Best cartoon episodes of all time.

[castletonsnob]

What the best TV show episodes of all time is is a subject of a lot of debate, but cartoons are TV too. What would you pick for the best cartoon episodes of all time? "Band Geeks" from Spongebob has to be up there.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Sonic SatAM, Ultra Sonic. That’s always my go-to answer.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

What’s Opera Doc?
One Froggy Evening
Duck Amok
Rabbit of Seville

And I’ll toss in And Maggie Makes Three from The Simpsons along with Mother Simpson and Marge Be Not Proud.

[fw91]

South Park "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants."

It's hilarious, but is it the funniest episode ever? Probably not, but it was exactly what we needed at the time.

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

Helga on the Couch - Hey Arnold!

[BlackoutCreature]

"Code of Hero" - Beast Wars: Transformers
"Heart of Ice" - Batman: The Animated Series
"Beware the Gray Ghost" - Batman: The Animated Series
"Homer at the Bat" - The Simpsons
"City at the Edge of Midnight" - Dungeons & Dragons
"Northwest Mansion Mystery" - Gravity Falls
"Avalon" three-parter - Gargoyles
"True Colors" - Amphibia

[The Legend of Groose]

Some of my favs...

The Boondocks: Or Die Tryin
Batman TAS: Heart of Ice
Sealab 2021: Radio Free Sealab
Invader Zim: Parent Teacher Night
South Park: Good Times with Weapons
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: Gone Wishin
Megas XLR: All I Wanted Was a Slushy
SpongeBob: I'll say Band Geeks like everyone else but Kristy Krab Training Video is a close runner up imo.

[thechase]

He-Man: The Problem With Power

New Adventures of He-Man: Sword and Staff

M.A.S.K: Assault on Liberty

Batman Beyond: Meltdown

South Park: Scott Tenerman Must Die

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): The Maltese Hamster

Captain Planet: The Conqueror

The Transformers: War Dawn 

[Mozenrath]

If you are a Batman fan, you owe it to yourself to watch "Chill of the Night" from Batman: The Brave and the Bold. It stands up versus any of the all-time great B:TAS episodes, in my opinion.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Tales of Ba Sing Se, Sozin's Comet, Zuko Alone. You could make a list out of just Avatar episodes. Though even more than best episodes, the character development over the run of the show is phenomenal.

Bojack Horseman - Free Churro, Time's Arrow

Bluey - Grandad, Baby Race

Futurama - Jurassic Bark

[Zombie Mod]

Scoobynatural. the supernatural/scooby doo cross over episode.

[castletonsnob]

Hilda: The Deerfox.

[HMARK Center]

The Southern Raiders (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Season 3)
I remember I started watching this show in large part because I taught elementary school for a few years and wanted to know what kind of stuff my students might be seeing, so I turned on Nicktoons channel and saw most of the series in order and...well, yeah, we know how insanely high the quality is, but Southern Raiders really stuck with me, in large part because it got to the end of the episode, had Aang discuss the importance of forgiveness as part of the healing process and letting ourselves move forward in life, yet Katara, the show's "heart" in so many ways and Aang's love interest, straight up says no, she can't forgive the man who killed her mother.

The fact the show actually went for that in a TV-Y7 series and didn't shy away from what it said about all of the characters involved really impressed me. Later on I also found some of the other classics of the series, especially from Book Two, but this one still stays with me a good deal.

Number 7 (ReBoot, Season 3)
I remember being excited when ReBoot came to Toonami on Cartoon Network; I'd never seen where the series had gone after season 2, and was immediately struck by a shift in tone and presentation. While watching, though, I missed the episode that marked Enzo's and AndrAIa's transition to adulthood, so seeing "Matrix" for the first time had me convinced that there'd been some kind of time skip I wasn't aware of, instead of the reality that they'd been stuck in a sort of time pocket where they were aging faster than the world outside the game cubes.

Number 7 is a homage to The Prisoner, and allows a look into Matrix's mind given that the episode is a trippy dream he's having after being knocked out in a game. I remember really being struck by the show exploring his change, and more than that challenging the idea that he'd become a "cool" character; the season was made in the late 90s, after all, when "extreme" and "grimdark" were still big, but the episode tells us that, no, Matrix losing his innocence and identity as the younger Enzo was not a good thing, and embracing violence and anger, which he says he had to do to survive, has the potential to hurt him and everyone he cares about. He doesn't get better immediately after this episode, but he chooses to be proactive about finally finding a way home to Mainframe. Great stuff.

[CMWaters]

Cheating answer perhaps: "Yesteryear" for Star Trek: The Animated Series.

[Banjo Is Broken]

Duck Twacy aka The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

[Cvslfc123]

Tom and Jerry: Heavenly Puss

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Dec 12, 2023 17:27:54 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

The Southern Raiders (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Season 3)
I remember I started watching this show in large part because I taught elementary school for a few years and wanted to know what kind of stuff my students might be seeing, so I turned on Nicktoons channel and saw most of the series in order and...well, yeah, we know how insanely high the quality is, but Southern Raiders really stuck with me, in large part because it got to the end of the episode, had Aang discuss the importance of forgiveness as part of the healing process and letting ourselves move forward in life, yet Katara, the show's "heart" in so many ways and Aang's love interest, straight up says no, she can't forgive the man who killed her mother.

The fact the show actually went for that in a TV-Y7 series and didn't shy away from what it said about all of the characters involved really impressed me. Later on I also found some of the other classics of the series, especially from Book Two, but this one still stays with me a good deal.

Number 7 (ReBoot, Season 3)
I remember being excited when ReBoot came to Toonami on Cartoon Network; I'd never seen where the series had gone after season 2, and was immediately struck by a shift in tone and presentation. While watching, though, I missed the episode that marked Enzo's and AndrAIa's transition to adulthood, so seeing "Matrix" for the first time had me convinced that there'd been some kind of time skip I wasn't aware of, instead of the reality that they'd been stuck in a sort of time pocket where they were aging faster than the world outside the game cubes.

Number 7 is a homage to The Prisoner, and allows a look into Matrix's mind given that the episode is a trippy dream he's having after being knocked out in a game. I remember really being struck by the show exploring his change, and more than that challenging the idea that he'd become a "cool" character; the season was made in the late 90s, after all, when "extreme" and "grimdark" were still big, but the episode tells us that, no, Matrix losing his innocence and identity as the younger Enzo was not a good thing, and embracing violence and anger, which he says he had to do to survive, has the potential to hurt him and everyone he cares about. He doesn't get better immediately after this episode, but he chooses to be proactive about finally finding a way home to Mainframe. Great stuff.

Good call on Southern Raiders. The moment when Katara uses blood bending on the captain and Zuko just gets this look on his face stuck with me. Fear of blood bending, because WTF, and perhaps fear for the road Katara is taking as he sees a bit of the worst of himself.