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

[The Iconoclast]

A lot of the shit CN kept pumping out in like 2006-2009ish, like Squirrel Boy, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Flapjack. Totally Spies too, to an extent, since I kinda cringe at all the fetishy shit that's present in it, and since I never watched it back then because I thought the girls were hot (unlike practically everyone else who did - I was a young boi when I saw it and I was sheltered as hell lmao), I keep wondering what exactly I saw in that show.

I also tried to rewatch that Robots movie recently but I couldn't get past all the fart jokes.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I kind of disliked Ren & Stimpy as a kid because it was so gross. Some of it was still funny.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME?! DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH?! [slams The Button that blasts Australia]"

"No sir, I don't like it."

 

[Android raptor]

I feel like Ren and Stimpy holds up the best out of the nicktoons though, probably because the real target audience was adult stoners who got a kick out of all the shit they got past the censors. Plus it didn't have moral lessons and tokens like Rugrats, it was just fucked up shit made by and for people on drugs.

Too bad John K is such a monster who got away with diddling kids. I assume by the time the victims went public the statute of limitations to charge/arrest him expired

 

[Captain Syrup]

Too bad John K is such a monster

If you watch old videos of John K, he's much bigger than you would imagine. Whether or not the stories are true, he must inspire fear in the recording booth.

 

[CheezzyMach]

Really? Because from what I remember he was the main one that actually did shit and the other characters were tokens who got kinda shoved aside with him. Especially Mati or whatever the fuck his name was, he was fucking useless. Wasn't there one episode where he could've used his power to stop notHitler and doesn't even do that?

Speaking of tokens, I've mentioned it elsewhere but jesus christ Suzie from Rugrats was awful. Even as a kid I realize she was only in the show to be black. No personality outside of being generically nice and always good and right.

I think SJWs who insist on trying to shove tokens in comics and shit nowadays must have been too young to remember the first wave of tokenism and why it's bad.

TBH that's why I don't care about "wokeness" *aside from the fact it's been stretched wider than Texas by Right Wingers I mean* and just roll my eyes when some broad goes on about toxic masculinity and White Man Bad on Twitter these days.

All this shit has happened before and kids growing up now will probably find it just as cringy as we did.

 

[Captain Marvelous]

their current show watchable?

Eh, my younger brother seems to enjoy it. It looks okay.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Peter Maddocks did a load of shitty cartoons that I loved when I was a toddler. The Family Ness and Jimbo and the Jet Set were my favourites. He also did a book, How To Draw Cartoons, that actually suggested drawing the same face for all your characters like it was a good thing. He drew the same face on a cat, a dog, a lion, then a lioness, and weirdly kept emphasising "that face has now changed sex!" like this was something he was really into.
There were various Gaelic kids' shows on BBC Scotland too. Completely incomprehensible to me, they don't speak it where I grew up, but this was before BBC Alba or micro regions so they played in the whole country. I think that improved them for me, not knowing what was going on made the shows better. In hindsight they were actually better than the shows BBC Alba got, Na Daoine Beaga (The Little People) was four actors in cheap tinsel wigs in a papier-mâché fairyland and they sing songs about mundane shit like going to the zoo, and demonstrating this with small plastic toy animals because the budget didn't allow for them to actually visit a zoo.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Jesus fucking christ Captain Planet was such globohomo green new deal brainwashing shit in retrospect

I think I had my mind immune to it because it just watched when I stumbled upon it and most of the time my demeanor towards it was "eh, dorky hippie crap" even though I was a goody dork. But seriously, the Kenyan guy was the leader for woke points even though he did less and less as the show went on (it got to the point he'd get one line once an episode, doing the signature Hero Call to summon the captain) because of course the "dumb white american fire guy" ended up being more popular and he had the hots for the soviet chick. I'm not surprised they went hard on the "overpopulation" shit, back then it was the No.1 choice of frightening kids to get them brainwashed. Now it's global warming.

Also, LOL anyone remembers the looming menace of ACID RAIN? Of course Captain Planet made a big fuss about it.

I think the most fun stuff from there was when the villains pulled a Legion of Doom and made a Captain Pollution. And then the time paradox episode where the fire guy travels back in time to stop himself from becoming a planeteer and the world becomes a scifi dystopia and then he has to time travel again to stop himself from stopping himself from becoming a planeteer.

 

[Trombonista]

Round The Twist

Spellbinder

Passions

I occasionally watched Passions in middle school.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I occasionally watched Passions in middle school.

At least Passions was successful. I watched Sunset Beach.

 

[TheRatcatcher]

For some odd reason I remember this gap in my childhood where there weren't that shows aired on CN during my childhood and there was a shit load of Johnny Test reruns. I used to somewhat like it, but thinking about the show makes me want to puke.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Has any of you guys watched Saint Seiya?
(...)
It must have been incredibly bad, because it never saw any kind of release. I wish to know if any anglo users watched it.

