As long as everyone is allowed to express their true opinions, these kinds of lists would never die out. I have a high tolerance for shit, but even I have a limit, plot thickens, true believer.
As a personal rule, I have to have seen at least one episode of the show's covered. If it didn't inspire interest for me to see more, it would say a lot. Okay what more could I say? Only thing new here is the shows featured.
Let's get it on
#7: Family Dog
What's worse? A show based on an adult book series with fish puns, or a collaboration between major directors and writers of respected shows that turns out to just be a pitiful sitcom. If you chose the latter, tell me what people see in Saberspark.
Family Dog was one of three animated sitcoms made to cash in on the success of The Simpsons back in the 90s. While Fish Police and Capitol Critters strayed from the concept of The Simpsons at the very least, this seemed closer to it. ABC did it once while CBS wound up doing it twice and NBC were wise to wait (and pass on a pilot sent at that time)
Ironically, this originated from an animated short that aired on Amazing Anthologies on NBC, and the bigger irony is that this predated The Simpsons by a few months. With Steven Speilberg and Tim Burton helming a series adaptation, one fresh off of Animaniacs and bringing on writers from it, this looked to be a hell of a contender.
And that fantasy died as quickly as the show did.
It seems people only liked the original short for the novelty of it being on a predominately live-action series. What's left of it is, and I can't believe I have to stoop to this, mean-spirited. I care little for the family, even the dog, and they share my feelings on the latter for the most part.
The first episode I saw had the dog suffer through thirst throughout the episode, nothing else of interest happened. I zoned out with another and all I got from it was a sentient fart (a female dog was just walking and a purple vapor emerged from around her ass.)
There may be something I'm missing, but a big reason I'm talking about it here is the fact that Saberspark wussed out on discussing it proper, and said it had good animation. It didn't, it was sent to Canada.
#6: The Loud House/Casagrandes
Next up is a tie. Interchangeability can be both a blessing and a curse.
You know the score with most networks, if something turns out to be good, it's bound to get cancelled right away (at least a majority of the time.) Some say it's astounding The Loud House was an exception to the rule, I say otherwise. If the movie is anything to go by, The Loud House is less of a show, and more of a brand.
The more I thought about it, the show uses archetypes because they're easy to execute, it uses toilet humor because it's easy to execute, it uses flash, basic designs, and possibly more, all for the sake of putting out a show that the network can easily dish out content for. It's a big reason why it's so easy to replicate, and why Nickelodeon is pushing it as hard as they do. They're not in for creativity, they're in it for that marketing moola.
With that in mind, the show got old for me relatively quickly after that, not even the earlier seasons were that good since I wound up skipping most episodes based on the prospect alone. It seems Lincoln sacrifices more for himself than his sisters do, it gets kinda repetitive and it seems they're only thankful because he gets them what they want. Not to mention, no one sister loves Lincoln more than the other, it's less of eleven different characters and more of a hive.
Perverts flock to this for the harem aspect apparently.
The Casagrandes endorses the brand theory. It's basically the Loud equivalent to The Cleveland Show. Both shows are spin-offs, they came out while their respective shows are still running, they star the minority characters from the original shows, they're animated the exact same way and only play out with minor differences.
The way I see it, The Casagrandes is more bang for Nick's buck, I was not interested in seeing more of it. Nor do I have much more to say. Go figure.
#5: Girlstuff/Boystuff
This is frankly one of the ugliest cartoons I have ever seen. It defies stylistic choice, hardly even fitting with the tone it's going for. It's basically Doug on acid, thanks to it also featuring fantasy sequences, but this also features every obnoxious transition it knows.
The show itself is a bare basic early-teen show, and obnoxiously so. It checks every box on a list of teen cliches, to the point I'm beginning to think they based their characters solely on surveys or stereotypes. Though it seems they focus much too heavily on the positives of it, the only opposites being minor issues at best.
If you want a Canadian series that focuses on teen drama, just watch Degrassi. By the time 6Teen came out two years after this show, it became obsolete, if people ever saw it.
#4
Here's the first and only live action show. It was hard for me to narrow down since I have seen plenty of infamous sitcoms. I made it through whatever episodes of Pauly Shore's sitcom were available, and I can say it does capture Shore's comedic essence to the last decimal. Jenny McCarthy would've been fun to address, had her sitcom not struck a decent balance between fast comedy and likablity.
Daniel Stern's Danny was non-innovative, but also very easy to sit through, and I do like the single-camera aspect. Baby Bob was CBS' most unique sitcoms in terms of those gimmick-based, even if the generic sitcom bug bled through a bit. Emeril clearly had someone well out of his element, but even critics agreed it got better toward the end. Guys Like Us actually turned out to be decent, even if this helped get Dan Schneider into creating shows that would turn out to be annoying later down the line. Shoot me.
