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What makes Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated unique is its structure. Its two seasons are lightly serialized, meaning that while you can watch most episodes as standalones, there’s still an overarching story for each season that rewards a binge watch. There’s always a “mystery of the week” but there are larger mysteries that are uncovered with each episode, flashbacks to the days before the gang were even born, and even an explanation of broader Scooby lore that you probably never expected. Suitable for family viewing, but with undertones and jokes that parents will get that will safely fly over the heads of younger kids, Mystery Incorporated is a smart, hilarious, loving tribute to the greatest mystery-solving canine in history… and his human pals.

Robotech

Robotech - Rick Hunter

(Available in the U.S. only)

This Robotech thing gets in your blood. Over 35 years after the show originally debuted people are still talking about it. Why is that? Well it’s mostly because Robotech was (and still is!) very ahead of its time. While on the surface it’s a sci-fi action series about three successive generations fighting off three different alien invasions it’s so much more. It’s about how war affects these people and the world around them. How war changes them and how they adapt to an Earth that slowly starts to crumble around them. And there are giant transforming robots.

Brilliantly made up three different anime series that were adapted into one giant story, Robotech is unlike anything else that’s come before or since. It sticks in your mind and the characters will never leave you. Minmei, the singing star who had the responsibility of saving humanity thrust upon her. Dana, the half human screw-up who so desperately tried to keep a happy face on in spite of the horrific things she’d been through. Lancer, a gender fluid character if there ever was one (although it’s the ’80’s so they never come right out and say it) who not only gets to be the ladies man of the show but also perform ’80’s power ballads in full make-up and dresses.

Big Mouth

Big Mouth Season 2 Still

Plenty of adult animated shows touch on topics related to puberty. We’d argue that no series has captured the awkward, universal truths about this time in a child’s life quite like Big Mouth has. Series creators Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett managed to put themselves back into the shoes of their younger selves, ashewing the hindsight they’ve gathered as adults and giving the series a lived-in feeling, like we’re all going through it together for the first time. 



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