Aldo930
Since: Aug, 2013
11/26/2013 00:00:00
All true, all true, all true. The only episode I remember was one where the main characters were lost on a traffic island. The plot had already been done, in a much funnier way, by CatDog.
Richard Horvitz often gave his characters different voices to fit their personalities. Zim was more over the top; Billy was more dumb. But Rodney the squirrel...was just his Daggett voice. No lie.
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Wackd
Since: May, 2009
11/27/2013 00:00:00
Way too much of this review is just listing off better Cartoon Network shows and saying they're better.
I mean, I don't disagree, but we didn't need a rundown of every single show CN had aired up until this point. It's gratuitous.
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Terminally bland with a side of apathy
Ah, Cartoon Network studios. Up until 2006, they had a pretty consistent track record in terms of quality - whether it was TV-Y7-rated Dead Baby Comedies, cleverly-written shows about rebellious kids fighting their adult adversaries in spoofs of classic sci-fi, fantasy, spy and adventure movies, a show about a boy genius and his stupeed seester, or an epic about a time lost samurai... Then they made this show.
Squirrel Boy, however, is not actively wretched. No, it commits a far greater sin - it's boring. Despite having the always-hilarious Richard Horvitz voicing the titular rodent, it wastes his talent for outright insanity. The show apes the ugly Klasky Csupo look, but lacks any of the charm of Klasky-Csupo's shows. The show is just terminally bland, and was one of four shows introduced by CN in 2006 - the unexpectedly good superhero show Ben 10, the decently funny My Gym Partners A Monkey, and the sadly Too Good To Last Class Of 3000. Not only does it fail at being as funny as even Gym Partner or the disappointing yet decent Camp Lazlo, it wasted the talents of one of the funniest voice actors in doing so.
I don't mourn this show, but it still wasn't the worst thing Cartoon Network has ever aired. As I've stated, it isn't actually bad - it's just boring. You'd expect a lot more from the studio who gave the world the oft-hilarious escapades of the Grim Reaper and his Enfante Terrible and Ralph Wiggum masters, or the misadventures of three misfits in their quest for jawbreakers, and the story of a nervous pooch, his kindly Scottish owner, and her Jerkass husband. These shows, and many more by CN studios, all had a certain spark to their humor - CN's censors have always been noticably lax, so why was this show so lacking in comedy? Maybe Everett Peck just doesn't know how to do more "kid-friendly" humor, or maybe he was just never all that funny to begin with.