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

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.

R&S = amazing show, terrible man.

I was specifically thinking of films like The Grudge above - I get that with Japanese ghost stories there are often quite specific types of ghost, but I found it really gross that they just decided to go ahead and stick some white protagonists in Japan getting menaced by Japanese ghosts.

along with being a terrible human being, john k was probably the most ridiculous cult leader ever -- just post after post trying to convince his followers of the genius of the guy who did the background designs on "yogi bear."

I thought Avatar would place in the top ten, it was my #1. It has basically everything I want in an animated TV show: beautiful, imaginative world, memorable characters, fantastic story that is incredibly well-paced across the 3 seasons, and it's genuinely funny for a kid's show. It culminates in one of the best endings to any show ever. I saw it in my late twenties, well after my peak nostalgia years, much older than the intended viewer age, but it's such a gem. I rewatched it last year and it's still one of my favorite shows of all time

I've never seen any R&S beyond the clip that was on The Simpsons, so let me wax more about ATLA.

* Its sense of realpolitik is well thought out -- not just for a kids' show, but any TV series.
* It humanizes all of its main characters, including (most) its antagonists, and gives them real psychologies.
* It's hilarious.
* It actively critiques toxic masculinity.
* Uncle Iroh is the best character ever.
* CABBAGES.

xp Vinnie OTM

https://i.imgur.com/c54TTmC.jpg

13. Batman: The Animated Series
144 points, 10 votes, 0 firsts

- Mark Hamill's portrayal of the Joker = best.
- Created Harley.
- Gave all non-Joker rogues pathos.
- Dr. Freeze was designed by Mike Mignola!
- Ground zero for DCAU. (Also led directly to the best Batman film.)

Am I missing anything?

I very nearly gave R&S my 1st, but held off because Fuck U JOhn K :(

I voted for BTAS and love it, but it has the big downside of having some of the worst animation yet on this list.

What's your best Batman film Leee?