Cubo (TV Series)

Cubo is an American Animated Television Series created by Bob Plauzer for FOX. Produced by Glims Productions and 20th Century Studios. The Show follows an blue cube named Cubo, The main protagonist who goes on wacky adventures and his variety of friends, Sally, an beautiful and bossy one, Michael, a clam and gentle one. The all lived together in the fictional world of Cubic Town, a small town next to the metropolitan city, Cubic City. Unlike The Simpsons, Kim Possible, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama and American Dragon: Jake Long (Which contains of adult content) Cubo is mostly appealed to young viewers and featured cartoon violence, humor, running gags and pop culture references.

The Series was originally a comic strip called Cubo the Cube by Plauzer in 1978, As a pilot an series, The pilots shorts were aired during The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987 along with The Simpsons appeared as shorts as well, and FOX originally aired them on Evenings, Glims Productions gave the network a change to air as a full series, Pitching the series into it. The Series is seen as a preview episode on August 19, 1988 on FOX and officially premiered on September 25th that year. The series became one of FOX's Popular animated show behind The Simpsons and the second longest running Animated series and would spawn several media, Cubo: The Movie released on theaters on April 23, 2007 and grossed over $700 million on the box office. It spawn spin offs media including comics, DVD releases, video games, music albums and collectable toys. A Spin-off series called Fairytale Village aired on FOX from 1997 to 2002.

Despite the widespread acclaim, the series had been involved in several public controversies including on Bobby's indeed sexual orientation, Currently, Cubo finished it's thirtieth season which begin on Setember 23, 2018. The series is renewed for a thirty first, thirty second, thirty third, thirty fourth season on February 6, 2019. In which one if the seasons will contain a 700th episode, Patrons of the show have become a remix culture, has formed a basis variety of internet memes.

On July 31st 2019, it announced that 20th Century FOX Television considered and announced that the entire Cubo series will be featured on the new streaming series, Sublet.

Synopsis
Set in a world populated by ampromopic cubes and set in the town of Cubic Town. There lives the lives and antics of a blue cube named Cubo, a mischievous yet kind and energetic and loves to play and in a joyful way, his friends are medically are ashamed for his pranky calls includes his blanful of fallacy that come up in a deep sound, each story contains the character's daily life, each day Cubo and his friends can learn that friendship and hardship exist in a very amount of time, including eating and making fun facts about life.

Characters
Main article: List of Cubo characters

Main

 * Cubo (Voiced by Candi Milo) A blue cube who is the main protagonist and the leader of the gang in the series. He's mischievous yet kind, lovable, outgoing and creative. He loves playing pranks on his fellow cubemates, especially annoys his neighbor, Gruncy who hates him all the time. He adores playing various of type of games such as football, playing chess, playing video games and do spinups, he can get much attention through he entertains everyone with his funny humor.
 * Sally (Voiced by Nancy Cartwright) a over-brighted, beautiful, smart, clever pink cube girl who loves beautiful things and Cubo's love interest and best friends, She gets very angrier when her friends mostly fools and their annoyance to her, in fact she gives out more memories that good Grace's her own business she.
 * Michael (Voiced by Charlie Alder) A Strong, Bond, Cowardly and Magnanimous green cube who is Cubo's other best friend, he do exercise and strong pull ups, Although he's can do an strong that lengths everyone up he picks up, He's also get coward when a big claws mostly make him freak out when a time something makes him scared comes.
 * Bobby (Voiced by Hank Azaria) A cool, slicked yet selfish orange cube who has a obsession with being cool at the girls. He likes the style of life and old rock n roll, he mostly behaved super critfully when he sees Cubo, he has attracted feelings that come off well.
 * Knowy (Voiced by Frank Welker) An intelligent, brainy and goodhearted orange cube who is one of Cubo's best friends. He wears glasses to learn the insanity of good, he gets totally upset about his machines are broken causes a running gag can be seen cubo went to the lab a lot of havoc things go messing with him.
 * Gruncy (Voiced by Jim Cummings) A grouchy, short-tempered, talented and music-loving brown cube who hates annoyance, mostly due to Cubo's hijinks and antics, he hates him very much but has a bright side of himself of being a good person to, reminds him living hell that he advance the talents of playing jazz.
 * Neo (Voiced by Greg Berger) A black cube who is very evil and spurious, he mostly likes to cause trouble of his own deeds and minds, although he a total mind-infolder, he can lasses into trouble journeys.

