X Meets Y / Western Animation Shows

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• 12 oz. Mouse is Dumbland meets The Prisoner on drugs.
  • Or Squidbillies meets Ruby Quest.
• 101 Dalmatian Street is 101 Dalmatians meets The Loud House.
• 3 Amigonauts is Breadwinners meets Sardine in Outer Space.
• 6teen is Friends meets the teen sitcom genre.
• The 7D is an updated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs mixed with Fish Hooks.
• Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show! is Robot Chicken meets The Screwtape Letters
• Abby Hatcher is Littlest Pet Shop (2012) meets Pokémon (sans fighting) meets The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

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• Adventures from the Book of Virtues is The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible meets Wishbone.
• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero meets Bravestarr.
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Looney Tunes by way of The Ren & Stimpy Show.
• Adventure Time: Calvin and Hobbes meets Dungeons & Dragons meets One Piece meets The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
  • Or Super Mario Bros. meets Candy Land meets The Legend of Zelda meets Frank.
  • The Stakes! miniseries is essentially a kid-friendly blend of Kill Bill and Twilight.
  • However, the Islands miniseries takes a darker turn, and becomes a kid-friendly cross between Black Mirror and Lost.
• Æon Flux: Dirty Pair meets The Prisoner with Reign: The Conqueror's animation and art style.
• All Grown Up! is Rugrats meets Quack Pack.
• Almost Naked Animals is Camp Lazlo meets SpongeBob SquarePants
• Alpha Teens on Machines is Teen Titans meets Rocket Power.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:

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  • 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 a slightly kid-friendly 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, or
    • 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!:

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  • 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)
• Amphibia: Magic Knight Rayearth meets Toad Patrol meets Pandalian with a tablespoon of Gravity Falls added.
• Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld: Sailor Moon meets Kim Possible and Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.
• Animals is The Secret Life of Pets meets Sausage Party and The Life & Times of Tim.
• 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.
• Apple & Onion is The Amazing World of Gumball meets VeggieTales by way of Phineas and Ferb
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force is South Park meets The Justice Friends, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
• Archer: James Bond meets Arrested Development according to series creator Adam Reed.
  • Get Smart meets Arrested Development.
• Archie's Weird Mysteries is Archie Comics meets Eerie, Indiana and Gravity Falls.
• Arthur is The Get Along Gang meets Hey Arnold! as animated by CINAR
  • Alternatively, the Arthur Adventure books meets a kid-friendly version of The Simpsons as performed by The Get Along Gang
• As Told by Ginger: My So-Called Life meets Pepper Ann as animated by Klasky-Csupo.
• 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 its 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 Fullmetal Alchemist meets A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) meets Batman: The Animated Series meets Naruto meets Star Wars in Westernized anime-style.
  • The Legend of Korra is Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Ultraman Nexus meets Game of Thrones meets Castlevania: Symphony of the Night meets The Scarlet Pimpernel meets Berserk meets Batman Beyond, all mixed with Steampunk and Diesel Punk.
• Axe Cop: Adventure Time meets Black Dynamite (if the latter show had a white male lead).
• The Backyardigans: Franklin meets Rugrats.
• The Bagel and Becky Show is CatDog meets Cow and Chicken with the artstyle of Pig Goat Banana Cricket
• Ballmastrz: 9009 is OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes meets Superjail! meets a Sports Anime.
• Home Movies creator Brendon Small has a new show, Barbarian Chronicles, in production, which he describes in this way: "The Lord of the Rings meets Curb Your Enthusiasm".
• Batman Beyond is Batman: The Animated Series meets Batman: The Dark Knight Returns meets Spider-Man 2099 meets Blade Runner meets Neuromancer meets AKIRA.
  • Meanwhile, the "Heroes" episode is Fantastic Four meets Aberrant.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold is Batman (1966) meets Justice League Unlimited and Silver Age DC Comics.
• Beast Wars is Transformers meets ReBoot.
• Beavis and Butt-Head is everything about MTV in its prime meets King of the Hill (another show created by Mike Judge).
  • Or alternately, it's Dumb and Dumber meets South Park.
• Being Ian is El Chavo Animado meets Yvon of the Yukon.
• Ben 10:
  • Ben 10 (original series and 2016 reboot): Dial H for Hero meets Escape to Witch Mountain meets Altered Beast.
  • Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Ben 10 meets Teen Titans and The X-Files.
  • Ben 10: Omniverse: Ben 10 meets Batman: The Brave and the Bold and a Buddy Cop Show.
• Beverly Hills Teens was Archie Comics meets Richie Rich.
• Big City Greens: Hey Arnold! meets The Beverly Hillbillies
  • Hey Arnold! meets a G-rated Squidbillies.
• Netflix's Big Mouth is Skins meets South Park.
• Bob's Burgers:
  • Home Movies meets the Golden Age of The Simpsons at a burger joint.
  • Alice (1976) meets King of the Hill.
• 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.
• Bless the Harts is King of the Hill meets Crash Canyon.
• Blood of Zeus is Castlevania (2017) meets Clash of the Titans (2010).
• Bobby's World was described by The Nostalgia Critic as "if Calvin and Hobbes were made by Ned Flanders".
• Bojack Horseman is Arrested Development meets Birdman, Duckman, The Critic, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Moral Orel and Goodnight Punpun.
  • Horsin' Around is Full House meets Mister Ed, with a little bit of ALF (which also had a downer finale).
    • Mr. Peanutbutter's House is Sister, Sister meets Horsin' Around, BUT WITH A TALKING DOG (INSTEAD OF A TALKING HORSE)!
• Bonkers is the Here's Bonkers shorts meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
• The Boondocks is South Park meets 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).
• Boyster is Robotboy meets Ponyo.
• Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese is Life with Derek meets Pig Goat Banana Cricket.
• Braceface is Lizzie McGuire meets Sabrina: The Animated Series
• Brandy & Mr. Whiskers: A less brash The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Gilligan's Island.
