History Horrible / WesternAnimation

* During the final season of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', AMC released '''''Slippin' Jimmy''''', an animated miniseries serving as a prequel and depicting the childhood of protagonist Jimmy [=McGill=]. From the moment it was announced, fan reception had been universally negative. Many people had initially thought that the show's [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWE0MDMyZTYtODIxZC00ZjEyLTliYzUtMjRhMzIxNjRlZDBlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTI0NTk2MTk@._V1_.jpg promotional images]] were tongue-in-cheek pieces of fanart meant to parody the SpinoffBabies trope, and were shocked to learn that it was actually a real show. The character designs are considered ugly and generic, with comparisons being drawn unfavorably to Platform/GoAnimate despite being animated by former ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' animation studio Starburns Industries. Despite supposedly being a prequel to ''Better Call Saul'', it's a prequel InNameOnly: the series is tonally inconsistent with the gritty realism present in the rest of the ''Franchise/BreakingBad'' franchise, with episodes showing fart clouds transforming into frogs and the characters nearly getting dragged to hell, scenarios that feel wholly out of place in the context of the main series, combined with the returning characters (Jimmy and his childhood friend Marco) acting nothing like how they do in the actual TV show. Despite Jimmy earning the nickname "Slippin' Jimmy" by being a ConMan, Jimmy pulls off only a single con job over the course of the series. The animation itself isn't anything spectacular either: background props are identifiable as pieces of clipart, even sporting scattered white pixels around their edges on occasion, indicating that the animators hastily erased the white backgrounds around them without bothering to touch anything up; in one episode, the animation budget appears to have been exceeded, as the episode ends on an extended shot of the building exterior while the characters' voiceovers explain what is happening inside. While [=YouTube=] removed their dislike counter in 2022, an official upload of an episode of the series (now taken down) sits at only 1.1 thousand likes despite having over 95 thousand views, which indicates strong negative reception. The series holds a 2.6 rating on IMDB, and on any media related to this, comments sections are unanimously negative, with any praise being transparently ironic in a similar vein to the praise heaped onto the also negatively received ''[[Film/Morbius2022 Morbius]]'' film.

*** Its pacing is absolutely ''atrocious''; its episodes are incredibly long and feel slower than even the worst episodes of the original series. The show's habit of just [[LeaveTheCameraRunning lingering on the "action"]] killed whatever momentum the jokes had, making an already unfunny and crass adult "comedy" flat-out insufferable. This trait is at its absolute nadir in "Fire Dogs 2", where there are two scenes dedicated to Creator/RalphBakshi taking a crap that both go on for minutes; the second one follows it up with a similarly long bit of Ren and Stimpy trying to dispose of said crap. Kricfalusi himself [[CreatorBacklash admitted]] to the episode's sluggish pacing.

* During the final season of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', AMC released '''''Slippin' Jimmy''''', an animated miniseries serving as a prequel and depicting the childhood of protagonist Jimmy [=McGill=]. From the moment it was announced, fan reception had been universally negative. Many people had initially thought that the show's [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWE0MDMyZTYtODIxZC00ZjEyLTliYzUtMjRhMzIxNjRlZDBlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTI0NTk2MTk@._V1_.jpg promotional images]] were tongue-in-cheek pieces of fanart meant to parody the SpinoffBabies trope, and were shocked to learn that it was actually a real show. The character designs are considered ugly and generic, with comparisons being drawn unfavorably to Platform/GoAnimate despite being animated by former ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' animation studio Starburns Industries. Despite supposedly being a prequel to ''Better Call Saul'', it's a prequel InNameOnly: the series is tonally inconsistent with the gritty realism present in the rest of the ''Franchise/BreakingBad'' franchise, with episodes showing fart clouds transforming into frogs and the characters nearly getting dragged to hell, scenarios that feel wholly out of place in the context of the main series, combined with the characters acting nothing like how they do in the actual TV show. Despite Jimmy earning the nickname "Slippin' Jimmy" by being a ConMan, Jimmy pulls off only a single con job over the course of the series. The animation itself isn't anything spectacular either: background props are identifiable as pieces of clipart, even sporting scattered white pixels around their edges on occasion, indicating that the animators hastily erased the white backgrounds around them without bothering to touch anything up; in one episode, the animation budget appears to have been exceeded, as the episode ends on an extended shot of the building exterior while the characters' voiceovers explain what is happening inside. While [=YouTube=] removed their dislike counter in 2022, an official upload of an episode of the series (now taken down) sits at only 1.1 thousand likes despite having over 95 thousand views, which indicates strong negative reception. The series holds a 2.6 rating on IMDB, and on any media related to this, comments sections are unanimously negative, with any praise being transparently ironic in a similar vein to the praise heaped onto the also negatively received ''[[Film/Morbius2022 Morbius]]'' film.

