Thanks to the popularity of a jaundiced, four-fingered family named the Simpsons, the 90s saw a flood of adult animation aimed at a new generation of disaffected twentysomethings caught between the Saturday morning cartoons that babysat them through their sugar-cereal childhoods and the MTV programming that weaponised flashy colours and slam-editing to hold an increasingly distracted audience hostage.
The likes of Daria and Beavis and Butt-head took apathy and disenchantment to new heights; South Park offended everyone without prejudice. Ren and Stimpy brought stoners to Nickelodeon, while Fox fortified its animation domination by launching both Family Guy and Futurama in 1999.
