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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
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Johnny Bravo (1997)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Bravo tells the story of a biceps-bulging, karate-chopping free spirit who believes he is a gift from God to the women of the earth. Unfortunately for Johnny, everyone else sees him as a narcissistic Mama's boy with big muscles and even bigger hair. In short, he is the quintessential guy who 'just doesn't get it.' No matter what he does, or where he finds himself, he always winds up being his own worst enemy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, adult animation, absurd, light, non-linear, sentimental, retro, manga, anime
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Mr. Pickles (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Goodman family lives with their lovable pet dog, Mr. Pickles, a deviant border collie with a secret satanic streak.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: adult animation, bloody, not serious, humorous, offbeat, adult cartoon, disturbing, tense, dark comedy, funny
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Neighbors from Hell (2010)
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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Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (2008)
Plot Summary:
Short skits based on the cut away gags from the show Family Guy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 2 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, adult animation, adult cartoon, suspense, anthology, sketch comedy, offbeat, biting, fast
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Happy Tree Friends (2000)
Plot Summary:
Happy Tree Friends is an American flash cartoon created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The show is cited as an early example of a popular Internet phenomenon achieving a cult following. The action and adventure comedy is drawn in simple appearance and combines cute forest animals with extreme graphic violence. Each episode revolves around the characters enduring accidental events of bloodshed, pain, dismemberment and/or death. The episodes last from between 1 to 7 minutes. At one point, the warning "Cartoon Violence: Not recommended for small children, or big babies" was given on the official website. In 2006, a television series featuring longer episodes aired. A spin-off called Ka-Pow! premiered on September 2, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, not serious, witty, cynical, funny, bloody, adult cartoon, parody, exciting
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Hoops (2020)
Plot Summary:
A foul-mouthed high school basketball coach is sure he'll hit the big leagues if he can only turn his terrible team around. Good luck with that.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: adult animation, cynical, anime, exciting, humorous, not serious, visually appealing, sitcom, 2d animation, sexploitation film
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Squidbillies (2005)
Plot Summary:
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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TripTank (2014)
Plot Summary:
TripTank is Comedy Central’s newest animated experience, executive produced by ShadowMachine’s Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico. The weekly, eight-episode half-hour series, showcases a wide range of fast-paced, hard-hitting animated comedy shorts presented in an anthology style, weaving together stand-alone and recurring narrative pieces.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, adult animation, not serious, adult cartoon, unusual plot structure, entertaining, satirical, psychedelic, sketch comedy, offbeat
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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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The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Plot Summary:
After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 346000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea, Germany, North Korea
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, adult animation, humorous, satirical, computer animated, hilarious, black comedy, clever, witty, anime
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Frisky Dingo (2006)
Plot Summary:
Frisky Dingo is an American animated cartoon series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for Adult Swim. The series revolved around the conflict between a supervillain named Killface and a superhero named Awesome X, alias billionaire Xander Crews, and much of the show's humor focuses on parodying superhero and action movie clichés. It debuted on October 16, 2006 and ended its first season on January 22, 2007; the second season premiered on August 26, 2007 and ended on March 23, 2008. A third season was in development, but in the absence of a renewal contract from Adult Swim, pre-production ceased. The production company itself, 70/30 Productions, subsequently went out of business in January 2009. A spin-off show, The Xtacles, premiered on November 9, 2008, but only two episodes were aired prior to the production company's closure.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, cliffhanger, funny, epic, sitcom
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Sit Down Shut Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sit Down, Shut Up is an American animated television series created by Mitchell Hurwitz for the Fox network. The series focuses on a group of high school teachers in a small town in Florida "who don't care about teaching". The series premiered on Sunday April 19, 2009 in the Animation Domination block on Fox, but after four episodes aired, Fox removed the show from the block due to low ratings. The remaining 9 episodes aired on Saturdays at midnight from October to December 2009. According to Futon Critic, this post-Wanda Sykes Show weekly time slot had been home to Sit Down, Shut Up since September 2009 through to April 2010. Based on the Australian live-action sitcom of the same name, creator Mitchell Hurwitz came up with the Sit Down, Shut Up idea in 2000. He wrote a script for a pilot episode, but "kept it in a drawer" until he pitched the show to different networks in 2008 when he needed money. Hurwitz said that "it was just a wacky show, and nobody wanted it", but eventually Fox picked it up as a primetime animation. Sit Down, Shut Up met mixed reviews from critics. Orlando Sentinel called the series a "disaster", and Newsday called it "raw, vulgar and blithely offensive, with so many triple and quadruple entendres for so many sexual acts". Hollywood Reporter criticized the series' use of fourth wall breaks, and said that it was "painful to watch how hard the show tries to be funny". IGN gave it a more positive review, saying "it should continue to be a very entertaining show", and TV Squad said that it "definitely grows on you".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, humorous, not serious, adult cartoon, entertaining, light, captivating, sitcom, offbeat, realistic
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Futurama (1999)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 257000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, adult cartoon, futuristic, sitcom, cynical, surreal, parody, anime, humorous, funny
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The Boondocks (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series premiered on November 6, 2005 and was created by Aaron McGruder, based upon McGruder's comic strip of the same name. The show begins with an African-American family, the Freemans, having moved from the South Side of Chicago, Illinois to the fictional, peaceful and mostly white suburb of Woodcrest. The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, socioeconomic classes, stereotypes, and races provides for much of the comedy and conflict in this series. There have been a total of 45 episodes over the course of the shows first three seasons. The two part season two finale "The Hunger Strike" and "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show" was never aired on American television as Adult Swim feared legal actions against them from BET. Both episodes were aired on Teletoon and were released on DVD in the United States. The season three episodes "Pause" and "The Story of Jimmy Rebel" have been pulled from general episode rotation following the television debuts and no longer appear in reruns. A fourth season containing twenty episodes has been announced to air in January 2014.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, adult cartoon, adult animation, humorous, semi serious, sitcom, funny, dark comedy, political, entertaining
