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

Sealab TOO LOW

Hey Arnold is all-time for me purely on the basis of the episode where Helga goes to therapy

Noteworthy for being a show set in a city (forget if it’s literally New York or just extremely New York-like) when I feel like the suburbs, or at least detached single family housing, were the predominant setting for kid and family shows.

60. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
After the initial arc of adora leaving the horde, there's a series of episodes that are so inconsequential that they could have been 80s she-ra episodes. it does improve once the story kicks back in. haven't made it to season 2 yet. by the way, the first two volumes of noelle stevenson's lumberjanes are well worth seeking out.

57. Ulysses 31
watched an episode for the poll. fascinating SF/F setting, with some surprisingly good animation, but then the need for kid-friendly sidekicks is a big negative. i am guessing daft punk liked it.

56. DuckTales
i was watching the annotated foodfight on youtube, and one of the notes was "you could be watching ducktales right now". a note to keep always in mind.

53. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
i ranked this pretty highly. a highlight is laura the receptionist, a great creation with a perfect voice acting performance. the recent audible podcast episodes are good too.

She-Ra’s most recent batch of episodes really start going places. Catra is the best character and Scorpia is my strong wife.

i think sealab was the first of the williams street adult swim shows i saw and i've never really revisited it but it seemed very funny to me at the time

vinnie! it's worth it! ok there are many not-great sailor moon episodes but idk i also just love to watch it. the villain designs, the outfits, the infinitely recurring transformation scenes, the increasing queerness from season to season. it's like gay comfort food for me.

ugh brad, you are so good at making me want to listen to and watch things, but I don't think you're gonna get me this time. I have a strong desire to go back and rewatch many specific moments, but there's SO much filler in between those moments. maybe someday an AI can figure out exactly what I liked and only show me that stuff

xp

77. The Critic
Orson Welles voiced by the guy who did Pinky kicks serious ass.

Sealab TOO LOW
FOR REAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs

x-men the first from my ballot to place and tho i don't know how the show would hold up now here really the nostalgia was irresistible - not only an animated staple but essentially my introduction to the x-men and still to my mind the core true x-men team (even tho maybe kitty would've been better in the jubilee role...).

Maurice LaMarche is a legend

MOVE IT FOOTBALL HEAD

Tangentially related but have people seen this Youtube series?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut0MovHdKvY

The Garfield installment is truly epic.

And by epic I mean cursed.

Magic Roundabout and Ivor the Engine way TOO LOW. I’m going to assume people just haven’t seen them. I’d have thought maybe The Magic Roundabout would have had some transatlantic success because of its cult stonery vibe, but perhaps not. It was originally a French show that a British studio wrote completely new scripts and characters for. It is mad and timeless and has the best theme tune ever.

I’ll wait for imago to wake up and eulogise the wonders of Ivor the Engine, which was my second place vote.

Magic Roundabout was my #13 and Ivor the Engine was near the bottom. My ballot was almost entirely based on childhood nostalgia but the placing was somewhat arbitrary.

I should have been gentler in my previous post, as the spirit of the shows would prefer.

In my excitement I didn’t even notice Hey Arnold. As a child I loved it for its depiction of a world that wasn’t resolutely cheerful. Most of the characters are poor and a lot of the games and fun the children have (from memory) are improvised in the streets around fantasy stories. It was a lot about finding hope and lightness in dark places, and not at all in a maudlin or melodramatic way.

Sailor Moon infinitely too low you savages, knew i shd've voted

She-Ra’s most recent batch of episodes really start going places. Catra is the best character and Scorpia is my strong wife.

Agreed. The second part of the second season (which Netflix is calling season 3, but it's quite obvious they just cut season 2 into two halves so they could release the first half earlier) is some really strong stuff, so I would recommend anyone who was lukewarm about first season watching these episodes too, before passing judgment. Scorpia is indeed awesome, and I love how they've made Catra into a three-dimensional character with understandable motivations, while still refusing to give her a clichéd "hidden heart of gold" redemption arc.

