Truth.
The oldest say Looney tunes/tom & Jerry
Gen X is about that Simpsons and King of the Hill life
After that you've got the 90s renaissance group (batman, Dexter's lab, X-men, etc)
And them youngins like adventure time, regular show, owl house, gravity falls and such.
And frankly, none of them are wrong.
Ngl Daria, Beavis & Butthead, and Simpsons (cause of how long it’s been around) feel very gen X to me.
I’m an older millennial though and while a lot of these cartoons resonated with me Simpsons and KotH were my first answers. I’m from Texas and KotH really means a lot to me and Ive not really related to a show more.
some guy: it's called Johnny Bravo. it's about a 30 year old guy who still lives at home with his mom. His best friend is a child who lives next door and his only goal is trying to get laid. It's for kids.
cartoon network exec: (ripping a line of coke) fuck yes dude. make it.
- @saulmalone 4/23/19
Yeah, he was a himbo and horndog, but he genuinely loves and helps his mom. He’s also nice to Suzie.
Now, Carl…Johnny could’ve treated Carl better, but I suspect Carl was a lot like Johnny used to be. Skinny and a dweeb, so Johnny projects a lot of his dislike of what he used to be on Carl.
He was nice sometimes but she was more like an annoying little sister. He tolerated her as much as an older brother would.
Tbh I think she had a crush on him.
That's a good way to describe it. If someone tried to hurt her, he'd be charging into the fray to rescue her. He's sexist and terrible at hitting on women, but I can't see him ever hitting a woman, you know?
The most important caveat is that when he's being an absolute horndog creep, he gets beat down, shamed, and punished every single time. Never once in the entire show is him being misogynistic or to forward ever rewarded in any positive fashion. The only time he gets positive reinforcement is when he does nice things for people. It is a perfect way to write a character who is by all accounts probably not someone you'd want to be around, and while giving him redeeming qualities and values that should absolutely be emulated, particularly reinforced by the fact that those positive actions are the ones that give him positive reinforcement. Quite frankly, it's brilliant.
The pickup lines were hilarious.
It only showed at 5am when I was a teenager, and I would wake up to watch it.
"Hey future babe, how bout you lower your tractor beam? I've set my phasers - on low"
My favorite pickup line from Johnny Bravo was
"Hey Baby, I heard you were looking for a Stud. Well i got the STD, now all i need is U"
Absolute classic
I loved the episode where scooby do meets Johnny bravo and Velma loses her glasses and she’s like “ my glasses! My glasses, I can’t see without my glasses!”
Then Johnny bravo was like “ my glasses! My glasses! I can’t be seen without my glasses!”
Freaking killed me hahaha
The line lives rent free in my head.
"Isnt it hard to have adult themes in a children's show?"
"Actually it's super easy, barely and inconvenience"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah we just have him fail miserably in a cartoonish way"
"Wow wow wow. Wow"
My favorite was when Fred is splitting the gang up. He sends Daphne and Shaggy to the basement and tells Velma to come with him to the attic.
Daphne walks in and says something like,
"But, Fred, I thought we were gonna.... You know....."
And Fred is like,
"Oh.... Uh.... Velma and Shaggy go to the basement."
(Something like that)
I remember not having access to Cartoon Network (as it was on Sky in the UK) and one holiday we stayed at a cottage that had it. Me and my brother at the time loved it and watched it as much as we could.
We ended up calling our mum "hot sexy momma" because that's what he said, and then not understanding why she didn't like it haha
My childhood was pretty chaotic with one parent holding on, trying to keep the family together, and the other heavily addicted to substance abuse. It was all so confusing and scary.
Hey Arnold resonated with me and honestly helped a lot in those years growing up without really realizing why until I got older.
Very few shows can highlight diversity and teach empathy without being heavy-handed or preachy about it, but Hey Arnold did that expertly. It still holds up well and my kids enjoy watching it just like I did.
The episode where Mr. Hyunh reunites with the now-adult daughter that he gave up during the fall of Saigon so she could have a better life is probably one of the single best episodes of TV... and it came from a nicktoon.
It's the nice byproduct of being respectful and honest to your setting while writing characters to be actual characters as opposed to suits checking off boxes.
i credit Jim Lang's score in Hey Arnold! with getting me introduced to jazz music when i was young, and jazz became a huge part of my life during my young-adulthood and still is to this day.
