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

Would like to hear of the merits of other asterixed dregs.

my ballot

Venture Bros., The
Simpsons, The
Bojack Horseman
Futurama
Rick and Morty
South Park
Frisky Dingo
Animaniacs
Rugrats
SpongeBob SquarePants
Archer
Hey Arnold!
Big Mouth
Wacky Races (1968-1969)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! / The New Scooby-Doo Movies / The Scooby-Doo Show
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Bob's Burgers
Tuca & Bertie
Magic School Bus, The
Doug (Nickelodeon and ABC)
Dexter's Laboratory
Pinky and the Brain
Recess
Fairly OddParents, The
Wild Thornberrys, The

Good results!

this show starts off sucking ass let us not forget
Lots of great shows start out with a bad pilot.

#1 - It would have been cool if anything besides The Simpsons was the winner, but it's not an inappropriate #1 either. It's crazy how many perfect episodes they've done. Probably more than the total number for about half of the shows on this list.

#2 - Bojack at #2 is a refreshing surprise for sure. I definitely have not seen it praised as highly anywhere else. Like Stranger Things and a few other current shows, I've been hoping it soon wraps things up. It might be the only show on this list that made me cry.

#3 - Adventure Time is a challenge. I had to go through its ILX thread, made a list, and skipped over the episodes without a recommendation from someone. It was worth the effort.

#4 - John DiMaggio and Billy West are two of the best voice actors of all time, but imo they use their most annoying inflections on Futurama. Even when the jokes are ok, they're always executed with an extra wink to the viewer. I don't think I've ever once laughed at this show.

#5 - Ignoring its worst fans, I will love Rick & Morty forever - a show that I did not like at first. I am very concerned the new season will be horrible.

#6 - As a huge Home Movies fan, I'm so happy its spirit continues through Bob's Burgers. Again, I don't think I've seen it praised as highly elsewhere. But it deserves to be the #6 best animated show ever. This feels very appropriate.

#8 - Beavis and Butthead was my #1. It's a much deeper show than its surface might indicate.

#9 - I never got into Daria, but maybe I'll give it another shot.

#10 - Home Movies deserves top 10. There's a fun story in pretty much every episode.

#11 - I should binge Space Ghost at some point in the next year. Also I'm kinda disappointed Sealab didn't place higher.

#14 - Ren & Stimpy has a few of the most incredible animated moments I've ever seen -- especially the "Cousin Sven's Visit" episode. I was heartbroken when the John K story broke.

#18 - Was Animaniacs this good?

i didn't vote for animaniacs, but when i was grabbing images for the results - i realized it def had it's moments. enough so that i regretted not making space for it. tho looks like it did fine without me.

#8 - Beavis and Butthead was my #1.

high five

adventure time my #1
'thank you' my fav episode if people want to check
the most perfect and hilarious ending to anything i've ever seen

also 'i remember you' for more beautiful reasons

thanks poll stars for running this x

My list

Daria
Batman: The Animated Series
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Cowboy Bebop
Spectacular Spider-Man
Downtown
Gravity Falls
Bojack Horseman
Kim Possible
Justice League Unlimited
Hey Arnold!
The Simpsons
Steven Universe
The Maxx
Fillmore!
Paranoia Agent
Serial Experiments Lain
Adventure Time
Spawn
Azumanga Daioh
The Big O
Pepper Ann
Over the Garden Wall
Vision of Escaflowne
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Spectacular Spider-Man aired in the early 00s and is probably my favourite superhero show after B:TAS. The two shows aren't very much alike, but I like Spectacular for similar reasons - it's evidently made by people with a lot of knowledge and affection for the source material, but has a very distinct style and direction of its own. Too bad it only got two seasons.

Kim Possible is probably the highest-ranking entry I find most difficult to defend objectively. It made me laugh at a time when I badly needed it, though I doubt it holds up all that well. But if nothing else, it's got a another great John DiMaggio role in Dr Drakken.

I didn't watch enough of it to vote, but I'm mildly surprised Gargoyles got almost nothing.

I've never watched a Boondocks episode, but realized yesterday it got no votes. I liked the comic strip, is the series bad or just not memorable?

its good, i forgot about it completely somehow

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

Fans of Over the Garden Wall may be excited to hear:
https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/redwall-tv-series-netflix.html