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Animated Shows originating inThe West — theAmericas (USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, etc.), Protestant and CatholicEurope, Australia or New Zealand. Some of these entries are actually compilations of theatrical shorts assembled for broadcast; the vast majority, though, are original creations made for television.

These are frequentlyDom Coms (The Simpsons,Family Guy,The Flintstones),Zany Cartoons (Looney Tunes,Tom and Jerry,SpongeBob SquarePants), orAdventure Series (Jonny Quest,Justice League), and generally follow the conventions andTropes of their genre (and mayexaggerate them).

Note that during the 1970s, many prime-time series both current and cancelled acquiredanimated versions broadcast as part of the network'sSaturday morning kidvid block;The Ricky Gervais Show, based on thePodcast of the same name, would be a recent example. Many of these are noted in the entries for the live-action show.

Most of the modern animated television series on this page are created, written, and acted in the West, but the actual animation is usually outsourced to Korean studios to save money (In other words, unless the idea or sources, etc. were outside of the West, a Western animation made outside of the Western world doesn't make the series/cartoon non-Western. This is only done to save money, as mentioned previously). This is after most series in the '90s were outsourced to Japan, but Korea is cheaper. In the 2010s, outsourcing grew to a broader range, expanded to Canadian, French, Australian, Filipino, and even Indian studios to name a few. Depending on the Western country, some series of them areDomestic Only Cartoons, including United States cases handed off to Texas, Georgia, or New York. Primarily, theatrical films by major studios are still animated domestically within North America.

Not to Be Confused with an animatedwestern, although they can and do overlap.

Fornon-Western animation, seeAnime,Asian Animation andEastern European Animation.

Animated shows have developed their own dialect of cliches and devices; seeAnimation Tropes for a listing.

Feature films belong in theAnimated Films index.

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