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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 07/12/2007 : 11:04:46 PM
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How about Steve Krantz's '60s adaptations of Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, and Sub-Mariner? Gave new meaning to the term "limited animation". Made Hanna-Barbera's output look almost like rotoscope by comparison.
Also: Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.
Filmation's Groovy Ghoulies.
The '60s TV Popeye show. Uh-guh-guh-guh-guh... uhhhhhhhh!
The Brady Kids.
The Partridge Family in Outer Space.
Anything with Scrappy-Do.
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2007 : 4:50:11 PM
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That list suffers from a distinct lack of the Gary Coleman Show.
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Altair IV
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Japan
110 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2007 : 5:25:07 PM
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AIUI, the existence of the original Filmation Ghostbusters was the reason why the animated derivation of the movies was titled The Real Ghostbusters. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation%27s_Ghostbusters "]Wikipedia[/url] indicates there are a couple of different possibilities concerning just what happened though.
I mostly like the early Scooby Doo epsiodes. It's after they introduced Scrappy that the show increasingly spiraled down into suckage. (Speaking of which, did anyone else accurately guess the "surprise" mystery villain halfway through the first live action Scooby Doo movie?)
The Cartoon Network here has recently been showing episodes of the old '60's Fantastic Four. But as much as this makes me wax nostalgic, I find it rather painful to actually try watching them. The stories, animation, and especially the dialog are just so terrible. They're bad even by 1960's standards.
Fun fact for you. The Japanese title for the show is actually "Space Ninja Gohms". No, don't ask me what that's supposed to mean, except that "gohms" might be derived from "gum", the common word for "rubber", but I'm not even sure about that. |
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hk6909
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
651 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2007 : 10:39:50 AM
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Originally posted by Altair IV
AIUI, the existence of the original Filmation Ghostbusters was the reason why the animated derivation of the movies was titled The Real Ghostbusters. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation%27s_Ghostbusters "]Wikipedia[/url] indicates there are a couple of different possibilities concerning just what happened though.
I mostly like the early Scooby Doo epsiodes. It's after they introduced Scrappy that the show increasingly spiraled down into suckage. (Speaking of which, did anyone else accurately guess the "surprise" mystery villain halfway through the first live action Scooby Doo movie?)
The Cartoon Network here has recently been showing episodes of the old '60's Fantastic Four. But as much as this makes me wax nostalgic, I find it rather painful to actually try watching them. The stories, animation, and especially the dialog are just so terrible. They're bad even by 1960's standards.
Fun fact for you. The Japanese title for the show is actually "Space Ninja Gohms". No, don't ask me what that's supposed to mean, except that "gohms" might be derived from "gum", the common word for "rubber", but I'm not even sure about that.
The Japanse title of what? Fantastic Four?
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 07/27/2007 : 2:05:41 PM
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I've never liked any of the incarnations of Scooby Doo. That would be on my list, but I gather others actually like that show to this day.
It's the weirdest thing - I was watching some of the DVD "new Scooby Doo" stuff with my nephews, and started thinking, "Hey, these aren't too bad! They've got actual plots, and some surprises in the story lines!"
I know, I must slither away in shame.... |
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RVHorror
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
532 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2007 : 9:50:12 PM
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I have to confess, I thought the two live-action Scooby Doo movies were actually entertaining and I enjoyed them.
The rest, no, I'm sorry. I mean, I wouldn't want to annihilate them in a nuclear inferno or nothin'...
The 60's "Fantastic Four" would be a good example of a show I thought was awesome when I was a kid, but I saw them a couple of years back and they don't hold up. (They're better than the first half of the 90's series, though, and far better than anything with that stupid robot....) |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2007 : 01:19:22 AM
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Originally posted by twitterpate
It's the weirdest thing - I was watching some of the DVD "new Scooby Doo" stuff with my nephews, and started thinking, "Hey, these aren't too bad! They've got actual plots, and some surprises in the story lines!"
I know, I must slither away in shame....
