The ILX Animated Series Poll Results Thread is part of this complete breakfast

This has been on my radar back when I was still on Tumblr because of CUET character design, but I've never gotten around to it. It's on something called VRV?

My wife adores Bee and Puppycat, and she's shown me and episode or two, which seemed quite lovely... I really should watch it all one of these days.

https://i.imgur.com/E5qkfEo.jpg

47. Downtown
59 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

highly recommend bee and puppycat - all available on youtube and not very long (eps are like 3 min each you can knock out the whole show in an hour)

https://i.imgur.com/3X57kQa.jpg

46. Wacky Races (1968-1969)
59 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

these imgs are beautiful btw great job on them

my earliest tv memory, other kids at the commune used to come round to my flat to watch it when i was about 4

I had kind of forgotten about Downtown. was a fun enough show i might have been a little too young to fully appreciate. was surprised to see it turn up in the top 50.
will def be one of the shows i circle back on.

xpost (thank you)

Downtown was in my top 10, I have such good memories of it and the time it was on MTV. I was 20, was living my own for the first time, and me and my flatmate watched the show obsessively. We totally identified with the two geeky protagonists, me with the dude and her with the girl. The episode where they consider hooking up with each other, cos their romantic lives is such a failure, so why not, but then realise it just feels too absurd to go through it, was particularly memorable. Too bad MTV cancelled it after just one season, I don't think there was anything quite like it; this was way before it became cool to have geeky protagonists in youth-oriented shows.

I threw loads of points to Downtown - it's smartly written and the animation still feels incredibly creative

Wacky Races was the best. Really lived up to its name.

shit i definitely watched downtown when it was on. completely forgot about it

https://i.imgur.com/pptaEOZ.jpg

45. Trap Door, The
59 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

Oh globbits.

I probably should have voted for this

Glad to see Downtown and The Maxx make the list. MTV's animation department was pretty short-lived, but they made shows which still feel unique today. I love those scenes in Downtown where the animation followed the characters' imaginations.

Hey Arnold really captured the frequent melancholy of childhood. A lot of that was down to the soundtrack, of course.

Sailor Moon is one of those things I see a lot about on the internet, but have never actually seen on TV. I'm not sure any UK or Irish channel ever even showed it, and I can't remember seeing any merchandise etc. Of course the only time mainstream channels ever really showed anime was Pokemon and Digimon (and Cardcaptors, to a lesser extent) in the late 90s/early 00s.

You really should have, it rules.

xp

also loved the next-door neighbor who was always bragging that every single thing he owned was "very expensive!"

just wanted to enter in the record that in the doug movie this guy let doug try on his very expensive VR headset through which everything appeared exactly as it did in the real world, only more expensive

https://i.imgur.com/5N0Nyij.jpg

44. Justice League Unlimited
60 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

And now I'm going the scold the lot of you for not voting for JLU (save the other two voters)! It's the culmination of BTAS (exquisitely paying off a lot of moments from the history of the DCAU), with amazing comic episodes ("This Little Piggy" wherein Wonder Woman is transformed into a pig and "Kid Stuff," the requisite "heroes get transformed into children" episode), and amazing multi-episode arcs with all the thrill-power you could want.

Granted, the last season is sort of throwaway, but the stuff in between is IMO on the same level as BTAS.

BTAS, STAS, JLU, and JL are all about equally great, top tier shows imo, and I've watched them multiple times through now that my kids are into them

https://i.imgur.com/2p3RqsD.jpg

43. Samurai Jack
62 points, 3 votes, 1 firsts

I didn't vote for Samurai Jack but it's really only because I haven't seen all that much of the original run. The melancholy conclusion that aired on Adult Swim last year is sublime though.

A shining example of What Animation Can Do, certainly, more so than many other shows that have placed so far.

https://i.imgur.com/yrxhUBr.jpg

42. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
62 points, 6 votes, 0 firsts

highlander was a documentary. the events were filmed in real time

samurai jack was cool

aqua teen was the one early 00s adult swim show that never clicked for me

Remember the Aqua Teen bomb scare?

It got more unpleasant over time, to the point it seemed like it was trying to get cancelled, but it was good for some laughs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O7KRysCDE8

the foreigner belt episode alone

Last for today:

https://i.imgur.com/Xbghi4k.jpg

41. Metalocalypse
62 points, 7 votes, 0 firsts

True

A lot of these I've just never seen so I can't really join in this bit of the thread. I remember watching a couple of episodes of Samurai Jack while stoned but that's about it.

Did any of you non-UK people get to experience Trap Door? I highly recommend it. There's the cosy domestic horror of a castle full of claymation monsters, but also the wry nod to class politics.

whilst searching for images for this, I discovered a Metalocalypse/Downtown connection:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_waQ3KXQ28NY/ReSfMRRSd_I/AAAAAAAAABM/d69SYOyv3hw/s1600-h/Goat_01.jpg

well here's a link to the page since the image won't work

Remember the Aqua Teen bomb scare?

i was introduced to the girl who caused this at a hawaii lan party a few months before it happened. i think it started like that: in the wind.

lol i forgot about the bomb scare. i definitely saw one or two of them around during the week before whoever called it in as a bomb and they got removed

https://i.imgur.com/HkpdjXf.jpg

40. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (including Battle of the Planets and G-Force: Guardians of Space)
63 points, 3 votes, 1 firsts

haven't seen this but, yay more results

https://i.imgur.com/wvVggPg.jpg

39. Clangers (1969-1972)
63 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

Goat from Downtown also appeared in Megas XLR; he's kind of the animated equivalent of Det. John Munch

ha!

amazing how the phrase "G-Force" is lodged in my head after all else is forgotten

the Clangers is of course its own little slice of perfection, could easily argue it's Postgate's best

voted for Clangers, albeit lower than Ivor or one that is yet to place. my third favourite Postgate still makes it one of the most joyful things in the world

haven't seen the original gatchaman but gatchaman crowds is really good and interesting. i don't think it's related beyond carrying forward the brand and general aesthetic though.

https://i.imgur.com/2L0uXxn.jpg

38. Hilda
66 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

I've praised Hilda already, but I'm glad that 3 other people saw fit to vote for it too!

I love the character designs, and was kind of wondering this style could be influenced by chibi? When did big heads on kids in Western animation/cartooning become a thing?

Peanuts started in 1950

george washington carver begs to differ

https://i.imgur.com/ilg8SOO.jpg

37. Rex the Runt
66 points, 5 votes, 0 firsts