Better Than It Sounds / Western Animation

Remember those cartoons you watched as a kid? Try summing them up now. For feature films, see the Film entries.

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• 101 Dalmatians: The Series: Three spotted pups and a chicken guard their farm against a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
• 101 Dalmatian Street: An abnormally large family of spotted canines somehow run a house by themselves in 21st-century London.
• 12 oz. Mouse: A Chaotic Neutral Mouse, Man/Woman, No-Eyed Four-Sided Shape, & man who grows corn dogs named Roostere live in a City with No Name that's also a City of Adventure & wonder about a Government Conspiracy.
  • Alternately, all the Mind Screw of The Prisoner on a shoestring cartoon budget.
• 2 Stupid Dogs: A pair of staggeringly dim-witted canines do stuff.
• 6teen: A sextet of adolescents hangs around in a shopping center. Misadventures ensue.
• 64 Zoo Lane: Technicolour zoo animals tell stories to a little girl.
• The 7D: A bunch of oddball miners work for a queen with clown hair and regularly thwart a reality TV star's schemes.
• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: A not-rabbit, a dimwit with terrible hygiene, and an A-student with a funny accent go to a scaring school.
• Action League NOW!: Toys fight crime, but not very well.
• Adventure Time: A boy and his dog older brother hang out with princesses, sometimes beat up Tom Kenny, and go on adventures in a magical After the End world. It's Awesome.
  • The episode "I Remember You": Tom Kenny wants to write a song with a vampire, and then realizes he already wrote one for the vampire and forgot about it.
  • Stakes: Woman made of chewing gum cures her girlfriend's allergies, which results in five weirdos coming out to eat cows.
  • Islands: Boy and dog become gamers, but quit and convince the boy's mom to stop enslaving people.
  • Elements: Bratty sentient cloud stops a humongous lesbian from turning the world pink.
  • "Come Along With Me": A scientist dreams about fighting her uncle who is also her son. Then a giant red baby comes to eat people, and the scientist makes out with a vampire.
  • Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: Old man who simps for an eldritch horror and girl versions of guys who used to regularly beat him up run away from an evil bug, occasionally interrupted by yaoi.
• Adventures from the Book of Virtues: Two children seek help from four anthropomorphic animals to solve their problems with stories and their virtues.
• The Adventures of Abney & Teal: Two rag dolls live on an island with some pieces of wood, a swede and a bubble-blowing sea monster.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: A hydrocephalic boy, an asthmatic boy, and a hyperactive psychotic boy have crazy adventures.
  • Planet Sheen: Hyperactive psychotic boy is sexually harrassed by a princess and worshipped by an entire planet, except for Murdoc Niccals, who repeatedly tries to murder him.
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Colorful animals harass a fat man and his robots. Loosely based on a video game.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): A speed freak, a nudist princess, a cybernetic Southern Belle and a French stereotype fight to protect the environment from a fat man dressed up like a superhero.
  • Sonic Underground: A speed freak forms a rock band with his brother and sister and set off on a quest, thwarting a wolf bounty hunter.
• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers Four cybernetically-enhanced Space Cowboys team up to fight crime. The universe itself resembles a cross of the Star Wars Expanded Universe and Clint Eastwood westerns filtered through a generous portion of The '80s.
• Adventures of the Gummi Bears: Brightly-colored talking ursines ferment berry juice as powerful stimulant/steroid and defend a castle from a nasty duke.
  • A copy of The Smurfs (1981) with individuality.
• Æon Flux: An anarchistic terrorist in bondage gear and her Mad Scientist archnemesis/boyfriend engage in over-the-top, surreal action sequences intercut with Mind Screwy dialog and kinky sex.
  • Alternatively, barely dressed Anti Heroine may be trying to save the world, but keeps getting distracted by her habit of having sex with the villain. She dies. Repeatedly.
• Aladdin: The Series: A hobo fights evil with the help of his rich girlfriend, a near-omnipotent comedian, two greedy animals, and a piece of fabric.
• Alfred J. Kwak: A talking duck has trippy dreams, gets into fights, and interferes with other people's business. Also he kidnaps children a la Pied Piper, but gets away scot-free and this is never acknowledged as a bad thing.
• Alma's Way: A young girl can pause time itself to make decisions.
• Alphablocks: Letters fail to spell words.
  • Numberblocks: Blocks learn math by running into each other and splitting.
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: A musician encounters large mutant rodents who turn his life into a living hell. He quickly discovers that they're sentient, and neither he nor the audience are ever clued in on why they're tormenting him so much.
• The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan: A Chinese stereotype and his 10 kids solve mysteries.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: The misadventures of a young cat and a goldfish with feet in a town full of mismatched characters.
  • Alternatively, two animals live their lives. It takes three seasons for some guy they forgot about to give the show some plot by trying to ruin their lives.
  • Or, an oddly-colored catgirl marries a stupid lagomorph. Their son falls in love with a shapeshifting peanut (and also every boy in his class), and hangs out with his brother who their parents bought from the black market. A polygon cyclops starts tormenting the brothers for leaving him in purgatory.
• American Dad!: An ordinary American family have general misadventures that includes the father's work and his nerdy son's quest for boob. The family pets include an alien and a talking German goldfish.
• American Dragon: Jake Long: A "hip" Asian-American teen and his annoying kid sister take up their grandfather's old job.
• Amphibia: Three middle school girls have wacky adventures with talking amphibians that culminate in a robotic interdimensional conquest. Betrayals, realizations of Toxic Friend Influence, and Les Yay ensues.
  • Alternatively: A Thai girl learns about friendship from some frogs. This culminates in her fighting the Moon and getting a job offer from God. She rejects the job offer.
  • Season 1: A girl is adopted by frogs. Another girl is adopted by toads, who are racist against the frogs. The girls don't get along.
  • Season 2: A third girl is adopted by newts. The king of the newts tells the girls to deposit philosophical virtues of life into Chaos Emeralds so he can send killer robots to other dimensions.
  • Season 3: The frogs take refuge in Los Angeles and deal with said robots while being followed around by RuPaul. Meanwhile, a bunch of old newts become a teenage girl in order to take over every dimension.
  • "The Hardest Thing": A bisexual girl and her Ambiguously Bi friends fight a giant rock in space.
• The Angry Beavers: Two pissed-off, amphibious mammals have wacky adventures.
• Animaniacs: Three Funny Animals of indeterminate species live in a refurbished water storage device and spend their time driving people insane, making fun of their writers, and breaking the Fourth Wall at every given opportunity. Also features shorts of mobster pigeons, a jack-of-all-trades giant chicken, and a Genre Savvy retired actor.
  • Animaniacs (2020): The Funny Animal trio get resurrected in the 21st century and have misadventures in modern times (give or take 2 years).
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Three giant sentient fast-food items do nothing in particular, even though they're supposed to be detectives. Their antics usually end in the humiliation, injury and death of their overweight Jerkass human neighbor.
• Archer: A crude and idiotic secret agent squabbles with a group of other secret agents who look like the people who voice them.
  • Seasons 1-4: A bunch of idiots (including the aforementioned idiotic secret agent) make up an incredibly dysfunctional spy agency led by the agent's overbearing, alcoholic mother, and struggle to actually do spy stuff.
  • Season 5 (Archer Vice): The idiots land in hot water due to not legally being spies and end up temporarily overthrowing a Banana Republic in the process of trying to sell cocaine.
  • Season 6: The idiots are employed by the government to do spy stuff. Again, they struggle, and are eventually fired after accidentally exploding a doctor.
  • Season 7 (Archer P.I.): After being fired, the idiots try a hand at being private detectives. To give you an idea of how well it turns out, the idiotic secret agent ends up in a coma.
  • Season 8 (Archer Dreamland): The idiotic secret agent dreams about being a gritty detective in post-World War II Los Angelos while in a coma. Nazi cyborg dogs get involved.
  • Season 9 (Archer Danger Island): The idiotic secret agent dreams about being a charter pilot on a pre-World War II Pacific island. Nazis get involved.
  • Season 10 (Archer 1999): The idiotic secret agent dreams about being a starship captain in the (not so) distant future. A cyborg gets involved, but no dogs or Nazis. Then he (finally) wakes up.
  • Season 11: Now awake, the idiotic secret agent gets back with the team...and they all immediately undo the progress they made since the secret agent went into a coma. But they do manage to save the world!
  • Season 12: With the team back together, the idiots actually try to get along with each other and work as a team, with surprisingly effective results on occasion, and they even stop another global domination scheme. Sadly, the agent's mother permanently retires for understandable reasons.
  • Season 13: The idiots find themselves in the unwilling employ of a British arsehole as they struggle with their own character development and the occasional terrorist plot or two.
• Arthur: A bunch of anthropomorphic animals, who look nothing like the animals they are supposed to be, learn Aesops. Occasionally, there is an off-the-wall episode, including a Musical Episode. The show's most infamous episode dealt with the main animal attacking his sister.
• As Told by Ginger: A girl with an obvious name writes down what happens.
• Assy McGee: An ass and a fat guy are Buddy Cops.
• Atomic Betty: A preteen girl repeatedly saves the universe from a cat.
• Atomic Puppet: A kid uses a sock puppet to fight a wannabe superhero.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: A heavily tattooed kung-fu Dalai Lama, his Inuit pals, a blind Chinese preteen of mass destruction, an angry burn victim, a samurai geisha, and some animals that don't exist (but should) take on Luke Skywalker and his army of arsonists who wear giant shoulderpads.
  • Or A disfigured Troubled, but Cute teenage arsonist chases and harasses underage boy to please Luke Skywalker, gets his butt kicked repeatedly and is dissatisfied when he finally wins.
  • Alternately, a cheerful and brightly-colored children's show about child abuse and genocide.
  • Or A culturally diverse group of kids learn about the evils of imperialism.
  • Or the sex lives of teenagers with a world domination subplot.
  • Or A centennial man with the mind of a 12-year old tries to stop a global superpower from conquering its neighbouring nations while regularly beating up an emotionally troubled burn-victim.
  • Or children from all over the world are tormented by arsonists.
  • Or a teenager hunts his great-grandfather across the globe, before eventually joining forces with him.
  • Book 1: Dalai Lama and two Inuit kids go to North Pole, but instead of Santa Claus, there's just sexism, moon fish and invading arsonists.
  • Book 2: Dalai Lama hires a girl with dirty feet to teach him to throw rocks.
  • Book 3: One of the arsonists decides to teach Dalai Lama the art of arson to stop the king of arsonists from committing more arson.
• The Legend of Korra: A hotheaded teenaged Inuit, a pair of homeless mixed-race athletes, a heavily-tattooed middle-aged man, a rich girl with a sweet car, and more animals that do not exist (but should) try to suppress a civil rights movement led by Steve Blum. Its name was altered twice to avoid confusion with a blockbuster movie about blue aliens and its predecessor's horrible film adaption.
  • Alternatively the son of a farmer^note or so he says... starts a revolution in the name of social equality, and is opposed by a fascist politician, a major religious figure, the daughter of an automobile tycoon, and a pair of professional athletes.
    • The above also counts as Paint the Hero Black
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: An old guy who wakes up from a 65+ year nap, a [[rich guy with a lot of toys, a blond, long-haired dude who speaks funny, a really strong yet really cranky fellow, a scientist and his flighty girlfriend, an archery fanatic and a guy who dresses like a big cat all get together and... you guessed it... fight crime! Later, an occasionally radiant Army major joins them, as does an emotionally defective machine.
• Babar: A western-educated African monarch deals with local politics and family life. Based on one of the world's most famous pieces of colonialist propaganda.
• Baby Jake: 5-years old kid imagines his baby brother having adventures.
• The Backyardigans: Three colorful mammals, one colorful antarctic bird and one colorful alien run around their backyard and pretend to be whatever comes to mind.
• Ballmastrz: 9009: A self destructive superstar athlete is tasked to turn a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits into a real team by a grinning weirdo.
  • Ballmastrz Rubicon: The weirdo’s relatives show up.
• Bao: A Chinese housewife lives through a weird yet heartrending version of The Gingerbread Man.
• Batman: The Animated Series: A highly athletic orphan and his immigrant friend must keep an eye on various mental defectives with snazzy fashion sense in a town where people still think it's the 1940s.
• Batman Beyond: A teenager volunteers to be tutored by a reclusive elderly billionaire, putting his social and family life on hold while avoiding questions about what they do together.
  • Or, an iconic adult superhero, except in High School.
    • Or, Teenager goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against a walking glow-stick for killing his father by becoming an animal cosplayer. With the help of a reclusive billionaire and his Token Black Friend, he eventually discovers his father was never truly dead. Executive Meddling was had initially but thankfully nobody listened.
• The Batman: An athletic orphan dresses up as an animal and fights crime with a ridiculous assortment of gadgets against people with weird fashion tastes, including one Ax-Crazy guy with red eyes, green dreadlocks, a straitjacket, and a creepy voice. Oh, and the sky is always red.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Rich Man has many friends and is suddenly incapable of doing his job alone.
  • Or to be fair: Rich Man brings back weird and Campy elements which had long ago been discredited from his character. Decides he likes hanging around with his many, many friends. Then, it's crime-fighting time!
  • The episode "Mitefall": Mutant bug-man convinces local vigilante of murdering two artificially created children with his mind on the grounds of saving the universe. The bug-man then is hailed as a hero for murdering two young children who displayed a full capacity to feel emotion and no malice whatsoever. It then turns out the children weren't apocalypse maidens afterall, and the universe was going to die no matter what happened. Everybody decides to still blame them for lulz, and then the universe dies.
