Western Animation Recommendations

@skinman 19- have you tried Green Lantern The Animated Series or Young Justice?

Among animated feature films: 1) Watership Down by Nepenthe Productions through Warner Brothers. Mostly faithful to the best-selling book by Richard Adams about a group of rabbits fleeing the bulldozers to find a new home, and encountering strange and dangerous rabbit warrens in their travels.

2) Cats Don't Dance by Turner Feature Animation through WB. A lot of it has the silly Toon Physics and Funny Animal characters, but there's a solid story of breaking the ceiling supporting it. Creator Mark Dindal actually quit Walt Disney studios to get this picture made. And Disney hired him back!

3) Bolt by Walt Disney Pictures. Disney's earlier effort, Chicken Little bombed massively, and Disney needed something to get themselves out of their funk. Bolt marks a turning point where Walt Disney Pictures started to get its groove back.

And for cartoon series, the complete Pink Panther, created by Warner Brothers stalwart Isadore "Friz" Freleng. It's a good sign when Pink's very first cartoon won an Academy Award.

I'd like to watch a good cartoon series like Avatar and Korra—more specifically, the fantasy side of it. I love watching whole new fantasy worlds, and would enjoy seeing more like it.

That said, I've already had a friend or two say I should watch Wakfu if I want fantasy. Would it be worth it?

Chalk Zone might not be the funniest Nicktoon, but it has a certain charm to it. It also features some very likable and relateable characters. Seriously, Rudy Tabootie is one of the most realistic portrayals of a kid in any Western Animated show I've seen.

In terms of tv shows, I prefer Family Guy and American Dad!, with mostly Adventure Time and Regular Show for Cartoon Network, but I'll also watch Nickelodeon shows too, most notably Spongebob Squarepants .

In terms of animated movies, basically anything from Disney, some Dreamworks films (mostly Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon) and Blue Sky Studios Ice Age and Rio

edited 8th Feb '14 7:16:46 AM by darklord2216

As a fan of The Powerpuff Girls and most forms of superhero animation, but with a general aversion to Slice of Life shows and such, any recommendations?

One of my favorite shows, My Life As A Teenage Robot, can pretty much be described as Astro Boy meets Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It's a very good series.

<eyebrow goes up> Interesting. Actually, I think I remember seeing an episode or two back in the day. Yeah, I should check that out.

It's prime-eligible on Amazon. That means if your Amazon account is given the prime upgrade, you can watch movies/episodes for free without paying for them.

Talespin is one of the more under rated shows of The Disney Afternoon, having rounded characters, decent world building, and managing to be cheesy in a manner that only adds humor and charm. The use of Jungle Book characters is also very unique.

There are some shows that tend to hit their mark rather well, but only at a specific point, either due to Growing the Beard or Seasonal Rot taking place.

• Family Guy (pre cancellation, with maybe Season 4 added on, with more hyperactive and good natured humor (or less forced adult material) with actual likable characterization).
• Spongebob Squarepants (about the same).
• The Dreamstone (the two part pilot episode, then skip to Seasons 3 and 4, when most of the fine tuning and world building begins).

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What I said in my last post was that I have some recommendations for anyone who is interested in watching Rabbit Ears Productions stories. Here are some stories that you might be interested in:

The Fool and the Flying Ship John Henry How the Rhinoceros Got his Skin and How the Camel Got his Hump Paul Bunyan The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Cats Don't Dance is a great movie. Love Darla Dimple, she a fantastic child villain.

The Modifyers is a failed Nickelodeon show pilot. I wasn't a huge fan of the humor, but the characters are well drawn, and the voice acting is excellent. I wonder why it never materialized.

edited 16th Jun '16 12:04:42 PM by Shufflehound

Here's a good recommendation: My Life As A Teenage Robot.

Roobarb (and Custard) is indeed awesome, and not only is the first wobbly line series, it's the first fully animated TV series in the UK period.

edited 15th Aug '14 8:09:31 PM by Teddy

What I've always wanted to see are Disney's Silly Symphonies. It would be a great idea for the Disney company to fully restore all of these Technicolor cartoons and release them on Bluray, and put them in chronological order. Several of them won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. They were also the first cartoons in full 3-strip Technicolor. They were also so influential, other cartoon studios came out with color cartoon series like Merrie Melodies, Happy Harmonies, and Rainbow Parade, among others. (I think all these cartoon series are worth a look for the sake of film history and art itself.)

So I just started watching the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon adaptation, and SO MUCH 60's CHEESE.

I definitely recommend it to anyone who either enjoys Spider-Man, or just wants something neat to watch and at.

A good art style and good characters are what tends to matter for me. If you can find any characters that just want everyone to be happy as well, that would be amazing.

Baccano

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An old favorite of mine was She Ra Princessof Power, which was honestly a step up from He-Man. Of course there's also a lot to be said for such old favorites as Bucky O Hare and The Adventuresof Teddy Ruxpin, especially if you're in to world-building.

There's also Code Lyoko, though I'm not sure if it'd count as Western Animation.

Surprised no one has mentioned ReBoot yet.

edited 1st Jan '15 4:43:55 PM by AsherTye

@Eva Unit 01: 60's Spider-Man is amazing. i love all the crazy impossible stuff Spidey does with his webbing in that series.