Best animated programs/movies

[kinn]

Family Guy and Futurama I love. Great funny shows and IMHO I think Futurama was better than the Simpsons.

Now for the rest (sorry some are Japanese although they have not been mentioned here yet):

Mysterious Cities of Gold - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold

A French and Japanese co-production. Loved watching this in my youth. Just wish this would come out on DVD or something.


Ulysses 31 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31

Again another classic that I watched during my youth. Excellent! And available on DVD!


Dungeons and Dragons - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_% ... _series%29

An American show. I wish they would bring this one back!


Anyone else have fond memories of these shows? There was also another...Called Starfleet or something. Had a red robot in it and was made via puppets i.e. like Thinderbirds.

[fastbilly1]

Good old Mysterious Cities of Gold, sadly the fanbased is not there for a DVD release, just like Pirates of Dark Water. But I just want to know what happens at the end of the latter, I could care less to own the series, again.

Lets see if I can bring up a few that havent been mentioned yet:
Dinoriders - Ok I love Dinosaurs and scifi. Combining them, and big guns, makes a winner in my book. Even with paper thin plots...
Johnny Quest - Scifi adventures with "moral" plots. Give me more one eyed spiders of death.
Centurions - Super suits and daredevils, saving the planet from evil. Did I mention there base is in space?
MASK - Cars that turn into planes, its like transformers but their are people driving them.
Mazinger Z/Tranzor Z - Giant robots for a new generation. Like Voltron but with only one pilot, and a creepy half man half women two faced badguy.
Thundercats - Sure some of the plots were simplistic, even for an 80s show, but man did the action keep me entranced, even to this day.
Dinosaucers - While I prefer my dinosaurs to be carrying heavy weapons, I guess we need some smart ones that pilot spaceships.
Asterix - A French series of movies about a couple gauls, a druid, and the romans that they beat the crap out of on a daily basis. Granted they did end up meeting Cleopatra in one of them. We grew up with them and the unintentional oneliners from them have stayed with us through the years; "thats right three pieces."

As for animes:
Irresponsible Captain Tylor - it has a vibe similar to Futurama, but takes it through a crazy anime storyline that seriously brought me to tears laughing almost every episode. It is about a guy who decides to join the space navy because itll be easier than having to get a job to pay for food and living. Through many events he ends up becoming the captain of the ship of outcast and well it just goes from there. Easily my favorite anime of all time, and one of my favorite shows (in my top 5).
Peroit and Marple - Take two of mysterious biggest names, ok engrish forms of them, and put in a peppy young female who wants to be like them and you have the ear marks for a good mystery show.
MAR - A teenage nerd falls into a fantasy world in which he has to save it, yes yes it is the same plot of many other stories. But this one has a talking kendama (cup and ball game), and alot of really neat magical items.
Robot Carnival - the Fantasia of anime, nine stories told by different directors in different styles, all about robots. Some are funny, some are moving, one is just boring, and the beginning and ending are just awesome.

Ok that is enough butchering of the English language for one night.

[Mozgus]

Yeah, I knew of alot of John K's stuff other than Ren & Stimpy. There's the whole cat getting a blow job from a baby sketch... But, even so, John K. only seems to excel when he has some sort of limitation. Without the limitation, his humor tends to go over the top -- so tasteless that it fails to shock or be humorous. Working within a controlled medium, against censors and corporate marketing, he was able to sneak in a great deal of the genuinely strange and subtle.[/quote]

All true. The new R&S was garbage due to this very reason.

[tHePhAnToM!??!]

people loved the fucking smurfs. the snorkels were a rip off but still liked nonetheless.

[All Hail The New Flesh]

Tenchi Muyo - One of my personal favorite animes of all time, it is a perfect blend, of Si-Fi Action Romantic Comedy. Its something about it that just blew my mind.

The Maxx - A comic book adaption, dark, confusing, its something that really makes you think when your watching it.

Freakazoid - A cartoon that just pretty much spoofed the whole Action cartoons at the time.

Action League Now! - Before Robot Chicken, this is was the Stop Motion animation at the time, there is something disturbing about the show, I think its the whole decapitation they display on the show, but I guess there toys so they got away with it.

