I have memories of watching a cartoon on Nickelodeon as a child that no one else seems to remember and was hoping someone here would be able to help me.
The only thing I distinctly remember about the show was that the protagonist lived on a little meteroid of a planet by himself (or maybe with some pets, I don’t know) and would catch a passing comet with his butterfly net to fly to Earth for some reason every episode.
I also seem to remember it looking like anime and the hero being a strawberry blonde in a vaguely seaman looking outfit.
Can anyone help me? I’ve asked numerous people over the years and no one knows what the hell I’m talking about. I’m starting to think I might be crazy.
I believe the name of the show the little prince based very loosely on the children’s book of the same name.
that should be “name of the show is…”
Captain appears to be correct. Here’s a link…
That’s it! I knew I wasn’t imagining things!
I love this board sometimes. 
Oh, and thanks, Casey1505 and captainQwark. 
I didn’t like that show, but watched it anyway because it was on after The Mysterious Cities of Gold. MCOG is probably the best cartoon ever shown on Nick.
Ah, The Mysterious Cities of Gold. That sure was cool. I wonder if Cartoon Network would ever pick something like that up.
I spent the 80’s serving in the Navy, and had no access to Nickelodeon (although I would have guessed the little prince, anyway just based on the description), so I have no idea what Mysterious Cities of Gold is, or was. But was it really better than The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, or Rugrats?
Yes, MCOG was by FAR the best cartoon ever shown on Nick. A masterpiece in every way, about a group of Incan children somewhere in south or central america. They had some spectacular adventures. The only cartoon that comes close is Inspector Gadget, IMHO.
Pah. I’ll see your Incan children and raise it a porous invertebrate and an Irken invader.
Still, 80’s Nick had some great moments. Especially considering that out of its 12 hour broadcast day, 8 hours was Pinwheel. Blech.
Preach it, Alphagene. To this day, I can still hear that damned theme song in my head. Oh, how I hated that show.
Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around, look at my pinwheel and see what I found…
You guys think that’s bad, I started singing a snippet from “Hey Dude”'s theme song today…
I can beat the Hey Dude theme song (although Brad was kinda cute, and who knew Melody would grow up to be the Christine Taylor): my nightmare flashbacks of my sister’s intentionally off-key version of the Today’s Special theme.
Pinwheel…grrrrrrrr. That thing came up in another thread recently, some cool cartoons from overseas (I’d like to see “Simon” and the stop-motion series with the two characters playing in a vast world of building blocks and wooden toys, no idea on the name). But the main segments with the “Gotcha last!” kids, the terminally perky humans, and that damn snail were some of the worst kids TV I’ve ever seen. Worse than The Letter People, worse even than local town character, Erlene the Story Lady, and that is saying something.
Today’s special…shout it loud and clear!
Yes, I can remember theme songs to shows I watched when I was a miniNinja, but I can’t remember where I put my damn keys.
Hm, strangely, I don’t have any idea whatsoever as to what Pinwheel is. I remember David the Gnome and can still hear his voice in my head fifteen years after watching the show though.
That count for anything/
I still know the entire theme song for David the Gnome. I loved Out of Control and as soon as someone posted the first word to the “Pinwheel” theme, it got stuck in my head.
And if I had the money to bribe a company, I’d bribe Cartoon Network to get the Mysterious Cities of Gold. I loved that show!
Remember the game show “Finders Keepers”? I had the home game version of it. It was really, really lame.
OH, and Bill Cosby’s “Picture Pages”!
*Picture pages, picture pages
Open up your picture pages
Time to get your crayon and your pencil!
Picture pages, picture pages
Open up your picture pages
Time to let Bill Cosby do a picture page with you!*
Sure, I’ve forgotten how to do triple integrals in under a year, but almost two decades later I still have that song in my head (and yes, I know it was on Captain Kangaroo before Cosby did it).
Hey, does anyone remember Zoobalee Zoo (I have no idea if that’s the correct spelling)? No one else I’ve asked remembered it, so I hope I didn’t make it up!
(Last one for this post, I swear) And I would give my eye teeth for some sort of copy of the “The Cat Came Back” cartoon short that Nickelodeon used to run in the 80s, in between shows. Does anyone have that on an old tape or anything?
The Cat Came Back! My god, I hated that cartoon as a kid since it was one all the time but I love it now, looking back!
The cat came back the very next day… the cat came back, we thought he was a goner but the cat came back. It just couldn’t stay away.
Nostalgia’s so addictive.