| I used to be a huge fan of Adventure Time. Kinda grew out of it, and the later seasons simply tried too hard to be 'deep' to appeal to older audiences instead of being what it was supposed to be: a hilarious children's adventure series with parental bonuses/innuendos along the ride. Recent Western animation I've enjoyed is Bee and Puppycat, Deep Space 69, Gravity Falls, and Rick and Morty. |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| I was considering watching South Park (seems hilarious) but I feel like i'd get bored of it after a while. |
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CatSoul said: Season 7 went back to being like it was before.I used to be a huge fan of Adventure Time. Kinda grew out of it, and the later seasons simply tried too hard to be 'deep' to appeal to older audiences instead of being what it was supposed to be: a hilarious children's adventure series with parental bonuses/innuendos along the ride. |
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| Yes I do, but I stopped since there are other shit I'm doing now :v |
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| I personally prefer popular Russia cartoon Such values in such condensed time, Russian cartoons are not decedent like America's |
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| Where's the poll? Not often, but I still like some. |
| Only Regular Show, nowadays most of them suck. |
| I hate cartoons actually in general. Besides anime, I'd watch anything else over any other form of cartoons. |
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| Some of my favorite ones for kids are Gumball, Gravity Falls and Over the Garden Wall. Some of my favorite ones for adults are Rick and Morty, Axe Cop and South Park. |
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| I only watch older ones, like Flipper & Lopaka, Land Before Time, Watership Down, Noah's Island, Jackie Chan Adventures, Timon & Pumbaa, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Also recently bought The Mummy Animated Series on dvd, I watched some episodes when I was a kid so I hope I'll still like it. I don't really like most of the new cartoons that are being made. |
| ~Where's Gnasty Gnorc? I'll torch him!~ |
| I like old stuff. Over the years, I have acquired a number of DVDs of cartoons from the 1910s through early 1970s, and I just finished ripping them to my hard drive so that I can organize them for convenient access. Here are a few of my favorites. Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series (1930-1969). Since the DVDs don't cover the whole series, I recently went to a lot of trouble to search around on the web for cartoons to fill the holes in my collection. (This is why I haven't been on MAL much lately.) I managed to find everything, although the video quality is highly variable. I have always loved these. Comedy, particularly of the slapstick variety, is their great strength. Tom and Jerry (MGM/Hanna-Barbera, 1940-1957, and MGM/Chuck Jones, 1963-1967). These cartoons feature excellent comic timing and slapstick, and animation quality is consistently high. Fleischer Studios (1921-1942). They had some popular characters, such as Popeye, Betty Boop, and Superman, and their animation techniques are interesting. Higher budget examples from the late 1930s, such as the Popeye two-reel color cartoons, are particularly notable. Disney (early material, 1923-mid-1930s; and World War II propaganda). I find a lot of Disney cartoons to be a bit too dumbed down for children, even if the animation quality is generally high, but a lot of the earlier ones are funnier and can even be a bit racy. Mickey Mouse started out as a rough-around-the-edges working class type, and he actually had some personality before they made him bland later on. I find the Mickey Mouse cartoons of the late 1920s and early 1930s to be the best character-based cartoons of their time, at least until Fleischer's Betty Boop and Popeye came along and provided some real competition. I also like the Silly Symphony series, which were more oriented toward music than characters and featured exceptional animation for their time. (The Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies series is a response to these.) Disney also produced some of the most memorable World War II propaganda; the Donald Duck cartoon Der Fuehrer's Face is a classic that well deserves the Oscar it won. Nu, Pogodi (Soviet Union/Russia, 1969-2006). This series is the Soviet Union's version of the short cartoon slapstick comedy, and it is a lot of fun. The ones made during the Soviet years are generally high quality, especially when compared to the low-budget TV productions that the United States was churning out at the time. |
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| @WeirdHeather What are your favorite golden age Merrie Melodies theatrical animated shorts? Mine are Book Revue - 1945 I Love to Singa - 1936 Lights Fantastic - 1942 Those Beautiful Dames - 1934 My Green Fedora - 1935 The Coo Coo Nut Grove - 1936 Pigs in a Polka - 1943 A Corny Concerto - 1943 Don't Look Now -1946 The Lady in Red - 1935 The Fella with the Fiddle - 1937 The Swooner Crooner - 1944 |
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| Of course! Ben 10, Teen Titans, Rick & Morty, and Gravity Falls are amazing. |
| I prefer certain Western cartoons over every anime I've ever watched. Ed, Edd, n Eddy is still pretty much my favorite piece of entertainment ever. |