• The Punky Brewster cartoon is the live-action Punky Brewster sitcom meets Brigadoon with a piece of My Favorite Martian.
• Brickleberry is Yogi Bear meets Ren & Stimpy (classic and "Adult Party Cartoon") and a little bit of post-cancellation Family Guy.
• Buddy Thunderstruck is Glenn Martin DDS meets Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
• Bump in the Night is the first Toy Story movie meets Ren and Stimpy if the latter was toned down for network television.
• The Buzz on Maggie is A Bug's Life meets Lizzie McGuire and Unfabulous.
• Camp Lakebottom is Gravity Falls meets Camp Lazlo.
• Camp Lazlo is Rocko's Modern Life meets a more kid-friendly animated version of Salute Your Shorts.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers is Avatar: The Last Airbender with the Green Aesops of Bamboo Bears.
• Carmen Sandiego is Carmen Sandiego meets Lupin III and Sly Cooper.
• Castlevania (2017) is Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Curse of Darkness meet Vampire Hunter D, Bloodborne, Hellsing, Berserk, Sláine, Blade of the Immortal, Underworld, Dredd, Dante's Inferno, DEVILMAN crybaby, Gantz, Elfen Lied, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Fist of the North Star, Ninja Scroll, Cowboy Bebop, Dark Souls, Blood-C, Attack on Titan, Devil May Cry, God of War, Game of Thrones and the works of Warren Ellis, all seasoned with a side dash of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Death Parade, One-Punch Man, AKIRA, The Rose of Versailles, Ghost in the Shell, Violence Jack and Samurai Jack.
• CatDog is a less warped The Ren & Stimpy Show meets The Odd Couple.
• 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.
• 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.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is The A-Team meets Chip 'n Dale meets The Rescuers.
• Chop Chop Ninja is Ninjago meets Xiaolin Showdown meets El Tigre. In terms of artstyle, it's Atomic Puppet meets The Powerpuff Girls.
• 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.
• 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.
• Class of the Titans is Percy Jackson and the Olympians meets Teen Titans.
• 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.
• Clone High is every teen drama ever meets Time Squad if that show focused on the warped historical figures meets Afterschool Charisma.
• Close Enough is Regular Show meets Friends.
  • Or Baby Blues meets Tuca & Bertie.
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series is the original film meets The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
• Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island is SpongeBob SquarePants meets Oggy and the Cockroaches.
• Codename: Kids Next Door is essentially G.I. Joe meets The Little Rascals meets Spy Kids with 1 quart of Detective Conan added in.
  • Alternately, it's Recess meets Justice League.
• C.O.P.S. is G.I. Joe meets Dick Tracy.
• 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.
• Counterfeit Cat is The Amazing World of Gumball meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil meets a lighter Invader Zim.
• Cow and Chicken is The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• 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 the Sugar Creek Gang (minus the Christian themes).
• Crash Canyon is Family Guy meets Gilligan's Island.
• 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 is The Amazing World of Gumball meets Odd Job Jack.
• Danny Phantom was described by series creator Butch Hartman as "Jonny Quest meets Buffy meets Ghostbusters." Perhaps with a dash of Spider-Man.
• Danger Mouse is James Bond meets Mighty Mouse meets Monty Python.
  • The 2015 reboot is the original show meets Crash Bandicoot.
• Daria is Clueless meets Ghost World.
  • Alternately: A less crude, but still sharply satiricial teenage girl version of Beavis And Butthead 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 videogames into a Saturday Morning Cartoon in the same vein of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
• Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines is Wacky Races meets The Road Runner meets Snoopy vs. The Red Baron.
• 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.
• Delta State is the film version of A Scanner Darkly meets Code Lyoko
• Detentionaire is Degrassi High meets The Fugitive.
• Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist is The Crocodile Hunter meets The Future Is Wild animated series.
• Dilbert is Adventure Time meets The Office (US).
• Dino Trux: Jungle Junction meets The Land Before Time.
• Dinosaucers is Transformers meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with dinosaurs.
• 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.
• D.N. Ace is the Pokémon anime meets Impossible Creatures
• Doc McStuffins is Toy Story meets Doctor Dolittle.
• Dog City is Dick Tracy meets Duck Amuck and The Muppet Show.
• Dora the Explorer is Blue's Clues meets Computer games like Reader Rabbit and Carmen Sandiego.
• Dorg Van Dango is The Fairly OddParents meets Ugly Americans
• 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.
• The Dreamstone: Redwall meets Discworld with a dash of Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
• DuckTales:
  • DuckTales (1987): 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., and Modern Family.
• Duncanville is Doug meets pre-2005-cancellation Family Guy filtered through Thin-Line Animation.
  • The Simpsons meets Regular Show.
• Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets Batman (1966)
• Ed, Edd n Eddy is The Three Stooges meets The Little Rascals meets The Ren & Stimpy Show.
  • 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 (Peanuts).
  • Alternatively, The Three Stooges meets Peanuts.
  • It could also be described as Ren and Stimpy meets John Hughes.
  • Or The Three Stooges meets Jackass.
• Edgar & Ellen: The Addams Family meets Dennis The Menace
• 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.
• El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is ¡Mucha Lucha! meets American Dragon: Jake Long.
• Erky Perky is A Bug's Life meets Gilligan's Island.
• Evil Con Carne is The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy meets G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (from Cobra Commander's perspective).
• F is for Family is That '70s Show meets King of the Hill, and inspired by Bill Burr's actual childhood.
• The Fairly OddParents is Doraemon meets Cinderella with a little dash of Boy Meets World.
• Family Guy is The Simpsons meets Happy Days meets South Park meets MADtv.
  • Its best episodes are The Simpsons meets The Far Side and Seth MacFarlane's Larry and Steve pilots. Or The Simpsons meets MADtv.
  • Its worst episodes are r/atheism meets All in the Family at its most anvilicious.
