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Top 100 Animated Series Nominees – 2010s!

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About this Episode

Get ready, Toonsters! TFG1Mike, Steve Megatron, and OptimusSolo are back for THE FINAL COUNTDOWN, unveiling GeekCast Radio Network's official nominees for the 2026 edition of the Top 100 Animated Series Countdown!

We're diving into the best of the best from the 2010s through the 2020s (so far). Hear the full list of 50 potential nominees, including shows like Adventure Time, Dragon Ball Super, Gravity Falls, Rick and Morty, and Young Justice. Find out which of your favorites made the cut and what’s in store for the main event! This is the appetizer before the ultimate ranking—don't miss the discussion on the greatest cartoons of the last decade and beyond!

Check out the episode post on the website (if on your favorite podcatcher), or the form below (on the website) to make your list of Top 15 to add to the entirety of the Top 100 Countdown Nominees! The Top 15 shows nominated by YOU will be added to the nominees ballot.

Hey, it's your friendly neighborhood Spider -Man

here, and I'm swinging by the Geekcast Radio

Network. Hey, it's Jack here, and I'm listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hi, this is John

Delancey, and you are listening to the Geekcast

Radio Network. And welcome to the final countdown

as we are presenting you with the Geekcast Radio

Network's nominees for the 2026 edition of our

Top 100 Animated Series. I am, of course, Steve,

Drew, and Mike. Joining me, as always, is Steve

Megatron. Hello, sir. Yo. Yo. And there's Optimus

Solo. Oh. No rum, folks. No rum. Yar. Yar. There

be no booty here. No. Oh, we're all flabby ass

that around here, folks. All flabby asses. How

is everybody? It's been a while since we did

one of these things. I'm good. I'm back in the

land of the living after like a three week cold.

Yeah. Three week zombie infection is what he

had. Really, folks. The zombies got him. He went

to too many comic cons. Speaking of comic cons.

We just wrapped up Baltimore Comic Con 2025.

The Comic Con series came on and we did a convention

attention about Baltimore Comic Con 2025. So

that that happened. And yeah, we're going to

get back to the nominees. And this is, as I said,

the the final countdown for this. And we're going

to go from the 2020. I was thinking that, too.

That was the whole point. That was the whole

point. Let's just hope YouTube doesn't kill us

on you singing that half note. I know, but I'm

just saying. Well, it's not the right pitch,

so it'll pass. Let's hope, let's hope. So in

this one, we're going to go from the 2010s all

the way up into the half decade that we are currently

in now because we haven't finished the whole

decade of the 2020s yet. remind people optimus

solo what this format is all about so instead

of letting people vote for thousands and thousands

of cartoons and making everybody's life difficult

we decided to narrow it down by nominating certain

cartoons from each time period we've already

done four episodes of this so we've revealed

50 nomination nominees from the pre -80s from

the 80s from the 90s from the 2000s And here's

where it gets interesting, because now we're

venturing into the time period that was not covered

by the original top 100 countdown, because it's

15 years later, folks, and these are the last

15 years. So there may have been some that had

just barely snuck into our knowledge banks when

we were doing this countdown from the ones that

got released, you know, right at the beginning

of this one. But most of these had not come out

yet. when we did our original countdown. So it's

going to be interesting talking about these.

And as we've referenced in quite a few of the

other nomination episodes, these would be the

ones that could be kicking out some of the shows

that we've already talked about, right? Like

we talked about, there's been 15 more years of

cartoons. These are those cartoons that we're

talking about. So any of these that get in something

from before has to get out. So that's why I said

it might get interesting here with these 50.

And as we've said throughout the other ones,

if you made the list of 50, that means that you're

at least worthy, noteworthy of being talked about.

And we may have some special things coming along

as well to get the fans involved that Steve or

yourself can maybe tease at the end. But this

is the last official list of nominees. So we

are going to reveal these in alphabetical order

like we have for all of the other ones. votes

that have been cast yet none of these have made

our list yet these are just the shows that are

going to be eligible did i get everything right

there mike i think so also want to remind everyone

so no one freaks out and thinks they've missed

out on anything this as he just said this is

just us revealing what is eligible this is just

us telling you this is just us giving you a taste

of things to come This is us letting you know

what is available. Again, I know I'm repeating,

repeating, repeating what he already said, but

it bears repeating because apparently some people

have missed what we've said. We are doing this.

And I missed what the people missed that we said.

I mean, I'm just saying that some people have...

basically it's much we've done this for 15 years

right and we've done a number of different top

100 countdowns and what makes it easier for people

that are trying to compile their list is giving

them less choices so instead of like 3 000 cartoons

to choose from we're giving them 250 about well

right but we've never done it in this way the

format we've always done is we behind the scenes

have gotten the three of us have gotten together

or sometimes it's been usually we'd have peacock

michael with us or we'd have somebody maybe it

was comic concierge dan or somebody we've had

usually it's three or four it's usually us three

and maybe a fourth we'd get behind the scenes

we do all the work and then we would send out

emails we are still going to be doing that we

have not done that yet so you haven't missed

anything that's my point folks let's get into

the list Let's get into the list, he says. All

right, starting. We're going to reveal these

in groups of five, so I'm just going to name

off the five shows, maybe a slight amount of

data depending on which set of shows it is, and

then we're going to get the panel's reaction

to those shows. So starting with the first set

of five. Yeah, you think you're pretty way up

there, but I can get you. All right, let me just

add three more drops of explosive diarrhea. Hey,

Princess Bubblegum, when we bring the dead back

to life, will they be filled with worms? No.

If my decorbsinator serum works, then all the

dead candy people will look as young and healthy

as you do. And just like that, everything changed.

At that terrible moment, in our hearts, we knew.

Home. Was a pen. Humanity. Cattle. Are you nervous,

Hedo? No way. I want this. Why would I be nervous?

You're 14 and going to college. Your brother

is like a legend here. Also, I hear the new dean

is a hard case. Beach! This episode of Louis

is called The Beach! So we have to sell some

burgers. Every year this weekend makes or breaks

us. Who's farting? It's Gene's sound effects

thing. I thought that made you sound like a robot.

Right. We have Adventure Time from 2010. So the

first year in this block here. It's aired 283

episodes. It was on four of the nine lists that

we kind of looked at as reference for this. It's

won over 33 awards. So Adventure Time is our

first one. We have a little bit of an anime style

here or flair with Attack on Titan. That's from

2013. We have Big Hero 6, the series from 2017.

We have Bluey from 2018, giving us a little international

flavor, I guess. There's always some adult cartoons

involved. So we got Bob's Burgers from 2011.

That's had 269 episodes and won over 30 awards

as well. So that was Adventure Time, Attack on

Titan, Big Hero 6, the series, Bluey, and Bob's

Burgers. I'll go first with this first set. And

like we will mention a couple different times

in the previous episodes, and we'll probably

mention it a few times this episode. Shows have

not been seen by one, two or three of us, but

it's not time to cast our ballot. So we still

have time to do homework. So you might hear us

reference the rule of five or on our watch list.

That means that there is a show on here that

we have not seen, but we're going to give it

a view of five episodes to see if it's going

to garner a vote from us. So there may be some

blind spots. The closer we get to present, the

harder it is to have seen everything because

we haven't had. 40 years to see it we've only

had the last 15 or or in some cases maybe even

less than five years to see it so i'll go ahead

with my blind spots first even though this one

has been out for 15 years i've never seen an

episode of adventure time so i cannot speak to

that i haven't seen very much of bob's burgers

but i it kind of fits in the same ballpark as

quite a few other adult primetime animated series

so to me it becomes like what distinguishes one

from the other on that one big hero six i've

seen some snippets of i'm not the huge the like

biggest big hero six movie fan i mean it was

fine so it's not something that really draws

me to the cartoon i have went ahead and seen

one episode of attack on titan i think the premise

is interesting but i've only seen one episode

so i need to see some more to figure out if it's

something i would be willing to cast a vote on

or not. Like I said, interesting premise, but

I didn't get far enough in to see anything. I

will say out of this five, the one that's probably

most sure to get a vote from me would be Bluey.

I know that's geared towards a younger audience,

but it's very intelligently done and it's got

a wide appeal to it, both critically and just

from the kids that it's aimed at. And I think

it's also one of those that kind of has a dual

thing where it's both good for the kids and the

adults that are watching it. So I would probably

be voting for Bluey. I know Adventure Time probably

has the biggest reputation on the group, but

like I said, I just haven't seen it yet. So Mike,

what are your thoughts on this set of five? I've

seen snippets, clips. Sometimes I've seen a little

bit longer than a clip of Adventure Time. I know

about Finn. I know about Jake. I know about the

Ice King. It's not my favorite style of animation.

I've heard about Attack on Titan. I've never

seen it. Disney and their animated series after

the fact of a film. I stopped doing that after

Lilo and Stitch. Not because Lilo and Stitch,

the animated series is bad, but just because

that's when I stopped doing it. I just stopped

paying attention to that. I saw Big Hero 6. It

was a good enough movie. Did I think the movie

warranted its own animated series? No, so I've

never actually seen that. Bluey's out of my age

range. I don't have children, so it's not really

my thing. And Bob's Burgers is... Again, that's

one where I will have to give it the five -episode

chance. What I have seen of it, it reminds me

so much of a different version of King of the

Hill. But again, I'm willing to give it a shot.

Yeah, I feel like, you know, there's a lot of

people that can put like Cleveland Show and American

Dad and Family Guy in like a basket. And I feel

like you can do similar things with King of the

Hill and Bob's Burgers. So that's kind of interesting.

But Steve, what's your take on this set of five?

So Adventure Time, I tried watching this, gave

it a couple episodes. Hated it. I I'm sure there's

some redeemable qualities to it. I just, I didn't,

I just didn't like it between the animation and,

uh, just the whole premise of it. I didn't care

for, uh, attack on Titan. I watched a few episodes.

