Top 100 Animated Characters Countdown: #50-26

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the top 100 television series that was live action

we've done the top 100 animated series and the

top 100 animated movies so this is the trifecta

here with animated characters and i'll think

we're running out of animated things to do going

forward so we're gonna have to we're gonna have

to get creative but joining me today for this

chapter in the countdown is movie revolt Dan

hello sir. Hey how's it going? I should mention

Dan is the one doing all the legwork so he's

doing all the hard work behind the scenes so

I got to give him credit for that saving me a

little bit of time there. So I appreciate that

damn well, I'm not doing all the math. That's

that that's Right, right. I had to do the work

before we started these records now You're doing

the work as we're recording them also returning

as he has through the other two chapters of this

countdown is sketch How are we doing today, sir?

I'm great. Happy to be here I didn't think I

would get to be on more than two of these. Yeah,

as scheduling works out, it has played in your

favor. And you've done a great job commenting

on these characters, even though you've been

attributed to different things that other people

have been saying and all kinds of other stuff

on the comments board. Yeah, what's the deal

with that? Matt got you in trouble. I think Neil

got called out last episode for a fact that we

had wrong. So we do appreciate the listeners

correcting our mistakes as we kind of try to

juggle all these characters and our memories

of them. And another contributor that helped

us make this list joining us for the first time

on this section of the countdown, but not the

first time in these top 100 countdowns, Mr. DJ

Valentine. Hello. I'm merely here to supervise

the placement of Wally Gator on this list and

then sigh judgingly when the placement doesn't

meet my lofty expectations. That should have

been 41, not 40. Wally Gator is the greatest

alligator in the swamp. I'll have to know. Okay.

Yeah, we haven't talked about that yet. Did we

give any extra bonus points if you were just

the best of a certain animal? on the countdown.

It says it in the song, for Christ's sake. No,

I think old Leatherhead could give him a run

for his money. So we'll have to see. We've definitely

been getting a ton of comments on the website.

We're not going to talk about a lot of them yet

because we'll have a wrap up show where we kind

of go over everything and try to get to everybody's

feedback. But we do appreciate all those people

that have been commenting on the website. Dan,

as we... start today we're turning the corner

now because we're going to venture into the top

50 because so far we've revealed numbers 100

through 51 so we've had 50 characters revealed

what are your thoughts kind of as you've had

some time to think about it you've seen some

of the feedback maybe read some of the comments

and seen the discussions going on what do you

feel like uh that how what kind of job have we

done so far and then looking forward to the top

50 any questions that you're still asking Well,

I think with like characters I what I'm noticing

it it's just very challenging because it's such

a wide spectrum That it's always gonna be like

where are these characters? Where are these characters

and I'm surprised like we we aren't getting it's

hard to say not knowing the top 50 but It I'm

surprised that we aren't getting like a huge

section of like the primetime TV characters seem

to be Missing for the most part like the Simpsons

South Park Right to drama king of the hill like

those we haven't really seen any characters show

up from yet So that's kind of surprising So there

there are some black spots there I was I'm happy

to see we did have a lot of anime characters

on here of some from here Mizaki's films to Sailor

Moon some could I argue she should have been

much higher But like I said previously when it

comes to anime great on a curve when it comes

to us So wherever they land like go 20 spots

ahead and that's where they really are but So

the so I think that works out, you know, we've

had some things. I think some characters show

up that I wasn't expecting so far. But I think

there's been a pretty big mixture. So like I

haven't feel like, you know, we've had a lot

of Disney characters, which is to be expected.

But we also had a lot of Looney Tunes characters

last week. So there has been a mixture that we

haven't seen a lot of the 80s cartoons dominate

like we have in the past. So it's been it's been

interesting. I'm sure there's. A lot left to

still see but I think it like I said, it's so

challenging with characters because it's such

a huge spectrum especially when you're comparing

like TV characters to movie characters and then

the other side there's just you know, it's tough

so you're talking about Legitimately millions

of characters if you were to probably map it

all out down to 100. So I feel like just by the

The process of that, we're always going to leave

some people upset. And then the Muppet thing,

of course, we're just going to pick today. Yes.

Yeah, it's been interesting. It's actually almost

been 50 -50 on the website of people that are

OK with it and people that are very much against

it. So we'll have to see how that goes, if there's

any more that are going to show up. But one thing

you did mention, obviously we've been all over

the map. I think we've had a decent amount of

diversity. But you talked about trying to narrow

down the picks. And a couple things that have

been brought up on the website is, how you go

about narrowing down your list. And we've talked

about it a little bit in the first two episodes,

whether like Disney princesses, for example,

we've talked about, well, maybe you only allowed

yourself. a certain number of slots for a Disney

princess. Maybe you only allowed yourself a certain

number of slots for somebody from a specific

show or a specific franchise. Some of that's

been called into question a little bit by some

of our commenters on if that's something you

should do or not. It's obviously a challenging

task no matter how you try to narrow down your

top 100 sketch. A couple of us have said that

we have narrowed it down and only picked the

best of the best from a certain franchise movie,

TV series. Is that wrong of us or do you think

that's? logical when you're trying to kind of

do this process you know I I think it could go

either way I there's certainly some franchises

that have enough great characters that they should

have more representatives like think about it

from a Smash Brothers roster why are there so

many Mario characters because Mario matters Mario

lives matter. Is that what you're going with?

Apparently they don't matter as they're so easy

to lose And replenish yeah, but the thinking

that way yeah, I mean I could see the case for

either I think it's good that we haven't overloaded

the list with a whole bunch of characters from

a particular franchise or series and Despite

that there there definitely are some cases where

there are maybe more Characters than there should

be for certain franchises But I guess that's

just kind of the way it's gonna go when different

people have different favorites and different

people consider Certain characters more important

than others Right DJ before you go here. I wanted

to throw some stats out for the first 50 that

we've revealed so far in the In the 50, we've

revealed so far, we've had 14 females. So we

were questioning how frequently we'd get female

characters or if they would be few and far between.

14 so far. That's actually, there's been more

female characters than Disney characters. I guess

if you want to compare apples to oranges. We've

had only seven villains. So only half the number

of villains that we have for female characters.

And then when it comes to companies, we've had

11 Disney characters. That's leading the way

so far. Only five classic Looney Tune characters.

That's out of the first 50, only five, and they

all showed up last week with Porky Pig, Marvin

the Martian, Wiley Coyote, Road Runner, and Tweety

Bird. And then if you want to look at it, we've

only had one classic Hanna -Barbera character.

You know, we've had the five Cartoon Network

characters, you know, the 90s characters when

we were talking about them, but only one classic

one with Dick Dastardly. Four Pixar characters,

so actually more Pixar characters right now than

classic Canna Barbera and only one fewer Pixar

character than Looney Tunes. Outside of that,

we've had six anime characters in the 50 that

have been revealed. So given those numbers, DJ,

react to that. What's surprising, what's not

surprising, and how do you think that shapes

what we're still about to reveal? It scares me.

Especially because of the Muppet thing. I'm in

that 50 % of people that don't think Muppets

should be on here, and they're taking up slots

for other characters. And when I first, when

I kind of binge watched or binge listened to

the first two lists today, and when I heard Dick

Dastardly, I was like, oh. That's kind of a reach.

That's to be this high. I was like, wow, that's

high. And when Mulan, when you guys said that

Mulan was like, I can't forget, remember what

number she was. To me, I know we were kind of

making our list as basing it on character. She

is the best, one of the best Disney characters

of all time, period. And when she dropped that

low. Yeah, every other Disney princess, literally

compared to her, does nothing. Does absolutely

nothing. There's X Machina comes in and saves

the day, like a fairy godmother, or some dude

kisses them on the face when they're unconscious.

Other than that, if Mulan's that low, it just

makes me wary that I'm going to get Cinderella

in top 10. And I'm like, no. We've only had two

Disney princesses so far, Mulan and Elsa. Elsa

being over Mulan is a joke to me, but I mean,

I'm gonna sideline that. The Looney Tune thing

I kind of understand, because if you really think

about it, it comes down, for me, at least me,

to Looney Tune characters that stand out over

all the rest, to me. I mean, there's the... The

Animaniac characters are kind of their own separate

thing, but they're in kind of the same connected

universe. But to me, it's just those two guys.

I won't say their names, but you know who I'm

talking about. Stand Above. You know, Tweety

Bird and Road Runner, I don't, I've never been

a Tweety Bird fan because Tweety Bird does nothing

and Road Runner doesn't even fricking talk. So

I can understand the Looney Tune thing, but the

princess thing. And you mentioned Wally Gator

in the intro and he's surprised I'm just crossing

my fingers. That's people remember about you

know, Yellowstone that's Jellystone National

Park and picking bastards. I hope that's happening

sometime this millennia Maybe maybe I'm the only

one I am old. I do remember we were it was a

Justin Timberlake. He was the voice of Dan accurate

was running around there. It had a movie folks.

It had a movie. It was a horrible movie, but

a movie nonetheless Waiting for that Wally Gator

CGI movie, huh? Oh can't wait can't wait Dan

you brought up anime and we like I said We've

had six of them. The most recent one was that

that number 52 spot was Sailor Moon Do you expect

to see any anime in the top 50? Yes, specifically

from one show that involves certain dragons and

balls and Z's. Dragons and balls? We're going

a different route, apparently. So yeah, it'll

be interesting to see how anime plays out and

be the interesting like you guys have talked

about it You know Are we gonna see more of the

adult shows because outside of what we got with

a little bit of the Cartoon Network stuff with

like Space Ghost and Archer We have not seen

a lot of primetime characters So we'll have to

see maybe they're all stockpiled in this top

50 or maybe they just didn't get the love that

We should expect them to get so let's stop the

guessing and let's actually get right to the

countdown Let's get to our number 50 pick and

we're gonna do so by starting with a company

that has not been and heard from yet. So the

first time appearance for a DreamWorks character,

we're going to go to 2001's Shrek at number 50.

So my first question, Dan, is it's a first DreamWorks

character. Is it the only DreamWorks character?

Man, that's an interesting question. I'm trying

to think of what other movies they've made off

the top of my head. No, they also made Was it

them that made how to make you're making town

train dragon or so And I would say it might not

even be the only character from Shrek if right

Thinking so there's a good chance. I mean, I

like Shrek here. I think he definitely has Potential

like he's a strong character. I think the Shrek

franchise has certainly hurt itself by having

like four to four too many sequels and it needed

you know, it's the the first film was still you

know, pretty solid when you go back and watch

it and a little ahead of its time and great voice

work solid story, but Obviously with some other

stuff it went on too long. So but he also say

those movies were gigantically financially successful

I'm sure you know, mike myers is living in few

houses because of them. So, you know certainly

has his impact. Everyone knows Shrek and of course

his lovely sidekick, which I may talk about some

other time. So I like it here. I think 50 is

fine for him. So I do think he's worthy of a

top 100. I probably wouldn't put him much higher,

but so this just works for me. Five people had

him in the top 50, so I guess those people will

be happy that he's appearing on just barely on

this side of the countdown. Sketch, you had him

at 38. What do you think about Shrek starting

off the day? Think that's fine. Maybe a little

bit higher. I I think I probably read him too

high honestly, but Shrek as a character is very

iconic The the movie franchise has a certain

significance for sure so I think I mostly had

him on the list because of that and He's also

an entertaining character and as far as like

the hero of a children's or family movie goes.

He's pretty unique. You know, he's he's more

brash. He's he's not a prince charming. So it

was refreshing originally when when the movie

came out is kind of like a ha ha Disney. We're

making fun of you. But it's he's definitely grown

as a character since then. Maybe they stretch

it a little too far, but. Think he's a good character

and I I think this is an okay place for him on

this list DJ you and I are the simplistic review

crew and and I we didn't find a spot for we didn't

have enough room for Shrek on our countdown Does

that mean that you think he is not a worthy and

there's just that many more great characters

or are you okay with him sneaking in here? I'm

not a Smash Mouth fan. Oh, no No, Shrek to me,

I just think he's not even the best character

in his own franchise, as Dan has alluded to.

And I wonder, would it be equally successful?

Cuz I think they were gonna cast Chris Farley

and unfortunately he passed away. If he would

have got that role or whatever. I've never been

a really big Shrek fan. I know that they're doing

the Deadpool, break the fourth wall, make fun

of Disney stuff. It never really knocked me over.

I liked - this character who will remain nameless.

And I really like Lithgow's character, maybe

because I'm in the bag for Lithgow. Far from

what I believe his name is. Yeah. So yeah, he's

okay. I don't mind it. But when you talk about

best animated character, Shrek to me is like

not going to be on my list because of that reason.

Yeah, I think if it would have been a bigger

list, maybe I would have found room for him,

you know, the 150, 125, something like that.

I just couldn't squeeze him in. I do think he's

notable though. I mean, the franchise obviously

has been around for a while and had a lot of

presence in probably for a whole generation.

You know, Mike Myers is obviously very iconic

with that voice. And, but like you said, I prefer

other characters in that franchise more than

him. And I mean, DreamWorks, man, it's hard to

say. They're not real great. on the iconic character

division of animation. They have more ensemble

pieces, so. The minions would disagree with you.

Yeah, if you voted for groups of individuals,

I guess. But yeah, Shrek, I can see the argument

either way. So I'm not going to put up a fight

about it. So Shrek starts the day off with number

50. 49 let's go to number 49 and uh answer at

least in part a question that we were asking

earlier as far as where have all the hannah barbera

characters gone let's go to 1958 uh the voice

by doz butler one of the most uh iconic voices

of all time we're going to the original Hanna

Barbera character for the most part, Huckleberry

Hound at number 49. So he's been around since

the early days, the earliest days of Hanna Barbera,

and maybe doesn't get as much love as some other

Hanna Barbera characters, but enough love to

round out in the top 50 for our countdown. Sketch,

you had him at 41, so not very far off. from

where he actually lands. So we'll start with

you. What do you think about Huckleberry Hound

being the only second Hannah Barbera character

to appear? Well, I'm glad that he showed up on

the list. I was getting a little bit worried.

I think he should be maybe a little bit higher,

but 49 is OK. Huckleberry Hound, the thing about

Huckleberry Hound is his show spun off the Yogi

Bear show and the Yogi Bear show became way bigger.

But Uncle Berry Hound, he got like two seasons

and almost no Hanna -Barbera characters got that.

So that's pretty amazing in itself. And, you

know, he's lived on for a long time in those

old shorts, like, and crossovers and such. And

he's always been just kind of a great character.

He's just a simple guy. There's not too much

to him. I honestly I haven't seen that many of

the shorts, but he stands out in my mind So that's

why I voted for him Obviously, he's one of the

ones that kind of goes back further than most

of the characters we've been talking about, you

know, outside of some early Looney Tunes and

maybe a couple early Disney characters, but,

you know, all the way back to 1958. Does that

shed light on the fact that why we don't have

as many of the classic Looney Tunes and Hanna

-Barbera characters? Is it because of how old

these characters are, or do they get overshadowed

by maybe the bigger stars of their era? You mentioned

Yogi Bear. So, Dan, is Huckleberry Hound and

the lack of Hanna -Barbera characters more...

