Line #70 Horrible/WesternAnimation


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9	->''"When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry."''
10	-->-- '''Creator/DonBluth''', speaking from personal experience.
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12	Often because [[AnimationAgeGhetto cartoons are sometimes seen as entertainment for kids]], some studios seem to think they can get away with releasing anything, no matter how poor the quality. When animation is targeted towards adults, creators often make it a point to [[AnimatedShockComedy go the extra mile]] to clarify that no, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids it's not for kids]]. However, there are some things even the NostalgiaFilter can't save. After all, with [[OffModel glitchy animation]], many [[PlotHole unanswered questions]], [[ExecutiveMeddling awful decisions by the higher-ups]], and jokes too unfunny for the most easily amused, can you blame them for not remembering?
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14	To see some of the worst animation has to offer in cinemas, check out the Horrible/AnimatedFilms page. For horrible UsefulNotes/{{Asia}}n Animated shows that were made in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, see the Horrible/AnimeAndManga page, and for shows that weren't, see the Horrible/AsianAnimation page.
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16	'''''Important Notes:'''''
17	# Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as Horrible. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this.
18	# It isn't a Horrible cartoon just because ''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter'', ''WebVideo/RebelTaxi'', ''WebVideo/PhantomStrider'', ''WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}'', anyone from ''[[Webcomic/TheCartoonChroniclesOfConroyCat Toons These Days]]'' or ''[[WebVideo/TVTrash Reviewers]] [[WebVideo/TheCartoonHero Unknown]]'', anyone from or formerly associated with Website/ChannelAwesome or any other CausticCritic reviewed or said something negative about it. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it. (Though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review.)
19	# This page is not for horrible '''episodes''' (or even seasons) of otherwise well-received shows. For those, see [[DethroningMoment/WesternAnimation Dethroning Moment]] and [[SeasonalRot/WesternAnimation Seasonal Rot]].
20	# To ensure that the work is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''. This includes "sneaking" the entries onto the pages ahead of time by adding them and then just commenting them out.
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24	%% There are works that are disqualified from this trope for one reason or another and should not be added to the list. They are:
25	%% ''Breadwinners''. The show was successful among its target audience, a Periphery Hatedom does not qualify it for this trope, and the show has legitimate periphery fans.
26	%% ''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.
27	%% ''Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island''. While it is considered to be a ''[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]'' ripoff due to its concept and it has a Periphery Hatedom, it was nominated for two Daytime Emmys.
28	%% ''The Groovenians''. It was nominated for an Annie Award.
29	%% ''Johnny Test''. Though it has a huge Periphery Hatedom, it received a few awards, ran for six seasons prior to the Netflix revival, and most of the vitriol toward it is directed at the seasons done in Flash, while the hand-drawn first season is considered to be better than the rest of the series.
30	%% ''King Star King''. There are some who liked it, and even the YMMV page for Toonami says that some people were fine with it.
31	%% ''Teen Titans Go''. Very much love it or hate it, and it is one of Cartoon Network's most successful shows.
32	%% ''Thundercats Roar''. Despite the immense backlash following its announcement and during its production, the general consensus following its airing skews more So Okay, It's Average than flat-out Horrible.
33	%% ''Velma'': Critical reception has been mixed and it's been renewed for a second season. Please wait until the second season finishes without renewal for a third before further discussion.
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36	!!Examples (more or less in alphabetical order):
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41	* '''Laughing Dragon Studios''', formerly known as '''Blind Ferret Entertainment''', is a company run by Canadian {{webcomic}} artist Ryan Sohmer, best known for ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'':
42	** '''''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel: The Animated Series''''' is regarded by many as one of the worst {{Animated Adaptation}}s of all time and easily the worst of the 2000s. Noted for its awful production, unlikable characterization, unfunny "humor," and a plot that continues upon a wildly-despised comic arc. The StockFootage is okay but takes up at least ''half'' an episode. Nothing else is even excusable. The voice acting is poorly done and cheaply recorded (one background character in Season 2 Episode 4 apparently had his single line ''literally'' phoned in), and volume discrepancies are everywhere. The sounds are so badly edited that music tracks commonly overlap, and speech starts and stops ''partway through a line''. The animation wouldn't pass on Platform/{{Newgrounds}} -- it's often jerky, always unnatural, and rarely ''isn't'' in a 3/4 profile. The series itself was so unpopular that for two seasons done two years apart, it almost cost Blind Ferret their jobs, and they have since gone on record as saying they'll never produce another season. WebVideo/TVTrash riffed it in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V9GoInPGpc crossover]] with The Cartoon Hero, and Rowdy C declared that it was one of the few shows that he felt had no redeeming qualities. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2uWWjXh3JU tore into the pilot, too]], and considers it to have the worst audio out of anything he's reviewed. It was also the first and [[BookEnds last]] thing riffed by WebVideo/TheAnnotatedSeries.
