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• The Raccoons is Blinky Bill meets Degrassi.
• Rainbow Brite is Strawberry Shortcake (female-targeted franchise based on a greeting card line) meets She-Ra: Princess of Power (Magical Girl who rides a horse) meets the Painting the Frost on Windows trope.
• Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty is Unikitty! meets Winx Club.
• Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja is Spider-Man (Or Danny Phantom) meets Shuriken School meets Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil with the art-style of Invader Zim.
• Rated "A" for Awesome is League of Super Evil (minus the villainy) meets My Gym Partner's a Monkey and The Amazing World of Gumball.
• Ratz is Oggy and the Cockroaches meets Ratatouille.
• Ready Jet Go! is Zula Patrol meets Hey Arnold!.
  • Alternatively, My Life as a Teenage Robot meets Happy Days.
  • Or 3rd Rock from the Sun meets Zula Patrol.
• Reboot is TRON meets Captain N: The Game Master, The Transformers, Snow Crash and a bit of Flatland.
• Recess is Hey Arnold! meets The Great Escape.
  • Or Wayside School meets Hogan's Heroes.
  • Or Saved by the Bell meets Hogan's Heroes.
• Redakai is Totally Spies! meets Magi-Nation meets Yin Yang Yo!.
• Red Ketchup is Rambo meets Archer.
• Regal Academy is Ever After High meets Winx Club.
• Regular Show is Aqua Teen Hunger Force meets Adventure Time meets Rocko's Modern Life meets Beavis and Butt-Head meets Clerks: The Animated Series meets The Mighty Boosh^note (J.G. Quintel even said that his show was based on TMB to some extent).
  • Alternatively, it's The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack meets Phineas and Ferb meets Dumb and Dumber meets The Office (US) meets Camp Lazlo.
  • Or Adventure Time meets Rocko's Modern Life meets Toe Jam And Earl meets The Office (UK) meets The IT Crowd.
  • Or Chowder meets Dilbert meets Beavis and Butt-Head meets 9 to 5 meets Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, by way of Clerks, Office Space, SpongeBob SquarePants, Sam & Max and Parks and Recreation.
  • Or Adventure Time meets kid-friendly versions of The Simpsons, Beavis and Butt-Head, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Clerks: The Animated Series, and The Venture Bros..
  • Or Adventure Time meets Rocko's Modern Life, Parks and Recreation, Beavis and Butt-Head, and The Mighty Boosh.
• Rekkit Rabbit is Kid vs. Kat (minus the boy versus cat tendencies) meets My Gym Partner's a Monkey meets Rabbids Invasion, mixed with the art-style of Sally Bollywood.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show is Laurel and Hardy meets Bob Clampett's filmography meets Tom and Jerry meets The Three Stooges meets Ralph Bakshi's filmography meets a cocktail of all the drugs known to man.
  • Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" is The Ren & Stimpy Show meets an adult underground comic book from the 1960s.
• The Replacements is Matilda meets The Proud Family meets Kim Possible.
• Rescue Heroes is G.I. Joe meets Thunderbirds.
• Rick and Morty is Futurama meets Family Guy meets Community meets Doctor Who meets Back to the Future meets Samurai Jack meets Gravity Falls meets The Venture Bros. meets Xavier: Renegade Angel meets Neon Genesis Evangelion, with the art-style of Superjail! and all soaked up in alcohol.
  • Or Back to the Future meets Black Science, by way of Malcolm in the Middle.
    • The Thanksgiving Episode "Rick and Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular" is basically a Rick and Morty version of the South Park episode "A History Channel Thanksgiving".
• 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.
• Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy is Being Ian meets The Famous Jett Jackson with the art-style of Bob and Margaret.
• Ricky Zoom is Blaze and the Monster Machines meets PJ Masks and a G-rated version of Easy Rider.
• Ridin' With Burgess ^note A 2015 pilot for Cartoon Network is Regular Show meets Futurama.
• Ridley Jones is Doc McStuffins meets Indiana Jones and Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.
• The Ripping Friends is Super Duper Sumos meets Space Goofs with the animation-style of The Ren & Stimpy Show.
• Roary the Racing Car is Bob the Builder meets Thomas & Friends and Cars.
• RoboCop: Alpha Commando is RoboCop meets Inspector Gadget.
• Roboroach is A Bug's Life meets Inspector Gadget with the main character dynamic of CatDog.
• 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.
• Robotix is The Transformers meets BattleTech and The Dark Crystal.
• Robotomy is Superjail! meets Superbad meets Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?.
• Rock, Paper, Scissors is Rocko's Modern Life meets Cupcake & Dino: General Services and Clarence.
  • Alternatively, Ed, Edd n Eddy meets a kid-friendly Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• Rocket Monkeys: SpongeBob SquarePants meets Atomic Betty.
  • Or Fanboy and Chum Chum meets Duck Dodgers.
  • Or The Angry Beavers meets Atomic Betty.
  • Or The Ren & Stimpy Show meets a toned-down Rick and Morty.
• Rocket Power is Rugrats meets the X Games.
• Rocko's Modern Life is The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• Rolie Polie Olie is Franklin meets Astro Boy.
• RollBots is Transformers meets C.O.P.S. (1988).
• Rolling with the Ronks! is Space Goofs meets Star vs. the Forces of Evil and The Croods.
• Rosie's Rules is Alma's Way meets the art-style of The ZhuZhus.
• Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends is Men in Black: The Series meets The X-Files and a bit of Monster Force, In the Style of Gargoyles.
• Royal Crackers is The Royal Tenenbaums meets Arrested Development and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
• Rubbadubbers is Bob the Builder meets Toy Story.
• Rubble & Crew is PAW Patrol meets Bob the Builder.
• Ruby Gloom is The Nightmare Before Christmas meets Winnie the Pooh.
• Rugrats is Look Who's Talking meets Baby Blues, Marvin, Bobby's World, and Calvin and Hobbes.
  • Or Muppet Babies (1984) meets The Simpsons.
  • Rugrats (2021) is the original Rugrats meets Muppet Babies (2018).
• Runes is The Legend of Prince Valiant meets Vikingskool.
• Rupert is Rupert Bear meets The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin.
• Rusty Rivets is PAW Patrol meets The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.

