Famous cartoons for adults

Western cartoons are funny , and every year, the American animated movies hoisting Oscars over their heads are the ones consumed by kids and marketed for families and designed to make everyone laugh and feel good about themselves and their anthropomorphized feelings. TV shows? And with darker, heavier, more violent content, animation is starting to have its adult moment again this time without the empty inanity of Beavis and Butthead or South Park ; we'll still watch those classics, though. BoJack Horseman and Archer have proven that jaded comedies could still have a lot of heart. Series like Amazon's Undone find creative ways to illustrate challenges to mental health.

Below, our list of cartoons with decidedly grown-up sensibilities. Also, they are animals and one sleeps on a trampoline. But that might not be too far off from how you knew them freshman year. Nope, what makes it great and continuously funny is the Seinfeld -ian collection of recurring characters who keep popping in and out of the world the three movie-loving protagonists Brendan, Melissa and Jason inhabit.

A couple misconceptions about animation. One: It's not a genre, it's a medium. It's a method of telling different stories in different genres, just like "live-action filmmaking. Second of all: Organize your animated films within their actual specific genres, please! And two: While we are appreciative of the many family-friendly, kid-focused animated TV shows, animation is not just for kids.

Avatar: The Last Airbender See it on Amazon boasted well-crafted storytelling and crisp, beautiful animation set in a fantastic, immersive world centered around a dynamic cast of characters. It also spawned the sequel series The Legend of Korra, which should also be on this list if we had the room! Rick and Morty.