"Dear God... That show was BAD."

[hobbyfan]

I don't know if there are any entire shows that I'd place in this category, but there are definitely some specific episodes of certain series that I've said that about:

Teen Titans GO!: "Ghost Boy" and "You're Fired". I know picking out a particularly stupid and unlikable episode of TTGO! is like picking a particularly violent episode of S.W.A.T., but nonetheless these 2 shorts stuck in my craw hard. In the former, 5 highly trained, powerful and skilled superheroes all die from suffering simple cartoonish mishaps, way too implausible even for a zany comedy. The latter features a guest appearance by the Wonder Twins, which could have been fun, but no, the writers just resort to the usual hackery of "Zan's power is useless" jokes. It's like "Aquaman is lame" jokes, are people seriously still harping on that nonsense?

The writers are playing to sections of the internet (i.e., that jackass Seanbaby) who've dissed the Twins over the last several years, kind of like the 1st Scooby-Doo live-action movie that also was internet fan-service to haters of Scrappy-Doo. It shows no respect to fans of the characters, and for that matter, if you're a true Titans fan from the books, why would you even watch TTG? That show as a whole is B. A. D. Bad And Dumb, that is.

 

[ToonReel]

You do understand that Sylvester is trying to eat Tweety, right? It's hard for me to feel sorry for Sylvester when he could just leave that bird alone and eat something else.

I remember some Mysteries episodes where he was cosmically abused for the sake of it.

While most of his Tweety shorts were fair game, I admit Sylvester was the one Looney Tunes antagonist that tended to suffer the most overkill (even more so than Elmer, who WB themselves admitted they went too far with). In cartoons such as 'Canned Feud' and the Porky series he is victimised by sociopathic mice in a rather darkly manner and in ALL of them they get the last laugh, while in the Hippety Hopper series he is usually bullied or shamed into taking beating after beating from the title character. The Speedy series made him more conniving but even then there were some bad moments (Speedy is pretty unsympathetic in Gonzales Tomales and West of the Pecos) and he was so automatically outdone and toyed with by Speedy you just plain out felt sorry for him (even the usually reviled Daffy shorts improved upon that).

While Looney Tunes usually tried to maintain some tight degree of karma, it seemed to be the cat vs vermin formula they kept screwing up with (Hubie and Bertie too were little sadists who got away with everything, solely because they were mice and their victims were cats). No wonder there's a recurring rumour that the animators of the Golden Age era hated cats.

 

[Mister Mayhem]

Crewmates,

Definitely the 90's Spider-man and X-men cartoons. Cheap animation, hammy voice acting and way too much melodrama. The majority of marvel cartoons (and their live-action movies) don't age well but these two are by far the worst examples.

 

[StorytellerMJ5]

Crewmates,

Definitely the 90's Spider-man and X-men cartoons. Cheap animation, hammy voice acting and way too much melodrama. The majority of marvel cartoons (and their live-action movies) don't age well but these two are by far the worst examples.

While it's been a while since I saw either, I still think Spider-Man TAS was pretty good. They had some good story arcs and used the villains pretty well. It's not my favorite Spider-Man cartoon, but I think it has some worthwhile stuff in it. I can't really comment on X-Men because I didn't watch all that much of that show compared to Spider-Man.

 

[Ace]

Planet Sheen - Was a waste of a good premise. As a kid I enjoyed Jimmy Neutrons sci-fi plots, obcourse the show was funny at times too. Compared to my expections Planet Sheen was in a ways horrible and outright unwatchable. It just took together the most random thing possible as humor. Sheen always causes trouble and never faces consequences. The other characters pretty much act like idiots who praise Sheen for some reason. I find the emperor as well as his daughter the most obnoxious and obcourse... it's another idiot-designated-hero driven "comedy"(If I should call it that.) where the protagonist never faces any consequences on a channel that's already full of them. It's very very bland.

