X Meets Y / Western Animation Shows 0 To F

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• 101 Dalmatians
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series is 101 Dalmatians meets Tiny Toon Adventures meets Rugrats.
  • 101 Dalmatian Street is 101 Dalmatians meets The Loud House.
• 12 oz. Mouse is Dumbland meets The Prisoner on drugs.
  • Or Squidbillies meets Ruby Quest.
  • Or Aqua Teen Hunger Force meets Twin Peaks, The Matrix, and Rejected.
• 2DTV is Spitting Image meets Dead Ringers.
• 3 Amigonauts is Lloyd in Space meets Sardine in Outer Space.
• 50/50 Heroes is SheZow meets Sanjay and Craig and with the art-style of The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti.
  • Alternatively, Atomic Puppet meets The Fairly OddParents!.
• 6teen is Are You Being Served? meets Friends meets Girlstuff/Boystuff.
  • Alternatively, it's Recess meets Mallrats.
• The 7D is an updated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs mixed with Fish Hooks.

A

• Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show! is Robot Chicken meets The Screwtape Letters.
• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters is Monsters, Inc. (monster school) meets Touhou Project (monsters needs fear to survive).
  • Or Garbage Pail Kids meets Gravedale High with the art-style of Rugrats.
• Abby Hatcher is PAW Patrol meets True and the Rainbow Kingdom meets Monster Allergy.
• Ada Twist, Scientist is the original books of the same name meets Doc McStuffins meets Dexter's Laboratory and/or The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.
• Adventures from the Book of Virtues is The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible meets Wishbone.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius is Dexter's Laboratory meets Mighty Max and Hey Arnold!.
• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero meets Bravestarr.
• Adventures of the Gummi Bears is The Smurfs (1981) meets Redwall, Robin Hood (1973), and Asterix.
• Adventure Time:
  • The original show is Calvin and Hobbes meets Dungeons & Dragons meets Here Comes the Grump meets One Piece, with a bit of Fallout.
    • Alternatively, it's Super Mario Bros. meets Candy Land meets The Legend of Zelda meets Frank.
    • Or Dave the Barbarian meets Chalkzone meets Bone meets Wakfu.
    • Or Samurai Jack meets The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
    • Or World of Quest meets SpongeBob SquarePants meets Chowder meets a kid-friendly Beavis and Butt-Head.
    • Or The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack meets Phineas and Ferb, The Legend of Zelda, Wakfu, and One Piece.
    • Or Tom Terrific meets Pepperland.
    • The "Stakes!" miniseries is essentially a kid-friendly blend of Kill Bill and The Twilight Saga.
    • However, the "Islands" miniseries takes a darker turn, and becomes a kid-friendly cross between Black Mirror and Lost.
  • Adventure Time: Distant Lands:
    • "BMO" is Adventure Time meets The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
    • "Together Again" is Adventure Time meets The Good Place
  • Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake is Adventure Time meets Bee and Puppycat, Twelve Forever, Hook, and Steven Universe: Future.
• Æon Flux: Dirty Pair meets The Prisoner with Reign: The Conqueror's animation and art style.
• Albert the Fifth Musketeer: The Three Musketeers meets MacGyver.
• Alfred J. Kwak is DuckTales meets The Moomins.
• Alice's Wonderland Bakery is Alice in Wonderland (1951) meets Butterbean's Cafe meets Just Add Magic.
• All Grown Up! is Rugrats meets Quack Pack.
  • Or The Weekenders meets As Told by Ginger and a kid-friendly Home Movies.
• Allen Gregory is Family Guy (with Stewie himself as the main character) meets Daria.
• Alma's Way is The Proud Family meets Maya & Miguel.
  • Or In the Heights meets Maya and Miguel.
• Almost Naked Animals is Camp Lazlo meets SpongeBob SquarePants
• Alpha Teens on Machines is Teen Titans (2003) meets Rocket Power.
  • Alternately, it's Action Man meets M.A.S.K..
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • The pilot played out like a "kids in school" sitcom meets Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected.
  • The original idea of the show being about rejected cartoon characters forced to go to a remedial school to be more cartoony is a less gross Drawn Together meets a more fourth-wall breaking Tiny Toon Adventures.
  • The actual show is either:
    • Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Family Guy.
    • Looney Tunes meets the golden age episodes^note seasons 1 to around 8 or 9, depending on whether or not you stopped watching The Simpsons after "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show", "Homer's Enemy", "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", "The Principal and the Pauper", "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace", "Trash of the Titans", or "Natural Born Kissers" of The Simpsons meets any given short seen on Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation film festival,
    • Drawn Together meets Regular Show.
    • Phineas and Ferb meets The Simpsons meets Adventure Time.
    • Chowder meets a Lighter and Softer Malcolm in the Middle and, on occasion, a kid-friendly version of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
• American Dad!:
  • All in the Family meets ALF (FOX episodes)
  • Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (only weirder and not as heavy on the political/social commentary) meets Family Guy (TBS episodes)
• American Dragon: Jake Long is Kim Possible meets Jackie Chan Adventures.
• Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld: Sailor Moon meets Kim Possible and Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.
