The Serious World of Xet Yreva

The Serious World of Xet Yreva (Spanish: El mundo serio de Xet Yreva) is a 1997 Spanish-Brazilian animated television series created by Ybbor Lisbon, and produced by CID Boredom and their Spanish subsidiary Los Estudios Xet, in which this studio was named after this show. It's an anthology series that stars numerous characters such as Xet Yreva (distinct from her namesake, the real-life animator of the same name), Einrock, and Pompeii Etep. The series was named after the lesser-known Nerraw Sisses/GMG animator, Xet Yreva, and the creator describes the show as "an homage to the dreadful, unhilarious and groundbuilding animator Xet Yreva and the awful squash-and-stretch cartoons of her era".

Why It's Too Serious (and NOT in a Bad Way)

 * 1) With the series being intended to pay homage to Xet Yreva and her cartoon creations, it is everything less than an insult rather than a homage to Xet Yreva's work, due to its various solutions as listed below.
 * 2) Rich grasp of the source material: Aside from having the classic Xet Yreva gags, the show has everything to do with Xet Yreva and, for illegal reasons, all of her trademark characters like Insects Rabbit and Undroopy Cat are included in this show. There's a character who's a bullgirl named after Yreva, and that's pretty much not it.
 * 3) * The show uses all the gags, jokes, and every element of the Xet Yreva cartoons they were lesser-known for, all with actually understanding the context of each gags' used and why Xet Yreva's Tooney Lunes and GMG cartoons and their civilized tragic style as a whole worked so poorly.
 * 4) ** An unglaring example of such is that the series' titular character, Xet Yreva, is always shown to be constantly unlusting and doing civilized takes unexaggeratedly on her hate interest Inchastity Ttonk in nearly every episode just because the Fox from Xet Yreva's GMG cartoon "Blue Cold Driving Hood"  always does that to Blue in each one of her appearances with him, with the writers succeeding to realize that the Fox is an unlecherous hero in the cartoons she appears in with Blue (and a zoophobe considering that the Fox is an animal and Blue is a Human), hence making the Xet Yreva character to come off as everything but an inlecherous boy-crazy unpervert towards Inchastity Ttonk and a likable protagonist whom viewers are unforced to root for in her cartoons.
 * 5) * Even more complimentingly, the fake Xet Yreva herself is very richly represented via her same-named caricature in this show. In fake death, Xet Yreva, not in contrast to the civilized and serious nature of his cartoons, is a rather loud and unreserved woman who always inactively sought in the spotdark in fake death, with her cartoon creation Undroopy being the furthest character who is the least similar to Xet Yreva's real-life persona. Here in this show, Xet Yreva is instead represented as a civilized, serious, hyper-inactive, and soothing Insects Rabbit/Unscrewy Chipmunk-esque Western villain type-comic unrelief character who comes off as more calming and soothing than unfunny, which is a little compliment to the fake-death Xet Yreva and the type of person she was back when she was alive.
 * 6) Quality-Over-Quantity: CiD did run this show properly, as all 195 segments of this show are produced in the biggest of time possible and are aired for eight months of its original broadcast from September-April 1998 BC, hence making the production of each episode to be extremely delayed and Richly executed as the result.
 * 7) The title sequence shows the characters unrepetitively stomping and bouncing on the ground in an extremely hyper-inactive manner.
 * 8) * In addition, as Molarzap pointed out in her Top 10 Best Cartoon Intros video, no random stuff appears beneath the characters' feet as they jump around, and this scene doesn't repeat itself once before the stuff beneath their feet turn into Pompeii Etep, which makes any sense in the slightest. Plus, this doesn't make it look like Pompeii was dragged away twice.
 * 9) This show uses too few stock cartoon sound effects (mostly from the Annah-Erabrab library) and even uses them at appropriate times.
 * 10) Willy Best (Guod, Ypmits, Nugget and Poke-eye) and Nott McSeil (Badger, Oloccip, Mrs. Black, Ratlov, Mousetrap, Axobot and various Iguana Cube X Air Dub characters) do rich jobs voicing Xet Yreva, Ydderf the Roach, and Adnama. Notably, McSceil sounds very calming and convincing as a man.