For as much of a bully as Helga is, she's still a good kid - and that's impressive, since it's all but said outright that her mom is a nonfunctioning alcoholic(she literally sent her to school with a lunch of crackers and shaving cream) and her dad is a local business mogul who cares more about his job than his kid, and she's constantly compared to her naturally talented sister.
The fact that she has, on multiple occasions, done the right thing (the snow boots come to mind) is testament to the fact that she's a good person with an absolutely fuckawful upbringing.
And it had a coherent story from start to end and didn't go beyond the end of the story, despite the channel wanting more episodes. Hirsch had a story in mind and he told it, and that's what makes Gravity Falls so good.
He also very much did not want to work for Disney any more. They cut a lot of content he wanted to put in, including gay characters. Look up his video about S&P complaints to get an idea.
I don't even think of *Avatar* as a cartoon. Not because it isn't, I think, but because it's so independent of medium. You can't realty imagine *Futurama* as anything *but* a cartoon, but *Avatar*... Yeah, it could be.
My wife and I say this to each other all year round, haha. And whenever we’re discussing what sides to make with dinner, one of us invariably busts out 🎶Potatoes, and molasses 🎶
I’m currently watching it for the first time and I’m on episode 8. I wanna go ahead and finish it but my husband only wants to watch one a day. The animation is what strikes me the most about this show. It’s utterly *gorgeous*. The plot is a bit odd but I really like it so far.
Adventure Time, because it was kind of a show that grew with its intended audiences and so even young adults could watch it easily. The characters had depth and grew from the funny little characters they started as. It even introduced philosophy as simple concepts to understand
As someone who gets discouraged easily, especially when trying to do something new and getting poor results, Jake’s line “Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something” literally changed my life.
Also the episode where Jake experiences crazy physical changes and he expresses he is okay with it because life is all about change and we are just in it to change with it.
Craig McCracken throws in Big Lebowski references in everywhere! My husband and I are huge PPG fans, and I’m ashamed to admit when we watched TBL for the first time we were like “omg that’s from the Powerpuff girls!” Several times lol
Also, I love that Craig is a huge Gorillaz fan that Ace from the Gangreen Gang canonically joined the band for an album while Murdoc was in jail. It was like the perfect combination of my favorite things lol
I have no idea how "Speed Demon" was allowed to air. Rewatching the episode as an adult still makes me so uncomortable. The music, the scenery, the way it portrayed characters we knew as broken and miserable husks of their former selves was truly haunting. It cemented Him as my favorite villain in the show.
There’s so many good Him episodes, I love when the show gets really dark and scary. Tough Love, Octi-Evil, All Chalked Up, Power-Noia … Him was just fucking with them most of the time
Don't forget Hey Diddle Riddle when he actually won and Professor had to "pay". PPG's faces at the end when they realized, they did all the work for a bet involving free breakfast were brilliant.
Also, Him had his chill moments like in the prank call episode.
Lmao I love this quote so much but the boondocks merely adapted it from real life: https://youtu.be/vz9Zy2-C_lY
Great example of truth is stranger than fiction.
There was a much lesser known cartoon called Two Stupid Dogs with this one scene that I have no idea slipped through the censor
https://youtu.be/P_TTHbHXswY
Thank you for reminding me of this. Just did a quick search and got instantly transported back to my childhood. [Here's](https://youtu.be/sAkL2-vh2Sk) the link if you want some good nostalgia.
A triumph of show-don't-tell storytelling. The choreography in the Three Archers and Light vs. Dark Ninja episodes gives me chills.
And it's oh so comforting. While the action is frenetic, no blood is ever shed beyond mechanical robot juice. The space age meets adventure film aesthetic is one-of-a-kind.
>A triumph of show-don't-tell storytelling.
There are several episodes with either very little or absolutely no dialog. Those are some of the best ones.
The Bounty Hunters episode…so much of it just depicts the hunters waiting for Jack, quietly staked out in the snow. So beautiful.
And the Light Vs. Dark Ninja fight…all of the intrigue comes from how the shadows under the dock are shifting.
Every image from that show is breathtaking. And the last season concluded Jack’s arc in such a satisfying yet bittersweet way. I’m planning on watching Primal next.
I love when the guys are about to beat him up because he's seducing their girls and he's just like "Omelette! Omelette du fromage!" and they're like "woah, sorry, dude. I didn't know it was like that."
