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

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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?

they have rendered everything out to YouTube, which isn't perfect fidelity (clickable easter eggs were common, and there were games) http://www.youtube.com/user/homestarrunnerdotcom

but the flash site is still up if you care to install Flash.

FLCL is apparently a pretty straightforward narrative? But I totally got lost in its anarchic mayhem and weird things coming out of the protagonist's head to really pick up the plot!

I love the sound design though, especially when the bass guitar is used as a truncheon.

kind of harsh to give bagpuss, the best animated show of all time*, just ten minutes of poll rundown

*my number 3, but it really is the best

*professor yaffle voice*

yes yes well you see, all these modern American shows are full of existential irony, but Bagpuss...

*cheering mice voice*

wheeeee let us singggg you a sooonggggg

*narrator voice*

BUT EMILY LOVED HIM

*100000 tears*

It's nearing the end of the workday, I wanted to pick up the pace a bit!

(But I'm definitely picking up the pace MORE for obscuro Brit picks.)

(j/k)

https://i.imgur.com/NOoH7pJ.jpg

23. Archer
99 points, 7 votes, 0 firsts

https://i.imgur.com/jDjhV5A.jpg

22. Danger Mouse (1981-1992)
101 points, 8 votes, 0 firsts

lol ftr archer got 40 seconds

frisky dingo was probably better tbh, never saw enough of archer to judge *shrug*

it is very existential and ironic though clearly!!!

My general rule was to only vote for a show if I could remember the plot of at least one episode, but I made one exception for Danger Mouse

Someone tell Top Level!

https://i.imgur.com/uFJBP0v.jpg

21. Aeon Flux
105 points, 6 votes, 1 firsts

I've only seen it once, but the episode where she meets the kid who grants wishes shows her a reality where she's a soccer mom has stayed with me for years.

Someone is going to have to explain Bagpuss to me.

I've heard of the last three

Aw Jeez, how is Bagpuss so low? I thought that would be the consensus Brit-pick. It's certainly better than bloody Dangermouse.

BUT EMILY LOVED HIM

*100000 tears*

My first cat was called Bagpuss. Why? Because I loved him. ;_; ;_; ;_;

I was the number one for Venture Bros. Probably not my all time favorite animated show, but it’s just so lovingly created and whip smart that I thought someone had to rep for it and it might as well be me.

Didn’t realize Homestar was eligible or I def would’ve given it a vote.

I also should have thrown Homestar a vote but when I was voting it felt like a different thing than everything else I voted for. The voices have been burned into my brain. I don't think I'd like it the same now but there was a year when I thought it was the funniest shit in the world

at its best, venture bros is animation at its best: great voices, great music, great writing, great world-building, great animation. also the best and often most obscure callbacks in the biz.

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

yes

Bagpuss was my highest Postgate offering at #6 - prob should have put them all a bit higher, since they're all unimprovable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UfEc9J73BO4

Patrick Warburton is another voiceover hero

Would’ve voted Venture Bros if I liked enough animated shows to do a full ballot.

Major Proustian rush at being reminded again of the opening credits of the Lost Cities of Gold.

Unless or interested observers have strenuous objections, I'll resume the rollout on Monday, i.e TO BE CONTINUED.

BTW, I watched the first episode of Serial Experiments Lain, and is the rest as stringently unnarrative?

I'm at home with a hangover so it might've been fun to have some more results, but a lot of people will be out, and there's usually a general preference for rollouts on weekdays. So yeah, until Monday, then.

BTW, I watched the first episode of Serial Experiments Lain, and is the rest as stringently unnarrative?

― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Saturday, September 14, 2019 11:44 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

if anything, moreso

Unless or interested observers have strenuous objections, I'll resume the rollout on Monday, i.e TO BE CONTINUED.

― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Saturday, September 14, 2019 12:27 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

more time to talk about venture bros!

https://i.imgur.com/RjJi6o9.jpg

20. South Park
110 points, 8 votes, 0 firsts

ugh

fuck South Park

Thirded.

very formative show for me just by virtue of it coming out when i was in third grade. i insist the show was very good before it got topical

i didn't vote for it though so i have no horse in this particular race

I hear you but somewhere in between "it was very good once" and the latest "it's good again!" sounds it should've dissolved.

my first experience with it was all the edgy kids being really into it and ICP at the same time in 6th grade so those two things are permanently associated in my mind

it was weird, vulgar, and stupid in a way that seemed to extend beyond even mtv's animated shows, i preferred when it lived in that universe to when it started talking at me. it is also probably responsible for me purchasing disintegration

some of the topical stuff holds up in memory (they took our jobs) but fuck if i'm going back

something i still regularly lol over: towley playing "funkytown" on the keypad