I normally like anime, but I've discovered, I

do not like this dark of anime, like the stuff

that kind of borderlines under the horror, uh,

sphere. I like more of the Inuyasha, the Dragon

Ball Z, the Naruto, Yu -Gi -Oh. I've discovered

that just by watching multiple of them recently.

And this is not one that probably will land on

my list either. Going over to Big Hero 6. While

I think the premise is fine, I mean, I watched

the movie and I liked the movie for what it was.

I wasn't a huge fan of it enough to rewatch.

So while this is kind of interesting, if you

want continuation of it, it's not something that'll

probably land on my list either. And I can see

where the appeal would be for for Bluey. Because

it is kind of interesting in a different way.

probably still not going to end up on my list,

but I, I could see where the appeal would be.

I mean, I can see the appeal for any of these

really. I just, it's just not, none of these

are probably things that I personally would care

for enough to vote for. And Bob's burgers. I

was never a, again, it's an animation thing.

And that's, that's kind of the thing with most

of them, except for big hero six is I just didn't

care for the animation style and there. Funny

enough, none of these are Nickelodeon and I didn't

like any of them. And I've seen bits and pieces

of Bob's Burgers over the years and it just never

I mean, it wasn't bad. I just didn't care for

it. I would have rather watched, you know, Family

Guy or, you know, South Park or The Simpsons

compared to this. So it is what it is. So none

of these would probably end up on my list. All

right. If you disagree with our takes on any

of those, feel free to comment on the episode

or hit us up on all the various social media.

All right. Let's see what the next set of five

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when you get home from a long day of getting

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half the battle. Right. We have one that if you

do any type of research on lines, a lot of it

says that this is one of the apparently best

animated series of all time. I don't know if

I agree yet with that or not, but the first one

on this group is Bojack Horseman from 2014. Another

one of those kind of more adult primetime comedy

animated shows. We have Dragon Ball Super, one

of the newer re... inventions, reboots, Steve

will give me the right term eventually, of that

franchise. And we've obviously seen a few of

those come up in the previous nomination list.

We have DreamWorks Dragons. This is the How to

Train Your Dragons animated series, which has

spawned off numerous kind of versions and spinoffs

and different things of that nature. We have

the reboot of the original DuckTales, which came

out in 2017. And we have G .I. Joe Renegades.

So interesting thing about this one is we have

three of them that are new chapters in franchises

that we already knew about. Or I guess you could

say four of them. One of them is more of a new

chapter from an animated movie world with the

DreamWorks Dragons. But Dragon Ball Super, DuckTales,

and G .I. Joe Renegades, all a continuation or

a new chapter in those franchises that we've

seen come before it. And then Bojack Horseman

obviously is something. fairly new and unique

for what it was i will say bojack horseman i've

watched one episode so i haven't done the the

rule five for a lot of these but i've seen i

wanted to see at least one episode going into

this record of a handful of these so i did watch

one episode and it is interesting it's almost

like the it's almost like charles in charge blended

in with like an adult swim flavor and then blend

it in with like a family guy slash you know beaturama

simpsons type thing so it's kind of interesting

um it does tackle from what i've read a lot of

mature or deep concepts like it deals with i

don't know like depression or different things

that you know adults may be able to relate to

and and this Bojack Horseman is the lead guy,

even though he's a horse. But he's definitely

like the first episode feels exactly like Charles

in Charge, but he's Charles. I was entertained

enough by the first episode that I'm going to

give it the other four episodes of viewing before

I cast my final vote. So I'm intrigued by it.

I just haven't seen enough of it. I have not

seen enough Dragon Ball Super to make a statement,

but I know Steve will back me up on the knowledge

base for that one when he gets a turn here. dreamworks

dragons my daughter is obsessed with and i will

say it's a fairly well done animated series version

of what was an animated movie first so i'm not

a big fan like mike said when disney does that

a lot of the times but i feel like in this situation

with dreamworks they did a fairly good job continuing

this story and giving us lots of different stuff

to look at with the dragon so i think that one

is growing on me i do think that the 2017 version

of DuckTales was well done. I think that is deserving

of being in the conversation, whether it gets

in or not. G .I. Joe Renegades, to me, if it

would have gotten the proper treatment and been

able to finish or last a little bit longer, I

would be way higher on it. I really loved what

we got. I just feel like it was one of those

that just didn't get to finish it which i think

if it would have finished it would have been

much more solid in my thoughts here so i'm leaning

towards potentially i could see all five of these

getting a vote so i i don't know how it'll come

down to it's probably going to be a game of numbers

with with how many slots do i have left steve

what do you think of this set of five so i have

not checked out bojack horseman yet i'll actually

probably do that after we record just based on

that plus i see will arnett's in it which I like

his stuff generally. So I'll give it a shot,

even though just from the images, it looks ridiculous.

Just talking horses. I don't love the animation

just based on the graphics, but I love it better

than the Cal Arts. So I'll definitely give it

a shot. Plus, it's a Netflix thing. And like

I said, Will Arnett. So I'll give that a shot.

Dragon Ball Super is actually a show that came

out in 2015, which... It was like 18 years after

Dragon Ball Z ended and it actually picks up

from the end of Dragon Ball Z. So it's two seasons,

131 episodes. They, of course, bring in more

new transformations, new characters, some that

were in the past get sidelined, some don't. So

it's a continuous power escalation in this. Goku

definitely loses some of his. uh some of the

the mannerisms that he had in dragon ball z like

he's he's more goofy in a sense like he's just

there's more goofy stuff going on like even some

stuff with vegeta as he mellows out like there's

there's more goofy aspects that kind of come

into play and then there's some things that are

you know they start getting into like god tier

uh deities in the show and that they're fighting

and training with and other universes and things

like that and more power -ups between all the

different characters. And it's currently in limbo

and possibly coming back next year with the fact

that Akira Toriyama, the guy that created Dragon

Ball and Z and Super and had passed away last

year, late 2024. So it threw his whole estate

into kind of disarray. So they've been sorting

it out for the last year after Dyma ended. Should

have new stuff coming out next year. But yeah,

it's I love it just from the sake that it continues

the story. It's gives new toys. It gives new

new story, new transformations. And of course,

continued with the same voice actor. So that

one will definitely be on my list. Dreamworks

Dragons. I haven't watched the animated series.

I've seen all the movies, though, and I liked

all of the movies pretty well. A lot of the DreamWorks

films, honestly, I've kind of enjoyed over the

years, more so than some of the more recent Disney

stuff outside of Pixar. And so this I'll probably

give a shot. I can see it having a place on a

list, though. DuckTales, for me, having only...

I mean, I've seen bits and pieces of this one.

I don't have any ill will on it. It does look

more simple than the original in a lot of ways

between color and aesthetics, but it's not bad.

And it did manage to go on over 100 episodes,

so obviously they did something right with it.

Yep. And if I had to choose between two that

look... pretty much identical. Like one's a reboot

and one's, you know, the original, I'm going

to go with the original over this, but I could

see this one being that for the newer generations.

Uh, and then getting into GI Joe renegades. I

enjoyed it for what it was at the time. Uh, never,

I never enjoyed Cobra commander in this one with

the half face plate, you know, the almost Castro

thing. I hated that aspect of it, but I liked

the, the newer, the newer take. And it definitely

fit that early. It looked more like it belonged

in the late nineties, early two thousands animation,

like just the aesthetics, like it kind of had

that men in black or the, the, you know, the

Godzilla or, you know, that, that look to it.

And again, I agreed, like, I'm sad that it ended

as quickly as it did. It only got one season,

didn't it? Yeah, sadly. I mean, you had Jason

Marsden, Kevin Michael Richardson, Charlie Adler.

You know, you had David Kaye. So, I mean, there

were a lot of people we knew in there. And I

feel like it was a good show overall. It could

have used more time. But I think that was also

during the whole The Hub. yep it was um during

that time frame and so a lot of that kind of

went down the crapper when they shut down the

hub yep mike what do you think of these five

i need to give bojack a good five episode shot

again with the with the dreamworks dragons thing

i've seen the first how to train your dragon

that's the only movie i've seen out of that entire

franchise duck dales 2017 wasn't the one with

the doctor one of the doctors isn't the doctor

scrooge or something or other one of the doctors

from i forget which one it is isn't it david

tenet plays the voice of dr scrooge in that i

think i yeah that's what i'm saying i think david

tenet is i was so confused when you're talking

about the doctor Oh, no, no, not Ludwig von Drake.

And then we were just talking about Renegades.

Poor Renegades. It didn't get the shot that it

deserved. But we got Jason Marsden clips out

of it. But yeah, no, I don't know. For me, if

I was, like we said, If I had both the 2017 and

the 87 series on my list, 87 is going to be higher

than 2017 just from what I remember. But what

I remember of 2017, what it did do right is that

it got the whole mystery angle. DuckTales 2017

to me, what it did well is exactly what Scooby

-Doo Mystery Inc. did well. It played up that

mystery angle so well, and it got kids and adults

back into those franchises. Because before Scooby

-Doo Mystery Inc., the Cartoon Network version

that Derek J. Wyatt did the art direction on,

Scooby -Doo was just having Aloha adventures,

and they were just doing random movies. The direct

-to -video series, Scooby -Doo movies. All right.

Well, let's see what the next set of five brings

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Bloodsy, how? It's billionaire playboy Bruce

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All right, starting this one off, another super

popular one, I believe, in the pop culture realm

is Gravity Falls from 2012. It was on four of

the nine lists that we looked at, which was difficult

for a lot of these because some of the lists

didn't go this current. So if it appeared on

any of those lists, it probably has at least

some credence to it. We have Harley Quinn from

2019. That appeared on two of the lists we looked

at actually as well. We have the fairly new one.

I think this is the first one we've talked about.

Steve, you said Dragon Ball Super was from what

year? 2015? Yes. Okay, so this is going to be

the first of our shows that actually debuted

after 2020. So we have from 2021, we have Invincible,

which is the superhero adult mature take. J .K.

Simmons and a lot of other folks involved in

this one. Definitely a very popular modern cartoon.