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• Sabrina: The Animated Series is The '90s Sabrina the Teenage Witch sitcom meets Braceface.
• Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat: Chi's Sweet Home meets Arthur meets Ni Hao, Kai-Lan.
• Sally Bollywood is Totally Spies! meets Famous 5: On the Case and Scooby-Doo.
• Samurai Jack is Ronin and Lone Wolf and Cub meet Star Wars and The Legend of Zelda, by way of Berserk.
  • Season 5, on the other hand, corrupts it into Logan meets John Wick: Chapter 2 meets 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.
• Santiago of the Seas is Jake and the Never Land Pirates meets Dora the Explorer.
• Savage Dragon is C.O.P.S. (1988) meets X-Men: The Animated Series.
• Saving Me is Looped meets Johnny Test meets a kid-friendly Rick and Morty.
  • Alternatively, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius meets My Name Is Earl with a dash of Men in Black thrown in later on.
  • Alternatively, Hailey's On It! meets Dexter's Laboratory.
• Scaredy Squirrel is SpongeBob SquarePants as performed by the Happy Tree Friends.
  • Alternatively, the original books meets Jimmy Two-Shoes meets Rocko's Modern Life.
• Scavengers' Reign is Fired on Mars by way of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cowboy Bebop and Final Space.
  • Or Fantastic Planet meets The Southern Reach Trilogy.
• School of Roars is Peppa Pig meets Henry Hugglemonster.
• 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.
  • Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! is Scooby-Doo meets a less deconstructed version of The Venture Bros.
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is Scooby-Doo meets Indiana Jones with homages to Horror Films.
    • Or Scooby-Doo meets Twin Peaks.
    • Or an even darker Gravity Falls.
    • Or Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island meets Teen Titans (2003).
    • Graphically, it looks like Hanna-Barbera meets Ben 10: Alien Force/Transformers: Animated.
  • Graphically, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! looks like Hanna-Barbera meets Seth MacFarlane.
  • Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? is The New Scooby-Doo Movies meets YouTube Poop.
  • The forthcoming Scooby-Doo & the Mystery Pups sounds like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets PAW Patrol.
  • Velma is Scooby-Doo (2002) meets Veronica Mars and Riverdale, In the Style of Harley Quinn.
• The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is Scrubs meets Star Trek: Lower Decks and Tuca & Bertie.
• 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.
  • Or Fantastic Four meets The X-Files.
• Seis Manos is From Dusk Till Dawn meets Machete meets Castlevania (2017) meets Mortal Kombat meets Kill Bill meets Fist of the Blue Sky meets Kung Fu Panda meets Double Dragon.
• Shaun the Sheep is Wallace & Gromit (also including some of it's segments that has the titular sheep character in it) meets Back at the Barnyard meets Hamtaro.
• Sheep in the Big City is Babe: Pig in the City meets Rocko's Modern Life and Rocky and Bullwinkle
• SheZow: Ben 10 meets The Powerpuff Girls (1998) meets Ranma ½, Birdy the Mighty, or Moldiver.
  • Or what happens when Johnny Test meets Totally Spies! and Batman (1966).
• Shimmer and Shine is Aladdin meets The Fairly OddParents! and Team Umizoomi.
• Shuriken School is Cromartie High School meets Super Duper Sumos.
  • Or Naruto meets Ninja Nonsense and ¡Mucha Lucha!.
• Sid the Science Kid is Bill Nye the Science Guy meets Arthur with a dash of Animaniacs.
• Sidekick is Conker's Bad Fur Day meets Sky High (2005).
  • Alternatively, My Gym Partner's a Monkey meets a prototypical version of My Hero Academia.
  • Or Flying Rhino Junior High meets Sky High (2005) by way of Total Drama and Jimmy Two-Shoes (in terms of the show's art-style) and with a side dash of Teen Titans Go!.
• Silverwing is the original novel of the same name meets Gargoyles.
• Silver Surfer: The Animated Series adapts the original comics by way of Superman: The Animated Series meets The Infinity Gauntlet meets a (relatively) Lighter and Softer Space Runaway Ideon.
• Simba: è nato un re is The Lion King (1994) meets Titanic: The Legend Goes On and Kimba the White Lion.
• The Simpsons is Wait Till Your Father Gets Home meets MAD.
  • Or The Flintstones meets Life in Hell.
  • 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.
• Simsala Grimm is Eto Rangers meets Grimm's Fairy Tales.
• Skull Island is the MonsterVerse meets Kong: The Animated Series meets Voltron: Legendary Defender meets Invincible (2021).