• Fanboy and Chum Chum is post-2004 Spongebob Squarepants meets Sanjay and Craig
• Fangbone! is Conan the Barbarian meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil meets Kick Buttowski
  • Or Masters of the Universe meets Recess.
• 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.
• 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.
• Freakazoid!: 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.
• Frisky Dingo is Megamind meets Archer^note though it predates both works..
• Fugget About It is Family Guy meets The Sopranos.
• The Funky Phantom is Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets Topper.
• Futurama is The Simpsons meets Star Trek meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with a little bit of Blue Gender.
• Future-Worm! is Larva meets Out There.
• Galaxy High: Archie Comics meets Star Trek.
• The Galaxy Trio: Fantastic Four meets Star Trek: The Animated Series.
• The Garfield segments on Garfield and Friends are the Garfield comics meets Looney Tunes.
  • The U.S. Acres segments, on the other hand, are Charlotte's Web meets a less preachy Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
• Gargoyles is Batman: The Animated Series meets X-Men meets TMNT meets Beauty and the Beast meets Macbeth meets A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • Or The Mighty Thor meets Transformers meets Neil Gaiman.
• Generator Rex is Ben 10 meets [PROTOTYPE].
• George of the Jungle: Tarzan meets Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• The Get Along Gang: The Little Rascals meets Shirt Tales.
• G.I. Joe: Renegades: G.I. Joe meets The A-Team.
• G.I. Joe: Resolute: G.I. Joe meets Command & Conquer and The Authority.
• Glenn Martin DDS is Crash Canyon meets Celebrity Deathmatch.
• Glitch Techs is TRON meets Ghostbusters meets Men in Black.
• Godzilla: The Series is Godzilla (1998) meets Men in Black: The Series.
• Golan the Insatiable: Wreck-It Ralph meets Ugly Americans.
• Gravity Falls is Eerie, Indiana meets a kid-friendly Twin Peaks meets The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy meets The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, as written by Carl Barks.
• Green Eggs and Ham is the original book meets Up meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is The Ren & Stimpy Show meets The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror meets Invader Zim.
  • Attempted spinoff Underfist is The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy meets Justice League.
• Grojband is Phineas and Ferb meets The Bremen Avenue Experience meets Total Drama meets Scott Pilgrim meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
• Grossology is Kim Possible meets the Grossout Show trend.
• Guardians of the Galaxy: Avengers, Assemble! meets Firefly.
• Handy Manny is Bob the Builder meets Dora the Explorer.
• Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch! is Yogi Bear meets Hogan's Heroes.
• Harley Quinn (2019) is DC Super Hero Girls (2019) meets Bojack Horseman meets The Venture Bros. meets Deadpool (2016) meets Friends meets Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay meets My Hero Academia meets The Boys (2019) meets South Park meets Hotline Miami meets Seinfeld meets It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia meets The Mandalorian meets Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi meets Metalocalypse.
• Harvey Beaks: Winnie-the-Pooh meets SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Or Calimero meets Chowder.
• Harvey Street Kids is Harvey Comics meets Ed, Edd n Eddy with a bit of Craig of the Creek and Clarence.
  • Alternatively, Little Audrey meets Rated "A" for Awesome meets Kiteretsu Daihyakka with some Um Jammer Lammy mixed in.
• Hero Elementary is DC Super Hero Girls meets Sid the Science Kid.
• Hey Arnold! is Arthur meets The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and a kid-friendly version of The Simpsons.
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt meets Josie and the Pussycats.
• Hilda is Gravity Falls meets The Moomins meets Over the Garden Wall.
• Histeria!! is Animaniacs meets Liberty's Kids meets Saturday Night Live.
• Hoops is My Gym Partner's a Monkey meets BoJack Horseman meets Allen Gregory.
• Hotel Transylvania: The Series is the Hotel Transylvania movies meets the Beetlejuice cartoon meets Ruby Gloom.
• House of Mouse: Disneyland meets The Muppet Show
• Huntik: Secrets & Seekers is Gargoyles meets The 39 Clues meets Digimon.
• I Am Weasel is like Cow and Chicken meets any of the "Bugs and Daffy" Looney Tunes shorts (such as "Ali Baba Bunny" or "Rabbit Fire").
• Infinity Train is Gravity Falls meets The World Ends with You
  • Or Gravity Falls meets Over the Garden Wall on a train.
• Invader Zim is Marvin the Martian meets Pinky and the Brain meets Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
• Invisible Network of Kids is Codename: Kids Next Door meets Matilda.
• Jabberjaw is Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets Jaws (if the shark talked like Curly Howard) meets Sealab 2020
• Jackie Chan Adventures is Indiana Jones meets Big Trouble in Little China as a Jackie Chan movie.
• Jack the Explorer is The Magic School Bus meets Ready Jet Go! on drugs.
• Jake and the Never Land Pirates is Peter Pan meets Dora the Explorer.
• Jammers^note A 2015 pilot for Cartoon Network is The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Uncle Grandpa meets a standard high school kidcom.
• Jem is every daytime Soap Opera ever meets Kidd Video meets Rainbow Brite.
• The Jetsons is The Flintstones meets Lost in Space
• Jimmy Two-Shoes is Wander over Yonder meets The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
  • Alternatively, The Baskervilles meets Spongebob Squarepants
  • Alternatively (again), Hazbin Hotel meets Rocko's Modern Life
• Jeff & Some Aliens is Space Goofs meets The Life & Times of Tim.
• Johnny Test is Dexter's Laboratory meets Mr. Bean: The Animated Series.
• Justice League Action is the New 52 meets The Silver Age of Comic Books.
  • Or the New 52 meets the DC Animated Universe.
• KaBlam!: MAD (back when it was mostly comic stories and didn't have any parodic material) meets Animaniacs.
• Kaeloo: The Backyardigans meets Stickin' Around.
  • Or a kid-friendly (by French standards) South Park meets Regular Show.
