The Worst Shows You Used to Watch When You Were a Kid - I.E. Childhood shows that make you cringe in retrospect.

I think I mentioned this in another thread already but Butt Ugly Martians was pretty fucking awful. It was an early CGI show but even for the time looked terrible, there were genuinely PS1 games with better CG. I still watched it, no idea why, guess nothing better was on in the same time slot.
 
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Stasi said:
I think I mentioned this in another thread already but Butt Ugly Martians was pretty fucking awful. It was an early CGI show but even for the time looked terrible, there were genuinely PS1 games with better CG. I still watched it, no idea why, guess nothing better was on in the same time slot.
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I still remember the theme song from when I was a kid. This shit really was butt ugly.
 
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Stasi said:
I think I mentioned this in another thread already but Butt Ugly Martians was pretty fucking awful. It was an early CGI show but even for the time looked terrible, there were genuinely PS1 games with better CG. I still watched it, no idea why, guess nothing better was on in the same time slot.
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I remember watching it as a kid and was genuinely confused on the blonde boy's gender several times in one episode alone. I also played with the Burger King toys with my cousin.
 
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Stasi said:
I think I mentioned this in another thread already but Butt Ugly Martians was pretty fucking awful. It was an early CGI show but even for the time looked terrible, there were genuinely PS1 games with better CG. I still watched it, no idea why, guess nothing better was on in the same time slot.
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My mother actually banned me from watching this thing. Not because of the apparent quality, mind-you, but because of the title alone.

Frankly, I think I might have dodged a bullet.
 
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Stasi said:
I think I mentioned this in another thread already but Butt Ugly Martians was pretty fucking awful. It was an early CGI show but even for the time looked terrible, there were genuinely PS1 games with better CG. I still watched it, no idea why, guess nothing better was on in the same time slot.
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How exactly do the humans in this show manage to look uglier than the titular "Butt-Ugly Martians"?
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Stasi said:
It was an early CGI show but even for the time looked terrible
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I want to give them credit for admitting it via title, but I really can't because it's a bit too ironic and they didn't make up for it with clever scripts either.

Jimmy Neutron was similarly bad looking. I remember once reading that they did a introduction movie because that'd give them movie-budget character models, props, and sets to reuse, but you wouldn't know that by looking at it.
 
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Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
It aired at around the same time this did.

I'll bet I'm the first person to bring this show up in 20 years.
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I think I remember this. I caught an episode during a family trip when we were at a motel. I loved it but could never find the show ever again after that and couldn't remember the name either. Thanks.
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Strange, I don't remember that. With the exception of Double Dare, most of their live-action stuff bored me.
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Most of the live action Nickelodeon shit was good like Clarissa Explains it All and Wild And Crazy Kids plus What Would You Do? Salute Your Shorts was probably the best one and it's shame it only lasted two season (NB4 Zeke the Plumber memes). Even Hey Dude and Roundhouse was tolerable. Then there was The Adventures of Alex Mack. The really bad live action ones came later like The 100 Good Deeds of Eddie Mcdowed and The Journey of Allen Strange.

I remember for a minute the network re-ran episodes of the Wonder Years (great show) and quickly abandoned doing so when they ran several episodes that had swearing in it.
 
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I want to give them credit for admitting it via title, but I really can't because it's a bit too ironic and they didn't make up for it with clever scripts either.

Jimmy Neutron was similarly bad looking. I remember once reading that they did a introduction movie because that'd give them movie-budget character models, props, and sets to reuse, but you wouldn't know that by looking at it.
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Ironically, some of the movie's designs were thrown out when they made the show. For instance, Cindy had a pink T-shirt and pigtails in the movie, but in the series she had a green tank top and ponytail. Libby's movie design initially carried over from the movie, but after a late first season episode where the characters went to Egypt, she was disguised as the queen she resembled to get rid of some hostile mummies, and she kept the hairdo from that for the rest of the series.

Yeah, I watched a lot of Jimmy Neutron growing up.

At any rate, it took a long, long, loooong time for CG artists to get humans right. They just kept throwing "realistic" design after "realistic" design at us, not realizing how creepy and unnatural those kinds of designs looked. Even some of the early Pixar films were guilty of this (that freaky-ass baby from Tin Toy, for example). As far as I can tell, it wasn't until Brad Bird, fresh off The Iron Giant, said "Watch and learn, bitches," applied his 2D sensibilities to 3D, and made The Incredibles that CG humans started to look like anything other than demonic puppets.
 
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Back when I was around 12-13 years old I thought that Tom Green was the funniest shit ever, but watching old clips on Youtube as an adult I can't believe that anyone ever found Tom to be funny in the first place, the guy was the epitome of autistic cringe.