• Skunk Fu! is Yin Yang Yo! meets Robin Hood (1973).
• Skylanders Academy is, according to the show's creators, Gravity Falls meets Futurama.
• Slugterra is Storm Hawks meets Pokémon: The Series and Battle B-Daman.
• Smiling Friends is Regular Show meets Care Bears, Rick and Morty, and South Park as filtered through the Newgrounds community.
• The Smurfs (1981) is the Belgian comics of the same name meets The Flintstones.
  • The Smurfs (2021) is the original 1981 show meets the slapstick tones of Tom and Jerry and Masha and the Bear and the CGI-style of Smurfs: The Lost Village.
• The Snorks is The Smurfs (1981) meets One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
• Sofia the First is Disney Princess meets Mickey Mouse Clubhouse meets Harry Potter.
• Solar Opposites is 3rd Rock from the Sun meets Invader Zim, In the Style of Rick and Morty.
  • The Wall subplot is Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets The Stand.
  • The Silvercops! subplot is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Far Sector meets Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) meets The Wire.
• According to its IMDb page, Something Else is The Odd Couple meets Dr. Seuss's children's books.
• According to Word of God, Song In The Sky is Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons:
  • Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Looney Tunes by way of The Ren & Stimpy Show.
  • Sonic SatAM is Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog meets Mega Man X meets Nineteen Eighty-Four meets AKIRA with the dark and sinister tone of Warhammer 40,000.
    • Or Sonic the Hedgehog CD meets The Secret of NIMH and The Dark Crystal.
  • Sonic Underground: Sonic SatAM meets The Fugitive meets Jem and the Holograms.
  • Sonic Boom is Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog meets The Looney Tunes Show
  • Sonic Prime is Sonic SatAM meets Sliders meets Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• South Park is Animaniacs meets Peanuts meets Beavis and Butt-Head meets Doonesbury meets Fritz the Cat meets Spitting Image meets Bad Taste meets the Monty Python cartoons, as written by Mel Brooks.
  • Alternately, it's EarthBound meets Conker's Bad Fur Day (if the latter came out earlier).
• Space Chickens In Space is 3 Amigonauts meets Breadwinners and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
• Space Ghost is The Adventures of Batman meets Star Trek: The Animated Series.
• 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)
• Space Goofs is Oggy and the Cockroaches meets ALF with the surrealism of The Ren & Stimpy Show.
• Spaced Out is The Jetsons meets The Prisoner (1967) and a kid-friendly Family Guy.
• 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.
• Spicy City is Heavy Metal meets Snow Crash and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, In the Style of Heavy Traffic.
• Spider-Man animated shows:
  • Spider-Man (1967) is The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko) meets Batman (1966) and a slightly better animated The Marvel Super Heroes.
  • Spider-Woman is Spider-Man (1967) meets Wonder Woman (1975).
  • Spider-Man: The Animated Series is Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends meets Batman: The Animated Series and X-Men: The Animated Series^*To the point of crossing over with the latter at one point.
  • Spider-Man Unlimited is Spider-Man: The Animated Series meets Spider-Man 2099 and Flash Gordon (1996).
  • Spider-Man: The New Animated Series is the Spider-Man Trilogy meets Ultimate Spider-Man.
  • The Spectacular Spider-Man is Spider-Man: The Animated Series meets Teen Titans (2003).
  • Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): Takes the cheesiness of Spider-Man: The Animated Series and wackiness of Teen Titans (2003) 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.
  • Marvel's Spider-Man is Ultimate Spider-Man meets Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja.
  • Spidey and His Amazing Friends is Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends meets PJ Masks.
    • Alternately, PJ Masks meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• Spliced:
  • SpongeBob SquarePants meets The Island of Doctor Moreau.
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show meets The Wuzzles.
• SpongeBob SquarePants (franchise):
  • SpongeBob SquarePants (main series):
    • The series in general is Rocko's Modern Life meets The Ren & Stimpy Show meets Popeye meets Garfield.
    • Its 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.
