History YMMV / JohnKStuff

** The number of times you can find him saying ''anything'' nice about [[ExecutiveMeddling executives in animation]] [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives can be counted on one hand and still have fingers left to count.]] Among the very few he has any respect for are Vanessa Coffey and Fred Seibert.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: John is more than willing to step on peoples toes and spit in the face of political correctness and general tact to get a laugh and/or get his points across. Just one of many examples is the post where he applauds WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoons for having very racy humor, up to including ''[[BlackComedyRape rape jokes]]''.[[note]]This, unfortunately, may have been why is was difficult to believe rumors about his statutory rape before they were confirmed by his victims: everything he said was so extreme that nobody took his perverted remarks at face value.[[/note]]

** In "Subtle Animation Acting-Bugs Bunny by [=McKimson=] and Harris", John unfavorably compares the direction Creator/ChuckJones gives to his animators like Ken Harris to that of Creator/BobClampett directing animators like Creator/RobertMcKimson, basically saying that in contrast, Jones animators were basically "glorified inbetweeners" who were stuck doing menial, uncreative work for Jones in contrast. One of John's former animators, Bob Jaques, went into great detail on [[https://popeyeanimators.blogspot.com/2009/03/ot-interlude-of-shameless-self.html?m=1 his own blog]][[note]]see the comment section[[/note]]about just how completely wrong John was about it, and by using his work on ''Ren and Stimpy'' to prove the point that the art of inbetweening layout poses is anything ''but'' a mindless act, while also highlighting that John is basically [[{{Hypocrite}} throwing stones in glass houses]], considering John felt the soul of Ren and Stimpy was the layouts and not the animation and inbetweens and is guilty of the very thing he accuses Jones of doing.

** Many posts centered on sexual content (especially his commentary on a [[BlackComedyRape rape joke]] in a WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon in [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/12/dont-take-bettys-boop.html "Don't Take Betty's Boop"]]) and on artist Katie Rice (such as him referring to her as a "cute thing" in [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/05/animation-school-lesson-2-squash-and.html?m=1 "Animation School Lesson 2"]] while shes making some very unfortunate facial expressions) became incredibly {{squick}}y in light of she and many other ex-Spumco employees calling John out on [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/john-kricfalusi-ren-stimpy-underage-sexual-abuse?utm_term=.dvZvXMkKv#.xd1QbAqkQ his sexual predator behavior towards them.]]

* MemeticMutation: While it didn't ''invent'' the term (which had existed as far back as the early 90's), the blog (specifically, [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/cal-arts-style.html?m=1 this post]]) is considered one of the biggest proprietors of the now infamous animation term "Cal Arts Style", which has since mutated to describe what Wiki/ThisVeryWiki refers to as ThinLineAnimation.[[note]]John's blog specifically used the term to describe what he considered a very inbred drawing and animation style that uses works like 60's Disney as its biggest influence while adding in bits and pieces of other influences like 80's {{Saturday morning cartoon}}s, with its focus being on slick and cutesy as opposed to being funny. It also bears noting that he issued an [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/04/cal-arts-1-apology-to-students.html?m=1 apology post]] to Cal Arts students later on.[[/note]] Ironically enough, the blog petered out before John could give his opinion such a controversial art-style.
* MorePopularSpinOff: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Art Lozzi 3-HB Starts to Standardize", which discusses how Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera realized how popular the Yogi Bear segments of ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow'' were and, in an astute move, decided to give him [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear his own show]] two years later.

* UnacceptableTargets: The plot is notorious for [[RefugeInAudacity priding itself]] on its shamelessly vulgar, anti-politically correct humor, and it sometimes blurs the line between whats [[CrossesTheLineTwice deliberately thoughtless or nasty to provoke a shock or laugh]] or just plain nasty or thoughtless, with some posts teetering dangerously close to being outright sexist, racist or homophobic. John's own ultra-conservative viewpoints (despite his insistence of being otherwise) aren't helping his case at all.