• Kidd Video: Captain N: The Game Master meets 80s MTV
• Kid Cosmic: The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit meets The Powerpuff Girls (2016) meets Wander over Yonder meets Dennis the Menace (US) meets Tintin.
  • Or OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes by way of Teamo Supremo and Sidekick meets the retro aesthetic of The Loud House along with The Iron Giant's retro aesthetic and political commentary.
• Kid vs. Kat: Invader Zim meets Lilo & Stitch meets Tom and Jerry.
• Kim Possible: Clueless meets James Bond.
  • Or Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The X-Files meets Alias.
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is Alice in Wonderland meets Fallout, with the soundtrack of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
  • The creators swap out Fallout in the above description for The Walking Dead.
• Kuu Kuu Harajuku is Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi meets Grojband
• Laff-A-Lympics is Battle of the Network Stars meets Hanna-Barbera's back catalogue.
• LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures is VeggieTales meets My Life as a Teenage Robot meets Batman and Spider-Man.
• Legends of Chamberlain Heights is Scaredy Squirrel meets Border Town
• League of Super Evil is Evil Con Carne meets Ed, Edd n Eddy as an All-CGI Cartoon.
  • Or Invader Zim meets Fanboy and Chum Chum.
• Let's Go Luna! is Doki meets Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo.
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee is American Dragon: Jake Long meets Kim Possible.
• Life's a Zoo is Drawn Together meets Creature Comforts.
  • Or Total Drama meets the works of Dino Stamatopoulos but with Funny Animals.
• Upon its announcement, The Lion Guard was quickly expected to be The Lion King meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic — down to what looks like "cutie marks".
  • More accurately, the show is The Lion King meets The Avengers, according to the show's executive producer.
• Lil' Bush is Spitting Image meets The New Archies.
• Little Big Awesome is Adventure Time meets The Amazing World of Gumball.
• Little Shop: Little Shop of Horrors meets Peanuts
• Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets
• LoliRock: is Aikatsu! meets Pretty Cure and Sailor Moon without the lesbian undertones.
• Little Princess School is Disney Princesses meets moe Slice of Life anime at a party. They both get drunk and pass out and then South Park draws obscene pictures on their faces.
• Loonatics Unleashed is Looney Tunes meets Batman Beyond and Teen Titans.
• The Looney Tunes Show is Looney Tunes meets the works of Chuck Lorre and the musical sequences of Phineas and Ferb or Silly Songs with Larry.
• Looped is Groundhog Day meets Sidekick, Grojband, and Total Drama.
• The Loud House is The Brady Bunch meets Peanuts meets Hey Arnold! meets Just the Ten of Us
  • The Casagrandes spin-off is The Loud House meets Maya & Miguel meets Sazae-san and Chibi Maruko-chan.
• Love, Death & Robots is The Animatrix meets Blade Runner meets TripTank.
• Llanargollen is LazyTown meets a Welsh version of Blue's Clues on drugs
• MAD is KaBlam! meets a kid-friendly (though not completely void of inappropriate content) Robot Chicken meets the earlier seasons of a kid-friendlier MADtv (back when they aired Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin shorts; pretty much the only connection the show had to the original magazine).
• Magical Girl Friendship Squad is Tuca & Bertie meets Neo Yokio.
• Making Fiends is Invader Zim meets the first three seasons of South Park if they were edited down to be as shocking as an episode of Ren and Stimpy.
  • Or basically, Invader Zim meets South Park meets The Ren & Stimpy Show.
• Martin Mystery is Totally Spies! meets The X-Files or Goosebumps.
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is SpongeBob SquarePants meets Chowder meets Courage the Cowardly Dog meets The Ren & Stimpy Show meets A Series of Unfortunate Events meets The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy meets Tales from the Crypt, all after getting high on cocaine, PCP, heroin and LSD and with a side dash of Berserk.
  • Alternatively, it's the darker, grosser aspects of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" (and the more deranged, yet kid-friendly aspects of the original The Ren & Stimpy Show) meets the ocean aesthetic of SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • It could also be described as The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Beany and Cecil.
  • Or SpongeBob SquarePants on the depressive side of a manic-depressive episode meets Xavier: Renegade Angel.
• Mega Babies is Rugrats meet The Powerpuff Girls with a strong dose of Nausea Fuel.
• Megas XLR is Mazinger Z meets Clerks: The Animated Series
  • Downtown meets a mecha anime.
• Metalocalypse is Jem and the Holograms meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Devilman meets Berserk meets the Cthulhu Mythos meets Heavy Metal culture meets the works of Garth Ennis, all served up with massive loads of Black Comedy, Gorn and a mixture of LSD and cocaine.
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is Mickey Mouse meets Dora the Explorer.
• Mighty Magiswords is The Slayers meets Dave the Barbarian if it was a parody of a toyetic 'mon' show.
• The Mighty B! is Johnny Test meets My Gym Partner's a Monkey
  • In terms of the art style, My Life as a Teenage Robot meets The Ren & Stimpy Show.
• Miraculous Ladybug is Sailor Moon meets Cybersix.
  • Alternatively, it's Sailor Moon meets Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja in France.
  • Or The Spectacular Spider Man meets Futari wa Pretty Cure
• Mike, Lu & Og: Gilligan's Island meets Peanuts.
• Milton the Monster is Frankenstein meets Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C..
• Milo Murphy's Law is Phineas and Ferb meets Hey Arnold! (with Eugene as the main character) with a little bit of Doctor Who.
• Mina and The Count is The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy meets Hotel Transylvania.
• Molly of Denali is Northern Exposure meets Dora the Explorer (without the Fake Interactivity).
• Mongo Wrestling Alliance: Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling meets Metalocalypse.
• Monster Buster Club:
  • Ghostbusters meets Power Rangers.
  • Alternately, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius meets Men in Black.
• Monsuno is Magi-Nation meets Bakugan Battle Brawlers.
