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This cartoon tier list gives you 40 animated shows to rank, from Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo to Bluey, Invincible and Arcane — 13 Cartoon Network originals and six Nicktoons among them. Sort them into tiers, type in any show that's missing, and save the finished board as a PNG.
Settle it once and for all with a cartoon tier list that comes loaded with 40 animated shows — SpongeBob, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Rick and Morty, Gravity Falls and dozens more. Drag each series into the S through D rows to build the best cartoons tier list you can back up. Because the tray spans decades, it doubles as a 90s cartoons tier list or a modern-era ranking depending on what you drag in.
Rank cartoons by nostalgia, writing, animation, or how well they hold up on a rewatch — there is no wrong lens. Want a bigger topic list to rank next? Browse our best tier list templates, or read how to make a tier list if it is your first board. When your animated-shows tier list is set, export a PNG and see who agrees.
For an all-time list, decide how you'll treat long runners before you start. The Simpsons is past 35 seasons and Samurai Jack has five, so judge every show on its peak, its average episode or its ending, and stick with that rule. Art style, voice acting and rewatch value make good tiebreakers. A cartoon characters tier list is a different board: type the protagonists and villains into the blank free tier list maker, and send Disney's cast to the Disney characters template.
Cartoons are uniquely generational, so expect friendly arguments: someone's S-tier Saturday-morning favorite is another person's 'never seen it.' That is the fun. Keep the shows you grew up on in the mix, add current hits like Bluey or Arcane, and let the tiers tell your story.
The tray spans every era. Golden-age classics Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry sit beside Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, and the 90s bring Batman: The Animated Series, Animaniacs and Rugrats. A 2000s cartoons tier list nearly builds itself from Kim Possible, Danny Phantom, Teen Titans and Ben 10. Adult animation gets its own block — The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama, Bob's Burgers and Rick and Morty — while Bluey, Invincible and Arcane belong to the streaming era. If kids' shows and primetime feel unfair on one board, split them.
Ranking one channel at a time settles the old network arguments. A Cartoon Network tier list takes almost no setup. Thirteen of its originals are already in the tray: Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd n Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids Next Door, Ben 10, Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball, Steven Universe and We Bare Bears. Teen Titans, which aired there, makes 14. Add Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Chowder and Over the Garden Wall to fill the gaps.
Nickelodeon gets six Nicktoons: Rugrats, Hey Arnold, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Invader Zim and Rocko's Modern Life are worth adding for a full Nickelodeon cartoon tier list. Disney Channel and Disney XD bring Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb, Kim Possible and Star vs. the Forces of Evil, with DuckTales in whichever version you grew up on.
Drag each show from the tray into a tier from S to D, then export a PNG to share. Everything's pre-loaded to save you setup time.
Yes. Use Add items to type any title — add 80s and 90s classics or the latest streaming hits and they'll appear in the tray.
That's your call. If you'd rather keep them separate, we have a dedicated anime tier list template you can use instead.
Every list differs, but the same names keep turning up in all-time top 10s: The Simpsons, SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Batman: The Animated Series, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, Futurama and Rick and Morty. All ten are in this tray. Stretching to a top 100 means adding sixty more with Add items.
There's no official No. 1. The Simpsons has the strongest claim on staying power, since it's the longest-running American animated series, and SpongeBob SquarePants is one of the most-watched cartoons anywhere, with a franchise to match. Both are in the tray. Put them side by side in your top row and ask which one you'd keep if you could only have one.
Most people mean the three big kids' networks — Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel — which competed for the same after-school audience through the 90s and 2000s. Some fans use it for their own trio of all-time shows instead. This tray covers all three networks, with 14 Cartoon Network shows, six Nicktoons and five Disney series, so a network-versus-network board is ready to go.
Technically, yes — anime is animation, and in Japan the word covers animated work from anywhere. In English it usually means animation made in Japan, and most fans keep it apart from Western cartoons because the styles, story formats and audiences differ. This board sticks to Western shows. For Naruto, One Piece and the rest, head to the anime tier list, which has its own tray.
It mostly depends on when you grew up. Late-90s kids tend to defend Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls or Courage the Cowardly Dog, the 2010s crowd leans toward Adventure Time, Regular Show and Steven Universe, and Samurai Jack earns respect from nearly everyone. Every one of those is in the tray. Rank the 14 Cartoon Network shows on their own board to find yours.
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