The Top 20 Worst Cartoons of All Time: Submissions [Archive]

eJm

08-30-2006, 04:14 PM

It's been a question highly debated for decades. What is truly the worst toon ever produced? Is it one that failed to captilise on it's marketing potential? Is it one that had characters as dull as dishwater or as annoying as nails on a chalk board? Or did it just plain suck in terms of animation and writing?

Yes, folks I'm going to try and pull it off. The Top 20 Worst Cartoons of all time as voted for by the users of Toon Zone.net and many other forums.

What I basically want from you guys is a list of 5 cartoons you think deserve to be on the list in no particular order at all. By roughly the beginning of October (just to give people time), I will calculate the results and put the ones with the most on a poll where people will vote for the Top 20. Then I will do a special show that will be seen on YouTube dedicated to that Top 20.

If anyone wants to be involved in the actual show, PM me or Email me and I'll give you slightly more details. Also, if you know any other forums interested in this, feel free to give the message along so that more people can vote.

I hope people vote and hopefully, the list will be big enough to make a poll out of, then a show etc.

So, get voting and we'll truly see which stinker is the stinkiest

Harlan_Phoenix

08-30-2006, 04:20 PM

I nominate The Thing.

"Thing ring, do your thing!"

eJm

08-30-2006, 04:25 PM

I you couldn't mind including 4 more on your post. It would make it easier for me. Thanks :)

Harlan_Phoenix

08-30-2006, 04:30 PM

Well, alright. The REASON The Thing was so bad was because instead of making him the actual Thing, they decided to set the story about a little boy who had a "Thing Ring" that MADE him the Thing.

I don't think he even fought supervillains. Some shows I like because they're so stupid (Gary Coleman Show), but this one just sucked.

MonkeyFunk

08-30-2006, 04:33 PM

The Water Babies (the movie, not the Disney short)
Titanic: The Animated Movie
Extreme Dinosaurs
DIC's Wizard of Oz
Filmation's Heckle and Jeckle

eJm

08-30-2006, 04:36 PM

Ok, Gerbil, I'll give you that.

Pc-Famicom64

08-30-2006, 04:43 PM

I can give you guys 2, As told by Ginger & Little Bear, both show are very bad.

TheMecca

08-30-2006, 04:55 PM

Lonestarr reminded me of this one, thanks for making All Grown Up off the list
Angela Anaconda
Is this... even animation? It's like some stoner pasted cardboard together and put it into a computer. Except this time It's not funny.

Fatherhood
Bill Cosby hips and hops, canned after 2 seasons

Loonatics
Watch out, or Bugs'll like... tear your face off.
With his eyes.

What's New Scooby Doo?
Just... no. Next one.

As Told By Ginger
LOL DRAEMA

Andrew T. Hingson

08-30-2006, 04:56 PM

I nominate Loonatics Unleashed. For it is an eyesore on society.

Classic Speedy

08-30-2006, 04:57 PM

Wish Kid.

Beat

08-30-2006, 05:01 PM

Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos.

HG Revolution

08-30-2006, 05:19 PM

Loonatics Unleashed
Baby Looney Tunes
DICE
12oz Mouse
Wulin Warriors (does this even count as a cartoon?)

Lonestarr

08-30-2006, 07:28 PM

Just so it's out of the way, anyone who'd nominate "All Grown Up" for worst anything hasn't been around very long.

My choices:

The Kids from Room 402
101 Dalmatians: the Series
Sabrina: the Animated Series
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
Angela Anaconda

Jave

08-30-2006, 08:14 PM

Super Duper Sumos
Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon
Loonatics Unleashed
Baby Looney Tunes
Mike, Lu & Og

judyindisguise

08-30-2006, 08:16 PM

1. Camp Lazlo. Inept character designs, lousy scripts, zip personality.

2. The last two seasons of The Fairly Oddparents. A once-likeable show took a dive into the dumpster with its detour into mean-spiritedness, misogynistic humor and literal character assassination.

3. That stupid Kong show on Disney. Did we need a Kong cartoon? Hell, did we need another version of the live-action movie?

4. Cow and Chicken. Yeeech. There are people here (including me) who gripe about the butt jokes on My Gym Partner's A Monkey, but the standard for that sort of humor was set via the Devil character on C and C.

5. Danny Phantom. A dopey, overwrought farce that can't decide whether it's a comedy or a drama, the results of which is that you don't laugh and you don't care. I've tried recently to sit through the DP marathon Nick runs every Thursday. I either tune away or fall asleep.

Anthonynotes

08-30-2006, 09:14 PM

Apparently the "worst cartoons ever" all come from no earlier a time-era than the first Clinton term, from the looks of the above shows. ;-)

My suggestions:

- The Brady Kids: my vote for the worst cartoon ever made. Everything about this show is utterly and unredeemably wretched---the animation, the writing, the characters (not one, not two, but *three* "wacky animal sidekicks"), the fact it comes from "The Brady Bunch" (a show I never liked), etc.

The other four are just random bad cartoons, since I can't think of any ones in any particular order of badness:

- Yo, Yogi!
- The Skatebirds (the cartoon portions---"Posse Impossible", "Crazy Legs")
- The Little Clowns of Happytown
- CB Bears

Harlan_Phoenix

08-30-2006, 09:17 PM

Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos.

Any show with a villain named Super Ninja at least goes in the hilariously bad category...meaning there's worse.

Just thought I'd be the first person to defend CNKK incase anyone else wanted to.

I mean, yes, it's TERRIBLE...but it's funny.

The Weed Of Cri

08-30-2006, 09:21 PM

Loonatics Unleashed?

Pfah! Very bad indeed, but not even close to the worst. To know the worst, you have to have lived...

How about:

Hammerman: Washed-up rapper M. C. Hammer was the central character in this show, which was about as "animated" as a fast slideshow. He went gangsta a few years after this mess, but got less street cred than Marky Mark.

Devlin: Hanna-Barbera's attempt to cash in on the momentary fame of hayseed motorcycle daredevil Evel Kneivel (I may have spelled that wrong; it's been so long since he was noteworthy) with this anemic show about a motorcycle stunt rider working with a travelling circus. Besides a near total-lack of movement (they saved money on animation by only animating individual body parts rather than entire characters), a color palette that looked as if it was left out in the rain, and characters who all had awful "70's" hair (did they really think that blow-dried look would last?), this show was also one of HB's lamest capitulations to Action for Children's Television and feature stories that were almost free of emotion, conflict, drama, excitement, etc, and replaced it with "pro-social" homilies.

Chicken Boo: One of the more irregular features in Animaniacs, this was the ultimate one-joke cartoon: a six-foot-tall chicken, who doesn't speak, and barely responds when spoken to, gets jobs in the human world, and can't do them because he's a CHICKEN!. Here's the gag: nobody notices he's a chicken....and then they do. That's it! It's as hilarious as it sounds.

Cramp Twins: Hands down, the most godawful character design ever smeared on a cel. And everybody's drawn with these weird broken motion lines around their bodies which, without any movement at all, somehow makes the characters all look as jittery as a chihuahua dipped in cocaine.

Free Willy: Based on the movie of the same name, this one-season knock-off featured Willy the Orca taking up residence in a lake somewhere in the United States, befriending some local children, and helping them battle polluters (non-violently, of course). Without even the slightest concession to realism or accuracy (an animal acclimated to live in the ocean moving to a fresh-water lake? It would be dead in two days! And no one ever spoke of what the 25-foot, carniverous uber-porpoise ate; that might offend a vegan somewhere.), this was another one of those "message" shows. In terms of sanctimony and one-sidedness, the smug environmentalist stance of this show made Captain Planet and The Planeteers look like South Park. Don't believe me? In one episode, when Willy's human friends find out there's a weapons merchant in town, and is selling his wares to two warring nations, one of them says, "How can he do that? Doesn't he know that war is one of the leading causes of environmental damage?" (Yeah, it kills a lot of people, too, but that's not a issue on this show) I swear I'm not making this up!

Leviathan

08-30-2006, 09:24 PM

As much a like the show's character designs, Atomic Betty gets my nomination, as well as Catdog and Butt-Ugly Martians, and OF COURSE The Gary Coleman Show

DarthGonzo

08-30-2006, 09:28 PM

Chicken Boo: One of the more irregular features in Animaniacs, this was the ultimate one-joke cartoon: a six-foot-tall chicken, who doesn't speak, and barely responds when spoken to, gets jobs in the human world, and can't do them because he's a CHICKEN!. Here's the gag: nobody notices he's a chicken....and then they do. That's it! It's as hilarious as it sounds.

Why are you nominating a character?