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DrGeroCreation said: @WeirdHeather What are your favorite golden age Merrie Melodies theatrical animated shorts? I know all of the ones you mention very well, and they would also be high on my list. It is a tough question. There are many that I love, and any list of favorites is bound to vary depending on my mood and on which ones are at the top of my mind. Here are a few from the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series from the 1930-1949 period that aren't already on your list. (I'll have to think about a 1950-1969 list as well.) You Don't Know What You're Doin' (1931) - One of the better earlier musical cartoons, this one has some funny gags. We're in the Money (1933) - Toys come to life. The music is enjoyable, and it flows nicely. Page Miss Glory (1936) - I love the classic art deco style of the backgrounds. The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937) - A lot of references to radio programs, including some that I know well. Porky's Party (1938) - Porky has a party. The dog gets drunk on hair tonic and appears to be mad, and a guest swallows a silkworm and starts burping up assorted items of clothing. Porky in Wackyland (1938) - Perhaps the finest example of wacky weirdness in the entire Warner Bros. catalog. Cracked Ice (1938) - A great W. C. Fields parody, featuring one of the better examples of the cartoon magnet gag. Goofy Groceries (1941) - My favorite in the long line of packaged-products-come-to-life cartoons. Meatless Flyday (1944) - A laughing spider (voiced by Tex Avery) chases after a fly. Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) - A fine piece of wartime propaganda (and quite racist and horribly offensive by today's standards, as would be expected). Bugs Bunny finds stereotypical bucktoothed Japanese soldiers on an island and proceeds to demolish them. Given that this cartoon was made during a horrendous war, it is perhaps understandable that people would want to caricature and demonize the enemy. Russian Rhapsody (1944) - Another great piece of wartime propaganda. The program opens with Adolf Hitler spouting off nonsense in front of a banner that reads "The New Odor." Then, he tries to fly a plane into Russia, but the plane is infested with Russian gremlins who proceed to destroy the plane and viciously attack the hapless Fuehrer. House Hunting Mice (1947) - Hubie and Bertie confront malicious machinery in a demonstration house of tomorrow. Dog Gone Modern (1939) is a similar concept and is just as good. And here is an honorable mention... Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943) - I have mixed feelings about this one. The racial stereotypes are so extreme as to make me cringe, but this cartoon is incredibly well made, with some of the best music in the entire series. Sometimes, an old film can be both horribly racist and a fine work of art at the same time. Cultural standards have thankfully changed for the better since it was made, but it is part of history, and it (and others like it) shouldn't be swept under the rug. |
| It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. |
| I love western animation! In fact, I prefer it to anime. My favorite adult animated series is Drawn Together. I never got over its cancellation.  Dimethylanime said: I was considering watching South Park (seems hilarious) but I feel like i'd get bored of it after a while. You would. It was interesting for the first few seasons and that was it. JohnnyBme said: I recently watched toy story 1&2 Toy Story 1 is my favorite CGI movie, or at least one of my favs. |
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| @WeirdHeather I am a big Merrie Melodies fan and can only identify 3 of those cartoons, shame on me. We're in the Money, the Woods are Full of Cuckoos, Goofy Groceries look really fun. I always loved Merrie Melodies shorts where inanimate objects would just come to life sing and dance etc. when the shop owner or whoever left the shop. Even though Coal Black and the seven dwarfs was pretty racist I remember it having great music. |
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DrGeroCreation said: @WeirdHeather I am a big Merrie Melodies fan and can only identify 3 of those cartoons, shame on me. We're in the Money, the Woods are Full of Cuckoos, Goofy Groceries look really fun. I always loved Merrie Melodies shorts where inanimate objects would just come to life sing and dance etc. when the shop owner or whoever left the shop. Even though Coal Black and the seven dwarfs was pretty racist I remember it having great music. I have always liked the inanimate-objects-come-to-life genre too. It was a specialty of Warner Bros. during the 1930s and early 1940s, but it fell out of fashion afterwards. I'll list a few more here. Red-Headed Baby (1931) - Toys come to life, and a spider attacks them. How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934) - While everyone is in church on Sunday, the groceries in the store come to life. Billboard Frolics (1935) - Billboards come to life. Toy Town Hall (1936) - Toys come to life in a parody of Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight radio show. Have You Got Any Castles? (1938) - Books come to life. Naughty But Mice (1939) - Sniffles has a cold, and he goes into a drug store, where he befriends an electric razor (and they both get drunk on cold medicine). Disney also got into the act; there are a few examples in their Silly Symphonies series. As always, Disney had the budgets and the talent to produce animated films of the highest technical quality. Midnight in a Toy Shop (1930) - An early example of the toys-come-to-life idea. The Clock Store (1931) - Clocks come to life. The China Shop (1934) - After the shopkeeper leaves, dishes and figurines come to life. This is one of my favorites of the genre. Broken Toys (1935) - Some broken toys that have been thrown away decide to fix themselves up. I wonder if the Japanese ever got into this sort of thing. |
