Widget, un alieno per amico

I used to watch Widget when I was in kindergarten, every single day before I left. I loved that show!! I'm the only one out of every single person I know that ever watched it...it's like it just disappeared. I'd watch it if they brought it back!!

OK, this is so weird, so i'm 24 years old and i use to watch this cartoon also when i was young. i ask all my friends all the time and they say, what was that? i've been looking for it for a long time and i found it on this website. it was a pretty good show. well just wanted to share my little piece of history. oh and by the way i didn't know you had to write 10 or more freakin lines on this website in order to have your comment posted. well there are also quite a few more cartoons that i remember that i wish would still come on. the new cartoons on TV are so dumb and they are making everything too digital. go back to drawing cartoons, they were funnier and better.

"Widget, the World Watcher" was similar to "Captain Planet" in that both revolved around supernaturally-gifted people... okay, creatures in this case... battling to rescue the earth from environmental catastrophe. This didn't have any Ted Turner backing or name stars doing voices - although I doubt Tom Cruise would have been as good a voice actor as Rob Paulsen - but it was less pretentious, less politically correct in its characters (face it, apart from Wheeler none of the Planeteers were renowned for their looseness) and ultimately more watchable. Plus it did have a sense of humour absent from the good Captain.

The "Awesome!" lingo spouted by Widget really grated, as if the producers were trying too hard to appeal to its audience, but as far as cartoons aired by Channel 4 in the early 1990s went, there were far worse offenders (case in point the American-Dutch cartoon "The Bluffers," which is so (rightly) obscure it isn't even listed on the IMDb). Forget "RI:SE," bring back the Banana Splits and "The Adventures of T-Rex" I say...

though not the best cartoon ever, the sheer pursuit of finding anyone else in the world who'd seen it was enough to start a cult following. i seriously almost began to believe that i had imagined the whole thing. everyday before school i'd watch it. it used to come on right before Captain Planet. when both shows ended i knew it was time to go to school. where did this show go and why doesn't anyone else remember it?

As a college student, conversations concerning old cartoons constantly come up. They bind us all together. It always starts with Ninja Turtles, then some Ducktales, classics like Thundercats and Transformers. But when we start delving into more obscure cartoons that we all loved, we all get really excited. Eek the Cat, that show that was on after Garfield, and of course, Captain Planet. I always surreptitiously bring up Widget the World Watcher and always I get blank stares, even after I describe the show and sing the theme song. I liked Widget way more than captain planet and they were usually on back to back. Now Captain Planet is fondly remembered and widget is completely forgotten. Why? BTW- my favorite episode was the one where everyone was lured into a mini-mall with no exits and they were all trapped in a consumerist lifestyle with no way out. Considering most cartoons go hand in hand with consumerist culture (duh, they're on TV,) I think it's pretty cool that this cartoon existed. I agree with the other guy who posted here, Widget is awesome. (And I too began to question whether I made Widget up.)