Top 10 Reasons "Jessie" Is a Terrible Show

This is a list explaining why the Disney Channel show Jessie is an absolute abomination! If you despise this "show" as much as I do, please feel free to contribute.
The Top Ten
Horrible message for children

Overall, "Jessie" sends out a terrible message to all children.

1. If you find a random lady on the street, bring her home. She seems nice enough, right? She won't try to kidnap, murder, or rob you.
2. Being an absolute brat gets you whatever you want, whenever you want.
3. Just do something cute and say sorry. Surely the hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars worth of damages plus emotional scarring you caused will be forgiven.
4. Be a slob. Somebody is bound to pick up after you.
5. The best way to make friends is to flaunt your endless amounts of money around.

Not to mention how absolutely terrible Jessie is. Bring out the "World's Worst Nanny" mug because Jessie deserves it.

Racism

This might be the main reason I despise this show. One of my best friends on my swim team is Black, and she is one of the nicest girls you'll ever meet. Apparently, Disney thinks all Black girls are sassy and rude. Karan Brar (Ravi) is just a racist character. He originally has an American accent.

I once saw a commercial he did with Peyton List (Emma) on the importance of healthy food, and he spoke normally to me. I also watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid (which he and Peyton List starred in), and he used the accent for his character (I can't remember the character's name). So, Disney probably hired him because they wanted racism in their show, and he was the only actor who was okay with it.

Terrible acting

There is one major part to a successful TV show, and that is acting. It is what the people involved are paid to do. Yet the cast of "Jessie" can't even do that. None of them can act. None.

Many child stars start off on TV shows and play a role that helps them evolve into someone else. However, Disney Channel has been known to take child stars and throw them in front of a bus. (*Cough* Miley Cyrus *Cough*) These kids were set up for failure being cast in "Jessie" as their first job. It is all downhill from here, kiddos.

Debby is probably the worst actress on the show, even though she wasn't as bad as Bailey from The Suite Life. But what's with these shows giving her a western origin? She doesn't even sound or act like she's from the west!

Stereotypes

Yup, it is so true. All the kids are basically branded with their stereotypes.

Emma: dumb blonde. This is very insulting to blondes. My friend is blonde, and she has top grades and does not obsess over boys. Emma's life is basically texting, dating, fashion, shoes, clothes, makeup, dating, boys, Boys, BOYS!

Luke: the girl-obsessed boy. He hits on the nanny and fails every time. He reminds me of Justin Bieber. The way he dresses, looks, and has fangirls (girls in my class are all over him), but he also has haters (the haters dominate more than the fangirls). He's like the boy version of Emma.

Ravi: the smart nerd who always gets bullied. Just because someone is smart, it doesn't mean they need to be bullied. This show acts like Ravi is the only one on the face of the Earth who cares about school. NOT TRUE! Even the kids who are like Luke, Zuri, and Emma in my class care about their schoolwork.

Zuri: the African American girl who Disney thinks should be sassy solely because she's Black. Hello? Racist!

Dull plot

Every other terrible thing about this show aside, the plot is just boring!

I mean, the plot is practically the same thing in every episode. The kids get into trouble, Jessie makes it worse, then they all band together and solve the problem, teaching everyone a lesson! Here is a lesson: fire the random nanny you found off the street and send your kids to a reformatory!

What kind of plot is about a broke girl getting kicked out of a cab and suddenly becoming a nanny for racist, rude, gross, and dumb kids? The plot gets worse as the show "develops."

Poor production quality

Face it. This show is terrible, and there is only one reason it is on air: Disney Channel was desperate. The show didn't even go through the pilot phase of production, the phase that determines whether or not the show is worth it.

Not only that, but they tore down the set of Wizards of Waverly Place to build the set of Jessie. Wizards wasn't the best show either, but it beat Jessie by a mile.

Fake accents

Ravi's accent is just the cutest thing ever, right? WRONG! It is the most obnoxious thing I have ever heard. And to top it off, IT IS FAKE! The boy who plays Ravi does not even have a real accent! They should have just had him talk in his regular voice. It would have saved me the money on all the trips to the hospital to get more blood since his accent made all of mine come right out of my ears!