    • Its worst episodes are a kid-friendly version of post-cancellation Family Guy meets Ren & Stimpy (classic and "Adult Party Cartoon") at its worst meets a slightly disjointed version of the U.S. Acres segments of Garfield and Friends.
  • The Patrick Star Show is SpongeBob SquarePants meets Uncle Grandpa meets a kid-friendly The Critic meets The Tonight Show with a dash of The Brady Bunch, The Loud House and Big City Greens.
    • Or Spongebob meets Wayne's World meets The Brak Show.
  • 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 meets The Cramp Twins meets the worst of SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten is Kindergarten Cop meets Zoom: Academy for Superheroes meets Hero Elementary.
• Star Trek animated series:
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks:
    • The show has been described as Star Trek meets Rick and Morty.
    • Alternately, It's Star Trek meets Archer.
    • Star Trek meets Futurama.
  • Star Trek: Prodigy is Star Trek meets Space Cases meets a kid-friendly Final Space.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil is Gravity Falls meets Steven Universe meets Tangled meets Sailor Moon meets Cardcaptor Sakura meets My Life as a Teenage Robot meets Kim Possible meets FLCL meets Scott Pilgrim, with several obvious strong shades of Dave the Barbarian, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and even Back to the Future.
  • Alternatively, it's Pepper Ann meets Sailor Moon and Ojamajo Doremi with dashes of The Ren & Stimpy Show, Invader Zim and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
  • Or Kim Possible meets The Devil is a Part-Timer! meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • Or Suburban Commando meets Adventure Time meets Dragon Ball Z meets Magic Knight Rayearth meets Revolutionary Girl Utena.
  • 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: The Clone Wars is Star Wars: Clone Wars meets A Song of Ice and Fire.
  • Star Wars Rebels is Star Wars: The Clone Wars meets Firefly.
  • Star Wars: The Bad Batch is Star Wars: The Clone Wars meets The A-Team.
  • Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is Star Wars: The Clone Wars meets Muppet Babies (2018).
• StarCom: The U.S. Space Force is G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero meets Star Wars.
• Stickin' Around is Penny Crayon meets Rupert and Doug.
• Stōked is 6teen meets Surf's Up.
• Storm Hawks is Star Fox meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• The Strange Chores is Gravity Falls meets Wishfart In the Style of Bluey.
  • Alternatively, The Monster Squad and Monster Buster Club meets Bluey.
• Strange Planet is Space Goofs meets Rick and Morty and The Life & Times of Tim.
• The American Street Fighter cartoon: The Street Fighter live action film with Jean-Claude Van Damme meets G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
• Street Sharks is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) meets Jabberjaw.
• Stressed Eric is Duckman meets The Critic and Dilbert.
• Stripperella is Batman (1966) meets Totally Spies! meets Striptease meets James Bond.
• Summer Camp Island is Steven Universe meets Camp Lazlo meets Harry Potter by way of Adventure Time.
• Summer Memories is The Adventures of Pete & Pete meets Doug meets Phineas and Ferb meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Regular Show meets a Lighter and Softer Stand by Me.
• Super Best Friends Forever is Gotham Girls meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• Super Giant Robot Brothers! is Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot meets Transformers: Animated.
• The Super Hero Squad Show is The Avengers: United They Stand meets Batman: The Brave and the Bold with the comedic tones of The Simpsons, Family Guy and Batman (1966).
• 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.
• SuperKitties is PAW Patrol meets PJ Masks and The Aristocats.
• Super Mario World: Super Mario Bros. meets The Flintstones.
• Supernatural Academy is the source book series meets Monster High meets Harry Potter meet Miraculous Ladybug.
• 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.
  • Or Mighty Orbots meets Teen Titans (2003).
• Super Why! is Blue's Clues meets Justice League.
• Super Wish is Ollie's Pack meets The Fairly OddParents!.
• Sushi Pack is Kappa Mikey (also via it's Dancing Sushi segments) meets ¡Mucha Lucha! meets Yin Yang Yo!.
• Swamp Thing is the 1982 film adaptation meets Inhumanoids and Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
• SWAT Kats is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) meets C.O.P.S. (1988) and Batman: The Animated Series.
• 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!