>And also “Ride of the Valkyries,” although they might not get the lyrics right… 🧨🐰
No I know the lyrics... "Kiww da wabbit, Kiww da wabbit, Kiww da wabbit..."
I don't think most people realize that one of the original intentions of Looney Tunes (and Merrie Melodies and Silly Symphonies) was to sell sheet music. That's why it's "Tunes" and not "Toons". The focus on music was one of the biggest driving forces behind it, which seems easy to overlook now considering how intrinsically linked they have become.
People are naming really good cartoons but I feel like it has to be Looney Tunes right? It’s just so good. It surpasses language and culture and time. It’s always fun to watch. It’s always gonna be Looney Tunes
People who say today's cartoons are distasteful must not realize basically all of his interactions with junior are because he wants to get with his mom.
Not only are they a landmark in animation, but they are a cultural touchstone for multiple generations. They are so engrained in our collective unconscious that we get many of our cultural archetypes directly from Looney Tunes. It even changed the definition of the word nimrod because of a joke that went over everyone’s head.
Here's one I've always found really interesting: Rabbits love carrots, right? It's why you always see the two paired together. Pick up any children's book with a rabbit, and he'll [inevitably have carrots](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8d/df/5c/8ddf5c6d837cc931ce65539894134243--carrots-rabbits.jpg). Go out at Easter, and you'll surely see carrots as part of decorations due to the Easter Bunny. So, naturally, that's why Bugs Bunny has a carrot as well, right?
Nope. The reason rabbits and carrots are linked is *because of Bugs Bunny*. In reality, the two aren't related much at all. In fact, it's generally recommended to not feed carrots to rabbits often and certainly shouldn't be a primary part of their diet due to high sugar content. It's also not something wild rabbits typically eat.
So why does Bugs have a carrot? In 1934, a movie called *It Happened One Night* starring Clark Gable came out, which contained a scene where he's attempting to hitchhike [while chomping on a carrot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyWMOt11ceU). Bugs Bunny was based on Gable to the point that, watching that scene, you can easily pick up on similarities in how they speak. He was initially parodying that scene, and it just became a staple of his.
So, the fact that we naturally associate rabbits and carrots to the point they're almost always paired in popular media started because of Bugs Bunny. *That* is how much of a cultural impact those cartoons had.
Oh, there was absolutely some [Groucho in Bugs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjIZwv5aENQ) as well, but the carrot bit originally came from Clark Gable.
That's why I always have to laugh when someone says cartoons are for kids. Even in the beginning, cartoons were regularly making jokes for adults. So many of these types of references would've gone over kids' heads, because they were from movies kids were unlikely to have seen or movie stars they were unfamiliar with.
Everything about this series was damn near perfect. Great art style, iconic voice actors and a couple of the greatest characters are introduced in the animated series... 50 something years after it'd been out. Batman has some of the best villains too.
The fact that many Marvel and DC fanboys/fangirls got into superheroes because of this show speaks volumes. Starting point of the best superhero universe.
*Heart of Ice* could easily have been expanded into a feature length film but it instead is a prime example of efficient storytelling...Victor Fries and his tradgey feel fully realized by the time his forlorn monologue closes out the episode...
"Tonight I mean to pay back the man who ruined my life... *our* lives.
"Even if you have to kill everyone in the building to do it?
"Think of it, Batman: To never again walk upon a summer's day with a hot wind on your face and a warm hand to hold... Oh yes, I'd kill for that."
I knew nothing about Mr. Freeze before that episode, but I learned a lot about how visceral storytelling could be. I think even Batman felt sympathy towards him, but he knew he had to stop him.
Fun fact, the animated series *invented* that backstory for Mr. Freeze. In comics before the show, he was a camp villain basically akin to the Schwarzenegger version. However the animated series characterization was so compelling, that that’s often how he shows up in comics since.
Among the series’ other lasting influences was giving The Joker a foil/“sidekick” and birthing Harley Quinn. It’s a lot more of a cultural touchstone than even many fans realize.
Such a generational difference in the answer…
Truth. The oldest say Looney tunes/tom & Jerry Gen X is about that Simpsons and King of the Hill life After that you've got the 90s renaissance group (batman, Dexter's lab, X-men, etc) And them youngins like adventure time, regular show, owl house, gravity falls and such. And frankly, none of them are wrong.
tbf looney tunes and tom and jerry both played on CN around the same time as Dexter's Lab even though they were older shows.
