whats the deal with Moral oral? i know nothing about it.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
iirc it's a satire/black comedy about a kid who misinteprets christian morals & religious teachings in increasingly horrifying ways
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
& visually it's claymation
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
Family Guy could be good when it properly channelled McFarlane's assholeness (it would also be very terrible when it did that, of course)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9xForBuqpI
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
Haha I meant 'could' there but let it stand.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
Awww I forgot I did that theme tune poll. I need to spend more time back in ilx
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
You do! Please update this thread
Waaaait, whut? Slowly reading and liveblogging the Bible!
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
Fuck, I forgot I even tried that! And I guess didn't even make it that far. Ok, 2020 I'm on it (brb just opened a shop as retail is sinking, maybe I should live blog living off the whims of Japanese tourists.)
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
funny, looking at the dregs list you can immediately see my votes because the asterix * write-ins *
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
130. * OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes - 18 points, 1 votes, 0 firsts136. * Summer Camp Island - 17 points, 1 votes, 0 firsts163. * 2 Stupid Dogs - 11 points, 1 votes, 0 firsts187. * Amazing World of Gumball, The - 7 points, 1 votes, 0 firsts191. * Clarence - 6 points, 1 votes, 0 firsts214. * Goof Troop - 2 points, 1 votes, 0 firsts
just noticed these two weren't me
103. * Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983) - 23 points, 1 votes, 0 firsts176. * Sci-Fi West Saga Starzinger - 9 points, 1 votes, 0 firsts
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
Chipmunks was mine! I watched it on repeat for about three hours a day between the ages of 4 and 8 and it is how I came to develop my understanding of everything in American culture and history. Chipmunks at the Movies in particular I think had a big effect on how my life’s turned out.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
Would like to hear of the merits of other asterixed dregs.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
my ballot
Venture Bros., TheSimpsons, TheBojack HorsemanFuturamaRick and MortySouth ParkFrisky DingoAnimaniacsRugratsSpongeBob SquarePantsArcherHey Arnold!Big MouthWacky Races (1968-1969)Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! / The New Scooby-Doo Movies / The Scooby-Doo ShowCourage the Cowardly DogBob's BurgersTuca & BertieMagic School Bus, The Doug (Nickelodeon and ABC)Dexter's LaboratoryPinky and the BrainRecessFairly OddParents, TheWild Thornberrys, The
― Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Good results!
this show starts off sucking ass let us not forgetLots of great shows start out with a bad pilot.
#1 - It would have been cool if anything besides The Simpsons was the winner, but it's not an inappropriate #1 either. It's crazy how many perfect episodes they've done. Probably more than the total number for about half of the shows on this list.
#2 - Bojack at #2 is a refreshing surprise for sure. I definitely have not seen it praised as highly anywhere else. Like Stranger Things and a few other current shows, I've been hoping it soon wraps things up. It might be the only show on this list that made me cry.
#3 - Adventure Time is a challenge. I had to go through its ILX thread, made a list, and skipped over the episodes without a recommendation from someone. It was worth the effort.
#4 - John DiMaggio and Billy West are two of the best voice actors of all time, but imo they use their most annoying inflections on Futurama. Even when the jokes are ok, they're always executed with an extra wink to the viewer. I don't think I've ever once laughed at this show.
#5 - Ignoring its worst fans, I will love Rick & Morty forever - a show that I did not like at first. I am very concerned the new season will be horrible.
#6 - As a huge Home Movies fan, I'm so happy its spirit continues through Bob's Burgers. Again, I don't think I've seen it praised as highly elsewhere. But it deserves to be the #6 best animated show ever. This feels very appropriate.
#8 - Beavis and Butthead was my #1. It's a much deeper show than its surface might indicate.
#9 - I never got into Daria, but maybe I'll give it another shot.
#10 - Home Movies deserves top 10. There's a fun story in pretty much every episode.
#11 - I should binge Space Ghost at some point in the next year. Also I'm kinda disappointed Sealab didn't place higher.
#14 - Ren & Stimpy has a few of the most incredible animated moments I've ever seen -- especially the "Cousin Sven's Visit" episode. I was heartbroken when the John K story broke.
