Last week, Cartoon Network premiered the new animated series Teen Titans Go! It’s been seven years since the original Teen Titans animated series ended on Cartoon Network. One good thing is the original voice cast from the Teen Titans series came back to voice in the Teen Titans Go! series. For a while now, the only way you could get your Teen Titans fix was through the Teen Titans Go! comic books. Now the comic books have inspired this new animated series! Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven are still teenage superheroes in this new series and that means there are some fun and crazy times ahead!
In the first episode titled ”Legendary Sandwich”, Raven sends the others on a quest for the ingredients for a mystical sandwich so she can have the television to herself and watch “Pretty Pretty Pegasus”. Yes, it’s a parody of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Robin waits at the supermarket for his order of bread while the others have a run-in with the Sandwich Guardians to get bacon, tomatoes, and lettuce. The episode ends with Silkie eating the sandwich. We learned that Raven and Robin are Bronies, I wonder if the other three are closet Bronies as well? Raven looks very pretty playing with pony dolls!
In the second episode titled ”Pie Bros”, the episode begins with Beast Boy and Cyborg’s song about pie. Beast Boy takes a job at Mother Mae-Eye’s pie shop to buy an expensive video game for Cyborg’s birthday, but his job causes him to miss the party that is being held at the pie shop. The Titans also discover that Raven’s theory that Mother Mae-Eye bakes people in her pies is true. Mother Ma-Eye hypnotizes Raven, Starfire, and Robin and almost bakes them into pies. Cyborg and Beast Boy throws pies at each other and eats pies that looked like Raven, Starfire, and Robin. Luckily the superheroes were not baked into pies, but they lost most of their clothes!
Many people online are blasting this series because it’s nothing like the original Teen Titans series. Some people are also not happy that this series replaced Young Justice. I found this series as very creative! Sure, there is no superhero fighting in this show. But the creativity and comedy in this show was very good! I can see this show is trying to copy the successes of Adventure Time and Phineas and Ferb. For the haters, comedy animation is successful now while action animation is struggling. If more people would tune into action animation like the cancelled Young Justice, you would not see Teen Titans Go! on Cartoon Network.
I think we are in a wonderful time in the world of animation and cartoons! Remember the time when cartoons were so hot back in the 1990′s? Today, many cartoons not only attract kids but they also attract adults as well! The writing, storytelling, characters, and animation is what’s making cartoons hot today! So here is Geek Alabama’s list of the top five kid cartoons who attract adults! These cartoons are fun for the entire family!
Now in its fourth season, Phineas and Ferb is still doing very well in the ratings. Phineas and Ferb follows the Flynn-Fletcher family during Summer vacation. Phineas and Ferb with their friends builds crazy inventions to pass the boredom. Teenager Candace tries to bust her brothers while leading her own teen life with her friends. And Perry the Platypus is a secret agent who fights Dr. Doofenshmirtz. This show is very creative with plenty of geeky topics and humor. The music is awesome and the show is never talking down to its audience!
Have you subscribed to the Doof Daily YouTube channel? You should!
Adventure Time is a very popular animated cartoon on Cartoon Network. Now in its fifth season, Adventure Time follows Finn the Human, a 14-year-old boy, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. The pair lives in the Magical Land of Ooo. The land is all post-apocalyptic after the Great Mushroom War destroyed and polluted all the land. Some of the settings includes the Candy Kingdom, Fire Kingdom, Lumpy Space, the Ice Kingdom, and more! The humor has its occasional zany weirdness, and it can be very cute, but it can also be creepy, clever, and emotional. You could say Adventure Time brings back memories of childhood with nostalgia! That’s why Adventure Time is popular!
Need to know what Adventure Time is all about, check out this video.
Yep, a list like this could not be done without talking about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Bronies, or adult men and women who are fans of My Little Pony, have taken this show by storm! If somehow you have lived under a rock. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic focuses on Twilight Sparkle, who is sent to Ponyville to learn the magic of friendship. Twilight make friends with five other ponies and for the last three seasons we have seen plenty of action from this show! The main reason this show is so popular is because of the characters, writing, animation, and because Twilight is a geeky nerd like the people who read Geek Alabama! At the end of the third season, Twilight became a alicorn princess and the fourth season will be a blast!
Need to know what My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is all about, check out this video!
