The Top 100 Animated Series: 100-76 | Part 2 – The 15th Anniversary Countdown

This is Neil Ross, and you are listening to the

Geekcast Radio Network. It's time. The countdown

begins. The Geekcast Radio Network Top 100 Animated

Series Countdown! Hello and welcome to The Geekcast

Radio Network's Top 100 Animated Series 15th

Anniversary 2026 Edition. I'm your host, Steve

Megatron, and joining me in this animated foray

are TFG and Mike. Hello. And Optimus Solo. This

year's countdown is shaping up to be possibly

the most unpredictable one we've ever assembled

based on our intro episode alone. With over 40

submissions, new tunes, and a wider age demographic

than any previous list, well, the results are

going to be anything but predictable. Some shows

that didn't get a single vote last time, suddenly

gone, while others that were present on the old

nostalgic list... barely cracked the top 100

by hitting the 110 to 101 range this time around.

So with all of these new contenders, fresh perspectives,

and let's be honest, more than a few potential

upsets waiting to happen, and a lot of probably

upset nerds in the comment section, including

those on the panel, the combination of longtime

fans, new voices, and even a bit of celebrity

input means that this list is going to hit deep.

surprise more often, and spark more debate than

ever before. So trust us if you think you know

what's coming and taking the number one spot.

You really don't. Obviously coming from someone

who hasn't even seen the list yet. So with that,

take it away, Optimus Solo. Yes, that's a perfect

intro to what we have in store. I do want to

peel back the curtain just a little bit here

at the beginning. I guess it's a little inside

baseball or whatever phrase you want to use.

but obviously folks can't see us. This is not

a video version. And even if they could see us,

they would not be able to see my screen. And

I just want to give people a little bit of information

on what I'm looking at, just because it may get

me out of trouble. If I'm ever like stumbling

over my words or fumbling through things or this,

that, and the other. And I also want to talk

about something that I'm not going to do this

time around that we have done in previous top

100s, just because you'll understand why in a

minute. So I have. multiple screens open here

i have uh multiple excel database sheets and

spreadsheets i have some internet pages open

not so much that it's going to bog down the record

or anything like that but i got a lot of stuff

open and the main sheet that i'm looking at consists

of a lot of information so i have the top 100

list right so i have the numbers that we're going

to reveal here 100 through 76 i have the show

names I have how many points they garnered. I

have how many lists they appeared on. I have

how much they increased or decreased their spot

from 15 years ago, or if they were even on the

list or got votes 15 years ago. I have the average

that it got ranked. If you take just the people

that voted for it, what it would have averaged

just based on those lists. I also have... what

spot it was on the last list. I have what company

produced it. I have what channel it aired on.

I have what year it debuted. I have how many

episodes it was on, how many awards it got nominated

for, how many of the nine lists that we kind

of looked as we were trying to pressure test

this they exist on. Then I have some sub -rankings

of like each time period, each channel, each

production company as it breaks down just for

this set of 25. He's a baseball statistician

for all stuff. And so we'll be given a lot of

information out over the course. And one thing

that I've done in the past that we're not going

to do this time is I do not, the one piece of

information I do not have, I'm sorry. It's just

not something I wanted to take on is in the past,

especially like the first time we did this round,

I knew exactly where every contributor had each

show ranked. Okay. So I could say like, You know,

Steve and Mike and myself had this in the 20s.

Such and such was the highest rank. They had

this at 13, et cetera, et cetera. There's 44

people. I don't have that. It's not worth it.

Yeah, I do have if it showed up at number one

on somebody's list. And if so, how many people

had it at number one? That's as much as you're

going to get revealed from the contributors list.

We can do more revealing of contributor stuff

in the wrap up at the end. Yeah, that's fine.

That's more than fine. I mean, sounds like you

have an entire bat cave of Dark Knight screens

in front of you. I could scroll over on my spreadsheet

and then there's the old top 100 list from 15

years ago. And then there's another chart that

has just the new shows that made it this time

that didn't last time. Then there's another chart

that has the shows that were on it last time

that aren't on it this time. There's a lot of

stuff. You're not even doing math in my head

already hurts. That's just one tab. There's actually

like six tabs on this spreadsheet. I'm not even

going to go into the other ones. All right. So

that's what we have against us today. And we're

going to start with that first set of 25. So

we're going to reveal live on the record numbers

100 through 76. Steve and Mike do not know what's

coming. So there will be live reactions. We should

be somewhat better prepared than we were 15 years

ago, like we said in the intro episode, because

all of us know which shows were on the 264 nominee

list. So it's not like we're going to get something

completely out of left field that we've not discussed

in the last six months while we did all of those

nomination records or nomination reveal records.

So there may be some things that still surprise

them, but they're not going to be something that's

like, hey, remember when we didn't talk at all

about this one show? Like, that's not going to

happen. And again, folks, I will say before we

kick this off, if you have not listened to the

nomination process episodes, please go listen

to those. We put a lot of work into those because

that's part of this whole experiment this time

around and how we did this. And to piggyback

off of that, you'll get more of our mentality

and the thoughts behind the list by listening

to those episodes. Exactly. And I will try to

do my best for each show that comes up. Like

we will have a multiple discussions, right? We

will have the discussion come up of does it belong

in the top 100 or not, especially more so in

this episode and maybe the next episode. That's

when you usually get the conversations on does

it belong or not. In the other episodes, when

we start talking about not the top 50, those

discussions usually go away. It's no longer about

do they belong or do they not? It's about higher

or do they belong lower? Yeah. So we will have

those conversations, but I feel like I can at

least try to play the role of giving the argument

for why each of these 25, the argument that some

people would make, the three of us might disagree.

The three of us might say, we don't think this

one belongs, but I will at least try to give

the, the rationale for why somebody would make

a case for each of these shows. And then we'll

have to decide if we agree or disagree with it.

The other thing I would like to point out is

if, You've never listened to any of our top 100

countdowns before. The intro episode is kind

of a standard length. The wrap -up episode is

kind of a standard length. But for these episode

reveals, when we do these 25 shows, you might

as well buckle up, get yourself something to

drink, and sit back because we do spend some

time on these. Yeah, we do. These 100 through

76, 75 to... 51 50 to 26 and then especially

25 to one number one i would say range from two

hours 15 minutes to just over three hours 30

minutes we'll see what happens this time that's

just based on history and what how these have

kind of gone right exactly all right well you

also want to mention uh do you want to mention

the fact that we have a numerous amount of ties

here Or did you want to save that? We are going

to have six ties over the course of the top 100,

and half of those will come in today's episode.

So we're going to try something different today

and debate the placement of each of those on

air. There's three of us, so there should be

an odd number of votes. So that means we can

kind of pick and choose which ones get those

specific spots. And if it's a train wreck, I

apologize, and we'll call an audible for the

next episode. Actually, we won't have another

tie until the top 50. We'll have three in this

episode, none in the second episode, and then

we'll have two in the top 50 episode and one

in the top 25 episode. All right. So any questions

or comments before we start revealing, Mike?

Don't think so. Steve? I don't have any either.

All right. Let's get into it then. 100. Look

at those clouds up there. They're beautiful.

And it's a perfect day for a drive. Aw, Trixie,

please stop talking. I'm trying to figure something

out. Oh! He's going over that cliff! 99. A battle

for our planet's survival was on, and young Rick

Hunter found himself caught up in the war. All

right. As we teased in the last episode, we are

starting the entire countdown off with a tie.

And I find this humorous because I can see which

two shows are tied. And I think it's going to

be a fun little interesting debate on which one

takes the 100 spot and which one takes the 99

spot. But they are definitely related in a way.

So the two shows that we need to debate right

now on which one gets 100 and which one gets

99, they both scored 762 points. One was on 13

lists. The other was on 15 lists. One, we did

not rank at all last time around, even though

it was eligible. And one has fallen two spots

from its original ranking 15 years ago. So it's

going from, well, or one, depending on how this

tie breaks ends up, because it was 98 last time

around, and it's going to be either 99 or 100

this time. So one of them is from 1967. The other

is from 1985. We need to debate the merits and

decide. The order for Speed Racer from 1967 and

Robotech from 1985. So Speed Racer, I'll just

go quick and then I'll let Steve and Mike decide

on what they think of these two and in what order

we should go in them. Speed Racer is obviously

a very early anime entry into for the US audience.

We're talking about 1967. kind of like a gateway

show to anime and it probably has a lot of historical

merit maybe not as much like entertainment quality

like overall goodness but historical importance

robotech kind of introduced a different way it's

still anime you could still consider it a gateway

anime show but what this did in the 1980s was

kind of flip the script a little bit because

not only was it also introducing anime to some

folks but in a decade that was much more about

serialized or not non -serialized content this

was a serialized storytelling cartoon so up until

that point we got you know episodes of the week

and and there was not much continuity and robotech

kind of did something different for the u .s

audiences here in 1985 steve what do you think

of the merits of these two and which one would

you rank higher so i i remember watching these

late at night as a as a young teenager and honestly

like they they both have their own individual

charm they both have their individual things

that they kind of did for animation you know

especially with speed racer being kind of that

initial kind of jump into the you know the anime

then you get the theme song you get the fact

that you know the Mach 5 and you know just everything

about that after a while I found Speed Racer

to be very grating to watch the voice acting

was fine the I mean it wasn't stellar either

but The characters were kind of annoying to some

degree. They both share a very similar aesthetic

as far as the people are concerned. Even though

they're 20 years apart. Although Robotech has

more of that polished look. Kind of the look

that they gave some of the later Transformers

series that never made it over to America. And

between the two... Speed Racer has that longevity

that you kind of just know what it is and they

tried to make a film of it and it was terrible.

Robotech, as far as I can recall, they've only

done animation with it. They've done some video

games. They've tried to kind of do different

things with it with different films, animated

films. I honestly liked it just because we got...

transforming you know kind of mechs that you're

able to have them pilot uh it's a little bit

darker it has i don't know i i actually read

some and i can't remember them now but i read

some robotech books like back when i was like

11 or 12 and i just remember enjoying them so

i i for me i'm gonna vote robotech as the superior

show out of these two I understand that people

are going to like one more than the other, but

I honestly think that Robotech kind of has that.

Even though it started in the 80s, it's still,

they've still released content even into the,

you know, 20 teens and tried to bring it about

with video games and card games and everything

else. I think it's interesting because I think,

you know, like the Speed Racer, important versus

enjoyable. And like you said, it's, it can be

great. And if you could like try to watch a bunch

of it today, do you just like say, well, the

important part outweighs it or does the, the,

the lack of enjoyability that you get from watching

it, bring it down. And then Robotech is kind

of, I guess some people call it like a Frankenstein

of, of a cartoon show because it is pretty much

a combination of a lot of different things that

was happening that kind of got brought together

for a U S audience. So it's interesting, but

I, I think, you know, Mike, you mentioned in

the intro episode that we might get some science

fiction and some robot related stuff and things

like that. And we're starting exactly in that

kind of space. So for you, how does it come down

to Speed Racer and Robotech? So in the lead up

to all of this, in our however many months long

that it took us to plan this whole thing, to

get where we are to today, R2, D2. huh uh i that's

the astromech at robotech yeah i know i watched

a lot of stuff that i've never seen before and

speed racer and robotech were two of the things

that i had seen here there kind of thing i've

seen them in past yeah i've never really i never

really sought those out i it was just neither

one of them were real like When you mentioned

Speed Racer to me, I know what it is and I had

seen what it was, but I'm more speed buggy than

I am Speed Racer. I'm more sputtering speed buggy

than I am Speed Racer. So I went and I because

again, part of the part of this project for me

was seeking out the stuff that I had never seen

before or rewatching things and trying to. give

them a better fair shake than i did the first

time around 15 years ago i still hate family

guy for the most part anyway i'll forgive you

yeah whatever anyway uh but yeah i i gotta go

with robotech robotech was cooler it was more

interesting even though it was going up against

aliens It was still more interesting to me than

Speed Racer. Robotech definitely fared better

15 years ago. So like I said, last time we did

this countdown, Robotech was at the number 98

spot. Speed Racer may make the case for the biggest

jump that we're going to see in this entire countdown.

Because Speed Racer 15 years ago came in at 349th

place. Wow. And it now is climbing into what

appears to be the 100th spot here because you

two have both said Robotech, which is the way

I would have gone as well. So we have Speed Racer

at number 100. So from 349 to 100, and then Robotech

goes from 98 to 99. So that is where we start

today. One humongous jump and one change of one

spot. Nice. We see both ends of the spectrum.

It's an interesting start. Let's see where we

go from here. 98. Daddy has a lot of work to

do. Bye -bye. Full Metal Alchemist. Well, we're

not going to go too far, I guess, in one respect

for our number 98. Although time period, we are

jumping a little bit. So we went from 1967 with

Speed Racer to 1985 with Robotech. And let's

go on into the 2000s, 2003 specifically. for

this show that did not appear on the original

countdown because it didn't didn't exist or barely

existed at that point um and we're gonna keep

it though with the uh the theme of some anime

to start off our countdown so let's go with full

metal alchemist for our number 98 spot now this

is one that's interesting because it's also kind

of a First foray into shows that have had multiple

incarnations or variations or spinoffs or sequels,

reboots, whatever you want to call it, which

always brings up the discussion point as we go

through these countdowns of when that happens.

Is it harder for a show because you split your

vote between some of the different versions of

it and you only vote for one versus the others?

