First thing to add: when I was in Japan and walking down the street there's just a vending machine on the sidewalk selling bottles of wine, sake, and cans of beer...that was cool. Wine bottles in a streetside vending machine.
Second thing to add: I love cartoons. Have any of you heard of Home Movies? First season is on DVD now. It's ingenious.
For the mainstream, I'm a big fan of:
The Tick
Family Guy
Cowboy Bebop (In general, I'm sure I would love Anime, but I find the boobs and impossible costumes filtering into my brain has a detrimental effect on my life and my relationships. I made an exception for Bebop)
Roger Ramjet
Freakazoid
Earthworm Jim
Road Rovers (had it's moments...I doubt I could watch it now, 10 years later)
Sealab 2021, in small doses. Except the episode 'Fusebox'. I could watch that one every day. Actually...I did for awhile. When I had it on tape.
and I second the conversation that I'm sure has been had already, what happened to the days of classical music and opera with intelligent subject matter? Basically, when did cartoons get corporatized and planned in board room brainstorm sessions, rather than in the minds of artists?