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

Android raptor said:
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.
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Gundam Seed was my first series and yes a rewatch was painful.
 
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Tism the Return said:
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.
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That would make my boy noncanon though and fuck that. He gets ignored enough as it is by bandai/Sunrise.

Honestly my biggest problems with 08th would be fixed by having Shiro and Aina shown to eventually end up as a dumpster fire of a couple because they really did kind of throw everything away for someone they spent maybe 12 hours with.

Animation wise 08th is still pretty great though, especially in the second half.
starborn427614 said:
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.
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Even at the time Wing was pretty meh as far as Gundam series go. It was just flashy and at the time new enough to do super well with ~middle school aged weebs at the time.

It did make shit really annoying for people who liked non-Wing series at the time, I can assure you that. Especially for the like 5 UC fujoshits in the American gundam fandom at the time. 12 year old me was so butthurt about it.
CheezzyMach said:
Gundam Seed was my first series and yes a rewatch was painful.
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Seed Destiny is generally agreed on as being the worst of all Gundam series, with Seed itself being treated as at best extremely mediocre. I never watched either because lol UCfag and also because I doubt I'd like them based on everything I've heard (Kira especially sounds like he would drive me up a wall). Oddly enough it's still really popular on the Japanese end though.
 
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Android raptor said:
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.
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G gundam is unironically the best Gundam Series.

Char is a fucking LolCow, Wing is Yaoi bait, and Kira Yamato has Space Tism.

Also I have THE WORST show that I loved as a kid..and still love (I have the DVDs)

Captain N the Game Master.
 
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Mighty Mighty Martians and a Kids WB, cartoon about a black, a Caucasian and Japanese sumo wrestlers eating too much food and hanging out with a 5 year oli girl. No, I'm not making this up.
 
Even when captain n was on TV, it was too obviously a glorified commercial for me to really enjoy it. Yes I watched it anyway. However I was not stupid enough to see the movie The wizard. All the crazy vidya stuff I wanted my mom to pay for in 1989-90, I had more sense of shame to not ask her for that.

There was an even worse captain n like show that used acclaim characters. Anyone remember that, I think I only saw it a couple times
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
G gundam is unironically the best Gundam Series.

Char is a fucking LolCow, Wing is Yaoi bait, and Kira Yamato has Space Tism.

Also I have THE WORST show that I loved as a kid..and still love (I have the DVDs)

Captain N the Game Master.
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Char is a good character but he's always been a terrible person, I still see people trying to insist he's some kind of secret hero. Nah, at best he's a sketchy dude that dates high schoolers well into his 20s who he claims are mature for their age.

G is fun but also has some pretty solid writing and character development. I did not expect to love it as much as I did when I first watched it on toonami as a newly-created UC elitist.

I thought Kira was just a massive Gary Stu, Amuro and Kamille are autists.
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
I have to say one of the bigger disappointments is actually the original teenage mutant Ninja turtles.
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Yeah, years back, I tried rewatching TMNT. It was the episode where all the meatball pizzas were actually made with Alien eggs? And every time someone microwaved one of the pizzas, the eggs hatched into Xenomorphs?

Surprisingly, it was pretty stupid.

I wouldn't say it made me cringe - I'm just not the target audience anymore, I guess? But I was pretty shocked at how dumb a show about nunchuck-wielding karate turtles could be.
 
Beetlejuice. They really wanted to capitalize on the popularity of this movie so badly, but the cartoon was hamfisted boring tripe. No wonder I liked it so much.
 
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ClipBitch said:
Every god-forsaken morning before school I had to watch Dragon Tales while my little sister and I ate breakfast. It was either that or stare at a wall since we only had one TV. 😑
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Oh God that show: one girl was an ardent fan.
When I parotted to her from the news that the musical version of Max was played by a woman, she shrieked "MAX IS A BOY!!1"
 
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Madam Nekromantik said:
Captain Planet had some really awful episodes. The aids episode, the episode where they went back in time and ran in to Hitler and Hitler was so evil just being near him killed Captain Planet, the racism episode, the drug episode that had someone die of an overdose. It was weird seeing that as a kid.
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Trauma based mind control
 
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Saint Alphonsus said:
Trauma based mind control
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Nah, even as a kid Captain Planet was hardly traumatizing. I'm pretty sure even at the time most kids thought it was cheesy and ridiculous. It was on par with the cringier anti-drug shit.

I wonder how it compares to the Very Special episodes of other shows from the time, I feel whenever any show back then talked about shit like drugs or AIDS it always ended up being hokey and laughable.

I thankfully didn't have fundie parents so I didn't have to watch all the weird Christian kids shows that exist, but a lot of people I know weren't so lucky. Though like Captain Planet that shit is extremely entertaining as an adult when not sober. Especially the really out there ones with puppets like the donut one and psalty.
 
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I had such shit taste as a 10 year old, that even though Dragon Ball Z and Justice League were still broadcasted on CN where i live, i didn't like those shows back then so i switched to South Park or Family Guy because i liked the edgy "adult humor"
*sigh* at least i got internet a few years later and got to watch some anime and shows that didn't even broadcast here, as well as flash animations
 
One I remember when I was at a daycare was they had a video tape of Kid Video. It was like a pilot.
For some reason I watched "Littlest Pet Shop". I remember it was on a weekday rotation for another show.
Finally, because I was already used to watching Sailor Moon, I watched Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Rider...it was ok for some reason.
 
Android raptor said:
That would make my boy noncanon though and fuck that. He gets ignored enough as it is by bandai/Sunrise.

Honestly my biggest problems with 08th would be fixed by having Shiro and Aina shown to eventually end up as a dumpster fire of a couple because they really did kind of throw everything away for someone they spent maybe 12 hours with.

Animation wise 08th is still pretty great though, especially in the second half.

Even at the time Wing was pretty meh as far as Gundam series go. It was just flashy and at the time new enough to do super well with ~middle school aged weebs at the time.

It did make shit really annoying for people who liked non-Wing series at the time, I can assure you that. Especially for the like 5 UC fujoshits in the American gundam fandom at the time. 12 year old me was so butthurt about it.

Seed Destiny is generally agreed on as being the worst of all Gundam series, with Seed itself being treated as at best extremely mediocre. I never watched either because lol UCfag and also because I doubt I'd like them based on everything I've heard (Kira especially sounds like he would drive me up a wall). Oddly enough it's still really popular on the Japanese end though.
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TBH I wanted to punch Kira by episode 9. Dude wansts way too hard and the show ignores how he fucked over one of his friends for pussy.

Watching 0079 atleast Amuro was called out on his bullshit and the show didn't have it's lips firmly glued to his ass.

Cosmic Era has some sweet mech designs though.

I tried to watch Zeta and lost interest thanks to how anyone's answer to even token disagreement was to beat the shit out of everyone. Found ZZ much more enjoyable due to Judau not taking anyone's crap unlike Kamile.
 
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Scarlett Johansson said:
Make him a fag?

Chille....if you didn't know Ratburn was a flaming homo before....its obvious
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How do you tell? The whole show seemed gay to me.
BootlegPopeye said:
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.
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I agree with all this mostly. MASK... I think the mecha animation is still pretty impressive (it was outsourced to Japan.) The characters just seem so flat and utilitarian, especially the heroes. The villains are somewhat enjoyable given they can bicker with each other. But DIC really did the show a disservice by cheaping out on the voice acting. The had five Canucks do all the voices for the show and it showed. The "ethnic" characters are the most cringy to watch now.
 
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