# 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:** 2
**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:** [August 24, 2025, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/21 "2025-08-24T04:50:49Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > As a Canadian, I’ll offer up Newton the centaur from _The Mighty Hercules_. That’s me! That’s me! **YUCK!!!** I can’t believe this was the _fourth_ entry. I was going to post it and expect nobody to recognize it. (Early 60’s TV cartoon for me.) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/22 "2025-08-24T13:24:26Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 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. There’s no comparison between Wendy/Marvin and The Wonder Twins. Wendy and Marvin must have stumbled on to the Bat Cave’s location or something. The Wonder Twins had superpowers and could contribute something to the Justice League. I had no problem with them. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/23 "2025-08-24T13:57:53Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > The Great Gazoo? Why was that little prick always sleeping when he was needed? I nominate **Schleprock** From the Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm show. His gloomy disposition wasn’t funny and was a real downer to watch. I was about 10 when he first appeared and found him irritating. But Bamm-Bamm had to drag him along all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/24 "2025-08-24T14:15:17Z")
No, Gazoo wasn’t a sidekick he was the Magical Plot Device. Similar to Q, The Impossible Man or Mr. Mxyzptlk. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/25 "2025-08-24T14:15:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Slimer, Orko, Uni, Snarf, Scrappy Doo or some other annoying little critter? You may have won your own thread with that one. Anytime I realized Scrappy was on an episode I changed the channel. Annoying little asshole! ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/26 "2025-08-24T18:48:49Z")
Did you know that there is a fan-made final episode that wraps up the series? It’s called [Requiem](https://youtu.be/xAuYVsokC5o?si=ykCgIvGDlF0CuXWK) ---
**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 24, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/27 "2025-08-24T19:18:53Z")
Yes, I have a transcript, and think things would have been very interesting if it had been produced and the series continued. D&D the series though was already, struggling with Parent groups during the 80s, one of the heights of the stupid “Satanic Panic”. But not to step away from the theme again, I would happily burn all the artifacts to have a roaring Unicorn Steak BBQ and Grilling session if it meant I never heard that bleat one more time. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/28 "2025-08-24T20:14:32Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > This was my answer. > > Though Orko from He-man is up there. Not Snarf snarf? ---
**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 24, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/29 "2025-08-24T20:26:46Z")
I know what that is, but I never watched that shit so I have no opinion. ---
**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 24, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/30 "2025-08-24T20:59:15Z")
Snarf is in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/31 "2025-08-24T21:01:15Z")
Was he a guy with a perpetual rain cloud overhead? Did he by any chance say, “oh, wowsie wow”? ---
**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 24, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/32 "2025-08-24T21:02:41Z")
Lil’ Abner had one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/33 "2025-08-24T21:04:09Z")
I was only able to watch the first episode of _Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot_ (1999) which took conceptual inspiration from Gigantor (a.k.a. Tetsujin-28) and Astro Boy. I had enjoyed Geof Darrow’s comic book, but only perused the oversize version which omitted all the dialogue. As such, I was not prepared for how intolerably obnoxious Rusty was in the cartoon. He absolutely, single-handedly ruined every frame in which he appeared and made what should have been a great show unwatchable. I suppose it’s possible he got less bad in later episodes, but I tend to doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/34 "2025-08-24T21:06:46Z")
Sideshow Mel never had anything going for him. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/35 "2025-08-24T21:29:28Z")
I remember it as “wousie wousie woo woo,” but I probably haven’t seen Pebbles and Bam-Bam in half a century. ---
**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 24, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/36 "2025-08-24T21:29:49Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > > [@Cervaise](#): > > > > This was my answer. > > > > Though Orko from He-man is up there. > > Not Snarf snarf? Feel free to chastise me, but I always felt a sneaking sympathy for Snarf. I had a younger brother, and while Snarf was very annoying, being responsible for a literal man-child who on a whim could drop kick you across the state line in a tantrum would have been a thankless task at best. Even leaving out the scenario he was in from being a nurse/friend to a child royal of a Planet-State to being a refugee on a distant hostile planet. He has it rough. ---
**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 25, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/37 "2025-08-25T01:00:27Z")
Didn’t Bozo the Clown have an aggravating little friend/kid/former gardener as a sidekick. I have very vague memory of the actual cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/38 "2025-08-25T01:26:50Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Was he a guy with a perpetual rain cloud overhead? Did he by any chance say, “oh, wowsie wow Yes. That’s the guy! ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/39 "2025-08-25T13:01:44Z")
Believe or not Marvin is actually Bruce Wayne’s nephew. That’s right, there was a period of time when Batman had a brother. I nominate Cringer from He-Man. He’s got to be the biggest whiner ever. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cartoon-series-sidekick/1022417/40 "2025-08-25T14:02:24Z")
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