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Plot Summary:
Bob and Margaret is a Canadian/UK animated television series that was also shown in the United States and all over the world. The series was produced by Nelvana, a Toronto animation studio, and created by Canadian David Fine and Brit Alison Snowden. The series was based on the Academy Award winning short film Bob's Birthday, featuring the same main characters, which won the Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 1994. The series is one of the few Canadian TV shows to ever have regular American exposure. In Canada, it was the highest rated Canadian made animation series ever when it aired in prime time on Global Television. The show revolved around a married English couple named Bob and Margaret Fish, a middle class 40-ish working couple with no children and two dogs named William and Elizabeth. Bob is a dentist and Margaret is a chiropodist. Bob and Margaret struggle with everyday issues and mid life crisis. Stories often revolve around the mundane, but in a way which is eminently relatable. From the trials of shopping to dealing with friends who annoy them, but owe them a dinner. In the first two seasons, Bob and Margaret lived in England, in the South London community of Balham. For the third and fourth seasons, however, they moved to Toronto, Canada, allowing the writers to explore the humour of culture clash. The move was actually inspired by the realities of funding, with certain Canadian tax benefits dependent on stories actually based in Canada. As such, to keep the series funded, the move was necessary. The creators of the series chose to take an executive role on these latter two seasons, reviewing scripts and consulting, but not involved in the detail they were for the first two seasons. Snowden continued to provide the voice of Margaret, but Bob's voice, originally played by Andy Hamilton, was replaced by Brian George.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Philippines
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
An anime in which personified countries show history in a humorous fashion.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, not serious, witty, feel good, parody, clever, offbeat, realistic, allegory
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The Dating Guy (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of young 20-somethings engage in a multitude of sleazy sexual escapades.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, adult cartoon, sexual
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Producing Parker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Producing Parker is a Canadian animated television sitcom that debuted May 4, 2009 on TVtropolis. Episodes began airing on Global in fall 2009. The plot revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a female-targeted daytime television talk show, and stars Parker Kovak, the producer of "The Dee Show", and Dee, its self-absorbed and high maintenance host. The show's cast also includes Peter Keleghan and Aaron Abrams. Kim Cattrall was awarded a Gemini for "Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series" in 2010. The series is produced by Breakthrough Animation and was confirmed for a second season set for February 2011. The second season officially premiered April 8, 2011 on Canada's TVtropolis.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom
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Dick Figures (2010)
Plot Summary:
The series focuses on two stick figures named Red and Blue, who are best friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, captivating, ironic, satirical, semi serious, adult cartoon
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Baby Blues (2000)
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Baby Blues is an animated television series based on the Baby Blues comic strip. The first eight episodes of Baby Blues originally aired in the United States on The WB from July 28, 2000 until August 24, 2000, before the series cancellation. Five then-unaired episodes were later aired on Adult Swim in 2002. Another season consisting of thirteen episodes has been produced, but were never aired or shown to the public in any format.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, adult animation, realistic
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God, the Devil and Bob (2000)
Plot Summary:
God, the Devil and Bob is an animated sitcom which premiered on NBC on March 9, 2000 and ended on March 28, 2000, leaving nine episodes unaired. It was created by Matthew Carlson. It is currently broadcast on the Philippine channel Maxxx. The entire series was released on Region 1 DVD in the United States on January 4, 2005. Reruns of the series began airing on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on January 1, 2011 with the network airing the nine remaining episodes of the series from January 8 to March 26, 2011. Thirteen episodes were made, but only four were broadcast in the United States before the series was canceled due to a combination of low ratings and pressure from religious activists. The show, however, was well received in places such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Latin America, where BBC Two, RTE, and Fox, respectively, aired the entire series. God, the Devil and Bob was canceled in the United States after the first four episodes aired on NBC, after network executives received an alarming number of complaints about its potentially offensive religious material.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Comedy, Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, adult cartoon, satanic, offbeat
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Dilbert (1999)
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Dilbert is an animated television series adaptation of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox, and United Media and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999, and was UPN's highest-rated comedy series premiere at that point in the network's history; it lasted two seasons on UPN and won a Primetime Emmy before its cancellation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, black comedy, dark comedy, 2d animation
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Plot Summary:
The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of New York film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon Lovitz. It was created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who had previously worked as writers and showrunners on The Simpsons. The Critic had 23 episodes produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994, and finishing its original run on Fox in 1995. Episodes featured movie parodies with notable examples including a musical version of Apocalypse Now, Howard Stern's End, Honey, I Ate the Kids, The Cockroach King, Abe Lincoln: Pet Detective, Scent of a Jackass and Scent of a Wolfman. The show often referenced popular movies such as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and The Godfather, and routinely lampooned actor Marlon Brando and actor/director Orson Welles. They also spoofed Dudley Moore, usually as his character Arthur Bach from the 1981 film Arthur. Despite the ratings improving, The Critic was cancelled after only two seasons. It continued to air through reruns on Comedy Central and then on Locomotion. From 2000 to 2001, ten web episodes were later produced using Adobe Shockwave, and were broadcast on AtomFilms.com and Shockwave.com. In 2004, the DVD box set was released, which includes all 23 TV episodes and the web episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 522 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, adult animation, sitcom, anime, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, parody
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, not serious, clever, realistic, witty, adult cartoon, sitcom, independent film, mad
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, claymation, anime, clever, humorous, semi serious
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Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004)
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Tom Goes to the Mayor is an American animated television series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered on November 14, 2004 and ended on September 25, 2006, with a total of thirty episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, sitcom, political, adult cartoon, clever, realistic
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Assy McGee (2006)
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Assy McGee is an animated sitcom featuring police detective Assy McGee, a parody of tough-guy cop shows and movies, who is literally a walking pair of buttocks. Along with his partner Don Sanchez, the trigger-happy McGee solves crimes in a fictionalized Exeter, New Hampshire. Larry Murphy voices all of the main characters. The series premiered on November 26, 2006, on Adult Swim and was canceled after season two ended on July 6, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, semi serious, parody, adult cartoon, detective, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, adult animation, sex comedy
