Cartoons that went from "Cool" To "CRAP"!

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This thread is for shows that were great at the beginning but went old really fast after a couple of seasons.

Here's my opinion:

South Park: This was a great show for me at first cause it did a lot of things that other shows never dared to do. But after the first 3 or 4 seasons and the movie, the show went in an entirely different direction. Instead of being a revolutionary humorous show that made Beavis and Butt-Head look like a joke, it was made into a unfunny, politically driven satire that focused too much on current event and make fun of the way we live our lives. The same thing can be said about Seth McFarland's shows.

Naruto: I read the manga but I don't watch the anime 24/7. It's a brilliant franchise to be sure but the way they treat the main character is just outrageously barbaric not to mention all the filler story lines and unrelated specials. After watching all 167 episodes of Inuyasha and all 4 movies you can see why I'm so skeptic about the anime.

Foster's Home of Imaginary Friends: this is another new toon I was very disappointed in. They made the main character too selfish and egotistical and sadistically uncaring for my taste. It's no wonder This show never won a Emmy!

Fairly OddParents: this show has too many repetitive jokes and so many unlikeable characters. This includes Jimmy Neutron.

Duck Dodgers: the animation was good but this adaptation of the classic short focused way too much on Daffy's selfish attitude.

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: this is the kind of show that they want kids to see!?! Yikes!

The 4kids version of One Piece: I don't hate the franchise it's just that the way they dubbed the anime at first was terrible and they edited way too much of the action taking place. THANK THE MERCIFUL LORD THAT FUNIMATION GOT THIS ANIME N TIME BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE!:crying:

Spongebobo Squarepants: its a good show but nearly the entire cast hates the poor little guy.:crying:

The first season of The Critic: what the hell did Jay see in that horrible woman?! Also his boss is a bastard!

Teamo Supremo: the stories got old really quick and the villains were just so pathetic.
 
Teamo-Supremo I thought was pretty crappy to begin with. This was the guy who wrote the hillarious Earthworm Jim?

Othetr than that, I really can't agree with you too much on the others. FOP especially. I also have to see Simpsons seasons 11+ have been inconsistant and range from, they did a pretty good job to "Suds McDuff" or the episode where they go to Africa. Just terrible.

TMNT FF should be included, especially since some idiot at Playmates said, "well, we have 13 episodes we could air, but we didn't sell too many of the Turtle toys varients that no one liked, so let's make a new show that won't stick."

The Third season of Mucha Lucha was pretty losuy.



Got the point. 4Kids sucks. Like I don't hear that one every 2 minutes. I agree, but really....



Basically that summs up every anime I've ever seen based on a manga. They need to make those unrelated fillers to stop the anime from going ahead of the book. Personally, I hate it more when they remove stroy arcs, change things around, and give you something different than you started with (Ultimate Muscle..cough cough).
 
Simpsons: 2 eps so far this season, and Homer's already gotten 3 jobs (one that he didn't really get, and a brief one on Sunday's ep). The one this Sunday is yet another "Homer gets a new job" episode.
 
See, I think it was the other way around. South Park had no direction in the first two seasons and a lot of those episodes have not aged well. It BECAME 'revolutionary', it was nothing but sex and fart jokes thrown against a weak 'plot'. It wasn't until epsidoes like "Rainforest Shmainforest" that they managed to use their jokes against a solid plot.

Episodes like "Tweak Vs. Craig", "Tooth Fairy Tats 2000", "Cartmanland", "Asspen", "My Future Self 'N Me", "Woodland Critter Christmas", "The Losing Edge", "The Death Of Eric Cartman", "TSST", "Make Love, Not Warcraft", and "Night Of The Living Homeless" are some of the best episodes that Matt & Trey have ever made and NONE of those are "politically driven" or focused on current events.

Also, what's wrong with making fun of the way we live our lives? That's the funniest joke, right there. :D
 
Pokemon was cool first season but boring all the rest. Also Rugrats went straight down the toilet after they added Dil.
 
TMNT 2003 (seasons 1-5) was great until that crappy "Fast Forward" spin-off came on the air...the pitch ideas for the next spin-off doesn't sound that great either...
 
I'd argue that King Of the Hill has gotten better in my opinion. Dale Gribble has just gotten weirder and weirder-- and while the storylines won't be completely zany, they're still quite interesting.
 
You kidding?The earlier episodes is what made the series worth bringing back.

The new stuff is too Stewie and Bryan centered. :sweat:
 
Family Guy. The new seasons just aren't the same.

Even though the shows have been on a while, I'd say The Simpsons and King of the Hill is still turning out interesting stories. I'd relent that some of the Simpsons episodes are a bit odd in more recent seasons.

Southpark is a show I found to be crap to start with (Mr. Hankey was nasty) and the political stuff made it all the more unwatchable.

As much as I love the X-MEN cartoon, the last season or two didn't have very cohesive underlying stories like earlier seasons. The episodes were very random in plot.

I can't keep up with Pokemon anymore. I quit. Too many weekly eps to watch, and I'm already behind a season or two.

Even some classics like Scooby Doo and He-Man felt very beat-to-death by the time the shows ended. Transformers too. The first 66-75% of the shows were great, but latter episodes were just sort of mushed together.
 
Even the forum fuzz messes up every now and again. :D

Let's see,another show that went to the crapper...

All Grown Up!

It started out pretty cool and by the time Kimi (less likable of the rats) started datin' a 'bad boy' at ten-years-old...yeah,it wasn't pretty.
 
All Grown Up didn't go to crap, it was already there, IMO. It might have made an interesting one-shot special, but Klasky/Csupo never should have turned it into an ongoing series. Rugrats was never a favorite show of mine, but the original was at least a unique concept. AGU was just another 'tweenybopper' show in a sea chock full of them; it was just Rocket Power and As Told by Ginger with the Rugrats characters. So Klasky/Csupo basically took their chief cash cow and homogenized it into being just like every other show on Nick.

Anyway, Rugrats jumped the shark long before it became All Grown Up, IMO.
 
I will agree King of the Hill, only because of Lucky (by Toutatis, is he annoying) and how they keep making Luanne increadibly stupid. The part where she was trying to open the "window" to let the kitty out was too much.
 
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