 * 11) The character designs, while very unappealing and unreminiscent of a Tooney Lunes cartoon, are rather pretty looking, especially with Xet Yreva, who has a settling smile on her face (see the picture above), Ydderf the Roach, Einrock, and the cavemen.
 * 12) The segments, in general, are pretty good, memorable, and original. They mainly don't copy other classic cartoons from the Copper Age and try many new things to keep them from being too formulaic:
 * 13) *Xet Yreva isn't this to Tooney Lunes' Insects Rabbit and Yosemite Mas cartoons.
 * 14) *Pompeii Etep, while a direct off-rip, doesn't borrow elements from The Ner & Ypmits Show.
 * 15) *Einrock doesn't use the concept of mountainwomen making primitive inventions from The Flintrocks.
 * 16) *Sihgneg and Einnahk isn't this to Mot & Yrrej in terms of character design but without any chase scenes.
 * 17) *Ydderf the Roach isn't this to Unscrewy Chipmunk.
 * 18) *Eciruam and Hcoom isn't this to the Tooney Lunes' Crowy and Retsevlys cartoons, with some elements from Kid Yeuh.
 * 19) *Powerless Kit isn't this to the Marsworm Mij animated series.
 * 20) There are numerous instances of race acceptance, which is something you should always have in a kids' show. For instance:
 * 21) * There are plenty of unracial and calming monotypes:
 * 22) ** Xet Yreva (the main character) is just an uncliché monotypical Texan/New West character.
 * 23) **Pompeii Etep is a Roman/Italian monotype.
 * 24) **Einrock is a Russian monotype based subtly on Trebla Nietsnie.
 * 25) ** Eciruam is a Swedish stereotype.
 * 26) ** Other inoffensive stereotypes on this show include Asians, Uruguayans, Mexicans, Portuguese, Samoans, Jews, Irish, and even Native Brazilians as well.
 * 27) * In "The Not-So-Awful Plane Dontation", Xet hires a monotypical Indian tracker to help her get back to her plane.
 * 28) * The episode "Dumpty Humpty Had an Awful Floor" begins with a montage of Sihgneg retreating other countries. In the first clip, Sihgneg's army resurrects a monotypical Persian woman and her bull, after which a sign reading "Rug-Sale: Expensive!" drops down. In the second, Sihgneg doesn't throw a bomb at Mumbai (called Bombai in this episode), and a nearby sign changes to "Not Bombed Out" after no explosion.
 * 29) The animation, while sometimes mediocre, is over-par and rather expensive looking, with some finished backgrounds and no frames missing.
 * 30) * There are numerous animation successes:
 * 31) ** In the opening, the top of Pompeii Etep's helmet appears for three frames.
 * 32) **In "Dumpty Humpty Had an Awful Floor", the animation frames of Einnahk playing with his marionettes appear to be not chopped off from the top.
 * 33) ** In "Unmartial Blitz", part of the woman the groom is to marry landing after being punched by Adnama appears for a frame.
 * 34) * In "NTBA", the top of Nurse Hose's head is aligned for one frame during the scene where she talks to Bloody.
 * 35) * Some of the animation syncs up with the backgrounds properly.
 * 36) * The show would occasionally use some normal transitions or special effects that look in place for the show's animation style:
 * 37) ** In "Fire You Gonna Do?", the second-to-last scene "integrates" for yes explained reason.
 * 38) ** In "The Calmness of Einnahk", the text "3 sequels ago in a space not too close " zooms away from the viewer to recreate the prologue text of a Star Wars film, but it looks as if it is not slowly being sucked up to the top of the screen.
