TR Contest: Most Horrible Cartoon Episode

By Rob Bricken in Cartoons, Miscellaneous

Friday, January 30, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Phew! This was one hell of a rough week, and there's wasn't lot of good nerd news to make up for all the bad nerd news, in my opinion. Still, about the only thing I can do is make up another TR contest, and let you guys vent, and potentially win a shirt. So this is open to any cartoon, not just the standard G.I. Joe/He-Man crowd, but it does have to be a specific episode (no just saying "Scrappy Doo" and leaving it at that). Will you pick one of Cobra Commander's most ludicrously stupid plans, because G.I. Joe was your favorite? A Snorks episode that insulted even your 6-year-old intelligence? One of those weird, little seen specials, like the terrifying Garfield Fantasies 'toon seen to the right? I'm looking forward to reading your heaps of vitriol. Links to YouTube videos would be swell, but not necessary; as always, check out the rules here. One more warning: I read Worst Cartoons Ever too, so no cheating, kids. See you on Monday.

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I don't know if it could be called bad, but the stop-motion movie "The Adventures Of Mark Twain" was just plain eerie. (But in a very deep, adult way.) Especially the scene based on the Twain story "The Mysterious Stranger".
I don't know of a particular episode..but to me the Robot 3 stooges cartoon has to be up there with the worse series ever
"I'm gonna go out on a limb and call for the Fraggle Rock episode "Marooned", even though it's a puppet show." Why? If Sesame Street can tackle death realistically by telling Big Bird that Mr. Hooper actually died (and when people die, they don't come back ever and the answer is...just because), so can Fraggle Rock, a fellow Henson product, whose sole purpose it was to bring peace to all the symbiotic worlds in the show whilst also taking on issues meant for older audiences, like death (which Boober worried about constantly, which Boober spoke to Red about in "Marooned", and which Wembley experienced first-hand when mudbunny Mudwell died in "Gone But Not Forgotten"). Heck, since death is a part of life, it is better that kids learn about it from characters they trust if their own parents cannot talk about controversial issues (death, religion, sex [when they're old enough], drug and alcohol use, et al) like they ought to be able to. "This show even managed to make an awful outing with Batman and Robin, although to be fair, the Caped Crusaders' own cartoon from the day was also a bit watered down." That's because it was based on the live-action show around the same timeframe that also starred Adam West and Burd Ward as The Dynamic Duo (complete with the ol' "Holy [insert word here], Batman" cliche Robin was known for at the time). "Don Knotts, Phyllis Diller, Tim Conway, Don Adams and Dick Van Dyke may have slightly interested our parents" Don Adams was Maxwell Smart (Get Smart) and Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget), so fans of either show should've easily recognized his voice. Don Knotts was known forever as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, which remains an iconic staple in our culture. Finally, Dick Van Dyke not only had his own show, but he is best fondly remembered by Disney fans as Bert, Mary Poppins' jack-of-all-trades friend in the film starring the magical nanny. Therefore, all three of those names should've been recognizable through their voices, whether they look like their other characters or not. "Not sure if this one qualifies since it was a one time deal, but my recommendation is the Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue. I remember this crossover piece of governent endorsed garbage was broadcast simultaneously all over the Saturday morning cartoon networks. But it convinced me that if I start blazing enough, saturday morning cartoons would come to my aid if shit ever went sour. Found out I needed shrooms for that." I felt that the special handled things well, especially since Pooh had already faced stranger danger via the Pooh Corner special entitled "Too Smart For Strangers" and Sonic the Hedgehog would also later inform us of inappropriate touching in a Sonic Sez segment on Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Since most parents were not always attentive and thus, didn't always do their job as parents (likewise for educators), it fit rather well that during the "War on Drugs" era (as the previous decade was just coming off its stoned and sexed-up high, anyway), kids were taught of drugs bad effects through characters they knew and could trust.
Does anyone here remember the robotic three stooges? http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/3robostu.htm
@MySpoonIsTooBig Thanks, that's been driving me nuts since yesterday! Yeah, looking back it and seeing it again it's an amazing piece of work. It's also completely lost on the mind of a four old.
ClancyDamon, that would be the 1939 Peace on Earth, linked on youtube right here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToaLLps4h7Y I saw that on Christmas Eve when I was 17 (back when Cartoon Network actually showed those old cartoons. I miss that), in 02 when there was such a big push for the war in Iraq so I was quite moved by it. Of course I can certainly see how it'd be traumatizing to a kid watching it.
Contest is over, so I'll be brief, but I just remembered this and it's driving me nuts. There was a cartoon that my grandmother had on vhs. Something to do with Christmas, I guess. At least, happened during Christmas. A mouse (or badger?) grandfather having story time with his grandkids. He tells them the story of the last man on Earth. This is a story about the mice viewing WWI. So you have images of gas mask clad doughboys in brown, mud-filled trenches shooting Enfields(sic?) at gas mask clad Kaiser helmets in similar trenches. It climaxes with two lonely, weak and weary men barely standing up against the dirt walls. The Brit is shot in the gut. Before he goes down, he returns fire and kills the German. Then he slowly sinks below the muck, holding his hand up in a futile 'Save me Lord' gesture as the grandpa mouse intones "and that was the last man on Earth." Fucking creepy. What the hell? There was more, and I believe it ostensibly had a happy ending. I never watched past what I've described, though. It wasn't horrible, it was amazing animation and detail, but Christ; talk about brutal. Traumatic. And gave me a bizarre WWI gas mask fetish. I don't know why. Does anyone know what the hell that was? The whole thing must be one Youtube, some animation buff must know what I'm talking about.
I still haven't heard a peep about Rocket Robin Hood. Ward worstcartoonsever.com (ZeroCorpse is currently leading my site's DVD giveaway by default!)
McTool> Nice one, though they did change the show quite a bit from the pilot, which isn't at all uncommon (see the original pilot of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, for example). What's less common is actually seeing such a pilot run as part of the season. Also, Sally was originally pink. They had to retcon an excuse for that in the book later after the toon made the switch. --LBD "Nytetrayn"
yeah, i may have overreacted just a tad, especially about the Uwe Boll comment. That's not true and im sorry i said that.
@RobVegas Actually dear god I remember that version of the ghostbusters, I still can;t figure out why there was a gorilla. But then it's 10-15 years since I watched it for a reason. I'd like to add another painful memory having just seen Little Shop of Horrors last night again, anyone remember the cartoon 'Little Shop' where they transplanted the movie to high school, cut out the people eating and threw in a fewless than catchy music numbers per episode.
Stalin> I think you're overreacting just a tad, but that's just my opinion. And in fairness, Ganon never attacked with his entire army before. Related article about the Zelda toon: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8979963&publicUserId=5442525 --LBD "Nytetrayn"
Growing up in rural Ontario we didn't have cable, so my younger brother and I had to make due with the 5-7 (weather permitting) channels our aerial receiver could pick up. Our after school programing generally came from TVO - a Canadian TV station quite similar to PBS that actually carried many of its shows. One of our favorites was the Magic School Bus, the much beloved educational cartoon in which a manic teacher voiced by Lily Tomlin habitually abducts and endangers her young class in the name of education. However as the seasons wore on The Friz was running low on material. She'd covered planets, dinosaurs, bugs, fungus, sound and light. She'd pulled the Inner Space shtick on Arnold not once, but twice. Were else was there to go? That answer came in 1997 and that answer was... up a chicken's cooch. I crap you not, The Magic School Bus had an honest-to-jebus sex-ed episode with "The Magic School Bus Cracks a Yolk" in which the bus sends the entire class up a nearby hen's bajingo to learn how chickens make eggs and which eggs hatch into chicks. To be fair, they never actually show the deed itself (although it's implied that Principal Ruhl's prized Rhode Island Red, Mr. Giblets, tries to get it on with Ms. Frizzle's feathered hat near the beginning of the episode), but there's just something really disconcerting about hearing a tow headed eight-year-old say the word "ovary". Although, that has nothing on this little sound bite from Arnold: "Why, oh, why do we always end up in long, dark, slippery tubes?" - I can't decide if it's worse with or without knowledge of the context.
Hmm... I seem to be having the same sort of time delay LBD had. Bizarre. I won't resubmit, but it's weird that I've occasionally gotten that "Your message is awaiting approval" bit now and sometimes I haven't.
