鴉PieFedWhat are the most deepcut or obscure adult animated series?
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- Quads!
- Heil Honey, I'm Home (cartoon)
- Drawn Together
- the oblongs
- the pjs
- slacker cats
- moral orel
- Clerks the animated series
- undergrads
- 12 oz mouse
- space ghost
- squidbillies
- ripping friends
- mega babies
- cyber6
- dr katz
- my dad the rockstar
- clone high
- grimm and evil/grim adventures of billy and mandy
- duck dodgers
- duckman
- lil bush
- the boondocks
- mike tyson mysteries
- fired on mars
- china, il
- yvon of the yukon
- monkey dust
- ugly americans
- code monkeys
- tom goes to the mayor
- The life and times of tim
- Æonflux
- fritz the cat
- the critic
- superjail
- lower deck
If i havent heard of it or I HAVE, its prolly deepcut
Frisky Dingo
Cat party is still my favourite ringtone.
Do you have bluetooth?
Cat party? It’s all about Dog Party now.
Killface 2028!
Master cylinder!
A scion tc
Xavier: Renegade Angel, dunno if it counts because it's computer animation but some good TV-MA psychedelic social satire
Vernon Chatman before South Park was great! Not that he wasn't great for SP.
Another that doesn't meet the qualification is Wonder Showzen. So great!
The Heart She Holler was pretty good too
I don't see Aeon Flux mentioned yet. The Maxx is very good too. Duckman I remember being hilarious, but I dunno if starring Jason Alexander counts as a deep cut.
I'll 1 up you and go with Liquid Television, where Aeon Flux started-- like Tracy Ulman & the Simpsons.
Duckman was pretty mainstream when it aired, but it's been largely forgotten. Ahead of its time, humor-wise.
Fritz the Cat. Not to be confused with Felix the Cat. Fritz the Cat was, essentially, an adults only version of Felix. And by adult only I mean pornographic.
I'm also not seeing anyone mention Mission Hill so throw that onto the pile. It's hella good.
Also Clone High.
Salute from the old skool! And oh my brother, does the internet archive have a treat for you...
+1 for Clone High. I still quote it regularly.
“Precious cargo”… ☕️
A lot of things listed here are earler works from well-known creators, like Clone High (The Lego Movie, 21 Jump St, Sealab 2021 (Archer), Bravest Warriors (Adventure Time), Home Movies (Metalocalypse, Squid Billies).
Extra shoutout to China, IL. Love all the oldet Professir Bros. stuff on YouTube, like Roleplaying Tornament and Queeblo that I still sing all the time
The old Brad Neely stuff is really special.
I think doing the serialized China IL broke him somehow...but the old stuff is some of my favorite media. There's just such charm to this neurodivergent harmless manchild main character.
Turns out, we were both in love with the same fresh ghost.
All of the adult swim shows like ATHF, Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Squidbillies, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, and probably a few others I can't remember. Also, not animated but I would put Sifl & Olly in the mix because it fucking rocks.
Everybody should check out the adultswim.fan instance which has communities for all these shows as well as general ones like [email protected] and [email protected]
Heck yeah to all these!
I had a black cat with green eyes I named Sifl. Got attitude from quite a few people about what TF was wrong with me for naming a cat after syphilis...
Hoops is a recent one that cracked my shit up, and I was bummed didn't get another season of two
Okay I haven't heard of a lot here.
I don't know if it's the most obscure or deep cut but my favorite vote goes to Moral Orel. It gets dark in a way that doesn't look like it.
Billy and Mandy and Duck Dodgers imo don't belong to this list
Surprised you didn't add the MTV one such as AEon Flux, The Head, The Maxx. Aeon in particular is a favorite of mine, watching it is very wtf. I think it should belong to this list.
Patience grashppper
The Brothers Grunt
1st and second season: haha, oh orel
3rd :
Mission Hill
I remember loving this show as a kid! I still laugh when I think about "douchebag" written in cursive.
You may be happy to know there is an archive of all the episodes :)
Drawn Together was hilarious. It ended because sponsors were too uncomfortable advertising alongside it. It could never get made today.
Did you ever see the movie? It's basically the creators bitching because they were shunned for the content while South Park was lauded because it came with a heavy-handed moral.
I had no idea. I'm gonna watch that tonight. Thanks!
12 oz. Mouse. Twelve is also the number of fans the show has.
Edit: shoutout to [email protected] where I am the only person who posts.
All I remember of that show was catching it on a VHS after I left it recording to grab squidbillies one night, and there was a scene of a shark trying to start a car for a really, really long time, which was pretty damn funny.
That's a great episode lol
“You barely piece of suck-ass car.”
