This series ran only 13 episodes in 1984. So, today, they are cursed to forever have people look at them and wonder what the heck the creators were thinking. Decades later, they are but a distant, forgotten memory for most who ever saw them at all. Then, there are those shows that were extremely weird yet did not become household names. The world’s acceptance of these concepts comes through the popularity of those shows, but at one time, people undoubtedly thought they were super strange. I mean, who’s the crazy person in that scenario? Robot aliens that protect Earth meanwhile disguising themselves as Earth-style vehicles? I mean why were the Transformers disguising themselves anyway? They pretty much revealed themselves to every human they ever interacted with, so why still pretend to be cars and planes? How about ninja heroes that happen to be mutated teenage turtles? That has to be the weirdest of the decade, doesn’t it? However, no one thinks of those as strange anymore. Batman is a dude that dresses up in bat-themed PJ’s and runs around fighting bad guys. But, are they weirder than the 80’s cartoons? No way.īefore we get into the true oddities from that bygone pinnacle of cartoon time, let’s acknowledge how weird some things are that we accept as somewhat normal now. These shows are amazingly hilarious and, I thought to myself as I was watching them, very weird. Sure, you still have comic book themed cartoons, but then you have shows like The Amazing World of Gumball, Adventure Time, and Spongebob. Watching today’s cartoons with my kids, I’ve noticed the action-packed cartoons aren’t as prevalent anymore. Every show had to be action-packed with battles performed using everything from lasers and guns to magic and swords. This is readily seen in the fact that Rambo was turned into a one season cartoon and Chuck Norris and His Karate Kommandos was created as a 5-episode mini-series. Many 80’s cartoons were heavily influenced by the success of the action movies of the 80’s from the likes of Stallone and Schwarzenegger. Though, somehow, I still managed to end up with toys from some of the very weird examples on this list. However, I’d imagine the companies saw a loss on their toy sales when a show’s episode order was drastically cut short. Ah, the 80’s! This worked extraordinarily well for shows like GI Joe, He-Man, and Transformers. Toy companies developed ideas for toys and then turned them into cartoons that doubled as 30-minute advertisements. Naturally, no matter how short the run, almost every series was accompanied by a toy line. Some of the extremely weird ones ran for even shorter stints, such as 13 or even only 5 episodes. Many of these odd cartoons are now long forgotten but make for interesting peculiarities when they do pop up! Often, they ran for just one season. Let’s face it, there have been some weird cartoons over the years, and none more so than those of the 80’s.
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