See this?
This was one of those crowning moments of awesome for American-style Cartoons. With each and every iteration of the initial 70s-80s cartoon genre, it developed from sitcoms to slight action to the advent of anime within American shores, to this crowning moment of American animation. This had jokes that got past so many censors, it was unreal, the writing was second to none and featured zany humor, dramatic moments with their own touch of gold, and even musical numbers that made children not want to groan derisively and change the channel.
Animaniacs is a random assortment of Warner Bros. Cartoons which, by themselves, started a whole franchise of cartoons with incredible quality: the well-honored predcessor: Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, and Hysteria! served as the foundation for at least the next five years, when they're not action-oriented cartoons. Look at things nowadays, like Chowder or Adventure Time: They attempt more sequential, story-based comedy without randomness....while still being random. So where I stand, they are taking their inspiration from Animaniacs for their humor potential, and another source for their story-driven plots. I can think of only one man-and his team of gifted animators and storyboardists-who is to credited for something like this. He made this lovely classic.
As well as many others before certain companies I'd rather not speak about shut him down on a epic that never should have ended. Drawing a lot from Japanese Anime (which in turn, drew a great deal from early cartoons and comics.), Genndy Tartakovsky was a genius that many different people have a great deal to thank him for, inculding Michael Dante DiMartino and those who consist of Man at Action.
Back then, when WB took its fist out its bunghole and decided to give the writers free reign, the only thing that didn't make children seem like idiots were Power Rangers, Heim Saban's poster child filled with Japanese Sentai and filled with continuity potential the likes of which children had never seen unless they started watching Doctor Who at an early age.
New cartoonists, I'm looking at you. I'm not sure what this Total Drama Island or this Sixteen or Surf's Up-whosiwhatsit is all about, including all this stuff from France. (Except for Code Lyoko. That was pure action gold....except for the novels, which seem to like to degrade canon....but yeah, Totally Spies-outside of some okay fetish fuel at very limited times-strikes me as a poor man's Kim Possible.) This kind of stuff has to stop because it is uninteresting and shallow for younger audiences and older cartoon/anime watchers who love this stuff they still watch it.
You wanna have a good, close-to-modern day example? Here's two.
Transformers Animated
Batman: Brave and the Bold
Watch. And LEARN.
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