What is the worst kids/babies cartoon show (It is not what you think this is)

[Orange Star]

The television producers like making popular shows with the adults more accessable to the younger kids, who are about 2-6 years old. These shows are...[list=1]
The Flintstone Kids
A Pup Named Scooby Doo
The Muppet Babies
Baby Looney Tunes
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There is one show on this list you will probably hate. Mine is the Flintstone Kids. The stories focus on the ever-so annoying Rocky and Philo, and those Caveman Superhero cartoons are annoying, since the hero's family are in the vein of Mamma Robotnik of annoyance.

[Tobias]

You forgot:

-Little Rosy
-Sabrina the Animated Series

and the one my vote goes to for worst show of this genre:

Gadget Boy & Heather

[Orange Star]

Originally posted by Tobias
You forgot:

-Little Rosy
-Sabrina the Animated Series

and the one my vote goes to for worst show of this genre:

Gadget Boy & Heather

A four-year old probably has never heard of them (Heck, I have never heard of LR and GB&H) so I didn't include them.

EDIT: Other than that, unless Gadget Boy and Heather are younger versions of Penny and Inspector Gadget, those shows don't turn characters from popular shows into kids or babies (Sabrina TAS focuses on a Sabrina that's about a year younger. She isn't seven years old (Like the characters in The Flintstone Kids or PNSD) or infants (Muppet Babies, Baby Looney Tunes)

[Tobias]

Gadget Boy was essentially Inspector Gadget as a pre-schooler, who was paired with an adult secret agent. Instead of Dr. Claw they fought some Spider Woman.

Little Rosey was ABC's attempt to make prime time hit Roseanne popular with the kids. In the cartoon she was an eight year kid, yet still had her loud mouth and with slightly less attitude. It lasted about a year in the very early nineties.

[Kryten]

You forgot Tom & Jerry Kids and Yo, Yogi!

[John Miles]

Originally posted by Tobias
Little Rosey was ABC's attempt to make prime time hit Roseanne popular with the kids. In the cartoon she was an eight year kid, yet still had her loud mouth and with slightly less attitude. It lasted about a year in the very early nineties.

Are you serious? That's, like, the worst idea ever in the history of bad ideas.

I can't say that I watch enough of most of these shows to form an opinion about them, but I used to love Muppet Babies as a kid.

[Tobias]

I kid you not.

Check it out at yesterdayland.com under 90's Saturday mornings.

[Nin-Nin69]

A three way tie between Little Rosy, A Pup Named Scooby Doo, and Baby Looney Tunes.

[EightOh]

Originally posted by Tobias
Gadget Boy & Heather That was such a total rip-off! The first time I stumbled upon that festering pile of manure, I just sat there in awe of how unbelievably terrible it was.

I caught Baby Looney Tunes one morning while trying to go to sleep. I'd heard how bad it was, and, like a train wreck, I decided to check it out. It was... ugh. How much worse can anything possibly get? What a complete waste.

[Anthonynotes]

Re: Sabrina: in the cartoon, she's supposed to be a 12-year-old (vs. a junior or senior in high school under the traditional "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" setting, as seen in the original Archie comics/the older Filmation Sabrina cartoons of the 70's/etc.) attending junior high...

The "babyfication" fad was mostly dominant in the 80's and early 90's, as cartoon producers stretched to think of new and different ways to make their existing properties more appealing to viewers, though it goes back much further than "Muppet Babies"---- in the comics, they used to print stories of "Little Archie" (Archie as a 8- or 10-year-old) and (probably the first example of this in a cartoon/comic, and given its longevity, maybe the most successful) in 1944, we saw the first adventures of Superboy (Superman when he was a boy), DC Comics looking for new ways to expand the even-then-growing Superman franchise (and figuring they could sell another Superman-related comic, besides ACTION COMICS, WORLD'S FINEST COMICS, and SUPERMAN at the time). Superboy started showing up in "More Fun Comics" (at the time, was also Aquaman and Green Arrow's comic), and soon moved to "Adventure Comics"; getting his own titled comic in 1949, Superboy enjoyed a 40-year run at DC, before "Crisis on Infinite Earths" tossed him out of continuity (save for the occasional trademark-renewal reprints/appearances/etc.)...

