Horrible / Western Animation

Horrible / Western Animation

->"When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry."

-->--Creator/DonBluth, speaking from personal experience.

Often because AnimationAgeGhetto cartoons are sometimes seen as entertainment for kids, some studios seem to think they can get away with releasing anything, no matter how poor the quality. However, there are some things even the NostalgiaFilter can't save. After all, with OffModel glitchy animation, many unanswered questions, ExecutiveMeddling awful decisions by the higher-ups, and unfunny jokes that wouldn't make a blastocyst laugh, can you blame them for not remembering?

To see some of the worst animation has to offer in cinemas, check out the Horrible.AnimatedFilms page. For horrible Asian Animated shows that were made in UsefulNotes/, see the Horrible.AnimeAndManga page, and for shows that weren't, see the Horrible.AsianAnimation page.

Important Notes:


 * 1) Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as Horrible. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to fail to appeal even to that niche to qualify as this.


 * 1) It isn't a Horrible cartoon just because WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter, WebVideo/RebelTaxi, WebVideo/PhantomStrider, WebVideo/, anyone from Webcomic/TheCartoonChroniclesOfConroyCat Toons These Days or WebVideo/TVTrash Reviewers WebVideo/TheCartoonHero Unknown, anyone from or formerly associated with Website/ChannelAwesome or any other CausticCritic reviewed or said something negative about it. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it. (Though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review.)


 * 1) This page is not for horrible episodes (or even seasons) of otherwise well-received shows. For those, see  and.

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%% There are works that are disqualified from this trope for one reason or another, and should not be added to the list. They are:

%% Breadwinners. The show was successful among its target audience, a Periphery Hatedom does not qualify it for this trope, and the show has legitimate periphery fans.

%% Bunsen is a Beast. While it is considered to be Butch Hartman's weakest Nicktoon, the show received mixed-to-positive reviews and it won an Emmy.

%% The Groovenians. It was nominated for an Annie Award.

%% Johnny Test. Though it has a huge Periphery Hatedom, it received a few awards, ran for six seasons, and most of the vitriol toward it is directed at the seasons done in Flash, while the hand-drawn first season is considered to be better than the rest of the series.

%% King Star King. There are some who liked it, and even the YMMV page for Toonami says that some people were fine with it.

%% Teen Titans Go. Very much love it or hate it, and it is one of Cartoon Network's most successful shows.

%% Thundercats Roar. Despite the immense backlash following its announcement and during its production, general consensus following its airing skews more So Okay, It's Average than flat-out Horrible.

%% Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island. While it is considered to be a [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] ripoff due to its concept and it has a Periphery Hatedom, it was nominated for two Daytime Emmys.

!!Examples (more or less in alphabetical order):

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* Laughing Dragon Studios, formerly known as Blind Ferret Entertainment, is a company run by Canadian artist Ryan Sohmer, famous for Webcomic/LeastICouldDo:

** Webcomic/CtrlAltDel: The Animated Series, regarded by many as one of the worst s of all time, and easily the worst of the 2000s. Noted for its awful production, unlikable characterization, unfunny "humor", and a plot that continues upon a wildly-despised comic arc. The StockFootage is okay, but takes up at least half an episode. Nothing else is even excusable. The voice acting is poorly done, cheaply recorded (one background character in Season 2 Episode 4 apparently had his single line literally phoned in), and volume discrepancies are everywhere. The sounds are so badly edited that entire music tracks commonly overlap and speech starts and stops partway through a line. The animation wouldn't pass on Website/ -- it's often jerky, always unnatural, and rarely isn't in 3/4 profile. The series itself was so unpopular that over the course of two seasons done two years apart, it almost cost Blind Ferret their jobs, and they have since gone on record as saying they'll never produce another season. WebVideo/TVTrash riffed it in a [crossover] with The Cartoon Hero, and Rowdy C declared that it was one of the few shows that he felt had no redeeming qualities. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter [tore into the pilot, too], and considers it to have the worst audio out of anything he's reviewed. It was also the first and BookEnds last thing riffed by WebVideo/TheAnnotatedSeries.