Recurring

 * Mayor Brickle (Voiced by Brian Cummings) a green cube who the mayor of Cubic Town, he's the controller of help safety and government that provides much more craftions on the ciztens.
 * Peaceful Sid (Voiced by Rob Paulsen) a savage, peaceful ghost who likes to be peaceful and quiet even through the streets are mostly crowded among his way he callops various of types that can turn things in peace.
 * Miss Cubic (Voiced by Tress Macnellie) is a teacher from Cubic Town Elementary, She teaches her students in very great things all the working also makes her tired.
 * Callers Mind (Voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is a red cube who pilots a airplane, he complex of saying his carherphase " The Hurry off Ground" especially on fall.
 * Giggles (Voiced by Pelma Haymen) a girl cube who likes to giggles, Hyperactivity, she likes the very own by caplets of being soon on process.
 * Slurps Clown (Voiced by Charlie Alder) is a crazy and fun-loving clown who the mascot of the main characters hang out place, Slick n Ups.

Minor and others

 * Spacemen Jones (Voiced by Tom Kenny) an light-blue cube who has a astronaut ammpace.
 * Lisle (Voiced by Julie Kavner) is an cute-loving, exploring and pretty purple cube who introduced in Sesaon 2 episode, Epic Rodes Lad, likes the sound of nature, mostly her friends pefers more commonly on loud humor, she mostly likes peaceful soul rather than slapstick humor.
 * Lecar (Voiced by Frank Welker) a bossy and arrogant cube who works at his bow shop, he is wise for his age, he mentions that things don't go his way leading confusing jobs.
 * Cuba (Voiced by B.J Ward) a caring pink cube who is Cubo's mother who works at a salon.
 * Cubi (Voiced by Kelsey Gammer) a caring dark red cube who is Cubo's father who works in a factory.

Setting
The Primary setting of Cubo is Cubo Town and Cubic City.

Early inspirations
The Series creator, Bob Plauzer first came in an idea of the character Cubo, he spotted a cube at the tree as a child. In the park realizing someone draws a simpled cube on the middle of the tree behind his toy car, he spotted in and found out that fictional cubes could done in 3D as well he noticed, afterwards, he draws characters of his own, being marched into various of halves artists, when he gotten older, Plauzer graduated and joined the New York University of United College of Arts and Science in 1977 after respendings times of working on his slots, in 1978, he made unpublished comic strip series created by himself called "Cubo the Cube" and follows an different design of a three-dimensional cube in a 2D world.

While Plauzer was up there, he loves how art of 3D and science of obvious characters were officially made but still weren't any details about the complexity begin riggs and stretches, The Comic Strip later became simply Cubo, which a more similar and cartooner design of the main character and a few more other changes were broughted to being the character's life, through Plauzer partnered up with Scientist, Joseph Keller that making great deals of motioning of the mathematical elements that used for the strip.

Conception
While working as a staff in the United Arts and Science, Plauzer has entertain plans to return collage for a master's degree in art and science, Before this could materialize, he attended to his move to California for the California Institute of the Arts, he attended an animation festival, which inspired him to make slight change in course, Instead of doing sciencestic and mathematics on the strip, his thesis film, Spheres and Cubes (1984) is about the theory of relativity. He wanted his series to stand out the most popular cartoons of time, which he felt exemplified by cartoons like Muppet Babies and Heathcliff. As a result Plauzer decided to focus on the single main character: the "Mischievous" and "Weirdest" creature he could think of. This led him to the Cube, Cubo the Cube's Cubo resembles an actual Sqaure, at first, Plauzer continued to used this design. He then considered modeling the character after a 2D Sqaure and realized this idea would match the character's personality fits perfectly. Sally, Michael, Bobby, Knowy, Gruncy and Neo were the next characters Plauzer created for the show.