We have, well, this is kind of interesting. We

had Harley Quinn, we have Invincible, and we

have Justice League Action from 2016. So we're

going to get a trio of comic book related series

here as well. And then we have Kulapari and the

Army of Frogs, also from 2016. I'll let somebody

else go first on this one. Mike, how about your

take on Gravity Falls, Harley Quinn, Invincible,

Justice League Action, and Kulapari Army of Frogs?

frogs never heard of kulapari army of frogs so

i'm gonna have to look that one up and uh lucky

luckily i have seen all of that one so i can

fill in the gaps on that one okay good because

never heard of that uh gravity falls i avoided

like the plague for the longest time Just because

I don't do the spooky, I don't do the scary,

I don't do the Mulder and Scully type stuff,

the conspiracy X -Files type stuff. And even

though Dipper and Mabel Pines are brother and

sister, they're basically... mini versions of

Mulder and Scully kind of things to me. I eventually

did come around to it, and I watched a couple

of episodes here and there. It was never my favorite

because it wasn't X's favorite thing. She was

obsessed with it. Nope. I ain't going on that

California adventure again. But it does deserve

a spot, I think, for that. hype for the type

of cartoon it is there is no there's nothing

like like the only thing that cartoon is missing

is a great dane but it it's not a it takes spooky

without the kooky kind of thing like it's very

it's kind of like what if the goonies had an

animated series But it's set in modern times.

At least that's just what I can remember off

the top of my head. At least that's what I think

of it as. And it was very good. I enjoyed what

I saw of it. Would I ever watch it again? No,

probably not. Do I think it deserves a spot?

Yeah, because it's probably one of the only Halloween

type. I don't want to say Halloween, but Halloween

just passed. It's one of the only modern conspiracy

spooky cartoons out there that is not Scooby

-Doo or a version of Scooby -Doo. Harley Quinn,

I've heard nothing but good things, but I've

never actually sat down to watch it. I've seen

like one or two episodes of it, I think. Again,

without... Looking it up, if I remember correctly,

Diedrich Bader does the voice of Batman in that.

Yep. Okay, that's what I thought. Invincible.

Penny is Harley Quinn. Yeah. What's that? Haley

Kowalko. Yep. We already talked about Invincible.

I know of the comic book. I think I've seen like

three panels of the comic book. I need to check

out the comic book. I know everyone's probably

going to say in the comics, you don't need to

read the comic to understand the animated series.

I like reading where the origins of stuff came

first. I like reading the original source material

first before I dive into whatever they started

second kind of thing. I've already talked about

it already. Justice League action is. It's such

a comedic genius version of Justice League. You

have, I think it's George Newbern. I basically

think it's the Justice League and Justice League

Unlimited cast reunited. So it's George Newbern

is Superman. Susan Eisenberg is Wonder Woman.

Kevin Conroy is Batman. uh reunited i don't know

how many other characters are how many other

voice actors as the original characters from

the original dc animated universe shows are reunited

in that but i know at least the trinity are um

but yeah so yeah good list for secondary all

right all right uh for gravity falls for me that's

on my to -do list of stuff i need to watch because

i've seen little clips when i've been grabbing

images or sound clips or whatever, but I've never

actually sat down to watch the episodes to see

what they're like, so I need to do that. As most

people know that have heard anything that we've

ever done, most of the Marvel and DC stuff is

on my blind list, blind spots, so I have not

seen Harley Quinn or Justice League action at

all either. I have seen one episode of Invincible,

and I do think that that is an interesting show

that I am willing to watch some more of. I will

say that I I'm fine with like the animation style.

They got some, you know, obviously legit voices.

JK Simmons is one of the main characters there.

The first episode is just like moving right along.

And there's a lot of tie -ins where you're like,

okay, this is definitely like a spoof on some

other things that you would see like in Marvel

or DC. There's like a character that's clearly

like the flash. And then there's like a, They're

not the guardians of the galaxy, but they're

the guardians of the globe. And like, there's

a lot of things that are interesting. And then

at the end of the episode, the first episode,

everything takes a crazy turn. And I'm interested

to see where they go from there. So it's definitely,

I would say rated M, but not like. I think just

because of a little bit extra violence and the,

I believe they swear a few times. Invincible

is not for kids. Invincible is for adults. Right?

No, I'm just saying, but like there's different,

different ratings that make something forward.

for adults and like i know some people are you

know it's not like a i haven't seen anything

that's like sexualized or anything like that

is what i'm saying it's more like a from a violence

and from a vulgarity standpoint but again that's

on that's based on one episode um but i'm definitely

intrigued to watch some more of it kulapari An

Army of Frogs is, like I said, from 2016. So

basically it's about a hidden village of frogs,

and they are protected by this magical veil and

an elite group of poison frogs, which are called

the Kulapari. And they have their homeland threatened

by an army of scorpions and a magical, powerful

spider queen. And it centers around a character

named Daryl, who's a young frog who wants to

be Kulapari, but he doesn't have any poison.

So it's kind of his journey and it's got a amazing

voice cast. So Daryl is voiced by Josh Keaton,

Mikey Kelly, Phil Lamar, Lacey Chabert, Keith

David, Charlie Adler, Jess Harnell, Candy Milo,

Cree Summer, Kevin Michael Richardson, Cass Soucy.

And then the great Mark Hamill actually voices,

I think, three characters in this, including

like an old wise. individual and I just think

it's well done I watched all of it when it first

came out on Netflix I shouldn't say I've watched

all of it I maybe I've only seen the first two

seasons I did not realize there was a third season

that was on Hulu so I believe I've just seen

the first two seasons of Netflix and to me I

know a lot of people aren't going to be familiar

with this one so it doesn't have a super great

chance of probably making our countdown but I

do think it's like a an underrated kind of hidden

gem that if you're looking for something else

to watch that you haven't seen yet like i would

give this one a shot because i thought it was

uh somewhat entertaining steve what do you think

of this set of five so gravity falls not a fan

again boils down to animation style my kids i'm

sure like it i don't uh just not a not a fan

of it I have seen bits and pieces of that. Don't

care for it. Harley Quinn. I've seen chunks here

or there of it based on certain episode topics

that I've sought out just based on what it's

doing. It's an original take, and it's pretty

interesting. You also get. Diedrich Bader, you

know, coming back is. Batman here, which he was

in the brave and the bold. I don't know. It was

a different take and it was interesting and kind

of played more with the psychology part too in

some of the sections of it. I can see giving

it more acclaim and watching. Invincible, I've

not seen it. I've just seen memes from it. So

I don't know too much about it. I know J .K.

Simmons is in it. And Mark Hamill and people

like that. So I'll probably be giving this one

a good watch just to see whether it's something

I want to add to my list or not. Justice League

action. I like it as well. Similar to Mike in

that scenario, but there's a lot of different

comedy aspects with it. You also get. kevin conroy

coming back as batman bruce wayne and you get

dietrich bader as booster gold you get john dimaggio

as lobo you get mark hamill as the joker and

the trickster two characters he's played in the

past as well uh oh that no you get you get that

whole car scene yeah well he plays swamp thing

too yeah i know i know yeah no um saying this

for kevin kevin doesn't really kevin like there's

literally like a five minute episode he talks

to himself yeah the whole scene is is swamp thing

joker brickster and then mark hamill is driving

and then mark hamill as as the voice actor all

right uses his voice acting and tricks all the

other characters By talking like the other ones

and making them beat each other up. And David

Soboloff is Gorilla Grodd reprising from The

Flash. So yeah, that show, I enjoyed it for what

it was. Hula Pari, I'd never heard of. It kind

of reminds me of a Netflix version of Ninja Turtles.

When he was describing it, my first thought was,

because you didn't say this part of it, but when

you were describing it, I'm like, oh, okay, so

poisonous frogs versus evil pigs. And I bet the

lead poisonous frog's name is Kermit, and the

lead evil pig, his name is Biggie. Uh -huh. Kermit

the Frog here, and I'm leading an army of frogs.

Yep. That's right. Ain't that the truth. Alright.

Let's take a look at what comes next. What are

you listening to? Maybe someone is coming. Diamonds.

Diamonds. To wreak havoc. This is Garbo. Have

you noticed how often you lose your bets with

yourself? If I were keeping track, I believe

you'd owe yourself $15 million. Don't worry,

Jarvis. I'm good for every digital penny. You

could just contact them, sir. No. We broke up

the band for a reason, and like I predicted,

Earth is doing just fine without the Avengers.

It's just that... Alright, next up, I'm hoping

that you guys have seen some of these, because

I've only seen one of them, so... We have five

shows in this block led off by Kung Fu Panda,

Legends of Awesomeness from 2011. It's won at

least seven awards. We have Love, Death, and

Robots from 2019, which has won over 30 awards.

We have two installments from Marvel. We have

Marvel's Avengers Assemble from 2013 and Marvel's

Spider -Man from 2017. And then the only one

that I really know anything about would be...

Masters of the Universe. You can call it Revelation,

Revolution. I don't know. I mean, they switch

titles every season. I don't know if the series

on a whole has an actual name after the word

Masters of the Universe or not, but it's from

2021. We're talking about the Kevin Smith He

-Man show. So I will go first because I don't

have a whole lot to say. I haven't seen any of

them except for Masters of the Universe. I think

that show is amazing. I think it's well done

and I think it deserves to be in the conversation.

But I don't know if it's too soon to warrant

a spot in a top 100 list. I don't know if it's

over, if they're going to continue to do more

stuff with it or how that all is going to play

out. I'm a fan. I don't know if it is worthy

yet of top 100, though. Mike, what do you think

of that and the other four in this block? There

are certain aspects of the Kevin Smith Masters

of the Universe series, both part one and two,

Revolution, Revelation, Robot Nation, whatever

the hell they're calling it. And I think that

is completely done. I think that story is done.

I don't think Netflix is going to give him the

reins to anything else with that franchise. I

don't think Mattel is going to give him anything

else at this point. especially what he did with

Skeletor and Evelyn. But anyway, but yeah, it's

way too soon. And that was 10 episode or what

was it? Five episodes each, 10 episodes each.

