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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

dougrats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voVY3-Xe8KY

pretty sure the yodeler was the vice-principal Mr. Bone

i remember mr bone -- he sounded like don knotts!

also loved the next-door neighbor who was always bragging that every single thing he owned was "very expensive!"

65. Serial Experiments Lain
41 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

This was really high in my ballot. Existential philosophy + turn of the century cyber net thriller with flashy psychedelic visuals. Omg it’s amazing

Is it on Netflix?

its on youtube

Ive never seen that but Ive heard people talk about it. I might give it a watch!

This comment in the wiki is bemusing: "Ueda had to answer repeated queries about a statement made in an Animerica interview.[4][6][7] The controversial statement said Lain was "a sort of cultural war against American culture and the American sense of values we [Japan] adopted after World War II".[8] He later explained in numerous interviews that he created Lain with a set of values he took as distinctly Japanese; he hoped Americans would not understand the series as the Japanese would. This would lead to a "war of ideas" over the meaning of the anime, hopefully culminating in new communication between the two cultures. When he discovered that the American audience held the same views on the series as the Japanese, he was disappointed."

Haha that's great

It's a very quick watch. I don't remember many details anymore but I recall being swept up in the mood of the whole thing. fairly different from Ghost in the Shell, which explores some similar areas

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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