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Episode 10.28.2025

373 Episodes
In Episode 355 of GeekCast Radio join TFG1Mike, Steve Megatron, and OptimusSolo as they dive headfirst into the next chapter of ToonCast’s Top 100 Animated Series countdown — this time, spotlighting the unforgettable shows that defined the new millennium.
From the elemental mastery of Avatar: The Last Airbender to the chaotic brilliance of Robot Chicken, the team breaks down nominees across ten alphabetical sections, each brimming with iconic clips, fan-favorite moments, and behind-the-scenes commentary. Whether you’re into superhero squads (Justice League, Teen Titans, Static Shock), anime legends (Naruto, Death Note, Inuyasha), or quirky comedies (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture Bros, American Dad), this episode has something for every toon lover. Tune in to hear their selections and prepare for the upcoming discussion on the 2010s nominees.
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Jazz here, and I am so digging the Geekcast Radio
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Network. This is Static. When Gear and I aren’t
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fighting bang babies, we like to listen to the
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Geekcast Radio Network. Hey, bub, I keep telling
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you, don’t call me Wolfie! Snicked. Welcome back
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to Geekcast Radio’s Top 100 Animated Series nominees
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episodes. I am TFG1 Mike. Joining me as always
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is Steve Megatron. Hello, sir. Yo. And Optimus
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Solo. Oh. No Thundercats. A pirate’s life for
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me. I was going to say, no Thundercats here,
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folks. This is, yeah, no Thundercats. Fucking
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sailors instead. Yeah. So how is everyone? Fantastic.
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Yay. So we had a little interlude, little break
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between the 90s episode and this episode. My
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buddy Brad came on and we did a convention attention
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episode for the first time in a while as he has
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spent 19 years out of the 20 years that New York
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Comic Con has been a thing. And he went to New
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York Comic Con. So that was the last episode
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you find people would have heard. Uh, and, uh,
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yeah, so we’re bringing it back from the NYCC
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convention attention recap. We get back to the
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nominees and we enter the decade of the two thousands.
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Take it away. Optimus solo. Yeah. So if you don’t
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know what we’re talking about, go back and listen
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to the episodes that we did with the pre eighties,
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the eighties and the nineties, where we explain
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it in full detail, but we are selecting nominations
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for people to vote on this time around. Last
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time, I don’t know if I’ve said this before on
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any of the other episodes, but last time we got
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votes, you could vote for any cartoon. It was
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open -ended. There was no qualifications. And
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we had votes on about 360 cartoons overall on
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that one. So we’re narrowing it down here, and
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we’re only going to give the voters a choice
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between 250 cartoons. So we’re already cutting
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100 off of what got votes last time, which…
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Should eliminate some of the one -offs, some
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of the personal favorites, some of the biases
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that we saw in the last countdown. And by doing
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that or how we get to that 250 is we’re selecting
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50 from different time periods. So today we are
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covering anything that was released from 2000
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to 2009. That would be our 2000s as far as a
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decade goes. Interesting to note, and we’ll talk
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a little bit more about this at the end. But
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only 12 of the shows we’re going to talk about
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in this 50 actually made the original top 100.
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That’s crazy. However, 12 made it 41 out of these
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50 got at least one vote, though. Wow. So only
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nine shows that we’re going to discuss today
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did not receive a vote for the previous countdown.
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And we have had, like we’ve talked about for
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all of these episodes, we’ve had 15 more years.
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Even though all of these shows were eligible
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last time, some of them had come out very recently
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when we did the countdown. So some of them were
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still fresh. Some of them were newer. Some of
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them we hadn’t got to see how long they would
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stick around, how many episodes they would air.
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So there may have been some shows that came out
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in 2008, 2009 that went on to have hundreds of
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episodes that we just wouldn’t have known about
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when we did this the first time. So we’ll have
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to see if we make a jump from 12 on the last.
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countdown to a higher number and what we think
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about after we go through the set as we’ve done
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with all of the other episodes like this we’re
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going to cover five at a time i’m going to throw
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out five different shows we’re going to react
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steve mike and myself will give you our thoughts
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on which ones we feel strongly about which ones
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we don’t feel strongly about and then after we
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go five by five a bunch of times we’ll hit to
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50 that’s how the math works and then at the
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end we’ll talk a little bit about all of them
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encompassing and we’ll see what ai has to say
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about this set as well mike anything you want
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to get off your chest before we reveal the first
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five well it is the decade of the 2000s and there
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was a lot so this would have been steve you were
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in high school for a tiny bit of the 2000s actually
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i was in high school for the first four years
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okay so you this is like four years of high school
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and then your post high school Three years. I
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graduated high school in May of 2000. I spent
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the first four years of this decade basically
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in college and then afterwards. That’s just giving
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you guys a reference about our spots. How old
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we were when we would have been watching these
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and things of that nature. It’ll be interesting.
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Steve, anything else that you want to get off
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your chest or cover before we reveal the first
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five? Off of recent research, having come off
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of the the pre -80s the 80s the 90s there’s quite
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a bit in the 2000s and the 2010s on up to the
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current day that i am not very well versed in
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because again i was in high school i was working
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i right i had limited time for television uh
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so i i was very selective on what i watched like
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dragon ball z was still kind of a mainstay as
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well as some of the transformers shows that were
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on during this time i think i want to say armada
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was on i i didn’t watch a whole lot so it’s been
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interesting going back and skimming through and
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i haven’t made it through all the shows yet by
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the time we do the actual top 100 i’ll have watched
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something from every show on this list out of
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the 250 if i’m not familiar with it but there’s
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quite a few here and in the next episode that
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uh i’m not very well versed at this current juncture
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yeah the other thing to keep in mind as we go
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through this obviously the pre -80s we’ve all
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had our entire lives to catch up with those shows
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you know the 80s we’ve had basically our entire
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lives to catch up with those as we get into this
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2000s and 2010 Steve is definitely right there
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may be a few that we reveal on this episode and
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in the next episode that we’re not going to be
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as well versed to today or in you know the time
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period that we’re recording these as we will
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be potentially when we record the top 100 plus
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we may have some other guests and different people
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showing up we’ll have to wait and see how that
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all plays out so apologies ahead of time if there’s
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a few on here that we’re just gonna have to uh
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skip not skip necessarily but say that you know
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it’s a blind spot for us yeah yeah exactly for
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me this was my when i was in college i was watching
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more of the adult cartoons like uh adult base
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like Family Guy, this would have been my Family
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Guy stage or things of that nature. So if it
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was aimed at a younger audience that came out
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here, the only way I would have been exposed
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to that would have been catching it up much later
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or doing it when I was capturing voices and things
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of that nature. But for a lot of us, we didn’t
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start doing the podcasting and some of the other
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stuff like this until 2009 -ish. Well, for Steve,
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it was 2005. For me, it was 2008. Right. And
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the thing is, is for me, what I remember is I
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basically switched from animation to live action
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past 2004, which was X -Men Wolverine and the
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X -Men or X -Men evolution or something like
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that. Past 2004, I switched up to live action
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television again, and I was watching live action
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TV stuff. very rarely watched action up until
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transformers animated hit in 2007 2008 when that
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started going i did not like from it’s it’s a
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whole thing and to this day for i i can still
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say from literally from 2000 to now more specifically
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2008 to now I don’t watch TV or cartoons in general
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the way that I did when I was a kid, obviously,
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because things have changed or whatever else.
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I watch them to discuss them on podcasts now
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more so than because podcasting wasn’t a thing
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40 years ago, 45 years ago. But the point is
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that I can no longer just sit here and watch
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something to watch it. I have to have a purpose
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in watching something or listening. Like music
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is kind of like my escape. So I can listen to
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a song or listen to an album or, and I enjoy
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that. And I do that and I can, you know, all
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of that. That’s fine. You know, but I still write,
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you know, soundtrack reviews for La La Land Records
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for geekcastradio .com, stuff like that. But
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like. When it comes to watching stuff or reading
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comics or any of that kind of stuff that we’ve
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been doing over the last almost 16 and a half,
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17 years of the network, I can’t just do it to
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do it. I have to do it to do a podcast about
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it or discuss it with you guys or discuss it
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with other people that aren’t you. I’m just saying
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this because I know it’s not your thing, Kev.
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I’m not trying to call you out. I know Power
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Rangers is not. Optimus Solos thing so I’m gonna
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go to Steve or I’m gonna go to Scotty Cash or
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I’m gonna go to my buddy Jesse or I’m gonna go
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to somebody else if there’s a Power Rangers thing
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if there’s a somehow a weird Saved by the Bell
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reunion I’m gonna say hey hey Optimus Solo let’s
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do this or do that or whatever kind of thing
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like because podcasting is so big in my life
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and it’s basically my entire life for the most
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part unless i’m sleeping i’m breathing podcasting
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when i’m not sleeping so when i’m watching the
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cartoons to do the research to make sure i know
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what i need to know for these nominee reveals
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for the top 100 next year it’s so i have the
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knowledge so i can come on the episodes and say,
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hey, I watched that, or I remember watching that,
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or I, in the perfect example, and I know this
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is not 2000s, but in the perfect example of Goof
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Troop, before I started watching it currently,
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I remember a Goofy movie. That’s what I remember.
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I was surprised. It’s a whole thing. So, yeah.
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But the 2000s was very interesting when it came
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to animation. All right, we’ll have to see what
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you guys react to as we reveal each set of five.
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So let’s go ahead and get to this first set of
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five. Okay, but you promised to help me with
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math class. Sure, I know. Okay, I will. I will.
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Okay, recite your whole numbers in descending
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order, starting with five, Carl. Five? Yes. Have
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you managed to contact your home planet yet?
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Oh, you know, I was gonna do it yesterday, but
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I got distracted. VH1 was running this I Love
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the 80s marathon. Did you know Lou Ferrigno was
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deaf? Your car has been crushed. Mystery solved.
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That’ll be $20. Hey, get back here. Get back
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here, cup. Who crushed it? That’s what I want
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to know. Meteors did it! Okay, that’ll be $20.
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Hey, Carl. Meteors did it! That’ll be $20. It’s
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a short list, Woodhouse. Yes, sir. The two things
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we don’t allow in here, what are they? Dogs and
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your mother. That’s a very short list, isn’t
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it? Yes. A time of peace. When the Avatar kept
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balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom,
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Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed
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when the Fire Nation attacked. All right. As
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we’ve said in the previous episodes, these are
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in alphabetical order for the most part, loosely
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alphabetical. I don’t fine tune it and take the
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those out and things of that nature. But it is
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no bearing on the top 100 as no votes have been
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cast for anything like that. Also, last caveat
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is anything that is mentioned today, even if
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we say we wouldn’t probably vote for it on our
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top 100, just the fact that we’re mentioning
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it means that we’ve placed it in the top 50 for
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its era or its decade or its time period, whichever
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one we’re covering. Does get props for that.
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So our first set of five, as you just heard,
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we have Adventures of Jimmy Neutron from 2002.
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That did not receive, it did not make our original
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list and it did not receive any votes actually
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last time either. It’s one of the nine that did
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not receive any votes. We have American Dad from
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2005. I believe that show has aired 350 plus
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episodes. We have Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which
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debuted in 2000. Also over 100 episodes. We have
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Archer just made it into this section coming
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out in 2009. And we have Avatar the Last Airbender
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coming out in 2005. So out of those five, Avatar
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the Last Airbender is the only one that made
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our original top 100. It came in at number 36.
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Aqua Teen, Hunger Force, and American Dad did
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get votes. They ended up in 162nd and American
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Dad in 267th place. So not a lot of love for
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it, even though it did get votes. Archer and
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Adventures of Jimmy Neutron did not receive any
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votes. Archer was fairly new at the time. I’m
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shocked that Jimmy Neutron didn’t get any votes.
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When it comes to my take on this one, I feel
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like Avatar The Last Airbender is a lock to get
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a vote and a lock to appear on the top 100. Out
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of the other ones, I think it may become a personal
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preference because we have, for example, American
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Dad, Aqua Teen, Hunger Force, and Archer. All
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probably going towards the same demographic.
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So it depended on what age you were, what kind
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of humor you like, etc. As far as which one of
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those three works the best for you or how many
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spots you have for that adult primetime type
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cartoon. Jimmy Neutron. I didn’t watch it. I
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didn’t grow up with it. It doesn’t resonate with
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me, so I will not be voting for it. I don’t know
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what kind of following it has out there in general.
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I probably out of the three other ones, the American
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Dad, Aqua Teen, Hunger Force and Archer, I will
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probably vote for Archer. I don’t know if it
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will. even come close to making the list, but
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that’s just something I enjoyed in my 30s, probably
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20s and 30s a little bit more. It was different
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for me than I feel like American Dad was too
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much like a clone of Family Guy slash a few other
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shows that were all coming out in the same vein.
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So I don’t know if I would have enough room for
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it, even though I have enjoyed the episodes of
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American Dad that I have seen. Steve, what do
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you think about this set of five? So I believe
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the last time that we did this, I voted for Aqua
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Teen Hunger Force specifically out of these five.
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I don’t know if I would vote for it again. And
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I say that because it kind of it did well when
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it came out. And it was at the time it was still
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kind of recent. It was on Adult Swim. It was,
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you know, one of those other shows with Archer
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late at night. And while I loved it at the time,
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I don’t think it stands the test of time. I think
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it kind of just fizzled out. It was kind of like
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that early kind of shock value content on Adult
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Swim. And then it kind of was replaced by Venture
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Brothers and Archer and C -Lab and some other
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different stuff. I don’t foresee me voting for
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any of these, to be honest. based on the amount
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of other new shows that have kind of appeared
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and some of the other ones that I didn’t hit
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the first time, some anime that I’ve kind of
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gotten into or watched over the last, you know,
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couple years, I can make the case for Avatar
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The Last Airbender and possibly Jimmy Neutron.
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Myself, I won’t be voting for them, but I could
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see like, for instance, like my kids or something
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voting for those. uh as opposed to me but yeah
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in american dad it’s it’s kind of family guy
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light like i would rather vote for family guy
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than vote for that so that’s again another one
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of those things where the the the vote probably
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gets split based on you know either the creator
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or the type of show or you know the genre or
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you know just things in general yeah another
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thing that we’ll reference a couple times today
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is we did look at some lists to help us form
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these 50 for each one we did some some pod not
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some podcast records but we did some discussions
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online with it we looked at some lists we talked
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to ai a little bit we did a multitude of different
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things i even had dan look it over to see if
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he thought we were missing anything specifically
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and so we part of that was looking at some various
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lists online the ign list our previous list and
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tv guide and some other websites and stuff have
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done lists that they’ve ranked 50 or 100 animated
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shows of all time so we Did look at that. When
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it came to those lists, Avatar was on seven of
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the nine we looked at. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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was on four. Archer was on three. Jimmy Neutron
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and American Dad were both on two. Mike, what
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do you think of this out of five? I don’t know.
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American Dad, like you guys have said, it’s kind
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of like Family Guy Lite. I never got into it.
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I’m curious about Archer because it’s FX and
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because of that whole era of when FX kind of
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started. And like I said in previous episodes,
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branched out into adult animation for them. Jimmy
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Neutron, like I’ve seen various episodes of it.
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I kind of like it, but I haven’t like sat down
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to watch it, watch it. But I don’t know. I don’t
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know if like any of these, like Steve said, would
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like, am I screaming to put any of these on my
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list? No, but if I like, if I give Archer the
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five episode rule and I watched the first five
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episodes and I come away at the end of the first
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five and be like, okay, I can kind of see maybe
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it goes in the eighties or the seventies. Maybe
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it’ll make my list. But at this point in time,
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Not likely. I will be shocked if Avatar doesn’t
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make the list. Out of the 12 that were on our
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original list that we’re going to cover today,
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it is the second highest we rated one. So having
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this one at 36, it would be a long drop for it
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to not make the countdown. So I would anticipate
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that it might not be as high as 36, but I think
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it will be on there. The other ones I think are
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all fighting uphill. It is disappointment in
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15 years if it doesn’t make it. The rest, I think,
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are fighting an uphill battle. So, all right.
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One meddling Batman I could destroy easily. But
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where did this other one come from? Which other
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planets support humanoid life? Ran, Thanagar,
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Earth? Earth. Yes. Where with Rodan in the atmosphere,
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someone from Earth would have incredible power
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on Zoradar. I wrote a headline about what you
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did today. I understand how you feel. Do you?
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I wouldn’t like it either if an alien with superpowers
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came to Earth to do my job. That makes me feel
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a lot better. I knew that. Man the ears. Full
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speed ahead. Whoa! I wish Cliff would have a
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sleep belt. Slow down, big guy. School’s almost
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out, Cleo. I want to see Emily Elizabeth. That
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was too easy. Last, then. First, they refuse
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to stop ice cream trucks for any kids. Then,
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they lock all the soft -server Wayne Code storage
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so they can achieve their ultimate goal. A super
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-huge ice cream party with no kids! Get out!
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Last! No! Party! Party, party, party! Party,
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party, party! Knock it off! You can’t go to that
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insidious party! There won’t be any kids allowed!
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George got more and more excited until the show
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began. So for the next set of five, be interested
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to hear you guys take. We have once again, one
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show that appeared on our top 100 list, and we
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have two of the other shows that didn’t even
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get a vote. And then two shows that just missed
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the countdown. So I’m interested to hear you
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guys take. So we have Batman and the Brave and
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the Bold from 2008. That was on our original
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list at number 71. We have Ben 10 from 2005.