South Park - Words could not describe it, the best way to say it is, Simple Animation, Pushing the Limits, and Break every TV Taboo in the book.

Looney Toons - Come on, LOONEY TOONS!

Sealab 2021 - Its like Seinfeld, its a show about nothing

Rocko's Modern Life - I am going to say this straight up, I F**KING LOVE THIS CARTOON!

[marurun]

The original OVA Tenchi Muyo really does have some kind of freakish appeal. I paid the big bucks for the initial DVD box release and don't regret it. I just don't understand why I like it so damn much.

[Ivo]

Mysterious Cities of Gold - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold

A French and Japanese co-production. Loved watching this in my youth. Just wish this would come out on DVD or something.

I can't believe I didn't mention this one!
Well done. I advise everyone to check this one out.

In defense of my post (which was indeed the first one to start off with animes), I'd just like to say that back in the day there wasn't such an anime fever like there seems to be today. Saint Seiya is originally from 1986, and I believe it is fair to say rather distinctive from the slew of animation that you might have been exposed to. Honestly, check a bit of it out on youtube and let me know if you disagree.

Also, I think we got these shows in Europe quite earlier than in the U.S. (in particular, France and Spain seemed to be quite advanced in terms of getting the old animes - note the co-production above as an example), so that was why I thought people weren't mentioning them so much. I like non-anime shows as much as the next guy, and most of the ones from my youth were naturally non-anime, unlike the near infestation that we have on TV today.

Ivo.

[GagaMan]

Yeah, I knew of alot of John K's stuff other than Ren & Stimpy. There's the whole cat getting a blow job from a baby sketch... But, even so, John K. only seems to excel when he has some sort of limitation. Without the limitation, his humor tends to go over the top -- so tasteless that it fails to shock or be humorous. Working within a controlled medium, against censors and corporate marketing, he was able to sneak in a great deal of the genuinely strange and subtle. All true. The new R&S was garbage due to this very reason.

That cartoon wasn't by John K but was in fact a student film. I can't remember the name of it but it did have what many like to call a "John K style". I agree with you on all that though: R&S Adult Party cartoon just wasn't the same and lacked the charm of the original series because he had no restrictions. I loved episodes like "Son of Stimpy" that that took something as immature as a fart and somehow turned the cartoon into an emotional work of art. And then there was the genius that was "Space Madness".

[durkada]

Bah. Again, you have to take Ren & Stimpy into context. Until Ren & Stimpy, cartoons were a vapid wasteland -- written by and for the marketing of toys. Cartoons were poorly animated and, very simply, were not funny. Ren & Stimpy (and here, again, the first two seasons) was a revelation. Its hard to think of any cartoons -- American -- which had been funny between the pinnacle of the Looney Toons, and the broadcast of Ren & Stimpy.

I don't HAVE to do anything. But let's say I do take it in context, hypothetically. I still don't enjoy it. The importance of something has nothing to do with its entertainment value. I thought Tiny Toons was pretty funny and it predated Ren and Stimpy by a year, and 1993's Animaniacs was also great fun. Pinky and the Brain get my vote long before R & S ever will.

Thanks for clarifying -- you don't have to do anything.

[durkada]

I saw one of the new episodes on Spike, I really didn't find it appealling at all, so I guess maybe your comments are true. I enjoyed a lot of his early Ren and Stimpy episodes. It's ironic that he supposedly bashes other animated shows that have actually proven to be more clever than his own work. South Park does the shock value thing, but they've gotten good over the years at given it a purprose within the context of the episode. Plus, they don't focus exclusively on shocks and toilet humor. That stuff is just there to appeal to a certain segment of its audience. The shows have actually come up with a lot of interesting social commentary, though I don't always agree with it.

And since we've mentioned anime, South Park had a pretty hilarious episode where the characters were all given anime make-overs. They even came up with a very funny J-Pop song. Here's a clip:

Also agreed. South Park is one of those shows that certainly seems to get better with age. As soon as they began to combine their shocks and toilet humor with social commentary, it got really good. And, yeah, the Fun With Weapons episode surely ranks as one of their best. What was cool about that episode was that, for the most part, they were able to get alot of laughs without shocks, without toilet humor, and without a great deal of social satire. Of course, I almost choked on the tears when the throwing star went in Butter's eye.