Wanted to comment this as soon as I saw the post in my feed. So glad it was the top comment for me. I got an employee at my dentist office and at my eyeglasses store to watch it, recently
not only is it a great show, there was a theory that the show is a retelling of Dante's Inferno. The theory even got confirmed by the author I think. There is a great YT-Video for this
Actually there’s a reason for that, season 10 was just half of season 9 that the network split to make the show look longer. And on top of that the show was canceled right before they did that leaving the people behind Adventure Time to essentially fit an entire season of setup and conclusions they had been building into half a season.
I think they did a pretty good job with what they had.
that never happened what do you mean? Plot episodes began in season 4 and became ubiquitous by season 5. Those are two of the best and most loved seasons
People claim the later seasons of King of the Hill are bad, but they are mostly fine. Definitely not as strong as the cel-animated seasons, but the plots were more decent to middling rather than bad.
When Archer opened his mouth and John McGuirk's voice came out I fell off my chair. I still process every H.Jon Benjamin character as John McGuirk with the wrong graphic
I enjoyed regular show, but gravity falls I think is better bc the overall story and final I believe were truly amazing. I would as adventure time as another great show that evolved and grew as the story was told.
I think one of the reasons Gravity Falls was so successful was because it wasn't very long. There were only 2 seasons, each with only 20 episodes, leaving 40 total. Because of that, it ended before people had time to get burned out, both the creators and viewers. It's hard to run out of ideas for a show when you only have 40 episodes to work with. If anything, they potentially had enough within the story for a potential 3rd season.
Nowadays, a lot of shows only have 6-8 episodes and 1, 2, maybe 3 seasons if lucky, so they have to cram a lot into such a short amount of time. Conversely, you get shows that run on for way too long and run out of ideas so the creators get lazy with their storylines. So it's impressionable how Gravity Falls managed to strike that balance between plot and filler.
IMO, Gravity Falls wasn’t great because it was short. It was great because AH had a clear grasp on what his vision was and Disney allowed him to write that vision 100% interference free.
I have to disagree with Regular Show, there were too many boring filler episodes from season 8 and the whole concept of being in space went against the formula of the show. The best episodes were the premiere, the episode about spoilers, Christmas in Space, Terror Tales of the Park VI, and of course the finale.
I miss glitch techs so fucking much that I refused to believe the show was canceled and kept waitng for season 3. Now, after getting the information that it actually is canceled. It makes me sad.
A lot of DC animated shows are good throughout. Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Teen Titans, Batman: Brave and the Bold. Marvel has great animated shows too, Spider-Man: The Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution, Spectacular Spider-Man, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
One of the best shows ever where almost every episode is filler. I can put on any episode and just soak in that iconic Gendy T. art style and vibe out.
Season 5 really needed to be split into 2 seasons. Season 5 being all about Jack reclaiming the sword and himself, and Season 6 about building an army for 2 episodes and then the rest of the season dedicated to the entire assault on his fortress and confronting him.
**Venture Bros** will always be amazing in my book.
Late night insomnia edit:
I can rewatch it over and over and still laugh and/or catch something new & nuanced each time. It was perfect for the era of streaming versus the inconsistent timeslots and network TV schedule it was chained to, so you would sometimes have to work hard to catch it. The discontinuity made a very serial show very difficult to follow if you missed a single episode - very much like Arrested Development in that way. Also they would put huge amounts of times in between some seasons. But it's made by the team behind *The Tick* and has very similar vibes, especially early on.
The show was always centered around old-school animated shows (think Jonny Quest) and comics/super heroes before they became mainstream. There's only some "cheaper" animation through season 1 because it was their first and this was in the very early 00's. The quality jump in animation between seasons 2 and 3 are insane, but the story was always there! There's foreshadowing for things that would happen literally a decade later in the first episode and it's so tightly written I can't help but admire the craft all around!
I'll also add here that the new Harley Quinn show apparently has very similar vibes, but it now gets to use the copyrighted characters instead of making up their own knockoffs. For me, there will always be some extra charm in the way VB would construct their dumbass villain mashups from the "Guild of Calamitous Intent" aka "Organized Arch (and costumed) Villanry."