* Many of the syndicated cartoons produced by '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Singer Sam Singer]]''' (called "the Ed Wood of animation" by Animation Magazine) were notoriously shoddy.

* During the final season of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', AMC released '''''Slippin' Jimmy''''', an animated miniseries serving as a prequel and depicting the childhood of protagonist Jimmy [=McGill=]. From the moment it was announced, fan reception had been universally negative. Many people had initially thought that the show's [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWE0MDMyZTYtODIxZC00ZjEyLTliYzUtMjRhMzIxNjRlZDBlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTI0NTk2MTk@._V1_.jpg promotional images]] were tongue-in-cheek pieces of fanart meant to parody the SpinoffBabies trope, and were shocked to learn that it was actually a real show. The character designs are considered ugly and generic, with comparisons being drawn unfavorably to Website/GoAnimate despite being animated by former ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' animation studio Starburns Industries. Despite supposedly being a prequel to ''Better Call Saul'', it's a prequel InNameOnly: the series is tonally inconsistent with the gritty realism present in the rest of the ''Franchise/BreakingBad'' franchise, with episodes showing fart clouds transforming into frogs and the characters nearly getting dragged to hell, scenarios that feel wholly out of place in the context of the main series, combined with the characters acting nothing like how they do in the actual TV show. Despite Jimmy earning the nickname "Slippin' Jimmy" by being a ConMan, Jimmy pulls off only a single con job over the course of the series. The animation itself isn't anything spectacular either: background props are identifiable as pieces of clipart, even sporting scattered white pixels around their edges on occasion, indicating that the animators hastily erased the white backgrounds around them without bothering to touch anything up; in one episode, the animation budget appears to have been exceeded, as the episode ends on an extended shot of the building exterior while the characters' voiceovers explain what is happening inside. While [=YouTube=] removed their dislike counter in 2022, an official upload of an episode of the series (now taken down) sits at only 1.1 thousand likes despite having over 95 thousand views, which indicates strong negative reception. The series holds a 2.6 rating on IMDB, and on any media related to this, comments sections are unanimously negative, with any praise being transparently ironic in a similar vein to the praise heaped onto the also negatively received ''[[Film/Morbius2022 Morbius]]'' film.

* '''''Full English''''' was an attempt by British network Creator/Channel4 to create an adult cartoon to capitalize on the success of American shows such as ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Unfortunately, despite using Creator/RoughDraftStudios for its animation and casting well-known British names such as Creator/RichardAyoade and Creator/KayvanNovak, the show was regarded as an abomination by viewers and critics alike. Many labeled it as a "British" ripoff of ''Family Guy'' with [[FollowTheLeader several copied elements]], such as the main character's wife having a billionaire father who disapproves of his son-in-law. The gags were so offensive that even ''Family Guy'' at its most shocking isn't as tasteless. The most infamous was a segment in which the ghost of notorious reality TV star Jade Goody, who had died of cancer three years before broadcast, chats about [[BlackComedyRape her husband's then-ongoing rape case]] -- only to be interrupted by the ghost of Princess Diana, who [[CrossesTheLineTwice apologizes for being late because the traffic was "murder"]], who gets into a fight with Goody's ghost and calls her "baldy" while Goody's ghost calls her a "bulimic slut". That one led even the infamously sensationalist UsefulNotes/{{British Newspaper|s}} ''The Daily Mail'' to [[EveryoneHasStandards call it]] the [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236151/Is-sickest-cartoon-Channel-4s-Full-English-shows-ghosts-Princess-Diana-Jade-Goody-scrapping-Peoples-Princess.html "sickest cartoon ever"]]. It was cancelled after four episodes, the remaining ones were shunted off to sister network E4, and none of it was aired again; Channel 4 still pretends it never happened. [=TorchSheep=] has a review of it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPYAZifNcVA here]], Steve Reviews has one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PF_SCNWw_w review here]], and Saberspark has one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KazXtYfzl00 here]].

%% ''Bunsen is a Beast''. While it is considered to be Butch Hartman's weakest Nicktoon, the show received mixed-to-positive reviews and it won an Emmy.

