Worst Cartoon... Ever

[Javeman]

OK, before you start posting, read carefully.

I would like you to tell me what cartoon do you think is the worst cartoon ever made, not classic cartoon, but cartoon overall. And no, not the cartoon you like the less, but the cartoon you think is the absolute worst of the worst in terms of story, animation, design, voice acting, etc, etc, etc.

However, do not post a list of the cartoons you hate, post one cartoon (and maybe a couple of runner-ups) and explain yourself why do you think is the worst cartoon ever made.

Also, to prevent the overflowing of "Baby Looney Tunes", let's try to keep modern cartoons based on classic characters out of discussion. And yes, that includes "Wacky World of Tex Avery".

Got it? Good.


I'll start with my pick: Super Duper Sumos

I tried to watch this. I really tried. But I don't know who in the world ever thought the idea of having overweighted guys punch enemies with their gigantic butts was funny, much less appealing. There are so many bad things about this cartoons that I seriously don't know where to begin...

Story: I seriously have no idea what this show was supposed to be about. What was each character supposed to be doing? Who is that annoying little girl? What were the bad guys after? Seriously, someone, explain me.

Animation: Sub-par. Pretty much what we see in our standard modern cartoon, but I've seen Cartoon Cartoons with better animation than this.

Designs: So unappealing it'll make you vomit. Period.

Voice Acting: N/A. I saw the spanish version only. But if the original voices were as squeaky as the dubbed ones, I'll say it's pretty bad.

Rewatchability: I can watch "Duck Amuck" millions of times and never get bored of it. I saw 4 or 5 episodes of this show and in all of them got turned off at the middle. Make your own conclusions.


Now you guys go.

[Leviathan]

Catdog:


Story: About This Uptight Cat, attached to a dumb Dog

Animation: Makes Pokemon look like a Walt Disney Silly Symphony

Designs: Crappy! Crappy! and Crappy!

Voice Actors: I Don't Know how Talented Voice Actors such a Jim Cummings ( Who Recycles his Darkwing Duck voice here anyway), Tom Kenny, Carlos Alazraqui (Spelling?) and Others could be brought together for such a ROTTEN cartoon.

Rewatchability: Less than None. In 50 years, this carton will be relegaed tro a single, small, negative mention in Animation Reference books.

[Nick]

"The Wild Thornberries"

Story: A family drive around the Earth in a convoy photographing wildlife, but what makes this 'interesting' is that one of the girls can talk to animals. The story is the best thing about it, but that's not saying much.

Animation: Pretty dull and lifeless. The characters hardly walk or do anything interesting, just sit and blabber on about wildlife.

Design: Absolutely crap, the humans have huge lips but tiny ears and noses and the animals look like they were drawn off a 5 year old's clay project.

Voice Acting: The voice acting is quite good, but why the hell would Tim Curry want to be involved anyway?

Rewatchibility: This show is so boring, it's just a bunch of talking heads lecturing about wildlife conservation. I've seen about 4 episodes, and each one of them made me fall asleep. :o

[cbrubaker]

Angela Anaconda

Story: About some whiny girl trying to outsmart an even more whinery girl

Animation: Umm...animation is so bad it makes "South Park" looks like they're professionally animated.


Designs: What design!? It's nothing but moving faces, attached to a crappy cutout bodies

Voice Actors: Like they were voiced by some guy who can't do impersinations.

Rewatchability: Absolutly none. Do us a favor, and whoever has the original master for this show, burn it. Trust me, no one will care in the future.

[RetroMan]

Rocket Power

Story: It's 30% about group of extreme sport aficionados who solve problems in their neighbourhood by means of their sports. The remaining %70 is to look "cool".

Animation: Lifeless, and dull. Standard Klasky-Csupo stuff

Design: Again, standard Klasky-Csupo stuff with huge square heads, very disproportioned bodies (they all look like dwarfs), the ole "character with purple hair" schtick and highly unappealing looks overall.

Voice Acting: Not sure, but from what little I heard it was really nasty. I think they're the same obnoxious voices from Rugrats.

Rewatchability: None.

