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I have been trying to remember this TV show I watched as a kid, maybe around
year 1998-2000.

It's about this kid who works for this scientist/professor and they
collect/battle monsters.

I can't exactly remember the details, but I can tell of an episode where they
battle a sphinx who tells the kid a riddle about "what goes on four legs in
the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening," which is a
spinoff from Oedipus. I can also remember the kid having a hammer-like weapon.


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What is this monster collection anime with a kid that has a hammer-like weapon?


You're thinking of _[Flint the Time
Detective](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_the_Time_Detective)_.

> The series is centered around the adventures of Flint Hammerhead, the "Time
> Detective", a boy from the prehistoric era who was resurrected from a fossil
> and became a Time Detective, although his competency as a detective is
> dubious. Much like Inspector Gadget, much of the heavy thinking is done by
> Flint's friends, Sarah and Tony Goodman, who accompany him on his
> adventures. Flint, however, pulled his weight in battle, when he would fight
> with the aid of his father Rocky Hammerhead, whose partial resurrection left
> him a sentient, talking rock with a face. Rocky, fashioned into a hammer for
> Flint, served Flint as both sturdy weapon and adviser, the latter both in
> and out of battle. Flint's job as a Time Detective was to go back in time
> and convince time-shifters- cute, collectible creatures - to ally with him
> to protect the timeline.
>
> In the US, _Flint the Time Detective_ aired from March 5, 2000 until
> November 5, 2000. The series also aired in the Philippines via GMA 7 and
> dubbed in Filipino language which rans from late 2000 until mid-2001.

![Flint and co.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AJP71.jpg)


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