Cartoons you need to watch

The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 681–698 of 698.

Dec 1993

The Twelve Days of Christmas

03 Dec 1993 00:23:00

Detailed documentation of this half-hour animated Christmas special is scarce, and this summary is based on the surviving television print. It is an animated musical retelling of the traditional carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas", built around a medieval castle at Christmastime.

Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby

05 Dec 1993 01:31:00

Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, now married, have moved to Hollyrock, where Pebbles works at an advertising agency and Bamm-Bamm is trying to make it as a screenwriter.

The Wrong Trousers

17 Dec 1993 00:30:00

For Gromit's birthday, the inventor Wallace gives his dog a collar, a lead and a pair of second-hand NASA "Techno-Trousers", robotic walking trousers he plans to use to take Gromit for walks.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

25 Dec 1993 01:16:00

A mysterious, hooded figure, the Phantasm, is murdering Gotham City's mob bosses one by one, and because the killer looks like a dark avenger, the police and the corrupt councilman Arthur Reeves blame Batman. As Bruce Wayne investigates, the past returns.

Oct 1994

A Troll in Central Park

07 Oct 1994 01:16:00

In the kingdom of the trolls, Stanley is different: he is kind, and with his "green thumb" he can make flowers grow wherever he touches.

Treehouse of Horror V

30 Oct 1994 00:22:00

The annual Halloween episode tells three stories. In "The Shinning", a parody of The Shining, the Simpsons become winter caretakers of Mr. Burns's mountain lodge, where he has removed all the beer and television to keep them working.

Aug 1995

The Thief and the Cobbler

25 Aug 1995

In a stylized Middle Eastern kingdom, a silent cobbler, a mischievous thief, and a princess become entangled in a struggle involving prophecy, invasion, and a city protected by three golden balls.

Nov 1995

Ghost in the Shell

18 Nov 1995 01:22:00

In 2029, in a crowded Asian port city, most people have cybernetic implants that connect their brains directly to the network, and some, like Major Motoko Kusanagi of the government's counter-cyberterrorism unit Section 9, have entirely artificial bodies, with only their "ghost", their…

Toy Story

22 Nov 1995 01:21:00

Toys come alive when people aren't looking. Woody, a pull-string cowboy doll, is the favourite toy of a boy named Andy and the leader of the toys in his bedroom.

Dec 1995

A Close Shave

24 Dec 1995 00:30:00

Wallace and Gromit now run a window-cleaning business, Wash 'n' Go. A runaway lamb, escaping from a sheep-rustling gang, hides in their house and eats everything, including wool from Wallace's new Knit-O-Matic machine, which shears, knits and spits him out bald; they name him Shaun.

Mar 1996

Fire Ant

17 Mar 1996 00:11:00

Space Ghost, the 1960s Hanna-Barbera superhero now hosting a late-night talk show from a set floating in space, interviews his fellow talk-show host Conan O'Brien, who appears on a monitor in live action. The interview barely begins before Space Ghost spontaneously combusts in mid-conversation.

Apr 1997

Unaired Pilot

14 Apr 1997

Unaired Pilot is treated here as a specific television episode: Daria, unaired pilot. Its plot matters, but its larger job is to show how quickly television animation changed in the 1990s.

Jul 1997

Princess Mononoke

12 Jul 1997 02:14:00

In medieval Japan, a monstrous boar god, maddened by an iron ball lodged in its body, attacks the village of Ashitaka, a young prince of the Emishi people. Ashitaka kills it, but his arm is cursed; the curse will spread and kill him. He travels west to find the cause.

Feb 1998

Perfect Blue

28 Feb 1998 01:21:00

Mima Kirigoe, a member of the pop idol group CHAM!, announces that she is leaving music to become an actress. Some of her fans are upset, and one, Me-Mania, a disfigured security guard, is obsessed with her.

Apr 1998

Asteroid Blues

04 Apr 1998

Asteroid Blues is treated here as a specific television episode: Cowboy Bebop, season 1, episode 1. Its plot matters, but its larger job is to show how quickly television animation changed in the 1990s.

May 1999

Help Wanted

01 May 1999 00:11:00

In the undersea town of Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob SquarePants, an eager young sea sponge who lives in a pineapple, wakes up determined to get a job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant.

Aug 1999

The Iron Giant

06 Aug 1999 01:27:00

In 1957, just after the launch of Sputnik, a giant metal robot falls from space into the sea off Rockwell, Maine. Hogarth Hughes, a boy who lives with his widowed mother, a waitress, finds it tangled in the power lines of an electrical substation, eating metal, and saves it.

Nov 1999

Toy Story 2

24 Nov 1999

When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and the rest of Andy's toys launch a rescue mission through suburban streets and commercial spaces.