A TON OF CARTOONS: 100 cartoons (and comments) by Waldorf

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Originally airing as 5 minute episodes, the entire series was eventually shown in one unedited chunk and you really get to see the brilliance of Tartakovsky. The man is a genius and I would argue that this not only is this some of his best work but it rivals the best of Star Wars.

Before we go any further, Pokemon is the 3rd longest running cartoon broadcast in America. How do you not catch them all? Pokemon follows Ash and his chubby pocket monster slave name Pikachu and they go around beating up other defenseless animals and then, right before they die, Ash chucks a metal ball at their heads that magically imprisons them. Arthur is the second longest running cartoon. That may not sound like a big deal but for a kid desperately wanting to see his childhood idols on the big screen, this was as good as it gets for a long time.

Whether we got movies or not, these cartoons were still fucking great and hold up today. Spider-Man played more like a soap opera than the other two, in so far as it having dramatic episodes that would connect to form a larger narrative. These poor cats are doing whatever they need to to survive. Oh and across the pond, this is still more popular than The Simpsons. And Nickelodeon gave him a show. It was so beloved by fans that it was actually cancelled twice but brought back every time because of the adoration of its die hard fans.

But that feels like a lifetime ago. The once fresh comedy stylings of Peter Griffin and the rest of the residents of quahog have become stale, lifeless. Just stop watching after season 8. There was a time when Disney was taking chances with properties they owned by taking their established characters and putting them in new scenarios. Rescue Rangers, they renamed and changed the appearance of Roger Rabbit and made him a cop in Bonkers and made Aladdin…. The biggest change from the source material was definitely TailSpin. Taking the characters from the Jungle Book and merging them with Raiders of the Lost Ark with shades of Casablanca, TailSpin was a gamble that undoubtedly paid off.

King Louie is a fucking night club owner for god sakes. This entire section is either toy commercials or private dicks. Who the hell ordered this list? Transformers on the hand, has aged like a fine wine. Speaking of a huge ball, Orson Welles was in the film as Omicron. The best anime, or at least the anime that appeals to me, are the ones that have substance, that deal with things beyond robots punching other robots or sexy teenagers with huge Astro Boy eyes. Fullmetal Alchemist starts off with two brothers trying to resurrect their dead mother and immediately things go catastrophically bad for them.

One loses an arm and the other dies but the elder brother manages to contain his younger brothers soul in a suit of armor. Not exactly light stuff.

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Fullmetal Alchemist is one of them. Like many shows of the time, The Huckleberry Hound Show was made up of multiple segments. The first two have become animated legends but the third has kind of been lost to time. Huckleberry hound was an immediate hit and Yogi Bear proved so popular, he got his own show.

Hokey wolf was there too. In the original film, the role of Winston was written and intended for Eddie Murphy to play. When he declined due to scheduling problems, they drastically rewrote the part taking out a lot of his jokes. Then they just gave it to Ernie Hudson. Cut to two years later when the cartoon was announced.

Hudson wanting to replay his most famous character, decided to audition. They then preceded to give it to Arsenio Hall. Years later, Bill Murray would would voice Garfield in the live action film adaptation. Besides the fact that he has a football head, every thing about Hey Arnold is realistic.

I knew those kids. I had those problems. I never had a pet potbelly pig though. Younger generations need some Arnold in their lives. Every episode is a parody of whatever movie just came out A lot of these cartoons automatically date themselves with these crazy old references. Starring Tommy Pickles and his baby cohorts Chuckie, Phil and Lil and of course Angelica, the show followed the babies misunderstanding of basic everyday things. The show stayed constantly great until the first film came out. Then they introduced Dil As in pickle.

Oh the wit and the show slowly started to decline but the good far outweigh the bad and the Rugrats are still beloved by generations to this day. Starting life in the What a Cartoon! Show pilot showcase Seriously, no other show launched more cartoons. They also own a pink pug named Courage that Eustace takes extreme pleasure in scaring half to death. Where have you gone Spielberg? Why have you forsaken us? We got shit like Catdog when you left. How does it take a shit? Is it like the human centipede? How does he shit!!?? Tiny Toon Adventures is about the descendants of the original Looney Tunes going to school to learn how to become the next generation of Tunes.