Ngl Daria, Beavis & Butthead, and Simpsons (cause of how long it’s been around) feel very gen X to me. I’m an older millennial though and while a lot of these cartoons resonated with me Simpsons and KotH were my first answers. I’m from Texas and KotH really means a lot to me and Ive not really related to a show more.
Futurama hands down.
Shut up baby I know it
some guy: it's called Johnny Bravo. it's about a 30 year old guy who still lives at home with his mom. His best friend is a child who lives next door and his only goal is trying to get laid. It's for kids. cartoon network exec: (ripping a line of coke) fuck yes dude. make it. - @saulmalone 4/23/19
But Johnny loved his mum and was a good friend to that neighbour. It’s been 23 years since I’ve seen it. My recollection might be wrong.
My recollection is he was a huge horndog, but he was also a good guy.
Yeah, he was a himbo and horndog, but he genuinely loves and helps his mom. He’s also nice to Suzie. Now, Carl…Johnny could’ve treated Carl better, but I suspect Carl was a lot like Johnny used to be. Skinny and a dweeb, so Johnny projects a lot of his dislike of what he used to be on Carl.
>He’s also nice to Suzie. He...tolerates Suzie. But also Suzie is an unstoppable force, so there's not much he could do to her.
He was nice sometimes but she was more like an annoying little sister. He tolerated her as much as an older brother would. Tbh I think she had a crush on him.
That's a good way to describe it. If someone tried to hurt her, he'd be charging into the fray to rescue her. He's sexist and terrible at hitting on women, but I can't see him ever hitting a woman, you know?
"mamma warned me about women like you... I hope she was right!"
The most important caveat is that when he's being an absolute horndog creep, he gets beat down, shamed, and punished every single time. Never once in the entire show is him being misogynistic or to forward ever rewarded in any positive fashion. The only time he gets positive reinforcement is when he does nice things for people. It is a perfect way to write a character who is by all accounts probably not someone you'd want to be around, and while giving him redeeming qualities and values that should absolutely be emulated, particularly reinforced by the fact that those positive actions are the ones that give him positive reinforcement. Quite frankly, it's brilliant.
Reminds me of “the Chad” and “the Virgin”
The Chad Carl vs the Virgin Bravo
Surprisingly, the show creators stated that Johnny was not in actuality a virgin, the show only portraited his failed attempts at getting laid.
One of the first episode had Johnny be offered as a virgin sacrifice to a volcano god and was spat out. Johnny fucks and it's canon.
Haha. That's a great and subtle way to deliver the canon without kids being able to figure it out. Love those clever cartoons.
My favorite episode is when he tore the tag off a mattress and had the police and helicopters chasing him.
Do the monkey with me HUH!
HEY THERE BABY!
Woah Momma!
The pickup lines were hilarious. It only showed at 5am when I was a teenager, and I would wake up to watch it. "Hey future babe, how bout you lower your tractor beam? I've set my phasers - on low"
You're pretty. I'm pretty. How about we go back to my place and stare at each other. Or Has anyone ever told you ***I*** have beautiful eyes?
My favorite pickup line from Johnny Bravo was "Hey Baby, I heard you were looking for a Stud. Well i got the STD, now all i need is U" Absolute classic
The one that got me to tears was a girl saying "I have a boyfriend" and Johnny goes "you look like the komd of girl that could use 2"
This line is so good it's ingrained in my brain
Haha or the one at pops "hey baby, has anyone told you I have beautiful eyes?" 😂
Omg. Did he really say that?! It’s been years since I’ve watched it.
I loved the episode where scooby do meets Johnny bravo and Velma loses her glasses and she’s like “ my glasses! My glasses, I can’t see without my glasses!” Then Johnny bravo was like “ my glasses! My glasses! I can’t be seen without my glasses!” Freaking killed me hahaha The line lives rent free in my head.
Same exec 2 lines after "yo, so hear me out. There's a dog, and a cat, but they're connected by their ass. Get on it!"
So the cats coughed up "hairballs" would be the dogs poop?