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That just missed. It was 120 last time. We have
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Clifford the Big Red Dog. We have Codename Kids
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Next Door from 2002. That was number 159 on our
00:22:07.789 –> 00:22:09.970
original list. And then we have Curious George.
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Curious George and Clifford the Big Red Dog did
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not receive any votes last time. A lot of people
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did not like voting for the shows aimed towards
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a younger audience, it seemed like. So Batman,
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Brave and Bold, Ben 10, Clifford, Codename, Kids
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Next Door, and Curious George. Just so has it
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that the only two that I’ve seen are Clifford
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and Curious George. So I don’t know anything
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about Ben 10 or all of the other series that
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came afterwards. I have never seen Kids Next
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Door and Batman, the Brave and the Bold, as you
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guys all know. I’ve not seen because I’ve never
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seen an episode of anything DC and Marvel until
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today when I watched the first three episodes
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of the 1967 Spider -Man. Anyways, Mike, what
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are your thoughts on this set of five? Curious
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George, weren’t there multiple series of that?
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Because I know originally, weren’t they books?
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This one’s been almost 200 episodes. Okay. So
00:23:09.700 –> 00:23:12.059
it’s been around and probably played on occasion
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and whatnot. Yeah. Okay. So I remember Curious
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George as a kid. Like, I’m surprised this wasn’t
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listed in our 80s episode or the pre -80s episode.
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Because, like I said, I remember Curious George
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as a kid, as a book, because Man with the Yellow
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Hat and all that and everything else and whatever
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else. But, you know, all that’s a game show from
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Nickelodeon. No, it’s not. All that? You don’t
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remember all that? Anyways, continue. Funny.
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Funny guy. Clifford. Clifford’s Clifford. He’s
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a big red dog. Who cares? I’ve never seen Ben.
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I’ve seen clips of Ben 10. I’ve never actually
00:24:02.240 –> 00:24:06.599
seen Ben 10. Codename kids next door. I’ve seen
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bits and pieces of that. I’ve seen probably 20
00:24:11.579 –> 00:24:18.279
episodes of Batman Brave and the Bold. The two
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or three episodes I pretty much remember is Batman
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of Zurin R because Kevin Conroy voiced the Batman
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of Zurin R character. And the other one was the
00:24:33.339 –> 00:24:36.079
fact that Paul Rubens, Pee Wee Herman, was the
00:24:36.079 –> 00:24:39.519
voice of Batmite. in the uh in in the batman
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episodes of that series and the reason why i
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said outrageous earlier was because that was
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aquaman’s catchphrase in that series and he said
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it way too damn often steve what do you think
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of this set of five i’ve actually seen all of
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these excellent I I’ve watched them all in the
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past and I’ve watched some more recently than
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others. Batman, the brave and the bold. I’ve
00:25:01.460 –> 00:25:04.480
watched more recently just because we have, you
00:25:04.480 –> 00:25:06.759
know, the Xur and our episode is of course one
00:25:06.759 –> 00:25:09.559
of my favorites just because Kevin Conroy reprises
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Batman on another earth. And then Clancy Brown
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actually is the Lex Luthor of that, that world.
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Yep. I’ve watched a few of them. Like I remember
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pretty early on in key cast radios history. We,
00:25:23.279 –> 00:25:28.140
Uh, or I should say I was given, um, some DVDs
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for the brave and the bold. And I introduced,
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that was like my first introduction of it to
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my son back in the day, because I was like, Oh,
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it’s, it’s pretty, it’s a pretty mellow Batman.
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It’s very colorful. It’s very, you know, I felt
00:25:41.839 –> 00:25:44.940
like it was safe, but it was also entertaining
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because there were a lot of funny, funny moments
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in it. I I’ve watched a handful of it here or
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there. Uh, but it’s, it’s overall pretty enjoyable.
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Ben 10, I watched the original run, not the more
00:25:57.119 –> 00:26:01.440
recent variations of the series where it’s got
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new subtitles and different voice actors and
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all the other ones. I watched the original one
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and I found it very interesting. That’s what
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this is, right? The 2005 run is the original
00:26:13.839 –> 00:26:17.680
run, right? Yeah. It’s on the sheet that way.
00:26:17.960 –> 00:26:20.200
But yeah, so I watched that one and it was a
00:26:20.200 –> 00:26:24.670
lot of fun to watch. just this kid kind of essentially
00:26:24.670 –> 00:26:28.210
power rangering it up with instead of turning
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into a ranger he became different aliens and
00:26:30.349 –> 00:26:33.910
he had to skill up to get to get the different
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variations clifford it’s obviously a play on
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the the books so if if you’ve read the books
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you get the gist of the show my kids watched
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that back in the day too i’m sure i saw it when
00:26:49.509 –> 00:26:52.609
they were younger Code Name Kids Next Door was
00:26:52.609 –> 00:26:57.190
a Cartoon Network show that, you know, they had
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Clubhouse and they were basically secret agents.
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And then Curious George, again, if you’ve seen
00:27:04.069 –> 00:27:06.750
the books and, you know, of course, Frank Walker’s
00:27:06.750 –> 00:27:11.750
George. So it’s it’s another one of those ones
00:27:11.750 –> 00:27:14.890
my kids enjoyed, too. I was too old for it, but
00:27:14.890 –> 00:27:18.079
it’s it was not annoying. Does something like
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Batman the Brave and the Bold get your vote this
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time, or do you think it’s not going to make
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it? I personally would vote for it just because
00:27:24.819 –> 00:27:28.859
I enjoyed it. It doesn’t mean I won’t vote for
00:27:28.859 –> 00:27:31.519
the other ones from the 90s. I would vote for
00:27:31.519 –> 00:27:35.859
this. I think Ben 10 would be a strong contender
00:27:35.859 –> 00:27:38.460
just because it’s kind of like Batman and kind
00:27:38.460 –> 00:27:40.079
of like Turtles and where they’ve had various
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iterations and reboots. So I think it’s deserving.
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Curious George is kind of that mainstay. Kind
00:27:47.019 –> 00:27:50.299
of shows up kids next door while I enjoyed it
00:27:50.299 –> 00:27:52.599
at the time. I don’t know if anybody would even
00:27:52.599 –> 00:27:54.680
know what that is now. I’d have to give kids
00:27:54.680 –> 00:27:57.619
next door the five episode treatment before I
00:27:57.619 –> 00:28:00.740
could make a decision. And again, for me, making
00:28:00.740 –> 00:28:03.900
a decision means it’s going to end up somewhere
00:28:03.900 –> 00:28:09.259
in my 80s or 70s section of my top 100 list.
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I do think this section out of all the other
00:28:11.980 –> 00:28:14.200
episodes that we’ve done, we’ll see the most
00:28:14.200 –> 00:28:16.240
movement. Like if I track that for some way.
00:28:16.700 –> 00:28:19.339
Some other ones may slide a little bit one way.
00:28:19.819 –> 00:28:21.579
I think this one, you’re either going to see
00:28:21.579 –> 00:28:24.660
ones that jump extremely higher than they got
00:28:24.660 –> 00:28:27.000
the last time, like something that got voted
00:28:27.000 –> 00:28:30.519
in the 200th or 160th spot that somehow makes
00:28:30.519 –> 00:28:32.079
the countdown now because we’ve had more years
00:28:32.079 –> 00:28:35.720
to digest it, or something that could be something
00:28:35.720 –> 00:28:37.480
that falls off. We have Batman and the Brave
00:28:37.480 –> 00:28:39.180
and the Bold was at 71. Does it stick around
00:28:39.180 –> 00:28:41.240
or does it not make the next countdown? But then
00:28:41.240 –> 00:28:43.660
you have Ben 10, which was 120. Does it gain
00:28:43.660 –> 00:28:46.200
enough ground to… crack the top 100 this time
00:28:46.200 –> 00:28:48.920
around with more years or does it not so i mean
00:28:48.920 –> 00:28:50.180
i think this one we’re going to see a little
00:28:50.180 –> 00:28:53.740
bit of a fluctuation a hundred percent so it’d
00:28:53.740 –> 00:28:56.460
be interesting to track that as it goes yeah
00:28:56.460 –> 00:28:58.799
absolutely and it’s like you like you’ve said
00:28:58.799 –> 00:29:01.960
before in the previous episodes in the pre -80s
00:29:01.960 –> 00:29:06.519
80s and 90s some of these we don’t like you just
00:29:06.519 –> 00:29:08.559
said with code name kids next door and like steve
00:29:08.559 –> 00:29:11.700
said who really knows what what it is unless
00:29:11.700 –> 00:29:15.420
you experienced it when it came out earlier in
00:29:15.420 –> 00:29:18.940
the 2000s some of these cartoons even though
00:29:18.940 –> 00:29:22.160
they were what year did that come out uh 2002
00:29:22.160 –> 00:29:26.059
for code name okay so that okay so 2002 some
00:29:26.059 –> 00:29:29.539
people may have missed that cartoon that haven’t
00:29:29.539 –> 00:29:33.180
seen it or whatever right i see code name though
00:29:33.180 –> 00:29:37.000
being it was 159 originally i think to steve’s
00:29:37.000 –> 00:29:40.599
point i see that one actually doing worse because
00:29:40.599 –> 00:29:43.500
or having a very little chance of cracking the
00:29:43.500 –> 00:29:45.720
top 100 because it was 159 and then there hasn’t
00:29:45.720 –> 00:29:48.660
been anything to keep that in our yeah memories
00:29:48.660 –> 00:29:50.839
or keep that in like the top of mind consciousness
00:29:50.839 –> 00:29:54.200
whereas ben 10 like steve said we’ve had yeah
00:29:54.200 –> 00:29:56.640
i feel like at least a half a dozen other yeah
00:29:56.640 –> 00:30:00.279
spinoffs so well i mean with the different spinoffs
00:30:00.279 –> 00:30:03.599
of ben 10 i can see that kind of top of mind
00:30:04.119 –> 00:30:06.460
yeah codename kids next door i can see definitely
00:30:06.460 –> 00:30:08.900
disappearing because i i had to stop and think
00:30:08.900 –> 00:30:10.619
about it for a minute i’m like did i ever watch
00:30:10.619 –> 00:30:13.539
that because it was on my list of of like revisits
00:30:13.539 –> 00:30:15.940
and i’m like oh i remember this show because
00:30:15.940 –> 00:30:18.000
i i watched a few clips of it and i’m like yeah
00:30:18.000 –> 00:30:20.180
i remember this now and that’s one of those things
00:30:20.180 –> 00:30:23.559
where like we always say sometimes we always
00:30:23.559 –> 00:30:25.579
say this on altered geeks sometimes we say it
00:30:25.579 –> 00:30:27.359
on geek cast radio sometimes we say it on all
00:30:27.359 –> 00:30:30.619
things transformers not every, sometimes we’re
00:30:30.619 –> 00:30:33.519
sitting on street 2009, not everything needs
00:30:33.519 –> 00:30:37.960
a new iteration. Sometimes you just search out
00:30:37.960 –> 00:30:41.000
something, find it, enjoy it for what it was.
00:30:41.420 –> 00:30:44.519
And I think code name, Ken’s next door is, is
00:30:44.519 –> 00:30:48.779
one of those. I think it like, cause you can’t
00:30:48.779 –> 00:30:51.900
just keep having the same thing over and over
00:30:51.900 –> 00:30:54.019
and over again, just told in a different way.
00:30:54.799 –> 00:30:57.619
Like, yeah. I think they needed a better name,
00:30:57.660 –> 00:30:59.359
too, because we were struggling to even say the
00:30:59.359 –> 00:31:07.720
name of the show. Well, I mean, yeah. I think
00:31:07.720 –> 00:31:11.579
what they used to do is they used to actually
00:31:11.579 –> 00:31:14.400
abbreviate it after. I don’t even know how many
00:31:14.400 –> 00:31:16.779
seasons it had, but I think they used to just
00:31:16.779 –> 00:31:19.900
call it Codename KND. I think that’s really what
00:31:19.900 –> 00:31:22.799
they abbreviated it to. Yeah, exactly. All right,
00:31:22.819 –> 00:31:24.339
so that does it for the A’s, the B’s, and the
00:31:24.339 –> 00:31:30.450
C’s. Let’s see what we have next. I think I should
00:31:30.450 –> 00:31:33.829
tell them. Why? Parents don’t listen. Even worse,
00:31:33.930 –> 00:31:36.250
they don’t understand. Why can’t they accept
00:31:36.250 –> 00:31:39.950
me for who I am? Sam, I’m talking about my powers,
00:31:40.049 –> 00:31:45.509
my problems. Death Note? As in a notebook of
00:31:45.509 –> 00:31:52.730
death? How do you use it? A human whose name
00:31:52.730 –> 00:31:59.279
is written in this notebook. Shall die. Hello,
00:31:59.440 –> 00:32:03.460
folks. It’s me, the Conductor. Today, we travel
00:32:03.460 –> 00:32:07.420
to Troodon Town for a spooky visit to their haunted
00:32:07.420 –> 00:32:11.339
roundhouse. So come on along with me on the dinosaur
00:32:11.339 –> 00:32:17.019
train. All aboard! Hola, soy Dora, and this is
00:32:17.019 –> 00:32:21.779
Boots. We’re in the snowy forest. The Snow Princess
00:32:21.779 –> 00:32:26.220
needs our help. And here is our greatest triumph.
00:32:26.960 –> 00:32:30.259
What is it again? It’s a rocket captain. Not
00:32:30.259 –> 00:32:33.140
just a rocket cadet. This one runs on the same
00:32:33.140 –> 00:32:38.339
fuel. We do air. That’s what we breathe. Captain.
00:32:38.559 –> 00:32:42.940
Oh, right. A little variety here with the five
00:32:42.940 –> 00:32:45.380
shows in this section. We have Danny Phantom
00:32:45.380 –> 00:32:50.930
came out in 2004. It. was voted on last time
00:32:50.930 –> 00:32:52.809
just not enough to make the top 100 it came in
00:32:52.809 –> 00:32:56.069
at number 228th place so it has a lot of work
00:32:56.069 –> 00:32:58.170
to do if it wants to crack it this time we had
00:32:58.170 –> 00:33:02.410
death note from 2006 which was 72nd on our original
00:33:02.410 –> 00:33:05.670
top 100 dinosaur train did not receive any votes
00:33:05.670 –> 00:33:07.750
last time it did come out in 2009 though right
00:33:07.750 –> 00:33:10.789
before we were doing this we have dora the explorer
00:33:10.789 –> 00:33:15.289
from the year 2000 that came in 204th last time
00:33:15.789 –> 00:33:18.549
And we have Duck Dodgers from 2003. That came
00:33:18.549 –> 00:33:21.890
in 330th last time. It’s got a lot of work to
00:33:21.890 –> 00:33:25.029
do. So Danny Phantom, Death Note, Dinosaur Train,
00:33:25.309 –> 00:33:28.289
Dora the Explorer, and Duck Dodgers. Dora the
00:33:28.289 –> 00:33:30.349
Explorer has been around for what seems like
00:33:30.349 –> 00:33:33.369
forever. I think they still have more series
00:33:33.369 –> 00:33:35.309
coming out and they’re doing more episodes and
00:33:35.309 –> 00:33:37.269
they spun off to Diego and some other stuff.
00:33:37.529 –> 00:33:39.710
Obviously, it is aimed a little bit more towards
00:33:39.710 –> 00:33:41.769
a younger audience, but I think for the last
00:33:41.769 –> 00:33:46.519
25 years, it has been in the… Like if you go
00:33:46.519 –> 00:33:49.220
to Universal Studios, like you can see Dora,
00:33:49.240 –> 00:33:51.960
the character still walking around. I’m pretty
00:33:51.960 –> 00:33:55.019
sure she’s one of them. And Dinosaur Train is
00:33:55.019 –> 00:33:57.359
also aimed towards that same age group. I think
00:33:57.359 –> 00:33:59.460
Dinosaur Train is a pretty good show. But again,
00:33:59.579 –> 00:34:03.119
a lot of the early elementary type demographic
00:34:03.119 –> 00:34:07.880
shows don’t fare super well. Death Note. I don’t
00:34:07.880 –> 00:34:11.139
know. It came in 72nd last time. I haven’t seen
00:34:11.139 –> 00:34:13.329
it. I don’t know if it has gained ground or if
00:34:13.329 –> 00:34:16.869
it will fade more. This is on my list of to watch
00:34:16.869 –> 00:34:19.710
shows. And then I feel like Danny Phantom, it
00:34:19.710 –> 00:34:22.070
comes into just how old you were with some of
00:34:22.070 –> 00:34:24.730
these shows. Like, I feel like the Danny Phantoms
00:34:24.730 –> 00:34:28.050
and the Ben 10s and the a few that we’ll get
00:34:28.050 –> 00:34:29.630
to in a little bit all kind of came out in that
00:34:29.630 –> 00:34:31.510
same time period. So which ones resonated the
00:34:31.510 –> 00:34:34.070
most with you? And I’ve never seen Duck Dodgers,
00:34:34.130 –> 00:34:36.849
so I can’t speak to Duck Dodgers. Mike, what
00:34:36.849 –> 00:34:40.550
do you think of this? It hurts my. You call yourself
00:34:40.550 –> 00:34:43.570
a classic animation fan? You call yourself a
00:34:43.570 –> 00:34:44.949
Looney Tunes? Duck Dodgers came out in 2003,
00:34:45.130 –> 00:34:46.989
and I have never called myself a Looney Tunes.
