Cartoon Brain Damage
A minimum-wage employee with medically concerning enthusiasm repeatedly survives workplace disasters alongside his deeply unimpressed neighbor.
SpongeBob SquarePants
A woman discovers that removing the headset is apparently not an option, and her new boss is a floating set of teeth with theater-kid energy.
The Amazing Digital Circus
An honors student finds office supplies that come with an unusually aggressive terms-of-service agreement.
Death Note
A man’s peaceful isolation is ruined by a talking animal, organized crime, and an unwanted road trip.
Shrek
A former gifted child spends several decades trying to murder one specific schoolboy instead of developing hobbies.
Voldemort
Two children spend summer vacation discovering that their great-uncle’s tourist trap is somehow the least suspicious thing in town.
Gravity Falls
The daughter of an extremely important man decides that eternal damnation might be fixable with hospitality and a musical number.
Hazbin Hotel
A boy’s family reunion goes very poorly, leaving him with a sword, a box, and one relative who now has dietary restrictions.
Demon Slayer
An overprotective father crosses an ocean after learning that helicopter parenting does not work especially well underwater.
Finding Nemo
An ancient interdimensional being disguises cosmic horror as geometry and customer service.
Bill Cipher
An adolescent with serious family-history complications solves most problems using empathy, singing, and occasionally enormous magical weaponry.
Steven Universe
A dysfunctional small business handles client problems by traveling somewhere they absolutely should not be and committing murder professionally.
Helluva Boss
Two brothers learn that ignoring the laws of nature carries surprisingly literal transaction fees.
Fullmetal Alchemist
An extremely wealthy orphan processes childhood trauma by assaulting criminals in themed clothing.
Batman Begins / Batman
A permanently smiling man offers assistance so politely that everyone nearby immediately assumes they are about to die.
Alastor
A teenager gets sent somewhere she absolutely should not be, decides this is fantastic, and starts learning magic from a wanted criminal.
The Owl House
A rebellious teenager forms an extremely questionable friendship with the kind of machine that was specifically built to kill her.
Murder Drones
A teenager eats something he absolutely should not have and subsequently acquires the world’s worst roommate.
Jujutsu Kaisen
A teenager’s friendship with an elderly man repeatedly causes problems with causality, family trees, and parking lots.
Back to the Future
A man with extremely complicated family issues concludes that the solution to centuries of suffering is making sure nobody like him can have children anymore.
Zeke Yeager
Two brothers wander through a place that may or may not be literal death while accompanied by a talking bird and several deeply questionable adults.
Over the Garden Wall
Four color-coded teenagers attend combat school in a world where weapon design apparently follows the rule “also make it a gun.”
RWBY
An absurdly powerful child tries very hard to be emotionally well-adjusted while his fraud of a mentor somehow remains one of the most useful adults in his life.
Mob Psycho 100
A man suffering from a severe memory problem constructs an elaborate system that still somehow fails to prevent him from lying to himself.
Memento
An Antarctic research team discovers that workplace paranoia becomes much more justified when one coworker may technically be every coworker.
The Thing