43	** They also worked on an AnimatedAdaptation of '''''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'''''. The animation is ''slightly'' better than ''Ctrl+Alt+Del'', though almost anything would be; that's not enough to salvage the rest of the show. Essentially, it takes every flaw the {{webcomic}} has and multiplies it exponentially. The first lyric of the theme song is "Wouldn't it be great if no one ever got offended?" which should clue viewers in that what they're about to watch isn't exactly going to handle adult themes in a mature, responsible manner. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3eZY2_Di1c the clip of the pilot posted on their YouTube channel]] alone, we're introduced to the main character Rayne Summers, who has to be the biggest, most intolerable douche-bag imaginable. Couple this with bland, repetitive humor that can be best described as "horny" and a waste of good voice actors like Creator/YuriLowenthal, Creator/TaraPlatt, and Creator/SteveBlum, stir well, and you've got a cartoon so bad it's a wonder anyone ever bothers adapting {{webcomic}}s into animation at all. What's worse, it was crowdfunded through a Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign that raised over $100,000 -- none of which, evidently, went towards the writing or animation budgets.
44	* '''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]]:
45	** '''''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon''''' was a more adult-oriented continuation of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', which was Kricfalusi's original smash hit from the 90s. Only six episodes were made, and Creator/SpikeTV only aired three of them. A lot went wrong, and there was a lot of fallout:
46	*** It was ''extremely'' reliant on [[GrossOutShow gross-out humor]] and BlackComedy. While the original Nickelodeon show was well-known for such humor, it was never as offensive or shocking as in this version. It had graphic "jokes" about [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals animal abuse]], [[MisterSeahorse male pregnancy]], and general {{Gorn}}. It seemed to be disgusting and offensive [[RefugeInAudacity for its own sake]] or perhaps [[RatedMForMoney to drum up hype]].
47	*** Its {{pacing\|Problems}} is absolutely ''atrocious''; its episodes are incredibly long and feel slower than even the weakest 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 [[Recap/RenAndStimpyAPC1x03FireDogs2 "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]] that the show's pacing was too slow for its own good.
48	*** It sexualized female characters to a disturbing degree, even before you learn about how Kricfalusi was accused of sexual abuse by several female animators who worked under him. Nowhere is this more evident than the episode [[Recap/RenandStimpyAPC1x04NakedBeachFrenzy "Naked Beach Frenzy"]], which was a paper-thin excuse to ogle objectified female caricatures -- many of which were ''based'' on said animators. And any ability to watch it completely collapses when you learn that he roped in animator Katie Rice to ''[[InkSuitActor voice]]'' the character "based" on her (known only as "Soap Girl").
49	*** Kricfalusi was hoping to use the show as a CareerResurrection. Instead, it helped bury his flagship franchise for about a decade. He was reduced to working on animating music videos and commercials, as well as his blog Blog/JohnKStuff and his personal project ''Cans Without Labels'' (which, as you'll see, is the ''other'' CreatorKiller he made). In 2020, when Creator/ComedyCentral announced a new adult revival of ''Ren and Stimpy'', they made certain Kricfalusi wouldn't be involved in any way, and even then, observers were wary because the mere concept of an "adult ''Ren & Stimpy'' revival" had been so thoroughly tainted by this show. Creator/SpikeTV, meanwhile, was hoping to make ''Adult Party Cartoon'' the flagship of its animation block; instead, they had to scrap it entirely.[[note]]The other two shows, ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat'', weren't well received either, but neither drew the revulsion that ''Adult Party Cartoon'' did.[[/note]]
50	*** Rowdy C [[http://rowdyc.com/tv-trash-ren-and-stimpy-adult-party-cartoon/ reviewed it]] to commemorate WebVideo/TVTrash's fourth anniversary. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxbSpbRTFw talks about it]]. WebVideo/PhantomStrider [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGLmgvEsuW8 singled out]] the episode [[Recap/RenandStimpyAPC1x02RenSeeksHelp "Ren Seeks Help"]] as the worst cartoon of all time. [[https://youtu.be/o1YvTbP73ic LS Mark]] and [[https://youtu.be/wisiq6Yz4mI TheGrandMac]] have also discussed the show in full, commenting on how the way the show grew up with its audience ultimately neuters a lot of the comedy.