[mbaker]

Kim Possible

Story : A typical teenage girl, who's also a spy, battles such villians as Dr. Drakken, and Shego with the help of her friend Ron Stoppable, his pet molerat Rufus, and computer geek Wade.

Animation: While not the traditional Disney TV animation from years past, it dose manage to be servicable from time to time.

Design: Fairly good, simplistic character designs from Chris Baily. Who's previous credit includes 'Clerks: The Animated Series'.

Voice actors: This show gets some points for having Will Friedle, (Ron) and Nancy Cartwright (Rufus) in the cast. As well as Patrick Warburton as the principal.

Plots: The fact that this has action, and adventure seperates 'Kim Possible' from the rest of Disney Channel's offerings to some extent. However, the plots themselves are a mixed bag, and they're not as exciting as i'd like them to be.

Rewatchability: This show had some potential to be a fairly good action, adventure series. However, it has a number of flaws that keep it from being good.

1. Usually, the female characters are portrayed as 'superwomen', while the male characters are portrayed as idiots.

2. Kim never screws up at whatever she doses. That makes her less belivable as a character, and less interested in caring about her.

3. While Kim has flaws of her own, they usually consist of to her idiotic crush on Mankey, and her Retail Snobbishness. Almost redcing her to the level of every other manufactured 'teen girl' clone that Disney whores out these days.

4. While the villians are more interesting than the lead character, they really aren't much of a threat. Darkwing Duck had more threatening villians by comparison.

And that's the way it is. Take it, or leave it. :sylvester

[Bugsmer]

Fred the Caveman

On a visit to some relitives of mine, I was able to take a look at some Canadian cable, which I hadn't seen in years, after switching to a satellite dish that beams in Amercian television. My short stint reminded me why I switched over in the first place. I believe this show is Canadian, though I could be wrong. It aired on Teletoon, before or after a Looney Tune show showing uncut cartoons (this surprised me, as I was so used to seeing them chopped to pieces on Global). This is a show I'll never forget, whether it goes to DVD or otherwise.

Story: Three people live in prehisoric times: A lunatic named Fred, a large, mishapen idiot, and a woman with a huge, offset mouth. They have adventures, if you can call them that. These adventures consist of Fred doing stupid things and screaming his head off, while his friends sit around ignoring him.

Animation: The characters appear to be cardboard cutouts pieced together using paper fasteners. They move strangely, as you may well imagine, with animated mouths and eyes. An overall displeasing effect, which could be accepted were the show not so very bad.

Designs: The drawing is awful, the backgrounds worse. As little effort as possible was put into making this show.

Voice Acting: The only voice in this show that didn't fit was that of Fred. He screamed and he yelled and he sniffled like Bobcat Goldthwait turned rock star and did little else. The other voices, as I recall, were serviceable.

Rewatchability: Easily watchable once, out of sheer amazement for the nerve used in airing this show on television, and a look at the utter badness of it. I've never had the misfortune to see it twice. Given the option, I think I'd switch over to reruns of "Big Wave Dave's" in an effort to stabilize my stomach.

[Larry T]

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?:

Story: A bunch of teenage (?) kids with a van of their own and a comic relief Great Dane go around "solving" paper-thin mysteries with the occasional Hollywood celebrity in approximately 22 minutes.

Animation: What animation? All the sequences are repeated ad nauseum and all the characters do is stand around in the same limited animation poses discussing the obvious. Good thing they never get paid for catching crooks, it would never be worth the money. Times must have been tough for some of the great animation names who contributed to this lame cartoon series.

Designs: Looks like every manifestation of every textbook character H-B used. Just change the clothing and hairstyle and "Voila!" a new character. The poses are even the same as other H-B series' characters.

Voice Actors: Time must have been tough for some of the great names who have appeared in this series.

Rewatchability: A negative integer for a rating, based on the fact that you don't ever have to watch an episode all the way through once- you already know the ending within the first 2 minutes. None of the characters have any redeeming qualities, and certainly none of the "adventures" are worthy of remembering or rewatching.

