Geek Cast Radio Network's Top 100 Animated Series Countdown

Not that I am defending 4Kids (I'm not a fan) but if you think there are no 4Kids fans, you should take a look on the various threads in the Anime forum. There's certainly people defending their actions.
 
Defending 4Kids on rabroad? I see little evidence of this.

People aren't really blowing up over the dumb stuff 4Kids does anymore. Those days are long since passed on TZ but you wont find many people defending 4Kids actions. Maybe a few but the rest of the posters all think those defenders are off their rockers.

4Kids was sort of a necessary evil for a time but it's not as if they were the only company to ever succeed in marketing anime to American children. In the long run they only had two big success stories with Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! and they lost Pokemon a while ago and now they might be losing Yu-Gi-Oh! I'm not wishing for anyone to lose their job over at 4Kids but they have mostly outlived any worth they had as a company as they are now. They need to restructure and focus on being a merchandising company because that's really all they're good at.
 
Myself personally would love to have you gusy here involved for a future version of this list and or even some of the shows. I think once most of us over at GCRN, as I know Kevin and I are up for at least giving the anime' a chance would include those and revise for next year. I admit I am for the most part ignorant on Anime' however that is why we rated some lower. But I still think that no anime should be in the #1-4 spots as there are some better or longer lasting shows. Transformers should be above 20 IMO and Beast Wars in the Top 20 at least. But this was an experiment and we are open to changes for the next version.
 
I'm always up for talking about cartoons. Always.

I'd be hard pressed to say any Japanese cartoon is top 10 worthy unless the list is soley based on quality of the execution. But even I'd be hard pressed to give a Japanese cartoon a slot in the top 10 certainly not in the top 5 but there are some who would argue otherwise.
 
Has the full list of 100 been posted yet?

On BeBop: Influence is important, but popularity also doesn't make greatness. I think there's a case for BeBop on a top ten list and a very easy one for its presence on a list of 25. It's arguably the gold standard for animation for adults outside of comedy. It's well written, it had style, its excellence was absolutely consistent (not a thing to be taken for granted, lord knows!), and it's a more accessible program than Aeon Flux or any adult-oriented, non-comedy cartoon that I can easily think of. There isn't much to compare against BeBop; it follows in no particular cartoon's footsteps and it certainly doesn't have imitators. One could take a negative view of that. But from another point of view, the extent to which it stands as a rather lonely, indisputably unique, well-constructed and appealing piece of work is the best argument for it. It's a great program that happens to be animated, but takes advantage of the medium to engage and portray its fair share of dynamic action. It has and hopefully will win attention and respect from people that normally don't watch a lot of cartoons (our latest example: Orson Scott Card).

However you look at it.....that's something special.
 
no the full GCRN list will not be posted until monday when the wrap up episode airs.

again if any of the TZ ppl want their opinions heard on the wrap up episode of the countdown call 502-526-5821 leave your thoughts on our countdown and a name/screenname whatever we need these no later then 5pm eastern time tonight.
 
5pm eastern TODAY is deadline! We will be recording the wrap up show at 10:30pm eastern tonight so we need the voicemails by 5pm so all of us can hear them and respond in kind.
 
I called it and tried to keep it short. I could probably go on for a long time giving a verbal response but I decided to just comment on a few things. Not sure if the message was saved though I didn't think to wait until it asked me to save the message and just hung up after I was done.
 
I actually called twice, but only use the second call, since the first time I was having a bit of trouble getting out what I wanted to say.
 
I got your message no worries

got yours to HG..... will use the 2nd version.

I was actually hoping knighthammer would have called in. I'll be waiting til about 9pm on any future ones but that is final deadline.
 
I'm pretty bad at ranking things myself.

I wonder where Ed, Edd, n' Eddy ranked.
I think I missed it.

I have problems with EEn'E that keep it from being keep it from being one of my personal favorites, but when I focused on how well it's animated, I'd find it hard to keep it out of the top ten.


Actually, if you ever look in at the Fun & Games Board you might find that kind of thing going on every day right here at Toon Zone. (Greatest threads)
However, I think the results are somewhat skewed because only a half dozen people are participating at one time.
If 50 or 100 people joined in, and a few structural changes were made to generate a larger list, and perhaps allow opportunity for debate at points, it could produce a very good ranking.
 
Hello rabroad people ...........I hope that everyone listens to the podcast version of our countdown

Countdown Podcast Episodes:

The GeekCast Radio Network Presents: The GCRN Top 100 Animated Series Countdown found only on the flagship podcast GeekCast Radio

Episode 20: GCRN Top 100 Animated Series Intro
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4410

Episode 21: Top 100 Animated Series 100-81
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4416

Episode 22: Top 100 Animated Series 80-61
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4418

Episode 23: Top 100 Animated Series 60-41
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4420

Episode 24: Top 100 Animated Series 40-21
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4422

Episode 25: Top 100 Animated Series 20-01
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4424

Episode 25.5: GCRN Top 100 Animated Series Wrap Up
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4847

Here's The List Posts 5 Pages versus IGN's 100 pages ugh

GeekCast Radio Top 100 Animated Series List Part I
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4606

GeekCast Radio Top 100 Animated Series List Part II
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4867

GeekCast Radio Top 100 Animated Series List Part III
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4865

GeekCast Radio Top 100 Animated Series List Part IV
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4862

GeekCast Radio Top 100 Animated Series List Part V
http://www.geekcastradio.com/?p=4859


there ya have it. Thanks again for all the support from you guys. We'll be redoing the countdown in 2013.
 
Nice job guys. Pretty surprised to see no Foster's and EEE. Looney Tunes was nearly #1 (which is fantastic). Simpsons should be a bit lower, IMO. Good job guys on putting this together. :D
 
Ren and Stimpy should be noted for its importance not just in terms of pushing content limits, but also for it's artistic influence. Ren and Stimpy was one of if not the first TV cartoons to skip over formal scripts and plot out the show mainly through storyboards. This gave the main creative team more control over how the show was going to look. Most original slapstick-y comedies as well as some more visual-based action cartoons like Samurai Jack have done this since.

Even if the show grossed you out, which is an understandable reaction, it still has good characters (better rounded and developed than, say, Beavis and Butthead, for sure), great character animation, and if you didn't find Log or Happy Happy Joy Joy the slightest bit amusing, I'm just going to assume you were trying to find it irredeemable.

And Superjail is a lot more fun than most of what airs on Adult Swim these days. At the very least, it's the most natural-looking use of Flash animation ever.

As far as current cartoons making the list in the future, I'm surprised you didn't mention Adventure Time. It's hit or miss but at its best it's very creative and inspired, like an LSD-fueled mash-up of Dungeons and Dragons and Spongebob Squarepants. If it has a good run I can see it on a Top 100 list in a few years. Sym-Bionic Titan was unfortunately cut short, but for pure quality it might be worthy of squeezing in around the 80s or 90s.
 
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