So because of how old they are or is it a situation

maybe where the few? More iconic characters have

kind of pushed them to the side. I Think it's

it is kind of their age and the fact that you

know They haven't really had the longevity of

some other characters really You know in a lot

of ways too because of things like space coast

coast to coast and harvey birdman they kind of

become a joke in like in not really taking very

seriously, you know people think of them as kind

of One overly one -dimensional and you know,

it's hard to go look back at them and think of

them as great characters because They're meant

for kids So people maybe don't have the respect

for them that you would if you were watching

them at a time and unlike the Looney Tunes You

don't see them reinvented here and there and

plus they unless they're getting really bad movies

like Yogi Bear We talked about so I think that

that certainly plays a role. There's also so

many of them, which is similar with Looney Tunes

and And there's so many of them. And I think,

unfortunately, a lot of them are lumped, like,

they don't have their own identity in a way,

you know, where like Hunky Bear Hound does. But

I was personally, I did rank Hunky Bear Hound,

but I never really watched that show a great

deal. And I didn't watch a lot of Hanna Barbera,

to be honest, minus a few of the big shows. So

I think we probably will see some of the bigger

ones, but maybe some of the side characters that

we get with Looney Tunes we won't with Hanna

Barbera because If they don't have the longevity,

people don't respect them as they once did, and

simply they have not really lasted for today's

audience. And for some of those, if there's not,

you know, outside of the clear cut kind of head

and shoulders above characters, a lot of times

I can see also with Looney Tunes, Hannah Barbera,

et cetera, that once you get past those maybe

sure things, it becomes a... Which one of the

remaining is just my personal favorite So, you

know when you're doing your Looney Tunes or Hannah

Barbera characters or some of those, you know

You pick those few iconic ones. Then you go.

Well, I really like you know, like like DJ saying

I really like Wally Gator or I you know I really

like Jabberjaw or something like that and that

might split the vote amongst the people as they

all kind of pick their favorite DJ Are you mad

that Wally Gator is not in the spot and instead

we're seeing Huckleberry Hound? I'm incensed.

No. I understand. My Hanna -Barbera experiences

is usually... I didn't really watch them when

I was younger. I watched them when I was in college

and when Cartoon Network used to actually play

cartoons. They used to play it like a... old

Hannah Barbera at like two o 'clock in the morning.

And that was kind of like my nightcap. And it

would be Wally. It would be Huckleberry Hound.

It'd be Jabberjaw, Galloping Ghost, the rest

of those guys. And through it, I had more of

a fringe hipster Hannah Barbera taste. So I was

like, well, you like Huckleberry Hound. Well,

I'm into Jabberjaw. You know Jabberjaw? But no,

Huckleberry Hound is very iconic. I mean, Laugh

Olympics, he was all over that. And it was the

one where Yogi Bear had the arc. So I mean, yeah,

he's he's one of the he's one of the big the

main ones with yogi had a meeting it was Huckleberry

Hound was in it Top cat was kind of like looking

on the back. Can I get in it? No, no Not in the

club yet. All right, so a hand barbaric character

falling early here in the countdown, but we'll

have to see maybe that's the Gonna break the

ice and we're gonna see a bunch more. Maybe not.

We'll have to wait and see for number 48, actually

tied with Huckleberry Hound, but one in a tiebreaker.

And we will get hate for this character appearing

in the top 50. So we are aware of that. So welcome

it. Go to the website. Comment how much you hate

80s action characters. Number 48. We're going

to get a villain, too, here. And we're going

to go with the one and only Megatron at number

48. So Hasbro character back from 1984 has appeared.

Now, one thing I want to get clear here. because

we keep talking about where these characters

originate and maybe we're not doing a good enough

job of explaining with some of these there was

much more than just the original incarnation

so you know when we're talking about some of

these characters Megatron for example has been

in 43 different tv shows movies and video games

etc so i mean he has been in a lot of things

so it's more than just the 80s cartoon i don't

know if that helps or hurts his cause but Regardless,

he's at number 48. DJ, start with you here. You

guys had Megatron at 49, and he shows up tied

with the 49th spot, but ends up getting 48. What

do you think? Well, Matthew, my co -host, is

in charge of that, because Megatron went in much,

much higher, because him and Cobra Commander,

for me, were the first characters where I was

like, oh, that's what a bad guy is. Skeletor

was out there too, but it was Megatron. And I

mean, you're talking to a guy who can literally

recite every line from Transformers the movie,

especially Megatron's lines. So Megatron to me

is the, I mean, they had to change him because

they were selling nine millimeter pistols and

Toys R Us. Megatron is iconic. He is the, and

it's voiced by maybe the greatest voice actor

of all time, Frank Welker. So yeah, Megatron's

awesome in every shape or form. You have to understand,

you're going against Optimus Prime, who is essentially

the trifecta of the greatest heroes of all time,

and you have to have a villain just as awesome,

and you do with Megatron. I don't like Galvatron,

I love Leonard Nimoy, but it will always be that

silver -silenced pistol. that blasts a hole in

Ironhide's head and that ship in the Transformers

movie. So yeah, Megatron's amazing. The fact

that he's low, if I'd have had more handle on

our list, he would have been much, much higher.

Did rank number one for one of the contributors.

I'll let people guess who that was. But obviously,

you know, we had the original Transformers, we

had, you know, Beast Wars, Beast... even though

some people would argue it's a different character

still called Megatron. We had, you know, the

animated Transformers show, we had Transformers

Prime. There's been a lot of stuff out there,

not to mention the live action films, which don't

count for this. So you can't fault that. Thank

God. Thank God they don't count for this. Dan,

how much hate are we gonna get for Megatron showing

up here? Oh, plenty, I'm sure. I mean, but we

might get hate because he's not high enough,

obviously, because we do have a lot of, you know...

Huge fans of 80s cartoon. So who knows that i'm

like it might go every direction, which is fine

It's it's what we do this thing for so I I was

one that like similar with he man I wasn't the

gi joe, but I like I missed the whole transformers

thing. The only thing I really watched transformers

wise was beast wars in the in the 90s And I did

enjoy that a great deal I don't know if that

one would count because I guess it's the same

character, but not really. I don't i'm not sure

the the rules Yeah, it's an ancestor, but we'll

let it slide Yeah, so but you know, I do understand

a lot of people do love him and he's a very fun

character You know and like he said Being a transforming

gun. I did have like the toys my brother did

so And he was a tank too. Like that's he was

always a little bit more badass than Optimus

Prime It's like, okay, you're a truck, but I'm

gonna go with the tank cuz that's that's cool.

So Sketch obviously we've had the probably the

three most iconic or three of the most iconic

80s action villains And do we get them in the

right order? We had Cobra commander at 83 Skeletor

at 80 Megatron at 48 I think of those three they're

in the right order Okay What do you think about

Megatron being the only one in the top 50 out

of that group? I'm okay with that. I would say

Megatron's the best of those three Alright, and

what do you think is worthy or not to be are

any of the three worthy? Or should do we have

too much love for 80s action cartoons? Well,

you arguably have too much love for 80s action

cartoons But if you're gonna put one of them

in the top 50 Megatron is the guy because Megatron

I I totally count the the Beast Wars incarnation

Megatron's had lots of great versions. So I think

Megatron just quintessential Villain for the

sake of being a villain though. Sometimes he

has more complicated motivations But I have always

liked Megatron so I'm good with it Yeah, I am

as well. I had him at 56. So just on the other

side of 50 just mainly the Transformers Prime

cartoon that happened a few years back alone

is enough almost to get him on there because

I thought he was a Great character in that and

that show so Megatron is in the countdown. I'm

sorry Steve that he did not come in at number

one But hey, 48's not bad. 47. Number 47. We

talked about the lack of this showing up so far

in adult or primetime cartoons. We're going to

get a character here at number 47 that fits that

mold from 1999's Fox television show. We're going

to start with Stewie Griffin. Stewie Griffin

from Family Guy coming in at number 47. So from

Archer to Stewie Griffin as far as adult primetime

cartoon characters. Let's start with Dan. You

had it at 50. You had him at 53. That's only

six spots off Stewie Griffin at number 47 Yeah,

I was wondering if we how many what she drama

enough you trauma cheese. That's boss me Family

get what family guys characters we would have

I enjoy family guy would like at one point and

I'm like Like with a lot of the animated shows

one went on a little too long and kind of got

ridiculous And I think a lot of it if you look

at like the progression of stereo Griffin That's

kind of the part of it like he started off for

this, you know Evil genius that was always trying

to kill his mom And I think once they removed

that element of the show and character it kind

of it lost a little bit of its luster But you

know, he he's a little maybe a little gimmicky,

but I was I found them consistently hilarious

and you know, he's a he's a probably One of the

best or one of the best characters of that cartoon

and say what you will but family guy has certainly

had a pretty huge longevity even though it's

been cancelled like three or four times, but

uh, so Yeah, I mean He's fun, so I'm glad he's

here, and I think this is a fine spot. He was

always actually my favorite Family Guy character,

so if I was doing the thing where you could only

rate one per show or franchise, it would have

been him. I'm not saying I did that or not, but

I had him at 51, so only two spots different

than you, Dan, so I have no problem with Stewie

Griffin being on the countdown. Sketch, you had

him a little bit higher. You had him at 35. Are

you upset that he's already falling, or just

happy to see another primetime cartoon character?

Nah, I probably rated him a little high I've

always liked Stewie. He was definitely better

early on when he you know, he was a little bit

more Interesting when he had that whole thing

about trying to kill his mom all the time But

they've done a lot of interesting things with

the character and he's consistently funny even

though the rest of the show kind of isn't anymore

so I'm good with Stewie being there and that

that's a good place for him Had I had a keychain

of Stewie Griffin hanging in my my first truck

for like ten years So I love that character DJ

any love for Stewie Griffin Or do you think there's

other more deserving characters from adult primetime

cartoons my co -hosts? They hate Seth MacFarlane.

So getting him on the list is gonna piss them

off I mean, I never really I like Stewie I loved

Family Guy for a very long time, especially the

DVDs when it was canceled it came back and then

you know, I was part of that you know, the people

who kind of brought it back because I was buying

all the DVDs. I think he really took off for

me personally when he got that relationship with

Brian that that to me was what made him more

of a, you know, a one joke character where you're

doing like the musicals or they're going back

in time or all that stuff. But yeah, I like Stewie.

I think just hit. I look at him and Brian together

like a duo and that relationship, I think. I

liked more than this. I like Stewie singularly.

You shared the story about your college days

and what you came home to watch at 1, 2 o 'clock,

3 o 'clock in the morning to kind of nightcap

it. And it was Family Guy for myself and a bunch

of the guys that I shared apartments with. We

would just throw that on when we got home from

whatever, the bars or whatnot. And as we ate

our pizzas or whatever we were eating, we would

just watch like three episodes of Family Guy

until we all passed out. So that's kind of it.

And I was like you. I was grabbing up those DVD

sets and just, you know. Put one on, and I don't

care what season it is, what episode it is, it's

perfect for the late night show before you fall

asleep. So I have a little bit of a love for

the Family Guy show, but not all seasons are

equal, as we've seen with a lot of those adult

prime time shows. Dan, I guess the last question

before we move on, Stewie Griffin here at number

47, should we expect any other Family Guy characters,

or is he the cream of the crop? I would say,

since he's not the face of that, show that we

have a good expectation of getting at least one

more possibly two. I'm pretty sure Meg won't

be on the list. I'll guarantee that. Shut up,

Meg. All right. We'll have to see how that works

out. 46. Let's go to number 46 now. And we're

going to go way back. farther back than we've

gone in quite some time, all the way back to

a Fleischer short from 1930, where this female

character originated, and that is number 46,

Betty Boop. So Betty Boop coming in at number

46. Dan, I think you had her the highest out

of all the people on the panel here. You had

her at 20. What do you feel like as far as Betty

Boop making the top 50? I'm glad she definitely

made it to top 15 I'll be honest a lot of that

is just based upon the longevity of that character

kind of just being one of the most Important

cartoon characters ever obviously one of the

first huge female characters that was on her

own was not like a Minnie Mouse to Mickey Mouse

So I that definitely made me rank her higher.

You know, I'm not a huge The story when it comes

to actually watching a lot of Betty Boop cartoons

I actually have seen a few back in my day, but

I think they used to run some during like, you

know turn classic movies and we used to watch

those a lot with my with my family so I've seen

a few but not a great deal actually there's a

comic that just came out recently with her and

I've not read it but I've heard good things so

I think yeah, I could argue she should maybe

be higher based upon the impact she's had on

the medium as a whole But I'm glad she's at least

on this half of the top 50. And I've done a couple

of top 10 lists over at Geocast Radio to try

to accompany some further discussion on those

top 100 animated characters. I've done the top

10 animated dads. I did the top 10 animated female

characters. And she appeared on that list. And

I kind of went into more detail. But I think

one thing that gets lost on people our age or

younger, especially when trying to compile this

list, is, you know, People today might look at

that character and say, well, that's, you know,

we've seen a billion characters like that either

in, you know, cartoons or actually real life

personalities that kind of fit that mold or whatever.

But you got to put yourself back into the shoes

of somebody in the 1930s. And this character

was not like anything that had been seen before.

So I think it deserves a little bit more credit

than it possibly could get from these younger

generations. DJ, what do you think about Betty

Boop? I think Steven Spielberg ruined it for

me because every time I hear her name I think

of that Nazi digging a hole in saving private

Ryan and Betty Boop what a dish that's all I

think I'm old but I'm not that old so I remember

Betty Boop you know morally mostly through merchandising

because man They would sell Betty Boop. I used

to work at a video store and we had Betty Boop

telephone, Betty Boop mug, Betty Boop, everything

else. In terms of, you know, iconic, yes. In

terms of enjoyable, like if you were to watch

Betty Boop right now, I don't know. This is kind

of the most foregone conclusion ever. It would

hold up. But I mean, I can understand she's,

you know, Mount Rushmore of female animated characters.

I can see, you know, somebody arguing and I'm

not going to veto that bill. So yeah, I can understand.

Sketch, you only missed this one by one spot.

You had Betty Boop at 47, she comes in at 46.

Yeah, Betty Boop's gotta be on this list, and

she's gotta be in the top 50. She's just too

important, too iconic. I have not had that much

experience watching Betty Boop animated shorts,

but there's no denying that Betty Boop is an

important character, and for her time, a very

good character. Does she hold up? That's debatable.

But I think you really have to weigh the importance

and the iconicness here, and she's got to be

in the top 50. Not necessarily that low in the

top 50, but it's good. Agree, I had her at I

actually had her I guess I could have had her

a little bit higher because I had her at 52 so

But I agree that she should actually be in the

top 50 So I'm glad that she made the countdown

I was I was worried about some of these classic

characters that they might get left in the dust

We'll have to see how many do once we're wrapped

up with this thing 45 let's go to a completely

different time period Let's make a trip back

to something that Dan and or sketch one of you

guys mentioned early on in the first episode

that we might see a lot of 90s characters, and

we have to wait and see if that was gonna be

true or not. We do have a 90s character coming

here, a 90s Nickelodeon character, and that would

be first from his show, I guess another one where

we'd have to have the debate is he the best character

in the show or not. We're going with Tommy Pickles

from Rugrats. So Tommy Pickles at number 45,

voiced by E .G. Daly, and there, you know, Rugrats

was... Show that was around for a lot longer

than a lot of shows that aired in those types

of time frames, etc So it had some longevity

there throughout the almost the entire decade

of the 90s and had another series had obviously

the movies etc So Tommy Pickles comes in at number

45 Dan you had him on the other side of 50. So,

how do you feel about Tommy Pickles? He's a baby,

so How do you feel Dan? He's such a baby. I mean

I know. I mean, I like the Rugrats growing up

as a kid as someone of the 90s. Is he the best

character of a show? I think so. I think he might

be. I mean, there's Chucky. He was a little bit,

you know, the whiner and stuff like that. Maybe

Angelica, who was always annoying. But I guess

Tommy was that he was the Captain America of

the Rugrats, really, right? Slow down. He was

the Leonardo. Let's bring it down to earth. The

Duke, maybe. Is that better? There we go. There

we go. The Duke, yes. So it's hard. For a baby,

he had a lot of development, I guess you would

say. He seemed he was on par. As an adult now

looking at that, I'm like, those are the worst

parents ever that never watched their kids. Well,

Muppet Baby's nanny is pretty bad, too. Yeah,

yeah. But I like Tommy Pickles. I think maybe

a little high. But besides that, it's fine. And

we're missing our 90s champion here. Amanda's

not on the record today, and she had Tommy Pickles

in the top 15. So helping his cause to make it

into the top 50. DJ, your thoughts on any Rugrats

character making our top 100. I think, first,

I think it's OK to whine when you're a baby.