• Moonbeam City is Archer meets Miami Vice meets Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
• Moral Orel:
  • Seasons one and two played out like Davey and Goliath meets South Park.
  • Season three played out like Davey and Goliath meets Todd Solondz's bleaker films.
  • To paraphrase a commenter on The Escapist forums, "it's what you'd get if Garth Ennis was asked to make a parody of cheesy old kids shows" (Like Davey and Goliath).
• Motorcity is Gorillaz meets REDLINE.
• Mr. Pickles is Lassie meets A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Man's Best Friend.
• Mummies Alive! is Power Rangers meets Under Wraps and the Darkstalkers cartoon.
• Museum Of Idiots is Aqua Teen Hunger Force meets the novels of August Strindberg meets The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, all done with The Movies.
• Mutilator: Hero of the Wasteland: Fist of the North Star meets Superjail!
• My Dad the Rock Star is Gene Simmons Family Jewels meets Goof Troop.
• My Goldfish is Evil is Kid vs. Kat meets Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain meets American Dad! if it focused on Klaus the goldfish.
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey is Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (if the imaginary friends were animals) meets post-2005 Spongebob Squarepants.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot is Astro Boy meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • Or Mega Man meets Kim Possible.
  • Or Inspector Gadget meets Pinocchio meets Sailor Moon.
  • Or Spider-Man meets Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony Tales is My Little Pony meets Doug
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: described here as what would happen if The Simpsons or Futurama took place in the world of Final Fantasy IX.
    • Or My Little Pony meets The Powerpuff Girls meets Animaniacs (songs only). My Little Pony-themed.
    • Or My Little Pony meets Digimon Adventure.
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Monster High + Friendship Is Magic
  • Or My Little Pony meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • Or Doug meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • Or High School Musical meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • Or Winx Club meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
• Neo Yokio is the English Gag Dub of Ghost Stories meets Kappa Mikey as written by Dril.
  • Or Ghost Stories meets Jeeves and Wooster.
• Nerds and Monsters is Gilligan's Island meets Where the Wild Things Are.
• Niko and the Sword of Light is Samurai Jack meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• Ninjago is Sailor Moon meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meets Star Wars.
• Numb Chucks is The Angry Beavers meets Kung Fu Panda.
  • Or Rocket Monkeys meets Skunk Fu!
• Nutri Ventures: The Quest for the Seven Kingdoms is This Just In! meets Dofus
• The Nutshack is Squirrel Boy meets The Goode Family and the Animated Adaptation of Ctrl+Alt+Del.
• Oggy and the Cockroaches is Tom and Jerry meets Mr. Bean.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes is Street Fighter meets Dragon Ball filtered through Steven Universe's artwork.
  • Alternatively: Doctor Slump meets Adventure Time in the setting of Moonbeam City.
  • Or to a lesser extent, it is Dragon Ball meets Mega Man (Classic) meets Regular Show. Or Dragon Ball meets classic Mega Man meets the Beach City episodes of Steven Universe.
  • Or Kinnikuman (the first 9 volumes at least) meets Regular Show.
• Onyx Equinox is Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Apocalypto.
• Out of Jimmy's Head is Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
• Out There is Freaks and Geeks meets South Park
• Over the Garden Wall is Gravity Falls meets Alice in Wonderland meets The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack if either were made by Studio Ghibli.
• The Owl House is Little Witch Academia meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
  • or Harry Potter meets MÄR.
  • or Harry Potter meets Mortasheen
• Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures is best described as Banjo-Kazooie meets Chop Socky Chooks.
  • or more accurately, Pac-Man (the 1982 Hanna-Barbera animated adaptation) meets Kirby: Right Back at Ya!.
• Paradise PD in its first season is Brickleberry meets Reno 911! meets Breaking Bad.
  • In season two, it was more like Police Academy meets Family Guy.
• Paranormal Roommates ^note  A 2013 pilot for Cartoon Network. is Regular Show meets Ugly Americans.
• Pelswick is a gender-and-political-stance-flipped Braceface meets a kid-friendly version of John Callahan's Quads!
• The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is Wacky Races meets The Perils of Pauline meets the Keystone Kops.
• Phineas and Ferb is Time Squad meets Kim Possible, Dexter's Laboratory, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and Animaniacs.
  • Alternately, Jimmy Neutron meets a G-rated version of The Venture Bros. on Broadway.
  • Or, as the creators describe it, it's Family Guy meets SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Pickle and Peanut is Breadwinners meets The Annoying Orange.
• Pig Goat Banana Cricket is Almost Naked Animals in the art style of Brandy & Mr. Whiskers.
• Pixel Pinkie: Braceface meets The Fairly OddParents.
• The Pjs is Good Times meets Claymation.
• Polly And The Zhu Zhu Pets: Hamtaro meets Littlest Pet Shop (2012).
• Poochini is Courage the Cowardly Dog meets Oggy and the Cockroaches meets The Brothers Grunt.
• Power Players is Toy Story meets Small Soldiers.
• The Powerpuff Girls: Astro Boy meets X-Men as filtered through the sensibilities of Dexter's Laboratory.
• Primal (2019) is Samurai Jack (more specifically, the Bloodier and Gorier Fifth Season) meets One Million Years B.C. and Quest for Fire.
  • Alternately, it's Alley Oop meets Raptor Red by way of David Cronenberg.
• The Proud Family is Moesha meets The Simpsons.
• The Raccoons is Blinky Bill meets a kid-friendly version of The Simpsons as filtered through the 80s atmosphere of Kids Incorporated and the Canadian touch of Franklin.
• Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja is Spider-Man (Or Danny Phantom) meets Shuriken School meets Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil with the artstyle of Invader Zim.
• Ready Jet Go! is Zula Patrol meets Hey Arnold!.
  • Alternatively, My Life as a Teenage Robot meets Happy Days.
• ReBoot: The Guardian Code is Reboot meets Code Lyoko meets Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
• Recess is Hey Arnold! meets The Great Escape.