* '''''WesternAnimation/DaBoomCrew''''' was played on Creator/KidsWB on {{Saturday morning|Cartoon}}s for four weeks at one new episode per week in 2004, like any new show. The problem? The creators had made 13 episodes. The network canned it after just four, and it's easy to tell why. The show had TotallyRadical dialogue, a generic plot about traveling through a sci-fi world with equally generic characters, wasting the vocal talents of two Music/TheTime members (Morris Day and Jerome Benton) and Creator/WandaSykes, and other things that made this show not worth the time slot. It also features annoying negative stereotypes. For extra irony, one of the show's co-creators was Bruce W. Smith, who made ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''. Thankfully, a second [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire Pokémon: Advanced Challenge]] episode took over its timeslot. Meanwhile, it got a Spanish dub and was inflicted on UsefulNotes/{{Latin America}}n kids on Creator/FoxKids/Creator/{{Jetix}} -- sometimes a Spanish dub can rescue a mediocre series, but not this time. WebVideo/TheCartoonHero reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SzeuXmhRA here]], and WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter [[https://youtu.be/60ef8jQyw5k ripped it a new one]] and considered it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudbfEWmX30 one of the top 10 worst cartoon series he's ever seen.]][[note]]He initially called it the worst cartoon series of the 2000s -- but that was before he found ''The Nutshack'', which is also on this page. He clarified that while it's not the absolute worst thing he's seen, he respects it the least because it put so much effort into ripping other things off (like its theme song, coming from Puff Daddy's "Come With Me") and so little effort into everything else (like its paper-thin plot). Even "[[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon Ren Seeks Help]]" (which is ''also'' on this page) was at least trying for ''something''[[/note]]

* Despite having well-known comedians like Creator/SarahSilverman and Creator/SethRogen, Creator/HBOMax's Christmas-themed miniseries '''''WesternAnimation/SantaInc''''' was reviled for trying way too hard to make an "edgy" Christmas AnimatedShockComedy. The show is full of horribly tasteless jokes and crude humor that rely too much on extreme vulgarity, sex, and/or nudity. Its BreakingTheGlassCeiling premise of a female elf named Candy trying to prove herself as a successor to Santa Claus is [[{{Anvilicious}} constantly hammered in]]. The main characters and supporting characters are either very huge {{Jerkass}}es and/or [[FlatCharacter one-note]], while the villains are all predictably sexist or corrupt. The show offers a HopeSpot in one of the final episodes, where Santa gives a sensible reason for not choosing Candy as his successor[[note]](while she is certainly a great worker in his eyes, she is simply not good with kids, which his chosen successor, the intern named Devin, is; and, as he explains, being a FriendToAllChildren is ''the'' most important part of the job)[[/note]] and offers a compromise, wherein Candy gets all the executive power in the company, while Devin acts as its public face, which [[InformedWrongness she completely rejects with a "Go fuck yourself.,"]] cementing the cast as irredeemable in the eyes of Steve Reviews, Just Stop, WebVideo/CynicalReviews, and other critics. As such, the show proved to be incredibly mean-spirited, offensive, and [[EightDeadlyWords lacked anybody worth caring about in the end]]. To the show's credit, the series has incredible StopMotion animation, meant to pay tribute to the [[Creator/RankinBass Rankin/Bass]] Christmas specials... not that it's enough to save the show's awful writing. It has an [=IMDb=] rating of 1.6, which the star talent blamed entirely on antisemitism.[[note]]While there was backlash from Neo-Nazis due to the show's left-wing politics, outlets of ''all'' political affiliations agreed that [[DontShootTheMessage the show wasn't good on its other merits either]][[/note]] [[https://youtu.be/dbSPVsNAYhM Steve Reviews]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG-AiCN38aY Just Stop]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hMjIfHw1U Cynical Reviews]] had very few kind words to say about the show. It was also given a negative review in [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/reviews/santa-inc-seth-rogen-sarah-silverman-hbo-max-tv-review-1235123061/ Variety]]. And while it was included among the shows purged from the service in the summer of 2022, this was not one of the shows that viewers were disappointed to see leave.

