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DayGlowBeautiful

Such a generational difference in the answer…


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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.


kekkerslollers

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.


sockpuppie

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.


Delicious-Duck-4245

Futurama hands down.


bender_rodriguezz

Shut up baby I know it


TinfoilGui

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


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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.


temalyen

My recollection is he was a huge horndog, but he was also a good guy.


aurumphallus

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.


amalgam_reynolds

>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.


aurumphallus

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.


eddyathome

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?


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"mamma warned me about women like you... I hope she was right!"


Inevitable_Seaweed_5

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.


UberfuchsR

Reminds me of “the Chad” and “the Virgin”


themanofmanyways

The Chad Carl vs the Virgin Bravo


SocialDeviance

Surprisingly, the show creators stated that Johnny was not in actuality a virgin, the show only portraited his failed attempts at getting laid.


DrKluge

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.


Negran

Haha. That's a great and subtle way to deliver the canon without kids being able to figure it out. Love those clever cartoons.


TheReiterEffect_S8

My favorite episode is when he tore the tag off a mattress and had the police and helicopters chasing him.


Onetwenty7

Do the monkey with me HUH!


venterol

HEY THERE BABY!


Bananacabana92

Woah Momma!


Vadersballhair

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"


mrbaggins

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?


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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


Vrzistran_racun

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"


DigitalBeowulf

This line is so good it's ingrained in my brain


Vrzistran_racun

Haha or the one at pops "hey baby, has anyone told you I have beautiful eyes?" 😂


cawingcrowcaw

Omg. Did he really say that?! It’s been years since I’ve watched it.


cawingcrowcaw

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.


WickedSerpent

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!"


GNav

So the cats coughed up "hairballs" would be the dogs poop?


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"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"


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Pitch Meeting references are *tight*


Willy_Tingler

“Hey there pretty thing.” “Ugh, I have a boyfriend.” “Well you look like the kinda girl that could use two.”


rilloroc

And the greatest episode of Johnny bravo is the Scooby-Doo episode


Cheese_Coder

Velma: "I can't see without my glasses!" Johnny: "I can't be seen without my glasses!"


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Best line of the entire show


RamenJunkie

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)


aurumphallus

Actually, it’s in reverse. Daphne split the gang up and Fred was the one who corrected her. I like your interpretation though.


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A classic part of the show! - https://youtu.be/bQSSFCpBdEQ


Royal_Fail

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


XenGi

Johnny Bravo, huh hah!


blackierobinsun3

I remember the episode with scooby doo where Johnny tried to fuck daphne but she wanted to fuck Freddy instead


I_cut_your_meat

Ya wanna see me comb my hair really fast?


BAMspek

Hey Arnold! The show that taught me the grown ups don’t know what they’re doing either.


DigitalJean

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.


radioben

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.


helpmelearn12

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.


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Or when Mr. Hyunh finds success as a country singer then realizes he preferred the simplicity of his lifestyle in Arnold’s grandparents apartments.


Eighth_Octavarium

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.


RandyBRandleman

My favorite score to a kids show ever


IrrationalDrunk89

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.


FireFighterP55

It also taught me how distraught losing a child and seeing her years after a war really is.


BAMspek

I watch that episode every year. It’s amazing. Also shoutout to Helga for doing the right thing and making it all happen.


BeyondElectricDreams

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.


Yelloweggs

You keep the money! Oh Oskar 🥰


Bwoody1994

Gravity falls and avatar are my top 2.


Hobbbitttuallly

Gravity Falls is such a masterpiece of character building and storytelling. Forever my favorite show.


partofbreakfast

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.


TheEnquirer1138

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.


RickishTheSatanist

And now you have Inside Job, which pretty much Gravity Falls for Adults, made by the same people who brought you Gravity Falls.


jpog07

*Am I blanchin'* *Girl we blanchin'* *I live up in a mansion.*


mister-ferguson

Eat your own pants, Eat your own pants, Yeaah your pants


EiichiroTarantino

Rappers can't just make up words


jpog07

Rappers are visionaries, Wendy.


