Most Overrated Cartoons

The show is bad. The plot is totally random, the characters are poorly written, and the worst part is the fandom, which can be overwhelming. Forget the Sonic fandom - this is nightmare fuel. They take the more bizarre aspects of the Sonic fandom and amplify them. In the fandom, you either love MLP and worship it, or you hate it and wish it would go away for good.

I have a cousin who's a brony and an intense fan. He constantly shows us his original characters, spouts random trivia, and goes on rants about the show. My cousin's younger sister and I have no idea what he's talking about, but it all sounds confusing.

So, what do I have against SpongeBob SquarePants?

Well, the seven main characters bear the seven deadly sins. (True theory)

SpongeBob - Lust (being friendly to anyone who doesn't care)
Patrick - Sloth (very lazy)
Gary - Gluttony (eats most of the time)
Squidward - Wrath (always angry to the world including SpongeBob)
Sandy - Pride (always proud about Texas)
Mr. Krabs - Greed (cares nothing for the world except money and also my most hated character
Plankton - Envy (always jealous about Mr. Krabs business. I feel a little bit bad for him. )

The Plot doesn't make any sense as well. Now my childhood's ruined because of THIS! Please get this show out of my face!

One of the most atrocious cartoons to be on television, yet it is somehow the most popular. People praise it for being "funny," but most of the humor is just stupid beyond comprehension. For example, a spitball in class being a horse that demolishes the room. Hilarious *sarcasm*. On top of that, the only remotely funny jokes or cutaways are stolen from famous movies. The rehash jokes from Airplane, The Naked Gun, Dazed and Confused, Wayne's World, and Many, MANY more! The show has horrible morals as well, and almost never has a good message to the audience. Like most shows, Family Guy also got much worse with age. Every characters antics were blown out of proportion and therefore less likable than they already were. The show attacks religion, which I am okay with; but it always does it in a cheap, distasteful, and unfunny level. Seth MacFarlane is just another persistent liberal getting his agenda across. Do yourself a favor: forget Family Guy and watch South Park, a show that is better in every possible way.

This show just fails on so many levels.

The humour is disgusting, stupid random and shows no sign of wit. I wouldn't mind it if it was just stupid, because I enjoy stupid humour. But due to the other flaws, the comedy in this show just doesn't work. I WILL admit however that Jake does have a few good lines.

The fantasy element I absolutely despise. It's imaginative, but there's no thought or originality put in there. Every place having a princess, the typical evil king that wants to capture them. The setting obviously had no work put into it. Dungeons and other things of the Fantasy sort.

Look, I give this show kudos for being successful at being random, which was its goal, but it's just not as good as everyone paints it out to be. It's not the funniest show ever, nor is it a masterpiece. It's just one of the bad cartoons that CN has taken to playing on their once great channel.

And don't say that it's just not aimed at people like me. This show should definitely be for me. It's Fantasy and Humour, my two favourite genres of anything. This should definitely appeal to me. But it doesn't because it's just not good.

This show is pretty much an overlay that tries to cover the rest of Disney Channel's unwatchable programming. And even then, it's still a very hard show to watch. I made a 2 page review on the show already on another blog, so here's a short summary.

The voice acting is annoying, the plot is monotonous, there are way too many songs, the characters are 1/2 dimensional, the designs are offputting, and it's EVERYWHERE!

It's the exact same thing every episode!
Boys have idea to build something.
Big sister tries to tell mom and dad
Perry goes and beats up weird guy.
Big sister fails and Perry comes back!
Also, the mother comes back with something she made like cookies or something.
Just a copy of Dexter's laboratory!

Honestly, it's sad how people are simply turned off from a show based on its fandom. Those people should formulate their opinions and actually watch the show. Steven Universe should not be judged based on bullies who were fans of it. Yes, they did a terrible thing to that poor girl, but their behavior in no way whatsoever relates to the show itself nor the messages it sends out to the audience. In no way does Steven Universe encourage such awful behavior, but you have to understand that there are extremists that exist in every fandom that simply must be ignored. As for those of you who have seen Steven Universe and disliked it- let me make this clear: SU is a coming-of-age cartoon; as in, Steven CHANGES. He may seem like a silly little boy at first (who cares about his weight though? ) but in the recent episodes he is a totally lovable and mature character. If you can't handle the first few episodes (which are mainly experimental) then you don't really deserve to see Steven Universe at its best.