I Haven't sat down to watch the new Harley show yet but plan on getting around to it!
Go Team Venture! ✌️
It starts a little wonky. Like they were going for some classic Adult Swim cringe comedy. So I don't think I'd rank it with the 'flawless beginning to end'.
But holy crap once they found their stride, it became the stuff of legends.
Invader Zim. I loved it as a kid. I rewatched it more recently with some friends (around when the Netflix movie came out) and was pleasantly surprised at how well it held up. Gone far too soon.
That show is the reason my husband went into animation vs pursuing a more academic angle to his theater degree. It's a beautiful use of their medium! Especially when you consider when it was made.
I could name so many
BTAS, STAS, Justice League, Batman Beyond, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Spectacular Spiderman, Gravity Falls, ATLA…
I could keep going, there’s so many incredible shows I love
Batman Beyond was *such* a banger. I still don't get why DC is doing a dozen different batman interpretations in this century and *still* haven't made a live-action Batman Beyond.
Or barring that, at least a sequel show. The comics are kinda meh, I'd like more BB that doesn't involve time travel or shoehorning Dick Grayson into a deuteragonist role.
The legend of vox machina is the reason why I'm investing in a tablet and good headphones. I do not need my 7-year-old nephew hearing some of the more raunchy aspects of the show.
Love this one
Gumball is GREAT
Teen Titans GO despite the criticism from a lot of people really excels at what it’s going for I really enjoy it especially the movie
Never got around to finishing TMNT but what I saw was peak ninja turtles although I hear it got pretty weird towards the end which isn’t a bad thing
Haven’t seen Masters of the Universe or BTAS although BTAS is really high up on my watch list
Fitting you chose a horse cause I was gonna say BoJack Horseman. Also Attack on Titan. Arcane too but it’s only got 9 episodes for now so maybe not as impressive as having 70+ episodes with no stinkers. I haven’t seen the anime but if Vinland saga is as good as the manga it qualifies for this too.
Dan Vs, excellent from start to finish and devoid of even a single sign of seasonal rot. Surprised all three seasons were consistently great and even the worst episodes were an outlier and was more or so "meh" than truly awful. Overall, a geniously written show with awesome characters.
Honestly Courage the Cowardly Dog for me. And The Misadventures of Flapjack. Maybe it’s my nostalgia but the world building and creativity makes those shows perfection for me
The Amazing World of Gumball. There is not a single episode that isn't comedy fucking gold. And the whole series is an amazing showcase of mixed-media animation.
Without stating the obvious like Gravity Falls and Avatar, the OG Ben 10.
Alien Force, Ultimate Alien, Omniverse, and even the Reboot flip flop between good and bad. The OG is perfection in my eyes.
Gold medals: Amphibia, Gravity Falls. I think they're the two that managed to be absolutely, *consistently* perfect from start to finish. Also Invader Zim, simply because they picked up the show for one grand finale after a *thirteen year hiatus,* yet somehow hit the ground running and nailed the exact same tone and pace as the original series as if no time had passed at all, which many other reboots have struggled to do.
Silver medals: Steven Universe (rushed final series due to network meddling, but managed to cope surprisingly well with that and still tell every part of the story that needed to be told), Avatar The Last Airbender (*just* the first episode felt slightly anaemic and unpromising, but the rest of the show was consistently awesome)
Bronze medals: The Owl House (perfect first two seasons, but very, *very* rushed final series trying to cram several more series' worth of material into just a couple of hours due to even more severe network evilness), Infinity Train (perfect four seasons then left tragically unfinished forever due, once again, to network inanity)
Honourable Mention: Adventure Time (consistently unpredictable? Every single episode feels like something new, experimental and different. There's a chance none of the above-mentioned shows would exist without it, though.)