** In [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/07/success-at-comicon.html?m=1 "Success at Comic Con"]], he drops a bluntly racist remark about black people completely casually, specifically referring to a place he stayed as "N***r Rape Hotel". At least he was kind enough to censor it himself.
** There are numerous potshots taken at various ethnicities in several posts, such as [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-not-to-love-about-insanity.html?m=1 "Whats Not To Love About Insanity?"]] mocking those who believe in a black Jesus, and [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/10/color-theory-steal-from-anime-if-you.html?m=1 "Color Theory -- steal from anime if you can't think of anything yourself"]] referring to the Japanese as a "cold race".

* UnconventionalLearningExperience: Not unlike the reviews of WebVideo/RedLetterMedia, John K's blog does offer a lot of insight into what goes into making a cartoon and how the films he loves were made between all the sophomoric humor and tasteless jokes. The main difference is that Stoklasa satirizes the vulgarity while John K unironically embraces it.

** In "Walt Craves Respect", he argues that Walt making films like ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' was a shrewd attempt to pander to critics and that a combo of poor critical and audience reception against it trying to play to both high class expectations while keeping Disney's cutesy elements played a part in the film being a big BoxOfficeBomb. What he doesn't factor in was that ''Fantasia'' came out at a time when, thanks to the rise of World War 2, Disney was completely cut off from the foreign market that had helped make films like ''Snow White'' a big box office hit (this factor was also why films like ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' underperformed in their initial releases) and the fact that thanks to its unique and expensive ''Fantasound'' equipment being difficult to install, Fantasia only recieved limited distribution and wasnt even accessible to the general public. John also doesnt factor in that the film [[VindicatedByHistory eventually did turn a profit in rereleases and was recognized as a masterpiece by critics]]. Of course, the post is blatant anti-Disney propaganda, so its entirely possible he knew but cherrypicked to get his points across.

** Many posts centered on sexual content (especially his commentary on a [[BlackComedyRape rape joke]] in a WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon in [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/12/dont-take-bettys-boop.html "Don't Take Betty's Boop"]]) and on artist Katie Rice (such as him referring to her as a "cute thing" in [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/05/animation-school-lesson-2-squash-and.html?m=1 "Animation School Lesson 2"]] while shes making some very unfortunate facial expressions) became incredibly {{squick}y in light of she and many other ex-Spumco employees calling John out on [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/john-kricfalusi-ren-stimpy-underage-sexual-abuse?utm_term=.dvZvXMkKv#.xd1QbAqkQ his sexual predator behaviour towards them.]]

* MemeticMutation: While it didn't ''invent'' the term (which had existed as far back as the early 90's), the blog (specifically, [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/cal-arts-style.html?m=1 this post]]) is considered one of the biggest proprietors of the now infamous "Cal Arts Style" animation term that has since mutated to describe what Wiki/ThisVeryWiki refers to as ThinLineAnimation.[[note]]John's blog specifically used the term to describe what he considered a very inbred drawing and animation style that uses works like 60's Disney as its biggest influence while adding in bits and pieces of other influences like 80's {{Saturday morning cartoon}}s, with its focus being on slick and cutesy as opposed to being funny. It also bears noting that he issued an [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/04/cal-arts-1-apology-to-students.html?m=1 apology post]] to Cal Arts students later on.[[/note]] Ironically enough, the blog petered out before John could give his opinion such a controversial art-style.

** There are numerous potshots taken at ethnicities in several posts, such as [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-not-to-love-about-insanity.html?m=1 "Whats Not To Love About Insanity?"]] mocking those who believe in a black Jesus, and [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/10/color-theory-steal-from-anime-if-you.html?m=1 "Color Theory -- steal from anime if you can't think of anything yourself"]] referring to the Japanese as a "cold race".