Pitching
In 1987, while pitching a cartoon for the FOX Broadcasting Company executives. Plauzer drews an animation of a cube going to the FOX logo besides it, and played montage and goofy setup music it it, executive, The setup was described Garth Ancier as "amazing and good animation skills". They were given enough money an orginally bring the pitch of the series as a pilot of shorts from the Sketch Comedy variety show called The Tracey Ullman Show, host by comedian, Tracey Ullman, and Plauzer and film maker, Jymn Magon and animator, Mike Milo returned with what was described by FOX official Barry Diller as "a performance [he] wished [he] had on tape.

In a interview, Garth Ancier, then president of FOX said " Thier [FOX Executive] immediate reaction was to see it again, both because they liked it and it was unlike they'd never seen before." Ancier was one of the four executive in the room when Cubo was first screened for the first time.

Cubo first premiered and appeared with the government slate by FOX in late 1987, under no official name for the pilot, after a report that FOX had purchased the series from creators, On September 5, 1987, Plauzer and 20th Century Pictures linked a deal, The Shorts were simply called Cubo in November 1987. When it appeared on the primetime stale for the 1988-89 Television Sesaon, although it aired on the network's schedule as a preview episode, In August 1, 1988, It was announced that the show would aired as a sneak peek on August 19th 1988 then on September 25th 1988, it would officially premiered on that day.

Plauzer pitched a 24-minute and 88-second pilot to FOX which aired as a sneak peek on August 19th, 1988 right after a episode of Second Chance. On March 23, 1989, it was announced that the show was renewed for a 26-episode second season after the first season of the show aired, It was given the green-light production. On May 21, 1989, less than six days after the first season's closure it was announced that FOX was ordering a third season. A fourth season was announced in July 23, 1990 just a few months after the second season was concluded.

Executive Producers and showrunners
Plauzer had been served as the executive producer over the course of the series entire history and functioned as the showrunner from it's debut in 1988 until 2004. Plauzer and Magon served as executive producers (Along with Jack Himsey until Sesaon 15 in early 2005 as a result of working on Firehouse Mighty Tales and The Grim Adventures of Bill and Mandy) and showrunners during the series entire run and also functioned as creative consultants, Give Shawn Levy and Al Jean become an executive producer for the Sesaon 16 and subsequent seasons.

Writing
Planning for each episode begins with a table meeting of writers, discuss the plot ideas as a group. The Writets are given index cards with plots points that they required to uses the center of the activity in each episode. A single staff writer writes an outline and then produces a script and then produces a script. Once the draft is finished, the writers and executive producers call in the actors for the table read, afterwards, the writers collaborate to rewrite the script as a group before sending them to the animation team.

Voice actors
Main article: List of Cubo cast members and guest stars

Cubo has 7 main cast members, Candi Milo voices the titular character, the character of Neo was originally created and intended to be voiced by Frank Welker but turn down the role cause which the regretted, and Greg Berger was given as the role.

Nancy Cartwright voices Sally, Charlie Alder voices Michael in a deep tone, Hank Azaria voices Bobby Frank Welker voices Knowy, Jim Cummings voices Gruncy. In addition to the main cast, Neil Ross voiced several supporting minor characters, Like Kim Possible, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and Futurama. Episodes feature guest voices from many professions, including actors, athletes, musicians and artists. Recurring guest stars includes Maurcie LaMarche, Carlos Alazraqui, Billy West, Jodi Benson, Mark Hamill, Sarah Sliversman, Chris Parnell, Patton Owsald, Wayne Knight, John Goodman, Cam Clarke, Debra Messing, Phil Procter, Elijah Wood, Amy Schumer, James Arnold Taylor, B.J Ward, Tara Strong, George Taxiel, Phil LaMarr, Harland Williams, Ryan Reynolds, Patrick Stewart, Pharrell Williams, Snoop Dogg and Dan Floger. Posthumously, Chris Farley originally voiced Gramp Gizmo in the first nine seasons but since he was replaced by John DiMaggio since the Tenth season after Farley's death in 1997. Jess Harnell and Fred Tatasciore have also appeared in minor roles but do not voice any of the recurring characters. Harnell left the show in 2006 and since then Brain T. Delaney has appeared regularly to voiced minor characters. John Cygan voiced majority of the other characters until his death on May 13, 2017. Other current additional voices also include Kari Wahlberg, Roger Craig Smith, Lex Lang, Bryce Papenbrook, Yuri Lowenthal, Jamie Marchi, Kevin Michael Richardson and Joe Bryte.