I once saw a commercial about coral reefs on Disney, and the actor for Ravi was on it. He doesn't have an accent. I wish he was on the Australian reef so he would step on a stonefish. I wish that happened to Emma too!

The theme song is bad

Not only does Debby Ryan play an unfortunate and terrible role in the show, but she also sings the theme song! As if we hadn't had enough blood pouring from our ears! (See number 9.) The theme song for this show is just terrible. If it weren't for Disney's contract that all major roles have to sing, we could have been spared Ryan's terrible singing.

Ugh! The theme song makes me want to jump off a cliff. I also think someone else should have sung it. Debby Ryan can't sing. At all.

It's absolutely ridiculous and disgustingly immature to wish death upon someone for disliking a terrible show!

The characters treat each other badly

Everyone harasses and bullies one another, from shaming to name-calling to threatening one another. It just teaches children to bully each other for laughter, which is something I have always suffered from in high school. It's a terrible message for the children.

Yes, they do. They are all bullies to each other.

Awful jokes

They try so hard to be funny when they're clearly not that it's cringeworthy. Want someone with an actual sense of humor? Try Alex Hirsch.

The Newcomers

? Zuri is annoying

She cries to get what she wants!

? Jessie is supposed to be a strong female role model, yet she's ditsy

She isn't a strong female role model at all!

The Contenders
It teaches sexist values
Emma is a brat

Emma is always rude to Ravi and constantly goes out to be with her friends. Now my 9-year-old sister just yells at me when I do not do what she wants. She also acts very spoiled and argues. Not to mention her spoiled cries. My sister is copying her.

The kids who watch it will turn into brats

They will. My sister has already been corrupted by this show. She now thinks she can threaten anyone and get what she wants (similar to Zuri). She bullies the kids who are smart and like school (similar to Luke). She thinks boys are the most important thing in the world (similar to Emma). And she thinks Indian librarians get eaten by lions (similar to Ravi).

Omg YES. My sister used to be a good 7-year-old before she watched Jessie! All she does now is scream and tell on people. She used to be super smart, but now she acts like Emma and pretends to be dumb. The worst part is that my parents barely notice.

For example, today is my brother's birthday. Instead of being nice to him, she smeared his cake and said that he doesn't deserve it. This show needs to go away!

Zuri is a whiny baby

She cries and cries to get what she wants, and she always does.

Mr. Kipling is the only good character

And he's a lizard. You know your show is bad when the best character is an animal.

Excessive insults

They insult and bully each other all the time, mostly Ravi about his culture and social life, Emma and Luke about their stupidity, and the butler about his weight, as there are so many fat-shaming jokes about him. They also insult Jessie about her love life and how she couldn't keep a boyfriend.

The show insults Ravi and makes kids assume that because he is Indian, he must be smart!

It teaches kids to become bullies

I agree! My older siblings and I RARELY watched Disney, and Jessie was not even out at that time. But it was on Netflix when my little sister was growing up. She watched the episodes over and over until the point she sang the theme song constantly. She still acts sassy and rude to our parents and us. My older siblings and I would not dare to talk back so much! The Ross kids never get consequences for their rudeness. That will get into a kid's developing mind.

It has bad reviews

Most reviews for this show are downright terrible! As they should be! I will be covering here what most of them say, but this show deserves the terrible reviews it gets. Seriously, look up the reviews for this show. Terrible.

It portrays people as dumb

Creepy Connie is just messed up! I mean, it's for kids, and a creepy 12-year-old who is probably watching a boy in his sleep and holding him hostage!?

It has an annoying laugh track

I do not watch shows with laugh tracks. I will be trying to do things in the background, and it's just so annoying. I turn the channel every time, if the cringe hasn't already made me stop watching.

The show exposes kids to inappropriate content at an early age
It encourages stupidity
It has a mean-spirited undertone
It's very boring
Adults are portrayed as dim-witted

Consider the adult characters. They are nearly always idiots. Bertrand is easily taken advantage of, and because he's fat, he's fixated on food.

The Ross parents are absent from their kids' lives, except for the occasional video.

The Disney model is that any adult is a bumbling fool for kids to be annoyed by or take advantage of. Liv & Maddie and Bunk'd are even worse examples of this.

Adults used to be the voice of reason and good conscience, like Mr. Drummond or Mrs. Garrett. In Disney shows, they are targets of ridicule.

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