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WeirdHeather said: I wish it had continued into the 50's. That's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of 50's Merrie Melodies. Thanks for those there are quite a few there I haven't seen. I saw Toy Town Hall, Have you got any Castles and Naughty But Mice. On the Disney side I've seen China Shop. There was one I remember though where a salt shaker and pepper shaker I believe came to life but can't remember the name of it.DrGeroCreation said: @WeirdHeather I am a big Merrie Melodies fan and can only identify 3 of those cartoons, shame on me. We're in the Money, the Woods are Full of Cuckoos, Goofy Groceries look really fun. I always loved Merrie Melodies shorts where inanimate objects would just come to life sing and dance etc. when the shop owner or whoever left the shop. Even though Coal Black and the seven dwarfs was pretty racist I remember it having great music. I have always liked the inanimate-objects-come-to-life genre too. It was a specialty of Warner Bros. during the 1930s and early 1940s, but it fell out of fashion afterwards. I'll list a few more here. Red-Headed Baby (1931) - Toys come to life, and a spider attacks them. How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934) - While everyone is in church on Sunday, the groceries in the store come to life. Billboard Frolics (1935) - Billboards come to life. Toy Town Hall (1936) - Toys come to life in a parody of Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight radio show. Have You Got Any Castles? (1938) - Books come to life. Naughty But Mice (1939) - Sniffles has a cold, and he goes into a drug store, where he befriends an electric razor (and they both get drunk on cold medicine). Disney also got into the act; there are a few examples in their Silly Symphonies series. As always, Disney had the budgets and the talent to produce animated films of the highest technical quality. Midnight in a Toy Shop (1930) - An early example of the toys-come-to-life idea. The Clock Store (1931) - Clocks come to life. The China Shop (1934) - After the shopkeeper leaves, dishes and figurines come to life. This is one of my favorites of the genre. Broken Toys (1935) - Some broken toys that have been thrown away decide to fix themselves up. I wonder if the Japanese ever got into this sort of thing. I doubt it because anime has never as strongly focused on anthropomorphism as western cartoons have. |
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| I still enjoy watching Ben 10 even till this age. |
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| It seems that I watch a lot of "French anime" because I guess I'm still a Franceaboo/Feeaboo/Francophile. I adore Wakfu and I'm currently watching Miraculous. Even when I was younger, I happened to like Totally Spies, hee hurr.) Sadly, I don't watch as much recent stuff as I would like to, because I mostly watch things on the internet now, but I try not to watch things from my country illegally when I can watch it legally. As it is now, I can watch more anime legally online than western animation. All that aside, some faves/things I watch: Spongebob, The Boondocks (big fave), anything with Pepe le Pew or Daffy Duck, Home Movies (big fave), if I get my hands on Garfield then I'll watch it lol, Freakazoid, Static Shock, Bee and Puppycat, and works from creator hopefuls! I've been meaning to watch a looot of things though one way or another. Like Over the Garden Wall, I watched the first two eps of Steven Universe a long time ago but never watched more, Star and the yadda yadda, Avatar/Korra (I watched some of Avatar but in a really weird schedule like watch an ep skip like five, repeat way, so I was always really lost-- it was around the time I was beginning to stop watching TV), and many other things. I was also watching Pirates of Dark Water recently and never finished for some reason?? Not sure why I stopped. I guess I'll continue in a sec since I just caught up to everything in my 'Watching' just now so hey. |
| Yes, of course. Some of the best animated shows or cartoons are Western ones, some of them even better than the best that anime has to offer. I don't religiously watch them as much as I do anime now but I still think that there's always one or two shows airing that deserve a watch by anyone who's interested. And for those of us who are now "old", don't forget, 2016 is the year Samurai Jack returns. Goddamn, I've been waiting so long for this. Japan's idea of humor is either different or non-existent if you ask me. There's a reason why dubs tend to be funnier (intentionally or not) for certain shows like Space Dandy. The only show I believe people think it's funny in it's original audio is Gintama, I guess. |