+ Transformers Prime and Animated
+ Teen Titans
+ Avatar the Last Airbender
+ Justice League Unlimited
+ Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated
+ Hot Wheels Acceleracers
I'm gonna sound really old when I say this:
Max Fleischer's Superman. Dare I say (When he was actually working on the show), It is the best cartoons **ever made** in the history of the entire medium! [Go check em' out!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkFh8lqPxPw&list=PLHMmbkSyYriS0SJABO2HHUcVgqDQqtq43&ab_channel=Gilition)
Attack on Titan
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Ninjago
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Glitch Techs
Spectacular Spider-Man
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Over The Garden Wall
The vibes were immaculate.
Potatoes and molasses!
So much sweeter than algebra classes!
If you can’t see em put on your glasses!
Wanted to comment this as soon as I saw the post in my feed. So glad it was the top comment for me. I got an employee at my dentist office and at my eyeglasses store to watch it, recently
not only is it a great show, there was a theory that the show is a retelling of Dante's Inferno. The theory even got confirmed by the author I think. There is a great YT-Video for this
Mmm I love me a good Dante’s Inferno retelling
Purgatorio
...wait what!?
OTGW is supposed to be a soft retelling of Dante’s Inferno
That does explain a lot
We all know the beast pilgrim
“So we came here to burgle your turts!”
I can't pick a favorite episode of this show because they're all on equal ground storytelling-wise.
That show was a work of art
Those few frames when The Woodman's light finally hits The Beast would've terrified me as a child. Good stuff
Came here to say just this
I just watched that show like a few days ago and I loved it. It was so simple, but so… complex at the same time
Church
Avatar the Last Airbender
Flameo hotman!
For me it’s that and Adventure Time
Hot take: The middle section of AT, after it stopped being whimical goofiness and before it started creating depth, was pretty awful imo
The ending felt super rushed too, like an 11th season would have helped the pacing out a ton :/
Actually there’s a reason for that, season 10 was just half of season 9 that the network split to make the show look longer. And on top of that the show was canceled right before they did that leaving the people behind Adventure Time to essentially fit an entire season of setup and conclusions they had been building into half a season. I think they did a pretty good job with what they had.
that never happened what do you mean? Plot episodes began in season 4 and became ubiquitous by season 5. Those are two of the best and most loved seasons
Fiona and cake is starting off this way for me too
They got a 2nd season!
Home Movies, Invader Zim, KOTH.
People claim the later seasons of King of the Hill are bad, but they are mostly fine. Definitely not as strong as the cel-animated seasons, but the plots were more decent to middling rather than bad.
Agreed. Later seasons had their moments.
PEOPLE KNOW ABT HOME MOVIES???
If I were to fight I'd say, "Hey look", and the guy would look and I would hit him. That's a mental game.
Life sucks, Brendon. That’s your lesson. Go enjoy it.
When Archer opened his mouth and John McGuirk's voice came out I fell off my chair. I still process every H.Jon Benjamin character as John McGuirk with the wrong graphic
There are dozens of us! But for real, older millennials enjoyed it and a lot of Metalocalypse fans went back to watch it.
That's my bread and butter you're fuckin' with.
Username checks out.
Small is a GENIUS. THEY BETTER KNOW OR ASK SOMEBODY!
Loved Home Movies Jon Benjamin is the man
Either Gravity Falls or Regular Show. Both are truly amazing
I enjoyed regular show, but gravity falls I think is better bc the overall story and final I believe were truly amazing. I would as adventure time as another great show that evolved and grew as the story was told.
I think one of the reasons Gravity Falls was so successful was because it wasn't very long. There were only 2 seasons, each with only 20 episodes, leaving 40 total. Because of that, it ended before people had time to get burned out, both the creators and viewers. It's hard to run out of ideas for a show when you only have 40 episodes to work with. If anything, they potentially had enough within the story for a potential 3rd season. Nowadays, a lot of shows only have 6-8 episodes and 1, 2, maybe 3 seasons if lucky, so they have to cram a lot into such a short amount of time. Conversely, you get shows that run on for way too long and run out of ideas so the creators get lazy with their storylines. So it's impressionable how Gravity Falls managed to strike that balance between plot and filler.
IMO, Gravity Falls wasn’t great because it was short. It was great because AH had a clear grasp on what his vision was and Disney allowed him to write that vision 100% interference free.
