TV Show Releases by Genre
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Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Season 2
July 21, 2022
Caveman Spear (voiced by Aaron LaPlante) and his dinosaur friend Fang seek to rescue Mira (voiced by Laëtitia Eïdo) from her kidnappers in the second season of the prehistoric animated adventure series.
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Harley Quinn: Season 3
July 28, 2022
The third season of the animated comedy series moves to HBO Max as Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy return to Gotham.
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Samurai Jack: Season 5
March 11, 2017
Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated series returns with a new season on Adult Swim set more than 50 years in the future where Samurai Jack (Phil LaMarr) has stopped aging.
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BoJack Horseman: Season 6
October 25, 2019
The sixth and final season, which is split in two parts (the second half airs in Jan 2020), finds BoJack in rehab.
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BoJack Horseman: Season 5
September 14, 2018
BoJack stars in Princess Carolyn's TV show Philbert and Diane travels to Vietnam in the fifth season of the animated comedy.
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The Simpsons: Season 2
October 11, 1990
Originally created by cartoonist Matt Groening, "Our Favorite Family," has graced the small screen in one form or another for over 20 years. The Simpson family first appeared on television as the subjects of interstitial "shorts" on The Tracey Ullman Show in April of 1987. The Simpsons remained a staple on The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons until they premiered in their own half-hour series, on December 17, 1989. With the help of Jim Brooks and Sam Simon, Matt Groening's cartoon family turned into an instant success.
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
Currently in its 21st season, The Simpsons has piled up over 440 episodes, over 20 Emmy Awards, a handful of music albums, countless endorsements and merchandise, and even made the jump to the silver screen in the summer of 2007 with The Simpsons Movie. And according to Matt Groening, "There is no end in sight."
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BoJack Horseman: Season 6.5
January 31, 2020
The second half of the final season of the animated comedy.
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Big Mouth: Season 2
October 5, 2018
The second season of the animated comedy introduces The Shame Wizard (David Thewlis), the enemy of the Hormone Monster (Nick Kroll) and a new change to Gina (Gina Rodriguez) causes different reactions from the seventh graders.
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BoJack Horseman: Season 2
July 17, 2015
BoJack (Will Arnett) has a new role and a new romance (Lisa Kudrow) in the second season of the animated comedy.
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Green Eggs And Ham: Season 1
November 8, 2019
Wildlife rescuer Sam I Am (Adam Devine) and inventor Guy I Am (Michael Douglas) are brought together by chance to return a rare animal to its home in the animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book "Green Eggs and Ham."
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BoJack Horseman: Season 3
March 29, 2019
“Weird Al” Yankovic is one of the guest stars on the third season of the animated comedy.
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Rick & Morty: Season 5
June 20, 2021
It's more adventures for Rick and Morty in the fifth season of the animated comedy series.
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Long Story Short: Season 1
August 22, 2025
The animated adult comedy series from Raphael Bob-Waksberg centers on the highs and lows of the lives of the Schwooper siblings.
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Big Mouth: Season 4
December 4, 2020
The teens are at summer camp before they start eighth grade where they deal with Tito the Mosquito (Maria Bamford) and Gratitoad (Zach Galifianakis).
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Star Wars: Visions: Season 2
May 4, 2023
The second season of the anthology series feature animation from Chile, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, the U.K. and the U.S.
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Archer: Season 2
January 27, 2011
Archer Sterling and the ISIS spies return for a second season of espionage.
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Blue Eye Samurai: Season 1
November 3, 2023
Set in 17th-century Edo-period Japan, a mixed-race samurai named Mizu (voiced by Maya Erskine) seeks revenge in this animated series created by Michael Green and Amber Noizumi.
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Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Season 1
October 8, 2019
The prehistoric animated adventure series from Genndy Tartakovsky follows a caveman as he bonds with a tyrannosaurus rex.
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BoJack Horseman: Season 4
September 8, 2017
It appears BoJack has been MIA for a few month while Diane (Alison Brie) runs her own blog, Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins) runs for Governor, and Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) thinks about having a family in the fourth season of the animated comedy.
