First up, it's important to note that comparing animated shows with one another is largely to miss the point. Animation is a format, not a genre, and it has produced series varying from The Flintstones to Big Mouth , Invincible to Looney Tunes. Still, when most lists of the best animated series of all time are produced, a worthy winner will come out on top - The Simpsons .
There's no denying that The Simpsons changed the game for animation, for comedy and for TV as a whole. It should not be understated how strong those early seasons of the show are, or how evolutionary the series has been. In spite of all this, I would argue there is one series which trumps it.
The reason I can be so certain that it would top a list of the best animated shows of all time is because it also happens to be one of, if not the best show of all time, full stop. That show, of course, is BoJack Horseman. It's been 10 years since the first season of BoJack Horseman landed on Netflix and, for those who haven't seen it (which is, quite frankly, more people than it should be), it is set in a world filled with anthropomorphised animals.
Centring around Hollywood (or Hollywoo or Hollywoob, depending on your preference), it follows the titular BoJack Horseman, a horse and former TV star who led critically reviled yet culturally beloved '90s sitcom Horsin' Around, a fictional show with an unfathomably catchy theme tune. The series follows BoJack years after the cancellation of Horsin' Around, as he strives t.