Or how does that affect things? It's kind of

interesting when it comes to that. It is widely

respected, though, in the world of anime. So,

Mike, what do you think? We have three animes

here in a row and we're jumping decades at a

time. So we're at Fullmetal Alchemist here with

number 98. I think this list is way more interesting

at this point compared to the old one when it

comes to the anime representation. I even though

I already said so far that I tried going back

and watching some of the stuff. Some of this

stuff was hard for me to find on legal channels

that I didn't really have to purchase like or

finding good quality versions of stuff like on

YouTube and things like that. And I just never

could get into Full Metal Alchemist. So I haven't

seen a lot of this show. Sorry. Also, our first

entrance or entrance that originally debuted

on Adult Swim, I think here in the US. Steve,

from an anime standpoint, we already teased one

of them in our introduction episode because Neon

Genesis Evangelion has already fallen. It was

107. Now we get Robotech Speed Racer and Full

Metal. Is that a good sign for anime or a bad

sign for anime? I mean, the fact that it made

the list to begin with is a good thing for anime.

Yes, this one is very critically acclaimed. as

a manga series, as well as its iteration here.

I wonder... I'm sure we're going to get hate

for this one, just because of the nature of it.

I do know that it has a certain audience. It's

not one that I've put on my list, but it's also

not one that I... hated like outright just didn't

like it was just kind of one i i had to make

a selection of which animes i was putting on

there and it didn't resonate as much with me

as some other ones so it ended up not making

the chopping block for me there but i i do know

that this one is very much along the same lines

of some of the shows i would have put on my list

had other ones not been there yeah um Got the

same kind of, you know, cheesy stuff, battles,

magic. I mean, you've got, you've got all these

different elements that, that kind of play into

that. Um, it, it even, as far as like some of

the, some of the notoriety has even beaten things

like attack on Titan and some other stuff like

that. So, um, and they also have it on Netflix.

So if you're trying to watch some of it, they

have you know the the different uh they have

five parts uh which are i believe like five episodes

a piece or something or maybe more uh about 10

episodes a piece per part so you're looking at

about like 50 episodes i had all three of these

first shows ranked on my list all between numbers

77 and 82 so i i understand why the argument

exists for all of them and i i don't think we

can i think all of them couldn't be debated too

much about belonging or not. I think order and

where they fall, that'll be a different conversation

we can have later. But yeah, interesting start

to the countdown with our first three shows,

all being anime. We are not going to go very

far for the next one. 97. For over a thousand

generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians

of peace and justice in the old Republic before

the dark times, before the empire. All right.

I might've teased you by thinking we were going

to have another anime, but instead we're going

to stay in the year 2003. That's what I meant

by not going too far. Um, so with our number

98 pick, we had our first adult swim show for

our number 97 pick. We're going to the world

of cartoon network from 2003. You either are

a fan of this show or you do not like it at all.

I feel like it's one extreme or the other. I

don't think there's a lot of people in the middle.

Our number 97 is the 2003 star Wars. Clone Wars.

This would be the Tarkovsky one, not Star Wars

The Clone Wars from 2008. This is Star Wars Clone

Wars 2003. Yes. So this one actually fell quite

a few spots from our last time. It fell 31 spots

on the countdown. So it was somewhere in the

60s, 15 years ago. It has dropped all the way

down to number 97, almost off the list. entirely

mike what do you think of star wars clone wars

it was okay it was interesting at the time it

was coming off the heels of attack of the it

was in between attack of the clones and revenge

of the sith so it was an interesting time period

between 2002 and 2005 so It was a cool interest.

Again, you're talking about Genndy Tartakovsky,

who didn't do the Powerpuff Girls, or he did

something else. I forget what else he did. He

did Samurai Jack. Samurai Jack, yeah. Dexter,

that's what he did. Two Stupid Dogs, Dexter's

Lab. He did do the Powerpuff Girls. He did direct

several of them. uh so guy was a staple of of

cartoon network like the beginning of cartoon

network so and he's done other things like you

know hotel transylvania the powerpuff girls uh

he's worked on batman the animated series yeah

he's the he's one of the main reasons why i was

not a fan of cartoon network in the beginning

it was it was definitely an acquired taste at

the beginning and i feel like you either loved

his animation style or you didn't yes and In

some instances, it worked. In this particular

instance, I don't think so. But we at least got

to keep the voice actors for when they actually

brought it over as the Clone Wars. I have heard

the argument out there from some people that

say this is the coolest Star Wars ever looked.

I am not in that camp, but I know there is a

segment of the population that believes that.

I think at the time, if we didn't get the Clone

Wars and everything the Clone Wars did, if we

had only gotten this, it was at the time the

coolest. Because before this, what did we have?

I mean, we had the Ewoks and the droids in the

80s. but that's all we had yeah that's all we

had the star wars christmas special yeah that's

all that existed this also did introduce kind

of that like mike i don't know if it introduced

it but uh it's one of the first times i remember

it i shouldn't say it introduced it because this

existed like in the early classic era but like

from a cartoon that was coming out in this time

period like the the micro episode format from

a storytelling standpoint and things of that

nature was kind of a an interesting take i'll

give it that much but Yeah, it was kind of a

new foray into the world of animation for this

franchise. Yeah, no, absolutely. And again, they

had to do something. And literally, as I'm looking

at the Wikipedia article, it begins shortly after

Attack of the Clones. So literally, they were

bridging the gap between Attack of the Clones

and... Yes. I was going to say, however, it's...

not considered official canon no no no yeah yeah

yeah no no i understand that i'm just saying

going with the timeline of what star wars was

doing at the time from 2002 to 2005 they had

it's similar it's not as bad as the christmas

special thank god uh but it's similar to what

the christmas special did between star wars and

empire this is the bridge between phantom or

not phantom attack of the clones and revenge

of the sith i liked it i thought it was fun i

like the clone wars much better speaking of that

steve we are into a franchise here obviously

with star wars if star wars Clone Wars comes

in here at number 97. What is your guess for

how many Star Wars shows we get in total on the

entire countdown? Probably all of them. Okay.

Because there's three more. Three more prominent

ones, I should say. There have been a couple

other limited edition series, but I think there's

three other prominent ones. So I foresee a lot

of them being on the list, but we'll have to

see. Well, let's see where we go and what time

period we go to next. We're not going to stay

in 2003. 96. This is Principal Brickley talking.

I want to inform you all that I have a fat, saggy

butt, which I like to scratch every hour on the

out. Get ready. Into a decade we have not heard

from yet. The 90s. So let's go to something completely

different. 1997 is the year this show drops 10

spots from its previous. location on our countdown

15 years ago coming in at 96 this time we're

going to go to the wonderful world of disney

in a series that aired on abc originally this

would be recess recess the playground politics

universally loved childhood almost like sitcom

for kids recess at number 96 mike you reacted

first so i'll let you go first i love this show

this show is so funny uh this is one of those

shows that i don't hear a lot of people talking

like you see fandoms and other things for a lot

of shows and stuff i don't see a lot of people

talking about recess but recess uh basically

about the lives of six different fourth graders

uh just very very interesting very cool very

fun uh and it was just an interesting time to

to have a show like this because you know when

we were all kids we were all going out to recess

and whatever else because for me i was let's

see kindergarten to sixth grade i was that was

85 to 92 so for me in fourth grade recess was

not as wild as this show is it was wild but it

wasn't this wild um but like you you think about

all the all the ideas in the world in the 90s

that that that a creator could come up with hey

let's do a show about recess and i know it's

not on the countdown and that's more than fine

same thing with film or film wars on you know

school safety patrol who in the hell would do

a cartoon show anyway but it's you know same

concept like i love shows like that and this

is you know recess just absolutely love this

show wow i can't believe it went down This is

the, I mean, as we talked about in the introductory

episode, like some shows we're going to have

to either get bounced from the countdown or go

down or just how far they would fall. And out

of all the movement that we're going to see in

today's episode, obviously we're going to have

a big chunk of the not ranked before list. We

said that there was 27 shows that are added this

time around that weren't ranked last time. We're

going to have just under half of those are going

to show up in today's episode. And the shows

that were ranked last time. Every single one

of them that we talk about today will have fallen

down except for two. There's only two shows that

we're going to talk about that we had ranked

last time that are ranked higher this time. So

we'll get to those here in a little bit. The

craziest thing about recess to me is that it

took until 1997 for someone to do this. Yeah,

really? Don't you think it would have been done

way earlier? Yeah, it's like a great concept.

It's a great idea. It's got to be one that it

came out and people are like, why didn't we do

that earlier? Yeah, why didn't we do that earlier?

Before Steve goes and gives his thoughts, the

one thing I will say is, and I'm going to say

it now so I don't have to repeat, repeat, repeat

myself later. Half the shows that we end up revealing

on our countdown here. I'm going to say this

now so I don't have to repeat this in other episodes.

I guarantee you, as long as they're on any streaming

service, they're probably going to end up on

ToonCast. Because all the episodes of Recess

are currently on Disney Plus in the U .S. And

I guarantee you, I'm going to cover Recess on

ToonCast at some point this year. We're just

trying to create more content for Mike to do.

So it's what we do here. Steve, what are your

thoughts on Recess? I remember watching this

on the one Saturday morning that Disney used

to have. And honestly, I really enjoyed it. It

was fun. It kind of played to that younger kid.

I mean, I wasn't that age anymore, but at the

same time, I could relate and I found it entertaining.

I didn't watch it through its entire 65 episode

run. but I did catch episodes here and there

when I would watch Saturday morning cartoons,

uh, cause it would be on like ABC. And I, I found

that the dynamic between the friends kind of

interesting, you know, you had all the different

stereotypes in there. You had the, uh, the crazy,

uh, security guard teacher, uh, Randall. Yeah.

Well, not just Randall, the, The lady is my God,

what was her name? I butcher in the names because

I don't remember any of the names. I just I remember

watching the show and genuinely in a spinster.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember genuinely enjoying

it, though. It kind of gave me a different parallel

to like a Simpsons, but it's more like more grounded

in situations you might see. Or like the dynamics

of the playground. You know, the sixth grader

is the king of the playground and things like

that. So it was just, I don't know, it was kind

of fresh and different. So it was enough to catch

my interest at that point. Yeah, I think it's

a show that gets a lot of love. It was nominated

for at least 10 awards that we looked at. So

it's got some critical acclaim there as well.

So we went from anime to anime to anime. And

then we went from 2003 to 2003. And now we're

going to go from Disney to another Disney show.

95. There aren't any gummy bears now, but they

used to exist. Everyone knows that. Everyone

knows that. Everyone knows they're just fairy

tales. All right. Number 95. A Disney show, but

not from the 90s. And actually, for the second

time this countdown, we're going to have a second

year represented. So we had two 2003 shows, and

now this is going to be our second show from

1985. And a lot of people will call this kind

of a foundational show for Disney, maybe a precursor

to the Disney afternoon. Our number 95 pick dropped

18 slots in the last 15 years, but still made

the countdown. We're talking about Disney's Adventures

of the Gummy Bears, one of the best theme songs.

ever created for a cartoon if you don't believe

me go listen to it it's just i always have it

in my top five all -time theme songs but um it's

also one of those uh serialized kids storytelling

shows that existed that was kind of not commonplace

in the 80s i'm a big fan of this one i had it

ranked in my 60s on my list um i just think that

this is from a disney standpoint yes there was

a Prior to this, but this one was so crucial

in getting us to everything that Disney did in

the late 80s, early 90s. So I think it has a

lot of influential aspects going that you could

give it some props for and reasons for why it

should be on the list for that point. From a

quality standpoint, overall, do you compare it

to some of the other Disney shows that come later?

Maybe not, but I think just for its impact and

influential. aspects that it deserves a spot

on the list so i'm happy it's even though it

dropped 18 spots i'm happy that it stayed here

mike what do you think of disney's adventures

of the gummy bears love this show this show's

amazing and because of the last show that we

just revealed in this show uh miss finster was

voiced by april winchell Her father plays Zummy

Gummy. Paul Winchell plays Zummy. Connections

all over the place. Yep. But no, Adventures of

the Gummy Bears. Oh, man. Absolutely love, love

this show. This show was so cool. This is one

of the cartoon shows that just... Was so original

that lets you just escape. It was kind of an

Arthurian legend, but it really wasn't. It was

kind of an offshoot of the Arthurian legend.

And it just lets you, like I said, escape. And

it was so cool. It was so fun. You know, you

got June Foray as Grammy Gummy. You got Lorenzo

Music as Tummy. And such a great voice cast in

this and the adventures they would go on. The

ogres fighting them and fighting the Duke and

saving Princess Kala and all that. Just it's

so good. Steve, what do you think of the Adventures

of the Gummy Bears? I like the theme song. He's

never seen it. No, I've seen it because I gave

every show a shot. that went into our 264 pounds,

I didn't really care for it. I found, and I get

it, it's probably the fact that I wasn't raised

on it is why it doesn't resonate. And I would

argue that's probably the same reason why Speed

Racer didn't resonate with me. It's because,

again, I wasn't raised with it. It was just something

I caught. when it was on and i didn't have the

disney channel when i was a kid so if it wasn't

on abc i didn't see it until much much later

so i don't necessarily have the nostalgia for

it to enjoy it the way that like you guys do

so yeah um yeah that's that's why for me like

it's not as much about the quality of the overall

show like i think it's kind of hit or miss with

some of the things i think for me i i the reason

i have it on my list is more about the impact

that it had on on the disney animation vehicle

i watch this all the time i mean i feel like

if this isn't successful we don't get some of

the shows that i'm sure will come up later well

and it was good as far as the animation like

that there were i mean and that's something disney's

pretty much always been stellar at is like one

up in their game with the animation some other

studios had similar situations but like overall

like disney constantly was one -upping throughout

the 80s through to the 90s yeah and i mean this

show it's the animation it's the music it's the

voice cast it's also the storytelling the start

like i don't remember if it had serialized or

if they were episodic yeah they were serialized

was wasn't most of it serialized because it's

been a while since i've gone back and watched

every episode i've gone back and watched episodes

here or there it might not be heavily serialized

but it is serialized but some of it is okay yeah

uh but just man like every time i did watch this

show because i remember having the original dvd

set when i came out i went nuts i was like stalking

best buy like when is it coming out when is it

coming because back then when the dvd set came

out it was like tv shows on dvd .com which isn't

available anymore and everything else and all

this and all that because i actually i think

i have a youtube video on my youtube channel

about getting the dvd set and whatever else just

absolutely love adventures the gummy bears it's

so good this is one of many shows that will come

up over the curse of this countdown that i own

uh the complete series of on dvd as well so yeah

all right so we have seen some anime we've seen

an entrance from lucasfilm with the clone with

Clone Wars, seen a couple of Disney shows. Let's

hear from a new production company next. I say

new production company, but I guess it's kind

of old as well because this one's from 1961 and

it's going to come in at number 94 this time

around. It was not ranked. in our top 115 years

ago even though it was definitely eligible since

it came out in 1961 so it has risen from 166th

place all the way up to 94th it will be a our

first entrant from the production company known

as hannah barbara originally aired on abc we're

talking about top cat so the interesting part

about Top Cat. I was doing some research on this

in the days and whatnot leading up to this. I

didn't realize how popular this show is internationally.