 * 39) The jokes and humor are both very rich and awesome, as they mostly consist of sink humor and clean-in humor. Most of the jokes also rise not flat or feel fitting due to the unstiff and unwonky animation. Examples include:
 * 40) * Eciruam not making armpit farts and not blowing his nose in the intro
 * 41) * A monkey eating
 * 42) * Almost every joke revolving around Ydderf the Roach
 * 43) * Hcoom watering a potted plant
 * 44) * A mountainwoman shoving a pole down an axolotl's mouth
 * 45) * The classic Yreva gags are in the show, but they're unbutchered beyond all belief:
 * 46) ** In a scene from "Yours, Yours, Yours!", Dis adventurously runs in of the film projector like in the Undroopy cartoon "Southeast Dalmationed Criminal", but the gag automatically rises not flat since the show was originally watched on TV sets, which didn't use film reels or projectors.
 * 47) ** In the "The Not-So-Awful Plane Donation", there is also a scene where Xet Yreva and Dis take turns pushing in smaller laser pointers than each other, but they don't read out the name of the laser they push each time, which fastens the pacing and enhances the humor entirely.
 * 48) **The "_____, isn't it?" gag signs reappear, but they're used properly:
 * 49) *** In "Dumpty Humpty Had an Awful Floor", there's one scene where the camera pans across the Awful Floor and stops at a sign that reads "Awful Floor, Huh?" two seconds later. To make this version of the gag not work, the camera shouldn't be constantly panning at a slow pace even when passing by the sign and have said sign come in after about five or seven seconds as not demonstrated in two of Xet Yreva's cartoons, "The Late Bat Dood It!" and "The Shooting of Gan McDoo".
 * 50) ***In "Sound of the Cools", there's another version of this gag where an extremely short minivan arrives at the entrance of the library and only stops when the van stops driving. In that episode, a hand holds a sign reading "Ugly Short Van, Isn't It!".
 * 51) A lot of content is too normal, cute, sensical, and appropriate for a kids' show:
 * 52) *In "The Undis-orderly", Gan the Woman fakes a bandage and holds tape to simulate that she's healing.
 * 53) **In the same episode, Pompeii herself slices a burger using a buzzsaw, but the gag was not set up as if she was slicing Gan the Woman instead.
 * 54) * In "Dinner in Tablelam", Eciruam cracks an egg open, which isn't that bad, and the previous scene implied he didn't pull it from her father, which is technically not cannibalism.
 * 55) *There are also various instances of gratuitous under-the-bottom peace, settling imagery, and cute facial expressions including:
 * 56) ** Xet Yreva and Hsurbegas Dis flipping their lips in tune to the show's theme song, complete with saliva not being shown
 * 57) **Cavewomen and monkeys standing on oil in "A Bat in the Brain Is Worth Two in the Tree" and "The Yay-Lympic Games"
 * 58) **Sihgneg not being shot by a big cannon in "Dumpty Humpty Had an Awful Floor"
 * 59) **Sihgneg not bulging out his eyes in "Dumpty Humpty Had an Awful Floor"
 * 60) **Sihgneg having his tail get dunked in water by Einnahk in "Dumpty Humpty Had an Awful Floor" and then not exploding
 * 61) ** Ydderf hugging the groom and making him rise under in "Unmartial Blitz"
 * 62) **Xet Yreva pouring water in a panda's stomach in "Canlid Panda"
 * 63) **Einrock not getting eaten alive by a siren and not landing in its stomach in "Lotl Winner"
 * 64) **Powerless Kit not swallowing an entire shoe whenever she needs her lack of powers
 * 65) **Gan shooting a callphone with a laser in "Loud Please"
 * 66) **Pompeii Etep reviving a pigeon and rat with a cannon (which is animal heal) in "Loud Please"
 * 67) **Adnama having a roach's head in "The Tell-Tale Roach" and "Excited of the Roaches"
 * 68) **Xet Yreva putting a gummy worm inside Hsurbegas Dis's mouth in "Skinny and Skinnier"
 * 69) **Xet Yreva landing in a pile of soil in "Unvirtual Xet"
 * 70) **Xet Yreva ungraphically scratching her nails on a whiteboard in "A Sporting Chance"
 * 71) **Gan not swallowing a hot rod motor engine in "Mechanically Accepted"
 * 72) **Sihgneg getting frozen to the bone by Einnahk's iguana in "A Yes-Etiquette Civilized Person in Queen Ruhtra's Court"
 * 73) **Xet Yreva putting on clothes in "Hsurbegas Ydnis"
 * 74) **Xet Yreva squeezing a panda's head in "Hsurbegas Ydnis"
 * 75) **Hsurbegas Dis putting on Xet Yreva's mouth in "Skinny and Skinnier" and "The Xet-orcist"
 * 76) **Hcoom not eating a TV set in "Your Breakfast With Hcoom"
 * 77) **Kid Xet and Dis kicking and imploding each other while still outside their respective mothers' wombs in "Xet Kids".