• Amphibia: Magic Knight Rayearth meets Toad Patrol meets Pandalian, by way of Steven Universe and with a tablespoon of Gravity Falls added.
  • Alternatively, it's Star vs. the Forces of Evil meets Kulipari: An Army of Frogs meets Howard the Duck meets Gargoyles meets Dragalia Lost.
  • Or Pepper Ann meets Gravity Falls meets Flushed Away meets The Legend of Zelda meets The Dark Crystal.
  • Season 3 adds Sonic X, Mega Man Zero, Digimon Adventure, and Digimon Tamers into the mix.
  • Alternatively, Pepper Ann meets Dragon Ball Z, at least according to Matt Braly.
• Angela Anaconda is Pepper Ann meets Junie B. Jones.
• Angelina Ballerina is Arthur meets Stuart Little.
  • Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps on the other hand is the original show meets Arthur meets Dance Class.
• Angry Birds animated series:
  • Angry Birds Toons is Angry Birds meets Looney Tunes.
  • Angry Birds Stella is Angry Birds meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • Angry Birds: Summer Madness is Angry Birds meets Camp Lazlo.
• Animal Mechanicals is Beast Wars meets The Save-Ums!.
• Animals (2016) is The Secret Life of Pets meets Sausage Party and The Life & Times of Tim.
• The Animals of Farthing Wood is Watership Down meets Kimba the White Lion.
• Animaniacs is Looney Tunes meets Tiny Toon Adventures, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Saturday Night Live, and the Marx Brothers; mixed together with almost all of 20th century (especially 1990s) pop culture.
  • Pinky and the Brain is the original segments from Animaniacs meets The Ren & Stimpy Show.
  • Animaniacs (2020) is the original Animaniacs meets Looney Tunes Cartoons.
• Apple & Onion is The Amazing World of Gumball meets VeggieTales by way of Phineas and Ferb.
  • Or Regular Show meets a G-rated version of Sausage Party.
  • Could also be seen as Regular Show meets Anpanman.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force is South Park meets The Justice Friends, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
• Arcane is the lore of League of Legends turned into something like Les Misérables meets AKIRA meets Dishonored, with the audio-visual aesthetic of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• Archer: James Bond meets Arrested Development according to series creator Adam Reed.
  • Get Smart meets Arrested Development and Frisky Dingo.
  • Or The Man from U.N.C.L.E. meets Seinfeld.
• Archie's Weird Mysteries is Archie Comics meets Eerie, Indiana.
• Ark: The Animated Series is ARK: Survival Evolved meets Tomb Raider (2013) meets Skull Island (2023) meets Lost.
• Arthur is The Get Along Gang meets Hey Arnold! as animated by CINAR
  • Alternatively, the Arthur Adventure books meets a kid-friendly version of golden age The Simpsons.
• Assy McGee is The Day My Butt Went Psycho! meets the Buddy Cop Show genre.
• As Told by Ginger: My So-Called Life meets Pepper Ann as animated by Klasky-Csupo.
• Astroblast! is Miles from Tomorrowland meets Arthur.
• A Tale Dark And Grimm is The Adventures of Puss in Boots meets A Series of Unfortunate Events.
• Atomic Betty: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command meets Kim Possible.
  • Alternatively, it's Flash Gordon meets Sailor Moon.
• Atomic Puppet is Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja meets El Tigre meets The Silver Age of Comic Books.
  • In terms of it's art-style, it could be described as Gravity Falls meets The Loud House meets the first season of Jimmy Two-Shoes.
• Avatar:
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender is Star Wars meets Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, and Hayao Miyazaki movies in Westernized anime style.
    • Or Dragon Ball meets Rurouni Kenshin meets Samurai Champloo meets Teen Titans and The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
  • The Legend of Korra is Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Game of Thrones and The Scarlet Pimpernel, mixed with Steampunk and Diesel Punk.
    • Or Batman Beyond meets Hunter × Hunter and Young Justice (2010).
• Axe Cop: Adventure Time meets Black Dynamite (if the latter show had a white male lead).

B

• Ba Da Bean is Cupcake & Dino: General Services meets Art Attack.
• Baby Shark's Big Show! is Pinkfong meets SpongeBob SquarePants meets Fish Hooks with a dash of Bubble Guppies.
• Back at the Barnyard is the original film meets Shaun the Sheep, In the Style of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.
• The Backyardigans: Franklin meets Rugrats.
  • Or Muppet Babies (1984) meets Dora the Explorer meets Animaniacs.
• The Bagel and Becky Show is Cow and Chicken meets Pig Goat Banana Cricket.
• Ballmastrz: 9009 is Rollerball meets OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes meets Superjail! meets a Sports Anime.
  • Or Perfect Hair Forever meets Apocalypse Zero and Rick and Morty.
  • Ballmastrz Rubicon is Ballmastrz: 9009 meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
• Bananaman is Shazam! meets Danger Mouse.
• Barbarian Chronicles, an upcoming cartoon by Home Movies creator Brendon Small, is described by him this way: "The Lord of the Rings meets Curb Your Enthusiasm".
• Batman cartoons:
  • The Adventures of Batman is Batman (1966) meets Jonny Quest.
