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Just absolutely awful cartoons that make you wonder how they got made?

Blindy

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Godzilla The Animated Series(90s) also deserves a shout out being it was inspired by Godzilla of the 90s and despite the always cool Klein animation the story spent more time on the lab crew than it did Godzilla and Godzilla if I recall barely if at all fought any other monsters on the show. Yeah King of the Monsters not fighting other notorious devastating monsters. I tried to give it a chance but the show was so boring and such a waste. Even his Jumanji show was better.

I may have to re-watch the show one day, maybe they had Godzilla fight generic monsters but I don't remember any of the iconic foes.
 
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1upsuper

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There are far too many to list.

Hanna-Barbera had some decent but quaint shows, but for every decent one there were three that seemed designed to put you to sleep.

Mega Babies was absolutely repulsive even by the standards of gross-out cartoons.

The 80s were a very mixed bag for cartoons. Among some highlights like Thundercats were heaps of disposable and shameless toy-sellers with limited animation. Thundercats is an interesting example because it's very clearly inspired by the bombast of He-Man, but surpasses that toy-seller Conan wannabe. That said, Skeletor has a special place in my heart for basically pioneering the modern skeleton voice.
PadWarrior said:
Anime
Anything on Cartoon Network.
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Superhero cartoons
 
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basic_text

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These cunts
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They'd always ruin CITV for me.
 
Valkerion

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KojiKnight said:
And story, and acting, and....

My contribution:

Hi Hi, Puffy AmiYumi

A cartoon about 2 real Japanese women who speak English and have a Jpop band, in which they are played by 2 American voice actresses. (but they still do a live action skit at the end of the Episode with the real women, so it's an even more confusing decision).

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It also wasn't fun, funny, or well animated.
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Even as a pre-teen who was getting into Japan stuff and had seen their name before, this was always the weirdest fucking thing. Why them. Why an american animated cartoon. Why the shoehorned toss in live clips at the end. Everything about it was weird. This was one of those "fans on the head staff" type deals or something. I get that it was the time anime and more was at its peak, but man they could have done anything else.

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My choice.

This was when Nick was going hard on trying to do their nonsense grossout 90s cartoons in an attempt to replace the not so subtle adult oriented shows like Ren and Stimpy and Rocko. Hated this show. Lame "its gross so cool!" aside I just remember none of the few episodes I saw being interesting or entertaining.
 
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TheDinoman said:
I think Transformers Energon marks the absolute nadir of Transformers cartoons/anime.

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I think this picture says everything that needs to be said

Like, people like to rag on the Beast era cartoons because of their dated CG, but the guys at Mainframe still managed to get a ton of life and expression out of those character models, and those show were fully CG, whereas Energon is partially hand-drawn.

The diagnostic drones from Beast Machines had more expression than anything in Energon, and they don't even fucking have faces.

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I was right in the market demographic when Energon came out and I still hated the show.

I actually liked Armada and still have a soft spot for it, but Energon nearly turned me off the entire franchise.

Even as a kid I found it shitty at how they had ditched 2d animation in Armada (despite its flaws) and immediately went to this primitive 3d animated garbage. What made it look even more terrible was when you compared it to an earlier 3d mecha show, Zoids, which came out 2 years before it and it looked 10 times better than Energon.

But then again Zoids decided to throw their good animation away with Fuzors...

God I hated Fuzors.
 
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FriskyCanuck said:
Misery porn, the cartoon:



An unsubtle (just look at the guy's name) show about a divorced Londoner who lives a shitty life. He has a crappy data entry job, an ex-wife who made off better in the separation, a daughter who is deathly allergic to just about everything, is probably living in poverty and an alcoholic live-in babysitter who barely speaks english. Every single episode ends with a vein literally popping out of his head and strangling him.

For some reason, when it aired in the US. They had Hank Azaria overdubbing the main character's voice. Thus giving a native Brit an American accent.
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Hahaha my Mum used to obsess over this show when I was a kid

I really hated Codename Kids Next Door as a kid, the whole premise of the show really turned me off and I found the characters cringey and annoying which is weird because I loved most other things on Cartoon Network. I'm sure I'm in the minority on this one though

Never understood how Sonic Underground got greenlit either. SatAM was already such a huge departure from the games but Sonic Underground was even darker and grittier. 90s videogame adaptation cartoons sure were weird huh
 
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Xiaolin Chronicles. The shitty follow up to Xiaolin Showdown. The animation took a dive, they added CG animations that made Reboot look like it was a Hollywood blockbuster with a massive budget. The writing was terrible, they retconned things unnecessarily, had to change most voice actors because it moved to Canada, and repeated storylines from the original series on top of cramming in a carbon copy of the most annoying character of the show.

Oh and they added a villain that had some weird sexual vibes with a character who turned out to essentially be her father.

Kaban said:
I don't even think it aired in the US
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Cramp Twins actually did show up in the US. I bailed on it pretty fast. Hated the way it looked and it just didn't seem very good either
 
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vypek said:
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Xiaolin Chronicles. The shitty follow up to Xiaolin Showdown. The animation took a dive, they added CG animations that made Reboot look like it was a Hollywood blockbuster with a massive budget. The writing was terrible, they retconned things unnecessarily, had to change most voice actors because it moved to Canada, and repeated storylines from the original series on top of cramming in a carbon copy of the most annoying character of the show.

