this to the lost media wiki

[@drakton5737]

Any info about Cuffed Together? I know a youtuber that told the Animator if he can animate the episode, but was to busy to animate it, if he was to ever make a KZbin channel and animate the episode, maybe even ByeBye Beavers, I would be amazed.

[@MonokumasSlave]

funny thing here uh so like. When some clips of shorts shown on O' Canada was shown. The Big Snit was one of them. And I remember it, because we watched it, in school. Because we were doing some sort of unit on good story telling or something a long the lines of that

[@JamesCalico]

"How About One of My Eyeballs?" (Lost/Unidentified Freaky 90s Commercial) Utterly bizarre advert for Red LED Light Bouncy Ball Commercial From The 90s (first of it's kind?) Background and Timeframe. Somewhere lost in the ether of my memory is a particular fad that started in the 90s, that launched with a weird super freaky commercial no one I know can recall. I remember bouncy balls with red flashing LED lights, almost exactly like the ones in "L.A. Lights" shoes that were popular with kids at the time. I've even seen balls like these in stores as recently as 2014. Today flashing LED lights of every color are common, and found in air-inflated balls, and water-filled balls, but I recall these were in solid bouncy balls. I think they were clear? At the time, clear bouncy balls with something in the middle for viewing, were relatively new and all the rage. As a kid I'd tare them open/ destroy them, to get the tiny toy from the middle (which I would loose). As I recall, these were the first of their kind. LED lights in fun little cheap products were relatively new. I believe this was originally a patented product that later devolved into a brand-less generic $1 toy. When these were first released they got a VERY bizarre TV advert. It was pretty standard 90s commercial fair, rock music, bright colors, weird camera angles, kids yelling "woah"... over the top radio DJ announcer - you get me. It ran in Midwestern United States for maybe a year, to a year and a half sometime between 1994 and 1999. I think because it was somewhat generic in it's presentation overall, it's largely forgotten, but its' content was so strange I can't forget it, even though it's fuzzy. So here's how it went... Commercial Description In the advert, a pudgy kid (with chocolate on his face) is eating a doughnut with sprinkles at his bus stop before school. UFO noises draw the kids' attention upward for just a moment, but he seems disinterested. Then a chubby, green, rubber suit alien with a big head waddles up to him, blinking loudly and in a weird peevish robotic little voice says, "Hey kid, I'll trade you something for that doughnut". The kid says no. The commercial then shows a montage of the alien showing off various weird stuff, alien technology, and weird curiosities. Each time the kid just shakes his head no seeming annoyed. "How about this?" the kid shakes his no "What about this?" the kid shakes his head again and ignores the alien. Finally the alien seems wiggly and desperate and says "How about one of my eyeballs?". The kid stops eating his doughnut and looks at the alien suddenly interested. With a mouthful of food he says "How about both eyeballs?" the alien thinks for just a split second like it's not a big deal, and says "mmm... ok" with a shrug. The kids eyes get huge as you hear the popping noises followed by him putting the eyballs in the kids hand. The alien gets the doughnut and looks super happy, despite 2 disturbing black holes in his face. From There the boy starts bouncing the eyeballs and they lightup, with the kid excitedly saying with awe "woaaaah...". This leads right into the advert for the LED light bouncy balls. I know for sure at the time they were only red. Fuzzy Memory and Nostalgia I seem to recall the end of the advert, the alien either runs into something or is unable to eat the doughnut for some reason. I can't recall. I could be getting it mixed up with a don hertzfeldt cartoon as well. I remember seeing the don hertzfeldt short from "rejected cartoons" where the alien takes the dudes eyes at the bus stop. When I saw that for the first time I remember saying out loud "hey... do you remember that strobe light bouncy ball commercial with the alien?" No one knew what I was talking about. No one does to this day. I know I didn't dream it. I couldn't possibly have dreamed up that iconic line. "How about one of my eyeballs?" One of the reasons this commercial resonated so much with me is because my friends and I were constantly swapping food from our lunches at the bus stop and at lunch time, in between trading cards. I always remember that kind of thing fondly. It was a major feature and theme in 90s shows and commercials too. Trading your stuff with friends at lunch time. I have friends who like old commercials from the 90s and I'd love to show this to them. Lost/Unidentified Media Search as of 6/26/2020 one person came forward on the lost media wiki saying they saw this too, but had no information either. I don't know where to look for broadcasting data about what commercials aired when. This may simply be lost forever. That would be a shame, because it's so perfectly ridiculous, campy, and era appropriate, it's almost a spoof of the 90s incarnate. Thanks so much ~James Calico Please check this out on Reddit www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/hglg6g/tomt_lost_90s_commercial/

[@animationnerd7579]

I want to see this cartoon so badly, but I don’t know how to help the search.

[@3oct1111]

While looking at OCanada did you happen on a short about a man playing with tiny cows, whos head comes off? The short was mostly about his struggle to reconnect with his head.

[@blackroseknight77]

I believe i remember this." been while. also welcome back LsupersonicQ glad to see ya again. ;3 also oh canada was wierd.

[@megandemand8283]

I’ve never heard of the wire short before. If it gets found one day I would love to see how weird it is.

[@Thedarkslender]

YAY! New LSuperSonicQ Video!!!

[@OdaSwifteye]

We gotta find those O Canada cartoon lads. They gave me nightmares. I must have them.