00:34:47.110 –> 00:34:49.510
I’ve never called myself a Looney Tunes aficionado.
00:34:50.369 –> 00:34:53.710
It’s not classic. It’s from the 2000s. Yeah,
00:34:53.829 –> 00:34:57.650
I don’t care. But it is so classic. No. Okay,
00:34:57.809 –> 00:35:02.090
look. So technically, it’s a modern version of
00:35:02.090 –> 00:35:06.730
a classic Daffy Duck cartoon. So Duck Dodgers.
00:35:07.660 –> 00:35:10.420
originated in the original looney tunes they
00:35:10.420 –> 00:35:13.380
did duck dodgers in the 24th and a half century
00:35:13.380 –> 00:35:18.440
in the original how it got to number 330 on the
00:35:18.440 –> 00:35:23.519
last countdown funny guy voted for it funny at
00:35:23.519 –> 00:35:26.340
this point it just might make my number one uh
00:35:26.340 –> 00:35:29.880
but i’m not i’m not kidding i i actually have
00:35:29.880 –> 00:35:34.900
uh over on my on my uh table there i have a funko
00:35:34.900 –> 00:35:38.880
soda figurines of duck dodgers and space cadet
00:35:38.880 –> 00:35:43.400
daffy and porky as the characters anyway so originally
00:35:43.400 –> 00:35:48.079
in looney tunes there were episodes like i said
00:35:48.079 –> 00:35:52.000
duck dodgers in the 20s okay fine so in 2003
00:35:52.000 –> 00:35:56.659
spike brant and oh what’s the other guy’s name
00:35:56.659 –> 00:36:00.500
tony curtis i think they brought it back as its
00:36:00.500 –> 00:36:03.360
own show as its own thing and they basically
00:36:03.360 –> 00:36:07.840
just instead of having it as a short around the
00:36:07.840 –> 00:36:11.559
rest of the Looney Tunes, they just were like
00:36:11.559 –> 00:36:15.219
duck Dodgers. We’re just going to do that. And
00:36:15.219 –> 00:36:17.800
that’s what every show is his space adventures.
00:36:17.880 –> 00:36:19.719
And he’s going to go up against the Martian queen.
00:36:19.840 –> 00:36:23.079
And the Martian queen is voiced by Tia Carrera,
00:36:23.199 –> 00:36:27.440
Sandra from, from Wayne’s world and everything
00:36:27.440 –> 00:36:32.909
else she’s done in the, in her career. Or Cassandra
00:36:32.909 –> 00:36:34.510
from Wayne’s World, I should say, not Sandra.
00:36:35.590 –> 00:36:39.710
But, yeah, no, this show was just so hilarious.
00:36:41.409 –> 00:36:45.130
Absolutely. It’s so fun. What about the other
00:36:45.130 –> 00:36:46.690
four? We know you’re voting for Duck Dodgers.
00:36:46.710 –> 00:36:49.269
What about the other four? So, Dora the Explorer,
00:36:49.610 –> 00:36:52.309
obviously, I was way too old for it. However,
00:36:52.610 –> 00:36:55.269
I had a couple of friends at the time who had
00:36:55.269 –> 00:36:59.360
a… couple of kids who were around that same
00:36:59.360 –> 00:37:02.659
age so i still remember swipe or no swiping and
00:37:02.659 –> 00:37:05.960
all that but i was way too old for that at that
00:37:05.960 –> 00:37:09.559
point i’ve never seen dinosaur train never seen
00:37:09.559 –> 00:37:13.179
death note i’ve seen episodes here and there
00:37:13.179 –> 00:37:15.920
danny phantom i know danny phantom is still super
00:37:15.920 –> 00:37:20.480
popular now uh but uh because i know a lot of
00:37:20.480 –> 00:37:23.440
people that still like it but i don’t know for
00:37:23.440 –> 00:37:26.340
me it was it’s all about dark dodgers All right,
00:37:26.360 –> 00:37:29.840
Steve, agree or disagree? I don’t foresee me
00:37:29.840 –> 00:37:32.659
voting for really anything on this particular
00:37:32.659 –> 00:37:35.900
block. This was around the time that I just didn’t
00:37:35.900 –> 00:37:40.699
give a rip about anything. I was working. Danny
00:37:40.699 –> 00:37:44.940
Phantom, again, it came out. I graduated. It
00:37:44.940 –> 00:37:47.880
wasn’t something on. Plus, it was Nickelodeon.
00:37:48.860 –> 00:37:52.139
Again, I’m not a huge Nickelodeon animation fan.
00:37:52.239 –> 00:37:53.920
I’ve discovered while we’ve been going through
00:37:53.920 –> 00:37:56.889
these lists. I am very much a Warner Brothers.
00:37:57.510 –> 00:38:02.530
I’m very much a like Hasbro production. I’m very
00:38:02.530 –> 00:38:08.070
much anime. And so it or Marvel, but Warner Brothers
00:38:08.070 –> 00:38:11.889
is probably the biggest one for me. And this
00:38:11.889 –> 00:38:16.250
isn’t it. And Death Note, it’s too dark for my
00:38:16.250 –> 00:38:20.989
my personal tastes for an anime. Like I, I guess
00:38:20.989 –> 00:38:24.130
I go for a little bit different aesthetic. Like,
00:38:24.130 –> 00:38:26.010
I could see some of the other ones that are coming
00:38:26.010 –> 00:38:29.230
down the pipe being more interested in when I
00:38:29.230 –> 00:38:32.289
actually get to watch and do the play, you know,
00:38:32.309 –> 00:38:34.809
watch through. This one, I tried to stomach it,
00:38:34.829 –> 00:38:37.929
and I was like, eh, I can’t get into it. Dinosaur
00:38:37.929 –> 00:38:40.690
Train, my kids watched it. Again, it’s a great
00:38:40.690 –> 00:38:44.369
show. Ian James Corlett is the conductor, but
00:38:44.369 –> 00:38:47.250
it’s made for kids. Like, it’s very much along
00:38:47.250 –> 00:38:50.130
the Dory the Explorer and Clifford and Curious
00:38:50.130 –> 00:38:53.789
George realm. Dora, again, they’ve made multiple
00:38:53.789 –> 00:38:56.889
iterations of this. Not something I would put
00:38:56.889 –> 00:38:59.250
on my personal list, but maybe somebody younger
00:38:59.250 –> 00:39:04.909
might. Duck Dodgers. I’ve seen parts of this
00:39:04.909 –> 00:39:07.869
one. I’ve seen parts of most of these, actually.
00:39:08.949 –> 00:39:11.190
You can’t watch a Warner Brothers cartoon without
00:39:11.190 –> 00:39:13.650
a Warner Brothers ball cap. I would prefer Looney
00:39:13.650 –> 00:39:16.139
Tunes if I’m going to watch. You can’t watch
00:39:16.139 –> 00:39:18.199
a Warner Brothers cartoon without a Warner Brothers
00:39:18.199 –> 00:39:20.559
catalog. Come on, man. You got to at least give
00:39:20.559 –> 00:39:23.300
it the five episode try. I did. I’ve watched
00:39:23.300 –> 00:39:28.420
all of these. They’re just not. It’s it’s a Daffy
00:39:28.420 –> 00:39:30.300
Duck show. Like, I don’t I don’t really get into
00:39:30.300 –> 00:39:34.260
Daffy Duck. Bugs Bunny, yeah, I’m all over it.
00:39:34.320 –> 00:39:39.219
I enjoy it for the space aspect. I did learn
00:39:39.219 –> 00:39:41.559
Marvin the Martian from watching. I remember
00:39:41.559 –> 00:39:43.719
when it came out because I did watch this one
00:39:43.719 –> 00:39:46.019
and I’ve watched all of these recently out of
00:39:46.019 –> 00:39:48.139
this block. None of them are going to make my
00:39:48.139 –> 00:39:51.000
top 100. I think, and I could be wrong, I’m going
00:39:51.000 –> 00:39:53.019
to have to do some research next time I go on
00:39:53.019 –> 00:39:57.780
mute. I think this was Joe Alasky’s last performance
00:39:57.780 –> 00:40:02.239
before he passed. I think. Way to bring it down
00:40:02.239 –> 00:40:05.599
a notch, Mike. I’m just saying. I’m just saying.
00:40:06.139 –> 00:40:09.059
I will have to be putting Death Note on my watch
00:40:09.059 –> 00:40:10.780
list. That is something I will have to watch
00:40:10.780 –> 00:40:13.760
in order to determine it. I can’t really see
00:40:13.760 –> 00:40:16.019
myself voting for any of the other ones, though.
00:40:16.960 –> 00:40:19.840
But to see how the rest of the panel votes when
00:40:19.840 –> 00:40:23.219
it comes time for that. Bluefist? His name is
00:40:23.219 –> 00:40:26.510
Blue Regard Q Kazoo, and you know it! Terrence!
00:40:26.590 –> 00:40:29.250
Right, right, or Bluey, Blue the Blue Dude, El
00:40:29.250 –> 00:40:32.969
Bluterino, or hey, how about just Blue? But come
00:40:32.969 –> 00:40:37.949
on, man, Bluefist? How stupid can you get? He
00:40:37.949 –> 00:40:40.050
doesn’t need any work. That’s Edward Elric, the
00:40:40.050 –> 00:40:42.949
full metal alchemist. He’s been a celebrity around
00:40:42.949 –> 00:40:45.989
this city. They say he’s a real child prodigy.
00:40:48.300 –> 00:40:52.360
Last chance, Skeletor. If you surrender now,
00:40:52.579 –> 00:40:55.619
you’ll be placed in prison and treated with mercy.
00:40:56.260 –> 00:41:03.719
Mercy? What a ridiculous concept. Wow! Looks
00:41:03.719 –> 00:41:07.019
like we got a full house. Order the chips. So
00:41:07.019 –> 00:41:11.420
you’re the brat, huh? Fifty years have passed,
00:41:11.519 –> 00:41:16.159
and I have grown old. And if you’re this old…
00:41:23.300 –> 00:41:26.519
All right, let’s keep it going here with a set
00:41:26.519 –> 00:41:28.760
of five shows that all debuted between 2000 and
00:41:28.760 –> 00:41:33.260
2004. All of these five received votes last go
00:41:33.260 –> 00:41:35.300
-around, but only one of them actually made the
00:41:35.300 –> 00:41:37.940
list. So we have Foster’s Home for Imaginary
00:41:37.940 –> 00:41:42.440
Friends from 2004. Had about 29 awards throughout
00:41:42.440 –> 00:41:45.090
the years for this one that it garnered. It was
00:41:45.090 –> 00:41:46.670
on three of the lists we looked at it, but it
00:41:46.670 –> 00:41:49.670
came in 236 last time. So it’s got some work
00:41:49.670 –> 00:41:52.889
to do. We have from 2003, Full Metal Alchemist,
00:41:53.050 –> 00:41:56.530
which was 118 on the original list. So with a
00:41:56.530 –> 00:41:59.329
few more years for people to catch up to it and
00:41:59.329 –> 00:42:01.070
some spinoffs and things of that nature, can
00:42:01.070 –> 00:42:04.070
it climb those 18 spots to crack the countdown
00:42:04.070 –> 00:42:06.190
this time? We’ll have to wait and see. We have
00:42:06.190 –> 00:42:09.449
the 2002 version of He -Man and the Masters of
00:42:09.449 –> 00:42:12.909
the Universe. This one did appear on our original
00:42:12.909 –> 00:42:16.519
list at number 50. Does it slide with more time
00:42:16.519 –> 00:42:18.780
to go and more He -Man cartoons that have been
00:42:18.780 –> 00:42:21.179
out? Or does it hold on to its spot? We’ll have
00:42:21.179 –> 00:42:22.820
to wait and see. We have the House of Mouse.
00:42:22.900 –> 00:42:25.280
Let’s talk about Disney, I guess. From 2001,
00:42:25.539 –> 00:42:29.500
that came in 228th on our original list. And
00:42:29.500 –> 00:42:33.500
219th on our original list was Inuyasha from
00:42:33.500 –> 00:42:37.059
the year 2000, which has had, I believe, 167
00:42:37.059 –> 00:42:38.940
episodes, if my count is correct. So we have
00:42:38.940 –> 00:42:41.059
Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Full Metal
00:42:41.059 –> 00:42:44.570
Alchemist, He -Man from 2002. House of Mouse,
00:42:44.750 –> 00:42:48.809
and Inuyasha. I love House of Mouse. I do enjoy
00:42:48.809 –> 00:42:51.510
that show. I don’t know if I have enough room
00:42:51.510 –> 00:42:54.710
for it on my top 100. I have never seen Foster’s
00:42:54.710 –> 00:42:57.449
Home for Imaginary Friends, Full Metal Alchemist,
00:42:57.489 –> 00:43:00.949
or Inuyasha, so at least probably Full Metal
00:43:00.949 –> 00:43:03.309
Alchemist I’ll put on my watch list. I don’t
00:43:03.309 –> 00:43:06.590
know about the other two yet. The 2002 He -Man
00:43:06.590 –> 00:43:10.429
version I love. I voted for it last time. I can’t
00:43:10.429 –> 00:43:12.489
see it being number 50 this time, though. I think
00:43:12.489 –> 00:43:14.510
if it gets in, it’s getting in in the 90s or
00:43:14.510 –> 00:43:16.630
something of that nature. Just a gut feeling.
00:43:16.829 –> 00:43:18.449
But Steve, what do you think about this set of
00:43:18.449 –> 00:43:21.329
five? So this set of five, funny enough, I’d
00:43:21.329 –> 00:43:23.550
been watching a few of these today. One from
00:43:23.550 –> 00:43:28.610
this particular block, Foster’s, I did not like.
00:43:28.909 –> 00:43:32.389
I hate this animation style. And there’s a number
00:43:32.389 –> 00:43:36.610
of shows that are in this style that are going
00:43:36.610 –> 00:43:40.960
to come up. in the remainder of the, of the nominees,
00:43:41.099 –> 00:43:45.840
either today’s or the next episode. And I do
00:43:45.840 –> 00:43:48.619
not like this style. Like this, this for me is
00:43:48.619 –> 00:43:51.519
like the Wallace and Gromit, uh, claymation style
00:43:51.519 –> 00:43:53.659
thing that I just couldn’t stand in the, uh,
00:43:53.679 –> 00:43:58.059
the films. This, this is that for me here in
00:43:58.059 –> 00:44:02.239
the animated series. Like I, uh, yeah, I, that’s
00:44:02.239 –> 00:44:03.760
all I’m going to go into it. I’ve, I’ve tried
00:44:03.760 –> 00:44:05.500
watching this one and a few of the others in
00:44:05.500 –> 00:44:08.559
this style. And I just, they’re either, dry or
00:44:08.559 –> 00:44:12.619
annoying or i just hate it so and i’ve tried
00:44:12.619 –> 00:44:15.380
to go in with a clear mind it’s just it yeah
00:44:15.380 –> 00:44:18.579
uh full metal alchemist is on my list of things
00:44:18.579 –> 00:44:21.679
to watch i haven’t made it to that one yet but
00:44:21.679 –> 00:44:24.380
that is definitely on my list i have a i have
00:44:24.380 –> 00:44:27.159
a separate list of anime that i’m i’m going to
00:44:27.159 –> 00:44:30.019
go through throughout this run because there’s
00:44:30.019 –> 00:44:33.280
a number of them he man i’ve not seen enough
00:44:33.280 –> 00:44:36.340
of this but i do know that this one is much better
00:44:36.340 –> 00:44:40.510
than the original in a lot of ways. So this one
00:44:40.510 –> 00:44:43.909
is making my list more than likely. House of
00:44:43.909 –> 00:44:49.670
Mouse is, again, it’s Mickey Mouse. I don’t have
00:44:49.670 –> 00:44:54.590
anything against or for it. Possibly my kids
00:44:54.590 –> 00:44:57.710
would put it. It’s just not something I really
00:44:57.710 –> 00:45:03.210
care to list. Inuyasha, I used to watch, I think
00:45:03.210 –> 00:45:05.690
around the time that Dragon Ball Z was on Toonami.
00:45:06.379 –> 00:45:09.400
Okay. And, but I don’t remember it. So that one,
00:45:09.400 –> 00:45:11.639
I’m going to have to go back and rewatch. Uh,
00:45:11.719 –> 00:45:14.340
I do remember that David Kaye is the voice of
00:45:14.340 –> 00:45:17.619
Sashoma room, which, which is the, uh, one of
00:45:17.619 –> 00:45:19.380
the main characters of the show. And that, that
00:45:19.380 –> 00:45:22.619
was mostly why I tuned in. Right. Mike, what
00:45:22.619 –> 00:45:26.639
do you think about the set? Uh, I’ve seen bits
00:45:26.639 –> 00:45:29.239
and pieces of Foster’s home. The only character
00:45:29.239 –> 00:45:32.139
I really remember is blue, but I don’t remember
00:45:32.139 –> 00:45:34.880
much about it. I’ve never seen full alchemist,
00:45:34.880 –> 00:45:36.920
full metal alchemist. I’ve never seen a new Asia,
00:45:37.039 –> 00:45:41.139
but obviously he, man, we spent, you know, 10
00:45:41.139 –> 00:45:43.559
years going through all of it. And we spent,
00:45:43.639 –> 00:45:47.519
I don’t know, something like how many episodes
00:45:47.519 –> 00:45:51.900
does that take us for the 2002 series? 25 episodes,
00:45:52.159 –> 00:45:53.880
something like that. 15, something like that.