** They also worked on an AnimatedAdaptation of Webcomic/LeastICouldDo. The animation is slightly better than Ctrl+Alt+Del, though almost anything would be, but that's not enough to salvage the rest of the show. Essentially, it takes every flaw the has and multiplies it exponentially. The first lyric of the theme song is "Wouldn't it be great if no one ever got offended?", which should clue viewers in that what they're about to watch isn't exactly going to handle adult themes in a mature, responsible manner. In [the clip of the pilot posted on their YouTube channel] alone, we're introduced to main character Rayne Summers, who has to be the biggest, most intolerable douchebag imaginable. Couple this with bland, repetitive humor that can be best described as "horny" and a waste of good voice actors like Creator/YuriLowenthal, Creator/TaraPlatt, and Creator/SteveBlum, stir well, and you've got a cartoon so bad it's a wonder anyone ever bothers adapting web comics into animation at all. What's worse, it was crowdfunded through a Website/ campaign that raised over $100,000 -- none of which, evidently, went towards the writing or animation budgets.

* Creator/JohnKricfalusi's fall from grace hit hard, knocking him down from one of the biggest names of UsefulNotes/TheNineties thanks to WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow to being completely OvershadowedByControversy. His two major s that resulted from him gaining long-awaited ProtectionFromEditors perfectly encapsulates how FranchiseOriginalSin the very qualities that put his work on the map could be taken too far:

** WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon was a more adult-oriented continuation of the WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow original series that aired on Creator/SpikeTV. The show was panned by both fans and critics alike, with it only lasting six episodes (and only three managed to air on television). The reason? It's far more vulgar and crass than the original TV show. While the Nickelodeon series is known for its gross-out humor, it was never as RatedMForMoney offensive and shocking as this spin-off, which featured "jokes" about BadPeopleAbuseAnimals animal abuse, MisterSeahorse male pregnancy, and incredibly gory violence. While this is already bad, what drags the show down even further is its absolutely atrocious pacing, having incredibly long episodes that feel slower than even the worst episodes of the original series, LeaveTheCameraRunning killing whatever momentum the jokes had and making an already unfunny and crass adult comedy flat-out insufferable. This attempt at a revival FranchiseKiller buried the franchise for over a decade, and even the 2020 announcement of another adult revival for Creator/ComedyCentral (without Kricfalusi's influence) made people wary, partially due to the failure of Adult Party Cartoon. It also destroyed both [=SpikeTV=]'s entire animation blocknoteadmittedly, the WesternAnimation/ other WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat two shows on the block didn't do very well either/note and Creator/JohnKricfalusi's career in television animation.noteHe still continued to animate music videos and commercials, as well as maintain his blog Blog/JohnKStuff. It wasn't until sexual assault allegations came up in 2018, along with the universally panned WesternAnimation/CansWithoutLabels described below that his career effectively died/note. Rowdy C reviewed it to commemorate WebVideo/TVTrash's 4th anniversary [here]. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter talks about the show [here], and WebVideo/PhantomStrider listed the episode "Ren Seeks Help" as the number one [worst cartoon of all time]. [LS Mark] and [TheGrandMac] have also discussed the show in full, commenting on how the way it grew up with its audience ultimately neuters a lot of the comedy.

** Despite originally being touted as his CareerResurrection, WesternAnimation/CansWithoutLabels fared even worse than his prior personal disappointments. While the film was crowdfunded and had a seven-year DevelopmentHell, the final product seems to look worse than the progress updates. The animation looks incredibly cheap, with a camera that refuses to stop zooming and panning, inconsistent backgrounds that change in every scene, and TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects jarring, ugly CG - the latter is especially surprising since John K himself has attacked the idea of using CG in 2D animation repeatedlynoteEven worse, the CG models that are used in the short are actually assets that are supposed to be traced, meaning that John K essentially used stock assets in what was supposed to be his Magnum Opus./note. The plot is paper-thin, with barely any attempts at humor outside of pushing John K's typical DerangedAnimation to absolutely wild extremes. The main conflict is resolved using a mean-spirited Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Seltzerberg-esque parody of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, presumably created as a TakeThat to Creator/. The editing is a mess on all fronts, from the production to the acting to the sound (just as one example, as George Liquor, American begins to scream "Eat the fucking face!", the BGM changes abruptly, without so much as a fadeout). The hallmarks of John K's writing are present in force... with little else to support them. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter elaborates on the short itself [here], while Daniel Ibbertson goes into detail on what happened with its Website/ situation [here]. [=TheGrandMac=] discusses the short, as well as WhatCouldHaveBeen the animatic for a planned Ren & Stimpy short to accompany WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater the second SpongeBob movie [here].

