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Cartoons these days are pretty complicated–weird Japanese creatures, kids with dangerously spiky hair, a comic taste for wacky non-sequiturs. Things got so out of control that we stopped paying attention, like, two months ago. We pine for the simpler times of decades past, when shows were clearly terrible or brilliant (and never confusing). Most of [...]

Recently, while recounting some of the greatest old school screen exploits of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, we’ve come across some pretty questionable cartoons. Between Daffy fighting Nazis and Japanese army pilots and Bugs Bunny being chased by a blackface Elmer Fudd, well, we thought we’d seen it all. Apparently not, though, as mental_floss’s listicle [...]

As you’ve presumably heard by now, purveyor of many things lowest-common-denominator Disney recently bought out comic book empire Marvel to the tune of $4 billion. Regardless of whether you think this will make the mousy company’s products better or the wolfy-spidey-hulky company’s work suffer, you can probably take a great deal of pleasure from the [...]

In the ongoing saga of the latest plague to hit roads and highways the world over, people who can’t keep themselves from texting on their cell phones while at the wheel are killing themselves and others. Maybe we should start organizing Texters Anonymous meetings for them? Whatever has to be done about it, texting and [...]

Some cupcakes are just pretty baked goods, and some are delicious, spectacular, nerdy cupcakes (or “nerdcakes”). Topless Robot found two dozen of such nerdcakes for this photo-op featuring 24 Awesomely Nerdy Cupcakes. Now we’re going to spend the rest of Sunday eating cupcakes and watching old sci-fi movies and shows.

Remember that totally delirious Warner Bros. cartoon Animaniacs, in which the old Warner cartoon trio escaped from the studio water tower where they’d been imprisoned an wreaked havoc on just about everything? Well, one of the favorite targets of their wacky, scatter shot sense of humor was history, which they recounted fairly regularly. mental_floss offers [...]

It doesn’t take much to keep sugary cereal-fueled kids entertained on Saturday mornings, but there are still certain concepts that are simply too bizarre to ever work. We were looking forward to making some hilarious new discoveries in that very sector when we started reading Topless Robot’s listicle of 8 Ridiculous Saturday Morning Cartoons, but [...]

It’s no secret that movie villains are usually more interesting than their do-gooder opponents (see: Darth Vader), but Cracked notes how prevalent this trend is with kids’ shows. And while we’re not really in agreement with their claims that Gargamel is cooler than the Smurfs, or that Professor Nimnul was somehow less lame than the [...]

Every so often, in a strange moment of Interweb telepathy (or, as we like to call it, “webathy”, which is incidentally the name of the Listicles office cat), two lists will come into existence at nearly the same moment detailing instances of nearly the same phenomenon. One such case occurred recently, when Unreality posted its [...]

Dubbing can be relatively seamless sometimes, or it can produce its own little star system of famous dubbing actors. Then, of course, there are those moving image artifacts that don’t really lend themselves to dubbing, like opening credit songs from cartoons. Holy Taco rounded up 7 Cartoon Intros in Foreign Languages, and our favorite is [...]