Worst cartoon on TV today

"Skunk-Fu!" because the show is boring and I don't like the jokes they use. Plus all episodes seem as if they have the same plot (using Ninja-Monkeys). Oh and the animation is bad...
 
F&CC is one of those shows (along with JT and Flapjack) where I want the main character(s) to go die in a fire, but I kinda like the supporting cast.

Now, if the show revolved around Kyle the Wizard Boy and the supporting cast was his supporting cast, it'd be a great show.
 
I quite agree. Susan & Mary are the best part of the show. They'd be much more interesting and better characters to build the series around than the ?ber annoying, horribly generic boy anti-hero Johnny. Actually, except for Johnny, whom I'd definitely like to see the back of, I can tolerate most of Test's main cast.

I've only seen a couple of episodes of The Garfield Show (literally a couple--2), and while I haven't seen enough of TGS to truly dislike it, I must concede that while it's intentions may be good, that TGS pales in comparison to Garfield & Friends.

On the subject of series with wasted potential, I'd like to mention Adult Swim's Titan Maximum. This could have been a great idea, but it was wasted by it's producers executing TM in the manner of an extended Robot Chicken sketch, and not a particularly funny one.
 
The Cartoon Network Canadian Adobe Flash shows get an immediate channel change when they're on. Seriously, why would I want to watch an animated Dawson's Creek?
 
In my opinion, the worst cartoon of today would either be Fanboy and Chum Chum or South Park. For Fanboy and Chum Chum, I personally find there to be way too much toilet humor, which I hate a lot of. For South Park, for some reason, I don't understand why many people like this show. In my opinion, South Park has way too much bad humor that I find unenjoyable, while others find it enjoyable. I never saw the appeal to South Park.
 
I don't watch as much TV as I used to, but from what I've seen lately, Fanboy and Chum Chum has the "honor" of being one of the worst. While it did have a couple of chuckle-worthy moments (the episode where the class tried to win a bouncy house), the designs are jarring, and it seems like everyone shouts their lines *especially Chum Chum*, and relies too much on toilet humor.
 
I agreed with Johnny Test and Chum Chum (Fanboy and Flapjack aren't that bad). IMO, Johnny is boring and Chum Chum annoys me so much escipally the robot claws (where Fanboy becomes a robot) and the mist gag thing (the one when Boog sees a monster), as well as he says Poop every time Fanboy says the janitor name. I don't find it funny anymore. Another couple things that annoys me is he stole the thing for the chimp chomp game which makes Boog mad, and whenever he immates sound effects (Ex. horn sound in the great bike mystery, crowd auddience in the start of the brain episode, the noises he makes in the start of Norse Code, which annoys Mr. Mufflin), those are so annoying. Chum Chum is not improving anymore. He remains as my worst character next to Yo. Yo annoys me so in Brain Drain and Prank Master.

Sorry for off topic, but anyways Johnny Test is my least favorite show. It deserves to be in a morning slot on a different network just like it use to before putting on CN. It gets on my nerves when on CN. Johnny's my least favorite character of the show as I said before.
 
I find Fanboy annoying because he, for some reason, has the need to SCREAM ALL HIS LINES AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS. Chum Chum, is, well... he's barely anything. He seeminly exiists fpor the sole purpose of repeating whatever idiotic thing Fanboy says. He has almost no personality of his own.
 
Why would a program's time slot affect how you feel about the show itself? The producers don't have any say in when the networks choose to air their programming, so if a show gets death slotted, that's not the fault of the show or the people who worked on it. That statement doesn't make sense.
 
I don't think they're awful, but I have the hardest time with Family Guy, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Simpsons because they're so scattershot. For every time I find something funny, I find something unbearably unfunny and/or uncomfortable. For instance:

*Family Guy's most annoying traits to me are the overuse of Overly Long Gags and Author Filibusters, the latter of which only seem worse because of how they seem to break the characters' types ? and even worse yet when religion is the primary target of bashing. Also, mimicking something note-for-note is not the same thing as parody.

*SpongeBob SquarePants has an incredibly annoying theme song; the fact that he lives in a pineapple under the sea just feels random in the most forced way. I don't know how to describe it, really ? there's just something about, say, "I wanna be a mongoose dog!" that feels more naturally random compared to pineapple under the sea, bologna in one's slacks, etc.

*The Simpsons just doesn't have any characters that I find particularly enjoyable, even before the mass Flanderization. Maybe it's just the episodes I've seen?

And among all three, I've said several times that I don't really like the "dumb" characters for the most part, and all three shows I mentioned have primary characters who are "dumb."
 
Family Guy.

And I honestly never thought I would give that answer in a topic like this, because what's happened to the show is mind-blowing. Those original three seasons before the period of cancellation it had are still some of the funniest and most clever things I've ever seen, and while some of the negative things the show is known for are in them, they actually kept them in moderation, and also put actual effort into telling a coherent story and making the characters believable to some extent.

As far as I know, none of the original writers came back when the show was renewed (MacFarlane doesn't count; he only acts and produces all of his shows nowadays), and it really, REALLY shows. I was thrilled at the announcement, and I even found the first new episode of the season (The one involving Passion of the Christ 2) to be quite good. Then next week was horrible, but I just wrote it off as a fluke. Then the week after that. Then the week after that. Then the week after that.

Finally, it got to the point where a season had ended. I looked back and realized that because of my devotion to the old episodes, I had sat through a bunch of garbage. At that point, I only watched occasionally, and eventually I just gave up. Nowadays, he only recent episodes I've seen were Road to The Multiverse and the first Star Wars episode because people online were absolutely raving about them, but I walked away finding them to still be crap and in terms of their concepts, wasted potential.