• Regal Academy is Ever After High meets Winx Club.
• Regular Show is The Amazing World of Gumball meets Adventure Time meets Rocko's Modern Life meets The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Beavis And Butthead meets The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack meets Clerks: The Animated Series meets Parks and Recreation meets The Mighty Boosh^note (J.G. Quintel even said that his show was based on TMB to some extent).
• The Ren & Stimpy Show is Laurel and Hardy meets Bob Clampett's filmography.
  • Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" is The Ren & Stimpy Show meets an adult underground comic book from the 1960s.
• Rick and Morty is The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack meets Futurama meets Family Guy meets One Piece meets The Venture Bros. meets Bojack Horseman meets South Park meets Gravity Falls meets Doctor Who meets Back to the Future with a side dash of Xavier: Renegade Angel and the artstyle of Superjail!, all soaked up in alcohol.
• Rickety Rocket^note Recurring segment of Ruby-Spears' The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets The Jetsons meets Speed Buggy meets Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids^note A Scooby-Doo clone, set in a Jetsons-esque future, where the kids - all black - are a detective agency based out of a junkyard, and the titular Rickety Rocket is basically a patchwork, flying Speed Buggy.
• Ridin' With Burgess ^note A 2015 pilot for Cartoon Network is Regular Show meets Futurama.
• The Ripping Friends is Super Duper Sumos meets Space Goofs
• Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation meets the original The Powerpuff Girls cartoons.
• RoboCop Alpha Commando is RoboCop meets Inspector Gadget.
• Robo Roach is A Bug's Life meets Inspector Gadget.
• Robot and Monster is Fanboy and Chum Chum meets Banjo-Kazooie.
  • Alternatively: CatDog meets Fanboy and Chum Chum.
• Robotboy is My Life as a Teenage Robot meets Astro Boy.
• Robot Chicken is Twisted Toyfare Theatre meets The Sketch Show meets MAD.
• Robotomy is Superjail! meets Superbad meets Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
• Rocket Monkeys: SpongeBob SquarePants meets Atomic Betty.
  • Alternatively: Fanboy and Chum Chum meets Duck Dodgers.
• Ruby Gloom is The Nightmare Before Christmas meets Winnie-the-Pooh
• Samurai Jack:
  • The whole series can be described as Lone Wolf and Cub meets Star Wars and The Legend of Zelda.
  • Season 5 is Batman meets Logan, Berserk, John Wick and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
• Sanjay and Craig is Regular Show meets The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
  • or Bob's Burgers meets Golden Age Nickelodeon through the mind of Pendleton Ward.
• Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Chi's Sweet Home meets Arthur meets Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
• Scaredy Squirrel is Spongebob Squarepants as performed by the Happy Tree Friends.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis meets The Hardy Boys.
  • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is Scooby-Doo meets Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures.
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is Scooby-Doo meets Twin Peaks.
  • Graphically, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! looks like Hanna-Barbera meets Seth MacFarlane.
• Secret Mountain Fort Awesome is Superjail! meets MAD meets Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's artwork.
• The Secret Saturdays: Jonny Quest meets The Herculoids meets Supernatural.
  • Or: The Mummy: The Animated Series meets The Wild Thornberrys.
• Seis Manos is From Dusk Till Dawn meets Machete meets Castlevania (2017).
• Shaun the Sheep is The Penguins of Madagascar meets Hamtaro.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is Original She-Ra meets equal parts Steven Universe and Voltron: Legendary Defender, with a dash of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• SheZow: Ben 10 meets The Powerpuff Girls meets Ranma ½, Birdy the Mighty, or Moldiver.
  • Or: SheZow is what happens when Johnny Test meets Totally Spies! and the 1960s Batman show.
• Shuriken School is Cromartie High School meets Super Duper Sumos.
• The Simpsons is Wait Till Your Father Gets Home meets MAD.
  • In its Golden Age, the show was Wait Till Your Father Gets Home meets Life in Hell.
  • In its later years, it's become like post-cancellation Family Guy meets a more disjointed Robot Chicken and MAD magazine at its worst.
  • Parodied in the episode "Homer to the Max" (1999): the thirteen producers of Police Cops started out "with a singular vision" — Titanic meets Frasier — but it scared the hell out of them, so they threw together a cop show.
• Sidekick is Conker's Bad Fur Day meets Sky High (2005).
• Skylanders Academy is, according to the show's creators, Gravity Falls meets Futurama.
• According to Word of God, Song In The Sky is Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• Sonic SatAM is Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog meets Mega Man X meets Devilman meets 1984 meets AKIRA with a side dash of Berserk and the dark and sinister tone of Warhammer 40,000.
• Sonic Boom is Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog meets The Looney Tunes Show.
• Sonic Underground: Sonic SatAM meets The Fugitive meets Jem and the Holograms.
• South Park is Animaniacs meets Peanuts meets Beavis and Butt-Head meets Doonesbury meets Fritz the Cat meets Spitting Image meets Bad Taste.
  • Alternately, it's Charles Schulz + Robert Crumb + Mel Brooks.
  • Or Earthbound meets Conker's Bad Fur Day.
• Space Ghost is The Adventures of Batman meets Star Trek: The Animated Series.
• Space Chickens In Space is 3 Amigonauts meets Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast: The original Space Ghost meets The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. (In fact, the main trio from Aqua Teen Hunger Force debuted in that series)
• Speed Buggy: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets Speed Racer.
  • Or Scooby Doo meets The Love Bug
• Speed Racer: The Next Generation: Speed Racer meets Yu-Gi-Oh! GX meets Changeling Fantasy.
• Spliced:
  • SpongeBob SquarePants meets The Island of Doctor Moreau.
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show meets The Wuzzles.
• SpongeBob SquarePants is Rocko's Modern Life meets The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Popeye meets Garfield.