#18 - Was Animaniacs this good?
― billstevejim, Thursday, 19 September 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
i didn't vote for animaniacs, but when i was grabbing images for the results - i realized it def had it's moments. enough so that i regretted not making space for it. tho looks like it did fine without me.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 19 September 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
#8 - Beavis and Butthead was my #1.
high five
― Vernon Locke, Thursday, 19 September 2019 05:29 (four years ago) link
adventure time my #1'thank you' my fav episode if people want to checkthe most perfect and hilarious ending to anything i've ever seen
also 'i remember you' for more beautiful reasons
― nxd, Thursday, 19 September 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link
thanks poll stars for running this x
My list
DariaBatman: The Animated SeriesAvatar: The Last AirbenderCowboy BebopSpectacular Spider-ManDowntownGravity FallsBojack HorsemanKim PossibleJustice League UnlimitedHey Arnold!The SimpsonsSteven UniverseThe MaxxFillmore!Paranoia AgentSerial Experiments LainAdventure TimeSpawnAzumanga DaiohThe Big OPepper AnnOver the Garden WallVision of EscaflowneFullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Spectacular Spider-Man aired in the early 00s and is probably my favourite superhero show after B:TAS. The two shows aren't very much alike, but I like Spectacular for similar reasons - it's evidently made by people with a lot of knowledge and affection for the source material, but has a very distinct style and direction of its own. Too bad it only got two seasons.
Kim Possible is probably the highest-ranking entry I find most difficult to defend objectively. It made me laugh at a time when I badly needed it, though I doubt it holds up all that well. But if nothing else, it's got a another great John DiMaggio role in Dr Drakken.
I didn't watch enough of it to vote, but I'm mildly surprised Gargoyles got almost nothing.
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
I've never watched a Boondocks episode, but realized yesterday it got no votes. I liked the comic strip, is the series bad or just not memorable?
― nickn, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
its good, i forgot about it completely somehow
― ciderpress, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
was it not on the nominations list maybe
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
A few months ago HSR's voice saying "downloads!" suddenly started popping up in my head anytime I open my "Downloads" folder.
― billstevejim, Friday, 20 September 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
also (nearly in-)arguably the best soundtrack in television cartoon historyhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65E33789AA7052BC
tyvm for this, I am now on the 81st of 81 tracks
kept getting startled when it wld take a sidestep from an hour of jazz to dead-on pastiches of the Dust Brothers producing Money Mark
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 20 September 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
It's a sin and a shame that soundtrack isn't readily available on US streaming services.Green Bird FTWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJjnbhSTuqQ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 September 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
I'm only catching up now, sorry for the blurting:
I was one of the two votes for the Critic, which I love for complicated cultural elite reasons - which the Orson Welles clips cover nicely.
I'd love to say my early and un-revisited love for the The Mysterious Cities of Gold was me as a woke child appreciating the non-European protagonists, but it was 50% ancient robots powered by molten gold and 50% the title tune.
Roughly the same for Ulysses 51: I was a huge Greek Mythology nerd as a kid and seeing them plus in space plus amazing theme tune was a big hit. Just rewatching the theme tune reminds me of the wacky robot though, which give me a lot of pause about rewatching actual episodes.
I was genuinely surprised by Samurai Jack down at #43, I thought Genndy Tartakovsky was generally considered one of the best western animators, and this is surely his signature show.
I should totally go back to Paranoia Agent - iirc I was weirded out by a lot of the first episode being gaslighting a woman about an assault?
Can someone recommend me something for Venture Bros? I had filed it away with Adult Swim, which I didn't get on with much.
I was the other #1 voter for Steven Universe: apart form being funny and sweet, it has a lot of unexpected character growth. I bought the first series for my girlfriend, a lot of which is fun one-offs (though I suspect if I went back now there'd be more shadows), but when the Tivo had recorded one of the ones from a later season, I advised her not to watch it, because she knows the characters, but there were there and now they're here, a 100 miles away.
Ulysses otm about the Animaniacs theme song as a thing of brilliance.
Spongebob Squarepants / Ren & Stimpy were heroes to most, but they never meant a thing to me.