I forget. I don't know. I didn't dislike it,

but I just compared to the other. I'm going to

say two. Okay, three. Compared to the other three

that are in my mind, which is the original 83

and 85 series and then the 2002 series, Kevin

Smith ain't got no shot. He just ain't got no

shot. I need to check out Love, Death, and Robots.

I haven't checked that out yet. I don't even

remember. I remember hearing about Avengers Assemble,

but I don't remember that. What year was that?

I don't even... 2013. So that was right after...

Sorry. And the sad thing is, anytime I hear the...

Anytime I hear the phrase, all I hear in my head

is Chris Evans. That's all I can hear when he

calls for the damn hammer. That's all I can hear.

And that didn't happen until 2019. And as I already

mentioned earlier, Marvel's Spider -Man is something

I need to look into because there were so many.

Spider -Man cartoon series with Josh Keaton as

like there was ultimate Spider -Man there was

this Spider -Man that's but and I'm not saying

anything against Josh because I love Josh as

the voice of Spider -Man I'm just saying under

Disney there were so many different versions

of Spider -Man that I do not remember that version

Again, Kung Fu Panda, I didn't watch that show.

I don't even remember watching the first of however

many movies Jack Black had as that panda. So,

yeah, no. Until I watch some of these other ones

outside of what I've already seen with the Kevin

Smith Master Series, I'm null and void on this

list for this section. All right, Steve, what

about you? So starting off with the beginning

here with Kung Fu Panda, I could see this one

doing well just because, again, it's a DreamWorks

show. DreamWorks seems to do pretty stinking

well with their animated series akin to their

films. I'm all for it for the people that enjoy

it. I personally won't be listing it just because

it's kind of a continuation of said movie. And

so I don't have any problem with it being there,

though. I mean, it's entertaining for what it

is. Love, Death and Robots. I've heard of it,

but again, it's like a horror thing. And so I'm

not into that at all. I want intellectual type

stuff too, but I also want comedy and I just

don't gravitate towards that. So that won't be

on my list at all. Avengers Assemble. It's an

interesting take on it. Very colorful version

of the Avengers. Again, kind of looks like it

goes in the early 90s or not early 90s, early

2000s aesthetic. Not quite there, but pretty

close to it. Not something I'll probably list,

but to each their own there. I'm more of a DC

animated fan. Marvel's Spider -Man. Yeah, I didn't

watch this at all and really have no interest

in watching it just because I've got plenty of

Spider -Mans that are already on my list. And

then Masters of the Universe. That one. I have

kind of a bittersweet aspect with it. I know

we reviewed it early and then the longer it's

kind of grown on me, the more I'm like, do I

like it? Do I not like it? Will I go back and

watch it? Probably not. But it's like, but I

also enjoyed the animation. I enjoyed what they

did with it and kind of taking the stakes up

and changing the status quo with it and, you

know, doing something new. It's still weird hearing

Mark Hamill be Skeletor for me just because,

I mean, I know he's doing. somewhat of a new

voice, but I still hear Joker in it, so it's

very difficult for me to take it seriously. But

it's almost like he's the de facto villain anymore

between Skeletor, the Joker. He was the Fallen

in the Prime Wars trilogy, Transformers, Machinima

series. I hear the same voice in everything,

so it's just kind of difficult to take. that

out of it. But the seasons were overall really

well done. I liked the fact that they changed

things up. You got a different side of He -Man.

You got the different side of Eternia and Preternia.

And so it kind of added to the mythos of the

original show. Definitely got people talking.

Yep, definitely. Definitely. So that one will

probably be on my list. But yeah, that about

rounds me out for this section. All right. We'll

go from the master of the universe to something

completely different with our next group. Well,

it's about time some pony got me out of that

prison block. What a relief! At every third moon's

darkening, a champion is created to defeat the

evil sorcerer, Nar Est. And every time, they

have failed. Present this new hero with the shard.

Keep him hidden. Somewhere lost in the clouded

annals of history lies a place that few have

seen. A mysterious place called the unknown.

Where long forgotten stories are revealed to

those who travel through the wood. All right,

starting off this next set of five from 2010.

It's had over 200 episodes, won over 12 awards.

It was on two of the lists we looked at. It is

a pop culture phenomenon. How about My Little

Pony? Friendship is magic. Took the world by

storm. Who knew? And then we have Nico and the

Sword of Light. That was an Amazon series from...

2017. We have Over the Garden Wall from 2014.

We have another cultural phenomenon for a younger

audience, Paw Patrol from 2013. And we have a

show called Primal from 2019, which is a Genndy

Tartakovsky show. I will go first with this one.

My Little Pony Friendship is Magic will get my

vote simply for the cultural impact it had on

just... went bananas right like and i did appreciate

uh the appearance of john delancey in there that

was fun i out of all of the 80s shows who knew

that a reboot of my little pony was gonna do

what it did i guess nico and the sword of light

is another hidden gem kind of under the radar

show i would call This one, like I said, was

an Amazon Studios, Amazon Prime video series.

It is centered around a 10 -year -old boy named

Nico, who's one of the last of his kind. And

The Sword of Light obviously gives him some power.

It involves the voices of the likes of Kerry

Walgren, Jim Cummings, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve

Bloom, Corey Burton, Tom Kenny, Kevin Michael

Richardson. so the voice work is phenomenal i

enjoyed the animation even though it's like an

american flash animated type series but i just

thought it was again like this and kolopari to

me are very similar because it's something kind

of off the beaten path and it's not anime necessarily

it's not the what I call lazy animation that

we got from a lot of things in the late 90s and

early 2000s. So I actually enjoy the animation

on these two shows much better. And I just think

it's a breath of fresh air for stuff. But I can

see a lot of people not knowing what that one

is. Over the Garden Wall, I've never heard of,

but I've only seen good things when I've been

doing research about it. Seems like a lot of

people really, like there's a lot of critical

acclaim. I've never seen it. Paw Patrol, I guess

in a similar way to My Little Pony is just like.

Kids go bananas for this thing. My daughter was

definitely obsessed with Paw Patrol. She was

one of the Paw Patrol characters two years ago

for Halloween. She had a Paw Patrol birthday.

I don't know of a kid that doesn't like Paw Patrol.

I don't know what our generation's version of

that would have been. It wasn't quite Smurfs.

It was something else that everybody went bananas

on back in the day. Primal, I've seen one episode

of. I'm not a huge Tartakovsky fan necessarily.

This one is about a caveman basically who comes

into a relationship with a T -Rex. Like they're

like, I don't know, like they're a dynamic duo,

I guess. And they're like going through. dinosaur

land and and everything that existed you know

back in that time period and helping each other

out there's not a lot of speaking involved in

this series whatsoever the animation's okay i'm

just not a huge fan of it and it to me it's almost

a little too mature like i don't i don't like

seeing some of the stuff you see in the first

episode i'm not trying to spoil it i guess but

like There's definitely some hard stuff to watch

in the first episode. So I don't know if that

would be something that would make my list. But

I get that it was very critically acclaimed.

Again, it does a lot without a lot of voice work

and stuff like that. It's just not something

for me personally. So let's go to Steve first

this time. What do you think of? We got My Little

Pony, Friendship is Magic, Nico and the Sword

of Light, Over the Garden Wall, Paw Patrol, and

Primal. So I could see people voting for My Little

Pony just because it went on, honestly, for nine

seasons. That's quite a bit in today's, you know,

today's animation world. Yeah. Plus, she had

John Delancey. So there there is a benefit there,

too. What's funny is we interviewed him right

around the time that this was coming out. And

on and he he he played on that show and then.

I've seen bits and pieces of it. It's not something

for me, but I can see why it would have the critical

acclaim, especially going on 221 episodes and

nine seasons. So Nico looks interesting. I have

not seen it, but again, I will put this on my

list of to watch and over the garden wall. While

I am not a fan of the animation style, it does

have some legendary actors in it. with like elijah

wood christopher lloyd um john cleese so could

be something interesting uh but again it's i

don't i don't see like me investing in this one

in particular for the list just because it's

only 10 episodes so right i i'm trying to also

stay away from shows that are only one season

because i'm like how can it be a top 100 if it

went on for one season yeah like if you were

doing cult classics i get that top 100s then

i could see it being on it it almost feels like

uh to me it's like judging a band that had one

hit yeah it's like a one hit wonder type thing

it could be an interesting way to look at it

in the future doing a show that never quite got

there enough to you know cult classic animated

series or something and having shows that Didn't

qualify for this. So there's that Paw Patrol.

Oh, my goodness. My kids love this show. 12 seasons,

12 seasons. They watch the crap out of it on

Netflix, like the crap out of it. They loved

it when they were babysat with family. They loved

it even up till about two years ago. Had a lot

of the stuff. Just love the show. So I can see

this one being on the list. It's not on my list,

but I'm pretty sure that for a list that they

would put together, it would be on it. Primal,

I'm not a fan of Gennady Tartakovsky other than

a few select shows that he's done. This just

doesn't look like something I would enjoy. So

it won't be on my list. Yeah, I watched one episode

and I probably won't watch a second. So that's

just me. Mike, what about you for this set of

five? One thing I'll say that is not going to

make my list is Paw Patrol, and it has nothing

to do, like, it's just not in my age. I'm too

old for it. I don't have kids, like I've said

before already in this episode. I recorded something

two years ago. Episode 317 of Geekcast Radio

was children's television programming then and

now with my good Canadian friend Jennifer Kaufman.