There were actually two American releases, once as "Knights of the Zodiac" which was the comically bad censored version, and then in parallel as "Saint Seiya" which was a faithful dub. The DVDs of the latter cut out midway through Sanctuary though, so you need to know some other language (pretty much any other language on the planet will do) to get to the best parts.

They actually have a new English dub on Netflix now, which is uncensored but pretty lousy.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Watching the Ocean dub up until halfway through the Freeza saga until Funimation kicked in is a pretty fond memory of mine. It would always get up to that middle point before looping all the way back to episode 1 and every single time I thought there'd be new episodes. Nothing...until one day. Good times.

Stop.....my poor kirbster

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

There were actually two American releases, once as "Knights of the Zodiac" which was the comically bad censored version, and then in parallel as "Saint Seiya" which was a faithful dub. The DVDs of the latter cut out midway through Sanctuary though, so you need to know some other language (pretty much any other language on the planet will do) to get to the best parts.

They actually have a new English dub on Netflix now, which is uncensored but pretty lousy.

The theme song to Knights of the Zodiac was a cover of I Ran by a band called Bowling for Soup.

 

[Preferred Penne]

I wasn't sure where else to put this, but it's an unaired TV pilot from 1994 for a show called "Galaxy Beat".

Let's just say it makes Red Dwarf USA look like a masterpiece.

Spoiler: The rest of the episode

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I've been reevaluating basically every show I watch as a kid to see what's worth getting on Blu-ray or DVD and that would hold up to me now as an adult.

I have to say one of the bigger disappointments is actually the original teenage mutant Ninja turtles. It is just way too Kiddie and tame, I feel like I have false memories of it, or maybe it was just the idea of it and the hype and being the right age to be a fan of it at the time. The 2003 series is way better and is sort of the series that we would have wanted at the time but didn't get. I'm not saying it's a horrible show the 1980s one, but it really hasn't lived up to the hype for me and I won't be getting it on disc.

Another one that did not hold up for me was M.A.S.K. it has awesome music, but the story is just too stupid even for a kid. Bad guys being bad guys with no real reason for it kids are smarter than this and they deserve something with a little thought in it.

Two others that have held up just as a white pill to this thread are the real Ghostbusters and DuckTales, but especially real Ghostbusters. When I was going through them watching a few I ended up watching the whole first season in a night just because it was such a well-aged show, despite being made for 7 year olds. It was a favorite of mine when it originally aired so this is good that it's held up.

 

[Tism the Return]

I never watched Ronin Warriors, but I know it was decently popular when it was on toonami, especially with fujos.

Speaking of fujos, while I've never been into Gundam Wing myself since ive always been a Universal Century autist, I've seen a lot of people in the Gundam fandom talking about finding out the hard way that Wing is way less awesome than when they were 10 and has aged pretty badly. It can still be fun if you don't take it seriously, but overall it's pretty meh as far as Gundam serious go and the fandom it had back when was the stuff of nightmares.

I feel like a lot of popular 80s/90s anime doesn't really hold up and is mainly just worth rewatching for nostalgia.

You have no idea. Gundam Wing really didn't age well at all and that's besides the fujos.

 

[Android raptor]

You have no idea. Gundam Wing really didn't age well at all and that's besides the fujos.

I do kind of want to rewatch it at some point though, preferably while not sober. A lot of the problem with Wing was at the time a lot of people acted like it was the only Gundam series and that got old fast if you were into other shit.

08th MS Team is what got me into Gundam and while it held up better than Wing I still don't think it's anywhere near as good as I did when I was 12. 0080 is still solid and no one should've taken 0083 seriously in the first place (and it is a really fun series if you don't).

G was probably one of the more popular ones stateside after Wing and it's still a damn good super robot series. The cheesiness is part of the genre there.

 

[starborn427614]

Wing is a product of its time and kind of sacred to those of us that grew up with Toonami, but I'm sure there's better Gundam series out there.

 

[Tism the Return]

I do kind of want to rewatch it at some point though, preferably while not sober. A lot of the problem with Wing was at the time a lot of people acted like it was the only Gundam series and that got old fast if you were into other shit.

08th MS Team is what got me into Gundam and while it held up better than Wing I still don't think it's anywhere near as good as I did when I was 12. 0080 is still solid and no one should've taken 0083 seriously in the first place (and it is a really fun series if you don't).

G was probably one of the more popular ones stateside after Wing and it's still a damn good super robot series. The cheesiness is part of the genre there.

Gundam Wing has a lot of problems, the worst of them probably being the character writing is either dogshit or has characters flipflopping around for drama. Everyone being a massive sperg, the rocking soundtrack and bad animation though make it still pretty enjoyable if incredibly flawed.

I agree that 8th MS Team hasn't aged particularly well but its highs make it enjoyable enough. It'd probably work better if it was retconned/acknowledged as a feddie propaganda movie within the UC like DYRL in Macross, then some of the more ridiculous aspects could be more understandable.