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Highest votes: 45 (Alex!)

 

Fitting for it's 20th anniversary! (Sorry Meek, I appreciated the thread) The Wild Thornberrys' concept is pretty much all explained in it's opening theme, but it focuses on a travelling family of explorers, the father of which, Nigel, is a documentary maker whose wife, Marianne, is his camera person. Their youngest daughter, Eliza, can talk to animals, though this is not known by her family, thanks to a special gift which allows the family to become more acquainted with the wildlife they encounter. Donnie is a feral boy adopted by the family who was raised by orangutans and Darwin, a British upper class ape who travels with the family and communicates only with Eliza (not sure I saw the metaphor before but I think I get it now). Oh and there's the older sister Debbie as well, I don't remember much about her x The show lasted six years, during that time many theatrical releases were released including a crossover with the Rugrats. As an animal lover, I ofc. was keen for this and while there was better Nickelodeon shows which means I don't hold it in as high regard, I still very much enjoyed it.

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28. Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999) 195

Highest votes: 50 (Doug)

 

MAJOR FAVE ALERT :wub: Courage the Cowardly Dog was another one on the line up of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons. Featuring the adventures the titular pink dog who both does and doesn't live up his name as he is often left to save his two elderly owners, the kind-hearted Muriel and the rather unpleasant Eustace who often chastises the 'stupid dog', from various aliens, monsters, paranormal presences, mad scientists and demons who threaten their otherwise quaint existence in the town of Nowhere, Kansas. The show ran for four seasons and was one of their most popular series of the time, and has gained a strong cult following and it's not hard to see why. This wasn't exactly the easiest cartoon, some of the perils and monsters encountered are genuinely very scary and/or pretty unpleasant with garish art styles with plenty of homages to classic horror cinema and there's not always a bright ending to greet them either. You'd wonder if anyone would dare to make something like this today in our more fragile times, but I would highly recommend this to anyone who isn't familiar with this as it's a must for any horror fan and I'm pleased to see it do relatively well on here.

Woody Woodpecker :wub:

 

HOW is The Cleveland Show that high? I enjoyed it but it was nothing spectacular!

 

I watched a couple episodes of Adventure Time and I didn’t really get it - but I know it has a very passionate fanbase!

 

Nigel from The Wild Thornberrys is one of the greatest characters ever.

Omg MHA slaying*.* Everyone should watch it tbh.

 

Agreed I have no idea how The Cleveland Show was so high, what even?! Yas at Watch My Chops surprising though!!

Fun Fact: Christina Millian ("AM To PM", "Dip It Low") sung the theme tune to Kim Possible

I remember watching The Wild Thornberrys when I was young, but in Greek. I also remember watching its crossover film with the Rugrats at the time.

Courage is one of those shows that I need to see, since I'm a fan of dark media. One meme on Facebook said "Conjuring 2 was nothing compared to this [show]". There was also a one-off revival in 2014 called The Fog Of Courage with Wallace Shawn (Rex from the Toy Story franchise( voicing Eustace Bagge

OK, this hectic week's over, so here's some more!

 

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27. American Dad (2005) 195 (More voters)

Highest votes: 41 (Tombo, Doug)

 

From the creator of Family Guy, American Dad is another adult comedy that might seem similar but it actually differs quite a lot, it's humour is much less reliant on pop culture and cutaway gags as it's show, and is instead relied on relatable stories rooted in real life albeit with a farce of fantastical element, as you can see from it's cast of characters featuring a seemingly normal family along with an alien and a talking goldfish. In fact, Seth MacFarlane was seen to not be taking it as a seriously as Family Guy when it first aired so a lot of what made it so successful and unique as an identity was credited to Mike Baker and Matt Weitzman. It made a lot more use of black humour, plot twists and combination of surrealism and realism and political context than it's contemporaries and this has worked in it's favour, it it currently on it's seventeenth season. I've only seen one or two episodes of this and...I didn't like it oops :x but I was a lot younger at the time and more into the Simpsons/Family Guy and the like, so I feel like I may be able to appreciate it more now.

 

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Highest voters: 50 (Dexton)

 

One of the only two shows in the top 30 to premiere in this decade, and pretty impressive how it got here, considering it only had five voters, four of which put it in their top 5, raving stans you lot x But it looks like this one is certainly destined to become a new classic from the (admittedly little) I've heard of it. Despite mixed reviews initially, the series soon grew to become critically lauded and has been hailed as one of the best Netflix original series, it is currently on it's fifth season and still going strong. Set in Los Angeles in an alternate world where humans and anthropomorphic human-animal hybrids live side by side, the title character, voiced by Will Arnett, is a washed up star planning his return to the big time by working with his ghost writer to form his new autobiography. It is known for it's satirical take on current issues and Hollywood, but also handling and being profound with mental health issues, addiction and the human experience, becoming a rather realist depiction despite it's world. Have definitely heard great things and plan to see a few episodes, would welcome any recommendations!

