What's your least favorite kid's cartoon of all time?

[Liberal Veteran]

Mine is Shazan. It's about these two kids that for whatever reason have these two rings that summon a giant genie who can do just about anything and they fly around on a winged camel on some mission I have never cared enough to figure out.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Mighty Mouse!

The singing every word thing was some tired doo doo!

[mac56]

2. "Shazzan" sucked, but -

for true dreck, look no further than "The New Adventures of Huck Finn", aired about the same time. Live action kids in Scooby-Doo situations being "chased through time" by Injun Joe, played by Ted Cassidy (Lurch from "The Addams Family").

Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera were just cashing the checks by this point. They no longer cared.

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. Oh man I remember this...

HAHAHAHAHAHAH...

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. Scooby Doo

I am stull stunned by the obsession some of my peers have for this poorly animated, unfunny, formulaic, idiodic show about a talking dog and his moron companions who solve mysteries...

Hate it. Hate every incarnation of it since the pilot episode.

If it weren't for you meddling kids.... I'd have had better Saturday mornings as a young boy.

Lay off Shazzan, that was a cool show so was Young Samson!!!

[Liberal Veteran]

4. I despise Scooby Doo too.

Never like it as a kid. Hate it even more as an adult.

(I still hate Shazzan worse).

And all incarnations of the Superfriends.

Wendy, Marvin, and Wonder Dog were annoying and stupid but so were the "Donny and Marie" Twins who had some fairly uninspired use of powers. It just boggled my mind to see the Wonder twins have to use their powers. "We have to get across the molten lava." (in unison) "Wonder twin powers, ACTIVATE." Her: Shape of a gorilla. Him: Form of ice stilts. And then she gets on the stilts and walks THROUGH THE LAVA????? On stilts? Made of ICE??? Give me a break!

[BigMcLargehuge]

7. Ever see the redubs of the Wonder Twins cartoons on Adult Swim?

They run them in between other shows or as end of hour filler... In each one their quary in need of rescue dies because their powers are so crappy...

The mother of a boy mauled to death by a bear in a cave:

You could have turned into an ice cage to protect my boy... and you, you could have taken the shape of a gorilla to fight the bear while my son ran for safety... but you chose to create a gopher mote and now my son is dead.

Funny stuff...

I hate the Superfriends too. I think it's one of the reasons I never liked DC Comics when I was a collector

[mac56]

9. Super Friends was lame, but -

clearly you've forgotten "Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends".

"Spider-Friends - - - go for it!!"

[BigMcLargehuge]

13. I see your Spider man and his amazing friends and raise you one...

NEW FANTASTIC FOUR!!!!!

Seems Johnny Storm/The Human Torch bowed out of this one to make way for that superhero crimefighting... er... robot??... um... Herbie..

[Liberal Veteran]

14. It's not Herbie...It's H.E.R.B.I.E.

(Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-Type, Integrated Electronics)

although that may be a retcon to explain his existence on the tv show.

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

18. I hear

They were afriad of kids trying to set themselves on fire.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[BigMcLargehuge]

21. LOL jeebus......

Reminds me of the old Mainway Toys sketches on classic SNL.

Johnny Human Torch Costume...

Contents:

Pile of oily rags
Big zippo lighter

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

16. Did you ever see

The one where they meet an adult Wendy and Marvin at the video store? That one was great.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[BigMcLargehuge]

23. saw the gopher mote one and ....

the one with the kids who joyride the plane and die

and the one where the truck is teetering over the cliff, and it falls

I'll watch for the one you mention though.

I'll say this, the "gopher mote" one nearly killed me it was so funny.