Oh and they added a villain that had some weird sexual vibes with a character who turned out to essentially be her father.


Cramp Twins actually did show up in the US. I bailed on it pretty fast. Hated the way it looked and it just didn't seem very good either
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An Asian character named Ping Pong.................
 
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Dishwalla said:
I love the Deitch cartoons. They weren't really good per se, but they were so weird and quirky. I guess it's said that Gene Deitch hated the Tom and Jerry characters so he intentionally tried to sabotage them.
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Yeah, they're not my cup of tea, but I honestly find them kind of fascinating just from an animation history standpoint.
I've heard that rumor before too, I don't think it's true though...the latter part anyway. I think it was more that because he didn't really like them he didn't really "get" what audiences wanted to see in those cartoons. It was a noble effort anyway, and it makes for an interesting story.
 
Window

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Eh I thought Mike, Lu and Og was alright as a kid. Nice show to wind down to with its slow tempo.
 
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Unclebenny

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FriskyCanuck said:
Misery porn, the cartoon:



An unsubtle (just look at the guy's name) show about a divorced Londoner who lives a shitty life. He has a crappy data entry job, an ex-wife who made off better in the separation, a daughter who is deathly allergic to just about everything, is probably living in poverty and an alcoholic live-in babysitter who barely speaks english. Every single episode ends with a vein literally popping out of his head and strangling him.

For some reason, when it aired in the US. They had Hank Azaria overdubbing the main character's voice. Thus giving a native Brit an American accent.
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I loved this as a kid but I have absolutely no idea if it holds up today. I can't even remember any of the jokes or anything.
 
King Alamat

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PaulExcellent said:


While I have all you here, remember this and know that the band that made this, PAIN, has four (4) albums full of stuff just as good as this song, if not better.
Also I will fight whoever talks shit on The Secret Saturdays, Kappa Mikey, and Johnny Bravo, you uncultured troglodytes.
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Shout out to these shorts for introducing me to Soul Coughing as a youngin.



 
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SheZow. A bold and interesting premise for a show about a crossdressing hero, but after a couple episodes you'll want to stick a nail thru your head so you won't have to suffer thru the abysmal writing.
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Figured this would pop up eventually.

Yeah, I remember people being really excited about the premise, but I remember watching an episode and it was awful. What really stuck out to me was the TERRIBLY FORCED usage of "She" into sentences. I distinctly remember "She-WOW" and "She-Whoa!" Like who thought THAT was a good idea? I never heard of anyone into the series past that and I didn't care.
 
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I submit Girlstuff/Boystuff.

Apparently this was a joint project between Canada, America, Hong Kong and the UK. You'd think someone in any of those countries could draw/understand colour. This looks like it was done using the MSPaint bucket tool.
 
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Valkerion said:
Even as a pre-teen who was getting into Japan stuff and had seen their name before, this was always the weirdest fucking thing. Why them. Why an american animated cartoon. Why the shoehorned toss in live clips at the end. Everything about it was weird. This was one of those "fans on the head staff" type deals or something. I get that it was the time anime and more was at its peak, but man they could have done anything else.

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My choice.

This was when Nick was going hard on trying to do their nonsense grossout 90s cartoons in an attempt to replace the not so subtle adult oriented shows like Ren and Stimpy and Rocko. Hated this show. Lame "its gross so cool!" aside I just remember none of the few episodes I saw being interesting or entertaining.
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What? Show was great.

Brothers Grunt was fine all those late night MTV cartoons were out there and at least were doing something different.
 
Nocturnowl

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I did think of Ned's Newt myself yesterday but I liked what I saw as a kid and I'm pretty sure the newts bootleg Genie blue celebrity impersonation gimmick mildly amused my childminder at the time.

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Xiaolin Chronicles. The shitty follow up to Xiaolin Showdown. The animation took a dive, they added CG animations that made Reboot look like it was a Hollywood blockbuster with a massive budget. The writing was terrible, they retconned things unnecessarily, had to change most voice actors because it moved to Canada, and repeated storylines from the original series on top of cramming in a carbon copy of the most annoying character of the show.

Oh and they added a villain that had some weird sexual vibes with a character who turned out to essentially be her father.


Cramp Twins actually did show up in the US. I bailed on it pretty fast. Hated the way it looked and it just didn't seem very good either
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I was about to have some WORDS
Until I noticed this was the sequel series, a completely unnecessary sequel series years after the fact to a show that actually wrapped itself up perfectly well.
I recall seeing one episode and the CGI madness and it hurt.
 

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This thread is just endless "I forget this existed" reactions from me.

KojiKnight said:
While these choices are okay, you guys aren't digging deep enough. You personally think they're awful, but they were both pretty popular and ran for a lot of seasons.

You guys need to go for something much more out there that is poop. See Secret Saturdays:

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What was wrong with this show?

I only remember catching some episodes here and there so I don't remember much but I remember thinking it was ok - good.
 
vypek

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Nocturnowl said:
I was about to have some WORDS
Until I noticed this was the sequel series, a completely unnecessary sequel series years after the fact to a show that actually wrapped itself up perfectly well.
I recall seeing one episode and the CGI madness and it hurt.
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Lol yeah it was bad. And I know I needed to point out it was a follow up in my post because I really liked Xiaolin Showdown and how it wrapped nicely but I thought this would b worth giving a shot.
 
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