A picture requested to me by my good friend Autopilotkitty featuring the cast of Digimon Data Squad with their baby versions(Autopilotkitty's OCs) enjoying each other's company.
The baby Digimon are property of Autopilotkitty.
Here also is another picture request for Autopilotkitty featuring Grim and Mandy pushing their adorable little children Bones and Maly(Autopilotkitty's OCs) in a stroller.
Today marks the tenth anniversary of My Life as a Teenage Robot. Yes, ten years ago today, a certain blue robot girl began battling aliens, rescuing people, saving the world, and entertaining her fans for the very first time! Happy Anniversary, Jen! Here's to ten more great years.
Another sweet song about the love between a father and his daughter by Paul Simon(formerly of Simon and Garfunkel) from The Wild Thornberrys Movie. Please enjoy! (A box of tissues is also recommended here.) :*) :*) :*)
In this very first game starring Nickelodeon's famous group of wacky, lovable kids,Tommy Pickles misplaces the pieces of his favorite Reptar puzzle, so it's up to him and the rest of the Rugrats kids to win them back! Players guide Tommy and the crew through a series of minigames based off of episodes of the show, such as:
Ice Cream Mountain-The kids play through several(very bizarre!) mini-golf courses in hopes of winning one of the enormous ice cream sundaes offered at the end.(There's also a two-player version of this game.)
The Mysterious Mr. Friend-Stu has built a series of robot dolls which have begun malfunctioning, so it's up to Tommy to fight them off!
Touchdown Tommy-In this football game parody, greedy Angelica wants the kids' chocolate milk, so they have to quickly drink it up while avoiding her!
The Seven Voyages of Cynthia-Tommy and Chuckie borrowed Angelica's Cynthia doll without her knowing and accidentally got it lost down the sewer, so it's up to Spike(whom a few fans have affecionately dubbed, "The only four-legged Rugrat") to navigate the sewers and find it before Angelica gets back.(An interesting feature I'd like to make note of here is the character's HP gauges; the kids use bottles of milk for HP and Spike uses doggie biscuits.)
Mirrorland-In a situation that the fabled Alice could very much relate to, Tommy passes through his mother's antique mirror and ends up with his gravity reversed; Tommy now has to navigate the ceilings of his house and collect enough balloons to float back down to the ground before time runs out.
Grandpa's Teeth-Spike makes off with Grandpa Lou's false teeth at a family picnic at the park, so it's up to Tommy and Chuckie to retrieve them first from Spike, and then from a goose!*(Another interesting feature I'd like to mention is the way Chuckie follows Tommy in this game, much like how Tails follows Sonic, or how Luigi follows Mario in Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga.**)
Hi-ho Spike, awaaaaaaaay!
The Gold Rush-Angelica, who's just found a nickel on the playground, becomes greedy for more, so it's up to Phil and Lil to navigate the playground, collecting as many coins as they can before time runs out.(They could certainly take a few tips from Mario and Sonic about this. :-D)
Incident in Aisle Seven-Tommy navigates a(much more fraught than your average) supermarket in search of a box of his favorite cereal, dodging flying vegetables and fighting off(GLEEP!) escaped lobsters along the way.
Pros:-A very enjoyable, well-made game with virtually no learning curve.
-Well-cast voiceovers with each character being voiced by their voice acors from the series.
-Good graphics.
-Background music taken from the show.
-Many very clever little in-game features, such as toys the kids can play with.
Cons:-A few bad camera angles that can occasionaly make it difficult to see where you're going.
-At the risk of sounding picky, Phil and Lil don't seem to get much face time in this game.(To be fair, though, this is the only Rugrats game I've played, so they may get more face time in other games.)
Overall, a very good, innovative game that represents the franchise well. Although this game is a bit simplistic, it's by no means a pushover(In the same spirit of such arcade classics as Pac-Man, Frogger, or Space Invaders). A must-play for any Rugrats fan.
This writer, who primarily writes My Life as a Teenage Robot fan fictions, has a very good writing style, just about on par with the show. (Honestly, if there were a "Should Be a Scriptwriter for My Life as a Teenage Robot" award, he'd win it in a heartbeat!) This is his first story, which sets up future storylines; in this very clever fanfic, Jenny meets new student Andrew "Drew" Nabholtz(an OC who'll appear in later stories), and they become fast friends. Eventually, the Cluster attacks, and it's up to Drew and Jenny to save the day! Please enjoy!
This episode, which first premiered on Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons series, was, for unknown reasons, never shown in the Fairly Oddparents TV series itself. In this rarely-seen classic, while Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda are fooling around, they lose Wanda's wand, which ends up in the hands of Timmy's evil babysitter, Vicky!(GLEEP!) Vicky, who's going to a costume party, assumes that the wand is nothing more than a costume prop, but it's only a matter of time until she discovers its real power. Can Timmy and his two magical friends retrieve it before that? Please enjoy!
