passing minnow · 1mo

[archived ask] this is random but what are your favorite cartoon network shows

[answered on 4/25/2022]

Going to list both CN originals and things broadcasted on it like, notably. So!

Absolute favorites of all time:

  • Adventure Time - Good show. A classic. I've rewatched AT eps countless times, me and Avvy can more or less recite dialogue and events of them back and forth to each other by heart. We have encyclopedic knowledge of event in AT. Finn and Marceline remain a pristine OTP I have had since 2011. Really, I've adored the show since 2011. Seasons 1-4 are pristine, live forever in my heart. It gets a little more complicated after that but I still care about the series as a whole. There's still such a distinct quiet, contemplative flavors to AT as a show... It feels like a show with many drawn out silences. A lot of atmosphere. I treasure it.

  • Steven Universe - What can I say. I do literally think SU is one of the most tasteful, thoughtfully made TV shows that has ever aired. I don't think there's anything like it. Visually, thematically, and musically one of my favorite pieces of media ever. Idk if anything could dethrone it, so far nothing has come close. Steven/Lapis OTP forevah. Being Steven kin literally taught me so much about myself. And, so on. (As an aside I would note that I don't like SU:F collectively as much as the original series, but I liked it too. It has value, obv.) I feel like nothing can 'ruin' SU for me... I have so many perfect memories of being excited and anticipating the release of episodes, creating predictions/analysis, on the edge of my seat for things... OH something SU has really uniquely is, that I could never guess where it was going to go next. That was huge. I love when a show can really surprise me...? It doesn't always happen!

  • Over the Garden Wall - While not quite on the same level of the other two, I think OTGW deserves an honorable mention as something I imbibed when it came out and liked a lot. For a while, it was a ritual comfort to watch OTGW whenever autumn rolled around, it's a very suitable 'seasonal' sort of interest. To taste. I like it's contained story, visuals, and soundtrack a lot. The vibes. A little atmospheric romp. The world of the Unknown is really intriguing, good for imagining vignettes of horror occurring... I like Wirt I like Beatrice, I like, their relationship..... :)

Things I watched as a kid/teen and enjoyed:

  • The Powerpuff Girls - This show was really like. young bird loves this show and sings the theme song. However I mostly watched it, in spanish, while living in Colombia-! I don't have the clearest memories of it either, since it was so long ago. Mmm but I definitely loved aspects of the designs, namely the HUGE EYES on the girls and their funny nub hands and feet. The girly flourishes here and there. Bubbles was my favorite, natch, though I liked some aspects of Blossom too, second fav. I do not see Buttercup. All that being said the most powerful things in the show are the power pups and the squirrel they find and take care of. Big eyed female animals. Yes. Inspiring, perfection. No ships and nothing more to say about it all, but there's nostalgia and sentimentality to it overall. My life as a doe-eyed little kid simply enjoying PPG.

  • Ed, Edd n Eddy - Loved it, very entertaining, weirdly engaging? I was so often 'too good' for shows of 'this caliber', like er, silly... gross-out humor show? And yet, I do feel like EEnE has more going on than ppl might assume. I can't quite go on about it as much as Avvy could (as she actually diligently watched & fandomed for this) but it's of note. Distinct scenes, quotes, episodes live in my head. My fav was Double D... I'm basic :p

  • Courage the Cowardly Dog - OH did I love Courage. So very much as a little kid. Apparently I would babble at my parents to put on 'stupid dog', which, my mom hated. skdjdg. But seriously, major sentimentality over it, still. It's just such a bizarre and unique show. Stimulating soundscape... concepts... The humor and horror and visuals have stuck with me all my life, I would say. Courage is just so lovable. In certain moods, I will actively rewatch certain eps of it.

  • The Grim Adventures of Bill and Mandy - Lol at the time this aired it was just perfectly compatible to my humor somehow. Despite the crudeness of it all. I watched a decent amount of the series + the specials. I like...... Nergal Jr still ig. he's... the closest I am to 'stanning' something...? In this show? but, overall it's not really a show I actually have much to say about kdhchd... its not very inspiring haha. Some things, are just funny.

  • Code Lyoko - *a little shy* ... I was very obsessed with Code Lyoko when it was airing... lots of memories of very seriously keeping up with the show and sitting in front of the TV patiently waiting for it to air. I made a pokemon AU where all the characters had pokemon partners, and then, a second AU where they were pokemon. I also think that, I was so young when watching it, that it was very new & novel & entrancing for a story to be long-form with serious continuity? The CG computer world genuinely feeling 'cool', 'interesting'... And the villain being nonhuman, a malevolent AI with its own desires & agenda... and. I mean. The constant child torture. Like the high stakes of children being electrocuted, trapped in elevators, in a bus about to crash into a generator. Trapped in a closet and slowly being gassed until they pass out, and so on. Anyways Aelita best girl <3

  • Teen Titans - I? sorta remember, avidly watching this and feeling feely-wheelies about Starfire, Raven, and Terra. And I liked Beast Boy's powers (animal tf always cool) ... but it's all a blur now tbh, I only recall a random handful of rando eps. I think I was just kind of entranced by something that had a longform narrative and some severity to it. But superheroes are generally not my thing, truth be told. I'm not enticed by anything in TT as an adult, even just aesthetically. I'm sure the series itself is Just Fine like... writing wise.