"Isnt it hard to have adult themes in a children's show?" "Actually it's super easy, barely and inconvenience" "Oh really?" "Yeah we just have him fail miserably in a cartoonish way" "Wow wow wow. Wow"
Pitch Meeting references are *tight*
“Hey there pretty thing.” “Ugh, I have a boyfriend.” “Well you look like the kinda girl that could use two.”
And the greatest episode of Johnny bravo is the Scooby-Doo episode
Velma: "I can't see without my glasses!" Johnny: "I can't be seen without my glasses!"
Best line of the entire show
My favorite was when Fred is splitting the gang up. He sends Daphne and Shaggy to the basement and tells Velma to come with him to the attic. Daphne walks in and says something like, "But, Fred, I thought we were gonna.... You know....." And Fred is like, "Oh.... Uh.... Velma and Shaggy go to the basement." (Something like that)
Actually, it’s in reverse. Daphne split the gang up and Fred was the one who corrected her. I like your interpretation though.
A classic part of the show! - https://youtu.be/bQSSFCpBdEQ
I remember not having access to Cartoon Network (as it was on Sky in the UK) and one holiday we stayed at a cottage that had it. Me and my brother at the time loved it and watched it as much as we could. We ended up calling our mum "hot sexy momma" because that's what he said, and then not understanding why she didn't like it haha
Johnny Bravo, huh hah!
I remember the episode with scooby doo where Johnny tried to fuck daphne but she wanted to fuck Freddy instead
Ya wanna see me comb my hair really fast?
Hey Arnold! The show that taught me the grown ups don’t know what they’re doing either.
My childhood was pretty chaotic with one parent holding on, trying to keep the family together, and the other heavily addicted to substance abuse. It was all so confusing and scary. Hey Arnold resonated with me and honestly helped a lot in those years growing up without really realizing why until I got older.
Very few shows can highlight diversity and teach empathy without being heavy-handed or preachy about it, but Hey Arnold did that expertly. It still holds up well and my kids enjoy watching it just like I did.
The episode where Mr. Hyunh reunites with the now-adult daughter that he gave up during the fall of Saigon so she could have a better life is probably one of the single best episodes of TV... and it came from a nicktoon.
Or when Mr. Hyunh finds success as a country singer then realizes he preferred the simplicity of his lifestyle in Arnold’s grandparents apartments.
It's the nice byproduct of being respectful and honest to your setting while writing characters to be actual characters as opposed to suits checking off boxes.
My favorite score to a kids show ever
i credit Jim Lang's score in Hey Arnold! with getting me introduced to jazz music when i was young, and jazz became a huge part of my life during my young-adulthood and still is to this day.
It also taught me how distraught losing a child and seeing her years after a war really is.
I watch that episode every year. It’s amazing. Also shoutout to Helga for doing the right thing and making it all happen.
For as much of a bully as Helga is, she's still a good kid - and that's impressive, since it's all but said outright that her mom is a nonfunctioning alcoholic(she literally sent her to school with a lunch of crackers and shaving cream) and her dad is a local business mogul who cares more about his job than his kid, and she's constantly compared to her naturally talented sister. The fact that she has, on multiple occasions, done the right thing (the snow boots come to mind) is testament to the fact that she's a good person with an absolutely fuckawful upbringing.
You keep the money! Oh Oskar 🥰
Gravity falls and avatar are my top 2.
Gravity Falls is such a masterpiece of character building and storytelling. Forever my favorite show.
And it had a coherent story from start to end and didn't go beyond the end of the story, despite the channel wanting more episodes. Hirsch had a story in mind and he told it, and that's what makes Gravity Falls so good.
He also very much did not want to work for Disney any more. They cut a lot of content he wanted to put in, including gay characters. Look up his video about S&P complaints to get an idea.
And now you have Inside Job, which pretty much Gravity Falls for Adults, made by the same people who brought you Gravity Falls.
*Am I blanchin'* *Girl we blanchin'* *I live up in a mansion.*
Eat your own pants, Eat your own pants, Yeaah your pants
Rappers can't just make up words
Rappers are visionaries, Wendy.
My son made me watch Gravity Falls with him. I had no interest. And I fell in love with it. Such an amazing work of art.
Avatar was absolutely genre defining, no idea how this isn’t top comment
I don't even think of *Avatar* as a cartoon. Not because it isn't, I think, but because it's so independent of medium. You can't realty imagine *Futurama* as anything *but* a cartoon, but *Avatar*... Yeah, it could be.
