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KOTH was basically a very good sitcom that happened to be animated. B&B was goddamn iconic. I'd go over to my best friend's house and we had to sneak-watch it bc I didn't have cable and his mom told him it was verboten.

Beavis and Butthead was super funny to watch as a teenager... I've tried to watch King of the Hill a couple of times, but it just wasn't for me; I guess the Americanness of it had something to do with it, but mostly it was simply the tone of humour that I didn't war m up to.

Daria is awesome, one of those cases where the spinoff surpasses the original.

a friend copied mpegs of the original b&b episodes and they were even better than I remembered. I like koth a lot, but yes, agreed with evol j.

I've never seen Beavis & Butthead

ah right, we thought this might not have made it but I guess we undervalued ilx's core constituency of american music nerds who grew up in the 1990s

― imago, Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:58 PM (ten minutes ago)

no kiddin' lol

also I mistyped groening as groenig upthread probably because i wanted it to rhyme better, sorry folks, must have been a jarring moment for you all

Come on, it's not just American music nerds... MTV Europe was showing B&B too, and it was huge in here as well. It's not like the characters are or the humour are particularly unrelatable to non-Gringos, their appeal is pretty universal.

Tuomas I hate to break it to you but you are also a gringo

i never saw B&BH either, was it all fart jokes and shrill sophomoric music snobbery or is that all a very unfair assumption

I was gonna post "Mike Judge has never created a bad TV show" but checked and there's something called The Goode Family which looks dire

Daria >>> b&b the movie (ineligable) >>> b&b the show that spawned daria

That said I still like b&b and also forgot to vote even though I half started making a ballot, so my bad.

No, I'm not. Gringo = someone from United States. Extranjero = foreigner.

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i never saw B&BH either, was it all fart jokes and shrill sophomoric music snobbery or is that all a very unfair assumption

― imago, Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:16 PM (thirty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is simply astonishing tbh. You never saw it?!

not once :/

late cut from tt's ballot iirc so it has her recommendation too

Goode Family wasn't great, but it had its moments.

I've tried to watch King of the Hill a couple of times, but it just wasn't for me

with all due respect for taste being a personal thing I FPed you for this and i'll probably do it again in a minute or two

I wouldn't say I understand "gringo" to mean "yanqui" but rather any non-hispanic person

with a heavy dose of "white"

breakin the law breakin the law

Amazing. And I applaud you for it LJ! But I have to agree with Tuomas here: B&B were ubiquitous, all over Europe and then some. Also, it was fart jokes but not just fart jokes if you know what I mean. It ruled.

The music video segments in B&B were usually great, the animated sketches often less so. That said, I remember laughing pretty hard at the movie when it came out (haven't seen it since).

matt gringo

Nah, or at least that's not Costa Ricans (where my wife is from) use it. Me and her use it like that too, when speaking about people from the US, because it would weird to refer to them as Americans, as she's from America too.

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B&B is all time but KotH is all all time all the time

No, "gringo" doesn't refer to whiteness, just to Unitedstatesianness.

KotH - though great - quintessential American.

i'm Canadian!

i don't think i remembered to vote for it but B&B is still very funny. i don't even think the show itself is less intelligent than KOTH or daria -- it just feels that way because it focuses on these two idiots. it's actually kind of a quiet show in its way, just these low-key vignettes about these two characters and these very mundane things that happen to them. r. sikoryak did a strip with them starring in "waiting for godot" and it actually felt pretty apt.

I am surprised by the amount of animated series I have never even heard of on this list. I have to start watching a couple of these.

B&B is basically about laughing at stupid stuff juvenile minds come up with, but not in a condescending, elitist way like Judge would later do in Idiocracy... Despite all Beavis & Butt-Head remain sympathetic, and often they're even correct in a "dumbass can see through pretentious bullshit" kind of way.

are we about to fight about Idiocracy, the most perfect movie to ever grace our unworthy civilization?!

it is kind of a bit racist as fuck

xp it certainly had some moments but iirc none of them were animated

idiocracy is a funny movie, but terrible cultural commentary

🎶 Go forth, young boy, and you’ll become a legend!

it is kind of a bit racist as fuck

Idiocracy?

https://i.imgur.com/3EeGcWY.jpg

7. Neon Genesis Evangelion
178 points, 11 votes, 1 firsts

IIRC there's a huge-ass Idiocracy thread where the classism and racism of that movie is thoroughly discussed, maybe we don't need to clog this thread with that debate. I'm sorry I brought it up.

Hooray for Daria making the top ten!

I've watched Evangelion twice, and remain undecided about the whole thing really

cool. i'll have a look a the other thread.

I have no idea what this one is, have seen it has a very busy thread on here though

Congratulations, Evangelion!

So Transformers is gonna beat Evangelion? Or it's not in the top 77 at all? Both alternatives seem kinda odd.

evangelion too low

Def too low

too low

my no. 1 of course

nothing left on my ballot to place except for what will undoubtably win the poll

surprised bob's burgers made it this high, considering lack of chatter. unless it didn't?

https://i.imgur.com/8z2O7F2.jpg

6. Bob's Burgers
179 points, 13 votes, 0 firsts

oh so Daria is to blame for modern life! thx Mordy