Remember the spin off The Plucky Duck Show? Animaniacs literally killed this show. They cancelled Tiny Toon Adventures in favor of Animaniacs. It focuses on the adventures of a little robot boy who was created by Dr. Tenma after his son died in a tragic car accident.

The manga was crazy popular in Japan and they quickly made it into a television series. Running just shy of episodes, Astro boy was and still is incredibly influential on all aspects of pop culture.

Osamu Tezuka was so beloved by the people of Japan that when he died, more people attended his funeral than that of the emperor. Ben Edlund is a genius. Like El Seed or Chairface Chippendale who, as you may have guessed, has a chair for a face. Let me make this abundantly clear: Disney Doug is worse. Finding out that your mom is having sex with that teacher you hate? Nickelodeon Doug on the other hand is a charming show about a kid named Doug Funnie and his day to day activities.

Which involve trying to muster up the courage to talk to his crush Patty Mayonnaise, hanging out with his buddy Mosquito Valentine or trying to avoid the neighborhood bully Roger. And what a weird fucking series it was. MTV was years before and leagues ahead of the edgy programming Adult Swim would be known for. While researching this show for this list, I found out that, apparently, unbeknownst to me, it has one of the most incredibly toxic fanbases around. I have no idea why so many douche bags gravitate to this show but if you manage to steer clear of the filth, Steven Universe is a delightfully charming and deceptively deep show about friendship, family and love.

The world Steven and the three lady gems he hangs out with is has expansive and intricate as they get. The storylines are deep and the characters are extremely well written. Back when print media was still a thing, there was an entire magazine dedicated to toys. It was a real knee slapper. It must have made quite the impression on Seth Green and Matthew Senreich because they decided to take that comic strip and turn it into what would eventually be Robot Chicken.

A rapid fire sketch show made up of stop motion animation, Robot Chicken is the television equivalent of ADHD somehow getting addicted to crack. Segments can last from five minutes to five seconds and can be about literally anything. They were cranking out hit after hit but they always based on a pre-existing property the company owned. Gargoyles was more akin to Batman: The Animated Series than to anything in the Disney stable at the time. It was far darker in tone and was one of the only cartoons at the time that was serialized.

It told a continuous story that involved mature characters and a rich mythology. Rocko was one of those shows that felt like the creators were purposely hiding as many naughty things in every episode just to see what they could get away with. They named a chicken restaurant after a masturbation joke and Rocko even works as a phone sex operator one time. Speaking of a glorified toy commercial, this cartoon was specifically made to sell toys. They actually came up with the toys before the show but no one thought they would sell without name recognition, so they greenlit a show.

The only controversial thing about the show was the title. Apparently, ninjas are so controversial in Britain, that they ordered the show to be renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and I hate it. Get it together Britain. Family Guy started strong and eventually became shit and in a complete role reversal, American Dad!

The show also removed the cut away jokes that Family Guy considers comedy and replaced them with actual scripts that contain characters and stories. Born from a sequence in the film Muppets Take Manhattan, the idea of seeing those adorable ass puppets as babies proved to be such a hit among fans, that a show was inevitable. Lil Kermie will fly an X-wing or be Indiana Jones. Disney bought both the Muppets and LucasArts. A spin-off of Beavis and Butt-head, Daria focused on the mis adventures of a cynical, highly intelligent teen trying to survive not only the hell that is high school but the drudgery that is her family.

Daria was a mature look at the teenage experience and when it ended, MTV officially died. Archer is a spy parody created by Adam Reed, the genius that brought you Sealab and Frisky Dingo and is about a drunken man child named Sterling Archer who is the biggest douche on the planet but who also happens to be the greatest spy alive.

The first is the typical spy set up: Archer and his fellow agents work for a spy agency run by his overbearing mother named Mallory. Every episode followed the agent on a mission set up. They get some details on a thing and Mallory sends Archer and maybe some other agents to go do that thing. It was a solid set up. But then everything changed after season 4. No matter the storylines, Archer is still side splittingly hilarious. They were either designed specifically to sell toys or they toys to begin with that needed a glorified commercial to sell more.