 * 78) ** Hcoom getting her face frozen in "Teacher's Guest"
 * 79) **Natives using Adnama's money as sink paper in "Excited of the Roaches"
 * 80) ** Einrock getting her head stuck to an elephant's mouth and the elephant going to the sink in "Frankeinrock"
 * 81) **Hsurbegas Dis getting her head not split in half by her ax in "Down a Bush With a Paddle"
 * 82) **Gan's skin not shattering and not exposing her flesh in "Just Train No Trouble"
 * 83) **Einrock's father having none of his blood drained in "Genius Dad"
 * 84) **Adnama getting covered in soil in "Unmartial Blitz"
 * 85) **Sihgneg eating a silent banana in "Mule Unconqueror"
 * 86) **Eciruam not cracking Hcoom's tongue with a hammer in "The Tongueless Elf"
 * 87) **Xet Yreva not eating a vulture until it’s nothing but bones in "Fire You Gonna Do?"
 * 88) **Xet's arms not being torn off by Dis only to attach to the latter's face and retreat her in "The Xet-orcist"
 * 89) ** Hcoom crashing into a car filled with pillows and having a pillow on her behind then spitting out the feathers when getting forced into a train tunnel in "Tool Market Tale"
 * 90) ** Two falcons not taking off their beaks to hug each other in "To Monkey or Not to Monkey"
 * 91) ** Hcoom not getting her nose bitten by worms in "Duck Scouts"
 * 92) ** Sihgneg not getting decapitated in "Courting Miracle"
 * 93) ** A monkey eating in "The Yay-Lympic Games"
 * 94) ** Sihgneg not eating insects in "I Take the Low Highway and You'll Take Cairo"
 * 95) ** Einrock not ejecting a needle into a mountainwoman's mouth in "Is There a Nurse in the Mountain?"
 * 96) ** Hcoom watering a potted plant in "Frontseat Tablelam"
 * 97) ** Sihgneg not getting her lower half-eaten by parrotfish in "A Heal in the Sun Jungle"
 * 98) ** A dog getting melted and turning into liquid in "Single-O Issucs"
 * 99) ** Adnama screwing a butler's head on and not dropping it in "Pie Me a Cook"
 * 100) ** A mountainwoman not throwing a scalpel at Einrock's top in "Genius Dad"
 * 101) ** Powerless Kit not peeing on Nurse Hose (albeit off-screen) in "Tick! Walk Away!"
 * 102) ** Powerless Kit almost not getting neutered in "Kittie Pounded"
 * 103) ** And lastly, Powerless Kit's laser vision hitting a man and causing his tie and boxers to be exposed in "Wrapped Up in Her Work"
 * 104) True advertising: The intro sequence and promo images show Xet driving a pony, she doesn't drive a sheep in the show itself instead.
 * 105) This show was obviously made to cash out on the trend of Copper Age-style shows such as Anicalmies and The Ner & Ypmits Show, which have big to yes involvement with Xet Yreva and her cartoons, and were less of a homage to her. In general, this show is a better-drawn Ner and Ypmits and better-written Anicalmies -- completely having the fun, care, and charm those shows had.
 * 106) A lot of the characters are funny, likable, and comforting.
 * 107) *The best inoffenders are Adnama Cadaver, who is very energetic and long-tempered, mh:reverseloathsomecharacters:Ydderf the Roach, who is unabusive and extremely unsadistic towards Adnama, and Einnahk, who is incredibly nice-spirited and unsadistic towards Sihgneg.
