Best and Worst at the Same Time. Series. EVER.

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Pouria

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Ever see a show so utterly inconsistent that you don't know whether it's genius or a turd?

For me, Freakazoid has to be that show. So many clever and occasionally laugh-out-loud ideas mixed with so many clunkers and repetitive annoyingness. I'm leaning towards it being genius simply based on the fact someone managed to get it made, but my actual enjoyment of the show is divided right down the middle.
 
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Anywho, I'd have to say that Digimon Adventure (the first on) always felt sorta odd to me. At times it seemed inventive and funny (I have a quote from it in my sig), but at other times it seemed horribly stupid and cliched. I still enjoy the series, but sometimes I'm at a loss to say why:sad: .
 
Family Guy fits the definition of a show that's the best and worst at the same time. Each episode is an absolute black hole as far as characters, writing and art are concerned. Yet it's still manages to be incredibly funny.
 
Kim Possible.

There didn't seem to be a unifying hand guiding this show, so you got moments of supreme inspiration ("Tick-Tick-Tick", "The Fearless Ferret") mixed in with some really rank material ("Return to Wannaweep", "Royal Pain").

And don't get me started on the treatment of Ron.

No, seriously, we'll be here for days.
 
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First four season are awesome, but the later ones, while still entertaining, are when the show really start to get old. You can only bring Shredder/the Foot back so many times before it gets old. I think it should have ended back with a final confrontation with Karai and Utrom Shredder and ending it there with the destruction of the Foot clan. Or at least, keep the Foot/Shredder out of the future seasons and introduce a new set of villains (which Fast Forward did)
 
Honestly, I don't think that long running series like South Park or The Simpsons qualify for a thread like this. For a series that can be at once awesome and awful, it's gotta be that way overall. In the case of long running series, it's not really a reflection on the show overall, because when a series is on the air for that long, there's bound to be some bad eggs in the bunch every once in a while.
There's also the fact that sometimes, there's just a very noticeable differnec ebetween various seasons, for one reason or another. It doesn't seem fair to lump Simpsons in thus respect, especially, because there's a decade long gap between the second season and the fourteenth.

That said, I have to second "Digimon Adventure". Both seasons, overall seem like it can't decide if it wants to be a corny lite-adventure series or a serious all out action/adventure series. When it was good, it was really, really good. When it was bad, it was horrid.
 
Inuyasha for me is the series that defines untapped potential. I still enjoy the early portion of the series, but as the series progress, certain aspects about the show just wouldn't get resolved.

The Inu/Kagmoe/Kikyo triangle dragged on too long, Nakaru lived too long, characters like Mikoru & Sango get pushed too the background too often. And that point, I found myself enjoying the 'filler' episodes of the later seasons far more than the main plot of the show.

I still like the show as a whole, but don't love it like I used to.
 
Yeah, to go along with the two people saying Digimon Adventure, I'll mention Digimon Frontier.

As a Digimon series, it was so terrible and disappointing, but as a very sentai-esque anime, it was awesome. :sweat:
 
In the finale for the third season, there was a big defeat moment for Naraku waiting to happen with the barrier on his castle coming down and Inuyasha and Sesshomaru teaming up to fight him. IMO, that should have been when he was struck down and a new main antagonist be introduced to keep things fresh. But nope, he got away, and remained the nigh-invunerable main villain for the rest of the series. Thus after the third season, I eventually stopped watching alltogether. :yawn:
 
I have to agree on Freakzoid.

But a more adult targeted animated series that would fit this topic would be the series "Tripping the Rift". The episodes in that series were either complete comedic GENIUS, or total garbage. There was little middle room for that series. Either the episodes were great, or were poor.
 
Family Guy is definitely like that; there are always individual gags or clever lines that make me laugh, but the episodes overall aren't that great. This is especially true of the more recent seasons, where the writing overall seems very lazy.


And, though I love it, I must admit that Beavis & Butt-head also has a large divide between the funny episodes and the lame episodes. I would say about half of the episodes are unforgettably hilarious, but the other half are just. . . "why is that funny?"
 
World of Quest. It actually improved on the design and personalities of the comic-book characters it was based on, yet fell short in the story and humor departments. So while it was great to look at, and the voice cast was great, the lousy jokes, lack of enjoyable character interaction and the fact that nobody on the show seemed to care much about this Great Quest they were on, made WoQ a sorrowful waste of potential. :(
 
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