Much of the humor of these comics derives from Domo's tendency to overdothings, which often leads to a bigger problem than the one he's currently trying to solve.
The comic consists of six short stories:
Don't Try This at Home-Domo enjoys watching a samurai movie a little too much!
Hero For a Day-After watching a superhero movie, Domo decides to become a superhero...but ends up doing much more harm than good!*
Soapbox Road Warrior-Domo and the others compete in a soapbox derby for the prize of a month's supply of delicious peaches. Who will win?
The Ultimate Beetle-Domo trains a beetle for a beetle fight, but as usual, things don't go as planned.
Life Is Just a Game-Tashanna invites a bored Domo over to her house to play video games; when he ends up breaking her video game system, he remedies(and we use this term loosely) the situation by having the other animals act out a "real-life" video game.
Living in the Now-Tashanna endeavors to improve the quality of everyone's lives by introducing them to cell phones...but will the animals ever figure them out?**
My Thoughts:This is a very funny, enjoyable, very well-written and well-drawn comic. The characters(especially Domo himself) are very cute, likeable and full of personality, and the storylines are very fun and entertaining. The book even contains a(very nifty) Domo Fanart section. All in all, a very nifty comic that any Domo aficionado is sure to love.
**Watch for cameos made by Hee and Haw, two flower pixies that only Domo can see, and a ghost simply named the Ghost, who appears and disappears at will, in this chapter.(Some humorous stuff is done here!)
Q. What do you do if you see a 2-ton rhino running right at you? A. RUN!!!...especially if that rhino is the very helpful, overly sensitive and slightly hyper Hornswiggle! In this hilarious offering from Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons series, Hornswiggle aspires to become a sidekick to his TV hero, Zantar of the Jungle(Hmm...Zantar reminds me of someone, but I can't quite place who... :-D); in hope of proving to Zantar that he would make a good sidekick, Hornswiggle makes numerous attempts to help him, but all of his efforts end in disaster(not unlike the efforts of Miss Helpful of Mr. Men fame). Please enjoy! (Personally, what I think is the niftiest thing about this cartoon is that it's the first ever cartoon starring a rhino!)
Q. How can you tell if a rhino is about to charge?
A. He takes out his credit card. (I couldn't resist. :-D)
Here is yet another non-classic cartoon that's too good not to share! This offering from Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons series stars the charming, polite, intellectual, well-dressed(right down to his patent-leather Italian loafers) Thom Cat(who's also something of an inventor). When Thom learns that his young owner Melissa's tea party was wrecked by a little bully named Rusty, he takes matters into his own paws. But, will he be any match for Rusty? Please enjoy! (Love this cartoon's art style, BTW!)
Fun Fact:This show, like Boneheads(Well, maybe not exactly like Boneheads! :-D), had only two voice actors providing all the voices.
This, like Boneheads, is another non-classic cartoon that's too good not to share. This nifty little cartoon, which was also featured on Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons series, stars three rat roomies(who may or may not be brothers), mild-mannered Cyrus, bossy Urban, and gibberish-speaking Squawk, who live in a shopping mall. The rats venture into the mall looking for food, but someone spots them, and alerts the security guard. How will they ever get out of this one? Honestly, you'll really feel sorry for Cyrus, but fortunately, things work out for him when all's said and done. :) As has been proven by the famed Disney-Pixar movie Ratatouille, rats certainly can be lovable! Please enjoy!(Fun Fact:Veteran voice artist June Foray, who's known best for voicing Rocky from Rocky and Bullwinkle, Cindy-Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas,and Granny from Looney Tunesamong others, lent her voice to this cartoon, which was made on her 90th birthday!)
Still have that pop singer's song stuck in my head! ACK!!! (Catchy, though...)
In this pilot episode for what would become the acclaimed Nickelodeon series My Life as a Teenage Robot, as first seen on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, teenage boy Brad and his little brother Tuck discover that the girl next door is a little, well...different. "Different" in that she's a superpowered robot! XJ9(or "Jenny", as she prefers to be called) would like more than anything to have a normal life like every other teenager, a concept lost on her mother(who's also the scientist who built Jenny), Mrs. Wakeman. When Brad offers for Jenny to come hang out with him and Tuck, she(very happily!) obliges. (Fun Fact: This episode was later reconfigured as the first episode of the TV series, possibly owing to the fact that not many people had seen this episode.) Please enjoy!