* UnconventionalLearningExperience: Not unlike the reviews of WebVideo/RedLetterMedia, John K's blog does offer a lot of insight into what goes into making a cartoon and how the films he loves were made inbetween all the sophomoric humor and tasteless jokes. The main difference is that Stoklasa satirizes the vulgarity while John K unironically embraces it.

* InternetBackdraft: It's generally not a good idea to bring up this blog on animation related websites and groups, since its kind of morbid humor and digs at animated works are ''quite'' unpopular among a good chunk of the animation community.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: John is more than willing to step on peoples toes and spit in the face of political correctness and general tact to get a laugh and/or get his points across. Just one of many examples is the post where he applauds WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoons for having very racy humor, up to including ''[[BlackComedyRape rape jokes]]''.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: A big reason why the blog is so polarizing. John's opinions range from being merely sardonic to downright misanthropic and mean spirited at worst, and often come with an air of petty bitterness and [[HolierThanThou self-righteousness behind them]]. It makes his posts, even the educational ones, a hard pill to swallow. It only got worse when John's true nature as a person was revealed in 2018, leaving his blog seen now as little more than [[BiasSteamroller a propagandic soapbox]] for a grandstanding, predatory, narcissistic scumbag.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: A big reason why the blog is so polarizing. John's opinions range from being merely sardonic to downright misanthropic and mean spirited at worst, and often come with an air of petty bitterness and [[HolierThanThou self-righteousness behind them]]. It makes his posts, even the educational ones, a hard pill to swallow. It only got worse when John's true nature as a person was revealed in 2018, leaving his blog seen now as little more than a soapbox for a grandstanding, predatory, narcissistic scumbag.

* AcceptableTargets: A lot of them, the most notorious being:

* AcceptableTargets:

** In "Subtle Animation Acting-Bugs Bunny by McKimson and Harris", John unfavorably compares the direction Creator/ChuckJones gives to his animators like Ken Harris to that of Creator/BobClampett directing animators like Creator/RobertMcKimson, basically saying that in contrast, Jones animators were basically "glorified inbetweeners" who were stuck doing menial, uncreative work for Jones in contrast. One of John's former animators, Bob Jaques, went into great detail on [[https://popeyeanimators.blogspot.com/2009/03/ot-interlude-of-shameless-self.html?m=1 his own blog]][[note]]see the comment section[[/note]]about just how completely wrong John was about it, and by using his work on ''Ren and Stimpy'' to prove the point that the art of inbetweening layout poses is anything ''but'' a mindless act, while also highlighting that John is basically [[{{Hypocrite}} throwing stones in glass houses]], considering John felt the soul of Ren and Stimpy was the layouts and not the animation and inbetweens and is guilty of the very thing he accuses Jones of doing.
** In "Walt Craves Respect", he argues that Walt making films like ''Fantasia'' was a shrewd attempt to pander to critics and that a combo of poor critical and audience reception against it trying to play to both high class expectations while keeping Disney's cutesy elements played a part in the film being a big BoxOfficeBomb. What he doesn't factor in was that ''Fantasia'' came out at a time when, thanks to the rise of World War 2, Disney was completely cut off from the foreign market that had helped make films like ''Snow White'' a big box office hit (this factor was also why films like ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''[[Disney/{{Bambi}}'' underperformed in their initial releases) and the fact that thanks to its unique and expensive ''Fantasound'' equipment being difficult to install, Fantasia only recieved limited distribution and wasnt even accessible to the general public. John also doesnt factor in that the film [[VindicatedByHistory eventually did turn a profit in rereleases and was recognized as a masterpiece by critics]]. Of course, the post is blatant anti-Disney propaganda, so its entirely possible he knew but cherrypicked to get his points across.

* RomanticPlotTumor: "Writing for Cartoons 3" criticizes the MGM MarxBros. movies for falling back on this element at the expense of their comedy.