My picks:
Loonatics Unleashed
Baby Looney Tunes
Rocket Power
Pokemon in any and all forms

Zubby

08-30-2006, 09:38 PM

Scooby Doo
12 oz. Mouse
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Totally Spies
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show

Bubblegum Girl

08-30-2006, 09:39 PM

My List On Worst Cartoons:

Teamo Surpremo
My Gym Partner's A Monkey
Mega Babies
12oz Mouse
Squidbillies
Loonatics Unleashed
Darkstalkers (The American Version)
Ren & Stimpy
Kong the Animated Series
Godzilla the Animated Series(Both Hanna-Barbera & the 2000 version)
Free Willy
Super Duper Sumos
Butt Ugly Martians
Da Boom Crew

Well, that's all I can think of...

Free Willy I'm surprised that someone else besides me remembers that show. I hate that cartoon too. Ironically I watched it religious only because I was very young and my brain wasn't fully develop...Now I'm 11 years older and I'm like "What the hell made me think that show was any good?!" :sweat:

DarthGonzo

08-30-2006, 10:29 PM

My List On Worst Cartoons:

Teamo Surpremo
My Gym Partner's A Monkey
Mega Babies
12oz Mouse
Squidbillies
Loonatics Unleashed
Darkstalkers (The American Version)
Ren & Stimpy
Kong the Animated Series
Godzilla the Animated Series(Both Hanna-Barbera & the 2000 version)
Free Willy
Super Duper Sumos
Butt Ugly Martians
Da Boom Crew

Hmm...I dont know if I agree with Ren and Stimpy (in fact I DON'T agree with it.) It's pure gold floating in the middle of a sea of crap - or at least as far as this list is concerned.

Zorak Masaki

08-30-2006, 11:03 PM

Yogi's Gang
Captain Planet
12. oz mouse (is this even a cartoon?)
Moral Oral
Clutch Cargo
Super Mario Bros. Super Show (i liked it as a kid, but now i see it was nothing more than a bunch of film parodies, unfunny ones at that)
Brothers Grunt (there is NO justifying this show!)
Inhumanoids
Silverhawks (though the theme song and the overall animation was good, the writing left something to be desired)
Tenchi in Tokyo
Canidate for Goddess
Bubblegum Crisis 2040 (why bother updating it when the original is still good?)

John Pannozzi

08-30-2006, 11:08 PM

Thundercats
Detention
Butt-Ugly Martains
pretty much anything Hanna-Barbera made in the '70s

mojokingbee1

08-31-2006, 12:52 AM

I can only think of one right now, "Minoriteam".

Zack

08-31-2006, 01:09 AM

Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
Camp Lazlo
Fullmetal Alchemist
Inuyasha
Sonic X
Kirby
Naruto

Deadman

08-31-2006, 01:10 AM

loonatics and winx club get my vote as worst.

RAINMAN

08-31-2006, 05:37 AM

Loonatics unleash
Chipmunks go to the movies.
Any show that take adult character and downsides them into kids like a pup name scooby due.
Any show that base off a real life person like little rosie
Quack pack
The mighty ducks
Goof troops
Ninja Turtles the next mutantion
The superfriends
Family guy

Henk55

08-31-2006, 06:54 AM

update

Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi - just zero creativity, zero plots, zero dialouges, zero animation, zero everything
12. oz mouse - weeeeeeeee
Squidbillies - see '12. oz mouse'
Cramp Twins - Who on EARTH let those designs appear? Really the whole show is so utterly LAME, I pitty the creators.
My Gym Partner's A Monkey - watch out or that monkey will tear you apart with his... butt. From all those poorly animated attempts at 'humor', this is definetely one of the worst.

Moto Pete

08-31-2006, 08:59 AM

http://forums.toonzone.net/archive/index.php/t-1162.html

Jem
Dnver The Last Dinosaur
Barnyard Wars
Muppet Mayhem
Bravestar
Flintstone kids
ProStars
Hammer
Mucha Lucha
Ed Edd and Eddie
Super Robo Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
Rosanne Barrs"Little Rosie
the New Kids on the Block
James Bond Jr.
The Gary Coleman show
Static Shock
Sherlock Holmes 2300?
Beast Wars
Samurai Pizza Cats
Robocop Alpha Commando
Ozzy & Drix
Ultimate Muscle
Street Sharks
GI Joe EXTREME
Code: Lyoko
Garbage Pail Kids ( Banned after one Episode)
Cow & Chicken
Gilligain's Island Cartoon
Kids Next Door
Squrrial Boy
My Life as a Teenage Robot
As Told by Ginger
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
The Oblongs
Kid n' Play Cartoon
Teen Wolf
Alf Fairy Tales
Darkstalkers (horrible animation)
12oz mouse
Squidbillies
Tales from the Crypt

Neo Yi

08-31-2006, 12:38 PM

Burdette25159

08-31-2006, 12:40 PM

Every cartoon based on a live action prime time show (Examples: Fonz and the Happy Days Gang and the Dukes)

mammy2shoesfan

08-31-2006, 01:39 PM

Flying Rhino Jr High
Wanye Head
CBear and Jamal
Pro Stars
New Kids on the Block
Hammerman
Jackson 5
Liberty Kids
I always hated David and Gollith (it was like punishment for getting up to early on Saturdays while waiting for cartoons to come on channel 7 wabcNy)

Dr. OneWay

08-31-2006, 01:42 PM

Liberty Kids
Butt Ugly Martians
Pokemon - Seriously. This show is so damn annoying. It's on its like, ninth season or something. Blah.

Kagetsu

08-31-2006, 02:42 PM

That Sabrina the Teenage Witch Cartoon
I'm no huge fan of the original live-action sitcom series, but it was miles better then their cartoon incarnation. Amateur artwork and movement and some of the most ridiculously corniest dialogues and stories that I've ever seen. That one is pretty bad, but "the original" was animated on a show with The Archie's and wasn't bad for it's time.
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2863/20407ql0.th.jpg (http://img520.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20407ql0.jpg)

I know we are only to use five,,, but these are all so horrible,,, and that's just ones I've seen. So I've excluded SuperMilkChan and TomGoestotheMayer, only because I haven't accidentally taped them.

The Super Globetrotters bad animation and goofy story.
Camp Lazlo. awful animation, characters and stories.
Kong, bad animation, dull story
Cow and Chicken. just awful all around
Mucha Lucha, oh brother,,, bad animation and all around stupid
The amazing Spiderman and Friends. Bad animation lousy voice acting, and idiotic stories
Captian Planet, bad animation, politcal agenda brainwashing.
The Cramp Twins bad animation and just plain gross

Including Adult Swim
MissionHill bad animation, crude humour.
The Oblongs, just plain gross
12oz mouse, nothing even worth calling animation, gross sick and wrong
Squidbillies, see 12 oz. mouse ^
And I'll throw in SouthPark, bad animation gross stories, humour based on profanity.

Hmm...I dont know if I agree with Ren and Stimpy (in fact I DON'T agree with it.) It's pure gold floating in the middle of a sea of crap - or at least as far as this list is concerned.But really it's the same bad animation with jokes about farts and hair ball vomit. It broke new ground and appealed to kids toilet humour and had exploding eyeballs,,, but it wasn't good,,, though not the worst.

Shadow Blaziken

08-31-2006, 03:57 PM

Totally Spies
Danny Phantom
American Dragon: Jake Long
Codename: Kids Next Door
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
My Gym Partner's a Monkey
Mucha Lucha
Loonatics: Unleashed
Ozzie & Drix
The Buzz on Maggie
Eiken
Bratz
Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy
Code Lyoko
Squirrel Boy
My Life as a Teenage Robot
Butt-Ugly Martians
Krypto the Superdog

And...that's all I got for the moment.

EDIT: Atomic Betty is garbage, too.

Pc-Famicom64

08-31-2006, 03:58 PM

Camp Lazlo.You do know that Camp Lazlo was made by the same guy who made Rocko's Modern Life, right?

P.S: I did said my worst TV shows of all time.

Jave

08-31-2006, 05:18 PM

You do know that Camp Lazlo was made by the same guy who made Rocko's Modern Life, right?That's what makes it so painful.

Pc-Famicom64

08-31-2006, 05:23 PM

That's what makes it so painful.Are you saying that you hate both shows?

TheMecca

08-31-2006, 05:27 PM

Are you saying that you hate both shows?
Jave is saying (I think) that Joe Murray did a brilliant job when making Rocko, but disappointed almost every Rocko fan when Lazlo hit airwaves.
Rocko >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lazlo.

Jave

08-31-2006, 05:37 PM

Jave is saying (I think) that Joe Murray did a brilliant job when making Rocko, but disappointed almost every Rocko fan when Lazlo hit airwaves.
Rocko >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lazlo.Precisely.

HG Revolution

08-31-2006, 05:43 PM

Are you saying that you hate both shows?

I think he is upset that after Rocko was so good, Lazlo felt disappointing in comparison.

