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Anime & Manga
"Your Majesty's anime was so horrible that the audience rating was 0.001%."
— Customer Service, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
Blogs
"This book doesn't deserve a number. It doesn't even deserve to be listed. To list it implies some value, even as a marker for the lows of the series. But this book doesn't deserve the attention it will garner just by virtue of its position. This isn't a case of "So bad it's good," this is "So bad I want to vomit" [...] Chicken Chicken very nearly ended the blog two years ago, but I ultimately decided to push forward. I don't know what else to say except it really is that bad."
"This movie is the very, very worst instincts of modern animation all chewed up, spat and congealed into the same filthy spittoon. It’s garbage. Offensive, awful, insulting garbage. It is hateful in every sense. It hates you, and inspires you to hate it in return. And in a way, it’s a blessing that it’s so terrible, so miserably inept, so unremittingly incompetent in every way. Because with an agenda and an outlook so horrible, if they actually had the talent and intelligence to promote it effectively? That would be the most terrifying thing imaginable."
— Unshaved Mouse on Foodfight!
"Remember when you saw all those classic Scooby-Doo elements 'n' plot archetypes in the older shows? Want to see those same things all over again, but crammed haphazardly into an incomprehensible fun-sized candy bar of visual and auditory suffering while Scrappy-Doo slowly sucks out your soul? Then this is the series for you."
Comic Books
"This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again."
— Enid, Ghost World
"They're bad. But not in the hilarious way."
— Knives Chau on some clothes, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
Films - Live-Action
Jesse: This is the worst book ever written in English.
Zibby: So there are worst books written in other languages?
Jesse: Probably not. Unless this book is translated in other languages.
Zibby: So there are worst books written in other languages?
Jesse: Probably not. Unless this book is translated in other languages.
Live-Action TV
"New York is famous for its theatre, but there's many different levels. There's Broadway. Off-Broadway. Off-Off Broadway. Homeless people screaming in the park. And then below that, the play Aunt Lily was in."
— Future Ted, How I Met Your Mother
"That was one of the worst things ever...and not just on TV."
— Chandler, Friends, "The One with Rachel's Assistant", on one of Joey's sitcoms
"You know, aside from the fact that I'll never again experience joy in my life, I don't think Red Zone Cuba had any kind of negative effect on me."
— Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000
"That was the worst thing I have ever seen. And I was in ‘Nam."
—Glenn Cullen, The Thick of It
Music
"Sometimes, sometimes bad is bad"
— Huey Lewis and the News, "Bad Is Bad"
Newspaper Comics
"George Phblat's new film, Benji Saves the Universe, has bought the word bad to new levels of badness. Bad acting. Bad effects. Bad everything. This bad film just oozed rottenness from every bad scene… simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness." note
— Opus, Bloom County
Podcasts
"If you scooped a pile of goo out of a backed-up gutter, submerged a pair of electrodes into it, fed it a slurry of protein rich nutrients while sending jolts of ever-increasing voltages of electricity through until it demonstrated the most basic signs of what could technically be considered life, then immediately handed the pile of goo a video camera, it is impossible that it would make a worse movie than Rollergator."
— RiffTrax
"Usually when I describe something in such inflammatory terms, there is an army of people ready to tell me how stupid and wrong I am, and that has yet to happen. Nobody wants to be the person defending this game!"
Radio
"But first, I have to announce the result of our Mornington Crescent audience response survey. We asked twenty thousand listeners, 'How would you rate your level of Mornington Crescent satisfaction?' 'Excellent', 'Good', or merely 'Well above average'. And the reply we got back came from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, who I see has ticked the box marked 'Neither good nor bad', and also the boxes marked 'Poor', 'Very poor', 'Really extremely poor', 'Words begin to escape me as to quite how poor', and 'Buttock-clenchingly piss-poor'. In fact, Mrs Trellis sent us back the wrong form. And if there's anyone listening at Virgin Rail wondering where it got to, we'll be happy to forward it."
— Humphrey Lyttleton, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Video Games
"That was… just bad. Not 'So Bad, It's Good'. Just plain terrible."
— The Sims 3: Late Night, tooltip for the moodlet "Saw Awful Film"
Visual Novels
"That was honestly the worst movie I've ever seen... Is it even okay to call it a movie?"
— Nagito Komaeda on Monokuma's The Wizard of Monomi movie, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Web Original
"When it takes the world's best SMB3 player almost an hour to beat World 1 with your controller, you know you've fucked up. "
— Youtube commenter on the Power Glove.
Web Animation
"Oh, for the love of good writing! JP, your reboot is a disaster from beginning to end! It meanders relentlessly, the pacing is somehow too fast AND too slow, there are pointless cameos EVERYWHERE, the art is inconsistent, the voice acting is mediocre, the script is a wreak, the symbolism is far too on the nose, and the dialog is BAD! This video has NO redeeming features whatsoever and it’s meta-commentary does not excuse its shortcomings! This ENTIRE thing is basically your original reboot video but WORSE IN EVERY WAY!"
