Top 50 Animated Shows of All Time

I know we really focus on film in this class but Indiewire just posted a list of what they call the Top 50 animated shows of all time. I was happy to see my all time favorite (Archer) in the top 3. How do your favorites shape up? Do you agree with the rankings?

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/best-animated-series-all-time-cartoons-anime-tv-1202021835/

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  1. jasonhNovember 30, 2018 at 5:41 AM

    If by "focus on film" you mean "feature films" then I don't agree. If by film you mean independent shorts, then maybe, but we've talked about several of the series on this list and many of them while not mentioned directly fall within the categories we discussed. The list is a great example of an aesthetic statement of value. What do they mean by Top? Top grossing? Most watched? Longest airing? Authors liked them? Great post and I'm also curious to hear what people think. Never understood My Little Pony, but I have grown up friends who love it!

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  2. Ian KirschNovember 30, 2018 at 9:45 AM

    A fair and interesting list. I was glad to say that I could recognize a majority of the shows on it. I also found it cool how the list included anime too, which usually isn't grouped amongst American cartoons. I'm not sure, but I feel like it wasn't a ranking. Instead, it was just a list of the best 50 animated shows in no particular order, but if that isn't the case then I would have a ton of disagreements with this list. The fact that they included Teen Titans Go over the original is already a cause for concern, but I complain enough about that show on here, haha.

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  3. Tyler JennesDecember 2, 2018 at 2:45 PM

    I've always found these kinds of lists super hyperbolic, because it's never advertised as "Our Top 50", it's "THE Top 50". Like before clicking on the link, I had a few scattered ideas of what would make the top entries. To my surprise, shows like The Venture Bros. and Futurama were left in the dust in favor of such enduring classics as Teen Titans Go. But of course, these lists are inherently subjective. I know that I wouldn't in a million years but Rocky and Bullwinkle so far ahead of Samurai Jack, but I'm not a member of the IndieWire staff, so any problem I have is rendered moot. Another issue with these lists is the amount of recency bias included. Of the top 15 entries, about half are from the last 10 years alone. It's belief that it takes a few years before a society can more fairly compare these recent works to their older contemporaries.

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