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* While Series/HenryDanger is considered a divisive show, it still has a following. The same cannot be said for its AnimatedAdaptation, WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfKidDanger, which is widely regarded as one of Creator/[='s=] worst original animated programs. While the animated version gets rid of the laugh track, it introduces a whole slew of problems in its place: The animation and character designs are completely lackluster and have been compared to the likes of WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie, late-run episodes of WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest, and Website/GoAnimate. The storylines are very dull, which is pretty bad considering that the cartoon could've opened up a huge opportunity of storylines that couldn't be done in its live-action counterpart, and full of unfunny and/or nonsensical jokes, dated references that are about as relevant as expired milk, massive that turned the lead characters from dull and annoying at their very worst to outright unbearable, and tons of gross-out humor that isn't charming in the slightest. Newcomers and fans of Henry Danger disliked it and avoided the show, leading to low ratings that led to the show ScrewedByTheNetwork getting quietly removed from Nick's schedule, with few missing it. Coupled with the fact that Creator/DanSchneider left Nickelodeon, the failure of this show FranchiseKiller led to the death of his namesake Schneider's Bakery line of sitcoms. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter reviewed the show [here] as a separate Animated Atrocity and [here] as part of his Nick-o-Rama marathon, and he found nothing positive to say about the show. Not only that, but he also almost considered it for its own spot in his worst cartoons of the 2010's list [before giving it a dishonorable mention] that could also be a tie with WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016 at #4. Alpha Jay Show [has reviewed the show's pilot] and similarly has no praise for it.

* WesternAnimation/AllenGregory, a short-lived Creator/ animated series co-created by and starring Creator/JonahHill as the voice of the title character Allen Gregory De Longpre, a nerdy, pretentious 7-year-old who's forced to attend elementary school in the face of the recession when his gay parents' finances are hit hard, principally those of his CEO father Richard. The show features various dull and tasteless jokes, including some about AIDS and date rape; bland animation UncannyValley with hideous character designs; off-putting homophobia (particularly, the fact that Jeremy, one of Allen's parents, is a straight man who was sexually harassed by Richard into marrying him); and unlikable characters who are some combination of idiotic, whiny s, and/or complete es. There's also a subplot involving PrecociousCrush Allen's crush on his 70-year-old principal, played out in the most  disturbingly sexual way possible. The pilot received mostly negative reviews, and the show itself was canned after only seven episodes in late 2011/early 2012. WebVideo/TVTrash [eviscerated it by popular demand], believing it to be one of the worst shows he's ever reviewed. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter also [tore into the show,] and declared it in 2013 to be the worst thing he reviewed until he saw, among other things, WesternAnimation/MrPickles and WesternAnimation/WhereTheDeadGoToDie. Rebel Taxi also called it the [12th worst cartoon ever in no particular order in his review]. OldShame It's telling that Fox hated Allen Gregory so much that they pulled it from any and all websites that were offering the episodes for sale, and also that when it comes to bootlegging, this is the series they most intensely watch out for and try to snuff out with extreme prejudice more than any other.

* After the Sputnik launch in 1957, there seemed to be a push for "educational" TV cartoons in the USA to raise kids' intellects, and they were generally awful for the time. One of them, The Big World of Little Adam, was nothing but a still shot of two kids' heads behind a book, conveniently covering the mouths to avoid animating speech -- the only movement was their pupils darting back and forth. This "action" framed montages of still pictures of the subject at hand. On a whole other level of awful, one installment dealing with missiles praised the V-1 and V-2 rockets. However, the animated segments and slideshows weren't the only thing present: Wiki/TheOtherWiki claims the producer, Fred Ladd, who is best known for bringing Anime/AstroBoy, Anime/, and Anime/KimbaTheWhiteLion to America, and thus started the first wave of anime in the English-speaking world, got hold of a bunch of NASA documentaries, and with the space race of the 50s and 60s running about in kids' minds, created the segments as framing devices for said documentaries.

-->[Toonopedia]: This show inspired as many extra-media spin-offs and merchandised products as it deserved — that is, none at all. Today, it's occasionally glimpsed alongside Bucky & Pepito, in "Best of the Worst" retrospectives.

* Christian kids' entertainment is notorious for generally being low-quality with WesternAnimation/VeggieTales some exceptions, but WesternAnimation/BoysOfValor takes it to a whole new level. The voice acting is atrocious--one of the actors literally phones in his performance--and the CGI is even worse: a generic grass texture is used for the ground in , the villains look like huge-headed Toys/ rejects, at least two scenes have one of the boys flying in a loop and colliding with the ground, remaining rock-still while doing so, and some of the models even seem to be directly stolen from VideoGame/TheSims1 and VideoGame/. To top it all off, the BigBad is defeated by dancing, something LampshadeHanging even the bad guy is incredulous about. Watch iRawss tear it apart [here.] He also reviewed the sequel along with the [Critic Core] [here.]

