Which animated shows are cult classics?

PleaseBearWithGunfire said:
The biggest one IMHO, however, is King of the Hill. It had a lot to say about post-9/11 America and it did a good job articulating its point. You just couldn't hate it.
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I absolutely did not appreciate it when it was airing. However, as an adult, streaming it in the early 2010s it absolutely resonated with me. I still rewatch it. I often try to get my non-American friends to try watching it because I'd love to see what they think about it, but they never do.

If we're not excluding shitty ones, I assume anyone who talks about how much they love Bojack Horseman or Rick and Morty is going to piss me off. I keep them at arms length and avoid discussing media or anything that will lead to them telling me about their pop figure collection.

A favorite of mine was Home Movies. I really liked the way Brendon was trying to cope with mature concepts and growing up by making films. The focus on him being a child of divorce and processing that was also interesting.
 
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A little known show called Rick and Morty, but to be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
 
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Metalocalypse hands down. It has a devoted fanbase and finally got an ending but normies never give the show its due like they do Aqua Teen and that bums me out. I can see an episode where the band gets a page on Kiwi Farms so they send their goons to kidnap and kill Null or something dumb just because the thread had two replies.
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Code Lyoko is oddly considered a cult classic everywhere outside of France. It’s popular in Japan and North America but never got the respect that totally spies and teen titans did from the networks. Code Lyoko should've been a show on toonami. Especially with its darker themes and violence. The original French lyrics to the code Lyoko theme song pretty grim dark for a kids show.
 
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