Worst cartoons you remember?

[Archae]

Childhood, adulthood, Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood...

What were the worst cartoons you've seen?

For me?
Terrytoons.
Mighty Mouse, Heckle And Jeckle, Farmer Al Falfa, etc.

They were cheaply made, badly animated, and the sound was awful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_SVe7Z9e5o

[jobycom]

1. Cow and Chicken.

To explain what was bad about it would be to give it too much recognition.

[kentauros]

2. Well, I liked Terrytoons.

But there's nothing worse than "Clutch Cargo".

See for yourself ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFnLirXjjto

[murielm99]

3. I liked Clutch Cargo!

When I was a kid, I couldn't stop looking at the mouths.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Me, too. And Space Angel. Same deal with the superimposed mouths.

It was SO cheesey I give 'em a pass.

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. I LOVED Space Angel. There was something unbelievably and elusively perverse about it. n/t

[kentauros]

11. Well, okay

:P

As a kid, I don't think I cared. If it was a cartoon, I watched it ;)
In later years, the "Syncro-Vox" was kind of creepy. They did a better job of that with Space Angel and why I didn't include it. Plus the stories were better.

[Richard Steele]

4. Those 1960s '2nd generation' Tom and Jerry cartoons with the wierd echoey soundtracks....

I don't even know what that crap was SUPPOSED to be-
it was just some unwatchably messed-up stuff.

Fred Quimby was spinning in his grave when they made that shit.

[Kat45]

5. Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa

As an adult. It was on in 1992-93. It was so bad that I had to google to get the name. I love cows and was looking forward to it, but it was so bad that I didn't watch it more than once or twice. But I do have a cow character bubble bath from the cartoon.

Another bad one was The Brothers Grunt, also as an adult. I think it was on MTV. Does anyone remember that?

I probably am thankfully forgetting the bad cartoons of my childhood; I'm sure there were some.

[Aristus]

6. A lot of the later Popeye and Woody Woodpecker cartoons were pretty bad.

Woody Woodpecker cartoons were produced right up into the early seventies, a full decade after most other studios had closed their cartoon divisions. Cartoons from those last few, limping years were atrocious, mostly. I remember one Woody cartoon in which audio synchronization was a full 3-4 seconds off the visual.

The final Popeye cartoons (before Popeye's Saturday morning revival in the late '70's) were simply depressing. Muddy, shoddy-looking animation, stupid plots, boring execution. The series had come a long way from the masterful, black-and-white Fleischer cartoons of the '30's, and the bright, festive color cartoons of the '40's and '50's.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. As a kid, the Terrytoons stuff just bummed me out. It was my intro to the concept of 'off-brand.'

After the initial wave of Japanese animation (AstroBoy, Gigantor, even Speed Racer), that stuff got pretty sad, too. Everything's about some kids controlling or learning to control some powerful force. Sheesh, we get it. Tell fucking Pikachu to go steal a pic-a-nic basket and don't stretch it out for 23 minutes.

[TheMightyFavog]

14. Two words: Cowboy Bebop.

Yes, there is an annoying preteen who's an elite hackerr, but the series does not revolve around her.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

32. I liked Cowboy Bebop

Great soundtrack and interesting overall story

[MilesColtrane]

9. Speed Racer

Hated it then, hate it still.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sil3smlJ0lk

[gratuitous]

10. Yep, ultra-stupid

And then they decided to make a movie about it instead of using that money to feed India for a year.

[kentauros]

46. This is the best version of Speed:

Go, Speed, Go!

:P

[Joe Fields]

16. I will second that, and add Johnny Quest.

[MilesColtrane]

17. Crappy animation, but I'll give Johnny Quest a pass because of the theme music.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ydk3_jonny-quest-opening_shortfilms

[gratuitous]

35. Zim zalla bim

Having turned Joe Fields into a newt for his blasphemy against Jonny Quest and the Holy Shock of Blond, gratuitous retires to contemplate the absolute suckitude of Speed Racer.

[Joe Fields]

39. lol

pretty fancy typing for a newt, huh?

[Joe Fields]

40. dupe

[Orrex]

13. Family Guy

Though I only barely remember it. I've worked very hard to blot that awful, overpraised shit-fest from my memory.

[stuntcat]

25. ^

awful, overpraised shit-fest, tehe indeed

[Bucky]

28. Entirely derivative. It so dependent on shock value humor that it's predictable.

and predictable is the exact opposite of funny.

[Broken_Hero]

15. Space Ghost, Speed Racer, -edit

My Gym Partner is a Monkey...those are about the only ones that pop into mind.

eta:super friends, although I remember liking them as a child, when I rewatched some, I couldn't believe how cheesy the show actually was.

[meegbear]

18. The later Pink Panther cartoons ...

they talk, including the pink one himself!

BLASPHEMY!

