I'll start a bunch of lists of our beloved toons, since I can't think of a top 100 list right now. Anyway, here's our first:
10: Muppet Babies:
Yes, I know you all probably hate watching your favoirte toonsters turned to babies, but MB did spark a new style.
9: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?:
The perfect combination of slapstick humor and adventure.
8: He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe:
Proved that commericals can be cool.
7: The Ren & Stimpy Show:
Gross-out is so common in comedy now, that you can't help but say "You Eedoit!!!!"
6: The Huckleberry Hound Show:
The first animated series to win an emmy. And not the last. Oh, and also introduced Yogi Bear, too.
5: Batman: The Animated Series:
During a time of the FCC considering cartoon violence a no-no, B:TAS came over and proved that you don't need to be extremely violent to be taken seriously. It introduced Dark Deco, which is still used to this day to 'darken' up action toons, and started a serious action animation revoulation.
4: The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show:
Although Crusader Rabbit proceeded it by nearly a decade, this toon helped prove that you don't need to spend 25 cents to watch a cartoon, and also started adding sharp humor in them, making us more smarticle.
3: The Simpsons:
Not the first adult-oriented animated series, Simpsons came to Fox during Married...With Children's peak, and the decline of primetime animated series (The last one with popularity before Simps was Wait 'Till Your Father Gets Home, preceeding it by nearly two decades, mind you.), changing the way we laugh at these drawnings. Simps added more blatnely obvious sexual and mature humor than before. The first few seasons, however, have become tame enough to let your children watch. Anyway, without this, we wouldn't have South Park or Adult Swim, so thank Homer and the family.
2: Dragon Ball Z:
There were other anime's dubbed here before DBZ, like Speed Racer or Astro Boy, but none had as big of an influnce and lasting appeal as this one(Excluding Pokemon, but it came to the US along with the cards and games at the same time, thereby deleting it from the list). DBZ was CN's highest rated show of all time still, proving that you don't need to be American to be hugely sucessful in America, and led the Japnese invasion, as well as starting a relationship between Toonami and American action-adventure fans.
1: Jonny Quest;
Without JQ, animation would probably be just a comedy affair, or at least for a while. Even if HB never did this series, and another company did their own action-adventure cartoon, odds are it wouldn't be as rememberable or serious as JQ. Alex Tooth's designs are still talked about and beloved to this very day, which proved to be more like comic books come to life than any other animated series based off of actual titles after it (At least until B: TAS). And unlike said series (including Tooth's other series he worked on, including Space Ghost and Birdman), it holds up almost perfectely, as anyone who are fans of HB, comic books, and adventure and animation as a whole can watch it and still enjoy and compare it to today's more recent series, like Justice League or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003). There's nothing more I could say, other than it is one of the most impoprtant animated series of all time.
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