  • The episode "Mayhem of the Music Meister": A Musical Episode of the above show, featuring a previous supervillain voicing the supervillain. Perks include the entire cast of the local insane asylum participating in a musical number and a hero/villain conga line.
• Beany and Cecil: A kid, his buddy who happens to be a sea serpent, and the kid's uncle sail in search of adventure, occasionally running into a rather nasty guy.
• Beast Wars: Transforming Mecha become cyborgs because their fuel source is poison to them, reenact historical events on an alien world while Sufficiently Advanced Aliens get pissed that they're ruining their petri dish.
  • Alternatively, A gorilla, a cheetah, a rhinoceros, a rat, a velociraptor, a tiger, a falcon, a manta ray and a wolf/eagle hybrid are fighting against a tyrannosaurus rex, a scorpion, a pterodactyl, a tarantula, a wasp, a black widow spider, a fire ant and a scorpion/cobra hybrid. The T-Rex eventually wanted to alter time so the heroic truck would have lost the war against his enemy the gun.
  • Beast Machines: The surviving Transforming Mecha fight robots ruled by a giant floating head, all the while acting as a parable for living in our modern technological society.
• Beavis and Butt-Head: Two phenomenally stupid high school heshers irritate everyone they come into contact with, including each other. Their most notable trait is their tendency to chortle hysterically at the slightest sign of a (usually unintentional) double-entendre.
• Beetlejuice: A teenage girl is best friends with a dead con artist.
• Ben 10: A boy with a tricked-out wristwatch, his affirmative-action girl cousin, and a retired Man in Black fight space Cthulhu while touring the USA.
  • Alternatively: A boy finds a fancy watch in the woods and makes an enemy out of a talking alien squid.
  • Ben 10: Alien Force: Three teenagers hunt aliens in a world crawling with Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong.
    • Or: A self-proclaimed hero decides to help space Nazis. This is considered a good thing. His cousin is dating a former homicidal psychopath who has undergone the most severe Badass Decay imaginable.
  • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Boy gets new watch to fight The Collector while taking crap from a Strawman Political. He then suffers Deja Vu from six years previously when his friend becomes a Jerkass. Then he fights an Eldritch Abomination.
  • Ben 10: Omniverse: Boy gets another new watch and meets a By-the-Book Cop. The boy keeps on running into a guy and his dog, a purple crab, and a psychopathic Red and Black thing.
  • Ben 10 (2016): The same story as the original, with more silliness and some characters who act differently.
• Beware the Batman: Orphan billionaire never sleeps, drinks his meals and fights villains, while his bald Butler says he needs help and hires a ninja to drive him around.
• Beverly Hills Teens: High schoolers live the high life. Hilarity Ensues.
• Big Buck Bunny: Three naughty rodents learn why they should Beware the Nice Ones.
• Big City Greens: Hillbilly Simpsons lookalikes with no noses move to a big city creatively named Big City.
  • Or: Farmers are tormented by a retail manager with fragile teeth.
• Biker Mice from Mars: Funny Animal Harley Davidson enthusiasts fight against alien fish.
• Billy Dilley's Super Duper Subterranean Summer: A roundfaced kid with a Funny Afro traps him and his classmates underground by literally cutting the cheese. His pet rat barely gives a shit about them for the entire show.
• Bing: Rabbit does mundane things, such as peeing on a blanket.
• Blazing Dragons: A bunch of fire-breathing reptiles try to be knights.
• Blue Eye Samurai: A Japanese version of Mulan except its Bloodier and Gorier and instead of protecting her father for honor, the protagonist seeks out to kill him for revenge.
  • Alternately: A rich girl runs away from home, a dude freaks out over a bad haircut, and a crossdresser with self-worth issues fixates on killing white people. Not in that order.
• Blue's Clues: A dog and her owner solve mysteries together.
• Bluey: An Australian cattle dog drags her family into various role-playing games.
• Bob and Margaret: A British couple with no children have adventures where nothing happens. They later move to Canada and do more of the same thing.
• Bob's Burgers: A sweaty loser runs a failing business while dealing with a drunk wife and three kids who can't stay out of trouble.
• Boj: Bilby creates and solves problems by being Australian.
• BoJack Horseman: A soap opera about a depressed talking horse and his peers in the entertainment world.
  • The longest setup to the "a horse walks into a bar..." joke ever.
  • "The Old Sugarman Place": Horse gets lobotomized.
  • "Free Churro": Man calls his mother a huge bitch at what he thinks is her funeral.
  • "INT. SUB": Giant talking hand gets into a heated argument with a sentient gas over a missing string cheese.
  • "The View from Halfway Down": Dying man complains about leak.
• Bonkers: A nutty cartoon star loses his acting job and becomes a policeman.
• The Boondocks: Inner-city black family moves into a suburban white neighborhood, and learn a thing or two about race relations.
• Bo on the Go!: A girl and a dragon regularly get robbed, and they always bribe the thief with whatever they stole except cooler to stop doing it. It's apparently supposed to promote physical activity.
• Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese: Two biologically impossible families join to become one biologically impossible blended family.
• Braceface: Once there was a Dumb Blonde who got constantly bullied by her school's resident Alpha Bitch... then everything changed for the worst when she got struck by lightning at a dental appointment. Now her new teeth aligners have a mind of its own—acting like a powerful magnet and unlocking things at will, while also making her mind hear phone calls via intercepting communication signals and even punishing those who harass her. In other words, she's become Carrie with electricity instead of telekinesis.
• Bravestarr: A Native American with mystical powers and joined by a cyborg horse becomes the law.
• The Brothers Flub: A pair of brothers deliver stuff to various worlds for their greedy boss. Notable for having a very infamous theme song.
• Bubble Guppies: Bushroot is a talking fish who teaches a Wacky Homeroom of four-year-old mermaids about rock and roll, planets, construction, restaurants and other topics, each with catchy songs.
• Bunnicula: A undead lagomorph finds endlessly creative ways to scare the shit out of a cat.
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Overtly correct guy, Rebellious Princess, hyperactive child, and clumsy Ascended Fanboy fight crime.
  • A defictionalization of a television show IN SPACE mentioned in a movie. Also spawned a direct-to-video movie, featuring a song during the end credits by William Shatner.
• Camp Lazlo: A hyperactive, absurdly friendly and forgiving monkey, a high-strung elephant with a funny accent, and a savant rhinoceros go to summer camp. Among their friends are an angry platypus with a deep voice, a neurotic guinea pig with allergies, and an overworked slug. The camp is, rather appropriately, called Kidney.
  • Alternatively: A kid tortures a moose by being annoying all the time. One of his best friends is addicted to sweets and the other is a weirdo.
• Captain N: The Game Master: Teenager lives out every child's dream by being sucked into a video game world. None of the characters look like they do in the games.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: A Five-Token Band with a custom-made set of friendship rings and a mulleted superhero with too many powers and too many weaknesses save the environment.
• Carmen Sandiego: A girl who only wears one color fights crime with more crime but everyone seems more concerned with asking just where the hell she is.
• Castlevania (2017): An adaptation of a classic NES game only with more gore and anime aestetics.
  • A grieving husband lashes out against the world for the murder of his wife. His son teams up with a drunkard and a mage to kill him.
• CatDog: Siamese twins go on wacky adventures while dealing with their asshole roommate and a gang of three mean, anthropomorphic dogs.
  • OR: A pair of twins have their lives made miserable by everyone they know, including each other. It's a comedy for children.
• Catscratch: An ambitious black cat, a Not-Actually-Scottish cat, and a dim cat inherit their owner's fortune and use it to buy lots of root beer.
  • Alternatively: Three rich losers spend their days doing stupid shit instead of helping people with their insane amount of wealth.
• Celebrity Deathmatch: Some of the most well-known people settle their differences within a wrestling ring. Many are not actual wrestlers.
• Centaurworld: A horse teleports into Adventure Time but with centaurs.
• ChalkZone: A buck-toothed kid discovers a world where erased chalk drawings live like normal people.
• Challenge Of The Go Bots: Sentient robots from another planet bring their civil war to earth, where they transform their bodies into earth vehicles so as to disguise their presence from humans when necessary. It is not the Transformers.
• Charlie and Lola: Girl annoys her brother.
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: Adventures of a perpetual Butt-Monkey, a diva-in-training, an immature philosopher, an artistic prodigy, a tomboy with her possible future life partner and a canine who always steals the show.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: Rodents and an insect fight crime.
• Chop Chop Ninja: Super-Deformed ninjas fight a witch who looks and sounds like a man to get medallions. Oh, and it's the Animated Adaptation of an iOS game.
• Chop Socky Chooks: A group of poultry practicing martial arts protects a city from a very small-sized shark.
• Chowder: Mix-and-Match Critters, monsters, and various caricatures living in a whacked-up fantasy world cook, and have many insane adventures. It is also important to note that half of the inanimate objects, and most of the food they cook, are sentient.
• Clarence: Three kids go on adventures where nothing happens.
• Class of 3000: A musician quits his job and becomes a teacher. His Wacky Homeroom have various adventures.
• Classic Disney Shorts: The lives of a really nice guy, a really clumsy guy, and a really short-tempered guy. And sometimes their girlfriends and pets.
  • The Three Little Pigs: A trio of fat, gluttonous farm animals build their own independent abodes to avoid getting eaten for dinner by a doglike vagabond with extremely powerful lung capacity. Only one actually stops him.
  • The Band Concert: Nice guy gets frustrated when short-tempered guy attempts to screw up his performance.
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Nice guy summons a broom to do his bidding when his boss is away. This wasn't a really smart thing for him to do.
  • Steamboat Willie: Nice guy engages in Black Comedy Animal Cruelty for seven minutes, and somehow launches an entertainment empire in the process.
  • Der Fuehrer's Face: Short-tempered guy goes bonkers while working for Hitler. Turns out it's All Just a Dream.
  • Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: The guys and their girlfriends hang out in a magically appearing and disappearing building that defies all logic. A machine that predicts the future and looks like the nice guy's head without a face gives them everything they happen to need. Then they end it by singing a song about an attractive canine.
  • Mickey Mouse (2013): The nice guy, and sometimes his friends, go on Denser and Wackier adventures.
• Clerks: The Animated Series: Two guys who are rude to customers get involved with crazy stuff.
• The Cleveland Show: A black guy moves and with his new family he gets into hijinks similar to those he encountered before he moved.
• Clone High: Amusing genetic copies of historical figures vie for each other's affections, and apparently John Stamos is all about helping people.
• Clutch Cargo: The continuing stories of a man, a boy, and their dog. They cannot move any part of their anatomies except their lips.
• Code Lyoko: Nerdy kid opens a Pandora's box in the form of a Reality Altering Super Computer, finds a cute AI inside, resolves to drag three random classmates along to save the girl, her father, and the world from an evil AI akin to Skynet (two out of three ain't bad). Also, time travel removes all consequences of social stupidity and class cutting, except within the Unresolved Sexual Tension laden hero relationships.
• Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island: A sentient fruit annoys other sentient fruit in a high-budget Mockbuster of a Nickelodeon series. To the main character's voice actor, it's as bad as it sounds.
• Code Monkeys: Video game sprites make video games in The '80s.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: Child Soldiers battle tyrants and criminals in this wacky comedy.
  • Or: Unsupervised children wage war on anyone who's older than them and any form of authority.
  • No P in the OOL: Five kids go to the pool to harass a gay couple.
  • Diseasy Does It: A kid is put in charge of watching a guy's stuff while he goes to a PTA meeting.
• Cool McCool: Super Spy battles weird villains. Sometimes he thinks about his father, a law enforcement agent.
• Count Duckula: Vegetarian Vampire Duck with vaguely American accent and his servants have a series of misadventures while trying to become famous.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: A jumpy pink dog from Kansas with a misleading name protects an old lady from monsters. Her husband doesn't like the dog very much.
  • Or: B-grade horror with Funny Animals.
• Cow and Chicken: A couple gives birth to a bovine and a bird. The two siblings deal with a sadistic man without pants while the audience gets weirded and/or grossed out.
  • Alternatively: A man with no pants and effeminate behavioral patterns harasses two elementary school kids. He's not a pedophile, despite what you may think.
• Creature Comforts A series of mock interviews that are actually real interviews, featuring the voice talents of whatever random people in the general public the studio can get a microphone to.
• The Critic: A short, overweight, and bald New York television personality has to put up with an overbearing boss, a snarky hairdresser, his nasty ex-wife, and countless examples of bad cinema.
• The Crumpets: A pink-nosed talking baby seeks to get all his mother's love by beating, ruling or eliminating his 141 siblings and his father. His supercentenarian grandmother likes to make money recklessly. After the first two seasons, a Retool completely shifted the spotlight to a group of teenagers.
  • Or: Two teenage girls are desperately attracted to their crushes, including a high school rock star and an actor who is similarly named from a real one. One of these girls is especially obsessed with the dim-witted brother of the other girl. The girls have crazy strategies to get the men love them while risking Amusing Injuries and bad luck. After season 2, the girls are now regular friends with their main crushes, but they're no longer insanely drawn to them.
  • Or: The aforementioned parents, which are an Bungling Inventor and a Caring Gardener with a sex life together, struggle with newly-built machines that fail their purpose and meeting each other's ends, as well as for their eccentric children.
  • Or: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and The Loud House with some Kaeloo-styled humor and adult jokes in the first two seasons.
• Cupcake & Dino: General Services: A pastry and an extinct reptile do odd jobs.
• The Cuphead Show!: Two drink containers get in trouble and are occasionally tormented by Satan.
  • "Sweater Luck Next Time": Satan tries to trick a young boy into stripping.