—Inner Critic, Terrible Writing Advice, REBOOTS REBOOTED
Martin: Garbage! Who writes that stuff?
Hugh: Uh, I don't know.
Martin: It was mind-numbing. Someone owes me two hours of my life back. I even forgot to eat my popcorn!
Hugh: Uh, I don't know.
Martin: It was mind-numbing. Someone owes me two hours of my life back. I even forgot to eat my popcorn!
— Cartoon Monsoon, "Oh, Shoot: Director's Cut"
"This is an unholy demon! I'm sending this back to Hell where it belongs!"
"This suckquake of a movie was a complete wastenado of my seven bucksonsoon."
— Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, a passage of "Strong Bad's Jerktionary" from the sbemail "dictionary"
Chee: What... is this...!?
Slushi: Sometimes, television's a mistake.
Slushi: Sometimes, television's a mistake.
— Those times when you're watching a show and then some GARBAGE HAPPENS, Chikn Nuggit
Webcomics
Elliot: Why did we watch this?!
Susan: You were the one who wanted to know why it got a four percent approval rating!
Elliot: Why did we play god?!
Susan: You were the one who wanted to know why it got a four percent approval rating!
Elliot: Why did we play god?!
Aubrey: If that had sucked any more, the TV would have imploded upon itself.
Jason: If a movie's that bad, it should be required by law to have three silhouettes in the corner making fun of it.
Jason: If a movie's that bad, it should be required by law to have three silhouettes in the corner making fun of it.
Web Video
"Well, I hope you enjoyed the ONLY good sequence in this comic; It's all downhill— (pause)...It's all downMOUNTAIN from here!"
— Linkara, Atop the Fourth Wall
"This isn't a story, it's just a bunch of random scenes that when you kind of glue them together resemble a story! But really, it's just a moment. A dark, unnecessary and offensive moment, but a moment nonetheless."
— Linkara, Top 15 Worst Moments of Countdown, Atop the Fourth Wall, naming the story itself Number 1
"Shut up! Jesus. [growls] God, I can't stand it, even ironically."
— Joel of Vinesauce, Windows XP DESTRUCTION
"I can't really think of more deserving games to be the worst of all time. I don't think I consider them my least favorite, I mean I had no expectations for them. But I think in general they have to be some of the worst things ever conceived."
— Scott The Woz on Data Design's games, Shovelware Variety Hour
"Gee, it's a good thing this baby movie is chock full of awful racial stereotypes, as if it's actively trying to be the next Shark Tale. Well, news flash. It will never be as memorable as Shark Tale. It's an absolute travesty that doesn't deserve to be talked about in the same breath as Shark Tale."
"Doug's parody of "Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two)" is an immediate standout to people as just one of the worst things they've put in their brains that they didn't find on rotten.com."
—Dan Olson, The Nostalgia Critic And The Wall
"Unlike say the Jaguar or the Game.com which are charmingly bad, the CD-i is just very bad. It's a pitiful collection of circuit boards barely resembling anything that could possibly hope to entertain the human mind, whether that be the most discerning adult or children 3-6."
—Matt McMuscles, Wha Happun, Zelda CD-i Games
"How the hell do you fuck up a fighting game movie this badly?! Mortal Kombat: Annihilation didn't fuck up as badly as this, but then again that's also because Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is lovably campy and stupid, and you can laugh as you're fuckin' watching it! This thing is so bad that it's just fucking hideous! There is no reason to sit down and watch this for any reason at all!"
—Emer Prevost, Reaction & Review, The King of Fighters
"The second one is funny. Like, it's just so bad it's great. But Turtles 3, it's just so bad it's BAD."
"There was a book in 1980 called The Golden Turkey Awards which gave out awards for worst films in different categories, and the overall award for worst film ever was Plan 9 from Outer Space. So, for a while, it had that reputation, but it was never truly the worst film ever. It's far too entertaining. There's far worse sci-fi films of The '50s, there's even far worse Ed Wood movies. The runner-up in that book was Exorcist II: The Heretic, which is a ludicrous movie, makes no sense, but it's hilarious and, once again, too entertaining. To me, I think the 'worst film' should be devoid of any entertainment."
—James Rolfe (out of character), "What's The Worst Movie Ever?
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""You know how The Angry Video Game Nerd has his arch nemesis in LJN when it comes to atrocious game companies? Well, Phoenix Games are my personal LJN, and they have released some stonkers in the past, let me tell you. From Son of the Lion King, to Dalmatians 3 all the way to Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys."
—Caddicarus before reviewing Phoenix Games's Skateboard Madness
"This isn’t a game, it’s a torture device!"