* There are more than a few reasons why Calico Entertainment's WesternAnimation/ pilot never got picked up. Not only because of unfunny jokes and overuse of StockFootage, almost all of our main DesignatedHero "heroes" are completely unlikable, and have voice acting that not only wastes the talent of famous names like Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/JimCummings, and Creator/TressMacNeille, but are also so incredibly ear-grating. The only likable character is Arnold Armadillo, and he is sadly treated to a downright mean-spirited RunningGag involving his fear of getting run over by a truck. It was so bad that even the creator of Bubsy, Michael Berlyn, hated it, and the title character is one of the very few roles Rob Paulsen is openly ashamed of. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter took an axe to it [here], as well as [Tooncrap], [Nothing but Cartoons], [Cartoon Palooza], and [even Joel] from WebVideo/. There's also TheAnnotatedEdition an annotated version as well. And just in case you weren't convinced enough, [here's the entire thing]. "CatchPhrase What could possibly go wrong?", indeed.

* WesternAnimation/DaBoomCrew was played on Creator/KidsWB on s for four weeks at one new episode per week in 2004, like any new show. The problem? The creators had made 13 episodes. The network canned it after just four, and it's easy to tell why. The show had TotallyRadical speech, traveling through a video game world similar to one that Da Boom Crew themselves created with generic characters, wastes the vocal talents of two of Music/PrincesAssociates (Morris Day and Jerome Benton) and Creator/WandaSykes, and other unneeded things that made this show not worth the time-slot it took up. It also features WereStillRelevantDammit annoying UnfortunateImplications negative stereotypes. For extra irony, the show was created by Bruce Smith, who made WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily. Thankfully, a second Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire episode dominated its timeslot. Watch WebVideo/TheCartoonHero review it whole [here.]

** WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter also considered it to be [one of the top 10 worst cartoon series he's ever seen] ([watch him rip it a new one here]) and initially had it as the worst full cartoon series from the 2000s before finding The Nutshack. Furthermore, he also feels that even though it may not be the worst thing he's seen, it's something that he respects the least, especially when compared to something like "WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon Ren Seeks Help" or due to it putting more effort in trying to rip off various things with itself (such as its theme song ripping off Puff Daddy's "Come With Me") and having its entire setting be considered a, in that the kids are inside a video game they made themselves but don't know any of its tricks and secrets, which they should logically know better than anyone since they created it.

** Oddly enough, this thing was dubbed into Spanish and inflicted on UsefulNotes/n kids via the Creator/FoxKids / Creator/ channel in its full glory. Mediocre series have sometimes been rescued by the Spanish dub, but sadly this was not the case here.

* Fantasy Island, not to be confused with Series/FantasyIsland the TV series or Film/FantasyIsland2020 the movie of the same name, was a television series that followed up on the embarrassment to animation known as WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic and fellow Horrible entry WesternAnimation/, and is just about as bad as you would expect from that description. The show has about as many continuity errors as Tentacolino, including giving characters over-the-top Italian accents they didn't have in either of the films. Even aside from that, the script is insane, including having sharks create a tidal wave so they can steal beach chairs, ghost pirates attempting to steal the Titanic, and ArtisticLicenseBiology a baby being born a week after its conception and aging to ten years old within a few days, twice, which no one questions, among various other plot points that are abruptly dropped not long after being brought up. The art and animation are both very inconsistent as well; the new characters (including the aforementioned children) look like they came from a whole other universe than the returning characters while the animation goes back and forth between traditional animation and OffModel, rubbery-looking Flash animation. Having only aired in Italy and North Korea, KeepCirculatingTheTapes the series was nearly impossible to find until it was uploaded on [=YouTube=] in 2019 on [the production company's channel], and as a result, it doesn't even have an IMDB page. [=RaisorBlade=] reviews it [here]. Or watch WebVideo/ review it himself [here].

* Full English was an attempt by British network Creator/Channel4 to create an adult cartoon to capitalize on the success of American shows such as WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy and WesternAnimation/SouthPark. Unfortunately, despite using Creator/RoughDraftStudios for its animation and casting well-known British names such as Creator/RichardAyoade and Creator/KayvanNovak, the show was regarded as an abomination by viewers and critics alike. Many labeled it as a "British" ripoff of Family Guy with FollowTheLeader several copied elements, such as the main character's wife having a billionaire father who disapproves of his son-in-law and gags more offensive than even a show like Family Guy would come up with. It was cancelled after just four episodes, with the remaining ones aired on Channel 4's sister network E4 and never aired again. To this day, Channel 4 considers it an OldShame and likes to pretend it never happened. Watch [TorchSheep's review of it here] or Steve Reviews' [review here.]

