Most annoying sidekicks ever

[dendawg]

Just a little poll for fun. If you have any not mentioned above, write it in!

[lislebartman]

I cast my vote for that annoying alien Orbitty! When I heard that Hanna-Barbera made new Jetsons episodes back in the mid-1980's, I was excited...until I saw how crappy they were! Why they came up with Orbitty, I'll never know! He ranks up there with Gabby Goat as the most obnoxious sidekick!!

[hippety hopper]

I voted for that annoying little brat Flim flam,he is just scabby doo in human form.

They didn't even explain where he came from,plus what was vincent price thinking????

[Joe Tully]

I voted for Flim-Flam. That recent 13 Ghosts marathon reminded me of how terrible he was (though I only saw 5-10 min.)

IMO Boo Boo, Barney, Dee Dee, and Spike and Tyke don't even belong on the list. They don't annoy me at all, but I guess they annoy dendawg. Between Scrappy, Scooby Dum and Flim-Flam, it looks like Scooby is the home of crappy sidekicks.

[Thad Komorowski]

Definitly Scrappy Doo. No wonder someone dropped him in a box off a train.... Does anyone remember that VERY funny Scooby special where Scrappy got ran over by a car, because Velma left the door open? It was on CN, around the birth of the network. It was the funniest thing I saw in my life.

Joe's right, why are they on the lists? I never found them annoying. In fact they're pretty funny!

-Thad:D

[Jon Cooke]

I wouldn't even call Spike and Tyke "sidekicks". Maybe Nibbles would qualify as a sidekick (in those musketeer cartoons), but not Spike and Tyke.

I'm surprised no Disney characters made the list... those modern day Disney movies are just slopping over with annoying sidekicks.


-Jon

[Thad Komorowski]

Jon's right, I was wondering why Spike & Tyke were on the list. They did have there own series at one point in 1957. I'd like to see more than just two S&T solos. Does anyone else find it weird that Tom isn't the main cat in "Scat Cats", instead of Butch? Here's how it goes. Butch is the pesky house cat who invites his friends to the party. Instead of Butch being the leader of the alley cats, a talking orange cat is (who's usually one of Tom's drinking buddies:p-See "Sleepy Time Tom"). Taking the place of the usual silent orange cat, is a silent grey cat. The little kitten also appears as well. Very weird, but funny, cartoon.

-Thad:D

BTW, that's the reason why Tom couldn't stay awake in "Sleepy Time Tom", he was out all night drinking!!! :eek:

[hippety hopper]

Originally posted by Thad Komorowski
Definitly Scrappy Doo. No wonder someone dropped him in a box off a train.... Does anyone remember that VERY funny Scooby special where Scrappy got ran over by a car, because Velma left the door open? It was on CN, around the birth of the network. It was the funniest thing I saw in my life.

-Thad:D

I've never seen that Scobby cartoon where Scrappy gets run-over :(
I bet no one was rushing to his rescue screaming "Oh my god,they killed Scrappy"

p.s. I just realised that I call Scrappy Scabby
LOL

[Matthew Hunter]

I think, out of that list, "Flim Flam" is the most annoying. They give no explanation for the origin of the character, and besides, he's obnoxious as the devil. Why don't they stick him in the haunted demon box along with the ghosts? As for Scrappy, he's next in line, but I'm fair with Scrappy Doo...he had his moments. Scrappy has an origin (he is dropped from a train in a box) and he is a big help to the crew at times. What went wrong with Scrappy was shortening the episodes to 12 minutes or so and dropping all other characters besides Scooby and Shaggy. And then they gave you only one Scooby segment per show and then some sidekick called "Yabba Doo"!?.The show wasn't designed that way, Scooby Doo was designed to follow a half-hour to hour formula for 5 or more characters. They also made a lot of the villains in the "Scrappy" shows genuine, such as real pirates, a mean football player, etc...and I believe a real ghost or two even showed up! It's not Scrappy Doo's fault that "Scooby and Scrappy" sucked, it's the fault of the writers and producers who ruined all integrity in Scooby Doo, they took the fun out of it. To make a long story short, the idea of having a pugnacious nephew join in the crew on mysteries is a clever idea, and the opening with that scarecrow is really well-crafted and actually cool to see sometimes, but they strayed too far from the original Scooby Doo formula to make it work.
-Matthew

[Nelson]

You should also added, NONE OF THE ABOVE, CAUSE I CAN'T STAND ANY OF THEM...YUCK!!!

[Jack]

I voted Scrappy. He sort of symbolizes the death of Scooby Doo. Adding a small rambunctious nephew is the oldest trick in the book. He could be funny sometimes, but the cartoons he appeared in were rather dull.

Hanna Barbera had the misfortune of pumping out too many TV series. This may have kept them in business, but it didn't help their output. They revived who knows how many characters in the 70s and 80s, changing what made them likeable in the first place. Anyone remember those awful "_______ Kids" shows they made? Every time I watched "Flinstones Kids" I thought to myself "But they didn't meet until they were older." "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" is the only one of those I'll sit through. Yogi and the gang became either skateboard lovin' kids, or environmentalists on a magic ship.

And I agree with everyone else, Spike and Tike aren't sidekicks.


Jack:D

[J Lee]

Don't blame Hanna-Barbera completely for the cartoons that came out from 1966 and thereafter. Once Fred Silverman at CBS got the idea that network execs should not just order Saturday morning cartoons but should also have input into the ideas for the cartoons, any hope for quality went out the window.

Stuff like the environmentally-friendly "Yogi's Gang" was made in 1972 because Earth Day had been held for the first time two years earlier and the enivironment was a "socally acceptable" thing to have cartoon characters do (polictical correctness didn't just start last week, boys and girls), while the idea of turning all their cartoon characters into kids in the late 1980s and early 1990s came as the result of the success of Jim Henson's "Muppet Babies." On television, the rule is if something's a success, repeat it 5,000 times until the public hurls every time they see it.

[PorkyandDaffy]

My vote goes for Scrappy, and everyone above has said it perfectly. Also, why do creators sometimes feel the need to add new characters into the show/cartoon? That almost always kills the show/cartoon.

[Garrett]

Originally posted by PorkyandDaffy
My vote goes for Scrappy, and everyone above has said it perfectly. Also, why do creators sometimes feel the need to add new characters into the show/cartoon? That almost always kills the show/cartoon.

The network execs want to "broaden the audience" or "spark new interest". Of course, that theory gave the world Firestar (in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends), as opposed to the unacceptable-for-early 80s TV Human Torch, so it's not totally bad. ;)

Garrett