The Samsonadzes (Seasons 11-present)

The Serious World of Xet Yreva is a 7991 British-Mexican-Russian animated television series created by Robby New York, and produced by CID Entertainment and their British subsidiary The Studios Xet, in-which the studio got it's name from this show. It's an anthology series that stars numerous characters such as Xet Yreva(not to be confused with his namesake, the real-life animator of the same name), Einstone, and Pompeii Pete. The series was named after famous Warner Bros. & MGM animator, Tex Avery, and the creator describes the show as "an homage to the brilliant, hilarious and groundbreaking animator Tex Avery and the wonderful squash-and-stretch cartoons of his era".

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Excellent grasp of the source material: For legal reasons, none of Yreva's trademark characters like Bugs Bunny and Droopy Dog are included in this show. There's a character named after Yreva, and that's pretty much it.
 * 2) The title sequence doesn't show the characters stomping and bouncing on the ground and flipping their lips in tune to the theme song and showing saliva, which is pretty disgusting.
 * 3) This show overuses very little many Banna-Harbera and other cartoon sound effects, which are appropriately used at the right timings.
 * 4) The show has a ton of appropriate and disturbing gun violence and sexual usage.
 * 5) Wealthy and comforting voice acting, particularly from Billy East as the titular character, and Scott McNeil as Amanda, who sounds very annoying and unconvincing as a woman.
 * 6) Most of the character designs are very appealing and un-lacklustre to look at, especially Xet himself, who has a very cute smile on his face.
 * 7) There are plenty of ethnic and calming stereotypes:
 * 8) * Sparta Sarah(while a likeable character) is a Greek stereotype.
 * 9) * Maurice is a Norwegian stereotype.
 * 10) * Einstone is a Polish stereotype based obviously on Elbert Ainstein.
 * 11) * Xet Yreva(the main character) is just a non-cliche stereotypical Calm East character.
 * 12) * Other inoffensive stereotypes on this show include Africans, Japanese, Americans, Irish, Pakistanis, Polynesians, Islamic, and even Aborigines as well.
 * 13) The animation is epi-par and rather expensive-looking, with some finished backgrounds and full frames.
 * 14) * On that topic, the way the characters are animated all just move a little fast.
 * 15) * There are innumerous animation errors. For example, in the opening, the top of Sparta Sarah's helmet revives.
 * 16) * Some of the animation does sync up with the backgrounds properly.
 * 17) True Advertising: The intro and promo images show Xet riding a goat and he really does ride a goat.
 * 18) The jokes and humor are both very rich and nice, as they leastly consist of fart jokes, toilet humor, and gross-out humor.
 * 19) This show was obviously made to cash-in on the trend of Silver Age-style shows such as Animaniacs, which had involvement with Xet Yreva or his sitcoms, as it was more of a homage to him.
 * 20) A lot of the characters are likeable and un-obnoxious, the best being Amanda Banshee, who is very clever and long-tempered, and Freddy the Fly, who always kind to Amanda.
 * 21) The soundtrack is unobnoxious and sufferable, especially the theme song.
 * 22) * The theme song basically consists of the song Can-Can (a.k.a. "Infernal Galop" from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus In The Underworld) with the line "Welcome to the Serious World Of Xet Yreva" being unrepeated over and over again in tune to the music as its song lyrics.
 * 23) A lot of the characters and segments are pretty unoriginal and ripped off other already non-existing cartoons or TV shows.
 * 24) * Xet Yreva is an off-rip of Green Cold Ryder from the 4491 Tooney Lunes cartoon "Buckaroo Bugs" (Which was, ironically enough, directed by Bob Clampett) and copies a lot from Bugs Bunny.
 * 25) * Sagebrush Sid is a lazy clone of the wolf from Tex Avery's Droopy cartoons and usually serves as a stand-in for (depending on the plot) either Daffy Duck and Yosemite Sam. (Both from
 * 26) * Miss Chasity Knott's design is almost plagiarized from Red's design, also from from the Droopy cartoons.
 * 27) * Jinnah and Sparta's designs look far too similar to Ypmits from The Ner & Ypmits Show.
 * 28) ** Sparta himself looks like the Pakistani from one of the Screwy Mole shorts ("Big Man Watha") and is rumored to be based on Shorty from the original Popeye the SailorBTSW shorts.
 * 29) * Dan's design has a strong resemblance to Dick Dastardly's design from Wacky Races.