Gravity Falls is only in its first season. But this show has already grown to have a big adult following. The show follows Mabel and Dipper Pines as they have to go to their Uncle Stan’s in Gravity Falls, OR for the Summer. Uncle Stan operates a tourist trap store called the Mystery Shack. The town has a very interesting reputation for things supernatural. So far in the show, we have seen trolls, wax statues coming to life, ghosts, time traveling, mermans, monsters, and other crazy things. I find Gravity Falls quirky, endearing, strange, and clever! If you have not watched Gravity Falls yet, you need to watch a few episodes!
My final pick on this list goes to The Legend of Korra on Nickelodeon. This cartoon is a spinoff from Avatar: The Last Airbender but it stays in the Avatar world. The series follows teenager Korra who comes to Republic City to train with her Avatar powers. Along the way, she makes new friends and saves the city and the world from evil. Other than the normal teenager stuff you see like love crushes and attitudes. You see amazing fight scenes, a dramatic story, hilarious humor, and great characters you can love and love to hate. If Nickelodeon would make more shows like this, they would not be having ratings problems right now!
Here is a clip from the show, I wonder when Nickelodeon will premiere Book 2? It’s almost been a year since the season finale of Book 1!
Over the weekend, Zachary Rich aka Flamingo Rich, released his film titled Double Rainboom. Double Rainboom is a Senior film written, directed, & produced for Zachary’s college curriculum at the Savannah College of Art & Design. This episode is the first ever fan-made episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The episode was made from students at the college and others from the internet. The episode featured a full orchestral score, studio-quality sound effects, voice actresses for the ponies, and 100% show-accurate animation. Before I dive in this episode for a review, watch it below!
Double Rainboom opened with a great title sequence. Even Rarity’s temporary wings from one of the show’s episodes were featured. The beginning shows Twilight Sparkle doing what she does best, doing science and experimenting with potions. Naturally, Rainbow Dash is interested in what Twilight is making. Twilight makes a potion but you see a troll face in the smoke plus an evil laugh. You know this potion is not suitable for anyone! Twilight explains this potion is a talent enhancer and drinking the potion would increase the pony’s talents! Then we see this great animation explaining what would happen if each of the six main ponies from the show drinks the potion.
Twilight tells Rainbow Dash that drinking the potion would make her fly really fast! That’s all Rainbow Dash needed to hear! She takes the potion and drinks it. Twilight gets mad after seeing Rainbow Dash drink the potion. Then, in her own geeky self, decides to watch Rainbow Dash and study the effects. Yes, Ponyville has machines to monitor ponies! After the study is over, Rainbow Dash gets permission to fly and then she takes off through the ground! Rainbow Dash is flying fast up toward space and then takes control! We then see some cutaway gags that I really enjoyed! Applejack’s apple stand is blown away, Rarity and Spike are blown around with Rarity’s shopping bags blown away, my favorite part, Derpy’s eyes are corrected before becoming un-corrected again because of some flower pots, sadly the muffin was ruined!
The animators used Rainbow Dash’s fast flying and Ponyville as a pinball game, I liked that! Scootaloo, poor thing, Rainbow Dash’s flying got her believing she could fly until smashing into a billboard. And Fluttershy passes out after Rainbow Dash’s flying scares off the chickens she was helping. Rainbow Dash is very happy she can fly fast and this scares Twilight. Rainbow Dash flies into space and decides to perform a double rainboom! Rainbow Dash flies back toward Ponyville and the most beautiful rainbow in the sky amazes the ponies. Scootaloo is amazed by it, I liked the close up eyes shot! All of this is good, until the double rainboom is accomplished which destroys most of Ponyville! The ponies are sad to see the destruction in Ponyville caused by Rainbow Dash’s double rainboom.
Twilight sets out to find Rainbow Dash and she finds a track of rainbow colors in the forest. This was inspired from the DeLorean going back in time and leaving the tire marks on fire in the Back to the Future movies. Even the music from Back to the Future was used! Twilight discovers a wormhole where Rainbow Dash has gone through but it closes up. On the next scene, we see Rainbow Dash who is animated different in the wormhole. Then we see Johnny Bravo and other Cartoon Network Characters in the background! This is where some of the Bronies get upset. Rainbow Dash is transported to Townsville, the city in The Powerpuff Girls! And then she encounters a monster!