Animation
Plauzer's Studio, Glims Productions provided Production services "In case animation proved to be difficult". Several different U.S. and international Studios animate Cubo.

For the first three sesaons, Sunbow Productions animated Cubo in the United States. In 1992, the series production company, Glims Productions, switched domestic production to Film Roman, who continued to animated the show until 2016. In Sesaon 28, it was switched to 20th Century FOX Animation, By Sesaon 30, the animation switched to 9 Story Media Group. In Sesaon 10, production switched from Traditional Cel to Digital ink and paint, In Sesaon 22, Production switched from Digital ink and paint to Adobe Flash following of the release of Crash Crayon, succeeding the rise of rigged animation.

The production staff at the U.S. animation Studio, 20th Century FOX animation, draws storyboards, designs new characters, background, props and drew character and background layouts. Which turn in become animatics to be screened for the writters at Glims Productions for any chances to be made before the work is quickly shipped overseas, The Overseas Studios then draws the inbeetwens, ink and paint, and rendered the animation to tape before it is shipped back to the United States to be delivered to FOX three or four months later.

The Series began high-definition production in Sesaon 20: The first episode "Best Viking on Ace Street" aired in September 20, 2009, the move to HDTV included a new opening sequence, Bob Plauzer called it a complicated change because it affected the timing and composition of animation.

Music
The show's soundtrack was composed by Shawn Pattinson, while it's theme song composed by multi-instrumentalist, Milan Kymlicka, produced by Devo's singer Mark Mothersbaugh and was recorded at Mautato Muzika Studios.

Styles and Themes
According to TV Guide, "The Show is fairly action oriented, but had a strong, lighthearted and comedic atmosphere." In addition to action, comedy and science fiction. Cubo's storylines also explore romance and drama, according to the Artfice, the show's unique brand of humor distinguishes itself from slapstick style associated with most FOX's sitcoms named Married... with Children and Duet, With a tendency to not take itself seriously, Cubo both parodies and pays homage to the spy, action and science fiction genres, it's comedy benefitting from the show's emphasis on "over the top plots" and circumstance, self-referential in its humor that avoid taking down the viewers, the series parodied the sitcom genre, while adopting common cartoon and sitcom tropes, Other inspirations  included old MGM and Waner Bros Cartoons including as well as Hanna Barbera cartoons, UPA shorts and the works of Jay Ward.

Episodes
Main Article: List of Cubo episodes

Clucks in the Diner Special
Main Article: Clucks in the Diner Special

A Crossover episode of Cubo and Clucks in the Diner aired on November 20, 2004 entitled "The Turkey who screened for Duty"

Twentieth Anniversary
FOX began celebrating the 20th anniversary of Cubo on October 19, 2008. The reading- a first for the series- was held at the year's Sundance film festival. Other celebratory actions taken by the network included the launching of a new website for the series (Cubo.com) and the introduction of the new merchandising, A "Cubo and the water conversation themed element" was added to FOX's pro social campaign The Big Cube of Help, in a interview, Chris Runed said, "What I'm proud of the kids still really like Cubo and cared about it... They eagerly await new episodes, people who were young children when it started 20 years ago are still watching it and digging it and think it's funny, That the loving cup for me.

