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

Blue_Snow said:
South Park . The show needs to die
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The ironic thing about that show is I’m 25 going on 26 which is the demographic the show is aiming for and I don’t find it funny at all. Many times it’s cringe inducing. I’ll show it to my thirteen year old cousin and he thinks it’s the funniest show that ever existed.

Not to say I hate it though because I have a lot of respect for the creators, but the crass humor is not my thing.
 
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Dave. said:
The ironic thing about that show is I’m 25 going on 26 which is the demographic the show is aiming for and I don’t find it funny at all. Many times it’s cringe inducing. I’ll show it to my thirteen year old cousin and he thinks it’s the funniest show that ever existed.

Not to say I hate it though because I have a lot of respect for the creators, but the crass humor is not my thing.
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shock humor is only funny to kids. Once you get older, it’s not as funny
 
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sparklemilhouse said:
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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There was a brief period where The Daily Show was legitimately calling out the press' complicity in helping sell the Iraq War to the public. It didn't take long for them to let the positive reaction go to their heads, and it took even less time for them to get absorbed into the establishment they were criticizing. By the time Obama was the dem candidate, they were full-on propaganda.

I don't think people like Colbert and Oliver are even smart enough to realize they're making propaganda and not comedy.

cybertoaster said:
There was this other show that was like a race with cars that were part....plant? whatever, cant believe I liked it.
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That was Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

 
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MysticMisty said:
I used to watch the 90's version as a kid. I unironically thought it was pretty neat, like if Dinosaur met Jurassic Park. Now it's just embarrassing.
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Original 70's Land of the Lost had some cool stop-motion in it, but Adult me keeps wanting to smack the kids around for being such whiny idiots. Stop arguing about whose turn it is to get the water and just get the damn water! You're trying to survive here!

Adult me also knows that that teenage boy was probably jerking it to the Monkey Mom on a regular basis....
 
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Kappa Mikey was absolutely mindblowing for me as a kid, because at the time the idea of using clashing animation styles to show a thick-lined Western cartoon character moving to a pseudo-anime world was pretty much the cleverest thing I'd ever seen.

Looking back on it, I still think it had an interesting concept, but man does the execution leave a lot to be desired.
 
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I used to watch the MC Hammer cartoon "Hammerman" as a kid and found an episode decades later. Holy shit, it was incredibly bad and cheaply animated.

As a kid, thoutght the Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors toys looked cool.
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Autumnal Equinox said:
Used to watch the 80's He-Man cartoon as a kid. It's been said before, but it really was nothing but a glorified toy commercial with some retarded PSA at the end of each episode like "eat your veggies" Show was gay on a whole other level as well. Thundaar the Barbarian was much better.
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Comic legend Jack Kirby worked on production design for the show.

From the wiki:
Twenty-one half-hour episodes were produced by Ruby-Spears Productions, an animation house formed by former Hanna-Barbera head writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears,[11] from October 1980 to September 1982 on the ABC network. Despite decent ratings, the show was cancelled, as Paramount wanted to make room in the programming schedule for Laverne & Shirley in the Army.[12][13] Reruns of Thundarr appeared on NBC's Saturday morning lineup in 1983.

Fuck. As if I didn't have enough reason to hate Laverne & Shirley...
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Kappa Mikey was absolutely mindblowing for me as a kid, because at the time the idea of using clashing animation styles to show a thick-lined Western cartoon character moving to a pseudo-anime world was pretty much the cleverest thing I'd ever seen.

Looking back on it, I still think it had an interesting concept, but man does the execution leave a lot to be desired.
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I'm really glad this didn't come out when I was a teen, because I was deep into the whole "zealous fan" stage at that point and seeing something like this would have driven me insane with anger.

It is still pretty ugly looking, though.

Pokemonquistador2 said:
Comic legend Jack Kirby worked on production design for the show.

From the wiki:
Twenty-one half-hour episodes were produced by Ruby-Spears Productions, an animation house formed by former Hanna-Barbera head writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears,[11] from October 1980 to September 1982 on the ABC network. Despite decent ratings, the show was cancelled, as Paramount wanted to make room in the programming schedule for Laverne & Shirley in the Army.[12][13] Reruns of Thundarr appeared on NBC's Saturday morning lineup in 1983.

Fuck. As if I didn't have enough reason to hate Laverne & Shirley...
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In case you're curious, this is what they cancelled Thundarr for.

 
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I used to love the Horrid Henry cartoons when I was a kid but now looking back at it, I just can't bear to watch it. The voice acting and animation are unbearable to watch. Every single character had an over the top regional accent that was just grating rather than funny. It's nowhere near as charming as the original books.

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids still creeps me out, it's animation is really hideous to look at as well.

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy freaked me out, but it isn't as scary as I remembered it.
 
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Legoshi said:
I used to love the Horrid Henry cartoons when I was a kid but now looking back at it, I just can't bear to watch it. The voice acting and animation is unbearable to watch. Not to mention, every character had an over the top regional accent. It's nowhere near as charming as the original books.

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids still creeps me out, it's animation is really hideous to look at as well.

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy freaked me out, but it isn't as scary as I remembered it.
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Grizzly Tales is kid kino. Would put it up there with Are You Afraid of the Dark?
 
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Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
There was a brief period where The Daily Show was legitimately calling out the press' complicity in helping sell the Iraq War to the public. It didn't take long for them to let the positive reaction go to their heads, and it took even less time for them to get absorbed into the establishment they were criticizing. By the time Obama was the dem candidate, they were full-on propaganda.

I don't think people like Colbert and Oliver are even smart enough to realize they're making propaganda and not comedy.
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Colbert had a stretch from 2007/8-2011/12 where he was legitimately funny. Though I chalk that up more to him having the right schtick at the right place at the right time.

Oliver, however, was just a cheap knockoff of the daily show repackaged with an accent from the get go. At least Colbert had an in studio audience.
 
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starborn427614 said:
Grizzly Tales is kid kino. Would put it up there with Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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My most memorable episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? is the one with a decades old monster in the pool, and the nerd kid figures out which chemical combination to kill it with after realizing it's at least partially made of sulfur. Also the hot girl swimming athelete has a thing for him.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Kappa Mikey was absolutely mindblowing for me as a kid, because at the time the idea of using clashing animation styles to show a thick-lined Western cartoon character moving to a pseudo-anime world was pretty much the cleverest thing I'd ever seen.

Looking back on it, I still think it had an interesting concept, but man does the execution leave a lot to be desired.
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You took mine. I fucking loved that show and watched that and Pucca religiously whenever they were on. I used to think it was the funniest shit. I watched an episode just a few months ago and I didn't smile once. Depressing, really. :heart-empty:

Man, Nicktoons Network was the shit back in the day. I'm getting super nostalgic now.
 
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