But to get back to the cartoons at hand:
>>The Flintstone Kids

As a kid, watched this show on occasion (when it was a first-run show...). It was the first time the FLintstones were on Saturday mornings in several years, and enjoying the Stone Age family, was a semi-regular/regular enough viewer. It also probably marks one of my first cartoon observations, when they changed "Freddy"'s voice in mid-run (which my ears clearly noticed). Recall being disappointed slighty at the time when I first saw the show, since I was expecting it to be about Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as grade-schoolers, or Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's own kids or something---not a same-age-as-I-was versions of Fred and the adult gang. In retrospect, wonder why they made Mr. Slate one of hte "Kids", when he seems older than Fred and Barney...

Capt. Caveman and Son (the name of the caveman superhero cartoons) were the other main reason for watching the show, since I enjoyed Capt. Caveman (who was a Hanna-Barbara character from the 70's, though he only appeared on one prior Flintstones spinoff---he had his own show set in the present where he travelled around with teenaged girls in a van, helping them solve mysteries...).

The other enjoyable aspect of this thing was probably the 80's-ized gadgets (remote controls, walkmen, etc.) and "Rock" pun names. Still, recall that the "Just Say No" anti-drug special as being somewhat cheesy...


2. A Pup Named Scooby Doo

Hanna-barbara's best entry in this genre; rather funny show. Favorite eps: Chickenstein and Velma's computer (or "micro-monster", as the cheesy fake rock music dance number dubbed it).

3. The Muppet Babies

The best of the lot (besides Scooby Doo and TTA)...

4. Baby Looney Tunes

Blech....


Not mentioned previously as "baby/kiddie" cartoons:
Tiny Toon Adventures, which certainly counts (even if Buster, Plucky, Babs, etc. are different people from Bugs, Daffy, etc.). Very funny freshman effort by WBA...

Sabrina: the Animated Series:
Thought this one had its moments, its preachiness aside; liked the character designs (wondering why they didn't use the same animaton level for "Archie's Weird Mysteries"). And speaking of Archie...

The New Archies
This show lasted one season back in the late 80's, and featured the Riverdale gang as 12-year-olds attending Riverdale Jr. High. While technically not a violation of Archie's nature (they've printed stories for years about "Little Archie", Archie's grade-school-aged self), it wasn't a particularly good series. One character change: they dropped "Dilton Doiley" (the resident super-genius of the Archie gang from the comics/cartoons) for a Black kid named Eugene. They also gave the characters gaudy 80's-era clothing styles (particulary Veronica, IIRC). Only episodes I recall are one where Eugene and Moose change bodies (with Moose-in-Eugene's-body becoming the school star football player) and one where Jughead becomes rich (after investing for a school project in penny stock that skyrockets).

Little Rosey:
Seen it; was pretty lame.

Inspector-Gadget-as-a-kid:
Never seen it...

Superboy:
Since I guess he counts, too, having had Filmation cartoons with him in the sixties. Recall watching them on the "Bozo Show" as a kid, and enjoying seeing Krypto the super-dog show up...

Tom and Jerry Kids:
Blech... never cared much for T&J as adults, let alone themselves as kids. Still wish someone'd "Orkin" Jerry, already. Also gave Droopy a son from out of nowhere, Dribble...

Yo, Yogi!:
Egad...even Joe Barbara hated this one. As did, IIRC, the FCC and some parents/consumer groups (over its requiring you to buy Kellogg cereal to be able to see one segment of the show in 3D). Teenage Yogi, Boo-Boo, Cindy Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and Snagglepuss hung around "Jellystone Mall" and put up with a teenage Ranger Smith (now "Security Guard Smith") and a kiddie version of Dick Dastardly and Muttley (now called "Dickie Dastardly"). Worst episode: Magilla Gorilla as "Magilla Ice". *Shudder*...

-B.

[Ajax]

I agree on a lot of these piece of crap kid shows but the Muppet Babies were pretty good. I used to love that show.









Seriously.....Little Rosey. Come on!

[Howard]

While they certainly aren't most people's cup of tea, the Muppet Babies doesn't belong on a list of poorly thought out "Kids" shows, as more thought went into the scripts for that one than the other shows combined. Jim Henson wouldn't have put his name on a crappy product, and had a great respect for his audience. While I was too old for this one even when it first came on, my cousin loved it, and having seen a few of them with her, this was a very good show for young children.