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• Taffy is Tom and Jerry meets Grizzy and the Lemmings.
• Tak and the Power of Juju is the original video game series with the comical tone of Mike, Lu & Og.
  • Tales of the Gold Monkey meets The Jungle Book.
• Tales of Arcadia:
  • Trollhunters is Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja meets Miraculous Ladybug and Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
  • 3Below is Trollhunters meets Sym-Bionic Titan.
  • Wizards (2020) is Trollhunters meets Arthurian Legend.
• TaleSpin is The Jungle Book meets Crimson Skies plus Moonlighting.
• Tangled: The Series is Tangled meets Elena of Avalor meets Fullmetal Alchemist.
• Team Galaxy is Totally Spies! meets Martin Mystery meets Sci-Fi.
• Teamo Supremo is The Powerpuff Girls (1998) meet The Justice Friends.
• Team Umizoomi is Numberjacks meets Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain.
  • Or Blue's Clues meets Little Einsteins and The Powerpuff Girls (1998).
• Teen Titans animated series:
  • Teen Titans 1967 is the original 1966 comic meets The Impossibles.
  • Teen Titans (2003) is, according to the creators, New Teen Titans meets the original Young Justice^*What it was originally pitched to adapt and FLCL^*The inspiration for it's particular Animesque style, as well as a bit of Battle of the Planets/Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.
    • Alternatively, it's Justice League meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Naruto, X-Men: Evolution, and a kid-friendly Gorillaz.
  • DC Nation's New Teen Titans shorts is the 2003 show meets Tiny Titans meets the Avatar: The Last Airbender "Super Deformed Shorts".
  • Teen Titans Go! is Teen Titans (2003) meets Family Guy.
    • Alternatively, it's Teen Titans (2003) meets Always Sunny with a dash of Batman (1966).
    • Or Tiny Titans meets The Super Hero Squad Show, with the absurdist nihilism of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and a PG-rated The Boys.
    • Or Teen Titans (2003) meets The Justice Friends.
    • Or Teen Titans (2003) meets The Looney Tunes Show.
    • Or Teen Titans (2003) filtered through the presentation of MAD.
    • Or simply, Teen Titans (2003) meets Sidekick and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series:
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) is the Mirage Turtles meets The Silver Age of Comic Books and Totally Radical.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) is the Mirage Turtles meets The Bronze Age of Comic Books.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) meets Teen Titans (2003), but Darker and Edgier.
    • Or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) meets Twin Peaks meets The Automatic Detective.
  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is Teen Titans (2003) meets Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go meets Denser and Wackier, beaten half to death with Executive Meddling.
    • Or Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation meets the original The Powerpuff Girls (1998) cartoons.
    • Alternately, Yin Yang Yo! meets Teen Titans Go! meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
• Ten Year Old Tom is Home Movies meets The Life & Times of Tim and Malcolm in the Middle.
  • Or King of the Hill meets Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, according to Common Sense Media's Joyce Slaton.
• Testament: The Bible in Animation is In the Beginning: The Bible Stories meets Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.
• This Just In on Spike TV is Mr. Bean meets Crank Yankers.
• Thomas & Friends is The Railway Series meets Postman Pat.
  • Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go is the original show meets Chuggington meets Teen Titans Go!.
• Three Delivery is Kappa Mikey meets Yin Yang Yo!.
• Thundarr the Barbarian is Mighty Mightor meets Return to the Planet of the Apes meets He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
  • Or Star Wars meets Kamandi and a bit of New Gods.
• ThunderCats:
  • ThunderCats (1985) is Star Wars meets Science Ninja Team Gatchaman meets He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983).
  • ThunderCats (2011) is the original 1985 cartoon meets The Lion King (1994) meets Teen Titans (2003) meets Avatar: The Last Airbender meets He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002).
  • Thundercats Roar is ThunderCats meets Teen Titans Go! and The Powerpuff Girls (2016) with the art-style of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
• Tig 'n Seek is Sherlock Holmes meets Victor and Valentino and The Amazing World of Gumball.