51	** '''''WesternAnimation/CansWithoutLabels''''' is an animated short that was also intended to be Kricfalusi's comeback. Instead, it completely torpedoed what was left of his career (well, that and [[OvershadowedByControversy several sexual assault allegations]] that were revealed in 2018). The film was announced in 2008 and crowdfunded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} in 2012 before spending seven years in DevelopmentHell, suggesting it was a labor of love -- but it turned out to betray almost everything Kricfalusi preached as an animator. Rather than use his trademark DerangedAnimation to advance a story, he pushed it to wild extremes to cover for the paper-thin plot. His notorious perfectionism bore no results; the editing is a mess on all fronts, from the production to the acting to the sound, with one piece of background music noticeably and jarringly ending abruptly. The animation similarly looks incredibly cheap; the camera refuses to stop zooming and panning, and the backgrounds are inconsistent between scenes. He even [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects uses CG]] -- and [[SpecialEffectFailure jarring, ugly CG]] at that -- despite having long decried doing so in 2D animation.[[note]]Even worse, the CG models in the short are actually assets which are supposed to be ''traced''. This means that Kricfalusi, a notorious perfectionist, used stock assets in what was supposed to be his {{magnum opus}}.[[/note]] And the main conflict is resolved using a mean-spirited [[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Seltzerberg]]-esque {{parody}} of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, presumably as a TakeThat to Creator/{{Disney}}. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter elaborates on the short itself [[https://youtu.be/HCbgXDQoMF4 here]], WebVideo/AniMat suffers through the whole affair [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1ztmE-9srA here]], WebVideo/DanielIbbertson goes into detail on what happened with its Website/{{Kickstarter}} situation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH54JGZjzRI here]], and [=TheGrandMac=] discusses the short [[https://youtu.be/ydzNPLo_H14 here]], as well as the animatic for a [[WhatCouldHaveBeen planned]] ''Ren & Stimpy'' short to accompany [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater the second SpongeBob movie]].
52	* Many of the syndicated cartoons produced by '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Singer Sam Singer]]''' (called "the Creator/EdWood of animation" by Animation Magazine) were notoriously shoddy.
53	** Most animation buffs consider '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goIkWjwTgMk Bucky and Pepito]]''''' the worst of the lot and frequently cite it as one of the worst cartoons ever made. Set against a bleak but beautifully-painted desert backdrop were the crudely-animated and thoroughly-unlikable title characters -- an Anglo kid in a cowboy costume and his [[EthnicScrappy lazy Mexican sidekick]]. The plots often involved annoying animal pests and a tedious procession of contrived {{visual gag}}s.
54	** A [[http://www.rembrandtfilms.com/worst-cartoons-ever.htm DVD collection of the worst cartoons ever made]] features not only two episodes of ''Bucky and Pepito'' but also two episodes of another of Singer's cartoons, '''''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPaddyThePelican'''''. Paddy's cartoons are especially lousy because they are '''pencil tests''' that were submitted as finished cartoons. The artwork is generally decent... and that's about all that can be said for them. The picture is often blurry, each shot comprises of one or two seconds of animation looped back and forth, and there is no background. On some occasions, there’s even a blank black screen where there should be a picture. Perhaps even worse is the voice acting, all done by Singer himself in a single take with no script. The finished product [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvhnUU5lKA sounds (appropriately) like an insane man talking to himself for eight minutes.]] WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter reviewed one of its episodes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0w6LUhl97s here]], where he calls it the worst cartoon of all time (in terms of production values).