  • "Dirt Nap": Old man tries to murder two children because he heard them neglecting their pet.
  • "In Charm's Way": A ghost corrupts two young boys and gets them arrested, while she gets away scot-free.
• Cyberchase: Three kids travel inside the Internet with a robotic bird. Together, they must stop an evil Elvis impersonator from taking over the Internet using mathematics and common sense.
• Cybersix: Artificially created superhero crossdresser, battles mutants with the help of big cat and some guy.
  • Alternatively: A transgender cyborg English teacher with a cat for a brother beats up a Nazi child and his pet monsters.
• Danger & Eggs A daredevil and a safety-obsessed version of Humpty Dumpty do a bunch of stuff at the park.
• Danger Mouse: A hamster and a one-eyed mouse with an incredibly Cool Car fight crime.
• Danger Rangers: Furries go on missions to keep children safe.
• Danny Phantom: Freak lab accident causes a teenage boy to become not quite undead. This leads him to fight crime caused by dead people alongside his two best friends and, eventually, his older sister. Also, the Big Bad wants to bang the hero's mom.
• Dan Vs.: The adventures of a short-tempered jerk with a persecution complex.
  • Or: A short guy pursues petty vendettas.
• Daria: A cynic, with a swearing father and a workaholic mother, makes fun of everything while her sibling runs a fashion club where people wear the same thing all the time.
• Darkwing Duck: A Funny Animal who thinks he's Batman balances fighting crime with being a single dad.
• Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: Three men and a dog in Cool Planes chase a pigeon.
• Dave the Barbarian: A cowardly muscleman, his two sisters, his talking sword, and their crazy uncle house-sit while their parents are away on a business trip. Oh, and did we mention the main villain is a pig?
• DC Animated Universe: Decade of plots spans four series before being fully resolved. Eventually, some super dudes and dudettes make friends with each other.
  • Batman: The Animated Series: Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by terrorizing population of home city. His arch-nemesis is a jocular Luke Skywalker.
  • Superman: The Animated Series: Mr. Krabs fights a metal-associated survivor of a holocaust (who is sometimes a jerk). Spawned an awful video game.
  • Static Shock: Teenager ends up becoming an Electric Black Guy after a chemical explosion during a gang riot. Is a Lighter and Softer adaptation of an indie comic book.
  • Batman Beyond: Troublemaking kid takes up old man's creepy cosplay fetish to get revenge on a Corrupt Corporate Executive that glows in the dark. The old man likes to watch.
    • By the way, it's Batman in the future revolving around teenagers with teenage issues.
  • Justice League: Some BFFs make a club in an exclusive clubhouse and fight crime.
    • A hacked invasion of the earth brings together three aliens (consisting of one Martian telepath, one Sole Survivor of a doomed planet, and one with wings), one Action Girl, a Badass Normal and a Speedster with the metabolism from hell. They save the world, and decide they like this team thing so much they're gonna keep at it. One of the Aliens turns out to be a Spy, then rejoins the side she was pretending to be a part of anyway and everything works out. Eventually.
    • An illegal alien, a spy for a hostile foreign power, a man who works for another foreign power, a golem, an immature frat-boy, another illegal alien, and a psychologically disturbed crime victim team up. Paragons of Americana all fight crime.
    • Seven gifted orphans and misfits beat up mean people.
  • Justice League Unlimited: They invite all their weird friends to join them.
    • Justice League Unlimited: BFF club becomes less exclusive, everyone grows beards. The government doesn't like this club and beefs up its own rival club (the Sharks, or something).
    • Justice League Unlimited: Various larger-than-life superhumans prove to be less entertaining than an unstable Conspiracy Theorist with a nice hat.
    • Next season, they fight a secret organization headed by a a talking gorilla.
• Detention: A group of sixth graders have wacky adventures that result in them being sent to the confinement room of the show's title.
• Detentionaire: A teenager continuously breaks out of detention to prove that he shouldn't be in detention, becoming a conspiracy theorist in the process.
  • It's The Breakfast Club with lizards and mind control.
• Dexter's Laboratory: Boy gets tormented by his older sister, who manages to bypass all things he builds to avoid her. The boy also has a rival, whose true name is Susan.
  • Dial M For Monkey: The adventures of the boy's pet as a superhero.
  • The Justice Friends: A trio of superhero expies star in a sitcom. Hilarity Ensues.
• Di-Gata Defenders Four teenagers barely past puberty must save their homeworld from invasion by evil nation of pod people. Utilises magic spells and real world science with interesting results. Heavily anime influenced.
• Dinosaucers: Heroic alien dinosaurs babysit Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains. Continuity just barely exists.
• Dinosaur Train: Preschooler show about extinct reptiles taking a time-travelling vehicle to study paleontology.
• Dinotrux: Giant robot dinosaurs use The Power of Friendship to protect their home.
• Doc McStuffins: A girl starts her own clinic. Among the staff are a lamb, a dragon, a hippo, a snowman, and a fish.
• Dog City: A Film Noir detective solves crimes with the help of an animator.
• Dora the Explorer: A girl goes on adventures with a monkey and the help of the viewers watching at home.
  • Go, Diego, Go!: A boy and his pet jaguar go on missions to rescue animals, also with the help of the viewers.
• Doug: Ridiculously Average Guy writes in his journal about his life in a town filled with really colorful folks.
• The Dragon Prince: Two princes and an assassin who tried to kill them must deliver a baby to its mother. Meanwhile, a man attempts to start a war with the help of his invisible friend.
  • Alternatively: It's time for egg delivery!
  • Or: A show about war, discrimination, assasinations and dark magic. Meant for kids!
• Dragons: Riders of Berk: Scrawny one-legged boy lets dangerous animals into his town and everyone has to deal with them.
• Drawn Together: Cartoon characters live in a house and kill, maim and sleep with each other while making fun of virtually everything and everyone.
• The Dreamstone: A big, scary whatever constantly fails to steal a rock.
• Duck Dodgers: A Small Name, Big Ego arrives in the future and becomes a starship captain with a stuttering sidekick. Fights a man that has a broom on his head. Features Tom Jones on the opening theme.
• Duckman: George Costanza plays a crummy detective who is despised by nearly everyone he knows, but is secretly hurting on the inside. His pig sidekick usually cracks the cases.
• DuckTales (1987): A rich old man and his nephew's nephews have adventures.
  • DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp: A rich old man, his nephew's nephews and his housekeeper's granddaughter find a superpowered child in a cave. Unfortunately, the inventor of anchovy pizza wants to kidnap said child.
  • DuckTales (2017): A rich old man, his nephew, his nephew's nephews and his housekeeper's granddaughter have Darker and Edgier adventures.
    • Alternatively, an immortal capitalist bird and his relatives fight against family issues.
    • Season 1: The granddaughter befriends a girl who is actually made of the shadow of her own shadow. Also, we find out that the rich old man's niece missed the birth of her own children to go on a joyride.
    • Season 2: It turns out the Moon is hollow and full of gold and aliens whose leader wants to make the Earth orbit the Moon. Also, another rich old man challenges the rich old man to a who is richer-contest.
    • "What Ever Happened to Della Duck?": Bird looks for gold in a giant golden rock to power her gold-powered spaceship with no luck for years without eating or breathing and finds out there was gold in her mouth all along. Then an alien comes and eats the gold.
    • "The 87 Cent Solution!": Rich old man fakes his death to get another rich old man to admit he used time travel to play a prank on him.
    • Season 3: An evil organization collects artifacts in order to force the rich old man and his family to not have adventures, because their leader was forced to adventure with his grandma.
• Dynomutt Dog Wonder: A man dressed as a bird and his dim-witted dog fight crime. The dim-witted dog is the star of the show.
• Earthworm Jim: Homer Simpson is a worm in a spacesuit, who saves the world with the help of a puppy who regularly hulks out on him (actually, that generally sums it up).
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: Three similarly named boys try conning their neighbors in order to buy candy. Humiliation ensues.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show: One of the boys brings the other two along to visit his estranged brother. Said brother is...not nearly as nice as the boys remember.
• Elinor Wonders Why: Animals learn about nature.
• Elliott from Earth: A kid and his mom move to a new place with an extinct animal, which they can understand because of some alien frogs.
• El Tigre: A Mexican boy in a cat costume and his Genki Girl friend fight/cause crime.
• Ever After High: What if "The End" was only the beginning? The answer: Teenage sons and daughters of famous fairy tale characters are sent away to live at a medieval academy where they learn to follow in their parents' footsteps—or otherwise change their destiny to whatever they desire at the cost of their existence.
• Evil Con Carne: A Brain in a Jar with a Big Dumb Body attempts to conquer the world. Hilarity Ensues.
• Exo Squad: The Solar system is overrun by clones and a daring bunch of Humongous Mecha pilots set out to save humanity.
  • Or: The American version of Mobile Suit Gundam
  • Or: The European Theater reenacted IN SPACE!
• The Fairly OddParents!: A hyperactive bucktoothed kid in a pink hat acquires a pair of shape-shifting magical goldfish who defend him from the local nasty babysitter, school bully, and Sadist Teacher, while frequently giving him lessons in Be Careful What You Wish For which he always forgets.
• Family Guy: A fat slob, his attractive wife, their lazy son, unpopular daughter, evil talking baby and talking dog all go on adventures.
  • Alternately, a show that divides its time mostly between an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist whose wacky hijinks cause major collateral damage and an Author Avatar who spends a lot of his time antagonizing an Enfant Terrible or dating stupid but attractive women.
• Famous Fred: A cat dies. It gets a funeral.
• Fangbone!: A Barbarian Hero becomes an exchange student to hide a wizard's toe.
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: The Anvilicious adventures of a grotesquely obese African American kid and his friends who hang around in a Philadelphia junkyard.
• Fillmore!: Middle schoolers act like characters in a 1970s cop show.
• Final Space: A spaceman and Tom Kenny travel throughout the universe alongside a giant laser-shooting green M&M, an alien cat fursona, a black scientist Action Girl and Wheatley's Chinese knockoff as they attempt to stop giant space monsters.
• Fish Hooks: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Teen Years.
• The Flintstones: Pre-historic Honeymooners.
• Flying Rhino Junior High: An evil genius, bent on revenge due to receiving a D in shop class many years before, lives in a school basement with his talking rat sidekick and alters reality with the use of a super computer he built. And the school's principal is a rhino. And the janitor is a pig. And a spy.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: A young boy hangs out in a large Victorian mansion with imaginary creatures, including a blue prankster with a psychopathic streak, a big purple Spanish monster, a 10-foot-tall red thing that lost an arm in a basketball-related incident, and what seems to be a combination between a palm tree, a bird and an airplane.
  • Or: In a world where minors regularly have children and then abandon them, a 8-year-old visits his son every day to avoid losing custody of him. Said son is regularly an asshole to him and everyone else.
  • House of Bloo's: An Origins Episode that showed the young boy and blue prankster - who's way nicer in this for some reason - first meeting all the creatures and has one of the members of the house try to murder the blob for petty reasons that wasn't the blob's fault.
  • Good Wilt Hunting: The red thing runs away from home to play basketball with the guy who caused him to lose his arm and run away from the guy who imagined him.
  • Destination: Imagination: The girl who takes care of the imaginary friends runs away to hang out with a very lonely guy. They don't like it when the imaginary friends come join them.
• Freakazoid!: Nerd gets superpowers while losing sanity. Eventually, insanity dilutes into everyone else, including the audience.
• Freaktown: A skeleton, a bug, and a witch have adventures in their icky hometown while annoying a princess, a teddy bear, a unicorn, and a pixie trying to conquer it.
• Fred's Head: A depressed teenager is constantly goaded by everyone around him into doing stuff he doesn't care about.
• Frisky Dingo: An idiotic nude vows to destroy the world but never quite gets around to it. His even-more idiotic nemesis treats his psycho girlfriend like crap. Their employees attempt to stiff the two as much as possible.
• Frosty the Snowman: A big-nosed guy with 350G's tells the story of a living pile of frozen water.
• The Fruitties: Sentient edible plants that live in a volcano make friends with a human girl and have adventures.
• Futurama: A pizza delivery boy goes on a one-way trip. He meets and befriends a physically deformed orphan and an alcohol-fueled criminal. They all quit their jobs to work for the delivery boy's senile nephew.
  • Alternately: A Work Com about the oddball staff of an inept delivery service in the year 3000.
  • Or: A man is the most important person in the universe because he slept with his grandmother.
  • Movies:
    • Bender's Big Score: Nudists mind control a drunk and make him steal stuff while a pizza boy gets into time travelling shenanigans because his love interest is dating another version of him.
    • The Beast with a Billion Backs: The pizza boy founds a religion based around Hentai from another dimension while the drunk joins a Smoky Gentlemen's Club to stop the pizza boy from going to Heaven.
    • Bender's Game: The drunk's usage of his imagination drives him insane while an old guy attempts to stop his ex-girlfriend from making money off alien poop. The two events colliding causes everyone to reenact the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
    • Into the Wild Green Yonder: The pizza boy joins a secret society of crazy hobos led by an Ascended Extra and his love interest joins a group of environmentalists led by a feminist who sounds like a man; both to stop a rich Chinese man from building a mini-golf course. There's also a plot about the drunk dating a mob boss' wife, but that disappears a quarter of the way in.
• Future-Worm!: A time-traveling mutant earthworm man and a Child Prodigy band together in sci-fi hijinks. Oh, and their time machine is made from a lunchbox.
• Galactik Football: Recovering magic steroid addict recruits 8 kids to play space soccer, bad dubbing ensues. No one ever goes to school.
