As much as I adore Lilo & Stitch: The Series and Kim Possible, I don't think my brain returns to any Saturday Cartoon Adventures more than:
Aladdin: The Series - Remember the one where the cat goddess is kidnapping children and turning them into monsters? Or the one where there's a prophecy that Aladdin will die? Or the one where Genie is being hunted by the last of a race of magic-vampires? Or the one where Aladdin is being possessed by the vanquished sorcerer Mozenrath's (what a name) spirit through his magic glove? Or the one where Aladdin literally crosses over with Hercules?
The Little Mermaid: The Series - I think about that episode where she gets sucked down into the trippy, surreal Wonderland trench and can't escape probably every week. Go to Disney Plus and find that episode, it's called "Charmed," it's worth it.
The Legend of Tarzan - Like every episode is burned in my brain forever. The Opar episodes where he'd rather die than choose anybody but Jane, even after he thinks she's dead. The one with the Mad Elephant where Tantor thinks he's contracted the same illness. The one with DINOSAURS. The one where the new radio tower makes every animal go insane and try to kill Tarzan and Jane. The one where a different ape challenges Tarzan for leadership and WINS. The one where Jane's friends come to the jungle to rescue her. The one where Tarzan gets locked in like a prison camp with Teddy Roosevelt?! The one with a magical healing albino gorilla?! The one with Kerchak's old rival Tublat coming to try and take over the gorilla family in a series of traps? ! The one with the giant snake?! The one where Tarzan gets bit by a spider and almost DIES?! The one where Clayton's sister comes and forces Tarzan to choose between saving himself from poison or saving all of his loved ones from several death traps in time?! The one where the African tribes from the Tarzan books help Tarzan find a cure for a deadly disease in special two-part episodes?! The one with a WWII spy coming and trying to steal Jane's affections while simultaneously looking for war information he left in a music box he sent to her?! WHY IS THIS NOT ON DISNEY+?!
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - Skilled. Courageous. And ever-vigilant. Leaping into action, it's BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, of STAR! COMMAND! I'm tired of having to dig around the Internet to watch episodes like The Wirewolf where an old Space Ranger buddy gets turned into a machine-mauling cybernetic wolf monster by the light of a radioactive moon, or the one where an "energy vampire" named N0S4-A2 tries to eat Buzz's robot friend.
Come on. We got The Little Mermaid: The Series. That Tarzan & Jane movie isn't enough! WHERE ARE THE REST OF THEM, DISNEY
One thing I'll always remember when it comes to this series is just how far my jaw dropped at this reveal when I first watched "The Lost City of the Sun" as a kid.
Not every day you see a Disney cartoon do something THIS GRAPHIC without even needing to show blood.
do you have anything planned in terms of the aladdin characters for your disney parents series? cause as much as king of thieves was a banger of a movie, i feel they missed an opportunity with giving us details about aladdin's mom. hell, in the animated series, we barely got anything about jasmine's mom.
Yes! I haven't written up a backstory for the Aladdin Parents yet but ive got some small germs of ideas.
And happily enough Disney has actually given us a real design and even name for Aladdin's mother from a comic books story, here's Zena!
I also subscribe to the scrapped Aladdin 3 idea of revealing Mozenrath, a villain from the TV show, was Aladdin's half-brother, so I'll include my oc of his mother in the story as well, a sorceress named Morgiana (name taken from a character in the original 40 Theives story)
And finally I did find one design for Jasmine's mother, who've ive decided (for now anyway, might change) to name Badroulbadour, as this was the Princess's original name in the og Aladdin story.