And I remember when I released that episode,

Optimus was like, how could you do this without

me? And I said, there was a specific agenda for

this episode. Jennifer had made comments on Facebook,

specifically her rant about Paw Patrol and why

she thought it was a horrible show. And that's

why I had her on that episode was so she could

get her rant out because I believe everybody

needs to have a voice on whether they like or

dislike something. And we didn't go full rant

the whole time. It is a show. It is a podcast

about children's television programming then

and now, at least now as of 2023. But so, yeah,

folks, if you want to hear that episode 317 of

Geekast Radio. So that was interesting. I see

the title over the garden wall and all I can

think of is why you want to eavesdrop on Adam

and Eve. We know what happened. My Little Pony

Friendship is Magic is great. I've only seen

a handful of episodes, but I've seen enough of

the show to know that it's amazing. John Delancey,

as you guys have already mentioned it, absolutely

amazing. We've actually covered several of the

comic books based on that from IDW over on the

pull bag. They did a series called My Little

Pony Fiendship is Magic, where Beatles Diva and

I covered that on the pull bag, but that show

is awesome. That show's great. Interesting fun

fact to note, and I'll have to do the research

on this after the show, to figure out when the

lovely service we're using to record this podcast

was created versus when the character was created,

because John Delancey's character's name was

Discord. i've never heard of nico in the sort

of light and i've never heard of primal the only

primal i knew was it's a current i think it's

a current video game maybe and then the only

other version of it that i knew was a richard

gear movie in the 90s called primal fear i think

it was the 90s for sure i thought for sure you

knew about okay yeah okay yeah there is the giant

monkey but well there was a video game of primal

way back in the 90s yeah but like there's a new

there's also a newer version of i could have

sworn anyway all right that does it for the first

half of the nominees for today let's uh see what

we have in store for the second half it looks

just like rigby did somebody order an accountant

i love this tasty lake Man, that guy is the Red

Grin Grumboldt of pretending he knows what's

going on. Oh, you agree, huh? You like that Red

Grin Grumboldt reference? Well, guess what? I

made him up. No, they're not. And what about

this Fred Jones? Certainly there must be other

boys. Not like Fred. He's like one of those geniuses

that no one understands until they're dead. This

is what I've been working for my entire life.

i wonder what's even outside the fright zone

we're gonna see the world and conquer it catra

slow down adora captain's log stardate 57436

.2 the cerritos is docked at douglas station

for routine maintenance and resupply my god what

are you doing nothing nothing nothing oh no oh

no no no are you pretending to do a captain's

log we're all supposed to keep lost okay let

me listen to it go away all right a couple more

that are obviously very popular in society or

pop culture i guess could start off with a couple

here even though i have never seen them another

one from 2010 a lot of series so far from 2010

i think we had adventure time was 2010 We had

My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic, and we're

going to have regular show right now from 2010.

261 episodes, over 20 awards. We have Rick and

Morty, which obviously was super popular. I don't

know if it still is, but it came out in 2013.

Over 15 awards for that one. Another 2010 series,

Scooby -Doo Mystery Incorporated. Mike already

talked briefly about that one, but Scooby -Doo

Mystery Inc. is our third one in this block.

We have She -Ra and the Princesses of Power.

You may have to separate Mike and myself during

any conversation on that one. And then we have

Star Trek Lower Decks, another entry, our second

one from the 2020s that came out in 2020. So

Steve, let's start with you on this one. We have

Regular Show, Rick and Morty, Scooby -Doo Mystery

Inc., She -Ra and the Princesses of Power, and

Star Trek Lower Decks. So starting off... Regular

show is automatically one of those ones that

I. I tried to watch and I did try to watch it.

I couldn't get into it. It yeah, it between the

animation and then I just I don't care for the

show and the writing. So I moved on from that

pretty quickly. Rick and Morty, I know that a

lot of people enjoy that. It's definitely goofy.

And there's a lot of, you know, time and a lot

of different weird isms, almost akin to like

a. I would say like a Beetlejuice and some of

the other things from back in the 90s that you

could kind of play in that field. I haven't watched

a whole lot of this. And I get why a lot of people

would like it. It's not something for me, but.

I can understand this one at least a little bit

more. I don't love the animation either, but

at least it tries to do something. Scooby -Doo

Mystery Incorporated. It's obviously a modern

update of Scooby -Doo. And you get guest stars

in some of it. You get them doing what they always

do. modern modern colors modern you know updated

actors you know because you get matthew littler

playing shaggy and frank walker playing fred

and scooby and there's an episode where they

talk to themselves with the voice actors yep

in the voice booth they're like oh you sound

like me blah blah blah yeah so i mean this this

one's this one's a pretty nice updating of the

show and I think it could stand on its own, especially

if you're not a fan of the original show. This

kind of lives in that vein without being too

much in it. She run the princesses of power.

Again, this one's an animation thing for me.

I mean, there was also a lot of different drama

with this one being out, not just animation,

but a lot of things that people disliked. And

I, it bears no. No bearing on me for this. I

was never a fan of She -Ra anyway, so this doesn't

impact me whatsoever. Not a show I'd probably

list, but again, it is what it is. Star Trek

Lower Decks. This one is done by the guy that

did some of the stuff on Rick and Morty. At least

I think it is. Mike McMahon also had a Twitter

page that he did TNG Season 8. He loved the continuity.

It's very much a comedy show of lower deckers

and plays in that realm. You get your red shirts,

you get your gold shirts, your blue shirts, and

you get some actors reprising their original

characters as voices like John Delancey and Jonathan

Frakes and George Takai. uh jolene blaylock you

know so you get you get a bunch of different

actors from the olden days coming back periodically

and jonathan frakes is kind of like in everything

pretty much everything but tos he's been in and

discovery so so there's there's that the show

was the show's a lot of fun i went into it and

i didn't love it the first half the first season

And then it grew on me and I actually enjoyed

the show to the point that I actually look forward

to it as much as I did like Strange New Worlds

and Picard season three. So I think this one

was very well done. And some people say it's

overrated. I they at least try to play in the

continuity, which I found refreshing. And so

they would go back to old plot points and. do

something new and then all of their posters were

kind of play on different motion picture posters

so so yeah this one will definitely be on my

list for me and I'll start I'll kind of go in

reverse order I guess so I'm a fan of just about

all things Star Trek there hasn't been a whole

lot in the Star Trek universe that I have watched

that I haven't liked I'm we're making our way

through the last little bit of strange new worlds

that's the only one that we haven't seen in its

entirety but i have not gotten to the animated

series yet so both uh any of the star trek animated

series are kind of on my watch list just haven't

got to them yet so i need to make time for that

before we finalize our list cheer in the princesses

of power this is something more that i just like

to poke mike about i actually haven't seen most

of this show i've seen i think the first season

or at least half of the first season if not the

whole first season i was a fan of like most of

what i saw but i do know it kind of goes in a

lot of different directions throughout the rest

of the series and has some controversy and things

of that nature so i don't know if i'm a fan of

that in my animated series just to kind of leave

it somewhat nondescript but uh just like playing

with mike there because i i know he's not a fan

so um he'll get the chance to talk about it in

a second scooby -doo mystery inc is uh scooby

-doo mystery incorporated will for sure get a

vote from me i think that's there's not many

times that i would vote for something over the

original i'm not saying i'm doing that here either

but like what we talked about with ducktales

earlier on right like we were talking about the

original versus the 27 2017 reboot things of

that nature scooby -doo mystery inc is one of

it's like a reboot that actually could give the

original a run for its money if the original

wasn't yeah scooby -doo like the franchise scooby

-doo right like it's just so iconic that it's

hard to beat that original but scooby -doo mystery

inc is in fantastic reboot so i think it's definitely

worthy rick and morty and regular show i haven't

seen so i will have to catch up with that those

two if they were to get a vote would be more

so on Just like the overwhelming support that

they seem to have in most groups that talk about

this type of thing. But I would like to actually

get a chance to watch some of that for myself

before I put them there. But I could see both

of them making our countdown potentially. Mike,

what do you think of this set of five? Yeah,

I've never had a chance to check out Lower Decks,

so I'm going to have to put that on my list to

check it out. Rick and Morty and regular show.

I've seen a smattering of both of them, but I've

never actually watched a full episode. So again,

those are going to have to go on the watch five

list. Scooby to Mr. Inc. I've already said what

I have seen of it. I've absolutely loved it.

Art direction done by the late, great Derek J.

Wyatt. Derek passed away a number of years ago.

I've had the chance to talk to him, interview

him several times. He's been on ToyCast. He's

been on several other, I think, all things Transformers.

I don't know if we did a transformation animation

interview with him, but he's been on GCRN in

the past, and unfortunately, he passed away a

number of years ago. uh shira and the princesses

of mother power oh god this fuck i don't give

two craps about the offline creative whatever

showrunner bs whatever the show itself i don't

like the animation style I think, but I would

have to go back and look through my Netflix.

And I don't even know if I even have the same

Netflix queue now that I did back then. So I

don't even know. No, I can tell you, no, I don't.

Because I can tell you this show currently isn't

in my Netflix list. I don't even know if I, anyway.

I remember when I sat down to watch this, I sat

down to give it the college try. I watched the

first season. I watched the second season. By

the end of the second season, I was flipping

done. I could not stand the writing. I could

not stand the characters. It just wasn't a show

for me. I understand it's a show for somebody.

I understand. And when I say it wasn't a show

for me, I was not expecting them to magically

transport 1985 to 1987 She -Ra and make it modern

times. Fine. You want to write a modern -day

version of She -Ra? Great. That's awesome. But

don't do it the way they... It just... I just

didn't like it. And... I'll go back and I'll

try again, but this time I'm only watching five

episodes. Somebody paid me to watch The Acolyte

and I watched it. Still didn't like it, but I

watched it and I gave my honest opinion from

watching it. But there ain't no way in hell I

would ever take money to watch more than five

episodes of She -Ra. And I'm not asking anyone

to do so now. But for our rules of giving it

the five episode rule, I will rewatch five episodes

of this show. But I just remember going through

watching the first two seasons of this every

time that they dropped the new season when it

dropped. I just didn't. It was just bad writing.

Bad writing on top of animation I didn't want

to see because of the style of animation. It

just wasn't for me at all. And I just can't do

it. All right. Let's see what the next set of

five holds. On behalf of Starfleet, welcome aboard.