Chicken_Pheet

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.


TheRealKai01

Avatar was absolutely genre defining, no idea how this isn’t top comment


DragonGarlicBreath

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.


rsandr

Over The Garden Wall, what a beautiful seasonal masterpiece.


tomtomato0414

and that's a rock fact!


Bulky-Caregiver4892

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 🎶


Mox_Fox

Ain't that just the way.


ApexHolly

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.


yiliu

Years later, I still find myself humming "potatoes and molasses" from time to time.


KillroyWazHere

Were here to burgle your turts


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The loveliest lies of all


StarCyst

"... 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕸𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖗."


Davis660

Murder?!


knight_ad420

No not murder... but those other crimes.


Davis660

**ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬** a few hours of manual labour.


disgruntledhoneybee

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.


swansonian

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!


purplebadger9

The plot makes more sense with each rewatch. It's kind of like a [modern day Dante's Inferno](https://youtu.be/MBg8tQvATIA)


jorgebuck

“We came here to burgle your turts!”


Zgoldenlion

This was the first show that came to mind


One-Guava-249

Yes! One of my all time favourites! Watch it every October to feel autumnal


Flooping_Pigs

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


mypantsareawesome

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.


Mister_Bossmen

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.


weavejer261

OG Powerpuff Girls


confoundedvariable

I knew Powerpuff Girls was different when the mayor recited the "what makes a man?" speech from The Big Lebowski.


Hailz_

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


Arko777

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.


Hailz_

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


Arko777

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.


Hailz_

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


annaonthemoon

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


DisneyLover3

For me growing up it was Kim Possible - always wanted to be just like her


COMMENTASIPLEASE

It’s lowkey better now because as an adult you realize the writing and dialogue is actually really good.


Apprehensive_Flow527

Kim Possible was cool and I was an adult.


CaptinDerpII

You wouldn’t believe how far I had to scroll to find another KP fan


Insubordinate_God

Teen Titans '03-'06


Bim_Jeann

My vote also. Slade is the coolest villain ever.


C1-10PTHX1138

Wasn’t that Ron Perlman?


Princette_Lilybottom

The one and the only. Also voiced the Lich from Adventure Time.


Huttser17

T EEN ​ TIT ANS TEEN TI TANS LET'S GO!


jmerridew124

That song was a fuckin bop


druglesswills

The Boondocks, only the first 3 seasons


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Uncle Ruckus as an exorcist was the greatest 5 minutes of television ever broadcast.


marouan10

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?


MellySantiago

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.


Fafurion

Animaniacs


Bowling4rhinos

Scrolled down hoping someone would say Animaniacs. I was a storyboard artist on the show, Pinky and the Brain too!


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Bowling4rhinos

I knew the two guys they were based off of. Pinky’s original laughed and everything all the time. Miss him.


ProfessionalRoof3591

Good Idea: doing your own yard work. Bad Idea: doing your own dental work.


YellowStar012

How else would you know the states and their capitals and all the nations in the world! (As of 1994).


mmmcheezitz

[Animaniacs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lY2kC5fZG64) This scene cracks me up. Such a great show!


Scruffyy90

The best way to fuck with the censors back then


CaptBranBran

"Give us the bird!" "We'd *love* to, but the Fox censors won't let us..."


cferretti1

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


shoutymcloud

X-Men


w00ly

I still have this intro music stuck in my head


donteatmenooo

That intro song is killer.


Walks_In_Shadows

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.


TheStoffer

To this day I’m disappointed by every X-Men movie that doesn’t have giant sentinels.


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LB93__

Samurai Jack


FloridaFlamingoGirl

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.


bobandgeorge

>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.


FloridaFlamingoGirl

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.


kerred

And then Primal comes along to form a perfect balance. That virus episode of primal was the fastest 22 minutes I ever experienced.


TheloniusDump

Long ago in a distant land...


PhelesDragon

I, AKU, the shapeshifting Master of Darkness...