It's not as big in the US as it is internationally,

especially in Latin America. For some reason,

Top Cat is a big hit there, but obviously one

of the more well -known characters from Hanna

-Barbera's catalog, but it didn't make our list

last time. It does this time. Mike, what are

your thoughts? I forgot it didn't make the list

last time. I thought it would have. I love Top

Cat. I love Benny. I love them all. Hanna -Barbera

didn't get as much love as I had anticipated

last time around. I will say that much. Yeah.

The adventures of Top Cat, Benny the Ball, Choo

Choo, Brain, Spook, and all of them. Just so

good. Top cat was one of the, like, he was one

of the ultimate schemers. He really, really was

like, it was so good. Do you think it's worthy

of being top 100, even though we did not put

it on there last time? Oh yeah, absolutely. This

show is so good. It's so fun because you, so

let's see. Trying to see top cat versus Garfield.

What's the comparison. The comparison would be

Top Cat is trying to get away with schemes away

from what's the... I would say Top Cat is way

more comparable to Heathcliff than it is Garfield.

Okay, well, Officer Charlie Dibble. But who does

Heathcliff have? No, I'm just saying Heathcliff

is like a group of street cats that is trying

to go around, and that's kind of what Top Cat

is, whereas Garfield is just a house cat. Yeah,

okay, fine. So Heathcliff versus Top Cat. I was

trying to compare Top Cat to Garfield, where

Top Cat has Officer Dibble and Garfield has John.

Garfield's always trying to get the lasagna kind

of thing. I see where you're going with that.

Yeah. So, you know, Top Cat's always trying to

do schemes, and he's always trying to get this

and get that and whatever else. And I always

thought Heathcliff was just trying to do mischief

just to do mischief. He was. Yeah. Top Cat, you

know, they always, they were more of a, like,

honestly, and I know this is really sad, but

excuse me for being a sheltered white kid. in

southeast massachusetts in the 80s but top cat's

gang was the first gang i ever saw on tv sorry

uh but like he him and his that that's why officer

dibble was always after him you know they're

always you know getting schemes i don't know

i just i liked top cat he was he was always you

know that that cat that just always you know

had to I don't know. Top Cat did not make my

list. I respect Top Cat as far as a Hanna -Barbera

character and a classic cartoon character. I

just didn't quite have enough room. I had some

other Hanna -Barbera shows that I ranked instead.

But from an influence or kind of pop culture

standpoint, he has appeared in a lot of stuff.

So Top Cat and his gang or members of his gang

appeared in Yogi's Art Clark, appeared in Yogi's

Treasure Hunt. appeared in wake rattle and roll

harvey birdman attorney at law the powerpuff

girls foster's home for imaginary friends futurama

jellystone teen titans go and how about this

mike which i guess solidifies my comparison top

cat and his gang appeared in the march 10th 2016

strip of heathcliff So there is a crossover,

I guess, from that standpoint. I didn't realize

how popular it was internationally and things

of that nature. So I had other Hanna -Barbera

characters on my list, not Top Cap, but I'm not

saying he's not necessarily worthy. Steve, what

do you think? So I actually did not list this

show on my list. I actually went in favor of

Heathcliff. And it's funny because I was kind

of torn between the two. Like I wanted to list

them both, but I had other. uh series that i

was trying to include both old and new and other

hannah barbarian series that i felt like were

more enjoyable to watch um and some of them i

had on my list because i mean it would be like

sacrilegious to not have them so i had to sacrifice

somewhere and top cat unfortunately was one of

them however i did really enjoy this cartoon

uh yeah For me, it was kind of neck and neck

between Top Cat and Heathcliff. Top Cat was more.

You're smooth talking kind of almost had like

an urban sitcom. Yeah, I mean, he had all these

different scams and all these other things, but

it was more like he was. It was very sitcom ish,

but he also had. like this this different presence

with himself like he wasn't trying to get into

trouble but he was trying to make you know trying

to get into trouble yeah he's trying to make

trouble yeah yeah whereas heathcliff is like

everything he's doing is trouble you know it

was like taking garfield but mixing him with

top cat and you get heathcliff Yeah, I think

their two characters are different. I think where

I see the similarities is the Cadillac Cats that

followed Heathcliff compared to Top Cat's gang.

Correct. Is like kind of the similarity. And

I feel like that's where Heathcliff got better

was with the Cadillac Cats. Yes. And I feel like

Top Cat, you know, his his gang. I mean, it very

much looks like a Hanna -Barbera show. Like you've

got a lot of Flintstones cues right in there

and Jetsons cues like right in the animation

style, which is not a bad thing. It just. It

makes it, I think, more familiar and more readily

to be accepted because it shares a similar style

to those two series. And so therefore, I feel

like it got adopted better. Steve, I have one

other question somewhat unrelated to Top Cat

itself, but kind of more about our list overall.

So we had Speed Racer, which is a 1967 show that

rose from 349th to 100th. We had Top Cat that

rose from 166th to 94th. That was from 1961.

Does this speak to a theme that we will see throughout

the rest of the countdown on our wider range

of age demographics that are included in our

contributors? Or do you think it's just a few

shows like that that just got more love over

time? I think it's both. I think a lot of it

is like we've got... a different age range a

lot of us have gotten older and seen a lot more

stuff and then you know those of us that you

know have kids have introduced them to some of

these series and so i mean i feel like there's

that i feel like there's age too that's kind

of hit some of us and uh it made us enjoy things

differently than we once did and so giving shows

a shot that may not have had it the first time

around so i'm I'm pleasantly surprised to see

that shows that didn't make it the first time

around are making it or making it into the top

100 to begin with. But then again, we've had

other shows that missed it by that much and were

on the original list. And so Neon Genesis Evangelion

was 99 in the old list. It's 107 this time. magic

school bus was 89 last time it's 102 this time

so like some of them have flip -flopped and it's

not just been a minor flip -flop like those have

been a minor flip -flop i mean with top cat and

speed racer specifically it was a huge flip -flop

yeah yeah we'll have to kind of track that as

we go to to see if that trend continues with

some of the older shows or if it's just kind

of random shows across the block that have just

uh maybe aged more gracefully i guess over the

last 15 years so We're international flavor a

little bit with Top Cat with its popularity.

Let's go to one that was literally produced internationally.

93. Where can we get a rasher of bacon five yards

long? The ferocious Tibetan butter. Oh, no. All

right. For our number 93, for us in the U .S.,

we first saw this show on, first time I've mentioned

this on today's countdown, on Nickelodeon. is

where we first saw this back in 1981, and I am

ecstatic that this show has remained on the countdown.

It dropped from number 69 to 93, and it was in

danger, I guess, of falling out of the countdown

completely, and I'm so happy that it didn't because

I think this one is criminally underrated because

most of it is super popular more in the UK. I

think it's probably one of the top five, top

10 shows in the UK all time, and it doesn't get

that same attention here in the US. So I'm ecstatic

that Danger Mouse has come in here at number

93 from Cosgrove Hall. Like I said, it came over

to us on Nickelodeon, and I think it deserves

all the love. So Danger Mouse, number 93. Mike,

you thought it was something else, but it's Danger

Mouse. Yeah, for a minute there, I was getting

scared. I'm like, oh my God, if he mentions that

one that I hate. I said 1981, so that should

have been a clue for you. Yeah, I know. But I

forgot when that other evil thing came out. Thank

God. Yeah, Danger Mouse. Absolutely. Best show

ever. Mike just went straight to best show ever.

I guess we can close up the countdown, Steve.

We don't need to do any more of this. He's already

crowned it top show ever. Well, no, I said best

show ever. No, I absolutely love Danger Mouse.

I grew up watching Danger Mouse. It was so cool.

It was so fun. Absolutely love that. I think

it would have been easy for this one to slip

out since we didn't have a big UK conglomerate

and our contributors. So that's why I'm happy

that it remained. It was on 14 lists. It was

out of the I haven't mentioned this yet today,

but we. We talked about different lists that

we looked at as we were trying to come up with

our nominees, right? Like we had our own list.

We had our own thoughts. We did a lot of pressure

tests. We also looked at a variety of lists just

to see if we had missed anything. And I looked

at the original PCAST radio list. We looked at

the IGN list. We looked at a list from Wizard,

from TV Guide, from Digital Dream Door, Channel

4, IndieWire, Ranker, and a couple other ones.

And this show actually appeared on five of those

lists, which is more than any show we've talked

about so far today. So it does have some universal

praise when it comes into the more critic circles,

but I feel like the majority of audiences may

not have been exposed to Danger Mouse because

of when it came out and because of it not being

a U .S. cartoon. And if you didn't have Nickelodeon,

maybe you didn't have a way to watch it. But

like I said, it flung to its spot within our

top 100, and that makes me happy. Steve, have

you had any exposure to Danger Mouse? Yeah, actually.

And no, I'm not talking about the new one. I

have seen bits and pieces of the new one, but

no. The old one, it had its own particular charm

to it. I love the song, the theme. I think I

love theme songs for old animated shows just

because nowadays we don't get that kind of awesomeness.

The 80s and 90s were, quite frankly, Cartoon

theme heaven. Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't think of

the right word, but that that fits. So. I think

that this is really cool. This kind of fits along

with like your secret squirrel. A lot of the

other type of shows that they kind of fit into

this realm. This one did also create a. Follow

up or spinoff series and, you know, Count Ducula.

Yeah. Which was interesting on its own right,

too. I don't remember what year the reboot came

out. It was within the last 10 years or so. It

was Boulder Media that did some of it. It's been

passed around. They did it from 2015 to 2019.

I think I've seen bits and pieces of the new

one as well, but not as much to make a judgment

on it. I'm not always huge on all British humor.

But the British humor in this specific cartoon,

similar to Count Ducula, just really worked for

me. And it kind of feels like a cartoon, almost

like Spy vs. Spy or 007 type thing. Yeah, and

it definitely reminds you of the type of... Obviously,

Nickelodeon in our time period was more well

-known for game shows and more well -known for

probably its live action in the early days. I

know they did more... cartoons later on but like

in the beginning it was much more about you know

snick and and game shows and things of that nature

there wasn't a ton of cartoon stuff but this

is very like symbolic of the type of animation

that existed they they like to do some more non

-traditional a little bit more off the beaten

path animation and some of their even some of

their other shows so this fit right in with like

early nickelodeon to me Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

I don't know how much of a player Nickelodeon

will be on this countdown. It'll have to be something

we track. Like I said, I may not be the first

place you think of when you think of animated

series, but we'll have to see how many entrants

come from the world of Nickelodeon over the course

of this countdown. Yep. Right. So we were at

Hanna -Barbera a second ago. Let's go back there

next. 92. Their mission to fight injustice, to

right that which is wrong, and to serve all mankind.

All right, for our number 92, we go back to Hanna

-Barbera and another show that originally debuted

on ABC. This one has dropped more than any show

that we have talked about today. It was ranked

40 last time. It falls to 92. this time so a

drop of 52 places for the conglomerate known

as super friends which debuted in the 70s so

we had this 40 in our top 50 last time at number

40 it drops all the way down to 92 i know in

the nominee episodes we talked about this one

specifically and if it was one that we had kind

of targeted that could potentially fall all the

way out of our top 100 it did not quite do that

it made it to 92 start with you this time steve

What do you think of Super Friends coming in

here? Obviously, another one that, similar to

Speed Racer, is it more important, culturally

impactful, or influential to the genre versus

good quality? Kind of like we talked about with

Speed Racer, or where do you kind of land with

Super Friends? I'm kind of torn because a lot

of these old animated series were pretty hokey.

I don't know. it's it's to me it's almost like

it's better than like Star Trek the animated

series but it's not great compared to what we

got in the 90s I feel like we got spoiled in

the 90s like we got quality like good writing

good voice acting good animation like just all

the way around it was good this I mean it works

for the time but I don't know if it necessarily

translates to now to anything anybody's gonna

watch outside of us that kind of grew up with

it or saw it on rerun somewhere or you know have

the nostalgia for it I don't I don't see this

one having the longevity of it so I can definitely

see why it jumped this high in the list like

I personally did not rank this one this time

I don't remember what I ranked last time but

I I'm I'm pretty sure that I didn't rank it either

at that point so I've actually recently watched

all I haven't watched the obviously this had

some like different titles for different seasons

so can i run down those really quick since i'm

i'm looking right at him if you must if you must

all right so 1973 we had super friends in 77

we had the all -new super friends hour in 78

we had challenge of the super friends in 79 the

world's greatest super friends in 80 to 83 super

friends And then in 84, Super Friends, the Legendary

Superpowers Show. And then 85, the Galactic Guardians

Superpowers Team. So those are everything under

the banner. I have recently watched, in the last

two years, I've watched all of the 80s episodes

that appeared in all the different incarnations.

