It's not that kind of cartoon

I can't believe it took me this long to figure out. Travis insists Abnimals is based on Saturday morning cartoons, despite the lack of monster of the week structure, tight pacing and clearly defined villians with well established motives.

You know what has long running continuity and 10 foot episodes where the characters don't really go anywhere? Anime. Abnimals isn't Ninja Turtles, it's Dragon Ball Z.

NB this is a half assed take because I haven't ever actually watched DBZ and everything I know about it is second hand via memes but that's still a better informed analysis than you'll get in the other sub