The AV Club's Best Animated Series (A–Z edition)
 

A list of the best show that starts with each letter in the English alphabet.

http://www.avclub.com/article/best-a...atever--214799

<ol>
<li> Adventure Time
<li> Beavis and Butt-head
<li> The Critic
<li> Daria
<li> Eek! The Cat
<li> The Flinstones
<li> Gravity Falls
<li> Home Movies
<li> Invader Zim
<li> Johnny Bravo
<li> King of the Hill
<li> Liquid Television
<li> Muppet Babies
<li> Neon Genesis Evangelion
<li> The Oblongs
<li> Pinky and the Brain
<li> Queer Duck
<li> The Ren and Stimpy Show
<li> The Simpsons
<li> The Tick
<li> Ugly Americans
<li> The Venture Brothers
<li> The Wacky Races
<li> X-Men: The Animated Series
<li> The Yogi Bear Show
<li> The Zeta Project
</ol>

The biggest omission, in my opinion, is <b>Batman: The Animated Series</b> which should have gotten a runner-up at the very least. Plus, by including <b>Liquid Television</b> you basically already have Beavis in there.

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Yeah, Batman > Beavis and Butt-head, but Beavis and Butt-head was the more pop-culture influential.

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yeah, B:TAS should've been over Beavis and Butthead, even as much as I like B&B.

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Rocky & Bullwinkle >>> Ren & Stimpy. And I love Ren & Stimpy.

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Too much modern stuff.

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I like Mike Judge and King of the Hill is fantastic, but I've never really gotten the appeal of Beavis and Butt-Head to be honest. I've tried watching it and just never have found it funny. Maybe because I didn't grow up with it but it usually just comes off stupid to me. I like the movie but mostly just because it has the voice of Robert Stack who I've always thought is awesome. Batman: The Animated Series is easily one of the best shows of all time (not just for animated shows either).

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Cowboy Bebop for C, Rick and Morty over Ren and Stimpy

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Animaniacs should have been in for A, but I'm guessing since they gave Pinky and the Brain they didn't want to overdo it?

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Invader Zim is very overrated.

And Robotech beats R&S and R&B hands down.

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And I am guessing that neither <b>Looney Tunes</b> nor <b>Merry Melodies</b> count as a TV series, obviously.

I still think <b>Tiny Toons</b> was the forefather for <b>Animaniacs</b>. Without TT succeeding, we would not have had Animaniacs.

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I also don't understand how not a single one of the Disney cartoons from the 80s/90s made it onto here.

I'm sorry, but <b>Duck Tales</b> is better than <b>Daria</b>.

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Wait... Daria took the D position?

Invalid list is invalid.

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How could I forget DuckTales. Easily one of my favorite animated shows ever and definitely better than Daria I agree. The list overall is kind of a weird one. Some of the picks are good but some just feel random and like they were picked for being current or relatively new.

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As long as Pinky & the Brain and The Tick made it, I am happy. I believe Disney has still never released every Tick episode on DVD.

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I thought it was a Fox/Saban show.

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The home video rights were controlled by Disney for some reason, they definitely released the DVDs under their Buena Vista imprint. Saban liked flipping their properties.

Sony owns the live-action Tick show.

Where is the DCAU? It'd be nice if the second season of The Zeta Project ever came out on DVD. I can't believe the absence of BTAS.

I've been meaning to revisit NGE for years. I wasn't that impressed when I was heavily into anime and got into it in my teen years, finding it vastly overrated, but now that I've matured, I should give it another chance. Why has it not been licensed again in the US? You would think that it is a popular enough property that even with the current state of the market, someone would jump for it. Is there some sort of legal issue with it?

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force over Adventure Time

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Starblazers > Simpsons