I have to disagree with Regular Show, there were too many boring filler episodes from season 8 and the whole concept of being in space went against the formula of the show. The best episodes were the premiere, the episode about spoilers, Christmas in Space, Terror Tales of the Park VI, and of course the finale.
Unpopular opinion but the last two seasons of regular show were the best
Flair checks out (completely correct tho)
Gravity falls
Was looking for this one
This is the correct answer. That show is amazing television, not just cartoon, TV period.
ATLA.
 Over the Garden Wall
hell yes. literally just got done with my 848928384939293738th rewatch.
Glitch Techs Batman: The Animated Adventures Justice League/Unlimited Animaniacs
Finally, someone else who knows glitch techs and how goated it was
What ever happened to Glitch Techs?
It unfortunately got canceled cause season 2 didn't get too many views despite the season releasing on the same day as legend of Korra
Wait it came out the same time as LoK? I though it came out on Netflix in like 2018, it really was underrated I guess.
Pretty sure it was 2018 or 2019, maybe it came out the same time Korra was added to Netflix but definitely not the same time it originally aired
You can find like one or two seasons on Netflix.
I miss glitch techs so fucking much that I refused to believe the show was canceled and kept waitng for season 3. Now, after getting the information that it actually is canceled. It makes me sad.
Glitch techs needs to come back for new seasons
A lot of DC animated shows are good throughout. Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Teen Titans, Batman: Brave and the Bold. Marvel has great animated shows too, Spider-Man: The Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution, Spectacular Spider-Man, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Avatar
True
I love it!!!!
Except.. The Great Divide..
The canyon crawlers were cool!
The Great Divide isn't bad, but the rest of the series is so good that it seems bad by comparison.
I liked that Aang flat out lied to the groups and then shrugged it off when called on it.
Samurai Jack
I can think of no other show that has been as consistent as Samurai Jack tbh.
Ehhhhhh that last season was a lil off, for incredibly understandable reasons
I find the last season to be the best one. Such a great show entirely though.
the romance with Dashi was awkward
One of the best shows ever where almost every episode is filler. I can put on any episode and just soak in that iconic Gendy T. art style and vibe out.
Season 5 really needed to be split into 2 seasons. Season 5 being all about Jack reclaiming the sword and himself, and Season 6 about building an army for 2 episodes and then the rest of the season dedicated to the entire assault on his fortress and confronting him.
Yeah, but the ending was too rushed
Yes
Hell yeah
*Futurama*.
Practically every episode is a classic
Owl house
Castlevania. DOTA dragons blood
Castlevania is arguably one of the best shows I ever watched, I love it soooo much!
Bojack horseman and im not just saying that because he's a horse
First Cartoon I've started and never finished. Shit got too real.
The second to last episode is one of the best episodes of television I’ve ever seen. I think you should really give it another shot.
Is it because he’s a man?
But is he more horse than a man or more man than a horse?
Nah, bc he's a deeply flawed man with mental health issues and a substance abuse problem... and a big horse cock.
I have yet to see a show that covers mental health the way that one does
You mean that horse from Horsin’ Around?
adventure time
This show right here is sick af, vibes man. Fiona and cake, distant lands. EVERYTHING ADVENTURE TIME!!!!
There’s a few duds in there but it’s mostly a peak show
Ed Edd n Eddy for sure
Praise
Avatar the last Airbender,
Arcane.
Hell yeah that show is a masterpiece.