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58	* 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 story-lines are very lackluster, which is pretty bad considering that the cartoon could've opened up a huge opportunity for story-lines 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 Creator/DanSchneider's departure from Nickelodeon, the failure of this show [[FranchiseKiller led to the death of his production company, Schneider's Bakery]]. 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. WebVideo/TheAlphaJayShow [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWGIpANCJU has reviewed the show's pilot]] and similarly has no praise for it.
59	* '''''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory''''', a short-lived Creator/{{Fox}} animated series co-created by and starring Creator/JonahHill as the voice of the title character Allen Gregory De Longpre, a nerdy, pretentious 7-year-old who's forced to attend elementary school in the face of the recession when his gay parents' finances are hit hard, principally those of his CEO father Richard. The show features various dull and tasteless jokes, including some about AIDS and date rape; bland animation [[UnintentionalUncannyValley with hideous character designs]]; off-putting homophobia (particularly, the fact that Jeremy, one of Allen's parents, is a straight man who was sexually harassed by Richard into marrying him); and unlikable characters who are some combination of idiotic, whiny {{Butt Monkey}}s, and/or complete {{jerkass}}es. There's also a subplot involving [[PrecociousCrush Allen's crush on his 70-year-old principal]], played out in the most ''[[{{Squick}} disturbingly sexual]]'' way possible. The pilot received mostly negative reviews, and the show itself was canned after only seven episodes in late 2011/early 2012. WebVideo/TVTrash [[http://rowdyc.com/tv-trash-allen-gregory eviscerated it by popular demand]], believing it to be one of the worst shows he's ever reviewed. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter also [[http://m.220.ro/documentare/Animated-Atrocities-19-1-Night-In-Gottlieb-Allen-Gregory/wncG83XuUe/ tore into the show]] and declared it in 2013 to be the worst thing he reviewed until he saw, among other things, ''WesternAnimation/MrPickles'' and ''WesternAnimation/WhereTheDeadGoToDie''. He put it as an honorable mention on his worst cartoons of the 2010s list, implying that it only missed being on the list because he had an imposed rule that a show had to have at least 12 episodes to make the cut. WebVideo/RebelTaxi also called it the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHggGWbxGhs 12th worst cartoon ever (in no particular order) in his review]]. It's telling that Fox hated ''Allen Gregory'' so much that they [[BuryYourArt pulled it from any and all websites that were offering the episodes for sale]] and also that when it comes to bootlegging, this is the series they most intensely watch out for and try to snuff out with extreme prejudice more than any other.
60	* 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. 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 UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} documentaries, and with UsefulNotes/{{the space race}} of the 50s and 60s running about in kids' minds, created the segments as framing devices for said documentaries.
61	-->'''[[http://www.toonopedia.com/litladam.htm Toonopedia]]:''' This show inspired as many extra-media spin-offs and merchandised products as it deserved — that is, none at all. Today, it's occasionally glimpsed alongside ''Bucky & Pepito'', in "Best of the Worst" retrospectives.
62	* Christian kids' entertainment is notorious for generally being low-quality with [[WesternAnimation/VeggieTales some exceptions]], but '''''WesternAnimation/BoysOfValor''''' takes it to a whole new level. The voice acting is atrocious -- one of the actors ''literally'' phones in his performance -- and the CGI is even worse: a generic grass texture is used for the ground in ''{{Hell}}'', the villains look like huge-headed ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' rejects, at least two scenes have one of the boys flying in a loop and colliding with the ground, remaining rock-still while doing so, and some of the models even seem to be directly stolen from ''VideoGame/TheSims1'' and ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}''. To top it all off, the BigBad is defeated by dancing, something [[LampshadeHanging even the bad guy is incredulous about]]. Watch iRawss tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGnQv7jdkkQ here.]] He also reviewed the sequel along with the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/SWRkGzavPgRfk/featured Critic Core]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1H83Q0gBV4 here.]]
63	* 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 unlikable and have voice acting that not only wastes the talent of famous names like Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/{{Jim Cummings\|1952}}, and Creator/TressMacNeille but is 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]]. "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong?", indeed.