00:45:53.880 –> 00:45:57.300
Yeah, something like that. And good show, really.
00:45:57.420 –> 00:46:03.460
For only having 38 episodes, 39 episodes, it’s
00:46:03.460 –> 00:46:07.159
a really good show. I wish they were able to
00:46:07.159 –> 00:46:10.760
give us the actual ending that they wanted to
00:46:10.760 –> 00:46:14.860
give us. But unfortunately, they didn’t. They
00:46:14.860 –> 00:46:16.860
couldn’t because Cartoon Network were bastards
00:46:16.860 –> 00:46:21.110
back then. House of Mouse, I will, just like
00:46:21.110 –> 00:46:24.289
Duck Dodgers, I will defend all day. House of
00:46:24.289 –> 00:46:28.110
Mouse is essentially Roger Rabbit, but all Disney.
00:46:28.849 –> 00:46:31.710
And I don’t mean that to say that it’s live action.
00:46:31.750 –> 00:46:35.630
It isn’t. But it’s basically the Ink and Paint
00:46:35.630 –> 00:46:40.789
Club in animation. All Disney characters. That’s
00:46:40.789 –> 00:46:42.730
what it is. The House of Mouse. That’s what the
00:46:42.730 –> 00:46:45.590
club is called. It’s all club stuff. And what
00:46:45.590 –> 00:46:49.070
they do is. The club is the background. All of
00:46:49.070 –> 00:46:51.289
the characters come in and they watch classic
00:46:51.289 –> 00:46:55.110
Disney cartoons. So House of Mouse was 2001,
00:46:55.510 –> 00:46:58.530
right? Did I get that right without looking?
00:46:58.849 –> 00:47:02.670
Okay. House of Mouse was 2001. It was an easy
00:47:02.670 –> 00:47:06.510
way at the time for Disney Channel to, or Toon
00:47:06.510 –> 00:47:07.969
Disney at the time, because I think it was called
00:47:07.969 –> 00:47:13.809
Toon Disney at the time. to re -air their classic
00:47:13.809 –> 00:47:17.409
cartoons from the 30s, 40s, and 50s and whatever.
00:47:17.610 –> 00:47:19.369
Like all the classic Goofy cartoons, all the
00:47:19.369 –> 00:47:22.650
classic Donald cartoons in a new way. It was
00:47:22.650 –> 00:47:25.909
kind of like how the cybernetic space cube was
00:47:25.909 –> 00:47:28.730
put around the Generation 1 cartoons. I will
00:47:28.730 –> 00:47:31.289
vote for House of Mouse all day long. I will
00:47:31.289 –> 00:47:33.070
vote for He -Man and the Masters of the Universe
00:47:33.070 –> 00:47:37.159
from 2002 all day long. Absolutely. So a couple
00:47:37.159 –> 00:47:39.579
of potential shows that may be able to crack
00:47:39.579 –> 00:47:42.500
our list. We’ll have to wait and see. Does anyone
00:47:42.500 –> 00:47:44.820
have any questions that don’t have anything to
00:47:44.820 –> 00:47:47.440
do with lunatic ideas about Zim being an alien?
00:47:48.039 –> 00:47:54.679
I eat food, just like you. Most impressive. But
00:47:54.679 –> 00:47:59.940
what’s it got to do with us? I once thought I
00:47:59.940 –> 00:48:02.500
could protect the world by myself, but I was
00:48:02.500 –> 00:48:05.500
wrong. Working together, we saved the planet.
00:48:05.679 –> 00:48:08.320
And I believe that if we stayed together as a
00:48:08.320 –> 00:48:10.980
team, we would be a force that could truly work
00:48:10.980 –> 00:48:14.920
for the ideals of peace and justice. What? Like
00:48:14.920 –> 00:48:18.079
a bunch of super friends? More like a Justice
00:48:18.079 –> 00:48:21.820
League. Do you have any idea how corny that sounds?
00:48:22.579 –> 00:48:24.880
Don’t you ever wish you were down there? I’m
00:48:24.880 –> 00:48:27.719
down there all I need to be. Yes, but it’s just
00:48:27.719 –> 00:48:30.219
a job to you. I’m talking about going down there
00:48:30.219 –> 00:48:33.750
and having some fun. Maybe… Maybe with someone
00:48:33.750 –> 00:48:39.409
special. No. No dating for the Batman. It might
00:48:39.409 –> 00:48:43.670
cut into your brooding time. One. Dating within
00:48:43.670 –> 00:48:47.030
the team always leads to disaster. Two. You’re
00:48:47.030 –> 00:48:49.130
a princess from a society of immortal warriors.
00:48:49.230 –> 00:48:52.750
I’m a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues. And
00:48:52.750 –> 00:48:54.929
three. If my enemies knew I had someone special,
00:48:55.210 –> 00:48:57.309
they wouldn’t rest until they’d gotten to me
00:48:57.309 –> 00:49:04.179
through her. Next. So, time is running out, but
00:49:04.179 –> 00:49:06.780
I will not panic, KP. You’re panicking, aren’t
00:49:06.780 –> 00:49:10.079
you? Totally! Ron, why do you do this to yourself?
00:49:10.539 –> 00:49:12.760
Kim, procrastination is one of the few skills
00:49:12.760 –> 00:49:17.159
I’ve mastered. Don’t slam it. Oh, look, TV. Our
00:49:17.159 –> 00:49:20.880
next victim goes by the name of Dr. D’s. Oh,
00:49:20.880 –> 00:49:27.099
joy. Yo, what up, dog? No, it can’t be. And yet,
00:49:27.139 –> 00:49:29.260
it is. You think your skin was crawling before?
00:49:30.280 –> 00:49:33.239
Kim, are you watching? Yep, but not believing.
00:49:34.900 –> 00:49:37.539
This is Commander Kiva Andrew of the Earth Coalition.
00:49:37.800 –> 00:49:40.579
That robot is a very dangerous weapon, and I
00:49:40.579 –> 00:49:44.539
want it back. Hey, I found it. It’s mine. Finders
00:49:44.539 –> 00:49:47.920
keepers. I repeat, surrender Magus or face the
00:49:47.920 –> 00:49:51.199
consequences. I got your consequences right here.
00:49:55.400 –> 00:49:58.519
All right, for the next set of five, also some
00:49:58.519 –> 00:50:00.750
shows from the… early part of the decade appearing
00:50:00.750 –> 00:50:04.510
here we have from 2001 invader zim it appeared
00:50:04.510 –> 00:50:06.610
on four of the nine lists that we looked at actually
00:50:06.610 –> 00:50:08.829
which is the highest anything has been since
00:50:08.829 –> 00:50:12.710
avatar and aquatine hunger force so it does have
00:50:12.710 –> 00:50:15.590
some love out there it was 173rd on our original
00:50:15.590 –> 00:50:19.090
list we have justice league from 2001 which came
00:50:19.090 –> 00:50:21.849
in at number 17 on our original list and appeared
00:50:21.849 –> 00:50:24.449
on six of the nine lists we looked at this next
00:50:24.449 –> 00:50:27.000
one did not receive any votes for the original
00:50:27.000 –> 00:50:28.960
countdown because we combined these two, but
00:50:28.960 –> 00:50:30.539
we’re not doing that this time. So we have Justice
00:50:30.539 –> 00:50:33.800
League Unlimited from 2004, appeared on two of
00:50:33.800 –> 00:50:35.900
the nine lists that we looked at. We have Kim
00:50:35.900 –> 00:50:38.380
Possible, just missed the countdown last time,
00:50:38.400 –> 00:50:41.579
came in at 110. It did appear on three of the
00:50:41.579 –> 00:50:44.579
nine lists that we looked at. And then 205th
00:50:44.579 –> 00:50:49.219
from our original countdown is MegasXLR. So Invader
00:50:49.219 –> 00:50:51.219
Zim, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited,
00:50:51.380 –> 00:50:54.980
Kim Possible, MegasXLR. Steve, start us off with
00:50:54.980 –> 00:50:59.489
this group. So Invader Zim, I did not watch.
00:50:59.690 –> 00:51:03.210
It’s kind of another one of those Nickelodeon.
00:51:03.909 –> 00:51:09.670
Yeah, it’s a funny trend. I never I never realized
00:51:09.670 –> 00:51:12.570
it, but I just don’t like Nickelodeon animation.
00:51:12.929 –> 00:51:15.510
And I have not liked the Ninja Turtles since
00:51:15.510 –> 00:51:18.269
Nickelodeon took it over after to the 2012 series.
00:51:18.710 –> 00:51:23.460
So it’s it it’s. Very funny. So invaders them
00:51:23.460 –> 00:51:26.380
suffice it to say will not be on my list. Uh,
00:51:26.400 –> 00:51:29.679
even though it’s, you know, got a lot of high
00:51:29.679 –> 00:51:32.820
praise online for reviews, uh, justice league
00:51:32.820 –> 00:51:35.679
and justice league unlimited. Uh, like we mentioned,
00:51:35.780 –> 00:51:39.699
I, I can foresee me using these on my list because
00:51:39.699 –> 00:51:42.119
I enjoy them both. And they’re continuations
00:51:42.119 –> 00:51:44.880
of Batman, the animated series and Batman beyond
00:51:44.880 –> 00:51:48.639
and Superman, the animated series. And so I feel
00:51:48.639 –> 00:51:51.599
like these allow other characters to shine, but
00:51:51.599 –> 00:51:54.099
also playing in that same universe. So they’re
00:51:54.099 –> 00:51:57.139
a lot of fun for me. And a lot of them touch
00:51:57.139 –> 00:51:59.619
in different ways. Kim Possible, another fun
00:51:59.619 –> 00:52:02.119
show by Disney. Funny enough, I like a lot of
00:52:02.119 –> 00:52:05.840
the Disney stuff or in some ways DreamWorks,
00:52:05.840 –> 00:52:09.039
which comes up later. But Kim Possible was fun.
00:52:09.460 –> 00:52:12.019
Megas XLR, I remember this on Cartoon Network.
00:52:12.280 –> 00:52:16.940
And it reminds me in a lot of ways like Swat
00:52:16.940 –> 00:52:20.880
Cats. but with robots. So they get to fight in
00:52:20.880 –> 00:52:23.360
these zords. I found it entertaining, and it’s
00:52:23.360 –> 00:52:26.519
got a very similar style to the late 90s, early
00:52:26.519 –> 00:52:29.500
2000s aesthetic where they had that kind of shiny,
00:52:29.599 –> 00:52:33.219
polished look, but it wasn’t completely dark,
00:52:33.239 –> 00:52:37.760
and it fit in well with the content of that time
00:52:37.760 –> 00:52:41.690
period. I remember watching a few episodes back
00:52:41.690 –> 00:52:43.050
in the day, but this is definitely something
00:52:43.050 –> 00:52:45.429
I’m going to go back and rewatch before I can
00:52:45.429 –> 00:52:47.610
determine if it gets listed or not. Mike, what
00:52:47.610 –> 00:52:50.449
do you think? Oh, boy. Yeah, like Steve, I’ve
00:52:50.449 –> 00:52:54.630
never seen Invader Zim. I’ve never seen Mega’s
00:52:54.630 –> 00:52:59.969
XLR, but I will give it a try. Kim Possible,
00:53:00.130 –> 00:53:04.570
funny thing, I just finished my third rewatch
00:53:04.570 –> 00:53:07.849
through of that series in the past, like, four
00:53:07.849 –> 00:53:11.059
years. At this point, I use that show for background
00:53:11.059 –> 00:53:15.099
noise. I love that show so much. Justice League
00:53:15.099 –> 00:53:17.860
and Justice League Unlimited specifically and
00:53:17.860 –> 00:53:22.639
Kim Possible basically have a unique tie together
00:53:22.639 –> 00:53:26.980
because Will Friedle is on both shows. Because
00:53:26.980 –> 00:53:36.519
in, what’s the episode called? Time Warped. Time
00:53:36.519 –> 00:53:41.000
Warped Part 2 in Justice League Unlimited. The
00:53:41.000 –> 00:53:45.039
Batcave? Everything. It’s all gone. We’re all
00:53:45.039 –> 00:53:48.500
that’s left. Will Friedle voices both Batman
00:53:48.500 –> 00:53:51.559
in Batman Beyond and in Justice League Unlimited.
00:53:51.699 –> 00:53:55.579
And obviously the voice of Ron Stoppable in Kim
00:53:55.579 –> 00:53:59.139
Possible. So very, very awesome. But yeah, Justice
00:53:59.139 –> 00:54:00.800
League, Justice League Unlimited, Kim Possible.
00:54:00.860 –> 00:54:05.360
Absolutely love all three. That’s halfway through,
00:54:05.440 –> 00:54:07.800
I believe. The first set of 25 has been revealed,
00:54:07.940 –> 00:54:09.980
so let’s see what the second half holds for us.
00:54:10.780 –> 00:54:15.159
Robot! Robot? Mrs. Wakeman’s weird, but she’s
00:54:15.159 –> 00:54:18.940
not a robot. And I’m not deaf either, young man.
00:54:19.559 –> 00:54:22.519
Sorry, Mrs. Wakeman. Tuck was babbling about
00:54:22.519 –> 00:54:26.280
some robot. Robot? Ridiculous. Never heard of
00:54:26.280 –> 00:54:29.699
such a thing. That’s what I said. Listen, Iruka
00:54:29.699 –> 00:54:31.940
-sensei. I’m gonna show you this amazing jutsu,
00:54:31.940 –> 00:54:33.519
and you’re gonna let me graduate, then everything
00:54:33.519 –> 00:54:35.739
will be okay. That’s the way it works, right?
00:54:35.880 –> 00:54:38.059
Anyone who learns a jutsu from this scroll passes.
00:54:38.460 –> 00:54:41.659
Huh? Where’d you get that idea? Mizuki -sensei
00:54:41.659 –> 00:54:44.119
told me about it. Believe it! He told me where
00:54:44.119 –> 00:54:47.420
to find the scroll, and this place… Somebody
00:54:47.420 –> 00:54:55.559
get that wig off private! Cheesy dibbles. Happy
00:54:55.559 –> 00:55:00.199
ding -dong birthday, you little scamp. Daddy,
00:55:00.639 –> 00:55:04.420
it stopped raining. Can we go out to play? All
00:55:04.420 –> 00:55:12.079
right. Running on you two. Pretty cool, huh?
00:55:12.320 –> 00:55:15.639
What about Perry? What does he want to do? All
00:55:15.639 –> 00:55:19.739
right. Starting off this second half, we have
00:55:19.739 –> 00:55:24.219
from 2003. my life as a teenage robot we have
00:55:24.219 –> 00:55:29.900
naruto from 2002 it was 247th on the original
00:55:29.900 –> 00:55:32.820
countdown so it has a lot of work to do we have
00:55:32.820 –> 00:55:35.460
penguins of madagascar came out kind of right
00:55:35.460 –> 00:55:37.940
before we did the last countdown relatively and
00:55:37.940 –> 00:55:41.099
it did get enough votes to get 305th on our original
00:55:41.099 –> 00:55:43.820
countdown we have peppa pig which has had almost
00:55:43.820 –> 00:55:46.019
400 episodes and is like a cultural phenomenon
00:55:46.019 –> 00:55:50.079
i guess and we have one of mike’s favorites from
00:55:50.079 –> 00:55:52.820
2007 it came in 60th on the original list that
00:55:52.820 –> 00:55:56.099
would be phineas and ferb mike you go first i’ve
00:55:56.099 –> 00:55:59.320
never seen my life as a teenage robot i’m gonna
00:55:59.320 –> 00:56:01.639
have to give that a try i’d never i’ve seen bits
00:56:01.639 –> 00:56:05.360
and i’ve seen clips of naruto penguins of madagascar
00:56:05.360 –> 00:56:10.099
i liked because it wasn’t the movie i liked it
00:56:10.099 –> 00:56:13.219
because it was the penguins i liked it because
00:56:13.219 –> 00:56:16.880
it was them not the other characters from the
00:56:16.880 –> 00:56:20.760
madagascar movies but penguins they’re hilarious
00:56:20.760 –> 00:56:23.300
i absolutely love the penguins they’re so funny
00:56:23.300 –> 00:56:27.739
peppa pig is a kid’s show i i’ve i’ve seen clips
00:56:27.739 –> 00:56:30.920
i used to listen to a radio station where one
00:56:30.920 –> 00:56:34.159
of the morning show people was a mom of of teenage
00:56:34.159 –> 00:56:37.719
girls or little girls or whatever so i i only
00:56:37.719 –> 00:56:40.739
know of it because of that and phineas and ferb
00:56:40.739 –> 00:56:47.280
is phineas and ferb Show debuted in 2007. It’s
00:56:47.280 –> 00:56:52.440
currently got five seasons. They just announced
00:56:52.440 –> 00:56:57.380
the sixth season coming beginning of next year,
00:56:57.420 –> 00:56:59.480
I think. I could be wrong in that. I don’t have
00:56:59.480 –> 00:57:01.320
the information in front of me. I’m not going
00:57:01.320 –> 00:57:07.639
to look it up. But yeah, we have the podcast
00:57:07.639 –> 00:57:09.599
organization without a cool acronym with myself
00:57:09.599 –> 00:57:12.780
and Michael Wilson. We’ve gone through everything.
