How the Animated TV Shows bracket works
Cartoon tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — The Simpsons or Rick and Morty? South Park or Avatar: The Last Airbender? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 shows in the field. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including The Simpsons, Rick and Morty, South Park and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
The Simpsons
1989-present
Rick and Morty
2013-present
South Park
1997-present
Avatar: The Last Airbender
2005-2008
Futurama
1999-present
Family Guy
1999-present
Bob's Burgers
2011-present
BoJack Horseman
2014-2020
Arcane
2021-2024
Adventure Time
2010-2018
Gravity Falls
2012-2016
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999-present
Invincible
2021-present
Archer
2009-2023
American Dad!
2005-present
The Legend of Korra
2012-2014
Regular Show
2010-2017
The Boondocks
2005-2014
Big Mouth
2017-present
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008-2020
Batman: The Animated Series
1992-1995
Cowboy Bebop
1998-1999
Castlevania
2017-2021
The Venture Bros.
2003-2018
King of the Hill
1997-2010
Primal
2019-2022
Teen Titans
2003-2006
X-Men '97
2024-present
The Owl House
2020-2023
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
1969-1970
Dragon Ball Z
1989-1996
Samurai Jack
2001-2017
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 9 completed Animated TV Shows brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Dragon Ball Z
20W - 7L · won 2 brackets
74%
win rate
- 2
The Simpsons
17W - 7L · won 1 bracket
71%
win rate
- 3
Batman: The Animated Series
16W - 8L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 4
Gravity Falls
14W - 7L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 5
SpongeBob SquarePants
15W - 8L · won 1 bracket
65%
win rate
- 6
Rick and Morty
14W - 8L
64%
win rate
- 7
Avatar: The Last Airbender
13W - 8L · won 1 bracket
62%
win rate
- 8
Cowboy Bebop
13W - 9L
59%
win rate
- 9
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
10W - 7L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 10
South Park
10W - 8L
56%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- 2The default run puts all 32 shows in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the show you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Animated TV Shows bracket FAQ
How many shows are in the Animated TV Shows bracket?
The pool holds 32 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which shows are included?
The Simpsons, Rick and Morty, South Park, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Futurama, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, BoJack Horseman, Arcane, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and SpongeBob SquarePants, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the cartoon tier list take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Animated TV Shows community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a show I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.