  • The New Adventures of Batman is Batman (1966) meets I Dream of Jeannie.
  • Batman: The Animated Series is Batman (1989) meets Columbo, In the Style of the Superman Theatrical Cartoons.
  • Batman Beyond is Batman: The Animated Series meets Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Spider-Man 2099, AKIRA, Blade Runner, and Neuromancer.
    • Meanwhile, the "Heroes" episode is Fantastic Four meets Aberrant.
  • The Batman is Batman: The Animated Series meets Teen Titans (2003).
  • Batman: The Brave and the Bold is Batman (1966) meets Justice League Unlimited and Silver Age DC Comics.
  • Beware the Batman is Batman: The Brave and the Bold meets Sin City.
  • Batwheels is Batman: The Animated Series meets Blaze and the Monster Machines.
• Battle Kitty is OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes meets The Amazing World of Gumball.
• BattleTech (1994) adapts The original TTRPG (specifically the Clan Invasion expansion) by way of Exo Squad.
• Beat Bugs is A Bug's Life meets Yo Gabba Gabba! meets The Doozers.
• Beavis and Butt-Head is everything about MTV in its prime meets The Dukes of Hazzard.
  • Or alternately, it's Dumb and Dumber meets South Park meets Mystery Science Theater 3000.
• Being Ian is El Chavo Animado meets Birdz meets Yvon of the Yukon.
  • Or Angela Anaconda meets a G-rated version of The Critic.
• Ben 10:
  • Ben 10 (original series and 2016 reboot): Spider-Man meets Men in Black meets National Lampoon's Vacation.
    • Or Dial H for Hero meets Escape to Witch Mountain meets Altered Beast (1988).
    • Or Naruto meets Mighty Max and Jonny Quest.
  • Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Ben 10 meets Teen Titans (2003) and The X-Files.
  • Ben 10: Omniverse: Ben 10 meets Batman: The Brave and the Bold and a Buddy Cop Show.
• Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom is Peppa Pig meets The Lord of the Rings meets Shrek.
• Best and Bester is The Cramp Twins meets Cupcake & Dino: General Services and Battle for Dream Island.
• Best Bugs Forever is A Bug's Life and/or The Buzz on Maggie meets Hotel Transylvania and Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese (in terms of the show's art-style).
• Best Ed is SpongeBob SquarePants meets Scaredy Squirrel, In the Style of Peep and the Big Wide World.
• Beverly Hills Teens was Archie Comics meets Richie Rich.
• Big Blue is The Deep (2015) by the way of SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Big City Greens: Hey Arnold! meets The Beverly Hillbillies.
  • Hey Arnold! meets a G-rated Squidbillies.
  • Or The Loud House meets Clarence meets a kid-friendly The Simpsons meets The Beverly Hillbillies, mixed with the animation-style of Gravity Falls.
  • Or We Bare Bears meets The Beverly Hillbillies meets The Proud Family.
  • Or The Loud House meets G-rated versions of King of the Hill and Squidbillies.
• Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot is the original comic meets The Iron Giant, Batman: The Animated Series, and Astro Boy.
• Big Hero 6: The Series is the original movie meets Teen Titans (2003), My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Guardians of the Galaxy (2015).
• Netflix's Big Mouth is Skins meets South Park.
  • Or Family Guy meets Unsupervised, In the Style of Inside Out.
• Big Nate is the Big Nate novels meets Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and The Amazing World of Gumball.
• Biker Mice from Mars is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meets Easy Rider WITH MICE!
• Billy Dilley's Super Duper Subterranean Summer is Journey to the Center of the Earth meets The Far Side meets SpongeBob SquarePants, by way of Phineas and Ferb and with a side order of Chowder, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Uncle Grandpa, Clarence, and pretty much every 90s' Nicktoon thrown in for good measure.
• Bionic Six is The Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman meet Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.
• Birdz is Doug meets Shoe.
• Blaze and the Monster Machines is Dora the Explorer meets Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks.
  • Or Dora the Explorer meets The Adventures of Chuck & Friends.
• Blazing Dragons is Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table meets the Plankton vs. Mr. Krabs episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants as performed by the dragons of Dragon Land.
  • Alternatively, Dragon Tales meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• Bless the Harts is King of the Hill meets Crash Canyon.
• Blood of Zeus is Castlevania (2017) meets Clash of the Titans (2010).
  • Or Hades meets Berserk.
• Blue Eye Samurai is described by Indiewire as Mulan meets Game of Thrones.
  • Or Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit meets Kill Bill and Vagabond.
• Blue's Clues is Sesame Street meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
  • Blue's Clues & You! is the original Blue's Clues meets Dora the Explorer.
• Bluey is Peppa Pig meets The Simpsons.
• Bob the Builder is Fireman Sam meets Thomas & Friends meets Construction.
  • Bob the Builder (2015) is the original Bob the Builder meets PAW Patrol (and in terms of the show's art-style).
• Bobby's World was described by The Nostalgia Critic as "if Calvin and Hobbes were made by Ned Flanders".
• Bob's Burgers:
  • Home Movies meets the golden age of The Simpsons at a burger joint.
  • Alice (1976) meets King of the Hill.