* ThrowItIn: Discussed in a post about the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "WesternAnimation/BarbaryCoastBunny", pointing out how Creator/ChuckJones rewrote the dialogue to accommodate the kind of characterization Daws Butler brought to Nasty Canasta.
* TomHanksSyndrome: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in a few posts. John is not a fan of cartoons doing this in a non-comedic context and sees it as a shrewd, cheap way of pandering to critics and emotionally trip-wiring audiences in order to get artistic respect in animation.
** In "Walt Craves Respect". John believes that Creator/WaltDisney tried going in a more serious direction with features like ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' because he wasn't happy about the fact that making funny cartoons [[AnimationAgeGhetto didn't get him critical praise or respect like live action filmmakers did,]] so he tried pandering to what he thought critics took seriously, like more naturalistic designs, lush art, classical music and darker thematic elements to get their favor. John also points out that it backfired horribly in its initial release, getting panned by critics and flopping at the box office.
** In "Wally Walrus VS UPA part 1", he criticizes [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] for doing this, seeing them as a group of [[StopHavingFunGuys snobbish elitist animators]] who thumbed their nose at the approach of other animation studios, singling out cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/TheUnicornInTheGarden'' as going out of their way to be as dreary and anti-cartoon as possible in order to pander to critics.
** He isn't a fan of live action movies doing this either. In "Funny Pathos vs Cheap Trick Pathos- Ralph Has Remorse", he singles out ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' as an example of a film using trick pathos to elicit an audience response. In general, he loathes Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/GeorgeLucas for similar reasons as he does Disney, mainly for what he sees as their cynical and insincere "Take my cake and eat it too" attitude towards [[OscarBait eliciting serious audience emotion with emotional trip-wiring and pandering]] in films with [[TastesLikeDiabetes trite or]] [[SophisticatedAsHell lowbrow content.]]
** As the above examples attest, John hammers home that if you want to make kitsch, then [[MagicAIsMagicA treat it like kitsch]] (unless your plan is to make fun of it) -- don't treat kitsch as something to be taken seriously so you can crassly pretend it has genuine artistic merit behind it.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: A big reason why the blog is so polarizing. John's opinions range from being merely sardonic to downright misanthropic and mean spirited at worst, and often come with an air of petty bitterness and [[HolierThanThou self-righteousness behind them]]. It makes his posts, even the educational ones, a hard pill to swallow.

* PropagandaPiece: John dismisses ''[[Literature/TheIllusionOfLife The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation]]'' as largely being Disney propaganda that claimed everything that was ever done with any quality or worth in animation only came from Disney, and said that the only good chapter in the book was the section on The Twelve Principles of Animation. Which is rather ironic and [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] in hindsight considering his entire blog is a giant propaganda piece in of itself where the instructional posts are often considered the only bearable parts of it.

** In "Walt Craves Respect", he argues that Walt making films like ''Fantasia'' was a shrewd attempt to pander to critics and implied that a combo of both critic and audience reception played a part in the film being a big BoxOfficeFlop. What he doesn't factor in was that ''Fantasia'' came out at a time when, thanks to the rise of World War 2, Disney was completely cut off from the foreign market that had helped make films like ''Snow White'' a big box office hit (this factor was also why films like ''Pinocchio'' and ''Bambi'' underperformed in their initial releases) and the fact that thanks to its unique and expensive ''Fantasound'' equipment being difficult to install, Fantasia only recieved limited distribution and wasnt even accessible to the general public. John also doesnt factor in that the film [[VindicatedByHistory eventually did turn a profit in rereleases and was recognized as a masterpiece by critics]]. Of course, the post is blatant anti-Disney propaganda, so its entirely possible he knew but cherrypicked to get his points across.

** The number of times you can find him saying ''anything'' nice about executives [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives can be counted on one hand and still have fingers left to count.]] Among the very few he has any respect for are Vanessa Coffey and Fred Seibert.

** The number of times you can find him saying anything nice about executives can be counted on one hand and still have fingers left to count.

