Top 10 Animated Series

Okay, I am doing this list for no reason whatsoever other then I'm bored and I like cartoons. Needs no further explanation. So yeah.

Also, just a quick note, if you notice the high concentration of super hero cartoons... we'll that's just what I grew up watching. You didn't? Well this is a top 10 list, it's where I get to be wicked biased. So yeah. Moving on.

10. Futurama

Ah Futurama. The cancellation of which is another example of why FOX sucks. Basically, pizza boy Phil Fry accidently winds up in a cryogenic freezer and wakes up in the year 3000. The show from there follows his cosmic adventures on his descendants spaceship with his friends Bender the robot and Leela the cyclops. The show has the same style of humor as the Simpsons (it was created by Matt Groening, so that's kind of a foregone conclusion) while also being a sci fi show, which shouldn't work when you think about it, but it just does. And really well, too, because it's hilarious. And FOX cancelled. Because they suck. And Comedy Central brought it back. Because they're awesome.teen

9. Teen Titans
Ah, nostalgia. This was basically the show I was raised on, and I still love it to this day. Based DC's best-selling title of the same name, Teen Titans is, well, a team of teenage superheroes, featuring Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire. The show was best known for two things: creating Meriquanime (the fusion of western and anime style art design, though they kept all the weirdness associated with the later, much to my delight) and having Ron Pearlman voice Slade Wilson, which may've actually been the greatest thing ever. The show was just the right combination of hilarious and epic at the same time and was very much a big part of my childhood.

8. Young Justice
Ladies and gentlemen, lets celebrate a show that has... what, three weeks left to live? Yes, that other show about a team of teenage DC superheroes (this time Robin, Superboy, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Miss Martian, and Artemis, at least at first, they have since... expanded their roster, shall we say), the one that just keeps getting screwed over via constant hiatuses, general executive meddling, and the recent anouncment that they're being cancelled in favor of a CGI Batman. What is wrong with Cartoon Network? But don't let that discourage from checking out this great big pile of awesome, which includes some of the best executed action sequences any cartoon has ever had, ever. Get whelmed.

7. Spongebob Squarepants
Need I explain. Okay, fine, this show was, at one point, freaking hilarious, no matter what your age is. The only real reason this isn't higher on the list is because some time, I think around 2006, it quite epiclly jumped thoe shark. No, that's an understatement; it flew over the shark at 37,000 feet and then crashed to the ground and burned. But hey, at one point mayonnaise was an instrument.

6. Robot Chicken
It's like Seth Green and Matt Senreich once thought "Hey, we've got ADHD, and we still play with toys. Let's make a show out of it!" And I'm glad they did. Robot Chicken is basically a ten minute long weekly show that does a series of stop-motion vignettes of pop-culture, usually no more then 45 seconds each, using toys and action figures... with a demented twist. Said twist is the show's bizarre, somewhat sick sense of humor (some of the things they make the toys do may or may not disturb emotionally) that makes me laugh of so much. They recently concluded their sixth season, which, among other things, included a DC comics special (a sort of follow up to their spectacular three part Star Wars special). And it was awesome. Things are all set for season 7.  Bear warning, if you're at all interested in jumping on board, this is the single weirdest show on TV... ever.

5. Batman Beyond
It shouldn't have worked. But it did. It do oh so very much. Forty years into the future (okay, about thirty at this point), Bruce Wayne is old. Like, he needs a cain to walk old. Enter stage Terry McGinnis, who Bruce trains to become the new Batman amidst the crime of Neo-Gotham. And it was awesome. And it culminated in the greatest direct to video movie ever made, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (heads up, it's freaking disturbing).

4. Batman: The Animated Series
Some have tried to make the case that this is the greatest incarnation of Batman outside of the comics. I think people with that opinion have really got an argument there. Plus, Mark Hammil as the Joker.






3. The Simpsons
'Nuff said.











2. Avatar: The Last Air Bender
When I was a kid (okay, a younger kid), this was the show that my dad sat down to watch with me and my sisters. Heck, it was the show my sisters sat down to watch with me. Because it's that awesome. You probably already know what the show's about (if you don't, where have you been?), and you therefore know how awesome it is in every way, from the action to the humor to the story lines to the characters to the animation style. It's just... epic. I miss it so much. Oh well, there's always the Legend of Korra.

1. Justice League Unlimited
After creating Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, and Batman Beyond, Bruce Timm took on the immense challenge of creating a Justice League TV show. Said TV show's became evidence to Timm's genius. The show was simply "Justice League" for two seasons, with only Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, and Martian Manhunter as members. Then in season three they relaunched as Justice League Unlimited, incorporating nearly every character the DC universe has seen. And it was the single greatest animated series of all time, adapting the best parts of the DC universe into the amazing CADMUS story line, as well as putting a unique spin on classic heroes. And I loved every second of it. Plus, Michael Rosenbaum was the the Flash.

Alright, those are my picks, what are yours? Comment below, let me know!