Sidekick - At first I had hope that this show would be good or at least okay. There were a few episodes I enjoyed, but the more I watched, the more problems I noticed with the show and the show gets worse. Give Teen Titans Go! some credit for being funny and making sense some of the time because the humor in this show can get insanely stupid. It tries so hard to be funny but there's poop jokes, pee jokes and it's very cruel on the main character for the sake of it's comedy. The writing just does what it wants to be funny even if the show breaks it's own logic. The little logic it has. Even the main points about the show don't make any sense. You have Eric who likes Vana who hates him very much. Kitty is Vana's best friend and has this psycho crush on Eric and is very nice to him. Trevor is Eric's cliche idiot-best friend, well his best friend until he starts acting like how these types of characters usually act like. There are even times when Trevor and Kitty beat up Eric if the writers decide it's comedy. Yet all four of them are perfectly okay hanging out together. This show is just a mess.

Eliot Kid - This is pretty bad. Pretty good premise with an otherwise selfish and unlikable(sometimes sadistic) main character who is a six-year-old boy named Eliot. His parents are just lax and don't really discipline him. On top of that, the animation and sound design are just really lackluster. The dialogue is really poor and at times is just repeating the obvious. It really isn't that well put together.

Pet Alien - The CG animation is really bad and the alien characters are just really loud and stupid. Nuff said.

 

[Red Arrow]

Eliot Kid - This is pretty bad. Pretty good premise with an otherwise selfish and unlikable(sometimes sadistic) main character who is a six-year-old boy named Eliot. His parents are just lax and don't really discipline him. On top of that, the animation and sound design are just really lackluster. The dialogue is really poor and at times is just repeating the obvious. It really isn't that well put together.

I agree, except for the ''sadistic'' part. Is Eliot ever sadistic?

Pet Alien - The CG animation is really bad and the alien characters are just really loud and stupid. Nuff said.

Agreed.

 

[90'sKid]

Im sorry guys and gals, but for me that show, or in this case shows, are Adventure Time and Uncle Grandpa. I personally find most of the shows on CN to be bland and of little substance. But these two? Dear God, what did I put my brain through? I mean really, what did I just get done watching? Someone please tell me.

 

[Zanneck]

Sidekick - At first I had hope that this show would be good or at least okay. There were a few episodes I enjoyed, but the more I watched, the more problems I noticed with the show and the show gets worse. Give Teen Titans Go! some credit for being funny and making sense some of the time because the humor in this show can get insanely stupid. It tries so hard to be funny but there's poop jokes, pee jokes and it's very cruel on the main character for the sake of it's comedy. The writing just does what it wants to be funny even if the show breaks it's own logic. The little logic it has. Even the main points about the show don't make any sense. You have Eric who likes Vana who hates him very much. Kitty is Vana's best friend and has this psycho crush on Eric and is very nice to him. Trevor is Eric's cliche idiot-best friend, well his best friend until he starts acting like how these types of characters usually act like. There are even times when Trevor and Kitty beat up Eric if the writers decide it's comedy. Yet all four of them are perfectly okay hanging out together. This show is just a mess.

Eliot Kid - This is pretty bad. Pretty good premise with an otherwise selfish and unlikable(sometimes sadistic) main character who is a six-year-old boy named Eliot. His parents are just lax and don't really discipline him. On top of that, the animation and sound design are just really lackluster. The dialogue is really poor and at times is just repeating the obvious. It really isn't that well put together.

Took the words right out of my mouth, especially Eliot Kid. God, I loathe that show so much. You cold almost say the same things about A Kind of Magic and The DaVincibles, for example, overall, if you've heard of / seen them, like I unfortunately have.

 

[ShadowBeast]

Allen Gregory- wasn't even remotely funny, and the characters are completely unlikable. This showed should've been burned after the first episode.
Johnny Test- Started off watchable but the storylines just kept repeating themselves (at least PnF knew how to mix it up) and the main characters just kept getting away with causing so much damage, I couldn't find them likable.
Kung Fu Panda- I knew right away that the show was gonna focus on the "Po does something bad" storylines. I find the movies pretty good but Po himself not very likable. Tai Lung was a far more interesting character and really if Oogay had done something Tai Lung wouldn't have gone rogue in the first place.
Kid vs Kat- The sister made this show completely unwatchable, plus I'm sick of cats being treated as villains all the time.
Planet Sheen- it was obvious that whoever wrote this never watched/researched Jimmy Neutron. Sheen seemed so much dumber then he was in Jimmy Neutron that is wasn't even funny, the lack of Ultra-lord references was out of character for him, the inhabitants were made even dumber to make Sheen look smarter with Nesmith the only character with any intelligence. The show was lucky to get a finale on the MAD series lol.