Second, I was more of a Chucky fan, and a Phil

and Lil fan, and an Angelica fan. That's because

Tommy was kind of like the captain. He was kind

of like the less interesting to me, because Chucky

had all that crazy red hair and the glasses,

and Phil and Lil were like the twins. They got

the little shining thing going. And Angelica

was just Angelica. She kind of reminded me of

Evil Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory. So I don't

know. I think he might be a little too high.

Just because everyone else around him, to me

anyway, because I like weird, creepy characters,

were just more interesting. So I think maybe

top 100, top 50, I'm not certain. Maybe a little

too high. Sketch, you and I didn't have him anywhere

in the top 100 at all. So would you argue that

this is taking up the slot that is more deserving

to someone else? Yeah, probably. As others have

said Tommy wasn't the most interesting of the

characters in Rugrats I would say that would

probably go to Angelica and She was the only

one that I even considered on this list because

as far as I'm concerned the Rugrats is a great

show But doesn't have the best characters That

you could certainly have your favorites. I think

Chuckie was probably my favorite I think Chuckie

was probably the favorite of a lot of us for

you know being nerds but It's also interesting

because it kind of brings up as something we've

talked about before if the show or if the movie

is more of an ensemble piece does that you know

make the character fall back a little bit or

Yeah, so we've seen that a couple different times

so interesting Isn't Tommy Pickles essentially

Kermit from Muppet Babies? Whoa, whoa, easy.

Oh, from Muppet Babies? Okay. From Muppet Babies

maybe. Okay, let's make it sure. But yeah, I

could see that. I could see that. That's a good

comparison. If we're just looking at those two

individual shows. Alright, we're going to number

44. I have absolutely no idea what the reaction

is going to be from our number 44. So I'm interested

to see how what you guys have to say about it.

I don't know if people will agree with this or

not. I don't think we've had any character from

Deke Entertainment. He has appeared in a couple

other with a couple other companies, I believe,

as well from the 1983 television show. Originally,

we're going to go to the iconic voice of Don

Adams or Maurice LaMarche in Inspector Gadget.

I don't know if it's more so that he's a part

of the lexicon when people say, go, go, Gadget,

whatever, or whatever. But Inspector Gadget's

making the top 50. I have no idea what you guys

think about this. DJ, I heard you laughing. Let's

start with you. Inspector Gadget, what's his

worth as a character? Great car. Maybe one of

the greatest theme songs of all time. But he's

essentially just an idiot. I mean, Penny and

Brain do all the, you know, the crime solving

and he kind of just takes all the credit for

it. And because of that show, we got the Matthew

Broderick movie and the French Stewart sequel.

We got Dr. Claw, Frank Welker again. I just,

Inspector Gadget this highs. Ooh, that's a reach.

Is this one where the side characters are more

important? Way more. And again, I am old. And

I remember watching Inspector Gadget just because

I want to see Catch Dr. Claw. I don't know if

they ever caught Dr. Claw. And I know it's not

Dougray Scott or whoever the hell his name is

from the damn movie. Who is Dr. Claw? Did they

ever figure it out? Or Mad Cat. Don't forget

Mad Cat. Dan, are we wrong putting Inspector

Gadget in the top 50? I don't think that's a

I think so. I mean Trying to I mean like he had

a lot of cool inventions. He was a funny character

He's basically Maxwell smart from get smart but

a robot and was it all the stuff he could do

He's a six million dollar man. Maybe I mean He

had a pretty cool like I remember correctly at

a pretty cool like toy from McDonald's or Burger

King back in the day But I don't know I I don't

I don't I could see arguing top 100 for inspector

Gadget and I think maybe similar to Tommy Pickles

this is maybe a Vote for the show more so than

the character, but I even I would say like Doc

Claude like I yeah He had a cool voice, but I

want to put him on this list I would say inspector

Gadget's a better character than Doc Claude But

yeah, I don't know. I'm not I'm not a huge fan

of it I might put Penny ahead of it, but maybe

it's a vote for the gadgets. Maybe that's it.

We had four people put him in the top 25. Sketch,

what do you think of the Inspector Gadget debate?

Boy, I think I should have put him on my list,

but like really, really down there. I don't think

he's top 50. If any character makes it on this

list, it should be Penny. She was the proactive

one. Exactly. And, you know, also a very good

character, inspirational to young women. Penny's

a great character. It's just a dumbass. He's

a dumbass. And Penny does all the work and Inspector

Gadget gets all the credit. I don't know if that's

a good a good representation of women at all.

It's bad. It's bad. But he is entertaining. He

is entertaining. You got to give Gadget that.

This is so interesting because we have all commented

on penny and being the one that does all the

work being maybe the better character Etc Note

for you guys every female that contributed a

list to this countdown has inspector gadget listed

I Don't know what's going on. It's just like

Hillary versus Donald Trump. What's going on?

So they must not have minded the the penny getting

no credit. I don't know. Maybe they like the

show Inspector Gadget, number 44. I'll let the

listeners continue this conversation on the website.

All right. Go, go, Gadget. Fix the list. Brain

did more work than him. Amanda's not here to

defend herself, I feel bad, because she was one

of the females and obviously had Inspector Gadget

listed. So we'll have to wait and see what the

argument is for Inspector Gadget. Iconic show,

I guess. 43. Number 43. Let's go back to the

world of adult primetime animation. Another Fox

character, but well Fox for the most part Let's

go to the world of Futurama and let's talk about

Bender Bender at number 43 originated 1999 voice

by John DiMaggio I Guess same type of questions

that we were using with Family Guy Let's start

with Dan is Bender the best Futurama character

and what do you think of Bender appearing here

at number 43? Is he that's a good question now,

I was having that challenge and I was making

my list and I still don't think I've really come

to a conclusion I think that's part of the the

brilliance of that show was that they were really

great at managing that ensemble in a lot of ways

I certainly think he is the best tagline. He

probably is the funniest character the most consistently

funny character I'll say this. I hope he's not

the only future on future. I'm a character to

show up because why not Zoe Berg, you mean anyways

I do like Bender a lot. Again, another great

voice performance. So he does certainly make

the show in a lot of ways. So I do think the

show would be less without him. I do think, you

know, some fry is a solid, unlike maybe like

a Tommy Pickles is a much more complex character

and Lila and others. So I don't know if you would

say he's the best out of them, but you certainly

are probably the most popular, I would think,

for the most part. So. My guess is if he's only

landing here, that's not a good sign. We're going

to see more, but I could be wrong. DJ, what do

you think if vendors at number 43 should we expect

to see any other Futurama characters or is this

the only one in the entire countdown? I think

Ben there, this is a Game of Thrones situation,

and Ben, there's Peter Dinklage. I think this

is like, they never put up a Game of Thrones,

never puts up a best actor, they only put best

supporting characters. I think Futurama will

do the same. I think everybody on that show has

their moment to be great. Even the William Shatner

ripoff captain, I forget his name at the right

at this moment, but like everybody. Yeah, they're

all great. So I mean, I guess if Bender's this

high, I don't see Fry leapfrogging them. I don't

see anybody saying, well, Fry is better than

Bender. I think this might just be the one representative

for Futurama. All right. Sketch, you had Bender

at 90. Do you think he's more deserving to be

on the other side of the countdown than where

he falls? I love seeing Bender in the top 50.

I didn't put him in the top 50 because I was

trying not to be biased. I love Bender. Bender

is a fantastic character. I don't think he's

necessarily the best character in Futurama. It's

really hard to determine because I love Farnsworth.

I love Zoidberg. Branigan's hilarious. Leela's

a great character. And I do like Frye a lot because

he... He has a story arc, unlike a lot of these

characters. And Hermes! Hermes is another great

character. This show is just loaded with fantastic

characters. But Bender is easily the most popular,

best well known, so I'm afraid that if you're

all thinking, like, I think you're thinking,

Bender is gonna be the only future -on -the -character

on this list. Is that good or bad? That's debatable.

I think... As far as iconicness goes, it's gotta

be Bender. So I'm okay if he's the only one.

I mean, he's the only one I voted for, so...

There we go. For anybody that was cutting us

any slack for having Megatron appear on the list,

I'm sure they will not cut us any slack for who's

appearing at number 42. Not a Transformer, but

let's go back to the 80s action cartoons for

iconic hero. Number 42, He -Man. So He -Man coming

in at number 42, started in 1981 in a comic book.

Obviously this had multiple series, three different

television series, one cult classic. live action

film. Yes, yes. All right. And apparently one

and one that's coming up, maybe another live

action film somewhere on the rise. And we've

been talking about that for 20 years, though.

So He -Man showing up at 42. We've already had

She -Ra and Skeletor on the countdown. So obviously

you would assume that this is the last character

from the Masters of the Universe. DJ, what do

you think about He -Man being in the top 50?

He man Interesting journey with him and when

I first when I started watching him in when I

was little It was almost like a comedy to me

because like he man's like punching the camera

and he's like hi. I'm madam He's like narrating

the whole show. I more loved the what the Cartoon

Network version of he man because with one Skeletor

and he man had actual battles because essentially

the older version of he man just whooped Skeletor's

ass and Skeletor would run and I didn't like

that I liked it when it was more even ground

and he was more likable and he didn't look exactly

like Prince Adam Also bothered me I think was

2003 I can't remember the year 2002 he had he

was Maybe like a 15 16 year old kid and he would

grow to be he man and his feats were just More

amazing and I just that show was great because

he meant would do things and you would cut to

reaction shots of other people and like Skeletor's

mouth would be like, I gave He -Man's holding

up this mountain. He -Man is pushing the, you

know, he swam around the eternity of four times.

So He -Man has always been like, you know, the

he's gone from comedic to actually really cool

and God knows what the hell Mick G is going to

do with him. I, I, I shudder to think it's going

to happen. Another character that all the females

that contributed voted for so maybe they like

that physique also He man appeared on more lists

so far than any character that has been mentioned

thus far so More people voting for him and then

voted for any other character. We've talked about

Dan You had him at 99 just sneaking in your countdown

very similar to myself I had him at 80 so way

at the other end. What do you think about him

and making the list at all? I mean like I said

I My list I think maybe you get to have an argument.

He belongs I Would I when we talked about Seattle

tour and the other characters that didn't she

write I mentioned I didn't I missed the he -man

craze and I never watched 2002 cartoon which

I know a lot of people would eat when we talked

about Skeletor would point to that and say you

have to watch that because it it gives a character

a lot more depth than the 80s version it's unfair

just to read on that so I I feel you know, I'm

unable to say but He -Man was one of those characters

similar to Shrek that was pretty dominant force

in the 80s He was certainly popular enough to

be adapted by Dolph Lundgren, which there's something

to say nothing that's against him. Sorry I still

think he's a little too high. But hey, what are

you going to do? I think there's an argument

for him to be in the list. To put him above characters

that we've gone over. I think Bender or Futurama

or Betty Boop or some of the other characters

we've talked about, I don't think he necessarily

stacks up. And again, I wonder if it's another

argument where you would say he's not the most

interesting character of his own show. Would

the villain or She -Ra be? be a better character.

I don't know, I'm speaking out of turn, but.

Maybe it's just the iconic nature that everybody,

well, most everybody knows who He -Man was. I

went to a Halloween, you know, a costume place

this year, just kind of browsing through. We

were picking decorations for the house and there

was, there on the aisle, there's a He -Man. Halloween

costume, you know all these years later from

even the 2002 series I mean, it's been a long

time since he meant had a show or a movie or

anything like that But still there's a Halloween

costume for a human and that's crazy to me a

sketch he man not on your list Should he be on

ours? I? Had him on my list at a point he got

bumped for some other 80s characters, but I think

He should be on the top 100. I don't think he

should be in the top 50 Right. I'm okay with

it being in the top 100 if you add in the 2002

series where they they flesh in they flesh out

the character a lot more and Get rid of the problem

of him looking exactly the same Regardless of

our problem. Yes, seriously Yeah, I think a better

character with that but even if you just count

on the 80s character because he was an archetype

character and I can't think of like a character

like him that came before him. Just Thundar.

Oh yeah, yeah. Ooh, Thundar. Thundar the Barbarian.

Fair point, fair point. And some would argue

Thundar is better. Not a lot of them, but some

of them would. Not nearly enough people know

about Thundar. But yeah, I'm okay with He -Man,

but I don't think you should be in the top 50.

I can see that argument as well. I can see a

lot of people saying he should be in the 80s

or 90s. Leave He -Man in the 80s. Yeah, there

we go. It was a crime that that 2002 TV series

got cut off when it did because it was about

to ramp up to even another level. But I can definitely

see He -Man being somewhere in the conversation,

maybe not this high. 41. We have another tie

at our 41 and 40 spot. So we'll go with the loser

of that tiebreaker at this point. First, a comic

strip. maybe mostly famous for the comic strip

character, but had a TV series and some live

action films that we maybe or maybe should not

talk about. Number 41 from Jim Davis. We're going

to go with Garfield. So Garfield showing up at

number 41. We haven't had a lot of comic strip

famous characters, Dan. So I mean, we might have

had some characters that showed up in a comic

strip, but not ones that were as famous as maybe

Garfield. So what do you think about Garfield

being here at number 41? Actually, I like I love

the 90s cartoon as a kid like that was probably

Arguably maybe one of my favorite cartoons during

that time that in The farm one is it? There you

go. That's the name of it. And and unlike, you

know, some of the other characters were saying

the lead character isn't the most interesting.

I think Garfield by far is the most interesting

character of within within his own show. So I'm

happy to see it. I know we had the great Garfield

Heathcliff debate way back in the first episode

of this countdown. And I'm still on even though

Heathcliff came first. I always found Garfield

much more funny and you know, a lot more interesting.

I always thought Heathcliff was just, I don't

know, something about him I found boring, but

I always enjoyed Garfield. And I know he had

a few other series as well. He had the computer

animated one and stuff like that, which I did

not watch. I think that's still going on. I think

that's still going on and it got a lot of love.

Frank Welker did the voice of Garfield in that

newer cartoon. I want to say it's still airing,

but I could be speaking out of turn. Yeah, I

myself have not watched it so I can't speak of

it But I think based upon them that 90s cartoon

version he did and this is going back to it I

think he like I don't know he got as brash as

you could for Saturday morning cartoon character,

you know, and just his treatment of normal I

mean like that that alone makes him more leave

for those So yeah, he's been in 29 different

TV series movies or video games Obviously a first

appearing in the 1970 a comic strip. You brought

up Heathcliff Heathcliff came in at number 86

Garfield at number 41 DJ. Did we get that right?

We're ready to party. We're ready. I hope you

bring lots of spaghetti. I love that cartoon.

I loved the Lorenzo music version of Garfield.