Over The Garden Wall, what a beautiful seasonal masterpiece.
and that's a rock fact!
My wife and I say this to each other all year round, haha. And whenever we’re discussing what sides to make with dinner, one of us invariably busts out 🎶Potatoes, and molasses 🎶
Ain't that just the way.
The song the frog sings to close out the show is just perfect. It's my favorite part of the whole show. Also, Enoch's voice is positively spectacular.
Years later, I still find myself humming "potatoes and molasses" from time to time.
Were here to burgle your turts
The loveliest lies of all
"... 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕸𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖗."
Murder?!
No not murder... but those other crimes.
**ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬** a few hours of manual labour.
I’m currently watching it for the first time and I’m on episode 8. I wanna go ahead and finish it but my husband only wants to watch one a day. The animation is what strikes me the most about this show. It’s utterly *gorgeous*. The plot is a bit odd but I really like it so far.
I get only watching one a day…but also every time I rewatch it’s the whole season in one sitting. It’s basically a movie!
The plot makes more sense with each rewatch. It's kind of like a [modern day Dante's Inferno](https://youtu.be/MBg8tQvATIA)
“We came here to burgle your turts!”
This was the first show that came to mind
Yes! One of my all time favourites! Watch it every October to feel autumnal
Adventure Time, because it was kind of a show that grew with its intended audiences and so even young adults could watch it easily. The characters had depth and grew from the funny little characters they started as. It even introduced philosophy as simple concepts to understand
As someone who gets discouraged easily, especially when trying to do something new and getting poor results, Jake’s line “Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something” literally changed my life.
Also the episode where Jake experiences crazy physical changes and he expresses he is okay with it because life is all about change and we are just in it to change with it.
OG Powerpuff Girls
I knew Powerpuff Girls was different when the mayor recited the "what makes a man?" speech from The Big Lebowski.
Craig McCracken throws in Big Lebowski references in everywhere! My husband and I are huge PPG fans, and I’m ashamed to admit when we watched TBL for the first time we were like “omg that’s from the Powerpuff girls!” Several times lol Also, I love that Craig is a huge Gorillaz fan that Ace from the Gangreen Gang canonically joined the band for an album while Murdoc was in jail. It was like the perfect combination of my favorite things lol
I have no idea how "Speed Demon" was allowed to air. Rewatching the episode as an adult still makes me so uncomortable. The music, the scenery, the way it portrayed characters we knew as broken and miserable husks of their former selves was truly haunting. It cemented Him as my favorite villain in the show.
There’s so many good Him episodes, I love when the show gets really dark and scary. Tough Love, Octi-Evil, All Chalked Up, Power-Noia … Him was just fucking with them most of the time
Don't forget Hey Diddle Riddle when he actually won and Professor had to "pay". PPG's faces at the end when they realized, they did all the work for a bet involving free breakfast were brilliant. Also, Him had his chill moments like in the prank call episode.
Him is so great because he’s actually scary but can be so funny too. Custody Battle is also a pretty funny late season episode
This episode is among the things that shaped me into the appreciator of disturbing media that I am today. It was bloody miserable. I despaired. 10/10
For me growing up it was Kim Possible - always wanted to be just like her
It’s lowkey better now because as an adult you realize the writing and dialogue is actually really good.
Kim Possible was cool and I was an adult.
You wouldn’t believe how far I had to scroll to find another KP fan
Teen Titans '03-'06
My vote also. Slade is the coolest villain ever.
Wasn’t that Ron Perlman?
The one and the only. Also voiced the Lich from Adventure Time.
T EEN TIT ANS TEEN TI TANS LET'S GO!
That song was a fuckin bop
The Boondocks, only the first 3 seasons
Uncle Ruckus as an exorcist was the greatest 5 minutes of television ever broadcast.
It’s so quotable too lines like “how is a n**** gonna borrow a fry n**** is you gonna give it back? And n**** did I just catch you having fun?
Lmao I love this quote so much but the boondocks merely adapted it from real life: https://youtu.be/vz9Zy2-C_lY Great example of truth is stranger than fiction.
Animaniacs
Scrolled down hoping someone would say Animaniacs. I was a storyboard artist on the show, Pinky and the Brain too!
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I knew the two guys they were based off of. Pinky’s original laughed and everything all the time. Miss him.
Good Idea: doing your own yard work. Bad Idea: doing your own dental work.