Well, even though anime was semi-confirmed as legit, I remembered something far, far worse. Something I've already written about, technically, but that needs to be remembered. I refer, of course, to Sonic SatAM. My youth in cartoon form. Now, as a child, I never questioned the logic of this show. I watched it sporadically, so I never got a good glimpse of the plot. I only remembered how much fun it was to me as a six/seven-year-old with a Genesis. (Yes, the show technically ran from '93-'94, but it lived on in reruns in my heart) Fast forward 11 years. I am 18. I have some leftover Amazon gift card money. I decide to purchase the complete Sonic the Hedgehog box set. This was the best and worst purchase I've ever made. Some of these episodes are actually great. Some of these episodes are so bad you can laugh at them. Some of them are just so atrocious you can't help but hang your head in shame. The pilot is one of them. The episode opens somewhat strongly. You've got Robotnik heading to his fortress in Robotropolis to examine pictures of... Tails? Wait, Tails makes an appearance in the pilot of "Sonic the Hedgehog" before Sonic does (barring the intro)? Color me confused. Even better, Tails is PICKING FLOWERS. Tails then of course gets attacked, and runs off. Fine. Typical Tails fare. Never liked him much anyways. We then cut to Rotor the Walrus. Still no Sonic. Rotor is going through his Backpack of Holding, pulling out assorted tools that are (naturally) bigger than the backpack itself, and just throwing them away like they mean nothing, until Rotor finally pulls a fish out of his bag to eat. Finally, Sonic makes his appearance. And he's got an electric guitar. And he's singing a song about how he's "Way Past Cool." And I am facepalming so hard that I watched this as a child. Suddenly comes the absolute worst line in the history of rock and cartoons. "How do you like my entrance? The way I come flyin' in and then hit the Axl Rose pose..." Axl Rose pose? Seriously? Axl Rose the singer? Not the guitarist? You know what, I'm done. Right there. We are 4:12 into this episode (including the intro!) and I can't stomach another bit of it. I will offer up this final tidbit that I remember from the first time I suffered through that episode: Sally is pink. I'm done. Here are links to the full episode if you feel like remembering just how bad this was. It would live on in the comic book, which would later feature my favorite line ever in a comic book for kids, which I've also linked to. Heads or Tails (Pilot) pt. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCCQpyBpdaI&feature=PlayList&p=B7EA44763D145190&index=0&playnext=1 Heads or Tails (Pilot) pt. 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJM1-cE0E9k&feature=PlayList&p=B7EA44763D145190&index=1 Heads or Tails (Pilot) pt. 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFbRDwnaREc&feature=PlayList&p=B7EA44763D145190&index=2 The best line in a comic aimed at young kids ever (regrettably, not "the best," as that's still "Your Vagina is Haunted!"): http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9888/130200951743pmvp9.jpg First panel. Bunnie Rabott.
Okay, url tag didn't work, here's the video I had: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0c15eTkEmc&feature=related
How about GHOSTBUSTERS, not Ghostbusters as in Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, etc but this ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation%27s_Ghostbusters .... no partricular epsiode. the whole thing flat out sucked!
I would say any episode of Pinky & the Brain & Elmira for skullfucking the greatness of Pinky & the Brain with rusty railroad spikes coated in anthrax at a snail's pace by adding a character who could only be redeemed by having her asphyxiate Scrappy-Doo, but that would be cheating. Instead, I have an anecdote. Coming home from a high school trip to Toronto, my bus stopped in one of those towns in northern New York that only exist to prolong the trip between your house and the land of Alpha Flight for lunch. There was video store in the same strip mall selling used tapes that I checked out to let the lunch rush disperse. While there, I found a copy of the Darkwing Duck tape that featured "Comic Book Capers" and "Brush with Oblivion." I was ecstatic since "Comic Book Capers" is my favorite episode of my favorite show (Little Running Gag!), and the other episode is almost as good. It totally cheered me up since the school had managed to suck all the fun out of the Canadian excursion as school trips have an uncannily consistent knack for doing. I thought the Gods must be trying to apologise, so I bought it without hesitation. The only problem was this store thumbed its nose at good Canadian money, so I parted with the last of my imperialist Yankee currency. I sacrificed lunch for Darkwing Duck. The rest of the bus ride home was a period of agonizing famine, yet I was convinced I had made the right choice in the long run. When I got home, I immediately thrust the tape into the VCR. Instead of be treated to 4th wall smashing hilarity, what appeared on my TV was ... THE CHIPMUNK ADVENTURE! What cruel joke was this? Where was Little Running Gag? Alas, it was not a hallucination induced by hunger. Some soulless bastard had put their copy of The Chipmunk Adventure inside the Darkwing Duck sleeve so that they could get the resale money and continue to enjoy the surreal hilarity of the two best episodes of the best cartoon Disney ever made. Should this person have the displeasure to ever meet me, I am certain that no jury in the world would convict me of the natural consequence thereof. Worst of all, I couldn't convince my parents to drive hours back to return it since the store had a strict no returns policy. Some of you may be thinking that The Chipmunk Adventure shouldn't count as it was a movie. I would argue that it's probably been aired on TV at some point with commercial interruptions just like any cartoon. Judging by the run-length, it's actually one episode of Alvin & the Chipmunks stretched out over the length of 4 episodes of Alvin & the Chipmunks. Truly, this is a masochist's cartoon of choice. Of course, I was so furious at the time that I ejected it immediately and never watched it all the way through. Why? Because I don't hate myself. I am, however, certain that watching it would not change my opinion in the least. I looked it up on the imdb, and apparently it's a DuckTales rip-off. Apparently the scenarios in the script had to be toned down because they couldn't even afford to animate a top-tier DuckTales rip-off. I also learned that some of the plot key words are "forced to strip." See what happens when you try to validate an opinion with empirical evidence? You get mental images of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore in the world's worst furry porn that no amount of brain trauma can erase. Furthermore, The Chipmunk Adventure reinforces the cruel fact that while ugly rodents with irritating voices have become parts of the pop culture zeitgeist for decades to the extent that can headline multiple films, Disney had to have its metaphorical arm twisted before it could be bothered barely capitalizing the inventive, well written, action packed, and consistently hilarious Darkwing Duck. I'm ready for my Red Lantern Corps ring now.
The Legend of Zelda cartoon series was just a disgrace. The trouble was revisiting that mundane bullshit excuse for a show and find the worst episode. Ive finally came to the conclusion that the worst episode was the very last one "The Moblins are Revolting." This episode is so horrible that in retrospect one could even say Uwe Boll isnt that bad. The episode is all about how Ganon has created a weapon that can finally rid him of his arch enemy Link. The weapon is a staff that shoots bubbles. One of his incompetent henchmen gets his scrubby little moblin hands on Ganon's bubble shooting staff and does what Link has not been able to for the entire series. He traps Ganon and throws him down a bottomless pit. He does this because he doesnt like how Ganon rules over them. So what does he do now? He leads an army to take out Zelda and Link (exactly what Ganon was doing). So, this army goes to the castle and Zelda and Link just laugh at them as they destroy themselves, until Zelda asks one of them where Ganon is. They find out Ganon is now out of the picture and Ganons lair is unguarded, giving them the perfect opportunity to get the Triforce. Another piece of information is that the bubble that Ganon is trapped in can only be popped on the Triforce. That being said when Link and Zelda reach the Triforce and are about to finally get it Ganon floats out of the pit and tries to stop them. Link realizing that Ganon cant hurt him because he's in a bubble decides to mess around with him. During this time Link throws Ganon at the Triforce popping the bubble. Ganon escapes and Link and Zelda run like cowards. This episode alone ruins Links title as a hero, and ruins the Zelda franchise. Nuff said.
The entire run of the '70s Tom & Jerry Saturday morning show. "Pipsquack!"
Captain N: The Game Master, Episode 3 - The Most Dangerous Game Master. Dr Wily, the epic mad scientist that has built hundreds of killing machines that have slowed megaman down for years decides to build a sentient clone of Kevin's high school nemesis from earth. Instead of making a large killing machine of a robot, he just equips it with a blaster and a controller. Kevin is the game master, who is supposed to save an entire world, yet his worst fear is some kid that picks on him in high school. Granted, I don't blame him, because Mike looks to be in his mid-30's - despite being a high school student. And somehow the robot was swayed to Kevin's side over a memory of him and Kevin dressing up as girls.
@thewalkindude - You win. I vaguely remember that one. Pretty sucky for Tom & Jerry.
I'm running a dual contest over at WorstCartoonsEver.com, winner gets the Worst Cartoons DVD! Then we'll butt heads with the winner of the Topless Robot contest to decide THE WORST FUCKING CARTOON OF ALL TIME. Good luck, gumshoes! In Rob we trust. -Chris Ward
I can't believe that no one has mentioned the "Blue Cat Blues" episode of Tom and Jerry yet. That has got to be one of the least funny, and most uncomfortable things I have ever seen. It starts out with Tom on the railroad tracks, waiting to get run over by the train. Yes, this episode is about Tom committing SUICIDE. Jerry is the narrator, and explains how Tom got to be so desperate. Essentially, he falls in love with a girl cat, and does everything he can to impress her. However, Butch, Tom's rival does everything better. Tom buys her a diamond ring and Butch buys her a bigger one. Tom gets a new bike, and Butch shows up in a freaking Limo. Eventually Tom becomes broke and an alcoholic. Jerry is still there, watching his friend slowly throw his life away for the money-hungry skank, and doesn't do a thing about it. Eventually, the flashback ends and we return to the railroad bridge. Jerry says that he still has a girl who loves him, and kisses her picture. Just then you see her come by in a car with another mouse. Jerry then proceeds to join Tom on the tracks, and you hear the train coming, as "The End" pops up on screen. So essentially, this entire cartoon is about two beloved icons killing themselves over lost loves. The worst part is, this thing is supposed to be funny.