** Most infamously, the show featured a segment where notorious reality star Jade Goody, who died of cancer three years before the show was first broadcast, appears as a ghost, BlackComedyRape talking about her husband's then-contemporary rape case... which is then followed by CrossesTheLineTwice Princess Diana appearing as a ghost and apologizing for being late as the traffic was "murder". The skit ends with the ghost of Goody and the ghost of Di choking each other out after Goody calls Diana a "bulimic slut" in reference to her eating disorders and Di retorts by calling the chemotherapy-affected Goody "baldy". It [wasn't received well], with even the infamously sensationalist newspaper The Daily Mail EveryoneHasStandards calling it the "sickest cartoon ever".

* WesternAnimation/, a cartoon about rapper Music/MCHammer, is one of the most embarrassing examples of a CelebrityToons cartoon starring a celebrity. It ran for one season, and it's pretty clear from the start that most of its budget went into getting Hammer himself rather than anything else. For starters, the animation is awful, with a lousy attempt at achieving graffiti-like aesthetics and movement so limited that it could accurately be described as "two-frame animation with the least detail put in each frame, sometimes mirrored or flipped", and the lack of sound effects was compensated with the animation of s. The animation is not the only problem: the theme song is a generic hip-hop loop with MC Hammer singing a hastily-written ExpositoryThemeTune that doesn't feel like a song at all. Not only does each episode JustForPun hammer a lesson into the viewers' heads, sometimes SpaceWhaleAesop in the most nonsensical and backwards way possible, but Hammer explains both the Aesop and the whole plot at the beginning of each episode. Top it with idiotic characters and boring villains, and you get an awkward piece of animated crap that made both [Mr. Enter] and [The Nostalgia Critic] cringe. Even WebVideo/TheRapCritic mentioned how genuinely awful Hammerman was when talking about the song that actually ruined MC Hammer's career [(Pumps and a Bump).]

* WesternAnimation/: Gross Jokes is an utter disaster of an animated short. The humor is bland, with most "jokes" sounding like they were taken from a children's joke book. None of the skits are interesting at all, and there isn't any semblance of a plot. The animation is poor, with ugly and uninspired character designs and visuals. None of the characters have any personality, with the possible exception of EnsembleDarkhorse Skullface. Tooncrap [takes a look at it here], and considers it one of the worst animations they've reviewed, along with Bubsy. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter [also took a look at it], and declared it one of the worst episodes he reviewed in 2013.

* The disaster that was Mauser y Pirulo, a short-lived animated series that graced UsefulNotes/n screens for less than a season in 1999. It was promoted as "the very first Venezuelan animated series" but in fact it was a SameLanguageDub of the Colombian animated show El Siguiente ProgramanoteSpanish for The Following Program/note, a vehicle for the duo of comedians/radio jocks Mart&iacute;n De Francisco and Santiago Moure. The original footage wasn't well-animated, but it was saved by witty writing and the voice acting of its main stars. In the Venezuelan "translation", however, the main characters were renamed and transformed into WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead ies, and the topical Colombian cultural references were awkwardly changed to Venezuelan ones, among other changes notethe most incongruent of those was adding extra (mild) profanity, because Venezuelan s are more strict on it than Colombian ones)/note. The result was a show that had to be stuck at the Midnight timeslot, where it quickly died. What few fans they had KeepCirculatingTheTapes never managed to tape it, so while the original show received DVD releases and episodes can be freely found online, the only proof that Mauser y Pirulo even existed is [the theme music], arguably the best part of the show.