Don't. I enjoyed Scooby-Do on Zombie Island. Definitely worth a rental, if you're so inclined. |
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Altair IV
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Japan
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 2:16:29 PM
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The Japanse title of what? Fantastic Four?
Sorry, I thought I'd made it clear. Yes, that's the title of the old FF series here. The only thing I can guess is that they were trying to play off the popularity of Science Ninja Gachaman when they came up with that title. It's really interesting sometimes to see how movie titles used to be translated into Japanese, before they got all international and stuff and started to use the English titles straight.
As for the Scooby Doo, the tv series just got worse and worse, but Cartoon Network has shown one or two DTV-esque movies (probably the same ones twitterpate mentioned), one of which I had a ufo/aliens mystery that I thought was pretty entertaining. It was nice to see Shaggy & Scooby actually getting somewhere with the chicks for once, even if they did turn out to be aliens in the end. As for the live action movies, I thought the first one was pretty entertaining, apart from the predictability, but the second one was too confusing and over-the-top for me. |
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sister mary dispair
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 08/15/2007 : 2:51:48 PM
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I liked Scooby Doo(pre-Scrappy) and the Transformers. God i HATED the ultra-PC Captain Planet though. The charactars were irritating as h-ll, especially Matee, the South American, "Heart" kid.
I would nominate "The Proud Family" An awful Disney Channel 'toon. and Ed Edd and Eddy from cartoon network.
"Hmmm...It says here that if a person is not married by the time they are 35 they have a better chance of being robbed at gunpoint by a desperate and somewhat bloated Christian Slater." Harvey Birdman |
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GalahadPC
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 08/17/2007 : 1:44:56 PM
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I'm sure there were some awful '80s cartoons I saw when I was younger. The girl-oriented stuff was just fluff and piffle, and the action shows for the boys were completely hacked. But I still enjoyed Transformers and G.I. Joe, even if characters randomly changed colors during a scene, or someone's voice would come out of someone else's mouth. Scrappy-Doo was annoying as all hell, and Thundarr the Barbarian was a naked rip-off of Star Wars. These things I knew, even as a child, but I was willing to forgive.
But no matter how hard I try to remember any truly awful cartoons, I think of Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and just can't go any further. I think it says quite a lot when a modern show manages to retroactively scar your childhood. |
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 10:14:10 PM
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Transformers was really a lengthy commercial to buy toys, but is was far from deserving "The Worst" moniker. I never really owned too many Transformers. They were expensive and they broke easily. Most kids who could afford them ended up just posing them around their rooms like model airplanes anyway. I much prefered Robotech, as far as 1980s style robot cartoons went. Important characters actually died in that show. The entire Earth was devastated by bombardment from outer space. Such villains as that made Megatron look like a Sunday school teacher.
My vote for Worst Robot Cartoon would either be Gobots or Tranzor Z. But gosh there were a lot of robot cartoons back in the day.
Silverhawks. I vaguely remember this one. I don't remember it being all that bad. A think a far worse one was a Filmation cartoon called something like "Bravestar". Cheesy theme music that said he had the eyes of an eagle, strength of the bear, ears of the...whatever it is out there that can really hear good.
Superfriends made Silverhawks look like something from Kubrick.
Pokemon. It was about the time that kids started getting into Pokemon and listening to Hansen that I started fearing for the future of this country. Such a travesty of a cartoon simply wouldn't have been allowed to exist in Reagan's America. Japan, if you aren't going to send us robot cartoons where stuff gets blown up, then don't send anything at all. Stop trying to turn our youth into pitiful castrati with this tripe.
Scooby Doo is universally recognized as sucking with the advent of Scrappy, but I submit that the episodes that featured 2nd and 3rd tier celebrity guests were pretty awful too. Jerry Reed? Cass Elliot doing endless self-deprecating fat jokes? Yes, I have a pretty good memory.