Hey, my entry finally showed up! Scroll up a ways for it, if anyone cares. warmstr> I liked the Clerks toon; truth be told, it helped get me into Kevin Smith's stuff. Anonymous> Ah, fair enough. But honestly? At her age, I'd rather she wear the jumpsuit than her regular ring attire. RIP, Moolah. (And with all due respect, I cannot believe she was outlived by Mae Young.) --LBD "Nytetrayn"
Anyone remember Gilligan's Planet? Like the title might suggest, it was an animated spinoff of Gilligan's Island, where the castaways build a rocket to escape the island, only to end up marooned on another planet. Yeah, about as good as it sounds, right? Although I was a huge fan of the original (the one with the giant spider scared the living crap out of me the first time I saw it. Seriously.) I don't remember being as fond of the cartoon or even watching it more than once or twice. There was one episode I remember pretty clearly, though: being a "seafaring man," the Skipper was missing sailing and not feeling useful, so to make him feel better the castaways build a boat--something they somehow never, ever managed before. As was typical for the series, Gilligan manages to screw things up, to the point where they wreck on an island. Gilligan tries to point out, it's kind of funny: first they were trapped on an island, then trapped on a planet, now they're trapped on an island on a planet. While the status quo would dictate they somehow at least got back to the 'mainland' of the alien planet, I don't know how the episode ends, since even as a kid I was gripped with a white-hot rage to kill Gilligan.
I remember one pretty horrible episode of a pretty horrible show: Captain N: The Game Master (disclaimer: I used to love the show when I was a kid) IN the episode, Mother Brain uses special hypnotic ink to prink newspapers that will turn whoever reads them into zombies. The only person who can save the day an hispanic kid named Julio because he never learned how to read. Ultimate lesson for the kids: Reading turns you into zombies!
@Snicu - Those two had their problems, but "The Cupid Effect", though not quite "Wannaweep" awful, is way worse. Wade develops an ultra-convenient crush on Monique, who's feeling vulnerable and sad about being alone on Valentine's Day. Instead of simply, you know, telling her how he feels, he takes advantage of her vulnerability and develops a ray (that apparently runs on ruhypnol) to make her fall in love with him. It was nice that Wade was getting out of his room in that last season, but he should've been kept there if he was going to comport himself like that. Matter of fact, I compiled a list of the worst KP episodes, in case you were wondering: <url>http://noteimperfect.blogspot.com/2006/06/worst-o-kim-possible.html</url>
@ LBD"Nytetrayn" Yeah, I would assume that's why the dollar sign is there. I was merely rolling my eyes at the fact that the younger and prettier Wendi's character was dressed in nearly the same outfit she wrestled (and beat Moolah) in, like the majority of the other characters on the show. Tito Santana walked around in his little wrestling trunks, boots and windbreaker. Moolah, however, did not dress like that in real life.
Alvin and the Chipmunks "The Chip Punks" The chipmunks take on "evil, evil" punk rock. So how does one become punk? Well first have Theodore dress up like one of the village people, the biker guy minus the mustache. Then have Simon dress up like Zack from Saved by the Bell, but with glasses, oohhh rebellious. Finally, Alvin the brains behind the chipmunk punk rock movement wears his hat BACKWARDS! and wears a huge safety pin, more of a Flava Flav thing but ummm I have no explanation for that. So then you must think, maybe they will sing a Misfits song, Ramones, Social Distortion, or a thousand other good punk songs, but no they sing some weird techno beat song about how they should be doing homework and don't care in their high pitched demon voices. Then they go on the run because the club is supposedly being raided for ohhh I don't know ... people dancing like Elaine or looking too much like geordi laforge. So the chipmunks are on the run, while Dave searches for them because the Mayor likes to award good citizenship awards in the middle of the night and in front of random people's houses. The boys seek shelter at a hotel where the owner is a personal friend of the chipmunks. Because of the "radical" way the chipmunks are dressed the owner can't believe that it's the chipmunks. They must be some other group of three, three foot tall, anthropomorphic chipmunks, because there are a lot of those. Needless to say this is the best show about punks since SLC punk. So the morale of the story turned out to be that if you end up running around town in the middle of the night because you're stupid, you can't find a place to stay because you aren't dressed in the only outfit you seem to have, and the mayor can't find you in the middle of the night because why the fuck is the mayor looking for three chipmunks in the middle of the night. Never mind that you got to the club somehow, I'm guessing they had to walk, and then couldn't get back the same way, I'm guessing they couldn't walk back because of deus ex machina. Forget all that stuff, the morale is punk rock is bad. It corrupts youth by making them and everyone around them stupid.
Some more contemporary examples can be found in the two 'Kim Possble' episodes, 'Mathter and Fervant' and 'Grande Size Me'. They are often hailed as the worst episodes in the series. The first one is a non-entertaining "hey kids, math is cool for you" aesop while the second one apparently tries to be a parody of "Supersize Me" but ends up as a preachy pile of crap about how junk food is bad for you.
God where to start, I'd struggle to pick one cartoon episode that truly truly was so painful that I still think about it to this day (God bless traumatic blanking of the events). Having said that there are a few that come to mind instantly, I R Weasel. Shudder, I think this was the beginning of the end early love affair with Cartoon Network. That and Ed, Edd and Eddie (did I even get the title right?). When I was still growing up in the late 80s and early 90s my loving parents got us Sky (Satellite TV for those outside the UK) and my little mind had trouble understanding why we didn't get Fox etc like when we were in the US on holiday etc, anyway one day while trying to improve the god awful picture on some channels my old man stumbled across the untuned CN and got the audio in English. All they showed was old Hanna-Barbera toons, god it was bliss. Heck I even liked Mightor!! But I R Weasel etc destroyed the channel for me, it was around 2000 I think they simply ignored their heritage. *shakes fist in anger* Or the Care Bears 2 movie, simply ouch.
Cow and Chicken episode: "Chicken in the Bathroom" The whole god damn series sucks, but this is the worst, the whole episode is just a fucking chicken on a toilet while the family is begging him to get out. Seriously, the worst show ever it was, oh and dont get Me started on I am weasel.
@THE PR0F3550R Magneto's hordes... Drunk editor strikes.
Off the top of my head… Kim Possible, "Return to Wannaweep" First, a bit of backstory: "Sink or Swim", which this episode follows up, was a skillful takedown of a horror movie. Stranded at the deserted Camp Wannaweep (where, as a kid, Ron roomed with a wild monkey, among other horrible experiences), a creature stalks and traps Ron and the cheer squad. The creature was really a former camper named Gil (who added an 'l' after being mutated by swimming in contaminated water). Ron managed to escape his clutches and foil him. I daresay it was one of the show's best episodes. "Return..." starts off unpromisingly, with Kim and cheerleading rival/one-dimensional c-word Bonnie arguing over what the routine should be. During this, the other girls are in a pyramid that crumbles because of the ensuing spat. Ron (the cheer squad's mascot) learns from Mr. Barkin that the squad is to attend a competition at cheer camp. This causes Nam-like flashbacks for Ron, but no reason to worry, right? It's not like the competition is taking place at the same location. Actually, it totally is. The original location was shut down due to a busted water main, so the competition takes place at Camp Gottagrin, which turns out to be Wannaweep with a sign pasted over. One of the mascots from the other schools turns out to be…a human Gil. Gil wants nothing more than to pal around with Ron, but Ron's suspicious of him. Ron tries to tell Kim about this, but she and Bonnie are engaged in a series of not-funny pranks to trip each other up for the competition. Up to this point, one wonders, 'When is something going to happen?!'. Be careful what you wish for. In a twist worthy of (ten years ago) Shyamalan, it turns out that Gil never gave up on wanting revenge on Ron and, with a distractingly roided-out mutant design, Gill spews muck, trapping and transforming the hapless competitors. Ron tried to warn everyone, but they pelted him with tomatoes. Bear in mind this also happened after Gill revealed himself as a monster. As it turns out, there was a small untouched grotto on the property, which Gil took advantage of (he was also behind the busted water main). Ron escapes the rampage as he did in "Sink or Swim". Unfortunately, "Return..." takes a far different turn than "Sink...". In "Sink or Swim", Ron was able to use his knowledge of Camp Wannaweep and arts-and-crafts skills to stop Gill. In "Return to Wannaweep", however, Ron jumps into the grotto. His reasoning? "I must become that which I hate." My opinion? "The staff wanted to see this." Ron returns to fight Gill...as a giant beaver. Yes, that's what I typed. Ron gets a little bit of fighting in, but, ultimately, Gill is stopped by Kim and Bonnie working together, making me wonder what the point of Ron's change was beyond what I theorized. And then there's the ending where the characters state that they've learned nothing, thus underlining the pointlessness of the exercise. 'Links to YouTube videos would be swell'. I don't have the heart to watch the episode again, much less inflict it on others. Just search for 'wannaweep' if you must witness it for yourself. (Depressingly, two people thought the episode worthy of posting.) It could be argued that, with Ron acting horribly OOC, the snobby (and infinitely punchable) Prince Wally and the ending, where His Royal Lowness wins the election for class president, yet neither he, nor the presidency, are ever mentioned beyond the episode's ending, "Royal Pain" is worse, but that actually felt like a "Kim Possible" episode. "Return to Wannaweep", on the other hand…I don't know what to compare it to, it's so bad. [Note: I also could've, just as easily, named any "Fairly Oddparents" episode from the last couple years, but that's like making fun of the guy that finishes last at the Special Olympics -- what's the point?]
