- Quads!
- Heil Honey, I’m Home (cartoon)
- Drawn Together
- the oblongs
- the pjs
- slacker cats
- moral orel
- Clerks the animated series
- undergrads
- 12 oz mouse
- space ghost
- squidbillies
- ripping friends
- mega babies
- cyber6
- dr katz
- my dad the rockstar
- clone high
- grimm and evil/grim adventures of billy and mandy
- duck dodgers
- duckman
- lil bush
- the boondocks
- mike tyson mysteries
- fired on mars
- china, il
- yvon of the yukon
- monkey dust
- ugly americans
- code monkeys
- tom goes to the mayor
- The life and times of tim
- Æonflux
- fritz the cat
- the critic
- superjail
- lower deck
If i havent heard of it or I HAVE, its prolly deepcut
Anyone else remember the Oblongs?
The oblongs and quads (which used to air back to back when I watched) are like a fever dream. What the fuck, actually.
Xavier: Renegade Angel, dunno if it counts because it’s computer animation but some good TV-MA psychedelic social satire
Vernon Chatman before South Park was great! Not that he wasn’t great for SP.
Another that doesn’t meet the qualification is Wonder Showzen. So great!
The Heart She Holler was pretty good too
Mission Hill
All of the adult swim shows like ATHF, Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Squidbillies, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, and probably a few others I can’t remember. Also, not animated but I would put Sifl & Olly in the mix because it fucking rocks.
Heck yeah to all these!
I had a black cat with green eyes I named Sifl. Got attitude from quite a few people about what TF was wrong with me for naming a cat after syphilis…
Hoops is a recent one that cracked my shit up, and I was bummed didn’t get another season of two
Adding a few.
The Head, Liquid Television, The Maxx, Tom goes to the Mayor, Tripping the Rift, Primer, Tom and the Devil, The Critic, Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo, Primal, Mission Hill , Friday: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Aeon Flux, Assy McGee , Aqua Teen (not sure if this counts, honestly), Perfect Hair Forever, Superjail, Happy Tree Friends, Venture Bros - God tier I’m sure I’ll think of others
Aeon Flux
Oh man, that was Heavy Metal tier crazy nonsense.
pulls out a list of Adult Swim cartoons
slaps them on the table
I also went to college in the '00s.
Venture Bros is probably the best I’ve seen, but I also enjoyed
- Primal
- The Tick
- Amazing Screw-On Head (only the pilot ever got made, but if you like it check out Creature Commandos)
- Megas XLR
Also if you have kids and want to watch stuff with them that isn’t brain rot, try Samurai Jack, Clone Wars (Tartakovsky’s original), and Reboot.
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned The Critic yet. It was a good show that was screwed over by two networks. Another one is Dilbert, which was based on the comic strip. I think Scott Adams was less involved with it than the strip which made it better (plus he wasn’t as insane back then).
It stinks!
Buy my book!
Obscure for people outside the UK:
Monkey DustEver seen Bromwell High by chance?
I’ve not, but it looks very British.
I’ll try to get round to giving it a watch if/when I get the chance/time.
Do, Keisha is like the British black Cartman
The LABiA pitches, the dinner party twats, the West Brom terror cell, the Daisy Harris murder inquiry, Ivan Dobsky… if anything, they’ve got better with age. Plus some, like Clive, are pretty timeless.
Superjail. Imagine if Willy Wonka ran a prison instead of a chocolate factory.
Oh, I remember that one! I think I still have it…
The animation freaked me out but Dr Seuss illustrations also freaks me out
SlackerCats - obscure, ran for half a season
Clerks The Animated Series - obscure, ran for half a season
Carol and the end of the world (Mainstream but wildly serene, surreal, and overtly human)
Moral Oral - pretty dark adult show
Ren and Stimpy - pretty dark for a kids show
I’m sure I’ll think of a few more
I’m surprised Ren and Stimpy made it in the obscure list. They were about as popular as anything when they were on.
Not so obscure, but very dark. This was a kids show on Nickelodeon after all. Have you watched it?
Have I watched it?
HAVE I WATCHED IT???
Have you ever shaved a yak? Have you ever enjoyed powdered toast? Have you ever sung along with Stinky Whizzleteats?!?
I was watching Ren & Stimpy before you were saving up your allowance to buy a Log.
I mean, to be fair, none of those things are things I can tell from here.
The adult party cartoon might be obscure enough to make the list.
My friend and I still quote clerk’s to this day! Such a great show. So dumb, but great!
Danger Mouse, international spy and crime fighting white rodent with an eye patch. Old British cartoon from the early 80’s.
If you’re going to list Space Ghost you have to have the Herculoids.
Perfect hair forever! “Hamburgers should be high”
