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Hey, anybody remember Marvin Marvin? That was certainly a show, looking back at it, I only watched it because I liked the idea of an alien pretending to be human... it's an overall mediocre show looking back at it.
The Worst Shows You Used to Watch When You Were a Kid - I.E. Childhood shows that make you cringe in retrospect.
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Hey, I used to watch that. I had a huge crush on the girl in it. It's okay - I was something like nine or ten. What's freaky is I'd forgotten about it and looking it up now the girl I ended up dating for a long time looks crazy similar to the girl in the show. Even dresses similar but I never made the connection and now I'm wondering if there was some distant memory from ten year old me going on when I met her.
To be clear, she wasn't that young when I met her but the resemblance is seriously uncanny. It's extremely freaky to have just looked up these pictures and now be questioning whether a major event of my life is the result of some forgotten childhood tv-show.
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For a considerable part of my childhood, I watched PBS. I think the easiest show to point out for its awfulness is Caillou. It truly is awful. Early on in its runtime, there used to be puppet segments, which were generally better than the cartoon because they didn't have Caillou. Other than that, it was terrible. Caillou is spoiled and whiney. He doesn't really learn anything. The art style and tone are fine, but its ruined by the bald-headed kid. The AOK parody really nails the problem on the head.
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I remember loving that show when I was younger but looking back I see your point.
Those parents were way too damn nice.
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Well, they're Canadian iirc. So there's the problem.
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Four words.
Medieval Irish Power Rangers
Medieval Irish Power Rangers
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Don't forget this fruit and his "Yapple Dapple"
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Growing up as a child in the UK without a cable subscription. I grew up with a lot of now obscure European shows, many of which are now at least partly lost media. One of those shows is Hedz. I do not know why Hedz was created, nor do I know why it ran for 4 years. Simply watching the first minute of this clip should give you an idea of what the show is: underpaid interns running around either in the woods or on a green screen with large cardboard heads of British celebrities over their faces. Of course, to those who are not from Britain, the show is even more surreal.
On the contrary, is a series of French shorts called The Owl, these were silent comedy shorts often played as bumpers to fill in a minute between other shows on CBBC. While not particularly funny, I always enjoyed watching these shorts as a child due to the abstract design of the titular Owl and his Rayman-esc limbs. It was definatly one of my earlier exposures to abstraction and sparked a fascination that I still hold to some extent.
On the contrary, is a series of French shorts called The Owl, these were silent comedy shorts often played as bumpers to fill in a minute between other shows on CBBC. While not particularly funny, I always enjoyed watching these shorts as a child due to the abstract design of the titular Owl and his Rayman-esc limbs. It was definatly one of my earlier exposures to abstraction and sparked a fascination that I still hold to some extent.
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I thought "Was Joe Besser still well enough known by the 1970s to have a cartoon character based on him?" Then I looked it up and it turns out Joe Besser had done the voice himself. Besser was also heterosexual, believe it or not, and had been married to his wife for 57 years until his death.
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as far as knock-off Power Rangers that one's a stronger entry than a lot of its peers
I recall watching a bit maybe ten years back and while it wasn't anything great it seemed like a pretty okay attempt at what it was doing.
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So it's a known fact that I'm old, but I'm really going to be dating myself with this one...
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Are you me? I loved daily show up until the iraq war, when the show turned into “unfunny interview for 20 minutes, and here’s the way funnier correspondents for 30 seconds”.
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A lot of 80s animation was shit in retrospective, old ass shows like beverly hills teens and bucky o'hare are cancer and unwatchable now.
Tiny toons was fun but a little cringe even back then, the animation style is sometimes just full-cringe for me. Not saying it was bad, it had its moments, and there was a lot of innuendo which would never ever make it pass censors now. Years later I heard the reason it got cancelled was because furries att were harrasing the VA of babs or other female characters, another reason to hate those pervs
There was this other show that was like a race with cars that were part....plant? whatever, cant believe I liked it. Silver hawks, tried to rewatch it and the voice acting alone killed any nostalgia I had for the show, no wonder it bombed when compared to thundercats. Speaking of which one thing I hate about 80's cartoons is that they had these super cool intros done by japanese studios in anime style but the rest of the animation was typical lame american-style of the era, talk about bait&switch.