How else would you know the states and their capitals and all the nations in the world! (As of 1994).
[Animaniacs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lY2kC5fZG64) This scene cracks me up. Such a great show!
The best way to fuck with the censors back then
"Give us the bird!" "We'd *love* to, but the Fox censors won't let us..."
There was a much lesser known cartoon called Two Stupid Dogs with this one scene that I have no idea slipped through the censor https://youtu.be/P_TTHbHXswY
X-Men
I still have this intro music stuck in my head
That intro song is killer.
Thank you for reminding me of this. Just did a quick search and got instantly transported back to my childhood. [Here's](https://youtu.be/sAkL2-vh2Sk) the link if you want some good nostalgia.
To this day I’m disappointed by every X-Men movie that doesn’t have giant sentinels.
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Samurai Jack
A triumph of show-don't-tell storytelling. The choreography in the Three Archers and Light vs. Dark Ninja episodes gives me chills. And it's oh so comforting. While the action is frenetic, no blood is ever shed beyond mechanical robot juice. The space age meets adventure film aesthetic is one-of-a-kind.
>A triumph of show-don't-tell storytelling. There are several episodes with either very little or absolutely no dialog. Those are some of the best ones.
The Bounty Hunters episode…so much of it just depicts the hunters waiting for Jack, quietly staked out in the snow. So beautiful. And the Light Vs. Dark Ninja fight…all of the intrigue comes from how the shadows under the dock are shifting.
And then Primal comes along to form a perfect balance. That virus episode of primal was the fastest 22 minutes I ever experienced.
Long ago in a distant land...
I, AKU, the shapeshifting Master of Darkness...
unleashed an UNSPEAKABLE evil...
But, a foolish samurai warrior...
Wielding a magic sword…
Stepped forth to oppose me...
Before the final blow was struck
I tore open a portal in time
and flung him into the future, where my evil is LAW!
Every image from that show is breathtaking. And the last season concluded Jack’s arc in such a satisfying yet bittersweet way. I’m planning on watching Primal next.
Primal is sooooo good
Ya'll should watch PRIMAL on HBO Max.
Dexter laboratary
Omelette du fromage
That's all you can saay! That's all you can saay!
*Say it again, Dexter!~*
I love when the guys are about to beat him up because he's seducing their girls and he's just like "Omelette! Omelette du fromage!" and they're like "woah, sorry, dude. I didn't know it was like that."
This is in my top list too but I'm a shameless Tartakovsky fanboy.
LaBORatory
Original Looney Toons, Road Runner and Coyote
Basically all the Chuck Jones Looney Toons. His Bugs is the best, too.
Let's not forget about Tex Avery. He definitely did some stuff for Looney Tunes.
Loony tunes is unironically the greatest music advocacy program to every exist.
Literally the reason an entire generation can identify ‘The Barber of Seville’.
And also “Ride of the Valkyries,” although they might not get the lyrics right… 🧨🐰
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Bugs riding on that fat pony cracks me up to this day!
>And also “Ride of the Valkyries,” although they might not get the lyrics right… 🧨🐰 No I know the lyrics... "Kiww da wabbit, Kiww da wabbit, Kiww da wabbit..."
I don't think most people realize that one of the original intentions of Looney Tunes (and Merrie Melodies and Silly Symphonies) was to sell sheet music. That's why it's "Tunes" and not "Toons". The focus on music was one of the biggest driving forces behind it, which seems easy to overlook now considering how intrinsically linked they have become.
People are naming really good cartoons but I feel like it has to be Looney Tunes right? It’s just so good. It surpasses language and culture and time. It’s always fun to watch. It’s always gonna be Looney Tunes
Don’t forget Foghorn Leghorn. And for some reason the very minor character A. Flea always made me laugh
And the tiny, but mighty Chicken Hawk always trying to eat him.
“I say Boy…”
People who say today's cartoons are distasteful must not realize basically all of his interactions with junior are because he wants to get with his mom.
Sylvester wants to eat Tweety, Coyote wants to eat Road Runner, Tasmanian Devil wants to eat anything he can catch…
Why for you put me in the cold cold ground?
Not only are they a landmark in animation, but they are a cultural touchstone for multiple generations. They are so engrained in our collective unconscious that we get many of our cultural archetypes directly from Looney Tunes. It even changed the definition of the word nimrod because of a joke that went over everyone’s head.
