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

fingers x'd for Pat & Mat

For non-US shows, I'm presuming The Adventures of Tintin must still place.

there's still an anime to place - probably in the top 3

gotta catch em all

just kidding

Oh yeah, I know which anime you mean.

I tried to watch it years ago, but couldn't get into tone of the series at all... Maybe I'll retry it one of these days, now that it's all on Netflix.

also unless i miscounted including the simpsons at least 4 more Fox animated shows?

Can't believe I forgot to vote for the Pokemon theme tune in the side poll. I like the cartoon but never got into it properly enough to vote for it (having said that, I could probably still do the whole Team Rocket spiel off the top of my head).

i also forgot to vote for the pokemon theme, dammit

Omg I forgot to vote for Pokemon

you did not catch them all

we failed to pokemon go to the polls

We going down to 11?

xp Relatedly, congrats Ash Ketchum for finally winning the Pokemon League.

i heard it's not a legit championship don't @ me

They're waiting on the results of the b sample is what I've heard.

https://i.imgur.com/bUPph2i.jpg

16. SpongeBob SquarePants
128 points, 9 votes, 0 firsts

i remember watching the first episode of this, as a kid, thinking i had aged out of nicktoons. then i kept with it and i figured out i was wrong

every gag involving them realizing they live underwater is excellent but my fave is when they realize it and the campfire they've been sitting around immediately goes out

oh it's the show from the memes

Another example of knowing more about cultural references shooting off of it than knowing the actual show; i've never seen one full episode.

spongebob is genuinely funny and it deserves to be the cultural touchstone that it became.

though it could never have been #1 because of smitty werbenjagermanjensen. he was #1.

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

15. Avatar: The Last Airbender
133 points, 6 votes, 2 firsts

SpongeBob may have entered permanent child culture

AtLA is the best American shonen-style show.

ok this must be the one Mordy thought would be top 3 right? all America from here on out?

oh this is American lol

lj there's this very popular anime series that was recently added to netflix

There's a very big non-US show that's still to come. We talked about it a lot in the noms thread.

xpost ha

np it's clearly anime influenced, and what's additionally exceptional about it (for an American production) is that it's set in an Asian world, with a mythos based on real-life Asian analogues, with people and civilizations of various Asian descent.

Also it is the greatest show, only 6 votes????

I thought Avatar was supposed to be bad, or was that just the film version?

(By which I do mean the Avatar the Last Airbender film, and not the film Avatar)

xps

oh yeah

yeah

that one

ok

itt i realized y'all are much younger than me

i was a few years 'too old' for spongebob but i watched the heck out of the first couple seasons anyway, it was clearly a step above everything else on non-adult-swim cartoon network at the time

and yeah it's the main cultural touchstone cartoon-wise for like everyone whos in their 20s now

dude it was a nicktoon!

The Last Airbender film by Shyamalan is by all accounts an abomination, especially as it cast a bunch of white actors as the heroes while leaving the villains as Asians.

But the source cartoon is all the way on the other end of the spectrum.

oh right it was nick whoops

trying to think now of what cartoon network's flagship show was in 2001-2

powerpuff girls, maybe?

I sorted this by date, and the only one I've heard of that debuted in 2001 was Samurai Jack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Cartoon_Network#Animated_series

im 35 and watched spongebob when it came out because i was a stoner doofus and like 15

The Last Airbender film by Shyamalan is by all accounts an abomination, especially as it cast a bunch of white actors as the heroes while leaving the villains as Asians.

But the source cartoon is all the way on the other end of the spectrum.

― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee)

Ahhhh, I see. I forgot it was Shyamalan, so unlikely to be good from the start. I know this is a slightly different case, but it irks me a lot when US/UK productions take an Asian product and just make the main characters white, leaving the setting and minor/bad characters Asian. It seems like it would actually be less whitewashing to move the whole thing to the US, rather than simultaneously rejecting and fetishising the origin of the story. Does this make sense? It's like "yeah, you're great window dressing but of course we can't allow you to be fully rounded autonomous characters".

Like if The Departed was set in HK but still starred Leo, yeah, I can see that.

So, while we're on the subject of problematics...

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

14. Ren & Stimpy Show, The
141 points, 8 votes, 0 firsts

Avatar truly is brilliant; it was pretty interesting and absorbing from the beginning, but by the midway point of Season 2 I was genuinely gobsmacked. I honestly couldn't believe a Nickelodeon kid's show could be so damn good.

Ren and Stimpy was never my cup of tea, sadly; I genuinely can't see what's great about it. I'm from the cartoon-geek generation that mostly knows John K as that guy who's always complaining about other people's cartoons on his blog.