What are the most deepcut or obscure adult animated series? (lemmy.world)

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Quads!
Heil Honey, I'm Home (cartoon)
Drawn Together
the oblongs
the pjs
slacker cats
moral orel
Clerks the animated series
undergrads
12 oz mouse
space ghost
squidbillies
ripping friends
mega babies
cyber6
dr katz
my dad the rockstar
clone high
grimm and evil/grim adventures of billy and mandy
duck dodgers
duckman
lil bush
the boondocks
mike tyson mysteries
fired on mars
china, il
yvon of the yukon
monkey dust
ugly americans
code monkeys
tom goes to the mayor
The life and times of tim
Æonflux
fritz the cat
the critic
superjail
lower deck

If i havent heard of it or I HAVE, its prolly deepcut

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[-] ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I wasn't into Megas XLR but it was part of cartoon Fridays when I was in school and probably belongs in this list.

You can't list Oblongs, Undergrads, and Clone High without mentioning Mission Hill.

Chilly Beach is probably a deep cut for non-Canadians. I most often saw it described as Canadian South Park.

I'm not sure if it counts as obscure but Invader Zim also aired around this time.

Going back a bit further, there was Duckula, where the latest in a line of vampiric ducks was resurrected using ketchup instead of blood and became a vegetable vampire.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was made into a cartoon of questionable suitability for children.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

+1 for Mission Hill. Bling Blong.

Adding a few more of questionable obscurity, idk if these are well known or not, since many of the ones OP posted I thought were well known. So that'll have to be judged independently but at least these all are good and sorta fit.

Assy McGee

Celebrity Deathmatch (claymation, I count it.)

Harvey Birdman

Home Movies

Sealab 2021

Stripperella

Xavier Renegade Angel

Also if it doesn't have to be "adult" (Billy and Mandy on OG list) then add:

KaBlam!

Freakazoid!

[-] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Would you like to see something strange and mystical?

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[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

My journey into queer media started with Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World. If you've never seen it, I'm not sure what to tell you but you should.

Also just looked it up and Alan Cumming and Margaret Cho did voices in it? I gotta rewatch that shit.

Also shout out to Yvon of the Yukon cause ytv was just why (the fuck) tv actually.

[-] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Danger Mouse, international spy and crime fighting white rodent with an eye patch. Old British cartoon from the early 80's.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

pulls out a list of Adult Swim cartoons

slaps them on the table

I also went to college in the '00s.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

HEEEEEYYY Mister Passer-By! Crest-on-Birdman's-HELMET!

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Didja... Didja get that thing I sent ya??

[-] tehWrapper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Undergrads

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Disenchantment

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nah too mainstream, its a netlix orijj for petes sake

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

If Netflix shows are too well-known then surely nothing on Adult Swim counts either.

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[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

The Simpsons

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[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Actual deepcut: cybersix.

Edit: although edited from the comics to be much more child friendly. Forgot the original prompt.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned The Critic yet. It was a good show that was screwed over by two networks. Another one is Dilbert, which was based on the comic strip. I think Scott Adams was less involved with it than the strip which made it better (plus he wasn't as insane back then).

[-] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It stinks!

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Buy my book!

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Æonflux

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

If that’s on the list add The Maxx

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Is this obscure? I thought it well known?

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's generational. Definitely more obscure than Drawn Together, The Oblongs, or Billy and Mandy

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Woah, I've not seen any of those! Yes I am old. I liked the animated Aeon Flux a lot, and there was a pretty bad live adaptation, so I thought it was famous.

[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

The Life & Times of Tim

[-] MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Fritz the cat! Also non animated but muppet-like Meet the Feebles.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I miss oblongs. Sucks it only lasted like 2 season.

Mission hill was good too, Daria style

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've at least heard of 13 out of the 27 listed. Only seriously watched like 3 of them though.

[-] N00b22@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon and 3-South

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Perfect hair forever! "Hamburgers should be high"

[-] Ideonek@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

People Watching

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