Widget, the World Watcher

OMG! I've got the best story about our dear friend Widget! When I was young, I did jazz ballet classes. I went a few times, but every time, half way through the class, I'd ask the teacher the time. When it reached a certain time, I said I needed to go to the toilet. I grabbed my things and ran the 30 second run home, made a peanut butter and jam sandwich, a glass of milk, and sat down to enjoy my Widget the Worldwatcher, and Captain Planet! This went on for 3 weeks until they found out, and canceled my jazz ballet classes (thank god!). I was addicted to those two shows! I was their number 1 fan, and a number 2 fan of SuperTed!(oh, please help me, I almost forgot its name!!!) the show with the teddy bear that was unwanted and became a superhero because mother nature gave him super powers! So, anyway. I do remember both shows, along with superted (does anyone else remember my furry friend?), and just wonder if this will get any replies? You're not crazy. Widget and Cptn P. were the spunkiest spunks around! ~h~

"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...

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!!

Every morning, if I got up early enough, like 4 or 5 a.m, I would find "Widget: the World Watcher." Many would say it wasn't the best, but it was cool enough to get up for.

Anybody that hasn't ever seen this, here's the scoop: This alien comes to earth dedicated to protect the planet. He's purple, he can morph,and can even talk to animals. His pals? Two earth brothers and a overactive head and hands called MegaBrain that lives in a watch on Widget's wrist.

Imagine my shock getting up from bed and discovering that this show's gone. WHERE'D IT GO??!!

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.