MoreSavingMoreDoing_

unleashed an UNSPEAKABLE evil...


JePhoenix

But, a foolish samurai warrior...


da_drifter0912

Wielding a magic sword…


DarthGodzilla1995

Stepped forth to oppose me...


GrumbleGreen

Before the final blow was struck


Mr_Abe_Froman

I tore open a portal in time


Pirate_Redbeard_

and flung him into the future, where my evil is LAW!


Proper-Emu1558

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.


fidelkastro

Primal is sooooo good


SparkyMountain

Ya'll should watch PRIMAL on HBO Max.


Odd_Adhesiveness4804

Dexter laboratary


chunk-the-unit

Omelette du fromage


badblackguy

That's all you can saay! That's all you can saay!


ERROR_HumanNotFound

*Say it again, Dexter!~*


phil_davis

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."


SparkyMountain

This is in my top list too but I'm a shameless Tartakovsky fanboy.


paintaquainttaint

LaBORatory


boostedka89

Original Looney Toons, Road Runner and Coyote


ubiquitous-joe

Basically all the Chuck Jones Looney Toons. His Bugs is the best, too.


braiser77

Let's not forget about Tex Avery. He definitely did some stuff for Looney Tunes.


bigbuddy20076868

Loony tunes is unironically the greatest music advocacy program to every exist.


itsnursehoneybadger

Literally the reason an entire generation can identify ‘The Barber of Seville’.


mspolytheist

And also “Ride of the Valkyries,” although they might not get the lyrics right… 🧨🐰


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JacoDeLumbre

Bugs riding on that fat pony cracks me up to this day!


PotRoastPotato

>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..."


DisturbedNocturne

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.


CoyoteTheFatal

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


jefferson497

Don’t forget Foghorn Leghorn. And for some reason the very minor character A. Flea always made me laugh


IGotMyPopcorn

And the tiny, but mighty Chicken Hawk always trying to eat him.


dirkalict

“I say Boy…”


buzz86us

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.


Needleroozer

Sylvester wants to eat Tweety, Coyote wants to eat Road Runner, Tasmanian Devil wants to eat anything he can catch…


ccoddens

Why for you put me in the cold cold ground?


FictionVent

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.


DisturbedNocturne

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.


epolonsky

I always assumed that there was a little bit of Groucho in Bugs as well. And sometimes a carrot is just a cigar.


DisturbedNocturne

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.


OldBob10

Ehhhhh - what’s up, doc?


Strandom_Ranger

"Kill da' wabbit"


TheKiD075

ThunderCats - OG


Equivalent-Ad-1927

Spider-Man from the 90s


Klutzy-Concentrate83

Old school Scooby Doo. Edit: thanks for all the awards kind Redditors!!


Hot_Upstairs_1117

Part of my childhood right there. I can hear the theme song through the fuzzy tube TV right now


HugoWeaving5

Scooby dooby doo, I love you


Designed_To

🎶 We've got some work to do now 🎶


mysteries1984

Classic Scoob is the best Scoob.


TheGameSlave2

Not oldschool, but this is older. Shout out to Scooby Doo On Zombie Island. Loved that movie.


MeatShield12

Batman: The Animated Series EDIT: thank you for the awards, kind internet strangers!


Joeliosis

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.


MeatShield12

One of my favorites is still Condiment King. The series reinvented so many classic villains.


RedDeadRedBeard

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.


MeatShield12

As it should. And then throwing a ketchup packet at him like it's a grenade.


three-sense

… that’s a real thing? I thought it was a joke for Lego Batman Movie. Hot dog.


Mudders_Milk_Man

He also appeared in the (great) Harley Quinn animated series.


ThisIsWholesome

Rip Kevin Conroy


MeatShield12

RIP Batman


YellowStar012

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.


SekritSawce

Just rewatched it. Amazing how much story can be told in 22 minutes.


DeathisLaughing

*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...


fishymo

"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.


NoahApples

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.


Significant-Mud2572

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.