The Saturday Morning Memorial Animated Series Poll: nominations

This thread is getting the kind of response I usually associate with threads asking people about their preferences among candy bars and snack foods.

Cartoons are good

I have enjoyed me many a cartoon in my day.

Count Duckula

Tuca & Bertie

which fuckin' Netflix just cancelled, the assholes

Herculoids

Bee and Puppycat
Bravest Warriors

Speed Racer
Kimba the White Lion
The Amazing 3

I have enjoyed me many a cartoon in my day.

To help prove this contention, here, for the delectation of the ilx audience, I shall transcribe from memory all the lyrics to the theme for 'Felix the Cat' cartoons:

Felix the Cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat!
Whenever he gets in a fix
He reaches into his bag of tricks.

Felix the Cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat!
You'll laugh so hard your sides will ache,
Your heart will go pit-a-pat,
Watching Felix the Cat, the wonderful cat!
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ftr, Felix the Cat was horribly unfunny, but I watched it anyway, because any cartoon was a treat.

Turbo Teen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j18e_ID-DpA

Eek!stravaganza aka Eek! The Cat
The Tick (1994-1997)
The Pink Panther Show (1969)
Thundarr the Barbarian

Super Friends
Hey Arnold!
Recess

Steven Universe
Downtown (the MTV series from 1999)
Hilda
The Dragon Prince
She-Ra: Princess of Power (the '80s cartoon, not the new Netflix one, which was already nommed)
Starzinger
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

I'm wondering if we should crosspost this to Aeon Flux Top Level, maybe even get Peter Chung to vote.

Whoops, sorry, I see Hilda and Steven Universe were already nommed.

Steven Universe will probably be my #1, even though it hasn't even ended yet. It's just been so amazing to watch something so imaginative, life-affirming and beautifully queer on mainstream television. It's my favourite TV series of this decade, cartoon or non-cartoon.

And Avatar the Last Airbender was probably my favourite series, cartoon or non-cartoon, of the previous decade. The last 15 years or so have been great for US cartoons with progressive themes.

Pepper Ann
Kim Possible
Azumanga Daioh
The Maxx
X-Men Evolution
Spectacular Spider-Man
Black Lagoon
Serial Experiments: Lain
Earthworm Jim

I'm mildly (and pleasantly) shocked that Downtown has been nominated twice already!

Celebrity Deathmatch

jim woodring did work on turbo teen, you can really see the influence

A couple more:

Doctor Snuggles
Home (the Netflix spinoff of the animated movie)

I worked on one of the masterpieces of shit — it was called Turbo Teen, about a guy who turned into a car. Not just any car, it was a big muscle car. And the people who wrote that show were such jackasses that ... I remember there was one character who was dancing at a dance in one scene, and this guy called out, “Get it down, Jack!” — the writer evidently couldn't quite remember if it was “Get it on” or “Get down,” and then to just give this ‘80s show an authentic '50s touch, “Jack!” It was just so sad! [Laughter.] Somebody brought in an anti-drug pamphlet that showed on the cover a horribly deformed baby whose head looked like a wad of silly putty that had been mangled, and John hung it up on the door and had it saying, "Oh no, I'm turning into Turbo Teen!" That summed it up nicely.

lol

Mr Ben
Roobarb

Astro Fighter Sunred
Paddy the Pelican

Gummi Bears

Star Wars: Clone Wars (not the 3D one, the 2D series by Genndy Tartakovsky)

Teen Titans Go!

(distinct from Teen Titans, already nominated)

Mike Tyson Mysteries
The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
SNL's TV Funhouse
Mickey Mouse (2013-)

Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids

Dunno if anyone will vote for it, but it should at least get a nom

Some more that sprung to mind:

Dexter's Laboratory
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Johnny Bravo
F is for Family
My Life as a Teenage Robot
Sheep in the Big City
Flapjack
Regular Show
The Big O
Phineas and Ferb

I could be completely wrong about this, but it feels like 00s shows (kid's ones, at least) are being largely overlooked here. I guess they came out at a time when most posters were too old for them, and/or their kids too young/not born yet?

The thread going this long without a Peppa Pig nom is a surprise, I guess.

I watched the first episode of Over the Garden Wall and didn't really like it -- how far should I get into it to get a proper sense of the series?

Future Boy Conan

Any other people reading who want to nominate Czech/Hungarian/Russian cartoons/animated series? I did my small part but there's so much good stuff from the 60s-90s, and I forgot a lot of titles I watched when I was young.

Thank you for reminding me of

Masha and the Bear

My man.

Family guy
American dad
The Cleveland show

Dilbert

The Ricky Gervais show

we don't have to nominate every series

Okay true and I know this will go nowhere, but for a brief moment in the mid '80s, I was definitely going to grow up to be Jana of the Jungle. So...Jana of the Jungle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jana_of_the_Jungle

Also apparently I was so into the cartoon The New Shmoo that for the next decade this one bread recipe my mom made, which involved rolling out a blobby shape, was known in my family as "Shmoo bread."

we don't have to nominate every series, but I'm going to nominate a bunch of stuff I have some kind of childhood nostalgia for without checking if it's actually terrible

British things:

The Trap Door
Mr Benn
King Rollo
Henry's Cat
Captain Pugwash

Not British things:

The Pink Panther Show
The Raccoons

I loved The Trap Door and Ulysses 31, both already nommed.

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
Beetlejuice

Oops, Pink Panther Show and Mr Benn already nominated, sorry

fwiw I wasn't trying to say the trap door was already nommed before you did it. i just meant i would have nommed it!

No worries, shouldn't be too hard to dedupe. I will collate nominations to date sometime by the end of this coming weekend, present the list so far, and then set a nomination deadline for stragglers at that time. Glad there's so much interest! This is gonna be a tough poll to really find time to seek out things new-to-me before casting votes. If it seems interesting to do so I will try to prepare sub-rankings of British and anime series.

anyway,

Revolutionary Girl Utena

is not something I have seen all of but I should make sure it gets nominated

Technical question: would the Peanuts specials count as a series? Because I'd like very much to nominate and vote for them, if so.

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Great Pumpkin and Christmas both placed in the shorts+features poll so I'm going to say no.

here's some more anime:

macross plus
gunbuster
nadia: the secret of blue water
ghost in the shell: stand alone complex
haibane renmei
now and then, here and there