 

[Pac-Attack]

Pet Alien - The CG animation is really bad and the alien characters are just really loud and stupid. Nuff said.

Oh my Jesus, that and The Cramp Twins were the worst shows ever aired during the City era of CN.

 

[Perla Magica]

"Problem Solverz" - I'm not saying it's bad, but it's weird. To be honest, somebody says on 4chan that the last episode (where Alfe runs away) was the most weirdness of all, so I watched that episode on the internet. After that I thought "oh my god, this show is weird".

"The Nutshack" - This is the one example of a bad cartoon. It's bad because of its animation, theme song, design, voice acting, storyline, even characters themselves.

 

[jaylop97]

Bordentown should be here because it is simply another bad Seth Mcfarlane show, lasted once season, and I don't get why did he try to make yet another family show, as it didn't do any better than Family Guy.

 

[DonaldDaffy]

Johnny Test - Season 1 was decent, and the writers actually put effort in plots. The animation was also good since it was the only season done digitally. Unfortunately, the later seasons felt like it was handled by elementary school children. It was a good thing that the show was canceled before it could get a seventh season.

Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island - Good god, why did I love this show when I was a kid? Even Fred's voice actor, Rob Paulsen, stated that it was nothing more but a ripoff of SpongeBob.

Shnookums and Meat - So this was Disney's answer to making a Ren and Stimpy-esque cartoon? For shame, Disney.

 

[90'sKid]

^ Shnookums and Meat was pretty much Disney trying to make a gross-out show without the gross-out. Sorta like how Planet Sheen was Jimmy Neutron...without Jimmy Neutron.

And the sad thing about Planet Sheen was that Sheen was never really stupid, just weird and eccentric. Planet Sheen made him that "naive idiot main lead" character trope that has been done to death.

Barnyard-This went from a reasonably ok movie (ignoring the whole "boy cow" thing) to what I can only describe as being if a bunch of writers found the animation models of the movie and in a drunken stupor make "plots" using them. The characters were self-aware to the point of excess, calling out how weird the show got, trying desperately to not make it obvious how painful the jokes were. And the plots and cut-a-way gags were almost at Family Guy levels.


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[DeanBurrito25]

I don't have very strong feelings of disdain towards most cartoons, but man, Allen Gregory was a mistake. Unlikeable characters, a stupid premise, and "comedy" that ranged from mean spirited to downright appalling (someone actually thought having a baby fall in love with an old woman ten times his age was funny and that it should be a recurring gag for some reason). The art style stood out from the rest of FOX's animated shows, but even then it started to get increasingly weirder and uncanny when you looked at it long enough.

Just because you're a successful Hollywood actor doesn't always mean you should spearhead an animated television series. I like Jonah Hill (and I admire his dramatic acting chops outside of being just a comedian), but there's nothing salvageable about Allen Gregory. I'm glad FOX nipped it in the bud while it was still early.

 

[Red Arrow]

"Longest Monday" also kind of bothered me due to its main plot. The fact that fifth graders putting fourth graders in trash cans on the first Monday in June was apparently a tradition bothered me. Why weren't kids suspended or parents sending in complaints about something like this before it became a tradition? Why would any school allow for something like this to happen long enough to become a school tradition? I might be thinking too much about this plot, but it seems like the teaching staff was nonexistent in this episode, which never made sense as to why something like this would be allowed or tolerated by any adult. Instead, we get kids running around in terror of being thrown in garbage cans for an episode. Plus, Arnold saying how maybe they'll keep the tradition going when they become fifth grades at the end seemed pretty out of character for him.