00:57:13.079 –> 00:57:17.800
We will be doing the fifth season and whatever
00:57:17.800 –> 00:57:21.019
else they come out with. What’s so cool about
00:57:21.019 –> 00:57:26.860
Phineas and Ferb is it’s a cartoon show where
00:57:26.860 –> 00:57:36.829
imagination is everything. And in 2007, I know
00:57:36.829 –> 00:57:39.650
we had plenty of cartoon shows where you could
00:57:39.650 –> 00:57:44.710
have your imagination be everything, but I don’t
00:57:44.710 –> 00:57:48.289
think we had a cartoon show like that in a long
00:57:48.289 –> 00:57:52.489
time where you basically meet these two stepbrothers
00:57:52.489 –> 00:57:56.610
who basically create anything and everything.
00:57:57.269 –> 00:58:00.349
And they have the older sister in Candace voiced
00:58:00.349 –> 00:58:04.730
by Ashley Tisdale. And she always wants to bust
00:58:04.730 –> 00:58:08.710
her brothers. And they get away with everything.
00:58:08.789 –> 00:58:10.849
And she gets frustrated. And on the flip side,
00:58:10.949 –> 00:58:16.030
you have Perry the Platypus with Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
00:58:16.090 –> 00:58:19.590
And it’s a whole thing. And it’s a whole genre
00:58:19.590 –> 00:58:23.510
of it’s a whole show of just awesomeness. And
00:58:23.510 –> 00:58:28.210
it’s just so fun. And, yeah, absolutely. But,
00:58:28.210 –> 00:58:32.199
yeah, Penguins and Perry. penguins and perry
00:58:32.199 –> 00:58:34.380
for you okay the only ones that appeared on the
00:58:34.380 –> 00:58:36.800
nine lists that we looked at was naruto and phineas
00:58:36.800 –> 00:58:39.059
and ferb steve which ones do you think have the
00:58:39.059 –> 00:58:42.199
most chance for you i think the ones that have
00:58:42.199 –> 00:58:45.179
the most chance for me are naruto penguins and
00:58:45.179 –> 00:58:50.380
madagascar and phineas and ferb my life is a
00:58:50.380 –> 00:58:57.760
teenage robot again figure the studio uh that
00:58:57.760 –> 00:59:03.159
obvious peppa pig i It’s an animation thing,
00:59:03.260 –> 00:59:07.699
again, but I had never heard of this before.
00:59:07.980 –> 00:59:12.320
I saw it on a Paramount Plus commercial a couple
00:59:12.320 –> 00:59:16.380
years ago when it had Patrick Stewart on there
00:59:16.380 –> 00:59:18.980
talking about getting the pigskin. Oh, yeah.
00:59:20.300 –> 00:59:24.000
So close. How are we going to get up there? Now,
00:59:24.000 –> 00:59:27.480
if there were only someone made of pigskin. Bingo.
00:59:29.280 –> 00:59:32.550
Okay. That’s the first time I heard a Peppa Pig,
00:59:32.710 –> 00:59:35.730
so that ought to tell you. Naruto, I can see
00:59:35.730 –> 00:59:38.889
being pretty strong because, again, that came
00:59:38.889 –> 00:59:41.650
out during the early 2000s, Western audience
00:59:41.650 –> 00:59:44.110
anime, kind of like Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon,
00:59:44.409 –> 00:59:49.690
etc. It would kind of go with the Inuyasha’s,
00:59:49.710 –> 00:59:52.989
the Ranma, and the Dragon Ball content. Penguins
00:59:52.989 –> 00:59:55.829
of Madagascar, those penguins are awesome. Yes,
00:59:55.829 –> 01:00:00.800
they are. I enjoy them. even in that I, and then
01:00:00.800 –> 01:00:03.420
they have the King Julian parts of it, which
01:00:03.420 –> 01:00:06.460
are funny too. And then Phineas and Ferb, I’ve
01:00:06.460 –> 01:00:08.519
watched some of it here or there with my kids
01:00:08.519 –> 01:00:11.000
and they’ve watched it and they enjoy it quite
01:00:11.000 –> 01:00:13.659
a bit. So I can see those three being the strong
01:00:13.659 –> 01:00:16.260
contenders in this particular list. Speaking
01:00:16.260 –> 01:00:19.340
of strong contenders, we have maybe our strongest
01:00:19.340 –> 01:00:23.980
group of contenders coming up next. Excellent.
01:00:24.260 –> 01:00:26.420
So you’re not going to talk. Then how about a
01:00:26.420 –> 01:00:29.840
dip in my lava jacuzzi? Megatron, you’re sure
01:00:29.840 –> 01:00:32.059
this is a Maximal in disguise and not just a
01:00:32.059 –> 01:00:34.780
plain old panda? Of course, Scorponok. Look at
01:00:34.780 –> 01:00:38.559
his smug face. Yes, I may have PTSD, but that
01:00:38.559 –> 01:00:42.159
is a f***ing Maximal. If you are me, then who
01:00:42.159 –> 01:00:48.179
am I? You’re so stupid. You are you also. Enough.
01:00:48.599 –> 01:00:51.179
You are my mirror image, yet your speech is foul
01:00:51.179 –> 01:00:54.159
with evil and disrespect. Who are you, and how
01:00:54.159 –> 01:00:56.619
have you come to be me? The Banking Clan has
01:00:56.619 –> 01:00:59.360
hidden huge factories on Munalist, building huge
01:00:59.360 –> 01:01:02.059
droid armies and massive warships. We must act
01:01:02.059 –> 01:01:07.199
quickly. I agree. But who to send? Master Windu
01:01:07.199 –> 01:01:10.500
still fights on Dantooine. Lead the assault,
01:01:10.619 –> 01:01:14.039
Master Obi -Wan can. My army is ready, Chancellor.
01:01:14.260 –> 01:01:17.840
We can leave immediately. Yes, and young Skywalker
01:01:17.840 –> 01:01:39.239
as well. Batman would have had real earplugs.
01:01:39.460 –> 01:01:42.420
After all I’ve done for you, this is the payback?
01:01:42.599 –> 01:01:44.960
When Dad passed away… Don’t you mention him.
01:01:45.000 –> 01:01:47.619
Why not? I’m the man of the family now. Says
01:01:47.619 –> 01:01:51.079
who? That’s the way it works. We’re blood. I’m
01:01:51.079 –> 01:01:53.280
supposed to be looking after you, not fighting
01:01:53.280 –> 01:01:55.800
with… Did someone say fight? No offense, Stretch,
01:01:56.000 –> 01:01:58.300
but a big -time supervillain like Ebon requires
01:01:58.300 –> 01:02:01.699
a big -time superhero like… well, like me.
01:02:04.489 –> 01:02:06.730
All right. At this set of five, four of them
01:02:06.730 –> 01:02:09.889
were on our original top 100. That’s the biggest
01:02:09.889 –> 01:02:12.090
set of five that we’re going to have to talk
01:02:12.090 –> 01:02:14.929
about today. And one of them kind of just missed.
01:02:15.090 –> 01:02:17.869
Robot Chicken starts us off. It debuted in 2005.
01:02:18.150 –> 01:02:20.050
It was on four of the nine lists we looked at.
01:02:20.130 –> 01:02:22.030
It is the only one of this five that didn’t make
01:02:22.030 –> 01:02:25.570
our original top 100. It came in at 134. The
01:02:25.570 –> 01:02:27.869
rest of the four all did come in on the top 100.
01:02:28.050 –> 01:02:31.550
So we had Samurai Jack, which came in at 38.
01:02:32.329 –> 01:02:35.710
We had Star Wars Clone Wars from 2003, which
01:02:35.710 –> 01:02:40.369
came in at 66. We had Star Wars The Clone Wars
01:02:40.369 –> 01:02:44.590
from 2008, which came in at 49. And we had Static
01:02:44.590 –> 01:02:48.230
Shock from 2000, which came in at number 83.
01:02:49.610 –> 01:02:52.289
Star Wars Clone Wars and Static Shock were on
01:02:52.289 –> 01:02:54.269
three of the nine lists we looked at. Star Wars
01:02:54.269 –> 01:02:56.269
The Clone Wars, Robot Chicken, were on four of
01:02:56.269 –> 01:02:58.590
the lists we looked at. Samurai Jack was on six
01:02:58.590 –> 01:03:03.219
of the nine lists we looked at. Can see myself.
01:03:03.739 –> 01:03:06.300
I know originally I voted for both Clone Wars
01:03:06.300 –> 01:03:10.360
just in very different spots. I cannot see myself
01:03:10.360 –> 01:03:12.920
voting for both of them again this time just
01:03:12.920 –> 01:03:15.099
because I feel like I need that extra spot for
01:03:15.099 –> 01:03:17.860
something else. And there’s been some other Star
01:03:17.860 –> 01:03:20.019
Wars content that I think is better than the
01:03:20.019 –> 01:03:24.360
2003 version. So I probably will only vote for
01:03:24.360 –> 01:03:27.940
the 2008 Clone Wars and leave the 2003 one off
01:03:27.940 –> 01:03:30.769
of my list. Samurai Jack is on my watch list.
01:03:30.849 –> 01:03:33.210
I have to watch some of that, and I have not
01:03:33.210 –> 01:03:36.590
seen any static shock. I get Robot Chicken. Again,
01:03:36.710 –> 01:03:38.750
it depends when you’re looking at the more adult
01:03:38.750 –> 01:03:44.010
demographic of the primetime cartoon shows, Adult
01:03:44.010 –> 01:03:46.449
Swim -like programming, how many you have room
01:03:46.449 –> 01:03:49.250
for, and which was your flavor. Robot Chicken,
01:03:49.369 –> 01:03:52.250
I can see going either way, so it just depends
01:03:52.250 –> 01:03:55.269
on the panel, I guess. Mike, what do you think
01:03:55.269 –> 01:03:58.809
of this set of five? Yeah, I agree. It just depends
01:03:58.809 –> 01:04:04.329
on the adult humor. Robot Chicken, for me, it’s
01:04:04.329 –> 01:04:09.110
not even really about their humor. It’s about
01:04:09.110 –> 01:04:14.949
which skits. If they do a Transformers skit,
01:04:15.010 –> 01:04:17.550
oh, I’m going to want to watch that. But if they
01:04:17.550 –> 01:04:20.650
do a skit on something else I don’t care about,
01:04:20.829 –> 01:04:23.289
then I’m not going to want to watch it. I don’t
01:04:23.289 –> 01:04:28.219
care. choose your own adventure episodes with
01:04:28.219 –> 01:04:31.840
them kind of thing samurai jack like you i’m
01:04:31.840 –> 01:04:36.360
gonna have to watch some of that 2003 clone wars
01:04:36.360 –> 01:04:40.420
was okay but it’s not making my list over 2008
01:04:40.420 –> 01:04:45.780
the clone wars uh again when the pandemic hit
01:04:45.780 –> 01:04:50.800
is when they announced that look season seven
01:04:50.800 –> 01:04:55.480
the final season of the clone wars I went back
01:04:55.480 –> 01:04:58.099
and I watched all of it from the beginning. I
01:04:58.099 –> 01:05:02.280
had never because Disney Plus had just started
01:05:02.280 –> 01:05:06.820
in 2019. When the Clone Wars was airing on Cartoon
01:05:06.820 –> 01:05:09.420
Network, Cartoon Network has always been fickle
01:05:09.420 –> 01:05:12.800
with action cartoon air dates. Always. I don’t
01:05:12.800 –> 01:05:15.000
care what you could insert any action cartoon.
01:05:15.360 –> 01:05:19.539
Cartoon Network would put it on. this time, this
01:05:19.539 –> 01:05:21.579
time, this time. And then the next week it would
01:05:21.579 –> 01:05:24.260
be on any other time, but the times you had it
01:05:24.260 –> 01:05:27.980
on the previous week. So when Disney plus debuted
01:05:27.980 –> 01:05:33.519
in 2019 and the clone wars was on there and everything
01:05:33.519 –> 01:05:36.139
shut down in 2020, I was like, Oh look, I have
01:05:36.139 –> 01:05:38.340
plenty of time. I can actually sit and watch
01:05:38.340 –> 01:05:42.519
all of the show. There’s a whole Twitter thread
01:05:42.519 –> 01:05:45.860
on, on Twitter that I did that I did a running
01:05:45.860 –> 01:05:49.630
commentary. Not necessarily every episode, but
01:05:49.630 –> 01:05:52.929
after I finished either every few episodes or
01:05:52.929 –> 01:05:57.710
every season, I made a post about, hey, I watched
01:05:57.710 –> 01:05:59.730
this or I watched that or I like this or I like
01:05:59.730 –> 01:06:01.789
that or whatever. So, yeah, 2008 Clone Wars.
01:06:01.909 –> 01:06:05.269
Absolutely love it. So good. And Static Shock.
01:06:06.630 –> 01:06:09.570
Static Shock’s good. I enjoyed it. It was fun.
01:06:10.150 –> 01:06:13.829
A little different, but it’s not bad. I wouldn’t.
01:06:13.829 –> 01:06:18.670
I wouldn’t. These double negatives suck. I would
01:06:18.670 –> 01:06:22.630
not not recommend it. I would definitely say
01:06:22.630 –> 01:06:25.869
give it a shot. It’s very good. The crossovers
01:06:25.869 –> 01:06:29.570
are interesting, but don’t just watch it for
01:06:29.570 –> 01:06:34.969
Batman to show up, even though that’s fun. But
01:06:34.969 –> 01:06:39.809
it is very, very fun. Steve? Before Steve goes,
01:06:39.949 –> 01:06:42.190
I think the Clone Wars from 2008 could be one
01:06:42.190 –> 01:06:44.210
that I know it came in 49th on our original one.
01:06:44.570 –> 01:06:46.929
it may actually have an opportunity to climb
01:06:46.929 –> 01:06:49.769
the ranks because it’s had so many more seasons
01:06:49.769 –> 01:06:51.869
and it’s been around and this, that, and the
01:06:51.869 –> 01:06:54.010
other. So I could actually see that one jumping
01:06:54.010 –> 01:06:56.610
even higher than 49. Steve, what do you think
01:06:56.610 –> 01:07:00.070
of that and this set of five? So for this particular
01:07:00.070 –> 01:07:02.409
set of five, I agree with the assessment about
01:07:02.409 –> 01:07:06.739
Robot Chicken. I liked certain skits like when
01:07:06.739 –> 01:07:10.260
it pertained to Transformers or G .I. Joe or,
01:07:10.260 –> 01:07:12.360
you know, certain things like that. I would watch
01:07:12.360 –> 01:07:14.239
the skit itself, but I didn’t really care for
01:07:14.239 –> 01:07:17.579
the show. Samurai Jack, I did watch a lot of
01:07:17.579 –> 01:07:21.079
back in the day. I found it to be entertaining.
01:07:21.719 –> 01:07:26.800
And I again, I liked Cartoon Network stuff, too,
01:07:26.980 –> 01:07:29.699
because I watched Toonami and so I watched everything
01:07:29.699 –> 01:07:33.900
around it. And it was kind of dark, but it was
01:07:33.900 –> 01:07:38.920
interesting samurai type stuff. And I did not
01:07:38.920 –> 01:07:45.400
like the 2003 Clone Wars. Even though they shared
01:07:45.400 –> 01:07:51.559
an animator. And and style, I just I just didn’t
01:07:51.559 –> 01:07:56.280
like it. The CG one for the Clone Wars in 2008.
01:07:57.199 –> 01:08:00.400
where they also revived it for the final seasons
01:08:00.400 –> 01:08:04.739
for Disney Plus when they launched all that.
01:08:05.699 –> 01:08:08.579
I enjoyed that show. Plus, it plays really well
01:08:08.579 –> 01:08:12.219
into the continuity. I don’t know. It’s just
01:08:12.219 –> 01:08:16.340
more satisfying to kind of dig into. Static Shock,
01:08:16.760 –> 01:08:22.039
I enjoyed it when it was out. I don’t know if
01:08:22.039 –> 01:08:25.529
I would list it. just because I have other DC
01:08:25.529 –> 01:08:29.510
shows that I care about and enjoy much more than
01:08:29.510 –> 01:08:32.390
this one. And it has nothing to do with Batman.
01:08:32.510 –> 01:08:36.689
It just has to do with the fact that I was also
01:08:36.689 –> 01:08:41.829
out of the range here of what they were trying
01:08:41.829 –> 01:08:46.770
to drop for people to watch it. And so I wouldn’t
01:08:46.770 –> 01:08:49.739
list it personally. I could see it being on the
01:08:49.739 –> 01:08:51.800
top 100. I can see really any of these except
01:08:51.800 –> 01:08:54.779
for maybe the 2003 Clone Wars being on there.
01:08:54.859 –> 01:08:57.159
But myself personally, I think I’d go for like
01:08:57.159 –> 01:09:00.539
Samurai Jack or the 2008 Clone Wars. I think
01:09:00.539 –> 01:09:02.979
I have some watching to do, but I would be shocked
01:09:02.979 –> 01:09:06.039
if the Clone Wars doesn’t make our top 100. So
01:09:06.039 –> 01:09:08.000
let’s see what the next set of five brings us.