* WesternAnimation/MegaBabies was a cartoon made by Christian and Yvon Tremblay, creators of the much better cult favorite WesternAnimation/SwatKats, that was about a trio of superpowered infants who fought crime with assistance from their nurse. The UncannyValley jarring character designs, and grating, terrible theme song ([an annoying, warped version of "Rock-a-bye Baby"]) aside, to say that this cartoon is heavy on GrossOutShow gross-out humor is a planet-sized understatement. A prime example of how repulsive this show is: one early episode starts with a shot of the babies sleeping... which wouldn't be so bad if one of them didn't have a stringy glob of snot shooting out of its nose with each snore. [Watch it here], but only if you have a NauseaFuel stomach of titanium. [In his list of "Top 10 Ugliest Cartoons",] WebVideo/RebelTaxi said that the show was so ugly that it was perfect for ScareEmStraight scaring teens from having sex -- "It's not an accurate representation of childbirth or can it change their minds, but it should prolong the inevitable." " Watch WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter DespairEventHorizon nearly break apart from this abomination [here] notehe would later admit that the show CreatorBreakdown made him seriously consider quitting reviewing altogether/note.

* My Little Pony: Newborn Cuties note referred to in the title card as Once Upon a My Little Pony Time /note was a Flash-animated adaptation of Franchise/MyLittlePony and was the last series of the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3 third generation of the franchise, and for good reason. While the G3 specials and movies aren't the epitome of children's entertainment, the animation is fairly competent, the songs are pretty catchy, professional voice actors gave the characters likable personalities, and it isn't above poking fun at its ditzy characters. By contrast, in Newborn Cuties Creator/ put in as little effort as possible to maximize their profits, which really shows: all the voices were provided by children, who were clearly untrained noteWhile there are professional voice actors credited, the credits were reused from another G3 project, Pinkie Pie's Special Day, indicating a possible OldShame for the people involved./note and all sound almost exactly the same, stock sound effects are used constantly, the Flash animation is minimalistic at best, there are moments where voices come out with no indication of who's saying the lines (to the point that not a single character's mouth moves in the second short, although there is another version of it that fixes this problem), the characters' movements coupled with their ugly models make them look UncannyValley bizarrely wrong, plotlines were blatantly recycled from earlier G3 specials, and the reoccurring cast of quirky characters that its fans had grown attached to were completely thrown out to market the same handful of characters and toys. In addition, the writing's completely juvenile, insulting, and contains the UnfortunateImplications unintentionally racist line "FantasticRacism everyone in Ponyville knows unicorns belong in Unicornia". Is it any wonder that it was discontinued two shorts in and replaced with WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic? Watch WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter tear apart the second short, ["Over Two Rainbows"] which is worse than the already abysmal first short, ["So Many Different Ways to Play"]. WebVideo/PhantomStrider put it as #4 on his [Top 5 Worst Forgotten Girls Cartoons]. [=TheCrimsonMayhem=], who edited some of Enter's reviews, [reviews it himself].

* WesternAnimation/TheNutshack is the first animated adult TV show aimed directly at Filipino-Americans, and also the worst. The show features horrendous and flat characterization, which often relies on racist and homophobic caricatures (AbhorrentAdmirer Cherry Pie is a very obvious Asian transgender hooker, for instance) unappealingly crude UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animation, UnintentionalPeriodPiece pop culture references that instantly date it to the late Noughties, overly-sexualized female characters that clash with the crude artstyle, terrible voice acting, and a childish approach to everything. It would be horrendous for something on Website/, let alone television. All this is made worse by the fact that it's a wholesale ripoff of Film/: [The Animated Series]. Both WebVideo/RebelTaxi and WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter had nothing but negative things to say about the show, with the former [calling it the worst cartoon of all time] and the latter calling it [the 4th worst animated series he ever saw]. noteHe only found WesternAnimation/MegaBabies, WesternAnimation/MrPickles and WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon to be worse./note.WebVideo/TheCartoonHero tells us what he thinks of the show [here]. Mr. Enter later gave an episode a full review [here.] It seems that the show has become a CreatorKiller for Myx-TV's animation studio, who has not done anything since, and possibly a few of the show's cast, due to some of them having quit acting altogether. The show's [theme song] eventually reached MemeticMutation memetic status thanks to Mr. Enter's review, its use by Music/SiIvaGunner, and its repetitive, SoBadItsGood nature.

* WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie is often described as the UsefulNotes/n equivalent of WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest, except so much blander that it's painful. A ClicheStorm of the highest order, the premise has been done before and better in shows such as WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents, the storylines are utterly by-the-book, FlatCharacter the characters are zero-dimensional plastic cut-outs of normally well-done character types, the animation looks cheaper than most WebAnimation projects, and almost all the characters sound like they were voiced by one woman. Its creators are also notoriously sore when it comes to criticism, having gotten into several s with fans of WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter, whom they claimed was in no position to judge because he was American, as well trying to false-flag [his review] several times under SockPuppet alternate names. Watch WebVideo/PhantomStrider tear it apart on his [Top 5 Worst Forgotten Girls Cartoons] video.

