Fire Lord Ozai generates a looming dread on Avatar: The Last Airbender, more a pure incarnation of evil than a true villain. Indeed, Team Avatar encounters far more devious threats, not the least of which comes in the form of the Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se: Long Feng.
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This supernatural thriller has been climbing the Netflix charts, largely thanks to its impressive cast. It's a safe bet you'll recognize the actor who portrays the FBI agent at the center of the fray. Her name is Amanda Schull, and she's been making quite a name for herself.
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From the uncertain future of fan-favorite characters, unexplored backstories, and historical contexts, here are some of the biggest questions left unanswered in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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For every Batman: The Animated Series and Animaniacs out there, there's a '90s cartoon that hasn't exactly stood the test of time.
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If you're curious about the fates and futures of the citizens of Springfield, here's what will happen to the characters of The Simpsons ... eventually.
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When Rick and Morty creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon gave their acerbic scientist character a nonsense catchphrase in the first season — "Wubba lubba dub dub!" — they accidentally created a monster. Here's the truth behind the line, and why you probably shouldn't shout it at the creators.
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Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon sure knows how to tell a mean story, and a fourth-season episode of his animated sci-fi odyssey may just have given us a look under the hood at his process. Let's break down the "Story Circle" that informs all of his work.
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The show's midseason premiere, "Never Ricking Morty," took the series' entire story off the rails — literally and figuratively. But sharp-eyed fans have spotted an Easter egg suggesting there's far more to the episode than meets the eye.
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No matter how closely you watched the most recent episode of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, there's just no way any mortal person could catch each and every insane reference. The guest appearance of one White Witch of Winter was perhaps the perfect example of this episode's chicanery.
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Rick and Morty is created for the Easter egg-obsessed. On their way through a fourth season, the show dropped its most reference-heavy episode ever. One particular character stood out, and if you feel like you've seen Biblesaurus before, you probably watched Saturday morning cartoons in the '80s.
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Fiction that involves a man traveling into the future frequently touches on the idea of accrued wealth. Futurama got around this by having its accidental time traveler be a world-class screwup. Fry did manage to fall into a fortune, but it's one the writers of the series seemed to forget.
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While creator Matt Groening is best known for another little animated series he started working on in the '80s, many fans would argue that Futurama is his true magnum opus. Here are some of the darkest Futurama fan theories that you'll never be able to unlearn.
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Family Guy is a show with unique characters and plenty of behind-the-scenes stories. So turn off Road House, postpone that fight with a giant chicken, and let's discover the untold truth of Family Guy.
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In the interest of exercising our inner Comic Book Guy, it's worth taking a look back at the series and examining some of the problematic moments that everyone — except the most nit-picky of Simpsons fans — were willing to overlook.
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The world of animations just wouldn’t be the same without Tom and Jerry. And today, we're taking a look at some little-known details about their long, wild history. From their award-winning achievements to their strange feature film, here's the untold truth of Tom and Jerry.
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Steven Universe features a whole host of characters with crazy superpowers, but who’s the strongest Gem of the bunch? From heroes with psychic abilities to villains with magic weapons, here are the most powerful Gems in Steven Universe.
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It turns out Rick Sanchez may actually be the smartest man in the universe. Rick's entire career as a scientist has been an ethically unbound journey to the planet amorality — so which of Rick's horrifying inventions, exactly, utilize actual science? The world must know.
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Steven Universe is a dizzying feat of storytelling. At once a coming-of-age tale, an intergalactic fantasy, a family drama, and a genuinely hilarious all-ages delight, it makes balancing all those plates look positively easy.
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For all that Steven Universe pleases fans young and old alike, there are more than a few scenes, references, and jokes buried within its pastel landscape, noticed solely by the adults in the audience. We're here to explore all those moments, from the deepest cuts to the geekiest jokes.
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Rick and Morty's Season 4 episode "Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty" features a talking cat who leads Jerry on a spring break adventure in south Florida. Viewers hoping for a pat explanation were left in the lurch after Rick's adamant denial of any involvement; was he telling the truth?
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After being canceled and brought back more than once, Futurama finally wrapped up for good in 2013. But the love for this show hasn't faded, and its influence can still be seen today. Here's how a cartoon that the creators had to fight just to keep on air actually ended up changing TV.
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We're not sure what was going on at Cartoon Network's Standards and Practices department, but either someone was incredibly permissive or incredibly gullible, because The Powerpuff Girls' writers managed to slip an unbelievable amount of stuff into the show that's highly inappropriate for children.
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There are few evil characters who delight in their villainy more than Charles Montgomery Burns. And today, we’re looking at the worst things that Mr. Burns has ever done in the history of The Simpsons.
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Bob's Burgers can be extremely subtle with its shout-outs and a little esoteric with regards to where it pays homage. Here are some times when Bob's Burgers buried allusions so deep that even the most sharp-eyed and culturally attuned viewer likely missed the references.
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For three seasons and counting on the Adult Swim animated series Rick and Morty, viewers have been treated to a seemingly endless parade of the most bizarre settings imaginable. We decided to try to answer the question: what's the single most disturbing dimension we've ever seen on Rick and Morty?
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After its run in the ‘90s, Beavis and Butt-Head returned in 2011, but the show was a pretty big failure. So what exactly happened? Well, today, we’re going to find out why the Beavis and Butt-Head revival series failed.
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Beavis and Butthead wasn't meant for kids and teens but they probably watched the show anyway, because it was hilarious. If yesterday's kids did watch, they should check out the series as adults today so they can catch all the things they missed the first time around.
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