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While American cartoons don't exist in the volume that they used to, there are still quite a few quality ones on the airwaves, and of course, a bit less crap.
As far as Nick goes, I have a guilty pleasure in Kappa Mikey, though I hear its not very popular. I've tried giving Shuriken School a chance, but I'm just not feeling it. It's kinda creepy listening toMaurice LaMarche play a 10 year old boy and constantly hitting on characters voiced by 10 year old girls.
For Cartoon Network, Class of 3000 has some solid writing in the humor department and a great cast of voice actors. I just change the channel when they get to the musical segment (the LAST thing I want to hear is Tom Kenny rapping).
My Gym Partner is a Monkey isn't exactly high-quality material, but I would qualify it as funnier than Fosters. I'll watch it when nothing else is on, but that's about it.
And let us not forget Ben 10, which I enjoy quite a bit. It's got some great continuity and a fun premise, but the continuity isn't serious. You can miss several episodes and still jump in relatively fine.
As far as Disney goes, I didn't dig Super Robot Monkey Team at first until I saw some of the darker episodes. And let me tell you, that show could get REALLY friggin dark. It finally won me over for good when they introduced a psychotic janitor voiced by Jeffrey Combs. Awesome. Along with Megas XLR, it's cancellation is a travesty.
Yin Yang Yo is...okay. No great shakes, but at least it has the self-awareness to make fun of its own trite leassons its forced to teach at the end of every episode. Also, it's the only kids show I've seen since Fantastic Four that uses the term "this/it/you suck(s)" freely without restraint. Not a reason to like the show, but it surprised me.
Pucca...is strange. When it was a webtoon you only watched maybe a couple minute-long shorts at a time, and it was cute. But a half hour of a little girl molesting the crap out of some dude is just...creepy.
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