They couldn't get many Korra toys produced. Because girls are icky or something.

I wouldn't be. Pop culture pandering is the only way he can attempt to seem human, and he has a favorite My Little Pony (it's Applejack)

They also seriously hit upon something with Lilo and Stitch (between Atlantis and Treasure Planet).

It's unbelievably low on the list (it was like 200-something if I recall correctly) with the only reasoning that it's "too dark." But the darkness makes it amazing!

This one hit the sweet spot for me. Sometimes the guest animator episodes are either ugly (the water park one) or pretty but boring (the stop-motion one), while this hit that Food Chain sweet spot of cool animation and silly but effective humor.

I thought the butterfly was supposed to be Shelby, though Rainicorn makes more sense.

That seems to be a thing going back to the '50s with Mad Magazine.

Really its influence seems to be more in the Adult Swim realm than the children's realm (which is why recent CN shows, which sort of adopted an "Adult Swim Jr." mentality, would be its closest equivalents there).

Elmyra was actually added to "make it more like The Simpsons" (in that they wanted an animated sitcom rather than a wacky sci-fi world domination thing)

There's like a year of unexpected hiatuses within that, though.

PPG can survive on merch alone (which you better bet is the reason this reboot is happening at all). Since CN seems to be phasing out Regular Show and Adventure Time (they each probably have about a year left in them, maybe more for AT if the movie is still a go and they want to stretch it out to lead up a likely 2018…

That's fair, but I'd say that's different from the distinctive identity of the major American animation studios or Ghibli. They're good at sci-fi, like you might say that in Universal was good at monster films or WB was good at detective films, but they still have a pretty wide slate of work: kids shows (Metabots),…

The people who made Gainax Gainax went elsewhere to Trigger and Khara.

G4 doesn't exist anymore.

Studios like IG having made everything makes them hard to compare to specifically branded studios like Disney or Ghibli. They're more like, I dunno, Warner Bros (the live action studio, not Termite Terrace which had their own very specific identity). They make things. Some of them good.

No dub yet. Wouldn't be shocked if the dub premieres on Toonami in the fall.

Realistic Tintin is extremely uncomfortable to look at and took my enjoyment down a grade (I didn't mind the other designs, oddly enough, it was just Tintin with that weirdly realistic face that fell straight into the Uncanny Valley for me).

YMMV (personally I found Boy and the Beast very lacking and makes me think Satoko Okudera was the real genius behind his previous films).

Would Laputa count as good steampunk? People also sometimes call Bioshock "steampunk" though I guess it's more "dieselpunk."

Last week's Adventure Time got the worst ratings a new episode of AT ever got. I guess the Kids' Choice Awards were to blame, but it's still weird to see what seemed like it was CN's most popular show getting fewer viewers than freaking Dimension W.