AnimatedFan01
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What cartoons did you never get the appeal of and think are overrated? For me, I have quite a list that will result in polarities from others....
Dexter's Laboratory - I was never fond of this show. It had a cool premise, but the characters were obnoxious. Dexter's high-pitched, nasally German accent and mad scientist voice grated on me to no end. Not helping is that I found him to be egotistical and vain, in other words an insufferable genius. His sister Dee Dee was no better either. Her naivety and hyperactivity made her really detestable. The plots were pretty boring and stupid. There wasn't much humor to it that made me laugh, most of it just being corny and falling flat. Sorry, I can see the appeal, but this show just isn't for me.
Adventure Time - If there was another synonym for overrated, I would look no further than Adventure Time. I used to love it as a tween, but now, after looking back at it, not so much. Its combination of adventure and comedy just doesn't work for me, it feels outlandish. Flapjack did that combination leagues better in my opinion. Sometimes it can be so incredibly random and disturbing that it just makes me question what the heck I'm watching. One example would be the episode where a possessed spell lives in Finn's belly button. Another was the one where Finn turned into a giant foot.... The premise, while I give it credit for its creativity, is too drug-induced for the sake of it. Foster's was able to have a ton of random characters without being too acidic, but not AT. The humor was mainly just fart jokes or embarrassing cringe concocted with surrealism. I perceived Finn as a whiny little brat who overreacts and freaks out too much. And Jake was mostly just a failed comic relief, being the butt of butt and fart jokes. Plus, the amount of innuendoes felt a little uneasy and out of place.
Regular Show - Pretty much what I already said about Adventure Time. Overt randomness (a talking gumball machine, a weird human with green skin, a talking lollipop in this world with animals and humans???), but also the main characters having little depth beyond being "dude"/" bro" stereotypes. Muscle Man got on my nerves with his my mom jokes and was nothing more than a gross slob. Pops was annoyingly dumb to a fault. At least Mordecai was the more tolerable half of the duo due to having more sanity, but Rigby was just an obnoxious troublemaker and arrogant jerk IMO. Benson rubbed me the wrong way - I get having to deal with two slackers who cause nothing but trouble, but at times his anger crossed the line and was unjustified, like when he ate the guys' burgers at the end of The Best Burger in the World. Can't say much more about it, but man is it anything but regular.
The Amazing World of Gumball - I have the same complaints regarding its drugged-up premise like AT and RS, but I'd also add that Gumball was an annoying, self-absorbed protagonist who overreacted too much like Finn.
Gravity Falls - Darkness and humor don't go well together, and this show proved. I found Mabel to be annoying, Soos to be more of a nuisance than funny, and Dipper to be bland and predictable. Also the random nature of the show was another thing I think it went overboard with.
The Loud House - This is just a generic slice of life show that's pretty much Malcolm in the Middle and The Brady Bunch in animated form. While I give it credit for its heartwarming family dynamic, it really offers nothing new to the table and everyone is stereotyped to the max. Plus, all too often Lincoln behaves like a selfish jerk who's focused more on what he wants than needs, and the sisters treat him coldly even when he hasn't done anything wrong. Lincoln himself is just a typical Charlie Brown clone, Lori is an obnoxious bratty girl stereotype, Leni is so stupid she gives Cosmo and Patrick Star a run for their money, Luan gets on my nerves with her cheesy puns, Lynn is abrasive and vain when it comes to sportsmanship, Lisa is an insufferable genius, Lola is a spoiled brat, and the parents are too unaware of their kids' wrongdoings or too pushover-y. The plots are just done-to-death cliche storms and recycled from other shows, with the same cheesy resolutions and startups. I like the animation though, but overall I just find TLH to be boring and nihilistic. No Such Luck was the worst episode, Lincoln was unnecessarily tortured in this episode even by his parents. Can you spell child abuse?
Clarence - Ugh, this show. Now I do like the kids being kids vibe of this show, but slice of life hardly goes together well with that concept without some slapstick and more comedy. This is basically an Ed, Edd 'n Eddy clone with all the good parts squeezed out. The animation is hideous, with the characters all having disgusting facial features (especially Clarence himself and his mom's boyfriend), weirdly shaped body proportions (Jeff's head anyone?), and stiff movement. Clarence himself was an idiotic troublemaker who really deserves a good beating. Jeff was waaaay too compulsive and paranoid. Sumo was obnoxious and dumb. The voice acting is another area where this show fell apart drastically. Clarence sounds like Elmer Fudd's mentally challenged son whose voice is unusually deep for a 9-year-old's. Sumo's was way too nasally and sounds like a younger Beavis whose mother smoked 10 cigarettes before his birth. Also the humor was mostly just unnecessary crude grossout, or character abuse.