[seabeyond]

19. johnny bravo, ed ed and eddy, sponge bob, power girls.... nt

[HughBeaumont]

20. Spongebob Squarepants, without hesitation.

The most annoying rotted bag of garbage ever. It's not even "so stupid it's great", it's just fucking stupid and inane.

After that abomination,

Smurfs
Most Hanna-Barbera output post-Flintstones, especially Scooby Doo
Muppet Babies
Early Tom and Jerry
Most anime

[LynneSin]

21. OMG ARE YOU INSANE!!

Spongebob Squarepants is LEGENDARY

I :loveya: Spongebob!

[HughBeaumont]

31. No, Spongebob sucks and is completely idiotic.

The voices, the plots, the one-trick-pony of the dumbass sponge destroying everything he comes in contact with, all of it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. Early Tom & Jerry? EARLY?

Please tell me you meant "late". The MGM shorts deserved every Oscar they got and more.

[HughBeaumont]

30. Sorry, I was just never into the mean-spiritedness of it all.

Mouse wins, cat gets humiliated and abused. Never liked Road Runner either.

It's not so much a commentary on the animation, but the ideas.

[woo me with science]

22. Candle Cove

Oh, wait, that was puppets, wasn't it?

But it was crudely done and creepy, for sure.

[HappyMe]

23. Speed Racer, Clutch Cargo

:scared: Those weird mouths on Clutch Cargo. Speed Racer was just plain stupid.

[woo me with science]

24. The Wacky Racers

Penelope Pitstop and all the rest...

Truly horrible.

[Bucky]

26. Caspar the Friendly Ghost

Even when I was in the show's target demographic, I knew they were trying to brainwash me into being a sap.

I also quit watching Johnny Quest when they quit letting him gun down enemy frogmen.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. One I saw only when I was a toddler, then picked up a DVD... awful!

The Three Stooges. A cartoon version from the 60s. Utter crap. An insult to the real Stooges.

[ceile]

33. Dennis the Menace hands down.

[edbermac]

34. They had a Beatles cartoon way back when.

Sacrilege!

[Joe Fields]

41. aw, c'mon...

I never failed to watch. Corny? Yes, but always got to hear Beatles music on Saturday morning t.v., which made it all worth it.

[edbermac]

42. Stick with Yellow Submarine.

[Mad_Dem_X]

52. Yeah, that was pretty bad.

I love The Beatles, but that cartoon pretty much sucked.

[bookworm65t]

36. Laugh A Lympics

the same every week, and bad animation to boot. I don't know why my sisters and I watched this crap every Saturday.

[HughBeaumont]

50. HATED Laff-A-Lympics.

Hanna-Barbera's "mail-it-in" style of cartooning at it's worst. They ran out of ideas, so they combined (milked) all their old badly-animated factory shows into one big stupid mess.

[bookworm65t]

37. Laugh A Lympics

the same every week, and bad animation to boot. I don't know why my sisters and I watched this crap every Saturday.

[BlueIris]

38. I was never a big fan of Animaniacs.

Just thought it was dorky and weird looking.

[Orrex]

49. I tried to like that show back in the day, but couldn't

Every show was a long, painful sequence of disjointed pop culture references. I recall one episode in which the entire "joke" was that William Shatner can't act. Oh my goodness! How edgy and original!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

43. What??????????????? *gasp*

You didn't like Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle? As a kid, I thought they were great. Of course if I watched now I might agree............ :bounce:

[annonymous]

44. Crusader Rabbit, Speed Racer, and The Smurfs

Crusader Rabbit was so bad I would leave the room whenever that show came on. The humor in that show was mostly puns and the animation was pretty lame too. I guess being a female, I didn't get Speed Racer. My brothers liked it, I hated it. The Smurfs show was terrible on all levels: animation, plots, annoying characters. Dishonorable mention goes to Cow & Chicken and Johnny Bravo on the Cartoon Network. The animation on both of them was unbelievably bad and the characters beyond stupid. I refused to let my children watch those shows.

[ThatsMyBarack]

45. Most of today's cartoons.

Why is everything CGI?

[Connie_Corleone]

47. Pink Panther, Tranzor Z.

This next one is before my time, but I've seen it on Boomerang:

The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. God, I hate that cartoon!

[chemenger]

48. Anything, everything Japanese

Pretty much anything, everything Hanna Barbera.

[HughBeaumont]

51. Pinky and the Brain . . . . and Elmyra.

Yeah, thanks for ruining a once great show with Scrappy Doo Elmyra, idiots. If it ain't broke, leave it the hell alone.

[Tabasco_Dave]

53. The Flintstones

It was the only cartoon on at 5:00 pm in my city and i still wouldn't watch that piece of crap and it was a total rip off of The Honeymooners.

[blizz]

54. hanna barbara