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25 Years Ago, SpongeBob SquarePants Changed TV Forever
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? The king of American children’s animation, that’s who.
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The Animated Sitcom Was Rarely More Subversive Than in Home Movies Season 1
The animated sitcom as it exists today — The Great North, Krapopolis, Rick and Morty, the list goes on —...
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Superhero Animation Grows Up in X-Men '97
X-Men: The Animated Series adapted its source material with all the gravity a superhero cartoon made in 1993 could possibly...
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Marvel Animation Could Learn a Lot From the Weird Spider-Man Unlimited
In The Late Great, Primetimer staffers and contributors revisit shows that were cut short but still cast a long shadow...
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The First Extended Bluey Special Shouldn't Be the Show's Last
It might seem surprising that one of the most popular TV shows right now is a preschool cartoon about anthropomorphic...
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Forget Buying Toys, the Original Transformers Cartoon Just Wanted You to Be a Good Person
Since it began in 1984, 40 years ago this year, The Transformers has always had an uncomfortably close relationship with...
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Nostalgia Is a Double-Edged Sword in X-Men '97
Marvel Studios has made a habit of plundering old properties in rather cynical leverage of nostalgia, like the various Spider-Men...
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What the History of X-Men: The Animated Series Means for X-Men '97
As hard as this might be to accept for some, X-Men: The Animated Series was canceled almost thirty years ago,...
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The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy Embraces the Alien
There’s nothing cut-rate about The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, an absurd yet emotionally grounded new series from Russian...
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Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender Only Underscores the Importance of Filler Episodes
Despite what internet comments would have you believe, 1:1 remakes aren't the end-all, be-all of adaptations.
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30 Years Ago, 'Deep Space Homer' Blasted The Simpsons Into a New Comic Stratosphere
Against all odds, and after 35 consecutive years on the air, TV’s longest-running sitcom is experiencing an unexpected revival in...
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Dan Harmon's Krapopolis Digs Up Laughs in Ancient Greece
Cynicism is a brilliant and necessary new tool in the new Dan Harmon-created animated sitcom, Krapopolis.
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Meet the Voice Cast of Freeform's Praise Petey
There’s soon to be a new entry in the world of adult animation, as Praise Petey comes to Freeform on...
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Everything You Need to Know About Creature Commandos, HBO Max's Animated Monster Mash
On Tuesday, DC Studios co-chairmen James Gunn and Peter Safran shared the 10 projects that will chart the “first chapter”...
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5 of the Best Animated Shows Based on Video Games You Can Watch Right Now
There’s always been a lot of overlap between the worlds of video games and animated television, and the two mediums...