Top Ten Worst Decades for Animation
Sometimes you can have a whole decade without a good cartoon... which is honestly quite sad. ALL decades have at least 3 or 4 good cartoons running at the least, but today we'll be looking at the worst of those decades. Maybe it was a new system that ruined animation, or maybe it was just one cartoon or movie that ruined it.
Walt Disney died during this decade, so you can imagine that Disney was struggling. Hanna-Barbera tried to keep the genre alive with subpar, hit-or-miss shows like The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo. Other than that, it was a mixed bag - not too great.
Hanna-Barbera may have created some iconic cartoon characters, but they also made several forgettable shows and even tried copying themselves.
The 2000s had some bad times, but in the '60s, 90% of cartoons (probably) were horrible.
Considering how similar each cartoon was becoming at that time, along with Disney's lack of success, and not much competition elsewhere, the 1970s didn't produce much memorable work in terms of animation.
No, Looney Tunes didn't have another theatrical cartoon until the 1980s. Tom and Jerry became friends in that horrible 1975 show. I just don't like The Pink Panther. And wasn't Jonny Quest from the 1960s?
This is the worst decade, hands down. The number of genuinely good cartoons from this decade can be counted on one hand.
The rest was just the same merchandise-driven schlock.
The 2010s marked the rise of bad cartoons from what were once innocent shows. Teen Titans Go! stands as the leader of every bad cartoon in history, along with Sanjay and Craig and Breadwinners from Nickelodeon, as well as Pickle and Peanut from Disney.
The 2010s were like World War II.
Reboots were the Supreme Leader behind all the atrocities in this decade. Many good shows had to fight back against the bad ones, but it was impossible to defeat them. I fear the 2020s will be worse than World War II, perhaps as bad as the Cold War or the Vietnam War.
I hope by 3040, animation will be gone forever.
Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon were pretty much known for going downhill during this decade. Cartoon Network suffered during the Stuart Snyder era, and Nickelodeon began to decay as a network by focusing too much on SpongeBob SquarePants and making poor decisions.
Ah, the era I was born in. I thought every cartoon I watched was "amazing." Now, as an almost 16-year-old, I think some of these shows are terrible. I thought Caillou and Dora were amazing, but I was super young at the time.
The Lion King was made during this time, and we all know why I hate it - it sucked big time. Other animated movies and shows from the 1990s didn't fare well, either. Instead of being original, many non-Disney movies had to cash in on the success of Disney's films. Some of the worst and most overrated animated shows were also made during this time, although there were some good ones as well.
Yes, some good shows came out of the 1990s, but the worst ones include Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, CatDog, Cow and Chicken, Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, SpongeBob SquarePants, South Park, Beavis and Butt-Head, The Three Friends and Jerry, Mega Babies, Angela Anaconda, I Am Weasel, and Courage the Cowardly Dog. I even watched some of them when I was a kid, but these are the shows where the animators just got lazy.
The 1980s had a lot of good cartoons, but think about it - we also had some awful shows like The Gary Coleman Show, the original My Little Pony, and worst of all, Rubik, The Amazing Cube.
Just like the '70s - merch-driven crap.
Though it was starting to improve.
Nothing really new came out in this decade until the end of it with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but I didn't think that was a very good movie, so...
There was a war and a strike... But then again, we got Bugs Bunny, Fantasia, and Woody Woodpecker.
By far the worst. Disney is dying, Pixar is dying, Studio Ghibli is losing Miyazaki, and almost all good animated series have gone bad. The interest in animation has declined, and the quality has followed.