  • The Looney Tunes Show (2011) - A bit of a weird one but i liked it, when it came out. Let's say this is my favorite iteration of Looney Tunes lol. A lot of characters feel at their most charming, like, personality & dynamics wise. I like that they revamped Lola and made her a bimbo girl who stalks Bugs. This is actually her most powerful form. I find her voice also like really entrancingly smooth and pretty? Her singing voice genuinely stunned me when I first heard it. I was so like. Wow. I stan. I like all Lola scenes. *me, a simple hog in his trough, enjoying a dumb rich girl*

Shows I watched partially, but don't really care about except for 1 or 2 things:

  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - this is one of those shows that's like... "close, but not quite". When it came out I was just like so tantalized by the concept of imaginary friends, like, the IDEA... of this world... but. I think the execution is lacking and. The chemistry between the main cast suuuucks. Bloo is just. SO. annoying and horrible ksfdjgh... iirc he was more tempered in the pilot/early series but it's a case of a character progressively becoming a stupid self-obsessed jerk, to create conflict and comedy. And it sucks. You're really watching this like god... this... BALL & CHAIN... that is Bloo. The fact that Mac is here out of a sense of sheer OBLIGATION.. is unfun omggg it's not like the power of friendship as much as, like, you feel responsible for this being. Like if only Bloo wasn't there to torment the nice characters like Eduardo and Wilt. Anyways the style is like also almost something but not quite? No design really 'hits'... The most valuable thing from Foster's is it's 1hr special Destination Imagination that features a yandere OP imaginary friend: World aka Me. I like that he exists. That is all I need. Thank you.

  • Chowder - You think Chowder is a fine show and a good time, just silly fun. But then you rewatch it and you re-process that it is INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY. MISOGYNISTIC. and constantly making bad jokes about miserable married couples and nagging wives and evil moms and. You're not having as much fun, anymore. The world becomes a little less special of a place. But... Chowder, himself, is still, a really charming delightful little guy. For whatever reason, Chowder himself is my government assigned kin. I just have to accept this. Me and Avvy have rewatched it in its entirety together, and just have been like "sigh" about him. The boy. what can you do when you love a boy. I actually think Panini and Gorgonzola are fun too, honestly, I wish the show was just the kid characters. Would be most fun this way.

  • Robotboy - omg I totally. remember watching this & liking it & thinking Robotboy was cute BUT I CANNOT. tell you a single salient detail about it, the memories I have are SO VAGUE. but tbh that's probably all there was to my interest skfdg... i dont think any of the humans were anything to me.

  • Xiaolin Showdown - the. i mean again i remember watching this and liking some parts of it. vaguely. like. jack spicer. or something. but it's a haze.

  • Krypto the Superdog - Lol i mean. It was perfectly fine and serviceable at the time. like oh sure yes. dog superhero. that's better than regular superhero. a fine time. Normal. neutral. no strong memories though.

  • Camp Lazlo - It was fine. it was funny. watched it and it was just OK. no distinct memories

  • The Amazing World of Gumball - a fine show at first. I thought it was cute and funny and liked Gumball and Darwin in the first few seasons, they have a cute dynamic, just two dumb best friends. But things eventually kind of got... unfun as Gumball became more of an inconsiderate jerk-type of idiot? (This is similar to my problem with Bloo...) And idk I dropped off before things got all. Memes. and like references to internet culture. Which I'm really allergic to honestly kdfjghf... a shame because I do think the aesthetic of TAWOG is like interesting, it's nice to watch. But I don't have any ships or waifus I love to stick around much, meaningfully, so... RIP.

  • We Bare Bears - oh in THEORY... i would like such an innocuous concept. but in the end, the show is mostly boring and a lot of characters bother and annoy me. i don't actually like bears very much aesthetically... one of the lowest ranking animals; 'm not crazy about them. Mmm and. The bears are boring guys. I wish Grizz was more of a lovable goof to me but he's annoying... Panda gives me some sort of major cringe due to being a whiny incel sort-of otaku omfg? Cringe as in, well I'm a. Fat. Otaku and loser-incel-ness is so in my DNA, I suppose I am easily wounded. by jokes like this. Ice bear is, fine, but man this is just not the kind of whimsy I'd like out of a show starring 3 animals. I wish they were more critter-like. Anyways i LIKE Chloe, a LOT... I FEEL my brain struggling with the fact that... it likes the porno set-up of an 8 yo girl who is overly sure of herself, hanging out with 3 large male animals in a cave. And then also being unsupervised and hanging out with college-age students because she's a prodigy. MY SIMPLE, HINDBRAIN wants it to be utter hubris for Chloe to be trusted so much freedom and free-range by her parents bc she is smart. Everyone should learn a lesson about this. These are such uncontrollable thoughts i have. but yeah. She's the only thing of value to me, wrt WBB.

And... that's... I think everything!

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