Worst episode titles for cartoons?

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We did a similar thread to this in the anime board about what the worst ep titles for anime shows are called, it might be a good idea for this board too. My vote goes to Family Guy's: "the tan aquatic with steve zissou". It doesnt even make all that sense, even if you remove the steve zissou part, since "the tan aquatic" makes me think of some weird underwater tanning thing (yes, i am aware of the film that the title is spoofing). "Radio Bart" from the simpsons is pretty bad too, since it sounds like the premise is that bart gets his own radio station or something. Some pun involving the word well would have been more fitting IMO.
 
Bonfire of the Manatees: What bonfire?

Grift of the Magi: What magi?

The Computer Wore Menace Shoes: Huh?

Sleeping With the Enemy: At what point did someone sleep with Nelson?

Tennis the Menace: What did tennis do that was so menacing?

Insane Clown Poppy: Huh?
 
Wusssycat,

I can't tell if you're serious or just joking. Those are parodies of stuff, I'll clarify.

Bonfire of the Manatees=Bonfire of the Vanity

Grift of the Magi=Gift Of The Magi

The Computer Wore Menace Shoes=The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Sleeping With the Enemy=A Reference To The Julia Roberts Movie Of The Same Name

Tennis the Menace=Dennis The Mennis

Insane Clown Poppy=Insane Clown Posse
 
Yep, definitely agree with this one. Such a long name to do a gag with, especially a gag that only involved changing one word to fit the episode's theme.

FG had a handful of those titles that I really just hated, and it's unfortunate too because some of those episodes were really good.
 
The tennis was a menace because it was causing a schism in the family due to Bart taking over Homer's role as Marge's tennis partner. It was also a menace because it was causing the town to laugh at Homer and Marge because of how bad they were. Make sense now? :p

I'd say the first four Family Guy episodes had bad titles. Campy and goofy due to all being about death or murder, sure. But they said nothing about what the episode was about. Even the staff admitted they were getting confused as to what episode was what because they were all the same.

Actually, I've also found this to be the case with some Looney Tunes shorts. A lot of the Bugs Bunny titles were simply puns using "Hare" or "Bunny". In those instances it's really difficult to place a short with its title unless you're really well-versed in them.
 
Well true. In which case Simpsons was guilty of that TWICE, since they used "Fraudcast News" as a title when Darkwing Duck had used it over a decade prior. That's the kind of thing that can happen when you use punny titles- you run the risk of taking a pun that's been done before.
 
Jillian's Lesson, Take My Hostage, Please, Star Split, Diet Please, The Kindest Cut Of All, Nikki's Big Break and Splitting Image, from The Beverly Hills Teens. Oh, PUH-LEEEEEEZE!!
 
The Simpsons has probably won this, since just about every title for the last few years has been a bad pun. Look at the recently aired "He Loves To Fly And He D'Ohs".

Other notable contendor-4Kids. Puns, puns and more puns.

Other than that, anime has alot of ambigious titles "The Descending Sword", "The Opening Door", etc. The creators of Friends were kinda on to something when they titled all the eps "The One With..."
 
I choose the Huckleberry Hound short, "Ski Champ Chump". It's a bad title because it's redundant; they could've just called it "Ski Chump". When Warner Brothers employed a similar title for one of their earlier shorts, "Sport Chumpions", they didn't call it "Sport Champion Chumpions".
 
Drawn Together has lots of these.

"N.R.A.-Ray"

"Alzheimer's That Ends Well"

"Ghostesses In The Slot Machine"

"The Lemon-AIDS Walk"

"Lost In Parking Space"

"Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable"

...to name a few.
 
Let me see here

"The Crepes of Wrath" - I know it was a pun on The Grapes of Wrath, but the episode had nothing to do with crepes.

"Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut"- It could have been titled something like "Oh Father, where for Art Thou?" since it involved Cartman trying to find out who his father is.

I'll try to think of some more later on.
 
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