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15 Super Rad ’80s Cartoons You Definitely Forgot Existed
The word Forgotten is truly subjective when it comes to something like 1980s cartoons. This was, for many kids, the birth of pop culture and nerddom, and memories for those of us who were tuning in at the time can be bright and vivid. For most people though, these animated series are lost to time in a way that even much older stuff like the Flintstones never will be. Who remembers Inhumanoids? What about Turbo Teen?
The truth is that while these cartoons were fun to watch as kids, they were little more than advertisements meant to sell toys, and YouTube has the worn-out VHS transfers to prove it. Creators did what they could to make the shows resonate and to find fun in them, but at the end of the day, they were still commercial products. Did you know that Transformers is made up of two disparate toy lines and that most of the now-iconic names were brewed up over a single weekend? Because toys.
Even if they were toy commercials, though, we had a blast watching them. Some, though, we’re not so sure we need to revisit–and there’s a bit of both on this list. Get ready for R-rated movies turned into kids’ shows, acronyms, human-animal hybrids, and some truly bizarre story conceits.
