Askmen.com's top 10 most annoying 80's cartoon characters

I think this was the main reason I, and a lot of other fans, really didn't like Scrappy all that much. His appearance caused three of the main supporting characters (and the more interesting characters in my opinion), to be shoved to the side and eventually reduced to just Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy. The whole mystery aspect was all but thrown out and reduced the series to a screw ball comedy.

I did like the season where Fred and Velma made occasional appearances. Some of those episodes were actually pretty good.
 
Personally, I dislike Scrappy, but mostly in those terrible Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy episodes. You know. the one where all Scrappy does is instigate someone and then the rest of the 7 minutes, Shag and Scoob just run away and hide?
 
Let me at 'em, let me at 'em...I'll SPLAT 'em!

I don't know about anyone else, but that catchphrase of his was weirdly homoerotic. :yawn:
 
I grew up with The Real Ghostbusters and like most kids loved Slimer. I actually found his movie form quite scary. Let's not also forget the show had a ton of creepy monsters in every episode. You need Slimer there to balance it out. I agree this list is just a poor attempt at looking cool by trashing things from childhood with ridiculous demands and beliefs.
 
I strongly dislike lists that go for the more well-known examples over the worst contenders, similar to that worst cartoon list that had Transformers on it. He may have thought Transformers was bad, but there are TONS of 80s cartoons that have more problems. The same goes for this list. I'm sure that there are MUCH worse characters than Teddy Ruxpin and Luigi, but he chose to slam more well-known characters than things like the Potatohead Kids.
 
I have to agree with some above posts; this list slams Luigi, so it FAILS.









(Also, this is slightly off topic, but the little caveboy from SMW was named Oogtar, and personally, I hated him way more than Toad).
 
The problem with lists like these is that they are usually written by people who do not have the deep grounding in the material that would truly make it comprehensive. They may have watched cartoons when they were kids, but they aren't aficionados. So they'll go with more familiar choices instead of accurate ones. I mean, who doesn't know Scrappy-Do, Slimer, or Brainy Smurf?

You want annoying?

How about Jabberjaw, the gibbering shark that acted like a pale imitation of Curly from the Three Stooges minus, of course, the eye-poking, face-slapping and everything else that made the Stooges funny.

Or the entire cast of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, those pedantic, preachy know-it-alls on their righteous quest to shut down the world's economy to save the spotted owls. Like a half-dozen Brainy Smurfs chanting in a Greek chorus.

Or Tracy the gorilla from Filmation's Ghostbusters, whose entire presence consisted of about a dozen assorted stock footage sequences showing him cringing, cowering, sniveling, and saying "ook, ook" at everything. If it was as if the writers at Filmation had asked themselves, "Is it possible for us to create a character that has less than one dimension?"
 
Yep. SatAM=Saturday morning. It's mainly used as a way to distinguish between ABC's Sonic the Hedgehog which aired on Saturday mornings and the syndicated Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog which ran on weekdays.
 
Now, I wouldn't quite say that, either. Especially for its time, it was an unusually dark, character-driven show, with a season-spanning story arc in the form of the Doomsday Project. I might be reading your statement wrong, but I think billing it as "not at all" what they say it is sells it short.
 
Sort of similar of how back in 1986 when there were two Ghostbusters cartoons called "Filmation's Ghostbusters" (Which was based on the campy cult comedy show of the 70's) and "The Real Ghostbusters" (Based on the Bill Murray movie) to avoid confusion.
 
It is a good action show and yes it is suprisingly dark. But the fanbase makes it out to be something for the ages, an animated classic. It did go deeper than expected but there are any number of shows that did more and better. Gargoyles is a good example.

In my experience, many of these fans happen to be furries who overrate it because they want more mainstream furry content. These also tend to be the same folks (and we have some here, sadly) who loathe the game continuity and say we need a SatAM continuation. Usually this is followed by demands for "an even sexier Princess Sally". Now, I'll admit I'm a life long Sonic fan. The first game came out when I was five and I've been a fan ever since. I'm not the "No, only my perception of fandom is right!!" type but I do have a history with the series and I like the original source material. It's a fun, light hearted action game series. So to see folks insisting it needs to be in the grip of depression and using the fact it has animals as the lead characters as an excuse to vent furry sexual frustrations...it's sad. If folks want to like that, fine. Just don't force it on the rest of us. If it was good enough for the original creators, it's good enough for me.



Word to your parent of female sexual origin.
 
I wouldn't say "any number." Gargoyles, yes, probably beats it on every front its fans praise it for (characters, tone, and overarching story). But, then, Gargoyles was a groundbreaking show that probably does merit what its fans say about it, so that's not saying much.
I haven't heard this one. A SatAM video game adaptation, yes, and I actually agree with it. Requests for "an even sexier Princess Sally," not so much, especially not in the context of a video game.
Many fans of the show hated Shadow, and that's as dark as it's ever gotten. Most complaints about the game series are less about tone and more about the plot and, arguably, the gameplay degenerating.
Uh... speaking as a fan of both Sonic and "anthro" art myself, I think you're generalizing. You seem to be focusing less on the show itself than its hype by a relatively small portion of the fandom (the rabid ones), and out of that, the furverts (for the record, furry does not equal sexual or perverted, although you wouldn't know it to hear some of them). Taken on its own merits, I believe it was a very good show that just happens to sometimes get hyped beyond all reason - possibly due to the already-loyal wider Sonic fanbase; certainly, it rose well above the vast majority of video game cartoons.

Weren't we talking about annoying 80s cartoon characters?
 
Yes, they actually started leaning toward Slimer as a kinder, friendlier character. He started getting 7, 15, and then 30 minute episodes all to himself, or with Janeane and the other Ghostbusters reduced to bit parts.

That's where the Ghostbusters cartoon pulled it's "Scrappy-Doo".
 
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