Bad toon shows that has some sliver of goodness in them

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tendlich37

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Come on, I know you have liked some of them, maybe for its cheesiness and such!

Mega Man: The opening is amazing. The lines, despite cheesy, are well... actually hilarious! And the dubbing is actually made well, if only because of Scott McNeil. The only good episode (the one involving Protoman and Megaman's rivalry supposedly ending) was actually well done.

Street Fighter: At least a bit better than the movie. Cheesy, hilarious, quotable lines. The last season was actually well done. It actually acknowledges shout outs and such.

Loonatics: Actually got better on the later parts of Season 1, but it's too late for that. The two characters that are probably worth watching for are actually well-done (Rev and Tech), and episodes focused on either of them are one of the best as well.
 
World of Quest: the character design, some of the voices, and Nestor. The rest of it was pretty lame.

Fairly Oddparents: as it stands now, Wanda is the only redeeming quality of that show. The rest is trash. But her voice, which, like the others, has been amped up to earbleed level, can still turn me off.

Kid vs. Kat: Some of the scripting is pretty solid. The character designs are good, as are the voices. But it's all beaten down by Coop's insufferable smugness and the all-too-easily beaten Kat. The storyline is monotonous now and the show is rarely funny anymore.

Jimmy TwoShoes: I like it when Jimmy gets beaten up. He deserves it. And I kinda like Heloise, although I'm not sure why. Otherwise I can't stand the way the show looks or is written.
 
Bad toons that have some sliver of goodness in them --- ?

How about, Cartoons you don't like that have there moments? ;)

As for myself, I'm not sure.
 
I used to watch Chaotic for exactly one reason only - the fight scenes. While the rest of the show was mostly typical uninspired toy-commercial fare, the fight scenes and the animation (particularly in season 2) were fabulous. All the pretty explosions fly across the screen and all the giant monsters clashing in tons of exotic locations was enough to keep me watching until the middle of the second season, which was when I lost interest. (Which might have been a mistake, because from browsing the talkback, it seems like it got a lot better during the end)
 
The original TMNT show was in most respects... well, an 80's cartoon. But unlike so many other contemporary action cartoons, all major characters had strong individual personalities and were very likable, and the show also had fantastic voice acting for it's time.

Pok?mon might be the blandest anime i have ever seen, but at least it's animation is, while stale, very colorful and attractive. When i watch the show, the actual watching of is usually much more enjoyable than experiencing the plot.

G.I Joe, being an 80's action cartoon that i did not see as a child and that thus holds no nostalgic interest for me whatsoever, is mostly a complete bore for me, but i do like Cobra Commander. And it's neat to have a typical incompetent 80's cartoon villain actually being considered incompetent in-universe, even by his own henchmen!
 
Sabrina, the Animated Series - The combined fine-itude of Hilda and Zelda. Also, Nick Bakay as Salem.

The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries - The cameos by so many secondary and tertiary Looney Tunes characters.

CatDog - One of the catchiest (in a good way) theme songs in NickToons history.

I'm sure there are more, but I'm not firing on all cylinders right now.
 
I always wondered why they picked him to be the main villain, when destro, baroness, zartan, even tomax and xamot were more suited (and yes, i know zartan didnt come until 1984, and the crimson twins until 1985 but still,,)
 
Well, personally, I liked both themes to Sonic X, the English and the Japanese one, despite the shows flaws, I always like the songs, but my preference is the Japanese one, if only for Hironobu Kageyama singing it.
 
1. Regardless on it's flaws, one positive thing about Rocket Power is that Reggie is that they can depict her as a non-feminine girl without making her aggressive or exaggerating it most of the time.

2. While I'm still not a fan of Gargoyles The Goliath Chronicles, there are a few enjoyable moments to find:

A. Ransom- Ignoring Fox's outburst and the monologue which states that money is the motivation for crime, I find the thing that makes the episode viewable is Lex's willing to protect Alex and just their friendship in general. Of course I still look forward to Greg's verson of the story as the bad elements will be a nonissue.