 

 

Bojack Horseman :wub: :wub:

 

Would recommend to anyone! I’d known about it for a long time and didn’t think of giving ut a chance but I’m so glad I did because there’s much to gain from the show. There’s some really clever elements to it both in the gags and the topics it tackles.

 

I cannot wait to go back to Hollywoo for the fifth season on Friday!

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Highest Votes: 50 (Tombo)

 

And here's the other teenies debut, I must admit this feels about right as they are still quite young compared to some of these despite being likely future classics. Again pretty much bloated by just high double figure points or nothing at all (and if Pavel had remembered to vote, it'd probably be top 20), but then this is a show known for having quite the committed fanbase. Pretty much everywhere atm, you'd be hard pressed not to have heard of this, but for those that haven't, based on a Back to the Future parody cartoon (as you might have guessed looking at the characters), the series follows the multidimensional adventures of cynical mad scientist, Rick and his good natured but fretful grandson, Morty. It has ran for three seasons thus far and is set to air another over an unspecified number of seasons. It has received universal acclaim for it's originality, unique style of humour influenced, oddly enough for an American series, by classic British Sci-Fi comedy like Doctor Who and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and it's philosophical weavings into it's otherwise humourous outlook. The quote which I can find on the wiki page is 'Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV.' I could never be so profound. NEED to check this one out, looks right up my street <3

Rick and Morty is another one where I started watching and was questioning what I’d even just watched but once you step into the world, there is so much brilliance there. It definitely is the oddest thing I’ve ever seen but I just love that it does it’s own thing.

 

I’m often a fan of stuff which is quite self-aware (when done properly and not overdone) which both Bojack and Rick & Morty are!

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24. Dennis & Gnasher (1996) 219

Highest voters: 42 (Joseph)

 

Another duo, albeit one more likely to be found in the streets than across a different dimension. Based on the iconic characters from the Beano comic strip series, we follow the adventures of 10 year old troublemaker, Dennis the Menace and his pet dog and partner in crime, Gnasher and the many adventures they get into. It only lasted two series at the time though has received a more recent reboot in 2009 and another one in 2013, it's appeal is lasting though the animation and particularly the characters have undergone quite a few changes over the years, while this one is very faithful to the series, in later shows, Dennis no longer deliberately causes trouble, no longer possesses a catapult and Gnasher no longer bites people, notably his nemesis Walter, seen as a traditionally effeminate and well behaved boys was made a lot more masculine for fear of Dennis' antics being misconstrued as homophobic bullying. PC gone mad? You decide, but these two's appeal still remains.

I didn’t edit my votes because I didn’t know what I’d kick out but since this started I have seen the entirety of both Rick and Morty and Bojack Horseman and I have to say they are quite incredible, and seeing how low they finished, I should have edited my votes.

 

And both seemed at the start like lame Family Guy ripoffs (there is no justice that that stinking heap is still in, especially with the better in every way but still too Seth McFarlane American Dad also out) but grew past that massively! R&M is great with the unexpected plot lines but as a convincing drama (and it has its groundbreaking episodes too, the underwater episode was a masterpiece) there is no rivalling Bojack. Fantastic characters in the main cast, all of them have grown so much, I am ready for season 5 to break and break me again.

 

The thing to get into Bojack I guess is to power through the first season. It’s worse than the rest but that’s somewhat intentional I think and once you’re at least halfway through there should be no stopping you.

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Highest votes: 44 (Mack)

 

I was quite surprised to see this do as well as it does but we were very kind to the one of the very earliest shows of its kind in the TV era and the first ever animated show to be broadcast in a prime-time slot. The Flintstones is pretty much the modern animated dysfunctional family, the goofy yet good hearted Fred and his sensible wife, Wilma and their neighbours, loyal Barney and socialite Betty and their rather strong children and prehistoric pets. A certain other show still to come would take this to stratospheric levels, but for now we had a stone age family where many issues of today parodied in a stone age setting proved a popular and fruitful concept and though it was only six seasons long, it’s popularity has endured through the, ahem, ages and despite mixed reviews initially, it remains frequently re-ran and it’s title sequence and characters iconic in the Hanna Barbara canon, and is shown nicely by showcasing that we enjoy a gay old time by placing it in 23rd x Yabba Dabba Doo!