64	* '''''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 [[SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing 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 "[[Recap/RenandStimpyAPC1x02RenSeeksHelp Ren Seeks Help]]" (which is ''also'' on this page) was at least trying for ''something''[[/note]]
65	* '''''WesternAnimation/{{Fairview}}''''' is Creator/ComedyCentral'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 {{shallow\|Parody}} 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 Weeble bodies and look more like UsefulNotes/{{emoji}}s 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 Website/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, ''Fairview'' getting the harshest review of course.
66	* '''''WesternAnimation/FantasyIsland''''' (not to be confused with [[Series/FantasyIsland the TV series]] or [[Film/FantasyIsland2020 the movie]] of the same name) was a television series that followed up on an embarrassment to animation known as ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'' and fellow Horrible entry ''WesternAnimation/{{Tentacolino}}'' and is as bad as you would expect from that description. The show has about as many continuity errors as ''Tentacolino'', including giving characters over-the-top Italian accents they didn't have in either of the films. Even aside from that, the script is ''insane'', including having sharks create a tidal wave so they can steal beach chairs, ghost pirates attempting to steal the Titanic, and [[ArtisticLicenseBiology a baby being born a week after its conception and aging to ten years old within a few days]], ''twice'', which ''no one questions'', among various other plot points that are abruptly dropped not long after being brought up. The {{art}} and animation are both very inconsistent as well; the new characters (including the aforementioned children) look like they came from a whole other universe than the returning characters, while the animation goes back and forth between traditional animation and OffModel, rubbery-looking Flash animation. Having only aired in UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} and UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the series was nearly impossible to find]] until it was uploaded on Website/YouTube in 2019 on [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN27akZUvwXAuPxfV7cVn3bcM9-ZRd-0G the production company's channel]]. As a result, it didn't have an Website/IMDb for a good while, and it still doesn't have enough reviews to have a proper rating (though unsurprisingly, the few reviews it has are overwhelmingly 1-star). WebVideo/RaisorBlade reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPCu7Vr2OXo here]]. Or watch WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} review it himself [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKwLyHAoS9I here]].
67	* '''''WesternAnimation/FullEnglish''''' 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. WebVideo/TorchSheep has a review of it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPYAZifNcVA here]], WebVideo/SteveReviews 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]].
68	* '''''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 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).]]
69	* '''''WesternAnimation/TheIdhunChronicles''''' was a Spanish {{Animesque}} cartoon adaptation of Laura Gallego's ''Literature/TheIdhunsMemories'' books, which was poorly received by both critics and fans of the original books for mangling the source material in several ways. The animation looked cheap and often unfinished; the characters were {{flanderiz\|ation}}ed and one-dimensional; the plot's pacing was rushed; the SettingUpdate to TheNewTwenties, complete with characters using smartphones, was considered pandering; and the voice acting was spiritless and miscast, featuring celebrities with no substantial experience in voice acting like Itzan Escamilla and Nico Romero — and both had acted in other Spanish Creator/{{Netflix}} originals, leading to accusations of ExecutiveMeddling. The series was quickly cancelled after two seasons, with the second being released [[InvisibleAdvertising without any promotion]].
70	* '''''WesternAnimation/LeMondeSelonKev''''' 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 Website/IMDb as well as a 2.7/10 on Senscritique.
71	* '''''WesternAnimation/{{Madballs}}: Gross Jokes''''' is an utter disaster of an animated short. The humor is bland, with most "jokes" sounding like they were taken from a children's joke book. None of the skits are interesting at all, and there isn't any semblance of a plot. The animation is poor, with ugly and uninspired character designs and visuals. None of the characters have any personality, with the possible exception of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Skullface]]. ''Tooncrap'' [[http://www.gameshowgarbage.com/tc027_madballsjokes.html takes a look at it here]] and considers it one of the worst animations they've reviewed, along with ''Bubsy''. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcPzQ4NEg4 also took a look at it]] and declared it one of the worst episodes he reviewed in 2013.