On the official anniversary date, an hour long documentary on the series, The Story of Cubo, premiered on FOX on Friday, July 16, FOX aired a 50 hour long television marathon titled "The Biggest Cubo Episode Marathon Weekend". Saturday saw a countdown of the top 10 episodes as picked by fans.

FOX continued celebrating the anniversary through the rest of the year, On October 8, an hour long film titled The Dare of Cubo debuted on FOX. The Film is narrated by Ricky Gervais and features live action cameo appearances by: Rosario Dawson, Craig Ferguson, Will Ferrell, Trey Frey and Robin Williams.

Thirtieth anniversary
An thirtieth anniversary of Cubo aired on September 20, 2019 on FOX with the episode, Slides green's airs, The "Best Year Ever" continued in July at San Diego Con, with two panels, a booth and various activities devoted to the series. A DVD titled 30 years and Counting is released on October 1, 2019 by 20th Century FOX Home Video, The two-disc DVD will contain various of episodes and plots from the show's history, with one disc containing just 30 Best episodes and the other containing just plots, Finally in November 2019, a primetime special, Cubo's 30th Anniversary Celebration! aired on FOX. The Special is set to release on DVD in 2020.

United States

 * FOX (1988-Present)
 * Syndication (1994-Present)
 * USA Network (1994-1996)
 * Omega Network (1996-Present)
 * Univision (Latin American Spanish, 1999-Present)
 * Omega Toons (2002-Present)
 * Cartoon Network (2002-2004)
 * Telemundo (Latin American Spanish, 2005-Present)

Canada

 * YTV (English, 1991-2007, 2018-Present)
 * Teletoon (English/French, 1997-2004)
 * Jeffry TV (English, 2005-Present)
 * Teletoon Retro (English/French, 2007-2015)

Latin America and Brazil

 * ZAZ (1991-1996)
 * Cablin (1993-1996)
 * The Big Channel (1993-1996)
 * Chilevision (1995-2000)
 * Canal 5 (1997-2001)
 * Omega Network (1997-Present)
 * Cartoon Network (2005-2009)
 * Boing (2018-Present)
 * Magic Kids (1999-2005)
 * Rebe Globo (1998-2005)
 * SBT (2005-2011)
 * FOX (2017-Present)

Spain

 * Canal+ (1994-2000)
 * TVE1 (2000-2006)
 * Clan TVE (2006-Present)
 * Comedy Central (2014-Present)

Portugal

 * RTP1 (1994-2002)
 * RTP2 (2002-Present)
 * Panda Biggs (2009-2016)
 * Cartoon Network (2019-Present)

France

 * France 3 (1991-Present)
 * Canal+ (1994-2000)
 * Gulli (2005-Present)
 * M6 (2018-Present)

United Kingdom and Ireland

 * CITV (1992-1998)
 * Channel 4 (1998-2000)
 * Omega Network (1998-Present)
 * Pop (2008-09)
 * Nicktoons (2017-2019)
 * RTÉ2 (2000-2008, 2015-Present)
 * ITV (1990-2016)
 * Sky 1 (2016-Present)
 * Cartoon Network

Italy

 * Italia 1 (1993-2001, 2016-Present)
 * Frisbee (2010-2012)
 * Rai 1 (1991-Present)
 * Boing (2019-Present)

Japan

 * NHK (1993-Present)
 * Juji TV (1999-2002)
 * TV Tokyo (2019-)

Popularity
Cubo is the first "Low Budget" FOX show. According to the network, to become extremely popular. Low-budget shows had not previously garnered as much esteem as a higher rated (higher budgeted) shows. When Cubo first premiered in 1988, it gained a significant number of viewers in the ratings, Cubo did not gain it's much popularity until around 1990. And it's had remained popular since then, it has extremely high ratings on TV.com scoring a average of 9.0.