  • Could also be seen as Family Guy meets Good Burger.
• Bojack Horseman is Arrested Development meets Birdman, The Critic, Duckman, Moral Orel, and Goodnight Punpun, in a world where humans live with anthropomorphic animals.
  • The in-universe TV show Horsin' Around is Full House meets Mister Ed, with a little bit of ALF (which also had a downer finale).
  • The other in-universe TV show Mr. Peanutbutter's House is Sister, Sister meets Horsin' Around, except it stars an anthropomorphic dog instead of an anthropomorphic horse.
• Bolts & Blip is Robots meets Get Ed.
• Bonkers is the Here's Bonkers shorts meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
• The Boondocks is the original comic strip meets South Park, Samurai Champloo, and Chappelle's Show.
• Bordertown: 3 South meets All in the Family meets Family Guy.
  • Alternately: Wait Till Your Father Gets Home meets American Dad! meets the Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons (or, if you prefer, the Speedy Gonzales cartoons)^note both the Sylvester vs. Speedy ones and the Daffy vs. Speedy ones.
• Bossy Bear is Ugly Dolls meets The Amazing World of Gumball meets Tish Tash.
• Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese is Life with Derek meets Pig Goat Banana Cricket.
  • Or The Brady Bunch meets the early seasons of The Loud House.
• The Boys: Diabolical is The Boys (2019) meets the aesthetics of Invincible (2021) (during more dramatic episodes), or a lot of different adult animated sitcoms (during more comedic episodes), all in the format of an Animated Anthology.
• Boyster is Robotboy meets Ponyo.
• Braceface is Lizzie McGuire meets Sabrina: The Animated Series.
  • Or Carrie meets Static Shock.
• Brandy & Mr. Whiskers: A less brash The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Gilligan's Island.
• The Bratz cartoon is Bratz meets As Told by Ginger.
• Breadwinners is The Brothers Flub meets Chowder.
• Brickleberry is Yogi Bear meets Ren & Stimpy (classic and "Adult Party Cartoon") and a little bit of post-cancellation Family Guy.
• Bromwell High is Clone High meets Mean Girls and Undergrads.
• Bubble Guppies is Saturday Night Live meets Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures but underwater and with mermaids.
  • Or The Backyardigans meets The Little Mermaid (1989).
• Buddy Thunderstruck is Glenn Martin, DDS meets Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
• Bump in the Night is Toy Story meets The Ren & Stimpy Show if the latter was toned down for network television.
  • Or The Nightmare Before Christmas meets the Beetlejuice cartoon and Rocko's Modern Life.
• Bunsen Is a Beast is The Fairly OddParents! meets Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends meets Henry Hugglemonster.
• Butterbean's Cafe is KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode meets Food Wars!.
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is Toy Story meets Star Wars meets Starship Troopers.
• The Buzz on Maggie is A Bug's Life meets Lizzie McGuire and Unfabulous.
  • Or A Bug's Life meets The Proud Family and Pepper Ann.

C

• Cadillacs and Dinosaurs adapts Xenozoic Tales to be like Thundarr the Barbarian meets Ka-Zar, by way of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
• Camp Lakebottom is Gravity Falls meets Camp Lazlo with the art-style of Jimmy Two-Shoes.
• Camp Lazlo is Rocko's Modern Life meets a more kid-friendly animated version of Salute Your Shorts.
• Capitol Critters is The Simpsons meets Stuart Little meets The West Wing.
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels is Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets Charlie's Angels.
• Captain Fall is Inside Job (2021) meets The Love Boat.
  • Or Black Lagoon meets Better Off Ted and The Life & Times of Tim.
• Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix is Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (with tons of Ubisoft video game characters slammed into it) meets Samurai Jack, Code Lyoko, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Sonic Prime, mixed with the animation-style of Castlevania (2017).
  • Or Captain N: The Game Master meets Cyberpunk: Edgerunners meets Scott Pilgrim meets Drawn Together meets Suicide Squad meets Black Mirror.
• Captain N: The Game Master is a kid-friendly, Lighter and Softer Discworld meets 80s Nintendo games.
  • Or Flash Gordon (1980) meets Dungeons & Dragons (1983) and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983).
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers is Avatar: The Last Airbender with the Green Aesops of Bamboo Bears.
  • Or Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers meets The Lorax and Wee Pals.
• Carl² is Being Ian meets Braceface and The 6th Day.
• Carmen Sandiego is the Carmen Sandiego video games meet Lupin III and Sly Cooper.
  • Or Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? meets Kim Possible.
• Carol and the End of the World is Last Night meets The Office (US) and Forrest Gump.
• Casper and the Angels is Casper the Friendly Ghost meets Charlie's Angels meets CHiPs.
• Castlevania animated series:
  • Castlevania (2017) is Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse meets Berserk, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Samurai Jack, Game of Thrones, and the works of Warren Ellis (who was in fact the screenwriter for this show).
  • Castlevania: Nocturne is the 2017 animated series meets Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
• CatDog is a less warped The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Rocko's Modern Life meets The Odd Couple meets Bottom.
• The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! is The Cat in the Hat meets The Magic School Bus with a little bit of Barney & Friends mixed in.