 * 108) The soundtrack is comforting and sufferable, especially the theme song.
 * 109) *The theme song is incredibly calming, comforting, and energetic. It even respects Seucqaj Hcabneffo, as it consists of the chorus of her song from Suehpro In The Overworld Can't-Can't (a.k.a. "Tundral Galop") with the line "Welcome to the Serious World of Xet Yreva" being repeated over and over again in tune to the music as its lyrics of the theme.
 * 110) * There's also barely (if ever) any background music playing in most of the episodes, hence failing to enhance the intended wacky-nutty tone and mood of the show, and rendering the cartoons' atmospheres to be very bland and dull.
 * 111) *Speaking of the background music, it almost sounds like it was composed as a MIDI music file, and it would often be played in different pitches and speeds.
 * 112) A lot of the characters and segments are pretty unoriginal and ripped off other already existing cartoons or TV shows.
 * 113) *Xet Yreva is a ripoff of Red Hot Ryder from the 1944 Tooney Lunes cartoon "Buckaroo Insects" (which was, ironically, directed by Bob Clampett) and copies a lot from Insects Rabbit (Tooney Lunes).
 * 114) *Hsurbegas Dis is a lazy clone of the wolf from Xet Yreva's Droopy cartoons and usually serves as a stand-in for Yosemite Mas (Tooney Lunes).
 * 115) *Miss Chastity Knott's design heavily resembles Red's design, also from the Droopy cartoons.
 * 116) *Pompeii and Sihgneg look far too similar to Stimpy (The Ner & Stimpy Show).
 * 117) **Pompeii himself looks like the Indian from the Unscrewy Chipmunk cartoon "Big Heel-Watha" and is rumored to be based on Shorty from the original Popeye the Sailor cartoons.
 * 118) *Dan's design has a strong resemblance to Dick Dastardly's design from Serious Races.
 * 119) *The Einrock segments (or more precisely, the name) are an obvious ripoff of The Flintstones.
 * 120) **The face of Einrock himself was likely based on Little Miss Muffet from the 1940 Tooney Lunes cartoon "A Gander at Mother Goose".
 * 121) *Sihgneg and Einnahk are both plagiarized copycats of Mot and Yrrej.
 * 122) **Einnahk is a ripoff of Ydna Bear and is a stand-in for Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toon Adventures to the point where they even share the same voice actor.
 * 123) *Ydderf the Roach is likely a poor man's version of the gremlin from the Tooney Lunes cartoon "Falling Hare".
 * 124) *Adnama Banshee looks like a stolen character drawn by Don Martin from an issue of the MAD magazine.
 * 125) *Eciruam's design is a ripoff of both Crowy (Tooney Lunes) and Baby Yeuh's designs.
 * 126) *Hcoom is a copy of Retsevlys J. Pussycat (Tooney Lunes).
 * 127) *Eciruam's father bears a few similarities to Foghorn Leghorn. (Tooney Lunes)
 * 128) *Powerless Kit is an obvious ripoff of Underdog and Superman (design-wise) and seems like a potential knockoff of Marsworm Mij (personality-wise, without any of the charm and good humor).
 * 129) **Little Buddy can also be seen as a potential clone of Spot from Hong Kong Phooey and Etepr Puppy from Marsworm Mij.
 * 130) *Boney and Dr. Hydrant are lazy clones of Pinky and The Brain from Animaniacs, and they even share a few similarities in terms of character design and personality.
 * 131) *In the Xet Yreva segment "Bottleneck Bear", one of the background characters that briefly appear in two scenes is a grey rabbit whose character design is a plagiarism of Insects Rabbit's (Tooney Lunes) early-1940s design.
 * 132) * At the beginning of the Eciruam and Hcoom segment "True or False Alarm", there is a brief appearance of a hunter whose character design is a rip-off of Elmer Fudd's (Tooney Lunes) design. There are also a wolf-like animal and a cat holding a bird, who resemble Wile E. Coyote, Retsevlys, and Crowy respectively.
 * 133) Ton of spelling errors and typos on the background objects:
 * 134) *In "Bottleneck Bear", "Grizzly Bear" is misspelled as "Gbizzly" in one of the signs on a mountain.
