Trivial things in cartoons that annoy you

In underwater scenes, most animated shows depict bubbles as perfect spheres, and it really irritates me because air bubbles don't do that; soap bubbles do. These are soap bubbles; these are air bubbles. Learn the difference!

I dunno, maybe it's just too hard to animate? The underwater scenes in most big-budget animated movies seem to get it right, but they usually have effects animators on staff to handle that stuff.
 
^Out of all the members here to point that out I'm not surprised that it's you.

Put me down as someone else who hates the "I'm okay!" line.
 
Sort of going along with the "I'm Okay" line, I think Spongebob is the only cartoon that can get away with saying "my leg!" or some form of it without it getting irritating (but then again, in the later seasons I don't enjoy the "my leg" gag as much as I used to).
 
It bothers me when characters go to the bathroom and don't wash their hands. Or when they get spit on by someone or slobbered on by some animal and don't wash their face.



George Carlin would be disappointed in me.
 
It's annoying when anthropomorphism is taken to extremes (Ex: the Chippettes and the characters on PBS's Arthur). Animals that not only talk and walk like humans, but have completely human anatomies, including human hair, hands and feet! If you're going to make them that much like people, you might as well just work with human characters.
 
Hm... what are they called? There was this certain word... about people, who likes animals in humanoid shapes... not sure if it's an okay word to say either..
 
He might be thinking of another word for the same thing, with two Fs in it, that gets thrown around on boards like 4Chan. No, you can't use -that- word here.
 
When characters don't remember events that happened in previous episodes, or when things just "reset" at the beginning of each episode. XD; That bugs me. And to a lesser extent, when characters jump abnormally high, even though they're just humans. :sad:
 
To add to that, it bugs me when on action cartoons, characters' power levels fluctuate, or the writers simply can't keep track of a character's power and skill levels, and the limits of said powers.

Case in point, in the Teen Titans episode "Sisters", Robin punches through the hull of a metallic alien starship tracker thing in order to disable it, using only his gloved fist. Quite a feat for a kid who's not supposed to have super-strength or any other superhuman powers.

Also, on The Super Hero Squad Show episode "Deadly is the Black Widow's Bite!", Mystique disguises herself as Black Window in order to infiltrate the Hellicarrier and deceive the Squad. All of the Squaddies fall for the ruse, including Wolverine. Wolvie should have been able to detect that it was really Mystique just by her scent, but the writers opted to forget that he had that ability in order to prolong the story. In this same episode, Mystique morphs into Iron Man and copies his armor's energy blasts and morphs into Hulk and replicates his super-strength, neither of which should've happened since Mystique isn't supposed to be able to copy peoples' powers, only their appearances.

Granted, it's just Super Hero Sqaud we're talking about here, but still...
 
I'll give a specific example of a broader formula that bugs me - in Voltron, they never just formed Voltron right away, formed the Blazing Sword, and killed the robeast. No, they started as lions or ships, then formed Voltron when they couldn't beat the robeast, then eventually formed the Blazing Sword when their other weapons were ineffective.

This is an issue in a lot of action cartoons.
 
I don't mind this if timed perfectly (Or if it's the "My Leg" variant in SpongeBob). But it does get annoying well over time.

And I believe that Romperstoomper meant furries Shawn.

In my opinion, I hate prominent adams apples on males. Or when characters look off compared to other episodes (Common problem in the nineties and eighties, less of a problem nowadays, but still kicking). I'm also not a huge fan of annoying little kids in animation (as well as live action) because... well, they're annoying.
 
Usually if they say a place is windy of some sorts, or I know is somewhat windy, like being in the air, they don't really reflect it on any characters clothing or hair. I know that something like that is minimal, but wouldn't things like hair be moving if you were high up on a balloon of somesorts?
 
WRONG!

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**And the crowd goes wild**
Heres an imaginated box, with imaginated content. Use it wisley.

ALSO. On the topic.

Children in war. I'm thinking Ashoka.
I don't hate it. But it sort of naggs me a bit.

I mean that episode when Asoka lead a squadron of fighters and everyone gets killed and they where all like, whatever Asoka, as long as you have learned something, then it's ok!
Forget the lives that your impulsive actions just ruined!

Why did they make the child a leader? That and how they forget about the lives that where lost. Just why? THAT is annoying to me. Like they where nothing than freaking training dolls!:mad:

WAIT! Not done yet..

Another heavy stuppidity hitter is, women fighting in high heels.
Or more specific, if they are used as actual fighting gear.
Is that irritating or what?
 
The fighting in High heels get me when they're pointed heels, if they're a flat squared off heel I give it some slack, I can run in some of mine. As for fighting with shoes I have a pair of stilettos that could put a hole in someone.
 
The fighting and running in pointy high heels thing always annoys me, too. I can just hear an ankle break when they trip or get the heel caught on a grate or something. It's not impractical for a superheroine, it's idiotic.
 
You know, that used to bug the hell out of me. But then it occurred to me that normal humans don't necessarily have the same limitations in a given fictional universe that they have in real life.

As long as Robin is consistently able to do that kind of stuff (and he definitely is, from what I remember), I'm cool with it. On the other hand, Samurai Jack annoyed me because he seemed to lose his ability to "jump good" after the episode where he learned it (yet I have no problem with the fact that he was able to learn to jump that high, I just don't like that it was ignored later on).
 
I thought Squidward cheerfully going to Spongebob's parties in "Spongebob Meets the Strangler" was very out-of-character.

Also, I didn't like that Squid was also a fan of a boy band.
 
I think that was the joke, regarding that situation. You see all these people parting in SpongeBob's house and you go, "Hey wait a minute- why is Squidward there?"

Plankton was there as well...
 
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