- 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
Disenchantment
Nah too mainstream, its a netlix orijj for petes sake
If Netflix shows are too well-known then surely nothing on Adult Swim counts either.
Maybe the PJ’s
That one was a good one. It’s a shame that’s the show that ultimately brought down Vinton Studios, financially. They were the ones who did the California raisins commercials, and the M&Ms commercials, among other things.
That crash is what ultimately got Phil Knight,of Nike fame, to gain a majority share of the studio and fire Will Vinton. He then put his son, Travis Knight, in charge of the studio, and changed the name to Laika.
I had animation instructors who worked in the PJs before they were all laid off. Everyone was bitter about the Vinton getting fired. I did get to meet Vinton once too, so that was neat!
Drawn Together?
I mean that was advertised like crazy on comedy Central when it was on the air.
Same with the Oblongs when it was on adult swim. They had Will Ferrell on the show.
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.
Anyone else remember the Oblongs?
Frisky Dingo
Cat party is still my favourite ringtone.
Do you have bluetooth?
Cat party? It’s all about Dog Party now.
Killface 2028!
Master cylinder!
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
Everybody should check out the adultswim.fan instance which has communities for all these shows as well as general ones like !adultswim@adultswim.fan and !tv_film@adultswim.fan
Fritz the Cat. Not to be confused with Felix the Cat. Fritz the Cat was, essentially, an adults only version of Felix. And by adult only I mean pornographic.
I’m also not seeing anyone mention Mission Hill so throw that onto the pile. It’s hella good.
Also Clone High.
A lot of things listed here are earler works from well-known creators, like Clone High (The Lego Movie, 21 Jump St, Sealab 2021 (Archer), Bravest Warriors (Adventure Time), Home Movies (Metalocalypse, Squid Billies).
Extra shoutout to China, IL. Love all the oldet Professir Bros. stuff on YouTube, like Roleplaying Tornament and Queeblo that I still sing all the time
The old Brad Neely stuff is really special.
I think doing the serialized China IL broke him somehow…but the old stuff is some of my favorite media. There’s just such charm to this neurodivergent harmless manchild main character.
Salute from the old skool! And oh my brother, does the internet archive have a treat for you…
+1 for Clone High. I still quote it regularly.
“Precious cargo”… ☕️
Trip tank
Superjail
Tigtone!!!
I don’t see Aeon Flux mentioned yet. The Maxx is very good too. Duckman I remember being hilarious, but I dunno if starring Jason Alexander counts as a deep cut.
Duckman was pretty mainstream when it aired, but it’s been largely forgotten. Ahead of its time, humor-wise.
I’ll 1 up you and go with Liquid Television, where Aeon Flux started-- like Tracy Ulman & the Simpsons.
Mission Hill
I remember loving this show as a kid! I still laugh when I think about “douchebag” written in cursive.
Glenn Martin DDS
Assy McGee
Assy McGee truly stood on it’s own. Worst possible idea and they just went for it. Beautiful
Ralph Bakshi made an animated series for HBO called Spicy City. It is very adult, and not something I see mentioned often.
Lil’ Bush