72	* The disaster that was '''''Mauser y Pirulo''''', a short-lived animated series that graced UsefulNotes/{{Venezuela}}n screens for less than a season in 1999. It was promoted as "the very first Venezuelan animated series," but in fact, it was a SameLanguageDub of the UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}n animated show ''WesternAnimation/ElSiguientePrograma'',[[note]]Spanish for The Following Program[[/note]] a vehicle for the duo of comedians/radio jocks Martín De Francisco and Santiago Moure. The original footage wasn't well-animated, but it was saved by witty writing and the voice acting of its main stars. In the Venezuelan "translation," however, the main characters were renamed and transformed into ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' {{exp\|y}}ies, and the topical Colombian cultural references were awkwardly changed to Venezuelan ones, among other changes.[[note]]The most incongruent of those was adding extra (mild) profanity because Venezuelan {{Media Watchdog}}s are more strict on it than Colombian ones)[[/note]] The result was a show that had to be [[{{Watershed}} stuck at the Midnight timeslot]], where it quickly died. What few fans they had [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes never managed to tape it]], so while the original show received DVD releases and episodes can be freely found online, the only proof that ''Mauser y Pirulo'' even ''existed'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F7EkNnLHUQ the theme music]], which some say is the best part of the show.
73	* '''''WesternAnimation/MegaBabies''''' was a cartoon made by Christian and Yvon Tremblay, creators of the much better cult favorite ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'', that was about a trio of superpowered infants who fought crime with assistance from their nurse. The [[UnintentionalUncannyValley jarring character designs]] and grating, terrible theme song ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VhW4sZkPRQ an annoying, warped version of "Rock-a-bye Baby"]]) aside, to say that this cartoon is heavy on [[GrossOutShow gross-out humor]] is a planet-sized understatement. A prime example of how repulsive this show is: one early episode starts with a shot of the babies sleeping... which wouldn't be so bad if one of them didn't have a stringy glob of snot shooting out of its nose with each snore. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKX5V_FvHQ0 Watch it here]], ''but only if you have a [[NauseaFuel stomach of titanium]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPXqdigB5U In his list of "Top 10 Ugliest Cartoons,"]] WebVideo/RebelTaxi said that the show was so ugly that it was perfect for [[ScareEmStraight scaring teens from having sex]] -- "It's not an accurate representation of childbirth or can it change their minds, but it should prolong the inevitable." Watch WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter [[DespairEventHorizon nearly break apart]] from this abomination [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYoSYe9u3SM here.]] [[note]]he would later admit that the show [[CreatorBreakdown made him seriously consider quitting reviewing altogether.]][[/note]]
74	* '''''WesternAnimation/TheNutshack''''', produced by Creator/MyxTV, is the first [[AnimatedShockComedy animated adult TV show]] aimed directly at Filipino Americans, and also the worst. The show features horrendously stereotypical and flat characterization, racist and homophobic caricatures ([[AbhorrentAdmirer Cherry Pie]] is a very obvious Asian transgender hooker {{stereotype}}, for instance), unappealingly crude UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animation, [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece pop culture references that instantly dates it to the late Noughties]], overly-sexualized female characters that clash with the crude art style, terrible voice acting, and a childish approach to everything. All this is made worse by the fact that it's a ripoff of ''Film/{{Friday}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzshjwhXnVA The Animated Series]]''. Both WebVideo/RebelTaxi and WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter had nothing but negative things to say about the show, with the former [[http://pan-pizza.tumblr.com/post/99753347005 calling it the worst cartoon of all time]] and the latter calling it [[https://youtu.be/nudbfEWmX30?t=1211 the 4th worst animated series he ever saw]]. WebVideo/TheCartoonHero tells us what he thinks of the show [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.com/2016/04/patreon-request-nutshack-review.html?m=1 here]]. Mr. Enter later gave an episode a full review [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcshkJEGop4 here.]] WebVideo/RalphTheMovieMaker called it one of the worst things he'd ever seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZCI2zo73lw here]]. It seems that the show has become a CreatorKiller for Myx-TV's animation studio, which has not done anything since, and possibly a few of the show's cast, due to some of them having quit acting altogether. The show's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bSGlMd1Y7Q theme song]] eventually reached [[MemeticMutation memetic]] status thanks to Mr. Enter's review, its use by Music/SiIvaGunner, and its repetitive SoBadItsGood nature.
