# Lamest Cartoon Series Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409 "2019-02-12T16:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/21 "2019-02-12T19:20:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > \ The other cartoons that shared the half hour – \*\* Tooter Turtle\*\* and The Hunter – were no better. We can only imagine what his special talent was… ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/22 "2019-02-12T19:25:15Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I grew up in the 80s, a time when network execs in charge of Saturday morning cartoon would literally greenlight _anything_, giving us timeless classic such as: > > \*\*Kissyfur \*\*- escaped circus bears escape to a swamp and start a taxi company. > Potato Head Kids - kinda like Muppet Babies, only with… anthropomorphic potatoes. > Denver the Last Dinosaur - he wears sunglasses, skateboards, and plays the electric guitar. If your grandparents were forced to come up with a “cool” cartoon character in the 80s, it would be exactly this. > **ALF Tales** - you read that correctly. > \*\*Wuzzles \*\*- a group of bizarre winged hybrid animals > Rubik the Amazing Cube - no comment necessary. > Pac-Man - no comment necessary. > \*\*Popples \*\*- no comment necessary. > **Teen Wolf** - :smack: > **Shirt Tales** - based on characters that originated in Hallmark cards. Seriously. > The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang - yeah, this happened. > Laverne & Shirley in the Army - seriously? Seriously. Ok, I bolded the ones I disagree with you on. I have so many awesome memories of watching those shows! They may not have been the most creative shows but they made Saturday mornings fun! And AND! You can’t knock a cartoon from the 80s for being basically a half hour commercial for some existing brand. That was pretty much the origin of 90% of shows back then lol But. Denver can suck balls. God Damn I hated that show. And thanks, btw, for making me think of the theme song. Now it’s gonna be in my head all day. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/23 "2019-02-12T19:30:32Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > …But. Denver can suck balls. God Damn I hated that show. And thanks, btw, for making me think of the theme song. Now it’s gonna be in my head all day. He seems pretty cheery for being all alone, the last of a vanished species, destined never to mate: [Denver, the Last Dinosaur - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver,_the_Last_Dinosaur) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/24 "2019-02-12T20:58:10Z")
[_Fred And Barney Meet The Thing_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_and_Barney_Meet_the_Thing)-Stupid Cubed. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/25 "2019-02-12T21:04:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > He seems pretty cheery for being all alone, the last of a vanished species, destined never to mate: [Denver, the Last Dinosaur - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver,_the_Last_Dinosaur) Well he’s got all those kids around him who think he’s pretty awesome. Give them a few years and who knows how things will go. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/26 "2019-02-12T21:11:25Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > Well he’s got all those kids around him who think he’s pretty awesome. Give them a few years and who knows how things will go. If Howard The Duck and Beverly Switzler can hit it off, any combination is possible. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/27 "2019-02-12T21:21:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If Howard The Duck and Beverly Switzler can hit it off, any combination is possible. That always concerned me to be honest. I mean, have you seen pictures of wild ducks? Those things are like three feet long. He’d be tickling her eyeballs. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/28 "2019-02-12T21:51:10Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > We can only imagine what his special talent was… IIRC he was “tutored” each episode by a Mister Know It All scientist guy. As lame as it was, The Hunter featured the voice of the guy who originally made it famous as Senator Claghorn (I think?); Mel Blanc copied the voice for Foghorn Leghorn. Although I haven’t heard it for at least 55 years, I fondly remember this exchange between The Hunter and King Leonardo. Hunter: “…that’s a joke, son.” King Leo (angrily): “Don’t you call me ‘Son’! Don’t you know I’m the _King_?” Hunter, unfazed: “Well, I call _everybody_ ‘son’, Sire. That’s a joke, son.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/29 "2019-02-12T21:58:35Z")
