History SpecialEffectFailure / GoAnimate

Being a low-budget animation tool that almost exclusively uses flash puppets, canned animations, and text-to-speech voices, Website/GoAnimate videos (at least the ones made before the website's extensive rebrand as Vyond) are pretty notorious for their LimitedAnimation efforts, which leaves users to resort to none other than using basic material to attempt to skirt around this. Most of the time, the results are [[SpecialEffectFailure subpar at best, and laughable at worst]].

** Similarly, due to its absence in [=GoAnimate=] for Schools, some users will try to make the pair of round eyes from Comedy World look more like how it did in the original website (almost always half-closed eyes, even when a character is [[DullSurprise shocked or surprised]]). However, this results in characters having their eyes be entirely transparent when closed, looking like a very messed-up SkintoneSclerae. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ddBi8SEX-w Here's one example]] with loads of {{Narm}} to boot.

* One type of video are "Template videos", which basically consist of two characters chatting while only being able to have preset placements based on the location used. These videos have the glaring issue of only allowing one character at a time to speak dialogue and express an emotion, meaning the other character not speaking can only just stand there and make a neutral face, regardless of context. One example is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220525124617/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKv3g_n_fQ4 Eric Gets In Trouble At School]], which has scenes where Eric is supposed to be crying, but his expression inexplicably changes to a neutral, smiling expression whenever the camera angle changes.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsOpI8Pfv_w Zoey Finishes Last In A Swimming Race And Gets Grounded]]. From the characters falling like dominoes into the pool, to their swimming being them just ''cheering sideways'' underwater.
* You have to wonder if the creator of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45o8M2zhWA Caillou destroys the playground / grounded]] even checked how it sounded before it was uploaded. Almost every sentence from Ms. Martin and Doris is interrupted by the aural equivalent of Bandicam nag messages reminding them that these are demo voices and shouldn't be used in a production without payment. The plot (an average "Ms. Martin fruitlessly tries to keep Caillou from destroying the playground and then his eventual grounding" script) screeches to a halt several times due to Ms. Martin and Doris's text-to-speech voices constantly giving out these warnings.

* The wall UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump builds in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2TO0_91Jpo Donald Trump Builds A Wall/Grounded]] is merely a 2-D picture of a grey brick wall in the middle of a city, yet it's enough to border the USA from Mexico.
* The "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]] Gets Grounded" series plays this for laughs. An example would be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-zna_0jOE Shinji Gets Red Octobers/Breaks Misato's Legs]] - The Red Octobers are really just recolored combat shoes with black soles (justified - They're fake), and Misato's wheelchair is really just a spinning office chair.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaunyLFvgvI Dora Gets Detention in Her House]], upon being called a "psychotic bitch" by Dora, Mrs. Christina gets so mad [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext she literally destroys half the classroom]]. It is then that one can notice that the students aren't even sitting on their chairs, almost appearing as if they're sitting on the floor or even levitating.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2lWJPEfp0o Zola Causes a Car Crash]] has a unique case in that the character models are accidentally swapped in the very first scene. Specifically, what are supposed to be Zola's background placement, text-to-speech voice, and dialogue are instead given to her mother and vice-versa, making it seem like Zola and her mother have experienced a FreakyFridayFlip.
* During the first minute and a half of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaWy0DHFVEk Brian Severely Injures His Teacher]], the characters do not have any mouth animations whenever they speak. While the opening scene with Brian could initially be written off as him thinking to himself, the error becomes more apparent during the classroom scene, in which Mrs. Christina and the students are clearly supposed to be speaking out loud yet do not open their mouths even once, making it seem like they are communicating via telepathy.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwyz_Aw2M0 Emily's operation]] involves the titular character getting plastic surgery to receive a new face. When her parents arrive in the operating room after her surgery and find out she chose a [[ButterFace gorilla-esque face]], they are suitably horrified...all except in expression, where they [[DullSurprise still retain their neutral expressions]].
* One scene in the now lost Brian: A Christmas Special that sticks out like a sore thumb is the montage when Brian and his parents are driving to church, where all of the characters are layered on top of the car rather than inside of it, making it seem like they are glued to the vehicle.
* Due to what is likely an oversight, nearly the entirety of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcUa-6mjfw Dora Breaks Her Teacher's Face (EXPLICIT)]] has the camera constantly shaking for no explicable reason, even in situations where it is not appropriate in the slightest (such as when the characters are casually chatting).
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GitiDiegmwo Caillou Throws Rosie Off a Plane | Grounded]], when the flight Caillou's family is taking is announced to be boarding, rather than just walking offscreen, the family simply shrinks into the background until they become very tiny, almost appearing to be casually walking in the sky.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmTerG_g8Uw justin bieber gets a cold and gets grounded]], Justin Bieber is supposed to be sneezing, but due to the lack of sneezing sound effects, it sounds like he's saying, "A-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo".
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgbCpsZKBU Warren PEES and POOPS all over his home/Grounded]], when Warren pees, the stream looks unrealistically wide, and when he pees on the ceiling, the puddle stays up there instead of dripping down. Something similar happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj4SFnm2MH4 Nick Gets Grounded for Life]].
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mj11bKUYyQ Dora Drives A Car]], Dora's house is meant to be destroyed in the car crash, but it instead appears to have simply turned upside-down.