• Catscratch is Gear meets Ed, Edd n Eddy.
• Centaurworld is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Charlie the Unicorn meets Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Adventure Time.
• Celebrity Deathmatch is Mortal Kombat meets Spitting Image as done by Aardman and written by Mike Judge.
• Central Park is Bob's Burgers meets Hamilton by the mind of Disney.
• Centurions is Iron Man meets G.I. Joe meets Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan.
• ChalkZone is Harold and the Purple Crayon meets The Fairly OddParents!.
  • Alternatively: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends meets Scribblenauts meets Harry Potter^note The creators once remarked Nickelodeon should have marketed the show by explicitly comparing it to Harry Potter
• Chaotic:
  • Warcraft meets Yu-Gi-Oh!.
  • Alternately, 6teen meets Yu-Gi-Oh! with a light dash of .hack.
• Charlie and Lola is Max and Ruby meets Ramona Quimby (or Beezus and Ramona).
• Chibiverse is Chibi Tiny Tales meets House of Mouse.
• The Chicken Squad is PAW Patrol meets Chicken Little.
• China, IL is Community meets Xavier: Renegade Angel.
• Chip 'n Dale:
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is The A-Team meets Chip 'n Dale meets The Rescuers with a dash of DuckTales (1987).
  • Chip 'n' Dale: Park Life is Chip 'n Dale meets Oggy and the Cockroaches and Mr. Magoo (2019) (in terms of the show's art-style).
• Chip Chilla is Bluey meets Wishbone and by way of The Brady Bunch.
• Chirp is The Backyardigans meets The Three Caballeros.
• Chloe's Closet is The Backyardigans meets Hero: 108, by way of Mighty Max.
• Chop Chop Ninja is Ninjago meets Xiaolin Showdown meets El Tigre.
  • In terms of art-style, it's Atomic Puppet meets The Powerpuff Girls (1998).
• Chop Socky Chooks is Samurai Pizza Cats meets Ape Escape.
• Chowder is Dr. Seuss' children's books meets SpongeBob SquarePants and the Food Network.
  • Alternatively it's SpongeBob SquarePants meets Tasty Time With ZeFronk on drugs.
• Chuck's Choice is Justin Time meets The Fairly OddParents! and/or Wishfart.
• Chuggington is Thomas & Friends meets Bob the Builder.
• Clang Invasion is Pet Alien meets Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?.
• Clarence is Life with Louie meets The Three Friends... and Jerry to make a less brash, but still outré version of Ed, Edd n Eddy.
  • Alternatively, it's Adventure Time meets Hey Arnold!.
  • Or Regular Show meets Pepper Ann, by way of Ed, Edd n Eddy and Recess.
• Class of the Titans is Percy Jackson and the Olympians meets Teen Titans (2003).
• Class of 3000 is The Steve Harvey Show meets The Magic School Bus with a magical music teacher instead of a magical science teacher.
• The Cleveland Show is Family Guy meets any black family sitcom.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000) is the original books of the same name meets Arthur.
  • Clifford's Puppy Days is Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000) meets Baby Looney Tunes meets Saved by the Bell.
  • Clifford the Big Red Dog (2019) is Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000) meets Peg + Cat.
• Clone High is every teen drama ever meets Time Squad if that show focused on the warped historical figures meets Afterschool Charisma.
  • Alternatively, it's Undergrads meets Peabody's Improbable History.
  • Or Dawson's Creek and Skins meets Not Another Teen Movie, by way of Histeria! and Wayside School.
• Close Enough is Regular Show meets Friends, Baby Blues, and Tuca & Bertie.
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2017) is the original film meets Dexter's Laboratory.
• Clue Club is Scooby-Doo meets Sherlock Holmes. Maybe a touch of Mr. Spock thrown in.
• Coach Me If You Can is Atomic Puppet meets Louca.
• Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island is SpongeBob SquarePants meets Oggy and the Cockroaches.
  • Or SpongeBob meets Haruhi Suzumiya on drugs.
• Code Lyoko is .hack meets Reboot meets Digimon Tamers meets Den-noh Coil meets Serial Experiments Lain.
• Code Monkeys is River City Ransom meets Penny Arcade and The Office (US).
• Codename: Kids Next Door is essentially G.I. Joe meets The Little Rascals meets Spy Kids with 1 quart of Case Closed added in.
  • Alternately, it's Recess meets Justice League.
  • Or Ed, Edd n Eddy meets EarthBound (1994) and The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
• Cool McCool is James Bond meets Quick Draw McGraw but without the western motif.
• C.O.P.S. (Animated Series) is G.I. Joe meets Dick Tracy.
• Corn & Peg is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Go Away, Unicorn! and Team Umizoomi.
• Costume Quest (2019) is Digimon Frontier meets The Halloween Tree.
• Counterfeit Cat is The Amazing World of Gumball meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil meets a lighter Invader Zim.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog:
  • "Droopy meets The X-Files", according to former Cartoon Network president Betty Cohen.
  • Scooby-Doo meets Tales from the Cryptkeeper.
  • Hank the Cowdog meets Goosebumps.
  • Family Dog meets Eerie, Indiana
• Cow and Chicken is The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Monty Python's Flying Circus.