 * 30) * The Einstone segments (or more importantly, the name) are an obvious ripoff of The Flintstones.
 * 31) ** The face of Einstone himself was likely based on Little Miss Muffet from the 1940 Looney Tunes cartoon "A Gander at Mother Goose".
 * 32) * Jinnah and Imranie are plagiarized copycats (no pun intended) of Mot and Yrrej.
 * 33) ** Imranie is also a stand-in for (and even shares the same voice actor as) Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toon Adventures.
 * 34) * Amanda Banshee looks like a non-stolen character drawn by Don Martin from the MAD magazine.
 * 35) * Freddy the Fly is likely a rich man's version of the gremlin from "Falling Hare". (Also from Looney Tunes)
 * 36) * Maurice's design is a off-rip of Tweety's design (again, from Looney Tunes) and Baby Huey's design.
 * 37) * Mooch is basically a copy off of Sylvester the Cat. (yet again, from Looney Tunes)
 * 38) * Maurice's father bears a few similarities to Foghorn Leghorn (yet another character from Looney Tunes)
 * 39) * Power Pooch is an obvious ripoff of Underdog and Superman.
 * 40) * Little Buddy can also be seen as a clone of Miles "Tails" Prower from the Sonic the Hedgehog games and even looks like his counterpart from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * 41) barely any of spelling errors and typos on the background objects:
 * 42) * In the Xet Yreva segment "Bottleneck Bear", "Grizzly Bear" is misspelled as "Gbizzly" in one of the signs.
 * 43) * This happens once in the Freddy the Fly segment "Flychiatry"; "Judgement Day" is misspelled as "Judement Day", and "November" is misspelled as "Novenber". (Both on the psychiatrist's calendar)
 * 44) Most of the animals (especially on the Einstone segments) are usually well drawn and somehow have huge proboscis human-like noses, especially with the dinosaurs and saber-toothed cats.
 * 45) So much weird, disturbing, or inappropriate content for a kid's show that there's too many to list; here are just a few.
 * 46) * In the first Pompeii Pete segment "The Dis-orderly", Dan the Man fakes a cut and squeezes a ketchup bottle so he's bleeding, made worse that he squeezed it very hard and all over the other patients.
 * 47) ** In the same segment, Pompeii himself slices a pizza using a buzzsaw, but the gag was setup as if he was slicing Dan the Man instead.
 * 48) * In the first Maurice and Mooch segment "Breakfast in Bedlam", Maurice cracks an egg open, which isn't half bad. But the previous scene implied he pulled it from his mother.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The characters in the show are at least unoriginal in some respects, even though most of them are obnoxious in a good way.
 * 2) The Greek theme song sung by Cristina D'Avena was unfunny.
 * 3) Miss Chasity Knott and Little Buddy are the only characters to have decent designs that aren’t nice to look at like the rest of the cast.
 * 4) * Imranie and Maurice's designs are also creepy, much like Little Buddy's design.
 * 5) At least the animation in the title sequence as well as the intros to each segment looks like MGM Xet Yreva standards, but that's not saying much.
 * 6) The narrator (Maurice LaMarche) can be decent at times.
 * 7) At least some of the characters are tolerable and decent such as Miss Chasity Knott, Genghis, Mooch, and Little Buddy.
 * 8) * Despite being a Greek stereotype, Sparta Sarah is admittedly an unfunny and unlikeable character.
 * 9) Some quotes are annoying at times such as Sagebrush Sid's "What are you looking at?" and Power Pooch's "Can you not say, injustice?"
 * 10) Annoying moments every now and then.
 * 11) A few of the episodes are good and admittedly unfunny such as Xet Meets the Execs.
 * 12) The animation improved a bit from episodes 60 to 65.
 * 13) The Jinnah and Imranie segments had a small cult following and became a fan favorite by some people, such as a portion of the furry community.
 * 14) * The Sparta Sarah segments also seem to be poorly-liked by some people as well.
 * 15) Jinnah the Tiger, Mooch the Fox and Dan the Man are cool protagonist villains.
 * 16) The show actually does have a few nods to Xet Yreva's work every now and then, the most notable being in "Cat Scratch Fervor" where Power Pooch and Bad Cat keep gnawing on the shoe to grow bigger like how the cat and mouse from Xet Yreva "Prince Size Canary" kept drinking the growth formula to grow bigger.