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F is for Family (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Murphy's, a lower middle class family living in the 1970s — a time when you could smack your kid, smoke inside, and bring a gun to the airport. “F Is For Family”, is a six-episode animated series based on the comedy of Bill Burr.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, anime, funny, sitcom, semi serious, dark comedy, satirical
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
Plot Summary:
Mike Judge's slacker duo, Beavis and Butt-Head, wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America where they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: road movie, adult animation, humorous, talky, melancholic, not serious, adult cartoon, realistic, witty, funny
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South Park (1997)
Plot Summary:
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 399000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, adult animation, parody, dark comedy, cynical, sitcom, witty, controversial, humorous, offbeat
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The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Eight housemates on a fake animated reality TV show realize they've been canceled and set off on a journey to get back on the air.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, humorous, witty, not serious, funny, controversial, spoof, offbeat, satirical
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Drawn Together (2004)
Plot Summary:
Drawn Together is an American adult animated sitcom, which ran on Comedy Central from October 27, 2004 to November 14, 2007. The series was created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, and uses a sitcom format with a TV reality show setting. Like that of MTV's The Challenge and VH1's The Surreal Life, the show's eight characters are a combination of personalities that were recognizable and familiar prior to the series. Differently, however, Drawn Together used caricatures of established cartoon characters and stock characters. In addition, their character traits parody personality types that are typically seen in reality TV shows. Comedy Central advertised it as the first animated reality show, and in some episodes, characters participate in challenges that are similar to reality TV challenges. After only three seasons the show was cancelled but still maintains a strong fan base. Subsequently, The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! was released on April 20, 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, adult cartoon, surreal, not serious, humorous, witty, sitcom, funny, offbeat
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Momma Named Me Sheriff (2019)
Plot Summary:
He still lives at home with his Momma, his best friend is a doll, and he's the Sheriff of Old Town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, adult animation
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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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Big Mouth (2017)
Plot Summary:
Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, funny, anime, dark comedy, hilarious, teen, adult comedy, adult cartoon, not serious
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The Simpsons (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 429000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, anime, not serious, funny
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The Cleveland Show (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Cleveland Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy. The series centers on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families consisting of parents Cleveland Brown and Donna Tubbs and their children Cleveland Brown, Jr., Roberta Tubbs, and Rallo Tubbs, and, like Family Guy, exhibits much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty, black comedy, offbeat, surreal, adult animation, absurd
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Archer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path. His antics are only excusable because at the end of the day, he still somehow always manages to thwart whatever crises was threatening mankind.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, stylized, cynical, witty, parody, humorous, offbeat, not serious, adult cartoon, anime
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Paradise PD (2018)
Plot Summary:
An eager young rookie joins the ragtag small-town police force led by his dad as they bumble, squabble and snort their way through a big drug case.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, humorous, not serious, cynical, adult animation, funny, anime, sitcom, light, entertaining
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Brickleberry (2012)
Plot Summary:
Brickleberry National Park is facing closure, but not if the park’s dysfunctional park rangers can help it! “Brickleberry,” an animated half-hour series, follows the crazy bunch of park rangers as they do their worst to keep the park running. Steve (David Herman) has been “Ranger of the Month” every month for years, so he feels threatened when Ethel (Natasha Leggero) is transferred from Yellowstone National Park to help whip the park into shape. Connie (Roger Black) and Denzel (Jerry Minor) are two unique rangers that each bring special skills (or in Denzel’s case, lack of skills) to the job, and Woody (Tom Kenny) is the hapless Head Ranger who puts nothing above his beloved park, except his adopted bear cub, Malloy (Daniel Tosh), who he’s taken in and spoils to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: not serious, absurd, humorous, entertaining, light, adult cartoon, adult animation, anime, funny, cult classic
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Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
Plot Summary:
The major sub-plot circles around the youngest Griffin, Stewie, who has a near-death experience at a pool when a lifeguard chair falls on him, but he survives. After having a vision of being in Hell, he decides to change his ways, but this doesn't last long. While watching television, he and Brian spot a man that looks like Stewie. Brian is convinced that he is Stewie's real father, until Stewie learns that the man is actually himself as an adult, taking a vacation from his own time period. Baby Stewie visits thirty years later to discover that his adult self, going by the name Stu, is a single blue-collar middle-aged virgin working at a Circuit City-type store. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to teach their two older kids, Meg and Chris, to date. In the future, Chris, who hasn't changed much, is working as a cop and is married to a foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa. Meg is now called Ron, since she had a sex-change after college. Written by pepperann210.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, talky, not serious, witty, hilarious, adult animation, clever, parody, spoof
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American Dad! (2005)
Plot Summary:
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics.".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: adult animation, funny, sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, anime, feel good, captivating
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Rick and Morty (2013)
Plot Summary:
An animated series that follows the exploits of a super scientist and his not-so-bright grandson.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 582000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: adult animation, entertaining, humorous, offbeat, adult cartoon, cynical, sitcom, dark comedy, absurd, not serious