Cartoons Today that Rot children's brains

Yeah, Chaotic is a 4Kids original...it's pretty much the only show they've ever completely produced by themselves (TMNT had input from Mirage and Playmates while Viva Pinata was co-produced with Microsoft).
 
It has an insane energy, but doesn't seem to have any heart or soul to the characters or their relationships. Even for 'stupid' shows I think that kind of thing is important. It's what separates a good show from being just another show. The lack of any sort of coherency doesn't help either.

If the show was a bit older I'm sure it would have made this list.
 
Do you know what I find bothersome about Johnny Test? Just about all the episode titles have "Johnny" in them. But like The Huntsman said, it's only a cartoon.
 
Actually, I'd say that it depends on whether it exists at the expense of more serious work. The answer is pretty clearly no.

Yet in terms of Batman animation more serious than BATB we have Batman TAS, Batman Beyond, his exploits in Justice League, The Batman, the Gotham Knight anthology, and the upcoming Red Hood DTV. I love the story-driven stuff as much as you do, but I do not believe that a bit of variety is a threat.
 
I think all of the Johnny Test titles has his name in them. I can't think of any which don't.

To me the most annoying thing about Johnny Test is Johnny himself. He's so generic, obnoxious and infuriating. Some of the other characters on the show are funny and tolerable. I'd probably take to Test more if someone else were in the lead. But Johnny's the star so you kind of have to deal with him.

Johnny's a bit like Mario in Super Mario RPG: there are other characters in the game more effective and fun to play as than Mario in the game, but you have to play as him because his name's in the title.
 
It seems like the writer turned on Cartoon Network one random morning and decided to make an article about it.

But yeah, Johnny Test's spot is well-deserved. I think I know why so many little children like it: it seems like the show is written, designed, scored, and animated by some obnoxious seven-year old who thinks he's funnier than he really is. It's made for the demographic, by the demographic! But seriously, it's really one of the worst cartoons I have ever seen.

98% percent of the jokes are overly-sarcastic snarky quips that try too hard to sound "mature", or repeats of jokes that were funny once, in the first season. Every single line of dialogue is a variation of "Calmly stated quip or observation. YELLED OVERREACTION TO PREVIOUSLY SAID QUIP OR OBSERVATION!!!" or "Sarcastic statement contrary to what just happened!"

I personally have nothing against Flash/ToonBoom, buy Johnny Test doesn't even attempt to put a semblance of effort into the visuals. It's all terrible line-art that anyone could make with a few uses of the line tool and paint bucket in Flash in five minutes. The animation consists entirely of tweens, and not subtle, fluid tweens either, but the really sloppy jerky stuff. If shows like Jimmy Two-Shoes can pull off amazingly fluid animation with the same materials and budget, then Johnny Test has zero excuse.

And the musical cues. If one were to put the entire BGM of Johnny Test onto a CD, it would be over in five minutes. There is no BGM "music", only ten-second sound effects that are played constantly and repetitively, without end. There's the stock electric guitar wails for when something "awesome" happens. They've got the two discordant piano chords for whenever something "gross" happens. They have pretty much every repetitive stock sound effect under the sun.

I hate every single thing about this show. It's the lowest of the low, and how it managed to get five seasons is beyond me.

It's really terrible stuff.
 
Why would that be bothersome? All the episodes of Ed, Edd, N Eddy had "Ed" in the title(Stop, Look, And Ed, Pop Goes The Ed, etc.), yet that was a great show.
 
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To the bolded part: Amen. Badly disguised, at that.

To the other part, to channel Collie, define "die-hard". I consider myself a big fan of The Secret Saturdays, Phineas & Ferb, and WordGirl, but not to the point where I watch them religiously (I don't think I've watched anything religiously since I was eight).
 
This list reads like it was created by a very angry and hateful person.
But at least he seems to be passionate about cartoons...?

I don't think Johnny Test is really that bad, it annoys other people, and I don't personally watch it, but it's seemingly likable enough to be one of CN's more popular shows.
It's not like a kid will suddenly have his/her grades drop if they like watching it, so I don't see a problem.
 