Come to Papa was tolerable, and I got some context toward that one lone clip that surfaced years ago, and DiResta felt like a bootleg Jim Belushi Show a few years in advance, and only ranked higher than reruns on PAX. That was barely edged out by...
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
One of two UPN sitcoms to be deemed problematic by black activist groups, but even Homeboys from Outer Space can just be considered a crap sitcom. The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer is infamous for being a light-hearted take on the Civil War era, which had slavery. It's not here because it was offensive, but because it just wasn't funny and did very little unique with its premise.
It's a bare basic sitcom that happens to be set in a certain period. It says nothing, it does very little, it's edge for the sake of edge. I'm glad standards got to this more than Homeboys, priorities were put in the right area.
I give this the amount of nothing it gave its plot.
#3: Queer Duck
Let's be real, this aged poorly. I'd like to consider myself on the up and up when it comes to the LGBT, I just hate how people marginalize them through hollow representation and the more militant members of the bunch. I hate homophobic humor just for it being incredibly unfunny.
Viewing this show with a modern scope, it's a mess. It's going on about gay pride, but portraying it through the scope of a gay stereotype. I've seen about 5 to 6 episodes and wound up getting tired of it soon after. It feels like a PSA, warning people about what would happen if you give a homosexual an inch.
I'm beginning to question if Mike Reiss holds any homophobic beliefs himself, and views gays lowly enough to portray them as obnoxious dolts. How has cancellation not got close to him yet? Be sure to ask Ru Paul how they felt about this show and if it fits the standards set these days (they did the theme song)
I'm just saying, send Queer Duck to the Westboro Baptist Church and they can turn him into their own Pepe the Frog.
#2: This Just In
So uh, here's the thing... I fucking hate Steve Marmel.
If you saw this show and Marmel's Twitter feed, you'd have no idea they were by the same guy. This Just In is a more obscure in this, it was released at the tail-end of an animation block ran by Spike TV (which also gave us Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon.) You're probably thinking this show tackles the fucken ugly reds, but no, Marmel is a fucken ugly red in this.
Before the Trump era, Marmel declared himself a raging moderate, and had no trouble portraying a republican in this show. Seeing the jokes presented, you'd be amazed at how on the ball he was with many of them. However, owing to his developing liberal views, the jokes prove to be incredibly annoying and repetitive, plus if you're not political you'd find yourself out of the loop on many of them.
This is higher on the list because the more I think about it, the more disgusted I become of it. I was gonna watch two other episodes out of three, but I wound up backing out of it. For perspective, I have seen every episode of Adult Party Cartoon and only hated one episode out of it, I was willing to watch six episodes of it, but I can't even see two more of this.
This Just In is an example of how obnoxious political humor could be, and is not fun if you don't know half of what's discussed. If you're a Republican and enjoy this, you're probably an extremist.
I feel the need to talk about Marmel because this was something he had direct involvement in, and because of people gravitating to him after Butch Hartman turned out to be a piece of shit. Marmel is not better, he just isn't as bad. He is an example of an obnoxious political dolt and would probably reject his fans for not thinking like he does.
He can make any political side look bad, so please, feel free to remind him of that time he acted like the kind of person he'd beat with a stick.
#1
This may or may not come as a surprise to more seasoned readers, but let me put it into perspective. I have seen a lot of crappy shows that slipped through the cracks of time, but even then I can get the gist behind them, I can see them as a misguided blight by someone who didn't know any better. What really boils me is a soulless show that goes by a genre that people flock to often blindly, one that actually deserves more scorn than it already got.
No show I have covered since came close to dethroning it, so the subjective and objective worst show on this list is...
MP4ORCE: Beyond Real
This is the kind of show that'd turn you off from the action genre in general, if not break the stigma that it's mostly flawless. It's proof that even a show that takes itself seriously can still be incredibly stupid. Also I really hope the guy who created Angry Beavers wasn't actually involved in this beyond the concept.
Any negative suspicions you have for the show, whether or not it involves a marketing push, can be confirmed just through a look alone. They made no effort with the writing, okay maybe just enough to get things moving, too bad the dialog is so rigid that it's as if the writers on here never saw another kid since they looked in the mirror years ago.
This is also further on the list because the creator turned out to be a piece of shit. The main creator of this was Michael Hefferon, and while he helped produced at least one underrated show, Mission Odyssey, he seemed to love the concept he made here so much, he did it again twelve years later with ReBoot: The Guardian Code, long story short, it sucked, is impossible to not deem a Code Lyoko knock, and he seemed to have a clear hatred for the older fans.
And this is coming from someone who hates fans in general. This is a viewer zone goddamnit.
I hate to toot my own horn, but it seems beyond a brief mention in a review of Guardian Code and a review by an unknown personality, nobody seems to really know about this show. But they should. Check out my review, MP4ORCE Revisited for the definitive version and get a crash course on why this show is so bad.
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