* '''''WebAnimation/TheRedApeFamily''''' is an animated series based on (and starring) Bored Ape Yacht Club [[UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}} [=NFTs=]]], and itself being hosted on a blockchain, with each episode being sold as an NFT. Claiming to be the first of its kind,[[note]]Which isn't true. Four months prior, ''Stoner Cats'', produced by Creator/MilaKunis's Orchard Farm Productions, was launched.[[/note]] the show ostensibly centers around a family of Bored Apes [[ApesInSpace leaving Earth to live a new life on Mars]]. The animation looks pretty awkward sometimes; one early scene [[https://twitter.com/saberspark/status/1465020013929275406?s=21 has a glaring typo]], proving how sloppily it was put together; the story is not clearly explained to the viewer, with the only real explanation being in the trailer; and the jokes either [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext make no sense]], are [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece dated]], or are blatant attempts to preach to a choir of cryptocurrency speculators. Its only interest, even to its target audience, is that [[MoneyDearBoy it is technically a form of currency]]. Saberspark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxiI0vJPgUw took a look at it here]] and concluded that it was a blatant and soulless cash grab, to the point of including it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDrppEZm6Gw in his rant video against NFTs as a whole]] and later returning to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTdh-sKd5s dance on the show's grave]] when its [[ShortRunners budget ran out during production of the fourth episode]]. It was also reviewed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cya0KVPyBR4 Sankobyte]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIlrmWEuIFA Prixet]], who were equally unkind in their treatment of it. WebVideo/CynicalReviews also covered it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjsteRFA57M here]] in his video about [=NFTs=] and NFT cartoons.
* Despite having well-known comedians like Creator/SarahSilverman and Creator/SethRogen, Creator/HBOMax's Christmas-themed miniseries '''''WesternAnimation/SantaInc''''' was reviled for trying way too hard to make an "edgy" Christmas AnimatedShockComedy. The show is full of horribly tasteless jokes and crude humor that rely too much on extreme vulgarity, sex, and/or nudity. Its BreakingTheGlassCeiling premise of a female elf named Candy trying to prove herself as a successor to Santa Claus is [[{{Anvilicious}} constantly hammered in]]. The main characters and supporting characters are either very huge {{Jerkass}}es and/or [[FlatCharacter one-note]], while the villains are all predictably sexist or corrupt. The show offers a HopeSpot in one of the final episodes, where Santa gives a sensible reason for not choosing Candy as his successor[[labelnote:*]](while she is certainly a great worker in his eyes, she is simply not good with kids, which his chosen successor, the intern named Devin, is; and, as he explains, being a FriendToAllChildren is ''the'' most important part of the job)[[/labelnote]] and offers a compromise, wherein Candy gets all the executive power in the company, while Devin acts as its public face, which [[InformedWrongness she completely rejects with a "Go fuck yourself.,"]] cementing the cast as irredeemable in the eyes of Steve Reviews, Just Stop, WebVideo/CynicalReviews, and other critics. As such, the show proved to be incredibly mean-spirited, offensive, and [[EightDeadlyWords lacked anybody worth caring about in the end]]. To the show's credit, the series has incredible StopMotion animation, meant to pay tribute to the [[Creator/RankinBass Rankin/Bass]] Christmas specials... not that it's enough to save the show's awful writing. It has an [=IMDb=] rating of 1.6, which the star talent blamed entirely on antisemitism.[[note]]While there was backlash from Neo-Nazis due to the show's left-wing politics, outlets of ''all'' political affiliations agreed that [[DontShootTheMessage the show wasn't good on its other merits either]][[/note]] [[https://youtu.be/dbSPVsNAYhM Steve Reviews]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG-AiCN38aY Just Stop]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hMjIfHw1U Cynical Reviews]] had very few kind words to say about the show. It was also given a negative review in [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/reviews/santa-inc-seth-rogen-sarah-silverman-hbo-max-tv-review-1235123061/ Variety]]. And while it was included among the shows purged from the service in the summer of 2022, this was not one of the shows that viewers were disappointed to see leave.

* '''''Leo & Layla's History Adventures'''''. Ignoring the fact that the notorious American right-wing think tank [=PragerU=] is behind it, the show offers very little of substance and quality. The animation is [[UnintentionalUncannyValley unnecessarily creepy]] -- characters move and speak like poorly-automated machines amidst lifeless plastic backdrops. The show bungles its core premise - two kids going back in time to meet historical figures - by not only [[ArtisticLicenseHistory mischaracterizing those historical figures' values and beliefs]] in a bizarre inversion of PoliticallyCorrectHistory (for example, UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei espousing anti-science[=/=]anti-vaccination beliefs or radical figures such as Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr. being portrayed as more moderate than they actually were) but also having them make arguments built on logic not even kids could follow--sometimes even in contradiction with the episode's moral. The show offers very little in the way of fun or entertainment value for its intended audience, as episodes almost entirely consist of characters having long conversations with almost no action or humor to keep kids captivated. Its shoddy production values and the incoherent story will drive away all but the most zealous right-wing parents and educators, and everyone else will be alienated by it being a mouthpiece for [=PragerU=]'s politics. Big Joel dissects the show [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKJU0K_ebfU here]]; Creator/HunterAvallone's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGp3gULsLpI review]] is also worth checking out. Even WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDotOrg got in on the action and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92dYqTiiF1c reviewed the Neil Armstrong video]], concluding that its InsaneTrollLogic would be meaningless to children. Zoe Bee [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4NAiPYaogCw analyzed the show and other PragerU Kids material from a teacher's perspective]], concluding that even putting aside its regressive messaging, it fails at being educational ''or'' entertaining.