So I've seen everything that aired in 1980 through

the end of the run for this show. And there is

some that is much better than others. I will

get that. Like not all of it holds up to the

same quality. And there's definitely some seasons,

quote unquote, that are better substantially

than others. I think the reason I still kept

this on mine, I had this ranked number 86, I

believe, or somewhere in there. So I don't think

it belonged in the top 50 like we had it last

time, but I still gave it a vote. And I think

more so because this introduced DC heroes to

like an entire couple generations of. like mass

audiences and so to me how many people that watched

a version of super friends then grew up to be

involved in the dc universe whether it be in

comic form or whether it be the sub -subsequential

like series that we get like I feel like, you

know, a lot of them had to have watched that.

Maybe that was their introduction from an animation

standpoint. And then we go on to get stuff like

Batman, the animated series, Superman, the animated

series, et cetera, et cetera. So like, I can't

downplay like that it adds some impact, but I

do see the argument similar to speed racer that

do you weigh impact or influence over overall

quality? And like, where do you fall on that

debate? So I can see both sides. So Mike, what

do you think? Well, here's the thing. A lot of

people that, like Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and

a lot of those guys that went on to create Batman

the Animated Series and the entirety of the DCAU

cartoons that we got in the 90s, they grew up

on Super Friends, the first one in 1973. And

in that voice cast, you have two of the very

most important people. which are Olan Sol, who

voices Batman, and Casey Kasem, who voices Robin.

Now, say what you will about Casey Kasem voicing

Robin. It is what it is, but that's what happened.

You have Ted Knight as the narrator. You've got

John Stevenson as Colonel Wilcox. I'm looking

for... frank welker's in here as marvin white

aka and also wonder dog i was trying to see where

superman was unless it's listed as a plastic

man but like yeah you've got this specific the

original 1973 version that probably affected

a lot of people that went on to create comic

books and create other things and i don't No,

like I remember watching the challenge, the 1978

version challenge of the super friends. I don't

remember watching the other versions. I don't

remember any of the other versions other than

those two, the 73 version and the 78 version.

I don't remember the later versions do a little

bit more of the team up stuff. They introduced

some different characters. So like you go from

the wonder twins to like, there's some. Yeah,

I remember the Wonder Twins and stuff, but I

don't remember. Firestorm comes in in the 80s.

I just don't remember the names of the shows

is what I'm saying. I remember some of the events

of it, and I liked it for what it was when I

was a kid, but I don't know. You guys know how

I am for the most part. Unfortunately. Sad. sad

but i'm the type of person that i like i just

mentioned earlier i will look at something and

be like oh i now need to do a whole podcast series

on this you know i've there is a episode by episode

review of everyone in the 80s already on geekcast

radio network no there isn't yes there is i've

already done a written review of every episode

that aired in the 80s okay there's a written

review but there isn't a podcast but you know

what i'm saying like for me i i I don't just

watch things to watch them anymore. That's my

point. I watch things and then podcast about

them. Right. So I don't know if I could bring

myself to do an episode by episode review of

super friends or challenge of the super friends.

Yeah. I might be able to do like a season or

two. Maybe. yeah a lot of them were made up of

very small segments so a lot of times you had

like a seven or a ten minute like mini story

and they had a couple of them per thing but yeah

for sure so this did appear on five of the nine

lists that we looked at as well so just like

danger mouse it had some presence amongst the

other lists so seems like some critical acclaim

and universal love for for super friends i think

the debate goes is historical impact more important

than overall quality yes or no i don't know so

it's a product of its time and it is a nice like

it's a nice thing to look at like oh my god i

haven't seen this in forever let me again it's

for me it's one of those things oh i'm going

to look at one or two or three like you said

it's made up of segments insert uh in the episode

so hey let me watch a couple of segments of this

to remind myself how cool this was at the time

when i was a child like i remember watching this

when i was five six and seven years old So it's

one of those things. It's a product of its time.

Absolutely. All right, before Mike finishes his

dissertation, we're going to make a move back

to Nickelodeon for our next one. I'd have to

take this opportunity to say, filthy earth creatures!

It is clear who the superior species is! Isn't

it? Isn't it? You stink! We are back to the world

of Nickelodeon, but we're going to jump in time.

So we were at 1981 for Danger Mouse. For number

91, we're going to go all the way up to the year

2001. I'm just trying to throw a lot of ones

at y 'all. This one was not ranked in our original

list. It was 173rd, and now it makes it to 91st.

From Nickelodeon, we are talking about Invader

Zim. So Invader Zim. I do not have a ton of experience

with this. I know it has a kind of a rabid fan

base, kind of a cult following that got boosted

because it got somewhat of a premature cancellation,

I think, in a lot of people's eyes. It has a

little bit more of a dark, unique tone compared

to some other stuff that we had gotten before

that. I did not have this one ranked personally.

Steve, any thoughts on Invader Zim? I didn't

personally have this one listed either. We all

suck. Well, it did have an 8 .4 out of 10 on

IMDb, 94 % like the show and then 100 % on Rotten

Tomatoes. So obviously there's something there.

Yeah, I don't love the concept of it. Like, I

don't love the animation either. And so this

is again, like I mentioned in the. in the premiere

episodes where we were kind of showing what we

kind of garnered towards. It's a Nickelodeon

show. I don't have a love for a lot of those.

Now, it does have Richard Stephen Horvitz, who

played like Alpha 5. Yep. In Power Rangers. He

also was in like Billy and Mandy. He was in,

you know, the Shrek movie, Angry Beavers, you

know, a lot of other stuff that people would

know him for. And then you get Wally Wingard,

you get a bunch of different other people. I

feel like it's a bit annoying, but yeah. You'll

have to let us know in the comments on this episode

post of what your defense for Invader Zim is.

Do you guys think it's worthy, not worthy? If

so, where should it fall? I understand the cult

following. I just don't have the experience.

We tried to do our homework on a lot of these

and watched five episodes or eight episodes of

different things. This is not one that I made

my way to. I just had too many other stuff I

was trying to catch up with, and it fell through

the cracks. So I wasn't able to do my homework,

but it did appear on four of the nine lists we

talked about. Mike, final thoughts on Invader

Zim? Yeah, same here. No homework for me. I had

too much other homework I had to do. So another

Nickelodeon show makes the countdown. That's

the end of the first 10 that we've revealed.

Let's see what we... do where we go when we start

here with the next one 90 hey paisanos next up

on the countdown we're into our top 90 now this

was a cartoon that appeared on our list last

time but it has fallen 23 spots from its previous

placements from saban and deke this is a syndicated

show that's debuted in 1989 We're talking, it's

our second, no, our first 1989 show, our third

or fourth 1980 show overall. We're talking about

the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. Ah, the

Super Show. It fell from 67 to 90. Didn't quite

fall out of the countdown. Mike, what do you

think of this one? I love it. Obviously, this

has that hybrid format, which has part cartoons,

some little live action wraparounds and introductions,

which was... somewhat unique so i guess it kind

of did some things there that were interesting

it was also an early video game adaptation i

can see some people making the argument that

it doesn't belong mike where do you fall on that

no i love this show this this definitely belongs

uh for what it's worth my five -year -old has

watched a few of these episodes just recently

and actually really enjoyed them my my kids did

too must work even though it's from 1989 she

thought she was in there laughing her face off

and thought it was hilarious and watched more

than i expected her to and the the sad thing

is the last time we did this uh well actually

both times i didn't realize wow he died that

long ago uh so just before we did the first countdown

Captain Lou Albano, who is Mario in this, died

October 14th, 2009. And just after we did the

first countdown, Danny Wells, who plays Luigi

in the live action, died November 28th, 2013.

Now, I thought Danny Wells died a lot later than

2013. But yeah, no. Absolutely love this show.

The coolest thing, I remember everything about

this show. I don't need to do any research, even

though I'm sitting here on the Wikipedia page

for the show. TV's Mr. Neal and I did a whole

podcast, Pixels and the Animation on the Geekcast

Radio Network. We covered all of the episodes

for this show and others. But I remember watching

this show as a kid. I was nine years old in 1989.

The coolest thing about this show running five

days a week, Monday through Thursday, you got

Mario and Luigi just as they are, Captain Lou

Albano and Danny Wells just as they are, and

you got four Mario cartoons Monday through Thursday.

On Fridays, you still got them, but then you

got The Legend of Zelda. And then Monday rolls

around. You're like, wait, where's Zelda? Damn

it. I want more Zelda. So they ran Zelda every

Friday. And it is the one of, if not the best,

I think is one of the only Zelda cartoons they've

ever made. It is the best Legend of Zelda animated

thing they've ever done. And man, I love that

series. It is so cool. Absolutely love this series.

You said it dropped how many spots since the

last time we did this? 23. What's wrong with

you people? Not you guys. Not you guys. No, I'm

going to say something. It went from 67 down

to 90. I didn't rank it. I didn't have room for

it in my top 100. No, no, no. I wasn't talking

about you. I was talking about the other 23 people.

I don't know. I don't know if it has like...

I for the me the combination like I don't know

if it has the quality that deserves top 100 and

I don't know if it has the influence I think

it has some nostalgia and I guess maybe a little

bit of uniqueness when it comes to video game

adaptations but I don't know if I see it as a

top 100 show so it does have the uniqueness and

it it does have the quality the uniqueness part

is I just don't know if I've put it in like Steve

so the video games haven't They've both dropped

quite a bit. Captain N dropped right out of the

countdown. They went from 80 or 79 to off of

the countdown. And then we have Super Mario Bros.

Super Show goes from 67 to 90. So both have dropped

kind of precipitously. What do you think of the

Super Mario Bros. Super Show? So I did list this

on my list. Actually, my new list here, I have

it. I don't even remember what my old list was.

But this one, I had it listed at 85. So I'm not

that far off. It wasn't it wasn't that it was

this stellar show. I think it was because. Out

of all the different video game series, I picked

this one because I enjoyed it the most and I

can still kind of sit down and watch it. Like

one of my sons had in his top 20, the other one

had in his top 35, which is probably why it's

even on the list. They found it enjoyable. They

really liked the show. And then, you know, they

found the part where they do the hybrid thing

kind of weird. But and to that degree, I kind

of agree. Like I it was kind of a staple of some

of the 80s shows, you know, the Ed Grimley type

thing. I don't. I don't I don't know if like

any of these old. cartoons i know i have it on

my list but i don't know if any of them really

stand the test of time i think out of the different

ones that came out in the 80s this is this one

or the super mario world are the only ones i

would actually pick uh the other reason i kind

of put it in here was because the new super mario

brothers film actually used the theme song from

this show and so i feel like if people are searching

it out they'll be like oh wait what is what's

this and you know it'll get some kind of a small

resurgence for this one alone because of the

theme that's in the movie and that's why I put

it on for my daughter so 100 % and that's why

I kind of introduced it and why I think this

one alone stands out but as a whole like none

of these 80s animated series that are video games

stand the test of time which is why they're making

them all movies and Nintendo is heavily involved

in them now to make sure that they have the quality

and the standards of the games. And so in that

regard, the newer stuff's better. But if I had

to pick any of the old 80s shows, this would

be it for me. I'm interested to see what other

people comment on when it comes to Super Mario

Bros. Super Show, as well as all the other shows

that are being revealed in this episode, see

which ones they like and which ones they don't

like that we're revealing. It should be interesting.

All right. Let's go away from Super Mario Brothers

Super Show and the 80s into a first, I think,

a first entrance from the 2010s to now. Coming

up next. 89. Flood from cosmic shores. Gaze upon

Dark Inner John. All right. Like I said, this

is our first entrant from 2010 onward. So just

hitting that cut because it is from 2010. um

this is one that i had ranked i had it ranked

at 97 obviously was not ranked originally since

it didn't exist yet interested to see the reaction

we get from listeners when it comes to this one

and i'm also interested to hear what your guys's

take on if this one is appearing how this franchise

will fare overall we know there's a bias here

let's go with our first cartoon from the world

of the transformers this is 2010's Transformers

Prime at number 89. Steve, what do you think

of Transformers Prime making it into our top

100? To be honest, I'm kind of surprised that

it made it at this spot. It is pretty good, but

I do feel like it's an acquired taste. It's very

dark. We did get Frank Walker and Peter Cullen.

reprising their roles, which was awesome. We

got Steve Bloom as Starscream. I mean, there's

a lot of iconic voice actors in this show. And

the show is pretty good, but I feel like it also

kind of lost its way the longer it went. So I

can see why it's as high as it is or low, depending

on how you're looking at it. Are you surprised

that it's in our top 100? I'm not surprised it

is it is top 100 worthy more than I would say

probably the you know the rescue bots or things

like that because each each version of Transformers

has its own flavor and we have I mean we've had

multiple multiple series but I feel like this

and animated were kind of the last I would say

good series we got because it's it's been kind

of floundering with a bunch of random series

that have various issues, whether it's. Or writing

or not long enough episodes or the voice cast

is kind of mediocre or. Voice direction is terrible.

It's been plagued by a lot of those different

things, so I feel like this is the last good.