• Galaxy High: Two teenagers get sent to a school for aliens and have their social statuses turned upside down.
• Garfield and Friends: Nerdy, depressed cartoonist with poor social skills is excited by the most boring things imaginable. His lazy Deadpan Snarker cat and dumb dog go along for the ride. Said cartoonist seems to think he's having conversations with his cat's thoughts. These are interrupted by segments of talking animals on a farm all with their own extreme personality disorder.
  • The Garfield Show: The cartoonist's cat has adventures with tons on recurring characters such as a witch, an Italian chef, a food critic, a preteen genius and the cartoonist's aunt who is hated by everyone, while costantly breaking the fourth wall to convince viewers that this is the best cartoon ever made.
• Gargoyles: Evil billionaire rebuilds family heirloom on top of New York City skyscraper, unleashes Noble Demon creatures that really don't like to get up in the morning.
  • Legendary creatures are constantly outsmarted by a rich man with a ponytail. He becomes their ally after they help him fend off the king of the fairies.
  • Disney cartoon following the misadventures of a family of mythical creatures from the Middle Ages who must adjust to life in present-day Manhattan. All of which is Played for Drama (mostly).
  • Statues come to life and try to prevent humans from killing each other. Their enemies include a renegade living statue, the world's oldest Scotsman, a group of television stars, characters from Shakespeare, a Mad Scientist trying to create more living statues, a cybernetic zombie with split personalities, Greek and Norse gods, a 100 year-old gangster, a money-obsessed clone, Nazis, a sorcerer in a time loop, a gluttonous spider, an alien-hunting alien, and any number of robots and ghosts.
• Generator Rex: A mutant boy works for a mutant-fighting government faction in a world where everybody and everything already is a mutant.
• George of the Jungle: Muscleheaded klutz lives in wilderness with an enormous pet, a chattering bird, a smart primate and a hot redhead. Goofiness ensues.
  • Super Chicken: A socialite tries to fight crime after drinking martinis, and glibly ignores the complaints of his long-suffering sidekick.
  • Tom Slick: A professional driver who doesn't know when to quit travels around the world.
• The Ghost and Molly McGee: A girl and a dead guy with polar opposite worldviews are Best Friends Forever thanks to a poorly-worded curse.
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Patriotic soldiers fight the good fight against terrorists. Neither side can hit the broad side of a barn. The main bad guy has "RETREAT!" as his Catchphrase.
  • G.I. Joe Extreme: A group of serious steroid abusers fight the forces of a Darth Vader wannabe.
  • Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles: A frozen World War II veteran is resurrected to fight Nazi robots.
  • G.I. Joe: Sigma 6: The original main bad guy escapes from prison as the patriotic soldiers fights his armies of robots. They all still can't hit the broad side of a barn. Looks different somehow.
  • G.I. Joe: Resolute: The terrorists learn from their mistakes.
    • Or: Sam Register lets Warren Ellis revamp a kids cartoon.
  • G.I. Joe: Renegades: A group of A-Team Expies is on the run. The terrorists are now a Megacorp.
• The Godzilla Power Hour: A giant lizard lets a boatful of people babysit his special-needs nephew.
• Godzilla: The Series: A scientist goes on adventures with his son, who happens to be a giant lizard. Also contains a robot that has the same luck as Kenny.
• Goof Troop: An Abusive Parent forces a Good Parent to do his bidding. Meanwhile, a well-cared-for kid forces a mistreated kid to do his bidding. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Or, alternatively, a show where almost every episode involves fat guys being tortured.
• Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return: Evil lava men try to conquer the island they live in, accidentally causing natural catastrophes in a single American town in the meanwhile. Four kids from the aforemented town transform into elemental golems to stop them.
• Gravedale High: Rick Moranis becomes a teacher at a high school for monsters. And the vampire is friends with a werewolf.
• Gravity Falls:
  • Twins live with their creepy uncle in the middle of nowhere. Weird stuff happens.
  • Alternatively, A Grumpy Old Man runs a tourist trap by day and does shady things in his basement at night. Meanwhile, Polar Opposite Twins deal with the Monster of the Week.
  • Con artist spends years trying to get three books thanks to a series of events that started when a researcher had a dream about a talking triangle. In the present, twins on summer vacation deal with horrors such as: a secret society devoted to forgetting stuff, zombies that are weak to karaoke, golf ball-people, a pile of candy, a jerkass unicorn, and a dating sim character.
  • Weirdmageddon: Dapper illuminati unleashes horrors from another dimension to a small town in the middle of nowhere. He is beaten up by a house and punched by a conman, and the whole town is required by law to not go to therapy afterwards.
• Green Eggs and Ham (2019): Two guys illegally carry a weird animal around while one of them repeatedly tries to get the other to eat rotten-looking food.
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series: An adaptation of a decades old comic book that has dozens of popular characters and storylines. It ignores most of them in order to focus on two original characters and their relationship.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: A no-nonsense girl and a life-loving boy prevent a thin man from doing his job.
  • Underfist: A black vampire-mummy-nerd, a spectral exterminator, a Giant Spider, a retired supervillain, and an imbecilic demon form a Super Team to fight evil.
• Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Naughty children get served extreme Disproportionate Retribution. Space Whale Aesop ensues. Also involves an old guy committing animal abuse Once per Episode.
• Grojband: A bunch of kids write songs by driving a mean teenage girl crazy.
• Grossology: Two kids battle Nausea Fuel-themed supervillainy, educating the audience in the process.
• Hailey's On It!: The key to preventing a Bad Future is a teenage girl's bucket list.
• Hammerman: A superhero version of MC Hammer with a pair of sentient magical shoes battles villains with his dance moves and rap.
• Harvey Beaks: A bird plays with demons.
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: Former superhero becomes a defense attorney for cartoon characters from the '60s and '70s.
• Hazbin Hotel: Set in a universe where everyone is an asshole — both the good and the bad sides — and the protagonist is a sheltered princess who tries making it so that everyone can go to a place that's basically just a shinier version of the Urban Hellscape they're already living in.
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: A prince constantly clashes with a Large Ham with a skull for a face.
  • She-Ra: Princess of Power: The prince's long-lost sister constantly clashes with a Large Ham who looks like a vampire but isn't.
  • She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: An orphan girl joins some rebels after learning her adopted family is evil and getting a cool sword, while her catgirl best friend stays behind and tries to become the Big Bad herself.
    • Or, the Cycle of Abuse: The Cartoon.
• Hero Elementary: Kids have to save helpless citizens using science.
• Hey Arnold!: A Marty Stu solves problems around his neighborhood. Meanwhile, one of his bullies goes insane over her crush on him.
• Here Comes the Grump: A boy, a girl and their pet travel around while a jerk follows them.
• Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi: Two Japanese chicks with weird hair travel around in their bus playing rock music and getting into weird hijinks.
• Hilda: A child encounters a variety of bizzare creatures from old myths who try and kill her most of the time.
  • Alternatively, a blue-haired girl living in Scandinavia befriends various monsters, most of whom are extremely eccentric and/or jerks.
• Histeria!: An eccentric cast consisting of two old people, a flatulent baby, a ditzy tour guide, a man with really tall pants, and some wacky kids star in comedy sketches with historical figures.
• The Hollow: Three kids Wake Up In A Room and learn what happens when you play too many video games.
  • Or: Arguing: The Cartoon.
• Home Movies: A feminine ADD-riddled kid makes movies with a fat kid & masculine girl. He also takes advice from his fat middle-aged coach, whose only pick up line is to ask women if their father was fat.
• Hoppity Hooper: A Con Man and his partner, who is terrible at playing the bugle, trick a small and gullible green guy that they're his relatives. An obscure entry from a well-known cartoon creator.
• Horrid Henry: Badly-behaved boy bullies his little brother and plays tricks on people. He very rarely, if ever, learns his lesson.
  • Alternatively, British couple hate their son for existing.
• Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers: A Merchandise-Driven series about a bunch of racers who drive improbable cars and fight robots. In the second series, one of the bad guys is the lead's father. In the third installment, the helper AI looks a lot like Cortana and they fight furries too. The movies and series are made by some people who made a show about people who live in your computer, and other people who made a series about incompetent supervillains and knights with airplanes.
  • Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5: A Merchandise-Driven series about a bunch of racers who drive improbable cars and fight robots and beastmen for keys.
• HouseBroken: The Secret Life of Pets if it was an adult cartoon.
• House of Mouse: A bunch of cartoon characters go to a night club to watch cartoons.
  • Mickey's House of Villains: A bunch of criminals kick out the owners of the nightclub and take over to watch slightly scarier cartoons.
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: A green guy annoyed with a very happy time of the year tries to stop many people's joy by stealing everything from them. He decides that he should help them at the end.
  • Halloween Is Grinch Night: A bunch of animals can't knock off their racket, so the green guy goes down a mountain to vent his frustration on the peaceful community he stole from.
• The Huckleberry Hound Show: An oddly-colored canine gets punched and sings folk music.
• I Am Weasel: An idiot with a big butt tries to outdo a God-Mode Sue. Hilarity Ensues. Occasionally, an insane crossdresser with no pants appears too.
• Infinity Train: Some people get on a train, but learn they can't get off until they talk about their feelings.
  • Alternatively, people are forced go on a train to get therapy.
  • The Polar Express but even more things are trying to kill the main characters.
  • Book 1: A girl copes with her parents' divorce by taking a long train ride.
  • Book 2: A demon from another dimension rampages through a train, tries to steal an innocent person's life, murders an officer of the law, and gets a boyfriend.
  • Book 3: A troubled cult leader adopts a turtle and must protect it from her psychotic incel boyfriend.
  • Book 4: Two ambiguously gay childhood friends are angry at each other, but also bond by getting angry at a hotel concierge bell.
• I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids: Four kids prevent a dyscalculic teacher from enslaving children.
• Insektors: A civilization of colorful insects struggles against a mechanized pollution-clogged empire's attempts to exterminate them. Said empire aims to accomplish this by uprooting flowers and using mechanized frogs.
• Inside Job (2021): A socially awkward 30-something genius woman works in the deep state, alongside a redhead himbo, a giant sentient psychic mushroom, a horny Functional Addict doctor, a fake news journalist, and a half-man-half-dolphin abomination. Her constantly drunk father used to work there in the past, and he can't stop annoying her.
• Inspector Gadget: Cyborg detective accidentally thwarts a Diabolical Mastermind's attempts to kill him. His niece and his dog do the rest of his work for him.
• Invader Zim: A short megalomaniac and his idiotic robot slave from a society where height determines rank tries to conquer/destroy the ultimate Crapsack World while being opposed by the ultimate Butt-Monkey. Also involves pigs and monkeys. And doom.
  • Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus: Evil midget and furry robot try to show their work to their leaders, who decide to kill them instead. The day is saved by a paranoid nerd, a gamer girl, and their father who thinks he hallucinated the whole thing.
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Remember Teen Tony? 'Cause we're making an All-CGI Cartoon using the same idea!
• Jackie Chan Adventures: An archaeologist and his family fight criminals and demons with the power of magic and kung-fu. His niece gets on his nerves.
• Jacob Two-Two: A kid with a habit of repeating everything he says has weird adventures around Montreal.
• Jane and the Dragon: With the help of a lizard she just met, a girl sets off to become a knight. Also features wolves that don't like to appear on screen, and a cast of jesters and handmaidens that seem to wear only one outfit ever.
• Jelly Jamm: Human Aliens live in a world where music is so important that time literally stops if all the music stops playing, but a lot of the adventures they have surprisingly don't have that much to do with music a lot of the time.
• Jellystone!: Remember all those classic Hanna-Barbera characters? They're back in a dense and wacky show by the creator of Chowder. Also, half of them are female now.
• Jem: Based on a line of dolls in The '80s during The Dark Age of Animation. To get control of her father's company back from a Corrupt Corporate Executive, a Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter becomes a pink-haired Idol Singer, and her younger biological and adopted sisters become her back-up band. They all deal with a crush from the Idol Singer's boyfriend, the annoying punk band that the Corrupt Corporate Executive hired, and everyone's gigantic crazy hair.
  • Alternately: A hard-luck Los Angeles orphan magically moonlights as the "perfect" rock star who cheats on her boyfriend, has her life routinely threatened by a Terrible Trio and suffers several identity crises. It's a children's cartoon.
• The Jetsons: The life and times of a family, who live very comfortable lives even though the patriarch constantly loses his job.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes: A pollyanna runs around Hell annoying Satan, with the Anti-Anti-Christ and a Mad Scientist with a yandere-level crush on him.
• Johnny Bravo: Good-looking but sleazy Elvis impersonator who lives with his mother gets into weird hijinks and gets beat up by nearly every woman he meets.
  • Or: Incel engages in sexual harassment; this is Played for Laughs.
• Johnny Test: A pair of scientists supply high-tech weaponry to a volatile maniac and his best friend (who, by the way, is a dog). The government fails to put a stop to this.
  • Or: The inverse of Dexter's Laboratory
• Jonny Quest: A scientist and his bodyguard take two children on life-threatening adventures.
  • Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures: Update this for The '90s, add a fourteen-year old Action Girl, and some Deep-Immersion Gaming.
• KaBlam!!: A disaster-prone boy and a cute yet sarcastic girl host a show containing many different cartoons.
• Kaeloo: A girl with a Jekyll & Hyde complex forces an idiot, a drug-addicted God-Mode Sue with the same powers as Kenny McCormick, and an Ax-Crazy sadomasochistic psychopath with whom she has Unresolved Sexual Tension to play children's games with her. Occasionally, their equally insane neighbors (who have no reason to be there) may also show up.