* '''''Leo & Layla's History Adventures'''''. Ignoring the fact that the notorious American right-wing think tank [=PragerU=] is behind it, the show offers very little of substance and quality. The animation is [[UnintentionalUncannyValley unnecessarily creepy]] -- characters move and speak like poorly-automated machines amidst lifeless plastic backdrops. The show bungles its core premise - two kids going back in time to meet historical figures - by not only [[ArtisticLicenseHistory mischaracterizing those historical figures' values and beliefs]] in a bizarre inversion of PoliticallyCorrectHistory (for example, UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei espousing anti-science[=/=]anti-vaccination beliefs or radical figures such as Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr. being portrayed as more moderate than they actually were) but also having them make arguments built on logic not even kids could follow--sometimes even in contradiction with the episode's moral. The show offers very little in the way of fun or entertainment value for its intended audience, as episodes almost entirely consist of characters having long conversations with almost no action or humor to keep kids captivated. Its shoddy production values and the incoherent story will drive away all but the most zealous right-wing parents and educators, and everyone else will be alienated by it being a mouthpiece for [=PragerU=]'s politics. Big Joel dissects the show [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKJU0K_ebfU here]]; Creator/HunterAvallone's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGp3gULsLpI review]] is also worth checking out. Even WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDotOrg got in on the action and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92dYqTiiF1c reviewed the Neil Armstrong video]], concluding that its InsaneTrollLogic would be meaningless to children. Zoe Bee [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4NAiPYaogCw analyzed the show and other PragerU Kids material]], concluding that even putting aside its regressive messaging, it fails at being educational ''or'' entertaining.

* '''''Leo & Layla's History Adventures'''''. Ignoring the fact that the notorious American right-wing think tank [=PragerU=] is behind it, the show offers very little of substance and quality. The animation is [[UnintentionalUncannyValley unnecessarily creepy]] -- characters move and speak like poorly-automated machines amidst lifeless plastic backdrops. The show bungles its core premise - two kids going back in time to meet historical figures - by not only [[ArtisticLicenseHistory mischaracterizing those historical figures' values and beliefs]] in a bizarre inversion of PoliticallyCorrectHistory (for example, UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei espousing anti-science[=/=]anti-vaccination beliefs or radical figures such as Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr. being portrayed as more moderate than they actually were) but also having them make arguments built on logic not even kids could follow--sometimes even in contradiction with the episode's moral. The show offers very little in the way of fun or entertainment value for its intended audience, as episodes almost entirely consist of characters having long conversations with almost no action or humor to keep kids captivated. Its shoddy production values and the incoherent story will drive away all but the most zealous right-wing parents and educators, and everyone else will be alienated by it being a mouthpiece for [=PragerU=]'s politics. Big Joel dissects the show [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKJU0K_ebfU here]]; Creator/HunterAvallone's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGp3gULsLpI review]] is also worth checking out. Even WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDotOrg got in on the action and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92dYqTiiF1c reviewed the Neil Armstrong video]], concluding that its InsaneTrollLogic would be meaningless to children.

* '''Creator/JohnKricfalusi''''s fall from grace hit hard. In UsefulNotes/TheNineties, he was one of the biggest names in animation. But things stopped looking so rosy for him when the TurnOfTheMillennium hit, and a pair of {{Creator Killer}}s (among other things, capped off with a series of sexual assault allegations) knocked him out of the industry and ruined his credibility. Both of those cartoons were Horrible, even though he was given total creative control; they perfectly encapsulate how ProtectionFromEditors is [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools not always a good thing]] and how [[FranchiseOriginalSin the very qualities that put his work on the map can be taken too far]]:

* '''''WesternAnimation/{{Hammerman}}''''', a cartoon about rapper Music/MCHammer, is one of the most embarrassing examples of a {{Celebrity Toon|s}}. It ran for one season, and it's pretty clear from the start that most of its budget went into getting Hammer himself rather than ''anything else''. For starters, the animation is awful, with a lousy attempt at achieving graffiti-like aesthetics and movement so limited that it could accurately be described as "two-frame animation with the least detail put in each frame, sometimes mirrored or flipped", and the lack of sound effects was compensated with the animation of {{unsound effect}}s. The animation is not the only problem: the theme song is a generic hip-hop loop with MC Hammer singing a hastily-written ExpositoryThemeTune that doesn't feel like a song at all. Not only does each episode [[JustForPun hammer]] [[{{Anvilicious}} a lesson into the viewers' heads]], sometimes [[SpaceWhaleAesop in the most nonsensical and backwards way possible]], but Hammer explains both the Aesop ''and the whole plot'' at the beginning of each episode. Top it with idiotic characters and boring villains, and you get an awkward piece of animated crap that made both [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tV3PyC-Bk Mr. Enter]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQiwzhTNmtc The Nostalgia Critic]] cringe. Even WebVideo/TheRapCritic mentioned how genuinely awful ''Hammerman'' was when talking about the song that actually ruined MC Hammer's career [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6_BkVXGXdU (Pumps and a Bump).]]

%%* '''''Le Monde Selon Kev''''' is a French cartoon that aired on M6 in 2018 before disappearing into oblivion, and it's not hard to see why. Starring controversial French comedian Kev Adams, the show is a rip-off of ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'', but with terrible character designs derivative of some cartoons that aired around the same time like ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. Like many other French cartoons, it is also very mean-spirited towards the main character. For these reasons, it's often cited as one of the worst French cartoons to ever exist and holds a 2.8/10 on IMDb as well as a 2.7/10 on Senscritique.