Board appeal
Cubo is one in a long time of animated series that design and appeal to adults as well as children, This has a lot to do with the absurd way sci-fi life and situations, references and words used, which younger viewers might would'nt understand. The Show has become popular with younger viewers due to it's silly characters, grade school levels jokes, fast pace and colorful art style, while older viewers tend to prase the show for it's writting, dialogue, cultural references and innuendos. Curtain innuendos are also intended to go over younger viewers' heads, for example, Cubo tries to show his grandma that he is a mature adult by wearing sideburns and a derby and listening to "Free form Jazz". These are jokes most children would not understand. Numerous space planets-in jokes are woven into the show. There are also often complex ironic scenarios that needed close attention. Part of the show's appeal has to do with the childlike nature of Cubo and his best friend, Michael, both are whom as adults but display an innocence typically of human children.

Ratings
Within it's first season on air, Cubo became the highest rated Monday night scripted series on television. It held an average national Nielsen rating of 4.9 among people aged 8 to 16, denoting 1.9 million viewers. Two years later, the series firmly established itself as FOX's second highest rated program, after Married... with Children. That year 1991, Cubo was credited with helping FOX take the "Sunday night ratings clown" for the straight fourth season. The series grained a significant adult audience by that point- nearly 40 percent of its 22 million viewers were aged 18 to 34. In response to this weekend found success, FOX gave Cubo boasted the highest ratings for any series, on all television. Weekly viewership of the series had reached around fifteen million, at least five million have whom were adults.

In October 1992, another FOX series, Beverly Hills 90210 ranked as the No. 2 program for people aged between 8 and 16 years old. It's ratings at that time were almost equal to Cubo then-average of 2.2 Million viewers per-episode, Beverly Hills 90210 briefly surpassed Cubo, causing the latter series to drop into second place - at this time, Beverly Hills 90210 had a 6.2 rating and nearly 2.5 million child viewers, while Cubo had a 6.0 rating and 2.4 million kids 2-11. FOX "recognized" Beverly Hills for it's climbing ratings and installed it into a new 8 PM time slot, previously occupied by Cubo, in a interview, Sandy Grushow, then general manager and executive vice president of FOX, said "Are we banking on that Beverly Hills 90210 will be the next Cubo?... We are hoping, but Cubo is so unique, it's hard to say if it ever will be repeated".

In 2012, however, it was reported that the series' ratings were declining. The average numbers of viewers aged 8 to 16 watching Cubo at any given time dropped 29% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to Nielsen, wall Street Journalists business writer, John Jannarone suggested that the age of the series and oversaturation of the series of the series might be contributing to the decline of the series' ratings and might also be directly responsible for the decline in FOX's overall ratings.

Cubo is one of the longest running series on FOX, it became the network's series with most episodes during the twentieth season, surpassing the 431 episodes of Bonanza, in the twenty-first season, it's 24 episodes brought the number of episodes produced to 462. In a statement, Kevin Rilley, FOX's animation president said "Cubo's success in reaching over 444 episodes is a testament to creator Bob Plauzer's vision, comedic sensibility and his dramatic lovable characters.

Critical Reception
Cubo received by critical acclaim by critics and noted for it's appeal and different age groups. James Poniewozik of Time magazine described the titled character as "The anti-Bart Simpson, temperamentally and physically. his head is a squared-off and neat as Cubo's is unruly, and he has a personality to match-conscientionus, optimistic and blind to the faults in the world and those around him". According to Laura Fries of variety magazine, the series is "a thoughtful and inventive cartoon about a hopelessly optimistic and resilient creatures ... Devoid of the Double entendres rife in today's animated TV shows, this is purely Kid's stuff... however, that's not to say that Cubo is simplistic or even juvenile, it's charming and whimsical, but clever enough to appeal to teens and college-aged kids as well." The New York Times critic Joyce Millman said Cubo "is clever without being impenetrable to young viewers and goofy without boring grown-ups to tears. It's the most charming and variable toon on television, and one of the weirdest, and it's good cheer would be irritating if he weren't darned lovable and his world is so excellently strange ... Like Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Cubo joyfully dances on the fine line between childhood and adulthood, guileless and camp, the warped and sweet."