I Joe was a toy line a good 30 years before the animated series premiered but nobody gives a fuck about the shit your grandfather played with when he was a tyke. This was a decade built on cocaine and explosions and in the middle of that Venn diagram was G. Every kid had a favorite character it was always Snake Eyes because they were all lean, mean cobra kicking badasses that usually had punny codename.

And there was always a message because the joes cared about the kids as much as they cared about kicking ass. The live action X-Men movies have been pretty hit or miss in terms of quality. If this was a list of the greatest cartoon theme songs, this would be in the top 5 easy.

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The storylines were pulled from the comics or created wholesale by a team of amazing writers. To the outsider, anime looks like nothing but big eyed girls with physically impossible busts running away from monsters with the occasional robot thrown in and while that describes about half of them, the other half are usually some of the deepest, well written shows on TV.

Based on the third best selling manga of all time, Naruto is huge, sprawling epic that would cripple my fingers if I tried to explain in detail but the cliff notes version is: Naruto is Pokemon if you replaced all the Pokemon with ninjas and made Ash a ninja. The show is about Dipper and his younger sister Mabel who are sent to stay the summer with their great-uncle Stan in a town filled with nothing but paranormal oddities.

Audiences love a good treadmill joke. Home Movies is about a movie obsessed kid named Brendon and his two pals making short films after school or during school or whenever they have time. Everyone points to the decline of the Simpsons happening right around when Al Jean and Mike Reiss leave. They were the showrunners on the 3rd and 4th seasons and then they left to create The Critic.

Was it worth it? Did they gamble pay off? Lasting two seasons, the show dealt with professional film critic Jay Sherman magnificently voiced by Jon Lovitz as he reviews terrible film parodies-some notable examples include: Another unique aspect of the show is that, where most cartoons present their characters, though animated, as real within the show's world, the Drawn Together characters retain their identities as cartoon characters even within their animated world, and acknowledge their status as animations.

The show has cameo appearances by famous characters or in some cases, copyright-avoiding clones from all across the animated spectrum. In keeping with the various animation styles for the characters, Wooldoor and Toot have four fingers on each hand, whereas Clara, Foxxy, Hero and Xandir have five. In promotional artwork for the show, Toot and Wooldoor are drawn with the standard five fingers, but in the show itself they have four. Whereas most of the characters are drawn with black outlines, Clara and items belonging to her are drawn with soft edges, a reference to Disney animation techniques, which involve "cleanup" of any black outlines.

Contrasting, Toot is drawn in the grainy, high-contrast monochrome of her era's technology. The show was made by Rough Draft Studios in Glendale, California , with much of the animation done at the studio's facilities in South Korea. A gag in "The Drawn Together Clip Show" is that they show a list of all the Korean children who died animating the show.

The movie was produced by 6 Point Harness and done completely with Flash animation due to budget cuts. A total of three seasons were produced. Season 3 began airing on October 5, , and took a mid-season break which started on November 15, The second half of season three began airing on October 4, The season three finale included multiple jokes about the show's cancellation.

TV Guide listed this episode as a series finale and described the episode as follows: In March , Tara Strong confirmed that the show had been cancelled, [4] and the back of the third season DVDs box refers to it as the "third and final season". Since cancellation, the show has partial rotation late-nights, and airs uncensored on Comedy Central's Secret Stash and on Logo. Despite the cancellation, the official page of Drawn Together in Myspace had suggested the fans call Comedy Central and convince them to make a new season. The plots and humor of Drawn Together are adult-oriented and laden with shock comedy.

The humor is largely morbid and satirical in nature, its primary focus being the mockery of stereotypes and the casual exploration of taboo subject matter, such as masturbation , paraphilia , kinky sex , BDSM , homosexuality or gay marriage , abortion , rape , incest , pedophilia , spousal abuse , racism , homophobia , antisemitism , necrophilia , terrorism , violence and death.

