What's the worst American animated show you've seen?

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Post by angelx03 » Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:17 pm

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However, there was an even crappier cartoon, called Widget. It was about some good-two-shoes purple alien, sent to Earth to teach the only two kids who knew about his existence about environmental awareness (it was a cheap knock-off of Captain Planet).
Hmmm, Captain Planet. I remember that. The show was pretty decent (despite Captain Planet's pathetic PUNS) because not only they talk about enviromental issues but also political and social issues. Heck, they even talk about cultural conflicts that they still exist today.

Just reminicing my childhood days.
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Post by Toecutter » Wed Aug 13, 2003 6:15 pm

Hmmm, Captain Planet. I remember that. The show was pretty decent (despite Captain Planet's pathetic PUNS) because not only they talk about enviromental issues but also political and social issues. Heck, they even talk about cultural conflicts that they still exist today.
Oh come on! "Captain Planet"'s grasp of social and ethnic issues was so simplified, their whole concept of solving the problem was to tell the involved parties to "Get over it!". I remember the episode they went into the whole IRA, Soviet Bloc, and other major ethnic wars. They tried to force the people to get along, without even explaining or resolving the thousand year-old historical and social circumstances that led to these issues in the first place!

It's like Majin Buu doing a DBZ episode, where he goes over to resolve the North/South Korean stand-off after the Korean War. It can't be done in less than 30 minutes, with Majin Buu's intellect (equivilent to that of Captain Planet).
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Post by BishounenStalker » Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:04 pm

Toecutter wrote:However, there was an even crappier cartoon, called Widget. It was about some good-two-shoes purple alien, sent to Earth to teach the only two kids who knew about his existence about environmental awareness (it was a cheap knock-off of Captain Planet).
I believe the name of that series was Widget the World Watcher. Don't ask me how I know that :roll:
Actually, that's another really lame cartoon. Who wants to see the same, over-done, Disney-style villians (all of which have major positions in big American corporations, go figure) try to destroy the Earth just for kicks? Come on! At least in anime, the villians aren't so simply portrayed. They have their own motivations, ethics, and desires. But American villians are just evil because they can be. That's why Disney pisses me off so much. Even in "Beauty and the Beast", the villians (the French, of course) are all single-minded in their goal to kill the Beast, without any dissent or varying opinions. You don't hear a single, middle-class moderate citizen criticizing the drunken fools with hunting muskets.

That's why I prefer anime over standardized, American cartoons.
Actually, there are just as many one-note anime villains as there are American. It's just harder to pick them out of the bias.

All Queen Beryl (Sailor Moon) wanted was to rule the world. The same goes for just about all the villains in Sailor Moon with the exception of Daimondo and Galaxia.

Every major DBZ villain to ever hit the series (with the exception of Vegeta). 'Nuff said.

As much as I like Trigun, Knives had no motivation for being evil other than insanity. And we never got the full reason WHY he was insane, or why he wanted to make Vash's life miserable.

In Ranma 1/2, just about every vilain(ess) wants to either beat Ranma to a pulp so they can claim his/her title, or marry him/her.

In DNA2, the guy at the end (I forget his name, it wasn't worth a remembrance) wanted to beat Junta to get his girlfriend back because he was an obsessive ass-monkey.

I could go on, but I'd be here all night.

As for American villains, not ALL of them are one-note. The villains in Gargoyles had varied motivations. Xanatos wanted to make a better life for himself so he could laugh in his father's face. Demona wanted to kill Goliath because she couldn't handle a 900-year guilt trip. The Archmage wanted revenge for his exile from Malcolm's court. Macbeth just wanted to die. Oberon wanted his grandson back, etc.

In X-Men, Magneto's aim was to destroy humans before humans can exterminate mutants. Having been a Holocaust survivor, he's quite familiar with the destructive power of xenophobia in the minds of authority.

In Spiderman, the Hobgoblin wanted revenge on Spiderman for killing his father.

Again, I could go on, but I'd be here 'til dawn.

Bottom line is that anime has its story flaws just as American animation does. The difference is, it has more mature themes than American animation, which don't make the flaws seem all that glaring.
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Post by kilik^ » Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:40 pm

Captain Planet and street sharks are the worst shows ever! Also a show called JEN , have anybody seen it? is about the adventures of 5 rockstar girls :? , damn that show SUCKED big time.

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Post by Hoeya » Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:02 pm

Any scooby doo of reincarnation of it is pretty bad. Although worst overall, I guess itd be a toss up between chip'n'dale and their advantures or Darkwing Duck.
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Post by whohasamonkey » Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:35 am

Captin Planet was so politically correct it hurt. Watching the show even now gives me a stomach ache.
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Post by angelx03 » Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:34 pm

Hmmm, remember Captain N, the Game Master?
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Post by angelx03 » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:53 am

Can't let this thread DIE. :twisted:
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Post by angelx03 » Fri Aug 22, 2003 4:20 pm

Can't let this thread DIE. :twisted:

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Post by Evil Urchin » Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:31 pm

Well, for me I must say that pretty much any Hanna Barbera cartoon in the 70's sucked since they were all basically just progressivly worst reincarnations of Scooby Doo or some other, earlier show.

However, if you want cartoons that are so bad they are good, then look no further then The Super Globetrotters. Never has a more stupid and pointless show existed, and I've seen every episode and enjoyed em all. Plus, I think that without Super Globetrotters, Excel Saga would have never existed. Just goes to show that just because you suck doesn't mean it shouldn't be watched.

Oh, and might I say that The Hair Bair Bunch was a total waste of 30 minutes of my life.
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