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

15. Thank God!

It's wonderful to find other people who can't stand Scooby as much as I do. What's so great about Scooby anyway? He has to be bribed to do anything remotely brave and the plots are copies of the last episode.
Then again, a lot of the old Hanna-Barbara toons sucked ass. You either had animals doing unfunny, water-downed versions of old comedians; a group of no-personality kids with a stupid comedy relief who solve mysteries, or Flintstones rip-offs (Jetsons, Roman Holiday, etc). While the modern Hanna-Barbara stuff you see on Cartoon Network (Courage the Cowardly Dog, Powerpuff Girls, etc)is a hundred times better than the stuff they use to make, I don't see why those two guys were ever praised. They ripped off their own ideas for christ sakes and their classics weren't all that great either. I remember only laught out loud one time in my life when watching a Hanna-Barbara toon.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

PS-Sorry if I was ranting. Let's just say you don't want to get me on video game RPGs.

[BigMcLargehuge]

17. video game RPGs?

is that like shooting a playstation with a shoulder launched grenade??

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

19. Kinda

I'm talking about the Final Fantasy series and such. They're (PRG companies) just as bad as Hanna-Barbara with the cookie-cutter characters and dull plots.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. Gotcha...

I was always a Sega man, had a Master System, then a Genesis, a Saturn and finally the beleagured Dreamcast so I've never played Final Fantasy or it's siblings.

Hated the movie though...

[CO Liberal]

24. I Agree - Scooby Doo Sucks Big-Time

:-)

[supernova]

5. Smurfs

couldn't stand them. One of the few French imports I just never got. Loved Asterix and Obelix though.

[HERVEPA]

6. Revealing my age,

Crusader Rabbit (the 1957 ones, not the 1949 ones)

[MrBenchley]

10. Showing my age as well

Gerald McBoingBoing...even when I was four I thought this bit the big one.

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Re-edited Loony Tunes

are the worst. They take a classic of the art form and cut out the violence throw in a laugh track and really ruin them. Scooby Doo sucks but then again they always have. Ruining a Loony Tune is sacrilege.

[supernova]

11. Chopped up Tom and Jerry

make me ill too. :grr: The PC version ones are virtually useless.

[trogdor]

27. The original toons had a lot of historical merit.

Me: "What's that "A" card Bugs is holding? Well it's a little before my time, but during the Second World War when this cartoon was made, gasoline was rationed to a few gallons a week to help win the war."

Kid: "Oh."

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

37. I remember

This one where Bugs was showing some films to prove he deserved an Oscar and a picture of a deer with the words, "Stag Film" appeared. I didn't get it as a kid, but God, have to love that stuff they'd throw in.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[supernova]

47. Looney Toons not for kids

Originally in the 30s and 40s, Loony Toons were shown in the theatres before the main feature. The themes were considered "adult," even if it was just a cartoon, aka the "Stag Film" joke.

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

22. Inspector Gaget

This guy was so stupid (and not in a lovable Tick kind of way) that the only reason I watched it was in hopes of Dr. Claw would finally kill him and Penny would take over.
For new cartoons I'd go with Totally Spies. As if girls get enough valley girl type characters shoved down their throats already. And it's got the lamest villians ever. One of them became evil because she was kicked out of a Girl Scout-like group for eating all the cookies she was suppose to sell.
I'll admit that I'm a toon freak and normally I love the stuff, so that's why I feel so strongly about it.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[BigMcLargehuge]

25. Go go gadget self destruct mechanism

always wanted to hear that phrase

[qb]

26. A really lame 70's cartoon where the girls ran like Barbie dolls

(their knees didn't bend) I can't remember what it was called.

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

36. Was it

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels? That's the only one I can think of.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[regularguy]

28. That shark that plays drums and goes "Nyuck, Nyuck"

Not making it up. Can't remember the name.

[Ein]

29. Jabberjaw? n/t

[BigMcLargehuge]

30. Jabberjabberjabberjabber... Jabberjaw!

played drums for "The Neptunes"

That was a pretty bad one, so was the cartoon Three Stooges... Yeesh.

[mac56]

31. "Jabberjaw".

I think they wanted to make him sound like Curley from "The Three Stooges". It was lame.