Uh, what is that? Have you ever even flown a

ship before? No. Does it show? Disabling gravity.

Okay. because today is my 14th birthday. And

according to tradition, my mom, the queen, has

to bestow upon me our greatest family heirloom,

the royal magic wand. That thing's not a Wookiee.

Haven't you ever seen a rare hairless Wookiee

before? Oh, forget it. Told you they wouldn't

buy it. You didn't exactly give them a chance

to buy it. It's just something about the feel

of their helmets on my fist. No! This can't be

happening! This has to be a dream! Lars! Lars!

Please tell me I'm dreaming! Get off me, man.

I'm stuck in here. I never thought we'd come

back. And you'll wish you never had. You were

fools to return. And now, with your help, I will

take over this land once again. It's over, dragon.

It has only begun. The song is mine, you fools.

So we ended with Star Trek Lower Decks. We'll

start this group with Star Trek Prodigy. from

2021 our third series from the 2020s here to

make the nominee list we also have from 2015

star versus the forces of evil we have star wars

rebels from 2014 another star wars animated series

that gets a chance to be on the top 100 we have

steven universe from 2013 and also from 2013

teen titans go which says it has 393 episodes

is that real Anyway, I will start real quick

because I don't have a whole lot to say. Like

I said, with Star Trek Lower Decks, I haven't

seen any of the animated Star Trek stuff, so

I need to catch up with that. I'm still trying

to catch up with Star Wars Clone Wars, so Star

Wars Rebels will come after that. So hopefully

I'll have a chance to watch some of that before

the countdown. I know that this one is very well

-received, well thought of, critically acclaimed.

So it's probably going to get a vote from me

regardless, just on... like it's a reputation,

but I'll try to get to it beforehand. Teen Titans

go. I can't see myself watching that Steven universe.

I'll potentially watch five episodes just to

be fair. I don't know if I'll do the same for

star versus the forces of evil. A lot of this

is just not from my time period. So it's, it's

hard for me to, to get behind some of them, but

we'll see how it goes. Mike, what do you think

of this set of five Steven universe? Then again,

the only thing stopping me on that, again, I

will give it the five episode tribe, but the

thing mainly stopping me on that is the animation

style. Teen Titans go again. It's, it's, um,

okay. How we said earlier that I liked that Steve

and I liked justice league action because it

was a more comedic version of justice league

and justice league unlimited. Justice League

and Justice League Unlimited was actually really,

really good, which means we knew what we didn't

know going in. But after seeing Justice League

action and seeing the more comedic version, it

was good. This is not that case where Teen Titans

from 2003, 2004 was a really good, serious, awesome

show. This just. Hey. There's good comedy and

then there's ham bone comedy. This is ham bone

comedy just to ham it up. And it's just not good.

Star versus the forces of evil. I think I've

seen commercials for it when commercials were

still a thing in my world. Star Wars rebels,

simply awesome. Absolutely love it. And then

Star Trek prodigy. I will have to watch that

myself. Steve, what do you think about this set

of five? So I'll start with Star Trek prodigy.

I watched this one and they do use for some of

the because it's a new crew that kind of commandeers

a Starfleet ship that's run derelict on a mining

colony, basically. And there's there's definitely

something that Starfleet did wrong at one point

and endangered like a civilization that has a

definite revenge plot going with the prodigy.

And Janeway is pretty heavily involved and Chakotay

and the EMH. And so you get you get some of these

different aspects through the first two seasons.

I honestly wish that they would have gotten another

season because they were just getting ready to

set off on the Voyager A. For more adventures,

and it was really well done in the scenes that

they use, like the holodeck, for instance, they

would call on. You know, old. Starfleet characters

or you know personnel like Spock and you know

Dr. Crusher and you know some of these other

characters and they would use for the deceased

actors they would use like some canned audio

footage for them and then the other ones they

would just voice you know their character again

and so the show was really well done I it took

a while to get used to some of the characters

but the show is really well And this kind of

breaks a little bit of the I believe this was

on Nickelodeon. So it broke the the trauma I

had prior to the 2021 era. So this this was a

really good show. It'll be on my list. Star versus

the forces of evil. It's a Cal Arts thing. I

don't enjoy it. So. It's not going to be on my

list. Star Wars Rebels. That was a spectacular

show. I genuinely enjoyed this. This was the

first animated Star Wars show I'd ever watched.

I didn't even watch Clone Wars until after this.

And this was so well done and so well enjoyed

that I was glad when they started showing up

in the live action. So this is a good one here.

Steven Universe, again, CalArts. Not something

I'm going to enjoy. I tried watching that one,

too. I quickly shut it off. Just didn't like

it. And then Teen Titans Go. I can tolerate this

one. It's annoying and kind of stupid, too, like

some of the other ones. And it's short and it,

I believe it uses a lot of the same actors, if

not all of them from the original team Titans.

It just makes them kind of reprise. And that's

what I thought. Yeah. Uh, it had 437 episodes,

which is a massive undertaking, but they were

only like 11 minute episodes. Oh, at least I

think they were. Yeah. I think there were micro

episodes. I think the best thing to come out

of teen Titans ago was the. I don't know if it

was direct to video or not, but the Teen Titans

go to the movies movie like that was the best

thing that came out of this. So I'll do you one

better. They they had a four part episode called

The Night Begins to Shine. And it was because

I just rewatched it recently. They basically

get they play a song and they go into this 80s.

time warp and it takes them to an alternate land

and there's this you know they they play the

song and they encounter a red dragon in the other

dimension and it's voiced none other by david

k david k yeah and so he's like the song will

belong to me all right let's see what uh what

comes next after that set of five How am I supposed

to fight advanced alien technology with a stupid

stick? Oh, grubby. Don't go there. I'm on the

verge. See you in Jollywood. Hoof, the queen,

magic. Gonna be a long episode. Ma 'am, do you

find the new speed bumps in your neighborhood

a nuisance? Yes, I believe these imported speed

bumps do not fit the regulation standard. The

White Lotus has honored my family by coming.

Thank you. Welcome. We have investigated many

claims, both here and in the Northern Tribe.

All have turned out to be false. Someday, when

your queen... Heads up! Incoming! Kion! Sorry,

Dad. Me and Bunga were playing baobab ball and

Kion couldn't handle the pass. What? A giraffe

couldn't handle it. You kicked it over my head.

Kion. All right. Coming up in this group. Interested

to hear your guys' take on this. We have the

2012 reboot or whatever you would like to call

of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So the 2012

version of Turtles. Another one of those interesting

conversations that we have sometimes with these

is. how franchise installments work and do some

eliminate others or things of that nature. I

know we had four Spider -Man series in our original

top 100. This has got to be the third or fourth

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that we've talked

about so far in the nominees. We have from 2014,

the 7D from Disney. We have from 2011, The Amazing

World of Gumball, which I know is very popular

in its time. I know this next one we would probably

get shunned if we don't include it on our top

100 list. This would be The Legend of Korra from

2012. The next thing in the Avatar world, The

Last Airbender. And then we have from 2016, The

Lion Guard. So Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,

The 7D, The Amazing World of Gumball, The Legend

of Korra, and The Lion Guard. Mike, why don't

you start us off on this set of five? boy tmnt

2012 the first two seasons were really cool they

were really fun season three something happened

and i think between season two and season three

off camera off mic off whatever Jason Biggs did

a bunch of stupid things because the voice of

Leonardo is now being played by Seth Green. They

replaced Jason Biggs with Seth Green in season

three of TMNT 2012. And I didn't mind it. I don't

mind Seth as a voice actor. TMNT 2012, I only

really remember... The first two seasons and

like the first five episodes of the third season,

I never went back to it. It was just a time thing.

I just lost track of that show, but I do remember

watching the first two seasons and I do remember

really, really enjoying the first two seasons

of that show. Kevin Michael Richardson as the

shredder. Uh, you know, you had Rob Paulson returning

as, as Donatello this time. So you got double

turtle duty. You got, uh, he was Raph in the

original series. Now he's Donnie in the new series

at the time. Uh, it was a really good show. Seven

D thank God. Finally, something without the burdens

of the. We must wake her from her poisoning.

We must do this. We must do that. The cool thing

about Disney's The 7 -D is it's the dwarfs with

all the fun and shenanigans they have without

Snow White and all the rest of the BS of that

stuff. In The 7 -D, you have Billy West. You

have Kevin Michael Richardson. You have Maurice

LaMarche. d bradley baker trying to remember

them all bill farmer you've got all the uh steven

stanton you get all these amazing voice actors

playing the seven dwarfs you've got lee ellen

baker playing queen delightful you've got i think

paul rug plays uh lord starchbottom i think but

it's basically just the seven dwarves doing their

adventures and having fun. And it's just an amazing

show that should have gotten more than two seasons.

It was done by Tom Ruger, same guy that did tiny

tunes and Animaniacs and a pup named Scooby -Doo.

So it's that same type of humor. And it's just

hilarious. You got Billy West playing, playing

bashful. Just. It's just hilarious. It's just

absolutely hilarious. I absolutely love that

show. I've only seen a handful of episodes of

Gumball, never seen Korra, never seen Airbender.

Lion Guard, is that the Lion King follow -up?

Yes. I saw one or two episodes of it, but I never

saw... I wanted to watch more of it, but I just

never did. All right. Steve, what do you think

of this out of five? Ninja Turtles is a lock

for me. I've loved this series, the 2003 and

the 87. It's CGI. They also have an episode where

they touch on the 87 turtles and Krang. And so

that that was fun, too. You get a little bit

different background with the Utroms and Shredder

and a lot of fun fits in the same vein. The 7D.

I'll give it a shot. I am not familiar with it.

I mean, I know I know Mike loves the show. Again,

it kind of boils down to an animation thing for

me, too. Okay. I'll give you two hints here,

okay? I'll give you one thing. Think what would

happen if you took Grumpy the Dwarf and meshed

in Brain from Animaniacs. So it's Maurice LaMarche

voicing Grumpy. So think of it as the Brain.

