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. The genius of Home Movies isn’t that it’s drawn very well, has a particularly intriguing storyline or even that it necessarily goes where no cartoon has gone before. But that might not be too far off from how you knew them freshman year. Also, they are animals and one sleeps on a trampoline.
And somehow, that knowledge makes the world a better place. This show is about your friends who dropped out of college but continually make you wonder, “I wonder what they’re doing now?” Let me tell you: they are working at a community park and pretending that hot wings are weed. (FYI, we used Wikipedia’s List of Adult Animated Series as our eligibility guide, except for #20, which should totally be on there.)
These are sketchy tales that riff on politics, drugs, relationships and even death.īelow, our list of cartoons with decidedly grown-up sensibilities. Our editorial staff recently debated and eventually voted on television’s 20 best adult animated series.Īnd by “adult,” we don’t just mean R-rated hijinks: we mean shows written for adults, which means more than a few random f-bombs. But you are not the best adult cartoon of all-time.
