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

[Dolphin Lundgren]

I thought it ran for a few seasons. But IMDB says one. Was there a spinoff or TV movie?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101088/

I actually never got around to watching it.

What a mindfuck. I remember there being one season. And I remember seeing an episode of Eerie Indiana later where Omri Katz and the other kid were on a video and they were telling the new children about the weird town.

This is so weird.

 

[Trombonista]

She objectively (like most females) wasn't funny

Speak only for yourself.

Anyway, I liked Rocket Power and Angela Anaconda as a kid, but I think only the latter would hold up slightly today.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I admit: I used to watch DinoSaucers and got a chuckle out of it every once in awhile:

It was a little more self-aware than other toy commercial cartoons at the time, like it knew it was a trash toy cartoon and just had fun with it.

 

[Allanon]

Focusing on shows I liked as a kid but then went back to see and they weren't, rather than stuff that's just okay or I disliked from the beginning...

Speed Racer was like my number one top show when I was really young. I can't remember if I thought Speed was attractive, or I just liked the racer element. Regardless, I went back to it later and realized it was just terrible. I mostly liked Inspector Gadget for its opening song and its movie, but when I went back to see the show itself later, the sheer stupidity of the Inspector was just too much for me. Mighty Morphing Power Rangers was another top show for me growing up, I'd always come running inside to watch it when it was on and couldn't skip an episode, but....it's really not great. Better than any of its gritty or 'updated' remakes, though, even if it was super 90s, and all the rangers wore color-coded casual clothes.

When it was new, I was into Science Court, because I was a science nerd and I enjoyed the science + detective novel elements, even if I found it annoying that there was a designated 'hero lawyer' and a designated villain, and so the conclusion of every case was a foregone conclusion. Later I came back to it when I was trying to remember what it name even was and recoiled in horror from its artstyle. How did I ever even watch that??

Finally, I'm kind of scared to go back and watch any Magic School Bus, because I know I loved it, but how cringe and bad is it really? I don't remember. Maybe it's better I don't.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

Phineas & Pherb is maximum cringe, prove me wrong

you can't

 

[potato fan]

Bob and Margaret - an incredibly unfunny and depressing show about a British couple doing boring shit that I only watched because it was part of later evening cartoons and the alternative is going to bed. Though tbf it might simply been that I was too young to understand it.

holy shit, I've been looking for that cartoon for years, I only seen the pilot and thought it was pretty good, albeit depressing as you said

to add to the thread: Captain Planet
I absolutely loved that show as a kid, but then I am sure I am mildly retarded so no wonder

 

[Dysnomia]

What a mindfuck. I remember there being one season. And I remember seeing an episode of Eerie Indiana later where Omri Katz and the other kid were on a video and they were telling the new children about the weird town.

This is so weird.

Wait, I figured out what it is. I checked Amazon Prime and you can watch the show there. But there's another Eerie Indiana series as well called Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension. It's not really season two because it was produced in 1998. It also had one season. I didn't even know about that one.

 

[Never Scored]

Some horrible retardation that leaked out of Quebec when I was a lad:

I'm pretty sure the Raccoons was a legitimate attempt to turn kids into furries:

Also this shit which is actually being rebooted:

 

[Pissmaster]

I never really liked Doug or Rugrats but Nickelodeon showed them all the time, so I had seen every episode several times over. They were never turn-off-the-TV bad, but I watched them anyway when I just wanted to watch TV.

I went frame by frame in the animation where his head transforms because I was sure to find a silly face and I found fucking Pepe:

 

[TungstenCarbide]

When I was a child I liked a lot a tokusatsu called Tetsujin Tiger 7. The concept of a hero with a tiger mask riding a monstruos motorcycle was incredibly cool to my 10yo brain. A couple of years ago I went looking for images from the show and... well, the supercool tiger mask looks like stuffed toy.

I mean, the show was produced in 1974 and the budget was shit, but Kaiketsu Raion Maru wasn't that cringy... oh, wait...

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Wait, I figured out what it is. I checked Amazon Prime and you can watch the show there. But there's another Eerie Indiana series as well called Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension. It's not really season two because it was produced in 1998. It also had one season. I didn't even know about that one.

Ah yes. That's the one. It was the biggest letdown for child me at the time.

 

[MysticMisty]

In regards to Captain Planet, I'd watch it sometimes as a kid, never regularly, and I have to say I have zero memory of these AIDS, puppy mills, and literally Hitler episodes at all. I only remember some over-the-top polluting villain and the kids summoning Captain Planet when they couldn't handle the situation anymore (proceeding in the Captain almost immediately getting his ass kicked since his weak point is pollution, and somehow overcoming the pollution to win).

 

[Son of Sparda 84]

Mr Meaty

 

[Chad Holdenford]

Some more that I remember.

• The Mortal Kombat cartoon whose premise was basically "random MK characters forming a do-goody task force"
• The american Street Fighter cartoon, of M. Bison's "YES! YES!" fame. Yeah, that was a slog. Luckily we also received the kick-ass anime movie, plus Street Fighter II Victory, which fuck its ass and makes it humble any time of the day.
• That one Rambo cartoon where John Rambo was a chummy guerrilla warrior and used his force to combat poachers, illegal woodcutters and other menaces to nature along with some kids.
• On the same vein, that one Conan the Barbarian cartoon where the Cimmerian helped some kids return home (or so I think it is) and he wielded a magic sword that didn't hack and slash enemies, but instead transported them to another dimension.
• Some Avengers knock-off called Wild Cats, or something like that. Don't remember much, other than it being trashy.
• Sad attempts to make a Made in USA toku, like Big Bad Beetleborgs.
• I also remember VR Troopers, which are three different japanese tokusatsu series mend together, if my memory serves me correctly.
• Does anybody remember Mummies Alive? Ninja Turtles, except fucking mummies discovered by some kid.
• Also, does anybody remember Biker Mice from Mars? Ninja Turtles, except, well, it's fucking humanoid sewer rats that ride on rad motorcycles and fight off some nasty mutants. At least this one had a pretty nifty racing game for the SNES.
• Speaking of mummies, I also remember not particularly caring for that one cartoon based on The Mummy, yet it aired for quite some time in the early 00's back here.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

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Some more that I remember.