  • I Am Weasel is Cow and Chicken meets any of the "Bugs and Daffy" Looney Tunes shorts (such as "Ali Baba Bunny" or "Rabbit Fire").
• Craig of the Creek is Clarence meets Codename: Kids Next Door.
  • The show itself swaps out Clarence for Ed, Edd n Eddy, when an older character compares the main cast to Cartoon Network shows he grew up with.
  • Or Recess meets Fraggle Rock.
  • Alternately, Codename: Kids Next Door meets La Forteresse Suspendue.
  • Jessica's Big Little World is Craig of the Creek meets Dora the Explorer mixed with the art-style of We Baby Bears.
• The Cramp Twins is Ed, Edd n Eddy meets Twins.
• Crash Canyon is Family Guy meets Gilligan's Island meets Glenn Martin, DDS.
• The Critic is The Simpsons meets Mystery Science Theater 3000.
• Crossing Swords is Spongebob Squarepants meets Neo Yokio meets Buddy Thunderstruck.
• The Crumpets is Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends meets The Loud House meets Kaeloo.
• Cupcake & Dino: General Services:
  • The Brothers Flub meets The Amazing World of Gumball meets Oswaldo.
  • Alternatively, Breadwinners and Pickle and Peanut meets the early seasons of Adventure Time and Regular Show as filtered through the tone of Spongebob Square Pants.
• The Cuphead Show! is the original video game meets Looney Tunes meets The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat meets SpongeBob SquarePants with a dash of Animaniacs.
  • Or Cuphead meets The Angry Beavers, The Looney Tunes Show, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and Green Eggs and Ham (2019).
• Curious George is the original books of the same name meets Arthur and Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000).
• Cybersix is a streamlined, kid-friendly Æon Flux meets Batman Beyond.

D

• Dallas & Robo is Final Space meets Bojack Horseman, Wander over Yonder, and Big Mutha Truckers.
• Dan Vs. is Rocko's Modern Life meets Beavis and Butt-Head, The Critic, Stressed Eric, and The Nostalgia Critic.
• Danger & Eggs is Pickle and Peanut meets Adventure Time.
  • Or The Mighty B! meets Regular Show and Hey Arnold!
• Danger Mouse is James Bond meets Mighty Mouse meets Monty Python.
  • The 2015 reboot is the original show meets Crash Bandicoot.
• Danger Rangers is Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! meets The Get Along Gang.
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is Mister Rogers' Neighborhood meets Arthur meets Blue's Clues.
• Danny Phantom:
  • According to Butch Hartman, this series is "Jonny Quest meets Buffy meets Ghostbusters."
  • Or Ghostbusters meets Spider-Man, mixed with the art-style and humor of The Fairly OddParents!.
  • Or Ghost (Dark Horse Comics) meets the Crash Nebula pilot meets Extreme Ghostbusters and Toei's Devilman.
• Daria is Clueless meets Ghost World.
  • Alternately: A less crude, but still sharply satirical teenage girl version of Beavis and Butt-Head meets Degrassi High (especially in the later episodes with Daria dating Jane's ex-boyfriend and coming to terms with her cynical outlook on life).
• Darkstalkers is basically the result of trying to turn the Darkstalkers video games into a Saturday-Morning Cartoon in the same vein of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987).
• Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines is Wacky Races meets The Road Runner meets Snoopy vs. The Red Baron.
• The Dating Guy is Least I Could Do meets Friends, Girlstuff/Boystuff, and How I Met Your Mother.
• Dave the Barbarian is Conan the Adventurer meets The Tick.
• DC Super Hero Girls (2019) is the original web series meets Super Best Friends Forever and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, with a dash of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) and Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time.
• Dead End: Paranormal Park is DeadEndia meets Gravity Falls meets Wonder Park as filtered through the animation-style of Hilda.
  • Or The Owl House meets Infinity Train set in Six Flags.
• The Deep (2015) is Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by the way of Storm Hawks or Slugterra.
• Delilah & Julius is Totally Spies! meets The Matrix.
• Delta State is the film version of A Scanner Darkly meets Code Lyoko
• Detention is Recess meets The Kids from Room 402.
• Detentionaire is Degrassi High meets The Fugitive.
  • Alternatively, The Breakfast Club meets V (1983) meets Clone High.
• Devil May Care is Bojack Horseman meets Helluva Boss.
• Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist is Crocodile Hunter meets The Future is Wild animated series.
• Dexter's Laboratory is Pinky and the Brain meets Mr. Peabody & Sherman with the dynamic of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, as well as an eventual Animaniacs-style Variety Show.
• Di-Gata Defenders is Class of the Titans meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• Digman! is National Treasure meets Cliffhanger, by way of Get Smart and a bit of Serious Sam.
• Dilbert is Adventure Time meets The Office (US).
• Dinofroz is Beyblade meets Bakugan meets Digimon Frontier with dinosaurs.
• Dinosaucers is Transformers meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with dinosaurs.
• Dino Squad is Extreme Dinosaurs meets Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
• Dinotrux: Jungle Junction meets The Land Before Time.
• Disenchantment:
  • "If The Simpsons fornicated with Game of Thrones", according to cast member John DiMaggio.