In this pilot episode for the acclaimed Nickelodeon series, first seen on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, 10-year old Timmy Turner's parents go the movies, leaving him with a babysitter named Vicky. Vicky seems nice at first, but as soon as Timmy's parents leave, she shows her true colors as the mean, nasty sort she truly is and tortures poor Timmy endlessly! All seems lost for Timmy until he meets a pair of wacky fairies named Cosmo and Wanda who can grant his every wish, and he turns the tables on Vicky, but fast! Please enjoy!
Here, as per my previous post, is the pilot episode of Chalkzone from Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons series(which, coincidentally, was also the first segment of the first episode of Oh Yeah! Cartoons). In this episode, a young Rudy Tabootie gets in trouble with his serious-minded teacher for doodling in class, while also sparring with the class bully. Things look bleak for Rudy until he discovers a box of magical White Lightnin' chalk; said chalk allows him access to Chalkzone, a place where previously erased chalk drawings(including Rudy's own character Snap, who he befriends) come to life. The sound quality, regrettably, goes a little wonky in places, but the quality of this video is very good otherwise. Please enjoy!
Chalkzone was first introduced in 1998 as a segment of Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons; it was made into a series in 2002.
The show stars 10-year-old artist Rudy Tabootie who one day finds a piece of magical White Lightnin' chalk which allows him access to Chalkzone, a place where everything written or drawn on chalkboards(and the occasional sidewalk) goes after it's erased(Ahh..so that's where it goes! :-D). Said drawings come to life once in Chalkzone, often making for some rather crazy situations! (Much of which also owing to the fact that people draw all sorts of bizzare things on chalkboards and sidewalks.)
Rudy is joined on his adventures by his brainy pal and erstwhile girlfriend Penny Sanchez, and their zany, lovable friend Snap, who was one of Rudy's chalk drawings. Appearances are also made by Rudy and Penny's(mostly) sensible parents, as well as their various chalk-drawing buddies, such as Biclops, the(slightly loopy) guardian of the Magic Chalk Mines (An interesting fact regarding him is that he was previously a rather cranky Cyclops, until Rudy drew him a second eye, thus improving not only his vision but his mood.), Blocky, an odd, ditzy, square creature who was Rudy's first drawing ever(His personality has been likened to that of the star of Cartoon Network's ever-popular series Chowder), Queen Rapsheeba, Chalkzone's resident music sensation(who mostly sings rap music) and love interest of Snap's(and his crush, fortunately, is reciprocated), and Bathtub Granny, an early comedy drawing made by Rudy. Our heroes were often antagonized by the likes of Reggie Bulnerd(gotta love that name!), the school bully, Mr. Horace Wilter, the comedy-hatingteacher(Hmm, could he be related to The Man Who Hated Laughter?), and primarily Skrawl, a large, bizarre, bug-like chalk villain, and his henchmen, the Beanie Boys.
Episode plots often revolved around situations occuring in Chalkzone(and occasionally the real world) which Rudy, with the help of his friends(and his magic chalk), would need to remedy. Also, almost every episode would end with a catchy(and appropriately surreal) musical number. There was also a made-for-TV movie in 2004 entitled The Big Blow-Up.
Chalkzone ran for about 3 years before going on hiatus; in 2008 previously unaired episodes were shown on Nickelodeon. Reruns are occasionaly shown on Nickelodeon's sister network Nicktoons(Check local listings for time and channel).
Overall, this is a fun, interesting show; if it isn't Nickelodeon's most surreal series it most certainly ranks! The bizzare situations are always entertaining, Rudy, Penny, and(especially) Snap are good, likeable characters, the supporting characters are also a lot of fun, and the soundtrack is absolutely great. Honestly, it's a shame that this show didn't have quite as big a following as some of Nickelodeon's more notable franchises, such as SpongeBob Squarepants and The Fairly Oddparents, because it's every bit as enjoyable as they are. An underrated show that's definetly worth a peek.
The theme song is pretty sweet, too!
Although the complete series regrettably hasn't been released on DVD as of yet, a few episodes of the show are available on DVD at the links below:
Also available is an album of the show's soundtrack(not to be confused with the Britney Spears album of the same name, which has fewer chalk drawings :-D):
This may not be a classic cartoon, but it's too over-the-top crazy not to share! This hilarious little slice of weirdness from Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons series stars two odd little prehistoric creatures of indeterminate species(even the writers don't seem to know what species they are!) named Roccos and Bone, who wear bones on their heads(hence the name). They hunt for, and eventually discover the rare and delicious babanna fruit; when all of it gets eaten save for one piece, they end up feuding with not only each other, but several other critters, including (GLEEP!) a dinosaur! (One assumes that the writers were probably just as caffeinated as the characters.) Please enjoy! (Fun Fact:There were only two voice actors providing all the voices for this cartoon.)