• El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is ¡Mucha Lucha! meets American Dragon: Jake Long.
  • Or The Powerpuff Girls (1998) meets G-rated versions of Deadpool and The Venture Bros..
• 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 The Flintstone Kids and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
  • Tiny Toons Looniversity is Looney Tunes meets Dumbing of Age (minus any drama) with a dash of Animaniacs (2020).
• Tish Tash is an Korean Elinor Wonders Why meets Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends meets Bluey.
• Titan Maximum is Voltron meets Megas XLR and Team America: World Police, as done in the animation-style of Robot Chicken.
• Toad Patrol is Journey to the West meets Kulipari: An Army of Frogs with a dash of Warrior Cats for good measure.
• Todd McFarlane's Spawn is Spawn meets Batman: The Animated Series meets Berserk meets Se7en.
• The Tofus is Arthur meets Environmentalism.
• Tom Goes to the Mayor is Mr. Smith Goes to Washington meets Curb Your Enthusiasm and American Dad!.
• Toonami is Cartoon Network (and later [adult swim]) meets Shonen Jump.
• ToonMarty is Scaredy Squirrel meets The Amazing World of Gumball.
• Top Wing is PAW Patrol meets Angry Birds (minus the anger issues of the birds).
• Totally Spies! is Clueless meets Charlie's Angels.
  • ... with a hint of Austin Powers.
  • Or, as Common Sense Media says, Scooby-Doo meets Beverly Hills, 90210.
  • Kim Possible meets The Powerpuff Girls (1998).
  • 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.
• T.O.T.S. is Storks meets Zootopia meets Wonder Pets!.
• Toxic Crusaders is a kid-friendly Toxic Avenger adaptation mixed with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987).
• Transformers cartoons:
  • The Transformers is Astro Boy meets New Gods and Superfriends.
    • Or Mobile Suit Gundam meets G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
  • Beast Wars is Transformers's Battle Beasts/Beastformers Subline meets ReBoot.
    • Alternatively, it's The Transformers meets Land of the Lost (1974) meets Animal Farm.
  • Transformers: Animated has been described as Transformers meets Teen Titans (2003)
    • Or Ben 10 meets NCIS, but with robots.
    • Or Transformers meets The War on Terror
  • Transformers: Prime is Transformers meets the Transformers Film Series by Michael Bay meets Teen Titans (2003), but Darker and Edgier.
  • 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 Rescue Heroes.
  • Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015): Transformers: Animated meets Transformers: Prime.
  • Transformers: Cyberverse is Transformers: Prime meets Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) with a dash of Berserk.
  • Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy is Transformers: Rescue Bots meets DC Super Hero Girls.
  • Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy is The Transformers meets Transformers: War for Cybertron meets Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin.
  • Transformers: BotBots is Transformers meets Shopkins meets Teen Titans Go! meets a kid-friendly Mallrats.
  • Transformers: EarthSpark is Transformers: Prime meets Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) meets Transformers: Cyberverse meets Star Trek: Prodigy meets The X-Files meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• Trese is Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Hellblazer and Supernatural with Philippine Mythology, set in present-day Manila.
• TripTank: Liquid Television meets the comedy style of Drawn Together.
• Trollkins: The Smurfs (1981) meets The Dukes of Hazzard.
• Trollz: Harry Potter meets Winx Club.
• TRON: Uprising is TRON and TRON: Legacy meets Teen Titans (2003), Thunder Cats 2011, Transformers: Prime, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars and by way of a kid-friendly Æon Flux and Reboot.
• 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.
  • Or Octopus Pie meets Rocko's Modern Life and Aggretsuko.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy is Danger Mouse meets The Fairly OddParents! and/or SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • Or The Fairly OddParents! meets Get Smart.
  • Or The Fairly OddParents! meets Kim Possible.
• Turbo F.A.S.T. is Turbo meets Motorcity.
• 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.
  • Or Harriet the Spy meets Peter Pan & the Pirates, Bridge to Terabithia, and The Neverending Story (specifically the original novel).
• The Twisted Timeline Of Sammy And Raj is Looped meets Victor and Valentino and an Indian The Casagrandes.

