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Other culture's animation > American cartoons.
Why? Other cultures respect their audience enough to have seasonal plots remain the common thing.
With some exceptions, most American cartoons look to do the "everything is resolved in one episode" Simpsons format. The most long-term payoff you can hope for is side stories, because if an American cartoon doesn't have immediate mass market appeal and immediate inclusion to late-comers, it gets canceled. (Gravity Falls.)
Meanwhile the French put out stuff like wakfu, and Japan can run stuff like digimon. Of course, I will knock the Japanese on one thing. Stretching their budget with minute long stock footage (digivolving, sailor moon transformations, dragonball screaming) or other bullshit like 5 minute intros, 5 minute outro, and 10 minutes of commercial breaks, that's just abusing the audience and shitting up the pacing.
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