Those are my picks for the most overrated cartoons.
Dexter's Laboratory - I was never fond of this show. It had a cool premise, but the characters were obnoxious. Dexter's high-pitched, nasally German accent and mad scientist voice grated on me to no end. Not helping is that I found him to be egotistical and vain, in other words an insufferable genius. His sister Dee Dee was no better either. Her naivety and hyperactivity made her really detestable. The plots were pretty boring and stupid. There wasn't much humor to it that made me laugh, most of it just being corny and falling flat. Sorry, I can see the appeal, but this show just isn't for me.
Adventure Time - If there was another synonym for overrated, I would look no further than Adventure Time. I used to love it as a tween, but now, after looking back at it, not so much. Its combination of adventure and comedy just doesn't work for me, it feels outlandish. Flapjack did that combination leagues better in my opinion. Sometimes it can be so incredibly random and disturbing that it just makes me question what the heck I'm watching. One example would be the episode where a possessed spell lives in Finn's belly button. Another was the one where Finn turned into a giant foot.... The premise, while I give it credit for its creativity, is too drug-induced for the sake of it. Foster's was able to have a ton of random characters without being too acidic, but not AT. The humor was mainly just fart jokes or embarrassing cringe concocted with surrealism. I perceived Finn as a whiny little brat who overreacts and freaks out too much. And Jake was mostly just a failed comic relief, being the butt of butt and fart jokes. Plus, the amount of innuendoes felt a little uneasy and out of place.
Regular Show - Pretty much what I already said about Adventure Time. Overt randomness (a talking gumball machine, a weird human with green skin, a talking lollipop in this world with animals and humans???), but also the main characters having little depth beyond being "dude"/" bro" stereotypes. Muscle Man got on my nerves with his my mom jokes and was nothing more than a gross slob. Pops was annoyingly dumb to a fault. At least Mordecai was the more tolerable half of the duo due to having more sanity, but Rigby was just an obnoxious troublemaker and arrogant jerk IMO. Benson rubbed me the wrong way - I get having to deal with two slackers who cause nothing but trouble, but at times his anger crossed the line and was unjustified, like when he ate the guys' burgers at the end of The Best Burger in the World. Can't say much more about it, but man is it anything but regular.
The Amazing World of Gumball - I have the same complaints regarding its drugged-up premise like AT and RS, but I'd also add that Gumball was an annoying, self-absorbed protagonist who overreacted too much like Finn.
Gravity Falls - Darkness and humor don't go well together, and this show proved. I found Mabel to be annoying, Soos to be more of a nuisance than funny, and Dipper to be bland and predictable. Also the random nature of the show was another thing I think it went overboard with.
The Loud House - This is just a generic slice of life show that's pretty much Malcolm in the Middle and The Brady Bunch in animated form. While I give it credit for its heartwarming family dynamic, it really offers nothing new to the table and everyone is stereotyped to the max. Plus, all too often Lincoln behaves like a selfish jerk who's focused more on what he wants than needs, and the sisters treat him coldly even when he hasn't done anything wrong. Lincoln himself is just a typical Charlie Brown clone, Lori is an obnoxious bratty girl stereotype, Leni is so stupid she gives Cosmo and Patrick Star a run for their money, Luan gets on my nerves with her cheesy puns, Lynn is abrasive and vain when it comes to sportsmanship, Lisa is an insufferable genius, Lola is a spoiled brat, and the parents are too unaware of their kids' wrongdoings or too pushover-y. The plots are just done-to-death cliche storms and recycled from other shows, with the same cheesy resolutions and startups. I like the animation though, but overall I just find TLH to be boring and nihilistic. No Such Luck was the worst episode, Lincoln was unnecessarily tortured in this episode even by his parents. Can you spell child abuse?
Clarence - Ugh, this show. Now I do like the kids being kids vibe of this show, but slice of life hardly goes together well with that concept without some slapstick and more comedy. This is basically an Ed, Edd 'n Eddy clone with all the good parts squeezed out. The animation is hideous, with the characters all having disgusting facial features (especially Clarence himself and his mom's boyfriend), weirdly shaped body proportions (Jeff's head anyone?), and stiff movement. Clarence himself was an idiotic troublemaker who really deserves a good beating. Jeff was waaaay too compulsive and paranoid. Sumo was obnoxious and dumb. The voice acting is another area where this show fell apart drastically. Clarence sounds like Elmer Fudd's mentally challenged son whose voice is unusually deep for a 9-year-old's. Sumo's was way too nasally and sounds like a younger Beavis whose mother smoked 10 cigarettes before his birth. Also the humor was mostly just unnecessary crude grossout, or character abuse.
Those are my picks for the most overrated cartoons.
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