But he's grumpy all the time. And him and Happy,

who is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, always,

they're basically the Laurel and Hardy or the

Abbott and Costello to each other throughout

the whole show. I'll give it a shot. Anyway,

The Amazing World of Gumball. I hate this animation.

And I did try and watch an episode of it. Yeah.

So moving on from that, the Legend of Korra,

the animation looks really well done, especially

for a Nickelodeon show. Yeah. I will give this

one a shot. So I have nothing to say on it right

now. The Lion Guard I have seen, though. My kids

liked it, got really into it, knew the whole

mythos. So you get Rob Lowe playing Simba. I've

seen this one enough that it's pretty good and

kind of stays true, but it kind of reinvents

the whole Lion King. It's definitely not a translation

from the films to an animated series. It definitely

progresses the timeline, and then you get a lot

of the hyenas and a lot of the other characters'

natural progression in the show, so it's very

fitting. Not on my list, but... I mean, it may

end up on my list. I don't know. It's definitely

deserving, too. Rob Lowe, Austin Powers number

two as Simba? I can't envision that. For me,

I got to watch a little bit more of the 2012

Turtles to distinguish how many turtle spots

I have on my countdown and if it deserves to

be in there or not. The 7D, I really enjoy. It's

going to be a numbers thing, whether that makes

the countdown or not. I've not seen Amazing World

of Gumball. I know on Reputation Legend of Korra

probably belongs along with Avatar The Last Airbender.

Lion Guard I think is fun. I've seen a little

bit of that with my daughter and things of that

nature. I don't think there's anything wrong

with the show. I don't know if there will be

room in a top 100 for it, but that doesn't mean

there's anything wrong with it. Alright, we're

down to our final 10. Let's see what the first

half of that 10 holds. One was so good, it deserves

a cookie. Oh, thanks. So anyway, what's one light

bulb say to the other? You're glowing. I already

told you that one? No, dude. You are glowing.

Lionel, come in, come in. I have something for

you. Jorma here sells certain hard -to -find

collectibles. You mean black market items. They're

more than that. What is all this? It's what's

out there. beyond fundera's walls where are we

megatronus don't you remember old friend that

will not be necessary or possible cybertron is

no longer our home this planet is Kanjigar. A

troll hunter never yields. I'd rather die. Terms

accepted. For the first half of that 10 shows

that we have left to make our nominees for this

episode, we start off with The Loud House from

2016. That has over 260 episodes. We have the

2011 version of The Thundercats, followed by

the 2010 version of Transformers. This one was

called Transformers Prime. Speaking of The Hub,

we have another Transformers show, Rescue Bots,

and then we have Troll Hunters from 2016, which

I believe was a Netflix show. I could be wrong

on that. For me, I have not seen The Loud House

or Troll Hunters yet, so I'll have to give those

a shot. Out of the other three, to me, Thundercats

from 2011 is a lot like G .I. Joe Renegades in

the fact that... It gets cut off before it gets

to like do its full thing. So I don't know if

for me that will give it enough to warrant being

on the list, even though I really did enjoy what

we got from it. Transformers Prime, if I have

enough room for another Transformers show, that

would probably be the one that I would add in

there along with the original and Beast Wars.

slash beast machines would have a chance it would

probably be between beast machines and transformers

prime on on which if i have room for a third

one transformers rescue bot has no chance in

hell for making my list just because of this

thing i if i only am allowing so many transformers

shows like rescue bots is I would probably put

in animated before I put in rescue bots. It's

just not my thing. No, I'm just kidding. I don't

know. I don't, I'm not a big fan of either of

those, but I am a big fan of transformers prime.

So I don't know, Steve, what do you think of

this set of five? So the loud house again, it's

Cal art style. No. Thundercats. This one, I'm

inclined to say that it deserves a spot, even

though it's not like, and. like a really ongoing

here. And well, yes, it, you know, it did get

on streaming and it was a Cartoon Network thing.

Cartoon Network kind of screwed the pooch on

it. Yeah, I think that it was definitely promising,

kind of like Renegades. Like it, it had the had

the legs to go. They just studio Transformers

Prime. I. This one's this one's weird for me

because I enjoyed it at the time. And this was

one of the hub shows. I mean, you get Colin is

his prime Welkers Megatron. Steve Bloom is Starscream.

And then, you know, Jeffrey Combs and David Soboloff.

And yeah, so, I mean, you get all these actors

in there and they're great. And the story is

great. And the animation is is as well. But I

found like the longer it went, the more I kind

of lost interest. Fair enough. So like I while

I could vote for it and I probably will. It it's

it's difficult for me. Rescue bots. I enjoyed

as a. From the parent perspective of watching

Transformers with my kids like. Getting them

in this and they of course collected the characters

and everything. So it was cool having Colin.

jump in there and bumblebee and you know occasionally

so they i mean my kids enjoyed it it had 104

episodes four seasons so it it definitely was

warranted when it went to rescue bot academy

that's where i felt like it kind of fell off

uh the cliff because it was kind of continuing

but not really and they changed all of the voice

cast to uh non -union at that point so everybody

that's in this show is gone so steve bloom's

gone yeah so so yeah i mean i can see this one

being on there especially if you know you get

kids and have seen it and then of course troll

hunters it's a it's a dream works it's it's got

good actors in it for one but i don't foresee

me doing this just because i'm not a huge fan

of trolls anyway or like these mystical universe

type stuff makes sense Mike, what do you think?

I think the Loud House is probably the only CalArts

style animation show that I would vote for because

I remember when that came out and I liked the

premise of it and I thought it was cool at the

time. Between Thundercats 2011, Transformers

Prime, and Transformers Rescue Bots, at least

the first part of Transformers Rescue Bots, not

Academy, you have one voice actor connecting

all three. Because the end of Transformers Prime,

after three seasons, we get the most shocking

reveal of the entire series. Batman Beyond is

the voice of Bumblebee. I was not expecting,

after three seasons, Will Friedle to show up

as being the voice of Bumblebee in Transformers

Prime. Obviously, he's the voice of Lion -O in

Thundercats 2011. because transformers prime

rolls into rescue bots because we all love to

roll the rescue bots around here go check out

michael wilson's old youtube channel for roll

the rescue bots and uh and you know he continues

to voice bumblebee in that and yeah uh and same

thing with steve i i don't do trolls i there

ain't no billy but billy goats gruff around here

so yeah Alright, alright. Did Kevin Michael Richardson

not appear in Rescue Bots ever? Uh, Bulkhead?

I don't remember. I don't think so. I was going

to say, otherwise he connects them all too. That's

true too. Alright, so five shows left for the

nominations for this era. Let's see what they

are. Fine. Pimps, go right. Lance, go left. Keith,

make me a sandwich. Stat. Yes, you heard me.

I'm the leader now, dang it. All right, you're

not the one. Out of the line. Oh, man, this store

has the best furniture. I can't wait to put together

a new, um... Pimps Max doll. Right, that thing.

Ice Bear needs this. I am the Watcher. I am your

guide through these vast new realities. Follow

me and ponder the question, what if? Hey, it's

me, Martin, half of the Krat brothers. When it's

raining outside, a lot of people are like, oh

no, it's too wet, I'm staying inside. Oh, boy

wonder. The bat sent you to drag me off to prison.

Frankly, I'm underwhelmed. First time at the

hall, I'm a little overwhelmed. You're overwhelmed,

Freeze was underwhelmed, why isn't anyone ever

just whelmed? We start off this section with

the 2016 version of Voltron. This one was called

Voltron Legendary Defender. We have We Bare Bears,

which is kind of hard to say if you say it fast.

That's from 2015. That aired over 140 episodes.

We have What If?, another entrance from the 2020s,

2021 specifically. We have Wild Kratts from 2011,

over 150 episodes of that. And then we have Young

Justice from 2010, another 2010. show makes an

appearance so voltron legendary defender we bear

bears what if dot dot dot question mark wild

kratts and young justice mike what do you think

you are saying wild kratts and not cats right

correct wild kratts the kratts crap brothers

i don't know whatever it's like a nature slash

yeah yeah no i just just want to make sure i'm

hearing what i just want to make sure my ears

are working properly because i'm half blind anyway

uh legendary defender i think my buddy joe reed

and i did a couple of episodes of tooncast on

that on the first two seasons i enjoyed it for

what it was i honestly don't remember it at this

point in time right now as we're doing this recording

but it was a good updating of voltron i've only

seen we bear bears in clips i've never actively

watched that show what if is amazing friends

of mine and i did episodes of of tooncast i think

it was i think i think it was true yeah most

likely tooncast i'm trying to remember how do

we do that how do we do the first first two seasons

i know we haven't done season three yet we've

got podcasts somewhere obviously since i Didn't

even know what the hell he said, folks. I have

no idea what the Wild Kratts is. And then Young

Justice is great. Young Justice is very awesome.

All right. I will have to give Voltron a chance.

I'm not the biggest Voltron fan in the world,

just like the franchise overall. And I get them

all confused. I feel like there's been a lot

of them that seem to blend together. But I should

give that one a chance. I've never seen any of

We Bare Bears, What If, or Young Justice. So

I'll have to figure out which ones I want to

give a shot to. Wild Kratts is a great show for

a younger audience. It's definitely very much

like nature knowledge, like teaching people about

nature and animals and things like that. They

had a live action version before that, the Krat

brothers. And then this is like the animated

version. My daughter loves it. I don't know if

it's something I would vote for. I do know that

Young Justice out of these five is probably the

most acclaimed. but I have not seen it. So Steve,

what do you think about this last set of five?

Well, Voltron legendary defender. I saw, I think

the first few episodes when it came out on, I

believe it was on Netflix when it first came

out. Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. And it's

funny, Josh Keaton in there. Yeah, I did watch

some of this initially when it came out, and

I enjoyed what I saw. I think I just, I'm not

a huge Voltron fan, so I kind of just, I kind

of turned out of the show at that point. But

it did go on eight seasons, so there is that.