CG series we've gotten. So I do feel like it's

top 100 worthy. Yeah, this one debuted on The

Hub, and I'm going to tell you both sides, in

my opinion, of what this is. So I think on one

side, you're going to have people that say it's

top 100 worthy because this is probably, some

people would make the argument that this is kind

of peak Transformers storytelling. That's strong

character writing, that it's one of the most

complete versions of Transformers we got, and

it has that cinematic tone. That's going to be

one camp. The other camp is going to say that

we're biased towards Transformers shows. Mike,

what do you think? 89. Okay, 89. This should

at least be 86. Hurry up. But anyway, look, this

show, when it came out, when it debuted, it was

super cool. It was awesome to get Peter and Frank

back. I understand a lot of people were skeptical

at the time with the CGI stuff. A lot of people,

because, you know, you're going from animated

style to this. and a lot of people were skeptical

about that but this definitely does deserve a

spot like i said i think it should be at least

three spots higher but is the civic that's the

most specific critique i've ever heard this one

he wants it to be 86 like transformers the movie

exactly oh my god so hey i read between mike's

lines because i talked to him exactly i try to

avoid mike's lines and reading i know exactly

you've been trying to avoid my lines since 2009

yeah anyway uh so it's one year before this show

came out i know right anyway wait yeah you're

right it was um so yeah i i like it i think it's

a good show i think it does deserve to be on

the countdown as far as how many other Transformers

shows are going to be on the countdown. Don't

you people know who we are? We're the podcast

radio network. Of course, there's going to be

other Transformers shows on this countdown. I

feel like there's non -Transformers fans that

hear Transformers Prime at 89 and they're like,

uh -oh. Well, yeah. Here we go. Hello? Don't

you know who we are by now? We've been online

for almost 17 years. Now, if Beast Wars doesn't

make the list, I'm... filing a formal protest

he's gonna riot we'll give you the we'll give

you the name of the founder of the website well

that's him he he can't yeah he can't he can't

riot on himself he can't go all beast mode on

an interesting live show all right it lands double

zero from one franchise to another let's see

where we go next 88 an adventure begins and a

legend is born The Dragon Balls have been scattered,

and it's up to Goku and friends to collect them.

Witness the birth of the Dragon Ball Saga. It'll

be interesting also to see what people think

as this one makes its debut into our countdown.

It was eligible last time, but didn't quite make

it. It was ranked 143rd last time. It climbs

all the way up to 88 this time. So one of those

that we didn't consider. When we were doing all

our speculation, the shows that got votes last

time, that would actually rise up the rankings.

So this one came over to us in 1986. How about

another anime entry into our countdown? This

is the original Dragon Ball. 1986 syndicated

from Harmony Gold here. I'm going to start with

Steve because he's the most knowledgeable person

we have when it comes to the universe that is

Dragon Ball. So the first series makes its appearance

here at number 88. What are your thoughts? I

think it's awesome because this show is what

spawned a lot of the fighting action anime that

came to America, even though it's not as widely

known. Yeah, not just for Dragon Ball either.

This is the foundation of a global anime fandom.

Yeah, totally. And they they dubbed it and they've

it's been redubbed with the same voice cast is

like Dragon Ball Z. When they redid all of that,

they kind of have this unified voice front. You

know, it starts off. You can you can kind of

tell he's rewriting. The continuity as he goes

on some of it, but it's it's very. Story based

character based like Goku's, you know, this optimist

that kind of picks up. friends along the way

and you find out his story slowly as you know

his friends kind of peel back the the onion that's

his life uh and you find out that he's not actually

human but they don't know that he's not like

they they don't know why he has the tail or turns

into the uh the giant uzaru monkey uh when the

the moon comes out and you don't find out until

dragon ball z that he's a saying like that didn't

even exist until that point but You get to meet

a lot of the main cast that kind of stick through

and have been with the series since the very

beginning and find out how they went from...

Pretty much everybody Goku fights goes from enemy

to friend by the end of that arc. So it's been...

There's a lot of comedy in it. There's a lot

of things that wouldn't get displayed on TV now.

Namely, when Goku's running around butt naked.

Like there's literally scenes where you see his

butt or his balls. Like it's just it's weird.

It would not get displayed on TV now. But yeah,

like you get to meet Bulma, Yamcha, Tien, like

all these other characters with Goku. But it's

it's very much the story of him and his goal

of becoming stronger and a better fighter. And

it continues on through even. Dragon Ball Super,

though. It's definitely a foundational series.

And I think that to have any other Dragon Ball

series, like if you I love Dragon Ball Z. To

me, it's like my favorite. That was my intro

to the whole anime sphere. But to not have Dragon

Ball on the list is kind of a disservice to all

anime and especially the Dragon Ball franchise,

because some argue that it is the best that we

got storytelling wise. Yeah. And I think from

a foundational standpoint, we've had that a number

of times so far in today's episode from Speed

Racer and Robotech in a way to Gummy Bears to

Super Friends. I think Dragon Ball kind of fits

in that same realm of like being influential

for what comes after it as well. So it sounds

like it might have a little bit more quality

in and of itself than maybe a couple of other

ones did. But the history, I think, plays a part

as well. Mike, what do you think about Dragon

Ball coming in here at number 88? never seen

it all right i figured that was the case but

uh wanted to check anyway so all right we're

gonna take a break from dragon ball and let's

go to our what will end up being our most recent

show to make the entire list coming up next 87

we have to stay vigilant to me my x -men magneto

The last will and testament of Charles Xavier.

Everything he built now belongs to me. No yet,

Mike. This is the most recent show that is going

to make our entire list. This is from 2024. So

there will be no shows that came out in 2025

that make our list. So from 2024, we've already

had one DC show. So let's have our first Marvel

show. Coming in at number 87 is X -Men 97. So

it's from Marvel. I believe it originally aired

on Disney+. Coming in here at number 87, X -Men

97. Mike, what do you think? Yeah, it's a continuation

of X -Men, the animated series from 1992. X -Men

97, the one thing that gets talked about right

now is that... it's very good for what's come

out so far. And the cliffhanger that a lot of

people are left with is they think it has the

potential to be even better than X -Men, the

animated series, or at least elevate that to

a certain point. But then the other side of the

coin, I'll try to finish a sentence before you

go, Mike, let me, let me try. But the other side

of the coin is that, is it too new? And do we

need to wait until it finishes before it becomes

top 100 worthy or not? That's the question. Go

ahead, Mike. Well, the thing of it is, is we

decided to separate it from X -Men, the animated

series, even though technically it is a continuation

of X -Men, the animated series. The thing of

it is, is there is only currently one season

that's available, which is 10 episodes. The second

season is supposed to come out mid this year

at some point. I thought the second season was

already out for some odd reason. uh the 10 episodes

are very good i don't know if it's stop 100 worthy

and coming in where where are we at now 87 87

should have been way lower this honestly flip

-flop 100 in this steve what does this mean for

the superhero segment of our So we've seen a

couple now already. So just two, we've had super

friends at 92. We've had X -Men 97 at 87. Does

this mean there's a lot still to come or what

do you think the impact of X -Men 97 showing

up on our countdown is? So I, I understood like

some people were, were asking, and this was in

the fan vote, actually do have X -Men 97 included

because originally I think we were going to lump

it all together because it. still is a continuation

of x -men the animated series from the 90s and

people were like no i mean it's the same but

it's not like it's got a different title card

and so like in that regard i understood what

they were going for and they are kind of flipping

things on its head it is marvel animation it's

not like fox studios it's um They did reuse the

theme song. They brought back as many voice casts

as they could from the original that were still

alive. But. It's also. I think it's a recency

bias, like for one, but I think, too, like I

can't tell. Like, it's this weird, this weird

conundrum because it's a new series. It's but

it's a continuation and it plays with nostalgia.

Right. So we're dealing with all three simultaneously

and it's like, okay, so where does this actually

lie? Like where, where should it go? And it's

also got one season. So theoretically it shouldn't

never have been in, in this list because by,

you know, our own account of certain shows that

we axed from the list that had one season, it

should have never made it. However, it was supposed

to have another season and I believe it was supposed

to come out sooner, but because of all of the,

the drama with production team and Marvel and

Disney, like it got postponed. So I agree. It

should be here. I kind of, I mean, I had it much

higher on my list than, than this, but it was

because it's, it's giving us that modern animation.

It's still playing with the nostalgia. It's continuing

that universe. And I always enjoyed it as a kid.

Uh, it does have a pretty good rating on, on

Rotten Tomatoes at 99%, whereas the original

X -Men has 83%. So, I mean, I think, again, it's

just because a new generation has been exposed

to it. So, I don't know. This one's weird for

me. So, I'll be interested to see what people's

arguments are in the comments. It was definitely

one that was very highly ranked by those that

ranked it. So, everything that appears in today's

segment is appearing on anywhere from 12 to 19

of the 44 list. this is one of the four shows

that appeared on only 12 lists which means that

it was pretty highly ranked amongst those 12

contributors i mean that's a fourth of our list

kind of um so it was highly ranked by those folks

for sure but i do think you you make a good point

it's both playing on nostalgia and recency which

is a maybe a good recipe for getting some more

points for sure and the funny thing is really

quickly i just looked at the episodes and i looked

at the cast list and steve's point about both

recency and nostalgia the only nostalgia part

for me when i watched it was cal dodd returning

as the voice of wolverine and storm i don't and

yeah and it doesn't look exactly the same no

it doesn't and that's fine you know you have

updated animation and whatever else the animation

changed that's fine after 30 years or whatever

almost 30 years i thought they made it like as

close to looking as they tried they did their

best you're also dealing with people that don't

do classic animation anymore everything's yeah

generated exactly but like i don't even like

the first season came out talking two years ago

so i watched it two years ago when it came out

and the 10 episodes literally i just looked at

all of their descriptions and i'm like I don't

remember any of this, any of any of these plots.

Like, I now feel like I have to go back and watch

these 10 episodes to remember what the hell happened

in this show. Like, no clue. Whereas I could

tell you exactly what happened in Dawn of Futures,

Days of Futures Past in the original show. Like,

it's just weird. So like I said, it's the most

recent one. So it'll be interesting to see what

people's thoughts are on X -Men 97. Like we said,

this only got in through the fan vote. And then

once it was in through the fan vote, enough people

voted for it. 12 people voted for it high enough

to get it on the list. So here it sits at number

87. Let's go to a new production studio. Let's

go back to the 80s for number 86. Ghostly haunting.

I turn loose. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.

All right. Next up on our list from Nelvana,

which we haven't said before, debuted on ABC,

which seems to be a common theme today. This

is 1989 series. I'm interested to hear your guys's

take on this one. It was 157 15 years ago. It

has risen all the way up to 86. I guess there's

more love in this group of 44 people for Beetlejuice.

Or maybe this was influenced by the more recent

movies. I don't know. But we have 1989's Beetlejuice

here at number 86. Mike, what do you think? Interesting.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Doesn't

work. Mike would do that, though. Of course I

would. Very interesting. I love this cartoon.

This cartoon was crazy. And I did not know until

we actually interviewed Michael Hirsch, who...

was the founder of nirvana uh did not know that

nirvana was the one that created this cartoon

but this cartoon was crazy back then absolutely

loved it because i was a as a kid i was a i loved

that movie sorry i did have a couple award nominations

so it is a little critically praised as well

mike or steve i guess to start with steve do

you think this one benefited from the recent

beetlejuice movie Getting votes or do you think

it's just a different pool of people that just

like Beetlejuice? I think 100 % it was fueled

by the movie. Also, I noticed right around the

time that the movie came out on DVD and Blu -ray

because I frequent Walmart out of boredom. Yeah,

pretty much every other day. I go on my lunch

break because I'm like, I got to get out of here.

do something and so i started looking at the

dvds and so when the movie came out on dvd is

that you know the the release of beetlejuice

2 the animated series miraculously shows up as

a box set of the animated series in walmart and

i was like oh did not know that you know that

it was out on disc and not that i bought it but

it was just it was interesting to find and so

i think that a lot of people are kind of rediscovering

the animated series in proxy because of the beetle

juice to a film that came out. And so I think

some of it's a, a recency bias, but I think that,

uh, two, it was kind of original cause you had

some CG mixed in with the animation. The voice

acting was great. It was weird. Uh, it had a

very nineties vibe to it and the toys were fun.

And it just, overall like the whole series kind

of played in the the nether realm and you had

all these weird moments that kind of fit with

something like the magic school bus like going

into his brain or you know different different

explorations of of him or his world you know

his feet start talking in an episode you know

detach and i mean there's just all kinds of weird

stuff that happens so i definitely think it's

more of a recency bias by collaboration with

the films uh but it's not a bad series and i

i think it's kind of deserving to be on the list

this time around i'm kind of surprised it didn't

make the list last time around honestly like

out of all the shows i would have thought there

would have been more love for it it is interesting

also interesting reinvention of the character

beetle just because he kind of goes from a villain

uh to an ally uh you know film to cartoon in

a way too so i'm not surprised that it appears

here i'm more surprised that it didn't the first

time i guess agree And I got to say, Stephen

Oimet, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, Canadian

voice actor, does a great Michael Keaton impression

as the main voice of Beetlejuice in the cartoon.

Yeah. All right. We're going to go back quite

a ways in time here for this next one. 85. And

now here they are, the most daredevil group of

daddy drivers to ever whirl their wheels in the

wacky races. Competing for the title of the world's

wackiest racer. All right. For number 85, we're

going back into the 60s. Our third trip back

to the 60s. So we've already seen Speed Racer

and Top Cat. Intrigued that this one is making

the list. It was at number 135 15 years ago.

