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Robin: I remember this from when I was a kid! ...It still stinks.
We know that there are certain things you probably shouldn't let your kids watch, but let's be honest...wouldn't it be equally as bad to subject them to cartoons like these?
Important Note: Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's 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.
- Dingo Pictures is a "super-budget" producer of animated rip-offs of (mostly) Disney films such as 101 Dalmatians, Hercules, The Lion King and Aladdin. Their plagiarism, however, is overshadowed by the fact that the films' animation quality is so colossally awful on every level that they actually make the Zelda CD-i games look good. Seriously, just look at their film trailers.
- It gets worse: search on YouTube for some of the song portions. "Soraya Oh Soraya" from "Aladdin" in particular stands out as horrible, what with its 1995 GeoCities MIDI background track, off-key wailing and ridiculous crying animals. Also, there's a tree branch not connected to anything. It's like a tree void.
- And as if that weren't enough, several of their cartoons were released on PlayStation 2 by a company known as Phoenix Games, with English dubs so awful they're bordering on So Bad Its Good. From the wrong direction. Of course, that's already been covered on SoBadItsHorribleVideoGames...
- The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang. If you thought Happy Days jumped the shark before...well, this is worse. Explained in the intro by narrator Wolfman Jack: "Oh, now the gang got sucked into that time machine, and they're... like, travelling through time!" Having watched some clips of this abortion online, you only need to know that it should never be watched without first consuming copious amounts of alcohol. To dull the senses, of course.
- Ah, yes. The Happy Days gang, a Future Girl, a dog in a leather jacket, and a time-traveling diner, with jukebox and year indicator. The goal was to get back to 1957, except when there was a Friend Or Idol Decision, in which case some of them would reach 1957 but have to leave to save their friends... It might actually be So Bad Its Good, actually. Since it would be Lostalgia, or whatever the opposite of Lostalgia is, without the You Tube clips, it's hard to be sure. This show was cited by Seth MacFarlane as the worst cartoon of all time.
- Planet Sketch. Whoever thought it was a good idea to make an animated sketch show for kids needs to burn in hell. Okay maybe that's a bit harsh, but when you see horrible jokes recycled (with slight changes) each episode, you know this was never meant to be.
- Of course, the cherry on this immolated car-crash of a cake is that Aardman were behind it. Aardman. How the hell do you go from Wallace And Gromit to this?
- This reminds me of Skunk Fu. The show has all the graphics and animation of kindergarden drawings.
- Da Boom Crew. It was played on Kids WB on Saturday mornings for about four weeks: one new episode per week, like new shows usually do. They had the time to show reruns before they were ultimately cancelled. And thank goodness. Totally Radical speech, traveling through a video game world with generic characters, and other unneeded things made this show not worth the timeslot it took up.
- Sonic Underground. The sheer amount of Adaptation Decay is simply pitiful. There is no Tails, Amy, Metal Sonic, Vector, Chaotix, Fang etc. They were instead replaced with Manic, Sonia, Sleech, Dingo, Bartleby, etc. It's not like the creators hadn't played the games. It's like they hadn't heard of the games.
- Another possibility is that they were trying to imitate the SatAM series' slightly-darker-than-the-game-but-not-too-much setting, as evidenced by the presence of Uncle Chuck. This doesn't change the fact that there's still no Tails, or Antoine, or Sally, or any of the other mainstays of that show, just like none of the game mainstays showed up either. Add the horrendously cliché plot of Sonic, Manic, and Sonia all being brothers (and sister), and being royalty, and fighting Eggman with shitty Rock and Roll.
- The comic series had an event in which Sonic gathers all the "alternate dimension Sonics" to keep Robotnik from re-assembling a giant robot (again...this is like the second time it's happened) and taking over Mobius. The only world that's detailed is exactly like the one described above—because this series came before that comic storyline; the story was a tie-in to advertise the (horrifyingly inferior) show.
- Chip and Pepper's Cartoon Madness. Not to be confused with Chip N Dales Rescue Rangers, Cartoon Madness was an affront to animation with its badly-animated surfer bulldogs pasted against the kind of computer-rendered animation you'd expect from the early 1990s. It was like a bloody collision between a bad Flash cartoon and a computer science student's D- project, with no survivors.
- The Wild CATS cartoon not only was adapting a 90's Darkerand Edgier comic to a G-rated timeslot, but it also was apparently determined to do it with the lowest grade of animation available. The result was a murky mess of ridiculously-proportioned, virtually immobile musclemen vaguely threatening each other with everything but actual violence.
- The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show, or rather the "Schnookums and Meat" shorts: Best described as "Disney throws Ren And Stimpy and 2 Stupid Dogs in a blender." Worked about as well as you'd expect. The "Pith Possum" and "Tex Tinstar" companion shorts were held in much higher regard than the titular shorts.
- Tex Tinstar was enjoyable (and probably deserved a show of its own). The rest? Deserved to be on the list.
- Hell, this editor only watched the show for the Tex Tinstar shorts. May have had something to do with the fact that they ended every episode with a Cliffhanger.
- This troper feels that the only thing interesting about Tex Tinstar was that Jeff Glen Bennett used that cartoon as the beta test for his voice for Johnny Bravo.
- In modern day Brazil, Video Brinquedo is to Pixar (and to a lesser extent, Dreamworks Animation) what Dingo Pictures was to Disney. Just look at this scene from "Ratatoing". If you want to burn your eyes more, look at their trailers.
- Many of the syndicated cartoons produced by Sam Singer in the late 1950s and early '60s were notoriously shoddy, but most animation buffs consider Bucky and Pepito the worst of the lot and frequently cite it as one of the worst cartoons ever made. As this clip demonstrates, the animation was stiff and usually crudely drawn (in stark contrast to the beautifully painted landscapes used as backgrounds), the lip synch almost never matched up with the short's dialogue, and the gags were often poorly thought through and consistently unfunny. It didn't help that one of the title characters was an Ethnic Scrappy (three guesses which one) whose stereotypical behavior was mentioned in one version of the show's theme song.
- God, the Devil, and Bob. Grotesquely ugly animation, boring characters, a God and Devil that acted like a bickering old gay couple (minus any humor potential that would normally engender), and so devoid of ideas that the pilot was a Very Special Episode about menstruation.
- Where to start with Hammerman? It was the last of a glut of Celebrity-based cartoons from the early '90s. MC Hammer as a superhero had So Bad Its Good potential. That potential was buried under the horrific animation (at times you could actually see where the frames would have gone), Anvillicious E/I plots, and annoying support characters - particularly the sassy black Greek Chorus - which actually predated the similar one from Disney's Hercules
(So Disney knew what not to do). See the intro for yourself. (And yes, it actually looked like that on broadcast TV).
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