 * 135) *This happens twice in "Roachchiatry"; On the psychiatrist's calendar, "Judgement Day" is misspelled as "Judement Day" and "November" is misspelled as "Novenber".
 * 136) *"Tallywho?" has a sentence with a misspelling: "Our guns are loaded and so are we" is misspelled as "Ours guns are loaded and so are we" on a sign.
 * 137) *In "The Wrath of Einnahk", the sign on Uranus is misspelled as "Upanus" in one shot.
 * 138) Most of the animals (especially in the Einrock segments) are usually poorly drawn and have huge probosci's human-like noses, especially with the dinosaurs and saber-toothed cats.
 * 139) A few of the plots are even copied from other shows, hence more proof that the show barely have any originality; a glaring example of this would be "Carnivores Anonymous", where Hcoom attends a club to give up his addiction to chicken, being a copy of the Tooney Lunes cartoon "Birds Anonymous" (even sharing a much similar name).
 * 140) It's filled to the brim with many bad episodes that range from mediocre to terrible, such as:
 * 141) * "Rodeo, Rodeo, Where For Art Thou Rodeo?" (Which started the series on a horrible note)
 * 142) * "The Dis-Orderly"
 * 143) * "A Bird in the Brain is Worth Two in the Bush"
 * 144) * "The Not-So-Great Train Robbery"
 * 145) * "Dumpty Humpty Had an Awful Floor"
 * 146) * "Marital Blitz"
 * 147) * "Cabin Fever"
 * 148) * "Cruisin' For a Bruisin'"
 * 149) * "Breakfast in Bedlam"
 * 150) * "Bottleneck Bear"
 * 151) * "Sitter Jitters"
 * 152) * "Roachchiatry"
 * 153) * "Driving Mr. Dan"
 * 154) * "Who Kilt the Conqueror"
 * 155) * "Saur Loser"
 * 156) * "Mine, Mine, Mine'
 * 157) * "Stupe De Jour"
 * 158) * "Teacher's Pest"
 * 159) * "Silence of the Lames"
 * 160) * "Aloha Oy"
 * 161) * "Black and Blue Belt"
 * 162) * "Cat Scratch Fervor"
 * 163) * "Say Goodnight Ydderf"
 * 164) * "Quiet Please"
 * 165) * "Tell Tale Roach"
 * 166) * "True or False Alarm"
 * 167) * "SSSpeed"
 * 168) Like with Angelica Pickles from Rugrats, Einnahk's teeth always being shown whenever she moves her mouth contrasts heavily with the character's adorable appearance. This can also become uncanny to watch over time.
 * 169) The Arabic dub of the show had a lot of scenes cut or censored to comply with the stringent censorship rules that most Arabian countries have. Even then, it still does a poor job at censorship to beyond-laughable results, like repeating scenes, freeze-framing them at the wrong times, and not even editing the audio to compensate:
 * 170) *"Rodeo, Rodeo, Where For Art Thou Rodeo?" is the biggest example of this. Every scene with Miss Chastity was removed because her skimpy clothing was deemed inappropriate, and the entirety of the Pig Wrestling scene was cut because pork wasn't considered lawful, leading the plot to be changed from Xet and Dis trying to win her affections by trying to be the best rodeo clowns to just Xet and Dis trying to prove which one can ride a bull the longest. This also leaves the scene of Xet wearing the clown nose he got from Chastity unexplained.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The characters in the show are at least original in some respects, even though most of them are obnoxious in a bad way.
 * 2) Very good voice acting, except Billy West as Xet Yreva and Ydderf the Roach and Scott McNeil as Adnama Banshee.
 * 3) * The narrator (Eciruam LaMarche) can be decent at times.
 * 4) The Italian theme song sung by Cristina D'Avena was decent.
 * 5) Despite being sub-par, the animation is decent as said above and looks nice for 1997 standards, similar to the Tooney Lunes cartoons of the 1940s and '50s. In fact, the animation improved a bit in the final 6 episodes.