Ah shit Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31 and Hey Duggee all would've done a lot better if I'd got round to a ballot.

I’d have thought maybe The Magic Roundabout would have had some transatlantic success because of its cult stonery vibe, but perhaps not. It was originally a French show that a British studio wrote completely new scripts and characters for. It is mad and timeless and has the best theme tune ever.

Otm. Missed voting in this but it would've been high on my ballot (and I never saw it as a child). It really is the best theme tune of all time.

My 1 and 2 have landed outside the top 50 :(

They're about as different as two animated shows could be, but Ivor The Engine is the loveliest thing imaginable and Xavier: Renegade Angel is pure, delirious chaos

Here inside five minutes I hope you can understand why Ivor is, was, and shall always be my #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfLM5Lt6jOQ

also I was another Magic Roundabout vote obv

I ended up cutting Ivor the Engine but I just remembered Idris the Dragon, who I *adored* as a child. All dragons are called Idris in my brain b/c of that lil guy. Damn.

yeah I could have easily posted the Idris introduction episode

https://i.imgur.com/jHIN9dB.jpg

50. Maxx, The
56 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

I'd've had Noggin the Nog above Ivor tbh

sorry i didnt vote but i couldnt lean on what i thought was good in 1972

yeah me neither, this whole "I liked it when I was 8" criteria seems deeply stupid to me

in a poll of cartoons, i know

To be clear the whole concept of polling a tiny population of forum posters who are mostly the exact same age about their media preferences is pretty stupid! It’s diverting though.

borad description if ever i heard one

this whole "I liked it when I was 8" criteria seems deeply stupid to me

I voted for some on this basis, and others on what I like as an adult. A lot of cartoons are for kids, and voting for them based on loving them as a kid means that they achieved their goal perfectly. Having said that, I didn't vote for anything that I don't still harbour affection for now - I didn't even think about voting for TMNT b/c I just do not care about it at all, even though I'm sure I was into it back in the day.

yeah, I watched TMNT, Thundercats, He Man, Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, did not even consider voting for any of them.

look, i watched and loved silverhawks and heathcliff and superfriends and all manner of trash but a few things got in my MIND man and became archetypes that I'm still stuck with. so hell yeah i'm gonna vote for voltron. You pick what you consider to be cream and ladle that on. The bulk of my ballot was stuff I still do (or would) watch today.

I only voted for NYRB: The Animated Series, as anything less would be...uncivilized.

(j/k, didn't even vote because I was busy last week, but it probably would've been replete with cartoons used to advertise toys because some of them are still fun and, really, WGAF)

reason I didn't vote for Thundercats isn't because it was a toy advert, it's that I checked it out again and it was awful

I've been periodically watching and enjoying G.I. Joe over the past month, probably nearly as much as I did as a kid. It holds up!

I will concede, though, that some (possibly a lot) of those shows are absolute unwatchable trash.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT THUNDERCATS

tbf most of the things i might've voted for would be things i got into when my kids watched them or kids I was working for watched them, in the golden age of Chocobots i was too much of a moody teen to watch that shit mostly

i spent many hours detailing complex and (thankfully?) unwritten fanfic episodes of thundercats while walking around a tree outside my house.
it was before the internet!

to be fair about 60% of my reaction to rewatching thundercats was "I have no fucking idea what is going on here"

that is at least 60% of why i have affection for it

that and the Mandora the Evil Chaser episodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU5GfORvH8

thread delivers

THAT BLASTED SAMOFLANGE

I had a Thundercats sword when I was a kid but it was another one I was always unlikely to throw a vote at. 25 ended up being fairly difficult to whittle down so ultimately it didn't stand a chance.

Anyway... MOAR TOONS NOW PLZ

You got it emil.y.

https://i.imgur.com/goXtR1Z.jpg

49. Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
56 points, 6 votes, 0 firsts

unless they're all gen x american wisecrackcore ;) XPOSTS

too low imho! this show was brilliant. xpost

the early episodes of this are very clever use of their access to the HB catalog. i think they brought it back at some point but i didn't watch that