* There are more than a few reasons why Calico Entertainment's '''''WesternAnimation/{{Bubsy}}''''' pilot never got picked up. Not only because of unfunny jokes and overuse of StockFootage, almost all of our main [[DesignatedHero "heroes"]] are completely unlikeable and have voice acting that not only wastes the talent of famous names like Creator/RobPaulsen, [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]], and Creator/TressMacNeille but also ''incredibly ear-grating''. The only likable character is Arnold Armadillo, and he is sadly treated to a downright mean-spirited RunningGag involving his fear of getting run over by a truck. It was so bad that even the creator of Bubsy, Michael Berlyn, hated it, and the title character is one of the ''very'' few roles Rob Paulsen is openly ashamed of. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter took an axe to it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF7W1ZjjBjI here]], as well as [[http://codenamereview.blogspot.com/2012/10/bubsy.html Tooncrap]], [[http://cartoon-watching.blogspot.com/2012/03/bubsy-animated-series-pilot.html Nothing but Cartoons]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCy5ezK36hw Cartoon Palooza]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXWmbMH0l8 even Joel]] from WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}. There's also [[TheAnnotatedEdition an annotated version]] as well. And just in case you weren't convinced enough, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNdbdSCuC4 here's the entire thing]]. "[[CatchPhrase What could possibly go wrong?]]", indeed.

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, (in)famous for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, best known for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, famous for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, (in)famous for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, famous for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, (in)famous for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, famous for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, (in)famous for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, famous for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':

* While ''Series/HenryDanger'' is considered a divisive show, it still has a following. The same cannot be said for its AnimatedAdaptation, '''''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfKidDanger''''', which is widely regarded as one of Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}[='s=] worst original animated programs[[note]]also known as the Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}[[/note]]. While the animated version gets rid of the laugh track, it introduces a whole slew of problems in its place: the animation and character designs are completely dull and have been compared to the likes of late-run episodes of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''. The storylines are very lackluster, which is pretty bad considering that the cartoon could've opened up a huge opportunity for storylines that couldn't be done in its live-action counterpart and full of unfunny and/or nonsensical jokes, references that are about as relevant as expired milk, the lead characters going from dull and annoying to outright unbearable, and tons of gross-out humor that isn't charming in the slightest. Newcomers and fans of ''Henry Danger'' disliked it and avoided the show, leading to low ratings that led to the show [[ScrewedByTheNetwork getting quietly removed from Nick's schedule]], with few missing it. Coupled with the fact that Creator/DanSchneider left Nickelodeon, the failure of this show [[FranchiseKiller led to the death of his namesake Schneider's Bakery line of sitcoms]]. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter reviewed the show [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1OC6TftZM4 here]] as a separate Animated Atrocity and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sly1XA3N5cM here]] as part of his Nick-o-Rama marathon, and he found nothing positive to say about the show. Not only that, but he also almost considered it for its own spot in his worst cartoons of the 2010's list [[https://youtu.be/NoSXRRdVK6M?t=1267 before giving it a dishonorable mention]] that could also be a tie with ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' at #4. Alpha Jay Show [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWGIpANCJU has reviewed the show's pilot]] and similarly has no praise for it.

* '''''WesternAnimation/{{Fairview}}''''' is Comedy Central's attempt to create a SpiritualSuccessor to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' (which they used as a lead-in to attract viewers) and is also part of a new adult animation push into streaming services, yet it ended up being one of the most reviled attempts at an AnimatedShockComedy in recent years. It fails at political commentary as its "satire" ends up being far too [[ShallowParody shallow]] and [[{{Anvilicious}} unsubtle]] to hold any water (such as [[TakeThat potshots]] towards anti-vaxxers that amount to them saying that they're against vaccines because they're stupid). The show’s non-political humor isn’t much better, mostly consisting of tired ToiletHumour, shock and gross-out humor, and sex jokes, all delivered with very little actual humor or cleverness. The character designs resemble creepy-looking nesting dolls with overly-detailed, ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''-style human faces that horribly clash with the simplistic bodies and look more like emojis than actual characters. The characters themselves are [[FlatCharacter flat]] and receive no development. What's more, the voice acting was literally phoned in over '''Zoom''', making it unprofessional and jarring to the point that WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} reported that he recoiled in pain while watching the series. It received enormously negative reviews to the point of getting a 1.4 on [=IMDb=], making the series the lowest-rated Comedy Central cartoon ever. WebVideo/{{LS Mark}} also dissects [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs0CESi_-Xg this dreadful mess]], alongside other inept clones of ''South Park'' that were also ironically made by Comedy Central, Farview getting the harshest review of course.

