I watched Loonatics Unleashed for the first time this morning.
I would like to applaud Warner Bros. for raping my childhood memories today.
Road Runner speaking = Insta-Phail
And then I watched this crap called Super Monkey Robot Team Hyper Force Go! which was atrocious; It's Star Wars + Power Rangers all crapped down. The main character has Jedi-like abilities called "The Inner Primal" or some lame crap. And just glancing at the monkeys and the monsters will let you know that they blantantly ripped off the Power Rangers concept.
... Anyone know any more cartoons that blow donkey chunks?
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Samurai Jack. I'm all for western cartoonists taking influences from anime but this takes it way too far. Every single fight scene is stolen from every anime ever since 1989. On top of that, it's butt ugly too, and as you would probably expect, it's got an extremely stupid plot.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, along with every other Adult Swim original cartoon, comprises approximately 50% of the world's unfunny reserves, enough to where we could drop natural gas and coal altogether if we could power cars with fail (if you're curious Uncyclopedia, Family Guy and new episodes of The Simpsons make up most of the other 50%). Literally half of the jokes consist of either 1) the characters sitting motionless save the occasional blinks, staring at their hypothetical audence howling in laughter or 2) some random thing, like a gorilla on a bicycle or a talking banana crashing in through the door and sayin "hey guys wats up" or something random.
Family Guy. It has its moments of genuine funny (approximately 1 every 3 episodes from what I've seen) but for the most part it's turd. They simply try to hard to be random which brings monstrous amounts of fail. Sadly for its creators its subject matter is too obscene for kids and it has too much unfunny for adults, so it's pretty much useless.
Invader Zim is so tragically unfunny I pity those who watch it. I might have thought it was funny if I grew up in a cave on the moon exposed to nothing but Family Circus comics and 1001 Elephant jokes, but I have an fully developed adult skull too thick for it to penetrate. It's like Family Guy but even tamer, for an even younger audience. What's a mystery to me is how Double Fine managed to create the damn funniest game I've ever played in my life (Psychonauts) with such obvious Zim influences (hell, thew main character is voiced by the same guy who does Invader Zim).
There are others worthy of being denounced but they haven't come to me at the moment.
Hey, Samurai Jack was the absolute last good cartoon made out there, I really disagree with you there. And it's not taking that much from anime, I mean there are no anime expression symbols like anger veins or sweatdrops as you would expect from a typical ripoff.
But YES YES and more YES on Invader Zim!
That show sucks so badly. It is so not funny, I don't even know what people see in it. It felt like the producers had to induce some brainwashing procedures to get its mass number of fans. It has its moments of humor, yes, but for the most part it's just plain retarded.
The graphics are too dark and blocky, and the animation itself isn't very impressive at all. Not many cartoons done in Flash are really.
It's chock full of factual mistakes and it's characters are very stereotypic. Gir is just flat out annoying, I dunno why Zim hasn't bothered to destroy it. And what's the deal with making 90% of the humans in the show look like idiots?
I'm glad they cancelled it, it's just a overhyped piece of garbage.
Doesn't matter, everyone participating in its creation is a weeaboo. But it's at least entertaining, whereas Samurai Jack is about as good at being epic as Dexter's Laboratory is at being funny.
I'm personally going to have to argue for several of these shows:
Family guy: For the first 2 or 3 seasons when i actually knew when it was scheduled i found it quite funny. From what i remember it had quite a few cultural references that were far from what I would call completely shallow. Then again I like random or almost random humor as well, and think many times it beats "real jokes" even in actual conversation.
Dexter's Lab: ... I watched dexter's lab quite a bit... the seeming lack of plot, odd characters, nerd humor, and just a couple of references made a show that far well beat any other cartoon network made show that I've ever seen. Come on, you can't say that the justice friends wasn't at least a decent parody.
(And a note, I will fight for Aqua Teen Hunger Force... but not cause I like it... just because from what I could tell it was never trying to be serious or funny. I always thought it was just a show to make you question what the hell was the point... and to its benefit, it has to be one of the least distracting background noises there ever was. )
Wasn't Teen Titans disliked a lot for taking up a lot of anime references?
I thought Captain N seemed hilarious from what I've read. Just look up Simon Belmont or Alucard to see what I mean.
Oh man Captain N......
I watched that when i was a kid. I liked it cause of all the gaming references, but alot of the characters were totally out of character.... which did suck... but it was a decent show. beats alot of today's garbage.
I recently watched the curious George movie, and it was not bad at all.
Other good cartoons include original TMNT series (new one is not good), original GI JOE (new one is not good), Heman, Thunder Cats, Captain Planet (he's are hero, bring pollution, down to zero, fighting on the planet side... we're the planeteers, you can be one too, cause saving our planet is the thing to do, looting and polluting, is not the way, here what captain planet has to say, THE POWER IS YOURS) .
Well this is the topic on sucky cartoons... I don't have enough time to list half the bad cartoons i've seen, so I don't really feel like trying. Captain N you can find episodes on youtube and such still... Its really funny how off the characters were.
-Super Mario Bros. Super Show (The 2nd biggest insult to the mario bros. Fitsr being the movie)
-Captain N (Oh God! bad animation, bad character designs, no development...)
-Dumb and Dumber (Yes, it became a cartoon series)
-Ben 10 (I'm sorry to the fans)
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Am I the only one who hated the 'Captain Planet' cartoon? That show was so lame to me that I dunno why people liked it. I mean the super hero looks so ambiguously gay that I'm surprised that the censor board didn't jump down on it. (I have nothing against homosexuality BTW, don't bother me about this).
The show had some of the lamest villains I have ever seen (A rat-like human, a pig-faced human, and a guy who looks like an anthro corn on cob?), with even lamer motives; most of their plots are basically money making schemes about as dangerous as any typical polluter gets, the few schemes they actually deviate from that is basically done 'For the Evuls'. And the characters, plots, and concepts were about as one-dimensional as it gets.
Not only that, but the producer/executive of the show was the same loser who forced the Swat Kats' cancellation due to being "too violent". I wish I was serious. =|
Am I the only one who hated the 'Captain Planet' cartoon? That show was so lame to me that I dunno why people liked it. I mean the super hero looks so ambiguously gay that I'm surprised that the censor board didn't jump down on it. (I have nothing against homosexuality BTW, don't bother me about this).
Honestly, I think the reason why people liked Captain Planet was because it was pretty lame (that theme song is so very catchy though). But it was good lame. There is no other superhero who was as concerned about pollution as Captain Planet. I guess they needed a superhero to worry about that while the rest of them are doing, well, more important stuff.
Nostalgia's probably at work regarding Captain Planet too.
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