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Tuca & Bertie: Season 2
June 13, 2021
The animated comedy moves to Adult Swim for its second season where Bertie (voiced by Ali Wong) sees a therapist while Tuca (voiced by Tiffany Haddish) looks into dating and Speckle (voice Steven Yeun) builds a house.
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Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Season 3
January 11, 2026
Caveman Spear finds himself with no memory of his past as he fights for survival in the third season of the prehistoric animated adventure series.
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Archer: Season 14
August 30, 2023
The 14th and final season of the animated comedy series finds Lana Kane (voiced by Aisha Tyler) in charge of The Agency.
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Rick & Morty: Season 6
September 4, 2022
Rick and Morty have more adventures in the sixth season of the Dan Harmon animated comedy.
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PLUTO: Season 1
October 26, 2023
Inspector Gesicht investigate the murder of robots and their human associates in the anime series based the manga of the same name by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki (which itself was based on Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy).
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Arcane: Season 2
November 6, 2021
Set in the utopian region of Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun, the story follows the origins of two iconic League champions-and the power that will tear them apart.
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Undone: Season 2
April 29, 2022
Alma and her sister Becca dig deeper into the secrets of their family in the second season for the rotoscope animated series.
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Undone: Season 1
September 13, 2019
The rotoscope animation from Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg follows 28-year-old Alma (Rosa Salazar) as she seeks answers to her father's death after an accident nearly kills her and discovers an ability to travel through time.
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Rick & Morty: Season 1
December 2, 2013
The animated comedy from Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland follows the adventures of mad scientist Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland), who returns after 20 years to live with his daughter (Sarah Chalke), her husband (Chris Parnell), and her children Morty (also voiced by Roiland) and Summer (Spencer Grammer).
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Big Mouth: Season 3
October 4, 2019
The third season of the animated comedy introduces a new student (Ali Wong), Missy's new Hormone Mistress (Thandie Newton) and Coach Steve gets visited by the Fab Five of Queer Eye.
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Rick & Morty: Season 4
November 10, 2019
The 10 episodes of the animated series are split evenly between 2019 and 2020.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Season 5
October 24, 2024
The fifth and final season of the animated comedy series from Mike McMahan.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Season 4
September 7, 2023
While Starfleet ships are being attacked, the crew of U.S.S. Cerritos continues its own adventures in the lower decks in the fourth season of the animated comedy series from Mike McMahan.
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The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy: Season 1
February 23, 2024
The adult animated sci-fi comedy from Cirocco Dunlap follows alien surgeons and best friends Dr. Klak (voiced by Keke Palmer) and Dr. Sleech (voiced by Stephanie Hsu) as they deal with a dangerous case.
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Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus: Season 1
September 22, 2017
Mike Judge narrates his animated anthology series where friends and bandmates of country music artists recall tales from the road.
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X-Men '97: Season 1
March 20, 2024
The mutant heroes must carry on after the death of Professor X in the animated series that begins after where X-Men: The Animated Series ended in 1997.
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The Midnight Gospel: Season 1
April 20, 2020
Podcaster Clancy is forced to leave his home to interview beings in other worlds after his multiverse simulator malfunctions in this adult animated series co-created by Pendleton Ward and Duncan Trussell.
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Invincible (2021): Season 2
November 3, 2023
The second season of the animated superhero series introduces Angstrom Levy (voiced by Sterling K. Brown).
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Harley Quinn: Season 1
December 8, 2019
The animated comedy series follows Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) after her break up with the Joker as she looks to become the "Queenpin" of Gotham and join the Legion of Doom with the help from Poison Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell).
[Premiered originally on DC Universe]
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My Adventures with Superman: Season 1
July 6, 2023
Clark Kent (voiced by Jack Quaid) begins working as an intern at the Daily Planet with Lois Lane (voiced by Alice Lee) and Jimmy Olsen (voiced by Ishmel Sahid) in this animated series developed by Jake Wyatt.
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Central Park: Season 2
June 25, 2021
Bitsy Brandenham gets closer to owning all of Central Park, while the Tillermans kids deal with growing up, Paige continues her investigation, as Owen manages the park and staff in the second season of the animated musical comedy.