75	* '''''WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie''''' is often described as a blander UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}n equivalent of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''. The premise has been done before and better in shows such as ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', the story-lines are [[ClicheStorm by-the-book]], [[FlatCharacter the characters are zero-dimensional plastic cut-outs of normally well-done character types]], the animation looks cheaper than most WebAnimation projects, and almost all the characters sound like they were voiced by one woman. Its creators are notoriously sore when it comes to criticism, having gotten into several {{Flame War}}s with fans of [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter]], whom they claimed was in no position to judge because he was American, as well as trying to false-flag [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4D212OldhQ his review]] several times under [[SockPuppet alternate names]]. WebVideo/PhantomStrider tore it apart in his [[https://youtu.be/Fso1g_TwnWI Top 5 Worst Forgotten Girls Cartoons]] video.
76	* '''''WesternAnimation/{{Popzilla}}''''' is an Creator/{{MTV}} cartoon from 2009, which has faded into obscurity for good reasons. The animation consists of nothing more than photoshopped stock images, and the skits are bland, unfunny, and rely too much on {{Overly Long Gag}}s. It sports an Website/IMDb rating of 1.7 and was one of the last animated shows to air on MTV. Some of the sketches can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aKrKHJv3Vw here]]. Highlights include UsefulNotes/BillClinton perving on the Obamas and a Creator/{{CBS}} executive green-lighting a dwarf version of ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' because [[ItAmusedMe it amused him]].
77	* 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 [[BehindEveryGreatMan 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 WebVideo/SteveReviews, WebVideo/JustStop, 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 Christmas specials... not that it's enough to save the show's awful writing. It has an Website/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]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hMjIfHw1U Cynical Reviews]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdId5fz370I Saberspark]] 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.
78	* Despite the involvement of director Creator/MelBrooks (who also reprised his roles as President Skroob and Yogurt, as well as also being involved in writing and producing), Creator/JoanRivers (Dot Matrix), Creator/DaphneZuniga (Princess Vespa), and Creator/DomDeLuise (Pizza the Hutt, in a rather undignified final performance before his passing), '''''Film/{{Spaceballs}}: The Animated Series''''' has been given the FanNickname ''Da Soich for More Money'' from fans of the original movie.[[note]]For those who haven't seen ''Spaceballs'', the nickname references a scene in which the movie's [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] equivalent, Yogurt, teases a sequel with that subtitle.[[/note]] The designs of the characters range from okay to awful, most notably changing Dark Helmet, originally played by 5'1" Creator/RickMoranis, to a dwarf. The joke may have been about Helmet's phallic appearance, but there was no reason to make him look like a bobblehead with or without the helmet. The animation doesn't fare any better. In an annoyingly lazy move, it rehashes jokes from the movie. In fact, the first two episodes are a loose remake of the movie as a two-parter. The rest of the series is a ShallowParody of other movies, such as ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and even non-Sci-Fi films like ''Film/HarryPotter''. That is not only comparable to a Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg movie, but it renders the title of the show and the movie it was based on redundant. Watch WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_x9CRj4_lk here]]. [[WebVideo/InfamousAnimation ShogunGin0]] also shares [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3txtt7_spaceballs-the-animated-series-infamous-animation-ep-15_fun his thoughts on the matter]]. [[WebVideo/TVTrash Rowdy C]] tears it apart [[http://rowdyc.com/tv-trash-spaceballs-the-animated-series/ here]]. WebVideo/HatsOffEntertainment, who is a fan of the movie, covers it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeRdhxZ4rG0 here]] in his Forgotten Failures series.