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Drobie said: I think they catered to the fans too much who were begging for plot and it has backfired. The more random happy episodes mixed in with random serious was definitely the better flow the show had. Also losing Rebecca Sugar seems to have been a substantial loss (not that I mind since Steven Universe is awesome), she was a great writer/song writer and really brought a lot to the table. Rebecca came back and helped a bit for the Marceline story they recently did. The song she wrote for it was great. Everything Stays is definitely one of the best things to come out of Adventure Time. The entire Stakes mini-series actually. |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
| Yes, I've always been a fan. Some favourites include: Batman The Animated Series South Park The Boondocks Spongebob Squarepants Johnny Bravo Wallace and Gromit (and pretty much everything Aardman puts out) The Man Who Planted Trees The Simpsons Daria |
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| Yeah lad. Spider-Man, Batman and The Simpsons. |
projectfear22 said: Worst stories ever, worst styles ever (not everything but most). Sure I really really love some. But I cannot congratulate it as it can be way way greater. You all wanna see Adventure Time or Gfalls anime styled, well even anime style wouldn't save their ridiculous stories. It'd save the style but the stories are still weak comparable to anime which is always excellent to me. If we talk about the styles which are used in most western animation: The only animation works which can be 'recognized' on top, are the works by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Laloux René Laloux a french animator and director. He is a genius. Only has a few short animations which seem artistic haven't watched those and has 3 movie animations which are excellent. This guy's worlds and stories and style are top notch. Uncomparable to american animations and is as great as anime. Granted anime style is much better for me, but if some creators don't want to use anime style then these are the only other acceptable styles to use. I'm talking about Gandahar and Fantastic Planet. Time Masters is also great with the story but the animation/drawing styleis looking like something american which I don't like, on the other hand the backgrounds look like smth from Fantastic Planet which is great. But the character's look is in a style which should not be 'recognized' in Time Masters. It is not bad by any means. But as far as the characters drawing/animation style looks like, I can't say it's something I love. I'm not saying you're a weeb but... |
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| Last time I watched a Western cartoon I had a huge culture shock. |
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| Yeah, I grew up with western animated cartoons(well lets be fair a lot of them are mostly outsourced/animated in asia, but all the writing/storyboards are done in NA) With newer cartoons it's obvious that the creators are big fans of anime, you can watch almost any cartoon now days and see tons of references to anime(not tiny ones, but big obvious references). Hell one of my favorites (Adventure Time) had one of my all time favorite anime directors (Masaaki Yuasa - Tatami Galaxy, Kaiba, Mind Game, Ping Pong) was a guest director for the show. He was director, writer, animation director, ext. Which is pretty damn cool. |
| Im a really big fan of Totally Spies; the style looks Anime inspired (even though it probably isn't), the characters are bubbly and fun and the voices aren't cringy. I also like RWBY although im not sure if you'd consider that a western cartoon since the style is supposed to be just like an anime even though it was developed in America by Rooster Teeth |
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| Regular Show mostly because of my little brother but it's definetelly enjoying. |
| I like The Simpsons, and sometimes watch stuff like Flapjack due to nostalgia, but I really don't watch many western cartoons. |
| Yes, i watch Avatar: The last airbender, Teen Titans, Gargoyles, Drawn Together, The amazing world of Gumball and the Simpsons. When i was younger i used to watch Rugrats, Bob Sponge, Jimmy Neutron, Fairy Oddparents, Dexter's laboratory and X.men Evolution. |
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| Yes, 'cause I need to hear my own language. Obviously, cartoons in America are usually for kids and have no story or purpose whatsoever, but there were a few good shows that I remember that actually have a story would understand. Let's see... Avatar: the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, RWBY, Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc., Skyland, and Martin Mystery to name a few. Well, most of you have probably never seen the last two I mentioned, but yeah. These had good stories for the most part. I haven't seen any newer stuff lately, since I don't watch TV anymore, but anyone else know any shows that have a good story and decent art? |
| I turn myself invisible. |
| Yes its currently better than Anime for the record. |
| of course i watch it since i was a kid along with anime current one i watching star war rebel,tmnt 2012 new scooby doo just so bad when compare previously masterpiece show. i had hard time to see some fun in Adventure Time, simpson and family guy but i love futurama i also had troble to tried enjoy korra unlike first one |
