Animaniacs is a cartoon series that aired from 1993 to 1998 and was created by Tom Ruegger. The show is about three siblings, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, who are zany and mischievous creatures known as "Animaniacs". They live in the Warner Bros. water tower and are constantly causing chaos for those around them, including their arch-nemesis, the studio's CEO.

A spin-off from Fox's monster hit "Family Guy," "The Cleveland Show" easily could inspire serious questions about whether or not three middle-aged white men ought to attempt writing comedy about African-Americans. Somehow, though, Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel have attracted a devoted multi-racial, multi-cultural audience for Cleveland and his family by making their points gently and with genuine humor. Consistent with his approach to "Family Guy," MacFarlane reserves most of his animus for middle-aged white suburban guys a lot like himself. Cleveland and his family have moved back to his home town, Stoolbend, Virginia, where he lives with Junior, his high school crush, and her two children. The majority of Cleveland's funniest lines derive more from his cluelessness than his color, and the majority of the ethnic humor derives from the creators' brilliant satire of racial attitudes among unenlightened southern white people. Among MacFarlane's only-slightly-exaggerated redneck characters, Lester does the majority of the comic work, languishing on his Confederate flag folding chair and cleaning his beloved guns. In general, the racial humor remains tame if not always politically correct, and "The Cleveland Show" gets the vast majority of its big laughs from allusions to pop culture.

Although the producers of "Family Guy" claim that it represents a "dysfunctional" family, millions of American viewers say it looks perfectly representative of most of the families in their neighborhood. Part of the "animation domination" line-up on Fox Network, "Family Guy" dramatizes the everyday dramas in the lives of Peter and Lois Griffin, their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their dog Brian. Like all Seth MacFarlane productions, "Family Guy" depends on scathing satire of American popular culture for most of its humor, stretching the "plausible impossible" to make the baby and the dog by far the smartest and most perceptive among the members of the family. The Griffins have garnered three Emmys and three Annies for MacFarlane and company, and they have earned one Golden Reel Award. In 2009, "Family Guy" earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series"”the first time since "The Flintstones" were nominated in 1962 that an animated series had numbered among the nominees.

Gravity Falls is a popular animated TV series that aired on Disney Channel from 2012 to 2016. The show is set in a fictional town in Oregon and follows the adventures of twins Dipper and Mabel Pines as they spend their summer with their great-uncle, Stan, who runs the Mystery Shack. The town is full of strange and supernatural phenomena, and the twins frequently encounter monsters, ghosts, and other oddities.

Summer Camp Island is an American animated television series created by Julia Pott. The show follows two best friends, Oscar and Hedgehog, who attend a magical summer camp on an island where they encounter fantastical creatures and have extraordinary adventures.

Either the CIA is just not that cool and relevant anymore, or Seth Macfarlane and associates are still mining the mother lode of 1970s humour as they develop episodes of "American Dad!" for Sunday nights on Fox. Television historians claim animated series have replaced sit-coms as television's principal source of informed social commentary; and "The Simpsons" have replaced "All in the Family" as the nation's premier satire, the weekly litmus test of American values and expectations. "American Dad!" shows little sign of aspiring to that lofty standing. Most episodes set the standard simply at "amusing." CIA agent and uber-patriot Stan Smith, the "American Dad!" anchors a predictably diverse, dysfunctional just-beyond-the-beltway family. Francine, his wife, appears to atone for her wild youth by remaining vacant, mostly boring in contemporary life. Hayley, Stan's college-aged radical daughter, naturally acts-out all the standard forms of late adolescent rebellion and family insurgency. And Steve, not surprisingly, enters puberty eager to live-up to Dad's expectations but congenitally incapable of coming even close. Holding its own in Fox's Sunday night animated line-up, "American Dad!" has improved in its several seasons on the air. Translation: "American Dad!" has evolved from "mediocre" to "not bad" as it has outgrown its abject dependence on cliches and stereotypes, freshened its subject matter and treatment, and drawn sharper edges on its characters. Still, the premises for "American Dad!" showed promise in 1973; in the new millennium, they seem a little tired.