The New Adventures of ILXor: The Animated Series Poll voting and campaigning thread

that URL again is http://stuff.jklol.net/cartoon_noms.txt

I may or may not ninja late arrivals into the nom list as suits my caprice

ah thank you

I don't know if they belong per se but I am a little surprised not to see My Hero Academia, Black Clover, Bleach, Inuyasha, One Piece, Naruto, or Voltron, especially considering that The Cleveland Show got a nomination

Re: theme songs, if you don't vote for the Raccoons theme tune you're dead inside.

― emil.y,

It's good. But it's no Mysterious Cities of Gold (which I will also be ranking highly in the main poll).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ki99YBVKyw

oh shit i can't believe we didn't nom aggretsuko

btw while we're mentioning it metalocalypse is not just fine and often funny but sometimes brilliant + hilariously inventive - i think the scene where nathan tries to apologize and it causes a rupture in the earth is hilarious. also brandon small does like tons of the voices and he's sorta a voice-over genius.

some of Brendon Small's best work in recent years imo has been his Comedy Bang Bang appearances as aspiring lounge singer Victor Diamond and his friend and manager Tiny, simultaneously. Which he is astonishingly good at, like how can you be that good at switching between two funny voices in an improv situation. Sadly consigned to the fuckin Stitcher Premium paywall at this point but worth a listen imo.

It was a sad day when Willy became a regular 3rd voice that accompanied Victor and Tiny's appearances. They were gold without him. It definitely makes Small's performance all the more impressive, but holy hell does that character voice grate.

Did Paranoia Agent make it onto the nomination list?

― brigadier pudding (DJP)

Yep, it's in there. You had me worried for a minute.

it's no Mysterious Cities of Gold (which I will also be ranking highly in the main poll)

I only know the theme tune, I don't think I ever saw the series itself!

Paranoia Agent here?

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCESR3puCm82PQH2ecE-KOCwvwBpNyXX9

btw while we're mentioning it metalocalypse is not just fine and often funny but sometimes brilliant + hilariously inventive - i think the scene where nathan tries to apologize and it causes a rupture in the earth is hilarious. also brandon small does like tons of the voices and he's sorta a voice-over genius.

― Mordy, Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:34 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's true i was underrating metalocalypse

i'm not ashamed to admit i saw Dethklok live and they (he) did some skits between songs (animations on a screen behind the band) and was doing the voiceovers live. sometimes while playing guitar. as goofy as it was, it was also really impressive.

i nommed paranoia agent.
can't believe we missed voltron, i'll write that in.
will def vote for home movies; will likely vote for metalocalypse

if ppl want to post links to specific episodes of shows here i'd be interested in watching them. when i get home tnite i'll try to find some good representative stuff for some of my fave choices.

ya, i never thought much of it at the time – but maybe i might should check out Home Movies.

it's no Mysterious Cities of Gold (which I will also be ranking highly in the main poll)

I only know the theme tune, I don't think I ever saw the series itself!

the main theme is still sometimes stuck in my head after all these decades but please could someone make me a full album-length extended mix of this incidental excerpt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBUPdt-F6jU

oh my god, someone already did (well, they looped it for 53 minutes, close enough)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0wOpI3R91s

I can die happy, in 52 minutes

(though RIP the best bit i.e. the sublime choir hit at the end which has got lost in the looping, but hey, extra tension if you now wait 53 minutes for it instead of 1¾, right?)

OMG I FORGOT TO NOMINATE CARTOON PLANET (aka Space Ghost's delightful step-sibling aka the source of most of the best Brak material)

This is simply indefensible.

what day is it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPSmFhmhJ4

silby, I promise this is the only entreaty I will make itt. Please, for the love of all that is good and decent in the world, add Cartoon Planet to the list. I will literally be your best friend forever.

brak show was the apex of a specific style of nerd humor for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VI_yJsT5Fc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDhpC3vl8Og

All of the soundtracks released for Cartoon Planet are golden and well worth owning.

another mindmeld with OL and me here i see

btw if "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" doesn't win best OP organically I am going to doctor the results so if you want to preserve the integrity of the theme song poll you had better vote for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nafii87gdzs

^ unfair to post that one I guess since it's extended from the version actually used as the OP but whatever

I should note that best theme/OP nominations don't have to be The Canonical One, so Brad should feel free to vote for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5txHGxJRwtQ

OP is opening... poem?

it's just "OPening", it's a weeaboo term of art

the one for "ending theme" is "ED" so it doesn't really make any sense

anyway,

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

making sure everybody plans to vote for the venture bros, somehow still fantastically great after 16 (intermittent) years

My #1 theme song is probably going to be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs8iaZqE2eQ

valid

I should note that best theme/OP nominations don't have to be The Canonical One, so Brad should feel free to vote for this

pfft never in my life would i vote for the english bowdlerization of "moonlight densetsu"

"moonlight densetsu" itself, however

making sure everybody plans to vote for the venture bros, somehow still fantastically great after 16 (intermittent) years

― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, August 7, 2019 1:25 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i haven't watched any venture bros. since season four, always been meaning to catch up, it will be on my list based on the strength of those four seasons regardless

The Venture Brothers is still great but it's definitely in a groove where I don't actually feel like I need to watch it to know what is going on (see also: Archer)

venture bros and archer both shows where i enjoyed 2-3 seasons and then checked out

venture bros is still good imo and i'm all caught up - archer otoh i sorta lost interest in after everything became non-canonical coma genre exercises

Based on what I've seen of later seasons, they are both still really, really good; I just don't feel like I need to watch them

archer has become mostly unwatchable

i would have assumed it was over by now but i guess all sitcoms just run forever as long as a dozen or two people are watching them

Yeah I loved archer up to and through the vice season, but now it feels like it’s keeping Adam Reed from making other things that we can get excited about.

Like a third season of Frisky Dingo.

it's definitely running on fumes

I was on the Archer train til they stopped being ISIS (for obv reasons I guess) and then had that one Miami Vice (?) style season where Pam went all skinny.

Or when Lana had the baby? Around that point.

this isn't in the nom list but deserves consideration for theme song poll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo1C1XL4p6c

I had no idea they were still making venture bros!
Also the theme song by Jim Thirlwell is solid.