I didn't actually know that Cowboy Bebop in the US is (as well as a lot of other things) an Adult Swim show!
Home Movies was the show that I was most surprised to see, because I have literally never heard of it before.
Bob's Burgers is classic for the kids - there must be an online test to see what percentage Tina, Gene and Louise you are.
Fuck, obviously, Rick & Morty.
I'm very pleasantly surprised that Futurama placed that high: I like the progression Simpsons -> Futurama -> Adventure Time -> Steven Universe.
Also very happy that Adventure Time got that high, considering that a lot of it is pretty impenetrable. It doesn't have quite the same "everything turns into the plot" as Steven Universe, so you can tune into a very late episode and it's about how Finn and Jake fall down separate holes and one ends up imprisoned by a mad king and the other ends up falling on a table supported by parachutes.
My taster playlist would be "Prisoners of Love" / "Evicted" / "I Remember You" / "Simon and Marcy"
One thing that's not maybe been mentioned about Adventure Time and Steven Universe is that they pack an awful lot in - "Sworn to the Sword" from SU can absolutely destroy me, but it's 10 minutes long like all the rest - turning over to Bob's Burgers afterwards can seem incredibly saggy. SU's special 20 minute long extravaganzas are still pretty zippy, unlike most of the 6-8 episode long specials in AT.
Also well done everyone for Family Guy not placing.
I really must see: Korra (Avatar first?), Gravity Falls, Daria
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 October 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
later episodes of Venture Bros are pretty polished and you can figure out the lore on the fly. Maybe start with season three and explore?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Korra (Avatar first?)
Yes, watch Avatar first.
― Doctor Hu (Leee), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Any updates on the theme song poll?
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 21 October 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
No, sorry, I’ve been a combination of busy and apathetic, I will pull it together someday. But not today.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 21 October 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
btw i finished avatar and i loved it. started korra but i’m taking a break bc i have so many horror movies to watch
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 21 October 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
In the netflix special on Power Rangers, I found out that Haim Saban (the Saban of Saban Entertainment) wrote the theme song to The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Inspector Gadget and a bunch of others.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 25 November 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
Lol, just saw the same thing
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 25 November 2019 05:44 (four years ago) link
On the same note, Chuck Lorre composed the very known theme song for TMNT
― Vinnie, Monday, 25 November 2019 06:14 (four years ago) link
The UK intro to TMNT isn't the same. Needless censoring of nunchucks and the word "ninja" combined with a different singer... I don't think they had the same
― brain dead operatus (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
explosion of turtle fans
― brain dead operatus (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myjcUldWHNQThis is a Hungarian show that is suing x-men for stealing their theme song
― brain dead operatus (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
Haim Saban: Master Songwriter
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av8a-ByAH3M
― Mordy, Friday, 10 January 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
sorry i should give a warning somewhat disturbing i thought v funny but maybe posted it in haste :/
― Mordy, Friday, 10 January 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
I'm watching Bob's Burgers for the first time. This is a great show! Take a Loren Bouchard pitch and give it a real budget -- why did it take so long to try that?
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
if i had seen Avatar when i voted it would've made my ballot easily
anyway this is a cool analysis of the psychoanalytic themes in the show:https://bgsp.edu/avatar-the-last-airbender/
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
this was my theme song ballot
1Raccoons, the -- "Run With Us", Lisa Lougheed versionMysterious Cities of Gold, The -- english/french song The Adventures of Captain Harlock -- "Take to the Sky"DuckTales (1987-1990)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996)Jem -- the "Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous" oneWonderful Wizard of Oz, The (1986-1987) -- english songCowboy BebopNeon Genesis EvangelionUlysses 31
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue RangersThe New Adventures of Winnie the PoohA Pup Named Scooby-DooCroM.A.S.K.Alvin and the ChipmunksLucky LukeBruno the KidGummi Bears, Disney's Adventures of the Mega Man (1994)
Inspector GadgetBucky O'HareBump in the NightFreakazoidKipper25
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 23 July 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
Fans of Over the Garden Wall may be excited to hear:https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/redwall-tv-series-netflix.html
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 February 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link