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

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

lotsa colbert in this iirc

oh right i forgot that he's the boss

Never saw this one, and even though I heard about it a lot I somehow I missed that the entire premise was based on Hanna-Barbera characters.

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

48. Bee and Puppycat
58 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

This has been on my radar back when I was still on Tumblr because of CUET character design, but I've never gotten around to it. It's on something called VRV?

My wife adores Bee and Puppycat, and she's shown me and episode or two, which seemed quite lovely... I really should watch it all one of these days.

https://i.imgur.com/E5qkfEo.jpg

47. Downtown
59 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

highly recommend bee and puppycat - all available on youtube and not very long (eps are like 3 min each you can knock out the whole show in an hour)

https://i.imgur.com/3X57kQa.jpg

46. Wacky Races (1968-1969)
59 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

these imgs are beautiful btw great job on them

my earliest tv memory, other kids at the commune used to come round to my flat to watch it when i was about 4

I had kind of forgotten about Downtown. was a fun enough show i might have been a little too young to fully appreciate. was surprised to see it turn up in the top 50.
will def be one of the shows i circle back on.

xpost (thank you)

Downtown was in my top 10, I have such good memories of it and the time it was on MTV. I was 20, was living my own for the first time, and me and my flatmate watched the show obsessively. We totally identified with the two geeky protagonists, me with the dude and her with the girl. The episode where they consider hooking up with each other, cos their romantic lives is such a failure, so why not, but then realise it just feels too absurd to go through it, was particularly memorable. Too bad MTV cancelled it after just one season, I don't think there was anything quite like it; this was way before it became cool to have geeky protagonists in youth-oriented shows.

I threw loads of points to Downtown - it's smartly written and the animation still feels incredibly creative

Wacky Races was the best. Really lived up to its name.

shit i definitely watched downtown when it was on. completely forgot about it

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

45. Trap Door, The
59 points, 4 votes, 0 firsts

Oh globbits.

I probably should have voted for this

Glad to see Downtown and The Maxx make the list. MTV's animation department was pretty short-lived, but they made shows which still feel unique today. I love those scenes in Downtown where the animation followed the characters' imaginations.

Hey Arnold really captured the frequent melancholy of childhood. A lot of that was down to the soundtrack, of course.

Sailor Moon is one of those things I see a lot about on the internet, but have never actually seen on TV. I'm not sure any UK or Irish channel ever even showed it, and I can't remember seeing any merchandise etc. Of course the only time mainstream channels ever really showed anime was Pokemon and Digimon (and Cardcaptors, to a lesser extent) in the late 90s/early 00s.

You really should have, it rules.

xp

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

just wanted to enter in the record that in the doug movie this guy let doug try on his very expensive VR headset through which everything appeared exactly as it did in the real world, only more expensive

https://i.imgur.com/5N0Nyij.jpg

44. Justice League Unlimited
60 points, 3 votes, 0 firsts

And now I'm going the scold the lot of you for not voting for JLU (save the other two voters)! It's the culmination of BTAS (exquisitely paying off a lot of moments from the history of the DCAU), with amazing comic episodes ("This Little Piggy" wherein Wonder Woman is transformed into a pig and "Kid Stuff," the requisite "heroes get transformed into children" episode), and amazing multi-episode arcs with all the thrill-power you could want.

Granted, the last season is sort of throwaway, but the stuff in between is IMO on the same level as BTAS.

BTAS, STAS, JLU, and JL are all about equally great, top tier shows imo, and I've watched them multiple times through now that my kids are into them

https://i.imgur.com/2p3RqsD.jpg

43. Samurai Jack
62 points, 3 votes, 1 firsts

I didn't vote for Samurai Jack but it's really only because I haven't seen all that much of the original run. The melancholy conclusion that aired on Adult Swim last year is sublime though.

A shining example of What Animation Can Do, certainly, more so than many other shows that have placed so far.