Alright, I really, really, REALLY, love Pokemon. Both the games and the anime... but... it's just so OVERRATED! But, yet again, it's so hard to hate due to it's creativeness, cuteness, and awesomeness... but it's all my opinion. I'm just kind of sick of hearing it everywhere over and over again. And about the anime, I like the anime but not as much as the games. There's just WAY too many seasons based on the games, when I feel like they should've put them all together. Some of the characters are quite annoying (Bonnie from XY&Z was the most annoying.). However, Ash and his Pikachu had unforgettable moments that made everyone love the anime, even the villains Team Rocket (Jessie, James, Meowth and Wobbuffet) are very likeable. I haven't watched the comics/manga, but I've heard they're good. I can't say much about the games since there is so much to talk about it. Really, Pokemon isn't a bad game, show, or comic, it's just plain overrated.

Yeah! It is so bad! And here's 3 reasons why I hate it : 3. Boring characters : yeah the characters are so boring because all the characters are humans if not all characters were humans they won't be so boring but ALL the cha racters are humans! Oh come on! Did this shows creator wanted to create the world where only living organisms are humans? 2. Bad background art : yeah 3 words : bad. Background. Art. Worst background art one cartoon can have 1: boring plot : ok maybe plot of some episodes isn't boring but plot of the show itself is very boring its just about a boy with 10 sisters : sounds boring, right? (And sorry if my comment was too long because I'm going to end it right now)

This show was never even that great to begin with. Nearly no funny or memorable moments from any season, even in its "golden age" (1987-2005). Now it's low tier liberal propaganda garbage with too many guest stars and celebrities which is even worse. The plots are always predictable and dragged out. Everyone always says this show is the best cartoon ever made but it's not. Probably one of the worst. It needs to be at #1 on this list and this sad excuse for a show needs to die.

Lost its magic after Season 25 the jokes aren't funny and they are trying to make it a drama show with serious season premieres. I miss the days where Homer would sit down on the couch drinking Duff and watching a T.V. show like Itchy and Scratchy. What happened to Itchy and Scratchy?

I can say that it is one of the worst shows from Season 26 onwards. But the real Simpsons ended in Season 12.

The most overrated magical girl anime ever!

How did south park make it on here. It's not overrated it's underrated. Just because some religious asses find this show racist or satanic doesn't mean it's overrated. Obviously the people who commented here have never watched an episode of this show.

Shows like South Park, Family Guy, and American Dad just prove that "adult" animations really have nothing to offer outside of constant sex jokes and cussing, which is actually just really childish when you really think about it.

It hasn't gotten worse to the same extent as Family Guy, SpongeBob or the Fairly OddParents, but it's definitely been getting worse.

The other difference is that its fans refuse to see any slip in quality. Seasons 1-10 are better.

This show was great but some vicious haters said that the show has character designs are ugly, disgusting animation, annoying characters, and some negative opinions.

Those who hate the show probably watched Brothers Grunt. What is Brothers Grunt?

It's a show that aired on MTV and it's one of Danny Antonucci's bad work before creating a masterpiece called Ed, Edd, and Eddy.

Brothers Grunt is really a horrendous, God-Know-It-All, disgusting, Chutulu-sized cartoon show that is really hard to watch. The character designs are so ugly, terrible animation, the characters are annoying, terrible writing, and so on. This Brothers Grunt does'nt deserved to be on air but I'm glad this beast was slayed by a sword (or cancelled for short).

Ed, Edd, and Eddy is one of the best cartoon shows of all time and the sixth CN show to be produced (and a last cartoon that is made with cel animation before that digital ink and paint existed). This show has great humor, great character designs, better stories, great animation, and others.

