All of the adult swim shows like ATHF, Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Squidbillies, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, and probably a few others I can't remember. Also, not animated but I would put Sifl & Olly in the mix because it fucking rocks.
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Heck yeah to all these!
I had a black cat with green eyes I named Sifl. Got attitude from quite a few people about what TF was wrong with me for naming a cat after syphilis...
Hoops is a recent one that cracked my shit up, and I was bummed didn't get another season of two
Actual deepcut: cybersix.
Edit: although edited from the comics to be much more child friendly. Forgot the original prompt.
Not really animated but not really not-animated.
The Fuccons. they're Fuccon fantastic!
edit: I did some more digging on The Fuccons and they were a short episodic skit on a longer running Japanese show called "Vermilion Pleasure Night". it's a really good representation of early 2000s adult entertainment humor highly niche but entertaining enough with dark humor.
Oh my god I thought this was Angela Anaconda. I fucking hate this animation style.
My journey into queer media started with Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World. If you've never seen it, I'm not sure what to tell you but you should.
Also just looked it up and Alan Cumming and Margaret Cho did voices in it? I gotta rewatch that shit.
Also shout out to Yvon of the Yukon cause ytv was just why (the fuck) tv actually.
SlackerCats - obscure, ran for half a season
Clerks The Animated Series - obscure, ran for half a season
Carol and the end of the world (Mainstream but wildly serene, surreal, and overtly human)
Moral Oral - pretty dark adult show
Ren and Stimpy - pretty dark for a kids show
I'm sure I'll think of a few more
I'm surprised Ren and Stimpy made it in the obscure list. They were about as popular as anything when they were on.
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Trip tank
Superjail
Ralph Bakshi made an animated series for HBO called Spicy City. It is very adult, and not something I see mentioned often.
I wasn't into Megas XLR but it was part of cartoon Fridays when I was in school and probably belongs in this list.
You can't list Oblongs, Undergrads, and Clone High without mentioning Mission Hill.
Chilly Beach is probably a deep cut for non-Canadians. I most often saw it described as Canadian South Park.
I'm not sure if it counts as obscure but Invader Zim also aired around this time.
Going back a bit further, there was Duckula, where the latest in a line of vampiric ducks was resurrected using ketchup instead of blood and became a vegetable vampire.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was made into a cartoon of questionable suitability for children.
Megas XLR was great. I very much dig giant robots.
Invader Zim, Clone High, Duckula (and Dangermouse (original) are all very good - but of them only Clone High is aimed at people older than 14 (not that older people don't or didn't appreciate them) none of them feel obscure to me, although neither Clone High nor Invader Zim were well known in the UK when released in North America, but Internet word of mouth got them known in time.
Chilly Beach, Oblongs, Undergrads, and Mission Hill I have never heard of. So deep enough, at least to a Brit of my age.
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Duckman
Yvon of the yukon
Sit down, shut up. Jason Bateman, will forte, and will arnette are high school teachers. It lasted one season with fox giving it random timeslots.
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Tigtone!!!
Glenn Martin DDS
Assy McGee
Assy McGee truly stood on it's own. Worst possible idea and they just went for it. Beautiful
Drawn Together?
I mean that was advertised like crazy on comedy Central when it was on the air.
Same with the Oblongs when it was on adult swim. They had Will Ferrell on the show.
Primal.
The Boondocks.
Mike Tyson Mysteries.
Fired on Mars.
China, IL.
Lil' Bush
Disenchantment
Nah too mainstream, its a netlix orijj for petes sake
If Netflix shows are too well-known then surely nothing on Adult Swim counts either.
Yeah, I mean I love my Adult Swim line up but very few of them are deep cuts.