Top 50 Animated Shows

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At least this one had a fucking Wikipedia page.

 

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#31 Daria - 8 points (1 list)

Daria was a show broadcast on MTV. It ran from 1997 to 2002. It is a spin off of Beavis and Butthead, which was also an MTV show. It ran for 5 seasons and had 66 episodes.

 

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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

Seen a couple of episodes of Archer and they were good. Really need to look it out.

 

[Son of Cod]

Hey guys, do you remember that episode of Archer when Archer made 8 sex jokes in a row and the 7th one was almost quite funny, then he did something idiotic and is a massive c*** to everyone and then he goes on a binge and Pam said some funny things about alcohol abuse and then another one of the loathsome characters does something to save the situation but one of them got shot? They never really quite resolved anything, but that doesn't matter because it's like a kinda play on old spy movies isn't it?

 

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#30 Wacky Races - 6 points (2 lists)

Wacky Races last 1 season with 17 episodes. It ran from 1968 to 1969 on CBS.

 

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Didn't realize the series was so short.

 

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#29 Scooby Doo Where are You? - 6 points (2 lists)

It ran on CBS from 1969 to 1971. It ended after 2 seasons but was brought back in 1978 and was ran on ABC. The whole series consisted of 3 seasons and 34 episodes.

 

[HarvSFC]

Scooby Doo now:

 

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Scooby Doo now:

Looks like something Seth MacFarlane would make

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

#32 Les Shadoks - 6 points (1 list)

Mine!

(I haven't seen the newer season, so apologies if the 2000 episodes were some twattery about a Texan propane salesman, but the early ones are tres bien).

Absurdist French show. Madcap and surreal, possessing a Pythonesque streak of satiric irreverence going on outright disdain, spirit of '68 and all that. Essentially avant garde in many respects... 4th wall breaking, anarchic contempt for plot and logic, even soundtracks worked on by INA GRM daddio Robert Cohen-Solal (how is that for bonafides), but extremely popular and somewhat of a pop-culture touchstone even now.

I wonder if there's some point to be made about audiences (and artists?) being more receptive to formal chicanery in this medium. Grammar/ideas/techniques that would be deemed 'challenging'/'difficult' in a live action context are almost routine in animation. 3 or 4 of my list bear that out in one or way or another. Something to do with surrealists and children, probably, I dunno.

As an aside, everything written about the show insists that it's unknown outside of France, which is not true since a redubbed version aired on ITV in the evenings back in the day. Which is somewhat amusing in itself since one of the two races of characters in it are a pretty obvious and unkind caricature of priggish, bowler hat wearing Brits.

 

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#30 Wacky Races - 6 points (2 lists)

Wacky Races last 1 season with 17 episodes. It ran from 1968 to 1969 on CBS.

One of mine, it is amazing like Fawlty Towers, that there is far less episodes than people think. I seemed to watch hundreds as a kid; they must've all been the same ones!

 

[PaulHaddock]

Hey guys, do you remember that episode of Archer when Archer made 8 sex jokes in a row and the 7th one was almost quite funny, then he did something idiotic and is a massive c*** to everyone and then he goes on a binge and Pam said some funny things about alcohol abuse and then another one of the loathsome characters does something to save the situation but one of them got shot? They never really quite resolved anything, but that doesn't matter because it's like a kinda play on old spy movies isn't it?

You don't like Archer then?

 

[markpvfc]

Surprised to see Wacky Races was made in the 60's, I remember watching it as a kid in the 80's and assumed that was when it was made.

 

[SALTIRE]

Surprised to see Wacky Races was made in the 60's, I remember watching it as a kid in the 80's and assumed that was when it was made.

I was the same with the original Star Trek and Batman series back then and couldn't believe they were made in the Sixties.

 

[Topher]

Hey guys, do you remember that episode of Archer when Archer made 8 sex jokes in a row and the 7th one was almost quite funny, then he did something idiotic and is a massive c*** to everyone and then he goes on a binge and Pam said some funny things about alcohol abuse and then another one of the loathsome characters does something to save the situation but one of them got shot? They never really quite resolved anything, but that doesn't matter because it's like a kinda play on old spy movies isn't it?

best episode for me.

 

[mowgli]

I was the same with the original Star Trek and Batman series back then and couldn't believe they were made in the Sixties.

I was a kid watching those in the 60's, loved all those shows along with my favourite Captain Scarlet.

 

[HarvSFC]

Surprised to see Wacky Races was made in the 60's, I remember watching it as a kid in the 80's and assumed that was when it was made.

And Wacky Races was still going strong in the 90's. Amazed that there were so few episodes.

 

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For anyone that saw the post I made earlier, just ignore it. I won't be postponing this. I won't post any today though which I planned to. I will post a few tomorrow.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Always thought Dick Dastardly should have raced fairly as he'd have won 1/9? races like everyone else then.

A real moral to the cartoon I like that.

Any more cartoons up soon. I have very little to read now I'm banned from the Shoutbox.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

I have very little to read now I'm banned from the Shoutbox.

This is an outrage! What have you done to piss off the Gestapo?

 

[mnb089mnb]

This is an outrage! What have you done to piss off the Gestapo?

I think I was too strident in my defence of anonymity for rape victims.

 

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#28 Paranoia Agent - 8 points (1 list)

Paranoia Agent is a Japanese cartoon created by Satoshi Kon. It ran from February 2nd 2004 to May 18th 2004. It was broadcast on Adult Swim in the US, G4TechTV in Canada and WOWOW in Japan

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Okay, if this was on Adult Swim, it can't be THAT obscure. I'll let you off this time Martino

 

[Son of Cod]

Damn, that was so close to getting on my list but I bumped it for Aoi Bungaku as my anime selection. It is very good, though.

 

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#27 Thundercats - 8 points (1 list)

Thundercats is a series that ran from 1985 to 1989 and consisted of 130 episodes.

 

[Craig]

Disgusted in myself for missing Thundercats off my list.

 

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# 26 Ed, Edd n Eddy - 8 points (1 list)

Ed, Edd n Eddy is a show that ran on Cartoon Network from 1999 to 20009. It had 6 seasons and consisted of 69 episodes.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

#28 Paranoia Agent - 8 points (1 list)​

Mine.

Short anime series by Satoshi Kon, late and pretty great auteur bod behind Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress etc. Strange stuff is happening in Tokyo and folks are getting walloped by a lad on rollerblades armed with a baseball bat. Standalone episodes that tie back together as it goes on.

Nothing has ever been written about Kon that didn’t include the term "Lynchian", and rightly so. He puts his own spin on things, but in terms of
tone and recurrent themes it's an obvious point of influence. Perhaps a little less so here than in some of his other things, actually, but still... identity, self as a construct of the gaze of others, the blurring of fantasy and reality, outward manifestations of mental/emotional disquiet.

One thing - it was a bit of a pisser to watch as a non-Japanese speaker. It’s dense with written info and bits of wordplay that require explanation, so the fan subbed version i watched was more like annotated than subtitled. I was pausing it every 2 mins to read it all the first time I watched it. That's more praise than criticism though, I reckon.

 

[mase]

I hated Ed, Edd and Eddy.

My little sisters loved it but it annoyed the fuck out of me. That and Dexter's Lab