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82	* '''''My Little Pony: Newborn Cuties'''''[[note]]referred to in the title card as ''Once Upon a My Little Pony Time''[[/note]] was a Flash-animated adaptation of ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' and was the last series of the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3 third generation]] of the franchise, and for good reasons. While the G3 specials and movies aren't the epitome of children's entertainment, the animation is fairly competent, the songs are pretty catchy, professional voice actors give the characters likable personalities, and it isn't above poking fun at its ditzy characters. By contrast, with ''Newborn Cuties'' Creator/{{Hasbro}} put in as little effort as possible to maximize their profits, which ''really'' shows: all the voices were provided by clearly untrained children,[[note]]While there are professional voice actors credited, the credits were ''straight-up reused'' from another G3 project, ''Pinkie Pie's Special Day'', indicating an intentional distancing for the people involved.[[/note]] and all sound almost exactly the same, stock sound effects are used ''constantly'', the Flash animation is minimalist at best, and there are moments where voices come out with no indication of who's saying the lines (to the point that not a single character's mouth ''moves'' in the second short, although there is another version of it that fixes this problem), the characters' movements coupled with their '''ugly''' models make them look [[UnintentionalUncannyValley bizarrely wrong]], plot-lines were blatantly recycled from earlier G3 specials, and the reoccurring cast of quirky characters that its fans had grown attached to were completely thrown out to market the same handful of characters and {{toys}}. In addition, the writing's completely juvenile, insulting, and contains the [[invoked]][[UnfortunateImplications unintentionally racist]] line, "[[FantasticRacism everyone in Ponyville knows unicorns belong in Unicornia]]." Is it any wonder that it was discontinued two shorts in and replaced with ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''? Watch [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter]] tear apart the second short, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgT4TonYAt4 "Over Two Rainbows"]] which is ''worse'' than the already abysmal first short, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSUXsnuwAs "So Many Different Ways to Play"]]. WebVideo/PhantomStrider put it as #4 on his [[https://youtu.be/Fso1g_TwnWI Top 5 Worst Forgotten Girls Cartoons]]. WebVideo/TheCrimsonMayhem, who edited some of Enter's reviews, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s63_tzCkOMc reviews it himself]].
83	* '''''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, ''WebAnimation/StonerCats'', 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]] UsefulNotes/{{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 [[DancingBear 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.
84	* During the final season of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', Creator/{{AMC}} released '''''WebAnimation/SlippinJimmy''''', 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 Creator/StarburnsIndustries. 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 off 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\|Animation}}, 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 Website/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 Website/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.
85	* '''''[[http://learnourhistory.com/ Time Travel Academy]]''''' (a.k.a. ''Learn Our History''), a series of educational CGI cartoons produced by former UsefulNotes/{{Arkansas}} governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to educate kids on the "history that schools are afraid to tell." Let's put it this way: you know you've got a real stinker on your hands when you can't even make the ''trailers'' look good. Its flaws include amateurish CGI work (it looks like it was done half-heartedly by a novice animator and {{CelShad\|ing}}ed to cover up the fact), [[FlatCharacter cardboard cut-out characters]] coupled with wooden dialogue and completely phoned-in voice acting, moments of historical inaccuracy, blatant UsefulNotes/{{plagiarism}}, [[note]]one episode had a character wearing a helmet from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', which was removed from later copies[[/note]] and to top it all off an obviously one-sided AuthorTract despite the show's claim to "teach history without bias."
86	* '''''WebAnimation/TheTransformersCombinerWars''''', a 2016 web series co-produced by Creator/{{Machinima}} and Creator/{{Hasbro}}. Initially billed as a more mature work for hardcore fans, said hardcore fans almost instantly savaged it due to poor-quality CGI reminiscent of ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', a low framerate that makes actions highly janky, an unclear and barebones narrative, a large amount of {{Padding}} despite the full miniseries only clocking in at 40 minutes, little screentime devoted to the characters the series was created to advertise, terrible characterization (with [[NiceGirl Windblade]] being depicted as a murderous psychopath for no apparent reason, and Starscream being depicted as humbled by having a position of leadership, only to reveal it was all an act in the final episodes for no reason) and, most infamously, the fact that the web series was released well after the toyline it was made to promote had left retail. When Website/TFWikiDotNet says ''Energon'' [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Combiner_Wars_(cartoon) looks good by comparison]], you know something has gone horribly, horribly wrong. And the worst part? They somehow got '''WebVideo/{{Dashie\|XP}}''' and '''[[WebVideo/HonestTrailers Jon Bailey]]''' to work on it (they were the voice of Menasor and ''freaking Optimus Prime'', respectively), and not even ''they'' can save this trainwreck. At least the two follow-up series, ''WebAnimation/TheTransformersTitansReturn'' and ''WebAnimation/TheTransformersPowerOfThePrimes'', were improvements thanks to longer episodes, better animation, more consistent characterizations, and an AllStarCast.
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