After the Cartoon Network disclaimer, we see the monster destroying Townsville. The talking dog then talks but is rescued by the girls before being smashed! The dog then gets thrown into the trash bin and the door is closed shut on top of the dog. The girls do their work on the monster until the monster smashes them into the ground. Rainbow Dash then gets involved by beating the monster. The monster starts to apologize to Rainbow Dash but if you seen The Powerpuff Girls, you know what happens next. The monster is beaten up for good and then the girls are interested in Rainbow Dash. I mean, all little girls are interested in ponies, right!
The girls love Rainbow Dash and after discovering she can talk, they decide to keep her. This does not make Rainbow Dash happy. We then see scenes where Rainbow Dash tries to escape the girls by flying all over Townsville. All’s good until Twilight’s potion wears off and Rainbow Dash can not longer fly. Rainbow Dash starts to panic when Pinkie Pie comes through the wormhole to rescue Rainbow Dash. The Powerpuff Girls are disappointed to not find Rainbow Dash. It’s tough to break little girl’s hearts and Bubbles starts to cry!
Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie fly back through the wormhole from the Cartoon Network world to The Hub World. Twilight is not amused as Rainbow Dash is laughing! After Rainbow Dash sees the destruction she left in Ponyville, she decided to write a letter to Princess Celestia. If this was in the real world, Rainbow Dash would have been thrown in jail and the key thrown away forever! Seeing many of the ponies crying and in tears was a real lesson for Rainbow Dash. The lesson to the princess is never take anything that belongs to you. And because she did not think ahead, she hurt a lot of her friends. At the end, Pinkie Pie brought with her Bloo from Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends! That was a great last laugh from a great fan-made episode!
The ending credits showing the My Little Pony and Powerpuff Girls characters together in a different animation style was awesome! I think we will see some fan-made animation showing the Powerpuff Girls in the My Little Pony world or vise-versa. I thought the animation was spot on! Three different types of animation was used in Double Rainboom and I really enjoyed it! The audio and music was great as well. I enjoyed the music as it added to the story in a good way. The voice actors almost sounded like the real character voices on the show! Some of the scenes went a little too long and there was some pacing issues. But overall, I thought this was a great fan-made episode! The Snowdrop fan-made episode was also awesome too!
Some diehard My Little Pony fans were upset seeing The Powerpuff Girls. But I thought this episode was a fan tribute to the works of Lauren Faust and Craig McCracken. This episode was made as a love letter to the shows and toons in general, it succeeds at that, it has heart and was great! This is an episode you would never see on TV because of the crossover. I think Double Rainboom is exactly why and how non-profit fan products should exist – doing things the actual show couldn’t do. I look forward to seeing what Zachary Rich and the people who worked on Double Rainboom do in their careers! I believe the animation world will only get better and that is a good thing!
To see Double Rainboom and the features such as the crew, concept art, backgrounds, and even animation lessons; go to: http://www.doublerainboom.com
There’s a crisis going on in the animation world. The number of action animated shows being cancelled is alarming. I mean, I enjoy the comedy animated shows like Phineas and Ferb, My Little Pony: FIM, and Adventure Time. But I also like to enjoy the action animated shows like Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Young Justice. Sadly, many animated shows in the action genre have been cancelled. And that sucks!
Last week, Disney and Lucasfilm announced the cancellation on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the delay of the upcoming series Star Wars: Detours. Most likely, Disney is never going to make Star Wars: Detours. The cancellation of The Clone Wars comes at a very bad time! What is going to happen to Ahsoka Tano? Lucasfilm Studios have said they are continuing production on new Clone Wars story arcs that promise to be some of the most thrilling adventures ever seen. And they are advising fans to stay tuned for more information on where fans can soon find this bonus content. (cough: Disney XD)
It’s too bad we will probably never see Star Wars: Detours. This comedy series co-created by the Robot Chicken team of Seth Green, Matthew Senreich and Todd Grimes was going to be awesome!
Sadly, Star Wars is not the only cancellation. Many fans are upset that Cartoon Network has cancelled Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice. Both shows ran their series finale episodes last weekend. The fans and the creators of these shows have been all over Twitter trying to pressure Cartoon Network to save these shows. Cartoon Network will premiere Teen Titans Go! and Beware the Batman in April on DC Nation. You can tell Cartoon Network is wanting to take DC Nation to a more comedy direction. Also, did you know Cartoon Network is bringing back The Powerpuff Girls? Here is a screenshot from the new series.