Whoa-the Dancitron episode is one of the best episodes of Transformers! Someone has allready mentioned this,but yeah,Child's Play is one of the few episodes that does directly relate to a prior one. I agree it sucks though. One thing I'll never understand is why is it so internet-cool to hate the Simpsons? It's a hillarious show,and the 90's one was one of my recent favorites too. Is it just too mainstream to like or something? E-peen be damned,I love the Simpsons.
For me the it's a tie. Not really anything traumatic or anything, but I would say the worst cartoons I have ever seen is "Spaceballs", and "Clerks". Those two were godawful, and neither were necessary.
@ZeroCorpse - Aussie Wolverine sucked (its funny when you think about it now that an Aussie plays Wolverine in the movies), but I like the animation better than the Fox version that came later and the team was pretty kick ass with Colossus, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, and Dazzler. Plus the team song was ultra catchy and fun: X-Men! X-Men! Save the day. Save the day. X-Men! X-Men! Com-ing your way. Magneto's hoards are on their way to pillage, burn, and plunder, but there's one team that will not yield the team that strikes like thunder! X-Men! X-Men! Save the day. Save the day. X-Men! X-Men! Com-ing your way. @tekkie - "The whole episode is friggin' weird and terrible, and it has no relation to any of the other episodes. It's completely awful." Actually it does tie to another weird ass episode where we learn that Smokescreen is a degenerate gambler who would gladly gamble with his fellow autobot's lives to make some scratch.
It's funny on just how much today's kids are missing out on... Sure they have easy access to a galaxy of porn online, and they have game systems that look better than most 80s movies. But they never had the Saturday morning cartoon experience. Where networks gave up 4+ hours of Saturday morning programming to the children of America. And they hyped these shows, it was ad goldmine since kids always need new nes games and he mans. But the one that did me in was an afternoon cartoon. Transformers, I wish I could recall the episode name, but the one with the Disco and the breakers who were pals with Blaster. One, this whole episode blew the lid off ROBOTS IN DISGUISE since 20 foot tall robots hanging out at and walking through a cramped dance club are gonna get noticed. Then comes the punk rockers, business men, and other assorted miscreants chasing down our plucky breakers for dancing on their corner... I guess they were scaring off patrons??? I mean back in the 80s if there was a bunch of punks hanging out in front of the club anyone scared by some kids breakdancing in neon gear would shit themselves if they came within 50 feet of their mohawks. It was sorely misguided and actually signaled the begining of then end with my daily ritual of hawaiian punch and transformers.
@The Red Queen an someone explain why [Fabulous Moolah] is wearing a purple jumpsuit with dollar signs on it? Because "moolah" is a slang term for money? --LBD "Nytetrayn"
In case anyone's missed it, the full teaser trailer for G.I. Joe is up: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=52443
The worst cartoon episode is probably, "That 90's Show" from The Simpsons. In it's 19th season the show was already past it's prime but how fucking desperate do you have to be to RETCON The Simpsons!?! You have 19 years of built up, clearly defined history of Homer and Marge from great episodes like "The Way We Was", "I Married Marge" and then you just toss them out the window to do a horrible 90's themed episode that pisses everyone off.
Oh yeah, links for my post. Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T99oBfWlXKc Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWjOh7TsGkE
You know, the Transformers do some really stupid shit. They build retarded spinoffs of themselves, get themselves into stupid situations, and always end up rendering everything that happens in every episode inconsequential so that neither side ever gets closer to winning. "Child's Play", from the second season, is my favorite horrible episode. Let's go down the list as to why. The episode begins with the Decepticons attacking a baseball game. Yes, their latest strategic attack strike against the Autobots takes place at a sporting event. (To its credit, it does feature Ironhide smacking a Decepticon with a stadium light.) The animation of the show itself is terrible, even pathetic, in many parts.(See 10:11-10:20 in the second part. If you didn't headsigh, then you were at least thinking about it.) The kid and his parents are ultra creepy, and that kid's voice is obnoxious. The biggest threat to the Autobots is an elephant rat at 6:00 in part 2. The whole episode is friggin' weird and terrible, and it has no relation to any of the other episodes. It's completely awful.
Not sure if this one qualifies since it was a one time deal, but my recommendation is the Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue. I remember this crossover piece of governent endorsed garbage was broadcast simultaneously all over the Saturday morning cartoon networks. From what I recall, all of these cuddly characters (some ninja turtles, Muppet babies, ducktales, smurfs, bugs bunny, alf, winnie the pooh for godsakes) came to the aid of some young pothead who was ripping off his own family for a quick fix. They somehow convince the kid to change his stoner ways and they all ride merrily away somehow. I'm not too sure how it ended. But it convinced me that if I start blazing enough, saturday morning cartoons would come to my aid if shit ever went sour. Found out I needed shrooms for that.
Like many, I don't think I can point to a single worst episode (though I was thoroughly pissed recently when I got home from work, made dinner, put the kid to sleep, and finally started the newest Naruto only to find that DB had replaced it with some fucking shit as a type of statement against posting vids). I can however, identify the time I became aware of better and worse cartoons. Two cartoons midwifed this newfound critical acumen: Ewoks and Shirt Tales. I had always been a voracious consumer of all things cartoony. I was especially indebted to Wednesday night special cartoons that I could use as an excuse to skip Wednesday night church. For you heathens that weren't raised in the South, Wednesday nights featured a nice hour-long church service just in case you had managed to do any sinning after the two fucking services on Sunday. So, when that spinning "Special" appeared with its hedonistic drum beats on Wednesday nights, I would scream "GAME ON!" and begin pleading to stay home. The VCR then killed that excuse and I was routinely subjected to the Wednesday night snake handling. Anyway, I was about 11-12 when Ewoks and Shirt Tales ran. We had a VCR, so I would record Saturday morning cartoons and rewatch them throughout the week. As for the Ewoks, I was initially drawn in by the Star Wars tie. I, like most, hated the Ewoks, but a regular cartoon in the universe sounded like a good idea. The series' rich backgrounds were impressive, but the stories and the characters were clearly aimed at a much younger audience. The Shirt Tales were the same; I loved Bogey, but enduring the cuddly crap between his lines was torture. I wasn't so naïve as to be unaware of the commercial link between cartoons and toys, but it was a modus vivendi relationship that I hadn't become cynical about. But this; this was just crap. Love? Who the fuck watches a cartoon to hear about love and happiness? You can literally create any scenario you want in a cartoon and you choose to focus on the Ewoks and their designs for a new crop harvest? As I rewatched these episodes throughout the week, I was positioning them against afternoon cartoons like Transformers and G.I. Joe. I slowly began to recognize that some cartoons were better and worse for actual reasons like: story, character depth, music, mood, etc. So, Ewoks and Shirt Tales had some awful, awful episodes, but they helped me move from uncritical love of cartoons to something deeper and more principled. Like a loving grandfather ushering you into manhood by raping you in a closet.
You see, I come from a magical land called the 80's where we were beholden to network programming. Sure, the Shipwreck mindfuck that was "There's no place like Springfield" was sweet, but you never knew when it was going to be on again, so you had to be there every damned day at the exact same time. Kids today... Oh, they be spoiled with their box sets and 24hr multi-channel cartoon programming and their pants halfway off their ass... But I digress. In the 80's, I had a Cool Uncle. We all had one. Cool Uncle wasn't satisfied with buying me a gift from the dollar store for my birthday. No, Cool Uncle thought it would be awesome to buy me a Transformers Videocassette for my birthday. Needless to say, I was stoked. Transformer episodes I could watch any time I wanted?! This may have been bad in that 80's way where bad meant good. This might have even been rad. Due to an unfortunate choice Cool Uncle made, it turned out to be radically modern-day bad. Cool Uncle bought me a videocassette of a transformers tie-in called "See and Read". See and Read was basically an 80's version of a Flash cartoon where 2D pictures cut from transformer boxart images would move across a static background to convey a single, very simple children's story that was played out in subtitles to help kids learn to read. See and Read? More like Suffer and Suck. My fury at recieving this VHS turd was only compounded a month later when Cool Uncle gave my brother a VHS 3 pack of GiJoe cartoons, focusing exclusively on Zartan and tha motherfucking DREADNOKS!!!
The first X-Men animated pilot. Most of you have seen the X-Men animated series on TV. The ones that actually got to series weren't half-bad. But the previous attempt at a series gave us a pilot that committed a terrible sin: Wolverine had an AUSTRALIAN ACCENT Seriously. At one point, Wolverine even called someone "dingo" as an insult. An Australian Wolverine? What? They couldn't find a Canadian? Jeez. Next thing you know, they'll give us a black Nick Fury, Asian Wasp and an incestuous Pietro Maximoff.
Same thing has happened to me Nytetrayn.
Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School. I fighting the urge to take razor blades to my eyeballs just thinking of this. If you have never seen it, count yourself lucky and just know my description is only a vague smell of the festering rot that is this film. First of all, you have Scooby Doo, Shaggy, and (god just kill me) Scrappy Doo. Velma, Daphne, and Fred are not present. Now, in a normal episode of Scooby Doo, Shaggy and Scoob going off on their own was a staple. Always good. They'd usually make a sandwich or something, find the monster, and run to everyone else. The important thing is they'd be alone for about 12 seconds before the monster started harassing them sight-unseen. Scooby and Shaggy on their own for and hour plus? Excuse me, I really have to lock up these razor blades... Now then, the plot. They arrive at a creepy old mansion in the middle of nowhere. To solve a mystery? Of course not. Shaggy is a new gym teacher. Oh wait, he AND Scooby are both gym teachers. At an all girls school. In an old mansion. In the middle of nowhere. Go ahead and wipe the blood from your nose. Of course it's not a girls school. It's a ghoul's school! They're are five ghouls - The youngest is the little mummy ghoul named Tanis, Winnie the werewolf, Sibella the vampire, Elsa the frankenstien, and Phantasma the phantom. Okay, I have to stop a moment. Phantasma? Really? That's the best they could do? They name the frankestien girl after Elsa Lanchester who played the Bride of Frankenstien in the movie with that title from the 30's, but they call the ghost Phantasma. Phantasma. I'd like just get on with it, but if you haven't seen it you can't appreciate how annoying this is. Their voices I mean. Else sounds like a down-syndrome borderline retard, Tanis has that lispy "I'm so fucking insufferably cute!" thing going on, Sibella has that slow "I am a sex goddess from the 40's" voice that I'm sure is a direct copy of someone's actual voice, and Phantasma (aargh, aneurysm!) has a whiny, nasally voice whose shrillness is ramped up to eleven. And they NEVER STOP TALKING! .... ...... ........the wolf girl isn't as bad. Now, the plot. Just a little ways away is a military academy for boys. No, not ghoulish boys or monsters or somesuch, just regular boyscout kinda kids who wear spit-shined blue airforce officer uniforms. They don't get the girls (I'm sorry, ghouls). Yes, this means we get hundreds of jokes about the girls doing something odd or inappropriate like offering a dip in the quicksand bog or making pizza out of spiders and snakes and the boys just "don't understand girls at all!" Are you laughing! Laugh, dammit! These are jokes and they are funny! Laugh you motherfuckers, laugh! The two schools must meet up and play volleyball. They do. It is terrible, but accounts for half the movie. And that's all there really is to say about it because it has nothing to do with the plot. Nope. Nothing. At all. You see the plot actually involves a four armed witch named Revolta (Fuck, there's another aneurysm) and her henchma...henchthing named Creeper. He's a little ball of green snot with an enormous eyeball, a jaggedy jack-o-lantern kind of mouth, and tentacles. Lot's of tentacles. And no, they aren't used in any redeemable way. Yeah, I went there. THAT'S HOW MUCH THIS THING HAS HURT ME! Also, his voice is so mincing and whiny that he makes me imagine Paul Lynn screaming "This is Sparta" and being totally intimidating and manly. Yadda yadda yadda, the ghoul's fathers arrive and threaten to kill Shaggy and Scooby (but not Scrappy), if something happens to their respective daughters. The phantom wears a fedora. That's kind of cool I guess. This, naturally, means the ghouls are all kidnapped to become slaves for Revolta. Why? To get at their fathers and take over Universal Studios. Well, not that last part - that would be awesome. Look, you know where this is going. Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy save the day and it ends with a dance party. There are two important things you need to know. First is that in addition to our triple S heroes, you have the military school boys flying to the lair on a helicopter bike. Yes, it's exactly what you're thinking, and yes it's even stupider than what you're thinking. Second, throughout this whole sequence all of the brainwashed ghouls say "I obey only Revolta." Usually, this is directed at the Creeper. I am wiping blood from my ears as I type and I'm not even hearing it! Look, there is no way to comprehend how truly awful this thing is. Do not seek it out. Do not watch it. I found a video that sums up the whole thing in a tolerable fashion. If you truly must look in the face of unrelenting crap, <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0c15eTkEmc&NR=1>watch this video</url> I'm going to go polish of an entire handle of vodka now.
"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" is a complete classic. Despite the the lack of variety in the formula and progression of the stories, the first 25 episodes were very entertaining. The main characters were interesting enough and the villains and plots were actually somewhat complex for a kids' cartoon of the late sixties / early seventies. Despite later incarnations of Scrappy-Doo, 13 Ghosts, and many of the other poor outings associated with Scooby-Doo, the original season was the template that has made the gang from Mystery Inc. so revered today. This is why "The New Scooby-Doo" movies are just unacceptable. The sophomore outing for the Scooby-Doo franchise involved the normal gang teaming up with "famous" people to solve mysteries. The stories ran for an hour with commercials and were incredibly boring, never reaching the complexity from the earlier mysteries. The animation in particular was cheap and dodgy and didn't hold up well even in the standards of the day. There was not one redeeming aspect of the show. Sure, many of the team-ups were with characters from other cool mystery cartoons, such as Josie and the Pussycats or the Speed Buggy crew. You would think this would make for great stuff, but it did not. Sometimes Mystery Inc. would team up with characters from other cartoons of the time, such as the Addams Family, The Globe Trotters, or The Three Stooges. Since all of these character's cartoons were pretty bad in their own right, you can imagine how terrible the cross-overs were. This show even managed to make an awful outing with Batman and Robin, although to be fair, the Caped Crusaders' own cartoon from the day was also a bit watered down. However, the biggest insult of all was the "celebrities" that often appeared. Appearances including Don Knotts, Phyllis Diller, Tim Conway, Don Adams and Dick Van Dyke may have slightly interested our parents, but with the poor writing and animation style of the show, no one of any age could possible have enjoyed this show. Even faces I knew, such as Davy Jones or Sonny and Cher, were part of train wrecks that were hard to watch even as a small child. At the time, I didn't even have an idea of who many of the guests were. Jonathan Winters? Jerry Reed? Cass Elliot? It is hard to pick a worst moment from these two seasons of suck, so I say thee whole damn thing wins the award for the worst cartoon memory, and incidentally, the slow decline of the once great (but still mighty) Scooby-Doo universe. Cass Elliot? Seriously???
As a young girl, I enjoyed the glory days of WWF - Roddy Piper, the Marvelous Moohlah, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka (who I met at a wrestling event at my high school later on), Hulk Hogan, the Iron Shiek, Wendi Reichter, Captain Lou Albano, Bobby the Brain Henan, Andre the Giant, Junkyard Dog, Tito Santana...etc. I was so excited in 1985 for the debut of a little cartoon called "Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling. What could be better than a Saturday morning cartoon featuring my favorite wrestlers? Hmmm...what could be worse? Adding Sgt. Slaughter to GI Joe worked pretty well. Deciding that "good guy" wrestlers led by Hogan and "bad guy" wrestlers led by Piper in a series of stupid events and contests was retarded. The worst episode I remember is Rock 'n' Zombies, in which Bobby The Brain purchases a "memorial" park from an unsuspecting lady and turns it into an amusement park. Each wrestler builds a ride, in hopes of winning a contest to have the park named after them. Tito Santana builds a ferris wheel with sombreros as cars, Hogan builds a jungle ride, Andre the giant has a dinosaur ride, the Russian guy has a tea cup ride...but little do they know that not only is the Brain building subpar rides, he's doing it on a cemetery. Soon the dead rise from their graves - white-skinned, black saucer eyes and tattered shirts and pants. They obviously want to chase people, but not feast on them. The bad guys heard them into Moolah's ride (can someone explain why she is wearing a purple jumpsuit with dollar signs on it?) so they can name the park after Hogan - a stunt to get people to come to the park. "I am one of you guys - I'm cheap and know a good marketing stunt." The Brain tells his fellow bad guys. Soon Hogan and his entourage find themselves being chased by Zombies, until Wendi arrives to tell Hulk the truth about the land. The zombies capture her and take her on a boat ride in Hogan's jungle. (The Zombies paddle the boat down river). Junkyard keeps saying things like "I'm gonna boogie-woogie with these zombies" and Hillbilly Jim sees logs with eyes (alligators). Hogan, in his infinite wisdom, is able to rationalize with the "Dead Dudes" and convince them the good guys had nothing to do with the park being built. He then leads the zombie army to the bad guys (who are fending off a zombie horde with squirt guns) who run away by jumping in itty-bitty cars from one of the rides. Some great script-writing going on there.
Spongebob, Post-Lost Episode. Frowny face.
Well, it's at least partly inspired by a cartoon, and some people might think it's horrible, so here's ten seconds from tomorrow's G.I. Joe trailer, from yesterday's Entertainment Tonight. ;) http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/01/31/here-it-is-first-real-footage-from-gi-joe-rise-of-cobra/
This one is a no brainer. The Star Wars Holiday Special. it was so bad that it will never be released again. And it had Boba Fett ridding a dinosaur??? WTF
Just as an FYI, BadNflu3nce, don't be so quick to imply that BATMAN BEYOND wascopying G.I.JOE. The Cult of Kobra originally came from KOBRA, a DC comic first published in 1976, five or six years BEFORE the first appearance of the similarly named G.I.Joe bad guys. But I have to agree; that was a shitty episode
Just as an FYI, BadNflu3nce, don't be so quick to imply that BATMAN BEYOND wascopying G.I.JOE. The Cult of Kobra originally came from KOBRA, a DC comic first published in 1976, five or six years BEFORE the first appearance of the similarly named G.I.Joe bad guys. But I have to agree; that was a shitty episode
...my post didn't show up... but several more have since I made mine. Please tell me you didn't reject it, Rob. :( It said it had to be approved before it would go through. --LBD "Nytetrayn"
I would rather repeatedly slam my dick in a sliding glass door than watch a new episode of The Simpsons.
my choices for worse cartoons. all the GIJoe episodes with the synsoids creepy to me.also the transformers episode where they did the same thing. also the animated dungeons and dragons episode called the city at the edge of midnight where the kids had to free everyone taken prisoner by starting a giant clock. and the last one on my list rip super friends where the legion of doom take down the super friends by a crystal of their weaknesse's
my choices for worse cartoons. all the GIJoe episodes with the synsoids creepy to me.also the transformers episode where they did the same thing. also the animated dungeons and dragons episode called the city at the edge of midnight where the kids had to free everyone taken prisoner by starting a giant clock. and the last one on my list rip super friends where the legion of doom take down the super friends by a crystal of their weaknesse's
@ Mchops "I guess not knowing is the other half of the battle." That is funny as fuck! That should earn ya a t-shirt, or needs to be a t-shirt!
