"Duck Amuck" is a classic Merrie Melodies short in that, like so many others, it’s about Daffy Duck being driven absolutely bonkers by the situations in which he finds himself. (Duck Amuck, 1953) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

The Flintstones, like most of Hanna-Barbera’s productions, made use of looping “limited animation.” The animators kept characters’ hands at their sides. They looped animation of Fred’s feet as he served as the motor of his own car. (The Flintstones, 1960) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

"Sugar Sugar" (and the originality of the catchy tune's animated music-video concept) inspired a wave of Saturday-morning cartoons to follow suit by incorporating bands and music. (The Archie Show, 1969) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

“Three Is a Magic Number” was effective at cementing multiplication tables in children’s heads, and moving in its evocation of trinities, triangles, and single-child families. The animation was just as elegant in its simplicity. (Schoolhouse Rock!, 1973) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

Part of our 100 most influential sequences in animation history list, the couch gag gives The Simpsons animators free rein to do what they wish to Springfield’s most famous family within constriction of the couch shot of its intro. (The Simpsons, 1989) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

In the case of Sailor Moon, its function was in the transformational power of dress-up, and its most iconic sequence was birthed from that very idea. (Sailor Moon - 1992 Japan, 1995 U.S.) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

The intro sequence of Batman: The Animated Series, aside from prefacing one of the greatest animated television series of all time, is itself irrefutably one of the greatest sequences in the history of animation. (1992) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

South Park's "Uncle F*cka" also made our list of the 100 most influential sequences in animation history. It is both a celebration of stupid and a meta-commentary on the impact that too much stupid can have on young minds. (1999) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

With its opening sequence, Shrek announced that the old ways were dead. The years really do start coming — and, alas, they don’t stop coming. “All Star,” Shrek (2001) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

In this scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, which showcased the abilities of motion capture to translate unique characteristics from an actor into a whole new character, Gollum interrogates Sméagol, his former Hobbit self. (2002) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

In perhaps one of the film’s most talked-about visuals — the virtual camera is framed upside down so, in director Rodney Rothman’s words (as per the script), Miles is not falling, but rising. (Spider-Man: Into The Spider Verse, 2018) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

This sequence from Steven Universe feels revolutionary in a way the rest of the show felt like it was building toward for 160 episodes. Steven's two halves embrace and dance and fuse together, complete, in one fluid cut. (2019) https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html