The ILX Animated Series Poll Results Thread is part of this complete breakfast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfl3u7SXKMU

Mordy - top 50 is getting the treatment.

Rugrats Passover and Rugrats Chanukah are v important to me

75. Town Called Panic, A
35 points, 2 votes, 0 firsts

the imago/tt bloc alone on that one I see

well, watch it. and watch the film. actually there might be two films. watch it all. it's so good. inventive madcap stop-motion has never been this wild, funny or uplifting

74. Astro Boy (1980-1981)
35 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

72T. Willo the Wisp
36 points, 2 votes, 1 firsts

72T. Justice League
36 points, 2 votes, 0 firsts

In this lovely assistant's opinion TWO VOTES for Justice League is unconscionable. Where my nerds at??

i haven't seen any of the last 4 :(

Aw, who was the first-placer for Willo the Wisp? It was on my ballot but I didn't get around to re-watching so it was totally a vote from kid-me. But even the character designs totally rule:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/d8/6a/c9d86a8de1252ec7dbd43be66a141e4b.jpg

The Moog

My first place vote, huge part of my childhood and still stands up

need to see that yes

71. Death Note
37 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

A bit of Willo for the unacquainted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnWhYSg3wwI

ok i would have absolutely voted for this

didn't quite reach 'w' in my alphabetical survey of the nominations :(

i saw all of death note and it's a great ride. can't imagine ever rewatching it though, sorta like breaking bad

70. Mr Benn
38 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

I’m curious, did anyone not stick to the nomination list or just me?

i stayed away from death note for so long bc the premise sounded stupid i was like "how could this show about high schoolers writing names in a death book be any good and not just mopey unrealistic hs drama" but they do a very good job of exploring what such a scenario would actually look like and at least for the first half of the show the cat + mouse stuff is really engaging and interesting. the supernatural element never really gets satisfactorily explored and after the [SPOILER] original antagonist dies his replacement just feels like a knock-off and the whole plot sorta loses the thread at that point. but the first chunk of the show is v compelling. (don't think this was on my final ballot.)

death note kinda lives in that space of widely popular thing that no one i know is particularly evangelical about so i've never gotten the push to watch it

I voted for a fair amount of Ye Olde Englishe animation but Mr Benn didn't make my cut. Death Note did, though, and I'm kind of surprised it got so few votes.

Not sure why I italicised one title and not the other there. ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯

HOOOLY SHIT! i didn't not realize what Willow the Wisp was until i saw that image. i watched it as a kid and kid entirely lost the memory of it!

Voted for Mr Benn lower down on my ballot, basically just for the incidental music in this episode, especially about 7 minutes in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrSeSQ5rm4k

69. Hey Dugee
39 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

sadly my daughter has abandoned hey duggee in favour of paw patrol or the even more unbearable pj masks.

All my votes in the 60-77 bracket eh? guess that's better than not placing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=K05N2jqFHc8

never thought I'd see an apocalypse now homage in a pre-school animated tv show.

are we doing a theme songs rollout?

Yes, at some point! But in the meantime, enjoy some pizza!

68. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996)
40 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

Theme songs I haven't even tallied yet, I will probably put something together in one fell swoop after the main rollout goes through

unbearable pj masks

fuckin amen, how I hate that show

ledge, what are your feelings about the go jetters?

i was gonna vote for tmnt, but i realize my main experience with them came through the snes video game, not the series, of which my memory is a lot foggier.

Think I voted for the TMNT (or TMHT) theme song but not the show

Kind of shocking to see that TMNT lasted 10 seasons!

i liked the first tmnt film but wasn't into the tv series as a kid

A Town Called Panic (or Panique au Village) really is worth seeing. I was shown it during an undergraduate lecture on stop-motion and everyone animated toys for their next project. It is surreal and ingenious.

I voted for Death Note too! It just looks unbelievably stylish and full of depth. Also I can always get behind a high school noir, and I agree with Mordy that the earlier part of the season is really compelling.

TMNT...I think that got a nostalgia vote from me too. It was more my older brother’s thing, but that made it seem even cooler, and I got all his old t-shirts and jumpers of the show. He told me the other week that he saw a recent iteration of it and they were like businessmen.

ledge, what are your feelings about the go jetters?

haven't come across it, is it dreadful or diverting?

67. Mysterious Cities of Gold, The
40 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

66. Doug (Nickelodeon and ABC)
40 points, 5 votes, 0 firsts

doug was my other favorite show as a kid--used to air in a block with rugrats.

doug also missed my ballot but i did vote it in the theme song poll and it holds a warm place in my heart primarily on the strength of musical band The Beats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7c3bQQmwVE

i have a The Beats fan poster on my wall at the office (may have posted it in the other thread). the problem w/ doug ultimately is that in hindsight it's such a slight show. coming of age about a day-dreamy shy boy. my fave char was the beatnik sister. the love interest (patty mayonnaise) from my memory had no personality at all.

when disney got ahold of it, it lost the zany charm that made it special. flattened the characters and dulled the humor.

tbc i loved doug + rugrats as a child a lot but i tried to make my ballot stuff i might actually want to watch again and there was so much other nostalgia fuel vying for attention.

it still brings me a lot of joy to think about, and i haven't tried re-watching, but there was a lot of fun mythology (nema tode! quailman!) and the cast of characters was pretty vibrant (aside from patty mayonnaise, who is not much besides a great name).

killer tofu is, of course, all time for me

yeah i still get beets songs in my head from time to time.

i need my allowance! yo-de-lay-ee-hooo!

i remember there being a reoccurring character who was obsessed w/ yodeling. the principal maybe? the show def had an off-beat universe

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.

also (nearly in-)arguably the best soundtrack in television cartoon history
http://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

It's a sin and a shame that soundtrack isn't readily available on US streaming services.
Green Bird FTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJjnbhSTuqQ

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

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?

Korra (Avatar first?)

Yes, watch Avatar first.

Any updates on the theme song poll?

No, sorry, I’ve been a combination of busy and apathetic, I will pull it together someday. But not today.

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

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.

Lol, just saw the same thing

On the same note, Chuck Lorre composed the very known theme song for TMNT

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

explosion of turtle fans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myjcUldWHNQ
This is a Hungarian show that is suing x-men for stealing their theme song

Haim Saban: Master Songwriter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av8a-ByAH3M

sorry i should give a warning somewhat disturbing i thought v funny but maybe posted it in haste :/

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?

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/

this was my theme song ballot

1
Raccoons, the -- "Run With Us", Lisa Lougheed version
Mysterious 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" one
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (1986-1987) -- english song
Cowboy Bebop
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Ulysses 31

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Cro
M.A.S.K.
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Lucky Luke
Bruno the Kid
Gummi Bears, Disney's Adventures of the
Mega Man (1994)

Inspector Gadget
Bucky O'Hare
Bump in the Night
Freakazoid
Kipper
25

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