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** This gets even worse in the third season The Goliath Chronicles, especially in the episode "Seeing Isn't Believing".
* The [[DCAU]] suffered from several moments of characters being off-model - especially after the [[Art Evolution]], but the last season of ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' has one of the most egregious examples: Jimmy Olsen's eye lids weren't painted when he closes his eyes, leaving them black. And there's also the still of Metallo being hit by Lois's car - making Metallo look more like Plastic Man, and Lois's car like [[Speed Racer]]'s Mach 5.
** Both [[AKOM]] and [[Sunrise]] often went off-model in their episodes for ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''. While Sunrise generally produced animation, AKOM tended to give characters wildly different proportions, made characters look like balloons, and even drew Batman with moobs at one point. The Company's work on the episode "Cat Scratch Fever" was flat-out terrible, so much so that it got them fired. And while Sunrise had a reputation for drawing characters with "sausage fingers", they pulled off a difficult sequence in "The Cat and the Claw, Part 1" that even Bruce Timm was shocked; considering how much they usually failed at simpler tasks, it's no surprise and much like AKOM, were eventually let go due to animation just as bad for the lion's share of their episodes. A shame really, especially considering that both companies did better [[Cowboy Bebop|work]] [[The Simpsons (animation)|elsewhere]].
** One studio, Dust, was used for only a single episode, "Beware The Gray Ghost", because their work was so terribly off-model. It's obvious that the animators couldn't understand English, which is particularly noticeable on the notes left by the Mad Bomber - the first note Gordon receives reads "Pay up or ''day'' the consequences", while a flashback mistakenly uses the text from the "real" Mad Bomber instead of the text from the fictional version (i.e. references to the fictional "Piedmont" read "Gotham" instead). Spectrum Animation is credited for the episode, though an Animato Magazine from closer to the production of the episode discusses Dust instead.
** Despite being an excellent episode, ''Harlequinade'' has some Off Model moments that were not ignored by the commentary. Examples include Batman's incredibly pointy pointing fingers, and [http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/9407/leglesspiano.jpg the legless piano player].
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