Today I am counting down the top 7 of the best animated shows from the 2000s to nowadays. Please note that this list has both kid shows and adult cartoons on it.
#7:The Cleveland Show - I know I'm the minority, but I like this show better than Family Guy. It has much funnier writing, better characters, and fewer cutaways (which is always a good thing). I like a lot of the show's characters especially Cleveland, Cleveland Junior, Rallo, Lester, and Tim the Bear. But I think that the writing is what really makes this show superior to Family Guy, it doesn't rely as much on making fun of pop culture or even the annoying bathroom jokes that Family Guy does on a regular basis. I truly think this may be the best Seth MacFarlane show he's produced yet.
#6:Happy Tree Friends - I know a lot of people don't like this show, but I personally find it to be quite funny. The show revolves around cute cuddly animals with all kinds of graphic violence. A particular example I can think of is where Toothy the beaver gets his eyeball stuck under a lollipop. The show is very creative and I enjoy the characters and plots even more than the graphic violence. My favorite character on the show is Nutty, the little squirrel with candy attached to him and my second favorite is probably Flaky, the little shy porcupine who can sometimes be very funny through her actions since the characters rarely speak.
#5:Phineas and Ferb - This show was one of the better Disney Channel animated shows. In the late 2000s, Disney Channel had nothing but tween sitcoms with annoying canned laughter at the time. I found it ridiculous because Walt Disney was an animator and would not approve of the lack of cartoons on the channel named after him, but then Phineas and Ferb came along:a creative and original show about two boys who create inventions along with their secret agent pet platypus. I have never seen a platypus on a cartoon before and found that to be very original as well plus the characters especially Doofenshmirtz, Phineas, Candace, and Baljeet were all hilarious in their own way as well, I recommend this show to people who like strange but creative adventure shows.
#4:Gravity Falls - Disney Channel, you have outdone yourselves again! Gravity Falls was a show about two twins named Dipper and Mabel who go to their great uncle Stan's house for the summer and all kinds of crazy things happen. This show dealt with all kinds of unknown paranormal things from gnomes to Bigfoot to minotaurs to time travel, this show had it all. I felt that the plot was the best part of this show as I like series with plots that twist and turn. I feel as if not enough kid shows have that ongoing plot to it and the humor was really witty and creative as well, it reminded me of the humor on The Simpsons in some ways. All in all, Gravity Falls was one of the best examples of how great this current era of cartoons is and I still miss it.
#3:Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends - Speaking of creative shows with great humor and original characters, let me take you to the wild world of Foster's. This show was about a boy named Mac who took his imaginary friend Bloo to a foster home for imaginary friends when his Mom thinks he's too old to have an imaginary friends. While I did like the show's core cast, I thought the characters that added later on specifically Goo, Cheese, and Jackie Khones were some of the best ones. Goo was one of the most imaginative kids in town but her problem was, when she started imagining, things she can't stop and since they live in a world where imaginary friends are real, this made this even more complicated and also made one of my favorite episodes what it was. I really liked Foster's and will still watch it to this day if their playing reruns.
#2:MAD - If your looking for a show with a plot with twists and turns, look elsewhere. MAD had no plot or main characters and was just a bunch of random animated pop culture parodies. A lot of people compared this show to Robot Chicken during it's original run, and while I do see the resemblance, I never really associated it with that. MAD was based off of Mad Magazine and had a lot of similarities and injokes for people who are fans of the magazine itself. It deserved to be called MAD way more than Mad TV because it actually felt like the magazine coming to life on the screen, Mad TV was just a Saturday Night Live-type show with occasional Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin references. But MAD had a Spy vs. Spy in every single episode and considering I like the magazine, that really made me like the show even more, but the best part about MAD in my opinion, was the parodies. While they were very topical (just like the magazine) and may not hold up years later, they were still very funny and witty. Sure some of it was gross and weird, but it's MAD, what do you expect? This show was a very entertaining show that would keep the ever-so-happy Alfred E. Neuman smiling proudly.
#1:Bob's Burgers - Wow, I have never seen a cartoon as good as Bob's Burgers. It has all the qualities of a great show:it has good writing, the characters are awesome, the music is good and funny, the pop culture references don't feel dated, the animation is top notch, and the voice acting is perfect. I love all the characters on this show, there's seriously not one that I don't like. Even the background characters are really good take Zeke for example, Zeke is a boy who goes to the Belcher's school and is rarely ever shown, but when he is, he is very funny. Every episode of this show is wonderfully writing, well thought out, and has great voice acting talent, to be honest, there's not one episode I don't like. But just a little a warning before you watch it:this show is not for kids. It may not be offensive like Family Guy and South Park, but it is edgy and I wouldn't recommend show it to a 3rd or 4th Grader as it may teach them words and other things that their not supposed to know in the first place.
Well, that wraps up today's blog. See ya soon, :D.
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