The most dissapointing episode in recent memory has to be "Curse of the Kobra: Part 2" of Batman Beyond. This failed on a number of levels. First of all, this had batman dealing with the criminal organization KOBRA, which was, as its name suggests, the Cobra organization from GI Joe with mortal Kombat spelling. What was funny was that part one was probably the best episode of the entire season, it gave greater depth to Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis, and also introduced a new cool character who could be a good rival for Terry. Then came part two. Oh my God. The writers decided to take the name KOBRA literally, as in, they actually worship reptiles in some sort of cult. Not only that, but they decide to actually turn themselves into human dinosaur hybrids (think a T-rex head on a human body). Not only that, but their master plan was to drop an nuke into a volcano, which would then cause the earth's temperature to rise, so that everyone would be forced to become reptiles like them or die of heat exhaustion or something. It made no sense whatsoever, the new guy who was training with McGinnis becomes a dino-human as part of his new position in KOBRA, and Batman fights him to prevent Global Warming, and ends up destroying the ship in the fight with everyone on board, ending the threat (batman got out just in nick of time). Yeah, it was so bad, the writers themselves admit they didn't know what they were doing: "We had a great story in the first half, fun villains, and an excellent new character - a well-developed rival for Terry. He would have been a fantastic reoccurring character. If only he hadn't injected himself with Tyrannosaurus DNA, which for some reason turned him into a sort of snake-man who wanted to throw a nuclear weapon into a volcano, killing all the humans or turning them into more snake-people or... yeah..."
Here is my entry. OK. There once was a cartoon (daily about a clown (I think it's called Zippy)) that was wierd and horrible. HOWEVER, that is gone, and you can now find this one (and it's pretty horrible too) called Fusco Brothers. http://news.yahoo.com/comics/fuscobrothers;_ylt=Aq3N80Pskt5t4KCbnfTj6TkDwLAF That is my entry. Fusco Brothers. However, if you are including cartoons on TV, I'd say Family Guy. Because of all the horrible things that they made fun of, they made fun of "I think they stuck a hanger up someone's vagina and tried to give them an abortion" and that's not right. OH!!! And cartoons on a movie screen: how about Garfield? (By the way, that didn't come up on my spell check. Isn't that wierd? Garfield doesn't come up on a spell check? Bonus for being president.) Did you see that movie? You didn't? That's (wierd), because nobody else did either!!! -d
Mr. T. I never understood why Mr. T was a good gymnastics coach. He got those kids into more international espionage than the Avengers. The entirety of the two seasons qualifies as bad cartoons, but the one that sticks out for me was the The Mystery of the Rocky Mountain Express. Why is a group of kids the only people available to find and secure a stolen deadly virus?
fuck yes mount prion, i was so hyped for bleach 204 after how 203 ended, and then i get brutally ass raped!!! well, then i watched 204 and it was almost as bad as that earlier ass raping... seriously though, if i didnt pirate those episodes from dattebayo, i would totally boycott that damn show
Citing "Garfield Fantasies" as a cartoon is something of a fallacy, as there is no such cartoon. That's actually a collection of three different specials: Garfield's Babes and Bullets, Garfield's Feline Fantasies, and Garfield : His Nine Lives. I barely remember the first one, except that it was an adaptation of one of Garfield's "lives" from the His Nine Lives book, which featured some different lives/chapters from the hour-long TV special (some remained the same, however). Feline Fantasies was a favorite as a kid, though. As CBS was phasing Garfield out, I had hoped they might make a spin-off when they aired this in its place on Saturday morning at the start of a season. Different adventures with Garfield and Odie, happening in his imagination... good stuff. But enough about that; before I go on to one of my worst cartoons, I just want to throw out a show of support for the "Viper" ep of GI Joe. Hated it as a kid, but in retrospect, I like it more as an adult. Anyway, I'm going to avoid the easy out with "Carnage in C-Minor" from TransFormers season 3. Rather, one of the worst I can recall is from the Ruby-Spears Mega Man animated series which ran in the early 90's: Episode 22, "Curse of the Lion Men." Now, some people love the old cartoon, and some people hate it. But this one is just bad. Like, bad bad. You take a cartoon based on a video game about a super fighting robot (Mega Man), who's fighting to save the world from evil robots and their master, the mad scientist Dr. Wily. Then you throw out 90 percent of that premise as Wily uncovers an ancient tribe of anthromorphic lion creatures who proceed to go around, shooting lasers out of their eyes that turn other people into lion men. After initially forming a truce with Wily, they wind up betraying him and turning him into a lion man slave, as well as Dr. Light and using the former's robot-reprogramming gun to bring everyone to their side. The idea of Mega Man and Rush against everyone else might have been alright... had they done it any other way. Sadly, they didn't. We get this poorly written, and what's more, poorly animated crap. See it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYj9UACqTlQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyBir1RYVHI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LAFrJfC5gU After viewing, people usually want to acquire Cut Man's power-- so they can cut themselves. But don't take this as a representation of the whole series, if you haven't seen it, as there actually are a few pretty good, fun episodes for the light Saturday morning fare that it was. I personally recommend "The Beginning," "Terror on the High Seas," "Bro Bots," and of course, "Mega X"... if you're not too attached to the idea of X as a pacifist robot. --LBD "Nytetrayn"
The year is 1986. After having my 10 year old mind blown by First Blood (parts I and II), I am told that Rambo is coming to the television. NO WAY! I am then told that the toughest man I had ever seen in my young life is going to be immortalized in a cartoon. NO FUCKING WAY!!!! SO, here I sit in front of my television with a bowl of fruit loops in my lap. The opening credits begin to roll and: my entire day was RUINED. These first five seconds may be some of the gayest I have ever seen and yes, gayer than the Rocky III training montage where Rocky and Apollo hug and splash each other playfully in the ocean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxUO0OM0ppc from 2:32 on)...but I digress. It starts off with Rambo's biceps being flexed uncontrollably and then pans down his thighs to him tying up his boots. And yes, Rambo is mostly always shirtless, however when it's actually Stallone it is badass but when it is a cartoon version of Stallone, I get rubbed the wrong way. We then see a retarded dog and Rambo busting in through a skyscraper window. Sure, that may be cool to some, but when the narrator says: "From the canyons of skyscrapers to the canyons of remote mountain peaks, Liberty's champion is unstoppable." Two things:I was ten and I was pissed off that I just heard the words "canyons of skyscrapers" and secondly, Rambo is most certainly not Liberty's hero. He is a certified class A badass who rips faces off. That is the only title Rambo should ever be called. In this cartoon, Rambo is assisted by a black man named Turbo and an asian named Kat. This pisses me off even more because Rambo does not need help from a fucking race car driver and a master of disguise. He will destroy anything that comes near his path. ALONE. And then to top off my pissed-offness. His team is called "The force of freedom." That sounds more like a G.I. Joe squad than Rambo. I barely made it through the first episode, but from what I can remember, there was no blood and not nearly enough dead bodies. In short, Rambo: The force of freedom, ruined 1986 for me. Good work John...good work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eliQEStzhu4
Don't know if anybody remembers it, but I'd like to nominate every goddamn episode of "The Littles," which ran on ABC in the early '80s or so. It was a series about little people who lived in the walls of this kid's house. The were slightly furry and had long tails. So, yes, "The Littles" is essentially a cartoon about rats. Add to it the fact that entire episodes revolved around the dad Little paying his bills or The Only Kid Who Knows About Them having to (wait for it!) babysit. Jesus. In short: Cartoon. About rats. With problems. Boring, boring problems. But, since this contest calls for a single episode, I'll pick this one at random: "A Big Cure for A Little Illness" Summary from TV.com: Helen Little (Mom) breathes in one of Dr. Hunter's chemicals he sprayed to get the Littles and becomes very sick. The only medicine they can get her is in the Bigs Clinic so Henry pretends he's sick and goes to get it. But the Bigs insist Henry is sick and make him stay for tests, as Helen Little worsens. Imagine watching this as a kid. Mom: Honey, turn off the TV, time to go to grandma's. You: What? Noooooo!!! Helen little is taking a turn for the worse! Folks of a certain age look on the early '80s Saturday Morning lineups as some sort of kiddie cartoon golden age. We had the Legion of Doom trying to fuck up the Superfriends. We had Muppet Babies throwing in actual scenes from Star Wars back in the days before everybody had a VCR (so that was really your only possible Star Wars fix outside of action figures). Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends would kick Juggernaut's ass every now and then with the help of the X-Men. The Littles were the cure for awesome. Just waiting at the end of Saturday morning to ruin Saturday afternoon with another one of their depressing plights. They are the reminder that all is not golden in the past Much of it is best left forgotten.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and call for the Fraggle Rock episode "Marooned", even though it's a puppet show. The Fraggles dance their cares away, work thirty minutes a week, and sing at least one song every fifteen minutes. In "Marooned" Red and Boober get stuck in a cave-in, one of the first examples of a realistic danger living in Fraggle Rock. And they spend the episode mired in ennui as they slowly run out of air, entombed in stone. "Boober?" "Yes Red?" "Is this what it's like . . . to die?" OH MY GODD!!