We Bare Bears, CalArts, it just, I've never heard

of it before this, but honestly, I don't see

me watching it, even though it had 140 episodes.

Just... doesn't look like something i would enjoy

uh what if was really well done great graphics

great story great uh jumping through the multiverse

uh this one i feel like was just kind of a slam

dunk just great overall especially if you're

you know well versed in a lot of the stuff with

the marvel cinematic universe you know forget

this forget the other series like if you've seen

all the films like this you'll be able to okay

kind of track with this uh the wild crats my

kids watch this one for a while i was familiar

with the original show that these guys were a

part of which was the zabu mafu yeah uh so i

was i was familiar with that at that time and

my my kids watched the show and enjoyed it and

uh i think it definitely lands pretty well i

mean they get to almost like wonder twin power

activate type thing with their with their powers

for you know becoming the animals or beast boy

or you know something so i mean it kind of works

in that realm and you get to learn something

about the animals so it's it's cool uh young

justice was an interesting new take, kind of

like a Lower Decks for the Justice League. And

you kind of get, instead of the Teen Titans,

you get something a little bit more grown up

than that. And occasionally the Justice League

would show up and different things would happen.

Went on 98 episodes, four seasons. I actually

have a couple of signed scripts from this one

because I met Greg Wiseman at a convention years

ago. But yeah, I mean, the show was pretty cool

and it was it was interesting. And I watched

it through, I think, season three in the night.

I think I just didn't have whatever station it

was on at the time to finish it. So I haven't

actually finished it to this day. Right. It was

on Cartoon Network, I think, for its entire run

at the time. And I think now it's probably. Probably

on HBO Max. It is. All right. So that concludes

the 50 episodes or 50 series, excuse me, that

are eligible from today's episode. Also concludes

the 250 episodes or shows that we have revealed

in our different episodes with all of our nominees.

So looking at just the ones from today, Steve,

is there anything that just really jumps off

the page at you from the last 15 years? And also,

do you have a prediction? how many of these more

recent shows may actually have enough to crack

our top 100? I think at least 25 of these are

going to pop into the top 100. I think there's

a lot in here that are high contenders. From

each block, if I had to pick one from each block

that is going to stand out, I would say either

Bob's Burgers or Adventure Time for the first

block. I could see Dragon Ball Super or Bojack

being from that block. From the next one, I could

see Gravity Falls and Invincible. From the next

block after that, I could see the Masters of

the Universe or Kung Fu Panda, My Little Pony

and Paw Patrol, Rick and Morty, and either Regular

Show or Lower Decks, Star Trek Prodigy, Star

Wars Rebels, or Steven Universe. And then, like,

the Turtles and Legend of Korra. Probably, I

could see Trollhunters and, you know, the Transformers

Prime and then, you know, probably, like, definitely

What If and probably Wild Kratts. So, I mean,

I can see, like, definitely at least 20 of these,

20 to 25 being the high contenders to take some

of the other ones out in this. Do you think it

ranks as... I know we talked about it a little

bit with the 90s and the 2000s. Which of these

three time periods that are the most recent do

you think reign supreme and what order do they

go in? Which top three? Do you think the 90s

will have the most, the 2000s, or this group?

That's going to be tough. I can see... I would

almost argue that this would almost rival the

nineties. Yep. I agree. I think the 2010s, I

think are going to kind of rival the eighties.

And then I think, you know, anything pre eighties

is probably going to get wiped out, uh, in comparison

to the nineties, two thousands and 2010s on up.

The 80s, I feel like, is going to be the kind

of outlier. There'll probably be some that are

familiar with it, but I think that a lot of the

pre -1980s are going to get wiped out. Mike,

what do you think? Do you think 25 is a good

guess for this group or less or more? I'm going

to say 21 just to be on average, but I don't

disagree that 25 could be the key factor. Yeah,

a lot of it will depend on the age of the panel

and everybody we get to vote. There always is

some recency bias that can play a part, you know,

what's in the closest to the top of your mind

and things of that nature. I think Steve, you

know, just definitely rattled off. 20 shows 22

23 shows when he was just naming them from each

block that you could think would be pretty heavy

contenders so i could definitely see it going

that way um it's going to be interesting to see

you know which ones from our original one get

booted and how much does it correlate to how

many of these get in no there won't be a one

-to -one ratio because there may be some others

that have just faded more over time or some that

you know were from the 2000s maybe that had had

more time to gain strength. So it's going to

be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Mike, we've revealed 250 shows. There may be

a listener out there that is thinking during

one of the nomination episodes that we've recorded

that we left something out or a show they really

liked didn't make it. What do you say to those

folks? So there will be a follow -up episode

at some point where we are going to give you

a chance of voting. To add some more additional

shows to the 250. Yes, but we don't know how

that's going to happen right now because we haven't

even figured that out at this point in time at

almost midnight. We're going to put a pin in

that for now. Don't get the pitchforks out yet

because you're going to have a chance. If you

feel like a show got snubbed, you may have a

second chance. Yeah, exactly. There will be a

second chance podcast coming up with all the

information and everything else. So don't be

like Homer and Bart and everybody else and put

your torches and pitchforks away. This isn't

the Simpsons movie. And before we let you go.

As I said at the top of the show, this was just

a taste of things to come. This is giving everyone

an appetizer of what we have in store. No choices

have been made. No ballots have been cast. No

dies have been thrown. After all, this isn't

Dungeons & Dragons, thank God. That show was

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  • Hey, I don’t want to overwhelm your projects with solely my comments, so hopefully this is my last (at least until your next post). For this batch, I do enjoy the way you guys include lesser-known series like Niko and Kulipari (never heard of the latter).

    However, this list has too few entries post-2020 (I think you had like 4?). The most notable ones that you left off are Arcane (2021 – many considered one of the best game adaptation ever), The Legend of Vox Machina (2022) (based on a group of real-life voice actors playing Dungeon & Dragons and recorded the campaign), X-Men ‘97 (2024) (I am surprised you left off the last one given how much you all love the original 1992 show, and, if the eligible criteria is “a show at least complete 1 season to be qualified)”, then this one has to make it.

    By the same token, these 2025 shows finish their first season’s run and could be neat contenders: Long Story Short (2025) and Common Side Effect (2025). Other notable shows post-2020 are: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeast (2020), The Owl House (2020), Kid Cosmic (2021), Scavengers Reign (2023), Blue Eye Samurai (2023), Adventure Time: Fiona & Cake (2023). 2019 offers a trio of highly praised shows Undone (rotoscoping so very unusual, about mental illness), Tuca & Bertie, Infinity Train. 2008 has Hilda and also Disenchantment (by Matt Groening) and the list goes on.

    In my opinion, we could easily fill up another 50 shows to your current shortlist, making the total nominees to 300. (1:3 ratio to the final top 100). Again, this is your project so I don’t want to give too much opinions… Looking forward to the vote (when the link’s active) and the second-chance episode along the track.

    • No worries at all — we genuinely appreciate the comments. These kinds of conversations are exactly why this project exists.

      Let me break down our approach a bit. We absolutely hear you on including lesser-known series. That said, we intentionally excluded most 2025 titles and shows with only a single season, as many of them haven’t yet proven long-term staying power as true “Top 100” contenders. For example, I personally enjoyed Dragon Ball Daima, but as a limited one-off that hasn’t fully embedded itself into pop culture yet, it simply hasn’t earned that legacy status. Good? Yes. Top 100? Not quite.

      Our criteria went beyond personal favorites. We factored in season and episode counts, awards, cultural impact, and overall memorability. We also consulted people within our circle and even used AI as a secondary gut-check alongside our own internal standards.

      In the past, we used a far more open, free-for-all approach, and while that allowed variety, it also meant some shows were underrepresented due to limited voter familiarity. We also ran into the issue of being under-equipped to fairly judge large chunks of anime, which flooded the list with titles outside our core wheelhouse. This time, by narrowing initial choices, we’re actually giving lesser-known shows a fairer shot through focused voting, rather than letting them get lost in the shuffle.

      We also made a conscious choice not to include Machinima, Rooster Teeth, YouTube, or web-exclusive animated series. While some of those are solid, they simply didn’t have the same mass exposure as traditional platforms like Disney, Netflix, Hulu, or cable networks. That was a deliberate line in the sand.

      As for X-Men ’97, we treated it as a continuation of the original series rather than a fully separate entity, which is why it was integrated into X-Men overall instead of standing alone. And honestly? I personally liked X-Men ’97 — but it almost proves our point. There’s been radio silence since Season 1, no real momentum or news, and with only 10 episodes followed by an apparent two-year gap before Season 2, it’s already started fading from immediate memory. That doesn’t make it bad, but it does raise the question of staying power — especially in an era where excitement can vanish faster than a Saturday morning cartoon time slot.

      The same logic applies to 2025 releases. Even if they’re strong, most won’t have additional seasons before we begin recording in 2026, putting them in that awkward “too soon to tell” category. No matter when a list like this is created, the newest shows will always face that hurdle. That’s where our secondary factors come in: awareness, recognition, awards, and overall legacy.

      Some of the titles mentioned — like Adventure Time (which we did cover, just not every subtitle iteration) or Disenchantment — were considered, but even those struggled to match the cultural dominance of giants like The Simpsons or Futurama. And yes, we all have personal favorites that didn’t make the cut. Trust me, I left a few on the cutting room floor too.

      Could we have added another 50–100 shows? Easily. But that’s exactly why we’re also doing the Top 15 fan-voted submissions. Fans will rank their personal picks from #1 to #15, and once we gather enough responses, those will be added to the pool — expanding the master list from 250 to 265 titles.

      Voting is live now on this post and an upcoming standalone one. Once we have sufficient entries, we’ll close submissions and build our official Top 100 list for the next phase of the Countdown.

      We truly appreciate the passion, the feedback, and the thoughtful engagement. Stick with us — this ride’s just getting started, and the nostalgia train is still running on premium fuel.

      Check the post here: https://geekcastradio.com/specials/top-100/the-top-100-animated-series-countdown-2026-fan-nominees/

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