Generic adult animated series

Generic adult animated series is a common theme for adult animated series these days. With the rising popularity of Family Guy, more creators and networks wanted to cash in on its success, only to make a corny show that would either be milked for eternity or be canceled in less than one season.

Bad Examples of Adult Animation

 * 1) Family Guy (season 8 onwards) (most infamous example)
 * 2) The Simpsons (seasons 11-31) (depending on your view)
 * 3) Brickleberry
 * 4) Paradise PD
 * 5) Farzar
 * 6) The Red Ape Family
 * 7) Our Cartoon President
 * 8) Hoops
 * 9) Fairfax
 * 10) Chozen
 * 11) Good Vibes
 * 12) The Prince
 * 13) Chicago Party Aunt
 * 14) Squidbillies (season 13)
 * 15) JJ Villard's Fairy Tales
 * 16) The Nutshack
 * 17) Bless the Harts (depending on your view)
 * 18) Bordertown
 * 19) The Cleveland Show (season 1)
 * 20) Santa Inc. (another infamous example)
 * 21) Biatches
 * 22) Fugget About It
 * 23) Mr. Pickles
 * 24) American Dad! (seasons 10-13)
 * 25) Fairview
 * 26) Crash Canyon
 * 27) Legends of Chamberlain Heights
 * 28) Allen Gregory
 * 29) HouseBroken
 * 30) Glenn Martin, DDS
 * 31) High Guardian Spice
 * 32) Full English
 * 33) Super Drags
 * 34) La Familia del Barrio
 * 35) High School USA!
 * 36) King Star King
 * 37) Lil' Bush
 * 38) Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"
 * 39) Cans Without Labels
 * 40) Mother Up!
 * 41) Pacific Heat
 * 42) Confessions from the Hart
 * 43) Teenage Euthanasia
 * 44) South Park (Only the 20th season)
 * 45) Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
 * 46) Father of the Pride
 * 47) Striperella
 * 48) Tripping the Rift
 * 49) Kevin Spencer
 * 50) The Boondocks (season 4)
 * 51) Gen:LOCK (season 2)
 * 52) Pupa
 * 53) Berserk (2016)
 * 54) Magical Girl Site
 * 55) Magical Girl Friendship Squad
 * 56) SMOSH Babies
 * 57) The Slim Shady Show
 * 58) Zombie College
 * 59) Producing Parker
 * 60) Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
 * 61) The Jellies!
 * 62) Life's a Zoo
 * 63) Les Kassos (season 4)
 * 64) Adventure Beast
 * 65) Bounty Hunters
 * 66) Stressed Eric
 * 67) Napoleon Dynanite
 * 68) Masters of the Universe: Revelation
 * 69) The Goode Family
 * 70) The Harper House
 * 71) Birdgirl
 * 72) Idhun
 * 73) Block 13
 * 74) Ctrl+Alt+Del: The Animated Series
 * 75) Archer (seasons 8-10)
 * 76) The Pole
 * 77) Stone Quackers
 * 78) Gary the Rat

