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

When CBS ordered up an entire Garfield special, Davis — not quite happy with the choice that had been made — inaugurated a major casting search for the perfect, permanent sound. Hundreds of actors were heard and re-heard before Lorenzo tried-out and Jim said, almost instantaneously, "That's the one." Thereafter, Lorenzo spoke for Garfield on more than a dozen prime-time animated specials (one of which he co-wrote, and several of which won Emmys) and on the Saturday morning Garfield and Friends show, which was on CBS for seven years.

As the writer (and later, co-producer and voice director) of the Saturday show, I was reunited with Lorenzo and came to truly appreciate his acting abilities. He was a thinking performer who would instantly grasp what had been written and, as often as not, come up with a way to maximize the humor. His suggestions were nearly always good, and contributed to making Garfield a truly memorable animated personality.

During this period, Lorenzo came up with the gimmick of keeping his visage from public view…a notion that flowed from all the curiosity he'd aroused when playing the never-seen Carlton on Rhoda. Thereafter, his publicity photos showed him in silhouette, or with something in front of his face, and he declined all TV interviews that would not present him that way. Although he had appeared occasionally on TV before, the stunt had its intended effect of arousing attention. People began wondering about the face that went with the voice and he often chuckled that he was becoming "semi-famous" for not being seen. He received several lucrative proposals to appear on-camera in movies and TV shows or as a commercial spokesperson and was forever considering them but always opting to wait for a better offer. (He once likened it to a great dramatic actor waiting for the right role before he'd perform without his hairpiece. He'd say, "I'm not showing my face for this one.")

thanks sic. A giant.

https://i.imgur.com/ytCHg3v.jpg

34. Pingu
70 points, 6 votes, 0 firsts

I *will* sell my family's fish for booze and then piss myself everywhere, I *will*.

duckman better place or yall are doing it wrong imo

how can anyone not vote for pingu

rex the runt doing very nicely i must add. i gave it loads of points - that first season is incredible. amazing surreal humour and animation. second season falls off a cliff, apparently due to a changed writing team, but i won't hold that against it too much

Pingu way too low altho the reboot probably loses it a few marks

Reboot?!

They made a couple of series especially for the BBC after the original finished, the later ones are inferior imo

Pingu way too low for sure

there's a more recent Japanese computer-animated reboot that I haven't seen

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

33. Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, The Adventures of
72 points, 4 votes, 1 firsts

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

32. Paranoia Agent
77 points, 6 votes, 1 firsts

huh didn't know this was a thing, or at least enough of a thing to show up above e.g. lain

Maromi says TOO LOW
https://rei.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/chars/5688-49864703.jpg

Paranoia Agent was my #1, btw.

Sell me/us on it, emil.y!

https://i.imgur.com/m4LHLLa.jpg

31. Big Mouth
80 points, 7 votes, 0 firsts

ya, i'm kinda curious to know more about Paranoia.

maya rudolph deserves some kind of award for her big mouth voice over

i both love AND hate the way she says bubble bath.

Sell me/us on it, emil.y!

― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee)

Well, it's Satoshi Kon, and it has all the hallmarks of it - themes exploring the nature of reality, meshing realism and surrealism, great art and music (it's the guy from P-Model, who Kon uses a lot). And unlike a lot of otherwise great shows, it doesn't overrun and have to compensate with filler, it uses its time perfectly and then is gone...

Big Mouth was high on my list, its a tour de force.

In addition to being very cleverly written and funny, Big Mouth gets the absolute most mileage possible out of being animated. It's been such a giddy pleasure to watch them expand out the supernatural (or whatever) world of the hormone monsters. Maya Rudolph wins for best voice acting but David Thewlis' Shane Wizard is <chef's finger kiss>

uh Shame Wizard

Oh yes when Thewlis appeared this season I was absolutely delighted. They even made the shame wizard look sort of like him!

Big Mouth, a show about awkward puberty years.. that description alone is a hard pass for me

i was pretty surprised when i first watched it, that it wasn't just cruel mocking awkward children tbh.

No, it’s actually very sweet and has affection for even the most ridiculous of characters (coach Steve)

i was prepared to utterly loathe it but it's surprisingly good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVagWJhvVbM

This must spoil quite a lot but I'm def sold on Paranoia Agent after seeing this, thanks Emily!

great images
hell yeh 2 trap door

will def check out paranoia agent and trap door yh

big mouth wasn't at all for me based on a brief viewing

^ lived too exuberant an adolescence online to understand the concept of embarrassment

hah

https://i.imgur.com/kusr4oE.jpg

30. Over the Garden Wall
81 points, 8 votes, 1 firsts

<3

need to watch this one at some point it looks appealing

it is appealing!

threw this a vote, it's quite charming and that moment in the frogs episode is something else

I was predisposed to NOT liking Over the Wall, because the character designs are deceptively crude side (for me those noses)... but it's deceptive because the animation is gorgeous.

The world-building is layered and doled out in digestible portions over the course of the series, and the humor (which kind of put me off in the first episode) is for lack of a better word humanistic, flaws and all.

It should be called Over The Cemetery Wall if we're being pedantic tbf (that isn't a spoiler)

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

29. Legend of Korra, The
84 points, 5 votes, 0 firsts

Korra improved for me on my rewatch, even though none of my overall opinions of the individual seasons changed (hated 1 and first half of 2, loved second half of 2 and all of 3, bored by 4). I intensely love the Red Lotus, it turns out, and Zaheer is for my money the best antagonist in cartoons.

Yeah, season 3 is by far the best of the series, but I did like how the 4th season built upon everything Korra had gone through in the first four.

Also, I dunno if it was intentional right from the start, but there's a clear balance to the villains and their motivations in each season: 1 - pro-human anti-magic, 2 - pro-magic anti-human, 3 - anarchoprimitivism, 4 - technocratic fascism. Makes for a good overall arc for the series, IMO.

"how the 4th season built upon everything Korra had gone through in the first three"

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

28. Gravity Falls
85 points, 5 votes, 0 firsts

Gravity Falls was my biggest discovery from this poll (pending the anime series available on YT). Consistently funny with gradually deepening lore, then turns into a different beast in its finale arc.

(I do think that parts of the ending are a cop-out.)

Are the GF shorts worth tracking down?