[Scythemantis]

I liked muppet babies, but then again, that's because I watched it when I was within their target age group. I still have fond memories of it though, I remember them constantly using movie clips and I was so little I didn't really know what they were from, oftentimes I just thought they were weird, pointless clips filmed exclusively for muppet babies.

When I did recognize things, it basically led me to believe that the media in general was one big happy family...thanks to muppet babies I had no idea there was such a thing as copyright laws. I assumed anyone could do anything they wanted/use anything they wanted on any show.

[Greek_Honeybee]

So if most western cartoons that do this are so horrible, why are anime chibi characters so appealing?

[EinBebop]

::shocked that noone's mentioned Life with Louie::

[DarthNuriko]

I agree with Howard. Muppet Babies was gold.

And unlike the choices Orange Star gave us, some of the others being mentioned don't seem to be what the thread was intended towards. Little Rosie and Life with Louie were just animated kiddied versions of REAL people, not kiddified versions of other established cartoons.

I'm in a grey area with Tiny Toons. It wasn't so much a kiddified version of the Looney Tunes, it was young toons who were obvious parodies of classic Looney Tunes characters. Bugs and the others even appeared in it as adults. It's kinda hard to say a character was "baby-tized" when the original older version of that same character still interacts with that universe.

Anyhow, Tom and Jerry kids made my stomach churn. They get my vote.

[mbaker]

Tiny Toons: This was one show that kinda broke the kidification trend. Even though the show looked like that on the surface, it managed to be funny, clever, creative, and more than what it seemed. Plus it had A good cast of original, and likable characters. Ushering in Warner Bros. silver age in TV animation.

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: While I'm not A big fan of this show, at least it tried to be funnier than Hanna-Barbera's other kidified shows. However, Tiny Toons was better by comparison in my opinion.


Tom & Jerry Kids: This show had it's moments. The only things that made it watchable were the Droopy, and Dribble cartoons, (Thanks in part to the work of Charlie Adler as Dribble, and Frank Welker as McWolf) and additional characters like Wild Mouse, and Kyle The Cat. It also had A slightly higher animation budget at the time. The show also featured the unexpected return of Blastoff Buzzard and Crazy Legs from "The C.B. Bares" (This time, with voices)


The Flintstone Kids: This show left much to be desired. It would've been better if Hanna, and Barbera called the show "Bedrock Kids", or something, and create some new characters with the Flintstones, and Rubbles (As adults) making ocasional appearance. That would've been better (Kinda like The Pebbles & Bamm Bamm Show) At least Captain Caveman was in this show.

Little Rosie: This was A bad idea from day one. The sonner we forget about this show, the better. Rosanne, and Tom Arnold should've stuck to their day jobs.


Life With Louie: Like "Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids", This was another good attempt of A celebertie showing us his childhood life in cartoon form. Louie Anderson knows how to be honest with his life in A humorous way, and pulls it off quite nicely. You can't help be feel sympathetic to his character.


Gadget Boy & Heather: This was just pathetic. A discrace to the legacy of Inspector Gadget. The recent Nick TV movie was better than this tripe!


Muppet Babies: While I'm not A fan of this show, you gotta give Jim Henson some credit for respecting his audience. More thought went into the scripts for Muppet Babies than the other shows combined Something that's seriously lacking in "Baby Looney Tunes"

[Elven Moon]

What's Muppet Babies doing on that list? That show is great, and hilarious! I still love watching episodes every now and then.

I'd say the worst one on the list is Looney Tunes. I've only seen one episode but that was enough for me :rolleyes:

[Kryten]

Originally posted by EinBebop
::shocked that noone's mentioned Life with Louie::

That's because "Life with Louie" (and, really, this applies to Little Rosie too) belongs to a different genre, the "Built Around a Celebrity" genre. Same with "Rick Moranis in Gravedale High" and "Bobby's World".

[Babs Bunny]

Originally posted by DarthNuriko
I agree with Howard. Muppet Babies was gold.

Definately! I used to LOVE the Muppet Babies when I was younger, and I feel that it was the show that triggered all these other baby incarnations. In addition, I think the concept of Nanny was great!!:)

Also, concerning the baby/kid phenomena, I wonder how far it will go. For instance, with the new Star Trek movie out, part of me wonders if somewhere down the line we'll run into Star Trek Babies or something...:P

[Waggytoon]

"RUGRATS"!!!!!!
And don't even think about any others! This is the worst!!! Especially when it has stolen time slots that rightfully belong to CATDOG!!!
Those jerk babies have harassed viewers for way too long! And with their move on Saturday Mornings to CBS, their time has run out, finally!
It's time for Nickelodeon to finally declare a REAL Nicktoon revival with "CatDog", and stop harassing viewers with those jerk babies who aren't even supposed to be on the air whatsoever!