  • It's best episodes are Rocko's Modern Life meets Pee-wee's Playhouse (or the movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure), with the nautical aesthetic of Popeye and the wacky elements of The Ren & Stimpy Show added into the mix.
  • It's worst episodes are a kid-friendly version of post-cancellation Family Guy meets Ren & Stimpy (classic and "Adult Party Cartoon") at it's worst meets a slightly disjointed version of the U.S. Acres segments of Garfield and Friends.
  • Kamp Koral looks like Spongebob Squarepants meets Camp Lazlo meets Baby Looney Tunes.
• Squidbillies is Aqua Teen Hunger Force meets The Hillbilly Bears.
• Squirrel Boy is My Gym Partner's a Monkey meets Klasky-Csupo's oeuvre
• Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten is Kindergarten Cop meets Zoom: Academy for Superheroes meets Hero Elementary.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks:
  • The show been described as Star Trek meets Rick and Morty.
  • Alternately, It's Star Trek meets Archer.
  • Star Trek meets Futurama.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil is Gravity Falls meets Tangled meets Sailor Moon meets Cardcaptor Sakura meets My Life as a Teenage Robot meets Kim Possible with several obvious strong shades of Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil and even Back to the Future.
  • Alternatively, it's Pepper Ann meets Sailor Moon.
  • Or Kim Possible meets The Devil Is a Part-Timer!.
  • or Twin Princess of Wonder Planet (Minus one Princess) meets Urusei Yatsura (minus the perverse comedy but still keeps the randomness).
• Star Wars animated series:
  • Star Wars: Clone Wars is Star Wars meets Samurai Jack.
  • Star Wars Rebels is Star Wars meets Firefly.
• Steven Universe is Sailor Moon meets Adventure Time with a slice of 3rd Rock from the Sun.
  • Or Puella Magi Madoka Magica as a mostly kid-friendly Cartoon Network toon.
  • One comment on Know Your Meme described it as "if Jem and the Holograms had a baby with the Transformers".
  • Or Sakura Wars meets Land of the Lustrous meets The Powerpuff Girls meets a less widgety Adventure Time.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender with the down-to-earth character study of Hey Arnold!
  • Alternatively: Saved by the Bell meets Jem and the Holograms meets Trollz meets Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Steven Universe: Future, meanwhile, is the original series meets a family-friendly version of I Am Not Okay With This.
• Stōked is 6teen meets Surf's Up.
• The American Street Fighter cartoon: The Street Fighter live action film with Jean-Claude Van Damme meets G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
• Super Best Friends Forever is Gotham Girls meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• Superjail! = Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory + Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky + the elaborate, hyperviolent, hypersexual notebook doodles of a late 1970s-early 1980s teenager who was obsessed with low-budget slasher flicks, underground adult comics, and heavy metal.
  • Alternatively, it's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory meets Happy Tree Friends meets Oz after taking WAY too much acid.
  • Both of these descriptions actually make sense, since co-creator Christy Karacas has stated in an interview that influences for the show were Gary Panter, Robert Crumb, Sally Cruikshank, MAD, Vince Collins, Looney Tunes, Fleischer Studios, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Schoolhouse Rock!, Sesame Street, Itchy & Scratchy, kids' art, Muppets, outsider art, underground comics and Pee-wee's Playhouse.
• Super Mario World: Super Mario Bros. meets The Flintstones.
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• Supernoobs: Johnny Test meets Ben 10 meets Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja meets Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers meets Monster Buster Club.
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! is Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers meets The Powerpuff Girls. With monkeys.
• The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries is the Sylvester and Tweety Looney Tunes shorts meets Scooby-Doo meets Murder, She Wrote.
• Sym-Bionic Titan (as described by an [adult swim] bumper) is Voltron meets Kikaider meets The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) meets Samurai Jack meets HELL YEAH!
• Tak and the Power of Juju is the orignal video game series with the comical tone of The Garfield Show.
• TaleSpin is The Jungle Book meets Crimson Skies plus Moonlighting.
  • Tales of the Gold Monkey meets The Jungle Book.
• Tales of Arcadia:
  • Trollhunters is Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja meets Miraculous Ladybug.
  • 3Below is Trollhunters meets Sym-Bionic Titan.
  • Wizards (2020) is Trollhunters meets Arthurian Legend.
• Tangled: The Series is Tangled meets Elena of Avalor meets Fullmetal Alchemist.
• Teamo Supremo is The Powerpuff Girls meet The Justice Friends.
• Team Galaxy is Totally Spies! meets Martin Mystery meets Sci-Fi.
• Team Umizoomi is Numberjacks meets Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) is the Mirage Turtles meets The Silver Age of Comic Books and Totally Radical.
• Teen Titans is The New Teen Titans meets (according to the creators), the original Young Justice^* What it was originally pitched to adapt and FLCL^* The inspiration for it's particular Animesque style.
• Teen Titans Go! is Teen Titans meets Family Guy.
  • Alternately, it's Teen Titans meets The Justice Friends.
  • Or Tiny Titans with The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy's absurdist nihilism.
• This Just In! on Spike TV is Mr. Bean meets Crank Yankers.
• Thundarr the Barbarian is Mighty Mightor meets Return to the Planet of the Apes meets He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
• Thundercats Roar is ThunderCats (1985) meets Teen Titans Go! and The Powerpuff Girls (2016).
• Time Squad:
  • Quantum Leap meets Histeria!.
  • The Sherman and Mr. Peabody's Improbable History skits from Rocky and Bullwinkle meets Futurama (right down to getting Screwed by the Network and turning into a Cult Classic).
  • A more-or-less bowdlerized (and Americanized) Horrible Histories filtered through a family sitcom (season 2 episodes only).
• Timon & Pumbaa is The Lion King meets Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
• Tiny Toon Adventures is Looney Tunes meets any of those Spinoff Babies cartoons that were popular in the 1980s (Muppet Babies, The Flintstone Kids, etc).