Over on Disney XD. Marvel Universe has struggled along with only Ultimate Spider-Man which has done well. Two new series will premiere this Summer. Marvel’s Avengers Assemble and Hulk and the Agents S.M.A.S.H. will air sneak peaks in late May. My hope is these shows will last instead of being cancelled after just one season just like Motorcity and Tron: Uprising. Sadly, I have noticed that both DC Nation and Marvel Universe have been doing poorly in the ratings. This is not a good thing for people who love action animation!
Nickelodeon has The Legend of Korra and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And The Hub has Transformers: Prime which is on its last season. Many people have said the lack of action animation is due to the lack of merchandise sales and not due to TV ratings. I know many cartoons on TV today are tied to the merchandise sales to determine if the show gets another season or is cancelled. I still think there is a market for action animated shows on TV. The networks have to give these shows a chance to find an audience. I hope I get to watch and review more action animated shows on Geek Alabama in the future!
Tonight I wanted to share a wonderful montage from Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network is celebrating its 20th anniversary on the air! On October 1st, 1992 Cartoon Network went on the air and the rest is history! I can’t believe the network has been on the air for that long! I remember growing up as a kid watching Cartoon Network and seeing some great classic cartoons such as Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Looney Tunes, and other classic shows. Some of the originals in the 1990′s on the network like Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Space Ghost Coast to Coast and others were great to watch. And today’s shows like Adventure Time, Ben 10, Regular Show and others are great to watch as an adult! Enjoy the video below!
Every fall we get to see a bunch of brand new TV show that are trying to get us to watch. While I will have a post later on my most anticipated fall TV shows; this post is about the new animated shows premiering this fall. There is not many new animated shows premiering this fall. But these few shows are shows I look forward to seeing!
Brickleberry
This show premiering on Tuesday September 25th on Comedy Central shows a different kind of life in a national park. This series is produced by Daniel Tosh and has some great voice talents such as Kaitlin Olson, Tom Kenny, and Dave Herman. Yes this show has already caused some controversy like the bear rape scene being removed at Comic-Con. This clip from Comedy Central show animals in nature in the wrong way. Clip is NSFW.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will premiere on Saturday September 29th on Nick and I have to wonder if this version of the classic show will be a hit. We have seen multiple series featuring the turtles in the past and one has to wonder if this version will be a hit for the struggling Nickelodeon. I will give it a try when it premieres. Here is a clip from the show.
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
This show premiering on Monday September 17th on Disney XD features the voice talent of Ben Schwartz from Parks and Rec. The plot is the town of Norrisville has been protected from a ninja for 800 years. And after the current ninja graduates from high school he passes down his ninja suit to a 9th grader which Randy finds. This series looks really fun to watch and enjoy watching this clip below.
Crash and Bernstein
This show is set to premiere on Monday October 8th on Disney XD and it is the first show to feature a puppet since Disney bought the rights to The Muppets. The plot really does sound interesting and it’s about a boy named Wyatt Bernstein who lives with a family of three girls. He goes to a “Build-A-Bestie” store to build a puppet named Crash and one day it comes to life. Many geek websites have already talked about this show and I do look forward to seeing it! Check out this commercial below!
Dragons: Riders of Berk
This show just premiered on Cartoon Network and this series is based of the 2010 film How To Train Your Dragon. This series features the same characters, dragons, and scenery from the 2010 film. And the first few episodes looked great! I hope this series will help build the relationships between the people and dragons. And I think everyone wants to see how Hiccup and Astrid relationship advances throughout the series. Here is a preview clip from the series.
Right now is a very slow time for animation. Most cartoons are on repeat mode due to the London Olympics. And because the animators are getting ready for September when lots of new shows premieres. But there is one show on Cartoon Network that is still airing new episodes every Monday Night.
Adventure Time is created by Pendleton Ward and is about the adventures of Finn who is a 13-year-old human boy and his best friend Jake who is a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo. Ooo is a fictional continent that was created after the Great Mushroom War. In several episodes in the series the viewers do see Planet Earth; with a chunk missing from it. The opening title to Adventure Time does show the nuclear bombs and the post-apocalyptic landscape.
Jake and Finn regularly interacts with several major characters in the show. The Ice King casts magic spells involving ice and he likes to steal princesses in Ooo. Marceline Abadeer is a vampire queen who is 1,000 years-old and likes to play the guitar. Beemo is a video game console who lives with Jake and Finn. Lumpy Space Princess is the princess of the alternate dimension called Lumpy Space. Lady Rainicorn is a half-rainbow, half-unicorn creature and is Jake’s girlfriend. And Princess Bubblegum is a bubble gum humanoid and rules over the candy kingdom. The kingdom has many candy and sweet objects that actually live.
