Weird TV shows you watched as a kid?

[Somecrazyaussie]

Beetleborgs. Thought it was stupid as a kid and still do as an adult.

[Jim Kelly]

The idea that Rolf Harris is British is something I've discovered only in the last few years and rebels against my senses. To me he was always Australian-Canadian. Australian in that he sounded Australian and his big hit was "Six White Boomers" and Canadian because I saw him perform "Six White Boomers" live in Vancouver when I was little and he was on local T.V. a fair bit--even had a song called "Vancouver Town." He was almost as Canadian as the Irish Rovers.

[K7P5V]

Definitely, my next choice would be...

Samurai Pizza Cats

[XandertheWise]

well i was a kid in the 1980s so i guess I watched "weird" shows such as Small Wonder or Night Court

then i was a teenager in the 1990s where I watched deranged stuff so to say like Ren and Stimpy, Daria, and Beavis and Butthead.

[ChrisIII]

During the early 90s when the Dragon Warrior games/Quest were kind of popular on Nintendo for a bit (Before the Final Fantasy series kind of took that over) , there was a brief anime adaptation dubbed by Saban that aired on TV briefly-I remember seeing a bit of it.

It featured designs by Akira Toriyama, so in some ways, it could be considered a sort of "proto-Dragonball" for Western audiences.

[From The Shadows]

Definitely, my next choice would be...

Samurai Pizza Cats

This is no way inspired by a certain show about pizza loving teenage mutant ninja turtles. Nope.

[From The Shadows]

Does this count?

[ChrisIII]

Does this count?

I would say definitely. Adding to the early Nickeledon programming, there's this of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCg1kb1sA0

[Scott Taylor]

My favorite was the New Adventures of Huck Finn. Here is the closing song and credits:



These were 20-minute episodes about the adventures of Huck, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher around the world, getting pursued by Injun Joe and a host of other bad guys. It was a show that played as part of the show called the Banana Splits. People have sampled the Banana Splits theme song.

Lu Ann Haslam was my crush back then.

For a more modern show, that my kids used to watch .... Lazytown. It was an Icelandic, crazy show of epic proportions.

[Celgress]

Round The Twist was pretty messed up:


Also, not sure what the hell was going on with Timm Thaler, a German series about an evil baron buying a boy’s laughter.

Was it ever f'ed up. I remember this show.

[j9ac9k]

I have a vague memory of a tv show where an orangutan was President of the United States.... or did I dream that?

[AnthonyO'Brien]

Was that Mr Smith? Also there was out of this World. A small Wonder type show about a girl with an alien dad who communicates with her via a radio that plays doo wop music.

Ever watch dr Fad or those other "science is fun" shows?
In Australia we had the Curiosity show, a boring educational show featuring hosts with bad moustaches and 1982 clothing. It of course featured the string can telephone. The hosts could hear each other perfectly. Probably since they were only two feet away from each other ��

[Top Hat]

Mr Ben. Mr Noseybonk. Rentaghost. The Magic Roundabout. Clangers. British children’s TV used to be commendably weird.

[K7P5V]

Hopefully this counts, but my next choice would be...

Krazy Kat

[Sandy Hausler]

My Mother the Car. Nobody's gonna beat that for weird TV.