It has climbed up about 50 spots to get to our

number 85 spot from 1968. a Hanna -Barbera show

that debuted on CBS, first time we've mentioned

CBS, and that would be Wacky Races, which is

interesting here because from a storytelling

standpoint and all of this type of stuff might

be seen as simple, campy, not a lot of depth

to it, but it did give us some iconic concepts

and designs and archetypes like Dick Dastardly

and things of that nature. So maybe more design

influence than story influence. But Steve, what

do you think of Wacky Races, another 60s show

showing up here at number 85? Out of a variety

of shows that came out around that time, it was

highly entertaining between all of the different

characters that would show up. You know, the

Slag Brothers and the Ant Hill Mob. And it was

kind of funny because it was announcing. in a

lot of ways like it was nascar right mixed with

like wrestling in a sense because of all the

oh and they did blah blah blah like you know

and i mean let's get for real everybody watched

it because of dick dastardly and butley like

that was literally yeah that was literally the

whole reason for the show like everything else

was kind of weird and you know then I mean, I

feel like if you're going to remember anybody,

it's the Slag Brothers, Penelope, Pit Stop, and

then Dick Dastardly and Muttley. The rest of

them, it's kind of like, eh. But, I mean, I don't

know. Out of some of the different shows, I did

find it enjoyable for the times I did watch it.

But, yeah, it's... I guess it's a lot of fun

to those that... kind of grew up with it or that

um like that type of program i think and it's

had a reboot too like in recent years as well

i think one thing that this reminds me of and

it's not for everybody i guess but like one thing

that it i'm surprised it made our countdown honestly

like it didn't make our countdown last time and

i was a little surprised it did this time i do

enjoy it from a personal standpoint because i

think it does two things that are somewhat of

a lost art which is one it's kind of like that

timeless humor that similar to like a Tom and

Jerry or Looney Tunes or things of that nature

where like the types of hijinks and the things

that are going on, it doesn't matter what generation

you're from. I don't think as far as like finding

the humor in like what they're doing. And I think

the other thing that this show focuses on is

yes, they're not doing a whole lot of like deep

storytelling or whatnot, but they rely so much

on the art of voice acting and like the people

that are supplying the voices for these different

characters. And then you have the announcer and

you have all of the different stuff that like

the storytelling is from the voice actors. Like

they're really bringing the characters to life

and they're really like bringing you along. And

it's like, I think there's a timelessness to

it. I think there's a, that's why it's probably

been rebooted to make it look a little bit more.

modern but like still kind of rely on the same

type of story gimmicks like you know like just

like the Wile E. Coyote Roadrunner type stuff

like it's very similar to that aspect so I get

the draw to it I think what surprises me is like

shows like this and Laugh Olympics and things

of that nature when you're thinking about Hanna

-Barbera is I didn't expect any of those like

more compilation shows to make the countdown

versus like when it's driven by one specific

character, like we expect to probably see later

in the countdown. Um, so, so that's kind of like

where I'm a little perplexed, but I'm not, I

don't dislike wacky races. Mike, what do you

think of wacky races? Everything you guys already

said, plus so much more like, Oh my God, this

show, this show is a kid like so good. Uh, obviously

Dick Dastardly and Muttley. I actually have,

uh, When Funko, I think they still make this

product. I don't know if they do or not anymore,

but they used to make soda products. So they

were these, think of the Funko Pop product things,

but they came in cans. So they had to fit them

into soda cans. So the products were made slightly

slimmer. I actually have Dick Dastardly and Muttly

over on my kitchen shelf there. Absolutely love

them. From the Slag Brothers to the Gruesome

Twosome to Professor Patton Pending to the Red

Max and Penelope Pitstop, she's always getting

in trouble. Like you guys said, the Angel Mob

and Peter Perfect and Rufus Roughcut and all

that just absolutely love Wacky Races. They just

re -released it on Blu -ray last year, the complete

series. I got to track that down, but absolutely

love wacky races. Cause again, it's a different,

it's a different type of cartoon show. That isn't

your normal thing. And it's an, it's interesting.

It's, it's fun and absolutely deserves to be

here. Very good. All right. Sound the police

siren. Cause we have a tie coming up. 84. We

were floating around the universe for the past

20 years. Ooh, we're passing Earth again. Push

the button! Oh, we're wasting time. What is your

weakness? Well... Dum -dum -dum! Never tell the

villain how to trap you in a cage! You probably

shouldn't have helped us build it either. I know,

dumb! Right, that's right. We have a tie here

and we need to determine which one is 84 and

which one is 83. Let's call it the Battle of

the 90s because these both came out in the 90s

within two years of each other. One of them 1993,

one of them 1995. One of them was nominated for

over 11 different awards and did show up on three

of the nine lists that we looked at. The other

one was nominated for five awards and showed

up on five of the nine lists. that we looked

at. They both were on 15 lists total. One of

them has risen dramatically. We're almost talking

Speed Racer here. This one has come from being

ranked 289th last time to being in this spot

where it is now. The other one has actually fallen

from 57th down to either 83rd or 84th. So one

with a drop, one with a tremendous rise. It's

a battle between the kids WB and Nickelodeon.

I feel like I know where Steve's going to go

with this one. I'm not sure with Mike specifically

yet, but this is a battle between Rocco's modern

life and Freakazoid. Freakazoid all day. Freakazoid.

Fuck Rocco's modern life. Freakazoid all day.

Tell me how you really feel, Mike. he did violent

they got violent and vulgar there for look look

Rocco is great Rocco is amazing but Rocco can

take the lower number it's fine Rocco's modern

life did get more awards like I said 11 to 5

and was on for more episodes Freakazoid was the

one that dropped 26 spots it went from 57th last

time to what looks like it's going to be 83rd

this time whereas Rocco's modern life was trying

to make the uphill battle from 289th to 84th.

Steve, what's your thoughts overall? So, I mean,

Rocko's Modern Life was okay. Like, it wasn't

one of those shows I enjoyed particularly. And

again, Nickelodeon was really weird around that

time. It was, I think, around the time I was

starting to get out of Nickelodeon. And I more

so put it on out of just boredom. Never loved

the animation and the show was kind of bland.

There really wasn't a whole lot going on with

it. While it still has a positive reception,

we did get a lot of good voice actors out of

it. Carlos, Alice Rocky, Charlie Adler, Tom Kenny.

This was basically a pipeline for not just the

voice actors, but the creators that were involved

with Rocko's Modern Life. A lot of them went

on to be involved with Spongebob. So this was

kind of like a talent pipeline for SpongeBob

SquarePants. And I know it was seen as like one

of the most subversive or satirical shows of

its time as well. I didn't grow up watching it.

So it's a good show, but it came out around the

same time as like Angry Beavers and Ren and Stimpy

and Real Monsters and CatDog and Tablam and Rugrats

and Doug. And I mean, there was a lot of overlap

between these. And then that's about where I

kind of. got off that ride when, you know, that,

that era. And so I, while I enjoyed it, I didn't

love it. Freakazoid on the other hand, I watched

that this morning. I love that show. Like I love

the, the zaniness. I love the song is, is so

fun. Yeah. The relax. So vision, the, you know,

at Asner playing Cosgrove and, and, uh, Like,

hey, Frank, I want to go get ice cream. Oh, hi.

You know, and or, you know, just all the antics

you had the lobe, which was. The voice actor

that plays. Rachel Ghoul. Oh, David Warner. Yeah,

David Warner's in it. You have Khan from Star

Trek in it. As Gutierrez. Ricardo Montalban.

Yes. Yeah. My brain was space and I was like,

I know their character. Yeah, I knew you would.

So anyways, I just love this show. This it's

got 100 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes 7 .5 on IMDb.

It's. I honestly wish there was more. I've heard

it described as proto adult swim in its tone

and like early meta. And I think it also is characteristic

of 90s cartoons with like the chaotic humor.

I think that was one staple of 90s cartoons was

just the chaotic nature of it. And as I finish

my soapbox here, we did talk to Tom Ruger years

ago. He was involved. Bruce Timm was involved.

Spielberg, Baldini. A lot of the guys were in

Batman the Animated Series involvement or Animaniacs

and things like that. You also had a lot of the

same crossovers of all of the other shows. Then

you had... you know joe lay was the the narrator

like he had a narrator they actually had an episode

of teen titans go where the villain unearthed

the lobe yeah and had him you know and they're

like we need to get our own you know 1990s uh

hero to fight fight him and they're like what

about you know they start going across the list

and Like, no, too dark to this to that. And then

they finally got Freakazoid and open it. And

he's, you know, and and then he brought his announcer

with him. So it was just it was hilarious. So,

yeah, I love this show. Tom Ruger may or may

not have rated this one fairly highly. Yeah,

of course, with good reason. I mean, the man,

I think I have my information correct here. Either

created it or produced on it. I'm trying to see

here. Developed by. Created by Bruce, Tim and

Paul Dini. So, yeah, I mean, it's all around.

Yeah, absolutely. One hundred percent. And I

love the show. Yeah, the show. And this is one

of those things where this show debuted September

9th, 95, like Kevin said. And last season only

had two seasons. Are you guys sad that it dropped

from 57 to 83? A little bit, but we have no idea

what else is coming. Agreed. And I ranked mine

at 35. It didn't make the countdown, so it's

there. It did. And Rockwell's Modern Life has

joined the countdown, which didn't happen 15

years ago. So I guess the Nickelodeon fans out

there should be happy about that. Yeah, exactly.

So, you know, they're both here. We just had

to decide which one goes first. Right. or it

goes higher, which is, in this case, Freakazoid.

And, you know, the cool thing about this show

is it's basically a kid, Dexter, who is a 16,

17 -year -old geek. Basically, he draws this

character. The character comes to life. No, he

actually punches in a code that was a computer

blade with the processor, and he gets sucked

into the computer. Oh, yeah, that's what it is.

And then he goes, ah, freak out! That's right.

That's right. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

All right, Mike, can you do me a favor? Yeah.

Can you go ahead and ring that alarm again? No.

Because we got another tie coming up. 82. Talk

about your ultimate rush. Who or what are you?

I am Synergy, a holographic computer designed

to be the ultimate audiovisual entertainment

synthesizer. All right, we have to settle another

tie between the spots of 82 and 81 here. I guess

we can call this the last time we had the Battle

of the 90s. We'll call this the Battle of Marvel,

I guess, in a way. But that's going to not be

it. That's not going to seem obvious to y 'all

until I go a little bit further. Well, wait,

before you go any further, I got to say, you

know, 15 years ago, this would be the end of

this episode. 15 years ago. Cause last time we

only did 100 to 81. Oh, we're, we're, we pump

more into these days. So, um, all right. So a

battle of Marvel in a way roundabout way, these,

uh, both are tied here with 855 points. One of

them was on 19 lists, which is the most out of

any of them today, along with Wacky Races and

Super Friends. Those are the three that appeared

on the most lists today. The other one only appeared

on 12, which is the least amount of lists. So

we have one that had the most amount of lists

today, one that had the least. They were both

on our original top 100. One of them has fallen

about 26 spots, depending on the outcome of this

tiebreak. The other has actually one of our two

shows that has risen. So it is going to be higher

or more lower ranked, whatever you want to say.

It's going to be better ranked than it was last

time. We're comparing two different shows, one

from 2008 and one from, is that right? Our third

show from 1985. So we are comparing, I don't

know how you do this. They are both Marvel in

a way, but I don't know how you compare these

two shows. So we have to decide between the Spectacular

Spider -Man from 2008 and Jem from 1985. Sunbow.

Yeah. Marvel slash Sunbow. So that's what I did

there. So we have Jem and the Spectacular Spider

-Man. I'll go first real quick. A lot of people

do say that Spectacular Spider -Man is one of

the best Spider -Man adaptations that has very

tight storytelling and serialization, some big

long -term villain arcs. possibly one of the

best, if not the best Spider -Man show. Gem did

set some groundwork in a way. You might not think

it like this, but the female -led, music -driven

storytelling was not really a thing before that.

We do get some examples of that throughout time

after that. Even like Steven Universe more recently

kind of had a more music -driven storytelling.

You could make some comparisons to Phineas and

Ferb in a way. but obviously this is more of

a female led eighties soap opera, sci -fi glam

rock. It did have a cult following, but then

we got to go down the line of, do we value like

the cult following more or the more universal

consensus quality and things of that nature?

Um, it was ahead of its time and format and branding.

So, uh, Mike, I'll let you go first spectacular

Spider -Man or gem. And they were both on our

countdown last time. They will both be on our

countdown this time. What are your thoughts?

As someone who may or may not have hosted a podcast

that reviewed all of the episodes of Jeff. And

interviewed the voice actors. Plus the comics.

And the writer. Well, not just the writer, the

creator. Literally, Christy Marks, the creator.

I don't think you have a choice on this one,

Mike. I think you have to vote one way or people

are going to come after you. I know, I know.

Well, here's the thing. I'm actually on the Spectacular

Spider -Man page of Wikipedia. And here's the

thing, folks. I have never seen more than three

episodes of the spectacular Spider -Man because

I've never dedicated the time to checking it

out. Even though, even though I've interviewed

Josh Keaton, who was the voice of Peter Parker

slash Spider -Man in that series, I think once

or twice, maybe I need to go check that series

out. So yeah, no, my vote for. tiebreaker definitely

goes jim has to get the higher slot because look

jim was groundbreaking for 1985 like there were

there were girls cartoons but there were no girls

action cartoons these are jim and the holograms

and the misfits it's literally the battle of

the bands you have jim Kimber, Aja, Shana. Who

am I missing? Kimber, Aja, Shana. Was it Rhea?

I think that's five of them. You got Jim and

the Holograms. You got that band. You got the

Misfits with Pizazz and Stormer and all them.