At least that's how I feel.

tucsoncoyote

08-31-2006, 06:06 PM

Okay time for some major bombs and in fact get ready for some lame shows. cause here they are .. in no particular order.

Problem Child: I've seen the movie, I've Seen the Sequel.. I've even seen.. the animatioed Series. Let's face it, Problem Child is perhaps the worst Idea that ever hit the air. Why talk about a mischevious 10 year old boy and a young girl who cause havoc for a Elementary School Principal... in Fact if I were Gilbert Godfreid I would have walked...and I mean just like the AFLAC Duck (AFLAC!).

Punky Brewster: Next to The Brady Kids, this show on NBC was really lame.. taking a good liive action TV show and turning it into it's illegitimate Animated version.. and adding a cute Magical Fuzzy? No way ....

Kidd Video: Sorry this just was so horrible in the story department it's right up there with the next Contestant:

12 oz Mouse: Let's face it Twelve Oz Mouse is perhaps the worst Animated Flick.. it's right up there with Disney's Charlie and Lola in the mornings but has a grittier edge to it. but it looks like It's drawn by a 6 year old hyped up on Ritalin.

Mr T: I pity the fool who watched this lame show about Mr. T and some gymnastic kids and then having the real Mr. T come on Live.. Right up there with

Chuck Norris' Karate Commandoes: Puhlease it's so awful, you need to scrape this show off the pavement with a spatula.. sure you got Chuck Norris doing the spiel and what not.. but between him and Mr. T? That's what turned me off to Action Heroes of this type forever.. even Arnold S is not that appealing.

and that brings us to

Hulk Hogan's Rock and Wrestling: Let's face it Hulk Hogan and a bunch of Wrestlers fighting evil wrestlers? And look just one Token female (Wendy Richter no less .. can we say, 'Borefest'? I knew we could. Especially when during the Live Action Segments we had Hulk and the gang trying to do rock and roll music.. Puhlease... Kill it..

Then we come to these disasters...

The Snorks: Smurfs under the sea they should have called it. cause the snorks were based much like the smurfs but were all under water..(I wonder what wold have happened if they had taken one out of water?) Probably would have flopped around like a fish and died.

Pole Position: Sure base a TV Show off a Video game.. and Pole Position wasn't that spectacular... another Borefest.

Time to move on to Robots and bad acting..

Tranzor Z: It's no Gigantor and it's definitely your mama's Voltron. Let's just say, 'You got served' with this show...and believe me It's not great.

Silverhawks: Okay Thundercats Cool, Silverhawks Not.. Thundercats were a bit more believable then this series and believe me having these characters on hurt the Rankin Bass Series of shows.

That's all I can think of right now, if I think of any more I'll let you know.

:coyote:

Leviathan

08-31-2006, 06:30 PM

I guess Atomic Betty has grown on Toon Zone's memebers, i'm the only person to have nominated it in this entire thread.

Shadow Blaziken

08-31-2006, 06:45 PM

Tranzor Z: It's no Gigantor and it's definitely your mama's Voltron. Let's just say, 'You got served' with this show...and believe me It's not great.
That better just be the dub you're talking about, because Mazinger Z is awesome. ;o;

Tintin

08-31-2006, 07:41 PM

Surprising that no one get mentionned Brandy & Mr. Whiskers. Seriously, what's the heck to created a new show with classic styles! And why there's do just copied the other cartoon styles? That has non-sense and besides, this show has not art because it's a copious look of cartoon series created in the 1990's. I don't understand why some peoples like that. It's just... gross and annoying for my ears!! And i want too get my nomination for Inspector Gadget. (The original) I know i loved this than i was a kid but now who's the pleasure to watch a clumsy bionic detective now? :(

judyindisguise

08-31-2006, 07:44 PM

I think he is upset that after Rocko was so good, Lazlo felt disappointing in comparison.

At least that's how I feel.

I'm with you guys. I loved Rocko. I hate Lazlo.

Beat

08-31-2006, 08:24 PM

That better just be the dub you're talking about, because Mazinger Z is awesome. ;o;
Well Tranzor did cut out all the monster attacks, and the innuendo, and Boss, and just about everything that made Mazinger beloved in the rest of the world.

While I'm at it, I'm going to add 12. Oz mouse to the list too. This show barely qualifies as animation.

clucky

08-31-2006, 08:34 PM

Rocket Power
If I hear radical or extreme one more time:mad:

Dr. OneWay

08-31-2006, 08:45 PM

If I hear radical or extreme one more time:mad:

. . . It wasn't that terrible of a show. Sure, it had it's flaws, but if nothing else was on, I would watch it.

They really didn't say radical or extreme very much :\ Gnarly, yes.

Czar Gato

09-01-2006, 12:29 AM

~Pretty much any show built around an actual person, with the exception of Jackie Chan Adventures.

~Mega Babies- quite possibly the most hideous-looking show I've ever seen.

~Rocket Power. Ick.

Jon Cooke

09-01-2006, 01:31 AM

My picks, in no order:

01 - BABY LOONEY TUNES

02 - RICKETY ROCKET (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=1170285&postcount=1) - A pretty obscure show, but one of the WORST I have ever seen.

03 - THE WACKY WORLD OF TEX AVERY - One can only imagine how Tex would react to seeing his name slapped on this series of worthless, unfunny and badly animated cartoons.

04 - SHEEP IN THE BIG CITY - I know many will disagree with this, but I find this show just plain obnoxious and ugly.

05 - HOOT KLOOT - possibly the worst series of theatrical cartoons ever made

(Dis)Honorable mentions to Terrytoons' LUNO THE FLYING HORSE and pretty much everything Hanna-Barbera cranked out in the 1970s (JABBERJAW, etc).

No comment on LOONATICS since I haven't been able to bring myself to watch a single episode. I doubt I ever will.

RAINMAN

09-01-2006, 03:40 AM

G.I Joe. ireally like this show as a kid but now,I`m wondering why I like this show? The plots are roteins ones and very bad too. The characters are boring as heck. And they can`t stop yelling out their catch phares every ep`s. It`s really pains me cause I like GI Joe but I can`t ignore how awful this shows truly is.:sad:

Freedom Fighter

09-01-2006, 03:57 AM

Asking for a personal Top 5 worst is a whole lot harder to do than coming up with a personal Top 5 best, only because for me, a lot of shows I hated I did so because the concept turned me off or I dropped it after one episode. And I tend to forget them too... :sweat:

So here's my attempt at a personal Top 5 worst, in no particular order (because trying to put them in order would fry my already scrambled brain):

1. Loonatics Unleashed. Can this be on the list for a reason other than the show being too darn generic and industry-fabricated? I actually hate it more for the fact that kids will think this is the way the Looney Tunes characters have always been, especially with none of the old shorts available on any basic cable channel. (Before anyone asks, Baby Looney Tunes, even though I don't watch it either, gets more of a pass from me because its purpose of existance is actually meaningful.) LU can probably jump off this list if they follow the trend of many shows already that debuted last year and have a much improved second season this year. I don't think it's the worst show of all time, but it's one of the worst on right now for sure because it spits upon the franchise's legacy (which, on an aside note, is the biggest reason why I'm fearful for Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!).

2. 12 Oz. Mouse. Definitely on the list for many, many reasons. It's designed like Adult Swim paid a preschooler to draw it. It's one thing to have a show that has no plot, but this show can't even make that funny! And the show just drags on and on and on and on... like the VAs were extremely bored and were only actually doing their roles just to get some extra cash. A show like this doesn't deserve to exist, even with the truckloads of other AS shows that are more trashy, violent, overtly sexual, and the like.

3. Da Boom Crew. The crew who worked on this show worked on The Proud Family, which I got into after finding Disney Channel and Kim Possible. There's definitely some things not to like about PF, but a big reason for liking it was the spunky lead, Penny. Boom had no such lead. In addition, it seemed they only took the stuff I didn't like about PF and put it in this show. Add to that boring space battles and stereotypical cast members that insulted my intelligence, and I had to give up on it. Kids did too, though it didn't help that Kids' WB aired four episodes and then repeated them all instead of trying to show as many premieres as they could push out...

4. G.I. Joe. I'm watching the show occasionally in the mornings when I get home from work on G4's Action Blast. Now, I know the show came from that whole 'cheesy '80s era,' but this is just darn ridiculous. Believe it or not, this actually makes the current update Sigma Six look competent. I've never seen so many fake explosions, obnoxious catch-phrases, and characters that, now looking back, would be an insult to the military (and to evildoers/terrorists alike). And the theme song sucks. Hard. Once again, give me the update's rock/rap mixture over whatever the heck the original was. Was the whole 'public service announcement' bits (which the block, unfortunately, does not show) the only GOOD thing about this show? Truly the biggest case of 'they got a TV show just to sell action figures.'