* '''''WesternAnimation/{{Fairview}}''''' is Comedy Central's attempt to create a SpiritualSuccessor to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' (which they used as a lead-in to attract viewers) and is also part of a new adult animation push into streaming services, yet it ended up being one of the most reviled attempts at an AnimatedShockComedy in recent years. It fails at political commentary as its "satire" ends up being far too [[ShallowParody shallow]] and [[{{Anvilicious}} unsubtle]] to hold any water (such as [[TakeThat potshots]] towards anti-vaxxers that amount to them saying that they're against vaccines because they're stupid). The show’s non-political humor isn’t much better, mostly consisting of tired ToiletHumour, shock and gross-out humor, and sex jokes, all delivered with very little actual humor or cleverness. The character designs resemble creepy-looking nesting dolls with overly-detailed, ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''-style human faces that horribly clash with the simplistic bodies and look more like emojis than actual characters. The characters themselves are [[FlatCharacter flat]] and receive no development. What's more, the voice acting was literally phoned in over '''Zoom''', making it unprofessional and jarring to the point that WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} reported that he recoiled in pain while watching the series. It received enormously negative reviews to the point of getting a 1.4 on [=IMDb=], making the series the lowest-rated Comedy Central cartoon ever. WebVideo/{{LS Mark}} also dissects [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs0CESi_-Xg this dreadful mess]], alongside other inept clones of ''South Park'' that were also ironically made by Comedy Central.

* '''''WebAnimation/TheRedApeFamily''''' is an animated series based on (and starring) Bored Ape Yacht Club [[UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}} [=NFTs=]]], and itself being hosted on a blockchain, with each episode being sold as an NFT. Claiming to be the first of its kind,[[note]]Which isn't true. Four months prior, ''Stoner Cats'', produced by Creator/MilaKunis's Orchard Farm Productions, was launched.[[/note]] the show ostensibly centers around a family of Bored Apes [[ApesInSpace leaving Earth to live a new life on Mars]]. The animation looks pretty awkward sometimes; one early scene [[https://twitter.com/saberspark/status/1465020013929275406?s=21 has a glaring typo]], proving how sloppily it was put together; the story is not clearly explained to the viewer, with the only real explanation being in the trailer; and the jokes either [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext make no sense]], are [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece dated]], or are blatant attempts to preach to a choir of cryptocurrency speculators. Its only interest, even to its target audience, is that [[MoneyDearBoy it is technically a form of currency]]. Saberspark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxiI0vJPgUw took a look at it here]] and concluded that it was a blatant and soulless cash grab, to the point of including it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDrppEZm6Gw in his rant video against NFTs as a whole]] and later returning to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTdh-sKd5s dance on the show's grave]] when its [[ShortRunners budget ran out during production of the fourth episode]]. It was also reviewed by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cya0KVPyBR4 Sankobyte]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIlrmWEuIFA Prixet]], who were equally unkind in their treatment of it.
* Despite having well-known comedians like Creator/SarahSilverman and Creator/SethRogen, Creator/HBOMax's Christmas-themed miniseries '''''WesternAnimation/SantaInc''''' was reviled for trying way too hard to make an "edgy" Christmas AnimatedShockComedy. The show is full of horribly tasteless jokes and crude humor that rely too much on extreme vulgarity, sex, and/or nudity. Its BreakingTheGlassCeiling premise of a female elf named Candy trying to prove herself as a successor to Santa Claus is [[{{Anvilicious}} constantly hammered in]]. The main characters and supporting characters are either very huge {{Jerkass}}es and/or [[FlatCharacter one-note]], while the villains are all predictably sexist or corrupt. The show offers a HopeSpot in one of the final episodes, where Santa gives a sensible reason for not choosing Candy as his successor[[labelnote:*]](while she is certainly a great worker in his eyes, she is simply not good with kids, which his chosen successor, the intern named Devin, is; and, as he explains, being a FriendToAllChildren is ''the'' most important part of the job)[[/labelnote]] and offers a compromise, wherein Candy gets all the executive power in the company, while Devin acts as its public face, which [[InformedWrongness she completely rejects with a "Go fuck yourself.,"]] cementing the cast as irredeemable in the eyes of Steve Reviews, Just Stop, and other critics. As such, the show proved to be incredibly mean-spirited, offensive, and [[EightDeadlyWords lacked anybody worth caring about in the end]]. To the show's credit, the series has incredible StopMotion animation, meant to pay tribute to the [[Creator/RankinBass Rankin/Bass]] Christmas specials... not that it's enough to save the show's awful writing. It has an [=IMDb=] rating of 1.6, which the star talent blamed entirely on antisemitism.[[note]]While there was backlash from Neo-Nazis due to the show's left-wing politics, outlets of ''all'' political affiliations agreed that [[DontShootTheMessage the show wasn't good on its other merits either]][[/note]] [[https://youtu.be/dbSPVsNAYhM Steve Reviews]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG-AiCN38aY Just Stop]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hMjIfHw1U Cynical Reviews]] had very few kind words to say about the show. It was also given a negative review in [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/reviews/santa-inc-seth-rogen-sarah-silverman-hbo-max-tv-review-1235123061/ Variety]]. And while it was included among the shows purged from the service in the summer of 2022, this was not one of the shows that viewers were disappointed to see leave.

