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Plot Summary:
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters. The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1968, to September 5, 1970.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, weird
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Kidd Video (1984)
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Kidd Video is a Saturday morning cartoon created by DIC Entertainment in association with Saban Entertainment. Its original run was on NBC from 1984 to 1985, but continued in reruns on the network until 1987, when CBS picked the show up. Reruns have also aired in syndication.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, weird
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Jabberjaw (1976)
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Jabberjaw is a Saturday morning animated series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired from September 11, 1976, to September 3, 1978, on ABC.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Music, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, nostalgic
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Toonsylvania (1998)
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Toonsylvania is an animated television series, which ran for 2 seasons in 1998 on FOX's Saturday morning cartoon block in its first season, then was moved to Tuesday afternoons from September 14, 1998 until December 21, 1998, when it was cancelled. Reruns aired until 2000. It was produced in part by Steven Spielberg, following in the footsteps of his previous animated series, Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. Much like Animaniacs, the show had recurring cartoon series that appeared in each episode. Unlike Animaniacs, Toonsylvania didn't have a wide range of characters and almost every episode had the same cartoon segments.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, spooky, black comedy, dark comedy
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Yo Yogi! (1991)
Plot Summary:
Yo Yogi! is an animated series and the sixth incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear. It first aired in 1991 on NBC on Saturday morning.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime
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Hong Kong Phooey (1974)
Plot Summary:
Hong Kong Phooey is a 16-episode Hanna-Barbera animated series that first aired on ABC Saturday morning from September 7, 1974 to December 21, 1974. It was a parody of kung fu shows and movies of the time. The main character Hong Kong Phooey is a clownishly clumsy secret alter ego of Penrod "Penry" Pooch, working at a police station as a "mild-mannered" janitor under the glare of Sergeant Flint. He transforms himself into Hong Kong Phooey upon running into a magic filing cabinet despite always getting stuck - and unstuck by his cat Spot - and once transformed, gets equipped with the "Phooeymobile" vehicle that transforms itself into a boat, a plane, or a telephone booth depending on the circumstances. He fights crime relying on his copy of The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu, but he succeeds only thanks to his cat Spot who provides a solution to the challenges or they are solved by himself as result of a comically unintended side effect of his conscious efforts. Background was designed by Lorraine Andrina and Richard Khim.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, nostalgic
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The Wizard of Oz (1990)
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The Wizard of Oz was an animated television series produced by DiC in 1990 to capitalize on the 50th anniversary of the 1939 classic film. The series featured thirteen episodes and premiered on ABC, starting on September 8, 1990.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Mike, Lu & Og (1999)
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Mike, Lu & Og is an American animated television series produced by KINOFILM Animation that ran on Cartoon Network. The show was the seventh Cartoon Cartoon, based on a short for The What a Cartoon! Show. Created by Mikhail Shindel, Mikhail Aldashin and Charles Swenson, the show follows a girl named Mike, a foreign exchange student from Manhattan; a self-appointed island princess named Lu; and a boy-genius named Og. The trio takes part in a variety of adventures as Mike and the island's natives share their customs with each other. Twenty-six half-hour episodes were produced, featuring two stories per episode. The series featured voice actors Nika Frost as Mike, Nancy Cartwright as Lu, and Dee Bradley Baker as Og. It began airing on Boomerang in May 2006 as reruns, though it is often removed from the schedule and put back on it on a frequent basis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: children's program, nostalgic
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Blue's Room (2004)
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Blue's Room is a children's puppet show television series which is aimed at preschoolers, aged 2–6, and it is a spin-off series of the popular Blue's Clues series. It originally started as a short segment that came near the end of the original Blue's Clues show, originally cast off as Blue's personal imaginary world once Joe took over the show after his brother Steve "went to college". Later on, when Joe also decided to leave the show Blue's Clues, the short segment became a show itself, with Joe appearing in some episodes. What distinguishes Blue's Room from Blue's Clues is that Blue herself transforms from an animated blue puppy into an English-speaking puppet that directly interacts with the child with open ended questions or asks if a presented idea or solution is correct. The Season One episode "Meet Blue's Baby Brother" is a turnaround episode for this series, bringing most of the concepts of Blue's Clues into the new series and getting additional interest in the series.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
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The Legends of Treasure Island (1993)
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The Legends Of Treasure Island is an animated cartoon from the UK that ran from 1993-1995. It had two series of 13 episodes each and each episode runs for 22–25 minutes. The series was loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's original story "Treasure Island". Featuring a mysterious and dark storyline, it incorporates magic and many new characters. Unlike the book and most adaptations Long John Silver is not an anti-hero with dubious morality but rather a straight villain. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom and in other countries throughout Europe and Latin America and was also aired in Australia. The programme was a FilmFair production for Central Independent Television, The Legends of Treasure Island, is owned by ITV PLC.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious
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The New Yogi Bear Show (1988)
Plot Summary:
The New Yogi Bear Show is a 30-minute weekday animated series which aired on syndication in 1988 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera's 4th season. But it was the also the fifth incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear. It contained 45 new episodes combined with reruns of the original 1960s Yogi series. Pared down from some of the other, recent incarnations of the adventures of Yogi and friends, this series featured only Yogi, Boo-Boo, Cindy and Ranger Smith, with episodes set in Jellystone Park. The show also introduced four new characters: Ranger Roubideux, Ninja Raccoon, Ninja Raccoon's mom, and Blubber Bear from Wacky Races.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Kimba the White Lion (1965)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a brave and optimistic little white lion, moral leader for good animals in a jungle surrounded by dangers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, retro, exciting, semi serious
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Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976)
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Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show centers around a Batman-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon, and his assistant, bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, who can produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origins for the characters are ever provided. Dynomutt was originally broadcast as a half-hour segment of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour and its later expanded forms Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars; it would later be rerun and syndicated on its own from 1978 on. The cast of The Scooby-Doo Show appeared as a recurring characters on Dynomutt, assisting the Daring Duo in cracking their crimes. Originally distributed by Hanna-Barbera's then-parent company Taft Broadcasting, Warner Bros. Television currently holds the television distribution to the series. Between January 2 and March 9, 2008, repeats of Dynomutt, Dog Wonder were shown on Boomerang. On June 4, 2009, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder returned to Boomerang and airs Thursdays through Sundays at 10am Eastern.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, parody, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo? (2006)
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A prequel about how the Jelly Cabin trio met. When Lazlo disappears after meeting a bear, the camp assumes he has been mauled, while Clam and Raj refuse to accept that explanation. The story is told by Raj and Clam after the events of the movie's plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags:
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The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour (1982)
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The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour is a 60-minute package show, a Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears co-production in 1982 for ABC Saturday mornings. It contained the following segments: ⁕Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo: Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo and Shaggy Rogers travel across the country as the "Fearless Detective Agency" and get involved in typical spy or criminal cases. ⁕Scrappy and Yabba-Doo: Scrappy-Doo's adventures with his uncle Yabba-Doo and Deputy Dusty in the wild west. ⁕The Puppy's New Adventures: Featuring the adventures of Petey the Puppy and his friends Dash, Dolly, Duke, and Lucky. The first half-hour consisted of three 7-minute shorts of Scooby and Scrappy-Doo and Scrappy and Yabba-Doo, with a 30-minute episode of The Puppy's New Adventures in the second half-hour. The Scooby/Scrappy-related shorts were written and voiced at Hanna-Barbera Productions, but animated and edited by Ruby-Spears Enterprises.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Road Runner Show (1966)
Plot Summary:
The desert in the U.S. southwest is the natural habitat of the Road Runner, a high-octane, cartoon bird who runs so fast on the desert's roadways that he leaves a trail of flame or causes pavement to ripple, distort, or roll up like a carpet. This speedy bird is unrelentingly chased by a hungry coyote named Wile E., who, though believing himself to be a genius, repeatedly fails to catch the Road Runner with his endless supply of ACME Corporation gadgets, weapons, and other paraphernalia. Episodes of this television series contain three theatrical cartoons, one with the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, one with Tweety Bird and Sylvester Cat, and one with other characters from Warner Brothers' cartoon classics.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, sentimental, funny, anthology, buddy comedy
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The Sylvester & Tweety Show (1976)
Plot Summary:
Sylvester Cat is a lisping, inept, and often loud-mouthed cartoon alley cat with a penchant for chasing elusive mice and a weakness for various types of fowl, especially an innocent-looking but fiesty yellow canary named Tweety, whom Sylvester would like nothing better than to roast and eat. Each episode of this series contains three theatrical cartoons featuring Sylvester, two of them with Tweety, the other featuring Sylvester away from Tweety and often with his little son, Junior, and Hippety Hopper, a baby kangaroo he always mistakes for a giant mouse.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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Droopy: Master Detective (1993)
Plot Summary:
Droopy, Master Detective is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera in association with Turner Entertainment. The show is a spin-off from Tom & Jerry Kids and was dropped from Fox's Saturday morning schedule on January 1, 1994. Months later, the series was aired on weekday afternoons in August and September 1994.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, 2d animation
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Foofur (1986)
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Foofur is a children's animated series made by Hanna-Barbera. It aired on NBC from 1986 to 1988. The protagonist and title character was a skinny blue dog. The animated series was produced in part by William Hanna. There was also a comic book series from Star Comics. Foofur played a role in the case Nationwide Insurance v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, 116 F.3d 1154. The case dealt with an insurer's duty to defend an insured party in light of the insured's intentional acts of property damage. The insured, a drunken college student, tried to spell out "Foofur" on the football field with lighter fluid, and then burn it permanently into the astroturf. Although he did not manage to spell out more than "Foo", he did succeed in causing $600,000 damage to the astroturf. The court held that such an act was not within the insurance policy's liability coverage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious
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Tom & Jerry Kids Show (1990)
Plot Summary:
The Tom & Jerry Kids Show is an animated television series, co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Turner Entertainment, starring cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry as children. The show premiered in 1990 and continued airing until 1994. The series is about Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse in their childhood and their friends Droopy and Dripple and Spike and Tyke. It began airing as the first program of the Fox Broadcasting Company's children's block, Fox Kids on September 8, 1990. The series is somewhat similar to the "older" version of the original 1940-58 theatricals, partly akin to being produced by creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. In terms of violence level, they are far closer to the classic cartoons than previous television adaptions such as Filmation's The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show although somewhat milder than Hanna and Barbera's original series. Part of it is similar to Pink Panther and Pals and Garfield and Friends. Droopy and Dripple went on to star in their own short-lived spin-off Droopy, Master Detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, feel good, captivating, anime, absurd, slapstick comedy, 2d animation
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992)
Plot Summary:
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends is a British animated television series based on the works of Beatrix Potter, featuring Peter Rabbit and other anthropomorphic animal characters created by Potter. It was originally shown in the U.K. on BBC between 1992 and 1995 and subsequently broadcast in the U.S. on Family Channel from 1993–1995. The series has also been released on VHS and DVD by Carlton Video.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Taz-Mania (1991)
Plot Summary:
Taz-Mania is an American cartoon sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 1991 to 1995, broadcast in the United States on Fox and in Canada on Baton Broadcast System. The show follows the adventures of the classic Looney Tunes character, Taz in the fictional land of Tazmania. Similar to other Warner Brothers cartoons of its time, such as Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania frequently broke the fourth wall, and often made jokes showing that Taz could actually speak perfectly normal when he wanted to. The intro indicates that, in this rendering of Tasmania, "the sky's always yellow, rain or shine". The title song is performed by Jess Harnell and Jim Cummings.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, anime, feel good, humorous, satirical, colorful, sentimental, cult classic, light, colourful
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Hamtaro (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hamtaro is a Japanese children's manga and storybook series created and illustrated by Ritsuko Kawai. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's all girl's magazine Ciao in 1997, focusing on a hamster named Hamtaro who has a variety of adventures with other hamsters, known as "Ham-Hams". VIZ Media published the manga adaptations and storybooks in English. An anime adaptation was then produced by TMS Entertainment and aired in TV Tokyo from July 7, 2000 to March 31, 2006.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, cult classic
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The Snoopy Show (2021)
Plot Summary:
The world’s most iconic dog is ready for his close-up. Dive into new adventures with the happy-dancing, high-flying, big-dreaming beagle, who's joined by best friend Woodstock and rest of the Peanuts gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, anime, buddy comedy, satirical
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Quack Pack (1996)
Plot Summary:
Quack Pack is an animated television series made by The Walt Disney Company, featuring Donald Duck and his nephews. The show debuted on September 3, 1996 as a part of the Disney Afternoon programming block. The series ran one season with 39 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody, 2d animation, nostalgic
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Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats (1984)
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Heathcliff is an animated television series that debuted on September 5, 1984. It was the second series based on the Heathcliff comic strip and was produced by DIC Entertainment. It ran in syndication until 1988 with a total of 86 episodes. The first show based on the comic strip was Heathcliff and Dingbat, which debuted in 1980 and was produced by Ruby-Spears. Mel Blanc provided the voice of Heathcliff in both series.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, France, Canada, Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, not serious
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CatDog (1998)
Plot Summary:
CatDog is an American animated television series created for Nickelodeon by Peter Hannan. The series depicts the life of conjoined brothers, with one half being a cat and the other a dog. Nickelodeon produced the series from Burbank, California. The first episode aired on April 4, 1998, before the show officially premiered in October. The episode "Fetch" was also shown in theaters with The Rugrats Movie. Toward the end of the series run, a made-for-TV film was released, titled CatDog: The Great Parent Mystery. Reruns were played on Nicktoons until 2011 and later aired on TeenNick as part of The '90s Are All That block. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Peter Hannan Productions and has been released on DVD.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, colorful, touching, dark comedy, retro, semi serious, sitcom, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Underdog (1964)
Plot Summary:
A shoe shine puppy transforms himself into a superhero every time Sweet Polly Purebread (a pretty TV reporter) gets in trouble.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, light, captivating, retro, not serious, comic
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The Tom and Jerry Show (2011)
Plot Summary:
The iconic cat and mouse rivals are back in The Tom and Jerry Show, a fresh take on the classic series. Preserving the look, characters and sensibility of the original, the all-new series shines a brightly colored, high-definition lens on the madcap slapstick and never-ending battle that has made Tom and Jerry two of the most beloved characters of all time.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, entertaining, slapstick, detective, slapstick comedy, 2d animation
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Eek! the Cat (1992)
Plot Summary:
Eek! The Cat is a Canadian-American animated series, created by Savage Steve Holland and Bill Kopp and produced by Fox Kids and Savage Studios with animation by Nelvana, that ran from 1992 to 1997.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: not serious, retro, anime, humorous
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Clarence (2013)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a young boy named Clarence, who is optimistic about everything, and his two best friends Jeff and Sumo.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, anime, adult cartoon, realistic, weird, 2d animation