I liked "Muppet Babies" somewhat. And "Life With Louie" had its moments. Of course, the best segments of the "Flintstone Kids" were the obvious "Captain Caveman and Son" shorts (Shaquille O'Neal is choosing that character for an important event next Sunday, but that's something else.) And there were some fave segments from the "Yo Yogi!" series (Remember Loopy de Loop running the ice cream parlor? Or did that wolf run something else at Jellystone Mall?).
Technically, "Tiny Toons" repped a new generation of WB characters, while "Baby Looney Tunes' reduces the classic team to juvenile performances of modern reworkings. Of course, "Baby Looney Tunes" features two very significant female youngsters who haven't had much importance in their grown-up versions: Lola Bunny and Petunia Pig. While the grown-up Petunia had 5 classic black-&-white "Looney Tunes" to her credit, Lola's only been in feature movies, like her cameos in "Tweety's High Flying Adventure".
And finally, second among the worst 'kids' shows would have to be "A Pup Named Scooby Doo". Especially since the grown-up version has the worst franchise in history, and this juvenile delinquent only proves how bad the franchise has deteriorated- more so than the previous catastrophes in the franchise, which happen to be every single series, TV Movie, and Video with those meddling kids and that lousy dog ever released.
Hopefully, "Rugrats" is finally gone, and "CatDog" can rightfully take its proper place in the annals of Nickelodeon fandom.


CATDOG VS. JERK BABIES ON TODAY'S "U-PICK" HEAD-TO-HEAD! SPONGEBUTT IS NOT IN THE RUNNING! CATDOG IS THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST- AND EVERYWHERE ELSE- AND SHALL REMAIN SUCH!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :bosko: :bubbles: :knd1:

[Spike Mcdougal]

Originally posted by Waggytoon
"RUGRATS"!!!!!!
And don't even think about any others! This is the worst!!! Especially when it has stolen time slots that rightfully belong to CATDOG!!!
Those jerk babies have harassed viewers for way too long! And with their move on Saturday Mornings to CBS, their time has run out, finally!
It's time for Nickelodeon to finally declare a REAL Nicktoon revival with "CatDog", and stop harassing viewers with those jerk babies who aren't even supposed to be on the air whatsoever!

I liked "Muppet Babies" somewhat. And "Life With Louie" had its moments. Of course, the best segments of the "Flintstone Kids" were the obvious "Captain Caveman and Son" shorts (Shaquille O'Neal is choosing that character for an important event next Sunday, but that's something else.) And there were some fave segments from the "Yo Yogi!" series (Remember Loopy de Loop running the ice cream parlor? Or did that wolf run something else at Jellystone Mall?).
Technically, "Tiny Toons" repped a new generation of WB characters, while "Baby Looney Tunes' reduces the classic team to juvenile performances of modern reworkings. Of course, "Baby Looney Tunes" features two very significant female youngsters who haven't had much importance in their grown-up versions: Lola Bunny and Petunia Pig. While the grown-up Petunia had 5 classic black-&-white "Looney Tunes" to her credit, Lola's only been in feature movies, like her cameos in "Tweety's High Flying Adventure".
And finally, second among the worst 'kids' shows would have to be "A Pup Named Scooby Doo". Especially since the grown-up version has the worst franchise in history, and this juvenile delinquent only proves how bad the franchise has deteriorated- more so than the previous catastrophes in the franchise, which happen to be every single series, TV Movie, and Video with those meddling kids and that lousy dog ever released.
Hopefully, "Rugrats" is finally gone, and "CatDog" can rightfully take its proper place in the annals of Nickelodeon fandom.