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22. Mona The Vampire (1999) 227

Highest votes: 44 (Alex!)

 

Show us your fangs, YAY MONA B-) Based on the picture books of the same name, Mona the Vampire follows Mona and her two friends as they always imagine themselves as heroes Mona herself, Princess Giant and Zapman as they encounter various supernatural occurrences and defeat them, though it is all in their imagination and there is usually a rational explanation for what they see. Still, I remember watching this and I always found it entertaining and appealing very well to a child’s sense of imagination so I can see why it was widely watched both in it’s native Canada and across Europe. It ran for four seasons with no plans for any revival soon alas, but you can always imagine her back~

 

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21. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) 235

Highest voters: 43 (Jade)

 

And just before the top 20 is possibly the best theme song in the entire countdown, just tell me that won’t be stuck in your head for the rest of your life? :wub: And a pretty great show to boot as well, from the mind of The Powerpuff Girls and some of Dexter’s Lab, this show focuses on what it’s title suggests, a special care home for imaginary friends, the main one being a quite literally blue blob called Bloo and his ‘owner’, Mac who visits him and the colourful cast of the house – ran by the elderly Madame Foster (the dementia implications I didn’t realise :mellow:) and her imaginary rabbit butler friend, Mr Herriman and her daughter, Frankie. Bloo’s friends also include a tall, red basketball playing alien-like friendly creature called Wilt, a Spanish horned monster with the heart of a coward, Eduardo, and a hybrid between a bird and a tree that can only say her own name, Coco, with most of the episodes focusing on the various escapades the gang run into mainly due to Bloo’s careless and sometimes selfish actions. This was just some of the wonderful weirdness that made up the show. It ran for five seasons and received critical acclaim and accolades, and for good reason, it was one of the last shows I watched on Cartoon Network and it’s animation style, range of characters and colours, heart and pure wild imagination appealed so much to me, I live in my own head quite a lot, so a program that makes a concept out of that is always going to be a winner I guess. And if you're not gonna watch it, if nothing else, please just listen to that theme song x

 

And before I leave you hanging for another two weeks, the top 20:

 

Arthur (1996) 

The Cramp Twins (2001)

Dexter's Laboratory (1996)

Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999) 

The Fairly OddParents (2001)

Family Guy (1999)

Futurama (1999)

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (2003) 

Looney Tunes (1960)

Pingu (1986)

Pokemon (1997)

The Powerpuff Girls (1998) 

Recess (1997) 

Rugrats (1991)

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969) 

The Simpsons (1989)

South Park (1997)

SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) 

Tom & Jerry (1940)

What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002)

 

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(as you can tell I am fairly short on time atm so this may move quite slow, honestly if anyone rlly wants to see these go quicker and would like to give me a hand with presenting some of these I'd appreciate it a lot, just let me know!)

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Well, I did warn you, I'd leave you hanging :P I will try and resume this tomorrow though, presuming people still care~

 

 

 

 

Late but BOJACK :wub: I could not recommend it more, Season 5 has cemented it as, for me, the best animated comedy since early Simpsons. It's so deft at tackling some really hard hitting stuff in a way that really makes you laugh while being impactful and hitting you squarely with a dramatic impact, its issues that many shows wouldn't tackle and it is so so important for it. The subtle recurring gags and jokes like the tongue twisters, celebrity parodies etc. are genius too, there's so much to every joke, storyline, scene :wub:

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Highest voters: 42 (Doug)

 

Starting off the top 20 is probably one of the most adorable cartoon characters ever put to screen, Originally made in Switzerland and lasting for ten years, Pingu is a claymation series that spread to British TV from 2003-6 and soon became a worldwide hit. It is notable for having no spoken dialogue in any episode, instead all the characters speak in 'Penguinese', a series of muttering and babbling, the most decipherable being that of Pingu's characteristic 'Noot Noot!'. The show focuses on the adventures of a curious and adventurous boy penguin and his family and seal friend, Roger (yep those animals are friends in this universe). A CGI reboot is currently airing in Japan, don't cross over here plz x It didn't reinvent the wheel, but it was an adorable and very fun show to follow that did prove very visually and story-wise impressive for a show aimed at young children and I enjoyed watching it. For some CONTROVERSY, check out the episode Little Accidents/Pingu's Lavatory Story, I'm sure you saw it as a kid x