Welcome back to Made Animated! That’s right, this semi-retired feature is back…. And for some reason, it’s for a totally new feature that debuted on Netflix a few days ago: a little thing called Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous. How can … Continue reading Camp Cretaceous taps into your nostalgia for … Jurassic World?

“I may not be the best guy, but I sure ain’t no bad guy!” — Coop In 2004, the Cartoon Cartoon block on Cartoon Network was being phased out. Hanna-Barbera cartoons were no longer such an essential part of the … Continue reading Because you dig giant robots… Megas XLR

There are many things in life that makes me want to stop writing articles. The fear of being accidentally insensitive, for example. Or the fear of being cruelly exposed as not being quite as well versed in forgotten cartoons as … Continue reading Please, Hammerman, don’t hurt ‘em

Deeee-cooooomm-poseeeeeee Continue reading The Inhumanoids uncover the evil that lies within

More like associates from heaven! … No, wait. Continue reading This reminds me of the time there were Neighbors from Hell

It was a dark and stormy afternoon. A Disney Afternoon. Life comes at you like a hurricane. This was long after the time when rotund bears guzzling down this liquid they called Gummi juice and when a tiny rodent would … Continue reading The Mysterious Affair of Bonkers D. Bobcat

In one way, children’s entertainment has come a long way from the dawn of television. In another way, we lost the ability to create art where the barrier to entry was a lot lower, and all a person needed was … Continue reading Beany and Cecil fights over a couple of puppets

“Wizards are dangerous!” – Needle “Not as dangerous as BARBARIANS.” – Conan Know, Avocado readers, that between the years when Unicron battled Rodimus Prime and GI Joe: The Rise of COBRA, there was an age undreamed of… The early 90’s. … Continue reading Conan trades barbarism and destruction for adventure

When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon hit it big in the late 80’s, the overnight sensation had an effect on Saturday morning cartoons that was similar to what we had seen with the original black and white comic. Suddenly … Continue reading The COWboys of Moo Mesa are riding across that uncanny valley

Nothing quite says that you’re not you’re daddy’s superhero than by making one of your main villains a child murderer. Post-Batman movie, superheroes were back. There was a catch, though. Brooding superheroes and psychotic villains were the new hotness. Bright, … Continue reading Spawn brings violence, swears, and nudity to superhero cartoons

Can the Western work in animation? It never seemed that popular of a genre to tackle, even during its heyday in film. The limitless possibility of animation seems more suited to the fanciful flights of science fiction than the grounded, … Continue reading Calamity Jane meets her kryptonite

I generally like most of the Williams Street shows on Adult Swim. Shoot, I even liked 12 Oz Mouse, which I think was one of the most hated shows on the Adult Swim message boards. I couldn’t tell you why, … Continue reading Xavier: Renegade Angel makes art out of low definition 3D graphics

Gather round children and let an old man tell you about a channel called The Nashville Network. No, not TNT. TNN. Stay with me, children, and let me tell you of a tale… from the Time Before the Before Times. … Continue reading Spike TV makes cartoons for MEN with Gary the Rat

It wasn’t until I started researching The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat that I realized how much Film Roman owns my soul. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Film Roman is responsible for animating the majority of The … Continue reading Time to get twisted with Felix the Cat

When pouches, shoulders, and headlocks ruled the superhero universe… Continue reading WildCATs were the heroes, now they’re zeroes

Mutants and aliens and toads beware! Continue reading Bucky O’Hare realizes that the Toad Wars, they never end

Here he comes to save the day… but who will save us from Mighty Mouse? Continue reading Mighty Mouse rewrites the past

Presley has always wanted his daddy to come home. But instead he got mummies! FOUR mummies! Waka waka! Continue reading Resurrecting Mummies Alive!

The animated adventures of a dog detective and a little rabbity thing come to the small screen near you! Continue reading The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police ain’t no game

The Ed Grimley cartoon was far ahead of its time. How could it not? Continue reading The misadventures of Ed Grimley were mental, I must say

I approached Beverly Hills Teens under the impression that the show was a prime example of a cartoon that I (and several others) watched a lot in the 80’s, but had completely forgotten about when the new millennium rolled in.  … Continue reading Beverly Hills Teens made our dreams come true