The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
Kids’ WB put Granny in charge of a detective agency, gave her a suitcase, a mustache, and a cat with a lisp problem, and got five seasons of travel mystery wearing Looney Tunes skin. Each episode runs the same loop:…
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Spider-Man
The best superhero cartoon of the 1990s is not on the list people argue about, and that is mostly its own fault. Spider-Man: The Animated Series ran 65 episodes on Fox Kids from 1994, adapting the comics with an arc…
The New Adventures of Batman
Before Batman: The Animated Series reinvented the character, Filmation put Adam West and Burt Ward back in the cape, eleven years after the live action series ended, in 16 animated adventures that are pure 1960s camp with the volume turned…
Bonkers
Disney’s late afternoon needed a detective show after DuckTales and Darkwing, and Bonkers is the strange answer: an anthropomorphic bobcat cop in a city of cartoon animals, produced under the Disney Afternoon banner with an early 90s buddy cop template.…
Histeria!
Kids’ WB put a history sketch show in Animaniacs’ old Sunday slot and dared elementary schools to keep up. Histeria! is Tom Ruegger’s love letter to the forgotten footnotes of the past: Paul Revere’s ride told as a radio broadcast,…
Pinky and the Brain
Animaniacs spawned the best spinoff in animation history, and it is still a talking lab mouse sitcom that never once explains itself. Pinky and the Brain follows two mice from Acme Labs, one a hyperactive cockney goofball and the other…