When they told me they cast Bill Murray, who

was essentially, Lorenzo music has been like

imitating for years. I was like, oh, maybe. And

then I saw it, the movie version of it. I was

like, oh, they don't care. And he only did the

movie because he thought it was the Coen Brothers,

not the, you know, and there was some guy named

Coen, but it was the wrong Coen Brothers. The

cartoon, I mean, I think... It holds up now.

I don't know when's the last time you guys have

seen it. The humor of that cartoon was really,

really like ahead of its time. And I'll give

you guys a dollar if you can tell me where he

always mailed normal to. Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi,

there you can see. We know our shit over here.

Deja vu, the feeling that you've done something

before. Deja vu, the feeling that you've done

something before. Deja vu, the feeling that you've

done something before. That's what he does the

opening music song and we're talking about Heathcliff

and Garfield. They both have great songs and

the Garfield how they do the song and then they

cuts every episode had a different Garfield would

cut it after the song and say some joke and I

implement that on our podcast and like it comes

directly from Garfield and friends. I love that

cartoons. Yeah, I'm glad if it's I'm glad that

it's on the top 100 people might say it's too

high But I mean Garfield everybody knows who

the hell Garfield is. Yeah and Sketch maybe you're

the best one to talk about you had you were the

highest ranker of Garfield in your top 20 So

what do you think of him falling here 41? I?

Guess I'm okay with it, but Garfield should be

higher Garfield's fantastic. I love Garfield

Garfield and friends such a fantastic show Garfield

was Easily the best character on his own show

though. There were a lot of great characters,

too Especially with the the u .s. Acres bit But

yeah, you gotta love Garfield plus all all the

other versions all of the like the specials just

mmm Garfield love Garfield Dan last question

on Garfield To see the best animated cat of all

time. Ooh. Wow. Animated cat. That's serious.

First the cat of who the competition is. Brits

and Felix, I don't know. You know what? I'll

say yeah. I think I'll go with yeah. Certainly

just probably the most famous and I always find

him really funny, so I'll go with he is. But

maybe I'm forgetting of something very important.

Hello Kitty. So sorry for you for sorry for you

for Preview injure my fearless friend You know

working on top ten animated cat list there we

go as I say ten years from now We'll give you

the top 100 animated cats and it'll be a stretch

just to find 100 I don't think it will but you

know, it'd be easier to find a hundred dogs Oh.

Yes. Because there's already 101 Dalmatians.

It depends. Do I get to... There we go. It depends

if I get to include all the Thundercats or not,

are they? Sure. Why not? Lionel, looking at you.

Every cat girl in anime. There we go. Anime will

finally get its love. Alright, let's move on

to the winner of that tiebreaker at number 40.

Dan, I got one question for you. Is there a company

we haven't heard yet from today? Looney Tunes,

right? All right. No Looney Tunes yet today,

and no anybody? Disney? Oh, Disney yet. Pixar.

All right. Yeah, no Pixar as well. We're going

to break one of those. We got our first Disney

character of the day coming in at number 40.

More love. When we talk about Disney, I kind

of slept on, I guess, some of these types of

characters because I was thinking more classic

Disney when I was thinking Disney. Number 40,

Scrooge McDuck. does appear all the way back

to 1947. Maybe a lot more people know him from

DuckTales and some of the 90s properties. But

Scrooge McDuck coming in at number 40. Dan, you

did have Scrooge on your list at 79. So we'll

let you start. What are your thoughts on Scrooge

McDuck? Yeah, I mean, that was mostly due to

the DuckTales cartoon and trying to think when

I was putting that together. You were doing Louie

or Funny, but I didn't really feel like they

had a huge spot. So I did I did rank Scrooge

McDuck, you know the guy who loves money he he

swims in money, which is amazing I mean, that's

a skill. I wish we could somebody could have

you know, he He has a pretty long history within

cartoons, but I think the DuckTales really brought

him to a new level So I think this is high for

him though like I think he's a fun character,

but I don't think he is all that Dynamic of a

character. I don't think he's has a huge importance

for a lot of people. I know, like, when people

talk about people being money -grubbing, it's

often like, oh, you're being a Scrooge McDuck,

but he, I don't think necessarily, if we're looking

at the characters we talked about today, he really

stacks up compared to those. So I think this

is a little bit too high. I would definitely

put him on the other side of the top 50 more

so than now. I think DuckTales the show is great,

but him as an individual character, I think is

strong enough to legitimize this placing of him.

And another interesting thing when it comes to

Disney is, how people, you know, because we have

Disney movies and all the famous Disney films,

and then we have all the Disney, you know, shorts

animation, et cetera, from the TV world side

of things. And it's interesting how this is breaking

down so far because we've seen a lot more of

the movie characters show up. When it comes to

some of the more classic Disney, we've not seen

as many. We've seen Chip and Dale, Minnie Mouse,

and now Scrooge McDuck. DJ, is Scrooge more deserving

than the likes of Chip and Dale and Minnie Mouse?

I'm gonna explain to you what nine -year -old

DJ did during a day. He got up. He went to school

He tried not to throw up after eating chimichangas.

He went home and he turned on freaking DuckTales

every single day for until you know They decided

to make it to Disney afternoon or whatever and

he started adding like gargoyles and stuff DuckTales

to me is where I kind of was introduced to screws

me ducks I didn't have the Disney Channel. So

I never got to really see the the older screws

McDuck when he's playing, you know the quintessential

Charles Scrooge DuckTales was my show. But the

thing about DuckTales is it again, it's kind

of got that free drama thing. Scrooge McDuck

is great. Huey doing Louie is as interesting

as him or if not better. You got Launchpad, Gizmo

Duck, the Beagle. I mean, there's so much stuff

on that show. And I know we're probably just

talking about him all encompassing, but If you

ask anybody about Scrooge McDuck, I think the

first thing they're going to say is DuckTales.

I'm assuming they're going to skip over the Christmas

Carol stuff. So if I'm going by DuckTales, I

think he shouldn't. I mean, I was a huge, huge

launch pad McQuack fan. So I mean, I had the

shirt and everything. It was great. But I mean,

Scrooge McDuck, I love him. I love that show.

It's ingrained into my brain. I can think that

it has one of the greatest, and I'm talking about

theme songs. You just probably do a list of that.

One of the greatest theme songs of all time next

to Tailspin. So yeah, maybe Top 100. I don't

know if it's, I don't know if Top 50 or I don't

know about this high. Sketch, you had him. higher

actually you had him in the top 25 is Scrooge

the the main the best pick for a character from

DuckTales if we're gonna exclusively look at

the DuckTales part of Scrooge McDuck? I think

so. I mean personally I liked Gizmo Duck in Launchpad

more but I felt like Scrooge was more iconic

he was he was definitely a centerpiece character

in the series you know everybody knows who Scrooge

McDuck is but there was also the the christmas

carol and yeah it's it's just he's scrooge as

in the christmas carol scrooge but i don't know

that was the version that's uh really that was

the version that i saw first probably of any

version of the christmas carol so that stuck

with me and maybe there's some bias there but

i also absolutely adored the ducktales cartoon

growing up and screws me duck He's also had other

incarnations and, you know, he's a good, consistent

character. He's not that deep, but he is kind

of interesting. We had Carl on this list before

and he's a much more caring individual than Scrooge

McDuck in a lot of ways, but as far as, you know,

grumpy old men, animated characters go Scrooge,

Scrooge McDuck. He's got to be up there. You're

basically telling me that I failed in my job

because I have not been breaking it down based

on age. Agist. Don't be an agist. Personally,

Scrooge McDuck, I must have, I mean, I love Duckdales.

I love Scrooge McDuck. Love Huey doing Louie

Launchpad, et cetera. It was not on my radar

when I was creating the list. I had Chip and

Dale much higher than Scrooge McDuck. So I guess,

I don't know, I would probably put Chip and Dale.

It's flip -flop where he they are and where Scrooge

McDuck is but hey a lot of you guys had Scrooge

Scrooge on there So you would you would play

the duck tail steam in your car and pump it loud?

All right, so Scrooge McDuck. Dan, one question

before we move on. Any surprise as far as the

ratio between Disney film characters and Disney

short or TV show characters? Disney had a whole

renaissance in the 90s with TV shows. We had

all the classic shorts, et cetera. Only three

of those characters so far against probably about

eight or nine of the film characters. A little

bit I feel like with a TV series since you have

more time You get a little bit more time with

some of the side characters. You may have an

episode or two Where you you have the side characters

kind of the first and foremost? Where you don't

want to get that with the film, but so I'm a

little surprised with how it's going But I don't

know I also makes me wonder if what the top half

is gonna bring like we're talking about how A

lot of people are picking one or two people from

a franchise or a TV show. Is that happening with

some of the movies? And are we going to get a

top 25 full of really important Disney characters

in the main character where the side characters

aren't being nominated? So yeah, I guess I'm

holding anticipation to see what's happening

next. All right, we're into the top 40 now then,

obviously, and maybe we need to make a category

for Nickelodeon. I haven't been talking about

Nickelodeon characters as much. 39. Originally

in Nickelodeon, 1999, still going strong, just

had a pretty successful movie. Let's go to number

39, which would be Spongebob Squarepants, which

maybe opens up a new debate or a new discussion

that we can have as far as, you know, we've talked

a lot about the adult characters, you know, the

adult prime time cartoons. How does it work when

we go into the more, and I guess SpongeBob doesn't

really fit that category as much because he's

a little bit more mature, but into the more youthful

cartoons or, you know, you think of the likes

of I don't know, Bob the Builder and then Dora

the Explorer, which are much more younger than

SpongeBob's audience, I guess, but maybe a discussion

we could have. Let's start with you, Sketch,

as far as SpongeBob goes. You had him in your

top 20 as well. A lot of your top 25 fall in

here in the last three picks. What do you think

about SpongeBob being number 39? I have never

liked SpongeBob, ever. But I can't deny how popular,

how well -known How long this show has been going

and a lot of people like him So I wasn't gonna

let bias get in the way spongebob Should be on

the list I will echo everything you just said

i've never watched a full episode of spongebob

But I did have him at number 35 on my list just

for the longevity and and how many people know

about him, etc Dan you had him a little bit higher

up at the like sketch in the 20 23 range for

you. What do you think? Have you seen spongebob

or are you like sketch nine? We're just voting

on basically iconicness I've seen a little bit.

I've probably seen more than you have not like

a show that I would specifically Seek out but

I've been in rooms and I've known I've had friends

who are really huge fans So I've watched, you

know by proxy in that way. So and I did I I don't

love the humor of the show, but I I can understand

why people do and similar to you I that show

has been huge for such a huge long period of

time and it's one of the most recognizable characters

of all time when it comes to animation. So I

think you can't deny that. And I can't say if

he's the most interesting character for a show

or not. He, I guess, arguably is. But I know

people love him as a huge deal. I know he's sold

so much merchandise. He's such a huge force.

So. I think he certainly belongs here. I think

he arguably should be higher because of just

because of that for sure. So, you know, he's

not my cup of tea, but I can recognize a lot

of people do love that show. made Tom Kenny a

very rich man in terms of voice acting. DJ, what

do you think of SpongeBob and his placements

and where he belongs? I will repeat what Sketch

said. I never liked SpongeBob ever. The only

difference is that's where my comments end. I

don't like SpongeBob at all. I am going to be

biased. I hate SpongeBob. I hope he dries up

and bursts into flames somewhere in the ocean.

I think that type of humor just never. Like I've

tried, trust me, I've tried. My sister is in

love with SpongeBob. She worships at the altar

of SpongeBob and Squidward and the rest of those

creepy people. I just can't watch it. I can't,

my brain is like, it feels like something's pecking

at my head when I'm watching it. Like turn off

the TV, do anything else. Read a book, go outside.

I've never liked my job. But again, I guess people

like it. I mean, I mean, this is a crazy world

we're living in now. So there's weird things

that you like. So I know, I know it's not the

right character to have this conversation, but

the kind of the conversation I was getting at

since we haven't seen any of those characters.

Just real quick, you know, the likes of something

like Curious George, Clifford the Big Red Dog,

Bob the Builder, Dora the Explorer, some of these

characters that have been around for a long time,

but are basically confined to a very early time

in people's lives, DJ, do they have any deserving,

are they deserving of being in this conversation,

or are we doing right by leaving them all off?

I mean, there's some of them that - So far. So

far, I mean, yeah, I can see some of them getting

on there, I mean, especially over SpongeBob,

for Christ's sake. I mean, I worked child care

when I was in my 20s. I worked for the YMCA.

And I mean, I've watched all the Arthur and the

rest of Dora the Explorer. I've seen all of these

shows. Dora the Explorer, I would say, because

it was a big deal when Dora the Explorer hit.

I can see that popping up or getting love. Clifford

the Big Red Dog, I can see you getting love.

It is a little bit more childlike than, let's

say, Transformers or something to that effect.

But I still think they are Recognizable. I mean

everybody knows freaking door to explore this

did the watch was in freaking Iron Man 3 Dan

or sketch any thoughts on that discussion on

more Arthur I wanted Arthur to make the list

man Arthur Arthur's is a good show long long

lasting show Arthur's a good character overall

So I think Arthur should should make the list

I kind of think he won't but I would be surprised

if Dora doesn't make the list I think it's hard

because a lot of those characters are they're

designed for different things right where When

we think character we tend to think a character

that's designed to tell a story designed to develop

designed, you know to evoke emotion where a Character

like a door is not designed to do that. She's

really just a vice to learn so like you're really,

really grating on the effectiveness of that cartoon

or device to sell products. So it's and I guess

you could argue some of the 80s cartoons are

like that, too. But so I think it's harder because

they're not they're doing two widely different

things. Now, there are shows like Arthur, which

is different. They're not designed that like

a door, the Explorer or Bob the Builder. Like

there are different bag to me. And if we're reading

them as shows, I think that's that's more of

a comparison maybe. But as characters, it's Dora

is specifically designed to only basically be

directed by the audience. So it's hard to compare

her to someone like Betty Boop, who is a full

-fledged character that has her own cartoon and

own story. So it's different. I'm OK. I didn't

really include them because of that. All right.

So we'll have to wait and see if any of them

do find themselves in the top 40 as we continue

to count down. 38. We're not going to go too

much further away as far as time period though.

We were at 1999 with Spongebob. We're only going

to go back two years to 1997 for our number 38

pick. A female character we haven't seen. Only

our second one of the day following Betty Boop.

Let's go to number 38 with Daria. So Daria making

it into number 38. Amanda had her at 28. So not

too far off sketch. I believe you and Dan both

had her on your list as well So let's start with

you sketch. You had her on the other side of

50 What do you think about Daria showing up in

the top 100? I think Daria should show up in

the top 100 I'm okay with her being in the top

50. Maybe a little lower but Daria was a quintessential

character for a generation and Considering I

The first thing I thought was, OK, what are some

really iconic female characters? And Daria definitely

comes to mind. So and there's not that many shows

that were made for the audience that Daria is.

