Line #6 YMMV/OutOfJimmysHead


1	* BileFascination: Its notoriously bad reception, along with its now former status as lost media, have both inevitably warranted this. Many people who don't even remember the show from when it was airing have gone to see episodes online primarily to see if the show is as bad as people say it was. It is actually because of this that the show was eventually saved from being lost, even if it did take a good 15 years for the remaining episodes to be found again.
2	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
3	** The Appleday {{toon}}s do seem to have a few fans, if the FanArt floating around means anything. Also, comments on TV.com and [=YouTube=] state that some viewers [[JustHereForGodzilla only watched the show for the cartoon characters]] (except for maybe [[{{Jerkass}} Golly]]). In addition to that, Tux the penguin being voiced by Creator/TomKenny might have something to do with it.
4	** Yancy, Jimmy's adopted [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Alien-American]] sister is also considered one of the show's few good characters, thanks to her [[DeadpanSnarker no-nonsense]] OnlySaneWoman shtick with Sonny.
5	* InformedWrongness: Jimmy is meant to been seen as selfish for abandoning Craig in favor of his new life, but [[WithFriendsLikeThese Craig has treated Jimmy so horribly]] for his ''own'' selfish needs that it only makes Craig come off as hypocritical for calling Jimmy out. By abandoning Craig, Jimmy is pretty much [[TheDogBitesBack doing the right thing]].
6	* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Craig, Jimmy's horrendous excuse for a "[[WithFriendsLikeThese best friend]]", is far more despised than Sonny, a PsychopathicManchild who wants to ''kill'' Jimmy to further his own goals. The fact that the latter is LaughablyEvil also helps his case.
7	* JustHereForGodzilla: There are plenty of people who only watched the show for the [[EnsembleDarkhorse cartoon characters]].
8	* {{Narm}}: The scene where Jimmy gets hit by the train has many problems. He runs straight into it without looking, the train itself is moving too slow to realistically cause any damage, Jimmy just gets sent flying even though logic dictates he's just get knocked to the ground, nobody even seems to notice it until the SmashCut to the next scene, and the editing for Jimmy's movements themselves is incredibly noticeable.
9	* OlderThanTheyThink:
10	** An entire series built around the RogerRabbitEffect had been attempted once before in the form of ''Philbert'', a TV pilot made by Warner Bros. in the 60s about a cartoonist interacting with the character from his comic strip.
11	** Although this was the first major live-action production that Creator/CartoonNetwork had produced and aired, the network had shown live-action footage on before and used to air ''Series/TheBananaSplits'' (which was a mix of live-action and animation) in the 90s.
12	*** Additionally, despite Cartoon Network advertising this as their "first live-action series," the network's first original program to use live-action material was actually ''Series/BigBag'', predating the pilot movie by ten years (though in this case, ''Big Bag'' would have a live-action story reminiscent of ''Series/SesameStreet'' (as it was co-produced with the Children's Television Workshop) sandwiched by recurring animated segments).
13	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: In the movie, Craig and Golly are just jerks to Jimmy throughout much of the film, with only Golly apologizing for his actions at the climax. The TV series, meanwhile, shows them [[TookALevelInKindness taking a (moderate) level in kindness]] and, in Craig's case, not only has him go through CharacterDevelopment, but also punishes him appropriately whenever he [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter does a thing]].
14	* RetroactiveRecognition:
15	** In "Bad Fad," one of the kids Craig is babysitting is [[Series/TheMiddle Brick Heck]].
16	** R&B singer Tinashe was a cast member on the series as TheOtherDarrin for Robin.
17	* TheScrappy:
18	** Craig may in fact be the most hated character from the movie. He's a terrible friend who takes advantage of Jimmy and has NoSympathy for anyone as he tries to be a part of the popular kids. [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Far less so in the show, however.]]
19	** Mr. Roberts is this for being the worst traits of the BumblingDad trope taken up to eleven, to the point of allowing the BigBad to rent a room in the house, and somehow thinking Sonny was his wife in disguise despite having seen them right next to each other at several points during the movie. He's also constantly shoehorned into the more intense/emotional scenes for jokes.
20	* SoOkayItsAverage: Those who don't hate the show tend to view it as this.
21	* SpecialEffectsFailure:
22	** Most of the time the animation does look convincing...when the camera stays still. In a particular scene where the camera pans on all three axis, Golly looks like he's shrinking. There's also a noticeable amount of scenes where the cartoons are acting in empty live-action backgrounds as opposed to actually interacting with the humans, which is generally agreed to be the only way to make this particular effect look convincing (the scene of Jimmy and Tux doing a tango cheek-to-cheek in the first episode is one of the better-looking shots).
23	** The TV series, due to being on a significantly more crunched deadline (coming out roughly nine months after the original film), was very prone to this; effects often have a hint of pixelation (most prominently with an opera-singing duck with an obvious green screen), and some of the animation has tracking errors and/or glaring cuts because of it.
24	** The TV series uses obvious computer effects even for things that really shouldn't need it, like ketchup squirting out of a bottle and superimposing footage on TV screens rather than just recording it on a DVD and playing it.
25	%% * SoBadItsGood: It ''is'' fun to mock. Admit it.
26	* SpiritualSuccessor:
27	** It being a live-action production with cartoon characters alone has drawn comparisons to ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
28	** Some people also see it as one to ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', as both are live-action middle school sitcoms featuring animated consciences of the main character.
29	* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Though it's still terrible, some people have noted that the show is at least a marginal improvement over the movie. The plots are more coherent (despite still being nonsensical in nature), Jimmy's no longer a FlatCharacter, certain characters like Craig and Golly evolved from {{Jerkass}}es to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold having a heart of gold]], the animation for the cartoon characters is a great deal better, the acting and writing are far better delivery-wise, background characters with little screentime are made into {{Ascended Extra}}s, and it's overall far less mean-spirited in tone. It's like the show takes place in an entirely different universe than the movie, and it feels much better off because of it.
30	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It is generally agreed that the show's premise is its only redeeming quality, since it was actually pretty unique, albeit wacky. Unfortunately, the execution left a lot to be desired, and the show could have actually been awesome, if only they had hired a much more talented writing team.
31	* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: The voice acting (whether from the main cartoons or one-off guests) was actually pretty solid and a big reason why the cartoon characters were viewers' favorite parts.
32	* UncertainAudience: A big reason why the show failed. Many longtime CN fans were not happy about a live action series being aired on a network that was previously exclusively meant for cartoon shows. Unfortunately, even those who were open minded to the idea still ended up hating the show, due to its overall quality, writing and acting. The show failed to find an audience, so much so that it became lost for a while, as a result of no one caring enough about the show to actually archive episodes.
33	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Craig is supposed to be Jimmy's best and only real friend, and yet he keeps using him, brushing off his inputs, accusing ''him'' of [[MoralMyopia being a bad friend for things that are out of his control]], and only cares about hanging out with the popular kids... and yet we're meant to feel ''sorry'' for him when Jimmy can't go to his party and cheer when he chooses his so-called friend over his career as Milt Appleday's successor. At this point, we can pretty much assume Jimmy only hangs out with him because Robin's his sister.
34	* VanillaProtagonist: Jimmy is quite the empty vessel of a character. The most his personality amounts to is his crush on Robin, and that's it. He really only exists to have the wacky cartoon characters have someone to bounce their antics off of.

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