01:09:12.220 –> 01:09:15.260
Oh, man, come on. It’s got to be around here
01:09:15.260 –> 01:09:22.289
someplace. I don’t believe this. How could you
01:09:22.289 –> 01:09:25.250
lose the remote? What makes you so sure I lost
01:09:25.250 –> 01:09:30.510
it? Uh, because you’re you. Hey, just because
01:09:30.510 –> 01:09:33.489
I lost that video game. And the toothpaste, and
01:09:33.489 –> 01:09:36.750
my football, and a waffle iron. Things disappear.
01:09:37.029 –> 01:09:39.609
How am I supposed to know where they go? Well,
01:09:39.630 –> 01:09:41.989
how am I supposed to watch TV without a remote?
01:09:43.229 –> 01:09:46.329
Symbol, you just get up and change the channel.
01:09:48.590 –> 01:09:56.329
Huh? What is that noise? Whoa! Earthquake! In
01:09:56.329 –> 01:10:09.590
New York? Possible, but not likely. What are
01:10:09.590 –> 01:10:18.989
those things? New York City cockroaches? Hey,
01:10:18.989 –> 01:10:21.090
we are going to look for buried treasure, right?
01:10:21.449 –> 01:10:24.510
Right you are, matey. And look what I’ve got.
01:10:24.890 –> 01:10:35.189
Half of a treasure map. Face. Say cheese. I’m
01:10:35.189 –> 01:10:42.930
out of gas. And I’m out of patience. We really
01:10:42.930 –> 01:10:45.689
know how to spoil a coming out party. How do
01:10:45.689 –> 01:10:47.550
you expect me to spread mirth and whimsy without
01:10:47.550 –> 01:10:51.350
a proper hideout? Listen, Joker, you’re sick.
01:10:51.489 –> 01:10:55.390
You need help. Well, maybe I am a little off.
01:10:59.069 –> 01:11:01.529
But what are you going to do? Lock me in the
01:11:01.529 –> 01:11:07.590
loony bin? I’m already here. I’m not a prophet,
01:11:07.729 –> 01:11:10.970
but sometimes I have prophetic dreams, like the
01:11:10.970 –> 01:11:21.840
one where I was at a garden party. Excuse me,
01:11:21.840 –> 01:11:24.479
everyone. I have a brief announcement to make.
01:11:25.840 –> 01:11:27.579
All right. We’re going to stay in a very tight
01:11:27.579 –> 01:11:29.899
time period here in our next group. We’re going
01:11:29.899 –> 01:11:32.479
to have shows that were in 2003, 2004 and 2005,
01:11:32.739 –> 01:11:35.899
and that’s it. So we have the first two are both
01:11:35.899 –> 01:11:38.380
from 2003. We’re going to talk about Teen Titans,
01:11:38.520 –> 01:11:41.399
which appeared on three of the nine lists and
01:11:41.399 –> 01:11:44.640
it. Just missed our countdown last time. It came
01:11:44.640 –> 01:11:49.039
in at 104 on the top 100. So just missed the
01:11:49.039 –> 01:11:52.960
actual countdown. We have also from 2003, the
01:11:52.960 –> 01:11:56.319
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which appeared
01:11:56.319 –> 01:11:58.060
on two of the nine lists we looked at and was
01:11:58.060 –> 01:12:02.039
number 51 on our original list. We have the Backyardigans
01:12:02.039 –> 01:12:05.500
from 2004. That was 235th on our original list.
01:12:05.859 –> 01:12:09.340
Also from 2004, we have The Batman, which came
01:12:09.340 –> 01:12:13.439
in at 137th. on our list. Just missing the countdown
01:12:13.439 –> 01:12:17.119
and missing a chance to go past Spider -Man for
01:12:17.119 –> 01:12:19.619
I think the franchise that had the most titles
01:12:19.619 –> 01:12:22.460
possibly. I’d have to do the analysis of the
01:12:22.460 –> 01:12:25.060
last countdown one more time. And then we have
01:12:25.060 –> 01:12:28.460
from 2005, this was 278th on our original list.
01:12:28.539 –> 01:12:31.779
This is the Boondocks from 2005. That appeared
01:12:31.779 –> 01:12:33.979
on four of the nine lists we looked at. So that
01:12:33.979 –> 01:12:36.600
makes it Teen Titans, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
01:12:36.600 –> 01:12:40.750
2003, The Backyardigans, The Batman, and the
01:12:40.750 –> 01:12:42.970
boondocks. Steve, we’ll go right back to you
01:12:42.970 –> 01:12:44.409
to let you start off with this one. What are
01:12:44.409 –> 01:12:48.130
your thoughts on this set of five? So for this
01:12:48.130 –> 01:12:51.529
particular set of five, I was not a fan of Teen
01:12:51.529 –> 01:12:54.010
Titans, although I would take this over Teen
01:12:54.010 –> 01:13:00.890
Titans Go in some regards. The only episode of
01:13:00.890 –> 01:13:02.590
Teen Titans Go I enjoyed is the one where they
01:13:02.590 –> 01:13:05.569
had Megatron or David Kaye playing a dragon in
01:13:05.569 –> 01:13:10.560
the Elseworld with the song. Teenage Mutant Ninja
01:13:10.560 –> 01:13:13.439
Turtles 2003. Loved this show. I watched it when
01:13:13.439 –> 01:13:18.359
it came out. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked
01:13:18.359 –> 01:13:21.640
the darker aspect of it. I liked the differences
01:13:21.640 –> 01:13:25.880
that they made between the 87 and this one. I
01:13:25.880 –> 01:13:27.899
liked how they also did Turtles Forever, which
01:13:27.899 –> 01:13:32.420
kind of tied into this too. And the 87. And yeah,
01:13:33.100 –> 01:13:35.720
so I mean, this one is a definite lock for me.
01:13:35.800 –> 01:13:38.319
And I can see it being a lock for people too.
01:13:38.840 –> 01:13:40.960
if they didn’t choose the other one or even if
01:13:40.960 –> 01:13:47.180
they did the backyard agains I wouldn’t put this
01:13:47.180 –> 01:13:49.640
personally I mean it’s yes it’s a Nickelodeon
01:13:49.640 –> 01:13:52.520
show which I didn’t know until I was doing research
01:13:52.520 –> 01:13:56.239
on it I skimmed it because again I’m not the
01:13:56.239 –> 01:13:59.380
you know target demographic for this and my kids
01:13:59.380 –> 01:14:02.239
never got into it so they didn’t really care
01:14:02.239 –> 01:14:06.050
for this type of animation for one or the the
01:14:06.050 –> 01:14:10.289
sing -songy stuff or this kind of almost dumbed
01:14:10.289 –> 01:14:14.609
down animation so i yeah this one won’t be on
01:14:14.609 –> 01:14:22.829
there uh for sure the batman i didn’t start watching
01:14:22.829 –> 01:14:27.609
this one until just a few years ago and It’s
01:14:27.609 –> 01:14:29.949
actually pretty enjoyable. It’s a different take.
01:14:30.029 –> 01:14:32.310
You get a different version of Batman here. I
01:14:32.310 –> 01:14:34.170
mean, just like any other Batman series, you
01:14:34.170 –> 01:14:36.569
get a different one. I could see this one or
01:14:36.569 –> 01:14:38.710
the Brave and the Bold being kind of a toss up
01:14:38.710 –> 01:14:40.909
for people of will they won’t they on these two
01:14:40.909 –> 01:14:43.430
just because you get the lighter tone with the
01:14:43.430 –> 01:14:45.329
Brave and the Bold and this one you get kind
01:14:45.329 –> 01:14:48.609
of the darker, different rendition you even get
01:14:48.609 –> 01:14:52.859
eventually in later seasons like Batman’s. Like
01:14:52.859 –> 01:14:55.260
you get his Robin, you get Nightwing, you get
01:14:55.260 –> 01:14:58.220
Batgirl, you get even like an episode where Mr.
01:14:58.319 –> 01:15:00.779
Freeze comes back and it’s like a thousand years
01:15:00.779 –> 01:15:02.939
later or something. And they they dig up the
01:15:02.939 –> 01:15:06.920
Batcave and they all don a costume of of Batman
01:15:06.920 –> 01:15:11.819
to to confuse Mr. Freeze as they take him down.
01:15:12.119 –> 01:15:15.880
And they they get the the antidote of how to
01:15:15.880 –> 01:15:19.119
take out Mr. Freeze from Batman’s Batcomputer.
01:15:19.739 –> 01:15:22.800
So I don’t know. I like the show Boondocks. I
01:15:22.800 –> 01:15:24.979
tried to watch that back in the day. Absolutely
01:15:24.979 –> 01:15:28.920
hated it. I still don’t like it. This was kind
01:15:28.920 –> 01:15:32.420
of around the phase of where Adult Swim was kind
01:15:32.420 –> 01:15:34.399
of turning into stuff and I just didn’t care
01:15:34.399 –> 01:15:37.819
for it. So this this is not something I would
01:15:37.819 –> 01:15:39.539
have. I could see people putting it on there
01:15:39.539 –> 01:15:43.239
that might have liked this kind of darker. Kind
01:15:43.239 –> 01:15:47.750
of animation. But I personally won’t. Out of
01:15:47.750 –> 01:15:49.810
this block, I would choose Ninja Turtles and
01:15:49.810 –> 01:15:53.130
The Batman. Mike, agree? Which ones would you
01:15:53.130 –> 01:15:56.229
be most keen to vote for? Turtles and Batman.
01:15:56.930 –> 01:15:59.869
Absolutely. Are you not a Teen Titans fan either?
01:16:00.409 –> 01:16:07.170
No. Not at all. It’s not a bad show. It’s just
01:16:07.170 –> 01:16:11.010
that… I don’t know. It’s better than Teen Titans
01:16:11.010 –> 01:16:17.300
Go. But… It was just because that was 2004,
01:16:17.439 –> 01:16:22.020
right? Yeah, I was already out of. Yeah. So 2004
01:16:22.020 –> 01:16:25.979
was kind of my year of, OK, that’s going to kind
01:16:25.979 –> 01:16:29.239
of be it for a couple of years. And 05 and 06,
01:16:29.260 –> 01:16:32.640
I was full on live action TV and then Transformers
01:16:32.640 –> 01:16:34.640
animated and Phineas and Ferb brought me back
01:16:34.640 –> 01:16:39.399
to animation. But Turtles 2003, as Steve already
01:16:39.399 –> 01:16:44.689
said, I mean. You can’t go wrong with that. Like,
01:16:44.729 –> 01:16:49.390
I have the Complete Series DVDs sitting on my
01:16:49.390 –> 01:16:53.270
dresser in the other room just waiting to pop
01:16:53.270 –> 01:16:54.970
into my Blu -ray player, even though they’re
01:16:54.970 –> 01:16:59.810
not Blu -rays. But, like, I have that. The Batman
01:16:59.810 –> 01:17:02.510
is interesting because, as Steve said, it is
01:17:02.510 –> 01:17:07.350
slightly darker. They actually tried to lighten
01:17:07.350 –> 01:17:12.050
it up. So between the fourth and the fifth season,
01:17:12.470 –> 01:17:14.489
The fourth season, by the end of the fourth season,
01:17:14.569 –> 01:17:17.569
it got so dark. I don’t know if it was Cartoon
01:17:17.569 –> 01:17:20.729
Network or wherever. I think it was Cartoon Network
01:17:20.729 –> 01:17:24.529
at the time. But the producers and everybody
01:17:24.529 –> 01:17:26.390
is like, we need something light. The entire
01:17:26.390 –> 01:17:30.010
fifth season is team ups. And the only reason
01:17:30.010 –> 01:17:33.710
why I know this is because they brought back
01:17:33.710 –> 01:17:40.010
George Newbern. They brought back Superman. There’s
01:17:40.010 –> 01:17:43.220
a whole episode where it’s all of them. it’s
01:17:43.220 –> 01:17:46.439
the D it’s the DCAU voice actors. Cause there’s
01:17:46.439 –> 01:17:49.640
a whole episode with all of them in that fifth
01:17:49.640 –> 01:17:54.640
season of the Batman. The boondocks is a, is
01:17:54.640 –> 01:17:57.020
a blank spot for me. I’ll have to check that
01:17:57.020 –> 01:18:00.640
out. Backyardigans. What is that? I know the
01:18:00.640 –> 01:18:05.020
name, but what is it? The show came out in 2004.
01:18:07.449 –> 01:18:10.689
it’s a CG animated Nickelodeon series. That’s
01:18:10.689 –> 01:18:15.550
got like animated musical stuff. And it’s, you
01:18:15.550 –> 01:18:19.609
know, you’ve got a penguin. Okay. So it’s for
01:18:19.609 –> 01:18:22.109
little kids. Okay. Yeah, no, that’s not for me.
01:18:22.189 –> 01:18:25.609
No, I will probably for sure vote for Teenage
01:18:25.609 –> 01:18:27.609
Mutant Ninja Turtles. And then the rest is all
01:18:27.609 –> 01:18:30.729
on my catch up with list. So can’t comment too
01:18:30.729 –> 01:18:35.000
much on this section. Sorry, Timmy. According
01:18:35.000 –> 01:18:37.880
to the rules, fairy godparents only grant wishes
01:18:37.880 –> 01:18:41.380
to kids. Really? It doesn’t mean you still can’t
01:18:41.380 –> 01:18:43.600
pal around with me, right? Not that we know of.
01:18:43.720 –> 01:18:47.600
Cool. Let’s go do adult stuff. Okay. Like what?
01:18:47.739 –> 01:18:55.199
Drive. I’m carsick. I’m Cosmo. Ew, it looks like
01:18:55.199 –> 01:18:58.659
I hit some kind of big ugly bug. Oh, never mind.
01:18:58.800 –> 01:19:02.300
That’s just Mandy. I didn’t realize the zoo animals
01:19:02.300 –> 01:19:07.729
were on parade. Huh? In case you didn’t know,
01:19:07.869 –> 01:19:15.130
that was sarcasm. Hard work, sweat, tears, and
01:19:15.130 –> 01:19:18.430
pain. If you can’t take a five story fall and
01:19:18.430 –> 01:19:20.270
bounce right up, you better bounce out of here
01:19:20.270 –> 01:19:25.670
now. Come here. I’m the best there is at what
01:19:25.670 –> 01:19:28.130
I do. And what I do can’t be imitated, copied,
01:19:28.210 –> 01:19:30.189
cloned, or used without the express written permission
01:19:30.189 –> 01:19:31.930
of the Superhero Squad and Marvel Entertainment
01:19:31.930 –> 01:19:34.350
LLC. Batteries not included. All rights reserved.
01:19:34.550 –> 01:19:36.250
Terms, conditions, or restrictions apply. We
01:19:36.250 –> 01:19:40.750
clear, bub. I am the Spectacular Spider -Man.
01:19:42.750 –> 01:19:46.109
Only one thing missing. All right, there’s only
01:19:46.109 –> 01:19:48.170
10 nominees left for this time period. Let’s
01:19:48.170 –> 01:19:50.010
go ahead and look at the first five of that 10.
01:19:50.489 –> 01:19:53.609
We have the Fairly Oddparents from 2001. That
01:19:53.609 –> 01:19:57.970
came in 290th place last time. We have also from
01:19:57.970 –> 01:20:01.109
2001, The Grim Adventures of Billy Mandy. Also
01:20:01.109 –> 01:20:04.250
from 2001, we have The Proud Family. That came
01:20:04.250 –> 01:20:07.930
in at 283rd last time. We have the Spectacular
01:20:07.930 –> 01:20:12.390
Spider -Man from 2008. Came in at 56th on our
01:20:12.390 –> 01:20:14.869
list last time. And then we have the Superhero
01:20:14.869 –> 01:20:17.390
Squad from 2009, which just missed the countdown
01:20:17.390 –> 01:20:20.710
and came in at 113th. So the fairly odd parents,
01:20:20.829 –> 01:20:22.449
grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, the proud
01:20:22.449 –> 01:20:25.409
family, spectacular Spider -Man and the superhero
01:20:25.409 –> 01:20:28.130
squad. I have to remain silent during this section.
01:20:28.229 –> 01:20:30.010
I’ve seen zero episodes of any of these five
01:20:30.010 –> 01:20:33.170
shows. You guys will have to tell me which ones
01:20:33.170 –> 01:20:35.250
I need to catch up with. Mike, let’s start with
01:20:35.250 –> 01:20:43.510
you. Okay. So you want comedy? That’s a question
01:20:43.510 –> 01:20:48.100
for you. I don’t know. I’m scared. Okay. Answer
01:20:48.100 –> 01:20:53.800
yes or no. You want comedy? Sure. Okay. The Superhero
01:20:53.800 –> 01:20:58.539
Squad Show is the most comedic superhero Marvel
01:20:58.539 –> 01:21:01.880
show, in my personal opinion, that I’ve ever
01:21:01.880 –> 01:21:07.460
seen. Is that good or bad? It’s good. Okay. It’s
01:21:07.460 –> 01:21:12.600
a good thing. They have… This isn’t a spoiler,
01:21:12.800 –> 01:21:17.689
but they have… George Takei voicing Galactus.
