Luckily, Whitney’s adopted extra-terrestrial family is pretty chill and snappy dressers, too, except for the malevolent but bumbling Uncle Q. In the pilot, the heroine, Whitney Ward, has a serious, over-the-top jones for ‘The Crosby Show” and gets lost in sweet, humorous fantasies throughout. Written, animated and directed by sisters Shawnee and Shawnelle Gibbs (who also do the theme music), each episode is a few minutes long, which makes it easier to binge on all five episodes. You might not be bowled over by spiffy animation, but that didn’t really bother you with “South Park” either, did it? The concept, though, of a teenage girl who wants a family being taken in by aliens, works on a few levels with some obvious and not-obvious subtext to it. Most of this list features network or cable shows, but there’s also some action happening on the Web, like this show.
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So in that spirit, we wanted to feature 10 animated series that we love and think you need to watch if you haven’t already, so get ready to get hip. The early ’70s were a breakthrough time for this genre, and there was a great revival in the early millennium but there’s been a big drop-off the past few years, leaving a huge gap that needs to be filled. Chef from “South Park,” Gerald from “Hey Arnold!”), but not enough black characters as leads.
Plenty of series have individual black characters in supporting roles (i.e. Some you might remember from childhood, while others are recent favorites, but the fact of the matter is that there aren’t a LOT of animated series out there now featuring black characters. They’re out there, and they stretch back decades. In light of the list of politically incorrect racist cartoons we featured recently, we wanted to look at the opposite, the great black animated shows you would want to watch.