Sorry for bumping this thread after 2 years, but I think I have something valuable to add. It is a tradition in Belgium to celebrate the last 100 days of high school. 12th graders dress up and do things that are not allowed. I went to a Catholic school with nuns, but 12th graders still ended up doing crazy stuff every year, like throwing paint in the swimming pool, or ducks (they died because of the chlorine), adding viagra or laxatives in the coffee cans of the teacher's room, putting younger siblings in trash cans etc.

I remember running away from my sister when she was a 12th grader.

The teachers were very strict that day. All girls in my 12th grade class got detention for staying a few seconds too long in the P.E. dressing room. Quite absurd.

Somehow I kind of like the slightly mean-spirited Hey Arnold episodes. I thought it was funny how "Arnold Betrays Iggy" ended with the reverse. "Olga Gets Engaged" was also fun to watch. Doug was such a jerk and Olga so naive to believe him.

 

[Leviathan]

CatDog. As a kid I found it unappealing and now I realize it was really mean spirited.

Except for Spongebob, Zim, and MAYBE early FOP to be charitable, 1998-2002 was Nickelodeon's absolute lowest point. Except for the aforementioned shows, everything they produced or picked up blew serious hard chunks. Their infatuation with Klasky-Csupo was probably the worst of it, but Catdog was pretty insufferable too.

Doug is redeemed to me (as least the Nick years) by its soundtrack. As bland as the show itself is, I can never hate Killer Tofu.

To be REALLY controversial, I walked away from Steven Universe this year feeling that the show wasted my time, and I had been watching it since Season 2. The writing, plotting and character development has turned out to be too disorganized and helter-skelter to live up to the potential everyone was hyping it up for in 2015.

 

[Zanneck]

Except for Spongebob, Zim, and MAYBE early FOP to be charitable, 1998-2002 was Nickelodeon's absolute lowest point. Except for the aforementioned shows, everything they produced or picked up blew serious hard chunks. Their infatuation with Klasky-Csupo was probably the worst of it, but Catdog was pretty insufferable too.

Doug is redeemed to me (as least the Nick years) by its soundtrack. As bland as the show itself is, I can never hate Killer Tofu.

To be REALLY controversial, I walked away from Steven Universe this year feeling that the show wasted my time, and I had been watching it since Season 2. The writing, plotting and character development has turned out to be too disorganized and helter-skelter to live up to the potential everyone was hyping it up for in 2015.

Nice little bump here.

Steven Universe AND Star Vs. TFOE definitely fit this criteria for me, as of late. I've already pointed out why I feel that way in Unpopular Opinions, if not anywhere else, so I won't repeat myself here. And yeah - I know they're still going, but it feels good to get it out, every chance I can get away with it. So many better shows I could be watching than either of these, even if they're just simply OK and not great like other examples I won't say that I prefer indefinitely over these 2 embarrassments / comedies of errors.

 

[AnotherRandomGuy]

Brickleberry...oh lord, Brickleberry. What an absolutely miserable and disgusting series, and how it made it past the pilot is beyond me. It doesn't have an original bone in it's body and basically tried to copy Family Guy without understanding how or why Family Guy works. There is nothing redeemable about this trainwreck of a show and I'm glad it's basically dead and forgotten now.

Rocket Monkeys: White noise the show. It's basically a mixmash of various different cartoon stereotypes from the past two decades and thrown into a blender hoping it turns into something watchable. It was, but that's just about all it was since it left no real impact on me or anyone else.

Doug: I grew up with this show, I remembered at least somewhat liking it when I was younger, I've tried giving multiple chances rewatching it now that I'm older...but it's just so darn boring. Everything about Doug is just so bland and lifeless and for the life of me I can't understand why, it had some creative concepts and interesting episodes, the animation was alright, and the character designs were pretty good and "colorful". But boy, everything it does was so boring and by the numbers. Thank goodness Hey Arnold exists to basically do this concept better.

 

[superkeegan9100]

Legends of Chamberlain Heights. No questions asked.