Xiaolin Showdown

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If you enjoyed Xiaolin Showdown, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Oblongs

   2001 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, also on The WB.

   The tight-knit Oblong clan lives in Hill Valley, a toxic valley downstream from your typical industrial waste site, which has caused a variety of bizarre physical and emotional abnormalities. At the head of the dinner table is the loving, limbless, tirelessly upbeat patriarch Bob Oblong and his adoring, alcohol-and-tobacco-addicted, bald-but-beautifully-wigged wife Pickles, who frequents the Rusty Bucket bar, owned by transsexual Anita Bidet (who was originally to be named Sofonda Cox!). The family includes their conjoined twin sons Biff and Chip, who share three legs and three buttocks, but can't seem to agree on anything; sweet, tattling, 4-year-old daughter Beth, sporting a cucumber-like growth sprouting from her head; and youngest son Milo, a one-haired optimist who has every childhood emotional disorder and behavioural problem ever diagnosed. Other members of the family include Bob's...

2. Futurama

   1999 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.6).

   Futurama follows pizza guy Philip J. Fry, who reawakens in 31st century New New York after a cryonics lab accident. Now part of the Planet Express delivery crew, Fry travels to the farthest reaches of the universe with his robot buddy Bender and cyclopsian love interest Leela, discovering freaky mutants, intergalactic conspiracies and other strange stuff.

3. The Venture Bros.

   2003 · Comedy, Adventure · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure profile, highly rated (8.2).

   The Venture Bros. is an American animated television series that premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on February 16, 2003. The series mixes action and comedy together while it chronicles the adventures of the Venture family: well-meaning but incompetent teenagers Hank and Dean Venture; their emotionally insecure, ethically challenged super-scientist father Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture; the family's bodyguard, originally the ultra-violent and macho secret agent Brock Samson and his later replacement, reformed super villain and "cured" pedophile Sergeant Hatred; and the family's self-proclaimed arch-nemesis, the Monarch, a butterfly-themed super villain.

4. Rick and Morty

   2013 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.7).

   Rick is a mentally gifted, but sociopathic and alcoholic scientist and a grandfather to Morty; an awkward, impressionable, and somewhat spineless teenage boy. Rick moves into the family home of Morty, where he immediately becomes a bad influence.

5. The Midnight Gospel

   2020 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

   The Midnight Gospel centers on Clancy, a spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator, who leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds.

6. Final Space

   2018 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

   Final Space is a serialized intergalactic space saga about an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake. The series will follow their adventures as they embark on a quest to unlock the mystery of "Final Space", the place where the entire universe ends.

7. Frisky Dingo

   2006 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem.

   Frisky Dingo is an eleven minute animated series airing on Adult Swim by Matt Thompson and Adam Reed, co-creators of the cult hit, Sealab 2021. Supervillain Killface is finding that, in theory, destroying the world seems like a lot of fun, but in actual practice, it is a very dull and complicated process. There are many boring details to work out such as media buys, budgets and marketing. Every great villain needs a nemesis. Enter billionaire playboy Xander Crews. As the superhero Awesome X, Xander seems to be doing everything he can to stop Killface, but actually he just wants to make it look that way so his action figure line stays in business.

8. Doctor Who: Space and Time

   2011 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   The Doctor, Amy, and Rory get stuck in a time paradox within the T.A.R.D.I.S.

9. LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures

   2016 · Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

   Told in the whimsically-charged style that audiences have come to expect from LEGO Star Wars entertainment, LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures stars the Freemakers, a family of scavengers who build and sell starships from the scoured debris of space battles strewn throughout the galaxy. When their youngest discovers a natural connection with the Force through an ancient artifact - the Kyber Saber - his world is turned upside down, and he and his family are thrown into an epic struggle against the Empire to restore peace and freedom to the galaxy. Throughout their adventures, the Freemakers explore new worlds, meet new and familiar characters, and learn the true value of what it means to be a family.

10. The Looney Tunes Show

    2011 · Comedy, Adventure · ended

    Recommended for similar Adventure profile.

    An updated iteration of the Looney Tunes characters focusing on their satirical misadventures living in suburbia.