• Kappa Mikey: A teenage actor goes to Japan to star in an Affectionate Parody of Anime.
• Kid Cosmic: 4 humans and a cat play with some rocks. Then a bunch of foreigners come over to try and stop them from playing with rocks. Their reaction is to beat up those foreigners. After the end of the first season, everybody gets a rock of their own to play with.
• Kid vs. Kat: A boy must stop his sister's pet from taking over the world. Nothing ever goes right for him.
• Kidd Video: A rip-off of Yellow Submarine for the The '80s.
• Kim Possible: Schoolgirl who takes on a lot of extra work ends up dating her best friend since pre-school. Fans read lesbian subtext into Disney cartoon, creators are happy to oblige.
• King Arthur & the Knights of Justice: Merlin recruits an American football team and their waterboy to protect Camelot and find lost keys.
• King Arthur's Disasters: A king constantly fails to satisfy a Rich Bitch.
• King of the Hill: It's like The Simpsons in Texas, and it tries to show how Texans are just like everyone else. So it's like The Simpsons.
  • Or: A man really interested in fuels has to deal with things outside of his comfort zone. His friends include a conspiracy theorist, a hard to understand Kavorka Man, and a guy who became a depressed creep after his life went to hell.
  • "Hank's Unmentionable Problem": A man takes a crap. Beethoven's 9th plays.
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: A girl tries to beat Fallout by maxing out her speech skill. Her munchkin friend does not approve of this plan.
  • The inverse of Undertale.
• Kitty Is Not a Cat: A bunch of cats try to take care of a child who acts feline. It’s Played for Laughs.
• Lazer Tag Academy: Teenage chick goes back in time to help her teenage great great whatever grandparents save the future. Has a gun that shoots light.
• League of Super Evil: A midget, a Mad Scientist, a Chummy Commie, and a Hellhound try to take over the world by poking poodles.
• Legend of the Three Caballeros: A bird and his Latino friends inherit a cabana. They end up in a cosmic war.
• Legion of Super Heroes (2006): A teenage version of history's most famous superhero fights crime in the distant future with a gigantic group of other superpowered adolescents.
• Les Sisters: A Phoneaholic Teenager and her annoying little sister come up with hare-brained schemes to get whatever they want. Amusing Injuries and property damage ensue.
• Let's Go Luna!: Some kids explore the world with the guidance of a humongous rock from space.
• Liberty's Kids: The American Revolution for kids!
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: A girl keeps peace among monsters Invisible to Normals.
• Life's a Zoo: Seven dysfunctional Funny Animals compete for a mansion and completely trash it in the process. No one ever gets eliminated from the competition.
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Pokémon Sun and Moon: The Heavily Disneyfied Version released years before the games were even conceived with 183 fewer Mons to catch.
• Linus the Lionhearted: A number of commercial mascots for a cereal company engage in wacky adventures.
• The Lion Guard: A boy and his friends make sure that people are eating each other in moderation.
• Little Einsteins: A band has world tours, but still needs the viewer's help.
• Littlest Pet Shop (2012): An aspiring fashion designer gets a part-time job as a pet sitter.
• Looney Tunes: Ensemble piece featuring the adventures of a smart trickster rabbit with a penchant for crossdressing, a wacky fowl with bad luck, a stuttering swine, an Extreme Omnivore marsupial, a smelly Don Juan, an unlucky persistent canine, and a rooster with a mean streak.
  • Daffy Duck-Bugs Bunny-Elmer Fudd shorts: A duck and a rabbit use various tricks to avoid a hunter who intends on eating them.
  • Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner: A desert canine, despite being backed by millions of dollars of technology and equipment, fails to catch a flightless bird, albeit one who can keep pace with The Flash.
    • Or: A depiction of the struggles of a canine to catch its prey, who used cunning and the ability to disregard the laws of nature to avoid apprehension.
  • Pepé Le Pew: A Romantic Comedy where the male lead is a Stalker with a Crush on a woman with paint on her back. This is sometimes reversed, though.
  • Bugs Bunny: A Deadpan Snarker rabbit defeats hunters, monsters, carnivores, and Those Wacky Nazis.
  • The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries: An old lady travels around the world solving crimes while her cat tries to eat her bird.
  • Taz-Mania: Brown furry animal with speech problem lives with family, works at a hotel, tries to avoid being captured by two reptiles, and hangs out with an orange canine who collects soda caps.
  • Russian Rhapsody: One murderous tyrant tries to bomb another. The latter tyrant sends a magic legion to stop the former. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Private Snafu: The draft board slips up and allows a prize moron into the US Army. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs with a little help from a Literal Genie.
  • Duck Amuck: Rage Against the Author: the Animated Cartoon.
  • What's Opera, Doc?: A white man discovers that his female love interest is in fact biologically male, gets angry and kills them. Considered one of the greatest animated works in history.
  • One Froggy Evening: Budding music promoter struggles with his client's stage fright. The performer eventually goes into advertising.
• The Loud House: A white-haired kid is rapidly outnumbered by his sisters.
• Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil: A trio of extremely violent clergymen travel to San Francisco in an attempt to hunt down and kill the Antichrist, a female barkeeper who is genuinely indifferent to her father's comically ill thought-out evil plans. Unless they involve dildos (don't ask). Also, Jesus is a DJ.
• MAD: Robot Chicken for kids.
• Mad Jack the Pirate: a snarky captain and his single crewman sail to odd locations. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Alternatively, Blackadder the animated series.
• Maggie and the Ferocious Beast: A little girl, a monster with an unfitting name, and a pig have adventures where nothing happens.
• Magic Adventures of Mumfie A talking elephant, talking scarecrow and flying pig go on adventures.
• The Magic School Bus: A crazy red-haired woman regularly subjects elementary-aged children to life-threatening situations without the knowledge of their parents. Protests from the children are usually ignored or glibly dismissed.
• Making Fiends: A little girl is cheerfully oblivious to the fact that her hometown sucks and her best friend wants to kill her.
• The Many Adventures Of Mr Mailman: A mailman delivers letters and packages to children's relatives.
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: A boy, his stepmother whale, and a washed-up pirate with prosthetic hands live in a run-down harbor town where weird and disturbing things happen, and search for candy and/or adventure.
• Masha and the Bear: A Russian circus artist can't enjoy his retirement because a little girl that lives nearby annoys him.
• Matt's Monsters: A man who is unable to tell that his son's goth friend is a girl catches monsters while his wife works on advertising their job.
• Mega Man (Ruby-Spears): The adventures of a robot, his sister with a vacuum cleaner for a hand, and his dog that acts like Scooby-Doo. He has encounters with lion men, monster movie robots, and his brother.
• Megas XLR: Lovable slacker from New Jersey refurbishes a Humongous Mecha from the future that he finds in a dump. Aliens want to steal the mecha for their own purposes. Lots of things explode.
• Metalocalypse: A well-off group of famed, socially inept musicians enjoy the ups and downs of their above-the-law status, while a board of powerful figures think they're a force to be reckoned with and attempt to stop them. The bands manger is a Magnificent Bastard ninja-accountant. Hilarity Ensues and a clown does cocaine.
• The Midnight Gospel: A shirtless loser has psychedelic experiences while interviewing a talking fish, giant dogs, a magical knight, the president, and Death for his podcast.
• Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series: Crime fighters from another universe come to Earth... and play hockey.
• Mighty Magiswords: A brother and sister do odd jobs while collecting equally odd tools.
• Mike, Lu & Og: A city girl, an Alpha Bitch, and an inventor have adventures on a desert island.
• Milo Murphy's Law: The unluckiest boy in the world tries to get through everyday situations while dangerous and bizarre things happen to him and his friends.
  • Or: The mere presence of Weird Al causes all hell to break loose.
• Miraculous Ladybug: Two socially awkward teens save Paris from people who get angry.
  • Or: Cute Girl and Cute Boy simultaneously pine after, friendzone each other and fight crime.
  • Or: Dramatic Irony: The Animated Series.
  • Or: Man repeatedly sends hitmen after his fourteen-year-old son and his girlfriend.
  • Or: Two kids fight a jewelry-stealing magical terrorist using a yoyo and a stick.
• Mission Hill: An aspiring cartoonist puts up with his younger brother.
• Mixels: Colorful robot-like creatures Fusion Dance to fix any situation. Black cube creatures try and stop them from doing such.
• Molly of Denali: A girl makes vlogs about Alaska.
• Monster High: Teenage offspring of various Halloween mascots attend high school. Expect a lot of puns.
• Monsters at Work: A college graduate gets accepted into his dream job only to find out the position he trained for is no longer available, so he gets reassigned to the maintenance team, much to his dismay.
• Monster Farm: A guy inherits a farm from his great uncle, but the animals aren't really normal-looking.
• Moominvalley: A troll pines after a homeless guy while neglecting his girlfriend and being annoyed by the homeless guy's sister. Sometimes his father has stupid ideas.
• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): A girl skates around New York with a dinosaur she yoinked from the past.
• Moral Orel: A Cheerful Child thinks Jesus Was Way Cool. It's horribly depressing.
• Motorcity: The fate of an oppressed Detroit lies in the hands of five motor junkies.
• Moville Mysteries: Malcolm in the Middle now has blue skin and encounters weird, creepy stuff around his hometown.
• Mr Benn: A man makes regular visits to a costume shop but never buys anything.
• The Mr. Men Show: Various one-joke characters go about their day-to-day lives.
• Mr. Pickles: A family's adorable and innocent-seeming pet dog is secretly Satan. And this is far from the most disturbing element contained within the show.
• Muppet Babies: Kindergarten versions of famous puppet characters let their imaginations run away with them.
• My Adventures with Superman: Two interns are befriended by a small town fellow who’s really a superhuman alien. Adventure ensues.
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey!: Due to a spelling error, a boy ends up going to school with animals. He isn't happy about this but no one cares.
• My Knight and Me: A boy and his father go on adventures along with a Tomboy in a fantasy setting.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: A cute girl locked in her home by her Mad Scientist mother learns how to be normal while saving the world. She also meets a nerd with a robot fetish.
• My Little Pony 'n Friends: Talking ponies who may or may not be lesbians live with human siblings in a magic Lady Land^note  There are male ponies, but they're all nomadic
• My Little Pony Tales: Colorful equines with pictures on their thighs live their lives like any normal teenagers. Supernatural elements happen only briefly in exactly two episodes.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A half-hour toy commercial about rainbow-colored talking livestock learning the value of friendship, spawning thousands of memes. Oh, and Elvis is a Smug Snake.
  • Or: Chuck Jones meets Lisa Frank.
  • Or: a sarcastic bookworm reluctantly befriends a stubborn hard-working farmer, an ultra-feminine fashion designer, a painfully-shy animal lover, a pink-haired space cadet, and a boastful jock to Save the World from the national leader's sister, who wants to permanently switch off the lights after spending a millennium abroad just because her subjects like daytime better.
  • Or: One of the most widely despised franchises of all time is revived with Flash animation. It rips off the style of other popular shows.
  • Or: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra WITH HORSES!
  • Or: Cute, talking, pastel-colored ponies do girly things like baking, going to galas, and organizing weddings. It has become the show for real men to watch.
  • Or: A bookworm warns her country's ruler of an impending threat and gets sentenced to live in the boonies. The bookworm turns out to be absolutely right. Afterwards, she is required to write back to the ruler every now and then.
  • Or: A nerdy bookworm, her dragon sidekick, a genki party animal, an honest farmer, a gem-loving fashionista, a tomboyish athlete, a shy animal-lover, three destiny-seeking children, and later on a former cult leader learn about The Power of Friendship.
  • Or: Horses make friends. Butt tattoos are an important plot point. Some of the most popular characters are background characters and animation errors.
  • Season 1: Six horses harness their virtues to stop their ruler's little sister's emo phrase, and ruin said ruler's party.
  • Season 2: The horses prevent a guy with a lolsorandom sense of humor from playing pranks on people, and stop the brother of the main horse from marrying an insect.
  • Season 3: An edgy OC tries to fill a rock city with evil rocks, and the main horse gets promoted to royalty for being a good friend.
  • Season 4: The horses give up their magic villain-defeating rocks to power a tree. In return, the tree gives the main horse a house shaped like a hand flipping you off after her old house gets destroyed.
  • Season 5: The horses escape a communist cult and free the cultists. The cult leader takes revenge by going back in time to prevent the horses from seeing one of them do a cool thing when they were kids.
  • Season 6: A child accidentally breaks the magic thing keeping the rock city's weather in check. Later, the insects learn how to stop being hungry without eating.
  • Season 7: In the past, six historical figures tried to stop some edgelord from being edgy. The present day horses bring them all to the present and cure him of his edginess.
  • Season 8: The horses start an inclusive school, which is almost closed by racists and a little girl is banished to Hell.
  • Season 9: The lolsorandom guy tricks all the previous bad guys who are still evil into becoming friends with each other. Also, the main horse ends up promoted as the god-queen of the country who controls celestial bodies for being a very very good friend.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: A princess goes ape when her crown is stolen. To get it back, she must be crowned in a high school dance. She reunites five national heroines' counterparts and sparks two flash mobs to this end.
    • Or: A bookworm goes to Bluffington.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: The same princess teams up with her new friends to start a rock band.
    • Or: A former demon sulks until she's handed a microphone by the same people who recently left her in a smoking crater.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games: A student who happens to look like the princess plays extreme sports.
    • Or: A princess's body double displays antisocial tendencies and poor hand-eye coordination, performs an unprecedented act of vandalism, and gets hugged.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree: The look-alike student and her friends go to summer camp, where they must deal with businessmen, explosive baking ingredients, and PTSD.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night:
    • Dance Magic: A former demon and her friends make a music video.
