Top 50 Animated Shows

[Relentless]

One of mine.

 

[Libertadores FC]

#41 Captain Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars - 4 points (1 list)

Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars was based off the comics. It is a french cartoon made by Sunbow Productions. It was shown on BBC in the UK.

 

[Libertadores FC]

#40 Dogtanian - 4 points (2 lists)

Dogtanian is a Spanish-Japanese cartoon. The show is about a dog who wants to become a musketeer in France in the 17th century.

 

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#39 Les Tragedies Minuscules - 4 points (1 list)

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[Libertadores FC]

Les Tragedies Minuscules is so obscure it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Isn't tough to guess who voted for it.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Mine!

Most notable contemporary "adult cartoons" purport to look askance at modern life, to offer sardonic remark on the nuclear family, scabrous commentary on the social mores and societal structures of America profonde, etc. They don't, of course. They are The Brady Bunch and The Waltons painted over with a veneer of snark, hidebound by a patina of loathsome irony and contrived quirk, a peculiarly (and putridly) banal manifestation of Robert Pfaller's concept of interpassivity. The least appalling of them, The Simpsons, does at least exhibit a modicum of wit here and there there. As for the others, American Dad, Family Guy et al... if Godard's dictum held that cinema was "truth 24 times per second" then we may say that these shows are something like botulism 24 times per second.

Les Tragedies Minuscules actually does what those shows pretend to. A series of 10 shorts, blackly tragicomic in tone, quotidian in setting but depicting a world that's cruel, confusing, indifferent. The title derives from Pushkin (I assume), and the episodes exhibit something of that spirit - comedies of manners, inner conflicts, brief, fragmentary vignettes. The art is marvellous, and of a piece with the scripts - post-cubist, distended, distorted, inhabited by an quietly foreboding animism, populated by blundering Groszian grotesques, halfway between Carne and Caligari.

I wonder if there is something to be said about the French being inherently better positioned to map this territory… the all committed lefties/all good livin bourgies dynamic (just ask em!), the tangled relationship to modernity/urbanity. This is a show that speaks to and of those sorts of neuroses.

 

[Stevencc]

King of the Hill was much less appalling than the bloody Simpsons - accounting for the concentration of quality that blessed KOTH!

 

[Craig]

The Simpsons was fantastic viewing until around season 10, owt since I refuse to acknowledge.

 

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#38 Horrible Histories - 6 points (1 list)

Horrible Histories is a series based on the books by Terry Deary. It ran for a year between 2001 to 2002. It was broadcasted on ITV in the UK.

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[Libertadores FC]

I didn't do a bio for that one because I was afraid I would get the wrong one. If you guys REALLY want a bio for this, let me know and I'll come back to edit it.

 

[Aber gas]

I didn't do a bio for that one because I was afraid I would get the wrong one. If you guys REALLY want a bio for this, let me know and I'll come back to edit it.

It's the right one! Do a bio dude

 

[Libertadores FC]

#37 Aoi Bungaku - 6 points (1 list)

Aoi Bungaku is an anime that last 12 episodes. It was inspired by 6 stories from Japanese literature. It ran for 2 months between October to December of 2009.

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[Libertadores FC]

It's the right one! Do a bio dude

I meant the one on Wikipedia. I'll do a bio right after I post #36, but you let me know if its a correct bio.

 

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#36 The Flinstones - 6 points (1 list)

The Flinstones is a show that ran for 6 years on ABC. It is a Hannah-Barbara cartoon. It is an animated sitcom set in the stone age.

 

[Libertadores FC]

The fact that the Flinstones only made 1 list is disgraceful. The Flinstones is the reason we have shows such as The Simpsons.

 

[Libertadores FC]

I posted the bio Aber, I could only find the intro for the live action series though.

 

[Aber gas]

I posted the bio Aber, I could only find the intro for the live action series though.

Don't worry mate, it's in the list and that's what counts.

 

[Craig]

Didn't vote for The Flintstones, would have made a 20 selection list though, maybe even 10.

 

[SALTIRE]

It was me who put The Flintstones in, loved it growing up, and always had a thing for Wilma

 

[Son of Cod]

Aoi Bungaku was my number 3. As Lib said, it's 6 different Japanese tales told over 12 episodes. It was made by the studio Madhouse, who are probably most notably known in the West for working on Death Note and Ninja Scroll as well as often contributing to Studio Ghibli animations. Each story was made by different writers and animators, so it's a bit false to treat it as one entity. As such, the two final episodes aren't of outstanding quality in my opinion. For me, the strongest parts are the retellings of Osamu Dazai's novel No Longer Human and short story Run, Melos!. The animation in the latter is absolutely superb at times, still looking as fresh as anything being done right now. A highly recommended series for anyone interested in either or both slightly weird and dark anime or more "slice of life" style comics/animation.

 

[Rammy]

Oh shite, I forgot this despite Lib reminding me about three times

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Who would have thought there's a list thread that'll last longer than a Rammy one?

 

[HarvSFC]

Imagine if this was a top 100.

 

[Gladders]

Who would have thought there's a list thread that'll last longer than a Rammy one?

They've found running water on Mars in the time its taken to do this countdown, thank god I voted for just a top 5

 

[Libertadores FC]

Ah fuck, I completely forgot about this last night. Will do a few extra shows today. Apologies.

 

[Son of Cod]

They've found running water on Mars in the time its taken to do this countdown, thank god I voted for just a top 5

Even more amazingly, Grimsby have managed two clean sheets!

 

[Libertadores FC]

#35 Gurren Lagann - 6 points (1 list)

Gurren Lagann is a Japanese anime. It ran for 27 episodes between April 1st to September 30th of 2007. it was shown on TV Tokyo originally.

 

[Libertadores FC]

#34 Pinky and the Brain - 6 points (1 list)

Pinky and the Brain ran on The WB from 1995 to 1998. It ran for 4 seasons containing 65 episodes. What are they gonna do tonight? Take over the world.

 

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#33 Archer - 6 points (1 list)

Archer airs on FX. It was picked up on January 14th, 2010. It is in between seasons currently. Between 6 and 7 and so far has 75 episodes

 

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#32 Les Shadoks - 6 points (1 list)

Les Shadoks is a French cartoon that ran from 1969 to 2009 consisting of 208 episodes. It was created by Jacques Rouxel