** Cartoon writers (especially those who can't draw or animate) are either considered to be sellout mercenaries or are given the same stigma as a tyrannical cultural imperialist by John.

* AcceptableLifestyleTargets:

** In "Subtle Animation Acting-Bugs Bunny by McKimson and Harris", John unfavorably compares the direction Creator/ChuckJones gives to his animators like Ken Harris to that of Creator/BobClampett directing animators like Creator/RobMcKimson, basically saying that in contrast, Jones animators were basically "glorified inbetweeners" who were stuck doing menial, uncreative work for Jones in contrast. One of John's former animators, Bob Jaques, went into great detail on [[https://popeyeanimators.blogspot.com/2009/03/ot-interlude-of-shameless-self.html?m=1 his own blog]][[note]]see the comment section[[/note]]about just how completely wrong John was about it, and by using his work on ''Ren and Stimpy'' to prove the point while highlighting that John is basically [[{{Hypocrite}} throwing stones in glass houses]], considering John felt the soul of Ren and Stimpy was the layouts and not the animation and inbetweens and is guilty of the very thing he accuses Jones of doing.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In "The Gay Arabic Villain", he uses [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Anton Ego]] as an example of a villain with a [[SinisterSchnoz long pointy nose]]... even though the movie makes it very clear that, while Anton is [[CausticCritic not exactly pleasant company]], he is not a villain or even evil, just someone who takes his job as a food critic ''very'' seriously.

* PropagandaPiece: John dismisses ''[[Literature/TheIllusionOfLife The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation]]'' as largely being Disney propaganda that claimed everything that was ever done with any quality or worth in animation only came from Disney, and said that the only good chapter in the book was the section on The Twelve Principles of Animation.

* UnacceptableTargets: The plot is notorious for [[RefugeInAudacity priding itself]] on its shamelessly vulgar, anti-politically correct humor, and it sometimes blurs the linr between whats [[CrossesTheLineTwice deliberately thoughtless or nasty to provoke a shock or laugh]] or just plain nasty or thoughtless, with some posts teetering dangerously close to being outright sexist, racist or homophobic. John's own ultra-conservative viewpoints (despite his insistence of being otherwise) aren't helping his case at all.

** Even after the fallout of ''WesternAnimation/CansWithoutLabels'' and the early 2018 sex abuse scandals that deep-sixed what little was left of any goodwill people and fans had for John K., its believed that the blog for what its worth ''is'' a good resource for instruction and inspiration, but that John's own opinions and self congratulating merits [[DoAsISayNotAsIDo should be taken with a salt mine.]]

* UnacceptableTargets:
** Potshots are sometimes taken at people who live unmasculine lifestyles. A now deleted (but archived) post about ''Tangled'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100614182352/http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-it-possible-to-make-whole-animated.html "Is It Possible To Make A Whole Animated Feature Out Of Stock?"]] in particular included several homophobic remarks.
** In [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/07/success-at-comicon.html?m=1 "Success at Comic Con"]], he drops a bluntly racist remark about black people completely casually, specifically referring to a place he stayed as "N***r Rape Hotel". At least he was kind enough to censor it himself.

** Disney and all who follow or imitate them (such as Creator/DonBluth) get the lions share of his scrutiny, especially the ones from the 90's and onward.

** In "The Rise and Fall of Construction in cartoons Pt 2", he remarks about a caricature of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler that its pretty hard to go wrong with making fun of him, since he considers him the ultimate cartoon character.

** Cartoon and video game nerds and [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter amatuers or non-artists who talk smack about other artists without having anything to back it up]] are occasionally taken potshots at, such as in the post "Comment Rules".

** "Only Superhumans Qualify As Entertainers - Buster Keaton" also takes a shot at scientists who believe in Intelligent Design.

** The blog is not at all subtle about its condemnation of sloppy artistry, formulaic art and stories and the dangers of political correctness.