You may hate the show for creating Danny's bad previous work but you people should need some respect. And this list was for haters only. HATERS ONLY!

I honestly did not get this show at first. I fell into the overrated crowd very fast. However, I was determined to stick it out for both seasons. By season 2 I found myself hooked. The random plots and scenarios started to seem rather genius and beyond my imaginative skills. Now I'm hooked and able to enjoy season 1 upon revisiting. My best suggestion is stick it out and it will pay dividends.

Adult humor, filled with constant belches, nonsensical humor that other shows have done better, all to the bland, dull, and trendy animation style that's mirrored in other shows like Adventure Time...a style that's beginning to overstay its welcome, this is a show I see no charm in. I don't see why others love it. I cannot see a lot of charm in it. At all.

"The only part that really caught my eye was the Akatsuki. So many great villains that should have great backstories! But, then, Naruto Shippuden fell for the same thing from the first Naruto series: Naruto's backstory, Naruto chasing Sasuke, Naruto awakening the tailed beast, Naruto farting... I love the whole Akatsuki concept, and the author missed some great points by not giving more importance to them. Poor Itachi's story happened only when he was almost dying. Kakuzu and Hidan had to wait for Naruto to do that stupid training in the waterfalls (BOOORIIINGG! ). We could only find out about Kisame's past when he was about to commit suicide. Deidara, poor man, hasn't got any backstory. Sasori had some stories in fillers. And then fillers. More fillers. More and more fillers. Killer B's dreams. Tsunade reading Jiraiya's book. Chikara Arc, with stupid little crying brats and a tiny little Mary Sue that's worse than Hinata. Poor Akatsuki...

I hate all the Ben 10 shows. This pointless series will wash children's brains. It's all about this selfish clumsy lazy cocky spoiled kid, Ben who found a magic watch that transforms him in different aliens that fight with other aliens. Then, he became a hero and everyone began to treat him like a god. Not fair! He was just lucky to find the watch. This doesn't make him a hero. Anyone else could find it and become a hero too.
There are many problems with the show : the jokes are corny, th voice acting is bad, all the characters are unlikable, there's no pleasant character anywhere, the art-style is too dark, etc.
This show needs to disappear.

I like this show, but the fans set me off. So I was watching PhantomStrider's video on best American cartoons. SVTFOE was an honorable mention. And the butt-hurt fanbase of this show was complaining in the comments and saying that it was better than Looney Tunes and The Simpsons and South Park. And they said that it was a "revolutionary moment in cartoon history", and "a landmark of all cartoons". GOSH, I like the show but it's not THAT great.

For me, it was a toss-up between this and The Loud House. But at least I understand the praise for The Loud House. Star vs. The Forces of Evil on the other hand, dear god.

This is hands down THE most overrated Disney Channel cartoon of all time. And it is definitely the most overrated cartoon of both this decade and in my opinion of all time. Yes, MLP has been dethroned. Here is why I think this show is so overrated.

One reason why I think this show is overrated is because of the main character: Star Butterfly. First up, what kind of a name is that? A 3 year old could make a more creative name. My main issue with Star is that she is one of the most annoying cartoon characters I've ever seen. She is basically Mabel from Gravity Falls except without the redeeming qualities that make her likable. Speaking of Gravity Falls, why the heck is this below it. This show needs to be in the top 5 for sure. Anyway back to the point. Star is very unlikable. She is obnoxious, weird, defiant, and quite honestly a gigantic headache to sit through. Honestly I have no clue how Marco tolerates her. I swear, if I had to put up with her I think I'd go insane and move to Mars.

Another thing that bugs me is when people try to hype this show up as the best Disney Channel cartoon of all time (*cough* Gravity Falls *cough* Phineas and Ferb *cough*). Believe me, I have tried very hard to like this show. However every time I try to watch it, I have to stop after about 5 minutes because of the cringe. I honestly don't know how people can compare this to Gravity Falls. Oh yeah, and people say the theme song is catchy. I have to agree, it's catchy. For all of the wrong reasons! It's like one of those songs that gets stuck in your head like Rebecca Black's Friday or Jacob Satorious' Sweatshirt or even Justin Beiber's Baby to an extent. Ugh...