* While ''Series/HenryDanger'' is considered a divisive show, it still has a following. The same cannot be said for its AnimatedAdaptation, '''''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfKidDanger''''', which is widely regarded as one of Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}[='s=] worst original animated programs[[note]]also known as the Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}[[/note]]. While the animated version gets rid of the laugh track, it introduces a whole slew of problems in its place: The animation and character designs are completely dull and have been compared to the likes of late-run episodes of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''. The storylines are very lackluster, which is pretty bad considering that the cartoon could've opened up a huge opportunity for storylines that couldn't be done in its live-action counterpart and full of unfunny and/or nonsensical jokes, dated references that are about as relevant as expired milk, the lead characters going from dull and annoying at their very worst to outright unbearable, and tons of gross-out humor that isn't charming in the slightest. Newcomers and fans of ''Henry Danger'' disliked it and avoided the show, leading to low ratings that led to the show [[ScrewedByTheNetwork getting quietly removed from Nick's schedule]], with few missing it. Coupled with the fact that Creator/DanSchneider left Nickelodeon, the failure of this show [[FranchiseKiller led to the death of his namesake Schneider's Bakery line of sitcoms]]. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter reviewed the show [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1OC6TftZM4 here]] as a separate Animated Atrocity and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sly1XA3N5cM here]] as part of his Nick-o-Rama marathon, and he found nothing positive to say about the show. Not only that, but he also almost considered it for its own spot in his worst cartoons of the 2010's list [[https://youtu.be/NoSXRRdVK6M?t=1267 before giving it a dishonorable mention]] that could also be a tie with ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' at #4. Alpha Jay Show [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWGIpANCJU has reviewed the show's pilot]] and similarly has no praise for it.

* After the Sputnik launch in 1957, there seemed to be a push for "educational" TV cartoons in the USA to raise kids' intellects, and they were generally awful for the time. One of them, '''''The Big World of Little Adam''''', was nothing but a still shot of two kids' heads behind a book, conveniently covering their mouths to avoid animating speech -- the only movement was their pupils darting back and forth. This "action" framed montages of still pictures of the subject at hand. On a whole other level of awful, one installment dealing with missiles praised the V-1 and V-2 rockets. However, the animated segments and slideshows weren't the only thing present: Website/TheOtherWiki claims the producer, Fred Ladd, who is best known for bringing ''Anime/AstroBoy'', ''Anime/{{Gigantor}}'', and ''Anime/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' to America, and thus started the first wave of anime in the English-speaking world, got hold of a bunch of NASA documentaries, and with the space race of the 50s and 60s running about in kids' minds, created the segments as framing devices for said documentaries.

* '''''WesternAnimation/DaBoomCrew''''' was played on Creator/KidsWB on {{Saturday morning|Cartoon}}s for four weeks at one new episode per week in 2004, like any new show. The problem? The creators had made 13 episodes. The network canned it after just four, and it's easy to tell why. The show had TotallyRadical dialogue, a generic plot about traveling through a sci-fi world with equally generic characters, wasting the vocal talents of two Music/TheTime members (Morris Day and Jerome Benton) and Creator/WandaSykes, and other unneeded things that made this show not worth the time slot it took up. It also features annoying negative stereotypes. For extra irony, one of the show's co-creators was Bruce W. Smith, who made ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''. Thankfully, a second [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire Pokémon: Advanced Challenge]] episode took over its timeslot. Meanwhile, it got a Spanish dub and was inflicted on UsefulNotes/{{Latin America}}n kids on Creator/FoxKids/Creator/{{Jetix}} -- sometimes a Spanish dub can rescue a mediocre series, but not this time. WebVideo/TheCartoonHero reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SzeuXmhRA here]], and WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter [[https://youtu.be/60ef8jQyw5k ripped it a new one]] and considered it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudbfEWmX30 one of the top 10 worst cartoon series he's ever seen.]][[note]]He initially called it the worst cartoon series of the 2000s -- but that was before he found ''The Nutshack'', which is also on this page. He clarified that while it's not the absolute worst thing he's seen, he respects it the least because it put so much effort into ripping other things off (like its theme song, coming from Puff Daddy's "Come With Me") and so little effort into everything else (like its paper-thin plot). Even "[[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon Ren Seeks Help]]" (which is ''also'' on this page) was at least trying for ''something''[[/note]]