I'd pretty much stopped watching cartoons by the time Captain Planet rolled around. It's lameness was self-evident. If I were a billionaire I'd buy the rights to Captain Planet and write a cartoon in which it was uncovered that Captain Planet was actually a shill for anti-globalists, socialists, and communists who have taken refuge in the environmental movement since the collapse of the Soviet Union. His thin veneer of legitimacy blown, he begins brazenly attacking the engines of capitalism by destroying factories and plunging nations into abject poverty.
Then I'd have Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, self-respecting industrialists, suit up as Iron Man and Batman and kick the living crap out Captain Planet for about a half hour merciless pummeling.
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 09/28/2007 : 4:41:25 PM
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I can't believe more Hanna-Barbera stuff isn't on this list. Yes, Scooby Doo, but what about Flintstones? Jetsons? Those were crap even as a kid.
Silverhawks was pretty bad; I can't believe someone remembers Tiger Sharks, which was worse.
And let's not forget Snorks or Pound Puppies or Biz-kits or Mon-Chi-Chis or Street Frogs or...
I'd toss down Ed, Edd, and Eddy for modern garbage. And most of what's on Adult Swim anymore (I'm looking at you, 20 Oz. Mouse and Tom Goes to the Mayor.)
My vote for worst would probably be The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan or The Perils of Penelope Pitstop or Jabberjaw.
Anyone ever see one called Batfink? I catch it on Boomerang, Sundays 11 am CST. It's terrible, but it comes around to being so bad it's incredible. The animation is terrible, and constantly repeated to a degree that would make H-B blush (so much so that I feign a heart attack every time the Police Chief does more than his two basic moves); the voicework is terrible; the jokes are all groaners; and the various ways Batfink escapes his deadly predicaments make the ones pulled off by Batman in the 60s TV show look well-written and believable. Seriously, it's a hoot. Try and catch it.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/29/2007 : 09:26:21 AM
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Originally posted by The Rev. D.D.
I can't believe more Hanna-Barbera stuff isn't on this list. Yes, Scooby Doo, but what about Flintstones? Jetsons? Those were crap even as a kid.
I beg your pardon, what version of THE FLINTSTONES are you talking about? When I was a kid I saw the ORIGONAL first few seasons when they were first aired, in prime-time! The Flintstones were old school cartoons, that is they were like the old MADE-FOR-THEATER cartoons and were written so that adults could enjoy them. There were many themes that nodded to current events and culture, so maybe you didn't "get" the refrences if you saw them ten or more years after the fact. Even when I caught a few of the origonal episodes recently, I didn't feel that I was being "talked down to" by the writers, this was an intellegent cartoon!
Did you know that Wilma Flintstone was the first cartoon character to actually get PREGNANT? And I don't mean in a silly 'visit from the STORK' way, either! We SAW her big belly, we SAW her stagger around and complain about swollen ankles and such. In fact, the Rubbles were jealous of Pebbles and hinted that they couldn't have kids themselves! Then after they found "Bam-Bam", they got tangled up in a coustody battle, hardly a normal cartoon story-line.
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The Bog Man
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/29/2007 : 9:15:11 PM
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Originally posted by Citizen Carrier
My vote for Worst Robot Cartoon would either be Gobots or Tranzor Z. But gosh there were a lot of robot cartoons back in the day.
I think I remember Tranzor Z, didn't it have a decapitated Nazi and a she-male with two faces? (Man, the crap I watched as a kid.)
Since Jabootu has done both MK films, I wonder if anyone here ever saw that old Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm that used to air on USA. It was very much like Superfriends, but also with a bit of obnoxious PC pandering. I wasn't exactly expecting decapitation in a Saturday morning toon, and the style of the art wasn't bad at all, but hearing Raiden lecture Johnny Cage on environmentalism just made me physically ill.
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 01/24/2008 : 2:42:40 PM
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What version of the Flintstones? Any of 'em, new or old.
I don't think it's entertaining, not when I was ten, not now. The jokes are lame, and most episodes revolve around the men being slobby morons and/or the women being vindictive shopaholics. If I want that I'll watch The Honeymooners, which actually manages to be funny sometimes. I don't find much to like about any of the four main characters, or really any of the chracters for that matter.
Being landmark does not mean being enjoyable.
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