Live Poll: Formulaic Cartoons

@urbanemovies​ Thanks Urb for the suggestion. I like it better and have changed the introduction.

Thank you!

@themoviesmith​ This website is usually good for that kind of stuff. I think you will find some good examples and explanations of how each of these series use a formula.

@urbanemovies​ Yes, I've used it before. Love tv tropes even for a read.

I too love the TV Tropes website. They cover video games in addition to movies and television series. Hell, they might even cover novels.

@urbanemovies​ I never really saw that show, but I'll add it to the list. What is teh definition of teh formula for it?

@themoviesmith​ I don't understand "teh", but I think this is the answer to what I assume is your question.

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Most episodes have Jimmy invent something to solve a problem, only for it to backfire, forcing Jimmy to find a way to reverse the effects, usually with another invention and/or a "brain blast".

(Hm. I thought everybody including ChatGPT knew that the anagram "teh", born of a dyslexic keyboard, signifies and constitutes the word "the" so as to be a definite article of expression.)

(Looking at the proper shortcut positioning of the fingers on the standard keyboard, I can see that sometimes the middle finger of the left hand punches the "E" key before the index finger of the right hand punches the "H" key, but for some reason, the index finger of the left hand always punches the "T" key before either of the other two events.)

@jeorj_euler​ I am kinda old school, when I want to play a computer game, I just feed the paper tape for the program to upload.

@urbanemovies​ I've added it to the list. Also, I don't know if you are aware but there is an interesting theory going on about the Jimmy Neutron universe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdKnPcNyl8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARoP4GNgKVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34PeOFhgi48

@jeorj_euler​ Yeah, my keyboard is dyslexic...definitely not my typo. LOL 

@urbanemovies​ ,

@jeorj_euler​ I am kinda old school, when I want to play a computer game, I just feed the paper tape for the program to upload.

I still have a paper tape of the second program I ever wrote. I wrote a BASIC program in high school over 50 years ago to compute factorials. The print out shows the full value 220! (220 factorial). The paper tape and the printout are rather fragile.

@dan_dassow​ Thanks Dan. 

@themoviesmith​ ,

By the way, Pinky and the Brain is one of my favorite animated cartoons. I'm a big fan of Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen. Even though the series is clearly formulaic it turns that aspect on its head through parody of science fiction tropes.

@dan_dassow​ I l enjoyed Pinky and Brain too and your suggestion made me recall 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063889/

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Villainous Dick Dastardly and his snickering canine sidekick, Muttley, take their destructive antics to the skies.

Their mission: stop the bugle-blowing Yankee Doodle Pigeon. 

Besides the title duo, the other misfit members of the high-flying Vulture Squadron include the cowardly Zilly and chief designer Klunk, whose many mechanical contraptions look impressive, but are never quite able to "stop that pigeon."

@mariojacobs​ Thank you. I've added to the list with a paraphrase of your synopsis. 

@Pencho15​ Thanks Pencho. I've added Fairly Oddparents, Captain Planet, and Dora. I'm still hesitant about Blue's Clues since it is mainly live action. 

@dan_dassow​ Thank you Dan!