# Your personal opinion, please-Worst children's television series
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880
**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:** 17
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2026, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/161 "2026-08-02T23:24:51Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#):
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> I called out Davey and Goliath back in post 4
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> > “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.”
I understood your reference. I didn’t hate that show, and i enjoy claymation. But i knew what you were talking about.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2026, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/162 "2026-08-02T23:31:05Z")
Bozo cartoons. Cheap Animation and terrible stories.
I remember all the cartoons, they used were terrible on _The Bozo show_.
The best parts were the games and Bozo’s prize chest. The interviews with the kids were often entertaining.
I quit watching by age eight because of the lame cartoons. It’s unfortunate they didn’t use Looney Tunes. That would have kept me watching the show for another year or two.
[My Bozo was Gary Weir.](https://katv.com/news/local/bozo-the-clown-an-arkansas-entertainment-legend)
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2026, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/163 "2026-08-02T23:31:20Z")
Sorry @puzzlegal - I meant to be replying to this post
> [@Your personal opinion, please-Worst children's television series](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/152):
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> Davy & Goliath. GOD! What treacly, dull, boring crapola!
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### Author:  [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/164 "2026-08-02T23:45:12Z")
> [@Your personal opinion](#):
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> Davy & Goliath. GOD! What treacly, dull, boring crapola!
I was lucky to see the episode where David imagines tarring and feathering the boy who gets him falsely accused of marking the wet cement. And then they censored the scene.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2026, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/165 "2026-08-03T00:06:38Z")
I know better, but I first thought of Bob Weir.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/166 "2026-08-03T00:44:00Z")
No votes for _Paw Patrol_ yet? Beyond lame. Their toys suck too.
_H.R. Pufnstuf_ is a worthy second worst. Witchiepoo- seriously?
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/167 "2026-08-03T01:02:30Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#):
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> Let me be the first of the teeming masses to say: Caillou.
Thank you. I popped into make sure this was mentioned and it was first.
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### Author:  [@Sooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sooner)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/168 "2026-08-03T01:35:10Z")
Our first child loved Barney, and I felt similarly.
Second loved Dragon Tales, which made me, very much miss Barney
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### Author:  [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/169 "2026-08-03T01:49:57Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Did you ever see _The Robotic Three Stooges_? I think it’s mentioned earlier upthread. Appalling!
Robonic, not robotic. [The Robonic Stooges - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robonic_Stooges)
It’s even more appalling than you imagined.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2026, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/170 "2026-08-04T04:26:48Z")
That was a hard bar to clear, but indeed it was!
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### Author:  [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/171 "2026-08-06T01:17:22Z")
Anyone seeing sexism in a show that features virtually all male characters, ad females in submissive/secondary roles is, of course being overly sensitive. /s I’m surprised the H word didn’t up. 😉
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### Author:  [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/172 "2026-08-06T01:38:00Z")
We ought to have different categories of awful.
- Creepy: exp: Teletubies
- Racist/Sexist: Hong Kong Phoody/Thomas
- Weird/druggy: HR Puffinstuff (personally was a big fan)
- Animation etc. etc. add your own.
Just a suggestion as I’m not the OP
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/173 "2026-08-06T01:43:42Z")
The female characters are basically portable wombs, who can’t move without the aid of a male character. You really have to squint to see the sexism there 🤔
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/174 "2026-08-06T01:44:09Z")
Has anyone brought up that 1/2 hour advert for Post Cereals, the “Linus The Lionhearted” cartoon?
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### Author:  [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/175 "2026-08-06T22:15:18Z")
Don’t think I saw Sigmund and the Sea Monsters listed. I was a fan around age 4 or 5, but quickly lost interest. Only thing I learned was that the two pale and freckled boys would surely be killed by sunburn within a day in that environment without sunscreen. The theme song basically shows the whole series. Props to Billy Barty for playing Sigmund, though.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soc3jDMQPL0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soc3jDMQPL0)
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### Author:  [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/176 "2026-08-06T22:15:59Z")
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2026, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-opinion-please-worst-childrens-television-series/1031880/177 "2026-08-07T00:07:01Z")
The fact that Sigmund’s parents were sea-monster versions of Carroll O’Conner and Phyllis Diller was a choice.
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