5. Reign: The Conqueror. Yes, even before other such bad anime such as Transformers: Armada, the version of Super Milk-chan that Adult Swim got, and even... gulp... D.I.C.E., there's this ugly piece of tripe. It's bad enough that this is a reimagining of the legend of Alexander the Great (who wants to learn about history that late at night?), but the designs are just butt ugly. Seriously. Honestly, if I can't even stand staring at Alexander's ugly mug for two seconds (and that doesn't include glancing at the most glaring part of his costume, the thong/codpiece), what makes you think I'll stick around for an entire episode? I don't even care if this was a quality series in terms of writing (and from what I've heard, it's not), if I can't stand to look at the lead character, how am I gonna watch the show? Oh, and I want those two seconds of my life back. Tenfold.

Some other notables, also in no particular order: Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?, Angela Anaconda, Shorties Watching Shorties, and the aforementioned D.I.C.E.

Xerroo

09-01-2006, 05:58 AM

DA Boom Crew
Doug
Rocket Power
As told by Ginger

Ickis

09-01-2006, 11:47 AM

Spongebob: Just because its a Nicktoon dosen't meen you have to copy Stimpys mouth movement on a Sponge!!!
Bratz: I just watched probably 8 seconds of it and I thought it stank, if I wanted to see girls in belly shirts I'd watch Winx Club, because atleast its not about crummy toys and its not 3D.
Shruiken School: Its a great insult to anime.
The Harveytoon show Boomerang aired: The cartoons were shortened, cut, and when they gave Buzzy his new voice they threw in some newer music to make it sound kiddyish.
Baby Looney Tunes: We had Tiny Toons for a reason you know.
Crazy Frog animations: They stink!! This is one frog I wouldn't mind cooked and someone eating his legs, 'cept they'd probably have real bad mental issues afterword.

Zinal

09-01-2006, 01:38 PM

My picks:
Care Bears
As Told By Ginger
Rocket Power
Loonatics Unleashed
Baby Looney Tunes
Camp Lazlo
Bratz
Rugrats
Pokemon
Totally Spies

Rocketboy

09-01-2006, 01:44 PM

Loonatics, As Told by Ginger, Rocket Power, and 12 Oz. Mouse.

Uncle_Lina

09-01-2006, 03:21 PM

Okay, here it goes.
The Wacky World of Tex Avery: Retarded DiC show that tried to copy the golden age animator Tex Avery. Glad he never seen this.
Donkey Kong Country: Utterly horrible, the CGI looked awful and the characters were really annoying.
Angela Anaconda: Annoying characters, dreadful looking animation.... arg.
Bratz: Honestly, get some better CGI technology, it's not a PS1 game you're making.
Mega Babies: Yeah, babies poop, hilarious aint it?
Popeye & Son: The kid was very annoying, he was Scrappy Doo times a million.
Trollz: Dull, Cheesy and just bad looking.
Kenny The Shark: See Trollz
Butt-Ugly Martians: This show is just too bad looking to explain into words.
Dr. Dog: Tries to be educational, but ends up being annoying and stupid.
King Arthur's Disasters: Adults animated this show??
Fonz And The Happy Days Gang: Diddn't need an animated cartoon, they should have just aired Happy Days on a saturday morning.
Muppet Babies: bad voice acting, stories and all real cheesy.
Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Petshop: Looks like an early 80s cartoon, but it was made in the mid 90s!
Gadget Boy And Heather: Yet another terrible shrunk down show.
Flintstones Kids: Woah!! Super 80s cheesyness non-stop!
Hanna-Barbera 70s-80s: (Besides Scooby, The Hair Bear Bunch and Hong Kong Phooey)

Tay the Cat

09-01-2006, 03:58 PM

Shruiken School: Its a great insult to anime.

Except it's not an anime, or even trying to be.

Pepperidge

09-01-2006, 03:58 PM

Hulk - The original 1960's series. I think it still remains the lowest quality animation production I've ever seen, both in terms of visuals and writing.

Bromwell High - Lewd, reprehensible, and completely unfunny program which is completely undeserving of the praise given to it by the Canadian press. It also cost way, way too much to make.

Mega Babies - If you're at all familiar with the show, I shouldn't even need to provide an explanation.

Note that I didn't mention Rocket Robin Hood.

Blue Priestess

09-01-2006, 04:18 PM

Here's my nominations.

The Wacky World of Tex Avery: DiC's attempt to ape Tex's unique style and sense of humor with none of his timing, attention, genuine sense of what's funny, or even budget. Like so many others here have said, it's an insult to his legacy.

Angela Anakonda: Not interesting at all, populated by irritating characters and done in a style that makes even the dumbest animutation look good.

Fonz and the Happy Days Gang: This was the one where, for whatever reason, Fonz got sent into space to hang with a dog that mimicked him and highlighted how short his shelf-life had become. Happy Days was also a source material that was already all-ages and decent, so it didn't need a cartoon counterpart to kiddify it.

Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?: The short itself was cute, but trying to stretch it into a full series weakened it more than its relatively simple premise could stand. Also, while the short's style was fine for a seven-minute snip, watching it for half an hour was just hard.

Family Dog: I am shocked that no one's mentioned this immediately-post-Simpsons attempt at prime time animation. The premise was repulsive - a family of jerks devoid of anything that could be mistaken for a decent personality (let alone a decent personality element) mistreat their helpless, thoroughly pathetic dog, in an ugly art style, and we're supposed to find this exercise in animal cruelty & bitter writing funny. Did everyone else somehow find a way to block this from their memories to escape the scars? Please, if you did, tell me how. I still want to find the people behind this and punch them.

dth1971

09-01-2006, 05:34 PM

Here's my Top 5 for the Worst Cartoons of All Time:
1) "Wolf Rock TV" (ABC 1984)
2) "Da Boom Crew" (Kids WB 2004)
3) "Gary the Rat" (Spike TV 2003)
4) "The Legend of Calamity Jane" (Kids WB 1997)
5) "Adventures of Hyperman" (CBS 1995)

Golgo13

09-01-2006, 05:59 PM

Loonatics
Shorties Watching Shorties
Robot Chicken
Chico and Guapo
Shark Tale
Antz
Stroker and Hoop

Zorak Masaki

09-01-2006, 06:35 PM

Classic Speedy

09-01-2006, 07:34 PM

The only problem with threads like this (and even i have contributed) is that everyone's idea of "bad" is different (for the most part). For example, someone may think that drawn together is a horrible show while someone else may have it as their favorite show. Exactly. And, I dunno, you get the feeling from some of the posts that bad shows have only existed since, like, 2000 and newer. Not saying that your opinion of the worst show EVER is worthless if you haven't seen every cartoon ever made, but... it DOES limit your range of what to choose from.

Ickis

09-01-2006, 08:02 PM

Except it's not an anime, or even trying to be. Well, it still stinks. I don't get whats so bad about Camp Lazlo, I mean I see how its "lame" but I wouldn't say terrible, its not a really big dissapointment like "Ren and Stimpy: Adult party cartoon show".

Undrave

09-01-2006, 08:21 PM

Loonatics Unleashed?

Pfah! Very bad indeed, but not even close to the worst. To know the worst, you have to have lived...

TOTALLY agree... all you kids nominating recent shows just have no idea how far cartoons came since the heydays.

A bunch of stuff made for TV by Hannah-Barberra was just horrible... especially all the 'mystery solving' shows their hit Scooby Doo created augh...

As much as we owe Hannah Barberra (creating TV animation, inventing Animation Writers) they were responsible for a lot of bad stuff. Wether directly or indirectly.

Luckily for me as a kid the dubbing process kinda weeded out some of the worse stuff :D so I can't really comment but I must say I always hated Two Stupid Dogs and Catdog...

But I'd need to objectively look at it again to truly say it was in the top 'worse'.

I'm sure a lot of stuff from the 80s isn't even 'hilariously bad' (ala Mr. T or Chuck Norris).

Undrave

09-01-2006, 08:28 PM

Beast Wars

I can accept the resto f your list but... WHAT THE HECK?? Beast Wars?? Why would you think it's the worse?! Even if YOU didn't like it's its still considered a hit so that's mean it's far from the worse.

In fact I'd consider the ORIGINAL Transformers for my list of 'Wrost' LONG before I'd consider Beast Wars... but I don't because I know a lot of people liked it and while the writting of the individual episodes was crud it had at least a coherent universe and a good over arching storyline.

Anthonynotes

09-01-2006, 08:46 PM

>>
03 - THE WACKY WORLD OF TEX AVERY - One can only imagine how Tex would react to seeing his name slapped on this series of worthless, unfunny and badly animated cartoons.<<

A TV promo for this (lame) show states about the show's characters: "they're wanted in all 50 states! You can see why!"