You got them fighting over all this stuff. And

it's not just piddly stuff. It's over music contracts.

It's over this. You've got... It's just such

a great, great, amazing show. And we did a whole

podcast in 2015 to celebrate the. I think that's

30th anniversary. Yeah. 30th anniversary called

Showtime Synergy here on the Geekcast Radio Network.

We got a chance to interview Christy Marks. I

think we've interviewed her like two or three

times, but we got a chance to interview her that

for the first time. Maybe that actually, no,

that was the second time. No, it wasn't. we did

it for beast wars i think i thought it was the

same trip so i the point is my vote goes jim

first and then spider -man second all right so

i will say one thing i understand what your point

was as far as girls cartoons in the 80s because

we did have a lot of rainbow bright strawberry

shortcake and things of that nature i have to

correct you before we get axes thrown at us because

you said that it was the first female action

cartoon and uh you may have been forgetting another

1985 series called shira that also uh was in

existence at this point so okay but yes no i

want you to get hurt as as okay october september

they were out at the same time okay yes it wasn't

the first but it was the there's a difference

what i mean by the first female -led action cartoon

shira is fantasy it's i don't know it also kind

of dogpiles on he -man whereas this is kind of

standalone right i'm just saying you said you

said female action and shira will be the thing

that comes to most people's mind fine i get it

i i compare it more to like a precursor it's

like an 80s cartoon musical version of like beverly

hills 90210 or Melrose Place, or something like

that. Yeah, what I mean by it is real world.

Okay. Steve, where are you falling on this debate?

I'm falling on Spider -Man. Well, I mean, you

gotta figure too, like, Jem was not my target

audience, didn't grow up with it, and also...

Weren't even born when it was released. Well,

whatever. That being said... It's not it's not

a show that even I I don't even care for it.

On on the now, like watching it for free, like

Spider -Man, like I feel like is more universal

or more universally watched, and especially this

show, because it was also kind of geared towards

the young, the new viewers, older viewers. It

kind of played in all the realms, kind of similar

to a lot of other Spider -Man series. And then

again, you kind of have some of the same people

involved that that later did like Young Justice.

And so I'm going with this like it's just more

enjoyable. It's more of a different flavor of

the. Spider -Man, the animated series show, though.

Out of the ones that followed after that, this

is probably my favorite. You guys forced me into

a tiebreaker vote here since you both went one

way and the other. And I will do a cop -out here,

I guess. I don't necessarily have a dog in the

race for either one. I think it's good that they

both are represented. Obviously, Spectacular

Spider -Man has fallen from 56th last time. and

now and which was fairly you know is somewhat

modern when we came out with it last time it

just fairly new so it has fallen from 56 into

the 80s whereas gem is going to rise from 87th

to either 82nd or 81st so a small rise of six

spots or so um depending on this so i think my

cop -out though and the way i'm going to do this

without having to make an informed decision on

either one is and i'm not going to peruse the

list to see what is and what's not going to show

i haven't memorized it yet but i know last time

when we did this list 15 years ago that we had

like at least four spider -man entries in the

top 100 so i'm gonna say that like there's a

chance that we're gonna have some more spider

-man so i'm gonna give the vote for gem just

because of that so i think spider -man there

may be more entries gem there will not be it's

the only it's the only show yeah I'll go that

way, I guess. But I don't have a direct opinion

on which one is better than the other. I have

not watched either one extensively enough to

make that opinion. So, all right. So we'll go

with Spectacular Spider -Man at 82, Gem at 81,

which takes us to our next entrant, which is

going to be our third time visiting the last

15 years. That was a 2 ,000 -year -old historical

treasure. Whoops. All right. Another chance to

talk about a, I guess, quote unquote, more modern

show that appeared in the last time bracket that

we were considering. So our number 80 pick, going

back to Nickelodeon. We've said that name a lot

today, actually. So we've had Nickelodeon representation

with Danger Mouse, Invader Zim, and Rocko's Modern

Life. We're going to do that once again here

with number 80 from 2012. The highly acclaimed,

yet sometimes controversial, The Legend of Korra.

spinoff or extended version of avatar the last

airbender expands avatar into some more politics

and things like that i know it tackles some more

deep content like trauma and things of that nature

i know it's debated though so i think we'll get

people on both sides of the fence that say either

we should have this higher or we shouldn't have

it ranked at all we obviously did not rank it

last time since it didn't really exist this time

we're ranking it at number 80 mike what do you

think of the legend of korra When did this release?

2012. I tried watching this at the time, and

I couldn't get into it. It is nominated for more

awards than any show we'll talk about today.

It has over 16 nominations for different awards.

Yeah. I did actually try watching this. I think

I got through maybe one and a half episodes,

and it just wasn't my thing. Steve, what do you

think? I did watch and while the animation is

great and the voice acting is great, I don't

think I really understood it enough to continue

with it. It is on Paramount and some of the other

different platforms at this point. But it's I

had to like I didn't recall that it was a continuation

of Avatar, even though I knew it was kind of

the same universe. And it's set 70 years after

Avatar, the last airbender. So I think that's

part of why I didn't really understand it was

because I didn't have the backstory of the original.

And I, I did watch part of the original, but

I think again, it just kind of came down to just

wasn't something that totally resonated. And

maybe I just need to go back and rewatch. I don't

know. But based on the little bit I've seen,

I could see where people would find it good.

And especially when we have a plethora of shows

that came out after 2012 that had kind of an

art style that I'll just say that I totally dislike

more than some of the Nintendo or the Nickelodeon

content prior to this. So I think we were at

like peak Nickelodeon animation here in 2012

between this and like Turtles and some of the

other shows that kind of showed up. So I can

see it being here. It's not one that I personally

listed. It feels like an interesting one, too,

because I know there's a ton of Avatar The Last

Airbender fans following on that. But it seems

like it's a little split then when it comes to

Legend of Korra. Some of them are just rabid

fans of both, and I feel like some of them are

more fans of Avatar versus Legend of Korra and

vice versa. It's always interesting to hear people's

take on Legend of Korra. I have not watched either

one. extensively enough to like making a super

well -informed opinion i do think there may be

a few people that should that will say it should

be higher on our list but i think i'm fine with

it being on our list i don't have a well -informed

opinion of where exactly it should be but i i

feel like it representation is probably warranted

so all right that takes us into our the next

entry that will be in part of our top 80 let's

see where we go next We haven't had a ton of

shows yet from the WB. We talked about Freakazoid

a little bit here, and this one technically is

from Warner Brothers and I believe debuted on

the Cartoon Network from 2008. Let's get our

second, I believe our second DC cartoon here.

it fell from 71 last time 15 years ago to 79

so it dropped eight spots not a huge drop but

a small drop here for batman the brave and the

bold what do you think of batman the brave and

the bold being here at number 79 there are two

things that i love about this show the batman

of xur and r which is where kevin conroy guest

starred and then um peewee paul rubens as batmite

and then that's it i know it's obviously a i

believe a lot it's a lighter take on on yeah

compared to a lot of the gritty stuff which i

think appealed to some folks um i think a lot

of other folks say it's like kind of like super

friends where it could serve as like an introduction

into the dc shows for people steve what do you

think of batman the brave and the bold I don't

know. I mean, it's it's got a pretty good rating

on like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. I found. This

one is because I think around this time. I was

getting some of the DVDs to review from Warner

Brothers and. It may have been shortly after

this, but this was kind of the gateway show that

I showed my kids. OK. Because it was a lighter

tone, but it still kind of gave the vibe. I feel

like it kind of mixed some of the animated series

with the 60s hokiness of the Adam West Batman.

Yeah, very much so. And so you kind of got this

nice mesh of the two. And it kind of had a retro

vibe to it, but it was fun. And it was kind of

like a Super Friends because Batman and his amazing

friends. He constantly had other people showing

up and guest starring on his show. And so I feel

like this. I feel like the fact that it's on

here is great. Yeah, it's not in the same positioning,

but it's in the same realm, which goes to show

that it's still deserving of being in that same

bracket, even though it dropped. And there's

been other shows that have come out since. So,

I mean, I can see why it would drop like. myself

i had it in the 20s and both my kids had it somewhere

in the 20s i think and then so i mean that's

probably part of where it's at but also always

adds to that interesting debate between like

a franchise like how many spots does someone

have for a specific franchise right or hero or

a superhero or whatever it might be like do you

only have room for one show from this franchise

do you have room for two do you have room for

three you know how many batman shows will you

give a spot to And I think some people pick just

one. Some people are willing to pick more based

on the quality. So it always is an interesting

thing to try to get inside people's heads on

how they treat that overall. But I think, you

know, it's 71 and now 79. It's stayed pretty

close to the same spot. So like you said, it

has some consistency and staying power, I guess

you could say. All right. Next up, we're going

to go to our second most modern show on the entire

countdown. 78. Come on. Knock it off, Todd. I

think Amber's been pretty clear about how she

feels. I'm nothing like my dad. So we already

had X -Men 97, which was from 2024. We're going

to go back a couple years earlier than that to

our second most recent show here. This one is

from 2021. You could see it on Amazon Prime.

Speaking of channels, I guess we'll just go with

the streaming network as it was. Obviously, it

wasn't ranked last time around. We're going with...

I guess another superhero show, so to speak with

invincible here at number 78 adult superhero

animation, almost on a prestige level, definitely

subverting some Marvel and DC comic tropes, a

lot of shock value, things of that nature kind

of use more like a comic arc than a episodic

TV show. So I think we'll get a little bit of

the same people that comment on X -Men 97 may

have similar comments on this one. Like, is it

too recent to be on here? Or is the quality good

enough where it warrants it? Is there recency

bias? All those different things will come into

play. Mike, what do you think of Invincible being

here at number 78? So I've never read the comic

and I've never watched the show. I've heard nothing

but good things about the show. I've heard people

say nothing but mixed things about the comic.

Now, Robert Kirkman is someone I have been reading

comics from because he is. the main creator behind

the Energon universe, which has Transformers,

G .I. Joe, Void Rivals, and now it'll have Mask

coming up here in June with the launch of Mask.

He did create Invincible, I believe, off the

top of my head. Yep. And this is, you know, developed

by him and everything else, but I just... This

is another one that is not on my radar because

I never really got into the original source material.

And I don't know. It just doesn't. Again, I use

trailers because that's what trailers are for.

They're advertisements. You either watch them

or you don't watch them. But when you watch them,

you either like the thing or you don't. And when

I looked at it, I'm like, yeah, that's not for

me. i've never actually again doing all the research

doing for this thing it's like whoops missed

it i mean i i think this is not one that's going

to be for everybody i don't think you would like

this one mike just because i have other similar

things that it reminds me of that i know you

don't like um i watched the first few episodes

of it and it was definitely enough that if i

have time at some point i would go back and watch

it in full because i think it is very high quality

as far as like how it's made and it seems like

it's got some crazy stuff and a lot of shock

value that definitely does go into it so i'm

intrigued to see like what all they do with it

but again i've only watched the first few episodes

but i do know it's got a lot of love from people

in the last five years um so i'm not surprised

that there was uh 15 people that decided to put

it on their list steve what do you think really

quick before steve goes i will say you would

think that having uh jk simmons in this would

get me but it just didn't unfortunately All of

the clips I've seen of this and the few episodes

I've watched, I did not get into this, didn't

care for it. Now, the funny thing is, over the

last week, Rob Liefeld has created a storm on

social media. Like he does. Deadpool creator,

because he said... that like he stirred the pot

more or less because um he says i love invincible

it's a fantastic show deserving of all of its

incredible successes batman the animated series

is the king of the hill you know aspirational

work you know and uh btas has actually won emmys

too And what's funny is the, the just sheer comments

on all of the social posts are hilarious because

everybody is like pretty much in agreements with,

with his comment. And, you know, aside from the

fact, you know, some people are like, it's different

shows. It's, you know, as good as it is, it's

not even close. Um, you know, cause Batman had,

the Emmys and everything else. But yeah, he more

or less said that you're dumb if you're saying

that BTAS is better than Invincible. And just

based on what I've seen, I kind of agree. I think

that it's great for those that are looking for

that new edgy style of superhero type thing,

even if some of it's kind of the anti -hero.

situations and it's very violent it is for sure

that but I think that Batman the animated series

is a better show in that instance so in that

instance like I will say that Amazon has done

well for themselves with this being an original

series and focusing on you know something entirely

different in the superhero realm than what others

have done both of them I can see having the notoriety

based on who was introduced to it uh comparatively

but i i feel like the majority of it is not going

like in the long term i feel like it'll be forgotten

but again that you know time will tell because

we've also got shows that have been there since

the 60s that are still on our list so who knows

but i i think for right now it fits on the list

yeah we'll have to see what time uh does to this

one one way or the other i would have to watch

more to give like a i would never compare it

to batman the animated series in any way because

i feel like it's a different style different

going for something different so i yeah i don't

even know how that was smart so it it was just

interesting right so we'll have to see how that

how time plays a trick with invincible maybe

15 years from now it would be different we'll

have to wait and see so i only got room for two

more on this episode of our top 100 so We'll

get back to one of those final picks for today.

77. All right, we're going to go back to the

80s from a cartoon from Ruby Spears. This is

our second largest drop in our countdown. Now,

I'm not considering shows that dropped all the

way out because I didn't do the math for how

much those dropped, the ones that fell out of

our countdown. But for those that actually made

the countdown, we had Super Friends, which dropped

52 spots. Next one has dropped 46. Those are

the two biggest drops of the entire countdown.

So it's going to go from 32 all the way to 77.