Okay, I take that back. I did just watch Brian's Got A Brand New Bag on Hulu after checking out the TVTropes Family Guy Dethroning page (Where people post their opinion on when the show pretty much jumped the shark) because I couldn't believe the stupid things I read about the episode and wanted to see if it was really that bad. It was, and when I read the little reviews for the episode on this board I was stunned to see people loved it.

If you're wondering WHY I hate the new Family Guy, where do I start?

- Offensive humor that seems to be there only to be offensive. Not only does that get old fast, but there is so much more racial humor thrown in than any of the other seasons- Hell, even any other SHOW, including stuff like Drawn Together and South Park- that it gets to the point where I'm worried that some of the people behind this really do feel that way, and are getting away with it and becoming rich all in the name of comedy. They have nonstop jokes about Mexicans being poor. They have nonstop jokes about Asians having tiny genitals and breasts (Not to mention out of nowhere Peter starts talking about having sex with an Asian girl and fantasizing about it for half a minute in the middle of a speech). Oddly enough, I don't remember seeing as many jokes targeted as blacks as these others.

- Plots that are just dumb. I noticed this in Petarded, where Peter really starts messing with the family, eventually resulting in Lois getting covered in boiling french fry oil and being in a full-body cast at the hospital. Then Peter's at home sulking, he opens the door, and...There's the whole family, with a perfectly healed Lois (No explanation given), who forgives him for no reason. Also, go look at a synopsis or watch the episode McStroke- Often shows like Family Guy and Simpsons have a set up in the first act that leads into a different plot, but the first plot in this TAKES UP AT LEAST HALF THE EPISODE. The shift is jarring, and the resulting plot is ludicrous- Peter wants to bring down the fast food company that allowed him to eat 200 burgers and have a stroke (Because apparently that's their fault), and finds a talking cow (?) that can describe how they treat their cattle. They go out of business and Peter's a hero. WHAT?!

- The main cast has been ruined. Brian has gone from a straight man to an avatar for whatever social issue the writers want to talk about. They devote an episode to show Brian proving that God doesn't exist and religous people are idiots. They devote an episode to Brian arguing that pot should be legalized. As for other characters, Peter has gone from a stupid but good-hearted guy to a maniac who beats up random people (including his kids), Lois has gone from another sort of straight man to a sex maniac who cheats on her husband, berates her kids, and so on. Stewie is mostly unchanged, but Chris and Meg are almost nonexistent in the big picture now. And don't get me started on the Meg-bashing jokes- It's not that I feel so sorry for her so much as that they are just running the same basic joke into the ground- not to mention that it's really strange that the family appreciated her to some extent in the old seasons (There were bashing jokes then, but they were less frequent and much funnier as a result) and went to finding her a waste of life between seasons with no explanation.

Wow, I've typed a lot. I'll add some more in another post tomorrow.
 
Wow, that is exactly how I feel.

I love the episodes before it got canceled. They're very witty and intelligent.

The later episodes just seem to randomly insert racy offensive 'jokes' and then write it off as humor... I've seen plenty of comedies that don't resort to shock-value and are much funnier as well.
 
Nearly all series done in Flash can be very off-putting to me animation wise. Now don't get me wrong, I've actually created some cartoons in Flash, myself, and 'Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends' is one of the few decent looking shows done in Flash, but sometimes with other shows, it looks painfully obvious, and doesn't even try to look as good as tradition pencil animation.I think the show would look much better in traditional animation rather then CGI.
 
It'd be easy to pick a terrible show, or a preschool show and judge it under the eyes of an adult, but I'll go a different route and think of something else that can be considered bad.

Generator Rex and Adventure Time are just bad. Bad for the fact they're rated PG, yet don't do anything with the label and are holding animation back. I've seen some episodes of each, and while I don't like either of them, I was interested in what kind of content they would have since it's rare to see PG stuff on a children's network so I kept watching. I was disappointed though because I saw nothing objectionable in them. Everything I saw had already been done in other shows that were only rated Y7 and the PG rating came off as if it was just trying to attract kids who think PG is 'cool', like some kind of way to combat the success of Nick and Disney's live-action 'teen' shows. I find them terrible because they squander a lot of potential that comes with the rating, which could allow for more dynamic storytelling, but instead it's just the same stuff as before. At least other shows don't have any pretense that they're more than bad, but CN seems to be toting these labels like some kind of quality badge, without being able to back anything up
 
I thought about adding Maisy, but you've covered most of the points on it. I actually like how the show is animated, though? something I can't say about Rescue Heroes or Jane and the Dragon (although J&tD has a fantastic musical score).
 
I agree with you totally on this man. Generator Rex has not impressed me so far. I was hoping the PG rating would mean more dynamic and mature storytelling. Instead it's the same cilche stuff with creepy looking aliens and a tad bit more violence that most toons. It's really not anymore mature than Ben 10. I mean look at what toons such as Batman TAS, Gargoyles, Specatular Spiderman, and Avatar was able to do with a Y7 rating. Imagine how much more they could've accomplished with PG. That's why i kind of wish Avatar would've been a CN instead of Nickelodeon. I never really thought it was a series Nickelodeon deserved to have anyway, considering how they treated it. Especially now that they've regressed to making banal, moronic trash such as Fanboy and Chum Chum which no responsible parent should let their children watch.
 
How much of Generator Rex have you seen? Most episodes so far are relatively tame, but a few of them have actually displayed a much scarier atmosphere and generally darker themes that wouldn't fit comfortably with TV-Y7; I'm thinking mainly about "Frostbite" and "Breach".

Also, CN actually skipped one of the episodes (1x08 - The Hunter), though clips of it are/were available on CN's video website. People who saw the clips talked about how intense it was and how it seemed like it would really take advantage of the PG rating in terms of conceptual maturity.
 
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