* ClicheStorm: He often ripped into animated features old and new for having formulaic storylines, most infamously in his review of ''Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs'' and his (deleted) impressions of ''Tangled'', which he claims consists of nothing ''but'' formula.
* CriticalResearchFailure: In "The Gay Arabic Villain", he uses [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Anton Ego]] as an example of a villain with a [[SinisterSchnoz long pointy nose]]...even though the movie makes it very clear that, while Anton is [[CausticCritic not exactly pleasant company]], he is not a villain or even evil, just someone who takes his job as a food critic ''very'' seriously.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: John is more than willing to step on peoples toes and spit in the face of political correctness and general tact to get a laugh and/or get his points across. Just one of many examples is the post where he applauds Betty Boop cartoons for having very racy humor, up to including ''[[BlackComedyRape rape jokes]]''.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: A big reason why the blog is so polarizing. John's opinions range from being merely sardonic to downright misanthrophic and mean spirited at worst, and often come with an air of petty bitterness and [[HolierThanThou self-righteousness behind them]]. It makes his posts, even the educational ones, a hard pill to swallow.
* DesignatedHero: In "The Best Bugs - Pre 'Tude", he argues that Creator/ChuckJones interpretation of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny turned Bugs into an [[BoringInvincibleHero unlikable and boring protagonist]] who only won because he was supposed to, as opposed to his 1940's cartoons where he earned his victories.

* {{Glurge}}: Besides considering the content of their films bland and trite, John K also feels that animated features by Disney and its followers use blatant OscarBait on a daily basis and are too emotionally manipulative and preachy to come off as sincere.

** Many posts centered on sexual content (especially his commentary on a [[BlackComedyRape rape joke]] in a Betty Boop cartoon in [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/12/dont-take-bettys-boop.html "Don't Take Betty's Boop"]]) and on artist Katie Rice (such as him referring to her as a "cute thing" in [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/05/animation-school-lesson-2-squash-and.html?m=1 "Animation School Lesson 2"]] while shes making some very unfortunate facial expressions) became incredibly squicky in light of she and many other ex-Spumco employees calling John out on [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/john-kricfalusi-ren-stimpy-underage-sexual-abuse?utm_term=.dvZvXMkKv#.xd1QbAqkQ his sexual predator behaviour towards them.]]

-->If you thought some of his writing there was off-putting, imagine him yelling those things at you! He wasn't just musing in his own head on the blog. [[BadBoss He actually talked to people at the studio like that, insulting and degrading them if they drew flat or "uninteresting" drawings]]. His anger isn't just reserved for imaginary Filmation animators. It's real, it's ugly, and it's devastating. The "nice" John you read on the blog, who just happens to have a curmudgeonly streak, is an anomaly we rarely saw. [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk The whole thing is the streak.]] Some of his online fans got the Dr. Jekyll version of him. Others had a whole crew's worth of Mr. Hyde unleashed on them."

** In "Canadian Animation - The Beginning", he talks about the show ''WesternAnimation/RocketRobinHood'', saying he liked the first season better than the second because it was [[SoBadItsGood so cheesy and sloppy.]]
** In "Wayne Boring's Superman", he claims he prefers superhero comics before the 70's because he believed their appeal came from just how ridiculous they were, and that they ruined when writers tried to rationalize and take the preposterous stories seriously.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Invoked: John claims the only part of ''Literature/TheIllusionOfLife'' that's worth reading is the chapter on TheTwelvePrinciplesOfAnimation and that the rest is just Disney propaganda.
* MemeticMutation: While it didn't ''invent'' the term (which had existed as far back as the early 90's), the blog (specifically, [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/cal-arts-style.html?m=1 this post]]) is considered one of the biggest propieters of the now infamous "Cal Arts Style" animation term.[[note]]John's blog specifically describes it as being a very inbred drawing and animation style that uses works like 60's Disney as its biggest influence while adding in bits and pieces of other influences like 80's saturday morning cartoons, with its focus being on slick and cutesy as opposed to being funny. It also bears noting that he issued an [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/04/cal-arts-1-apology-to-students.html?m=1 apology post]] to Cal Arts students later on.[[/note]]

* RomanticPlotTumor: "Writing for Cartoons 3" criticizes the MGM Marx Bros. movies for falling back on this element at the expense of their comedy.