So like teenagers, there's not that many shows

made for teenagers. So she also stands out in

that regard. And I know she's also a very entertaining

character. I mean, she's snarky You know, we

can all kind of relate to what Daria is thinking

constantly So I think yeah, she's a great character

and she should be on the list and this is a fine

placement selfless promotion the top ten females

of Female animated characters Daria does make

an appearance on that list that I did as well

So go check out further thoughts for me on that

post Dan. What do you think of Daria being on

the countdown? Definitely think she belongs on

this list for sure, you know when she was created

she was almost like the anti Beavis and butthead

in a way because I mean she started up as a character

on that show kind of branched out became her

own character and was very much she is very much

a product of the 90s and a lot like just thinking

of the way she was and she was like a voice of

that like Cynical generation I think in a lot

of ways Maybe a little ahead of her time because

we see a lot of voices that continue that type

of style moving forward in that car that Like

Beavis but it was funny and it had its moments

But if you go back and watch Daria It was a deeper

show than that of Beavis and put it obviously

and I think it got into some interesting things

even there was a great episode on how you handle

death, especially when someone dies and it's

a person you really don't like and so she was

a Especially being on MTV considering she was

pretty much the anti MTV person for a very long

period of time and just the way she would speak

and act so I do think she belongs here I think

she's a When we look at female characters, she

is she was one of probably maybe arguably one

of the best of the 90s So I I'm glad that she's

on air where she is and I think it's a good spot

and so Five people had her on this side in the

top 50. So they would agree as well DJ, your

simplistic review crew had Daria in your top

10. So what do you think of Daria falling at

38? I know Matt and Justin, they're huge fans

of Daria. I like Daria. So that's because of

what you guys have been saying is that she was

the 90s. And for MTV to do that, like Dan was

saying, it was one of the first. Because I've

never really been a Beavis and Butthead fan.

Again, I kind of shy away from the fart. you

know pick my nose humor kind of stuff so but

Daria kind of stepped away from that and made

it more you know thinking jokes and situational

humor that's kind of where up my hipster mentality

lies and and it was a female character who was

smarter than everybody else in the room which

i thought was great i like that that type of

humor i just didn't expect on a medium like MTV

so yeah i i've been a fan of Daria for a while

i mean Wish I heard something about them trying

to bring it back, but I don't know if that's

ever gonna happen Yeah, that'd be it'd be interesting.

I don't know how that would work I don't think

it would I think it would have the same resonance

as it did when it first came out, right? All

right. So Daria number 38 You'll have to let

us know what you think about her placement there

amongst the top 100 characters of all time animated

wise 37 let's answer a question we asked just

this episode, so we're already going to get an

immediate answer. So those people that are patient

here, this is for you. So number 37, let's go

back to a show we've already talked about today

once. That would be Family Guy, and number 37

is Peter Griffin. So Peter Griffin, about 10

or so spots, actually 10 exactly. Stevie Griffin

was 47, Peter Griffin 37. Dan, we put them in

the same order that you put them on your list,

with Peter Griffin being the higher one. So what

are your thoughts? I am looking at that that

may have not have been this morning sure I Was

drunk who knows But I mean like Peter Griffin

basically it's like let's take Homer Simpson

and dumb him down and make him a worst father

and that's So he's funny. No, he's on the on

the top 10 animated dads. I didn't put any of

those guys on. Makes sense. Makes sense. So,

yeah, I do think that like you don't get a family

guy without Peter Griffin. Like he he is that

show. Now he is he very much is the Homer Simpson

of that of that of the show. And he does stand.

Tall within all those craziness of the characters

and he has its moments and he's lovely lovable

loser you and he does have a few softer moments

here and there not a lot not nearly as much as

the Simpsons, but Considering how big that show

is. I think he's deserving of this less I did

go back and forth a lot when it came to ranking

of of them and I think and For the most part

I ended up putting him on the list because I

feel like He even when the show has gotten worse.

I still tend to enjoy him as a character where

some of the other characters I felt like Stuart

Griffin at this moment in the show when I do

watch it He's I just can't stand them the way

the way they treated him where I feel like at

least Peter stayed Consistent as a character

and I still find him funny compared to some other

other characters in the show Sketch you had on

flip -flops you had Stewie Griffin About 20 spots

higher than Peter Griffin So what do you think

about how we're how we're doing it or the fact

that both of them are at least appearing in the

top 100? I'm okay with it. Either way, I guess

I mean as far as entertaining idiots go you don't

do much better than Peter Griffin his shenanigans

are hysterical so I figured he'd be on the list,

I figured he'd be around here, and I don't mind

him being ahead of Stewie on the actual list.

I think I personally like Stewie a little bit

more, because you get more than one joke out

of Stewie most of the time. But as far as consistency

of characters go, yeah, Peter's been consistently

an idiot, regardless of where the show goes,

whereas other characters have dramatically changed,

become more political, Become skewed in different

ways, but Peter is he's still the same fairly

lovable idiots that you just like Peter no Just

don't oh He did it. He did it. Oh, it was funny.

What did I laugh at that? Loving at this point

DJ we had a lot of people talking about the lack

of prime time cartoon characters does a double

dose of Family Guy solve that? I think so. I

mean, Peter Griffin is essentially what if you

get to follow the life and times of an internet

troll? Because sometimes he is dumb. But then

sometimes he's kind of annoying a person that

deserves to be annoyed. And that's when I kind

of like Peter, when he finds that one person

on the show when he just... pisses them off to

the point where okay, this person is so I like

it more when Peter is portrayed as being a little

bit smart and snarky than when he's the idiot

because I'm looking for a lovable idiot. I'm

gonna go toward that other guy that lives in

Springfield. I'm not gonna really go toward Peter

because I don't know. I think homework is a little

bit more lovable. But when Peter is doing things

that are like smart when he's smartly pissing

somebody off is when I like him. And I mean,

the chicken throw down. Oh, yeah. If you have

a chicken throw down, I mean, though some people

are now like trolling the actual troll. It's

like, it's too long. I don't want to watch it

in five minutes. I got it already. I think those

are funny every single time they do it. So. All

right. So two Family Guy characters showing up.

Dan, is that it for Family Guy? Yes, I would

say so. All right, 36 moving on to number 36

Maybe not on everybody's radar. It's not gonna

fit into your Disney category or your Hannah

Barbera or your Looney Tunes or any of that stuff

But I'm actually pretty happy that he made the

list at all So number 36 from the world and the

mind of Tim Burton. We're gonna go to Jack Shellington

so from the 1993 film I think This is a good

pick. I think people might sleep on this character,

but I had not seen, he didn't make my list because

I hadn't seen the film until last week. So now

I have no problem with him being there. Dan,

you had him much closer to the other end of the

countdown at 83. Let's have you start here. Jack

Schellington, worthy of being in the top 100,

yes or no? Well, I think so I put him in my top

percentage I'm really shocked to see him this

I to be honest with you I mean, I know people

there's a huge love affair with nightmare before

Christmas But I didn't expect to see here his

name after we've gotten this far. So that's kind

of crazy For one, just the design of a character

is so unique and odd and freaky, even from the

mind of Tim Burton, who obviously has given us

some strange -looking things. And you gotta love

someone who legitimately is just like, I'm gonna

steal Christmas. That's pretty badass, so. It's

been quite some time since I've seen Nightmare

on Elm Street. Yeah, Freddy Krueger, that's who

we're talking about. Since I've seen that. Little

bit different. Yeah, but they're cousins. I'm

actually just kind of shocked to see him this

high. That's unexpected. Nobody had this character

higher than 20. So 20 is the highest he ever

got rated, but sheer number of lists that he

appears on gets him this high onto the countdown.

DJ, you guys had him at 41. He comes in at 36.

Are you happy that Jack Shalentan is in the top

50? This is a Matthew Stewart pick, because I

have to admit this. I have never seen. that movie

all the way through. I've seen bits and pieces

of that movie and I'm not a huge night band before.

I've never been a night before Christmas, but

it is undeniable. Like talking about Betty Boop,

the marketing of Nightmare Before Christmas is

like crazy. When Halloween comes around, you're

going to see that damn Jack Skeleton freaking

everywhere. You're going to see him on the internet.

You're going to see him in every Walgreens and

CVS you walk into. He is iconic, but though he

stole his gimmick from the Grinch, but whatever.

That's fine. I can understand him being on here.

I know my co -host will be elated because he's

a huge Tim Burton fan, and I know he's big on

Jack Skeleton. So yeah, I can understand him

being on here. Sketch, you were closer with Dan.

You had him at 92, so does he deserve to be on

here, but maybe a little bit towards the other

end, or what do you think? You know, since DJ

brought it up, I think he should swap with the

Grinch. Yeah, Grinch is dead. He stole, you know,

my Heathcliff and Garfield. Yeah, seriously.

Somebody stole somebody else's gimmick. That

ain't right. But I think Jack is an important

character, and he's a good character, and he's

an interesting character because he's not your

typical hero. So when you put him in this position,

he's stealing Christmas to, you know, to change

things. He wants to change things. And that's

an interesting character arc. And he's a fun

character. He's an iconic character. So I absolutely

think he should be on the list just a little

too high. All right. And for some reason, I think

I said Jack Schellington instead of Skellington.

So let me correct myself. I'm drunk. I was wondering.

I was like, Schellington, have I been saying

it wrong all this time? No, no, no, I just completely

misspoke there. So 35. All right. Moving into

our number 35 pick, somebody's number one pick

will fall with this selection. Also staying in

the 90s. So we have been stuck in the 90s for

a little bit here with Spongebob, Daria, Peter

Griffin, Jack Skellington. We're going to stay

there. Go back to the wonderful world of Disney,

back to the film world, though. And that would

be for our next Disney princess, Ariel. So, Little

Mermaid, Princess Ariel, at number 35. We've

had three of them. We've had Mulan, Elsa, and

now Ariel, Ariel, however you want to pronounce

it, at number 35. Amanda's number one pick, so

I'm sorry that she's not here to defend that,

her favorite character of all time. Dan, you

and I did not have it on the list. DJ, the simplistic

crew, did not have it on the list. So we'll go

last. We'll let Sketch talk first because, Sketch,

you did have her on the list at number 73. What

do you think so far of the Disney Princess vote?

I think in retrospect, Mulan should be... I think

Mulan is the best. I think Elsa is maybe the

most popular. So I don't think Ariel should be

this high, though she came before both of them.

I I put her on the list because I thought that

she was an iconic character This is kind of not

a great character I there was that animated series

after the fact and the spin -off movies where

she kind of grows her character, but in the initial

movies I Mean, it's it's one of those ultimate

you did something stupid and now everybody has

to pay for it situations so she's not the most

redeemable character but there is something about

her earnestness you know her fascination with

everything else in the world and that's a really

endearing quality to her like she's a curious

character she wants to know more about the world

certainly a lot of people can relate to her maybe

she should not be this high but I can understand

why a lot of people would be drawn to Ariel.

I don't think she's as good of a character as

maybe even Elsa, but I felt like she should be

on the list, and this is maybe a little too high,

but eh. You know, I said the origin is 1992.

That's obvious if you're just going by the Disney

film. If you want to go back a little bit further,

maybe 1837 would be a true origin of the character.

Dan, let's shift away from the Disney princess

talk for a second. Obviously, Ariel is in a very

important film in the history of Disney. Is she

the best character from her own film, Dan? I

think not. I think she's been... Arguably not

one of the top three top four. Maybe I don't

know. I mean definitely like the villain You

know flounder and Sebastian and then maybe Ariel

Comes to mind. I mean she didn't have her own

own cartoon series as well Which maybe she was

able to be more of a character in that but I

guess you look at her place as a Disney character

she certainly is an evolution compared to someone

like Snow White but still it does seem like if

you look at the That story, in a nutshell, just

seemed kind of, you know, all you have to do

is change everything about yourself in order

to win over some dude, which is surprising. I

don't, I mean, I feel bad because Amanda's not

here to tell us what she loves about that character.

You do have to recognize that Little Mermaid

is one of the most important Disney movies ever

made, and she's certainly a huge... part of that

and you know without her that movie doesn't work

because it's easy to be a great side character

sometimes it's harder to be Main character that

people can kind of rally around and develop So

I don't know like I do have some some some issues

with her being this high She's never really been

a character that I tend to feel is one of the

best Disney characters So I would maybe I would

definitely switch her with with a Mulan I would

definitely give it in Ursula or or Elsa mind

you so yeah, I don't know I don't I'm not I'm

not huge fan of where this is ending up DJ most

Best animated mermaid ever Sure, I'm gonna go

with Darryl Hannah from splat I Just say this

I don't want to keep beating a drum here But

Mulan won a war killed hundreds of people including

the equivalent of Attila the hunt to save her

father Ariel gave up her voice to get some legs

to get with a man. That's why of Ariel. That's

why I keep saying Mulan is the best because of

all of the princesses, if you consider her a

princess or not, she is the most badass of all

of them. She killed Attila the Hun to save China.

What the hell did Ariel do? What did she do?

I can't remember. I'm just remembering her saying,

I can't speak. I just want to meet this guy named,

what the hell was his name? Brian? Bill? Charlie

Whatever the fuck is it? I don't care I mean

jeez at least Belle was smart I mean, yeah, again

Belle also did nothing but sure I let it go because

it shows that she liked a man without his looks

So I give her that but again, she did nothing

Mulan killed hundreds upon hundreds of people

and took a sword to the chest and lived with

a dragon. What the hell did Ariel do? She had

a Calypso singing crab and a dumb fish and she

gave her voice away to some ugly sea hag so she

could meet a man. And I know it's iconic and

I know it was under the sea. Ariel does nothing.

If you write on a chalkboard all the things Ariel

does in that movie. And they write a chalkboard

all the things that Mulan does on that movie.

Hell, Elsa did in Frozen. And I don't want to

just I guess it's just iconic. If you're going

by iconography, sure, because she has seashells

on her on her boobs. Gay. I don't I just don't

see her has a great especially for women. I just

don't see her as a great character. I just I

know she's pretty and she does the stuff. But

if you ever really want to get into something

interesting, read the original. version of Little

Mermaid. It's way darker. Way, way down. We're

missing such a great opportunity for a for an

on air fight here. Again, I'm just going by facts,

guys. Facts. I guess you could say maybe not

what did she do in the movie? But outside of

the movie, maybe she made an entire generation

fall in love with Disney again. So maybe I have

an observation. I think Sebastian did that. Yeah,

definitely. How many redheaded females have we

had on this list so far? I can think of at least

three. Another thing I feel that I did not do

hair color or age. So I will... Where's Chucky?

How many blue -eyed blonde -haired characters?

Yeah! Anyways, we'll have to wait and see. Are

there more Disney princesses to come or not,

Mulan? There better not be. And now Ariel. 34.

So all right, let's go to another company that

we have not heard from because they are two different

companies, folks. Let's not lump them together.

Let's go to the world of Pixar for number 34,

Buzz Lightyear. So we've had. four Pixar characters

up until this point. We had Joy, we had Sadness,

we had Carl from Up, and we had Remy from Ratatouille.

Now we get Buzz Lightyear. Is that the right,

is he better than all the other Pixar characters

so far that have been mentioned? How many should

be still to come? How do you like Buzz coming

in at number 34? Any of those questions, let's

start with Dan. You had him right in the middle

at number 50. A little high for me. I think I

like Buzz Lightyear as a character But like I

think arguably you could say him and what he

should be a duo But obviously I think they're

probably more separated than a few I think with

with Toy Story he has a major role in the first

film but as they go on his role tends to diminish

a little bit because I think it becomes evident

he's not as Strong as the character or doesn't

really after you kind of solve his issue of thinking

he's not a toy like you kind of like lose a little

bit with I mean he basically becomes You know,

he has some funny moments. I mean, was it the

second film or the third one where he, they,

he ends up speaking Spanish for half of it or

whatever. Um, and you don't really lose much

because of that. And so I, I do think he's certainly

memorable. I know he also had his own TV series

for a while, which was like, as if a actual Buzz

Lightyear, uh, show wasn't taking place in the

Toy Story universe. So, and he too, I think probably

sold probably more merchandise than that of Woody,

cause he had a, he's much more fun toy to play

with arguably. But I don't think he has a stronger

character than some of the Pixar films, maybe

arguably Sadness and Joy, because we mentioned

I think they work really better as an ensemble,

but maybe individually they're not as strong.