U

• Ugly Americans is Shadowrun meets the Comedy Central episodes of Futurama meets The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.
• Ultimate Book of Spells is Harry Potter meets The Worst Witch and The Fairly OddParents!
• Ultra Force is Shazam! meets Mighty Max, In the Style of Youngblood (Image Comics).
• Uncle Grandpa: Doctor Who crossed with Mary Poppins meets Looney Tunes.
  • Or SpongeBob SquarePants meets The Banana Splits.
• Undergrads is Downtown meets Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Undone is Russian Doll meets Waking Life.
• Unicorn Academy is Winx Club meets Horseland meets Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.
• Unicorn: Warriors Eternal is The Eternals meets The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Sym-Bionic Titan.
• 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 Unstoppable Yellow Yeti is Smallfoot and/or Abominable meets Boyster and Hilda.
  • Alternatively, Harry and the Hendersons meets 50/50 Heroes meets a Lighter and Softer Yvon of the Yukon.

V

• Vampirina is Doc McStuffins meets Hotel Transylvania.
• The Venture Bros. is what would happen if Jonny Quest meet both the deconstructive elements of Watchmen and the humorous elements of Arrested Development
• Victor and Valentino is Gravity Falls meets The Book of Life meets Drake & Josh.
• Vikingskool is How to Train Your Dragon (Minus the dragons) meets a toned-down The Secret of Kells and a bit of Hilda.
• Villainous is Evil Con Carne meets The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, along with a massive (literal) crossover of countless other Cartoon Network shows.
• Visionaries is Thundarr the Barbarian meets Spiral Zone meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets Manimal.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender is Voltron/GoLion meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.