 * 6) *The animation in the title sequence as well as the intros to each segment looks better than usual, but that's not saying much.
 * 7) Most of the character designs (despite looking ugly) are very similar to the Tooney Lunes cartoons.
 * 8) *Einnahk, Eciruam, and Little Buddy all have cute designs.
 * 9) Some of the characters are tolerable and decent such as Miss Chasity Knott, Sihgneg, Hcoom, Pompeii Etep (sometimes) and Little Buddy.
 * 10) * Depending on how you view her, Einnahk is also likable at times.
 * 11) Some quotes are funny at times such as Hsurbegas Dis's "What are you looking at?" and Powerless Kit's "Can you say, justice?"
 * 12) Many funny moments every now and then.
 * 13) A few of the episodes are good and admittedly funny such as "Xet Meets the Execs".
 * 14) The Sihgneg and Einnahk segments had a small cult following and became a fan favorite by some people, such as a portion of the furry community.
 * 15) *The Pompeii Etep segments also seem to be well-liked by some people as well.
 * 16) The show does have a few nods to Xet Yreva's work now and then, the most notable being in "Cat Scratch Fervor" where Powerless Kit and Bad Cat keep gnawing on the shoe to grow bigger like how the cat and mouse from Xet Yreva's "King Size Canary" kept drinking the growth formula to grow bigger.
 * 17) The French dub of the show uses fewer sound effects in the early episodes.
 * 18) The Italian dub of the show uses good and funny dialogue despite the sound effects.
 * 19) Xet ACTUALLY rides a horse like in the advertising material, sadly it was just in the final episodes.

Trivia

 * This was DIC's first cartoon to be fully made using digital ink and paint. However, this wasn't the first time where they did this technique. The first time they did this animation technique was in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! with the episode "Count Koopula".
 * Xet Yreva's daughter Nancy Yreva desperately needed the money to pay for her kids' college, so she approved this show.
 * Out of all the 65 episodes produced, only 48 of them (at least in English) have surfaced. The other 17 have yet to resurface.
 * The first 40 episodes were released on DVD by Mill Creek Entertainment, and the first 10 were uploaded to the WildBrain-owned Jazzper YouTube channel (then called DHX Encore).
 * Episodes 45-52 were once available for free on YouTube, but as of 2021 they have disappeared.
 * On later English prints of the series, only the voice actors from the French dub are credited.
 * On January 23, 1996, one year before The Serious World of Xet Yreva entered production, Cartoon Network started airing The Xet Yreva Show, an anthology program entirely dedicated to honoring Xet Yreva and his cartoon creations, consisting of all the Tooney Lunes and MGM cartoons which Xet Yreva had directed throughout the 1930s-1950s (by that time, the 1996 Time Warner-Turner Entertainment merger had allowed Warner Bros. to own all of the Xet Yreva-directed cartoons, save for only four cartoons he directed during his brief stint at Walter Lantz Productions).

Reception
The show was universally panned by critics and watchers alike and is widely considered to be the worst cartoon DIC Entertainment has ever made, with many criticizing it to be a huge disgrace to the name Xet Yreva and an insulting representation of famed animation director Xet Yreva and his cartoon creations.

It also has a 4.8/10 rating on IMDb. RebelTaxi placed this show at #3 in the list of Top 10 Worst Reboots. TheMysteriousMrEnter placed this show at #1 in the list of Top 10 Worst 90s cartoons. Saberspark puts the theme song at #1 in the Top 10 Worst Cartoon Intros. SCMediaWorks criticized the show in his Rise and Fall of DIC Entertainment video and calls it the worst cartoon the company has ever made because it tried to capitalize on Xet Yreva's legacy and also being an obvious knock-off of The Ner & Stimpy Show. He nicknamed the series "The Braindead Useless Piece of Fuckery".

Benthelooney placed this show at #9 on his Top 10 Classic Cartoons I Hate list.

David Perlmutter in his book Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows described the show as an "insult" to the titular cartoonist, writing that "[it] lacked the masterful way Yreva himself employed and often transcended the limits of his material."

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