Think that sums up its proper "wanted" status nicely. ;-)

-B.

judyindisguise

09-01-2006, 08:53 PM

TOTALLY agree... all you kids nominating recent shows just have no idea how far cartoons came since the heydays.

A bunch of stuff made for TV by Hannah-Barberra was just horrible... especially all the 'mystery solving' shows their hit Scooby Doo created augh...

As much as we owe Hannah Barberra (creating TV animation, inventing Animation Writers) they were responsible for a lot of bad stuff. Wether directly or indirectly.

Luckily for me as a kid the dubbing process kinda weeded out some of the worse stuff :D so I can't really comment but I must say I always hated Two Stupid Dogs and Catdog...

But I'd need to objectively look at it again to truly say it was in the top 'worse'.

I'm sure a lot of stuff from the 80s isn't even 'hilariously bad' (ala Mr. T or Chuck Norris).'

My dad hated Hanna-Barbera. He thinks they nearly killed animation as an art. He remembers stuff like Goober and the Ghost Hunters or something like that, and a show starring Moby Dick as a crimefighter. Jeez! He thinks tv toons are better now, at least technically, although the only show I've seen him watch is Spongebob.

Undrave

09-01-2006, 09:00 PM

'

My dad hated Hanna-Barbera. He thinks they nearly killed animation as an art. He remembers stuff like Goober and the Ghost Hunters or something like that, and a show starring Moby Dick as a crimefighter. Jeez! He thinks tv toons are better now, at least technically, although the only show I've seen him watch is Spongebob.

True they did some horrendous stuff...

But you have to realise they were pioneers. Before H&B there was no such thing as a cartoon writer. Before that the artists would just brainstorm together and string the jokes or scenes together, then, in the case of a feature like Disney's movie, a script writer would be brought in to clean up the story a bit and make pretty dialog.

When H&B went on to make TV animation they realised they couldn't do feature quality 24 frame-per-second shots with lots of action based humor, they had to lower the production to about 16 fps and had to use a script for the first time in order to have dialogue based humor.

H&B invented TV cartoons, so it's obvious that a LOT of people improved on their original concept since then so anything they did feels like teh suk compared to what we have today.

I personally don't believe new TV cartoons are getting worse, they might be stagnating but we came a LONG way since the 'classic' eras of the 70s and 80s which were truly horrendous and improved a lot, especially in term of storytelling (altough the advances in Animation are really impressive too).

Tintin

09-01-2006, 10:36 PM

Blue Priestess

09-02-2006, 06:31 AM

The only problem with threads like this (and even i have contributed) is that everyone's idea of "bad" is different (for the most part). For example, someone may think that drawn together is a horrible show while someone else may have it as their favorite show.

I think threads like this can be constructive and give everyone a fair idea of each other's standards of good & bad if people would actually explain why they chose particular shows instead of just making a list with the occassional two-word snark next to a title. But when it comes to the all-too-common state of 'all new cartoons are crap' with no explanation, then it loses its value.

MonkeyFunk

09-02-2006, 09:06 AM

Since this thread is gathering nominees for a poll, I don't think it's really necessary to go into much detail right now, is it?

umaiki

09-02-2006, 09:57 AM

My choices:

The Kids from Room 402

:eek:
How can you say that!?
The plots where funny and entertaining, and the cartoon is full of charm- the charaters are also great- Gotta love Polly.
It is such a underated cartoon, just because the humour isn't too obvious and the pace is slow.

Wouldn't this thread be much better if people had to give reasons why?

icerbreaker

09-02-2006, 10:27 AM

Ed. Edd, Eddy
Loonatics
Mucha Lucha
Carmen Sandiego (animated series)
Camp Lazlo

i cant believe every1 forgot carmen sandiego that cartoon was just horrible. i liked the original 1 from PBS. but when they made a cartoon i jus hated.

Ed,Edd Eddy is jus very stupid cartoon that teachs kids how to be very stupid and retard. bad animation, stupid characters, and very corney. i think its the worst cartoon ever.

Zack

09-02-2006, 11:36 AM

Wouldn't this thread be much better if people had to give reasons why?

Why? What would be the point?

kaine23

09-02-2006, 12:07 PM

Da Boom Crew. Show was one stereotype after another...

Simon Trent

09-02-2006, 01:00 PM

Why? What would be the point?

It's difficult to understand why someone thinks a show belongs on a list of the top 20 worst cartoons of all time if they don't bother telling you why they felt that way. Anyone can copy and paste a list of shows from an episode guide but giving reasons would make this a whole lot more interesting.

Da Boom Crew. Show was one stereotype after another...

It also had bad plotting, shoddy animation, cliches, no characterisation, and some of the cheesiest voice-acting this side of Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island.

eJm

09-02-2006, 05:59 PM

It's difficult to understand why someone thinks a show belongs on a list of the top 20 worst cartoons of all time if they don't bother telling you why they felt that way. Anyone can copy and paste a list of shows from an episode guide but giving reasons would make this a whole lot more interesting.

As the guy who made this thread and as a result is making this whole damn thing, I agree with this. :p

Caswin

09-02-2006, 08:49 PM

4) "The Legend of Calamity Jane" (Kids WB 1997)(CBS 1995)Okay, I'm not disputing this (probably because I haven't seen it), but could you expand on that? From what I've seen, it looks pretty decent.

Kitschensyngk

09-03-2006, 01:06 AM

I nominate:

Rocket Power
Annoying surfer jargon and morality plays to boot

Pepper Ann
The crimson-haired assassin of Saturday morning

Baby Looney Tunes
A bit late to be ripping off the Muppet Babies, dontcha think?

Flintstone Kids
Suitable only for preschoolers and masochists

12 oz. Mouse
Can we agree that from now on, animated cartoons must be ANIMATED?!

Sabrina: The Animated Series
Corny cookie cutter sugar pop...most unappetizing

Yogi's Gang
I never liked Yogi, and even I thought he was out of character in this PC cheesefest!

The Horcrux

09-03-2006, 01:23 AM

Ben 10
As Told By Ginger
Loonatics Unleashed
Camp Lazlo
My Gym Partner Is A Monkey
Catdog
Butt-Ugly Martians
Rocket Power
American Dragon: Jake Long
Codename: Kids Next Door
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
Code Lyoko
Doug
Whatever Happened To Robot Jones

These are just a few of the crap I hate.

Ghostbuster Man

09-03-2006, 02:02 AM

The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy
Moral Oral
Harvy Birdman
Robot Chicken

nuff said

Ykwia

09-03-2006, 02:54 AM

I have one show that meets all the requirements.

Squirrel Boy

It's just so damn boring.

Conan-san

09-03-2006, 07:44 AM

The Cramp Twins
"I'm the king of the castle" If one of the boys was held up for the other to just pummel in for the hell of it. Chramless to the extreame and utlimately just plain wrong.
Unsuprisngly, it's got at lest 4 airings a day in the UK

Pet Alien
In short, the end result of when TV excs think that CGI is win regardless of what's put in there.
Utterly braindead, I'd be better off watching a blank screen for half an hour.

Jetix Dub of Nar-

shaman_mya19

09-03-2006, 08:59 AM

butt ugly martians: i agree with the people about this one

code lyoko: i don't watch this now

Super Duper Sumos: gaaaaaay

cat scratch:i have no words to say

Kazuya Prower

09-03-2006, 12:23 PM

Squirrel Boy: I find this one boring.

My Gym Partner's a Monkey: poor concept and no character development.

Camp Lazlo: This show shows that Joe Murray has lost his touch after all these years.

Butt Ugly Martians: No sir, I didn't like it!

Super Duper Sumos: I could imagine where the butt jokes for My Gym Partner's a Monkey came from.

Cat Scratch: I just didn't seem to like it.

Pet Alien: ugh, I'm glad this show didn't last very long.

Blacklight

09-03-2006, 12:40 PM

No one's mentioned Groovie Goolies yet. For pure badness, it's hard to top a 1970's Laugh-In/Sonny & Cher-type variety show fed through Filmation's house style and piles of desperate monster puns like "Little Lord Hauntleroy".

In defense of the Calamity Jane nomination, I thought it was boring too. And why did she have that odd skin color?

tucsoncoyote

09-04-2006, 02:55 PM

Well Tranzor did cut out all the monster attacks, and the innuendo, and Boss, and just about everything that made Mazinger beloved in the rest of the world.

While I'm at it, I'm going to add 12. Oz mouse to the list too. This show barely qualifies as animation.

To Shadow Blaziken I was indeed referring to the Awful Dubs.. not the animation (The stories were so badly dubbed, it was enough to make you gag.