But I think he's certainly deserving within the

top 50, but I think this is a little higher.

And I hope we get some more Pixar characters.

I'm sure we will, because I think there are better

ones out there than Bud Lightyear. DJ, thoughts

about what Dan's saying? I would say, I mean,

to me, Buzz is probably top three Pixar character.

I mean, maybe I can only think of two. Me personally,

I have one that probably won't be on the list

better than him. It's just a personal preference.

But again, we're going toward iconography again.

You go to frickin Disney World and see Buzz Lightyear.

Every place you turn is a Buzz Lightyear standing

right there, dancing in front of you. Buzz Lightyear

to Star Command. Come in, Star Command. Star

Command, come in. Do you read me? Why don't they

answer? My ship! Blast! This'll take weeks to

repair. Buzz light your mission log, start 8

-4 -0 -7 -2. My ship has run off course en route

to sector 12. I've crash landed on a strange

planet. The impact must have awoken me from hypersleep.

Terrain seems a bit unstable. No readout yet

if the air is breathable. And there seems to

be no sign of intelligent life anywhere. I would

think he'd be way higher than this, so I don't

know. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not a huge Buzz Lightyear

fan, but I know the guy is ever he is One half

of that one of the greatest trilogies of all

time. So All right sketch. What are your thoughts

on it? I Believe buzz was the only Pixar character

that I had on my list because he's easily the

most iconic Definitely gonna sell the most merchandise

and he had a Buzz Lightyear Star Command animated

series where you got other sides to the character.

He is kind of one -notish, and then he's just

kind of in the background, and then he's one

-notish again. But... I don't know, I don't want

to get... There's two different ways that you

look at characters. There's characters that are

really well -rounded, well -developed, well -written,

and then there are other characters that are

just entertaining, or iconic, fun, all these

things. And I think Buzz is more on that sector.

Whereas some of the other Pixar characters on

this list are more Well -rounded better written

characters that you might get more of an emotional

arc with Well, you definitely would get more

of an emotional arc with well, so I Think as

far as iconic and this goes buzz should be on

the list. I think he's too high but Yeah, he's

way too high We'll have to wait and see how the

Pixar fans believe these characters should fall,

perhaps. Interesting too, because we spent most

of today talking about characters that were more

famous for TV shows. Now all of a sudden we see

ourselves in the kind of middle of a film version

here with Jack, Skeleton, Ariel, and now Buzz.

33. We're going to continue that and more film

characters here in our number 33 spot. From the

1999 film, let's go with Iron Giant for number

33. So Iron Giant. Possibly you could trace his

origin back to 1968 if you'd like to be technical,

but 1999 was the film that made him most famous.

Iron Giant at number 33. Daniel had him about

15 spots higher. What do you think of the Iron

Giant showing up at number 33? I feel like we've

gone a little bit with characters that don't

speak at all. And I think this is, there's a

lot of robots that don't speak. We might get

to another one coming up, but who knows? He kind

of takes the mold of, you know, Steven Spielberg

is, even though he technically didn't direct

it, but I'm sure he had, I think, some hand in

it, and Brad Bird kind of took the Spielberg

technique of the boy and his dog, but this is

the boy and his robot, and he does become a character

that you just kind of fall in love with, and

which makes kind of the way that movie develops

all the more tragic. I love the design of the

character, the, you know, the almost steampunk

niche of him. He leads to a lot of great humor.

He has a great heart. And even though he not

necessarily the largest vocabulary in the world,

what there is effective. And, you know, he also

the voice performance of Vin Diesel here also

led to Grooch. So you got to give give us some

love there in some ways. So. Yeah, and I enjoyed

I do like iron giant a lot as a movie and I think

he's a big reason why the movie works So I think

it's he certainly is deserving of displacement

Yeah, iron giant the film also got a lot of love

obviously with our animated film listing Interesting

thing on this one is the main reason iron giant

falls where he does here is because of how high

most people had him rated He's actually on less

on fewer lists than everybody today except for

Huckleberry Hound and Betty Boop Those are the

three characters on the fewest list today that

still had enough points So a lot of people are

reading the iron giant very high DJ Top 50 animated

character of all time, yes or no? For me, yes.

At my day job, I was bringing up, we get to pick

which movies, I work in making apps for movies,

and we were trying to pick which movies to do,

and I was like, we gotta do Iron Giant. And a

lot of people around me were like, dude, people

really like Iron Giant? I'm like, are you kidding

me? Iron Giant as a film is great. I mean, I

guess easily, this is not saying much, easily

the best Vin Diesel performance, but I do like

the whole relationship between him and Hogarth

and the Superman imagery. And the only thing

that pisses me off about the movie is that we

never got the, I guess, sequel that it looked

like it was setting up. I don't want to spoil

the movie, but it kind of ends in a note where

like, oh, maybe there'll be another one, but

there never was. But I love the Iron Giant. The

only thing I think it would hurt it is that It's

a give and take with that character. It's his

reaction to Hogarth and Hogarth's reaction to

him. Him as an individual character, you know,

may be a little bit limited. And I know the DVD,

they kind of tried to flesh out some of his backstory

and it kind of fell out of place. So I don't

know, I can see it. I think it's a pretty good

position for him, I believe. All right, and a

lot of love from the podcast that participated

because Simplistic reviews and session film and

talking in circles all having iron giant in the

top 30 sketch not enough to Make your list. So

are you the gonna give us the opposing view on

iron giant? Just kind of didn't come up in my

head Iron giant's a fantastic movie. I think

the character of the iron giant is worthy of

the list I wouldn't necessarily have him in the

top 50, but he's kind of a unique character.

I mean, there's certainly some other characters

similar to him, but you get a lot more of an

emotional arc out of the Iron Giant than a lot

of those other boy and their robot type stories.

So I think among those, he should be on the list.

And I don't really mind him showing up this high.

but I'm a little perplexed. Alright, fair enough.

I had him in the top 50 as well. I had him at

number 26. I just thought he was a great character

and I guess I'm wrongfully or rightfully, I don't

know, I give bonus points to characters that

can be as effective without saying too much.

So I guess I'm part of the reason we've had so

many non -speaking characters for the most part.

I mean, minus Vin Diesel. I guess he earned his

paycheck. I don't know. But yeah, Iron Giant

number 33, I have no problem with it. I like

that he's at least involved in the countdown.

And I really don't want to reveal any more picks

today because I'm scared to reveal our number

32. 32. Man, I... Just if we didn't get hate

for Megatron, if we didn't get hate for He -Man,

we are getting hate for number 32. And it might

not even be deserving. It might just be because

of what has come before this. For number 32,

we're going to stay in the world of Disney. We're

going to stay in the film world for our fourth

character from The Lion King. So let the debate

rage on. Number 32, a rare villain pick here,

Scar. at number 32. I don't know who wants to

start, but we have some defending to do because

the Lion King is getting ripped to shreds on

the website as not even quote unquote a second

tier Disney film. Oh, come on. Oh, come on, what

the hell is the first tier? Cinderella? I don't

know, but it apparently does not include Lion

King. Lion King is first tier. Lion King is a

remake of Hamlet. Are you telling me it's a second

tier freaking movie? No, no, no. Dan, before

these two, these two are chomping at the bit,

so I'll let you go first. What do you think of

Scar showing up at number 32? I will say I do

think we have too many Lion King characters.

Like, I do think Scar is... Scar is... Scar is

deserving. I do think Timon and Pupa are deserving.

Mufasa, arguably, I don't think it's Simba. I

don't know. So I think two out of the four should

belong here. Do you love Scar as a villain? I

would actually probably, though. Flip -flop him

and Melissa Maleficent. I do enjoy you think

Maleficent as a whole more as a kid as a Filmed

and scarred though. You do have the scar credit.

He did kind of win for a very long period of

time He did accomplish his goal and you know

kill Mufasa, which is no spoiler alert He also

secretly killed Bami's mom too, it's weird His

nickname is the African sniper So that's why

we know Lion King is a first -tier Disney movie

No, so I do like sky great voice performance

he's got a pretty solid song as well, you know,

he is You talked about the remake of hamlet and

he very much is that it even has like a kind

of some fascist Elements to do is the song is

in his character. So I like scar a lot of he's

a fun character And I love his little back and

forth with simba and his manipulation of simba

and everyone around him. So But yeah Before we

get too far into the actual lion king debate

dj when we're We haven't heard your thoughts

on any of these line can characters. We've had

four of them show up. Dan mentioned that we've

had Timon and Pumbaa, then Simba, then Mufasa,

and now Scar. How many of these characters are

actually worthy of being in the top 100? I think

if you're going to use them as a group, two of

them, Scar and Timon and Pumbaa. Mufasa is great,

but he's limited. He's not in it enough. I mean,

though people, you say Mufasa, I don't know what

the hell you're talking about, but I think when

it comes to Villains in Disney scar is to me

one of the big ones and he's probably the most

interesting character in the movie for me for

me personally and second to that is the Timon

and Pumbaa role who are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

of the movie So much if so in Lion King one and

a half. They did the Rosencrantz and Gillen's

look at me to say this Okay, love or hate scar

lover hate Timon and Pumbaa when I'm on the list

or not. You cannot in a straight face say Lion

King is a second tier movie in Disney. Have you

seen Thumbelina or any of these other fly -by

-night Disney films, The Princess and the Frog?

Lion King beats the crap out of all of them.

They were teaching Lion King in school. I had

to learn Latin and they made us watch Lion King

in Spanish. Lion King is essentially one of the

big... big movies, for some to say it's second

tier, second tier, what the hell is first tier?

What are you talking about? You can't say Pixar,

because if you slide Pixar out of there, what

the hell is first tier? What's above The Lion

King? Maybe Beauty and the Beast, maybe, but

that's about it. Yeah, I mean, the argument usually

is more so is Lion King the best Disney film

of all time or not. So I've never had someone

say it's second tier. But he's not here to defend

himself, so I'm not going to bash on him too

much. Sketch, real quick to get your opinion.

And Dan brought up something I want to get your

thoughts on. We had Maleficent way down at 69.

Now Scar at 32. Is Scar a better Disney villain

than Maleficent? I like Scar more. Yeah, I'll

say that much. I think Maleficent should be higher

than scar for significance and just plain evilness

but scar is such a amazing manipulator and like

you said he he did win for a significant amount

of time and he's and the song and All of the

stuff that he did to get where he is. He's he's

the villain. You love to hate because he's such

an asshole. The things that he did to his own

family, my gosh, what a terrible, terrible thing.

My gosh, man, how can you not respect that? As

far as iconic villains go, Scar has got to be

up there. Perhaps we've been discounting the

fact, like Dan kind of brought up, but if you

look at the villains that we've had in the top

100, the only two that have made the top 50 so

far, both killed somebody. We had Megatron and

Scar show up here, so maybe there's something

with actually being able to deal that deadly

blow. There's a lot of unaffected villains. Dan,

do we have any room for the hyenas or Rafiki

or anybody else from the line? Maybe one of the

giraffes from the circle of life So yes scar

and one of the cream -filled kind bugs We could

we can only assume the scar is the highest of

the line king characters outranking all the rest

and A high villain on our countdown so far. So

we'll have to wait and see what people think.

I guess you got to be king And about the Lion

King debate. Let's stick with Disney. Let's stick

with films But let's go to a as far away from

scar as you can possibly go. I think I mean basically

a polar opposite 31 and let's get out of the

90s for the first time in a while let's go back

to maybe 1894 or 1967 whichever version you want

to go with let's go to the world of the jungle

book and let's talk about blue at number 31.

So interesting here. We've had some Disney princesses.

We've had some Disney villains. Now let's get

to another one of those more supporting characters,

I guess you could say, in Baloo, although it

has a major role in it, number 31. Let's start

with you, DJ. What do you think about Baloo showing

up here? Love Baloo. my people might say it's

too high because Jungle Book might also be a

second tier cartoon or whatever. But I remember

Baloo from Tailspin. I saw it backwards like

I did with Scrooge McDuck. I saw DuckTales and

then I saw the Christmas Carol. I saw Tailspin

and then I saw Jungle Book. I never got to see

Jungle Book originally. And then I was like,

okay. And he was a little bit a little bit different

in the Jungle Book movie as a as a pilot in Tailspin.

It's tough for me because I love Shere Khan,

but I might be in the, I'm pretty sure I'm in

the minority there where I think Shere Khan is

one of those other guys that are super evil.

And I love what Idris Elba did with that character.

But I think Baloo just as one of the, he's just

all around great, you know, great friend, great

singing, all the stuff he does. It's like, you

want to hang out with Baloo. You know, I have

one, at least I did, though, like Leonardo DiCaprio

and the Revenant. But I think I still hang out

with Blue. He's just a great character. I mean,

that's a movie, again, that has a lot of great

characters with King Louis and hell, even Mowgli

and Carr, Scott, the snake. But I think Baloo

is the one where you walk out of there and you're

walking out of there going, man, Baloo is cool,

man. I'd hang out with Baloo. He's singing with

Scott Manker Brothers. I'd hang with that guy.

So yeah. Jungle Book was always my older brother's

favorite Disney film, so I got exposed to it

a lot growing up. And Baloo was always my favorite

character, but Baloo is easily probably the most

iconic character of the film. Dan, you had him

in the top 15. He shows up at 31. What do you

think? Yeah, maybe that's a little too high.

I love blue though. He's like the He's one of

those characters that you're just like I just

want to hang out with him like he just like he

seems like the cool dude and a lot of that was

often was due to my enjoyment of both that of

Jungle Book and Tailspin I would actually call

Jungle Book a second -tier Disney movie, but

not a bad not in a bad way. I don't I think it's

enjoyable, but not not nearly their best, but

I think he's The best character of that movie

and plus he's a bear that can fly a plane. I

mean, it's true, man So a pilot's license, you

know, how hard does it get a pilot's license

with a bear? I know and his plane is I love his

plane too. Like I remember like that's a pretty

Was it a sea duck? Is that yeah? Yeah, so Kyle

kicker is his co -pilot and yeah, yeah So I do

I do and he's got one of the best, you know,

one of the best Disney songs ever There's a lot

going for him, so that's why I ranked him so

high. Sketch, early on we talked about in the

first episode of this countdown, we discussed

a little bit when it came to Disney villains,

Disney princesses versus... more of the supporting

characters. We've had a few of them show up.

Let's talk more Lankan. We had, you know, Timon

and Pumba. We had Jiminy Cricket. We had Tinkerbell.

And you guys had said, well, there better be

some more still to come. Here we get one of those.

And Baloo, how do you feel about Baloo being

in the top 50 and the love for some of these

more supporting characters? Hmm. I wouldn't necessarily

say Baloo is one of the more iconic supporting

characters in Disney films. He's a great character,

and I think he gets a lot of extra points from

Tailspin. That's definitely where I got to spend

a lot more time with Baloo. I'm pretty sure I

saw the Jungle Book before Tailspin. But, you

know, I didn't have him on my list. I didn't

really think of him. I felt like there were other

Disney characters of more significance. And...