Good Examples of Adult Animation

 * 1) mh:besttvshows:Final Space
 * 2) mh:besttvshows:Inside Job
 * 3) mh:besttvshows:Rick and Morty
 * 4) Tear Along the Dotted Line
 * 5) Tuca & Bertie
 * 6) mh:besttvshows:Clone High
 * 7) mh:besttvshows:Mission Hill
 * 8) mh:besttvshows:Moral Orel
 * 9) mh:besttvshows:The Boondocks (seasons 1-3)
 * 10) mh:besttvshows:BoJack Horseman
 * 11) Undone
 * 12) Archer (seasons 1-7 and 11 onwards)
 * 13) mh:besttvshows:The Venture Bros
 * 14) Family Guy (seasons 1-7)
 * 15) The Simpsons (seasons 1-10 and 32 onwards)
 * 16) mh:besttvshows:Solar Opposites
 * 17) Love Death + Robots
 * 18) mh:besttvshows:Aqua Teen Hunger Force
 * 19) mh:besttvshows:Invincible
 * 20) Trese
 * 21) mh:besttvshows:What If...?
 * 22) Star Wars Visions
 * 23) The Cleveland Show (seasons 2-4)
 * 24) mh:besttvshows:Bob's Burgers
 * 25) South Park (Except for the 20th season)
 * 26) mh:besttvshows:The Midnight Gospel
 * 27) mh:besttvshows:Disenchantment
 * 28) mh:besttvshows:Futurama
 * 29) Star Trek: Lower Decks (depending on your view)
 * 30) mh:besttvshows:Close Enough
 * 31) Ugly Americans
 * 32) mh:besttvshows:Smiling Friends
 * 33) The Boys Presents: Diabolical
 * 34) The Legend of Vox Machina
 * 35) DOTA: Dragon's Blood
 * 36) Blood of Zeus
 * 37) mh:besttvshows:F Is for Family
 * 38) Arcane
 * 39) Ten-Year-Old Tom
 * 40) mh:besttvshows:Central Park
 * 41) The Great North
 * 42) mh:besttvshows:Duncanville
 * 43) Tuca and Bertie
 * 44) mh:besttvshows:Harley Quinn
 * 45) mh:besttvshows:Primal
 * 46) mh:besttvshows:Beavis and Butt-Head
 * 47) mh:besttvshows:Daria
 * 48) American Dad! (seasons 1-9 and 14 onwards)
 * 49) Castlevania
 * 50) Moonbeam City
 * 51) mh:besttvshows:Lobo
 * 52) mh:besttvshows:King of the Hill
 * 53) mh:besttvshows:Happy Tree Friends (depending on your view)
 * 54) Hazbin Hotel
 * 55) Helluva Boss
 * 56) mh:besttvshows:Todd McFarlane's Spawn
 * 57) mh:besttvshows:The Critic
 * 58) Gen:LOCK (season 1)
 * 59) mh:besttvshows:Camp Camp
 * 60) Squidbillies (seasons 1-12)
 * 61) mh:besttvshows:Samurai Jack (season 5)
 * 62) mh:besttvshows:Elfen Lied
 * 63) M.K. 22
 * 64) Les Kassos (seasons 1-3, 5-present)
 * 65) Roger and his Humans (Roger et ses Humains)
 * 66) Epic Time Leap (L'Epopée Temporelle)
 * 67) City
 * 68) Silex and the City
 * 69) Flipped
 * 70) Bob and Margaret
 * 71) | Human city

Why This Theme Sucks

 * 1) The problem is that ever since The Simpsons and South Park became popular more and more competitors tried to copy the same formula with different premises. Cops, camper managers, the workers of Christmas, and even the royal family of the United Kingdom and Trump's cabinet are the examples of this.
 * 2) * In fact, everybody thought that animation is for kids, which is not true since there are so many animated series that are way more mature than the adult ones.
 * 3) * Many of these animated series lack genres as most of them are basically sitcoms. While some of these cartoons do resort to using science fiction or fantasy, they usually hold on to the sitcom formula. Because of this, it causes these cartoons suffer from a lack of variety and originality.
 * 4) If this was made for adults, then there's no reason to make the jokes, the scenes, and the gags so childish as stated before.
 * 5) They often have an excessive amount of violence, blood/gore, profanity, gross/offensive humor, filler, and bad morals to the point that it overtakes the plot.
 * 6) When it comes to jokes/gags, they can be very insulting or disrespectful. For example, Fairview makes a joke for the COVID party, which is a punch in the gut for COVID-19 victims, as this also works for some things like racism, suicide jokes, murder, abuse, rape, or even a reference to the Holocaust.
 * 7) The characters have no personality and lack heart and soul in them.
 * 8) * Many of the characters especially those in long-running series get a lot of their dimension and likable qualities removed forcibly, turning such characters into unlikeable, one-dimensional, flanderized husks. Examples of such characters who fell victim to this include Brian from Family Guy and Roger from American Dad!.
 * 9) Some of them have incredibly stupid concepts, such as how Fairview tries to copy South Park by making it political, when South Park is more of a social satire, or how The Red Ape Family revolves entirely around NFTs, which already are a bad idea by themselves.
 * 10) Most kind of show has a pretty bad animation style, which can go from a very stiff animation and ugly character designs with the worst offender being Allen Gregory.
 * 11) These kinds of shows follow a formula that has become completely stagnated and has caused the adult animation genre to undergo a massive amount of stagnation as a result as shown through these shows recycling plots from other shows and rehashing their own episodes to the point where it becomes cliched.
 * 12) Due to how most of these cartoons are basically rehashes of old concepts that keep repeating their plots, themes, and jokes, it shows that the writers and the studios in charge of these cartoons are refusing to take risks with the apparent mindset that if they make an adult cartoon that does not do crude jokes, rely on current events, and does not act like a sitcom then the said cartoon will suck and fail to make any money for their studio.
 * 13) Many of these shows become extremely mean-spirited in regards to the jokes and plots they produce.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some shows can be approved.
 * 2) Not all adult animated series are Family Guy-like sitcoms, there are some great shows with interesting concepts like Final Space, Arcane, Rick and Morty, Inside Job, Clone High, Harley Quinn, and Love Death + Robots.
 * 3) * Besides, even those that are sitcoms can also end up being good, such as Bob's Burgers and South Park, which are still great shows after 12 and 25 seasons respectively.