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands: Season 1
June 25, 2020
Based on the animated series Adventure Time created by Pendleton Ward, the first of four specials finds BMO (voiced by Niki Yang) crash-landing on a alien planet on the brink of destruction.
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King of the Hill: Season 14
August 4, 2025
Hank and Peggy Hill return to Arlen, Texas after years in Saudi Arabia and reunite with old friends Dale, Bill and Boomhauer as well as their son Bobby, who is working as a chef in Dallas in the animated comedy that moves to Hulu for its 14th season.
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: Season 1
November 17, 2023
Scott Pilgrim (voiced by Michael Cera) meets Ramona Flowers (voiced by Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and must defeat her seven exes if he wants to date her in the anime series based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series (2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was also based on them).
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Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special
February 9, 2023
Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) plans a huge Valentine's Day for Poison Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell), while Clayface (voiced by Alan Tudyk) and Bane (voiced by James Adomian) face dating difficulties in the animated special.
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Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head: Season 1
August 4, 2022
Beavis and Butt-Head are back in the reboot of the Mike Judge animated comedy that is already promised a second season on Paramount+.
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
December 2, 2014
The second holiday Toy Story special finds the gang facing off against Battlesaurs.
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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season 2
October 15, 1995
Dr. Katz is a divorced psychologist who lives with his son, Ben. While trying to help his patients (famous and not famous) with their traumas, paranoias, conflicts and problems, Dr. Katz also handles his own problems. His son Ben is all grown up but still don't know what to do with his life. His hobby is to waste Laura's (Dr. Katz's sarcastic receptionist) time with cheesy pick up lines and useless ideas and inventions. Dr. Katz also frequents a bar, Jacky's 33, and hangs out with his friend Stan and tries to get up the courage to flirt with the owner, Julie. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist was a cartoon based on Jonathan Katz's personal life. Originally running on Comedy Central, the show aired for 6 seasons, and helped put Comedy Central on the map, along with fellow cartoon hit South Park. Halfway through its sixth season, the network took it off the air and aired most of the remaining episodes on a Christmas marathon later that year, with 3 episodes unaired. Among the patients that sporadically go to Dr. Katz for psychological help we can find familiar faces such as Winona Ryder, David Duchovny, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ben Stiller, Carrie Fisher, Conan O'Brien, Garry Shandling, Janeane Garofalo, Kathy Griffin, Lisa Kudrow, and Whoopi Goldberg, among others.
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The Legend of Vox Machina: Season 2
January 20, 2023
The Vox Machina seven have to save the world again, this time from the Chroma Conclave dragons in the second season of the animated fantasy-adventure series.
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Harley Quinn: Season 4
July 27, 2023
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy's adventures continue on Max for fourth season of the animated comedy series.
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Central Park: Season 1
May 29, 2020
Central Park manager Owen Tillerman (voiced by Leslie Odom, Jr.), his wife (voiced by Kathryn Hahn) and two kids Molly (voiced by Kristen Bell) and Cole (voiced by Tituss Burgess) try to stop hotel heiress Bitsy Brandenham (voiced by Stanley Tucci) and her assistant Helen (voiced by Daveed Diggs) from buying the park and turning it into into condos in this animated musical comedy crated by Loren Bouchard, Josh Gad, and Nora Smith.
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The Legend of Vox Machina: Season 1
January 28, 2022
The animated fantasy-adventure series about seven adventurers who go on a journey to save Exandria from dark magic after running up a large bar tab in this adaptation of a role-playing game (RPG) campaign.
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Tuca & Bertie: Season 1
May 3, 2019
30-year-old toucan bird women Tuca (voiced by Tiffany Haddish) and her songbird friend Bertie (voiced by Ali Wong) live in the same apartment building in this animated comedy created by BoJack Horseman's Lisa Hanawalt.