I don't know. In retrospect, yeah, he seems like

a fun guy to hang out with. Maybe not the best

role model, but at least he's a better role model

than Louie. So, yeah, so Baloo coming in at number

31. Interesting as how this Disney stuff is breaking

down. We hadn't had any for the first half of

the episode today, and now we're getting a plethora

of them for sure. For number 30, we're going

to go to something that we have not even mentioned

up to this point. I don't even know if this franchise

has even been talked about when we were talking

about the anticipation for the list, what we're

going to see, what we weren't going to see. And

I know one commenter on the website will be happy

that they're finally getting a mention. Let's

go to the world of peanuts. And number 30 is

none other than Snoopy. So obviously originating

in the 1950 comic strip Snoopy at number 30 three

people had Snoopy in their top 10 Including myself

and you sketch. So we'll let you start you had

it at number 10. It comes in at number 30 What

do you think? Gotta have Snoopy top 10 Snoopy

is a fantastic character iconic character. He's

very entertaining you get all kinds of stories

with Snoopy like Snoopy's great because he kind

of goes off into his own little worlds, and there's

been lots of iconic dog characters in animation,

but Snoopy is just way up there. Also a pilot.

Yes, also a pilot. Love for pilots. Is he a better

pilot than Baloo? Oh, no, no, no, no. The world,

I never know. And occupation. I didn't list everybody's

occupation. And occupation. Lizard Man, Lizard

Man, Lizard Man. I love Harvey Bird, man. Yeah,

I can't imagine not having Snoopy in at least

the top 15. I absolutely had to have him in my

top 10. Makes it number 30. Some more love for

a virtually non -speaking character here. Dan,

not worthy on your list, but what do you think

about him showing up at all in the top 100? Yeah,

I guess I'm not I'm not the huge is fan of peanuts

like I like them as a whole and but as the characters

like I don't know like I was when I was making

my list I Thought I would have a spot for Snoopy

and I was just the more I put it together I just

I just couldn't find a place for him all that

much and I know I don't know I just I guess I

don't I find it more interesting as a comic character

within within the pages and I do as a cartoon

character that makes any sense like it does so

maybe that that is a part of it, so I Mean I

can't argue that he doesn't belong here and I

mean I think he certainly has a huge impact within

the world of animation or what will you and have

you but I don't know it just for me just wasn't

one that similar to Sketch when it came into

blue for me when it came to Snoopy's not really

when I really thought of all that much For me,

I'm not a huge fan of the Peanuts either, and

I've watched every single special that there

ever is, ever has been, because I created all

the pages for them at BehindTheVoiceActors .com,

so I literally had to watch all 70, I swear to

God, there's 70 specials that have been aired

for Peanuts. And I'm not the biggest fan, but

if I'm gonna put a Peanuts character on my list,

it's gonna be Snoopy, because I do think he's

iconic enough, so I had him ranked pretty high

myself. DJ, where do you fall on the Snoopy debate?

I'm kind of sad because I am a fan of peanuts

a huge I mean I'm not huge but I watch it every

year every time this comes on but I'm sad because

this is probably going to be the only peanuts

character and Snoopy isn't my Favorite peanuts

character. I mean, I know he's the most iconic.

He's got a blimp every we're gonna see it in

a couple days and He's the spokesman for Metropolitan

life or whatever the heck for now So the non

-speaking spokesman, but I'm more of a lioness

Charlie Brown guy So but I mean I it's one of

those things where you see him. Oh, yeah, of

course Snoopy I mean I can understand him being

on there. He might be Top three best animated

dog of all time. There we go So future list.

All right, so Snoopy, our first Peanuts character

is your only one. We'll have to wait and see

coming in at number 30. 29. Let's go to number

29. We briefly exited the 90s in Disney, but

we're right back there for our number 29 pick.

And also the character appearing, I've said it

a couple of times, but now a new one appearing

on more lists than anybody we've talked about

through the first 70 some picks here. And not

even close, he's on two more lists than anybody

that we've talked about before, and that is a

head scratcher for me. Not because I don't think

he necessarily is deserving or not, but I cannot

imagine him being on two more lists than every

other character we've talked about so far. Not

a Disney film character, a Disney TV character,

and this one is Darkwing Duck at number 29. Oh,

yeah! Darkwing duck on two more lists than every

other character. We have talked about thus far

Dan is 29 too high for Darkwing duck or is the

love deserved? man Well, it's Batman in the in

the Disney world. So that's that I'm a little

a little surprised that it made it this high

honestly, but Does the way things are so I would

say it's maybe a little too much I I would probably

put him on the other end of the top 50 I don't

know if I would Feel comfortable putting him

ahead of some of the characters we've talked

about like even talking about Snoopy someone

I didn't list I would Say if you look at Snoopy

and Darkwing Duck, I personally prefer Darkwing

Duck more because I you know, but There's no

argument that Stimpy Spell has been a bigger,

a more important character than that of Darkwing

Duck. So I do think that's kind of a product

of people making lists for sure. You can definitely

tell a lot of us grew up in the 90s having both

Baloo and Darkwing Duck in the same list. I think

we talked about Scrooge McDuck too. So we're

going to get like all the Disney animated action

packed. Maybe a Gargoyle too will show up. Maybe

a Gummy Bear too. There you go. So I like him

as a character. I do think this is too high for

him But you know if it wasn't for the cinema

geeks actually he'd probably even go higher because

Amanda myself and friendly sent None of us had

him on our list only five people left him off

and we were three of them So a lot of love across

the board for dark wing duck famously voiced

by Jim Cummings DJ your guys you and you guys

had him at number 12. He comes in at number 29

What are your thoughts on dark winged up when

there's trouble you call DW? No Again, I follow

Launchpad McQuack. So, uh, Launchpad McQuack

was one of the first kind of like spun off to,

I was like, Oh, he's getting his own show. And

I was like, Oh, he's a psychic of dark wing duck.

But I mean, dark wing duck is he's kind of skirting

that inspector gadget, uh, kind of realm, but

he actually does sometimes win like solve a case

or, you know, cause he's bumbling and his niece,

I think it's her niece, uh, I forget her name

with help him out. adopted niece or adopted daughter

or whatever she does. It's very close to Inspector

Gadget except for Darkwing does sometimes actually

do something. But I mean, his fandom is rabid.

So it's not even surprising to me that he's this

high, because Darkwing Duck, to this day, has

a rabid fan base. But again, every time I was

watching Darkwing Duck, I was like, where's Launchpad?

Show me Launchpad McQuack. Gizmo Duck's coming.

OK, good. That's fine. Where is Launchpad McQuack?

I'm going to sound like a broken record, but

Sketch, you had an instant reaction when I said

Darkwing Duck. Does he deserve to be on two more

lists than every other single character we've

talked about thus far? Yes. Absolutely. Gentlemen.

Let's get dangerous. Let's get dangerous. I ranked

him very low because I didn't want to be biased

because Darkwing Duck is one of my favorite characters.

He's easily my favorite Disney character. And

to be fair, sketch had him at number 70. So that's

where he had him ranked. But OK, I thought it

was lower. But yeah, I'm delighted to see him

this high. I think it's it's too high. I would

maybe put him in the top 50, but. Put him about

where I thought he should actually fall in the

list for the most part cuz Yeah, he's it's not

the deepest character He does have some sides

to him. You know, he has his sentimental moments

He's he's a very funny character, but it's usually

because things are happening to him Yeah, let's

pretend let's pretend he's on fire yeah, put

out the dark wing put out the dark wing nice

try green sleeves How about pretending you have

a brain? I had it all under control till you

came and let them get away, Mr. Planetary Darkwing.

Why do I have to be a big disgusting clumsy dinosaur?

Why me? Why? Why? Why? Oops. Did I hear? Oops.

I did. I'm sorry, Darkwing. This is the second

most painful moment of my life. What was the

first most painful? Put out the Darkwing. Put

out the Darkwing. He's maybe not the most interesting

character in his own show, but he's really iconic

and I love him and all of his taglines. Can you

do the tagline? Can you do the Darkwing Duck

tagline? I am the terror that flaps in the night.

I am the gum on the bottom of your shoe. We're

actually only going to see seven characters that

were on more lists than Darkwing Duck. So only

seven characters in the whole countdown will

be on more lists than Darkwing. All right, we're

going to go to number 28 now. We're on and only

a few more spots left for today. Let's go back

to the world of MTV. for Beavis and Butt -Head

at number 28. Number 28, Beavis and Butt -Head

sketch. You barely missed this one. You had them

at 24. We'll start with you, Beavis and Butt

-Head. Just missing out on being in the top 25.

That's okay. Beavis and Butt -Head are very iconic.

Their show was something that opened the door

to other kinds of animation for... you know kind

of not necessarily adults not necessarily kids

but it's they're also fairly entertaining and

a voice of a generation so to speak so they're

undeniably iconic and the show is good maybe

it's an acquired taste i was never the biggest

fan of it i was probably a little too young in

its Hey day to appreciate it when it was really

hip But I think that they should be in the top

30 not necessarily the top 25 I just can't they

fell where they did on my list. I Don't know

but I think that's a good place for them our

number 28 pick Beavis and butthead DJ You guys

had this one in your top 10 as well. So what

do you think about Beavis and butthead being

at number 28? My co -hosted, as I said earlier,

I'm not a huge Beavis and Butt -Head fan. I was

more of a fan of the spin -off shows from Beavis,

which is, I think, King of the Hill and Dari.

So I guess they had a movie, man. I remember

when it came on. I am old enough to remember

their heyday and watching Beavis and Butt -Head

do America or whatever it was called. I'm watching

it. I'm like, man, it's like... One of those

jokes that you don't get like you feel like you

walk into the middle of a conversation like hey

What you guys laughing about? What's so funny?

That's how I felt every time I watched me So

I know I mean again I'm not faulting anybody

for loving it because it's just it's just one

of those jokes that I that DJ never got All right,

Dan we had Daria at 38 Beavis and butthead at

28. What did you think about that? I think that's

fitting like I I guess you could argue Daria's

probably A little bit a more complete character

than Beavis and Butthead. They're kind of what

I would find Beavis and Butthead more and more

entertaining for sure Just because I mean I think

Beavis and Butthead are definitely meant to be

more satirical than Daria is or Daria is meant

to be more of a more of a She gets her comedy

in a different way um plus you can't even similar

to like spongebob which we talked about you know

beefs and butthead were hugely impactful during

the 90s for sure my favorite part of the show

was always just hearing them make fun of different

music videos of the time and talk to those and

i did i did find beefs and butthead funny i Don't

know why I just I did enjoy that comedy it because

it is still coming from Mike judge You know the

guy who has given us some brilliant comedy and

I think yeah There are some of the TP for my

bunghole jokes But I think there is some actually

some some smart comedy in there as well hidden

within all the the crazy stupidness I mean, I

think it kind of you know Mike judge realized

he's also he is making a show for the MTV audience

But he also you know what hiddenly makes him

some smart references and things in there is

On occasion, I mean they are certainly a product

of a time. I know they try to bring them back

Was it like 2010 ish or so and and they did not

like it did not nearly have the same impact So

I I don't think you maybe they would have longevity

of certain characters like a spongebob So maybe

you would argue that they're a little too high

because of that, but uh, I I'm happy at least

and I think we may get Maybe not another reviews

of butthead character but I think we've they

have had a certainly like inspired character

like my judge Mike judge has taken characters

that were within this show and kind of Transformed

them edited them changed them a little bit and

gone off and made other shows with them So I'm

hoping we get a little bit more of the world

of Mike judge and when the animation coming up,

but who knows All right, I didn't find room for

Beavis and Butthead in my personal top 100, but

I expected them to show up somewhere. I have

no problem with them being listed. Like I said,

if I was doing 125, I probably would have fit

them in, but I just eeked out of my list, but

have no problem with them showing up here at

all. 27. Going to our second to last pick for

today at number 27. You guys have hinted at this

maybe, the possibility of this showing up in

previous conversations. previous episodes when

I talked about anime you said maybe we would

see one more or maybe we would see multiple more

but at least one and I think we're getting maybe

one of the ones that you guys were hinting at

number 27 Goku from Dragon Ball Z originated

in 1984 manga has been in 57 different shows

movies video games etc etc Goku from Dragon Ball

Z Dan you had him at 17 he shows up at 27 we'll

let you begin this one I did watch a good deal

of Dragon Ball Z. I think I came in during the

Frieza storyline and lasted until it spun off

and became something completely different within

Dragon Ball Z. I'm not the hugest anime or manga

person, but... Dragon malls. He did kind of work

for me. I Similar to like kind of it's a running

record, but some people may say Goku is not the

most interesting character within But there's

also different versions of him. You have like

the kid Goku. You're the adult Goku and I know

people have their preference but You he probably

If you look at anime characters recognize that

are recognizable to general audiences or United

States audience as a whole He may be the most

recognizable the most one of the biggest it's

considering how big that cartoon was i could

be speaking out of turn but i'm thinking he has

to be up there man he's good far better than

i expected him to be now still beat him kakarot

what's wrong i was hoping for a more interesting

fight you'll get one i promise AHHHHHHHH is a

nice trick, but I've encountered something just

like it before. There may be better Dragon Ball

Z characters as a whole. I know people love Vegeta

and Piccolo and all those. So I doubt maybe Vegeta

will make this list, but I don't think any of

the other ones will. So I ranked them that high

because of just the huge Impact that Dragon Ball

Z did have within the world of animation within

the world I mean tsunami and whatnot like that

I think got me to watch that and I'm that's a

lot for someone who'd like myself We usually

turned off because of anime just doesn't click

with me But he did as a character and he was

the thing I enjoyed most about that show so I

think maybe he should be higher, but like I said,

when it comes to anime in this list, you know,

create us on a curve. DJ, we could also talk

about Dragon Ball in the same way we've talked

about a few other things. An ensemble that maybe

doesn't have those, you know, standout stars,

but as a group is good. But we did get one character

in to represent Dragon Ball Z so far. Do you

think that is that they're worthy of having at

least one entrant in the top 100? Oh, Kakarot.

By that sentiment, you know I'm a Vegeta fan

over Goku. And I think what Dan is saying is

100 % right. I just think that this is a show

where we've been saying it throughout this show.

It's just everybody else around the Goku. to

me is better than Goku. And I think it's I've

been ruined by Cartoon Network who would take

storylines and stretch them out to the point

of annoyance for me and made Goku seem very dumb

and causes the death of other people why I started

to hate him. So but again, Dragon Ball, he's

synonymous with Dragon Ball and he I mean, he

is the the underlying main character Dragon Ball

and Dragon Ball Z. I just I lean toward Vegeta

because Vegeta is about that business. He go

right to work. Goku eats food and then thinks

about, you know, maybe I should go and save everybody,

but I'm really hungry. And then 35 people main

characters get murdered. Oh, you killed my friends.

That's why I don't like Goku. But I know he's

a he's a he's a Dragon Ball Z, you know, champion

and he's a staple. So. I think this is kind of

high for him. I mean, we've been talking about

characters like Snoopy. I don't think Goku is

more iconic character than Snoopy. But I guess

if you're going to put anybody from Dragon Ball,

I would say Vegeta. But if you're going to put

him, I can understand it. Six people had him

in the top 50. Sketch, you were the closest to

nailing the spot that he came in. He came in

at number 27. You had him at 29. What do you

think of Goku and the Dragon Ball issue? Well,

fun fact. Dragon Ball Z has been on American

television pretty much a little bit off and on

since like 1996. It's still on. It's still on

at midnight on Adult Swim's Toonami block. They

brought it back because nothing else does ratings

like Dragon Ball Z. And like all y 'all, Goku's

not the best character in Dragon Ball Z in my

opinion. Piccolo's better. Vegeta right now is

going, curse you, Kakarot! Curse you, Kakarot!