Speaking of cringe, robotech, always hated the singing parts and thought it was gay af, same now. You got a show with fucking mech planes and you put some idol popmusic crap on it? and then there's the third season based on mospeada which was cool af with the bikes and shit but they put a fucking drag queen on it? why? dont know how that made it pass the localization process back then but its still cringy as hell
Biker mice from mars, when you think about it the whole premise was retarded but the show was cheesy on purpose, as in literally had a bunch of cheese puns everywhere because the protags were mice, duh. But seriously, it was a product of the 90s, of that era, no wonder the remake flopped. Still wouldnt watch it now.
There was this show I think from canada with flying butterfly bears, I remember watching it wishing I could strangle the little fucking bears to death like a psycho but any adults who saw me watching that shit probably thought I had a terminal case of childhood faggotry
That episode where he gets changed to a girl was so weird, like instead of just making him a little girl they make him a grown up hot woman, the fuck was that? how it made any sense? did one of the writers have an autogynephilia fetish?
Coincidentally a lot of troonies today were kids when that show aired
Those were some dark times
Tiny toons was fun but a little cringe even back then, the animation style is sometimes just full-cringe for me. Not saying it was bad, it had its moments, and there was a lot of innuendo which would never ever make it pass censors now. Years later I heard the reason it got cancelled was because furries att were harrasing the VA of babs or other female characters, another reason to hate those pervs
There was this other show that was like a race with cars that were part....plant? whatever, cant believe I liked it. Silver hawks, tried to rewatch it and the voice acting alone killed any nostalgia I had for the show, no wonder it bombed when compared to thundercats. Speaking of which one thing I hate about 80's cartoons is that they had these super cool intros done by japanese studios in anime style but the rest of the animation was typical lame american-style of the era, talk about bait&switch.
Speaking of cringe, robotech, always hated the singing parts and thought it was gay af, same now. You got a show with fucking mech planes and you put some idol popmusic crap on it? and then there's the third season based on mospeada which was cool af with the bikes and shit but they put a fucking drag queen on it? why? dont know how that made it pass the localization process back then but its still cringy as hell
Biker mice from mars, when you think about it the whole premise was retarded but the show was cheesy on purpose, as in literally had a bunch of cheese puns everywhere because the protags were mice, duh. But seriously, it was a product of the 90s, of that era, no wonder the remake flopped. Still wouldnt watch it now.
There was this show I think from canada with flying butterfly bears, I remember watching it wishing I could strangle the little fucking bears to death like a psycho but any adults who saw me watching that shit probably thought I had a terminal case of childhood faggotry
That episode where he gets changed to a girl was so weird, like instead of just making him a little girl they make him a grown up hot woman, the fuck was that? how it made any sense? did one of the writers have an autogynephilia fetish?
Coincidentally a lot of troonies today were kids when that show aired
Those were some dark times
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Agreed. The top 3 for me were PR, Beetleborgs and Mystic Knights.
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I often hear nice things about SuperHuman Samurai Siber Squad or whatever it was called, but that had Tim Curry as the bad guy which give a big boost to basically anything
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South Park . The show needs to die
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Honestly, pretty much all of it except like Batman: The Animated Series I guess.
Power Rangers is especially a big one since I meet people in their 30's and 40's who are into it. The 40 year olds are the really weird ones to me as I'm pretty sure they would have had to have been in their teens when that debuted in the US.
Power Rangers is especially a big one since I meet people in their 30's and 40's who are into it. The 40 year olds are the really weird ones to me as I'm pretty sure they would have had to have been in their teens when that debuted in the US.
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Even Stevens. not one single character is likable, aside from the sister, and even she's pretty shitty sometimes.