Even as kid growing up and watching this show, I never liked it then either. It was uninspiring, repetitive, slow-paced, and boring. Even the monsters weren't cool-looking, (like they are in Sailor Moon) and nothing about the cartoon itself stood out, even for my child's mind. It is just basically unstimulating.... "The Flinstones", "Yogi Bear", and "Rocky and Bullwinkle" used lots of limited animation and they were way better than this show.

The worst part is how it's so overrated today- it's not even good to begin with and now it's getting extended movies, live-action features, and even more attention than it deserves!!!

[The G Man]

Higglytown Heroes
I was unfortunately treated to viewings of this stinker of a program at some ASIFA-SF meetings sometime ago.

Story : So the premise is, EVERYONE is a hero. Each episode features a public figure, who sings a different variation of the same song "A Hero Just Like Me." Even though it's aimed at an older audience than Teletubbies and Barney, it seems to have as much intelligence.

Animation / Designs : All the characters are Russian dolls. You tell me how much flexibility is possible in their movement.

Voice Acting : Up to par, but that's also what makes it sickening.

Rewatchability : Show me someone who can sit through this crap without being tortured, and I'll reward their bravery with my entire cartoon collection.

[Martin Juneau]

Sorry for rerurn to my decision, but i got this morning my very worst cartoon ever made:

Mega Babies

Story: Three weird babies find in another planet born in Earth with super-powers. One of this babies are often pick one's nose. That's ridicilous this synopsis and nothing was educating

Animation/Design: The animation was acceptable for this time periods and design too.

Voices: The voices are very caracterial. The "Nounou" (or Mammy) voices are more swedish or a another country.

Rewatchability: This show are not recommanded for sensible-brains or afraid to ridicilous like me because this show are very exagerated.

[mbaker]

Teen Titans

Story: An adaptation of the DC comicbook series by Marv Wolfman, and George Perez. Robin, Batman's protege, leads a group of teen heroes that consist of Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire.

Animation: Pretty much a mixed bag here. It can be pretty solid at times, but there are some moments where it literally falls apart. Especially when it opts for visual 'anime' sight gags. Which are overused way too much here. Not always well animated, but it's servicable.

Design:The designs are a complete departure from the work of Bruce Timm, and his previous shows. Opting instead for a pseudo-anime look.

Voice actors: Pretty standard work as far as voice acting goes. Scott Menville's Robin can be good, but his 'Titans, Go!' line seems pretty wierd for a battle cry. Tara Strong dose a pretty good job as Raven. Giving her a cynical, sarcastic voice. Ron Perlman's cold, sinister voice fits Slade perfectly. The rest of the cast sounds okay, but that's about it.

Plots: This is where the show falls flat. Long time comic fans who were expecting to see thrilling adaptations of Wolfman, and Perez's work (or at least Paul Dini level storytelling) will be very dissapointed. The plots can be very silly, and juvenile most of the time, while other plots will seem average at best. While we're properly introduced to Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven, we're not so sure if the Robin in this series is Dick Grayson, or Tim Drake. (He looks like Tim, but fights like Dick.) In fact, we never see the rest of the Titans out of costume. The villians leave so much to be desired as they range from the silly, to the rediculous. Perhaps the best episodes are the ones that feature Slade because he's probably the show's best villian.

Rewatchability: This show is pretty much for the younger crowd. If 'Teen Titans' had more substantial storylines, and better villians other than Slade, then maybe it would be a welcome addition to Warner Bros. stable of quality superhero cartoons.

[RetroMan]

Girlstuff/Boystuff

Plot: About the typical "tween" group that have been friends for, in their own language, "like, forever".

Animation: In a word- dull. Looks like borderline crummy flash animation

Design: Quite frankly THE ABSOLUTE WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN!. It looks like something a lazy teenage girl would draw in the back of a notebook.

Voice Actors: Typical annoying tween whine for all I could understand.

Rewatchability: I'd rather watch Baby Looney Tunes (yes, it is that bad)

Thank God this thing ran for a mere 6 months. Has Canada produced something good in the last 10 years? What the heck happened to The Raccoons? I liked that show alot.

[Matt Wilson]

Oh thank god, I didn't see the cartoon I was expecting to see in this thread. Good! :cool:

Now, the WORST CARTOON EVER MADE, as in, flawed by EVERY ANGLE and not merely PREFERENTIAL..

