Sealab 2021 (2000)

A crew of undersea researchers who are mostly too petty, lazy or deranged to do any research, built partly from footage of Hanna-Barbera's earnest environmental cartoon Sealab 2020. The gap between the wholesome old animation and the new dialogue does a lot of the work. It ran from December 2000 to 2005 across 52 episodes of 12 minutes. Fans tend to rate the first seasons highest; Captain Murphy was written out after the death of his voice actor, Harry Goz. Baffling level: medium.