Which animated shows are cult classics?

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Steve Martin Short said:
Turbo Teen, Galaxy High, and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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I was going to mention Galaxy High earlier! If anyone wants to see it it's all on YouTube for free. It's technically an anime since it's animated in Japan but produced and directed by an American team. Highly underrated cartoon. John K also worked on it for some reason which surprised me.
 
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Besides shows like X:RA I'll mention:
Beavis and Butthead
Robotomy
Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys
Gargoyles
Viva Piñata
Batman: the Animated Series
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! (technically a dubbed anime but Ted Lewis carried as King Dedede)
 
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, MASK, SWAT Kats, Centurions, Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, The Bots Master, Silverhawks, and most Gerry Anderson stuff. If we're talking anime, then Fafner, the Brave series, Turn A Gundam, almost every 80s Sunrise show, and X-Bomber.
Pokemon Conquistador said:
Ulysses31. It's like if Moebius had designed a Saturday Morning Cartoon show:


The whole series is all on Youtube as well.

I liked Exo-Squad when it came out, since it was a lot darker than the usual "shows based on kids toys" series. The character designs were extremely 90s though...
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Gem! GEM! Two EXCELLENT shows! Also, Ulysses 31 was designed by Studio Nue -- either the Variable Fighter or the Super-Dimensional Fortress were initially intended for it; that's the kind of standards they had.
 
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Bojack Horseman. - Everyone involved is a massive ShitLib but it still managed to be the best cartoon I've ever seen. The Eulogy episode hit hard.

Batman: The Animated Series is sublime. Kevin Conroy will always be Batman to me.
 
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Just about any of those Steven Spielberg Presents shows and from being a really young kid The Racoons.
 
Jem. Awful lot of violence for a girl's cartoon. I don't know whether they were catering to the subset of girls that liked more action or were trying to make it also appeal to boys. The characters were more complex than you'd expect and it was packed with diversity without tokenizing anyone or making it feel forced to tick boxes.

Town Drunk said:
MTV classics:

The Head
Aeon Flux.
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What was the MTV cartoon where the girl retreated to some fantasy world called The Outback? I liked that one.
 
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Wonder Showzen had some animated segments I seem to remember so it counts. Probably the only show besides X:RA that could make me laugh out loud.
 
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I think despite being part of a major franchise, Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated went below the radar enough for most people it might count as cult. It's certainly one of the weirder takes on Scooby Doo and gets into Deep Lore. Up to and including why some animals can talk and some cannot. Though you have to watch it for everything to be slowly revealed and woe to he who ruins the mystery by reading spoilers. It's a weird and amusingly satirical show. One of my favourite episodes being the one where the monsters are unmasked to reveal a bunch of Stop Oil style protestors who have been wreaking havoc: "Sometimes you must destroy the environment in order to save the environment". Or background jokes like Velma's wastebasket of broken keyboards beside her desk and stack of spares for every time she gets frustrated and snaps one. It riffs on everything from The Watchmen to Twin Peakes and has a nice slow meta-arc across the stories that bizarrely actually makes sense of things.

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Space Police said:
Gem! GEM! Two EXCELLENT shows! Also, Ulysses 31 was designed by Studio Nue -- either the Variable Fighter or the Super-Dimensional Fortress were initially intended for it; that's the kind of standards they had.
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TMS Entertainment was the studio who done Ulysses 31 not Studio Nue.

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The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
 
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