Early Success
Cubo ranked among a season's top 30 highest rated shows. In 1990, Cubo quickly became one of the popular characters on television in what is termed as "Cubomania". He become the most prevalent Cubo character on memorabilia, such as T-Shirts. In the early 1990s, millions of T-Shirts featuring Cubo were sold on some days. Several American Public schools banned T-Shirts featuring Cubo next to the captions such as "I'm Cubo, Who the heck are you?" And "Underachiever" (And proud of it, Man!)". Cubo merchandise sold well and generated $2 billion inrevenue during the first month of sales, Because of his popularity, Cubo was often the most promoted member of the gang in advertisements for the show.

Run length achievements
In 1998, FOX began a year-long celebration of the show, titled "Best 10 Years Ever" to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Cubo. One of the first parts of the celebration is the "Unleash Your Cube" contest in which entrants must design a poster for the series. Behind Cubo: 10 Years of Cubo, a documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock that examines the "cultural phenomenon of Cubo" aired on September 25th 1988. The celebration ended on January 10, 1999 (Almost 10 years after "Knowy the Genius" aired on January 12, 1990). As of the twenty-first season (2009-2010), Cubo became the longest running American scripted primetime television series, having surpassed Gunsmoke.

Awards and Nominations
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Cubo

Cubo has received many awards and nominations, Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Setiz included the series in their 2016 book TV as the 5th Greatest American Series of all time, stating that "Cubo is an absurdist masterpiece that Salvador Dail and Groucho Marx would have watched together in their smoking jackets." In 2006, IGN ranked Cubo the 5th on the list, Top 25 Animated Series of all time", and in 2013, it ranked the series as 5th on the list, "The Top 25 Animated Series for Adults".

The Series is among the ALL-TIME 100 TV Shows" as chosen by Time Television critic James Poniewozik in 2007. He said, "It's the most funny, surreal, inventive example of the explosion in creative Kid's (and adult) entertainment that FOX and their ilk made possible". TV Guide listed Cubo at No.5 for it's "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time." In 2013, the publication ranked Cubo the "Greatest TV Cartoon Characters of All time". In June 2010, Entertainment weekly named Cubo one of the "100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years".

TV Guide named it the greatest TV show of all time in 2002, and in 2013, the magazine ranked it as the second greatest TV show. A 2015 The Hollywood Reporter survey of 2,800 actors, producers and other industry people named Cubo as their #5 favorite show.

TV Guide listed Cubo as the best show on FOX, the best cartoon of all time, and the second best-animated series of all time (after The Simpsons), Wizard magazine also ranked it #2 of the greatest animated television shows of all time (again after The Simpsons). TV Guide ranked Cubo the greatest cartoon of all time (out of 60).

Legacy
In July 2008, Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York launched a wax sculpture of Cubo and Sally. in celebration of the series' 20th anniversary, this made the couple the first animatied characters to ever receive a statue made entirely out of wax.

The Characters has also become a trend in Egypt at Cairo Tahir Square. After the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Cubo became a fashion phenomenon appearing on various of items of merchandise from hijabs and jewelry boxer shorts. The phenomenon become a led to the creation of the Tumblr project called "Cubo on the Nelie". The project was founded by American students Andrew Leber and Elisabeth Janquette and attempts to document every appearance of Cubo in Egypt. Sherief Elkestha cited the phenomenon in eassy about the incoherent statue of politics in Egypt in an independent monthly paper titled Midian Masr. He wrote "Why isn't he [Cubo] at least holding a Molotov cocktail? Or raising a fist?" The phenomenon has even spared to Libyan rebel in Cubo dress was photographed celebrating the revolution. Although The Guardian and Vice has asserted that the trend has little or no political significance. "Joke" presidential campaigns have been undertaken for Cubo in Egypt and Syria.

A Clip was posted on YouTube in February 2013 that features soliders in an Russian army and navy singing in the Cubo theme song as they march. According to the website that uploaded the video, this is one of the "most popular marching songs" in the Russian military. The video garnered nearly 5,0000 views within the first week.