* Popzilla is an MTV cartoon from 2009, which has faded into obscurity for good reason. The animation consists of nothing more than photoshopped stock images, and the skits are bland, unfunny, and rely too much on s. It sports an [=IMDb=] rating of 1.7, and was one of the last animated shows to air on MTV. Some of the sketches can be found [here]. Highlights include George W. Bush perving on the Obamas, and a CBS executive green-lighting a midget version of The Amazing Race because it amused him.

* WebAnimation/TheRedApeFamily is an animated series based on (and starring) Bored Ape Yacht Club UsefulNotes/ [=NFTs=], and itself being hosted on blockchain with each episode being sold as an NFT. Claiming to be the first of its kindnoteWhich isn't true. Four months prior, Stoner Cats, produced by Creator/MilaKunis's Orchard Farm Productions, was launched./note, the show ostensibly centers around a family of Bored Apes ApesInSpace leaving Earth to live a new life on Mars. While that would be a hard sell on its own considering the unpopularity of [=NFTs=], what puts it in Horrible territory is FromBadToWorse how badly executed it is, even without that aspect. The animation is LimitedAnimation very cheap-looking, with character movements looking stiff, awkward and uncanny; one early scene [has a glaring typo], proving how sloppily it was put together; the story is not clearly explained to the viewer, with the only real explanation being in the trailer; and the jokes either MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext make no sense, are WereStillRelevantDammit dated, or are blatant attempts to preach to a choir of cryptocurrency speculators. Its only interest even to its target audience is the fact that OnlyInItForTheMoney it holds monetary value. WebVideo/ [took a look at it here], and concluded that it was a blatant and soulless cash-grab, to the point of including it [in his rant video against NFTs as a whole.] It was also reviewed by [Sankobyte] and [Prixet], who were equally unkind in their treatment of it.

* Despite having well-known comedians like Creator/SarahSilverman and Creator/SethRogen, Creator/HBOMax's Christmas-themed miniseries WesternAnimation/SantaInc was reviled for trying way too hard to make an "edgy" Christmas AnimatedShockComedy. The show is full of horribly tasteless jokes and crude humor that rely too much on extreme vulgarity, sex, or nudity. Its BreakingTheGlassCeiling premise of a female elf named Candy trying to prove herself as a successor to Santa Claus is constantly hammered in. The main characters and supporting characters are either very huge es and/or FlatCharacter one-note, while the villains are all predictably sexist or corrupt. As such, the show proved to be incredibly mean-spirited, offensive, and EightDeadlyWords lacked anybody worth caring about in the end. It has a [=IMDb=] rating of 1.1, which the star talent blamed entirely on antisemitism.noteWhile there was backlash from the alt-right due to the show's left-wing politics, outlets of all political affiliations agreed that DontShootTheMessage the show wasn't good on its other merits either./note [Steve Reviews], [Just Stop] and [Cynical Reviews] had very few kind words to say about the show. It was also given a negative review in [Variety.]

** As an added bonus, one of the final episodes of the series has Santa give out a very reasonable explanation for why Candy was passed over as his successorlabelnote:*(while she is certainly a great worker in his eyes, she does not have the proper ability to help the children out in tough situations like his chosen successor, the intern named Devin, did have)/labelnote, with him even seeing her being the brains of the actual operations to the actual successor's face at hand over an idea of being passed over due to sexist beliefs that "only men can be Santa Claus." However, instead of being understanding of the explanation and accepting of Santa's decision, she says "WhatTheHellHero go fuck yourself" to him in response to it all, with her straight up hating the idea of working her operations behind the scenes. For many people like Steve Reviews and Just Stop, that moment in particular is what made a potential HopeSpot for the show turn into something irredeemably awful.

