12 oz. Mouse (season 3)

12. oz Mouse is a 2000s American surreal humor and psychological thriller animated television series created by Matt Maiellaro for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. The third season aired in 2020, and it’s considered by many to be the best season of the show and a major improvement.

Why This Season Rocks

 * 1) The show became good when the Invictus special aired in 2018, which was a great way to revive the show.
 * 2) This season has massively improved with its writing, having more unique stories.
 * 3) This season introduced some new great characters, like:
 * 4) * Aria (often considered to be the best character in the entire series)
 * 5) * Professor Wilx
 * 6) * Buzby
 * 7) * Human Eye (only seen in "Invictus")
 * 8) * Francis the Reporter
 * 9) * Kiki
 * 10) * The Kid
 * 11) The returning characters have become more likable and have redeemed themselves:
 * 12) * Mouse Fitzgerald has become a better protagonist, as he always helps his friends, became funnier, and is sympathetic due to his dramatic and sad backstory.
 * 13) * Mouse's friends, Skillet, Golden Joe, Peanut Cop, New Guy, Man-Woman, Spider, and Green-Sweatered Woman have become less annoying, more funny, and have helped out their friends in tough situations.
 * 14) * Mouse's likable friends, Eye and Roostre, have become even more likable thanks to their kindness and helpfulness being useful in many situations.
 * 15) Olof Mörck and Elize Ryd were great guest stars in the last 3 episodes of the season, and their animated counterparts are well-written.
 * 16) The music is still good, and it’s epic.
 * 17) * This season uses a theme song by Amaranthe in (Invictus - Season 3), which is pretty awesome.
 * 18) The jokes are more clever and funnier.
 * 19) The animation is still good, and has greatly improved since it became less lazy, the art style became cleaner, and it still remains faithful to it's original look.
 * 20) The voice acting has massively improved, and is now good, especially from Matt Maiellaro as Mouse, and Mary Spender as Aria.
 * 21) The show still isn’t overly gory and uses it responsibly, unlike some other Adult Swim shows.
 * 22) The dialogue has greatly improved as well, being more clever and sometimes even funny.
 * 23) The stupidness and weirdness of the show has improved to being good.
 * 24) The character designs of the new characters are great, especially Aria's.
 * 25) This is the best season of the entire show, being an improvement over the first 2 seasons, which is also hilarious considering the show's crew were trying to make this show intentionally bad from start to finish.
 * 26) The production order finale, "Final Beginning", was a decent way to end the show. The broadcast order finale, "Francis, Cheap & Out of Control", was also pretty decent.

The Only Bad Qualities
'''NOTE: Do not take these bad qualities seriously. Since the show used to be intentionally bad, these were likely intentional.'''
 * 1) The returning characters, while looking cleaner in the new art style, still have their old character designs, and still look a little lazy and ugly.
 * 2) The final episode in production order, "Final Beginning", ended the show on a cliffhanger.

Reception
While the series as a whole gained a cult following, this season received more generally positive reception from critics, audiences and fans of the show, and agreeing that this was a major improvement over the first 2 seasons. They also found it funny that the show's staff tried to make the whole show intentionally bad, but after the unintentional success of the Invictus special, they knew that the show was unintentionally going towards the right steps of improving.