McCauley Caulken's Wish Kid. Terrible, terrible show. What's not to hate? You've got character designs that look like characters in cereal commercials, the poor hackneyed direction and timing of animation that's typical of the early 90s, awful dialogue, and quite simply, an unnecessary choice of talent to play the lead character. This show was only made because of Home Alone; it would never have been made if that movie didn't exist, because no suit would have accepted the show unless it led to "You have Caulkin assigned to this?! THE BRIGHT YOUNG SUPERSTAR WHO WILL NEVER FADE FROM THE LIMELIGHT AND TURN TO DRUGS SURELY?? HOT HELL AND DAMN, SIGN UP!" Beyond that, the plot of a kid being granted wishes.. gee I wonder what inspired them to come up with that. Certainly not an insanely popular Disney movie that came out at the same time. When it comes to "wish" shows, Fairly Oddparents certainly destroys the hell out of this piece of garbage. If you've never heard of this cartoon, there's a good reason why.


Just felt I had to get that off the chest. There are other celebrity-infected shows like Camp Candy that I almost said but Wish Kid certainly tops the list. But that's if we don't include remakes. Because if we include those, then the worst cartoon of all time is YO YOGI! :( And of course my debate senses will tingle if I hear that specific show that you all know we have tuffles about. Noone wants to see that confrontation. :)

[Philo & Gunge]

I'll reward their bravery with my entire cartoon collection.
Now, I just need to find away to watch that show. :p Anyway, I say:

ED, EDD N' EDDY

Plot: 3 kids named Ed (one just named Ed, one with two D's and a guy named Eddy) who want money and do it by showing they have as much brain cells as a garden hose.

Animation: Remember "Squigglevision"?

Design: There too crazy for me.

Voice Actors: All right, not great. The voices aren't irritating like some of the shows in this thread.

Rewatchability: Depends. Ed makes it worth watching ("Gravy!"). At least IMO.

[mbaker]

Totally Spies

Story:Three vapid teen girls from Beverly Hills are recruted by the WHOOP (there it is) organization to thwart evil as spies while having to cope with their daily lives at high school.

Animation: While the animation can sometimes be smooth, it's way too flashy for my taste. Especially the colors. Which are overly bright. Also, some scenes make the characters look superimposed on screen. Destracting from the overall look.

Design: Not too bad for a pseudo-anime style cartoon, but that's about it. In fact, it looks no different than any other anime that's currently on TV these days.

Voice Actors: The voice acting is nothing to write about. Jennifer Hale dose the best she could as the voice of Sam. Why Jess Harnell would go from Wacko Warner for Jerry is beyond me.

Plots: While there some fairly good action, the stories are way too silly for me. The girls aren't all that great as characters, (fashion obsessed, boycrazy, ect.) and sometimes act like crybabies in the heat of battle. Even Sam, who's usually a competent leader. (I thought this was the age of 'girl power'.) I want to see these girls fight like they mean it. Besides, like the chicken says, 'you knew this job was dangerous when you took it'. Also, Jerry has the stupidest methods of bringing them to WHOOP headquarters whenever there's an important mission. Why dosen't he just give these girls some wrist watch communicators instead? To make matters worse, Jerry is not very helpful when the girls are in a tight (and i don't mean their catsuits) situation. Alfred never turned his back on Batman, and neither should Jerry. The less said about the villians, the better.

Rewatchability: Unless you like to oogle at Sam, Alex, and Clover in their catsuits, or held captive by the bad guys, you won't find much here that goes beyond the vapid, mall shoping bimbos that pollute our society.

[Cartman]

My pick goes to

COW AND CHICKEN

Story: A couple has a chicken (a male one, so why not call it "Cow and Rooster"?) and a cow. Don't ask how?:confused:

Animation: Let's just say it makes "South Park" look like it was animated by Disney during their Golden years.

Design: Meh?

Voice Actors: As annoying as one can get (although I'm sure there have been worse). This is especially true with Cow.

Plot: While the storylines are not extremely horrible, they're certainly not deserving of an Emmy.

Rewatchability: Only if you're high on drugs.:D

[Hippety Hopper]

COW AND CHICKEN RULES!