Phineas and Ferb has actual wit and is quite clever at times. The repetitiveness is due to ironic humor and the songs are very catchy.
 
I've only seen a few episodes of Phineas and Ferb and all of them seem to end the exact same way. To me that's the very definition of repetitive. But that's just me.
 
I think some of the episode titles from Johnny Test sound ridiculous (i.e. "Johnny Smell Good"; "My Johnny Guard") and several others hardly make sense at all ("Johnny Degrees Below Zero").



There is an episode titled "JTV," which at least features his initial.
 
My favorite comedic cartoon not airing on Adult Swim is Disney's Phineas and Ferb. That show is brilliant and fun. I laugh at it because it's genuinely funny. I agree with my brothers and sisters here at rabroad that it was one of the best shows to come out of Disney in the 2000s, let alone one of the best cartoons of the decade period.

My favorite action cartoon, right now, is The Brave and the Bold. If Batman: The Animated Series took place with a strange blend of Silver Age and Modern Era elements, it would be this show. Serious yet lighter adventures of the Caped Crusader and one of the best action series of the 2000s. Plus, this series has the best version of Aquaman ever. I'm serious, he's better in this series than he ever had been on Super Friends, those Filmation shorts, Justice League, even in his own comics.
 
Chdr I love you. You've said everything I've wanted to say about Johnny Test and more but I couldn't find the words for.

Also, props for talking about the awesomeness of Jimmy Two-Shoes. And having a JTS avatar.
 
If all comic related shows were following BATB's approach I'd agree with you and that list, but there's room for both stand alone comic based shows and serial/story based shows.
 
Batman The Brave and The Bold. Gives us a good exposure of the DCU (even if they had to use Batman to guarantee viewership), and considering that the majority of superhero comics go overboard in being serious and edgy, it's nice to have the basic superheroes in any format.

And getting back into Pokemon, the fillers from the previous season and this season are higher on the fun value. Plu the female tag along has more to do than being eye candy.
 
I’ve never understood the hatred for Johnny Test. I think a lot of people on here simply hate the series because it was airing rather frequently, but that’s actually a sign that people like it. It was once the highest rated animated program on Har Har Tharsdays – and I believe those were reruns – and that’s really all that matters. Quality may be subjective, but to a network, quality is ratings. Johnny Test may not be as dominant as it once was, but it earned its number of episodes. It outperformed numerous other animated programs and a part of me believes people are bitter about that. Its success was rewarded with an albatross around its neck.

I understand why some people dislike it. I don’t understand why some people hate it. I don’t understand why some people can’t go a day without inserting some jab at the series, as if it wronged them in some horrible fashion. I don’t understand why some people choose to watch the series, knowing they dislike it, only to then complain about it afterwards. It’s a cartoon. It’s meant to make children laugh – or at the very least – keep them content for a half-hour.

I only watch the series every so often. It’s not my favorite animated program, but it’s a decent way to pass the time if I’m waiting for something. That is what I chose. We are all free to choose what we think about the series and are free to choose whether or not we will continue to watch it. I just wish more people would be willing to concede that the series must be doing something right and that it’s success wasn’t the result of a series of happy accidents. It is indeed possible for a show you dislike to be good, even if you don’t see it.
 
I think it succeeds because its all about a 9 years old fullfilling his 9 years old fantasies. The perfect saturday, driving a monster truck, snow days at will, being a superhero, having your opinion actually matter to people (whenever the General and the Super Secret Agent ask Johnny for help), going into a video game, going into space, that sort of thing.

So it grips the kid in a 'aww man I wish I could do that too!' sort of way.

In that respect I think it owes more to FOP thematically speaking than it does with Dexter's Lab.
 
For me it's Sonic X. I just started watching it and I love it. Tape it every week so I can re-watch the episodes. The art is great, the comedy is pretty good and it's just plain fun. Makes stuff like Fanboy and Kick Buttowski look pretty cruddy in comparison.
 
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