    • Movie Magic: The same former demon and her friends go to a movie set.
    • Mirror Magic: The same former demon gets help from a former dictator to stop a jealous concession stand employee from using a mirror.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship: The same former demon makes a yearbook. Amnesia ensues.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rollercoaster of Friendship: A farmer is upset her fashionista friend got a job.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown: An overeager student athlete annoys all her friends on their vacation.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Sunset's Backstage Pass: A former demon is repeatedly kicked out of a music festival.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Holidays Unwrapped: Snowball fights are Serious Business.
• Nate Is Late: Two kids try to get to school but always end up getting into crazy adventures instead.
• Ned's Newt: A kid and his pet amphibian have various misadventures. But only after the amphibian has been given something to eat.
• Neo Yokio: Young socialite is a sorcerer for hire. Big Toblerones are Serious Business.
• Niko and the Sword of Light: A kid wielding a magic sword is joined by a ghostly princess to face a recluse.
• Ninjago: Toy blocks stop bad guys ranging from a textbook Evil Overlord to a noodle shop owner by spinning very fast.
• Noddy's Toyland Adventures: The adventures of a doll who drives a car in a land of Living Toys.
• Numberjacks: Sentient numbers hiding in a sofa go out and solve maths problems in the real world. They need children to help them.
• The Nutshack: A dumb, fat Asian guy and his monkey, rat, cyborg thing move in with the former’s amoral cousin while they have an uncle who’s obsessed with his genitals. Also, memetic theme song.
• Ōban Star-Racers: Pod racing to appoint God.
  • Alternatively: A bratty teen enrolls in a wacky race with aliens to appease her deadbeat dick of a dad and has to save the universe from a flock of buff moths and one angry bird.
• The Octonauts: Funny Animals with giant heads rescue sea creatures using submarines.
• Off the Air: No plot, just a new vague theme each episode. Creators are not directly responsible for most of the content, yet they still only manage to make about four episodes a year.
• Oggy and the Cockroaches: Three insects try to bother a cat.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: A little kid, a ninja and an alien fight robots. They're usually the exact same robots.
  • Alternatively, a child works in a store. His father's boyfriend regularly sends his children to destroy the store.
• Oswaldo: penguin has totally bizarre yet completely mundane adventures in Rio de Janeiro.
• Over the Garden Wall: Two half-brothers in home-made Halloween costumes learn to get along after going on a long, frequently-spooky nature walk with a talking bird.
• The Owl House: A teenager from another world, a magic-user, and a dog battle monsters, but the resident edgy kid steals a key while an old dude tries to open a door. No, it's not Kingdom Hearts.
  • Or: A girl who likes turning her eyelids inside out goes to Hell, except Satan is a 17th century Evil Colonialist, and she moves in with a woman who can't stop turning into a bird, her Cubone son, and an annoying bird-faced worm who lives on their front door.
  • Or mk. 2: A version of Harry Potter where Kwikspell actually works, and a muggle uses it to attend Hogwarts and date the counterpart to Draco Malfoy. She really hates the Golden Snitch.
  • "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door": Annoying bird-faced worm forces a child to give up his blood, drugs a woman, kidnaps the local school's top student and tries to get her to fall in love with a weird girl who likes turning her eyelids inside out, and nearly gets all of the above killed.
• PAW Patrol: A group of dogs comprise a town's emergency rescue team.
• Pelswick: An extremely obscure anti-ableism cartoon created by a controversial artist. For kids.
• The Penguins of Madagascar: Crazed birds spy on humans.
• The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: Seven little men protect an heiress from her greedy guardian and his twin henchmen.
• Pig Goat Banana Cricket: Three talking animals and a fruit live in a toaster and spend 22 minutes embroiled in an out-weirding match.
• Phineas and Ferb: Two boys shaped like their initials try to not get bored during summer vacation. Sometimes girl scouts help them. Their long-necked sister tries to get them in trouble for things. Meanwhile, a cartoony-looking animal fights a pharmacist-looking guy.
  • Alternately: The same exact thing happens every single episode. A good portion of the characters are voiced by Disney Channel stars. Meanwhile, an aquatic egg-laying mammal wrecks the dreams of a European man.
  • Alternately again: A clingy sister stalks her younger brothers in the hopes of getting them in trouble with their oblivious parents. They in turn work with highly dangerous material that they don't seem to ever pay for and neglect their pet, actually a secret agent who goes through the whole dog-and-pony act with his lame arch-nemesis who is sometimes quite sympathetic.
  • Alternately yet again: Evil is thwarted in the b-plot while a teenage girl runs herself ragged trying to stop a group of kids from having fun.
  • Still alternately: Marvel as a teenage girl suffers a steady plunge into mental illness!
  • Alternately once more: Ferris Bueller, split in half and ON STEROIDS!!
  • Alternatively yet again: It's about a highly unconventional, gay relationship between an amicably divorced father and an exotic pet in a nice hat. Oh, and some kids build things in their backyard.
  • And the final alternative, directly from one of the show's creators: it's "the rantings of two middle-aged men who believed kids didn't get out and do things anymore."
  • Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension: The main characters travel to an alternate dimension where the pharmacist-looking guy doesn't dress like a pharmacist. And is also much eviler and has taken over the world, despite having a lot less sad backstory. He attempts to take over the main dimension too, but is thwarted in an epic battle that the boys' mother never sees. Then most of the important characters promptly forget about all these events.
• Pingu: A gibberish-speaking bird gets in trouble. Several episodes have been censored and banned for being scary.
• The Pink Panther Cartoons: A Cool Cat who is male despite his color and usually has no voice has random adventures in a diamond. He is usually accompanied by an inept French policeman; a talking ant and aardvark, both of whom imitate famous people; and two hungry frogs from Mexico.
• Pinky and the Brain: Two lab rats, one short and irritable, the other tall and easily impressionable, devise schemes to Take Over the World.
  • Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain: The two lab rats continue to devise schemes to Take Over the World - provided, of course, they put up with the distractions of their new owner from another series.
• The Pirates of Dark Water: Small, ragtag band of heroes search the oceans for ancient treasures that are needed to stop an all-consuming black sludge from devouring the world. The fact that the show never finished became a Running Gag on Cartoon Network for years.
• Postman Pat: A man delivers letters to a local village while driving around in a red van with his cat. Often helping the locals out with their problems.
• Potatoes and Dragons: A jerkish King is repeatedly harassed by a dragon, and hires knights to get rid of it. They fail due to the King's daughter, jester, and a child being in cahoots with said dragon.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Three super strong chemically perfect little girls with no fingers are hired to destroy a city on a regular basis by fighting monsters and a monkey with a big head.
  • Alternately: Three kindergartners fight a monkey, an angry pink hillbilly, a spoiled brat, a bunch of germs, some diseased homeless teenagers, a hot woman, three male kindergarteners, and Satan.
• The P-Pals: A bunch of cartoony anthropomorphic P-Heads hang out and have fun in a theme park between PBS Kids programs. Sometimes, comedienne Paula Poundstone will join in, Roger Rabbit-style.
• Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders: Three girls and their horses must recover lost jewelry.
• Primal (2019): A caveman and a T-Rex struggle to survive.
• Producing Parker: A high-strung TV producer tries to balance her personal and professional lives, and often looks to her talking dog for guidance.
• Project Gee Ke R: Two characters named after literary figures attempt to shelter an artificial god from another man named after a literary figure.
• Purno de Purno: A purple suited man gets into strange situations with strange people.
• Quick Draw McGraw: The adventures of a Wild West sheriff who fights better when armed with a guitar and hangs out with a Mexican jackass.
• The Raccoons: A trio of trash pandas stop a money-grubbing aardvark from ruining the forest they live in. Said aardvark becomes less of a threat as the series progresses. Based on a Christmas special.
  • The episode "Spring Fever!": An adult male simps for a teenage girl. The show portrays his behavior as charming rather than creepy.
• Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: A high school student becomes the next ninja and battles robots, monsters, an evil scientist and millionaire, and a sorcerer, with his Fat Best Friend.
• Rainbow Brite: A pug-nosed toddler, her furry sidekick, and her egotistical horse fight evil with the power of the visible light spectrum.
• Ready Jet Go!: Three kids: a little girl, a perfectionist, and a sci-fi geek befriend a Large Ham alien and learn science from a Ms. Frizzle Expy and a talking computer.
• ReBoot: Green-skinned humans and oddly-shaped... things defend a city from megalomaniacs and pocket dimensions created by their "god''.
• Recess: A Five-Man Band of elementary school kids who do stuff on the playground.
  • Recess: School's Out: The kids commit several felonies in order to stop a Professor Moriarty wannabe.
• Regular Show: Two Funny Animals working at a park turn their mundane activities into bizarre and surreal adventures.
  • Or: Two slackers who work as groundskeepers nearly destroy the world and each other by doing absolutely nothing. This has happened every episode for over four seasons.
  • Regular Show: The Movie: The animals travel through time to prevent themselves from inventing time travel and their former teacher from travelling through time and erasing all of time with a big time tornado.
• Rekkit Rabbit: A magician's rabbit escapes from his owner's clutch to a random kid's house. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Or: The Fairly OddParents!, but there is no Wanda and with a black stepdad.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: A cat and dog have disturbing adventures.
  • Or: An asthmatic chihuahua and an overweight manx cat survive through being beaten up, hanged, electrocuted, set on fire, ripped off of their skin, put in a teargas room, sent on a mission to space to do nothing in particular that takes them 36 years while they suffer mental destabilization/being sucked into a black hole/alienated on a Crapsack World planet.
• Rick and Morty: An anxious boy and his alcoholic grandpa have interdimensional adventures that frequently make you question your existence.
  • An irreverent yet troubled Mad Scientist drags the rest of his also troubled family into his bizarre misadventures across the universe.
• Ridley Jones: Night at the Museum FOR TODDLERS!
• The Ripping Friends: Four overly-muscular men fight crime. Their chief is their mother.
  • Alternatively: Four strong manchildren solve problems by wrecking stuff.
• Road Rovers: A few dogs owned by world leaders are selected to become Animal Superheroes who fight a cyborg who was once a cat that seeks to conquer the world by turning dogs into mutants.
• Robot and Monster: An optimist and an inventor go on various misadventures while working at a factory.
• Robot Chicken: The childhood memories of a whole generation are mercilessly parodied.
  • Alternatively: Former child actor and his friends rape childhood memories, while playing with toys.
  • Alternatively: (Seasons 1-4) A new wave of claymat—er, stop-motion that involves Generation Xers playing with slightly altered licensed toys and paper dolls while trying to expand on their range of voices.
  • Alternatively: (Seasons 5 and on) Family Guy with puppets.
• Robotboy: Japanese kid with superpowers moves to America where his friends teach him how to be normal. Meanwhile his dad's arch nemesis tries to turn him into a weapon for world domination.
• Robotomy: Two 9th-graders try to make it through high school. They repeatedly get maimed, injured or killed. But it's okay.
• Rocket Monkeys: Two sociopathic idiots are sent on life-threatening space missions and harass a supervillain who looks like a banana.
• Rocko's Modern Life: Misadventures of an Australian immigrant, whose best friend was Raised by Wolves.
• Rocky and Bullwinkle: A moose and a squirrel travel the world, thwarting evil and making bad puns.
  • Alternatively, a mentally challenged man and his possibly genderqueer roommate are on the run from spies who want to kill them for reasons that aren't quite clear. Intended for kids.
  • Fractured Fairy Tales: Edward Everett Horton reads messed-up classic children's stories.
  • Peabody's Improbable History: An intelligent dog and his pet boy travel through history where things don't turn out how they actually happen.
    • Mr. Peabody & Sherman: The same thing, only with daddy issues and an OC, and the aforementioned pet boy almost causes The End of the World as We Know It.
  • Dudley Do-Right: An incompetent mountie saves the day through sheer luck.
  • Aesop and Son: A famous storyteller teaches his fictional son life's lessons through his stories.
• Roger Ramjet: A pill-popping superhero and his army of Child Soldiers save the world.
• Rosie's Rules: A little girl wants to know about stuff, and flops when something goes wrong.
• Ruby Gloom: A little girl lives in a house full of monsters, including an unlucky banshee, a skeleton with family issues, a cyclops with ADHD, a cat who can see ghosts, and... non-identical conjoined twins. The cat is the Only Sane Man, but nobody can understand her.
• Rugrats: A group of babies have adventures while their parents aren't looking.
  • All Grown Up!: Nine years later, a group of teens have adventures while their parents aren't looking.
• Sally Bollywood: An Indian girl and her possibly-Scottish best friend solve crimes.
• Sam & Max: Freelance Police: A naked guy and his dog hurt people and tell an underage girl to do stuff.
• Samurai Jack: A warrior is knocked into the future by a Large Ham Eldritch Abomination, and lands in a time after the abomination has conquered the world. He tries (and repeatedly fails) to get home, and occasionally thwarts his enemy's schemes for good measure.
  • An Asian man performs good deeds on a one way trip.
  • Samurai Jack season 5: The above series is revived more than a dozen years after its cancellation in order to be given a definitive conclusion. The warrior is now embittered and broken from decades of getting literally nowhere in his quest (and his Arch-Enemy is similarly broken from failing to kill him). This all starts to change when the warrior is attacked by a group of young cultists trained to kill him and he ends up inspiring one into a Heel–Face Turn.
    • Or: A man in his 70s or 80s kills all of a teenage girl's sisters and her father, then marries her.