[MF TOON]

COW AND CHICKEN RULES!
http://www.euronet.nl/users/idi_rad1/cow-and-chicken/image/milk.jpg

Anyone remember the short-lived H-B cartoon from the early 90's, "2 Stupid Dogs"? I wish that would find it's way to DVD in one way or another!

[Cartman]

COW AND CHICKEN RULES!
I assume you were being sarcastic.

[MF TOON]

I wasn't.

[AngryBeavers]

South Park
Plot: I never figured out what the plot was, except that it seemed to be about a bunch of kids that cuss a lot.
ANIMATION: They look like little pieces of paper.
REWATCHABILITY: anyone for chess?

[The G Man]

South Park
Plot: I never figured out what the plot was, except that it seemed to be about a bunch of kids that cuss a lot.
ANIMATION: They look like little pieces of paper.
REWATCHABILITY: anyone for chess?You need to see more episodes. :tweety:

[RetroMan]

Gentlemen, let us not start a flame war that'll get this thread closed!

[The G Man]

Oops, sorry. My bad. :shame:

No offense was intended towards Brandon. I made a bad choice of words. I just meant to say that SP doesn't deserve to be mentioned in a thread like this, because it's 100x more provocative, unpredictable, appealing and smarter than any of the other series mentioned in this thread. That's just my opinon, but it's not meant to be an insult towards anyone here.

Now let's get back to listing cartoons we don't like. And from now on I'll keep my mouth shut if I disagree with an entry. :tweety:

[Mr. Jinks]

http://www.euronet.nl/users/idi_rad1/cow-and-chicken/image/milk.jpg

I agree with Hippety and MFtoon.....in fact, they need new episodes of this show!!!!

[Matthew Hunter]

I hate Cow and Chicken too, but it's nowhere NEAR as bad as some of the stuff you guys have already mentioned. The voices are pretty good, the characters are likeable, it's the design, animation and stories that I find repellant. It had its fans....to be quite honest, I actually LIKED the "I Am Weasel" segments.

No, I think I have one worse than that. Maybe not as bad as "Wish Kid"(I remember seeing that one time, HORRIBLE!!!) but...

Baby Looney Tunes:

Story: Your favorite Warner cartoon stars, only reduced to cute little tykes who learn life lessons by playing nice with one another. In EVERY episode.

Characters: Granny, Bugs, Daffy, Sylvester, Taz and Tweety, and Lola. Other characters like Petunia Pig and Melissa Duck serve as playmates.

Design: For the characters, hideous. For the backgrounds, not bad...Granny's house and yard seem to be rendered in watercolor, and have a nice feel to them.

Animation: Typical TV fare. To me, it lacks any energy to it. The characters all move the same, they're slow and gentle. Oh, and they talk. A lot.

Voices: Just awful. June Foray does her usual good job as Granny, but a bunch of no-name voice actors from Canada handle the LT characters. Bugs Bunny sounds particularly off, and Taz's voice lacks the personality of Mel Blanc's or Jim Cummings, instead it's shrill and grating.

Re-watchability: I tried, but, uh, no. It might have worked better had it not been so bland. There's nothing funny in the stories or the animation, and overall it's just listless. It might appeal to little kids, but I don;t see why they'd use the Looney Tunes characters and drag them through this...there was no reason to. :mad:

[Jeff]

Although your analysis seems well thought out, Matthew, I do have to quote the original poster's rule:


Also, to prevent the overflowing of "Baby Looney Tunes", let's try to keep modern cartoons based on classic characters out of discussion.

[Matt Wilson]

Now, I just need to find away to watch that show. :p Anyway, I say:

ED, EDD N' EDDYAGH! Must... stay strong... must... resist...

Hm, instead of Cow and Chicken or EEE being the worst, why not MIKE LU and OG? Now that's a show with poor design AND animation, and uninteresting characters, and reprehensible voice acting. The show is so bad that Cartoon Network has practically disowned it, refusing to admit that it once existed (the last mention of said show was in 2002 during the Golden Anvil Awards in which the characters were on the 'red carpet' and the host had trouble figuring out just who the hell they were).