B. Runaways- Liked the ending where Kenny is arrested as he is so sure that he won't remain in custody, only for Elisa to wish him a Happy 18th Birthday.

C. Genesis Undone- Thailog's dying speech. "How I enjoyed causing you grief."

D. For It May Come True- Just because it's overdramtic, I found it funny when Goliath makes the "horrific" discovery that he's a glorified librarian working for Xanatos. Someone else mentioned it, but I'd have also go with Xanatos showing up at the hospital stating that he makes his own visiting hours.
 
People might hate or like that particular series (the nostalgia critic went ballistic) but there's an episode that was awesome:

Sonic had to travel all around Moebius in record time because Robotnik installed Bombs all over the planet, and in the way he had to dealt with obstacles set by the badniks, for once it was a very suspensful episode and it keep it's edge until the very end

and uhm, yeah the Chaos emeralds conclusion was also quite well done since Sonic had to face a nearly omnipotent Robotnik...and yet he managed to beat him in a quite unique way :evil:
 
Sonic X: While they didn't belong on a Sonic show, I thought the Thorndike characters (a millionaire kid whose dad was a CEO and whose mom was a movie star) was a potentially good idea. Pity the kid in question, Chris Thorndike, was so whiny and annoying.

If we're counting live-action/animated hybrids, then I'll mention Out of Jimmy's Head as well. The show was crell, no denying that, but I thought there were a few glimmers of hope for that series. Namely, (and yes, I've said this before) I thought the premise of a kid whose mom is a world-saving astronaut, whose sister is a green space alien and whose dad was a goon had the potential to be an entertaining series on its' own. In the hands of the right set of writers, it could've been another Phil of the Future or Johnny Test.
 
Sit Down Shut Up - The animation looked super cool. Cartoon characters on live action backgrounds was just such a great & interesting idea. Too bad the show wasn't really funny & entertaining. Though the 9 unaired episodes that didn't air as apart of it's original run are currently airing at midnight on FOX.

EDIT: I've been recording the midnight episodes on my DVR & their actually getting better.
 
As much as I hate Seth MacFarlane's shows, I appreciate that they're among the few shows on network TV that use a full orchestra to record their music. The background scores are frequently effective (even if they're just re-recording bits and pieces of 80's movie scores).
 
The Mighty B!- Only when Ben and Hillary (Bessie's Mom) are the main focus. They're the only likable characters on the whole stupid show, except for that Grand Mistress Bee ( Not Portia's mom, she's stupid and pathetic)...

Fairly Oddparents- I know I'm going to get hate for this one.
I'm referring to after Channel Chasers, at which point, the writers got badly replaced...
You want to hate this show, but look at all the drawing ideas you can get from staring at those female charcters. Same goes for Family Guy and American Dad.
 
Rocket Robin Hood: Even if the show is monotonous and boring, i like to death the theme songs included. They stuck me to the head everytime.

Kid vs. Kat: I like the Retro style of this cartoon and the animation. For one time, a canadian cartoon when they don't have flat and angular characters designs but each episodes fellow the same story between a boy against a evil cat.

Lucky Luke (1980's and 1990's): The first adaptation series thrilled me as a kid for the opening song but the stories adaptated to the comics was updated for the Standard audience with some anachronic moments with Mexican animations. The 1990's is much close to the original comics stories but they look was made cheaper and faster with the cheap sounds effects and loud voice characterisations.
 
This series took one of the sharpest dives in quality I have ever seen. Literally over the course of one season, it seemed they had decided to make every character an idiot and it became more and more mean spirited.
 
Drawn Together had an interesting, seminal concept and characters that could've have been done justice in more competent writing hands. The actual show, for all of its "shocking" jokes and subject matter, was pretty witless.

Atomic Betty's outer space segments, while not really very good, at least showed creativity and promise where the earthbound segments did not.

Sit Down, Shut Up suffered from sophomoric writing (Larry Littlejunk?), but its art style was appealingly different from the FOX shows surrounding it, and the designs were appealing.
 
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