• Sandmännchen: A guy in a pointy hat causes all kids watching to fall asleep. He has done this over 20,000 times.
• Sanjay and Craig: An Indian-American boy and a snake engage in nauseating activities.
• Scaredy Squirrel: A rodent with OCD works at a grocery store. Weirdness ensues.
• Scooby-Doo: Four teenagers and their talking dog repeatedly fail to realize the monsters they keep running into are just greedy people in cheap costumes.
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Three teenagers and a talking dog are led by another rich teenage stick in the mud with a trap fetish in solving mysteries in a town that has odd tourism gimmicks. They have UST with each other and the Disc-One Final Boss is a talking parrot that wears glasses and has a strange accent.
  • Darker and Edgier: The Animated Series.
• Sealab 2021: Idiots and loonies in a underwater research center routinely die.
• Secret Mountain Fort Awesome: Five nauseating monsters live in a mountain and do really weird and/or gross things.
• The Secret Saturdays: A kid, his parents, and his animal siblings meet creatures that science refuses to acknowledge. They are antagonized by Ludwig Von Drake in every place they go.
• The Secret Show: Spies steal another cartoon's timeslot to fight a bunch of weird villains. Their boss changes codename every day, much to his disdain.
• Secret Squirrel: A squirrel and a mole fight crime.
• Shadow Raiders: A miner leads a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits in a war against an Eldritch Abomination.
• Shaun the Sheep: Sheep secretly have fun.
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie: The sheep try to find their farmer while an animal control worker tries to murder them.
  • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon: The sheep encounter aliens. Their farmer commercializes said aliens while government agents try and mostly fail to make contact with them.
• Sheep in the Big City: A sheep attempts to evade capture by an incompetent military organisation while also settling into city life, frequently interrupted by fake advertisements and rants by the narrator.
• SheZow: A twelve-year-old boy fights crime after accidentally becoming a transvestite.
• Sid the Science Kid: A yellow-skinned, blue-haired boy has complete control over his school's science curriculum.
• The Simpsons: A weird family in a weird town.
  • Or, The Flintstones set in modern times. Also, everyone has jaundice.
  • A bunch of Harvard graduates, some with PhDs in highly lucrative fields, get together with the help of a then-obscure cartoonist to make a sitcom full of esoteric references, biting social criticism often making fun of their viewers, and a cast of characters in the quadruple-digits. Against all odds, the show became wildly popular and is well-known to have been on for a long, long time.
  • The Simpsons Movie: A fat guy dooms his town with pig crap.
• Sintel: A hobo girl sets out to find her missing pet. She loses track of time and ends up killing the pet. Deception ensues.
• Slugterra: A kid travels to the center of the Earth, where he engages in gunfights using Ridiculously Cute Critters as ammunition.
• Smiling Friends: Two friends set out to bring happiness and smiles to a world filled with strange, crazy, and sometimes downright terrifying people.
• The Smurfs (1981): One hundred men and one woman live in a village. They regularly fight a hermit and his cat.
• The Snowman: A pile vaguely shaped like a person flies around to some beautiful music and then dies.
• Sofia the First: A little girl talks to animals and learns to be proper while a woman who lives in a rock occasionally gives her new superpowers or temporarily casts curses on her. Later on, the woman leaves the rock and stops cursing her, but lets her keep all of the superpowers. Sometimes, characters from children's movies also come out of the rock.
• Solar Opposites: Four immigrants and their weird pet try to fit in and wind up causing widespread chaos.
• Sonic Boom: A guy who is 100% done with everything, a kid who dies all the time, a tall and buff goofball, a fanfic writer, and a paranoid conspiracy theorist daily battle a dorky evil scientist who can't seem to decide if he wants to destroy them or be their friend. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Alternatively, two hedgehogs, a fox, an echidna and a badger face robots sent by a wannabe bad guy. Played for Laughs.
  • Eggheads: Everyone gets an evil mustache from eating evil cookies. Except for the "100% done" guy. So he takes away everyone's mustaches.
  • Circus of Plunders: While the "constantly dying kid" is back at home, the rest of the gang literally run off to join the circus.
  • Unlucky Knuckles: The buff goofball attempts to put the universe back in balance by killing himself several times.
  • How to Succeed in Evil Without Really Trying: The constantly dying kid accidentally destroys stuff and ends up attending an evil potluck (which is later wrecked by pizza and pizzazz).
  • Don't Judge Me: Ace Attorney & Knuckles.
  • Sleeping Giant: The gang accidentally wake up a rock giant and the only way to calm it is to sing really, really badly.
  • Late Fees: The 100% done guy faces his greatest obstacle yet: old people.
  • Into the Wilderness: The 100% done guy and the buff goofball go into the wilderness and come out of the closet.
  • It Takes A Village to Defeat a Hedgehog: The dorky evil scientist recruits a bunch of bit players and a walking ratings stunt who hates them all. Meanwhile, the good guys fail at assembling furniture.
• Sonic Prime: Blue rodent accidentally screws up reality. He must work with alternate versions of his friends, as well as his rival, to fix everything.
• South Park: Boys have messed-up adventures while having to deal with idiotic adults, pop culture parodies and weird sex acts. Features lots of swearing and snow.
  • Or more simply, weird things happen to children.
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast: A retired superhero, evil mantis bandleader, cameraman made of molten lava, & mentally challenged pirate host a Talk Show, where they constantly blow off their guests by arguing with each other & reliving their glory days.
  • Cartoon Planet: The retired superhero, the evil mantis, and the mentally challenged pirate host a light and fluffy kids show. With musical numbers. Later episodes would show reruns of other cartoons.
• Space Goofs: A picnic goes terribly wrong, resulting in a gay crossdresser, a living cheeto, a blue guy with no neck, a British guy and a guy who argues with himself being forced to live in a house's attic.
• Special Agent OSO: James Bond is now a bear, but he fails so hard in his missions to help children with simple problems, he needs to get help from beyond the Fourth Wall.
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series: A censored as hell cartoon about the world's whiniest superhero based on his adventures in The Dark Age of Comic Books.
  • Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends: The superhero teams with a cold guy and a hot girl. A dog sometimes helps save the day.
  • Spider-Man Unlimited: A famous superhero changes his costume and gets stuck in the world filled with Talking Animals.
  • The Spectacular Spider-Man: The adventures of a smart-mouthed superhero with high school drama, complete with love triangles, thrown in.
  • Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): Inexperienced superhero deals with a team of jackasses and appearances of cooler superheroes thrown in for fanservice.
• Spliced: Mix-and-Match Critters do really weird and disturbing things while teaching children important lessons in the most wacked-out manners possible.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: A cheerful, dim-witted kitchen utensil works as a fry cook at an underwater fast-food restaurant.
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Said fry cook and his even dumber friend try to find a crown stolen from a bald king by a villainous microscopic organism and return it to him. Oh, and it has David Hasselhoff.
    • Alternatively: Two guys go to a gift shop to get a hat.
  • The Ugly Barnacle: A shellfish causes the Apocalypse. The story becomes a popular joke on a website.
• Sprout Diner: An elderly man, his daughter, and her daughter make food for children's characters who phone in.
• Squidbillies: A comedy about a poor boy living in the Georgia mountains with his drug-dealing aunt, abusive alcoholic in-and-out-of-prison father and incoherent, dying racist grandmother.
• Star Trek: The Animated Series: An Animated Adaptation that is both bargain basement cheaper and more visually spectacular than the original series.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: A bunch of misfits are fans of the universe they work in. Mythology Gag ensues.
  • Or: The Orville, but animated.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: A perky girl who claims to be a princess from another dimension befriends a thrill-seeking safety freak and turns his life upside-down. Ship Tease ensues.
  • Or: Magical princess blows stuff up, then gets caught up in political intrigue and relationship drama.
• Star Wars: Clone Wars: The story of a Galactic war told three minutes at a time.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: A troubled twentysomething and a Little Miss Badass rescue a mob big shot's son as a prelude to their misadventures (as well as those of a Deadpan Snarker blind to his best friend's failings, a pacifist who has to do a lot of fighting, her none-too-bright sidekick, a knee-high old man, a man who's sick of these motherfucking Evil Overlords in this motherfucking galaxy, and their mass-produced legions who will one day betray them) throughout a galactic war.
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch: After a major reorganization of the government, a band of quirky deserters deal with their bretheren's inability to receive a pension.
• Star Wars Rebels: A sword-wielding cultist recruits a street urchin to join a terrorist cell run by an ace pilot with a secret Skype buddy and consisting of a sociopathic robot, a surly member of an endangered species, and a graffiti artist who likes blowing things up.
• Steven Universe: Tag Along Kid learns his abilities and role as a hero while his sister-, mother-, and mentor-figures usually go on more interesting adventures offscreen.
  • Or alternatively, a Lighter and Softer Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
  • Or alternatively again, a boy hangs out with his rock collection.
  • Alternatively yet again, a boy with a rock lodged in his stomach makes friends with everyone who tries to murder him and even bigoted tyrants who have committed genocide. His mother was a war criminal who killed herself, his father lives in a van and has had sex with the rock in his stomach, and his solar-powered robot aunts are all different flavors of messed up.
  • Steven Universe: The Movie: A woman who moves like a deranged 30s cartoon character tries to destroy the Earth and kill a 16-year old because his mother made her play a really long waiting game.
  • Steven Universe: Future: After running out of enemies, the savior of the universe is forced to confront his control issues.
• Stickin' Around: Children face their everyday life with their imagination.
  • Alternatively: What happens when children are allowed to create their own animated cartoons.
• Stōked: A sextet of adolescents hangs around at the beach. Misadventures ensue... Wait, this sounds familiar.
• Storm Hawks: Four teens on X-wing motorbikes fight evil. The fifth member of their team stands in the background and talks about how they're all going to die.
• The Strange Chores: Two kids and a dead girl do chores for an old man. Most of these somehow lead to them being attacked by vampires, werewolves, Wicked Witches, or Eldritch Abominations.
• Stunt Dawgs: Two rival teams of stuntmen oppose each other. Hilarity Ensues.
• Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire: The animated adventures of a man who gets hurt for a living.
• Super Duper Sumos: Three young obese men fight crime using their scantily-clad bodies.
• The Super Hero Squad Show: A Super-Deformed Marvel Universe centers around a team who fight against their enemies to collect shards of a powerful weapon.
• Superjail!: What if Willy Wonka ran a high-security prison?
• SuperTed: A defective teddy bear is brought to life by an alien with spots and given super-powers by Mother Nature. Each episode, the teddy bear says his secret magic word, rips off his own skin, and goes and fights a cowboy and his henchmen, one of whom is a living skeleton.
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go Teenage boy breaks into a Humongous Mecha and is rewarded with Super Powers and five colourful pets. They defend the planet from the undead, a midget, a robot with a Verbal Tic, an insane Fanboy and a 200 foot gangster colon.
• Super Why!: Four kids and a dog transform into superheroes and come to storybook characters' rescue.
• SWAT Kats: Two police cadets are forced into auto repair because their boss was a glory hog. They decide not to let him completely get away with it.
• Sym-Bionic Titan: A deposed princess, her moody bodyguard, and a robot amoeba try to keep a low profile. For some reason, this involves fighting giant space monsters.
• Tales of Arcadia: A series of shows about strange things happening in a small town.
  • Trollhunters: A high-schooler gets a new extracurricular activity working for people who don't go out in the sun, fighting other people who don't like going out in the sun.
  • 3Below: Foreign royalty flee a coup and take refuge in the small town with their Large Ham bodyguard.
  • Wizards (2020): Underachiever who's Older Than They Look is told by his boss to gather protagonists from the previous two entries to fight environmental extremists across multiple timezones.
• TaleSpin: Indian wildlife who pilot airplanes, in the Caribbean, set in The '30s, who have Indiana Jones-like adventures, dogfight European wildlife working as pirate pilots, and deliver cargo to Ruritania-like countries, most of which are hostile or eccentric.
• Teacher's Pet: A dog disguises himself as a human in order to go to the same school that his owner goes to.
• Teamo Supremo: Three ordinary schoolchildren get time off from their schoolwork to fight crime.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Four pet-shop reptilians get covered in radioactive gunk, and grow into adolescent three-fingered freaks who learn how to fight from an anthropomorphic rodent. Their enemies include a guy with spiked armor and, depending on which series, a sentient brain with battle armor, the spike armored one's daughter, or both.
  • Or: premature reptiles studying ninjitsu while eating processed italian food.
    • Just saying the title gives a person a need to argue the show is Better Than It Sounds.
  • Turtles Forever: Three versions of the series overlap into a full on Crisis Crossover, with the gritty originals, a Lighter and Softer adaptation, and the more accurate series, and said spiked armor man becomes an Omnicidal Maniac who wants to destroy every universe.
• Teen Titans (2003): A goth, an immigrant, a shapeshifter, a robot, and a guy in spandex hang out in a giant "T" and argue over who gets the last slice of pizza. They fight crime.
  • Teen Titans Go!: The same people above, except now they're complete jerks who spend more time screwing with their team-mates than they do fighting crime.
    • Teen Titans Go! To the Movies: The guy in spandex wants his own movie and eventually gets one, but it turns out to be a villain's evil plan to brainwash everybody in the world, so the rest of the jerks make another movie for him. They also kill a young boy's parents and destroy an entire planet. The most well-known scenes are The Stinger and an Imagine Spot about twerking.
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales: Don Adams is a penguin who goes on random adventures with a walrus.
• Tex Avery and his cartoons: No Fourth Wall exists in the worlds of a sad-looking but pleased basset hound, a crazy squirrel, updated versions of two characters from classic fairy tales and dozens of other characters.
