Grape Ape. URG! I always thought he was saying Rape Ape and was some total pervie.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Well, the Scooby-Doo cartoons with Crapy-doo, I mean Scrapy-Doo. After that it has to be the Jaberjaws series. Jaberjaws made no atempt to be entertaining, it just wasted a time slot that could have been better used for a crop report or some other drivel.
Here’s something from www.laughpage.com
Top 10 Worst Cartoon Characters
#10- Tweety Bird- You know there’s a problem when every single kid roots for the “hero” to be devoured in each episode. No sense of humor. No personality. Annoying voice. Plus he was always tattling. I knew kids like this growing up. Most of them ate paste, sat in the front of the bus, and got me in trouble.
#9- Grape Ape- A real moron. All he knows how to say is his name. And he does so non-stop for a half an hour. I’d rather watch “Davey and Goliath covet their neighbors model airplane.”
#8- Olive Oyl- Am I the only one out there who thought this was one lady NOT worth fighting over? And that’s what they did every episode! She talks like Edith Bunker and looks like a pipe cleaner with a cheap hat. Hey, Popeye, you’re a sailor… you can do better! Plus Olive can never decide if she wants to date that jerk Bluto or not. The girl is just bad news.
#7- Petunia Pig- Remember her? Porky’s girlfriend? She was a real zero. What was the point of her anyway? To make Porky look good? Come on, who did they think they’re fooling. We all know Porky is gay.
#6- Pebbles & Bam-Bam, as teenagers- What were they thinking? Were they trying to cash in on the “Joanie loves Chachi” thing? And how come every cartoon teenager plays in crumby rock band? An awful -and thankfully shortlived- idea.
#5- Pepe LePew- Hello, Warner Brothers, ever heard of sexual harassment? Let’s take a good look at this character; a horny, rapist skunk who’s attracted to other species! NOT good for the kids. Plus, worse still, he’s French.
#4- Alan, from Josie and the Pussy Cats- How weak was this “Fred” clone? They even gave him an ascot, for crying out loud. Well, I knew Fred. I grew up with Fred. Fred was like a friend of mine. Let me tell you something…you’re no Fred.
#3- Zan and Zana, the Wondertwins- How many times do we have to say it? Leave the crimefighting to the professionals! “Form of… an idiot!” They should have been voted out of the Hall of Justice a long time ago. There’s no room for dead weight in this game.
#2- Kazoo, from the Flintstones- It’s like “Hmmm, a miniature, green spaceman who appears only to Fred Flintstone isn’t enough of a stretch. I know! Let’s give him a snotty London accent!” Um, could I get a drug test from Hanna Barbara, please?
#1- Scrappy Doo- And, really, who else COULD it be? This guy ruined Scooby Doo! Just came in and ruined it! Scrappy is the Yoko Ono of
Saturday morning cartoons. I can’t even talk about it anymore. It’s too upsetting.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
The Wondertiwns are Zan and Jayna. Have you ever seen the Cartoon Network promo with the Wondertwins talking about being professional superheroes? Zan starts pissing and moaning about how lame it is to turn into water. “I could be beaten by a sponge. It doesn’t even have to be an evil sponge.”
And the green guy from the Flintstones is Gazoo.
Captain Caveman always got on my nerves… oh, and the Schmoo
Petunia Pig. Wow. I can’t even conjure up a mental image, she’s so obscure.
Did she have hair (on her HEAD, pervert)? What color? Straight, or curly like a piggie’s tail? How did she dress? Did she wear those goofy high heels that Minnie Mouse favored? Porky never seemed to wear any pants…did Petunia?
[Homer Simpson Voice] Mmmmmmmmmmm…bottomless female cartoon pig…[/Homer Simpson Voice]
Weren’t Chan Clan and The Gary Coleman Show both HB? If so, it’s a toss-up. If you’ve seen either of them, you’ll realize “toss-up” is a double-entendre.
I’m surprised that nobody mentioned the horrible “Tom and Jerry” cartoons that HB made for a short while. They took a couple of great characters and essentially neutered them.
The “Funky Phantom” also sucked big-time. Leave it to Hanna-Barbera (sp?) to cash in on bicentennial fever by introducing a character that’s essentially a dead revolution-era wuss and his equally dead pain-in-the-ass cat.
“It’s only common sense,
There are no accidents 'round here.”
I’m surprised that nobody mentioned the horrible “Tom and Jerry” cartoons that HB made for a short while. They took a couple of great characters and essentially neutered them.
The “Funky Phantom” also sucked big-time. Leave it to Hanna-Barbera (sp?) to cash in on bicentennial fever by introducing a character that’s essentially a dead revolution-era wuss and his equally dead pain-in-the-ass cat.
“It’s only common sense,
There are no accidents 'round here.”
While I love the work H&B did at MGM on “Tom and Jerry,” I cannot stand a single other cartoon that they did as their own studio. I know times were tough back in the 60’s for cartoonist, and if you wanted to stay in the business, you had to use limited animation. But why did H&B have to embrace it so thoroughly? Everyone one of their cartoons was the absolute bare minimum of animation; the only step left was “Clutch Cargo.”
And the TV show rip-offs!
Flintstones–Honeymooners
Huckleberry Hound–Andy Griffith
Yogi Bear–Art Carney
etc., etc.
We’re only now coming out of our long national nightmare of crummy cartoons. I can’t understand this nostalgia for such awful animation.
Petunia had black hair, I seem to recall pigtails, and I think she wore a blue dress that left nothing to the imagination. No panties, that trollop!
On a sort of related subject, Tweety Bird used to be pink, but was colored yellow after complaints that pink Tweety was naked Tweety.
Hehehe… I liked the Wonder Twins but only for one reason. When my friends get together and a few coworkers we do the fist/ring touching thing and chant, “Wonder Twin Power’s Activate.” Well, if that is not cheesy enough then I (typically) add, “Shape of water! That makes you the girl!” Now one of my coworkers (a marine no less) tries to get me by saying it faster. It is too funny.
Oh, the original Space Ghost sucked some hardcore lion pooh; however, Space Ghost Coast to Coast is quite funny.
HUGS!
Sqrl
I used to love the Pink Panther but somehow they spoiled it, the canned laughter got too much ,and other stuff that didn’t work.
We can talk about non-HB can’t we?
The Snorks. I hated that dumb show. Was that HB? It was just a very bad version of underwater Smurfs.
I liked The Smurfs. Every so often they’d have a kick-ass fantasy episode.
-
Shadow of the Pigeon -
Weirdo of the Night
Trying to name the worst HB cartoon is just too easy. Even their best were pretty mediocre. I can’t even begin to fathom the charm of Scooby Doo, which used exactly the same plot each week (“Why he was only pretending to be a ghost!”) and featured Scooby’s totally unfunny cowardly schtick.
However, their worst may have been “Animal Olympics.”
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
If you think Scooby Doo was bad, the imitation they came up with was even worse: Goober And The Ghost Chasers
What about that one where Dick Dastardly and Yogi Bear and whoever were in a car race, and kept trying to sabotage everyone else’s car?
Then there was also the series where Yogi and Snagglepuss and Augie Doggie were hunting buried treasure in every episode, and the one where Yogi and I forget who-all where Buck Rogers types.
What about Richie Rich? Was that H-B too? That one sucked very large piles of ruminant excrement.
Hey, sweetie! You want a Danish with that coffee? – another custom design by the mind of Wally
Whan that Aprillè with hise shourès soote
The droghte of March had percèd to the roote,
I druv a motor thro’ Aprillè’s bliz
Somme forty mile, and dam neere lyke to friz.
– Bert Leston Taylor