11 Bizarre '90s Cartoons That Only Ran One Season

There's a time and a place for Hanna-Barbera, when the animation can afford to be cheap because the writing is reliable, or just formula comfort-food enough to be enjoyable like Scooby-Doo. When you're attempting something fresh and dynamic, however, the animation powerhouse is rarely the right direction to go.

Such was the case with Dumb and Dumber, the animated spin-off of the hit comedy from future Oscar-winner Peter Farrelly and his brother Bob. Since 1994, the duo has attempted to resurrect Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, with a more than game Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, but so far no efforts have proven successful. A prequel starring Erc Christian Olsen (The Thing) and Derek Richardson (Hostel) was a notorious flop, and the Farrellys' own sequel suffered from diminishing returns.

But none were as bad the first venture, the animated series that debuted on October 18, 1995. Calling the animation primitive is almost too gentle, it looks thrown together. But the threadbare colouring and design didn't hold a candle to the plotlines, which were somehow even more juvenile than the film's goofy kidnapping plot.

The episodes, for some reason, have been preserved on Amazon.