But I also agree with Beatdigga, 12 oz mouse looks about the same level as Charlie and Lola...these two shows look like they were drawn by a six year old.

but Yes I was referring to Tranzor Z's Horrible dub.. but still it was no Voltron either..

I nominate:
Pepper Ann
The crimson-haired assassin of Saturday morning.

Oh god, how could I forget this one! If the plots didn't kill you .. the Opening Theme song Being Sung off key would...

:coyote:

JesseCuster

09-05-2006, 09:15 AM

Ed, Edd, & Eddy
This is the one show that I really HATE. They do stupid things for no reason. I can deal with a stupid character that does things in a stupid way for a good reason, but just to be stupid is just . . . well, stupid.

OverMaster

09-05-2006, 09:56 AM

No one else does remember Pandamonium? Boy, that thing was bad and annoying.

Mega Babies has to be the grossest, most disgustingly pointless thing ever made.

The Gary Coleman Show. You have to wonder, did they have any sort of quality in mind when they made it?

Super Duper Sumos. A big unfunny butt joke repeated ad infinitum a horrible show makes.

Hero High. I wonder if anyone else remembers this too. Full of horribly unfunny cliches to the max.

Dishonorable mentions to Waldo Kitty, Fraidy Kat, Beyblade, Angela Anaconda and The Flintstones Kids.

Kryten

09-05-2006, 08:05 PM

Yeah, I remember Hero High... it stunk on ice, but it was paired with a pretty decent, faithful-to-the-original Captain Marvel series. I wonder if that's ever coming to DVD.

Mittenz

09-05-2006, 09:27 PM

(Note: Not all the following were always hated by me. Infact, some of these cartoons I still like. Nevertheless, they're still awful.)

Captain Planet (most laughable hero)
Cartoon Planet
Camp Lazlo
I. M. Weasel

and the worst cartoon in the books of 808:

The Brothers Flub!

STARTOUNZ

09-06-2006, 11:32 PM

The Brady Kids (The supreme WORST!!!)
The Patridge Family 2070 (not sure if that year is right)
Where's Huddles?
Sheep in the Big City
Hong Kong Phooey
Baby Looney Tunes
Family Guy
American Dad
The New Archies (several episodes were carbon copies of 80's episodes of Dennis the Menace)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (a combination Scooby-Doo and Josie and the Pussycats series that lacked the quality of either)
Yogi's Galaxy Goofups
Yogi's Space Race
Yo Yogi!
The Robonic Stooges
Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
Jabberjaw
The Bionic Six
She-Ra: Princess of Power (paled in comparison to He-Man)
Silver Surfer
The Avengers
The first seaons of the 90's Iron Man and Fantastic Four series (though their second seasons were a huge improvement)
Also Fantastic Four of the 70's mainly because there was no Human Torch (even though I didn't actually see this series)

OK, I know it's more 20, but you'd have to admit they're all pretty bad.

Classic Speedy

09-06-2006, 11:37 PM

American Dad is not bad. [/rhyme]

Kitschensyngk

09-07-2006, 01:01 AM

Oh god, how could I forget this one! If the plots didn't kill you .. the Opening Theme song Being Sung off key would...

:coyote:

My sentiments exactly. On top of the irritating theme song, the kids on that show were all incomprehensible brain-dead stereotypes, and the adults were no better.

While I'm ranting on bad cartoons from this era, I'd like to include:

Mary-Kate & Ashley in Action!

I only saw one episode of this, but that was enough. It was the episode where this pop musician planned to crash this world summit or something by interrupting their plans to play every representative's national anthem (?) using his own music. It was clear that the moral was individuality because he kept saying that everyone should like only what he likes every other sentence!

I felt the writing in that episode left much to be desired...like writing.

tucsoncoyote

09-07-2006, 01:25 AM

While I'm ranting on bad cartoons from this era, I'd like to include:

Mary-Kate & Ashley in Action!

I only saw one episode of this, but that was enough. It was the episode where this pop musician planned to crash this world summit or something by interrupting their plans to play every representative's national anthem (?) using his own music. It was clear that the moral was individuality because he kept saying that everyone should like only what he likes every other sentence!

I felt the writing in that episode left much to be desired...like writing.

Oh god yes, I Agree here as well. I saw 13 of the 26 episodes and I have to say Mary Kate and Ashley in Action! gave Spy Girls a BAD name. This was just 1 year before Totally Spies! (which was originally Supposed to be Called "The Spy Girls"), and 2 years before Kim Possible.

Mary Kate and Ashley in Action! was so horrible in plot, it could make you want to scream.. No Gadgets, some skills, and All dead plots with no save the world action and the Robotic Dog was lame. But you're also Right with Pepper Ann, That show made shows Like Filmore! and Even The Weekenders Look better. But please don't sing the Pepper Ann Theme Song. It sounds like what a Cat in A blender set to 'Liquify' sounds like!

Now I'm going to add in C.O.P.S. Why C.O.P.S? This show was so bad you had villains like Miss Demeanor.. (Why have crooks with Lame Names? I mean Even Captain Planet is right up there with Characters Like "Duke Nuke'em" (Gee isn't that a Game Character?)

But C.O.P.S. even had bad PSA's (Unlike the Better G.I. Joe ones.) so believe me, This one gets on my "Dump" list.

:coyote:

trayguy

09-07-2006, 02:00 AM

A couple of cartoons for my nomination.
1. Two Stupid Dogs
2. Spongebob Squarepants
3.The Cramp Twins
4. Beavis and Butthead
5.Squidbillies
6. Aqua Teen Hunger Force

CartoonOverlord

09-07-2006, 03:56 PM

1:The Brady Kids- I can't believe it, a 70's/80's caroon based off of celebrites that's not hilariously bad like Mr. T and Hammerman? Worst show definitely.

2:Cramp Twins-An ugly and annoying piece of crap.

3:My Gym Partner's A Monkey- Crude and stupid this show will defintely make you lose brain cells.

4: Free Willy- I didn't see it but from what I hear it's an extreme Captain Planet without the corniness to entertain you. Instantly lose.

5: 12 Ounce Mouse-Not funny and poorly drawn to the extreme and even that doesn't make it any funnier.

vanidad

09-07-2006, 09:06 PM

Charlie Brown
Sakura CardCaptors
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Xiaolin Showdown
Codename:Kids Next Door
Teen Titans
Code Lyoko
Mirmo Zibang
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Ben 10
Nadja

STARTOUNZ

09-07-2006, 09:48 PM

More to my list:

Spongebob Squarepants
Rickety Rocket
Hammerman
Beavis and Butthead
2 Stupid Dogs (only saw the far superior Secret Squirrel cartoons)

Kryten

09-07-2006, 10:49 PM

Charlie Brown
Sakura CardCaptors
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Xiaolin Showdown
Codename:Kids Next Door
Teen Titans
Code Lyoko
Mirmo Zibang
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Ben 10
Nadja

Uh... this is a WORST cartoons thread, and you CLEARLY don't hate Ben 10 or HHPAY.

Kitschensyngk

09-08-2006, 01:10 AM

Charlie Brown
CHARLIE BROWN!? WORST!?! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!!

What about A Charlie Brown Christmas and Great Pumpkin?

Henk55

09-08-2006, 03:25 PM

CHARLIE BROWN!? WORST!?! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!!

What about A Charlie Brown Christmas and Great Pumpkin?

I was also completely stunned, but he/she has apparently mistook this for "the best cartoons ever" thread

hobbyfan

09-08-2006, 07:10 PM

The 20 worst cartoons of all time? Hmmmm.

In no particular order.....

The Brothers Grunt (1994): Before he scored with Ed, Edd, & Eddy, Danny Antonacci served up this left-handed salute to the Rat Pack for MTV. Wretched.

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: He's dumber than a bag of hammers. She's mature & cynical beyond her years. How Cartoon Network has made a hit of this, I don't know.

Turbo Teen (1985): Ruby-Spears & ABC thought they could send up "Knight Rider" by fusing human & car into one. Boy, were they wrong!

Hammerman (1991): MC Hammer as a superhero? Where this went wrong was not only the concept itself, but the fact that Hammer didn't lend his voice to his animated self.

Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N' Wrestling (1985): Da Hucksta and his buds didn't do their own voices (Brad Garrett & James Avery are among the VAs attached to this show), and instead just did the live-action skits. Aired opposite Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, as memory serves, so you can guess which show got the better ratings, even though both were gone by season's end.

Mission: Magic (1973): Rick Springfield's 1st foray into the US came in this series, reportedly spun off from the Brady Kids. Lasted just one season.

The Thing (1979): After the 2nd incarnation of the Fantastic Four was cancelled, NBC brought the Thing back as part of a Fred & Barney anthology show, but had Hanna-Barbera turn Ben Grimm into teenager Benji Grimm, giving him a 2-part Thing Ring. Anyone that was expecting something akin to Ben's adventures in Marvel 2-in-1 comics back in those days were disappointed.

