My Favorate American Made Cartoon

    This is a difficult choice to make, I love a lot of Cartoons made right here in America, the Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Auqa Teen Hunger Force, Rocko's Modern Life(The cartoon that got me into cartooning), but all of these shows are not on top of my list.  By my personal opinion my top Cartoon made on American soil is Codename: Kids Next Door.  Sounds ironic for the fact yesterday I wrote that my favorite Anime was a bloody and dirty cartoon "Dead Leaves" but yet I love a cartoon made in the US of A that is made for the much younger viewers.  I have lots of reasons to like this cartoon like the fact that even if its cheezy at times somehow it works out.

    For the ones that don't know, Codename: Kids Next Door is a animated TV serious on Cartoon Network(The show got canceled some time ago).  It's about this organization of secret agent kids that secretly protect the rights of kids by building military weaponry, armor and aircraft completely from scrap and use them to battle psychopathic adults especially the one that reminds me of saten named mainly Father.  Another aspect that I love is plenty of the jokes here if understood would make people my age really laugh for example the Episode Operation: N. U. G. G. E. T. when Number 4 discovered a gold mine of chicken nuggets(a history lesson on the great gold rush or the 49ers), it started a boom town.  When he entered a tavern it was a little too authentic they had girls dressed up as boom town prostitutes.  In Operation S.I.T.T.E.R. Number 2 is hitting on Number 5's sister Cree that's babysitting him, strangly it brings back memories.  But the character that really brings the adult humor is Number 1's girlfriend Lizzy, like a Brokeback Mountain joke, sex with a cousin joke and my personal favorate the line in operation G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N.D "If you so much as scan my boyfriend sideways, your in big trouble!"  Makes me wonder what the word scan really means.  And the brilliance of these Jokes is that their made to where they're not easily offensive so this cartoon serious has somthing for everyone...well almost; one important lesson I've learned in the art world, you can't make an art piece that will appeal to everyone.

    This Cartoon is a major inspiration along side Dead Leaves but it really inspirated an animated movie concept that I've been working on for months now(The visual proposal is almost done and still have some work on the screenwright) that originally was a novel concept.  If I can't get a producer to pick it up well I'll make it into a comic book for Marvel or some other comic book company, but it will be a movie one day!