Best Show For Kids - 2009

The Internet isn't just for adults. It's got kid stuff, too! The web hosts everything from today's hottest educational programming to the shows that haven't aired since YOU were a kid. So whether you've got kids of your own or you just like to act like one sometimes, browse through our most kid-friendly winner and other nominees and watch the shows you think no child should leave behind.
SpongeBob SquarePants
Join Spongebob Squarepants for some undersea fun with this pet snail Gary and his neighbors Patrick, Squidward, and Sandy. This Nickelodeon cartoon stars Spongebob, an energetic sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under t...
2009 Winner
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman: The Animated Series is an acclaimed addition to the Batman cannon that ran on television from 1992 to 1995. The series is beloved amongst fans of the comic book hero because of the dark nature of the show that stay...
2009 Finalist
Iron Man: Armored Adventures
Iron Man: Armored Adventures is an animated action-superhero TV series created by Nicktoons Network, based on the Marvel Comics’s superhero Iron Man that follows sixteen-year-old genius wonder boy Tony Stark after his fath...
2009 Finalist
Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake is a popular animated children's television show on Fox, based off of the original American Greeting licensed character of the same name and image. No longer just an image on a greeting card, Strawberr...
2009 Finalist
Arthur
Arthur is an educational children's TV series developed by PBS that revolves around Arthur Reed, a young aardvark living with his family in Elwood City. His father David is a chef and his mother Jane is an accountant, thou...
2009 Finalist
WordGirl
WordGirl is a PBS Kids animated television program aimed at expanding the vocabulary of elementary-aged children. The show follows 10-year old 5th grader, Becky Botsford, whose secret identity is the crime-fighting superhe...
Inspector Gadget: Original Series
Inspector Gadget: Original Series is a cartoon show about a Clouseau-esque detective with an almost infinite amount of bionic gadgets at his disposal. "Gadget" travels around the world, attempting to defeat the agents of ...
CatDog
CatDog is the Nickelodeon cartoon about conjoined brothers, one cat, one dog, and their comedic struggle with being outcasts in their city of Nearberg. The brothers have very different personalities, and have to reconcile...
Design Squad
Design Squad is a reality television show on PBS, in which kids between the ages of 15 and 19 years old design fantastical machines, all in the hopes of winning a $10,000 Intel college scholarship. Inventing is hard, even ...
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes is an action science fiction animated TV series based on Marvel Comics's Fantastic Four comic book series that follows the lives of Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Human Torch...
Animalia
Animalia is an animated children TV series based on a book of the same name by Graeme Base, which follows the adventures and tales of two eleven-year-olds, Alex and Zoe, as they fall into the world of Animalia, a world the...
The Electric Company
The Electric Company is an educational show for kids. It airs on PBS, and is an updated version of the series that ran in the early seventies. Episodes feature story lines built around four or five vocabulary words. The El...
Pokemon
Pokemon is the animated series about Ash Ketchum, a Pokemon trainer on a quest to "catch 'em all" and win badges from every gym in the Kanto region. Pokemon trainers are on a quest to catch all of the Pokemon, bug-like cr...
English on Brain Pop
English on Brain Pop is a web series of animated videos created to support educators and engage students in learning about the English language. The show consists of two main characters named Tim and Moby who act as teache...
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