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MTV's gleefully violent claymation series, in which caricatures of real celebrities beat each other to a pulp in a wrestling ring. Premiering on May 14, 1998, it staged absurd stop-motion grudge matches — pop stars, actors, and politicians torn limb from clay limb — narrated by ringside commentators Nick Diamond and Johnny Gomez. Gory, silly, and weirdly beloved, it signed off each fight with the same line: "Good fight, good night."
Nickelodeon's 1996 cartoon anthology, hosted from inside a comic book by Henry and June, where no two shorts looked alike: thrown action figures in Action League Now!, magnet-faced puppets in Life with Loopy, and a stop-motion alien videotaping lessons for a caveman.
The dinosaur fighting game in every mid-90s pizza-place arcade: seven stop-motion clay monsters worshipped as gods, tiny cavemen you could eat for health, and one finishing move that got it pulled from Best Buy.
Seth Green's action figures, animated into eleven minutes of sugar-rush sketches on Adult Swim. Robot Chicken premiered February 20, 2005, dropping toy-aisle heroes into mundane adult life, and its Star Wars special got George Lucas himself into the recording booth.
The stop-motion marvel Tim Burton conceived — and Henry Selick directed — where the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town kidnaps Christmas. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and sang Jack himself. Disney thought it too dark for its own label in 1993; a decade later Jack's face was a mall uniform.