Are you dissin' on the Babes and Bullets episode of Garfield and Friends, because I'll come down on you like Holy Jesus. That Babes and Bullets song was pretty catchy. I was always into the Noir thing as a kid, but there wasn't any real shows out there for me to watch related to that, except for Dragnet, so I thought that the Garfield episode was pretty cool. Fish Police, on the other hand, had the same deal. Only it sucked shit. If you want shitty cartoons, what about Capital Critters, or Fish Police? Here's a couple lines from Fish Police for you to absorb: Sexy Dame Fish: "Here's where I get off." Private Eye Fish: "Careful, this is a family show." *Mugs for the camera like Jimmy Farrel.* That's about all I remember from that prime-time fiasco. All I can remember about Capital Critters is that the one rat kid was always talking about masturbating, or reading porn mags, or reading porn mags and masturbating, only it was never that apparent. Like they tried to be civil about how they were presenting his frantic masturbation habbits. It's like they wanted to make a Beavis and Butt-head style cartoon, only they put it on CBS, and everything became dilluted to the point of inane insanity. I'd like to think that when Bill Clinton took office, he stuck one of the Capital Critters in Monica Lewinsky's vagina, because that's how Bill Clinton rolls.
@THE PR0F3550R@McTool: And I quote, So this is open to any cartoon...
@McTool - I think this is for western style cartoons. Anime has had plenty of retarded moments. If anything anime beats western cartoons for dumb ass episodes since a typical series runs for 400+ episodes there's bound to be a few stinkers. Here's my entry and it probably won't win, but I have to rant because I hate this type of episode more than anything else. I bet you know where I'm going with this... if you guessed the clip/recap show a winner is you. I don't care what show it is or how much you love it the recap show is like a dagger in your heart. Image you're a six/seven/eight year old again. It's Saturday and you've been a good little boy or girl living with great anticipation to see your favorite cartoon show again only to sit down and after the theme song begin to ask yourself if you've already seen this. Then all of a sudden nothing really happens. Some of the character voices are just talking about shit they did and nothing new is on. Oh boy you've been had. The producers have just taken a massive sludgehammer and slammed that baby right into your prepubescent crotch. Ouch! Thanks assholes. I don't care what show it is or even if they try to trick you with a few new animated scenes, it's bullshit that's what it is. Cheap ass bullshit. What's worse is that you're hoping that eventually some new stuff will happen, but it never does. In the meantime you are suffering at the hands of some demented pissed off adult producer whose mommy and daddy must have hated them when they were a child so now they want other kids to suffer with them. Bullshit!
@Mchops Actually the Viper (the wiper) is one of the more creative episodes that I can remember. Yeah it was weird and quirky, but compared to some of the horseshit episodes that GI Joe gave us (yes I'm looking at you "Cobra's Creatures", "The Phantom Brigade", "Operation Mind Menace", "The God's Below", "Cold Slither", "The Great Alaskan Land Rush", "Glamour Girls", "The Greatest Evil I & II"), the Viper episode is pure gold. I wish we could do some of the best episodes of GI Joe because I would vote for "The Most Dangerous Thing in the World" as one of the most awesome episodes ever from GI Joe!
What's with all the negativity? Week after week, what did you hate! There are plenty of good reasons to be a geek, some are worth sharing (and winning a t-shirt for sharing)
I don't have to suggest a specific episode, because the 1968 cartoon series "Super President" must stand in all its glory. Or something like it. He's the President of the US, he has all the power of the Department of Defense at his disposal, but when things get really, really, really shitty, he ducks down to his secret headquarters (underneath the Oval Office) and becomes the super hero "Super President"!!! Now, become you say, 'but how could the most famous leader in the world live a secret life as a superhero?', let me assure you that the universe he lives in is *indeed* too stupid to live. No one makes the connection. NO ONE! Its awful, its dreadful, it makes you want to pray for the Soviet Union to come in and rescue us! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Q2eJ8eaCs&feature=PlayList&p=21EF8E0C6C811913&playnext=1&index=89
Gah. DB does subs, not dubs. My bad. No more drugs for Prion.
Without a doubt the G.i. Joe episode about "the Viper." This episode insulted me the first time I saw it when I was probably eight or nine. The Gi Joes are all hanging out at a Firehouse when the Joe Fireman (Barbecue?) gets a phone call saying that the Viper will be there on whatever day (Tuesday), and he'll bring his own tools. Well the Joes being the bright military commando unit assume this is some kind of warning about a Cobra attack (because lord knows most terrorists call before an attack). The Joes don't even assume it is maybe a crank caller (which my puny brain assumed at that time) well the Joes manage to keep getting these calls and the keep interfering with Cobras plans as a result. Then at the end of the episode the Viper shows up and it is some foreign guy who was a window Wiper not a Viper he just couldn't pronounce the word Wiper. To this day it STILL pisses me off what are the odds that a window wiper would keep calling back and leaving stupid cryptic messages, second what are the odds that the Joes could interpret the stupid messages into figuring out what a terrorists groups plans were and finally it's an insult to military people everywhere that they would deploy military force and units on a telephone call and no solid intel. I guess not knowing is the other half of the battle
Bleach 204. This is the most recent episode dubbed by DB, and also the biggest disappointment I've ever come across in a cartoon. It is so bad, in fact, that the waves of hideousness seem to have even pervaded the characters in the episode, as half the time they sit around with expressions of boredom and/or disgust on their faces. In this way, it is crappy to the point of self-reflection, or crappy to the point of becoming "meta" as the kids say these days. Bleach 203 ended with giant black rifts opening in the sky, and basically every badass character ever in the show getting ready to throw down, including even the weird dogfaced captain and super-old-buff-guy in charge of Soul Society. When the episode ended, I was ready for a riatsu-charged orgy of oneupmanship. Finally, it seemed, Bleach had kicked it's filler habit and was out of rehab. And what does episode 204 bring to the table? A soccer game. Excuse me. Not even a soccer game. Drama about a soccer game. Drama about a prepubescent princess's soccer game. Which is, of course, on par with the potential destruction and reformation of the world of souls. Viz media is back on the filler-skag. This episode appeared without warning in the middle of the main plot arc, with nothing tying it to the real story, and even its characters outwardly question the credibility of its plot devices. And it's supposed to be funny! Clearly the people behind Bleach weren't ready with their ultimate battle episode, so they dusted off an old shite tape they had in the closet and aired it. I can imagine the meeting now. "People like to laugh! Ichigo getting kicked in the head with a soccer ball over and over is hilarious! They'll love it." Bleach 204 is almost Homeric in its use of pacing. Before Achilles can cut down somebody, we need to hear all about the soon-to-be-slain warrior's family and everything noteworthy they've done. In doing so, Homer extends the time his audience is in suspense, and creates a heightened sense of tension. The difference here is that this has literally nothing to do with any kind of conflict that anybody cares about, and all it does is piss people off. It's as though Achilles is about to strike down Hector, and we get a 40 minute aside telling us about what Achilles had for lunch. Don't forget to throw in some bitchy princesses surrounded by sparkly hearts and stars, Homer. Bleach 204 doesn't even make it to the soccer game that we've heard so much bitching and moaning about, but ends with talk of an entirely new soccer-challenge, which we will no doubt be awarded with next week. The lone saving grace of this ultra-prototypical piece of filler is it's last line. Ichigo looks directly into the camera and poignantly asks the question that sums up the entirety of Bleach 204: "Why'd this have to happen?!" Link (which will surely be taken down by DB): http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1734600142qyhBHB Direct link to picture of last line: http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff344/dkspftl/use/why.jpg
This isn't bad in the vein of my personal childhood trauma, but rather from the perspective of a father. I don't know how many people are familiar with "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy," but it's a Cartoon Network original and stoner approved cartoon. Two kids trick the Grim Reaper (ala Bill and Ted) into essentially becoming their bitch and hilarity ensues. I like the show overall, but there is one episode, Attack of the Clowns... This episodes features Billy (who is slightly retarded and deathly afraid of clowns) believing that clowns are coming to take over the Earth or some nonsense. Part of the shows charm is little Billy's oblivious take on life. In this episode, however, the charming little autistic kid has the charm of an anal raping cellmate. Throughout the episode this kid essentially repeats one phrase "Destroy us all." Doesn't sound to bad, but witness below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ZKjlmcqi0 Of course one can just turn the show off, but again I'm a father, and those of you with kids know they are like little sponges, and sometimes more liked scratched CDs. So when my little 'sponges' were fed this brain grating quote it stuck...and was repeated...ad nauseum. My youngest especially, Sometimes he would answer questions with it, yell it at video games, or he would, for no fucking reason just yell it out like he suffered from tourettes! He would have been 8 this year.