• Toonami is Cartoon Network meets Shonen Jump.
  • Later on, [adult swim] meets Shonen Jump.
• Toad Patrol is Journey to the West meets Kulipari: An Army of Frogs with a dash of Warrior Cats for good measure.
• Total Drama is Survivor meets Drawn Together with elements of Fear Factor (some of the challenges are similar) and Clone High (in terms of artstyle and parodying teen stereotypes).
  • Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race is Total Drama World Tour meets The Amazing Race.
  • Total DramaRama is Total Drama Island meets Baby Looney Tunes meets The Jungle Room or The Ocean Room and Hanamaru Kindergarten.
• Totally Spies! is Clueless meets Charlie's Angels.
  • Or, as Common Sense Media says, Scooby-Doo meets Beverly Hills, 90210.
  • Kim Possible meets The Powerpuff Girls
  • Its Spinoff, The Amazing Spiez, seems to be Totally Spies! meets Degrassi Junior High meets Power Rangers (without the helmets) with inspiration from western Comic Books.
• Transformers Animated has been described as Transformers meets Teen Titans
  • Or Ben 10 meets NCIS, but with robots.
  • Or Transformers meets The War on Terror
• Transformers: Rescue Bots is Transformers Generation One meets Eureka, to a surprisingly high degree; Levar Burton plays a scientist reminiscent of Dr. Henry Deacon.
  • Or Transformers meets PAW Patrol.
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise: Transformers Animated meets Transformers: Prime.
• TripTank: Liquid Television meets the comedy style of Drawn Together.
• Trollkins: The Smurfs meets The Dukes of Hazzard.
• Trollz: Harry Potter meets Winx Club.
• True and the Rainbow Kingdom is Miraculous Ladybug meets Jelly Jamm meets Crash Bandicoot meets Rainbow Brite.
• Tuca & Bertie is Bojack Horseman meets Regular Show, Chowder, Girls, and Broad City by way of Richard Scarry.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy is Danger Mouse meets The Fairly OddParents and/or SpongeBob SquarePants
• Tutenstein is Mummies Alive! meets the Beetlejuice animated series.
• Twelve Forever is ChalkZone meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
  • Or a child-friendly Big Mouth meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
• Ultimate Spider-Man: Takes the cheesiness of Spider-Man: The Animated Series and wackiness of Teen Titans Up to Eleven.
  • Alternatively, Spider-Man: The Animated Series meets the fourth wall-breaking of Saved by the Bell and the cutaway gags of Family Guy.
• Uncle Grandpa: Doctor Who crossed with Mary Poppins meets Looney Tunes.
  • Or SpongeBob SquarePants meets The Banana Splits
• Unikitty! is The LEGO Movie meets Teen Titans Go! meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • Or Kaeloo meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
• The Venture Bros. is what would happen if Jonny Quest meet both the deconstructive elements of Watchmen and the humorous elements of Arrested Development
  • Alternately, it's the The Tick meets Rick and Morty^note though it predates Rick and Morty by at least a decade.
• Victor and Valentino is Gravity Falls meets The Book of Life meets Drake & Josh.
• Villainous is Evil Con Carne meets The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, along with a massive (literal) crossover of countless other Cartoon Network shows.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender is Voltron/GoLion meets Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is All in the Family meets The Flintstones.
• Wakfu is Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Adventure Time.
• Wander over Yonder is Doctor Who meets Super Mario Bros.. It is also Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends meets Lost in Space. Or Banjo-Kazooie meets Super Mario Galaxy.
  • Otherwise: The Ant and the Aardvark meets Atomic Betty.
  • Or Rocky and Bullwinkle meets Atomic Betty.
  • Or Adventure Time meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
  • Or Sonic the Hedgehog meets Duck Dodgers.
  • Or Star Wars meets Green Eggs and Ham.
• We Bare Bears is The Hair Bear Bunch meets Yogi Bear, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Regular Show, and Shirokuma Cafe; combined with Internet culture (especially sites like YouTube).
• Welcome to My Life ^note A 2017 Cartoon Network pilot is An American Family meets The Amazing World of Gumball.
• Welcome to the Wayne is Gravity Falls meets The Suite Life of Zack and Cody meets Hunter × Hunter.
• Wild Kratts is Zoboomafoo meets The Wild Thornberrys meets Phineas and Ferb.
• Will and Dewitt is Breadwinners meets Penny Arcade.
• Winx Club:
  • Harry Potter meets Sailor Moon or W.I.T.C.H..
  • Also, Clueless meets Power Rangers.
  • World of Winx (from Netflix) is basically Winx Club meets Totally Spies!.
• Wishfart is Shimmer and Shine meets Ugly Americans meets Adventure Time.
  • Alternatively, Regular Show meets The Fairly OddParents.
• WordGirl is The Powerpuff Girls meets Atomic Betty meets Superman with an educational purpose.
• Xavier: Renegade Angel is the works of Carlos Castaneda and Alejandro Jodorowsky meets Kung Fu, Fist of the North Star, Walker, Texas Ranger and Touched by an Angel meets Monty Python's Flying Circus and Wonder Showzen with the graphics of The Sims and Postal, all seasoned with cocaine.
• Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum is Time Warp Trio meets Peanuts.
• Xiaolin Showdown is Jackie Chan Adventures meets Avatar: The Last Airbender (but even more cartoony and comedic).
• Yakkity Yak is South Park meets The Problem Solverz meets SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • Regular Show meets Scaredy Squirrel
• Young Justice is Teen Titans and Justice League meets Gargoyles.
• Zak Storm is One Piece meets Miraculous Ladybug.
• The Zeta Project is the Terminator meets The Iron Giant and The Fugitive.
• The ZhuZhus is Littlest Pet Shop meets Numb Chucks and Hamtaro.
• Zig & Sharko: Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner meets SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • Alternatively, it's The Little Mermaid (1989) meets any Tom and Jerry short where Jerry is allied with Spike.

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