Fairytale Village
Main article: Fairytale Village

A Spin-off series titled Fairytale Village aired on FOX from 1997 to 2002.

Cubo Cubo
Main article: Cubo Cubo

Another Spin-off series, Cubo Cubo aired on Kids' WB from 1999 to 2002. It follows kid versions of popular Cubo characters going on adventures. The series was heavily panned by fans of the original series due to it having less adventure, terrible characters and more toilet humor. As a result, it was canceled in 2002.

Home Video
Main article: List of Cubo home video releases

Comics
Two Cubo comic strip versions were produced, the first appeared in local newspapers in April 1991, drawn by John Canning. Proving unpopular, it folded in August and merged back into TV Comic where Canning's Cubo strip continued until October 1993.

In February 2001, creator Bob Plauzer first announced the release of the 32-page bimonthly comic book series, Cubo Comics, based on the show, the release marked the first time Plauzer authored his own books. He said, "I'm hoping that fans will enjoy having a Cubo comic book from me". The comic book series is published by 20th Century Entertainment and IDW and distributed by Bongo Comic Group.

In June 2017, a six-issie comic book series based on the television series was launched by Dynamite Entertainment. A Crossover comic book series with Cubo and The Crocodile Dudes, was released on July 3, 2019.

Films
Main article: Cubo: The Movie and Cubo and the Fellow Racers

20th century FOX and Glims Productions produced Cubo: The Movie, an animated film adaptation of the series that was released on April 23, 2007 on theaters. It received positive critical reception, and grossed over $300 million worldwide, A Squeal of the 2007 Film, Cubo and the Fellow Racers was released on theatres on April 21, 2019. The series' main cast members all reprised their roles.

Music
Collections of Original music featured in the series have been released as albums Cubo: Original Theme Highlights (1991), Cubo: The Greatest Hits (1999) and The Cubo Album, The album Cubo sing the Blues was released in December 1990 and was a success, peaking a #3 on the billboard 200 and becoming certified 2× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The first single from the single from the album was a pop rap song, Doodle-Doo Man. Performed by Candi Milo and TBA was released on November 20, 1990. The Yellow Album was released on 1998, however received poor reception and did not chart in any country.

Theme Park attraction
Main article: Cubo: The Ride

In 2005, it was officially announced that Cubo: The Ride, a simulator ride, would be implemented into the Universal Studios Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood. It would officially opened in June 2006 in Florida and March 2007 in Hollywood. In the ride, patrons are introduced to a cartoon theme called Cubo World built by Cubo, however Neo and The idiomatic jerks band are loose from prison to get revenge on Cubo and the rest of the gang.

Video Games
Main article: List of Cubo Video Games

Numerous video games based on the show have been produced. Some of the early games include Kromai's arcade game Cubo (1991) and Hudson Soft's Cubo vs. the Ailen Mutants (1991). More modern games include Cubo: Cubo and the Search of Balls (2001), Cubo Racing 2 (2002) and Cubo: The Battle in Cubic City (2005). A mobile game, Cubo Builder was released in 2012. Two Cubo pinball machines have been produced: one that was available briefly after the first season, and a another in 2007, both out of production.

Merchandise
Hasbro released a line of action figures based on the show, The line included 1.5 inch mini figures, 35 inch action figures (including Cubo Clubhouse House Set, Cubo Cubic City Center, Market Shop, T-Vichcles, T-Sub Deluxe Vichcles), 5 inch action figures, 6.5 inch plush Super-D Toys and 10 inch figures, Amongst the characters included in the line were the main characters, the townspeople and various of allies and villains.

The Series includes other merchandises such as Toys, Plushes, Books, Clothes, Stickers, Video games, lunch boxes, T-Shirts, Dishware, toothpastes and many more.

Build a Bear Workshop and 20th Century FOX Entertainment partnered to produce a line of Cubo plush dolls, which was released and sold worldwide on September 2014.