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

Well I've seen of the episodese.
I thought the Legend of Thunder special was really good. And, although they were filler episodes, the other episodes was a new experience. Not just, same-old, same-old Team Rocket and bla-bla-bla.
I was nice to see the other characters again.

So yea, I guess it was very ironic. :sweat:
 
Garfield & Friends-Started out as a half-hour laugh and learn show (1988-89), then an hour-long show (1989-1996). During the final season, the first half had regular cartoons (Garfield/U.S.Acres) and second half consisting of "Garfield" TV specials including the 1982 special that first introduced them to TV from the comic strip. That right away that told me they wasn't coming back next season.
 
Cartoons that went from "Cool" To "CRAP"!

I'm not talking about the plots and stories, I'm talking about how much 4Kids altered and edited out of every "Chronicles" episode. Just look at those comparisons - each special is almost completely different from its original Japanese counterpart. And "The Legend of Thunder" actually got it the worst, what with everyone's name being different and Hun becoming a woman and Marina becoming an insufferable jackass and all the music being changed and horrible dialogue like "Look what the Gengar dragged in".

It was to be expected - 4Kids' usual "Pok?mon" dub production team was too busy with the regular series to handle 22 half-hour specials, so they handed them off to the team that was working on "One Piece" instead. It probably wasn't a good idea to have "Pok?mon" specials be translated by a team that had never worked on the regular series before.
 
So... wait, you're saying the last two episodes were the bad ones? A lot of people consider them the best of the series.
They switched from Akom. Akom.
Agreed. Wouldn't say it was terrible, but at around the end of season one, they seemed all set to take it in a different (better) direction than they did.
The world's largest... no. Sorry, it might have been frustrating, I'll grant that, but there have been much, much, MUCH worse cliffhangers, both in live-action and animation.

Me? I'd have to support Dexter's Lab. I mean, wow.
 
TMNT2K3 was SICK!!! Seasons 1-5 were so awesome and memorable.

Then came "Fast Forward" and I stopped watching the show forever.

The end. :(
 
Um..so exactly HOW low have your expectations become for the Simpsons? I assure you that it has not lived up to its glory in YEARS....

One show, though, that really went downhill eventually was Animaniacs- as soon as it hit the WB11, the quality was flushed right down.

The Tick as well- the series premiere was pure gold. Apparently though, the writers put every possible great aspect they could INTO the series premiere, leaving NOTHING for the rest of the show, and it quickly crashed and burned shortly thereafter.
 
I disagree on both counts. I feel that with both the Tick and Animaniacs, the quality of the show was pretty consistant from the first to last episodes. In fact, I think the Tick wasn't on long enough to even Jump the shark. And I feel a lot of the stories they did on the WB Animaniacs were as funny, if not a little funnier than the fox shows. plus, leaving fox gave them the opertunity to make fun of Power Rangers, one of my favorite episodes ever. Only things I didn't like about A! was the Flame and that "wings take heart" cartoon.
 
Well, obviously I agree with the original poster about Fairly Oddparents. Apparently a lot of other people do too. Its ratings have really hit the skids the last few months. Which I define as: karma! :D

As for Family Guy, since the show is basically about pushing the envelope and not about its characters, it doesn't surprise me that said characters have changed for the worse. Which begs the question: would it be funny if they changed for the better? Well, maybe, but the writing would have to improve like 1000%. Not gonna happen.

Foster's, to me, is a gem with many flaws, and those flaws are some of the characters it's added on as time's gone by, particularly Cheese and Goo. Both are annoying rather than funny IMO, and haven't added to the show's appeal one iota.

The Simpsons hasn't lost much of its heart, IMO, but it's lost some of its brain - it's not nearly as thoughtful as it used to be. I saw one of the older eps yesterday - the one about Lisa falling in love with her teacher, who's a sort of Dead Poet's Society/carpe diem type who is in stark contrast to Lisa's boorish father, which leads to a falling out between the two. The bit at the end, when Homer starts clowning around with Lisa to make her laugh, was very sweet (not to mention the part where he comforts Bart about losing the election for class president: "Would you have gotten paid? Would you have had to do more work? Well, then, who's the real loser, you or the kid who won? Let the baby have his bottle, that's what I always say!") Heh. I miss moments like those...
 
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