# Your personal opinion, please-Worst children's television series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 23, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880 "2026-07-23T19:26:05Z")\ **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:** [July 23, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/1 "2026-07-23T19:26:05Z")
No internet lists, direct to videos (otherwise the “Yogi Okie-Dokie” vid would be right up there), and no one-shot specials. It could be a cartoon series, or a hosted series, or something else. I’ve got a childhood memory that I need to expunge which I will reveal in a bit, but tell me what you’ve got. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/2 "2026-07-23T19:28:40Z")
Let me be the first of the teeming masses to say: Caillou. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/3 "2026-07-23T19:29:21Z")
I’d imagine that most of the really worst would only have lasted a few episodes and never got re-run, so they’d be off most folks’ radars. But of ones that actually stuck around for a good while, Barney has to be up there. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/4 "2026-07-23T19:32:49Z")
“Gee Davy, I don’t know. Maybe Caillou isn’t so bad compared to a show with a weirdly talking dog giving advice on morality.” ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/5 "2026-07-23T19:38:28Z")
Barney and Friends. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/6 "2026-07-23T19:43:50Z")
I got stuck in a car for 6 hours with one Barney DVD playing over and over and over. By the end of the trip I felt something like this (I guess the things would be holding my ears open…my expressions was very similar though). [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTauAIAS2o2S0rOk3PnjXjE7kZk7tnWKJ7odMCtdE46IBUklW0W1bnsXow&s=10) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTauAIAS2o2S0rOk3PnjXjE7kZk7tnWKJ7odMCtdE46IBUklW0W1bnsXow&s=10) ---
**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:** [July 23, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/7 "2026-07-23T19:43:54Z")
In the Northwest region we had a host of children’s show hosts, like Captain Puget, Brakeman Bill and Crazy Donkey, Stan Boreson and my favorite, J.P. Patches (Patches Pal Forever!)…but we also had Wunda Wunda. She was portrayed by Ruth Prins from 1953 to 1972. She was very tightly wound and immaculately dressed as a harlequin, and was parent-approved for all good little children. If you dreamed about her, it wasn’t a good dream. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/8 "2026-07-23T19:46:17Z")
I liked that one as a kid (age 4 or so). I can’t remember why, though. Edit: I’m sure the moralising went over my head. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/9 "2026-07-23T19:50:26Z")
_Gigglesnort Hotel_ should at least get an Honorable Mention. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SVbsWaAxi28/hqdefault.jpg "Gigglesnort Hotel - "Return of the Slob! (Goodby Manners)" - WLS-TV (Complete Broadcast, 1/12/85) 📺") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbsWaAxi28) ---
**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:** [July 23, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/10 "2026-07-23T19:58:14Z")
When I was very young, one of the most depressing shows on TV was Romper Room. It was in B&W, and had tall windowless gray walls like a dungeon. If the kids had fun, I didn’t notice it. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/11 "2026-07-23T19:59:05Z")
To be fair, I watched it, too. It was just barely above the “is this better than the blank screen” threshold, but it was above. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/12 "2026-07-23T20:00:33Z")
I know that I saw Romper Room, but all I remember is the “magic mirror” where she names viewers (and I never saw my name). ---
**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:** [July 23, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/13 "2026-07-23T20:10:35Z")
I wouldn’t let my daughter watch Max and Ruby when she was little because the show irritated me so much. Based on my memory of the show from almost 20 years ago, my issue was that every episode was Ruby being an asshole to Max and blaming him for everything that went wrong, even when it was her fault. To be clear, when I say I didn’t ‘let’ her watch it, I just meant I wouldn’t turn it on for her while I was sitting there too. I had no issue with her watching it on her own or with a babysitter. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/14 "2026-07-23T20:52:59Z")
As a kid, I liked a lot of stuff that would make me as a grown man claw my eyes out. But there was one, that I thought was bad when it was new. I couldn’t figure out how it was supposed to be funny. (maybe it was actually for adults?) And I still have that damn theme song stuck in my head 50 years later. Make it stop! > **[Uncle Croc's Block](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Croc%27s_Block)** > > Uncle Croc's Block is an hour-long American live-action/animated television series produced by Filmation, and broadcast on ABC in 1975–76. The show was a parody of live kids' shows but with (as MeTV would later describe it) a "bitter edge". The series premiered at 10:30 am ET on September 6, 1975. Uncle Croc's Block was up against the second half of the popular The Shazam!/Isis Hour (another Filmation property) and Far Out Space Nuts on CBS and Run, Joe, Run and Return to the Planet of the Apes ... ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/15 "2026-07-23T21:34:36Z")
Banana Splits ---
**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:** [July 23, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/16 "2026-07-23T21:36:15Z")
It was definitely bad on purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/17 "2026-07-23T21:39:22Z")
Sometimes, bad is just bad. No matter the reason. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/18 "2026-07-23T21:40:35Z")
Is _Davy and Goliath_ bad if you are Christian? or was it just bad to me? Ditto _Timothy Church Mouse._ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/19 "2026-07-23T21:50:35Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Is _Davy and Goliath_ bad if you are Christian? I like D&G, then and even somewhat now. But I was raised Catholic, I think I didn’t even see the hidden Luteran agenda. I probably missed that it was supposed to be a religious show. I just liked the characters. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/20 "2026-07-23T21:55:34Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I probably missed that it was supposed to be a religious show. I just liked the characters. That was me. I wasn’t Christian (or anything else), so I didn’t get any of that background. I remember not liking Davy, but I liked Goliath, and I think Davy had a sister? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880.md?page=2)