• Thomas & Friends: An ex-Beatle, a foul-mouthed comedian, and a character from 30 Rock narrate the adventures of extremely outdated pieces of machinery. Most of the adventures consist of crashing into things.
  • Alternatively: An obese rich man buys an entire island and turns it into a sanctuary for endangered, sentient machine beings, on the condition that the sentient beings pay him back with hard labor. The machine beings are occasionally racist to each other for arbitrary reasons.
  • Thomas and the Magic Railroad: The hero machine and some humans have to stop an evil machine from destroying a magic machine.
  • Calling All Engines: The steam-powered machines and the diesel-powered machines have to learn to stop being racist to each other.
  • The Great Discovery: The hero machine finds an abandoned town and is jealous of the new guy.
  • Hero of the Rails: The hero machine finds an old Japanese machine.
  • Misty Island Rescue: The hero machine ends up on an island populated by hillbilly machines.
  • Day of the Diesels: The hero machine's best friend is jealous of his new friends, so he joins a diesel gang.
  • Blue Mountain Mystery: An Irish machine thinks he killed a Cuban machine.
  • King of the Railway: Random Events Plot, all tying back to the oldest machine on the Island returning.
  • Tale of the Brave: The hero machine's best friend learns to be brave with a Colombian machine, who he has a gay romance with.
  • The Adventure Begins: The beginning of the saga.
  • Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The hero machine wants to find pirate treasure.
  • Thomas & Friends: The Great Race: The machines enter a competition with a bunch of other machines from around the world.
  • Journey Beyond Sodor: The hero machine goes to the United Kingdom and is enslaved by steel workers.
  • Big World! Big Adventures!: The hero machine travels around the world with a Kenyan machine and a Lightning McQueen ripoff.
• A Thousand and One... Americas: Cheery redhead falls asleep every time he reads a book from his late grandfather. Lots of pre-Columbian adventures ensue in his dreams.
• Thunderbirds: Marionettes save the day while piloting brightly coloured vehicles.
• ThunderCats: A group of humanoid felines battle freaky minions of an evil mummy/wizard. Their leader wields a blade that also serves as one heck of a scanner.
  • Alternatively, a cat constantly repeats the word "thunder".
• The Tick: A muscle-man in blue tights fights crime with the help of his roommate, an accountant in a moth costume. At the end of each episode, the blue guy gives inspirational speeches that make no sense whatsoever.
• Time Squad: A gay couple kidnaps a child. Together, they force people to do their jobs.
• Timon & Pumbaa: Two Heterosexual Life-Partners reminiscent of a G-rated version of Ren & Stimpy go on various (mis)adventures throughout Africa sans their adopted "son".
• Tiny Toon Adventures: A kids' show by the same producer as Schindler's List where cartoon characters of a Vague Age, most of whom are expies, go to school to learn how to be funny.
  • Tiny Toons Looniversity: Same as previous entry, but the school is now a college campus and is set in the 21st century. Also, two friends are now related.
• Tom and Jerry: A mean cat and an asshole mouse butt heads. The mouse almost always comes out ahead.
  • Or: A cat tries to stop a mouse from causing trouble (such as stealing food) in his house but always ends up getting in trouble (and even executed once) when the mouse defies the laws of nature.
  • Blue Cat Blues: Aforementioned rodent and feline contemplate suicide after their romantic lives fall apart. You know, for comedy!
• Toad Patrol: Some baby amphibians have to find Heaven by talking to trees or else they will be turned into mushrooms.
• Top Cat: Sharp-Dressed Man tries to bypass the local cop while making Zany Schemes with his friends.
• Total Drama Island: Twenty-two dysfunctional teenagers are tricked into going to cruddy summer camp run by a sociopathic actor/producer and an angry black man.
  • Total Drama Action: Some of the same teenagers are forced to participate in film pastiches by the same sociopathic actor/producer and angry black man.
  • Total Drama World Tour: The sociopathic actor/producer and angry black man force some of the previous teens and a few new ones to travel the world and sing.
  • Total Drama Revenge of the Island: The sociopathic actor/producer and angry black man find new dysfunctional sucke-cough, I mean, teenagers and send them to a radioactive island.
    • Alternatively: the writers play too much Team Fortress 2.
  • Total Drama All-Stars: The sociopathic actor/producer and angry black man bring back several old and recent teens to the same island, now radioactive-free, and pits them against each other in a battle between good and evil.
  • Total Drama Pahkitew Island: The sociopathic actor/producer and angry black man get even more new dysfunctional teenagers and send them to an all-new island.
  • Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race: This franchise's take on The Amazing Race.
  • Total DramaRama: Half of the original twenty-two teens (plus some guy from some other show) are now Spin-Off Babies and go on adventures in a nursery run by the angry black man.
• Totally Spies!: Narcissists steal high-tech weapons and use them to showcase all manner of fetishes.
• Transformers: Giant robots trapped on a primitive world wage war on each other while hiding from the planet's populace.
  • Alternatively, A truck and his army of mostly cars are fighting an evil gun and his army of mostly planes.
• Transformers: Animated: A washed-up team of robots flees to Earth after discovering a powerful artifact during a routine repair assignment, winds up in a coma for 50 years. Upon awakening, they fight crime.
  • Or: A bridge repair crew winds up in Detroit after finding a legendary artifact. Their arch nemesis may or may not be the leader of a rebellion against an oppressive regime, and spends the first season as little more than a disembodied head.
• Transformers: Cyberverse:An amnesiac gets his brain probed by his best friend, who is constantly getting them into fights.
• Transformers: Prime: Mechanical survivors of a devastated world must defend their adopted planet against their enemies.
  • Or: The thirty-minute toy commercial goes Grimdark.
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise: A war hero leads a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits to round up escaped convicts.
• The Trap Door: A monster is warned not to open a door in his castle home, but does it anyway.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy: A dog and a cat fight crime. Their most recurring foe is Ed Wynn.
• TUGS: A fleet of boats are told what to do by a sentient megaphone and go on adventures. Things blow up often.
• Turbo: A snail wants to be fast.
  • Turbo: F.A.S.T.: Racing snails fight bugs and do stuff.
• Tutenstein: A girl and her pet cat befriend an absolute monarch who has been dead for 3000 years.And did we mention said monarch is just a kid?
• Twelve Forever: Some children and their toys are tormented by a woman with a big butt. And also puberty.
• Ugly Americans: The Only Sane Employee in an alternate New York comes to the aid of every fantasy, sci-fi and/or horror legend you could imagine (and some you couldn't) while having sex with the spawn of Satan.
• Uncle Grandpa: A reality twisting savant who can't stop saying his catchphrase improves the lives of children by putting them in danger. His friends include a fanny pack, a pizza slice, a humanoid lizard and a cutout big cat propelled by rainbows.
• Underdog: A pill-popping street urchin fights crime.
• Undergrads: A Ridiculously Average Guy goes to college. His friends get him into all kinds of trouble while he simps for a goody-goody white girl older than him.
• Undone: Does the protagonist actually have time-bending powers, or is she just schizophrenic? Watch the show to not find out!
• Unicorn: Warriors Eternal: A trio of warriors get reincarnated to battle an evil force. The current incarnation didn’t go well.
• VeggieTales: Pieces of anthropomorphic produce teach children Bible stories. And there are rubber ducks.
  • Alternatively: talking, singing vegetables teach kids lessons from the Bible.
• The Venture Bros.: An incompetent scientist living in his father's shadow, his really violent bodyguard, and two dopey sons go on adventures.
  • Or: A scientist with daddy issues goes on adventures with his idiot sons and his overzealous bodyguard while an army of men in butterfly suits tries to kill him. Meanwhile, David Bowie commands a guild of villains (who's ranks include Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Henry Kissinger). (This really is better than it sounds)
• Vikingskool: Three bumbling misfits attend a dangerous boarding school.
• Villainous: Proof that evil can be an insane job.
  • A noseless guy with a hat, a nerd who likes airplanes, the average Tumblr user, and a teddy bear sell weapons.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Power Rangers. Cue shenanigans.
• Wacky Races: A driver fails to win first place, no matter what he does. His dog ridicules his every plan.
• Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: A 70s everyman deals with the generation gap he experiences with his left-winger children and the radical, anti-communist right-wingers next door.
• Wakfu: A boy and his friends go on a journey to find his missing family while being chased by a former clockmaker.
• Wallace & Gromit: A clueless British inventor and his dog do stuff.
  • A Grand Day Out: They spend their vacation going a very long way to stock up on cheese.
  • The Wrong Trousers: They rent out a room to a Feathered Fiend.
  • A Close Shave: The wool industry is Serious Business.
  • A Matter of Loaf and Death: The inventor falls for a homicidal maniac.
• Wander over Yonder: A hillbilly unintentionally (maybe) annoys a large man trying to pursue his dreams. The hillbilly gains admiration from all onlookers in the process.
  • Or: A furry hippie and a horse-thing help people while annoying a Manchild, who tries to prove he's cool by conquering civilizations.
  • Alternatively, Looney Tunes in space with The Power of Friendship added.
• We Bare Bears: Three naked brothers try to integrate into human society. Hilarity Ensues.
• Weebl & Bob: A pair of nigh-unintelligible egg-people who are obsessed with meat pies do stuff. Their friends include a hairy guy, a talking money who isn't toilet trained, and a ninja-pirate mushroom.
• Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?: A robot that lives in The '80s attends middle school on a quest to understand humanity, while two evil nerd brothers attempt to steal his brain. Hilarity Ensues.
• What If…? (2021): The creators of an insanely popular film franchise dive into the realm of fanfiction and show how events in its universe would play out differently.
• What's with Andy?: Prankster attempts to become the greatest in the world. Humilitaion ensues for him.
• Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?: A Fiery Redhead Action Girl, her blonde male sidekick, and a Voice with an Internet Connection fight a hot woman with long black hair. No, not the series you're thinking of.
  • Or: A woman tries to alleviate her boredom in imaginative ways.
• Wildfire: A long-lost princess and her magical steed try to save a kingdom from the girl's evil aunt. Don't call it a girl show.
• Winx Club: A girl enrolls in a Wizarding School for very special girls where she makes friends with a fashionista, a tech geek, a girl with one heck of a Green Thumb and an aspiring disc jockey. Eventually a Tomboy with a Girly Streak joins them. Together they fight three Alpha Bitches from a rival school.
  • World of Winx: The six girls become talent scouts for a Reality Show, occasionally donning Spy Catsuits.
• Wishfart: A leprechaun, a seabird, and a dead Japanese girl repeatedly learn to Be Careful What You Wish For. And the show's name sounds like Toilet Humour even though there isn't any.
• W.I.T.C.H.: Five girls discover they have superpowers, their leader's powers the weakest by far. Along the way, they meet a smelly (but strangely cute) green creature and hook up with cute guys that they never wind up fighting each other over.
  • Or: Five girls win powers from a jewel and try to stop a Prince from looking for his lost Sister
• Woody Woodpecker: A bird with an Annoying Laugh causes trouble.
  • Chilly Willy: A bird tries to stay warm.
  • Andy Panda: A baby panda grows up to be Mickey Mouse, though with less success.
• WordGirl: A superhero who uses big words fights a man with a mouse brain fused to his head, a retailer of meat, a ten-year-old boy, a granny, and a man with a face shaped like a sandwich. Among others.
• Work It Out Wombats!: Three marsupial kids behave like little shits to people who live in a tree.
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: A cute little yellow thing with a deformed tail goes on various adventures with his genius friends in a world where everything is shaped like a smartphone.
• Wunschpunsch: Two lazy inept wizards are repeatedly outsmarted by their pets.
• The Wuzzles: A group of colorful Mix-and-Match Critters have adventures in a magical kingdom.
• Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: Three kids have to learn lessons from famous dead people.
• Xiaolin Showdown: Four kids who know karate and a nervous dragon race to get magical artifacts before an egotistical teen genius does. In later seasons, they also have to save the world from a talking bean and a guy who turned evil when he drank a bowl of soup.
• X-Men: The Animated Series: The most popular comic book of the late 20th century is adapted with the storylines of the 70s, the costumes of the 90s and a cast of Large Ham Canadian voice actors.
• X-Men: Evolution: A group of teenagers with genetic abnormalities go to a special school while also going to a regular high school for some reason. They spend a lot of time dealing with typical high school problems and fighting other teenagers with genetic abnormalities.
• Yakkity Yak: A talking mountain animal tries to be funny. Weirdness ensues. Other characters are a kid who has a pineapple for a head, a trilobite, a Mad Scientist with colour-changing hair, and a robot.
• Yin Yang Yo!: Two abnormally colored orphan rabbits learn martial arts from an unreasonably old panda. Using these skills they defend their town from threats such as, a wizard cockroach, a fascist ant, a neurotic witch, a grudge-holding toy robot, a mutant rabbit, a rock band of cats, a demonic bat, and and an Affably Evil gryphon.
• Yogi Bear: A hungry bear and his friend steal picnic baskets at a national park. Sometimes there is No Fourth Wall in their other adventures.
  • Yo Yogi!: Totally Radical = Franchise Killer: The Series.
• Young Justice (2010): A fish out of water, a foster child, an overeater, an unwanted child, an immigrant, and a secretive girl all try to be respected by their mentors in between love triangles and black ops missions.
• Yvon of the Yukon: An old smelly French guy tries to conquer Canada. Hilarity Ensues.
• Zig & Sharko: A scavenger wants to have a rather fishy girl over for lunch but a Very Big Fish will have none of that. Hilarity Ensues.

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