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

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?

i like the "fixin' it with soos" shorts, which are both on youtube.

There's also a tie-in comic book called Lost Legends, with four GF stories that are just like episodes of the show.

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

27. Homestar Runner (inclusive of Strong Bad Emails)
90 points, 6 votes, 0 firsts

Genuinely haven't ever seen any of the last 5. Might check one or two out.

Cool! Just be aware The Legend of Korra is a sequel(ish) of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

SBEs are super classic, even now theres still a lot of catchphrases from them in general internet parlance

Homestar Runner is 40% of my vocabulary

I say "no probalo" constantly

"my blood hurts"

"Sever your leg please sir."

whenever i read the word "toons" i still get the homestar voice in my head saying "toons...games...downloads...characters" etc. the exact cadence is etched in my brain

same

eeeemail

Matt Chapman, one of the H*R creators and the voice of most of its characters, was also a writer for Gravity Falls.

the email. the email. what what, the email

we had a flickering light in our apartment bathroom and it was an impromptu light switch rave

https://i.imgur.com/xyYf0WG.jpg

26. Venture Bros., The
92 points, 6 votes, 1 firsts

I don’t think I’d ever even heard of Homestar before this poll. Didn’t have a chance to check it out before voting, but sounds like I probably should?

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

25. Bagpuss
94 points, 5 votes, 0 firsts

xp its a web cartoon from the early 00s, most famous for the strong bad emails where the character Strong Bad would answer a fan-submitted email question every week via an animated skit. was a pretty big part of 00s internet culture

https://i.imgur.com/1sLr8io.jpg

24. FLCL (original run)
98 points, 6 votes, 1 firsts

Homestar Runner was authored and published completely in Flash iirc, so got largely eradicated from history when the world gave up on the software?