Underrated Cartoons

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This is a reverse of my other thread!

Rugrats: It used to be as popular as Spongebob, but people only talk about Doug for Nick nostalgia these days.

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: HILARIOUS!

Brandy and Mr. Whiskers: It totally deserved a third season.
 
I was just about to make this thread.:) You beat me to it.

Without any doubt; The Great Mouse Detectives and Flushed Away. Two outstanding films that were received with an amazingly lukewarm reaction.
 
I am in complete agreement. In fact, “Brandy & Mr. Whiskers” was the reason that I registered on Toon Zone, as several users were bashing the series and I felt the need to speak up in its defense. Later, I created episode talkbacks for every episode of the second season, but alas, most of them only received a handful of replies and some of them received no replies at all. I understood some of the reasons that people disliked the series, as even I thought that the reliance on toilet humor throughout several of the episodes was distasteful at best, but the series had a surprising amount of depth.

Brandy Harrington was a very interesting character. Usually, I loathe characters of her archetype: snobbish teenagers who have been spoiled all of their lives and only care about fashion and social status. However, as I watched more episodes, I began to see that the writers were actually portraying her in a way that humanized her behavior. She was the by-product of her own lifestyle; she was raised to believe that she was better than everybody else, but her time with Mr. Whiskers in the midst of the Amazon gradually began to change her beliefs. Several episodes focused on this, such as my favorite episode of the first season: Pedigree, Schmedigree. In that episode, she learned that she wasn’t a pure bred and was actually adopted into the Florida Harringtons.

The second season may have changed the setting of the series in a drastic manner, but the writers continued to portray her in a positive light. Her relationship with Mr. Whiskers became much more friendly and she actively defended him from insults, as opposed to how she ignored such insults in the first season. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing her mature as the series progressed; it’s just unfortunate that it came to an end before she could find a way home.

I suspect that the series will be forgotten one day. Not popular enough in its own time and it’s not like there is going to be a DVD release for it. It’s a shame.
 
Static Shock - A DCAU show with a different perspective on the typical "superhero" toon.

Ed Edd and Eddy - extremely funny cartoon that caught me totally off-guard. By the time I came to appreciate it, it went off the air.

Invader Zim - again, I missed the boat on this one thinking it wasn't all that. Very funny and imaginative.
 
Wayside: the cartoon based on Louis Sachar books is very hilarious and it have a sort of FOP(Fairly Oddparents) atmosphere with its humor style in some episodes.

Kappa Mikey: This anime spoof should desserve a new season about the characters developments of Mikey, Lily, Mitsuki, Gonard and Guano.

Clone High: Too bad then MTV didn't gived the green light for a season 2. It would be cool to see after they unfrozed, Abe telling her felling to Joan of Arc and how Cleopatra might react.

Undergrads: Another one where MTV didn't gived the green light for a season 2

Cybersix: Fox butched its broadcast in the US and don't promoted properly compared to Teletoon in Canada. In fact, all Cybersix, Clone High and Undergrads was enough popular in Canada thanks to reruns and in the case of Clone High, a DVD release.
 
I think Invader Zim is less underrated and more simply unknown. It's popular on the Internet, and most anybody who's seen even an episode or two acknowledges it's brilliance, but most people simply haven't heard of it, which is a shame.
 
Viva Pinata- It just more than a cheap tie in with an Xbox 360 video game. It also pretty well written for a kids show nowadays. CGI is impressive. But it figures it as underrated as the games fanbase, as they are almost basically the same thing.
 
Ed, Edd and Eddy and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: two fantastic Cartoon Network shows that never got the attention that they truly deserve. And that's a shame.
 
Shaun The Sheep: The only non-cancelled show on Disney Channel (albeit, it's a 5-minute short that was imported from the UK) that I consider to be good and in need of more praise.
 
I don't know, both Ed, Edd, n' Eddy and Billy & Mandy got some great ratings for themselves back in the day. I think that Sheep in the Big City is CN's most underrated series ever made; looking at it now, I can't believe all that I missed as a kid. It's basically a love letter to Jay Ward that just never got off the ground. Darn shame, too.
 
12 oz. mouse? That's funny, I really didn't care for it. Considered it dull.

Case Closed (Detective Conan), was on Adult Swim, but was taken off due to low ratings. I guess Japanese cartoons all have to be like Inuyasha or Bleach to stay on Adult Swim. Pity, Case Closed was great! Even though since it's on DVD, and then you can listen to the Japanese voice actors instead. Which seem to fit slightly better.

Teen Titans, twas' a good show. But people kept on bashing it for the "Anime look"

Boondocks, at least with my white friends. The show hits home with me though.
 
What? Both were totally popular, and the first was Cartoon Network's longest runner. Billy & Mandy just had a marathon and a new special last weekend.
 
Megas XLR- Simultaneously an action/sci-fi series and a parody of action/sci-fi series. This series never took itself too seriously and that was what made it brilliant; Megas XLR never pretended to be anything other than what it was. Megas spoofed many sci-fi and super hero conventions and chronicled the lives of a fat, slobbish unlikely action hero, his cowardly yet sleazy sidekick and their babe-a-licious future chick companion in the process.

It was too good and original to last more than a couple of seasons.
 
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