Actual deepcut: cybersix.
Edit: although edited from the comics to be much more child friendly. Forgot the original prompt.
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Not really animated but not really not-animated.
The Fuccons. they're Fuccon fantastic!
edit: I did some more digging on The Fuccons and they were a short episodic skit on a longer running Japanese show called "Vermilion Pleasure Night". it's a really good representation of early 2000s adult entertainment humor highly niche but entertaining enough with dark humor.
Oh my god I thought this was Angela Anaconda. I fucking hate this animation style.
My journey into queer media started with Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World. If you've never seen it, I'm not sure what to tell you but you should.
Also just looked it up and Alan Cumming and Margaret Cho did voices in it? I gotta rewatch that shit.
Also shout out to Yvon of the Yukon cause ytv was just why (the fuck) tv actually.
I wasn't into Megas XLR but it was part of cartoon Fridays when I was in school and probably belongs in this list.
You can't list Oblongs, Undergrads, and Clone High without mentioning Mission Hill.
Chilly Beach is probably a deep cut for non-Canadians. I most often saw it described as Canadian South Park.
I'm not sure if it counts as obscure but Invader Zim also aired around this time.
Going back a bit further, there was Duckula, where the latest in a line of vampiric ducks was resurrected using ketchup instead of blood and became a vegetable vampire.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was made into a cartoon of questionable suitability for children.
+1 for Mission Hill. Bling Blong.
Adding a few more of questionable obscurity, idk if these are well known or not, since many of the ones OP posted I thought were well known. So that'll have to be judged independently but at least these all are good and sorta fit.
Assy McGee
Celebrity Deathmatch (claymation, I count it.)
Harvey Birdman
Home Movies
Sealab 2021
Stripperella
Xavier Renegade Angel
Also if it doesn't have to be "adult" (Billy and Mandy on OG list) then add:
KaBlam!
Freakazoid!
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Megas XLR was great. I very much dig giant robots.
Invader Zim, Clone High, Duckula (and Dangermouse (original) are all very good - but of them only Clone High is aimed at people older than 14 (not that older people don't or didn't appreciate them) none of them feel obscure to me, although neither Clone High nor Invader Zim were well known in the UK when released in North America, but Internet word of mouth got them known in time.
Chilly Beach, Oblongs, Undergrads, and Mission Hill I have never heard of. So deep enough, at least to a Brit of my age.
Will def look into Chilly Beach
Adding a few.
The Head, Liquid Television, The Maxx, Tom goes to the Mayor, Tripping the Rift, Primer, Tom and the Devil, The Critic, Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo, Primal, Mission Hill , Friday: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Aeon Flux, Assy McGee , Aqua Teen (not sure if this counts, honestly), Perfect Hair Forever, Superjail, Happy Tree Friends, Venture Bros - God tier I'm sure I'll think of others
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Okay I haven't heard of a lot here.
I don't know if it's the most obscure or deep cut but my favorite vote goes to Moral Orel. It gets dark in a way that doesn't look like it.
Billy and Mandy and Duck Dodgers imo don't belong to this list
Surprised you didn't add the MTV one such as AEon Flux, The Head, The Maxx. Aeon in particular is a favorite of mine, watching it is very wtf. I think it should belong to this list.
Drawn Together was hilarious. It ended because sponsors were too uncomfortable advertising alongside it. It could never get made today.
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Yvon of the yukon
Primal.
The Boondocks.
Mike Tyson Mysteries.
Fired on Mars.
China, IL.
Xavier: Renegade Angel, dunno if it counts because it's computer animation but some good TV-MA psychedelic social satire
Vernon Chatman before South Park was great! Not that he wasn't great for SP.
Another that doesn't meet the qualification is Wonder Showzen. So great!
The Heart She Holler was pretty good too
Duckman
Lil' Bush