CATDOG VS. JERK BABIES ON TODAY'S "U-PICK" HEAD-TO-HEAD! SPONGEBUTT IS NOT IN THE RUNNING! CATDOG IS THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST- AND EVERYWHERE ELSE- AND SHALL REMAIN SUCH!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :bosko: :bubbles: :knd1:


MUST....................................NOT....................................EXPLODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

[Mackenzie Rainelle]

Originally posted by Waggytoon
CATDOG VS. JERK BABIES ON TODAY'S "U-PICK" HEAD-TO-HEAD! SPONGEBUTT IS NOT IN THE RUNNING! CATDOG IS THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST- AND EVERYWHERE ELSE- AND SHALL REMAIN SUCH!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :bosko: :bubbles: :knd1:

Dude, lay off the caffine, and quit trying to use G Gundam catchphrases to describe Catdog, it really doesn't work.

As for worst "babyfied/kiddyfied", I'm going with Baby Looney Tunes. It just makes my head hurt (and not in the intellectually stimulating way either), and is an insult to all that is the Original Looney Tunes.

[CourageEditor]

Bobby's World should be on the list, because it was quite corny!

[Daniel P]

I liked the Muppet Babies. It was imaginative. So was Tiny Toons.

Other shows were just boring and hard to watch.

Baby Looney Tunes is by far the worst. First off, it is making something that was intended for adults all cutesy and annoying. Second, Lola is a character. Bad character even as an adult. And third, Bugs' voice. Yuck!

Waggytoon, what kind of foods do you eat? I'm just curious.

[Lucky Bob]

Muppet Babies - Okay, lay off the show already! Sure, it was lame, but who here didn't like it when they were a kid? (Somehow, I miss the lameness of the 80's/early 90's. It was a different brand of "lame.") But who doesn't remember Animal's trademark ending? "Bye-Bye!"

Baby Looney Tunes - Never seen it. Heard the theme song, almost regurgitated.

Rugrats - I'll have to agree with "Mr. Coffee" over there. :D Rugrats, to me, is poorly animated, and I don't get the storylines. But, it's hit the "cool" factor with fans so many times that I don't think you could call it the "worst" one.

A Pup Named Scooby Doo - Please, somebody shoot the poor dog. He's suffering from bad remakes. Put him out of his misery.

Gadget Boy and Heather - AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! I like Don Adams, I think he's a funny guy, he has a good voice, but I have to wonder what in the world he was thinking when he did the voice of Gadget Boy. Not only did he agree to the sacrelige of an "educational" cartoon, (BTW, an "educational" cartoon never is) but he had the nerve to drop quotes from Get Smart all through the series! ("Sorry about that, Chief", "And....loving it", etc.) The one redeeming factor about this toon was the fact that Moe Lamarche did a pretty funny Igore-type voice for one of Spydra's henchmen. (And I say that 'cause I'm a Lamarche fan.)

Flintstone kids - Not that bad...not that good...but not that bad.

Tiny Toon Adventures - Ah, this one was good. It had the potential to be dumb, but it never was, you know? I like the way they created new characters instead of making kid versions of the old ones. That was probably the reason why it was good. (Anyone remember the Marx Bros. parody? That was gold!)

Bobby's World - There's only so much of that voice one can stand. But hey, John Tesh did the music, so that's understandable. The only time I ever laughed audibly during an episode was when Uncle Ted was told by Bobby's mom to "Stop putting those gee-golly ideas into [Bobby's] head". And in the next shot, it showed Ted pouring the contents of a bag labeled "Gee-Golly Ideas" into Bobby's cranium. For some reason, that struck me as funny. Maybe I was undergoing the same treatment at the time.

Yo! Yogi - Never saw it. My brother took my 3d glasses and watched it at a friend's house. He came back with the following one-word review, "Stupid".

Little Rosy - Never seen it, or heard about it. PLEASE tell me it's an urban legend! :eek: :D

[Spike Mcdougal]

Originally posted by Mackenzie Rainelle
Dude, lay off the caffine, and quit trying to use G Gundam catchphrases to describe Catdog, it really doesn't work.

As for worst "babyfied/kiddyfied", I'm going with Baby Looney Tunes. It just makes my head hurt (and not in the intellectually stimulating way either), and is an insult to all that is the Original Looney Tunes.

Guess i'm not done yet




How dare you use a phrase from G Gundam to prove you point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



You may resume your thread

[Mackenzie Rainelle]

Originally posted by Spike Mcdougal

How dare you use a phrase from G Gundam to prove you point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:: blink:: Was that directed at me?

[Spike Mcdougal]

Originally posted by Mackenzie Rainelle
:: blink:: Was that directed at me?


NO NO NO


But now I think it may have been easier just to edit my eariler post.

Sorry