01:21:18.210 –> 01:21:22.569
Galactus is the guy that goes around eating planets.
01:21:22.909 –> 01:21:26.890
And how they portray Galactus in this is just
01:21:26.890 –> 01:21:31.149
hilarious. They have Steve Bloom as the voice
01:21:31.149 –> 01:21:35.829
of Wolverine. And he actually does. I think this
01:21:35.829 –> 01:21:38.909
is the first time. Might be the second time.
01:21:38.949 –> 01:21:41.670
But I think this is one of the first times. He
01:21:41.670 –> 01:21:46.710
actually uses the word. snicked so that’s the
01:21:46.710 –> 01:21:49.149
sound effect that wolverine’s claws make when
01:21:49.149 –> 01:21:53.050
he pops out his claws steve bloom actually says
01:21:53.050 –> 01:21:57.010
the word it’s so it’s so funny it’s so hilarious
01:21:57.010 –> 01:22:01.710
uh spec spidey is great proud family is cool
01:22:01.710 –> 01:22:05.350
grim adventures it was okay i liked it it wasn’t
01:22:05.350 –> 01:22:08.670
really for me fairly odd parents i didn’t find
01:22:08.670 –> 01:22:13.890
until later but it is hilarious it it is just
01:22:13.890 –> 01:22:16.090
so hilarious. It’s basically about this kid,
01:22:16.170 –> 01:22:20.569
Timmy Turner, uh, who gets these fairy God parents
01:22:20.569 –> 01:22:28.770
and they basically grant his every wish kind
01:22:28.770 –> 01:22:31.470
of thing, but they have to stay hidden. And it’s
01:22:31.470 –> 01:22:35.630
this whole awesome, interesting show. So for
01:22:35.630 –> 01:22:39.029
me, if I was putting shows on my list, fairly
01:22:39.029 –> 01:22:41.310
odd parents, spec Spidey and superhero squad
01:22:41.310 –> 01:22:44.649
show. All right, Steve, what about you? So I’ve
01:22:44.649 –> 01:22:46.550
seen fairly odd parents. This is probably one
01:22:46.550 –> 01:22:50.630
of the outliers of Nickelodeon shows where it’s
01:22:50.630 –> 01:22:55.529
actually entertaining for me. OK. This one I
01:22:55.529 –> 01:22:57.609
haven’t seen a ton of, but what I’ve seen, it’s
01:22:57.609 –> 01:22:59.550
it’s been entertaining and I can see why people
01:22:59.550 –> 01:23:02.069
enjoyed it as much as they did. And this one’s
01:23:02.069 –> 01:23:08.350
done by Butch Hartman. I mean, I could see this
01:23:08.350 –> 01:23:10.869
one being on the list in a lot of ways. I don’t
01:23:10.869 –> 01:23:13.090
know if it’ll be on mine. I don’t know if any
01:23:13.090 –> 01:23:15.989
of these honestly will be on mine, but I’ve seen
01:23:15.989 –> 01:23:18.270
majority of these. I’ve seen the Grim Adventures
01:23:18.270 –> 01:23:21.130
of Billy and Mandy, which was a Cartoon Network
01:23:21.130 –> 01:23:24.789
show. I’ve seen enough of it. It’s entertaining.
01:23:24.829 –> 01:23:26.869
It almost kind of in some ways reminds me of
01:23:26.869 –> 01:23:31.090
Pinky and the Brain, but not. The Proud Family,
01:23:31.510 –> 01:23:35.949
I’m aware of it. And I know when it came out,
01:23:36.029 –> 01:23:39.329
it’s not something that interests me. Spectacular
01:23:39.329 –> 01:23:42.850
Spider -Man. I could see my kids knowing this
01:23:42.850 –> 01:23:47.329
one more than me. I didn’t personally watch it,
01:23:47.350 –> 01:23:50.449
but I also don’t care to watch it because the
01:23:50.449 –> 01:23:53.069
90s Spider -Man is the one that is going to get
01:23:53.069 –> 01:23:56.210
my vote out of these. And that’s kind of where
01:23:56.210 –> 01:23:58.069
I’m sticking. I’m less of a Marvel guy, more
01:23:58.069 –> 01:24:02.229
of a DC in terms of animation. And then Super
01:24:02.229 –> 01:24:05.189
Hero Squad, I’m aware of it. Again, haven’t watched
01:24:05.189 –> 01:24:10.020
much of it. I’ve seen clips here or there. If
01:24:10.020 –> 01:24:14.779
you’re into the goofy, like chibi style superheroes,
01:24:15.220 –> 01:24:19.000
it works for you. Yeah, that’s what it is. I
01:24:19.000 –> 01:24:21.119
think, and again, I could be wrong. I would have
01:24:21.119 –> 01:24:23.960
to do research, but I think Spectacular Spider
01:24:23.960 –> 01:24:29.739
-Man was the first time Josh Keaton got to voice
01:24:29.739 –> 01:24:32.739
Spidey. And the only reason why I know that is
01:24:32.739 –> 01:24:36.140
because we have a voice promo from Josh when
01:24:36.140 –> 01:24:39.329
we’ve interviewed him in the past. Yep. you know,
01:24:39.329 –> 01:24:42.869
saying, Hey, this is spectacular Spider -Man
01:24:42.869 –> 01:24:45.649
and I’m swinging by the geek cast radio network.
01:24:46.229 –> 01:24:49.029
All right. So I got a lot of homework and we’ll
01:24:49.029 –> 01:24:51.430
have to see what these last set of five shows
01:24:51.430 –> 01:24:57.029
reveals for us. Race Bannon. Those bastards killed
01:24:57.029 –> 01:25:00.350
him. Those kids. Damn it. We let him go. You
01:25:00.350 –> 01:25:02.569
know him Brock worked with them a few times.
01:25:03.130 –> 01:25:05.949
He was one of the best. You need a hug Brock.
01:25:06.170 –> 01:25:12.239
No Dean. At long last, I serve you, my liege,
01:25:12.439 –> 01:25:20.439
under my true colors. Rise, Shockwave, my most
01:25:20.439 –> 01:25:26.819
loyal servant. What just happened? He happened.
01:25:28.300 –> 01:25:32.359
Just my little way of saying goodbye. See you
01:25:32.359 –> 01:25:36.100
when I get back. Yeah, you better run. Wait!
01:25:36.739 –> 01:25:40.300
Come back here and get us down! Logan! Logan!
01:25:43.020 –> 01:25:46.640
What do you think you’re doing here, bub? Those
01:25:46.640 –> 01:25:48.920
things could have taken your empty head right
01:25:48.920 –> 01:25:52.279
off! I was just trying to get… Give me that
01:25:52.279 –> 01:26:00.659
thing. Hey, give it back! Let’s just say you
01:26:00.659 –> 01:26:03.960
got on my bad side. And what else you got on
01:26:03.960 –> 01:26:07.319
this machine? When are you geeks going to stop
01:26:07.319 –> 01:26:11.119
giving that lame friendship speech? I’d say when
01:26:11.119 –> 01:26:13.300
you stop pretending everything’s a magic trick.
01:26:14.899 –> 01:26:17.840
And you can’t deny this one. I mean, how do you
01:26:17.840 –> 01:26:20.000
explain the fact that there’s two Yugi standing
01:26:20.000 –> 01:26:24.140
here? All right. We have five shows left. They
01:26:24.140 –> 01:26:27.720
all just missed our countdown coming in and various.
01:26:28.359 –> 01:26:31.520
parts of the 100s so we start with the venture
01:26:31.520 –> 01:26:36.119
brothers from 2004 that was 167th on our original
01:26:36.119 –> 01:26:39.579
list then we go to 2007 for transformers animated
01:26:39.579 –> 01:26:44.260
which was 103rd on our original list wolverine
01:26:44.260 –> 01:26:47.539
and the x -men was 111th on our original list
01:26:47.539 –> 01:26:52.770
x -men evolution was 117th and yugioh From the
01:26:52.770 –> 01:26:56.750
year 2000 was 136. The Yu -Gi -Oh! Dual Monsters,
01:26:56.770 –> 01:26:59.170
I believe, is the full title of that. So we have
01:26:59.170 –> 01:27:01.729
the Venture Brothers, Transformers Animated,
01:27:01.770 –> 01:27:04.189
Wolverine and the X -Men, X -Men Evolution, Yu
01:27:04.189 –> 01:27:06.970
-Gi -Oh! Dual Monsters. Yu -Gi -Oh! for me, it’s
01:27:06.970 –> 01:27:10.930
similar to like Naruto and Pokemon and some of
01:27:10.930 –> 01:27:14.250
those other shows where I kind of just lump them
01:27:14.250 –> 01:27:16.609
all together, whether that was right or wrong
01:27:16.609 –> 01:27:19.149
in my younger days and didn’t want to watch any
01:27:19.149 –> 01:27:21.460
of them. So I can’t speak for that one. I’ve
01:27:21.460 –> 01:27:24.479
avoided it, whether it’s warranted or not. Venture
01:27:24.479 –> 01:27:28.039
Brothers was, again, one of those adult swim
01:27:28.039 –> 01:27:32.260
type shows that I just missed because I didn’t
01:27:32.260 –> 01:27:34.100
have the right channel, I think, at the time
01:27:34.100 –> 01:27:35.720
or something. So there was a lot of those like
01:27:35.720 –> 01:27:38.060
Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Venture Brothers and
01:27:38.060 –> 01:27:40.380
Sea Lab that I just didn’t watch in that time
01:27:40.380 –> 01:27:42.760
period. I was mainly just watching Family Guy.
01:27:43.600 –> 01:27:45.680
Uh, Wolverine and the X -Men and the X -Men evolution
01:27:45.680 –> 01:27:48.319
are obviously blind spots for me. So you’ll have
01:27:48.319 –> 01:27:49.720
to get, let me know if I need to watch either
01:27:49.720 –> 01:27:52.180
one of those. I’ve seen all of transformers animated
01:27:52.180 –> 01:27:54.359
and there’s no shot in hell that it gets a vote
01:27:54.359 –> 01:27:58.680
for me. Um, so Mike, what’s your thought on these
01:27:58.680 –> 01:28:04.779
set of five? I avoid. So some things with me,
01:28:04.840 –> 01:28:11.319
if it’s in my face or if it’s in my. range too
01:28:11.319 –> 01:28:15.659
much and i don’t check it out and people keep
01:28:15.659 –> 01:28:18.319
talking about it not necessarily directed at
01:28:18.319 –> 01:28:20.420
me but if i keep hearing about it i will avoid
01:28:20.420 –> 01:28:22.840
it and that’s what happened with venture brothers
01:28:22.840 –> 01:28:26.979
everybody was talking about this damn show so
01:28:26.979 –> 01:28:29.039
i have to give that the five episode treatment
01:28:29.039 –> 01:28:35.840
but uh yeah i did not even want to venture down
01:28:35.840 –> 01:28:38.340
that avenue at the time back when it debuted
01:28:38.340 –> 01:28:42.220
yeah exactly Transformers Animated is very awesome.
01:28:42.260 –> 01:28:44.579
It’s very cool. It’s a very different style at
01:28:44.579 –> 01:28:47.220
the time in 2007, but it’s worth giving it a
01:28:47.220 –> 01:28:51.239
shot. Wolverine and the X -Men is very serious.
01:28:52.680 –> 01:28:55.319
X -Men Evolution is very serious, too, but it’s
01:28:55.319 –> 01:28:58.279
not as serious as Wolverine and the X -Men, I
01:28:58.279 –> 01:29:02.060
don’t think. And Yu -Gi -Oh! I can see why you
01:29:02.060 –> 01:29:05.859
would lump it in, but it is also very much a
01:29:05.859 –> 01:29:09.939
standout, in my personal opinion, it is. And
01:29:09.939 –> 01:29:13.220
it is the only anime that to this day that I’ve
01:29:13.220 –> 01:29:15.560
gone back and watched multiple times over and
01:29:15.560 –> 01:29:20.319
over again. I had five seasons, I believe. And
01:29:20.319 –> 01:29:23.319
each season is kind of its own, even though they
01:29:23.319 –> 01:29:27.199
tie it all together. But it is its own story.
01:29:27.300 –> 01:29:31.380
They’ve done a couple of movies with it. And
01:29:31.380 –> 01:29:35.380
every time I see Dan Green, who voices Yugi slash
01:29:35.380 –> 01:29:43.119
Yami. uh and and uh eric oh eric stewart who
01:29:43.119 –> 01:29:45.500
voices kaiba every time i see them on social
01:29:45.500 –> 01:29:48.920
media or every time i see them out you know on
01:29:48.920 –> 01:29:51.319
youtube at conventions they’re always so nice
01:29:51.319 –> 01:29:54.720
and so awesome and whatever else so yeah yugioh
01:29:54.720 –> 01:29:57.960
is dual monsters is is very very hilarious and
01:29:57.960 –> 01:30:02.239
fun and it’s worth worth anyone’s time what’s
01:30:02.239 –> 01:30:06.949
your take on these final five so Funny enough,
01:30:07.109 –> 01:30:11.569
I watched two of these today. Venture Brothers
01:30:11.569 –> 01:30:13.210
and Yu -Gi -Oh!, but I’ll get to that in a minute.
01:30:13.750 –> 01:30:17.310
Venture Brothers, I had seen it way back when
01:30:17.310 –> 01:30:20.250
it came out in 2003, and I think I’d seen it
01:30:20.250 –> 01:30:25.229
not during the 2003 run, but around 2005, 2006.
01:30:26.130 –> 01:30:29.069
And honestly, it’s kind of funny. It went from
01:30:29.069 –> 01:30:33.550
2003 to 2018, probably with very small episode
01:30:33.550 –> 01:30:38.500
runs per season. or very late releases. I don’t
01:30:38.500 –> 01:30:41.800
know. But anyways, I’ve, I’ve watched this. I
01:30:41.800 –> 01:30:46.359
find it. I mean, the animation is not bad. There’s
01:30:46.359 –> 01:30:48.659
some interesting choices with some of the voice
01:30:48.659 –> 01:30:50.939
acting. And then on top of it, I find it kind
01:30:50.939 –> 01:30:56.340
of stupid. So it didn’t really tick the box for
01:30:56.340 –> 01:31:00.300
me there. Transformers animated. I liked, and
01:31:00.300 –> 01:31:02.220
then I didn’t like, so there was, I was always
01:31:02.220 –> 01:31:04.819
on the fence with it. I liked some of the animation.
01:31:04.979 –> 01:31:08.220
I liked a lot of the voice acting. Some of the
01:31:08.220 –> 01:31:12.159
story was annoying. But again, it just depended
01:31:12.159 –> 01:31:15.640
on what part of the story you were in. So that
01:31:15.640 –> 01:31:18.279
one will probably end up on my list. Wolverine
01:31:18.279 –> 01:31:23.920
and the X -Men is another show that I skimmed
01:31:23.920 –> 01:31:25.399
some of it, but I haven’t had a chance to fully
01:31:25.399 –> 01:31:29.819
dive in. I know it’s kind of a shorter run than
01:31:29.819 –> 01:31:32.060
any of the other ones here. Plus, it’s a shorter
01:31:32.060 –> 01:31:36.170
run of the… x -men series but it it kind of
01:31:36.170 –> 01:31:41.529
gives it that late 90s early 2000s aesthetic
01:31:41.529 –> 01:31:44.689
that was kind of going around during that time
01:31:44.689 –> 01:31:48.369
like the more colorful and simplistic colors
01:31:48.369 –> 01:31:52.189
but yet it was still animated kind of pre pre
01:31:52.189 –> 01:31:55.850
-cg so it kind of if it’s more clean than the
01:31:55.850 –> 01:31:59.489
animated series of x -men from the 90s So it
01:31:59.489 –> 01:32:01.189
kind of fits between that and like a Justice
01:32:01.189 –> 01:32:05.430
League type of aesthetic. Yep. So that that one
01:32:05.430 –> 01:32:10.090
I am optimistic about from what I’ve seen. X
01:32:10.090 –> 01:32:14.149
-Men Evolution. Honestly, it just I didn’t really.
01:32:15.949 –> 01:32:17.890
Care for some of the choices that were going
01:32:17.890 –> 01:32:20.489
into it, and I know that this one lasted longer,
01:32:20.630 –> 01:32:25.729
but it doesn’t. I don’t know. I was kind of out
01:32:25.729 –> 01:32:30.300
of animation at that. point in time to like it
01:32:30.300 –> 01:32:32.479
was it was when i was going still in high school
01:32:32.479 –> 01:32:35.380
but i was working and so i i don’t care for this
01:32:35.380 –> 01:32:38.239
one in particular yugioh i watched some episodes
01:32:38.239 –> 01:32:40.579
of it earlier i’m intrigued enough that i’m like
01:32:40.579 –> 01:32:46.699
i could see watching more of this and so i i
01:32:46.699 –> 01:32:50.609
could see the appeal yeah All right, so that
01:32:50.609 –> 01:32:54.289
is our list of 50 nominees that people are going
01:32:54.289 –> 01:32:57.170
to have the potential to vote for within the
01:32:57.170 –> 01:33:00.170
2000s. It’ll be lumped in together with the 50
01:33:00.170 –> 01:33:02.930
nominees from each other time period, and that’ll
01:33:02.930 –> 01:33:06.850
be our balloting list for everybody. Mike, do
01:33:06.850 –> 01:33:10.729
we need to pay any bills? No. Okay. Would you
01:33:10.729 –> 01:33:15.409
like me to get all AI on you? No, not really.