DrGeroCreation said: WeirdHeather said: I wish it had continued into the 50's. That's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of 50's Merrie Melodies. Thanks for those there are quite a few there I haven't seen. I saw Toy Town Hall, Have you got any Castles and Naughty But Mice. On the Disney side I've seen China Shop. There was one I remember though where a salt shaker and pepper shaker I believe came to life but can't remember the name of it.I have always liked the inanimate-objects-come-to-life genre too. It was a specialty of Warner Bros. during the 1930s and early 1940s, but it fell out of fashion afterwards. I'll list a few more here. Red-Headed Baby (1931) - Toys come to life, and a spider attacks them. How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934) - While everyone is in church on Sunday, the groceries in the store come to life. Billboard Frolics (1935) - Billboards come to life. Toy Town Hall (1936) - Toys come to life in a parody of Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight radio show. Have You Got Any Castles? (1938) - Books come to life. Naughty But Mice (1939) - Sniffles has a cold, and he goes into a drug store, where he befriends an electric razor (and they both get drunk on cold medicine). Disney also got into the act; there are a few examples in their Silly Symphonies series. As always, Disney had the budgets and the talent to produce animated films of the highest technical quality. Midnight in a Toy Shop (1930) - An early example of the toys-come-to-life idea. The Clock Store (1931) - Clocks come to life. The China Shop (1934) - After the shopkeeper leaves, dishes and figurines come to life. This is one of my favorites of the genre. Broken Toys (1935) - Some broken toys that have been thrown away decide to fix themselves up. I wonder if the Japanese ever got into this sort of thing. I doubt it because anime has never as strongly focused on anthropomorphism as western cartoons have. Just to add a few of the Silly Symphonies that animate immobile objects and haven't been mentioned, and I consider among the best of the run: The cookie carnival, Lullaby land, Flowers and trees, Music land. And well, The skeleton dance could probably fit in here as well. I think it's worth to watch the entire collection, though. There's quite a number of clunkers; these shorts are often focused on accumulating visual jokes around a theme (clocks, birds, cannibals, beavers, toys) and they get repetitive after a while. However the good ones are REALLY good and creative. And it's very satisfying to find them. |
jal90 said: I have seen Cookie Carnival and Flowers and Trees. Music land is also a pretty good one from Silly Symphonies. I never get tired of shorts like that no matter how many I watch.DrGeroCreation said: I wish it had continued into the 50's. That's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of 50's Merrie Melodies. Thanks for those there are quite a few there I haven't seen. I saw Toy Town Hall, Have you got any Castles and Naughty But Mice. On the Disney side I've seen China Shop. There was one I remember though where a salt shaker and pepper shaker I believe came to life but can't remember the name of it. I doubt it because anime has never as strongly focused on anthropomorphism as western cartoons have. Just to add a few of the Silly Symphonies that animate immobile objects and haven't been mentioned, and I consider among the best of the run: The cookie carnival, Lullaby land, Flowers and trees. And well, The skeleton dance could probably fit in here as well. I think it's worth to watch the entire collection, though. There's quite a number of clunkers; these shorts are often focused on accumulating visual jokes around a theme (clocks, birds, cannibals, beavers, toys) and they get repetitive after a while. However the good ones are REALLY good and creative. And it's very satisfying to find them. |
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| Currently watching "Samurai Jack". One of my fav from childhood + can't wait for the new season coming this year :) |
| I find the regular show pretty good, i watch it on occasion. |
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| I love the new cartoons from 2010 & up. Yep, animators are stepping up this generation. Unlike the cartoons back in 2005-2009, they were mediocre at best tbh. |
| After noticing more discussion on Disney's Silly Symphonies, I was reminded of another cartoon series from the 1930s. After Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising left Warner Bros. in 1934, they secured a distribution deal with MGM, and they produced the Happy Harmonies series, which was designed to compete with Disney and Warner Bros. This series lasted until 1938 when MGM started its in house animation studio. The series is somewhat uneven in quality, but the best examples hold up well in comparison to other cartoons of the time. I haven't seen all of them yet, but I recently managed to find the entire series, so I'll have to take a closer look as soon as I can find the time. One of my favorites from the series is yet another entry in the inanimate-objects-come-to-life genre that has been discussed here. The Calico Dragon (1935) starts with a little girl reading about a dragon in a story book, and as she falls asleep, her rag dolls come to life, and the quilt on her bed becomes the background for their adventures. Character designs and backgrounds are quite creative, and the primitive 2-strip technicolor adds to the surreal atmosphere. This cartoon ranks high on my list of favorites from the mid-1930s. |
| It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. |
| If you mean Family guy and South Park, then yes. |
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