I don't know if 'The Simpsons' counts, but it was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. My mother didn't want me watching it, so I'd do it on the sly. It was like nothing I had ever seen before, and I was completely hooked...not just because it was taboo, but because it was genuinely funny, and the stories were good. In the early seasons, the writing was superb, funny but with a heart. I remember actually being scared by the original 'Treehouse of Horror' episode...yeah, I was a wus. Then came 'Homer vs. Dignity.' I had been watching the show for years and came to know it very well...so reluctantly I was forced to concede that over time, the show's quality had declined. I was grown up by the time 'Homer vs. Dignity' drove the last nail in the coffin of my nostalgic childhood memories of 'The Simpsons,' but it didn't sting any less. In this episode, Homer becomes a 'prank monkey' for Mr. Burns, humiliating himself in public in order to make money on the side. The climax of the episode involves Homer being raped by a male panda, then later complaining of being covered in 'panda love.' Really? I was speechless. Then, and now. I still honestly just don't know what to say about that...except 'no thanks.' Do I want to watch 'The Simpsons'? No thanks. I'll catch reruns of the years when they could be funny without resorting to pathetic jokes about panda rape.
OK you know what is awesome? Zombies. You know what isn't the Smurfs (well they are awesome in a way that they live in mushrooms, and the only girl is a vapid blonde that is actually not a real smurf. Now let me tell you a tale of Les Schtroumpfs Noirs, or "The Black Smurfs" In this take a smurf gets bit by a fly, turns black, goes grazy can not longer speak and bites/eats other smurfs. After a while almost all the smurfs have turned into these "zombie" smurfs and Papa Smurf and the survivors have to save themselves and in this comes the basis of the modern Zombie standoff. Now that was awesome, well now when the old French comics were made in to american TV shows it went to crap. Not only was Smurfett in it, but they made them purple, alot less distructive. They somehow took what could have been the best cartoon of the '80s and made it into well the USA smurfs. They now only bite people on the tai; (there is a FFF for you) and well you do find out Papa Smurf is bald but just the geneal they ruined somthig great and gave us this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuLioyF14fI
@ ZACH LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That is good shit!
Yeah, the sixties WB cartoons were horrible, I have to agree with that. Seeing Wile E. Coyote reminded me of this link from College Humor when the Coyote begins to use Amazon rather than Acme: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1769904
Growing up with an older brother, two years my senior, my young life was filled with constant competition. And constantly losing. If I got up in the middle of a video game session to use the bathroom and the next life or level came before I got back, I'd have to wait not just for the next life or level, but according to my brother's logic, for the one after that. Because even though he'd taken my turn while I was gone it wasn't fair for him to lose his normal turn just because I had to pee. Garbage Pail Kids and Muscle Men that strayed too far from their respective stack or garbage can were considered fair game for acquisition. Case in point; although my mother never bought one of us a pack of Garbage Pail Kids without buying a pack for the, my brother's stack was easily twice the size of mine after just a year of collecting. I mention all this to properly set the tone of our relationship. From as far back as I can remember if one of us had to leave the house to go to some appointment or join my mom for an errand, it was the responsibility of the other person to make the shows that the had aired in the other brother's absence sound as awesome as possible. I would blindly believe the invented details of imaginary episodes that my brother had witnessed while I was out at the grocery store, or the dentist. What's even more embarrassing is that I would quietly hope to catch the episode of Air Wolf when Indiana Jones comes to the mountain base and Air Wolf gets upgraded for underwater missions or the episode of Alf where Alf sticks up his middle finger, twice! I realized long ago that these episodes were never made, but their awesomeness in my imagination made the real episodes boring in contrast. The worst cartoon episode ever was also one that, as luck would have it, I missed. It was an episode of Muppet Babies (one of our favorite cartoons, after M.A.SK. and Gobots). According to my brother, it was announced during the credits that this was the only time they would ever show this particular episode. A lot of the plot points were vague but apparently Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget kidnapped Fozzie (his motives were unclear to my brother) and in order to get the bear back, Nanny had to meet Dr. Claw FACE TO FACE!!! The climax of this surprise crossover episode came when viewers were treated to a glimpse of the faces of both Nanny and Dr. Claw. I had tons of questions: "Was Nanny a Hippopotamus like I expected?","Did Dr. Claw have lots of scars and rubies in his pupils??" but my brother's responses were always noncommittal. "It's too hard to describe" and "you really just had too see it" were the replies I'd always get. This made the fact that I'd missed this seminal episode even worse. And so I very quickly grew to hate these two shows that I had once loved. This episode made me hate these cartoons. Knowing that any of the episodes they showed from then on, would never be as good as that one that I missed.
Damn! I saw the headline and immediately thought of that Worst Cartoons site. Anyways, I think the worst cartoon I ever saw was an episode of Transformers where Jazz rapes Bumblebee.
Look, I grew up on Looney Tunes. I love them. They are a part of me. If you say you 'hate' Looney Tunes, I want nothing to do with you. I once determined my judgement of a man based on whether or not he would show his newborn son Looney Tunes cartoon as he was growing up (his answer? "I already own the entire Golden Collection for exactly that purpose"). They shaped my little moppet brain, amused and educated, at a very crucial time in my upbringing. I am of course referring to the GOOD ones--the 30's-50's ones. But one day I learned that Looney Tunes, with their bountiful orchestral scores, lush, imaginative animation, and hilarious, wildly inventive scenarios were not flawless, nor were they endless in number, and a little bit of my childhood was chipped away forever in an unendingly painful moment of soul-crushing horror. I am of course referring to the moment I was first subjected to one of the mid-60's Looney Tunes atrocities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcR6Uw2UL7c A transcript from my 8-year-old brain: "LOOK at this. What---WHAT HAPPENED?!! Who the hell is Robert McKimson? What have they done to Fritz Freleng? Why does everything look like illustrations from the horribly yellowed copies of 'The New Yorker' in my grandmother's bathroom? What's with the music? Is this what it means when they call me ugly? My god--the universe--is it infinite in its cruelty? And if Looney Tunes can fall--if they can allow this to happen to the Greatest of the Great--does that mean that all creative endeavors are ultimately doomed to attrition and failure? A spiraling collapse into a morass of second-guessed, by-the-numbers, creatively corrupt mediocrity and stinking, pandering-to-musical-and-'artistic'-trends FAILURE?!! This is Wile E. Coyote!! This is Wile E. Coyote, and I'D RATHER BE WATCHING SHIRT TALES!!!!" I've never recovered. The pain is still fresh, the wound raw, pink, pulsing. It was my first taste of utter disappointment, and the most potent. DAMN YOU, 1960's-era Warner Brothers execs. Damn you for breaking my spirit. I beg all of you--when you have children--please, by all means, develop their senses of humor, their sense of place within the world itself, with the genius of the original Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies. But if they become curious? If they notice that there are cartoons with the Looney Tunes name that come sometime after 1962 or so? Do the merciful thing and shoot them in the fucking brain. Make it swift. Be kinder than Robert McKimson and Walter Greene and save them from the knowledge that the world can be a cold, hard, dark, furious place. I MEAN LOOK AT THE VIDEO AT :53!! LOOK AT THE WAY HE RAISES HIS EYEBROWS!! LOOK! LOOOOOOOOOOKKKK!!! WHAT BREACH FROM A BROKEN DIMENSION OF ACID TEARS AND RAZOR WIND BORE THAT INTO THE WORLD??!!! WHY WHYYYYYAsdfoahjlkznb OSJUGIUA9PMK, . /. ... ....
Oh this is a really tough one. I could pick some gems from Gargoyles' Goliath Chronicles but I think instead I will go towards another good series that had an even more dreadful final season: the 1990s X-men animated series. Season Five of X-men was full of dreadful animation and even more dreadful storylines. There was the ever-wonderful "Jubilee Fantasy Theatre" where we get fairy tale stories with the X-men playing ogres and knights. Or the episodes where Storm rapidly falls in love with a He-man wannabe on a distant planet. Then there's the ep. when Jubilee is kidnapped so Apocalypse can use her as a host body (dear god why?) Probably the very worst animation of the series comes from "Hidden Agendas" when the X-men go to the south to recruit Cannonball. But, oh no, the army wants the ridiculously-hickish Cannonball for themselves as a secret weapon. Riiiight.
Quick question before I write my entry: Is anime allowed? It's technically Japanese cartoons, but I want to know if we're saving that for later or something.
I am going to go with Star Trek, The Animated Series episode The Infinite Vulcan. The Agony Booth's synopsis follows: SUMMARY: Sulu nearly gets offed by a pink puffball on an unexplored planet, but is saved in the nick of time by talking weeds. Then flying Spaghetti Dragons kidnap Spock, and a 50-foot man in a gym skirt shows up to reveal his master plan: he's going to create an army of giant Spocks to turn the galaxy into a communist utopia. But Kirk calls on the sheer power of his awesomeness to make things okay again, and caps the experience off by propositioning Sulu. TAS is pretty bad, but The Infinite Vulcan is not even so bad it is good like Mudd's Passion. It's just bad.
I don't know if it counts as the worst episode of The Simpsons, but "The Principle and the Pauper" where Principle Skinner turned out to be an imposter seemed to piss off a lot of people including some who worked on the show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principal_and_the_Pauper

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