Cheesy cartoons.

You know'em, you've seen 'em, what raised the cheesemoter on them?

(This is not a 'bash' topic; don't tell me it sucks, tell me what makes it cheesy)

or my entrance. I give you The Mighty Hercules

The show has about four frames of animation for just about any action, a love interest whose only apparent skill is getting into trouble (literally; I'm not exaggerating) and a sidekick that's almost more competent than the lead character.

edited 27th Nov '12 10:56:13 PM by VeniVidiPony

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This count?

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Clutch Cargo. Yes, there’s the Syncro-Vox which creeps everyone out, but even without that, the animation defines the word crude! I’d swear some of the movement is created by sliding animation cels in real time (check out that paper airplane).

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The Super Mario World cartoon. Cheap animation, silly dialogue ("That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario! *wheeze*"), yet it has its charm. It's also hard to deny its impact, especially in the world of YouTube Poop.

Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog likewise, although I feel that one actually had some moments of intentional comedy alongside the unintentional.

I contend that most of the cheesiness in AoStH was intentional, though the rest of it was from jokes being So Unfunny, It's Funny. It seemed to want to be a Looney Tunes sketch with Sonic!!!

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Well, I believe any video game adaptation is going to have a major amount of cheese, and Mario and Sonic are hardly the worst of them—I've heard BAD things about the Donkey Kong Country series. Then Captain N appears to be a show where since they're adapting so many different video games, they have so many opportunities to get so many things all wrong about them. You'd see episodes with art and writing based solely on squinting at the English-language instruction manuals, because who has time to get a copy of the game for everyone to play through or ask the originating copyright holders for assistance when you've got a cheap cartoon to rush into production?

Off the top of my head:

Jabberjaw: Not necessarily bad cheesy, but it kind of almost dives into self-parody with regards to Hanna-Barbera's other shows of that sort.

Rescue Heroes: Xtremeness + Merchandise-Driven + And Knowing Is Half the Battle = Short-lived but still somehow awesome cheesy fun. The art style was pretty neat too, save for the humungo-feet.

Mega Man: Tried to find a balance between authenticity and appealing to American audiences, with varying degrees of success. It gave us the Lion Men episode, but it also gave us the surprisingly heartwarming Bro Bots. A shame it didn't run longer, as it was beginning to look promising for the last few episodes.

edited 28th Nov '12 9:56:04 AM by MobileLeprechaun

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I guess it depends on the definition of "cheesy", since it being such may not be neccessarily a bad thing. After all many good cartoons are still prone to cliches and being over the top, and some cases it actually gives them more life and charm than those that try to be more dignified and subtle in execution.

The Disney Afternoon is almost completely made of cheesy cartoons for example, cutesy, pun riddled goofiness in all directions, but at the same time, executed in a manner that is rather endearing and fun. Let's face it, if Duck Tales wasn't cheesy, it wouldn't be half the cartoon it was.

Same for My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, it may be less cheesy than some previous My Little Pony incarnations, but it is still very much so, just it better moderates how to use it in a manner that gives the show charm.

Pretty much Di C's entire filmography belongs here, though with varying success. Even some of it's darker projects such as Sonic Sat Am are blatantly cheesy in places, what with Sonic's hilariously outdated Totally Radical quips and Antoine's cliche slapstick. While it's very much hit and miss with it, it's hard to really put it down too much for it though since it does actually give it character and balance the tone. The lack of cheese in the comic adaptions is likely why I consider them much duller.

The Dreamstone is a good example of a "Good cheese vs bad cheese" cartoon. One scene can be over the top, goofy but highly enjoyable slapstick, the other can be saccharine, goody goody monotony.

edited 28th Nov '12 10:06:02 AM by Psi001

Totally agree. Cheese can be good sometimes. Just depends on who your cheesemonger is, I guess.

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Hey now, if we didn't have Jabberjaw, we wouldn't have this amazing song:

Seriously, I love this song, but, then, I like ska punk more than I probably should.

Side note: I've never actually seen an episode of Jabberjaw as far as I can remember. I probably saw it back when I was a kid on Cartoon Network's old Boomerang block, but I don't remember half the stuff I watched as a kid.

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Would it be fair to say anything by Filmation?

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Not really - that's pretty much a given.

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Aw, darn. Now it's stuck in my head. Great song, though.

edited 28th Nov '12 3:21:55 PM by MobileLeprechaun

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Who could forget the Super Friends? Technically speaking, nothing in that show has aged well, but god damn it, it's a pure delight to watch.

If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.

Especially the Wonder Twins segments. So friggin' ridiculous.

"Shape of... An Eagle!"

"Form of... Water!"

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"How come I'm always something lame like ice?"

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

But what kind of kid would think that they could mutate like the Wonder Twins? And more importantly, if such a kid existed, wouldn't they rather think that they could do something that's actually cool, like things Superman or Batman do?

edited 29th Nov '12 10:38:40 AM by MobileLeprechaun

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And then of course there's Aquaman. Who they bring along with them almost every single episode. Whether he's of use or not.

I swear, his being part of the Superfriends is some super hero equivalent to a pity fuck. He's got two abilities: he can breathe under water and talk to fish.

If it's a slow day (ie: one that doesn't involves being under water and/or talking to the creatures of the deep) he dunks his head in Zan and pretends.

edited 29th Nov '12 12:39:37 PM by VeniVidiPony

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I was under the impression that outside of the Superfriends, Aquaman was the eqivalent of a waterbender. Who could talk to fish.

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Hey, in the comics, the Wonder Twins were awesome. They transformed into things such as Sphinxes and Frost Giants!

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"I could be beaten by a sponge! He wouldn't even have to be an evil sponge!"

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Aquaman and the Wonder Twins still were useful compared to Marvin and Wendy.