You're not gonna believe this, my upvote just got you to 12
Yeah loved that series, had no idea that it was ever considered to be continued
That show is so dang good.
Anyone else remember the Oblongs?
The oblongs and quads (which used to air back to back when I watched) are like a fever dream. What the fuck, actually.
Adding a few.
The Head, Liquid Television, The Maxx, Tom goes to the Mayor, Tripping the Rift, Primer, Tom and the Devil, The Critic, Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo, Primal, Mission Hill , Friday: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Aeon Flux, Assy McGee , Aqua Teen (not sure if this counts, honestly), Perfect Hair Forever, Superjail, Happy Tree Friends, Venture Bros - God tier I'm sure I'll think of others
Oh man, that was Heavy Metal tier crazy nonsense.
pulls out a list of Adult Swim cartoons
slaps them on the table
I also went to college in the '00s.
Obscure for people outside the UK:
Monkey Dust
The LABiA pitches, the dinner party twats, the West Brom terror cell, the Daisy Harris murder inquiry, Ivan Dobsky... if anything, they've got better with age. Plus some, like Clive, are pretty timeless.
Ever seen Bromwell High by chance?
I've not, but it looks very British.
I'll try to get round to giving it a watch if/when I get the chance/time.
Do, Keisha is like the British black Cartman
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned The Critic yet. It was a good show that was screwed over by two networks. Another one is Dilbert, which was based on the comic strip. I think Scott Adams was less involved with it than the strip which made it better (plus he wasn't as insane back then).
It stinks!
Buy my book!
Venture Bros is probably the best I've seen, but I also enjoyed
Also if you have kids and want to watch stuff with them that isn't brain rot, try Samurai Jack, Clone Wars (Tartakovsky's original), and Reboot.
Superjail. Imagine if Willy Wonka ran a prison instead of a chocolate factory.
Oh, I remember that one! I think I still have it...
The animation freaked me out but Dr Seuss illustrations also freaks me out
Ralph Bakshi made an animated series for HBO called Spicy City. It is very adult, and not something I see mentioned often.
Trip tank
Superjail
SlackerCats - obscure, ran for half a season
Clerks The Animated Series - obscure, ran for half a season
Carol and the end of the world (Mainstream but wildly serene, surreal, and overtly human)
Moral Oral - pretty dark adult show
Ren and Stimpy - pretty dark for a kids show
I'm sure I'll think of a few more
My friend and I still quote clerk's to this day! Such a great show. So dumb, but great!
I'm surprised Ren and Stimpy made it in the obscure list. They were about as popular as anything when they were on.
The adult party cartoon might be obscure enough to make the list.
The co-creator died a couple days ago
Interesting! Thanks!
Not so obscure, but very dark. This was a kids show on Nickelodeon after all. Have you watched it?
Have I watched it?
HAVE I WATCHED IT???
Have you ever shaved a yak? Have you ever enjoyed powdered toast? Have you ever sung along with Stinky Whizzleteats?!?
I was watching Ren & Stimpy before you were saving up your allowance to buy a Log.
I mean, to be fair, none of those things are things I can tell from here.
Duckman
Not really animated but not really not-animated.
The Fuccons. they're Fuccon fantastic!
edit: I did some more digging on The Fuccons and they were a short episodic skit on a longer running Japanese show called "Vermilion Pleasure Night". it's a really good representation of early 2000s adult entertainment humor highly niche but entertaining enough with dark humor.
Oh my god I thought this was Angela Anaconda. I fucking hate this animation style.
Actual deepcut: cybersix.
Edit: although edited from the comics to be much more child friendly. Forgot the original prompt.
My journey into queer media started with Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World. If you've never seen it, I'm not sure what to tell you but you should.
Also just looked it up and Alan Cumming and Margaret Cho did voices in it? I gotta rewatch that shit.
Also shout out to Yvon of the Yukon cause ytv was just why (the fuck) tv actually.
Glenn Martin DDS
Assy McGee
Assy McGee truly stood on it's own. Worst possible idea and they just went for it. Beautiful
Danger Mouse, international spy and crime fighting white rodent with an eye patch. Old British cartoon from the early 80's.
The Simpsons
Dude, you got to check out this obscure cartoon by the same creator. It's called Futurama
You guys are gonna love Family Guy.
american dad.
Final Space
Tripping the Rift
Bravest Warriors
Tripping The Rift 💀
Now that I haven't heard in ages.
Yvon of the yukon
I miss oblongs. Sucks it only lasted like 2 season.