01:33:16.369 –> 01:33:19.859
Anyway, what’s the AI say? Oh, you do want me
01:33:19.859 –> 01:33:21.920
to talk about it? Okay. So my question to you
01:33:21.920 –> 01:33:25.279
guys is, originally we had only 12 of these show
01:33:25.279 –> 01:33:28.140
up on our top 100. Obviously, a bunch of them
01:33:28.140 –> 01:33:31.619
just missed or missed by quite a bit since 41
01:33:31.619 –> 01:33:34.020
of them got voted on. Only 12 made it, though.
01:33:34.220 –> 01:33:36.899
This time around, Steve, does that number go
01:33:36.899 –> 01:33:43.680
up, stay the same, or go down? I could see you
01:33:43.680 –> 01:33:46.659
said 12 the first time around? 12 the first time
01:33:46.659 –> 01:33:50.180
around. If every time period is equal, if every
01:33:50.180 –> 01:33:52.819
time period just had the same amount, it would
01:33:52.819 –> 01:33:55.180
be 20 for each time period. But we know that
01:33:55.180 –> 01:33:57.140
some are going to be higher. I could definitely
01:33:57.140 –> 01:33:59.800
see this being closer to 20 this go -around,
01:33:59.899 –> 01:34:03.779
if not just over. Mike, what do you think? 21.
01:34:04.520 –> 01:34:08.760
All right. AI says that it is going to be somewhere
01:34:08.760 –> 01:34:13.250
between 20 and 22. this list. So that’s where
01:34:13.250 –> 01:34:15.729
it’s going. But then it also gives me 20 that
01:34:15.729 –> 01:34:17.489
it says are highly likely. And then it gives
01:34:17.489 –> 01:34:20.489
me 10 more that are like maybes. And then it
01:34:20.489 –> 01:34:24.409
gives the rest as unlikely. So, uh, or the highly
01:34:24.409 –> 01:34:26.090
likely I’ll go through these rather quickly,
01:34:26.210 –> 01:34:28.630
but it says avatar universally praised, often
01:34:28.630 –> 01:34:31.670
ranked in top 10 lists, Archer, critically acclaimed,
01:34:31.670 –> 01:34:34.630
long running adult animation, success, Aqua teen
01:34:34.630 –> 01:34:36.789
hunger force, cult classic, and a key part of
01:34:36.789 –> 01:34:39.210
adult swim history. Death note. One of the most
01:34:39.210 –> 01:34:42.319
iconic anime of all time. Full metal alchemist,
01:34:42.380 –> 01:34:45.060
masterpiece status in anime, often top 10 globally.
01:34:45.819 –> 01:34:48.619
Inuyasha calls it a major gateway anime for many
01:34:48.619 –> 01:34:51.960
in the West. Both of the Justice Leagues just
01:34:51.960 –> 01:34:54.840
says it’s a cornerstone of the DCAU. Samurai
01:34:54.840 –> 01:34:57.720
Jack, stylish, unique, and widely praised. The
01:34:57.720 –> 01:34:59.899
Clone Wars, critically re -evaluated, now seen
01:34:59.899 –> 01:35:02.899
as essential Star Wars. Teen Titans, popular,
01:35:03.039 –> 01:35:05.840
stylish, and foundational for a generation. The
01:35:05.840 –> 01:35:08.039
Boondocks, politically sharp, culturally relevant,
01:35:08.199 –> 01:35:10.649
and artistically bold. The Venture Brothers,
01:35:10.850 –> 01:35:12.689
cult favorite, brilliant writing, longstanding
01:35:12.689 –> 01:35:15.529
adult swim show. X -Men Evolution, praise for
01:35:15.529 –> 01:35:17.369
strong character arcs and storytelling. Robot
01:35:17.369 –> 01:35:19.890
Chicken, pioneering stop motion, sketch comedy,
01:35:20.029 –> 01:35:22.770
and a long adult swim legacy. Phineas and Ferb,
01:35:22.829 –> 01:35:24.750
creative, consistent, and beloved across age
01:35:24.750 –> 01:35:27.130
groups. Spectacular Spider -Man, short -lived
01:35:27.130 –> 01:35:29.750
but critically acclaimed. Naruto, huge global
01:35:29.750 –> 01:35:32.510
franchise, iconic. Invader Zim, cult classic
01:35:32.510 –> 01:35:35.270
with a loyal following and unique style. Batman
01:35:35.270 –> 01:35:37.649
the Brave and the Bold, nostalgic, well -crafted,
01:35:37.670 –> 01:35:40.359
increasingly respected. and the Fairly OddParents
01:35:40.359 –> 01:35:42.760
long -running Nickelodeon staple. So that’s what
01:35:42.760 –> 01:35:46.079
AI thinks has the best chance. Obviously, we’ve
01:35:46.079 –> 01:35:48.539
shared our opinions on which ones we think are
01:35:48.539 –> 01:35:51.600
most likely are not going to be on our radar.
01:35:51.659 –> 01:35:53.819
Mike, what do you make of just this group of
01:35:53.819 –> 01:35:56.079
2 ,000 shows in general? I think it’s a good
01:35:56.079 –> 01:35:58.520
group. I think it’s going to be interesting to
01:35:58.520 –> 01:36:01.279
see what people put on their lists from this
01:36:01.279 –> 01:36:06.319
group. And like I’ve said in every other nominees
01:36:06.319 –> 01:36:10.970
episodes, that we’ve done to this point that
01:36:10.970 –> 01:36:17.010
my list is going to be severely different from
01:36:17.010 –> 01:36:20.949
the original list that I put out 15 years ago.
01:36:21.029 –> 01:36:23.869
Yeah. This represents a time for me that I really
01:36:23.869 –> 01:36:28.329
wasn’t watching too much animation. So it’s probably
01:36:28.329 –> 01:36:31.430
the spot that has the most blind shows for me.
01:36:31.489 –> 01:36:35.880
I do have obviously strong opinions or. Personal
01:36:35.880 –> 01:36:38.380
bias, I guess, towards some of the remakes or
01:36:38.380 –> 01:36:40.199
the reboots with He -Man and the Masters of the
01:36:40.199 –> 01:36:41.939
Universe with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
01:36:41.939 –> 01:36:44.880
from 2003. I think those are definitely worthy.
01:36:45.779 –> 01:36:49.220
I liked Archer back in that time period. I like
01:36:49.220 –> 01:36:50.979
the Clone Wars. I think that’s a strong one.
01:36:51.260 –> 01:36:53.039
But I think it’s an interesting mix. We have,
01:36:53.100 –> 01:36:54.600
like Steve was pointing out, there’s a whole
01:36:54.600 –> 01:36:57.960
bunch of Nickelodeon, a smattering of some Cartoon
01:36:57.960 –> 01:37:00.479
Network, and then we got a bunch of adult, swim
01:37:00.479 –> 01:37:04.729
-style -esque. shows for you know the more mature
01:37:04.729 –> 01:37:08.109
audience and then a handful or a healthy group
01:37:08.109 –> 01:37:11.350
of animes as well steve what do you make of this
01:37:11.350 –> 01:37:16.050
like when we look back at our top 100 that we
01:37:16.050 –> 01:37:20.649
do in this next year like and we look specifically
01:37:20.649 –> 01:37:22.869
at the shows that make the list from the 2000s
01:37:22.869 –> 01:37:25.909
what do you think it’ll be like what will it
01:37:25.909 –> 01:37:28.350
represent i think it’ll represent people that
01:37:28.350 –> 01:37:33.000
grew up during this time especially with, or
01:37:33.000 –> 01:37:36.779
even people that have just finally noticed some
01:37:36.779 –> 01:37:38.659
of the shows that are in there. I think that
01:37:38.659 –> 01:37:42.319
this, this particular block will be telling,
01:37:42.380 –> 01:37:45.119
and I think it’ll be a little bit stronger than
01:37:45.119 –> 01:37:50.619
say pre 1980s. I think this one will, whatever
01:37:50.619 –> 01:37:54.539
overabundance we had in the pre 1980s and the,
01:37:54.560 –> 01:37:56.420
you know, the first we’ll go around. I think
01:37:56.420 –> 01:37:58.800
that this one’s going to take even more away
01:37:58.800 –> 01:38:01.760
from it. Yeah, and I think I think it even has
01:38:01.760 –> 01:38:03.979
that opportunity to take some of the 1980s with
01:38:03.979 –> 01:38:07.140
it, too, just because this was kind of the new
01:38:07.140 –> 01:38:11.800
era of it was kind of a weird time to in animation.
01:38:11.859 –> 01:38:16.060
We had a mixture of a lot of different animation
01:38:16.060 –> 01:38:19.600
styles. There was there was some CG. There was
01:38:19.600 –> 01:38:23.000
there was some simpler versions of the 90s stuff.
01:38:23.060 –> 01:38:25.640
There was. some stuff that was trying something
01:38:25.640 –> 01:38:28.680
new with animation you got the cal art style
01:38:28.680 –> 01:38:35.000
you got uh more just a lot more variety going
01:38:35.000 –> 01:38:40.239
on in styles of animation and some and again
01:38:40.239 –> 01:38:42.420
like we’ve noticed like there are certain things
01:38:42.420 –> 01:38:44.420
that resonate with some of us more than others
01:38:44.420 –> 01:38:46.979
like if we grew up with a certain style or you
01:38:46.979 –> 01:38:49.960
know a particular design aesthetic it’s going
01:38:49.960 –> 01:38:53.180
to stick more than some of the more uh obscure
01:38:53.180 –> 01:38:57.520
or different styles which some of the ones that
01:38:57.520 –> 01:39:01.020
are here that i was not a fan of the animation
01:39:01.020 –> 01:39:04.640
style there’s going to be even more in the next
01:39:04.640 –> 01:39:08.279
block right and there’s going to be a big chunk
01:39:08.279 –> 01:39:10.640
that i just don’t give a rip there’s going to
01:39:10.640 –> 01:39:15.039
be a lot of cgi though yeah I’ll be interested
01:39:15.039 –> 01:39:18.000
to see if everybody listening wants to get in
01:39:18.000 –> 01:39:20.399
some early commentary on this. You can let us
01:39:20.399 –> 01:39:22.460
know what your thoughts are on some of these
01:39:22.460 –> 01:39:24.399
nominees too. And I’d definitely be interested
01:39:24.399 –> 01:39:27.800
to hear where everybody else lands on this particular
01:39:27.800 –> 01:39:29.720
decade and how it’s going to turn out. Is it
01:39:29.720 –> 01:39:31.699
going to go from 12 to 22 and we’re going to
01:39:31.699 –> 01:39:34.020
get 10 additional shows that we didn’t have the
01:39:34.020 –> 01:39:37.520
first time around? I think this section is specifically
01:39:37.520 –> 01:39:42.039
going to have the most movement as far as numbers
01:39:42.039 –> 01:39:46.380
wise. either a lot jumping up or some maybe fading
01:39:46.380 –> 01:39:49.760
away still um but i think a lot have the potential
01:39:49.760 –> 01:39:52.640
to gain ground that we’re coming out real close
01:39:52.640 –> 01:39:54.539
to the time that we did this the first time around
01:39:54.539 –> 01:39:59.840
yep and my only hope for next time is that the
01:39:59.840 –> 01:40:06.479
7d gets in here because the 7d deserves it those
01:40:06.479 –> 01:40:10.520
dwarves have been through a lot y ‘all they have
01:40:10.520 –> 01:40:14.140
not denying it All right, Toonsters, as always,
01:40:14.239 –> 01:40:16.720
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Hey guys,
Thanks for making this. I’ve been following these top 100 nominees roll-outs and been exciting for the votes. However, the shortlist for this 2000s era is underwhelming in my view. As a person who grew up during this period, I feel that the decade is much richer than what represented here.
There are a few issues with this list as following:
1) More than any other decades, you include too many children shows (Dora the Explorer, Peppa Pigs, The Backyardigans, Dinosaur Train, Clifford the Red Dog, Curious George). While I would welcome kids-friendly shows in the shortlist, the panel didn’t make a good case why they appear on the list (“this is a kid show, I’m not the main audience”) and some of them received no votes from previous countdown. Justice League and Justice League: Unlimited should combine into one.
2) The anime shows in this list are not the best presentation of 2000s anime. For instance, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (2009) should be the one over the 2003 version. It’s the version where it follows faithfully to the manga and received widespread reception. I would argue you can separate the 2003 and 2009 as two entities but if you have to choose one, it’s the Brotherhood version. Likewise, Inuyasha and Yugioh (Mike will disagree with me here) are not the best ones for “anime blocks. Other shows like Gurren Lagaan (2007) or Monster (2004) and Baccano (2007 – people assess that if Tarantino directed an anime, that would result like this one) are much more popular and critically acclaimed, just to name a few.
Here’s the list that I feel strongly is top-100 contenders (limit to 5):
1) Clone High (2002): it has since received critical acclaim and a cult following despite its short run.
2) Metalcalypse (2006): as a whole I feel Adult Swim is under-represented in this list. Like them or not, they were influential in the 2000s. Also fit under this are: Sealab 2021 (2000), Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (2001), Frisky Dingo (2006). The first and the last are from Adam Reed before he made it big with Archer
3) Shaun the Sheep (2007): If there is one children show this decade that deserves to be in the top100, it’s this one. Both children and adults can enjoy.
4) Totally Spies (2001): this was popular back in the day. You can also consider other French-productions such as Wakfu (2008) or Code Lyoko (2003).
5) Red vs Blue (2003): I feel this one is a great example for a web series that managed to cross over. Web series become a big thing as well as the end of the decade.
Here’s some anime recommendation for this list (lesser known but critically-acclaimed – limit to 5)
1) Mushishi (2005)
2) Nana (2006)
3) Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (2007)
4) Planetes (2003)
5) Paranoia Agent (2004): the great Satoshi Kon’s only series
Some others recommendation that could sit in this 50 list (limit to 5)
1) Moral Orel (2005): a very daring and twisted stop-motion show, again from Adult Swim
2) The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008)
3) Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004) & The Life and Times of Tim (2008): same creators
4) Total Drama (2007)
5) Chowder (2007)
This, again, just a list of shows that I feel need more attention, and too bad we couldn’t vote for any of these in the final countdown. You guys have a solid pre-80s, 80s, and 90s shortlists, so I just feel a bit let down to have the 2000s list not as strong or vibrant as these ones. Maybe like Mike mentioned you guys could sample its first 5 episodes to see if any of these ones could be great alternatives instead?
Still cheers to you guys for all the efforts you’ve been putting!! Bravo!!
Hi SuperMario,
I can understand your stance on the kids programs, but honestly those still have staying power. We also left shows off that didn’t have longevity. I’d argue half the kid shows are still good. But the JL/JLU I can see being one, but they are technically different much like your argument of Full Metal Alchemist. But we didn’t list Dragon Ball Z Kai for the same reason that it was Dragon Ball Z truncated but essentially the same show. So while I can see your point, I disagree with it.
Regarding Inuyasha and Yugioh, I remember those on cable and Toonami. I had to look up Gurren Lagaan, Monster, and Baccano to even know what they were not having heard of these as anime.
I remember Metalocalypse, Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Totally Spies and Code Lyoko, but those were examined by multiple people even outside of the three of us for a gut check and they didn’t make it.
Regarding Red vs Blue, we are not covering web series so that’s why it wasn’t covered. We did not cover Roosterteeth or Machinima related series despite it’s acclaim because it wasn’t on mainstream cable/streaming platforms.
Regarding your recommendations, never heard of any of those outside of Total Drama and Chowder.
That being said, there will be a form and opportunities for listeners to contribute their own 15 recommended shows to be ADDED to the Top 100 countdown as listener choice that we can then vote on across the generations. So a total of 15 where the ones with the most votes or write-ins get entered into our Top 100 Countdown for voting.
So while I’d love to tackle watching some of these, I have a long list still to get to on the existing list. Whatever ones make it past the fan vote, I’ll check those if I haven’t seen it yet and give it a fair shake for the next Top 100 which we’re recording in March 2026.
Thanks for the kind words and constructive criticisms.
Thanks Steve for your response.
Will certainly contribute to the Fan-vote list once I go through your 2010s nominees podcast. Just a note that the Fan Vote link in the webpage is invalid.
I’d recommend you all to check out the “The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows” by David Perlmutter (if you haven’t already). Like the title suggests, they list all the series that air in the USA from the early days up to 2017. There is a comment section on each entry where they give brief reviews / their own takes. I found them very useful and informative and it would be a great source for you guys for second opinions / some references of what the consensus are.
Like all reviews, the book has certain bias, sometimes similar to you guys (their love for superheroes and dissent for Adult Swim), and some totally different (they regard the 80s as the worst era for American animated series. In any case, it’s worth checking out as a reference for this project.
Thanks again for the suggestion and comments! I’m gonna seek out that book now because it’d be nice to have that as an option to look back on some of these shows, over digging online.
I’ll admit, we all have that bias, and I get it. I’m heavy towards the 80s, 90s, and the random associated shows or Anime within a certain animation/tonal style. I can see the opinion of the 80s being bad, but it did give us future content and revivals of those shows in a more gritty light.
Appreciate the feedbac,k and looking forward to your comments on the 2010 episode!