This series is very popular with kids, teenagers, and even adults! The things that you see in Adventure Time is stuff you would love to do. It kind of reminds you of being a kid; kids love to be creative, imaginative, and have lots of fun. Each adventure takes place in a very strange land where you see lots of strange and weird characters. And you see what it takes to keep the peace in the Land of Ooo. Would you like to know what could happen to our world after a nuclear war? Adventure Time can give you a glimpse in a world after war. Plus the creators and writers really do come up with the unusual and craziest things to put in the show. That’s why I like this show. Watch new episodes of Adventure Time on Monday Nights on Cartoon Network.
And do you wonder if this is the terrible truth behind Adventure Time? I hope not.
I would consider this my Animation Monday post for this week. Some of the guests at the Alabama Phoenix Festival were very talented animators. The festival had the comic area where you could see comic book animators and people who love to draw do their work!
One of the panels I attended was Animated Characters with C. Martin Croker and Kevin Rubio. And both guys has had an interesting history. C. Martin Croker started working for Cartoon Network when it launched back in 1992. Then he developed and animated the show Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The show threw crazy questions to all of the guests that appeared. And the show did whatever it wanted to capture the weird emotions in its guests. A little known secret about the show is most of the animation came from the original Space Ghost series back in the 1960′s.
Originally Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a failed episode from the Space Ghost show. Aqua Teen was brought back when Adult Swim launched on Cartoon Network. And now there are around 120 Aqua Teen episodes versus 96 Space Ghost Coast to Coast episodes. Croker said the first episodes of Aqua Teen and the episodes today are night- to-day. It took him around four months to produce the first two episodes. And he even gave the people a hint to watch the Paul episodes on Aqua Teen coming soon! And Aqua Teen is animated on Photoshop while many other animated shows are animated on Flash.
Before the end of the festival I talked to C. Martin Croker and he had some interesting animation!
Kevin Rubio has worked for Lucas Films for 15 years. He works on the shows Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the Ben 10 franchise. He was amazed at the great success of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and its Emmy nomination. He loves that its grown up fans are called Bronies. The latest show in the Ben 10 franchise is called Ben 10: Omniverse premiering soon on Cartoon Network. One part of the show he gave away is Ben at age 16 and Ben at age 10 will meet up. Currently there are around 38 episodes made but he could not go into detail about anything else.
Both guys gave some great advice about being animators. Animators are good at knowing all episodes from past cartoons. Because they have to go back sometimes to grab images and create new stuff such as commercials and new TV shows. In fact the Atlanta metro is home to numerous animators and shows such as Archer which is made in Atlanta. And for all of you Animaniacs fans out there. Sorry the master tapes are in a mine somewhere in Utah.
Next up was a couple of panels done by Kittyhawk. Kittyhawk has done comics for around 13 years now. The first panel was about making a comic page. Most comics and cartoons are done on a computer now. She recommended not to write any words on a page first. Do the drawings and then describe what’s in the scene. And try not to use many words on a page as well. She also told everyone not to feel bad if you use a pencil to create your page. But it’s now recommended to go digital. She uses the Manga Studio EX program to create her comics. And for anyone creating comics; “if it’s not working, toss it aside.” A great piece of advice. Here are some photos from this panel.
Another panel I attended from Kittyhawk was all about drawing Hentai (porn). The people including me enjoyed watching some Japanese porn which was very hardcore! We also got to draw some Hentai. Here is my drawing with the private parts censored. (I have to keep this a family blog) If you want to see the uncensored version shoot me an e-mail at barcncpt44@aol.com.
Another panel involving an animator was Page by Page with Larry Hama. This panel with Sean Taylor was all about the comics career of Larry Hama which he got into by accident. Larry was a fan of comics when he was a kid. And he wanted to be a fashion designer or a shoe artist when he grew up. When he got into the comics business; he had mentors that helped him make comics. He considered that to be “very lucky.” Larry Hama has worked for Marvel as an editor for around 15 years. And he has also worked for DC comics as well.
Larry Hama said that technology has changed everything about comics. And today the internet has made it possible for anyone to learn how to make comics. He never considered himself a writer. And he sees comics as a story with a series of pictures. When he was working at Marvel Comics he was one of the last writers in the editor’s bay. And when a team from Hasbro came to him to talk about starting Gi-Joe; he said yes. Mainly because he needed the freelance work. And he did around 155 issues and got no reviews from anyone.
