The Greatest Cartoons Of All Time

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Its too hard to pick the greatest of all time since there are so many to choose from so many different areas. TV, feature film, prime time sitcom, anime.

 

TV Saturday or afterschool

WB - Batman

Cartoon Network - Power Puff Girls

Nickledeon - Rugrats (early seasons)

 

Feature Film

Pixar - Toy Story

 

Prime Time/Late Night

Comedy Central - South Park

 

Anime

Lupin the III

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Trigun

Cowboy Bebop

 

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Brak Show

 

Family Guy

South Park

Simpsons

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In no particular order...

 

Aqua Teen Hunger Force(duh)

South Park

Futurama

Family Guy

Thundercats

Coyote/Roadrunner cartoons

Tex Avery cartoons(Screwy Squirrel > you)

Batman/Superman TAS

Justice League

Yu Yu Hakusho

Trigun

Lupin the Third

Transformers(Soundwave rules them all)

 

Oh, and Home Movies is the shit. Here's my favorite line from this season:

 

"Your dog's pooping like a racehorse."

"The expression is 'peeing like a racehorse'."

"Well, your dog's pooping like a racehorse pees."

[Vyce 0]

There's just no comp from cheesy 80's and 90's "action" cartoons like Tranformers, Turtles, and GI Joe. B:TAS, Gargoyles, and the like are more dramas than anything else, and I suppose thats another subgenre, but neither are remembered today the way the Simpsons are.

 

Which is a shame, because Batman:TAS and Gargoyles have the best writing and dramatic storytelling of any American animated series ever made. Still. To this day. Samurai Jack is cool and all, and certainly a great show, but it doesn't even compare to those two.

[Guest wildpegasus]

There's just no comp from cheesy 80's and 90's "action" cartoons like Tranformers, Turtles, and GI Joe. B:TAS, Gargoyles, and the like are more dramas than anything else, and I suppose thats another subgenre, but neither are remembered today the way the Simpsons are.

 

Which is a shame, because Batman:TAS and Gargoyles have the best writing and dramatic storytelling of any American animated series ever made. Still. To this day. Samurai Jack is cool and all, and certainly a great show, but it doesn't even compare to those two.

I'll be the first one to applaud the merits of Batman TAS (Better in some ways) and Gargoyles but as a show Samurai Jack I think is better. It's one of the best shows I've ever seen from anywhere. I think it depends on what you think makes a great TV show. Samurai Jack took the "cool ball" and just ran with it. The tributes they've done to everything that's ever been cool, the influence of Kurosawa, the action sequences which rule all, the long periods of time without dialogue, the camera style (don't know how to describe that) at times the art itself, the music and most off all it's "unique" imagination. One of the guidelines I have for how a good show is the amount of times it makes me mark out. Samurai Jack although not at the top for me in that regard is up there.

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Hmmm...

 

I'm just going to throw all my choices into one.

 

Transformers, Season 1 only

The Simpsons

The Critic

Batman: TAS

Trigun

Teen Titans(this show get NO LOVE)

Samurai Jack

Gundam 0083

Mobile Suit Gundam

Digimon: Tamers(love the ending)

Justice League

Looney Tunes(even though I despise Bugs "HHH" Bunny)

[Guest JumpinJackFlash]

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery(Looney Tunes) and The Cat Concerto(Tom and Jerry) are two of my favorite cartoon shorts.

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Princess Mononoke

Kiki's Delivery Service

Just curious, but you didn't think Spirited Away was as good as these two?

 

Anyways, for the non-pure anime stuff:

- Transformers G1 and Beast Wars

- Robotech

- Batman TAS and spinoffs

- The Simpsons

- The Flintstones

- Spider-Man (90's)

- Looney Tunes

- Pinky and the Brain

- Gundam 0083

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Gargoyles

Justice League

Batman: TAS

Teen Titans

Yu-Gi-Oh

Samurai Jack

Transformers

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No Animaniacs love?

[Guest Adrian 3:16]

I'd say Simpsons and South Park, but I'm not sure they really count with the other stuff being named.

 

For more traditional cartoons, its all about

 

Transformers (peep the avatar)

Batman: The Animated Series

Gargoyles

 

Samurai Jack was pretty cool from what I've seen, but I only caught 2 episodes, not enough to include it on my elite list.

[starvenger 0]

No Animaniacs love?

The show ran hot and cold. Pinky and the Brain was brilliant, the Warners were generally pretty good, but Goodfeathers was only "eh", and stuff like Slappy and the dog and baby were just bad.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Only action cartoons here!

 

Battle of the Planets

Voltron

Thundercats

Silverhawks

Comic Strip (only for Tigersharks)

Justice League

Superman: TAS

Batman: TAS

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No Animaniacs love?

The show ran hot and cold. Pinky and the Brain was brilliant, the Warners were generally pretty good, but Goodfeathers was only "eh", and stuff like Slappy and the dog and baby were just bad.

Which cartoon from WB tried to "teach" history lessons in the wacky Animaniacs style? I think it was historia or something like it?

[Guest KingofHarts]

OLD SCHOOL

 

Danger Mouse

G.I. Joe

Transformers

Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles

Voltron

Battle of the Planets

X-O Squad

Darkwing Duck

 

 

NEW SCHOOL

 

Simpsons

Family Guy

Duckman

Capitol Critters

South Park

God the devil and Bob

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Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry for the shorts.

 

Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke for the feature lengths.

 

And I'm not even going to try to whittle down the episodic cartoons to a greatest titles list.

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I love the Marvel cartoons. The Incredible Hulk (80's) and Spider Man and His Amazing Friends stand out as my two favorite ones.

 

No He-Man love? I love the older series, and thought the new show was pretty cool as well.

 

Clerks:TAS is frickin' hysterical. You can actually pick it up on the cheap these days, and I'd recommend it to everyone.

 

Looney Tunes wise, I was always a fan of Daffy Duck more than the others.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

There's just no comp from cheesy 80's and 90's "action" cartoons like Tranformers, Turtles, and GI Joe. B:TAS, Gargoyles, and the like are more dramas than anything else, and I suppose thats another subgenre, but neither are remembered today the way the Simpsons are.

 

Which is a shame, because Batman:TAS and Gargoyles have the best writing and dramatic storytelling of any American animated series ever made. Still. To this day. Samurai Jack is cool and all, and certainly a great show, but it doesn't even compare to those two.

I'll be the first one to applaud the merits of Batman TAS (Better in some ways) and Gargoyles but as a show Samurai Jack I think is better. It's one of the best shows I've ever seen from anywhere. I think it depends on what you think makes a great TV show. Samurai Jack took the "cool ball" and just ran with it. The tributes they've done to everything that's ever been cool, the influence of Kurosawa, the action sequences which rule all, the long periods of time without dialogue, the camera style (don't know how to describe that) at times the art itself, the music and most off all it's "unique" imagination. One of the guidelines I have for how a good show is the amount of times it makes me mark out. Samurai Jack although not at the top for me in that regard is up there.

Samurai Jack seems like a once-a-week tribute to something really cool: Mad Max, Kurosawa, Star Wars, etc. I don't think it touches the DC Animated stuff as far as taking beloved characters, stories, etc. and actually improving on them.

[Guest Astro]

No Animaniacs love?

The show ran hot and cold. Pinky and the Brain was brilliant, the Warners were generally pretty good, but Goodfeathers was only "eh", and stuff like Slappy and the dog and baby were just bad.

You wear a disguise to look like other guys, but your not a man, your a chicken Boo