This show basically feels like every idea the writers had for the world of MIB that were too short or too simple to be the plot of a full movie. Honestly, I'm glad this show exists as sort of an extension of the lore

Why they don't make kids cartoons based on movies not made for kids anymore? Where's my John Wick cartoon?

I remember when the second movie came out being disappointed that they didn't have any characters from the cartoon in it.

The weirdest part was the final episode, when J's mom tracked him down and forced him to move with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.

It's such a shame you can't watch this series in its entirety legally anymore, because the 3rd and 4th seasons (as well as the first 2), which never got a physical release, were taken off Crackle. How dumb. And then companies want to punish us for pirating or streaming.

This was the better timeline, so much better extension of the franchise than the movie sequels.

The Men in Black movies are a great example of an adaptation that ignored almost all of the source material and just did its own thing.
The comics were all supernatural and conspiracy theories like a hollow earth, ghosts, shapeshifters,  etc.
While the movies just stuck to aliens because it was more believable for the secret government body angle.

LMAO
The flipped image after "You're marrying the one on the right?"

I forgot how much body horror was in this show. It gets a pass because "aliens" and a lack of blood, but it's wild a non-cable kid's show featured weekly episodes where things are constantly mutating, growing and/or exploding out of each other 😭😭

And it's so sad, because a lot of the episodes have so much potential to become standalone movies and made you go and wonder what was going to be MIB 2 or MIB 3 to only be Disappointed when these movies came out and just outright completely ignore the lore that the cartoon had. Hell, the whole Alpha being a running villain and having so much back story withe K, that was so good.

This show was unironically the best piece of Men in Black media IMO. I recently rewatched the first film and honestly it's nowhere near as good as I remember, the plot is still decent for the most part but so many of the dialogues and jokes are juvenile and cheesy. The tone is all over the place, for the most part it comes off as childish but at times it gets super dark, like whenever the bug kills somebody, especially Edgar and the pest exterminator. Not even the original comic had any deaths that looked quite as brutal despite having very reserved tone with sarcastic and dry humour. For this reason I find that the animated series finds the perfect balance between the movie and the comic in every aspect, it's never too dark or too kiddy, the humour is surprisingly clever despite the show targeting a younger demographic than the film and the dialogues are never cringey. The episodic nature of the stories feels like the comic but the writing is actually good and inventive.  MiB TAS seriously takes the best of both worlds and elevates everything about this franchise, sad how underrated it is.

19:22 J says "remember those Twin Towers" because earlier in the episode he showed the towers to K as evidence that he wasn't in the 50s anymore (J asked "what's the biggest building in New York" and K replied "the Empire State Building" and J was like "not anymore, look")

Men in black is a franchise that work better as a tv show.
If ever they decide to do a reboot,they should do a live action tv show

Yeah...MIB, Extreme Ghostbusters, Godzilla, Jackie Chan Adventures was one of my favorite cartoon stuff...The creators of this shows are so underrated.

The MIB animated series intro goes hard almost 30 years later

everytime a MIB movie is announced, inside me always wish its plot be something from the cartoon series but always end up a huge disappointment. multi million dollar movie just can't live up to the style of the cartoon show.

Fun fact about the MIB Movie , the final villain Edgar  design have multiple beta designs  , one of them was by the late Yasushi Nirasawa 韮沢 靖  , a famous Tokusatsu and video game artist  , who work are Kamen Rider Blade , Kabuto , Den-O monsters  . Garo  Monsters , Gokaiger Monsters ( AKA Power Rangers Super Megaforce ) Shin Megami Tensei  , and some redesign of Devilman   , and Monster figures , his work is very detail , with a asymmetrical  design philosophy  , his design of the MIB Edgar  is on the MIB Wiki  , its very Kamen Rider Kabuto kaijin  like  , the final design for Edgar is  just a  bug

I feel like the writing for Men In Black was way better than a kids show deserved.  Some episodes felt a bit like a rehash of others but others were wildly original.

Think they should do a live action series

I haven’t watched the vid yet but just wanted to let everyone know that the intro song to this show SLAPS.