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, semi serious, realistic, adult cartoon, light, feel good, adult animation
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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (1995)
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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999—with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002—starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman. The show was created by a Burbank, California production company Popular Arts Entertainment, with Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder, developed and first made by Popular Arts for HBO Downtown Productions. Boston-based Tom Snyder Productions became the hands-on production company, and the episodes were usually produced by Katz and Loren Bouchard. The show was computer animated in a crude, easily recognizable style produced with the software Squigglevision in which all persons and animate objects are colored and have constantly squiggling outlines, while most other inanimate objects are static and usually gray in color. The original challenge Popular Arts faced was how to repurpose recorded stand-up comedy material. To do so they based Dr. Katz's patients on stand-up comics for the first several episodes, simply having them recite their stand-up acts. The secondary challenge was how to affordably animate on cable TV at the time. Snyder had Squigglevision, an inexpensive means of getting animation on cable, which could not afford traditional animation processes. A partnership between Popular Arts, Tom Snyder Productions and Jonathan Katz was formed and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist was born.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: cynical, adult animation, sitcom, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, witty, weird
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Fatherhood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fatherhood is an American animated television series revolving around the Bindlebeep family and various happenings, inspired by the book of the same name by Bill Cosby. This was Nick at Nite's first original animated series. It has aired on Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon. It was canceled in 2005.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, light, captivating, entertaining, adult animation, anime, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, captivating, adult animation, adult cartoon, offbeat, realistic, cynical
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, adult cartoon, absurd, sitcom
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, not serious
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Full English is a British animated sitcom created by Jack Williams, Harry Williams and Alex Scarfe for Channel 4. The programme is produced by Two Brothers Pictures. It parodies and satirises various popular entertainment personalities in the United Kingdom, created to be the British equivalent to the hit American animated sitcoms. Full English first aired on 12 November 2012, with the first series ending abruptly on 10 December 2012 after the final episode, due to air on 17 December 2012, was pulled from the schedules. The show has been cancelled according to the official Facebook page.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, not serious, parody, realistic, adult cartoon
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, adult animation, 2d animation
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Plot Summary:
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, adult cartoon, witty, anime, sitcom, manga, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Mother Up! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rudi Wilson is a former record executive who decides to move to the suburbs and see if she can hold her own in the world of motherhood. What Rudi finds is that her hard-partying lifestyle, frequent drinking and tendency to use profane language don’t necessarily gel with the lifestyles of her neighbours in the suburbs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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The Oblongs (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Oblongs is an American animated television series aimed at teenagers and adults. It is loosely based on a series of characters introduced in creator Angus Oblong's picture book entitled Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children. The TV series was produced by Jobsite Productions and Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, and the theme song for the show was composed and performed by They Might Be Giants. The Oblongs aired on The WB from April 1, 2001 until May 20, 2001 and then aired on Adult Swim from August 25, 2002 to October 20, 2002, with a total of thirteen episodes. There has been mention of a potential series revival with new episodes on Adult Swim, however, no other information has been announced. All thirteen episodes of The Oblongs were released on DVD on October 4, 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 284 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, semi serious, entertaining, anime, sitcom, offbeat
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Daria (1997)
Plot Summary:
Daria Morgendorffer lives with her stressed-out, career-fixated parents, Helen and Jake, and her relentlessly cute and popular little sister, Quinn. Daria and her fellow outcast and best friend, Jane Lane, attend Lawndale High School where they are surrounded by shallow and stupid people. With her sharp intellect —and even sharper tongue—Daria dissected anyone she deemed superficial, which is just about everyone.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: clever, adult cartoon, witty, cynical, adult animation, intellectual, humorous, semi serious, gothic, anime
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Plot Summary:
Neighbors from Hell was a satirical American animated sitcom that ran on TBS from June 7, 2010 to July 26, 2010. The executive producer of the series is Pam Brady. The first and only season consisted of 10 episodes. The series is owned by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. It's produced by Fox Television Animation and MoonBoy Animation, a division of DreamWorks Animation. The majority of the animation is produced by Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver, and a team of animators in Los Angeles, Bento Box Entertainment, did some of the animation and retakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, adult animation, adult cartoon
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Squidbillies (2005)
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Squidbillies is an animated television series about the Cuylers, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Appalachian region of Georgia's mountains. The show is produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network and premiered on October 16, 2005. It is written by Dave Willis, co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Jim Fortier, previously of The Brak Show, both of whom worked on the Adult Swim series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The animation is done by Awesome Incorporated, with background design by Ben Prisk.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: humorous, adult animation, cynical, not serious, adult cartoon, sitcom, offbeat, black comedy
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Duncanville (2020)
Plot Summary:
The series centers on the life of Duncan, a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy, his family and friends. Poehler will provide the voice of Duncan and his high-strung mom, Annie, who is constantly trying to prevent her son from ruining his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sitcom, humorous, feel good, exciting, witty, weird
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Bob's Burgers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, adult animation, humorous, witty, not serious, adult cartoon, funny, offbeat, sentimental, atmospheric
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Family Guy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and taking over the world), Meg (the oldest, and is the most unpopular girl in town) and Chris (the middle kid, he's not very bright but has a passion for movies). The final member of the family is Brian - a talking dog and much more than a pet, he keeps Stewie in check whilst sipping Martinis and sorting through his own life issues.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 359000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, cynical, witty, funny, exciting, anime, controversial, entertaining