Lies, Damn Lies

Cartoooons

Top 100 cartoons on Channel 4 last night. The full list is here. Its a reasonable list, with Family Guy coming surprisingly high. It was apparently voted for. I would disagree with placements on this list, and some exceptions and some inclusions, but theres some solid choices. The Simpsons really has to be number 1, and theres nothing wrong with that. It is undeniably awesome, and has in a way defined a generation for us. One of the oddest inclusions on the list is
Legend of the Overfiend, which comes in ay number 72, higher than the wonderful lady and the tramp. Thing is about it, and I must admit to not having seen it, is its hentai. Hentai, for the uninitiated, is dirty anime (essentially....). This one in particular is a tentacle hentai. That is, it involves girls getting raped by tentacles. I kid you not.

Now I haven't seen it, and this could be a fine film, but uh.... its surprising, to say the least. I think not many people voted on this list, which is why that got so high. Who knows? Its a shame the Sun couldn't have picked this up and worked up a bit of outrage- always a bit of fun.

The list is kind of flawed though because it mixes series and films, and I do not rate series and films the same way. I can't really take Family Guy and the Incredibles and say which is better, bcause they do not work in the same way at all. The problem is of course that there aren't enough of either film of series in cartoon that everyone can remember one hundred of, so that makes doing a list very difficult. Meh, I only watched the last 10, where the permenantly presenting Jimmy Carr (does he do anything else these days) hosted. It was alright. South Park at number 3 too! How awesome is that?

posted by Mr K @ 5:59 pm