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The Simpsons: Season 1
December 17, 1989
Originally created by cartoonist Matt Groening, "Our Favorite Family," has graced the small screen in one form or another for over 20 years. The Simpson family first appeared on television as the subjects of interstitial "shorts" on The Tracey Ullman Show in April of 1987. The Simpsons remained a staple on The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons until they premiered in their own half-hour series, on December 17, 1989. With the help of Jim Brooks and Sam Simon, Matt Groening's cartoon family turned into an instant success.
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
Currently in its 21st season, The Simpsons has piled up over 440 episodes, over 20 Emmy Awards, a handful of music albums, countless endorsements and merchandise, and even made the jump to the silver screen in the summer of 2007 with The Simpsons Movie. And according to Matt Groening, "There is no end in sight."
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Common Side Effects: Season 1
February 2, 2025
Marshall (voiced by Dave King) and Frances (voiced by Emily Pendergast) are former high school lab partners who battle drug companies and the DEA after Marshall discovers a mushroom that can cure almost any ailment in the animated series from Joe Bennett and Steve Hely.
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Big Mouth: Season 1
September 29, 2017
The animated comedy from Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg is about teenagers and their experiences with the changes puberty brings.
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The Mighty Nein: Season 1
November 19, 2025
A group of outsiders work to stop reality from changing when a powerful relic falls into the wrong hands in the second series based on the Critical Role web series.
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Hazbin Hotel: Season 2
October 29, 2025
Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump voices Abel in the second season of the adult animated musical comedy created by Vivienne Medrano about the hotel run by Charlie, a princess of Hell.
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Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1
August 9, 2024
Leo, Mikey, Raph and Donnie balance high school and new villains in the 2D animated series spin-off of 2023 film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem".
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Phineas and Ferb: Season 5
June 5, 2025
The summer adventures of Phineas (Vincent Martella) and Ferb (David Errigo Jr.) continue with Candace (Ashley Tisdale) taking her driver’s license test
and Perry the Platypus (Dee Bradley Baker) still covertly seeking to stop Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire) from taking over in the animated series.
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Young Love: Season 1
September 21, 2023
The animated series spinoff of Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning Hair Love short focuses on music producer Stephen Love (voiced by Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi) and hair stylist Angela Young (voiced by Issa Rae) as they raise their daughter Zuri Young Love (voiced by Brooke Monroe Conaway) in Chicago.
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Archer: Season 4
January 17, 2013
Timothy Olyphant and Ron Leibman will guest star this season. Bob’s Burgers' Bob Belcher is set to visit the spy world in one episode of the show (with Sterling Archer, also voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, crossing over for one episode of the Fox show).
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Star Wars: Visions: Season 1
September 22, 2021
The anthology series features Star Wars short films from seven anime studios: Kamikaze Douga, Geno Studio (Twin Engine), Studio Colorido (Twin Engine), Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Science Saru, and Production IG.
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Toy Story of Terror
October 16, 2013
Buzz, Woody and the other toys must locate a lost toy at a motel during a trip with their new owner, Bonnie.
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Carol & The End of The World
December 15, 2023
The animated limited series from Dan Guterman follows Carol (voiced by Martha Kelly) during her final days on Earth.
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Harley Quinn: Season 5
January 16, 2025
Harley and Ivy move to Metropolis and face new villains in the form of Brainiac (voiced by Stephen Fry), Lex Luthor and his sister Lena Luthor (voiced by Aisha Tyler).
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Marvel's What If...?: Season 2
December 22, 2023
The Watcher (voiced by Jeffrey Wright) introduces more multiverses where we see the return of Hela, Strange Supreme, a young Peter Quill, and introduces Kahhori.
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Archer: Season 1
September 17, 2009
The animated comedy from the same people who brought you Adult Swim introduces Sterling Archer, a spy for ISIS, whose boss is also his mother and his ex-girlfriend is a fellow spy.
A sneak peak of episode one was shown in September 2009.
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Pokémon Concierge: Season 1
December 28, 2023
Haru, a new concierge at the Pokémon Resort, helps the guests enjoy their stay in this stop-motion series.
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Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling
August 9, 2019
Rocko, Heffer and Philbert return home to O-Town after 20 years in space in this special for the 1990s Nickelodeon cartoon created by Joe Murray.
