Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics

[Sage Ninja]

Does any body on here remember a cartoon on Nick jr. that used to play during the early nineties called Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics? It was a anime dubbed by Saban (I believe) that was animated versions of the Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales.

I remember this playing when I was a little girl and I loved it very much and I think it played a big role in making appricate Fairy Tales and fantacy shows. And inspired me to write my own fairy tales. Here is what the theme song dubbed in English looked like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRIADq3Nx4

does any one reconise this? What I liked so much about this series is the fact that it brought to light so many Fairytales that are all but unnown to the general public, and unlike American repesentation of Fairy Tales, didn't butcher or water down the content. I loved how daring the cartoon was and how it was dubbed over and shown on tv almost entirely intact with out to much editing.

here is one of my favorites called Bear Skin:

here is the first part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xiaeAGYuE

here is the second part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YINhD-b9ttk

here is the last and final part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PtVn20lUO8

wasn't that great!! And pretty heavy for a childrens cartoon. They don't air quality cartoons like this any more. Who else remembers this series?

[Duke]

I used to watch this show. I actually remember the episode you linked.

[Sage Ninja]

I loved this series I had no idea that it was anime when I was little. But after re-watching these episodes I notice how horriable the voice acting was. Not to the point that i could enjoy it but it is amazing what you over look when you are a child. I kind of want to see this in japanese just to see how the acting was diffrent.

[DrSpengler]

Yeah, I never realized how many shows on Nick Jr. were Japanese, either. I also used ot watch Maya the Bee and some crazy show about anthropomorphic Koalas.

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

Yeah, I never realized how many shows on Nick Jr. were Japanese, either. I also used ot watch Maya the Bee and some crazy show about anthropomorphic Koalas.

Noozles? I loved that show!

[DrSpengler]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

Noozles? I loved that show!

Is that it?

There were two of them at the time. One about anthropomorphic Australian animals (which included a koala) having various adventures, and another where extra-dimensional koala people journeyed to "our" world and befriended human children.

I liked the second one better. I remember it being kinda dark a for a kid's show, too, at least in one episode. The human kid's dad (I think) got lost in "Koalawallaland" (?) and was trapped inside this weird bubble that caused his physical form to detereorate. The kid eventually found his Dad but was only able to speak to him briefly. I thought it was real sad when I was little.

That's about all I remember about the show, other than the girl koala would open dimensional gateways with her lipstick.

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

That's about all I remember about the show, other than the girl koala would open dimensional gateways with her lipstick.

Yep, that was Noozles.

[Jo Dawn]

I loved all those old toons...



EDIT - One day later, and I still have that Roobear song in my HEAD!!

[Sage Ninja]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

Yeah, I never realized how many shows on Nick Jr. were Japanese, either. I also used ot watch Maya the Bee and some crazy show about anthropomorphic Koalas.

the show you are talking about is the Noozels and I loved that show. I don't remember the ending and that sucks. I've been looking every where for this but with no luck . I remember that the koala had a pink colored little sister and I thought she was cute, even though she was a bit bratty. The girl (the main herion) was a such a bitch! I remember really hating her guts because she was so argumentive. This show also had some touching moments I remember feeling very baddly for the Grandmother because she lost ber husband.

another cartoon I watched on nick jr. (which was also an old 80's anime) was the Little bits. Does any one remeber this one? It was along the same lines to a degree as David the Gnome and the Littles. Where these elfin like people lived in a colony in the forest. One of them was a girl Bit who could talk to animals (her parentage was unknown and became a plot angle) and two boy bits. one of them was spoiled and had buck teeth and I think was the mayors son and the other was some other kid (that was decidedly better looking than the other one) that had a thing for the firl bit.

and argh!!! the person who had most of the episodes of Grimm's Fairy Tale classics on youtube has taken them down Now I can't watch them any more Now I'm looking despretly to find if this series was ever put on on dvd, because I really want to own them now.