Caillou Every episode features Caillou freaking out about going up stairs or getting splashed with water and then saying “but mommy, I’m scared” in that fake kid falsetto voice and then the mommy replies “That’s OK, Caillou, just give it a try” in her wholesome, slightly condescending voice, and then Caillou walks up the stupid stairs and says “Look mommy! I did it!” then the theme song plays and then he does it again with baking cookies or cleaning up his toys. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/30 "2019-02-12T22:17:37Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Or going “Bing bing BING!!! Ricocheeeeeeeet Rabbit!” Excuse me, it is ['Ping! Ping! Ping!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk54bVCTeyU)'. I remember liking that show (it looks like I was 6 or so when it was shown), and think I had a story book with him in it. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/31 "2019-02-12T22:20:05Z")
My boys (7 and 4) would swear that [Veggie Tales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeggieTales) are the worst, lamest cartoon ever. Note I didn’t say solemnly swear, because they get surprisingly animated describing how much those cartoons suck. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/32 "2019-02-12T22:24:17Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > There was also the Godzilla cartoon where I’d sit through twenty intolerable minutes of Godzooky the cute “baby” monster to maybe get thirty seconds of recycled Godzilla cartoon footage. I would just tune out the plot until I heard Godzilla roar. _“Up from the depths, 30 stories high!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/33 "2019-02-12T22:53:46Z")
**Davy & Goliath.** Christian TV at it’s nadir. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/34 "2019-02-12T23:19:19Z")
> [@bump](#): > > My boys (7 and 4) would swear that [Veggie Tales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeggieTales) are the worst, lamest cartoon ever. > > Note I didn’t say solemnly swear, because they get surprisingly animated describing how much those cartoons suck. That is probably a good thing–I’ve seen only two or three episodes, but one of those was [pro-genocide](https://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/veggietales-a-call-to-genocide/). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/35 "2019-02-12T23:35:37Z")
> [@bump](#): > > _“Up from the depths, 30 stories high!”_ Huh. I vaguely remembered the _Godzilla_ theme but strongly remembered the \*Star \* _Blazers_ one. Never noticed the [similarity of](https://youtu.be/oTItRfN-LO8?t=5) [the singing](https://youtu.be/QTY1i9F_7Yw?t=19) of the two. ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/36 "2019-02-13T00:12:06Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I grew up in the 80s, a time when network execs in charge of Saturday morning cartoon would literally greenlight _anything_, giving us timeless classic such as: > > Kissyfur - escaped circus bears escape to a swamp and start a taxi company. > Potato Head Kids - kinda like Muppet Babies, only with… anthropomorphic potatoes. > Denver the Last Dinosaur - he wears sunglasses, skateboards, and plays the electric guitar. If your grandparents were forced to come up with a “cool” cartoon character in the 80s, it would be exactly this. > ALF Tales - you read that correctly. > Wuzzles - a group of bizarre winged hybrid animals > Rubik the Amazing Cube - no comment necessary. > Pac-Man - no comment necessary. > Popples - no comment necessary. > Teen Wolf - :smack: > Shirt Tales - based on characters that originated in Hallmark cards. Seriously. > The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang - yeah, this happened. > Laverne & Shirley in the Army - seriously? Seriously. How can you not like **ALF Tales?** Who could forget the episode where the fairytale _Rapunzel_ becomes a tale about how the Witch owns every TV station in the kingdom and King Ronald Reagan defeats her by creating a Federal Communications Commission? 😃 (Seriously. I am _not_ making this up.) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/37 "2019-02-13T00:14:13Z")
A minor one for Magilla Gorilla which was pretty bad on its own, was the Hippo that sneezed and blew around in a balloon. I googled, it was Peter Potamus and it was the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/38 "2019-02-13T00:18:59Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Christian TV at it’s nadir. Gosh - it had a zenith, then?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/39 "2019-02-13T00:44:59Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Gosh - it had a zenith, then?🙂 Well, sure - if it was TV, it had a Zenith. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409/40 "2019-02-13T01:39:15Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Well, sure - if it was TV, it had a Zenith. Bravo! And not the channel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-cartoon-series-ever/829409.md?page=3)