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

[SavorySheikah]

What shows did you love to death as a kid, but when you re-watched them as you got older and matured, you think to yourself, "What good did I ever see in this shit?"

For me, an obvious pick would be Breadwinners, a show about two ducks making a living off of delivering bread to other ducks. It seems like a good concept, but I swear to god this show has the WORST pacing, art design, and over-compulsive need for fart jokes in any Nickelodeon show ever, imo. I have no idea how my ADHD brain, let alone anyone could actually sit through that shit.


What are some of your worst?

 

[Tim Buckley]

Saturday Night Live and shitty late night shows, in my defense I was 12-13 and had a retarded sense of humor.

 

[Reverend]

Captain Planet.

Diversity hire show.

 

[Life is Hell...]

This might not count as a show per say but it's definitely bad, you see, when i was very little, my mom bought this really bizarre educational movie on VHS for me and my sister to watch, courtesy of Mockbuster giant, Spark Plug Entertainment

 

[Vampirella]

Captain Planet.

Diversity hire show.

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.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

I remember enjoying the Tex Avery Show, the recent Woody Woodpecker cartoon (the one that aired in the early 00's), Schnookums and Meat, and Angela Anaconda.

I was a stupid kid, I know.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

Honestly I can't remember watching any shows I'd dislike now, maybe I've just scrubbed them from my brain but as far as I can tell I'd still be down to watch anything I used to watch.

Woody Woodpecker

What's wrong with Woody Woodpecker?

 

[Bread Fetishist]

Annoying Orange. Need I say more?

 

[Chad Holdenford]

What's wrong with Woody Woodpecker?

As I said, only that particular iteration. The originals up until the 70's are still pretty good.
And the less said about that CGI abomination that was the live-action movie, the better.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

Annoying Orange. Need I say more?

Spoiler

I still enjoy the old Annoying Orange. The Annoying Orange/Fr3d crossover is still legendary

 

[Bread Fetishist]

As I said, only that particular iteration. The originals up until the 70's are still pretty good.
And the less said about that CGI abomination that was the live-action movie, the better.

Trust me, things have only gotten worse for Woody since then.

 

[Crustyguy]

Johnny Test, except even as kid I thought the show was boring and only watched it when nothing else was on.

To a lesser extent, Adventure Time. It's not a bad show by any means, but the borderline "xd funny word" humor just doesn't hold up for me, nor does the mild drama that made it stand out at first, and I wouldn't go back to watch it anytime soon. Same with Phineas and Ferb.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Right before one of the Ace Ventura movies launched Steve Oedekirk had a NBC special, Steve Oedekirk.com, watched the shit out of that VHS until it wore out. It's still on YouTube somewhere.

 

[Otis Boi]

Johnny Test, except even as kid I thought the show was boring and only watched it when nothing else was on.

To a lesser extent, Adventure Time. It's not a bad show by any means, but the borderline "xd funny word" humor just doesn't hold up for me, nor does the mild drama that made it stand out at first, and I wouldn't go back to watch it anytime soon. Same with Phineas and Ferb.

I remeber as a kid watching that show ironically. I remember watching it after school with freinds to shit on it. That show was so cheaply made and written you can pick apart everything.

I cant remeber a lot of other I always thought Danny Phantom was very cringy for the "hello fellow young kids talk" even if I liked parts of it. I think alot of the really bad one are lost in my brain because they didn't leave a huge impact.

 

[Ita Mori]

WWF wrestling.
Good God is it shit.

 

[Tim Buckley]

Any kid that watched cartoons during the early 2000 had shit taste or was a zombi.

 

[TenMilesWide]

I used to occasionally watch Monster Warriors. It was... strange.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Here is an (incomplete) list:

• Fanboy and Chum Chum
• Jimmy Neutron
• Johnny Test
• Cow and Chicken
• Catdog
• Chowder
• The Marvelous Misadvantures of Flapjack

 

[I Love Beef]

Catdog, and even then I didn't even think it was remotely good. I remembered watching it hoping something entertaining and memorable would happen on that show, when it was really nothing but a knockoff second rate Ren and Stimpy with more apathy inducing 90s cynicism. I thank it helping me build a greater tolerance than most to shitty dreck and to see things through when I need to.

Stickin' Around. I thought the innocent looking children's doodles art style was pretty dang charming, but only the first few seasons were alright. It declined into most Canadian attention span occupying garbage in terms of writing.

For the most part though, I had the luck of the draw for my attention span to waver in the face of absolute shit media as a child. If I can barely remember it, that usually means it was pretty fucking bad.

EDIT: On second thought, video game lifestyle centered webcomics. I honestly never questioned how consuum-centric and brand whore posturing they were.

Angela Anaconda

I don't remember it was that bad. Mr. Enter has pretty shit taste.

 

[Salty Squid]

I remember enjoying Angela Anaconda as a kid. Still don't mind the show much but I can understand very well now that peole find it ugly. Though in my opinion, a show with an art style weird and ugly enough that it sticks out is still better than one that has the same boring style as every other show that's on air at that moment (as seen in current times with that awful bean blob style. It works in some cases for sure but does everything need to look like that?).

Also, direct-to-video Disney sequels.