[CO Liberal]

32. Jabber Jaw

Another typically lousy Hanna-Barbera creation............

[mac56]

33. I stand in awe of the fount of animation knowledge here at DU!

You guys rule.

[BigMcLargehuge]

34. don't even get me started on anime...

I can talk for HOURS about everything from Kimba the White Lion to Cowboy Bebop and everything in between :)

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

35. Everything on PBS

The stuff is pure brain rot. I don't let my kids watch them anymore.

[BurtWorm]

38. My current least favorite is Rocket Power

It's allegedly in tune with what's cool but is just another lamely plotted preach fest at heart.

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

49. True

And Otto and Twister are such holier-than-thou jock-snobs, too. They treat people who aren't as athletic as them like shit. Then again, Klasky-Csupo sucks and has the most butt-ugly character designs on the planet.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[BurtWorm]

51. Amen, sister!

[soleft]

39. Felix the Cat

He was so gay

[tekriter]

40. Gotta be Scooby-Doo. n/t

[annonymous]

41. Crusader Rabbit

I absolutely hated that show. I had to leave the room whenever it came on. I also hated "Speed Racer."

My 4 year old really hates "Hey Arnold" and will throw a temper tandtrum or turn off the TV if anyone tries to watch it while she is around. She also doesn't like "Rocket Power" and complains about that show too. My 7 year old doesn't like "Dragon Tales" or "Oswald" because he thinks those shows are for babies.

[Enraged_Ape]

42. Little Clowns of Happytown

I would be amazed if anyone else on DU remembered this one, which aired for a single season (1987-8) on CBS Saturday morning.

These little clowns ran around and tried to stop a big evil clown, whose soul purpose in life was to "gloom" people.

I saw every episode of this stinker, because I worked on it. I have never been the same since.

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

50. daaannnggg

I remember that toon now that you mention it. I was a Saturday morning cartoon junkie as a child (remember when it would go on to noon or 1 PM?). Maybe that's why I remember all of this.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[rainydaywoman]

43. Peanuts!

Charlie Brown, Lucy and the rest just bored me to death! Then every year the same damn Halloween & Christmas episodes over and over again.
I always wanted to shove that football up Lucy's ass!

Snoopy and Woodstock were OK.

[kmla]

44. Scooby Doo was OK -

but there was absolutely NO reason for Scooby Dum or Scrappy Do...

Also - does anyone remember the Snorks? It was pretty much a ripoff of the Smurfs, broadcast about the same time... They were essentially underwater Smurfs. Extremely annoying.

[Rooktoven]

45. Tom and Jerry

for the well known. Pick ANY hanna-barbera for even worse

[MrBenchley]

46. Roger Ramjet...

As I recall it was all annoying theme song and next to no actual cartoon...

[CanuckAmok]

54. It was satire!

Intended for an adult audience.

It was endlessly hilarious, and crudely drawn on purpose. Gary Owens (from Laugh In) was the narrator and the voice of Roger Ramjet.

For those who never saw it, Ramjet was the leader of "The American Eagle Squadron", a blindly patriotic group of 10 year old pilots ("Yank", "Doodle", "Dan" and "Dee"--get it?) who fought supervillans such as the Dreaded Solenoid Robots, Count Batguy, and the ever evil "Noodles Romanoff".

Truly surreal, and on par with Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Trey Parker calls Roger Ramjet his inspiration for South Park.

[CanuckAmok]

55. Oh, my pic: Superfriends, or Rocket Robin Hood. n/t

[baldguy]

48. Pokemon

My god! HOW COULD EVERYONE MISS THIS!?!?!

[mitchum]

52. "The Ku Klux Kids"...

what in the hell was NBC thinking???!!!

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

53. What?

I never even heard of this one.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[Fenris]

56. SUPERBOOK

Children's Bible story cartoon, as produced by Mullah Robertson and his CBN loonies.