— Shane Luis reviewing the video game adaptation of Batman & Robin, Just Bad Games
"Now I've heard a lot about this game...none of it was good."
—Cr1TiKaL before playing Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
"You couldn’t give this game away for free. If somebody gave you this game, you should take it as a personal attack on your honor. If your mom and dad went through your computer and found thousands upon thousands of hentai photographs and video and Furry porn all over the place but then also saw Fast and Furious Crossroad in your Steam library, that would be the most embarrassing thing they found. They would be more disappointed and ashamed of you for owning this game than all of the other shit in there"
—Cr1TiKaL putting Fast & Furious Crossroads at number 1 on the Moisties Worst Games of 2020.
"I feel raped! I feel honest to God raped by this movie, it is that bad! There is no talent, no effort... nothing salvageable! Nothing salvageable about this movie at all!"
"Just do yourself a favor and go. Just go. Click on something else. Really. You don't want to stay here. You won't survive it. (chuckles) I barely survived it. I barely survived... This movie's HORRENDOUS! It's horrendous! It's just ungodly! Unnatural! If a piece of shit took a piece of shit, and that piece of shit took a piece of shit, and that piece of shit took a piece of shit, and that piece of shit took a piece of shit and that piece of shit made a movie... and that movie took a piece of shit, this is the piece of shit you would see!"
"It's the movie Hollywood doesn't want you to see. Not because is exposes any Hollywood secrets, but because it's a terrible fucking movie that no one should have to pay for!"
—The Cinema Snob on Wired
"If Troll 2 is the best worst movie, then what's the worst worst movie? I don't really know, but if they ever made a documentary about the making of Nukie, it would be a less depressing documentary than if it were about dying children!"
"Fat Slags is probably a new low for films featured on this show. I don't think a single person escapes from this Hindenburg disaster of a film with a shred of dignity. At 72 minutes, it barely constitutes as a film, and despite the short length, with bits of it clearly hacked out, it's still tortuous to the point of being virtually unwatchable. It's trying to satire celebrity culture, but it's filled with tacky cameos. Its editing is abysmal and it looks outrageously cheap. It's so vulgar and unremittingly crude, that it wouldn't even appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator. This film is an absolute disgrace and those who made it should be bloody ashamed of themselves, just as I am for having watched it. This is hell on plastic. Avoid at all costs."
— Film Brain, Bad Movie Beatdown
Websites
"Bringing you pain for far too long."
"Despite my efforts to dig for nuance or appreciate the convention of this overdone tale, The Good Half is wholly and irredeemably bad."
— Kyndall Cunningham, The Daily Beast, "Tribeca Flick 'The Good Half' Is Wholly, Irredeemably Bad"
" Western Animation
"Everything about this is bad!"
—Dipper Pines on the Show Within a Show "Shimmery Twinkleheart and Cinnamon", Gravity Falls, "Little Gift Shop of Horrors"
"That man has committed murder here this evenin' and the victim's name is "theater"! This is the kind of mind-numbing schlock that's turning our society into a cultural wasteland! This isn't art! This isn't even entertainment! This… blows!"
— Lois Griffin on Peter's Production of The King and I, Family Guy ("The King is Dead"). (Ironically, the show was well-received.)
Butt-Head: Whoa! I think I just figured something out, Beavis.
Beavis: What?
Butt-Head: This sucks!
Beavis: Yeah! It really sucks!
Butt-Head: This sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before.
Beavis: What?
Butt-Head: This sucks!
Beavis: Yeah! It really sucks!
Butt-Head: This sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before.
"Maybe this story is a new form of torture!"
— Wildberry Princess, on the Ice King's Fionna and Cake fanfiction.
"Is it just me, or is this play bad? Like really, really bad?"
— Tosh on Lola's In Name Only adaptation of A Christmas Carol, The Looney Tunes Show, "A Christmas Carol".
"I never thought I'd say this about a TV show, but... this is kind of stupid."
Real Life
"[W]hen television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland. You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly, commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending."
Newton Minow, "Television and the Public Interest"
"Ten minutes of Plan 9 is fun. Eighty minutes of Plan 9 would surely be banned by the Geneva Convention. And, unlike The Rocky Horror Picture Show, there are no song & dance numbers to amp up the camp. No one has built live-audience shows around Plan 9, and for good reason: they wouldn’t work. It’s so bad, it’s bad."
James Berardinelli reviewing Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space"I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."
Roger Ebert on North
"An E- record is an organically conceived masterpiece that repays repeated listening with a sense of horror in the face of the void. It is unlikely to be marred by one listenable cut."
Robert Christau, explaining his 1969-89 grades for record reviews.
."I thought Rebel Moon would be bad but it is so bad it loops past 'so bad it's good' back to bad"
Nuclear Throne developer Rami Ismail