Personally, I always liked Gohan. I thought his

character arc was more interesting. His son,

Gohan. And then they kind of ruined Gohan later.

Unfortunate. But I did like Great Saiyan Man.

That was entertaining. But Goku, also Kid Goku,

as Dan mentioned, Kid Goku... is a more enjoyable

character you know he's kind of he's fun he's

uh he's actually kid goku is actually a teenager

by age i believe and yeah but he's the quintessential

young shonen anime protagonist that is goku kid

goku and without him we wouldn't have naruto

we wouldn't have monkey d luffy we wouldn't have

gone from hunter hunter You probably wouldn't

even have the likes of Yusuke Urameshi or Ichigo

from Bleach or, you know, any of those characters.

Or Aang from Glass Airbender. Aang is essentially

the same character as young Goku. Aang is also,

yes, very, very much Goku. That is a reason why

I put him as high as I did because Goku is that

iconic especially internationally everybody knows

who Goku is So you gotta have Goku up there for

that reason and as far as being a good character

goes I think that he at one point was a good

character and then as the show changed from fun

adventures to a bunch of tournaments and a bunch

of sci -fi stuff Goku got a little less interesting.

I think another thing is the Japanese version

of Goku is really more childlike, whereas the

American version of Goku, because of how they

dubbed it, and I hate to say this, but he's kind

of one part Superman, one part dumbass. And that

doesn't, it doesn't really, it doesn't give his

personality what it deserves. I think the more

recent versions of the dubs of Dragon Ball Z

have kind of brought that back into play where

he's he's really more of a big child and That

can be annoying to an extent But he's also somewhat

endearing so in the same way that Homer Simpson

and Peter Griffin are enduring in that in that

way I think Goku as a big man child has certain

qualities that are endearing but because you

also have the kid Goku and the whole legacy of

that type of character, you gotta have Goku on

the list and I think he's falling right about

where he should. Alright, Goku at number 27.

That means there's only one more spot before

we enter the realm of the top 25. 26 we're gonna

go to uh hit two things here a female character

and a villain so our number 26 interested to

see what your guys's thoughts are on this one

cruella de vil at number 26 dan you just missed

this one you had it at 22 As far as let's just

look at Disney villains because we talked about

it already a little bit Cruella de Vil scar Maleficent.

Are we getting it anywhere near right? I know

a lot of people said Maleficent should be higher

is Cruella de Vil the highest ranking one we've

we've had so far Deservingly or not. I mean you

can't get more evil than someone who wants to

kill puppies, right? That's like that's up there.

It's like yeah, you want to take over the world?

Yeah, you want to become a king? She wants to

kill puppies and wear them And this was a cartoon

for children That's kind of hard to pull off.

But no, I think that we did get the order. Well,

I think we're all Deville is the best out of

those Villains for sure because of that. She's

just it is it's also kind of a strange character

for a Disney villain, right? This is woman who's

like a fashion person with a cigarette and You

know that just wants to kill dog. I don't know

She's like an interesting strange character for

that of the world of Disney and I think that

would make me why she stands out so much and

also often Also played brilliantly in the live

-action movie too. So I think that and she also

has a great song One that she's not singing part

of really but a great Cruella de Vil Cruella

de Vil So depending on if you want to go with

the novel or the film from 1956 or 1961 DJ, what

do you think of Cruella de Vil outranking Scar

outranking Maleficent and just missing being

in the top 25 characters of all time? Dan nailed

it, man. You want to kill dogs? You're horrible.

Horrible. I mean, John Wick would shoot Cruella

de Vil in the face. Okay, I want to see that

crossover. I want to see John Wick versus Cruella

de Vil. That's like an animated short for like

opening night to John Wick slash Cruella de Vil

the showdown. Come on, you're right. That's a

robot chicken sketch waiting to happen. Waiting

to happen. So yeah, well, the bill is awesome.

And the thing about it is I watched this movie

recently and I never picked this up. I think

her two bumbling cohorts are like, how should

we kill the dogs? Use the ether. And I was like,

did she just say use the ether? There's a concept.

I'm just thinking like, man, I'm nine years old.

I'm turning on. 101 Dalmatians and they're teaching

me about poisoning. This is so weird. It's a

creepy, creepy villain. And again, she is...

quintessential iconic Disney character. And you're

right, Glenn Close's version of it is perfect.

It's perfect. Perfect. So yeah, I don't the only

reason I would say it kind of sucks for her character.

I'm more thinking of the story now is this. She

just gets toward it because she gets in a car

accident. That's the end. She doesn't try and

get up anymore. That's it. That's the end of

it. Sketch, your thoughts you had are on the

other side of the 50 mark. So what do you think

of her coming in at number 26? I think that's

pretty good. I think I actually, Irene's are

higher than Maleficent and I think I would go

back on that in retrospect. I think in order,

because of iconicness and significance, you should

probably have Maleficent at the top and then

Scar and then Cruella or maybe Cruella and then

Scar because she's killing puppies. That's pretty

evil. But she's also kind of a entertaining whimsical

villain so I don't know I think she's a little

too high but I think it's a it's a fairly fair

placement last question on Cruella De Vil Dan

is there any more room in the countdown for any

other Disney villains man trying to rack my brain

of other Disney villains that we've not gotten

to jeez I I know I don't think I ranked anyone

any other Disney villains outside of the ones

we talked about Well, maybe I could think of

a TV show villain that's maybe Maybe I don't

know I am not unless maybe yeah, I don't I don't

think so, but I could be wrong, you know We'll

have to see if there's any other Disney film

characters in general, much less villains. We'll

have to wait and see until next episode on that.

So just a few minutes to wrap up and look at

what we've revealed so far in this chunk of 25,

numbers 50 through number 26. We had six more

Disney characters, a combination of a couple

TV series shows with Darkwing Duck and Scrooge

McDuck, as well as another Disney princess in

Ariel. We had Cruella de Vil and Scar for villains.

So six Disney characters added to the mix. As

far as Hannah Barbera. One character, Huckleberry

Hound. So one Hanna -Barbera character. Let's

go to Looney Tunes. Zero characters today from

Looney Tunes. We had one anime character. We

had four female characters with Ariel, Daria,

Betty Boop, and Cruella de Vil. We had Megatron,

Scar, and Cruella de Vil for villains. We saw

one Pixar character, I believe, if I'm looking

at it right, with Buzz Lightyear. What are we

looking at overall with our thoughts on the countdown

so far, what's been revealed today and what are

our guesses or speculation as to what's to come?

Start with you, DJ. What do you think? How is

it shaping up? What are you feeling about the

top 25? I'm just telling you this, if Kermit

the Frog is on this list but Elmo and Big Bird

is, I'm gonna be very upset. That's because if

you're gonna put Muppets or Puppets or anything

like that, it starts and stops with Kermit the

Frog. Yeah, yeah, I mean, just to take into account

what he's done with the meme community alone,

except deserving of consideration. That's not

my problem. I mean, I'm gonna drink this tea

and that's none of my business. Sketch, any thoughts

about what's been revealed? Any surprises from

today? Any worries about our final episode? I

think we did better this time than last time.

Last time got pretty weird. I expect to see what

I think most of us are expecting to see in the

top 25. The really iconic Looney Tunes, the really

iconic Disney. the really well -known memorable

prime time animated characters the top tier hannah

barbera characters that everybody knows about

i expect to see all those i don't think we're

going to get another anime character because

i don't think you all voted for pikachu but i

would argue pikachu and doraemon as far as globally

successful anime characters go they're probably

in the top 25 but I don't think they got voted

for. But I do want to touch on what a certain

commenter said about Jessica Rabbit. I think,

yeah, we undersold Jessica Rabbit because she

is a very important character in the film. She

is the one manipulating things in order to get

what she wants to help her husband. And that

is a certainly significant part of the movie.

And there's more to her than her looks. And I

apologize. I think that is very true. That is

very true. And I forgot about it in retrospect.

Very good. Addressing that concern from the commenters

and the listeners. Dan. We, other thing that

I didn't mention is how many adult or prime time

characters we got today. We did get a few of

them now after only having Archer up until this

point. We see Stewie and Peter Griffin. We see

Bender. I guess you get to throw Beavis and Butt

-head in there in a way. So have we rectified

some of the lack of adult cartoon characters?

And what do you think as far as the future goes?

How many should we see going forward? I would

I would add Daria to that list too. I do think

We have we did under represent of some so far

looking at the fact that we only have 25 characters

left some of the major major shows like the Simpsons

of South Park's Like I think they you know Arguably

should have at least five or six characters within

this list alone So the fact that we're probably

gonna only get Far less than that. I think is

something you know, it's like it's so hard when

it comes to characters because you're dealing

with such a huge pull and it's it's challenging

I think for people and especially like I showed

those like Simpsons where Someone may rank like

they're free. There's their favorite character

and then or a couple of their favorite characters

And my five favorite characters compared to someone

else's five favorite characters may be completely

different So then that makes it really hard for

them to fall on the list I do think we maybe

have a little bit too much Disney love, which

I was expecting but not as much like 80s cartoon

love I mean, obviously we had he man and oh,

I'm sure there'll be a little bit more Yeah,

I think it's not surely not ended. I mean I'm

not ended, but I mean it's not like we're getting

like Some of the side characters or something

like that and we haven't had a GI Joe in a while

So who knows I don't think we'll see another

we still only had the one turtle I don't think

we're gonna get another Ninja Turtles character

and that breaks my heart How can you not vote

for shredder shredder is a fantastic villain

who has had many incarnations? many of which

are crazier than the last and like really intimidating,

like Skeletor and Cobra Commander and even Megatron

in most versions, they got nothing on the 2003

Shredder and the current Shredder, those dudes

mean business. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Megatron killed

Optimus Prime. Slow down. I think one of these

Shredders, wait, no, 2003 Shredder tried to annihilate

all instances of the multiverse, okay? But failed.

Megatron's still Optimus Prime. You got a good

point there. You got a good point there. I wouldn't

put Shredder above Megatron, okay? I wouldn't

do that. Also, Krang is fantastic in so many

ways. It also makes me I have an idea of i'm

sure there's like five or like five characters

i'm pretty sure we'll see but unlike the other

top list we've done when it comes to this top

25 i'm i'm scared a little bit of like what's

to come because I really don't know there's like

a like I Some like I didn't honestly expect betty

boop to show up and I was happy to see that but

I I really don't know what's to come with the

final the final list. I am really curious to

see We have had some people trying to start doing

their predictions. We had one person try to predict

the top five. We'll see who else wants to try

to predict the top 25 and who will have the most

right. It would have been interesting to actually

go about this a different way. And if we would

have done like top 100 Disney characters, top

100 adult or prime time cartoon characters to

do those lists first to see how that would have

kind of. Done that would have taken a lot of

a lot of time and a lot of work But yeah, maybe

something we can investigate at some point along

the line I had a couple questions before I want

to give you guys a chance to give some final

thoughts And anybody can answer these Dan will

start with you on the on the first one. We'll

let the other guys answers as well How many female

characters will we see in the top 25? Geez man,

I feel like if I say the wrong number, I'm a

bad guy Zero. Just looking at the past list,

what we've gotten so far. And this is, again,

just me not saying what deserves to be, but just

thinking of the characters in my head that have

the potential. I'm going to say five. I don't

see more than that, unfortunately, which is,

you know. DJ, you said zero. No, I was joking.

I was Dan's inner monologue. No, I think that

I better not see any more Disney princesses.

I'm going to get pissed. I think you could I

think you could get some more. I think they might

be right on the money with five. It's sad. It

should be a bunch of them in there. You could

you could. pull some out of peanuts. You can

get Lucy. I mean, you got great female characters.

You can get Daphne from Scooby -Doo. You can

get a bunch of them, but I just don't think it

resonated with the people who voted. If we were

talking Disney princesses, there's a lot we haven't

talked about. Good. We have not talked about

Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, other

Disney females. Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

We haven't talked about Belle from Beauty and

the Beast. Jasmine from Aladdin. We could probably

go on. Emerita from Brave. Anna from Frozen.

Sketch. How many females are we going to see

next time? I would be surprised to see more than

three. Alright, so three and five as guesses

for that one more question before you guys give

your final thoughts How many villains do we see

next week Dan? Oh Geez considering we've seen

a lot of the big ones go already Less than five

I'd say like two to three at the most DJ yeah,

I think I think it's low. I mean you got the

trifecta gone Megatron So maybe stars came with

slide in there. I doubt it though. You got Megatron

You got Skeletor and you got Cobra commander

all gone. Those are mine You also have Cruella

de Vil scar and Maleficent, right? Those are

like the big ones So, I don't know. I can't think

of I I don't think syndrome sliding in there

anytime soon. I don't Maybe sheer con but I think

because I'm old I remember how evil sheer con

was I mean who also killed Bambi if you watch

the jungle book the original movie Just I don't

see that many maybe maybe two more. I think this

is gonna be very Main character heavy in the

top 25 sketch any thoughts on villains Well,

I mean I'd be delighted to see shredder and crank,

but I think that would be wrong They they're

not they shouldn't be that high that would show

some serious 80s bias I can think of one primetime

villain that's i mean you could argue he's a

villain yeah you could probably say he's definitely

a villain i think you're a power plant yeah perhaps

perhaps i could definitely see that uh other

than that no not not really it's gonna be very

main character heavy and like super Iconic character

heavy and I think I think given the age range

of the lists here in this close a bunch of 90s

kids that there's a bit of an under representation

of 90s Warner Brothers that will be rectified

See if that's a thing or not the last last chance

to final thoughts as we close out this episode

We'll go right back to you sketch final thoughts

on the countdown so far and what you're hoping

for Well, there's certainly been some surprises

Certain characters that I really wish should

made the list did not what you're gonna do Everybody's

got a different opinion. I think it's a really

imperfective imperfect way to compile the lists

because everybody has different qualifications

if you will and that's caused some pretty interesting

upsets but I think at this point we're gonna

see things relatively fall into expectation and

overall I think the list has had some oddities

but there's a good representation there's a good

variety There's more female characters than I

honestly thought there would be, so good on us.

All right. DJ, final thoughts? I am still kind

of upset that SpongeBob is on this list, but

I'm a little bit happier that he's on this list

than Slimer from The Real Ghostbusters, who I

detest. Interesting poll there. Yeah. Frank Walker.

I love Frank Walker as Megatron Dan I'll give

you the final word today. What do you think?

It's interesting this being the first character

one we did it certainly I think the hardest thinking

about it and So it it's been the most I would

say unpredictable list which at least has made

it fun to talk about I would probably say it's

the one I would I'm the I feel Not that I'm glad

we did have variety but I feel like there's some

variety that we're really missing But again,

it's just it's I kind of felt that going in because

you're talking about such a huge thing like we

could do easily do top 100 Simpsons characters

and like be fine so it's it's it's tough and

so but at least it I'm glad to see like Sets

mentioned a lot of sketch mentioned a lot of

female characters more than I expected We did

see some anime and much more anime characters

than I expected. I I feel like you know, like

You know, but not nearly as much Looney Tunes.

So that's kind of weird, but Definitely under

representation from Looney Tunes to Hannah Barbera

up to this point at least So I guess my only

thought since I'm usually the one asking the

questions I will say I'm looking forward to next

episode Out of the top 25, 24 of them were on

my list so I am looking forward to having a lot

of characters I can speak about so that was not

the case for today's episode I actually only

had I had maybe 12 of the characters we talked

about today on my list so I've been a little

bit more silent I guess than usual so I'll get

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