  • Futurama meets The Lord of the Rings.
  • The Simpsons or Futurama meets The Wizard of Id.
• Dive Olly Dive! is Roary the Racing Car meets Blue Submarine No. 6 and The Snorks.
• D.N. Ace is the Pokémon anime meets Impossible Creatures.
  • Alternatively, Ben 10 meets Bwana Beast.
• Doc McStuffins is Toy Story meets Doctor Dolittle.
• The Dog & Pony Show is It's Pony meets Best Ed.
• Dog City is Dick Tracy meets Duck Amuck and The Muppet Show.
  • Or Sherlock Hound meets Danger Mouse and The Princess Bride.
• Doki is Around the World in Eighty Days meets The Backyardigans meets Justin Time, and also featuring the mascots from Discovery Kids themselves.
• Dora the Explorer is Blue's Clues meets Computer games like Reader Rabbit and Carmen Sandiego.
• Dora and Friends: Into the City! is Dora the Explorer meets All Grown Up! and/or Maya & Miguel.
• Dorg Van Dango is The Fairly OddParents! meets Ugly Americans.
• Dot. is the original book of the same name meets Peg + Cat.
• DOTA: Dragon's Blood is Dota 2 meets Berserk as filtered through Castlevania.
• Doug:
  • Golden age The Simpsons meets The New Archies as filtered through the art style of Jim Jinkins (Nick episodes)
  • Arthur meets It's Punky Brewster, again filtered through the art style of Jim Jinkins (Disney episodes)
• Downtown is Friends meets Clerks and a bit of Ghost World.
• Dragon Booster is The Inheritance Cycle meets F-Zero: GP Legend.
• Dragon Flyz is Visionaries meets Skydancers and Panzer Dragoon.
• The Dragon Prince is Avatar: The Last Airbender meets The Inheritance Cycle and Barney's Great Adventure.
• Dragon Tales is Sylvanian Families as performed by the Dragon Knights of the Square Table meets Sesame Street
• Drawn Together is The Real World meets Big Brother meets South Park.
  • Or Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Meet the Feebles and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• The Dreamstone: Redwall meets Discworld with a dash of Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
• Droners is Ōban Star-Racers meets Medabots and/or Cubix: Robots for Everyone, in the style of Wakfu.
• Duckman is the original Duckman comic meets The Simpsons ^note Simpsons-wannabe! meets Count Duckula meets The Critic
• DuckTales:
  • DuckTales (1987):
    • The Disney Ducks Comic Universe meets Jonny Quest.
    • The Nostalgia Critic describes it as "Indiana Jones meets Count Duckula".
  • Darkwing Duck: DuckTales meets Batman: The Animated Series.
  • DuckTales (2017): DuckTales meets Gravity Falls, The Venture Bros., National Treasure, and Modern Family.
• Dude, That's My Ghost! is Eliot Kid meets Topper and/or The Ghost and Molly McGee.
• Duncanville is Doug meets pre-2005-cancellation Family Guy filtered through Thin-Line Animation.
  • The Simpsons meets Regular Show.
• Dungeons & Dragons (1983) is A Wrinkle in Time meets The Chronicles of Prydain and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, set in the titular TRPG.
• Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets Batman (1966).

E

• Earth To Luna! is Dexter's Laboratory meets Fishtronaut with a dash of Animaniacs and Phineas and Ferb.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy is The Three Stooges meets Recess meets Tom and Jerry.
  • Season one played out like a less controversial Beavis and Butt-Head meets The Little Rascals without the stereotypically black kids (and no, Rolf and Johnny 2×4 don't count as expies of Stymie and Buckwheat).
  • Season two to the final season (barring the finale movie) is pretty much MTV's Jackass meets The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show meets The Three Stooges.
  • It could also be described as Peanuts meets The Ren & Stimpy Show as written by John Hughes.
• Edgar & Ellen: The Addams Family meets Dennis The Menace meets Ed, Edd n Eddy.
• Elena of Avalor: Sofia the First and its fantasy elements meets The Book of Life and its Mexican elements.
  • Or simply, it's Sofia the First meets The Book of Life.
• Elinor Wonders Why is Curious George meets Little Bear.
  • Or Peg + Cat meets Harvey Beaks.
• Eliot Kid is Angela Anaconda meets Being Ian.
• Elliott from Earth is The Amazing World of Gumball meets Super Mario Galaxy.
  • Or The Amazing World of Gumball meets Wander over Yonder.
• The Emperor's New School is The Emperor's New Groove by the way of Recess and Saved by the Bell.
• Endangered Species is Scaredy Squirrel meets League of Super Evil and Rated "A" for Awesome, by way of Over the Hedge and The Nut Job.
• Erky Perky is A Bug's Life meets Gilligan's Island.
• Esme & Roy is Monsters, Inc. meets The Babysitters Club meets Sesame Street.
• Eureka! (2022) is The Flintstones meets Doc McStuffins.
• Exchange Student Zero (both the movie and the TV series) is Yu-Gi-Oh! meets Kappa Mikey by the way of Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
• Exo Squad is Robotech/Super Dimension Fortress Macross meets Mobile Suit Gundam, In the Style of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and X-Men: The Animated Series.
