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

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.

They aired a new season in 2918, and a lot of it was excellent

Worth the 899 year wait?

Yep. This is why I shouldn’t post from my phone

Might vote for this even though it wasn't nominated and I doubt anyone else would even if it had been:

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

Can we submit unranked ballots?

i just spent a few hours watching cartoon intros... for research purposes, sure.... Anyway, I found this surprisingly awesome one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUAMVJD7XY

I had forgotten about the period where celebrities would make cartoons where they star as children.

Bobby's World with Howie Mandel.
Life with Louie with Louie Anderson.
Little Rosey without Roseanne.
Bruno the Kid with Bruce Willis, who also sings the theme song.

There hasn't been much Moral Orel conversation - I assume ilxors already know how good it is? In case they don't -- the whole thing is streaming on Hulu. It's the kind of thing that I think ilxors in particular might appreciate being as how it's in large part a satire of right-wing Christianity + small town hypocrisy.

Metalocalypse which has been mentioned is also great and also should be a crowd pleaser around here I'd think? It's about a metal band that is so big they're like the planet's largest (or one of the largest it's been a long time since I watched it) GDP. The band members themselves are total idiots for the most part (as mentioned above hilariously voiced) but bc of their influence + power they're tracked by a shadowy cabal group. the episodes are like 15 min or less each so v easy watching. (this is the episode i mentioned above where nathan apologizes - nb it is iirc the final episode of the show so idk if you want to watch it out of order)

the bravest warriors is a very cute post-adventure time sci-fi teen team show that is all available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv99gj1xxWw

Bee and Puppycat is also a post-adventure time show that is available on youtube but more unique - kinda a quirky young adult coming of age (?) show about a young woman w/ malaise/depression who does extra-dimensional tasks for pay w/ a half-puppy half-cat extraterrestrial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dop4MTlf_zc

Legend of the Galactic Heroes is one of my top 3 anime ever and it's a space opera about a war between a enlightened autocrat from an old european sorta astro-hungarian style nation and a failing flawed democratic nation whose army is led by a brilliant tactician. The episodes contain lots of dialogue about the merits of autocracy vs democracy, the failings of both, the struggle of human being to be free, and are then punctuated by epic space battle scenes scored with classical music. In some ways it reminds me a lot of War and Peace tho there's v little civilian story - but if your favorite part of W&P is discussions about chain of command and the importance of staff commanders this is yr shit for sure. It can be streamed on HIDIVE which has like a free month trial if you want to check it out: https://www.hidive.com/tv/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes -- here's a representative quote from it: "The nation that neglects social inequality, mischievously increases military budgets, and then uses its power internally to suppress the citizens on the pretext of invasion by an external enemy is on the road to extinction."

Space Dandy is another anime - this one is a super trippy sci-fi anime by the guy who created cowboy bebop about rare alien species bounty hunters. it's a little crude (the guy is a pervert who hangs out a lot at an interstellar hooters essentially) but many of the episodes turn into these bizarre mindbending plotlines w/ really dazzling animation. i loved getting high and watching them bc it really felt sometimes like staring into a bizarre vortex. i think it can also be streamed on Hulu.

other stuff i want to promote i think ppl here probably already know about so i won't extoll the virtues of like bojack or rick and morty or steven universe or adventure time.

and if ppl want to proselytize for shows i'm up for watching anything if you point me in the right direction to stream it

Mordy your enthusiasm in this area is infectious so please extoll whatever you want

apparently the disconnected nature of Moral Orel, which I enjoyed when I caught an episode, was due to the fact Cartoon Network chopped up the running order and didn't air some episodes

going to have to go back and check it out. thanks, Mordy!

This last season of Archer (Archer 1999) was pretty great, but that's coming from a sci-fi fan enjoying the various references.

If you haven't been watching for a while, at the end of season 7, Archer is shot and goes into a coma. The last three seasons have been Archer dreaming variants of the standard Archer actors in three genres (noir, pulp fiction/adventure, sci-fi), with Archer waking up at the end of this last season. Season 11 just announced, so we'll see where that goes.

Moral Orel is outstanding. It does an insane pivot from being ridiculous to harrowing while retaining its identity; it's honestly one of the more impressive storytelling feats I've seen.

Dino Stamatopoulos is kind of an underheralded genius. He wrote a lot of the best Mr. Show sketches.

moral orel WAS amazing, i had nearly forgotten