* In [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220517135222/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWXPsw6CLE0 Dora Drives A Car]], Dora's house is meant to be destroyed in the car crash, but it instead appears to have simply turned upside-down.

* One type of video are "Template videos", which basically consist of two characters chatting while only being able to have preset placements based on the location used. These videos have the glaring issue of only allowing one character at a time to speak dialogue and express an emotion, meaning the other character not speaking can only just stand there and make a neutral face, regardless of context. One example is [[https://youtu.be/lKv3g_n_fQ4 Eric Gets In Trouble At School]], which has scenes where Eric is supposed to be crying, but his expression inexplicably changes to a neutral, smiling expression whenever the camera angle changes.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BkquSXWg_w dudley puppy sucks his cheasts/grounded]] features the titular character sucking on a note with "Double-click to input text" on it. We can only assume what that has to do with sucking his... cheasts.

* In [[https://tinyurl.com/yvwpt4cj Dora Gets Detention in Her House]], upon being called a "psychotic bitch" by Dora, Mrs. Christina gets so mad [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext she literally destroys half the classroom]]. It is then that one can notice that the students aren't even sitting on their chairs, almost appearing as if they're sitting on the floor or even levitating.

* During the first minute and a half of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yVnmEgyzm0 Brian Severely Injures His Teacher]], the characters do not have any mouth animations whenever they speak. While the opening scene with Brian could initially be written off as him thinking to himself, the error becomes more apparent during the classroom scene, in which Mrs. Christina and the students are clearly supposed to be speaking out loud yet do not open their mouths even once, making it seem like they are communicating via telepathy.

* One scene in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=micH37SvbVc Brian: A Christmas Special]] that sticks out like a sore thumb is the montage when Brian and his parents are driving to church, where all of the characters are layered on top of the car rather than inside of it, making it seem like they are glued to the vehicle.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWXPsw6CLE0 Dora Drives A Car]], Dora's house is meant to be destroyed in the car crash, but it instead appears to have simply turned upside-down.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIpj9JarvQ Zola Causes a Car Crash]] has a unique case in that the character models are accidentally swapped in the very first scene. Specifically, what are supposed to be Zola's background placement, text-to-speech voice, and dialogue are instead given to her mother and vice-versa, making it seem like Zola and her mother have experienced a FreakyFridayFlip.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmTerG_g8Uw this]] video, Justin Bieber is supposed to be sneezing, but due to the lack of sneezing sound effects, it sounds like he's saying, "A-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo".
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgbCpsZKBU this]] video, when Warren pees, the stream looks unrealistically wide, and when he pees on the ceiling, the puddle stays up there instead of dripping down. Something similar happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj4SFnm2MH4 this]] video.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWXPsw6CLE0 this]] video, Dora's house is meant to be destroyed in the car crash, but it instead appears to have simply turned upside-down.

* You have to wonder if the creator of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45o8M2zhWA this video]] even checked how it sounded before it was uploaded. Almost every sentence from Ms. Martin and Doris is interrupted by the aural equivalent of Bandicam nag messages reminding them that these are demo voices and shouldn't be used in a production without payment. The plot (an average "Ms. Martin fruitlessly tries to keep Caillou from destroying the playground and then his eventual grounding" script) screeches to a halt several times due to Ms. Martin and Doris's text-to-speech voices constantly giving out these warnings.

* The wall UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump builds in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2TO0_91Jpo this video]] is merely a 2-D picture of a grey brick wall in the middle of a city, yet it's enough to border the USA from Mexico.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GitiDiegmwo Caillou Throws Rosie Off a Plane | Grounded]], when the Anderson family's flight is announced to be boarding, rather than just walking offscreen, the family simply shrinks into the background until they become very tiny, almost appearing to be casually walking in the sky.

