The Worst Shows You Used to Watch When You Were a Kid - I.E. Childhood shows that make you cringe in retrospect.

Clarence

Benevolent Extra Terrestrial
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The 3D Nickelodeon TMNT did another crossover with the '87 turtles that gave them a bit of a fairer shake, as well as using the original cast. And apparently I'm autistic enough to notice references in it that even the turtles wiki and tvtropes missed. The Technodrome computer terminal is displaying the boot screen from the TMNT arcade game...

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I had an ex who was really into the 3D Nick TMNT. To the point she drew smut of it, I think she liked Donney? or the red mask one? Can't remember..weird chick..or what ever she wants to call herself now..

As a kid I was big into the early 00's Nicktoon shows that lasted a season or two. I remember being into the Yakkity Yak and Kappa Mikey. The last one I feel like is an interesting idea, but I doubt it would hold up if I watched it now. There's a few more but theyre more hazy flashes than memories. Going through this thread brought some back to me.
 

melty

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I had a neighborhood friend who was super into Pepper Ann. I couldn't relate to the character at all though, probably because I was 9 and allowed to watch PG-13 movies and do "ages 13 and up" puzzles. And yes, I recall those being plot points on at least one occasion.

The educational segments of One Saturday Morning didn't help either. I have a vivid memory of a woman being served a scoop of ice cream in her hand and going "Oh no, I love ice cream but I wish there was something for it to go in instead of my hand." And then a giant puppet elephant started talking about when ice cream cones were invented. I felt insulted, and I was still in elementary school.
I don't remember that clip but that sounds kind of hilarious.

See, I was the kind of cringy unpopular kid that should have been able to relate to Pepper Ann. But it was too much even for me. Also just a really ugly character design.
where did you even find this comment.

When I was a kid I didn't notice it being POC or blue haired or anything like that - I recognized she had darker skin, but it didn't mean anything to me. I did, however, notice that it was the woman who was always right and the man that was always wrong and I found that irritating. It made me spite-support the antagonist lawyer even though he was Actually Retarded. One episode the man actually thought not only that Summer would just stop coming starting that year on, but that he could successfully sue someone over it.

In retrospect, they accidentally mocked climate change a bit there.
It was the first show that came to mind when I saw the thread title, so I searched to see if anyone else mentioned it. I was kinda surprised only one other person mentioned it!
 

Jeff Boomhauer

Yo.
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My parents got us a bargain bin DVD of the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon for Christmas one year. Keep in mind, this was at least ten years after the show aired. I was twelve, and I thought it was bad.
My brother and I just had fun pointing out how many animation errors we could find, before getting bored and playing a Mario game.

For video game shows I actually did watch when they were on, Donkey Kong Country didn't age well even when it was airing. I would also turn the volume down when the songs would come on, which, in retrospect, was a bad idea, because they ended up being some of the most unintentionally funny things ever.

There was also that old Mega Man cartoon, but that one wasn't flat out awful. It has some charm to it, like Cut Man's horrible puns and actually getting to see Mega Man X, if only for one episode. There are also the hilarious scenes that became classic memes, like Pharaoh Man not taking Mega Man's shit, and Guts Man's ass.
 

MysticMisty

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I don't remember that clip but that sounds kind of hilarious.
I was hoping to find a clip on YouTube, but One Saturday Morning is surprisingly poorly preserved. Or at least the bits inbetween the shows are. On the subject of One Saturday Morning though Disney Doug was also part of the lineup and also really fucking sucked. I didn't watch it though.
 

Overcast

She will always be in my heart...
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My parents got us a bargain bin DVD of the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon for Christmas one year. Keep in mind, this was at least ten years after the show aired. I was twelve, and I thought it was bad.
My brother and I just had fun pointing out how many animation errors we could find, before getting bored and playing a Mario game.
I'll never forget how my brother and I reacted upon seeing Mario and Luigi run away in absolute terror from a single goomba.
 

Un Platano

big blatano xDDDD
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When I was a kid I really liked the movie The Mighty Ducks. Terrible movie. One day the VCR decided to eat the tape and I remember my dad trying to fix the big wad of tape and ended up splicing out about 20 minutes of the movie that were unsalvageable. In retrospect, we could have just thrown it away then and that would have been fine.
 

starborn427614

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When I was a kid I really liked the movie The Mighty Ducks. Terrible movie. One day the VCR decided to eat the tape and I remember my dad trying to fix the big wad of tape and ended up splicing out about 20 minutes of the movie that were unsalvageable. In retrospect, we could have just thrown it away then and that would have been fine.
These days I remember the cartoon with the actual ducks (all the rage in the 90's) rather than the live-action film(s).
 

Invisible Crane

Grant McClellan
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My parents got us a bargain bin DVD of the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon for Christmas one year. Keep in mind, this was at least ten years after the show aired. I was twelve, and I thought it was bad.
My brother and I just had fun pointing out how many animation errors we could find, before getting bored and playing a Mario game.

For video game shows I actually did watch when they were on, Donkey Kong Country didn't age well even when it was airing. I would also turn the volume down when the songs would come on, which, in retrospect, was a bad idea, because they ended up being some of the most unintentionally funny things ever.

There was also that old Mega Man cartoon, but that one wasn't flat out awful. It has some charm to it, like Cut Man's horrible puns and actually getting to see Mega Man X, if only for one episode. There are also the hilarious scenes that became classic memes, like Pharaoh Man not taking Mega Man's shit, and Guts Man's ass.
Say what you will about the Mario 3 cartoon. First time I ever heard this amazing/cool person!
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Lemming0448

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When I was a kid I really liked the movie The Mighty Ducks. Terrible movie. One day the VCR decided to eat the tape and I remember my dad trying to fix the big wad of tape and ended up splicing out about 20 minutes of the movie that were unsalvageable. In retrospect, we could have just thrown it away then and that would have been fine.
I've seen Mighty Ducks (all three movies actually) and didn't think it was all bad. Sure it's nothing special, but it is an inoffensive, middle of the road sports movie.
 

Kornula

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My roommate bought me a used copy of the Speed Racer DVD set.. all 2 seasons.
We popped it in....and...., I want to go back in time and grab my 7 year old self and drag him away from the TV. Speed Racer is HORRIBLE.
 
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Blimp

Abused by SWERFers
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Wasn't there a puppet show about a singing tooth?
If you ever watched the cancelled-too-soon Greg the Bunny on Fox, you could see a handful of ex-Timmy puppets in small roles, or as my dad pointed-out once upon a time = "oh shit, that's the Cavity Goon!"

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If your only exposure to Timmy the Tooth was any given before Land Before Time VHS preview, you didn't miss much, even by kid standards
 

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