During the first meeting he was shown 10 black and white drawings with one or two words. And somehow he made it work to the success it is today. When the Gi-Joe movies came out he got no say about the movies. And he was not happy when Snake Eyes talked in the movie. He also talked about how he creates his comics. Larry said he has no idea what’s on page three while he works on page one. And he makes things up while he is writing and animating a comic book. He also loved how he helped turn Snake Eyes into a mythology. Overall it is was a great panel!
At the end of this post I wanted to share some pictures of a volunteer laying down while a mask is curing on his face. Yes this was very cool! Notice how hard it is to separate the mask from the mold. And the green goo that was put on people’s thumbs was to make a plaster mold thumb of themselves!
Recently we have been seeing new superhero themed blocks on Cartoon Network and Disney XD. Cartoon Network started first; their block called DC Nation consists of the shows Green Lantern: the Animated Series and Young Justice. Green Lantern is a computer animated show that focuses on the adventures of Hal Jordan; the Green Lantern of sector 2814. The other show is Young Justice; showing the battles of several teenage sidekicks. Both shows offer lots of action and great story lines.
The shorts on DC Nation tells stories from all kinds of angles. One short has brought back the Teen Titans. Also Plastic Man, character stories and behind the scenes information is shown. I do wish they would show a few more shorts during the block because they are entertaining. Anyways this block has lots of potential and can be seen by many more people because Disney XD is often only shown on digital cable.
Marvel Universe premiered last weekend on Disney XD. The shows consist of Ultimate Spider Man and The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. The new Spider Man series was pretty good. I liked the Japanese style animation throughout the show. And the animation was done very well. The Avengers also has great potential; well because the movie comes out this summer.
The shorts were okay; I liked the behind the scenes shorts like drawing your favorite characters. But the Marvel mash-up was a little bit childish. The new question is how many people are going to see this block? Disney XD is not offered everywhere Cartoon Network is shown. So the folks at Disney needs to consider airing this block on Disney Channel. That way more people can see Marvel Universe.
Both superhero blocks are great for all the superhero fans out there. One has to wonder when Nickelodeon will offer up a similar block?
So here we are at the beginning of 2012. But as we look back at 2011 there was great animation on TV that everyone enjoyed and came back for more. So let’s recap some of the best moments of animation in 2011.
Two classic TV cartoon shows made a comeback in 2011. Beavis and Butt-Head made a return to MTV and never left off with their jokes of society. ThunderCats came back to Cartoon Network and it looks better than ever. It revives two series that adults today watched growing up and it gives the young ones today something new to watch that their parents will want to watch as well.
This show on Disney Channel has been breaking records all year long including having the Phineas and Ferb 2D movie be the most watched TV animated cable movie of 2011. Phineas and Ferb is great because it encourages everyone to seize the day and the writing and music in the show is awesome as well.
Adventure Time / The Regular Show
Both of these shows on Cartoon Network have become hits among the boy and guy crowds. And they are also having a big adult following as well. The writing and the weird adventures that both shows go through make these shows interesting to watch. My brother really loves these shows and I am starting to like them as well.
Star Wars The Clone Wars
This show gives all the geeks and nerds out there something to look forward too since Star Wars is no longer being made. What is not to love about this show. It features great computer animation and we get to see all the great stuff that makes Star Wars great. A great treat to all science fiction fans out there.
The Looney Tunes also returned to TV in 2011 but their show is one I have really not liked. The Looney Tunes show is trying to become a weird animation comedy show that in my opinion is not working. They need to go back to the classic shorts that we all love.
Futurama
The show from the same guy that created The Simpsons has come back from the cancellation bear and has not missed a beat. It is giving Comedy Central a new business in animation comedy.
What; why would I put this show in my list. Because the writing in this show is spot on. My Little Pony has been a surprise hit for The Hub and is quickly gaining a huge fan base. Who would have fought a show for girls would be very popular?
The year 2011 has been great for action animation shows. Young Justice on Cartoon Network has been a great action animation show. This show is the next chapter from Teen Titans and it has the great action and fight scenes every action show needs.
This has been one of the best preschool animation shows of 2011. And even this show is gaining a adult fan base. The writing in this show is great and it encourages kids to play along with the show and solve problems. And the animation is great as well.
Archer and South Park
Both of these show kept on going along in 2011 with their extreme adult humor and action that is for adults only. At least the adults have animation that they can enjoy that is not suitable for kids to watch.
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