Nearly all episodes feature at least one death, and several episodes feature characters going on killing sprees or perpetrating or becoming victims of mass murder , the main characters will subsequently return alive and uninjured, either in the subsequent episode, or within the time frame of the same single episode. The show breaks the fourth wall regularly; on one occasion, the show mocks Adam Carolla , the voice of Spanky Ham. Despite the show's overt and underlined sexuality, the characters' innocent and sensual sides are often the main driving force of the plot alongside comedic non-sequitur moments intended to parody standard plot lines.

This adds romantic comedy , melodrama , action film , war film , court drama and other genres to the pool of spoofing material. Comedy Central's original tagline for the show was "Find out what happens when cartoon characters stop being polite… and start making out in hot tubs", referring to Clara and Foxxy's kiss in the pilot episode. The line is a parody of The Real World 's tagline, "Find out what happens when people stop being polite… and start getting real. The extensive use of stereotypes is another controversial aspect of the show, though the intent is actually to make fun of bigotry.

As Jess Harnell states in the DVD commentary for "Hot Tub", "Most of the racism on the show is coming from people who are so obviously stupid about it; it really isn't that threatening". Jewish people are mocked, including creators and principal cast member Tara Strong. Other content known to be featured on some episodes are occurrences of natural disasters , depictions of dictators and sexual fetishes.

A sentimental education: inside the school that Tilda built

Drawn Together is heavy with popular culture references. Animation is a major source of material; as mentioned above, many characters from comics and animated cartoons make cameo appearances and often are the subjects of parody. However, numerous live-action films, TV shows, and video games are referenced as well. Reality shows are another prime inspiration, not surprising given that Drawn Together is presented as a reality show that takes place in a cartoon world.

However, although many of the first-season plots made extensive use of the reality show scenario, this aspect of the show has largely been de-emphasized in later episodes. One notable factor of the series are musical numbers. Some are parodies of real songs i. In terms of continuity , events in different episodes contradict each other, as there is a loose sense of canon.

One such example is in "The Other Cousin" and "N. Another is Foxxy's various and contradictory stories about her son Timmy one involves selling him on the black market, another involves her accidentally shooting him after believing him to be rabid, when he was really just brushing his teeth. A day later I get to see him in the classroom, interacting with the students. Arran is happy to clarify: In the s, he found a job with the Youth Training Scheme and decided to stick with it. Today he lives in a static caravan in the woods.

We take a tour of the school building, little more than a rented back room of the Moray Arts Centre in Findhorn , the famous alternative community on the northeast coast of Scotland. The digs are temporary while Tilda and fellow trustee Ian Sutherland McCook raise money to build a permanent structure, though securing funds for bursaries is their first priority. The classes move seamlessly from indoors to out, the day interspersed with frequent changes of pace. A day later, in a brief interlude between a music workshop and an English lesson I am startled to see the students assemble in formation on an adjoining field to hurl a fusillade of javelins through the air, before quickly dispersing back to the classroom.

Competitive sports are generally frowned upon within the Steiner system, but exceptions are made for those associated with the ancient Olympics. Through the windows Krzysztof points to a pair of handsome canoes sitting outside, and fetches a paddle for my inspection. To Krzysztof the boat is a paragon of interdisciplinary education. As he puts it: But there is no A-level exam in boat making, and the question of how these students will make it to university should they wish to go — as, for example, Arran does — is never fully resolved.

There are precedents, however. The Acorn School in Gloucestershire is run along near-identical lines. This year, its students were offered places at universities in Bath, Exeter, Manchester and Bristol. The school claims that no Acorn student applying for university has ever failed to secure a place. Drumduan parents are obviously a highly self-selecting group. Walking her four cocker spaniels across the sweeping expanse of beach near her home in Nairn, she says: They will be in the first class to graduate from Drumduan in Earlier this year Tilda helped students secure work placements that covered the gamut from a sporran maker in Forres to a hotshot tailor in London.

Xavier, who wants to be a commercial pilot, worked at Inverness airport and flight school. A real person, somewhere, gives instructions from a simulated control tower, there is some pilot-to-tower banter, and suddenly we are airborne, looking down on virtual clouds and fields and the ragged, digital coastline. Tilda points to Jura, where George Orwell wrote , and we examine the view as Xavier manoeuvres the plane across the restless ocean. But there is something else, too, and it has to do with the rare sense of communion within the school.

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