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ultimately i think it was too...nihilistic? idk

yeah this was sort my feeling too from the 2 episodes I watched. Like Bender from Futurama just amped up and more unpleasant

rick and morty voter here. this is the gag that won me over in the pilot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiyeOLguw8

(with Bender there's at least the gag/cognitive dissonance that he's a robot acting like a really shitty human)

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as nigel says in spinal tap, there's a fine line between stupid and clever, and rick & morty walks it. the individual jokes can be cheap, but the plotting is very tight and it has a great handle on its characters.

it's really too bad about the fans, though.

rick and morty is bad

For those who haven't seen it and thusly don't get it, Beavis and Butthead is transcendent in its presentation of stupidity. It's a formula that Judge wisely never fucked with (by eg doing something like ever giving B+B an iota of self-awareness) so the vibe is sustained with surprising consistency over dozens of episodes. And it's still hilarious after umpteen rewatches. There's really nothing else like it. Although I'm realizing now that I haven't watched it since the world became metastatic a few years ago so I'm not sure what my capacity for fictionalized brainlessness is at this point tbrr.

I love nihilism and weird, abrasive humour as much as the next person, but the story arcs of Rick and Morty felt way too familiar and I appreciate that maybe it moves away from that as it gets going (like a lot of things) but there was something in the tone that was otherwise just very offputting.

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4. Futurama
192 points, 14 votes, 1 firsts

hey, this was my #4 too!

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The way I see Futurama, it went from The Simpsons... In Space! to kind of bad to really good again but as high-concept sci-fi with a deeply humanist heart.

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Between Mabel Pines and Louise Belcher, are there any otherh Kristen Schaal voice roles I need to love?

― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee)

She does the now-grown child actor that starred with Bojack on Horsin' Around. And maybe the then-child actor when they show clips.

I was about to say, I can't imagine that Futurama is in the top 4, but I can't imagine that it's not in the top 77.

I'm off to bed now so I'll get in ahead of time that I'm amazed in a good way by Adventure Time placing this high, and amazed in a bad way by the Simpsons - it created the warp and weft of a lot of our culture, but the season with Frank Grimes, the last good season, was 22 years ago, people!

Futurama has kind of curdled for me tbh. On those occasions when I rewatch I p much never laugh (which makes those occasions increasingly rare)

reading through the rick & morty thread and there's an interesting time warp that happens at the skip--from earnest enthusiasm for the show to a kinda hostile discussion of toxic fandom.

we all did a lot of aging between 2014 and 2018

Between Bender and Jake, John DiMaggio's place in cartoon heaven is assured.

XPS Schaal voices the young Sarah Lynn too.

Not that I voted but my top 5 would not have the simpsons in it but would have Futurama, Bob’s Burgers, Rick and Morty, Animaniacs, Bojack horseman and King of the Hill all fighting for spots.

I'm starting to suspect that The Flintstones will not place.

And contrariwise, Rick and Morty would have to be a lot better than any episodes I saw to overcome "there's two protagonists and they're both Lemongrab"

a bunch of futurama gags will play in my head for the rest of my life (bender bending rodriguez, the way zapf branigan pronounces "champagne," drinking so many cups of coffee you stop time)

i can't fuckin stand rick and morty but whatever you nerds win

(i'm a millennial)

my only regret... is that i have... boneitis

okay yes tbf I do reference boneitis on the regular

most recently when someone appeared to develop boneitis on "Another Planet"

that dance wasn't nearly as safe as they said it was

oddly the other phrase that's stuck w me is "Lovenasium"

I always think of Futurama fondly but lack the very high iq required to truly appreciate R&M

i love the episode where bender becomes captain of the ship and he insists on calling fry by an informal nickname and he settles on "wiggles"

No guesses for who the #1 vote was, right? :)

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3. Adventure Time
206 points, 11 votes, 3 firsts

i love the episode where bender becomes captain of the ship and he insists on calling fry by an informal nickname and he settles on "wiggles"

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 17, 2019 5:53 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

such a man! i'd follow him to hell and back, i would!

another one that's stuck with me is Hedonismbot

I apologize for nothing!

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I think I watched the first episode of Rick and Morty and probably at least half of the first season of Futurama when it was first airing, should I return to either y/n

adventure time from what i've seen has an enormous and unpredictable quality range on an episode by episode basis

wish someone trustworthy would put together an unimpeachable playlist of say 20 or so

love the david o'reilly glitch episode, more weirdo ones like that pls

God I didnt even vote for Adventure Time. Or Rick & Morty for that matter. TBH Ive only ever seen about 3 or 4 AT eps! I do like what Ive seen though.

R&M was just an oversight coupled with "eh everyone will vote for it".

I think the thing that kills me about some of the kid-centric ones Tuomas is mentioning is how, after taking a class in children’s lit in college, I realized how the writing is pretty bad even for something targeted to five year olds. Not across the board, but it’s pretty clear that they’re just shoveling them out to sell toys.

Nothing is as bad as Thundercats, though. Like, nice character ideas here, but yikes

i made a playlist once + maybe posted it to the adventure time thread. my #1 vote. xxp

oh cool ok!

Adventure Time is very good but I felt like I've seen too random a selection of episodes to give it votes. Have to rate Steven Universe higher even on an unlimited-size ballot. But a good showing for the millennial contingent. And uh anyone under 20 that has somehow joined ILX

I tried watching Adventure Time years ago and I gave up sometime in the first season, I didn't find the hijinks at all funny.

One thing though is that I swear there's a Portishead song that the AT theme cribs from.

My vote for Adventure Time probably would've been higher had I seen more of it, but I was smitten enough by the chunk I did watch back in the day to rate it pretty high up anyway. It's very very good.

I liked Futurama a lot when first broadcast, but didn't have the slightest inclination to check back with the revival, for some reason. There were some DVD comeback movies which were pretty bad IIRC, maybe that killed my interest.

I followed AT closely for several seasons and still rank it highly, I think they started to go a bit too far away from adventure and into surrealism at one point though. This is probably a bit reductive, but it felt like AT (and Regular Show) revitalised kid's TV animation for several years, along with all the shows that emerged in their wake. There was a period of time before AT when Cartoon Network had resorted to showing live action tween sitcoms.

There were some DVD comeback movies which were pretty bad IIRC, maybe that killed my interest.

I think I held the same opinion (probably still do), but when it was (re-?)revived, its quality recovered a lot, and the finale is genuinely beautiful.

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2. Bojack Horseman
258 points, 15 votes, 1 firsts

I LOATHED the episode that I saw of that.