MTV Oddities: The Head (1995-6): Ordinary guy wakes up one morning and finds an alien has taken up residence in his head. It was a guilty pleasure at first, but when they renewed the series, they decided to parody Super Friends by pairing Jim and his alien buddy with other deformed "oddities" to form a team. That, IMO, was taking a joke too far.

Marvel Superheroes (1965): Grantray-Lawrence had first established themselves, like, in Canada, eh, with Rocket Robin Hood. They come to the US and produce this on the super-cheap. They got it right 2 years later with Spider-Man.

Super Globetrotters (1979): Harlem Globetrotters crossed with the Impossibles?! I gave up on this in a hurry.

Casper & the Angels (1978): Hanna-Barbera picked up the rights to Casper the same year they got Godzilla & Popeye. That this didn't survive the season tells you something right away, though Casper got 2 prime time specials out of the deal that were set in a more familiar setting, and got to meet Yogi, Huck, and pals.

Popeye & Son (mid-80s): A couple of years after the "Popeye & Olive Oyl Show" ended, the spinach eatin' sailor was brought back, this time with a kid who wasn't Swee'pea. Not sure if he married Olive as part of that deal, though they did tie the knot in a 1-shot comic a few years later.

Angela Anaconda: Whomever came up with this tripe tried to follow the same formula as South Park, animating with paper, but it was a dud from the go.

Mega Babies: From the Tromblay brothers (Swat Kats) comes this lameass superhero parody that lasted about 1/2 a season on the then-Fox Family channel.

3 South: After MTV canned Undergrads, they tried to make it up to the college demo by commissioning this from WB. Lame.

Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space (1972): Hanna-Barbera gave them another try, this time using them to parody "Lost in Space". Fred Freiberger, who'd later give H-B Korg: 70,000 BC, was one of the writers on the show and I believe later worked on Space: 1999.

Pro-Stars (1991): Take Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, & Bo Jackson, and ask them to be secret agents?! DIC & NBC were reaching for ideas with this show, and DIC is lucky to have this available on DVD at discount stores.

Wishkid (1991): And then there's Macaulay Culkin, who was riding high in between "Home Alone" movies. DIC & NBC created this show for him. Good thing no one thought of spinning off Shaquille O'Neal's "Kazaam!" into a cartoon before the "Fairly Oddparents" came along.....

The Gary Coleman Show (1983): Hanna-Barbera was asked by NBC to create this spin-off from the movie, "The Kid With the Broken Halo". "Diff'rent Strokes" was nearing the end of its run, which would come a few years later. The cartoon ended after 1 season.

Problem Child (1st season): Animated colorforms. 'Nuff said. Universal changed animation houses the very next season, improving the product.

Anthonynotes

09-08-2006, 09:45 PM

hobbyfan

09-09-2006, 11:40 PM

>>No one else does remember Pandamonium? Boy, that thing was bad and annoying.<<

I remember "Panda-monium", mostly from memories of watching it while my Mom shampooed the living room carpet with a rented cleaner ...but yes, it was really bad. :-)

Never saw it. I believe this was one of Marvel's 1st series for CBS (along w/Meatballs & Spaghetti, circa 1982), before Dungeons & Dragons came along. Local affil blacked it out.

Han Ji-Eun

09-10-2006, 12:29 AM

In Alphabetical Order!

~As Told By Ginger - Sort of mad me sad to watch this one. They were just trying WAY too hard. Also, hidious characters.

~Bratz - Horrible role models for girls - my little seven and five year old cousins watch this show; I just want to give them some Sailor Moon or something, see some girls who actually did cool stuff instead of shopping and make up and crap.

~Camp Lazlo - What a waste of Cartoon Network's air time.

~CatDog - What. Was. The. Point.

~Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island - I haven't heard of such a blatant rip-off of another show EVER.

~Mary-Kate & Ashley in Action! - Do those two even have a say in what their names are put on anymore? Were they just too drunk to care when this show was greenlit?

~My Gym Partner's A Monkey - Just... put on a Foster's rerun, really. This has no business being on television.

Super Sonic

09-10-2006, 01:54 AM

Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi- Seriously. This show is animated in Flash, and tries to look like anime AT THE SAME TIME. Also the plots are god awful, and I even remember the creator, Sam Register, sayng that it'll appeal to those 6 to 16 years old, despite the fact that there's nothing there that only a teenager would be able to point out and the fact that the show is extremely kiddy.
Captain Planet- God, I actually liked this show as a kid.
My Gym Partner's A Monkey- This show isn't all bad, but I hate the random only-takes-you-two-minutes-to-come-up-with plots that have appeared in new episodes lately. I also hate the animation style and how it's all outlined.
Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island- Not only is the show stupid, but it's also a ripoff.
The Cramp Twins- This show looks like complete crap, and I always founded the brother hate brother thing boring.

Dr.Pepper

09-10-2006, 09:45 PM

Totally Spies
Atomic Betty
Family Guy (that show is so unfunny)
Sealab 2021
Krypto the Super Dog
As Told by Ginger
Mary Kate and Ashley in Action

Anthonynotes

09-10-2006, 10:13 PM

Never saw it. I believe this was one of Marvel's 1st series for CBS (along w/Meatballs & Spaghetti, circa 1982), before Dungeons & Dragons came along. Local affil blacked it out.

Never saw Meatballs and Spaghetti before, though imagine my local affiliate (owned-and-operated by CBS) would've aired it... guess I was watching something else.

Anthony C.

09-14-2006, 03:44 PM

Man this list was kind of hard to pin down, but here it is:

12 oz mouse: seriously this is the worst cartoon I've ever seen. This show features animation and character designs that could have been done by an infant. Oh yeah its not funny at all either.

HHPAY: THis show reeks of "Cartoon by Committee". Seriously what kind of creative person actually tells themselves that they are going to make a cartoon about two Japanese singers.

Hammerman: See HHPAY.

Loonatics: I tells ya this is a bamboozelment; how the hell can this monstrosity get carted out on our TV sets yet Looney Tunes isn't on American TV?

Totally Spies: OK this is kind of a guilty pleasure because I like the character designs of the girls and the voices match the designs. But seriously the scripts for this show are as bankrupt of intelligence as any cartoon I've ever seen. This show relies heavily on Dues EX Machinas and plot holes that I feel my brain cells dying as I watch it. Why the hell are the villains so stupid in the first place?

Rescue Heroes: I can't believe nobody mentioned this turdtastic show yet! I remember turning past CBS one day and actually watching an episode of this garbage. WOW I have nothing nice to say about it. It was overly preachy, boring, and the animation and character designs were awful. When CBS put this show on the air, I knew that they had thrown in the towel.

Gary Coleman show: With characters like "Hornswoggle" you know that this show would be awful. I mean I remember when I used to watch this show on the old Cartoon network Friday late night crap-a-rama. I turned away in disgust.

Chuck Norris: SUPER NINJA! Nuff said.

tucsoncoyote

09-14-2006, 04:20 PM

if you want Total Stupidity I think Jabberjaw wins the Cake.. Why Jabber Jaw? Well who would like to have a Talking Shark that Sounds like Curly from the 3 Stooges? Add to that The Neptunes, a Hunk who could pass for Fred From Scooby Doo, A Prima Donna Brat Girl who Jabber Jaw is infatuated with. Another girl with Hair So awful you need to think Velma with a bad hair day and no glasses and is totally Clueless, and the fourth person looking like Shaggy wearing a Sailor's Hat. and the Villains they went up against, well you can imagine.

Then there's Speed Buggy.. A Talking Car? Okay I get tired of "Varoom a Zoom Zoom!" and the villains in this one are so dumb and clueless, that it gets a passing Mention for Horrible Shows.

But these two go down as two of the Worst I feel.

:coyote:

clucky

09-14-2006, 04:55 PM

I have one show that meets all the requirements.

Squirrel Boy

It's just so damn boring.
what are you talking about thats a GREAT show
rodney a great character going on wacky and zainy adventures brought on by his own stuipidity (funny lines too)
also other secoundary (almost) charaters like leon are still funny
the theme song is extemly lame though:sad:

Kitschensyngk

09-15-2006, 11:35 AM

what are you talking about thats a GREAT show
rodney a great character going on wacky and zainy adventures brought on by his own stuipidity (funny lines too)
also other secoundary (almost) charaters like leon are still funny
the theme song is extemly lame though:sad:
Most of Cartoon Network's shows today feature characters going on wacky and zany adventures brought on by one of their friends' stupidity. They've been doing it since Foster's, I believe.

Simon Trent

09-16-2006, 12:30 AM

Most of Cartoon Network's shows today feature characters going on wacky and zany adventures brought on by one of their friends' stupidity. They've been doing it since Foster's, I believe.

