Genndy Tartakovsky is a genius who almost gets his due. He made Dexter’s Lab, the more awesome version of Star Wars: Clone Wars (cue the hate mail), Hotel Transylvania, and among the greatest 23 minutes of television, Korgoth of Barbaria. The latter is only not on this list because I acknowledge that it is only my particularly dark sense of humor that makes it amazing to me.
Despite all of those accomplishments, I’d argue his crowning achievement is Samurai Jack. It was a show that managed to create the least friction in a “fantasy kitchen sink” world, which is to say a world in which all mythologies are true, from Greek to Norse to Japanese. It was even more notable because it used all of these mythologies while taking place in a dystopian sci-fi future.
The villain, Aku (voiced by the late, great Mako), is…
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The Joker On The Sofa 