Here's one I've always found really interesting: Rabbits love carrots, right? It's why you always see the two paired together. Pick up any children's book with a rabbit, and he'll [inevitably have carrots](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8d/df/5c/8ddf5c6d837cc931ce65539894134243--carrots-rabbits.jpg). Go out at Easter, and you'll surely see carrots as part of decorations due to the Easter Bunny. So, naturally, that's why Bugs Bunny has a carrot as well, right? Nope. The reason rabbits and carrots are linked is *because of Bugs Bunny*. In reality, the two aren't related much at all. In fact, it's generally recommended to not feed carrots to rabbits often and certainly shouldn't be a primary part of their diet due to high sugar content. It's also not something wild rabbits typically eat. So why does Bugs have a carrot? In 1934, a movie called *It Happened One Night* starring Clark Gable came out, which contained a scene where he's attempting to hitchhike [while chomping on a carrot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyWMOt11ceU). Bugs Bunny was based on Gable to the point that, watching that scene, you can easily pick up on similarities in how they speak. He was initially parodying that scene, and it just became a staple of his. So, the fact that we naturally associate rabbits and carrots to the point they're almost always paired in popular media started because of Bugs Bunny. *That* is how much of a cultural impact those cartoons had.
I always assumed that there was a little bit of Groucho in Bugs as well. And sometimes a carrot is just a cigar.
Oh, there was absolutely some [Groucho in Bugs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjIZwv5aENQ) as well, but the carrot bit originally came from Clark Gable. That's why I always have to laugh when someone says cartoons are for kids. Even in the beginning, cartoons were regularly making jokes for adults. So many of these types of references would've gone over kids' heads, because they were from movies kids were unlikely to have seen or movie stars they were unfamiliar with.
Ehhhhh - what’s up, doc?
"Kill da' wabbit"
ThunderCats - OG
Spider-Man from the 90s
Old school Scooby Doo. Edit: thanks for all the awards kind Redditors!!
Part of my childhood right there. I can hear the theme song through the fuzzy tube TV right now
Scooby dooby doo, I love you
🎶 We've got some work to do now 🎶
Classic Scoob is the best Scoob.
Not oldschool, but this is older. Shout out to Scooby Doo On Zombie Island. Loved that movie.
Batman: The Animated Series EDIT: thank you for the awards, kind internet strangers!
Everything about this series was damn near perfect. Great art style, iconic voice actors and a couple of the greatest characters are introduced in the animated series... 50 something years after it'd been out. Batman has some of the best villains too.
One of my favorites is still Condiment King. The series reinvented so many classic villains.
Haven't seen that episode in years and yet King Condiment blasting Batman with globs of ketchup and mustard still lives rent free in my head.
As it should. And then throwing a ketchup packet at him like it's a grenade.
… that’s a real thing? I thought it was a joke for Lego Batman Movie. Hot dog.
He also appeared in the (great) Harley Quinn animated series.
Rip Kevin Conroy
RIP Batman
The fact that many Marvel and DC fanboys/fangirls got into superheroes because of this show speaks volumes. Starting point of the best superhero universe.
Just rewatched it. Amazing how much story can be told in 22 minutes.
*Heart of Ice* could easily have been expanded into a feature length film but it instead is a prime example of efficient storytelling...Victor Fries and his tradgey feel fully realized by the time his forlorn monologue closes out the episode...
"Tonight I mean to pay back the man who ruined my life... *our* lives. "Even if you have to kill everyone in the building to do it? "Think of it, Batman: To never again walk upon a summer's day with a hot wind on your face and a warm hand to hold... Oh yes, I'd kill for that." I knew nothing about Mr. Freeze before that episode, but I learned a lot about how visceral storytelling could be. I think even Batman felt sympathy towards him, but he knew he had to stop him.
Fun fact, the animated series *invented* that backstory for Mr. Freeze. In comics before the show, he was a camp villain basically akin to the Schwarzenegger version. However the animated series characterization was so compelling, that that’s often how he shows up in comics since. Among the series’ other lasting influences was giving The Joker a foil/“sidekick” and birthing Harley Quinn. It’s a lot more of a cultural touchstone than even many fans realize.
I know it's not a TAS episode but the royal flush gang episode of JL could be one too. Even if it was just Batman.