Since before Foster's. Off the top of my head, I can name the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, HiHi Puffy AmiYumi, Grim & Evil...and that's only counting what I can remember from Cartoon Network. Other channels -- especially Nickelodeon -- have been using that exact formula for eons, and doing it better as well.

vrempire

09-17-2006, 08:18 AM

1. Pokemon
2. Digimon
and those that seems like stereotype of them...
the Pokemon idea might be original at first, but when many tries to copy it, it looks dull.

Scythemantis

09-17-2006, 08:53 AM

RSNaco

09-17-2006, 10:09 AM

Here's my list:

Code Lyoko (Confusing story and horrible dubbing)
Winx Club (See part 2 of Lyoko reasons, plus the guys are all wusses)
Sealab 2021 (A garbage show based on garbage... that's a winning combo)
Yu-Gi-Oh (The premise itself, not to mention it's just a tool for kids to buy the awful trading card game)
As Told by Ginger (Bad animation and character designs and WAY too boring for a Nicktoon)
DICE (Too heinous for words)
Reign The Conquerer (Atrocious animation, and I'm being generous. Worst looking anime I've ever seen)
Bratz (The entire franchise is a virus for girls: you don't want them to catch it)

I also have to be the one to stand up against the overall hate for Totally Spies. People don't look at this show the way it's meant to be seen. IT'S A FARCE! This show is meant to jab a bit at the spy genre and intentionally be cheesy and whatnot. They aren't trying to make a brilliant show, just one that fits the premise. I mean, how would you go about making a show about 3 teenage girls from Beverly Hills who are international spies? I'd probably do it the same way because it makes sense.

eJm

09-17-2006, 10:21 AM

You know what's worse than every awful show mentioned here, combined?

The childish posters who don't understand that there is a HUGE difference between a bad show and a show that you don't like.

Every single person who listed something popular - like Teen Titans, Spongebob or Family guy - knows full well that these shows have fans for perfectly valid reasons and knows full well that there's far, far worse that they could list. I don't like King of the Hill, but I can still tell it's a good show. Are some people seriously too stupid to get how this works?

This is an issue I'm having a problem with too. People are basically throwing up names of shows they think are bad because they don't like them. That's not the point of this list and it never has been. If you expect me to believe for example, Teen Titans is worse than something like Casper and The Angels, you really are going to have a hard time of doing it.

It's more to do with either people's mentality of shows being better when they were young and stuff for some people. So something like Dexter's Lab would be considered better than Loonatics which is fair enough, but there are still some horrible shows which deserve to be in a higher place on the list then they presently are.

But hey, I'm the guy making the list so either way, I hope it will be a fun thing to do, but I can't help but think that way about this whole thing.

Simon Trent

09-17-2006, 11:34 AM

I also have to be the one to stand up against the overall hate for Totally Spies. People don't look at this show the way it's meant to be seen. IT'S A FARCE! This show is meant to jab a bit at the spy genre and intentionally be cheesy and whatnot. They aren't trying to make a brilliant show, just one that fits the premise. I mean, how would you go about making a show about 3 teenage girls from Beverly Hills who are international spies? I'd probably do it the same way because it makes sense.

I know what Totally Spies was supposed to be, and I understand exactly what it's trying to do. In my opinion, however, it failed by indulging in the same tedious schlock as what it's making fun of. In my opinion, failed comedy is among the worst things that can be inflicted on a viewer. Failed action and failed romance can at least be comically bad, but failed comedy is the kind of thing that festers with each awkward pun and lame, nauseatingly unfunny gag.

I have no problem with the original concept of the show; it's the execution that I can't stand and that's why I think that it's a terrible show.

But, I don't think that Totally Spies is anyway near one of the top twenty worst shows in the world.

Classic Speedy

09-17-2006, 11:41 AM

You know what's worse than every awful show mentioned here, combined?

The childish posters who don't understand that there is a HUGE difference between a bad show and a show that you don't like.

Every single person who listed something popular - like Teen Titans, Spongebob or Family guy - knows full well that these shows have fans for perfectly valid reasons and knows full well that there's far, far worse that they could list. I don't like King of the Hill, but I can still tell it's a good show. Are some people seriously too stupid to get how this works? I agree wholeheartedly. The only problem is, you'll get people that will retailate with, "Well it's what I don't like, so that makes it bad, right?"

To that, I say go back to the cartoons of the '70s, when cartoonists didn't give a crap and the animation industry was considered a dead art form, for the most part. I don't care what you say, the artists on a show like Teen Titans clearly care about fight choreography, storyboarding, animation, and narrative tension, which is something a show like Mr. T couldn't achieve if it had super powers. So you may not like it, but it's nowhere near the top 20 worst of ALL TIME, no matter how you slice it.

Cartman

09-17-2006, 12:04 PM

Here are a few I can name:

Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
CatDog
Cow and Chicken
Ed, Edd, and Eddy
Care Bears
My Little Pony
He Man
Clue Club
Litte Bear

Dr.Pepper

09-17-2006, 01:44 PM

Here are a few I can name:

Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
CatDog
Cow and Chicken
Ed, Edd, and Eddy
Care Bears
My Little Pony
He Man
Clue Club
Litte Bear

I like Schookems and Meat, Ed Edd n Eddy, Cow and Chicken, and Catdog. My Little Ponies was my favorite when I was little

Christian Prime

11-02-2006, 09:36 PM

My first few Worsts so far are the recents:

Brace Face

What's With Andy

The Kids Of Room 402

The Tofus

The characters of the first 2 shows mentioned are gonna be involved in a serious bouts of screaming agony in my own Sound effected version of Pink Floyd Album The Wall with voice/noise samples from various Ghibli Movies, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of War of the Worlds, Metal Gear Solid & Transformers. my fanart included) as they try to win back love from the audience using the powers from The planets Disney, W.B & Ghibli (As They Are The Most Powerful planets in my fanfiction).

But They hear on newscasts that the Disney & W.B planets were heavily damaged & The Ghibli Planet completely destroyed by unknown alien forces Which cause them into a catatonic state of collapse & take over Superman's city of Metropolis, sending the Justice League into a different dimension
Kill off Mercy Graves (after the dissappearance OF Lex Luthor & [Braniac-powered] Darkseid in Destroyer) trash the main office of Lexcorp, shave off all their body
hair & then afterwards become facist demigogues (I think that's how you spell that word) Like in the Floyd's cool live performances & The horror-filled Movie version, the rest has left me in a dizzy sense!

The aftermath in my doujinshi soundtrack sees the Justice League return with some strange reinforcements to stop them & it all ends like MGS2 with a hint of The Skypiea arc from One Piece

I'm terribly sorry, but after reading PPGD & TGTFB by the excellent Bleedman, I'd had to eject so much venom out of my system!
And it's left most of my Sister's schoolfriends steaming with fury!

I do deeply apologize if I went too long & too far with them!

Cow & Chicken

Bratz

more to come when I'm finished drawing my JLU/TF/GIJS6/Bin crossover card gallery

Anime Freak

11-02-2006, 10:07 PM

Generation O (my gosh what a waste of a show, awful yuck)

Ahh! Real Monsters! (one of Nick's only failure in their early cartoon days)

C-bear and Jamal (I want some of what they were smoking when they made this one)

Snorks (I swear this was just a ripoff/duplicate of the smurfs and it bombed bad)

SSJ Jake

11-02-2006, 10:36 PM

As Told By Ginger- Awful teen-drama cartoon with characters that have big ugly lips.

Code LYOKO- Sorry, fan, but I really can't get into it at all. I find it very bland and a bit generic.

Pelswik- Well, okay, I don't REALLY hate this show. I just was suprised no ones mentioned it, since the show was unpopular (I mean, at least Sheep in the Big City gained a cult fallowing). However, I did hate it once because my brother obsessed over the show (stupid reason, I know).

Rocket Power- I did like it back then, but now I just don't find it interesting. Also, the crappy Klasky-Csupo animation really puts me off.

All Grown Up- As if Rugrats's later episodes weren't bad enough, now the kids are all grown up. The point of this though? Other than trying to keep Klasky-Csupo alive, I don't know.

Camp Lazlo- I'll take Spongebob as Rocko's true succesor over Camp Lazlo anyday. The sad thing is, the latter show is the one that's by the creator himself.

Inu-Yasha- Okay, I'll admit, the show was good at first, but then when they got to Naraku, it just started to form into a reptitive mish-mash. The sad thing is, despite Inu-Yasha and the gangs efforts, Naraku was never caught (though that's not really the anime's fault, since the manga ended that way).

Any Hanna-Babarra cartoon that's a rip-off of another one of thier cartoons- With an exception for the Snorks and the Jetsons, though.

I'll try and think of more later when I'm less tired.