* One scene in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=micH37SvbVc Brian: A Christmas Special]] that sticks out like a sore thumb is the montage when Brian and his parents are driving to church, where all of the characters are layered on top of the car rather than inside of it, making it seem like they are glued to the care.

* In some "(Character) Gets Fat at (Restaurant)" videos, the character will often look simply large or stretched-out instead of fat, even if the character's theme (e.g. Comedy World) has an option for a fat character model.

* You have to wonder if the creator of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45o8M2zhWA this video]] even checked how it sounded before it was uploaded. Almost every sentence from Miss Martin and Doris is interrupted by the aural equivalent of Bandicam nag messages reminding them that these are demo voices and shouldn't be used in a production without payment. The plot (an average 'Miss Martin fruitlessly tries to keep Caillou from destroying the playground and then his eventual grounding' script) screeches to a halt several times due to Miss Martin and Doris' text-to-speech voice constantly giving out these warnings.

Being a low-budget animation tool that almost exclusively uses flash puppets, canned animations, and text-to-speech voices, Website/GoAnimate videos (at least the ones made before the website's extensive rebrand as Vyond) are pretty notorious for their limited animation efforts, which leaves users to resort to none other than using basic material to attempt to skirt around this. Most of the time, the results are [[SpecialEffectFailure subpar at best, and laughable at worst]].

* In early videos by Manaetherslime14, such as [[https://youtu.be/WgZdiGyBHoM Dora Argues With Her Dad/Belted And Grounded]], whenever Cole belts Dora as punishment for something, his belt is just shown to be a really long, static rope.

* In [[https://youtu.be/WgZdiGyBHoM Dora Argues With Her Dad/Belted And Grounded]], when Dora's dad gets his belt to beat Dora with after she calls him a retard, the belt is just shown to be a long rope rather than an actual belt.

* In the "(Character) Gets Fat at (Restaurant)" videos, due to the lack of fat character models in themes outside of Comedy World, Business Friendly and Whiteboard Animation, the character will often look simply large or stretched-out instead of fat.

* You have to wonder if the creator of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSPIxWuEBIU this video]] even checked how it sounded before it was uploaded. Almost every sentence from Miss Martin and Doris is interrupted by the aural equivalent of Bandicam nag messages reminding them that these are demo voices and shouldn't be used in a production without payment. The plot (an average 'Miss Martin fruitlessly tries to keep Caillou from destroying the playground and then his eventual grounding' script) screeches to a halt several times due to Miss Martin and Doris' text-to-speech voice constantly giving out these warnings.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkeeZiyUTj8 Dora Gets Detention in Her House]], upon being called a "psychotic bitch" by Dora, Mrs. Christina gets so mad [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext she literally destroys half the classroom]]. It is then that one can notice that the students aren't even sitting on their chairs, almost appearing as if they're sitting on the floor or even levitating.

* The former car models in [=GoAnimate=] before its rebrand as Vyond were only in a profile view, which resulted in many bizarre shots. They also only had sounds for starting; there were no running engine sound effects as well, making it appear that cars in the world of the grounded videos have terrible gas mileage and seize up at random.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsOpI8Pfv_w Zoey Finishes Last In A Swimming Race And Gets Grounded]]. From the girls falling like dominoes into the pool, to their swimming being the characters just ''cheering sideways'' underwater.

* In a now-deleted video, two troublemakers get grounded by loudly playing their drums and guitar... which don't make any noise whatsoever. However, the characters act like they did so anyways.

* In [[https://youtu.be/lKv3g_n_fQ4 Eric Gets In Trouble At School]], in scenes where Eric is supposed to be crying, his expression inexplicably changes to a neutral, smiling expression whenever the camera angle changes.

* Thanks to a lack of baby models in many of the themes, you can expect any baby/toddler characters to look like tiny adults, or characters who have been turned into babies to just look like they've been turned into two-inch tall versions of themselves.

* Sometimes, users will write text-to-speech voice lines in capital letters in an effort to make the characters "shout". Unfortunately, this usually ends up with them just spelling the word out, especially if said word happens to be an real acronym when written in AllCaps.

Being a low-budget animation tool that almost exclusively uses flash puppets, canned animations, and text-to-speech voices, Website/GoAnimate videos (at least the ones made before the extensive rebrand as Vyond) are pretty notorious for their limited animation efforts, which leaves users to resort to none other than using basic material to attempt to skirt around this. Most of the time, the results are [[SpecialEffectFailure subpar at best, and laughable at worst]].

* While the Comedy World theme lacks many actions or expressions compared to other themes, one expression it has that other themes don't have is a chewing animation. In order to make other characters like those of Lil' Peepz and Business Friendly chew food, most users will use their talking animation instead.