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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season 1
May 28, 1995
Dr. Katz is a divorced psychologist who lives with his son, Ben. While trying to help his patients (famous and not famous) with their traumas, paranoias, conflicts and problems, Dr. Katz also handles his own problems. His son Ben is all grown up but still don't know what to do with his life. His hobby is to waste Laura's (Dr. Katz's sarcastic receptionist) time with cheesy pick up lines and useless ideas and inventions. Dr. Katz also frequents a bar, Jacky's 33, and hangs out with his friend Stan and tries to get up the courage to flirt with the owner, Julie. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist was a cartoon based on Jonathan Katz's personal life. Originally running on Comedy Central, the show aired for 6 seasons, and helped put Comedy Central on the map, along with fellow cartoon hit South Park. Halfway through its sixth season, the network took it off the air and aired most of the remaining episodes on a Christmas marathon later that year, with 3 episodes unaired. Among the patients that sporadically go to Dr. Katz for psychological help we can find familiar faces such as Winona Ryder, David Duchovny, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ben Stiller, Carrie Fisher, Conan O'Brien, Garry Shandling, Janeane Garofalo, Kathy Griffin, Lisa Kudrow, and Whoopi Goldberg, among others.
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Bob's Burgers: Season 2
March 11, 2012
Bob tries out the food truck business in the second season of the animated comedy series created by Loren Bouchard.
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#1 Happy Family USA: Season 1
April 17, 2025
The adult-animated comedy series co-created by Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady centers on the Husseins, a patriotic Muslim family living in America in the early 2000s.
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Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai: Season 1
May 23, 2023
Set in 1920s Shanghai, 10-year-old Sam Wing (voiced by Izaac Wang) sets out to return Mogwai Gizmo (voiced by A.J. LoCascio) home with the help of a street their named Elle (voiced by Gabrielle Nevaeh Green) in this animated series inspired by the Gremlins films.
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Archer: Season 7
March 31, 2016
Sterling and his friends move to Los Angeles and start a private detective agency in the seventh season of the animated comedy.
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Ultra City Smiths: Season 1
July 22, 2021
Detectives Gail Johnson (voiced by Da'Vine Joy Randolph) and David Mills (voiced by Jimmi Simpson) look into the disappearance of Ultra City mayoral candidate Carpenter K. Smith (voiced by Kurtwood Smith) in this stop-motion animated baby doll series from Steve Conrad and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.
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Archer: Season 6
January 8, 2015
The series drops the Vice and returns to espionage with a baby in tow for the sixth season of the animated comedy.
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My Adventures with Superman: Season 2
May 25, 2024
Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen face new enemies and challenges in the second season of the animated series developed by Jake Wyatt.
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Star Wars Rebels: Season 1
October 3, 2014
The latest Star Wars animated series is set five years before Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The Imperial forces have been forced to a remote planet where a small crew aboard the starship Ghost seek to end the Galactic Empire's grip on the galaxy.
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The Great North: Season 1
January 3, 2021
The animated comedy set in Alaska follows the Tobin family led by single father Beef (voiced by Nick Offerman) and his children: Judy (voiced by Jenny Slate), Wolf (voiced by Will Forte), Ham (voiced by Paul Rust), and Moon (voiced by Aparna Nancherla).
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Invincible (2021): Season 4
March 18, 2026
Mark and Omni-Man are reunited as they look to stop Thragg (voiced by Lee Pace) in the fourth season of the animated superhero series.
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Castlevania: Nocturne: Season 1
September 28, 2023
Set in 1972 France, the anti-revolutionary aristocracy has aligned itself with a vampire promising to end the revolution. However, Annette, a sorceress from the Caribbean, finds the last descendent of vampire hunters, Richter Belmont to lead the resistance in the latest Castlevania animated series.
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Pantheon: Season 1
September 1, 2022
Bullied teen Maddie (voiced by Katie Chang) gets help online from her recently deceased father (voiced by Daniel Dae Kim), whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud after an experimental brain scan in this animated sci-fi series based on short stories by Ken Liu.