We're talking about the NBC series from 1983,

Alvin and the Chipmunks. So Alvin and the Chipmunks

with a gigantic drop, but it still remains in

the top 100 coming in here at number 77. Mike,

what do you think of Alvin and the Chipmunks?

It appeared on five of the nine lists we looked

at, but it has dropped in the last 15 years,

according to us. The show was crazy good at the

time. And wow, this is eight seasons. Yeah, I

don't know. I remember watching it and I think

it is good. I don't know if it's. this high of

a spot good we had a we had a rank 32nd last

time yeah i don't know what the hell we wanted

you wanted it to drop more than 50 spots yeah

i know i mean for me this is the reason i ranked

this pretty high i ranked this uh 57 last time

or this time i mean i ranked a 57 so i did have

it on this side of the 50s but uh unlike last

time where we had it on the upside of the 50s

but I think the thing for me is it's, it's very

unique in an early show that really capitalized

on all of the different, like, I guess you could

call it like a full ecosystem for its franchise.

Like it had the cartoon, it had the records or

the tapes or the different things that had like

the merchandise that had like, it was a massive

multimedia brand in a way that no, almost nothing

else before that had been, you know, with the

music, with the animation, with all the different

things and longevity, like I think proves, how

cultural appeal has lasted with it. Like we've

had multiple live action movies that have come

out from it. Like people know who Alvin and the

chipmunks are, you know, the music and like some

of their albums, like are classic when it comes

to the way they did the voices, the bag, the

Zarians, like how they, you know, did the speed

up of the voices and everything like that. Like,

is there a nostalgia factor to it? Maybe a little

bit, but I think just from, its uniqueness at

the time like what else do you compare this to

from the 80s or from almost any generation i

don't know if there's a comparable show there

isn't so like for me that that's why i had it

ranked number 57 am i sad that it comes in here

77 no i think it's fine i don't think it necessarily

i'm shocked it dropped almost 50 spots but i'm

not necessarily upset i do think it warrants

a top 100 spot though yeah i think it warrants

a spot i was just trying to think of some like

you wanted it to drop four spots right like maybe

a little like three more spots probably wanted

to drop six spots so that it could be 83 and

it came out in 1983 well you know that's me and

my numbers but no but i mean like i was trying

to think of trying to think of the brand is what's

wrong here yeah no exactly but i was trying to

think of is there another something else that

i was watching at the same time that i was watching

like heathcliff garfield and top cat or you know

something like that i was watching inspector

gadget and muppet babies and uh everything else

that appeared in the early 1980s yeah but like

that's what i'm saying like i was trying to think

if there was another similar thing and sadly

and this is going to be strange as hell the only

thing i can compare alvin to is jim and the holograms

because there we go all right the music let's

move on to steve yeah I kind of agree with everything

you guys have said so far on that front. I don't

really have anything else to add here, although

I did enjoy the show. I feel like it kind of

peaked with the movies and then it kind of faded

out again. Yeah, I can see that. I'm surprised

it hasn't been... Has there been one new series?

I don't know. I'd have to check to see if there's

been any reboots. I'm surprised if there hasn't

been. Because you feel like from an animation

standpoint, this would probably work again at

some point from a series versus a live action

movie. The movies, as cheesy and campy as they

are, are not terrible from a kid's standpoint.

They work all right. I mean, it's a typical standard

kids movie trope, but it's all right. The current

series is Alvin and the Chipmunks. uh released

march 30th 2015 yeah march 4th 2023 so it ended

three years ago that's the most recent series

and it's i thought i had seen some bits and pieces

of something that was new yeah and it's literally

his whole name a l v i and like three n's with

exclamation points and the chipmunks i was able

to get screamed in the show so that makes sense

yep absolutely All right, that means there's

only time for one more today, and we're going

to go back as far back in time as we have been

so far the entire countdown. 76. Here's who.

All right, number 76. We're going all the way

back into the 50s, which is a decade we have

not seen yet today. So interested to see your

guys' take on this. It did appear last time on

our countdown as well. Like Gem, it is one of

two shows that actually rose over the last 15

years. So it went from 84 to 76. We're talking

about Walter Lance's The Woody Woodpecker Show.

It debuted on ABC back in 1957, 113 episodes,

if you want to call them episodes. But obviously,

this is a bridge between theatrical shorts and

TV animation, kind of early TV package of theatrical

cartoons. And kind of shows how TV animation

was built on repurposed content back in the day.

Obviously, you have a not a traditional produce

for TV show, but more of a distribution format.

Some people might not count this as a quote unquote

TV show, but I think Woody Woodpecker is one

of the most iconic classic characters. So I'm

fine with him being in the top 100. I had him

actually ranked in the top 50. But I'm glad to

see that he climbed from 84 to 76. Steve, what

do you think about the Woody Woodpecker show?

So let me preface it with I ranked this at 91.

There we go. My children, on the other hand,

my oldest ranked it at seven. Nice. And my youngest

did as well. And they found it on YouTube. I

like it. And so they've been discovering random

shows that are old by YouTube or Netflix or whatever,

you know, we happen to have access to. And they

they were like, this show is great. Like and

I was like, how did you even they're like YouTube?

And I was like. So so that that's me prefacing

it there. I do find the show very entertaining

and I did enjoy it as a kid. I don't. remember

a whole lot of why i liked it nowadays because

like i haven't gone back and rewatched it just

because i i used to watch it and i've i've kind

of branched out to watching other things um that

being said i i do feel like it has a place on

this list and it has stood the test of time because

it keeps coming back and it's added in animated

i think a newer animated series and it's had

a movie uh so we've we've kind of had them kind

of coming back multiple times over the years

so i don't know i'm i'm happy that he made the

list i did not expect this so that means with

that piece of information that you revealed which

i could have seen looked if i looked at all the

ballots but that means that the woody woodpecker

show has pulled off being on the top 10 list

of both our youngest contributor and our oldest

contributor that's funny so i didn't see that

coming But Keith Scott had this in his top 10

as well. Awesome. That is crazy. I think that's

awesome. So, Mike, what do you think of The Woody

Woodpecker Show? Love this show. Absolutely love

it. Just some quick notes here. In 2023, MeTV

acquired the broadcast rights to all of Walter

Lance's cartoons from 1934 to 1972 to air The

Woody Woodpecker Show on Saturday mornings. uh

so yeah that's where you can see it but uh no

growing up oh man seeing woody woodpecker and

chili willy and all the all the woody chili willy

is the only person the only penguin the only

character out of all the other characters that

woody woodpecker hung out with he's the only

one that i remember off the top of my head i

couldn't tell you And I actually can't tell you

because they don't. The Wikipedia article starts

with the history, the episodes, and then the

season breakdown. And then the broadcast history,

the home media, and the references. So it doesn't

even list characters or voice actors on the actual

Wikipedia. Anyway, but Woody Woodpecker. Absolutely

love Woody Woodpecker. I loved it as a kid. I

love it as an adult. I'm going to have to go

watch some episodes on YouTube, apparently. No,

it's so fun. Glad it's on the countdown. And

yeah, number 76. Yeah, it's definitely interesting

to see that we've gone all the way back in the

50s here just right at the end. And there's been

a lot of different voices of Woody. the woodpecker

over the years. Most recently, Eric Bauza has

been doing it, but Billy West has voiced him

over the years. And then originally some, some

female, I mean, Mel Blanc did it for a second,

but Grace Stafford was a female that had did

his voice for a while as well. So definitely

interesting to see one of the classic characters

come here. Well, you guys kind of, I'm gonna

give you guys a chance to react to the today's.

countdown overall but i'm going to give you like

i normally do just a quick breakdown of the 25

that we've revealed so far so from a decade standpoint

we had one from the 50s three from the 60s one

from the 70s eight from the 80s three from the

90s five from the 2000s and four from the last

15 years so right now 80s reign supreme And then

the 2000s and the pre -1980s coming in next.

From a network standpoint and a channel standpoint,

so far the channel that is reigning supreme is

ABC with five. Then we have Nickelodeon with

four. Then we dropped down to NBC and Cartoon

Network with two. We did have four shows that

were syndicated. From a production company right

now, it's tied at the top with Marvel and Hanna

-Barbera, each with three. Nickelodeon and Warner

Brothers or Nickelodeon also has three and then

Warner Brothers and Disney each have two. So

Steve, overall thoughts so far on this set of

25, what is your biggest surprise or how do you

think things are looking so far? Honestly, I'm

kind of surprised at the sheer change in some

of their numbering. You know, probably the biggest

upset was Speed Racer coming from like 349 to

100. That to me is insane, or 166 to 94 for Top

Cat, or 143 to 88 for Dragon Ball, 289 to 84

for Rocko. Those, honestly, are probably the

biggest, like, wow. Because they didn't even

contend last time, and this time they made it.

And so it makes me wonder, between that and the

new shows, or the ones that have ranked in a

slightly different positioning, this list compared

to the previous one there's so much different

already because like I actually went through

the website to try and figure out okay what were

our 100 in one list and so I dumped all of the

the pages the four pages into like chat GPT and

had it like all right just put them in numerical

order again and based on you know the points

and I was like, Holy crap. There's like a bunch

of stuff we haven't even gotten to yet. And yeah,

I'm, I'm, I'm very intrigued by what's coming

down the pipe. Yeah. I'm worried about what's

coming down the pipe. Because we know that there's

like 20, whatever I said last time, 27 shows

that are going to drop out altogether, but nobody

knows which those are. So it's like, you know,

outside of a couple that we revealed in the intro

episode, you know, you don't know which 27 are

not going to appear at all. And you may not for

a while. Makes it kind of interesting. Yeah.

So I'm a little worried. Yeah, I get why. So

also today we've had eight of the shows that

climbed up into the rankings. So eight that were

previously voted on, like Steve just read off

a bunch of them, but eight that climbed up enough

to just make it in here now. We will only have

seven more the entire rest of the countdown.

So the majority of those have already happened

right here today. And then we had four shows

today that just weren't eligible to be ranked

that made their list with X -Men 97, Transformers

Prime, The Legend of Korra, and Invincible. So

those were also newcomers. So that makes for

12 out of this 25 that we didn't talk about 15

years ago. So that's half of the list that we've

covered today was new. Definitely intriguing.

Mike, what are some of your overall thoughts?

Oh, boy. Like I said, folks, at the beginning,

and I'm going to say it almost every episode,

it's a slobber knocker. We've only had five shows

that their movement was within 10. So Robotech

was just a couple off. We had Recess, which was

10 off. Gem was six off. Batman, the Brave and

the Bold and the Woody the Woodpecker show were

both eight off. So those are as close as we came

to like matching what we had last time. But again,

like I said, look at the difference, look at

the difference in the 15 years, 15 years ago,

we had a completely. And again, if we can get

dirt on here, hopefully one of these episodes,

we're going to try to get him on here. He said,

cause I listened to his episodes that he was

on 15 years ago. If you imagine, if you guys

did this differently, if you did, the numbering

differently or if you did this or did that or

whatever we're doing it differently this time

and instead of doing the 20 181 80 to 60 we're

doing it 25 entries at a time listening to that

181 and hearing us go through this now with the

25 it's so much different i know people do talk

about like doing it different like doing the

median or doing the average ranking and things

of that nature well i did pressure test that

against a lot of different sources online and

did some research and talked to chat gpt and

they do say that the way that we are doing it

is probably the best way to go about it um from

a consensus standpoint um just because otherwise

you have to get real creative because if if we

went just on like how the average ranking or

something like that, it really skews stuff that

didn't get voted on as much, but just got voted

high. And like, there's some repercussions that

would make our list completely different that

I experimented with and I saw what would happen

if we did that. And I didn't like the outcome.

So we trusted what we, what this method that

we've been using. Cause Hey, even he said it

was the right way to go. yep absolutely so and

man like just the number the the names on this

list so far compared to 15 years ago oh boy i

would say we have a crazy amount of variety so

far in this 25 uh yeah nobody's gonna judge us

on the on the on the variety to this point we

had three three or four superhero shows we had

four animes we had five shows from the olden

days Three or four shows from modern time periods

were a little, I mean, yes, there was eight shows

from the 80s. I don't know if that means that

we're not going to have as many 80s shows because

they're all falling now, or if it means that

maybe the 80s shows will do better than we thought

they were in all of our predictions. We'll have

to wait and see, but definitely a variety of

stuff that fell so far today. But again, like,

okay, we had eight shows in the 80s. How many?

You said how many we had in the 90s. What was

it? Three, four, three. Okay. Only three. Recess,

Rocko's, and Freakazoid. That's it. Right. Okay.

But you got to understand, folks, for the last

17 years, if you've been listening that long,

if you've come in at some point within those

17 years, if you've listened to anything that

any of us have done on the GCRN, you know what

our... tastes are you know what we like you know

what we do here you know what our biases are

and we're not even trying to be biased the list

is already made the list is already done and

as optimus solo said he's the only one that has

the list steve and i are learning this stuff

and steve myself and any of any guests that we

get in future episodes we're learning this stuff

as he reveals it so Yeah, we had an 80s heavy

episode with eight shows this time. We only had

three 90s shows. Maybe next episode will be five

90s shows. We don't know. You never know. But

it's one of those things where I think the 90s

are going to rear their ugly head and we're going

to get 90s shows. I think some 2000s cartoons

are going to show up. I guarantee you more Transformers

shows are going to show up. I don't know where.

I don't know when. I think they will. Yeah, and

some stuff is going to show up sooner rather

than later. So just a tease for next week's episode.

In our 75 through 51 segment, we will see two

people's number one overall picks fall in the

75 through the 51 range. So just have to tune

in to see which two those shows are. Mike? get

us out of here yep we're gonna get the heck out

of here folks all right toonsters as always we

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