* Despite the involvement of director Creator/MelBrooks (who also reprised his roles as President Skroob and Yogurt, as well as also being involved in writing and producing), Creator/JoanRivers (Dot Matrix), and Creator/DaphneZuniga (Princess Vespa), Film/: The Animated Series has been given the FanNickname Da Soich for More Money from fans of the original movie. noteFor those who haven't seen Spaceballs, the nickname references a scene in which the movie's Franchise/StarWars Yoda equivalent, Yogurt, teases a sequel with that subtitle./note The designs of the characters range from okay to awful, most notably changing Dark Helmet, originally played by 5'1" Creator/RickMoranis, to a dwarf. The joke may have been about Helmet's phallic appearance, but there was no reason to make him look like a bobblehead with or without it. The animation doesn't fare any better. In an annoyingly lazy move, it rehashes jokes from the movie. In fact, the first two episodes are basically a remake of the movie as a two-parter. The rest of the series is a ShallowParody of other movies, such as Film/TheTerminator, Film/ThePhantomMenace, and even non-Sci-Fi films like Film/HarryPotter. That is not only comparable to a Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg movie, but it renders the title of the show and the movie it was based on redundant. Watch WebVideo/ tear it apart [here]. WebVideo/InfamousAnimation ShogunGin0 also shares [his thoughts on the matter]. WebVideo/TVTrash Rowdy C tears it apart [here]. Hats Off Entertainment, who is a fan of the movie, covers it [here] in his Forgotten Failures series.

* In the late 1980s and early 1990s a TV cartoon series aired on UsefulNotes/FlemishTVStations VTM based on the popular comic strip ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske. The design of the characters looked okay and resembled the comic strip... but the cartoon was so cheaply made that almost every scene was StockFootage. For instance, whenever a specific character was walking from one point to another, they always played the same clip. The animators also animated only one expression of a certain emotion for each main cast member. If, for instance, a specific character became angry, it was always the same scene without any variation. As one can imagine, watching these cartoons can become rather tedious after a while, especially since they follow the stories of the comic book albums almost frame-by-frame in extremely slow pacing.

* [Time Travel Academy] (aka Learn Our History), a series of educational CGI cartoons produced by former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to educate kids on the "history that schools are afraid to tell". Let's put it this way: you know you've got a real stinker on your hands when you can't even make the trailers look good. Its flaws include amateurish CGI work (it looks like it was done half-heartedly by a novice animator and ed to cover up the fact), FlatCharacter cardboard cut-out characters coupled with wooden dialogue and completely phoned-in voice acting, moments of CriticalResearchFailure, blatant UsefulNotes/ noteone episode had a character wearing a helmet from TabletopGame/Warhammer40000, which was removed from later copies/note, and to top it all off an obviously one-sided AuthorTract despite the show's claim to "teach history without bias".

* WebAnimation/TheTransformersCombinerWars, a 2016 webseries co-produced by and Creator/. Initially billed as a more mature work for hardcore fans, it was almost instantly savaged by said hardcore fans due to poor-quality CGI reminiscent of Anime/TransformersEnergon, a low framerate that makes actions highly janky, an unclear and barebones narrative, a large amount of despite the full miniseries only clocking in at 40 minutes, little screentime devoted to the characters the series was created to advertise, terrible characterization (with NiceGirl Windblade being depicted as a murderous psychopath for no apparent reason, and Starscream being depicted as humbled by having a position of leadership, only to reveal it was all an act in the final episodes for no reason) and, most infamously, the fact that the webseries was released well after the toyline it was made to promote had left retail. When Wiki/TFWikiDotNet says Energon [looks good by comparison], you know something has gone horribly, horribly wrong. Amazingly enough, it still managed to get two sequels. And the worst part? They somehow got WebVideo/DashieXP Dashie and WebVideo/HonestTrailers Jon Bailey of all people to work on it (they were the voice of Menasor and freaking Optimus Prime respectively) and not even they can save this trainwreck. At least the two follow-up series Titans Return and Power of the Primes were improvements thanks to longer episodes, better animation, more consistent characterizations, and an all-star cast such as Creator/PeterCullen, Creator/JuddNelson, and Creator/GreggBerger reprising their respective roles as Optimus Prime, Rodimus Prime, and Grimlock, Creator/WilWheaton as Perceptor, Wrestling/SamoaJoe as Predaking, and even Creator/RonPerlman as Optimus Primal and Creator/MarkHamill as Megatronus.

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animated Sci-Fi Horror/Come dy web series created by

Liam Vickers (Cliffside, Internecion Cube) and

produced by Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul ' s Glitch

Productions ( SMG4 Meta Runner, Sunset Paradise).

It is the third fully - anima ted series by Glitch, and

the first to be created by someone other than Kevin

and Luke, as well as the first to have no ties to

their main SMG4 series.

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animated web series created by the Lerdwichagul

brothers Kevin and Luke, revealed in SMG4: War Of

The Fat Italians 2020. It was released on Sept ember

4, 2020. It is a spinoff of Meta Runner and the very

first show on the GLITCH channel, featuring Theo as

the main character and the adventures in his game

universe, that said, it 's animation is horrible as

Food fight and that's saying something

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