AnimatedFan01
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Are there any cartoons from your childhood or adolescence which you have vague memories of seeing or hearing about during their run and only "discovered" after their cancelation or ending? Basically, cartoons that made you go "This one seems familiar, but I don't remember seeing it." when hearing about them years later.
-I have zero recollection of seeing even promos for Squirrel Boy during its short-lived run (both during its airing and reruns) and saw it as a completely unrecognizable show when I had been hearing about it in CN-related videos in 2013. However I definitely remember when McDonald's was having a Cartoon Network tie-in during August-September of 2007 which sold pencil topper toys of Foster's, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Squirrel Boy. For some reason, I kept getting the Bloo and Wilt ones every time except one time when I got the Bull Sharkowski MGPAM topper. Since I remember seeing a commercial for it and had to have seen the display stand of the toys, this is my only memory of Squirrel Boy during its run; I don't remember seeing a single second of any episode or promo at all during this time, only having started to view it online several years later.
-Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is a similar case. I don't remember seeing any glimpses of the show or promos, but I remember being bought the 2005 CN Summer All-Stars PC game and it had two unrecognized Japanese girls on it which I'd come to identify as Ami and Yumi several years later.
Going through archived CN/AS/Nick schedules from 2006-2009 and seeing certain episode airings/reruns on specific dates which I definitely remember watching on those days, any other candidates would be shows I didn't see (or remember seeing) because I either changed the channel or was outside of the living room, was at school or otherwise not home, or was on a different channel during their time slots.
-I have zero recollection of seeing even promos for Squirrel Boy during its short-lived run (both during its airing and reruns) and saw it as a completely unrecognizable show when I had been hearing about it in CN-related videos in 2013. However I definitely remember when McDonald's was having a Cartoon Network tie-in during August-September of 2007 which sold pencil topper toys of Foster's, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Squirrel Boy. For some reason, I kept getting the Bloo and Wilt ones every time except one time when I got the Bull Sharkowski MGPAM topper. Since I remember seeing a commercial for it and had to have seen the display stand of the toys, this is my only memory of Squirrel Boy during its run; I don't remember seeing a single second of any episode or promo at all during this time, only having started to view it online several years later.
-Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is a similar case. I don't remember seeing any glimpses of the show or promos, but I remember being bought the 2005 CN Summer All-Stars PC game and it had two unrecognized Japanese girls on it which I'd come to identify as Ami and Yumi several years later.
Going through archived CN/AS/Nick schedules from 2006-2009 and seeing certain episode airings/reruns on specific dates which I definitely remember watching on those days, any other candidates would be shows I didn't see (or remember seeing) because I either changed the channel or was outside of the living room, was at school or otherwise not home, or was on a different channel during their time slots.
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