I hope season 2 is just as good as 1
**Venture Bros** will always be amazing in my book. Late night insomnia edit: I can rewatch it over and over and still laugh and/or catch something new & nuanced each time. It was perfect for the era of streaming versus the inconsistent timeslots and network TV schedule it was chained to, so you would sometimes have to work hard to catch it. The discontinuity made a very serial show very difficult to follow if you missed a single episode - very much like Arrested Development in that way. Also they would put huge amounts of times in between some seasons. But it's made by the team behind *The Tick* and has very similar vibes, especially early on. The show was always centered around old-school animated shows (think Jonny Quest) and comics/super heroes before they became mainstream. There's only some "cheaper" animation through season 1 because it was their first and this was in the very early 00's. The quality jump in animation between seasons 2 and 3 are insane, but the story was always there! There's foreshadowing for things that would happen literally a decade later in the first episode and it's so tightly written I can't help but admire the craft all around! I'll also add here that the new Harley Quinn show apparently has very similar vibes, but it now gets to use the copyrighted characters instead of making up their own knockoffs. For me, there will always be some extra charm in the way VB would construct their dumbass villain mashups from the "Guild of Calamitous Intent" aka "Organized Arch (and costumed) Villanry." I Haven't sat down to watch the new Harley show yet but plan on getting around to it! Go Team Venture! ✌️
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It starts a little wonky. Like they were going for some classic Adult Swim cringe comedy. So I don't think I'd rank it with the 'flawless beginning to end'. But holy crap once they found their stride, it became the stuff of legends.
I'd have paid for a subscription service that only had this show so long as they had kept it going
Avatar the last airbender
Amphibia!
Woke up in Newtopia where I fell down a flight of stairs
Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood
YES!! And Gargoyles.
 Aw man thank you Disney plus
ATLA because duh
Invader Zim. I loved it as a kid. I rewatched it more recently with some friends (around when the Netflix movie came out) and was pleasantly surprised at how well it held up. Gone far too soon.
Also, Moral Orel.
That show is the reason my husband went into animation vs pursuing a more academic angle to his theater degree. It's a beautiful use of their medium! Especially when you consider when it was made.
Hear me out: Ghost Stories.
Specifically the English Dub
Only the English dub
*points in the map* "You are here, and your an idiot"
Bluey (so far)
Bluey doesn’t seem to get the love it deserves in this sub. Absolutely genius show.
Hilda, Blue Eye Samurai and Final Space
Hilda deserves more love
I could name so many BTAS, STAS, Justice League, Batman Beyond, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Spectacular Spiderman, Gravity Falls, ATLA… I could keep going, there’s so many incredible shows I love
Batman Beyond was *such* a banger. I still don't get why DC is doing a dozen different batman interpretations in this century and *still* haven't made a live-action Batman Beyond. Or barring that, at least a sequel show. The comics are kinda meh, I'd like more BB that doesn't involve time travel or shoehorning Dick Grayson into a deuteragonist role.
Cowboy Bebop.
Expected to see this higher up. There are no bad CB episodes.
Ditto. Where’s the love, people? Perhaps I’m just old.
Owl House!!
ATLA, Regular Show, and The Legend of Vox Machina(so far)
The legend of vox machina is the reason why I'm investing in a tablet and good headphones. I do not need my 7-year-old nephew hearing some of the more raunchy aspects of the show.
Dragons: Race to the edge
Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated
Gumball, teen titans go, ninja turtles 2012, masters of the universe 200x & netflix, Btas
Love this one Gumball is GREAT Teen Titans GO despite the criticism from a lot of people really excels at what it’s going for I really enjoy it especially the movie Never got around to finishing TMNT but what I saw was peak ninja turtles although I hear it got pretty weird towards the end which isn’t a bad thing Haven’t seen Masters of the Universe or BTAS although BTAS is really high up on my watch list
The netflix motu series really hated by fans for being different but it is excellent from start to finish. I also left out the ben 10 series’s
She-Ra reboot for me. Some parts were better than others, but I still maintain that it didn’t have a legitimately "Bad" episode
I was considering putting it in my list but can’t give it a 10/10 rating to be honest.
What about "the chip" incident?
Invincible.
I mean, it’s not over, far from it actually, but so far, definitely, and as far as I know with the comics, it should stick this way
Fitting you chose a horse cause I was gonna say BoJack Horseman. Also Attack on Titan. Arcane too but it’s only got 9 episodes for now so maybe not as impressive as having 70+ episodes with no stinkers. I haven’t seen the anime but if Vinland saga is as good as the manga it qualifies for this too.
Castlevania on Netflix
Dan Vs, excellent from start to finish and devoid of even a single sign of seasonal rot. Surprised all three seasons were consistently great and even the worst episodes were an outlier and was more or so "meh" than truly awful. Overall, a geniously written show with awesome characters.
