Shows that were trying too hard.

Family Guy. South Park Simpsons, Most Animated Comedy aimed at teens/adults.

Im not Saying any said seris are bad, Just that they All seem to try to hard, they all remind me of that one kid in every school that thinks he always has to be funny for people to like him, sure you enjoy it, you just wish he would give it a rest ever now & then, thats how alot of Comedy Central, AS & Fox Animated Shows seem to be nowadays
 
Just to stick my two cents in...

Calling a monster battle series a Pok?mon rip-off is like calling an FPS a Doom clone. It's an entire genre itself now.

Hell, Shin Megami Tensei had people collecting and battling monsters years before Pok?mon, it's just that it and Digimon were the first to appeal to a younger audience. Hell, Pok?mon actually included a refference to SMT in how you'd store your monsters in a PC (which made sense in MegaTen, not so much in Pok?mon)...

And yes, I am a Pok?mon fan.
 
I actually liked Slacker Cats. It was a little hit-and-miss, but overall I thought it was pretty good. I think it would have got better as it went along if it lasted longer.

Anyway, I think "12 Oz. Mouse" tried too hard to be strange. It's like Adult Swim said, "You thought Space Ghost Coast To Coast and Aqua Teen Hunger Force were strange and badly-animated? Well, here's a show that makes no sense at all and looks like it was drawn by a 4-year old!"
 
Camp Lazlo tried to come off as a silly show, but it was just seriously dull, mostly due to the bad characters and forced storylines.
 
Look, I find Bakugan is one of the biggest rip-off ever. It doesn't even try to hide being a rip-off. I mean, in Digimon case, yeah, a group of kids having little monsters and battling from other monsters. It does sound like Pokemon, but with a different title. But, at least in Digimon, it gave it a different plot. Pokemon was pretty much having an adventure, in Digimon is all about saving the world. Kind of the same, but one is for fun, the other is little serious.

And Yu-Gi-Oh was kind of a little mix of Pokemon and Digimon, but with cards.

In Bakugan, it starts with a card, and in that card has a ball, and in that ball it has a monster.
What the? Just watch the intro.



Yeah, I do agree that show was trying to be the next big hit in [AS].



Though, there were some lines off that show made me laugh. Rarely though.



Yeah, the poop and sexs joke does a little dumb time to time, but I do love those 5 secs jokes they add in. Like when you see a little girl holding a apple next to a doctor. Now that was funny.

You know the old saying:
"A apple a day keeps the doctor away"
 
I don't. I can appreciate both shows for what they are (or were, in the case of Chowder), though I liked Chowder a little more. I'm admittedly biased since I was a fan of the show, but I never thought that Chowder was trying to directly copy Spongebob. C.H. Greenblatt is a SBSP alum, so not surprisingly there was a similarity in the style of humor, but I never thought that Chowder tried too hard or that the show tried to emulate Spongebob directly.



Respectfully, I don't agree with this statement either. I don't see any similarity between Ben 10 and Jonny Quest, and I think The Secret Saturdays is a better Quest than Quest. But that's just my opinion.
 
It might not have been completely intentional, because the creator worked on SpongeBob before Chowder, so he may have just brought the feel of SB to his own work.
Well it got cancelled so too late for that.
 
I agree on everything Light Lucario said,
at a glance, Pokemon and Digimon seem very similar,
but they actually have a lot of differences that set them apart,
keeping them from being clones of each other.

Everything else has been said,
but I think that a few Chowder episodes were a little bland.
I like the show overall,
but sometimes it seemed a little forced,
and looked like a few ideas got lost in translation from the mind to the television.
 
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is far more a Spongebob rip off than Chowder.

The nautical references and setting, the fact that Flapjack more or less has the same characteristics as Spongebob. It's pretty blatent.
 
It bugs me when people think a show is a Spongebob ripoff because the title character is young, brash, and overzealous. Those kinds of characters were around long before Spongebob.
 
I don't get it either. I remember my brother thought that Flapjack was going to be a Spongebob rip-off. But if you guys want to see Spongebob rip-off, you should see Coconut Fred.
 
I think Flapjack has a lot more contrast to his environment and the people around him than Spongebob,
while he's an adorable innocent child,
Pretty much most of Stormalong & residents are usually creepy, grotesque, or weird in at least one way,
including his friends.
I noticed it also has a lot more 'grossness'
and some scenes you just can't really explain.

The main cast of SB have their quirks,
but they don't contrast as much from the main character himself,
and it's tamer than Flapjack, IMO.
 
I've noticed the grossness, too, however, I think FlapJack's personality is quite similar to SpongeBob's.

Who here besides me thinks that All Grown Up tries too hard to be like As Told By Ginger Meets Rocket Power??

Tommy Pickles = A more intelligent Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez [mainly because Tommy and Twister were into filming]
Dil Pickles = Carl Foutly [overall weirdness and gross-out factor at times.]
Chuckie Finster and Sam "Squid" Dullard are one in the same. [Need I say more?]
Angelica Pickles = A less self-obsorbed Courtney Gripling, with the exception that Angelica is an only child, where Courtney had her little brother, Blake Gripling.
Savana Shane [Angelica's Rival] = Miranda Killgallen [Courtney Gripling's BFF], whom is ironically voiced by the same Shayna Fox, who voiced Reggie Rocket. Just listen to Savana Shane and Reggie Rocket and you'll hear the similarity.

I don't know where to place Phil and Lil DeVille as they both remind me of similar versions of Tino Tonitini [from the Weekenders] and Tish Katsufrakis [also from the Weekenders whom is also voiced by Kath Soucie], so they're an exception.
 
Yes, they are both innocent, and naive.

I can see how someone would be reminded of Spongebob by Flapjack though, since they have the 'sea' theme going on, and main characters with similar personality traits.

But it does not mean that the show themselves aren't different from one another enough for Flapjack to be regarded as its own unique show.
Other than the main character, I don't really see any striking resemblances, even Flapjack and Spongebob themselves aren't clones of one another.

Spongebob lives on his own, is an adult (I'm guessing), while Flapjack has mother and role model (if you can call K'nuckles that) figures he lives with.
Flapjack is a little boy, while Spongebob is a sponge.
Spongebob's best friend (Patrick) is about as naive as he is, and K'nuckles is an illiterate candy-eating adventurer who can be a jerk, and sometimes takes advantage of Flapjack.

Humor style is also different. Flapjack tends to be a lot more visual than Spongebob is.

Flapjack lives in a late 1800s era, while Spongebob is set in modern times.

The main characters' personalities may remind you of each other, but the similarities don't really stretch farther than that.
 
While on the subject of Chowder, I can safely say that Season 2 is trying way too hard, or at least for my taste.

This is something I said on another site. It's basically how I feel about Season 2 of Chowder, though reworded and I added a few things.

Personally, the second season of Chowder sucks for me is because, the jokes aren't as funny as they were in season 1. A prime example would be how the Chowder crew relies too much on breaking the 4th wall, which was cute at first, but when you do it like 3 times in one episode, that does get a little tiresome. There's also the constant screaming that every character does. It's irritating and not funny, I didn't even like that joke back in season 1. Also Chowder's stupidity is an issue. It felt like he got stupider over the run of the show. Basically, it felt like the crew thought that the fourth-wall jokes, the endless screaming, and Chowder's stupidity were so funny, that they decided to make sure that every episode had the 3 mentioned above. Also I miss the ambition of Chowder wanting to be a chef, what happened to that? I actually liked that aspect.
 
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