So Bad It's Good/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* All three of the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' cartoons fall into this, due to being loaded to the bursting point with outrageous animation errors, cringe-worthy writing, and [[Ham and Cheese]] acting, which helped turned these series into [[Fountain of Memes|Fountains of Memes]].

** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65uNCLBTje0 ending theme] for the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' cartoon. [[Dance Sensation|Do the Mario!]]...the Mario being a dance where, as explained by the man himself, you "swing your arms from side to side", then "take one step, and then again."

'''Mike:''' [[Running Gag|Let's not jump to conclusions.]] }}

* ''[[Captain N: The Game Master]]''. A teenager enters the world of [[Nintendo]] games. Every character he meets - [[Castlevania|Simon Belmont]], [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]], [[Kid Icarus|Pit]] ([[Did Not Do the Research|named]] [[I Am Not Shazam|Kid Icarus]]), [[You Don't Look Like You|is very unlike their in-game counterpart]] and has a terrible, exaggerated personality. Mega Man is short and green and says "Mega" in almost every sentence. Pit, I mean Kid Icarus, does the same with the suffix "-icus", which he needs to end most of his sentences with. Simon Belmont wears goggles and acts like a vain ladies' man. And that's just the characters. The plots aren't particularly good either.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoUkHH-Njc Well][[Memetic Mutation|Excuuuuuse Me]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TZUIE5DC_I Princess]!

* ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]''. A show about an earth spirit who gives five teenagers mystical rings that gives (four of) them badass [[Elemental Powers]] (and the fifth one gets, [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|uh, something else]]) should make for some quality entertainment, right? Instead we get [[Anvilicious|preachy aesops]] about [[Green Aesop|environmentalism]] and why [[Acceptable Targets|conservative white Americans suck]]. We also get [[Card-Carrying Villain|idiotic villains]] who pollute the earth ''[[For the Evulz|just for the sake of polluting it]]'' half the time and when the heroes [[All Your Powers Combined|combine their rings' power]], we get a green-mullet-headed, blue-skinned superhero who spouts terrible puns ''[[Pungeon Master|every other second.]]'' A deep, rich source of [[Narm]]. But this ludicrous premise and execution has made it ''the'' reason to watch and has created many [[Memetic Mutation|forum-based memes]]. Plus, in addition to using [[Family-Friendly Firearms|real guns]] and [[G-Rated Drug|real drugs]] and [[Never Say "Die"|real death]], it remains the only children's cartoon in history to have [[Very Special Episode|an episode about AIDS]].

** Not true. AIDS STINKS!

** Captain Planet gets mortally wounded just by getting splashed with a little [[Weaksauce Weakness|dirty motor oil]]. And there's that one episode where [[Adolf Hitler]] (seriously) beats Captain Planet by simply ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V5fOqZYdmE staring at him]'' because his hate is so immense, Captain Planet just can't take it. Yeah...

*** [[Power Rangers|"Alpha, they are polluting the Earth! Get me five teenagers with attitude!"]]

** "If it's doomsday this must be Belfast": the episode that presented [[The Troubles]] as [[West Side Story|the Jets Vs The Sharks,]] complete with lines like this:

"Why not? 'tis as good a reason as any". }}

*** Also perpetuated the belief that Irish people call everyone "Boyo".

*** "That's a Protestant name if ever I heard one". To all who hated the "[[Oireland|Oirish]]" accents in [[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]] Volume 2, check this episode out on Youtube and see how lucky you were.

*** And the Israel/Palestine subplot from same:

"You Arab terrorist!" }}

*** From the same subplot:

** Wheeler utters the immortal line, "Okay, think Wheeler. If you were a zombie, where would you be? ...''The vice-president's office!''" [[Batman (TV series)|Adam West]] would be envious.

*** [[Take That]] Al Gore, or Dan Quayle whoever the case may be.

* ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]''. Whoooooo boy. Where to begin? This cartoon suffers from horrible, [[Off-Model]] animation and terrible writing, thanks to a low budget and a five-days-a-week schedule that forced its creators to churn out more episodes rather than make better ones. This show lasted longer and had more episodes than its counterpart ''[[Sonic Sat AM|SatAM]]''. But it is great riffing material! And those faces are so expressive. They make great [[Memetic Mutation|reaction pics]]!

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcrtkiLEGbE Sonic the Hedgehog taught us about sexual harassment!]

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyM1UGD8sqM SnooPING AS usual I see...]"

** The four-part "Quest for the Chaos Emeralds" is considered not only the best of the entire series, but also ''[[So Cool Its Awesome|almost as good as SATAM]]'', complete with clever writing and decent animation, all wrapped into a four-part storyline of [[Time Travel]] where Sonic fights with Robotnik through the high seas, the Middle Ages, ancient pseudo-Egypt and prehistoric Mobius to collect four chaos emeralds, each of which grants a different power.

* ''[[The Beatles (animation)|The Beatles]]''. [[Off-Model|Good, Lennon, you look kinda cool!]] Ringo's the incompetent, bumbling [[Butt Monkey]], and John sounds American. ''None'' of the voice actors are played by actual [[The Beatles (band)|Beatles]], no matter what the credits may tell you. The cartoon ''feels'' wrong, and that is why it rules.

* ''Toxic Crusaders'', which ditched the R-rated qualities of ''[[Toxic Avenger]]'' and replaced them with hilariously ridiculous dialogue, plots, and animation. Many things made no sense whatsoever: Toxie went to live in the town dump after his mom suggested it, even though she had no problem in later episodes visiting him or boasting that he's her son. He also mentions later that he and his friends need to "pay rent" -- to the dump?! All the mutants were called, ''every single time,'' [[Insistent Terminology|"hideously deformed mutants of superhuman size and strength."]] There were constant [[Ass Pull|ass pulls]]: when a [[Mad Scientist]] creates french fries that turn anyone who eats them into nearsighted, forgetful old people - his own words - it turns out that putting pepper on them turns the mutagen chemicals into bubble gum, which negates the process. There is also a [[Running Gag]] in which the [[Big Bad]]'s main henchperson Psycho will predict, with eerie accuracy, ''exactly'' how their plans will be foiled. The [[Big Bad]] [[Too Dumb to Live|never listens]]; once, he tells Psycho to stop spoiling things for him. There's also lampshade-hanging galore.

'''Toxie'': Oh sure! It'll probably take Killemoff some time to come up with a new plan to destroy us. }}

** After Killemoff loads a giant monster truck on a barge which predictably [[Cassandra Truth|(Psycho said it would)]] sinks the whole thing to the bottom of the river:

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc Colin's Bear]

* Gene Deitch was quite brilliant in his 1950s stylized modern work; he took the stodgy, flagging Terrytoons in an interesting direction. But when he took on the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' franchise in the early 1960s, it went in a whole weird Eastern European-filtered direction.

** The word "jewelry" spelled wrong ''in the title sequence'' and then ''[[They Just Didn't Care|fixed in the next shot.]]''

** Funnily enough, unlike ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMdh4DkslVk it had a lot less network watch], although there are still [[Unfortunate Implications]], it remains funny, plus it gave us this gem...

([[Crowning Moment of Awesome|He punches Uncle Ben's murderer so hard he]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|breaks through the door]]'') }}

** And speaking of color, the garish splattering of mismatched hues thrown all over the place (especially the sky) made New York city appear more radioactive than the [[Fallout]] universe.