[Premiered originally in the US on AMC+/HIDIVE on 1 Sep 2022; Season 2 premiered originally in Australia/New Zealand on Prime Video (AU & NZ) on 15 Oct 2023 and in the US on Netflix on 21 Feb 2025]
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Entergalactic: Season 1
September 30, 2022
Young artist Jabari (voiced by Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi) moves to New York City where he meets a successful photographer (voiced by Jessica Williams) in this animated series co-created by Kid Cudi and Ian Edelman.
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Invincible (2021): Season 3
February 6, 2025
Already renewed for a fourth season, the animated superhero series finds Mark/Invincible (voiced by Steven Yeun) getting a new suit, at odds with Cecil Steamman (voiced by Walton Goggins), and working with Oliver Grayson (voiced by Lincoln Bodin).
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Futurama: Season 7
June 24, 2010
Fry and the other characters from Futurama return to television via Comedy Central.
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Beavis and Butt-head: Season 1
September 22, 1992
Beavis and Butt-head was first aired on the U.S. cable network MTV in March 1993. This show, which combined animation and music videos, was an example of the unique programming that MTV has consistently provided for its youthful demographics. The half-hour program alternated between a simple narrative, which focused on the exploits of two low-life adolescents, and clips from music videos, which the two teens commented on. Creator Mike Judge had penned the aimless duo for a festival of animation when Abby Turkuhle, MTV's senior vice president picked up an episode for the network's animated compendium Liquid Television. MTV immediately contracted for 65 episodes from Judge, with Turkuhle as producer, and placed Beavis and Butt-head in the 7:00 and 11:00 P.M. week-day time slots.
The characters, Beavis and Butt-head, are rude, crude, and stupid, and can be placed in the "dumb comedy" tradition, which includes Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, Cheech and Chong, Saturday Night Live's Wayne and Garth, and FOX's The Simpsons. When the show debuted, television critics differed in their opinions, with some praising the show for daring to present the stupidity of male "metalheads" who watch too much television (effectively satirizing the core MTV audience), and others categorizing Beavis and Butt-head as another example of television's declining quality. Beavis and Butt-head did find an audience and began pulling in MTV's highest ratings. But the show was also quite controversial, instigating heated public debate on the interconnected issues of representations of violence in the media and generational politics surrounding youth subcultures.
Beavis and Butt-head they found, was especially popular with those in their twenties. It turned out to be bothersome to many that young people enjoyed the show and laughed at its two imbecilic boys, even if these fans were much more intelligent and much less grating than Beavis and Butt-head. In this sense, Beavis and Butt-head raised the issue of generational taste cultures. Definitions of "taste," Pierre Bourdieu notes, "unite and separate, uniting those who are the product of similar conditions but only by distinguishing them from all others. And taste distinguishes in an essential way, since it is the basis of all that one has--people and things--and of all that one is for others, whereby one classifies oneself and is classified by others." To the degree that taste cultures agree, they are brought together into a subcultural formation; but to this degree they are also separated from those with whom they differ. It was the "bad taste" of Beavis and Butt-head's audience which bothered many, and this brings to the surface another one of the reasons why Beavis and Butt-head was so controversial.
Cultural critics, educators, and concerned parents gathered skeptically, sternly, and anxiously in front of the television set and passed judgment upon the "tasteless" Beavis and Butt-head show. And in an ironic reversal, Beavis and Butt-head countered by ascending the cultural hierarchy. The two youths channel-surfed, looking for videos that didn't suck (i.e. those with heavy metal or hardcore rap, those that contained violence, or encouraged genital response.) In becoming the self-proclaimed Siskel and Ebert of music video, they served to evaluate pop culture with an unencumbered bottom line--does a music video "suck" or is it "cool?" Beavis and Butt-head as a television show, was certainly towards the lower end of traditional scales of cultural "quality." But these two animated "slackers" evaluated other media, and so pronounced their own critical opinions and erected their own taste hierarchies. Beavis and Butt-head had their own particular brand of "taste:" they determined acceptability and unacceptability, invoking, while simultaneously upending, notions of "high" and "low" culture. In this, they entered that hallowed sphere of criticism, where they competed with others in overseeing the public good and preserving the place and status of artistic evaluation. They disregarded other accepted forms of authority, refusing to acknowledge their own limited perspectives. But like other critics, this was an important part of their appeal. After all, critics are sought out for straightforward opinion, not muddled oscillation.