• Extreme Dinosaurs is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meets Dinosaucers.

F

• Fairfax is Duncanville meets Clone High meets iCarly meets Ugly Betty.
• The Fairly OddParents! is Doraemon meets Cinderella with a little dash of Boy Meets World.
  • Or Aladdin meets Hey Arnold!.
  • Or Dexter's Laboratory meets Aladdin and Artemis Fowl.
• Fairview is Higglytown Heroes meets Our Cartoon President and The Nutshack.
• Family Guy is The Simpsons meets Happy Days meets South Park meets Mad TV.
  • "The Simpsons circa Season 4 as written and directed by Mel Brooks" often seems like the show's mission statement.
  • Its best episodes are The Simpsons meets The Far Side and Seth MacFarlane's Larry and Steve pilots.
  • Its worst episodes are r/atheism meets All in the Family at its most anvilicious.
  • The Brian/Stewie-centered episodes now tend to look like an [adult swim] adaptation of Calvin and Hobbes.
• Famous 5: On the Case is The Famous Five meets Scooby-Doo meets Totally Spies! meets Martin Mystery.
• Fanboy and Chum Chum is post-2004 Spongebob Squarepants meets Sanjay and Craig.
• Fancy Nancy is the original books of the same name meets Sofia the First meets Olivia meets Madeline.
• Fangbone! is the original books meets Conan the Barbarian meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil meets Kick Buttowski.
  • Or Masters of the Universe meets Recess.
  • Or Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by the way of Exchange Student Zero.
• Fast & Furious: Spy Racers is The Fast and the Furious movies meets Turbo F.A.S.T. and Totally Spies!.
• Father of the Pride is Madagascar meets Family Guy.
• Fifi And The Flower Tots is Bob the Builder meets Strawberry Shortcake.
• Fillmore! is Recess meets a Quinn Martin-produced 1970s cop show.
• Filly Funtasia: My Little Pony Tales meets Monster High.
  • Or My Little Pony Tales meets the setting of Harry Potter and the overall tone and feel of Adventures of the Gummi Bears.
• Final Space: Bravest Warriors meets Rick and Morty.
  • Or Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) meets Adventure Time.
  • Or One Piece meets Star Wars.
• Firebuds is Blaze and the Monster Machines meets PAW Patrol.
  • Or Blaze and the Monster Machines meets Firehouse Tales.
• Fired on Mars is The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress meets Total Recall (1990) and Brazil.
• Firehouse Tales is Fireman Sam meets Thomas & Friends.
• Fireman Sam is Postman Pat meets Firefighting.
• F is for Family is That '70s Show meets King of the Hill, and inspired by Bill Burr's actual childhood.
• Fish Hooks is SpongeBob SquarePants meets Saved by the Bell.
  • Or Finding Nemo meets The Buzz on Maggie.
  • Or SpongeBob SquarePants meets Recess.
• Fishtronaut is The Penguins of Madagascar meets Help! I'm a Fish meets Curious George by way of The Lorax.
• Fleabag Monkeyface is Captain Underpants meets Fanboy and Chum Chum.
• The Flintstones: The Honeymooners meets B.C..
• Flying Rhino Junior High is The Magic School Bus meets I. M. Meen.
• The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang: Happy Days meets Doctor Who meets Lost in Space.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is a toned-down The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy meets ChalkZone meets Hey Arnold!
  • Or Ed, Edd n Eddy meets The Muppet Show and a G-rated version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• Frankelda's Book of Spooks is Goosebumps meets Elvira, Mistress of the Dark meets Corpse Bride meets Beauty and the Beast.
• Frankenstein Jr. is Gigantor meets Batman (1966).
• Franklin: The Raccoons meets The Get Along Gang.
• Franny's Feet is Henry's World meets Maggie and the Ferocious Beast mixed with the art-style of Angela Anaconda.
• Freakazoid!:
  • Spider-Man meets The Mask, In the Style of Animaniacs.
  • The Nostalgia Critic described the show as a Saturday-Morning Cartoon made by Deadpool, Andy Kaufman, and Monty Python.
• Freaktown is Jimmy Two-Shoes meets the Garbage Pail Kids.
• Freaky Stories is Tales From The Cryptkeeper meets The Ren & Stimpy Show by way of The Twilight Zone (1959) and Are You Afraid of the Dark?.
• Fresh Beat Band of Spies is The Fresh Beat Band meets Totally Spies!.
• Fright Krewe is Wendell & Wild meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
• Frisky Dingo is Megamind meets Archer^note though it predates both works.
• Fugget About It is Family Guy meets The Sopranos.
• The Fungies! is Super Mario Bros. (minus the plumber protagonists and with the show's entire characters as mushrooms) meets Clarence, Billy Dilley's Super Duper Subterranean Summer, and Harvey Beaks.
• The Funky Phantom is Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets Topper.
• Futurama is The Simpsons meets Star Trek and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a little bit of Blue Gender.
  • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", a parody of 1980s Saturday Morning Cartoons, has the "Purpleberry Pond" segment, which is Strawberry Shortcake meets The Smurfs.
• Future-Worm! is Larva meets Out There.

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