I say family guy. Seth makes kewl cartoon series. The Simpsons is a great series, but the quality of the jokes has been going down fast. To much serious morality stuff. And in the "storyline" cartoon genre, I'd probably choose Avatar. Oban Star Racers was awesome too, but they replaced it with retarded crap shows. Shows like "Pokemon: snot green", or "Pokemon: the neverending increasing amount of useless creatures like Spoink". Stuff like Naruto doesn't count. Those are animé, and have production values of nearly a million dollars per episode.
Family Guy is a great series, but the quality of the jokes has been going down fast. To much stupid toilet stuff. C WUT I DID THAR? But seriously. I don't watch cartoons....
I Jacky boy mainstream? I love its style. No outlines on anything. Absolutely amazing. Also, the theme song won't leave my head for days after hearing it. To bad no regular Dutch networks broadcast it anymore. Cartoon Network is now a pay channel, and I just don't think it's worth it anymore. To childish. Also: South Park is still funny, but it's time for a new irony/sarcasm/satire show. Amarican Dad does a good job at making countries and organisations look bad, but the difference with Family Guy is to small.
Danny Phantom was fun for a while. Best humour in it was his dad who always did weird stuff. Fairly Odd Parents > Sponguebob
...you're kidding, right? most anime has ridiculously low budgets. even the blockbuster hits like bleach and naruto. the simpsons probably has a higher budget per episode than any japanese anime. if you're going to discount contenders based on budget, then the top american shows like simpsons and family guy will fly out the window first.
I think that you might be kidding. Simpsons and such are simplistic. If you take two random screenshots of Naruto/Afro Samurai etc. and compare it to Simpsons/Amarican dad, etc... Man, if you can't see the difference in quality there... Also, read wikipedia and stuff. Most series start out small, but I'm obviously talking about the amount of money they spend at this moment.
no, even in bigger series, you can see they spend a LOT of time with the same backdrops, reused cells, not much movement other than eyes and mouth and stuff, with the dialogue doing most of the "work". i watch a lot of anime. just look for it. even most "action" scenes will have very little original animation, and they reuse a LOT of things, and spend a lot of time talking while standing perfectly still. the simpsons, however, has nearly the entire episodes drawn from scratch. while i don't have the numbers, i'm willing to bet the simpsons budget is WAY higher than even the most popular anime.
Dude. I never noticed that. Thought it was just pokemon doing it. Lol. You kinda ruined part of the fun of watching anime now. Still, it's not like the environment in the Simpsons changes every episode. I doubt that, for example, Moe's bar is re-drawn for every episode. It's all computer animation anyway these days. Even south park.
In western series I grew up enjoying batman series and x-men, I reminisce myself putting sticks between my fingers trying to imitate wolverine and my childhood friend would throw cards at my face pretending his gambit (it hit my eye one time lol). Anime-wise - I like most of them, I buy manga on monthly basis and can't decide to which series I was most attached. (I have a favorite on different types of genre)
American Dad! Hands down. The quality of the voice acting surpasses that of any other American cartoon, and hence, every cartoon, and the dialogue itself is very, very rarely off, so much so that the off dialogue actually becomes memorable as its so seldom seen. Combine that with their attention to their own detail, leaving nothing otherwise odd uncommented on, their much more cerebral and social humour, as opposed to other shows which really only ever deal with joke-jokes, and Claus, and you've got an awesome show. And yes, I am over-analysing it. It's hard to prove it's better than something else without over-analysing, unless you stick to the good old "is too/is not", let's-see-who-can-shout-the-loudest formula, of course. But seriously the very fact that it's possible to imagine any of the main characters as real people, including Claus and Roger, albeit their personalities as opposed to them, themselves, shows how awesome the show is, not necessarily in each specific episode, but definitely as a whole.
@Itza Your explanation makes that series to good to be true. YOU'RE IN THE GOO! One of my favourite episodes. Such a good representation of how families actually work, instead of the perfect situations which are often used elsewhere. Teenage kids don't want to be friends with their parents, and E.T. isn't cute and shy. He invented disco!