In this recuperation of the critical discourse, Beavis and Butt-head joined with their audience, approximating the contradictory impulses of contemporary cynical youth, who mixed their self-delusion with self-awareness. In the case of fans of Beavis and Butt-head, these lines of demarcation indicated both a generational unity and the generation-based barriers between the baby boomers and the "baby busters." The reputed cynicism of the "twentynothings" was on view as Beavis and Butt-head evoked both a stunted adolescence which was long past and an unsure and seemingly inaccessible future.
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Watership Down (2018)
December 23, 2018
When Fiver (voiced by Nicholas Hoult) has a vision of the destruction of Sandleford Warren, his brother Hazel (voiced by James McAvoy) and a group of other rabbits leave to find a new home. Along the way they meet other rabbits and face a number of obstacles that include predators, the weather, humans, and other animals in this four-part adaptation of the Richard Adams novel.
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Futurama: Season 10
June 19, 2013
This is the final season of Matt Groening's Futurama. Comedy Central considered this as season 7B.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: Season 1
January 29, 2025
In an alternative timeline, Peter Parker (voiced by Hudson Thames) begins high school and his journey as Spider-Man with Norman Osborn (voiced by Colman Domingo) as his mentor in the animated series created by Jeff Trammell.
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F is for Family: Season 1
December 18, 2015
Baggage handler Frank Murphy (Bill Burr) and his wife (Laura Dern) raise their three children (Justin Long, Haley Reinhart, and Debi Derryberry) in 1973 in the animated comedy created by Bill Burr and Michael Price.
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91.
Devil May Cry (2025): Season 1
April 3, 2025
Demon hunter Dante is at the center of the Adi Shankar animated series adaptation of the Capcom video game series of the same name.
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92.
Mike Tyson Mysteries: Season 1
October 27, 2014
Mike Tyson solve mysteries with a team that includes the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry (voiced by Jim Rash), Mike’s adopted Korean daughter Yung Hee (Rachel Ramras), and a man who was turned into a pigeon (Norm Macdonald).
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93.
Archer: Season 3
September 15, 2011
Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally mess up together.
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94.
Cat Burglar
February 22, 2022
Rowdy the Cat looks to steal art from a museum guarded by Peanut the Security Dog in the Charlie Brooker animated interactive special that was inspired by Tex Avery cartoons.
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Star Wars: Visions: Season 3
October 29, 2025
The third season of the Star Wars anthology series feature nine new animation shorts from around the world.
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Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord: Season 1
April 6, 2026
After the Clone Wars, Maul (voiced by Sam Witwer) looks to restart his criminal syndicate on Janix, a planet outside of the Empire.
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Close Enough: Season 1
July 9, 2020
Originally set for TBS, the adult animated comedy series created by JG Quintel is about a husband-and-wife and their five-year-old daughter living with their two divorced best friends in Los Angeles.
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98.
Creature Commandos: Season 1
December 5, 2024
The adult animated DC Comics series written and produced by James Gunn follows Frankenstein (voiced by David Harbour), the Bride of Frankenstein (voiced by Indira Varma), Doctor Phosphorous (voiced by Alan Tudyk), Nina Mazursky (voiced by Zoe Chao), Weasel and G.I. Robot (both voiced by Sean Gunn) as they complete missions assigned to them by Amanda Waller (voiced by Viola Davis) and Rick Flag, Sr. (voiced by Frank Grillo).
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99.
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
December 16, 2014
The stop-motion animated Christmas special based on the 2003 theatrical movie Elf and its Broadway Musical follows Buddy (voiced by Jim Parsons) as he travels to New York City to meet the father he never knew.
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Archer: Season 10
May 29, 2019
The 10th season of the animated series includes the subtitle 1999 and finds Sterling and his friends on a space savage ship.
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