W

• Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is All in the Family meets The Flintstones.
• Wakfu is Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Adventure Time.
  • Or Hunter × Hunter meets One Piece and the Warcraft Expanded Universe.
• 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.
• Wayside adapts the original books, In the Style of Recess meets Azumanga Daioh meets My Gym Partner's a Monkey meets a kid-friendly Clone High meets Saved by the Bell meets Hey Arnold! meets Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
• 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).
  • Or Open Season meets Clarence meets Sheep in the Big City.
  • We Baby Bears is We Bare Bears meets Wander over Yonder with an Animesque style.
• The Weekenders is Recess meets Friends.
• 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 & Cody meets Hunter × Hunter.
• What About Mimi? is Junie B. Jones meets Hey Arnold!.
• What If…? (2021) is the comic book of the same name meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe meets TRON: Uprising meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? is Adam Link meets Doug meets Cow and Chicken, In the Style of Schoolhouse Rock!.
• What's with Andy? is Andy Griffiths' Just Series meets Angela Anaconda meets Ed, Edd n Eddy.
• Wild C.A.T.s (1994) is The Eternals meets They Live!, In the Style of X-Men: The Animated Series.
• Wild Grinders is a kid-friendly version of Ridiculousness meets Rocket Power meets Johnny Test.
  • Or Phineas and Ferb meets Rocket Power, as done in the minds of Rob Dyrdek.
• Wild Kratts is Zoboomafoo meets The Wild Thornberrys meets Phineas and Ferb.
  • Or in terms of the show's art style, it's Samurai Jack meets Kim Possible meets 6teen.
• Will and Dewitt is Ned's Newt meets Gullah Gullah Island.
• Willa's Wild Life is An Octopus Followed Me Home meets Ruby Gloom (in terms of the show's art-style and minus the spookiness), Doctor Dolittle, and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
• Winx Club:
  • Harry Potter meets Sailor Moon or W.I.T.C.H..
  • Also, Clueless meets Power Rangers.
  • Or W.I.T.C.H. In the Style of Barbie Fairytopia and Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.
    • World of Winx (from Netflix) is basically Winx Club meets Totally Spies!.
• Wishfart is Shimmer and Shine meets Regular Show.
  • Alternatively, The Fairly OddParents! meets Ugly Americans.
• Wonder Pets! is Little Einsteins meets Recess meets The Rescuers, but made by Nickelodeon.
• WordGirl is The Powerpuff Girls (1998) meets Atomic Betty meets My Life as a Teenage Robot meets Superman with an educational purpose.
  • Or Dora the Explorer meets Between the Lions, by way of Kim Possible.
• WordWorld is ToddWorld meets Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
• Work It Out Wombats! is Busytown meets PB&J Otter.
• World of Quest is Dave the Barbarian meets Johnny Test.
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is SpongeBob SquarePants meets Little Bill and The Fairly OddParents! (in terms of it's art-style).

X

• Xavier: Renegade Angel is the works of Carlos Castaneda and Alejandro Jodorowsky meets Fist of the North Star, and Touched by an Angel meets Monty Python's Flying Circus and Wonder Showzen with the graphics (and Vulgar Humor) of Postal 2, all seasoned with cocaine.
  • Or The Maxx meets Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo meets Popee the Performer meets Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum is Time Warp Trio meets Peanuts.
  • Or Peabody's Improbable History meets Super Why! meets Night at the Museum.
• Xiaolin Showdown is Jackie Chan Adventures meets Dragon Ball.
  • Or Teen Titans (2003) meets Mulan, by way of Tiny Toon Adventures.
• X-Men: The Animated Series is X-Men meets New Mutants meets The Transformers meets Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
  • X-Men '97 is X-Men: The Animated Series meets Batman Beyond meets Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (and Freedom).
    • Or X Men 92 meets Young Justice (2010) Outsiders and Phantoms meets Invincible (2021) meets Masters of the Universe: Revelation.
• X-Men: Evolution is X-Men meets Degrassi.
  • Or X-Men: The Animated Series meets Harry Potter meets Gen¹³ meets Young Justice.
• The X's is The Incredibles meets Kim Possible.
  • Or Get Smart meets The Cramp Twins.
• Xyber 9: New Dawn is The Sword in the Stone meets Thundarr the Barbarian.

Y

• Yakkity Yak is South Park meets The Problem Solverz meets SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • Regular Show meets Scaredy Squirrel.
• Yin Yang Yo! is Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
• YOLO Crystal Fantasy is Tuca & Bertie meets 2 Broke Girls and Pop Team Epic.
• Young Justice (2010) is Teen Titans (2003) and Justice League Unlimited meets Gargoyles.
• Yvon of the Yukon is SCTV's "Bob & Doug" segments meets Hibernatus meets The Ren & Stimpy Show.

Z

• Zak Storm is One Piece meets Miraculous Ladybug.
• Zeroman is Superman meets Police Squad! and Airplane! meets The Ren & Stimpy Show.
• The Zeta Project is the Terminator meets The Iron Giant and The Fugitive.
• The ZhuZhus is Littlest Pet Shop (2012) meets 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.
  • Or Oggy and the Cockroaches meets Gilligan's Island.
• Zokie of Planet Ruby is Bunsen Is a Beast meets iCarly and Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh.
  • Or The Ghost and Molly McGee meets Wander over Yonder and ALF.

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