The third and biggest turnoff for me however is the shipping and romance. Good gosh. I'm telling you, the SVTFOE fandom is one of... more

The 1st season is alright then the rest is actually horrible. The main character gets no consequences, the villain basically does nothing the entire show, same premise every episode, most characters are unlikeable and some other stuff. The theme song is good though.

It's a very formulaic show. I don't really understand why this show gets treated like a gift from Jesus. When it's a generic superhero show.

I've never been a fan of this show. It just doesn't appeal to me.

I don't know why you people say the animation si bad and it's lazy. I can tell that a lot of effort is put into this show and that the animation is the best I've ever seen. If you say this is bad, then try to think about the worse shows *cough cough Johnny test cough cough* this show is pure genius, please leave it alone, it's still new! Besides, at least it isn't as overrated as... ADVENTURE TIME and SpongeBob! And it is not overrated, but not underrated. It has just the right rating. A good show has to have haters and fans. If it doesn't, it's annoying.

I'm sorry but I just can't get into this show, it's not terrible it's just, when I watch it I just lose interest and start doing something else. It's just kind of a lame show, it's not really unique, it's just like having superpowers. I just don't get why when people are praising this show they say it's such an original idea, cause it's really not, and I'm just not a fan of anime, I love regular cartoons though. I understand that people like it, but I just can't understand how it was Nick's highest rated show, cause they have had far better shows

Why is this show so like, along with Adventure Time, Steven Universe and Ed, Edd N Eddy. That thing known as "Regular Show" has a very bad influence on kids. What? Talking bird and raccoon who are technically best friends and co-workers of some talking gum-machine-like guy? This is absolutely! No maturity or logic, it's so stupid and disgusting, terrible animation, unlikable characters AND...the guy who created it up is some guy who's drunk while writing this. I'd rather watch paint dry than this, I'm basically losing faith in nowadays-cartoons.

I'll admit that I actually liked this back when I was a kid, but ever since they had the baby character the whole show has been going to crap ever since (my personal opinion). I'm over 18 now so I've pretty much grown out of kids' cartoons anyway.

I've especially grown out of this show because of Butch Hartman's recent controversy. Considering how he's exposed his true colors, it's clear now that this guy's career is pretty much over. It's done.

I also don't know if it's still going but if it is then it really should end because it really doesn't have any fans anymore (especially since Hartman has pretty much fallen from grace).

This show completely and totally sucks, as it's over promoted and played, but the worst offense is the characters.
The Top Worst Characters-
1.Robin- A paranoid, bossy idiot. That's all there is to say.
2.Raven- The exact poser producing stereotype of a "goth girl" that so plagues the underground subcultures.
3.Starfire- While she's nice, many of the episodes show that she has almost completely absent to no moral values whatsoever.
4.Cyborg- His silly antics are very clever and well put, but when overused (and they are), they get annoying.
5.Beast Boy- The best Titan, but still annoying. His voice-actor put too much effort in to making him sound like an adolescent and the outcome was a high pitched, syrupy voice.

Wow this show is overrated but it isn't bad!? I mean season 5 and 6 were awkward and were not so good but I wouldn't really put it at the top 20 probably near the top 30 or 40.

Powerpuff is mediocre. Yet they're considered yo be the best thing since sugar spice and everything nice.

This show is So OVERRATED! Plus there's nostalgists who attack Chris Savino for making the bland seasons. They should shut up!

To the other idiot who commented, this is not even a cartoon. So, you shouldn't be surprised that it wasn't on the list yet, considering it is an ANIME. Who ever made this list is a total idiot.

This is an anime series! There is already a list for overrated anime series on this website. Anime belongs nowhere on this website!

Guys, Anime shows ARE cartoons. In fact, one the Japanese words for cartoon IS "Anime" ( it's short for "Animation"). The people who keep saying that animes are not cartoons honestly need to do their research.