What is your least favourite cartoon?

as a kid i hated The Snorks tho - the supposed hero Allstar Seaworthy was just a smug git who seemed to be successful without even doing anything - his nemesis' name i can't remember but driven by petty jealousy he always seemed to fail whenver he tried to upstage Allstar - a bit like Dick Dastardly i suppose, he never learned his lesson. mind you i was probably too old for when The Snorks was first around anyway but you know how it is when you come home from school and in the days before the Internet (dont think i even had a computer at this point) just stick on the TV and catch all the kids stuff at around 4 - 4.30pm

there was something about the European/Japanimation collaborations that always irritated me (Cities Of Gold, Bell & Sebastian) even tho they were quite imaginative and compelling (compared to the U.S. stuff). i couldnt stand the Ninja/Hero Turtles cartoon either - why was there never anyone else on the streets of the city apart from April O' Neal and the mutant amphibians?

so smug and what for, he's wearing a really ugly hat and a fringe that looks like a baguette.

Nowadays I am irritated by the Ripping Friends. When 90% of the jokes in a cartoon are visual ones, and 90% of the visual jokes involve the same sorts of visual jokes Tex Avery did 50 years ago except more hackneyed and with more emphasis on butts, then it's not really going to entertain me very much.

THE WILD THORNBERRIES which seems so feebly undramatic every time I see it. RECESS which is surely utterly pointless - for kids so unimaginative that they go to school and do boring things and then come home to watch cartoon kids going to school and doing boring things. Worst of all is MEGA BABIES because the animation is so stomach-churning but I can see why the kidZoR would love it. Also there used to be no worse feeling than the knowledge that I had woken up on Emma and Pete's sofa too late for Powerpuff Girls but not too late for bloody Mega Babies.

Rugrats seconded - the existence of two Rugrats movies is a disgrace to civilisation.

true but i never thought of even watching RugRats so i have no opinion if it ;)

and Power Puff etc. are so obviously aimed at adults as much, if not, more, as children

I would also add Popeye and Woody Woodpecker.

can't stand spongebob squarepants either

"the fairly normal parents" is this an attack from BBC on Fairy Odd Parents? Wonderfuly deranged cartoon were the father is addicted to salt and Timmy is just a mess. Specially their tribute to Calvinball in an episode.

Nicole and Dan to thread! They agree with you fully in this plan.

I didn't like Belle and Sebastian either, because I thought the whole concept (cute little boy with cute big fluffy dog) was all a bit twee. Hmmm. Hang on a minute, someone's knocking at my door...

"Hi, Caitlin? We're from the Irony Police, and we're here to impound your CD collection."

Dogtanian & The Three Muskehounds had that same annoying European style anime aspect, absurd tweeness and delayed and/or extended character reactions - obv. Japanese anime has that too

Dragonball Z is pretty worthless. The original Dragonball series and the follow-on where the characters are much older are both ten times better and more watchable than Z. It's 25 minutes of grunting and bitching among musclebound idiots interrupted by occasional superpowered battles which are usually composed of about seven frames in a loop. If that shit doesn't make you stupider just by watching it then I don't know what would.

Animaniacs I was never able to stand, Tiny Toon Adventures was fucking obnoxious, all that shit really was trying far too hard to be clever and never seemed to give a shit about the narrative as long as there was some convention to be made fun of. By and large if I hate the demeanor of the main protagonists I'm probably not going to like the show (imagine that). Pinky & The Brain - Dexter's Laboratory does this whole schtick much, much better. For shame.

How is this phrased? "Animaniacs in anti-narrative SHOCKAH!"

Any cartoon based on a video game was always going to be fairly dire.

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i noticed a lot of neat little touches with Tiny Toons and Animaniacs that i could appreciate and so whatever bad things there were about them didnt seem to bother me at all. i'd even go as far as to say they were wittier than people seem to give them credit for - not quite the Cartoon Network standard but this all came before that of course.

The Care Bears - Surely the sine qua non of the vomit-inducing cute toon.

Shirt Tails - I think it was a bunch of animals living in a giant oak tree in a park, who had shirts that would light up with words? I think... I've managed to successfully repress most of it, I guess.

And whoever at Cartoon Network greenlighted Baby Blues deserves the bee-covered sodomizing stick. It may be made for grownups but the Lifetime network would seem to be the more appropriate venue.

Whats the new one called Sonic The College Student? Its so bad its almost classic, but not quite.

i blame the parents for that one...

I found Duck Tales a little depressing when I was little - don't know why. Tiny Toons was tedious.

But I have to stand up for SuperTed as I was the target audience and I fucking loved that shit. I always reckon SuperTed sounds like Paul McCartney for some reason.

Popeye = best mutterer in showbiz?

My answer to the question at hand is probably the shortlived Problem Child series. The kid was smug, mean, and worst, showed absolutely no remorse. I mean, even the kid in the movies showed remorse.

Didn't like any of the cartoons on MTV except The Maxx and Aeon Flux -- including Ren and Stimpy, which I don't think started on MTV but was on there for awhile.

Isn't that the same dealio as Dennis the Menace? Even though Dennis is an annoying little twerp, I can't completely hate him because he was always on the cups of ice cream at the Dairy Queen. Anything I associate with a Blizzard can't complete suck.

i wasnt keen on Aeon Flux for ages because I didnt like the drawing style (also why i didnt like Robin) but i LOVED The Maxx very much and bought the video. Space Ghost also rules - i wish we could see more of it in the UK (its only on Cartoon Network late now and then which i dont have)

worst MTV cartoon for me is The Head, couldn't stand it - too icky and i found it terminally dull.

Nate: the littlest rockist!

I just saw an episode of another al time BAD cartoon.
THOR!
I got to see him get his ass wipped by Herc cause he pissed of Odin for some reason.

Oh, my nomination has to be the recent Godzilla series, with the mutated iguana from the Devlin/Emmerich movie and a focus-grouped set of sidekicks.

i HATED count duckula when i was a kid, but now in retrospect it was completely amazing and i want to see it again.

In the mighty halls of Asgard
Where the booming heavens roar
Something something in awe and wonder (?)
The god of thunder
Miiiiiighty Thor!

I happen to have the very same episodes of The Mighty Thor described further up this thread on an ex-rental videotape I bought from a little local video shop in about 1991.

OTM. Plus there never seemed to be any new episodes. Animaniacs was a vast improvement by utilizing the same sensibility but with original, non-derivative characters.

"Capt. Planet, hands down."

There's nothing worse than a preachy kids show. That show was so anally PC it almost seemed to be reactionary counter-propraganda created to undermine environtalism. Plus it just was a shitty cartoon. Captain Planet never even appeared until the last five minutes or so of every episode! And he was such a underwhelming, lame-ass superhero.

I was probably wrong.

Plus the polluters were always these ugly-looking supervillains who wanted to pollute just because they were EVIL, instead of multinational corporations out there for the profit. Of course, it'd be hard to imagine a fight between Captain Planet and McDonalds. Capt. Planet vs. Ronald McDonald deathmatch, maybe...

Pokemon: Classic until Brock left. A friend of mine's little brother actually cried because of how bad it became after that. Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc - dud; they shd at least try make it look like more than a toy ad.

I wacthed some old episodes of Tranformers recently and realised that it was pretty shit.

The original TMNT, rocked. The new version is a travesty.

Scooby Doo was a classic coz the writers seemed to start with a reincarnated mummy chasing a talking dog and go on from there.

Pretty much everything on Nickelodeon (except Spongebob, fuck the haters) should be destroyed.

I would so pay to see that!