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This section has a couple of lists with cartoons, mostly intended for an adult audience.

A few names to point out up front:

  • Ralph Bakshi: Without this guy, Western adult animation probably wouldn't exist in its current form
  • Spümcø: Company of John K., the genius behind Ren and Stimpy, George Liquour and others
  • Bill Plympton: Independent animator with an unique style
  • Rene Laloux: For the psychonauts out there, literally out-of-this-world stuff

The obvious ones

You probably know these series. Except for Family Guy, I don't really care for these shows anymore, but just to be thorough:

  • Family Guy
  • American Dad
  • The Cleveland Show
  • The Simpsons
  • Southpark
  • King of the Hill

Adult Swim

A programming block on American television with awesome shows. Not the best animated material, but they make up for it with violence, gore, brutality or just insane stories and character design.

  • Squidbillies
  • Metalocalypse
  • Superjail
  • Harvey Birdman
  • The Venture Bros.
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  • Minoriteam
  • Mongo Wrestling Alliance
  • Mr. Pickles
  • Home Movies
  • Sealab 2021

A couple of shows are CGI or stop-motion:

  • Robot Chicken
  • Moral Orel
  • Titan Maximum
  • Lucy, Daughter of the Devil

Personal favorites

Ones I really like, in no particular order.

  • Archer
  • The Boondocks
  • Bob's burgers
  • King Star King
  • Rick and Morty
  • Duckman
  • Ugly Americans
  • Monkey Dust
  • Sheep in the big city Kids show, but crazy funny narration

MTV Animation

I don't know why and when it went wrong exactly, but MTV actually used to be a cool alternative channel, with informative pieces, experimental programming and work from independent artists like Bill Plympton. I guess something like that just couldn't survive the 90s. Anyway, check out these shows.

  • Daria
  • The Specialists
  • Cartoon Sushi
  • Oddities
  • The Head
  • Downtown
  • Wonder Showzen Not animated, but most horrifying sesame street spoof ever

Shows for kids(?)

These shows are for kids, supposedly. But some of them are not really kid material. For example, Gravity Falls is a pretty dark show with all the Illuminati and occult symbols you could ever want. Regular Show is basically about two stoners having surreal adventures. Ren and Stimpy deal with death, mental illness, defecating on property, you name it.

  • Gravity Falls
  • Regular Show
  • Secret Mountain Fort Awesome
  • Ren and Stimpy
  • The Ripping Friends
  • What a cartoon!
  • The Tick
  • Kablam!
  • Fanboy and Chum chum

The rest

The runner-ups, not the same quality as many of the above. A lot of them only run for one or two seasons, which doesn't necessarily mean it sucks, but does mean the show couldn't survive for some reason. Plus, I needed a section to put all the shows that were left after categorization. ;)

  • Dr. Katz
  • Drawn Together
  • The Oblongs
  • The life and times of Tim
  • Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show
  • Unsupervised
  • Brickleberry
  • 3South
  • Bromwell High
  • Sit down, shut up
  • Baby blues
  • Spy Groove
  • Slacker Cats