# Most annoying TV cartoon series sidekick **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [August 23, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417 "2025-08-23T19:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [August 23, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/1 "2025-08-23T19:03:15Z")
Slimer, Orko, Uni, Snarf, Scrappy Doo or some other annoying little critter? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/2 "2025-08-23T19:12:29Z")
Of the ones I’ve watched, Scrappy wins (loses?) by a very great amount. I’ll add Wendy and Marvin from the Superfriends as contenders for second place. Worse than the Wonder Twins from the same show that might also score a top 10 place. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vqRxWAqnQ_g/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGH8gLSgmMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCPSBbfMyvwBfLQY2sbvk8Lw-t3PA "SuperFriends (1973) - OPENING") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqRxWAqnQ_g&t=45) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/3 "2025-08-23T19:16:01Z")
Godzooky. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/4 "2025-08-23T19:17:19Z")
The Great Gazoo? [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzVmOGViZWQtMjZhOS00ZmJkLWI1MjktMzExM2E0ZDZhZTRjXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UX624_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzVmOGViZWQtMjZhOS00ZmJkLWI1MjktMzExM2E0ZDZhZTRjXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UX624_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/5 "2025-08-23T19:22:53Z")
As a Canadian, I’ll offer up Newton the centaur from _The Mighty Hercules_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BbvbtJpAlCs/hqdefault.jpg "The Mighty Hercules: Hercules, Newton, And The Evil Magician?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbvbtJpAlCs) ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/6 "2025-08-23T19:33:39Z")
I didn’t like Hardy Har Har, who was Lippy The Lion’s sidekick. All he did was whine and foretell failure and disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/7 "2025-08-23T19:41:46Z")
Patrick Star. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/8 "2025-08-23T19:45:17Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Godzooky. This was my answer. Though Orko from He-man is up there. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/9 "2025-08-23T19:49:15Z")
Talk about a weird stutter! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/10 "2025-08-23T20:23:26Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Of the ones I’ve watched, Scrappy wins (loses?) by a very great amount. He even has his a Trope in his name! > **[The Scrappy - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheScrappy)** > > There are popular characters that have fandoms. But sometimes, there is a character who instead has a hatedom. We call this guy The Scrappy: a character that the audience hates to see. It's not enough that the character be hated, however. For any … ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/11 "2025-08-23T20:25:05Z")
Bat-Mite. Makes you want to go to the bat-hroom and puke. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/12 "2025-08-23T20:31:29Z")
Uni, in that it has almost all of the traditional anyone cartoon sidekick tropes (“cute”, constantly gets into trouble, needs rescue but somehow saves the day for “reasons” just often enough to evoke sympathy) wins the contest by a nose because of the never-to-be-sufficiently-muted bleat that grates on my ears every time they’re on-screen. I hear unicorn steaks are tasty, that may be a plus in their f(l)avor though! 😈 ---
**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:** [August 23, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/13 "2025-08-23T20:38:37Z")
What cartoon is Uni from? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/14 "2025-08-23T20:41:30Z")
From one of my childhood favorites, Dungeons & Dragons: > **[Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_(TV_series))** > > Dungeons & Dragons is an American fantasy animated television series based on TSR's Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It is a co-production of Marvel Productions and TSR, with the Japanese Toei Animation. It ran on CBS from 1983 through 1985 for three seasons, for a total of twenty-seven episodes. > The show focuses on a group of six friends who are transported into the realm of Dungeons & Dragons, following their adventures as they try to find a way home with the help of their guide the Dun... (Uni was cited in the OP, sorry, otherwise I’d have made the mention) ---
**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:** [August 23, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/15 "2025-08-23T20:47:14Z")
I never realized the D&D Cartoon was an [Isekai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai), that is kind of funny. I knew the cartoon existed but never watched it despite playing D&D since 1977. I was a little old for the show when it came out. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/16 "2025-08-23T20:52:28Z")
I was perfectly timed for it, I was 8-9 when it started, and had just started playing Dungeons and Dragons in the big Color Coded Box sets (the famous Red Box Basic edition that came out in 1983). Out of nostalgia, I actually own one of the sets of boxed DVDs for the TV series. There are only individual episodes I can bear to watch however. Seriously, other than one other cartoon (Thundarr the Barbarian) it was the only cartoons that totally captured my interest that weren’t re-cut, translated or otherwise maimed Japanese anime (Tranzor Z, Starblazers and Robotech being my other favorites of my childhood). ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/17 "2025-08-23T21:01:15Z")
_Bandit_ from of _Jonny Quest, so out of place in a great action series._ ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/18 "2025-08-23T23:14:49Z")
Prickle and Goo. Pokey is everything Gumby needs for a sidekick. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/19 "2025-08-23T23:26:39Z")
Spritle and and his pet chimp Chim-Chim from Speed Racer. BTW, Trixie was hot. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/20 "2025-08-23T23:27:21Z")
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