Mission hill was good too, Daria style
Perfect hair forever! "Hamburgers should be high"
If you're going to list Space Ghost you have to have the Herculoids.
https://youtu.be/J-2M0oizyGY
Code Monkeys
I still rewatch episodes of Monkey Dust. If you like pitch black British humor, it's for you.
God I love Monkey Dust. Can't believe it ended 20 years ago now.
"I never done it, I only said I done it so they'd take me bellend oot'a the Magimix."
I use the Russian roulette party game as a gauge to see how people will react to the show. If they find it funny, they're likely to enjoy the rest. If they don't, then they'll REALLY hate where some of the other scenes go.
Tigtone!!!
Ugly Americans.
Fritz the cat! Also non animated but muppet-like Meet the Feebles.
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
HEEEEEYYY Mister Passer-By! Crest-on-Birdman's-HELMET!
Didja... Didja get that thing I sent ya??
Drawn Together?
I mean that was advertised like crazy on comedy Central when it was on the air.
Same with the Oblongs when it was on adult swim. They had Will Ferrell on the show.
Æonflux
Is this obscure? I thought it well known?
It's generational. Definitely more obscure than Drawn Together, The Oblongs, or Billy and Mandy
Woah, I've not seen any of those! Yes I am old. I liked the animated Aeon Flux a lot, and there was a pretty bad live adaptation, so I thought it was famous.
If that’s on the list add The Maxx
Primal.
The Boondocks.
Mike Tyson Mysteries.
Fired on Mars.
China, IL.
Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon and 3-South
Lil' Bush
Sit down, shut up. Jason Bateman, will forte, and will arnette are high school teachers. It lasted one season with fox giving it random timeslots.
The Ol' Firefly treatment
I wasn't into Megas XLR but it was part of cartoon Fridays when I was in school and probably belongs in this list.
You can't list Oblongs, Undergrads, and Clone High without mentioning Mission Hill.
Chilly Beach is probably a deep cut for non-Canadians. I most often saw it described as Canadian South Park.
I'm not sure if it counts as obscure but Invader Zim also aired around this time.
Going back a bit further, there was Duckula, where the latest in a line of vampiric ducks was resurrected using ketchup instead of blood and became a vegetable vampire.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was made into a cartoon of questionable suitability for children.
Megas XLR was great. I very much dig giant robots.
Invader Zim, Clone High, Duckula (and Dangermouse (original) are all very good - but of them only Clone High is aimed at people older than 14 (not that older people don't or didn't appreciate them) none of them feel obscure to me, although neither Clone High nor Invader Zim were well known in the UK when released in North America, but Internet word of mouth got them known in time.
Chilly Beach, Oblongs, Undergrads, and Mission Hill I have never heard of. So deep enough, at least to a Brit of my age.
Will def look into Chilly Beach
+1 for Mission Hill. Bling Blong.
Adding a few more of questionable obscurity, idk if these are well known or not, since many of the ones OP posted I thought were well known. So that'll have to be judged independently but at least these all are good and sorta fit.
Assy McGee
Celebrity Deathmatch (claymation, I count it.)
Harvey Birdman
Home Movies
Sealab 2021
Stripperella
Xavier Renegade Angel
Also if it doesn't have to be "adult" (Billy and Mandy on OG list) then add:
KaBlam!
Freakazoid!
Would you like to see something strange and mystical?
Megas: XLR
Gundam for boyz
I've at least heard of 13 out of the 27 listed. Only seriously watched like 3 of them though.
People Watching
That one was perfection. Rowntree is a really good artist in any medium.
Is*. Season 3 is comming.
Maybe the PJ’s
That one was a good one. It's a shame that's the show that ultimately brought down Vinton Studios, financially. They were the ones who did the California raisins commercials, and the M&Ms commercials, among other things.
That crash is what ultimately got Phil Knight,of Nike fame, to gain a majority share of the studio and fire Will Vinton. He then put his son, Travis Knight, in charge of the studio, and changed the name to Laika.
I had animation instructors who worked in the PJs before they were all laid off. Everyone was bitter about the Vinton getting fired. I did get to meet Vinton once too, so that was neat!
Disenchantment
Nah too mainstream, its a netlix orijj for petes sake
If Netflix shows are too well-known then surely nothing on Adult Swim counts either.
Yeah, I mean I love my Adult Swim line up but very few of them are deep cuts.
Undergrads
One other person mentioned it but I'll put Tom Goes to the Mayor out there too.
I feel like if you didn't grow up in the rust belt or some other dead part of the USA without anything but public access TV, a lot of the humor is lost on you.
But for those few who did....it was nice to feel seen.
TGTTM is the beginning of a vast, graceful arc that leads eventually, inevitably, to Check It Out With Scott Clam.
The Life & Times of Tim
Ongezellig!!!