• The Mortal Kombat cartoon whose premise was basically "random MK characters forming a do-goody task force"
• The american Street Fighter cartoon, of M. Bison's "YES! YES!" fame. Yeah, that was a slog. Luckily we also received the kick-ass anime movie, plus Street Fighter II Victory, which fuck its ass and makes it humble any time of the day.
• That one Rambo cartoon where John Rambo was a chummy guerrilla warrior and used his force to combat poachers, illegal woodcutters and other menaces to nature along with some kids.
• On the same vein, that one Conan the Barbarian cartoon where the Cimmerian helped some kids return home (or so I think it is) and he wielded a magic sword that didn't hack and slash enemies, but instead transported them to another dimension.
• Some Avengers knock-off called Wild Cats, or something like that. Don't remember much, other than it being trashy.
• Sad attempts to make a Made in USA toku, like Big Bad Beetleborgs.
• I also remember VR Troopers, which are three different japanese tokusatsu series mend together, if my memory serves me correctly.
• Does anybody remember Mummies Alive? Ninja Turtles, except fucking mummies discovered by some kid.
• Also, does anybody remember Biker Mice from Mars? Ninja Turtles, except, well, it's fucking humanoid sewer rats that ride on rad motorcycles and fight off some nasty mutants. At least this one had a pretty nifty racing game for the SNES.
• Speaking of mummies, I also remember not particularly caring for that one cartoon based on The Mummy, yet it aired for quite some time in the early 00's back here.

Wildcats was from the original Image comics lineup, they threw ungodly amounts of money at those guys in the 90s. The Savage Dragon one was especially horrid. I always pictured Dragon as having a Patrick Warburton deep chicago accented voice, not the fuckhole guy they hired.

 

[Xerxes IX]

I remember watching a show about Xi Jinping's philosophy called The Book Of Pooh, which I'm going to say was bad just because looking back on it now, the puppets they used for the characters looked terrible:

By some stroke of luck I managed to avoid being one of those autists who end up being traumatized by unintentionally creepy looking things in kids' shows. I will say Tigger looks pretty good but the rest are off. The Winnie the Pooh characters don't seem to translate well IRL because I think the costumes at Disney World don't look that great either.

 

[MysticMisty]

When I was young there was a similar show called Welcome to Pooh Corner, which looked a whole lot worse than this. Which is why I never watched it willingly. One time in 4th grade my whole class had to watch the school bus safety episode as punishment though. That was torture.

It must be something about the Winnie the Pooh cast because the Dumbo's Circus show from the same time period had some pretty lousy costumes and puppetry as well, yet was considerably more tolerable.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Some more that I remember.

• The Mortal Kombat cartoon whose premise was basically "random MK characters forming a do-goody task force"
• The american Street Fighter cartoon, of M. Bison's "YES! YES!" fame. Yeah, that was a slog. Luckily we also received the kick-ass anime movie, plus Street Fighter II Victory, which fuck its ass and makes it humble any time of the day.
• That one Rambo cartoon where John Rambo was a chummy guerrilla warrior and used his force to combat poachers, illegal woodcutters and other menaces to nature along with some kids.
• On the same vein, that one Conan the Barbarian cartoon where the Cimmerian helped some kids return home (or so I think it is) and he wielded a magic sword that didn't hack and slash enemies, but instead transported them to another dimension.
• Some Avengers knock-off called Wild Cats, or something like that. Don't remember much, other than it being trashy.
• Sad attempts to make a Made in USA toku, like Big Bad Beetleborgs.
• I also remember VR Troopers, which are three different japanese tokusatsu series mend together, if my memory serves me correctly.
• Does anybody remember Mummies Alive? Ninja Turtles, except fucking mummies discovered by some kid.
• Also, does anybody remember Biker Mice from Mars? Ninja Turtles, except, well, it's fucking humanoid sewer rats that ride on rad motorcycles and fight off some nasty mutants. At least this one had a pretty nifty racing game for the SNES.
• Speaking of mummies, I also remember not particularly caring for that one cartoon based on The Mummy, yet it aired for quite some time in the early 00's back here.

KOMBAT TIME
KOMBAT TIME
*Sonia going all Leroy Jenkins* KOMBAT TIME

Anyway I remember the Avengers cartoon sucking ass because not only was Natasha not in it, but they fucked up the outfits. Scarlet Witch wore purple and black as opposed to red. The only decent thing was some of the voice cast which included Lynda Ballentine and Lenore Zahn.

Rolly Polly Olly gave me nightmares.

Hell some of the Sesame Street segments gave me nightmares

 

[Solenoid]

Phineas & Pherb is maximum cringe, prove me wrong

you can't

No zoomers allowed

Finally, I'm kind of scared to go back and watch any Magic School Bus, because I know I loved it, but how cringe and bad is it really? I don't remember. Maybe it's better I don't.

I was just on YouTube and this popped up. That's right, there's a new one. With shitty puppet animation.

 

[woodfromwell]

Full House. That show didn't hold up at all.

Eerie Indiana was a cool show in the first season, but the second season replaced the likeable child actors and would qualify for this thread.

i agree. Full House full sucked.