Some other dishonorable mentions:
The Simpsons after season 8
Digimon after season 1
Rocket Power (I don't understand why people think this show was good)
All That (the lame jokes and skits just repeated themsleves over and over again)
Sewer Sharks (just a lame ass TMNT rip off and I even had some of the toys for some autistic reason)
Full House (my sister always watched reruns so sometimes I would watch it with her)
Hey Dude
WWF/E after 2001/'02 (It's pretty ridiculous how shitty WWF/E got right after they bought out all their competition)
 
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I feel kinda bad to say this to an extent, but when I was preschool age I used to love the shit out of Muppet Babies. Yeah I know, patient zero for the "established characters but as babies/kids" craze, but when I was really young Muppet Babies was my jam. Got bored with it by the time I was in first grade, but reruns seemed to continue on forever. I would never try to watch an episode today, but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for it since it was my first exposure to Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Aliens.
 
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North American cartoons and shows:
"Denver The Last Dinosaur", "The Wacky World of Tex Avery", "Two and a Half Men", "Johnny Test", "Alien Bazar", "I Got a Rocket!", "Back at the Barnyard", "Têtes à claques", anything by Dan Schneider, "Almost Naked Animals"

European cartoons (French fag here):
"Bibi Blocksberg", "Space Goofs", "Oggy and the Cockroaches" (It was my favorite cartoon when I was a little kid :(), "Frog et Fou Furet", "Kangoo Juniors", "Spaced Out", "Bibi und Tina", "Skunk Fu!", "Moot Moot"

This list includes some shows that I watched and liked as a child but mostly things that I didn't like.
 
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When I was little, there was a show on Nickelodeon that I'd watch from time to time, The Secret World of Alex Mack. Apparently it was more popular than I thought because they made 78 episodes and 34 books about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_World_of_Alex_Mack
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The hook of the show was that the teenage girl protagonist had a supernatural thing happen to her where she could learn how to turn into a pile of 3D animated liquid goo, which let her traverse through pipes, vents, etc:
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IIRC in the first episode, when she melted herself, she couldn't bring her clothes, but eventually figured out how to keep them on when melting, which made sense when I was a child, but comes off as super fucking skeevy today. And not to mention all the melting shit just in general nowadays sounds like fetish material, though I've never come across anyone online acting creepy about this show, go figure. There must be someone out there with a weird creepy obsession, right?

Turns out, right on the actress' own Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larisa_Oleynik

Personal life[edit]​

Oleynik resides in Venice, California.[9]

In January 2013, she was granted a restraining order against a stalker who was so obsessed with her that he changed his last name to "Oleynik".[29][30]
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TMZ has an article covering it: https://www.tmz.com/2013/02/04/lari...-alex-mack-stalker-restraining-order-granted/
"Secret World of Alex Mack" star Larisa Oleynik got a three-year restraining order against a crazed fan who was so obsessed he changed his last name to Oleynik ... TMZ has learned.

A judge granted the order against Josh Hathaway -- a.k.a Josh Oleynik -- in L.A. County Superior Court on January 31.

In legal docs, Larisa says the harassment began in July 2012 when Josh started calling her mother nonstop, and leaving gifts for her at her mom's apartment.

Larisa says Josh wrote books and love letters for her featuring creepy passages like ... "You are very beloved by me everyday. You are very precious to me ... keep me on your wheel of love."

She also says Josh left a voicemail saying he changed his last name to Oleynik in 2010 ... to "build a relationship," and wanted to propose to her.

In Larisa's legal filing she says, "I feel that I am being stalked. I am worried he is unstable and could snap at any moment."

The judge clearly agreed ... ordering Josh to stop all contact with and stay 100 yards away from Larisa and her mom until Jan. 2016.
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lmao holy shit, poor Larisa
 
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Fanboy and Chum Chum, Johnny Test, any of the flash shows airing around the CN Real era before Adventure Time and Regular show.

That was one of the worst periods of network cartoons. Nothing good was on. Ever. It was especially unfortunate if you were old enough to remember shows like Kid's Next Door, Courage the Cowardly Dog or early Spongebob. I remember being younger and wondering where all the good fucking cartoons went.

And god forbid you were home sick, it'd be that or Scooby Doo and the Annoying Orange for 8 straight hours.
 
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For me Johnny Test!!
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He's an annoying kid but his sisters are sociopathic mad scientists. I'm imagining a future where they grow up to be super villains. Their abilities are godlike. And there are two of them. :cryblood:
 
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