* TomHanksSyndrome: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in a few posts. John is not a fan of cartoons doing this in a non-comedic context and sees it as a shrewd, cheap way of pandering to critics and emotionally tripwiring audiences in order to get artistic respect in animation.

** He isn't a fan of live action movies doing this either. In "Funny Pathos vs Cheap Trick Pathos- Ralph Has Remorse", he singles out ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' as an example of a film using trick pathos to elicit an audience response. In general, he loathes Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/GeorgeLucas for similar reasons as he does Disney, mainly for what he sees as their cynical and insincere "Take my cake and eat it too" attitude towards [[OscarBait eliciting serious audience emotion with emotional tripwiring and pandering]] in films with [[TastesLikeDiabetes trite or]] [[SophisticatedAsHell lowbrow content.]]
** As the above examples attest, John hammers home that if you want to make kitsch, then [[MagicAIsMagicA treat it like kitsch]] (unless your plan is to make fun of it)--don't treat kitsch as something to be taken seriously so you can crassly pretend it has genuine artistic merit behind it.

** In [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/07/success-at-comicon.html?m=1 "Success at Comic Con"]], he drops a bluntly racist remark about black people completely casually, specifically referring to a place he stayed as "Nigger Rape Hotel".
** There are numerous potshots taken at ethnicities in several posts, such as [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-not-to-love-about-insanity.html?m=1 "Whats Not To Love About Insanity?"]] mocking those who believe in a black Jesus, and [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/10/color-theory-steal-from-anime-if-you.html?m=1 "Color Theory - steal from anime if you can't think of anything yourself"]] referring to the japanese as a "cold race".

** The [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dt_NeL4vRpM/UVcMUhR36II/AAAAAAAA06Y/SuR3B-thO6k/s1600/MouseDW.png "Dreamworks Mickey Mouse" doodle]] in "Fanboy Admission and Genetics", which parodies the style of CGI in Dreamworks movies by depicting Mickey as a hairy, pore infested creature with realistic eyes and ''giant human ears''.

* AnimationAgeGhetto: In "Walt Craves Respect", John speculates that Creator/WaltDisney pushing so hard for his movies to have more serious content and realistic art in movies like Disney/{{Fantasia}} was a shrewd attempt to pander to critics and convince them that his studio was a real arthouse and not just a fun lowbrow cartoon studio. John is quick to point out how this backfired in Fantasia's initial release because Walt ''also'' tried to pander to general audiences at the same time with the films cutesy elements and [[BlackAndWhiteMorality clear cut morality]], keeping critics from taking the film seriously.

** In "Milt Gray On Clampett's Black and White Cartoons", which discusses Creator/BobClampett's b&w cartoons, John K describes how WesternAnimation/PorkyPig was basically a boring prop character in the hands of Creator/TexAvery and Creator/FrankTashlin, and that Bob best understood how to make the character truly likable and sympathetic.

** In "Canadian Animation - The Beginning", he talks about the show WesternAnimation/RocketRobinHood, saying he liked the first season better than the second because it was [[SoBadItsGood so cheesy and sloppy.]]

* MorePopularSpinOff: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Art Lozzi 3-HB Starts to Standardize", which discusses how Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera realized how popular the Yogi Bear segments of WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow were and, in an astute move, decided to give him [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear his own show]] two years later.

* ClicheStorm: He often ripped into animated features old and new for having formulaic storylines, most infamously in his review of ''Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs'' and his (deleted) impressions of ''Tangled''.