The dumbest toon parents

It's Butch Hartman.

The parents on Dexter's Laboratory were pretty clueless. How do you not notice a super high tech lab operating right under your nose? But then, many of the parents on kids' shows are cheerfully oblivious to the goings on of their kids's lives.
 
I'm going to go with Timmy Turner's parents from Fairly Odd Parents. They were beyond clueless regarding how Vicky is a horrible babysitter, even with clear evidence right in front of them. Of course, as Blackstar mentioned, parents are often oblivious regarding what really happens in their child's or children's life/lives in an animated series.
 
Actually, they were more oblivious because their black and white views on ghosts (AKA, all ghosts are bad no matter how much good they do) prevent them from ever thinking their son could be a ghoul. They would only suspect if he was behaving different (as they did with Jazz in the pilot episode). Otherwise, there is absolutely nothing stupid about them. They're scientists who exceed in their fields and actually possess great intelligence.

So this is less about them being dumb then it is about them being oblivious and blinded by their prejudice.
 
Good point, I will add another show other than FOP.

Rugrats parents seem dumb sometimes, although that might be because we see them out of a kids POV, but they still seemed dumb in AGU, so you decide.
 
I would have to say Jimmy Neutron's parents. They actually equate making contact with aliens with talking to strangers, which in fact kills the entire film, but that's for another topic.
 
Mom on Dinosaur King. Yeah, alot of ppl on this show mistake dinosaurs for dogs- but how many live in the same house and probably pick up after them from time to time?
 
I suppose South Park counts as a show that's "focusing on the children", so i might as well give a mention to the parents in that one.
 
You get the point, the parents are meant to be like that, overreacting over the simplest things, like the economy, going as far as to recreate the Last Supper, ending with Kyle ruining his credit.
 
I thought that the parents on Rugrats were more clueless than dumb since they kept on losing sight of their babies. I didn't think that they were still like that in All Grown Up, but it probably helps that we didn't really see that much of them in that series anyway.



I believe her name is Aki and as you pointed out a lot of people on Dinosaur King think that the tiny forms of the dinosaurs are dogs. That always felt weird to me since dogs don't generally have spikes, horns or scales, but it's a gag for the show.
 
Pretty off topic, but Aki seems like a nice name for 4kids to use, but for some reason they choose to not use it again in Yugioh. Guess they have a rule against characters from different shows having the same name.
 
Aki is the mom's name in Japan also. I don't know if there's any connection with Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I was somewhat surprised that Dinosaur King's producers kept the mom's Japanese name when all of the other main characters were given American names for the 4Kids dub:


  • Ryuta Kodai = Max Taylor
  • Rekkusu Ōen = Rex Owen
  • Malm Tatsuno = Zoe Drake
  • Dr. Kenryu Kodai = Dr. Spike Taylor
  • Riasu Tatsuno = Reese Drake...etc.

I figured that 4Kids would have given Max's mom an American 1st name, like Ann or Alex or Alice for the U.S. version. But anyway, sorry to stray off topic there.
 
One of the main characters in Yugioh 5Ds is named Aki Izayoi, but the dub became Akiza Izinsky, but the last name is never really mentioned.
 
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