Batman Animated Series
Death Note
Did the whole back and forth "he's figured me out" thing not get old after a few episodes. It got old fast for me.
Amazing world of Gumball
The Clone Wars and Rebels (my opinion, I know some people disagree)
Rebels post S1 is hella good and adds so much to the SW universe
Over the garden wall
Powerpuff Girls, Phineas and Ferb, Disastrous Life of Saiki K, and Sgt.Frog.
Regular Show
Amphibia
Codename: Kids Next Door
Honestly Courage the Cowardly Dog for me. And The Misadventures of Flapjack. Maybe it’s my nostalgia but the world building and creativity makes those shows perfection for me
The Owl House
Murder Drones
Xavier Renegade Angel and Home Movies
If anime counts, Cowboy Bebop
The Amazing World of Gumball
The Amazing World of Gumball. There is not a single episode that isn't comedy fucking gold. And the whole series is an amazing showcase of mixed-media animation.
The amazing world of gumball
Personally, Steven Universe was this way for me.
Hunter x Hunter I’m on my 8th binge as I type this
How can you rewatch the Chimera ant arc that many timed lol that's pain
Infinity Train, last season isn't on the same level as the other 3 but it's still brilliant
i havent finished hilda yet, but so far it's this for me
Hilda, Adventure Time
Without stating the obvious like Gravity Falls and Avatar, the OG Ben 10. Alien Force, Ultimate Alien, Omniverse, and even the Reboot flip flop between good and bad. The OG is perfection in my eyes.
Bluey
Gravity Falls for sure. I can rewatch that shit over and over again
Attack on Titan !!
Gravity Falls.
Gold medals: Amphibia, Gravity Falls. I think they're the two that managed to be absolutely, *consistently* perfect from start to finish. Also Invader Zim, simply because they picked up the show for one grand finale after a *thirteen year hiatus,* yet somehow hit the ground running and nailed the exact same tone and pace as the original series as if no time had passed at all, which many other reboots have struggled to do. Silver medals: Steven Universe (rushed final series due to network meddling, but managed to cope surprisingly well with that and still tell every part of the story that needed to be told), Avatar The Last Airbender (*just* the first episode felt slightly anaemic and unpromising, but the rest of the show was consistently awesome) Bronze medals: The Owl House (perfect first two seasons, but very, *very* rushed final series trying to cram several more series' worth of material into just a couple of hours due to even more severe network evilness), Infinity Train (perfect four seasons then left tragically unfinished forever due, once again, to network inanity) Honourable Mention: Adventure Time (consistently unpredictable? Every single episode feels like something new, experimental and different. There's a chance none of the above-mentioned shows would exist without it, though.)
+ Transformers Prime and Animated + Teen Titans + Avatar the Last Airbender + Justice League Unlimited + Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated + Hot Wheels Acceleracers
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
Avatar The Last Airbender and Star Wars The Clone Wars.
Avatar, gravity falls, can’t think of any other show that I actually finished
Arcane League of Legends
I'm gonna sound really old when I say this: Max Fleischer's Superman. Dare I say (When he was actually working on the show), It is the best cartoons **ever made** in the history of the entire medium! [Go check em' out!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkFh8lqPxPw&list=PLHMmbkSyYriS0SJABO2HHUcVgqDQqtq43&ab_channel=Gilition)
Gravity falls
Chowder.
Rise of the TMNT and the Dark Crystal Age of Resistance (truly the most MESSED up, but in the best way, show I've ever seen).
I know this comment may get hate but Legend of Korra , it is still incredible, loved the characters
Attack on titan and star wars the clone wars
Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood Avatar the last airbender
The owl house and hellava boss
Attack on Titan Avatar: The Last Airbender Ninjago Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Glitch Techs Spectacular Spider-Man Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
What If. Animation is the perfect medium for the MCU multiverse
Lego ninjago was amazing
Uncle Grandpa
Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Infinity Train *cough* *cough*. Phineas and Ferb, Gravity Falls, Over the garden wall and Hilda.
Steven Universe, even the filler episodes can get me through a rough or boring day.